GIOVANNI BATTISTA VIOTTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Viotti - Eight Symphonies, Op. 2 Mark Kaplan (violin), Padua Chamber Orchestra, David Golub [ Arabesque Recordings / CD - released 25/Nov/1997 ] Giovanni Battista Viotti [1755-1824] wrote twenty-nine concertos for violin, most of which, unfortunately, have not yet been recorded. |
Mark Knopfler & Evelyn Glennie
Altamira [ EMI Virgin / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] Mark Knopfler releases the soundtrack album to the new Hugh Hudson film, 'Altamira'. 'Altamira' is the story of the accidental discovery of Patheolithic paintings by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, an amateur archaeologist, and his nine year old... |
Mark Knopfler
Down The Road Wherever [ British Grove / Universal / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Mark Knopfler's ninth solo studio album features 14 unhurriedly elegant new songs inspired by a wide range of subjects, including his early days in Deptford with Dire Straits, a stray football fan lost in a strange town, the compulsion of a musician... |
Mark Knopfler
Down The Road Wherever (Deluxe) [ British Grove / Universal / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Mark Knopfler's ninth solo studio album features 14 unhurriedly elegant new songs inspired by a wide range of subjects, including his early days in Deptford with Dire Straits, a stray football fan lost in a strange town, the compulsion of a musician... |
Mark Knopfler
Get Lucky [ Mercury Records / CD - released 17/Sep/2009 ] The 'Get Lucky' album is a beautifully crafted exploration of a lifetime of musical roots - fluently combining folk and blues with Knopfler's original songwriting, personalised British ingredients and vivid observational lyricism. |
Mark Knopfler
Golden Heart [ Mercury / CD - released 31/Mar/1996 ] American imported disc. |
Mark Knopfler
A Night in London (DVD) [ Universal Music / DVD - released 11/Nov/2004 ] G :- The Dire Straits frontman's 1996 live release features a combination of Straits' hits and material from his 'Golden Heart album, which was released in the same year. |
Mark Knopfler
The Ragpicker's Dream [ Universal Music / CD - released 6/Oct/2002 ] 'The Ragpicker's Dream' is Mark Knopfler's third solo album since the Dire Straits days. It is a delightful, distinctive continuation of what Knopfler calls his lifelong musical journey. It is a record of subtle pleasures and gentle reminders of... |
Mark Knopfler
Shangri-La [ Mercury / CD - released 27/Sep/2004 ] |
Mark Knopfler
The Studio Albums 1996-2007 (6 CD Box Set) [ Mercury Records / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2021 ] To celebrate 25 years since Mark Knopfler's first solo release, outside of his soundtrack recordings, Mercury Records have remastered each of his studio albums released between 1996 and 2007 and packaged them together in a package that includes... |
Mark Knopfler
Tracker [ Universal Music / CD - released 13/Mar/2015 ] This is Mark Knopfler's eighth solo album, eleven songs inspired by a wide range of subjects (Beryl Bainbridge and Basil Bunting among them). The songs are wry, accurately observed vignettes life wrapped up in a musical accompaniment of distinctive... |
VICTOR HERBERT
Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Irish Rhapsody Mark Kosower (cello) / Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] "Mark Kosower is a red-blooded soloist...We also get Herbert's Irish Rhapsody, essentially a stock exercise in homesick audience-pleasing, but nicely done" The Guardian, 14th April 2016 **** |
Mark Lanegan
Bubblegum (LP) [ Beggar's Banquet Records / LP - released 31/May/2011 ] |
Mark Lanegan
Straight Songs Of Sorrow (LP) [ Heavenly / 2 LP - released 29/May/2020 ] When considering any great work of art, it's natural to wonder what might have inspired it: 'the story behind the song'. Mark Lanegan's new album, 'Straight Songs Of Sorrow', flips that equation. Here are 15 songs inspired by a story: his life story,... |
Mark Lanegan Band
Blues Funeral (Double Gatefold LP) [ 4AD / LP - released 7/Feb/2012 ] Mark Lanegan has been the voice of many musical projects over the years - from grunge originals Screaming Trees and as an honorary member of Queens of the Stone Age, to collaborations with Greg Dulli as Gutter Twins and a prolific solo artist. On... |
MOZART / SCHUBERT / RAVEL / MENDELSSOHN / SHOSTAKOVICH / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Australian Festival of Chamber Music [3 CD set] Mark Lindsay (violin) Theodore Kuchar (viola) Alexander Ivashkin (cello) Boris Berman (piano) Dong-Suk Kang (violin) [ ABC Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2000 ] A star-studded line-up of international performers and some of Australia's favourite soloists and ensembles. |
Mark Olson & Gary Louris
Ready for the Flood [ New West Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] After finding fame in alt-country legends The Jayhawks, Mark Olsen and Gary Louris revive their old songwriting partnership for this enjoyable recording of gently strummed and plucked ditties. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1 (with Balakirev - Tamara) Mark Padmore, Sally Matthews, Kate Royal, Bernarda Fink, Andrew Staples / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] "this release completes a superb Rachmaninov symphony cycle…it's a taut, gripping account, Gergiev often pushing the accelerator harder than Mariss Jansons and Mikhail Pletnev" Gramophone |
JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: Lute Songs (with Britten-Nocturnal) Mark Padmore (tenor) Elisabeth Kenny (lute) Craig Ogden (guitar) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Jan/2008 ] "A terrific disc which demonstrates how flexibly Dowland's line can be treated in expressing the nuances of the texts." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Feb 2008) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Winterreise Mark Padmore (tenor), Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Jan/2018 ] " I confess I enjoyed this disc more than I suspected I would, and a big part of that is Bezuidenhout's way with his instrument. If you want to hear the cycle sound more chilly and isolated than usual then this might be a recording for you" MusicWeb |