RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music / Five Mystical Songs / Flos Campi / etc Corydon Singers / English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] 'Profoundly moving' (Gramophone) |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Choral Works (4 CD set) [Incls Serenade to Music; Five Mystical Songs & Fantasia on Christmas Carols] Corydon Singers / Matthew Best [ Hyperion / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'The quality of Best's choristers and his insistence on the highest standards hallmark the Corydon Singers' catalogue of Hyperion recordings, especially so in their Vaughan Williams output released here on four CDs … Best's sense of pacing, feeling... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Corydon Singers, Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 15/Feb/2013 ] "I would go so far as to say that this recording carries more musical conviction than any of its rivals" ClassicCD |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Requiem (with Vaughan Williams-Mass & Te Deum) Corydon Singers / Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] 'One of the most luminous and touching of 20th-century Requiem settings' (Tower@classical music) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Corydon Singers / Matthew Best, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 22/May/2005 ] 'I would go so far as to say that this recording carries more musical conviction than any of its rivals' - Classic CD |
BRAHMS
Motets Corydon Singers / Matthew Best with John Scott (organ) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] 'A must for any serious collector' (Organists' Review) |
VILLA-LOBOS
Missa São Sebastião & other sacred choral music Corydon Singers & Orchestra, Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] "The whole disc is a bright feather in the Corydon cap" Organist's Review |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Missa Choralis & Via Crucis Corydon Singers, Thomas Trotter, organ, Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2000 ] 'I find the Corydon singers' performance of 'Via Crucis' utterly compelling and truly memorable…an essential Passiontide recording'(Organists'Review) |
Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp
Cosmic Lieder [ Aum Fidelity / CD - released 25/Apr/2011 ] |
J.S. BACH
Jesu, deine Passion: Cantatas BWV 22, 23, 127, 159 Dorothee Mields (sop) Matthew White (alto) Jan Kobow (tenor) Peter Kooy (bass) Collegium Vocale Orchestra / Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "What can you say except that Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent are the defining interpreters of Bach's vocal and choral works for our time?" Classics Today 10/10 |
TARIK O'REGAN
O'Regan: Mata Hari (complete ballet recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Dutch National Ballet / Anna Tsygankova & Matthew Rowe / Matthew rowe (cond) [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2017 ] The turbulent life of the Dutch spy and dancer Mata Hari is at the heart of this large-scale ballet production by Dutch National Ballet. As the exotic, mysterious Mata Hari, she became one of the most famous dancers of her day.. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / JOBY TALBOT
Two Ballet Favourites by Christophen Wheeldon: Prokofiev: Cinderella / Talbot: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Recorded 2011 & 2012) BLU-RAY Dutch National Ballet / Royal Opera House / Anna Tsygankova, Matthew Golding, Lauren Cuthbertson, Sergei Polunin / Ermanno Florio & Barry Wordsworth ( [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Oct/2017 ] "Lauren Cuthbertson, as Alice, is excellent, her every movement suggesting the actions and emotions of this curious, spirited pre-adolescent...Christopher Wheeldon's choreography is very imaginative and fitting for every character" MusicWeb on Alice |
TRADITIONAL
The First Nowell: Christmas Carols Through the Ages The Edison Singers, Noel Edison, with Matthew Larkin (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] The Christmas carol has its origins in the Middle Ages but it has since embraced a wide variety of musical backgrounds. In this album, religious sentiment is set in many different contexts - from the mystery plays to an African American spiritual,... |
GEORGES LENTZ
Lentz: Chamber and Orchestral Works Ensemble 24 ; Matthew Coorey, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2003 ] Georges Lentz is a paradoxical figure for his time and generation. Born in Luxemburg in 1965, but an Australian resident since 1990, Lentz has written music that is widely performed in Australia, Europe and the United States. |
WILL TODD
TODD: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Fflur Wyn, James Cleverton, Robert Burt, Victoria Simmonds / Opera Holland Park, Matthew Waldren [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "The label "opera" gives the wrong impression. Although it is sung the whole way through, the score's idioms range from bluesy jazz and big band swing to West End musical." |
STRAVINSKY / MOZART / BIZET / WAGNER / PUCCINI / BRITTEN / etc
Glorious Glyndebourne: (excerpts from various operas recorded at Glyndebourne) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, Matthew Rose, Anne Sofie von Otter, Danielle de Niese, John Mark Ainsley, etc [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2014 ] An exuberant brainchild of John Christie, Glyndebourne Festival Opera launched in 1934 with a production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Since then, Glyndebourne has become a byword for excellence, bringing together the finest operatic musicians... |
STRAVINSKY / MOZART / BIZET / WAGNER / PUCCINI / BRITTEN / etc
Glorious Glyndebourne: (excerpts from various operas recorded at Glyndebourne) Glyndebourne Opera / Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, Matthew Rose, Anne Sofie von Otter, Danielle de Niese, John Mark Ainsley, etc [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/May/2014 ] "The combination of Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra ensures crisp ensemble of the highest quality." (Gramophone on 'The Rake's Progress) |
STRAVINSKY
The Rake's Progress (Complete opera recorded in 2010) Glyndebourne Opera / Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, Matthew Rose / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] "The combination of Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra ensures crisp ensemble of the highest quality." (Gramophone) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Poliuto (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Michael Fabiano, Ana Maria Martinez, Igor Golovatenko, Matthew Rose / Enrique Mazzola (conductor) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 22/Aug/2016 ] Glyndebourne has brought to light a long-overlooked winner in Donizetti's Poliuto, delivering 'a superb musical performance' (The Telegraph) offering 'lucent accounts of the principal roles and an incandescent London Philharmonic Orchestra, under... |
FRANCIS POTT
In the Heart of Things Grace Davidson (soprano) / Commotio, Matthew Berry [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "Grace Davidson floats effortlessly above the Oxford-based choir, adding her seraphic poise to their perfect intonation...this is a powerful disc of important music." (Gramophone Magazine, Feb 2012) |