More By Artist: London O'Connor
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JOHN IRELAND
These Things Shall Be / Piano Concerto / Overture: Satyricon / etc John Carol Case (baritone) Eric Parkin (piano) / London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "The 1970s origins of many of Lyrita’s too long delayed CD revivals need hold no fears for any purchaser. The forty plus year old sound remains an object lesson taught by the analogue tradition to the digital era. Not the essential Ireland apart from... |
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Moeran: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Rhapsody in F sharp for Piano and Orchestra / Rhapsody No. 2 John Georgiadis (violin) John McCabe (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult / London Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "A fine coupling including some classic Moeran in enduringly rewarding performances and recordings." (MusicWeb June 2007) |
BRITTEN
Billy Budd (complete opera recorded in 2010) John Mark Ainsley / Jacques Imbrailo / Phillip Ens / Glyndebourne Chorus / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Mark Elder [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 8/Aug/2011 ] "[Elder paces] the developing tragedy with airily lyrical detail and brooding, ominous power. John Mark Ainsley' s plangent, dark-toned tenor and intense diction show us a more neurotic Vere than usual, ridden with doubts and anxieties" (The Times) |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto Nos 1, 3 & 4 John O'Conor (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Andreas Delfs [ Telarc / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] '… in an overcrowded Beethoven concerto market these distinctive and excellently engineered performances are well worth hearing…….Beethoven's Second and Fifth concertos make for an uncommon yet attractively contrasted CD coupling. More importantly,... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto Nos 2 & 5 Emperor John O'Conor (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Andreas Delfs [ Telarc / CD - released 28/Sep/2007 ] John O'Conor returns to Telarc with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op.19 and No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, "Emperor" under the baton of Andreas Delfs and the London Symphony Orchestra. |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Le Prophète John Osborn, Elizabeth DeShong Mané Galoyan, Edwin Crossley-Mercer / London Symphony Orchestra, Lyon Opera Chorus, Sir Mark Elder [ LSO Live SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 28/Jun/2024 ] Recorded live in concert at Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2023, this album sees the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sir Mark Elder join forces with Lyon Opera Chorus, Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône, the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, and an... |
RICHARD RODGERS / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Rodgers: Carousel John Raitt & Jan Clayton / Original Broadway & London Cast recordings recorded in 1945 & 1950 [ Prism Leisure / CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline. The story... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / HERBERT HOWELLS / FREDERICK DELIUS / SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Music for Strings John Wilson, Sinfonia Of London [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] "I expect it has been said before, but the Sinfonia of London belongs in the Formula 1 class of orchestras, and in this repertoire sits in pole position." Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Orchestral |
Joji Hirota With The London Metropolitan Orchestra
Japanese Folk Songs [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton - Orchestral Works Vol.2: Cello Concerto / Symphony No. 1 / Scapino Jonathan Aasgaard (cello), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Nov/2025 ] '...a perfect example of how conductor John Wilson's vital, yet penetrating, approach combines with the orchestra's trademark lustre to fit this composer's music like a glove. It's evident from the outset in a rumbustious reading of Scapino" Guardian |
KENNETH FUCHS
Canticle to the Sun / United Artists / etc Timothy Jones (french horn) / London Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Dec/2007 ] "An American's salute to the LSO who again impress in his engaging music." (Gramophone) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 & 3 / Preludes / Piano Music Jorge Bolet (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Fischer / Montreal Symphony, Charles Dutoit [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] "a greatly superior recording is one of the attractions of this CD, and at countless points it highlights Bolet's absolute command of this work's myriad pianistic complexities … the finale's central scherzando is executed with great pianistic acuity" |
VERDI / DONIZETTI / ROSSINI
Jose Carreras: Operas Arias Jose Carreras (tenor), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jesús López-Cobos [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 6 / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] " . . . José Carreras is certainly caught in his prime in his two collections . . . [offering worthwhile rarities] in what is surely some of the most sheerly beautiful tenor singing from its period . . . BBC Music Magazine " . . . a thrillingly... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Brahms/Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Joseph Szigeti (violin) / Hallé Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 31/Dec/2001 ] "The problem that Mark Obert-Thorn faced in his startlingly fine transfer of Brahms was the disparity of pitches from side to side on the original 78s. You'd never know, though, from the pains taken to match them." ClassicalCD |
ELGAR
The Light of Life (Lux Christie) Op. 29 Judith Howarth, Linda Finnie / London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] 'Hickox's superior Elgarian credentials are immediately established in the glorious orchestral "Meditation", where his conducting demonstrates a noble flexibility, sensitivity to dynamic nuance and feeling for climax that are wholly beguiling'... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Caractacus / Severn Suite Judith Howarth (Soprano), Arthur Davies (Tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (Baritone), Alastair Miles (Bass), Stephen Roberts (Bass) London Symphony Chorus [ Chandos 241 Hickox Legacy / 2 CD - released 12/Aug/2016 ] "Another classic Hickox recording from the early '90s; an uneven work, but well worth hearing when done as brilliantly as this." (MusicWeb) |
KURT WEILL
The Seven Deadly Sins / The Threepenny Opera (Suite) Julia Migenes, Robert Tear, Stuart Kale, Alan Opie / London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Sony Opera House / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "Julia Migenes manages to bring out the bitterness and irony of the text, whilst combining it with an appropriately seductive, even erotic soprano sound. In support Michael Tilson Thomas weaves a dazzling sound, bringing out fully the symphonic and... |
FRANK BRIDGE
Oration / Phantasm Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) Peter Wallfisch (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "In terms of choice if you want two majestic and subtly powerful works of tragic and even sinister grandeur then this disc is for you. These are their first ever commercial recordings and they are by no means uncompetitive in any sense - quite the... |
Julie London
About the Blues (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 30/Oct/2017 ] 2017 reissue of Julie London's 1957 album. |
Julie London
The Best Of Julie London [ EMI / CD - released 24/Jun/2002 ] |
