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Forrester's Cape Breton Scottish Dance Company
Music of Nova Scotia [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Forrester's musical ensemble consists of award winning highland bagpipers, drummers, bodhran players and fiddlers. They all work together to provide their audiences with a varied repertoire of Celtic music with a mix of both traditional and... |
LENNOX BERKELEY
Ruth Op. 50 (complete opera) Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano) Mark Tucker (tenor) Yvonne Kenny (soprano) Claire Rutter (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Joyful Company of Singers [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 3/May/2005 ] Premiere recording of Sir Lennox Berkeley's opera Ruth. |
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The Gondoliers (complete operetta recorded in 1977) John Reed, Geoffrey Shovelton, Kenneth Sanford, Barbara Lilley / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic, Royston Nash [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] "the appealing gondoliers of Meston Reid and Michael Rayner, John Reed's typically reliable Duke and Kenneth Sandford's pillar of strength Don Alhambra" (Gramophone) |
AULIS SALLINEN
The Red Line (Punainen Viiva), Op. 46 (complete opera) Jorma Hynninen / Päivi Nisula / Finnish National Opera Orchestra / Finnish National Opera Chorus / Tsuumi Dance Company / Mikko Franck [ Ondine DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] This new DVD features the première recording for video of the two-act opera The Red Line (1978) by Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen (b. 1935). |
MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
Choral Music Kathryn Cook / Joyful Company of Singers / Broadbent Peter [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] "here is a splendid disc of splendid music superbly sung." (MusicWeb Oct 2006) |
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ROBERT ALDRIDGE
Elmer Gantry (complete opera) Keith Phares / Patricia Riseley / Vale Rideout / Florentine Opera Company / Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra / William Boggs [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Adagio for Strings / Piano Concerto / Violin Concerto / 4 Choral Pieces Ittai Shapira (violin) Tedd Joselson (piano) / Joyful Company of Singers / London Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Schenk [ Alto / CD - released 1/May/2016 ] "Particularly beautifully captured, are the LSO's strings in the Adagio for Strings ... However, it is the Piano Concerto which is the main attraction, with superb playing by the soloist. His piano is nicely placed in a sensible relationship with the... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Acis and Galatea (complete opera) Lucy Crowe / Benjamin Hulett / Alan Clayton / Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn [ Chandos Chaconne SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Mar/2019 ] "Lucy Crowe as Galatea excels especially in turning words, and word-pictures, into sound…This is, altogether, a benchmark that will be hard to beat." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2019 Winner - Opera |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Alceste (complete opera) Lucy Crowe / Benjamin Hulett / Andrew Foster Williams / Early Opera Company / Christian Curnyn [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] "Alcestis's journey to the Underworld is enchanting, with Curnyn's fleet strings, intimately proportioned chorus, and polished soloists" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 Opera WINNER |
RODERICK ELMS
Festive Frolic: A celebration of Christmas Mark Wilde (tenor) Stuart Nicholson (organ) Joyful Company of Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Stephen Bell [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] Roderick Elms' Christmas music ranges from charming and witty arrangements of well-loved traditional carols to new settings and festive orchestral pieces written for this very special season. The charm and immediate appeal of his music has been... |
Gilbert and Sullivan
H.M.S. Pinafore (Complete) (1949 Recording) Martyn Green, Darrell Fancourt, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Isadore Godfrey [ Regis Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2002 ] Classic recording by the greatest cast - carefully re-mastered |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Offenbach: Orpheus In The Underworld (operetta in English) Mary Hegarty, David Fieldsend, Jill Pert, Richard Suart, Rosemarie Arthars, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, John Owen Edwards [ Sony music / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/1994 ] ".. the whole production has a real lived-in feel and, in Mary Hegarty's flighty Eurydice, a nymphet - sorry, nymph - virtually to die for. " BBC Music |
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The Music Company
Rubber Soul Jazz [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral" The New Company / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Signum / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "No passage from darkness to light here, but a pervasive exaltation even in the first movement...However many Ninths you own, add this to your treasury." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Nine German Arias / Music for the Royal Fireworks Nuria Rial (soprano), Austrian Baroque Company, Michael Oman (recorder & director) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / Sony / CD - released 4/Jan/2010 ] Soprano Nuria Rial performs Georg Friedrich Handel's stunningly beautiful but rarely recorded German Arias, accompanied by the Austrian Baroque Company. Handel's Deutsche Arien of 1724-7 stands relatively alone in the context of his Italian operas... |
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado / Trial By Jury Peter Pratt, Donald Adams, Thomas Round, Jean Hindmarsh, Kenneth Sandford, Julia Goss / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isadore Godfrey, Royston Nash [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2015 ] I am pretty safe in saying that this recording is probably one of the best G & S recordings..ever! A cast to die for! Listen to Thomas Round's most beautiful rendering of "Wand'ring minstrel" and the horrific crazy laugh of Donald Adams as the Mikado |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Mass (A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers) Randall Scarlata (baritone) / Company of Music / Tolzer Knabenchor / Tonkunstler-Orchester Niederosterreich / Kristjan Jarvi [ Chandos / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2009 ] "Bravo and thrice-triple bravo! Bernstein's flower child finally comes of age." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
HANDEL
Serse (complete opera) Rosemary Joshua, Anna Stéphany, David Daniels, Joélle Harvey / Early Opera Company / Christian Curnyn [ Chandos / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2013 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine September 2013 |
HANDEL
Semele, HWV 58 Rosemary Joshua (soprano) Hilary Summers (contralto) Brindley Sherratt (bass) / Early Opera Company / Christian Curnyn [ Chandos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2007 ] "A most satisfying and enjoyable account of Handel's sex-centred oratorio. Rosemary Joshua catches all of Semele's vanity, her sensuality and her ambition while still managing to make her likeable...the whole thing has a wonderful freshness and... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard II (recorded live in 2013) Royal Shakespeare Company / David Tennant (Richard), Oliver Ford Davies (Duke of York), Michael Pennington, Nigel Lindsay [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100... |
