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ALAN HOVHANESS
Symphony No.22 'City Of Light' / Cello Concerto Janos Starker (Cello) / Seattle Symphony / Dennis Russell Davies / Alan Hovhaness [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "The veteran János Starker, impeccable and expressive as ever, takes the lead in a sympathetic performance, well recorded in the Seattle Symphony's own Benaroya Hall." - BBC Music Magazine |
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ALEXANDER KASTALSKY
Kastalsky: Requiem Joseph Charles Beutel (bass-bar), Anna Dennis (sop) Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, Chamber Choir of St. Tikhon's Monastery [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Alexander Kastalsky was a student of Tchaikovsky and a mentor to Rachmaninov, becoming director of the Moscow Synodal School until the Bolshevik regime banned all sacred music. |
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THOMAS DE HARTMANN
Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered Joshua Bell, Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska, Matt Haimovitz Mdr-Rundfunkorchester, Dennis Russell Davies [ Pentatone / CD - released 16/Aug/2024 ] This album brings the glowing, cinematic Violin and Cello Concertos of Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann, an important compositional voice in his own time, back into the limelight. Using an international all-star cast, the recording not only aims... |
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Judy Bellingham (soprano) / Terence Dennis (piano)
Songs of Old Dunedin [ Ode Records / DVD ] |
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SAMUEL BARBER / BELA BARTOK
Barber / Bartok: Piano Concertos Keith Jarrett (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, New Japan Philharmonic, Kazuyoshi Akiyama & Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Jun/2015 ] For much of the 1980s, Keith Jarrett balanced his improvisational activities with performances of classical music and contemporary composition. On this disc, with concert recordings from 1984 and 1985, he is heard playing Samuel Barber's Piano... |
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Keith Jarrett, piano, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies
Mozart - Piano Concertos 21, 23, 27 / Masonic Funeral Music / Symphony No 40 [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] This 2-CD set features 5 of Mozart's later works, performed by Keith Jarrett with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Spuren Der Verirrten - The Lost Landestheater Linz, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] Spuren der Verirrten, translated here as The Lost, but in German Traces of the Lost, is a German-language opera by Philip Glass on a text adapted from a play by the experimental Austrian writer Peter Handke. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Spuren der verirrten [The Lost] (complete opera recorded in 2013) Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theatre / Martin Achrainer, Bram de Beul, Keren Robertson / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Orange Mountain Music DVD / DVD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] Spuren der Verirrten, translated here as The Lost, but in German Traces of the Lost, is a German-language opera by Philip Glass on a text adapted from a play by the experimental Austrian writer Peter Handke. Recorded here is the work's premiere... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Kepler (complete opera recorded in 2009) Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theatre / Martin Achrainer, Cassandra McConnell, Keren Robertson / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Orange Mountain Music DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] A portrait opera on the life of German mathmatician, astronomer, and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No. 6 'Plutonian Ode' Lauren Flanigan (Soprano) / Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies, with Allen Ginsberg (speaker) [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "By some way Philip Glass's most powerful concert work, Plutonian Ode, sets a scathing anti-nuclear poem by Allen Ginsberg." (BBC Music) |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel at Vauxhall, Volume 1 Kirsty Hopkins (soprano) Eleanor Dennis (soprano) Greg Tassell (tenor) Charles MacDougall (tenor) Daniel Moult (organ) / London Early Opera, Bridget C [ Signum / CD - released 4/May/2016 ] "an attractive potpourri by Handel and others. These bright, lively accounts of music which we know was heard at Vauxhall include an aria from Acis and Galatea and a fine John Hebden concerto, and to close, the glorious duet As steals the morn from H |
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PHILIP GLASS
Kepler (complete opera recorded in 2009) Martin Achrainer / Cassandra McConnell / Karen Robertson / Chorus of the Landestheater Linz / Bruckner Orchester Linz / Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] This 2-CD set is a recording of the complete 2009 opera by Phillip Glass on the life of scientist Johannes Kepler in a deluxe digipack featuring colour photos of the production in Linz, Austria. |
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TOM COULT
Tom Coult: Pieces That Disappear Martyn Brabbins, Daniel Pioro, Anna Dennis, Andrew Gourlay, Elena Schwarz [ NMC Recordings / CD - released 22/Nov/2024 ] On 22 November 2024, NMC Recordings releases Pieces that Disappear - the debut album from the composer Tom Coult performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Matt Dennis
Welcome Matt - Four Complete Albums Including His Popular Hits [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] Matt Dennis was a man of many musical talents. More than half of the 48 tracks on offer here are his own compositions and he supplies some wonderful vocal and piano arrangements. Features many of his popular songs including several of his biggest... |
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JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Anacreon 1754 Matthew Brook, Anna Dennis & Agustín Prunell-Friend / The Choir of the Enlightenment & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Jonathan Williams [ Signum / CD - released 20/Oct/2015 ] Rameau wrote two complete 'Anacréons', both of them one-act acte de ballets, but with two different plots and librettos. 'Anacréon' (1754) was set to a libretto by Louis de Cahusac and had a successful premiere followed by some performances in Paris... |
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HENRI VIEUXTEMPS
Vieuxtemps: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 And 3 Misha Keylin (Violin) / Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra / Dennis Burkh [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] "..the orchestral playing, somewhat leonine in timbre, is excellent. So too is the recording, made in the Janáček Concert Hall, Ostrava." Penguin Guide |
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VIEUXTEMPS
Violin Concertos Nos. 2 And 3 Misha Keylin (Violin) / Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra / Dennis Burkh [ Naxos Romantic Violin Concertos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "The Russian virtuoso, Misha Keylin has [the Concertos'] full measure and he has the kind of Slavonic flair that brings these tuneful, well-crafted concertos fully to life." - GRAMOPHONE |
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VIEUXTEMPS
Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 Misha Keylin (Violin) / Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, Dennis Burkh / Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos Romantic Violin Concertos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Naxos's engineers place Keylin' far enough forward that listeners won't miss a single one of his brilliant gestures." (Fanfare) |
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LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen (Complete opera sung in Czech recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Opéra Bastille / Elena Tsallagova, Jukka Rasilainen, Michèle Lagrange / Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) [ EuroArts / Medici Arts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "Enchanting staging…The sound is splendid, the video direction simply fabulous. Everyone, Tsallagova above all, responds beautifully to close-ups…make sure your whole family enjoys it with you!" IRR |
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PHILIP GLASS
Tirol Concerto for piano and orchestra / Selections from Passages Raschèr Saxophone Quartet / Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, piano and conductor [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 30/Mar/2010 ] MUSIC AS USED BY THE NZ BALLET 2010 SEASON - "Learning, practicing and performing the Tirol Concerto has been rewarding and exhilarating from the first conceptual discussions with our Tyrolean friends in Schwaz." Dennis Russell Davies |