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JOHN PSATHAS
Ukiyo Pedro Carneiro (vibraphone, marimba) Mark Carter (trumpet) Bridget Douglas (flute) Patrick Barry (clarinet) / Stroma / Hamish McKeich [ Rattle Records / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] The beautiful and captivating Ukiyo features Portuguese percussion maestro, Pedro Carneiro. This album is percussion-based, and while it contains moments of explosive energy characteristic of John's work (particularly in the extended chamber... |
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FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Concerto for piano, orchestra and male chorus, Op.39 Peter Donohoe (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mark Elder [ EMI / CD - released 30/Jul/1990 ] Peter Donohoe CBE studied at Chetham's School of Music and Leeds University before going on to study at the Royal Northern College of Music with Derek Wyndham and in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod. |
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PURCELL
Purcell in Court ...and Tavern ! Pro Cantione Antiqua / Collegeum Aureum / Mark Brown [ ALTO / CD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] "Careful listening will teach you much about the essence of early sixteenth century polyphony." |
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GRIGORIO ALLEGRI / THOMAS TALLIS / WILLIAM BYRD & Others
Allegri: Miserere / Renaissance Polyphony and Consort Songs Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown (director) [ Alto / CD - released 10/May/2010 ] Allegri's most popular work - a world-class performance |
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EDWARD ELGAR / ARNOLD BAX
For the fallen: Elgar & Bax Rachel Nicholls (soprano) Madeleine Shaw (mezzo) / Halle Orchestra & Choir, Mark Elder [ Halle / CD - released 20/Aug/2017 ] "Complete with superior production values, exhaustive booklet-notes and full texts, this stimulating collection deserves every success." Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Choral |
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VILLA-LOBOS / CHAVEZ / RODRIGO
Latin Winds RNCM Wind Orchestra, Clark Rundell, Mark Heron [ Chandos / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] "Congratulations to all involved in this superb and enterprising issue, perhaps most of all to the brilliant young musicians of the RNCM. Manchester rules!" MusicWeb May 2018 |
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WILLIAM ALWYN
Alwyn: Film Music Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Mark Heron, Clark Rundell [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 30/Oct/2017 ] "These transcriptions work surprisingly well especially for the marches and the swiftly moving extrovert scores. Try the swashbuckling excitement that is The Crimson Pirate and the military pride and pomp and braggadocio of Desert Victory." MusicWeb |
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ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
Bennett: Old American Dances Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Clark Rundell, Mark Heron [ Chandos / CD - released 16/Sep/2016 ] The Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra and its director Clark Rundell, with the guest conductor Mark Heron, explore the works of Robert Russell Bennett in this eagerly-awaited new recording. Bennett is best known for his orchestrations... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: The Young Lady and the Hooligan Op 124c (ballet) Russian Symphony Orchestra, Mark Gorenstein [ Harmonia Mundi Saison Russe / CD - released 10/Feb/1994 ] Shostakovich composed many ballet scores, which kept the income flowing in and also kept him in the good books of the increasingly brutal dictatorship of Josef Stalin as many of these ballets were little more than Soviet propaganda exercises. The... |
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GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore (complete operetta) Elizabeth Watts, Toby Spence, John Mark Ainsley, Andrew Foster-Williams / Scottish Opera, Richard Egarr [ Linn / 2 CD - released 2/May/2016 ] "The singers are first class and well suited to their roles - Toby Spence is well-suited the tenor role of Ralph, John Mark Ainsley as Sir Joseph gives the character an affected aloofness with sufficient dryness to provide believable comedy" MusicWeb |
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GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers (complete operetta recorded in 2025) BLU-RAY Scottish Opera / William Morgan, Mark Nathan, Richard Suart, Ellie Laugharne, Sioned Gwen Davies, Yvonne Howard / Derek Clark (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Aug/2025 ] "Bolder G&S stagings are available (live, if not on record), but this Gondoliers is fresh, affectionate and intensely musical proof that these masterly comic operas can still hit their mark".. DVD/Bluray of the Month Gramophone Magazine January 2026 |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Siegfried Simon O'Neill (tenor), Gerhard Siegel, Iain Paterson, Martin Winkler, Hallé, Sir Mark Elder [ Hallé / 4 CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] "The outstanding performances here come from the Hallé and their music director. With quality playing from all departments, Wagner's complex orchestral timbres are carefully presented." BBC Music |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Songs and Duets Vol 3 Sophie Daneman (soprano) Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Stephan Loges (baritone) Eugene Asti (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] "'There is much to recommend in this collection. First of all, the songs themselves, some deeper than others, are sweet and forthright, and shown to their best advantage by the equally sweet and forthright playing of Eugene Asti." Fanfare |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn: The Complete Mass Edition Susan Gritton, Pamela Helen Stephen, Janice Watson, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Padmore / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Richard Hickox's plaudit-winning Haydn Mass Edition is now available as a complete boxed set. A full price collection but now available at a special price. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten Abroad: A collection of songs by Benjamin Britten set in Italian, Russian, French & German Susan Gritton (soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "What an inspired idea not only to bring together Britten's mature foreign-language songs, but also to have the programme shared by two of Britain's keenest and brightest singers. …delight and spiritual depths go hand in hand." BBC Music 5 STARS |
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PETER SCULTHORPE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sculthorpe: Piano Concerto / Music for Japan / Song of Tailitnama / Little Nourlangle Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart, with David Drury (organ), Mark Atkins (didjeridu), Tamara Anna Cislowska (piano) [ ABC Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/1996 ] "Australia's greatest composer" - Limelight magazine Peter Sculthorpe created an Australian classical music that for the first time spoke directly of the land, the people and the spirit of the country. |
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BEETHOVEN / MOZART / HAYDN
Mark Padmore sings Beethoven, Mozart & Haydn Mark Padmore (tenor) & Kristian Bezuidenhout (Rosenberger, c.1820. Tuning: A = 430, unequal temperament) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] "From urgent declamation to whispered despair, Padmore expresses all with directness, clarity and tonal variety. Bezuidenhout is an equal partner: engaged, lively." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Solo Recital) |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / GERALD BARRY
Beethoven Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 (plus Barry: Beethoven and Piano Concerto Thomas Adès, Britten Sinfonia, with Nicolas Hodges (piano) & Mark Stone (baritone) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 16/May/2020 ] "Adès and the Britten Sinfonia present tightly knit performances [of the Beethoven Symphonies], and dynamic subtleties are largely preserved in the concert recordings." BBC Music 5 Stars |
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MENDELSSOHN / LACHNER / MEYERBEER / LOEWE / etc
Decades: A Century of Song Vol. 3 1830 - 1840 John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Alexey Gusev (bass-baritone), Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo), Soraya Mafi (sop), Malcolm Martinea [ Vivat / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] "Kirchschlager, a singer incapable of being boring, has the lion's share of the German Lieder here…With accompaniments that are often discreetly supportive, it's too easy to take for granted Martineau's contribution." Gramophone |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Cantatas Vasilijka Jezovsek, Sarah Connolly, Mark Padmore, Peter Kooy / Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Herreweghe Bach Edition / CD - released 10/Oct/1999 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) |