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VIVALDI
Pellegrina's Delight: sonatas & chamber music for oboe Gail Hennessy (baroque oboe) Nicholas Parle (organ & harpsichord) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] Gail Hennessy (baroque oboe), Nicholas Parle (organ, harpsichord) |
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Gail Hennessy & Nicholas Parle
Bach: Oboe And Harpsichord Mus [ Signum / CD - released 8/Apr/2002 ] |
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J. S. BACH
Easter Oratorio / Actus tragicus Hannah Morrison (soprano), Meg Bragle (mezzo), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) & Peter Harvey (bass) / English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 10/Jun/2014 ] This album follows the acclaimed release of the Ascension Oratorio. It features soloists Hannah Morrison (soprano), Meg Bragle (mezzo), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass). The Easter Oratorio, one of the less performed of Bach's choral... |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV / BENJAMIN BRITTEN / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf / Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals / Britten: The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Jeremy Nicholas (Narrator) / Marian Lapsansky / Peter Toperczer / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ondrej Lenard [ Naxos / CD ] "excellent value at budget price" - Classic CD |
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J. S. BACH
St John Passion Joanne Lunn, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook / Dunedin Consort and Players, John Butt [ Linn Records SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Baroque Vocal |
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JOHN KAVANAGH
Life & Poetry Of W.B. Yates (Unabridged) Nicholas Boulton / Denys Hawthorne / Jim Norton / Marcella Riordan [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2002 ] The life of William Butler Yeats is a remarkable one-poet, playwright, essayist, politician, occultist, astrologer, founder of a national theatre, voluminous correspondent, lover, husband and father. It was a life that extended to a packed... |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Soldier' s Tale / Dumbarton Oaks Jonathan Keeble (narrator) Benjamin Soames (narrator) David Timson (narrator) / Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - The Soldier's Tale is scored for an instrumental ensemble of seven players, violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, cornet, trombone and percussion, the last including two... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphonia Domestica / Eine Alpensinfonie / Oboe Concerto / Duett-Concertino Jonathan Small (oboe) Nicholas Cox (clarinet) Alan Pendlebury (bassoon) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Avie / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] "It is a tribute to the recording that even the most cacophonous climax makes sense, and there is no impression at any time of any loss of detail. What an advert for the RLPO this set is! The cultural life of Liverpool is clearly thriving" (MusicWeb) |
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BRAHMS / STRAUSS
Brahms & Strauss Joseph Moog (piano), German Radio Philharmonic, Nicholas Milton (conductor) [ Onyx / CD - released 8/Dec/2017 ] Brahms was 48 years old and at the height of his powers when he completed his Piano Concerto No.2. The Olympian B flat Concerto is, famously, not only one of the most technically challenging of all piano concertos to play but also one of the longest... |
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RUBINSTEIN / RACHMANINOV
Piano Concertos Joseph Moog (piano) / Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Nicholas Milton [ Onyx / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] "Moog makes easy sense of it all, his light, glittering touch deftly partnered by Nicholas Milton and his Ludwigshafen-based orchestra...it comes as no surpise that he chooses the more mercurial of the two cadenzas options, though he can pull out the... |
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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... |
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Kilsby/Etherington/Nicholas
Stanford: Choral Music [ Delphian / CD - released 31/Jan/2011 ] |
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MAGNUS LINDBERG
Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto, Absence & Serenades Lawrence Power (viola) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 6/Sep/2024 ] Composer Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958) is one of Europe's leading names in contemporary music. Having travelled a long road as a composer, from the steely and edgy modernism of his early period to the soft and sonorous sound worlds of his most recent... |
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GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem, Op. 48 / Messe basse / Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Lisa Beckley (soprano) Nicholas Gedge (bass-baritone) / Oxford Schola Cantorum / Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "The fresh, forward choral tone goes with an unmannered interpretation from Jeremy Summerly, with soloists comparably fresh toned" - Penguin Guide |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV47 (complete oratorio recorded in 1989) Lisa Saffer, Judith Nelson, Patricia Spence, Jeffrey Thomas, Michael George Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Jan/1997 ] Recorded at the Berkeley Festival, University of California at Berkeley, June 15 & 17, 1989 |
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ELGAR
Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures / The Kingdom Prelude Li-Wei (cello) / Elizabeth Campbell (mezzo) / Adelaide Symphony Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite [ ABC Classics / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] |
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HAVERGAL BRIAN
Symphonies Nos. 6 & 16 (with Arnold Cooke-Symphony No. 3) London Philharmonic Orchestra / Myer Fredman / Nicholas Braithwaite [ Lyrita / CD - released 20/Mar/2008 ] "The notes for the Havergal Brian works are splendid as is to be expected from Calum Macdonald...Three intrinsically pleasing tonal-melodic symphonies of real creative fibre." (Recording of the month MusicWeb March 2008) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Orchestrations by Sir Henry Wood (Incls Mussorgsky-Pictures at an exhibition) London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "This well filled and well recorded disc deserves success. I hope that it will soon be followed by recordings of some of Sir Henry's other arrangements" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
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ARNOLD COOKE
Symphony No. 1 / Concerto in D for string orchestra / Jabez and the Devil-Suite London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "A great start to what must surely be a re-appraisal of Cooke’s orchestral music. An opportunity for the vast majority of listeners to discover this composer’s music for the first time" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
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HOLST
Walt Whitman Overture / Suite de Ballet / Suite in E flat / A Hampshire Suite / A Moorside Suite London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "A very welcome Holst release particularly given that this disc steers clear of the better-known and focuses the more obscure" (MusicWeb Jan 2008) |