LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (Nos 1-9) Barbara Bonney, Birgit Remmert, Kurt Streit, Thomas Hampson / City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2010 ] A superbly played account by one of the world's great orchestras. ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine |
Bay City Rollers
Definitive Collection [ CD ] |
The Bay City Rollers
Rollermania - The Anthology [ Salvo / 4 CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] |
Bay City Rollers
Rollerworld: Live At Budokhan [ Acrobat / CD - released 28/Nov/2008 ] |
LORENZO PALOMO
Palomo - Cantos Del Alma / Sinfonía a Granada María Bayo (soprano), José Luis Estellés (clarinet), Vicente Coves (guitar) & Luis García Montero / City of Granada Orchestra, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] His Cantos del alma (Songs of the Soul) are settings of four poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez, "a composition in which voice, clarinet and orchestra ... establish a poetic dialogue, both intimate and idyllic". Palomo's Sinfonía a Granada (Granada... |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol 11 (Incls Les Nymphéas op. 54) Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Casavant Organ, Brick Church, New York City [ MDG / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Never before have Les Nympheas Op.54 been heard outside Dupré's native Meudon. Ben van Oosten presents this extraordinary composition on the Casavent organ in New York's Brick Church. This instrument was inaugurated by van Oosten in 2005 and is... |
Bratislava City Choir/Krechek
Handel:messiah Choruses [ Naxos / CD ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera recorded live in 1952) Maria Callas, Piero Campolonghi, Giuseppe di Stefano / Orquesta del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Umberto Mugnai [ Urania / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Callas only sang Gilda in Rigoletto twice on stage, in Mexico City in 1952, and this recording was taken from the first of those performances. She brought tonal substance and deep interpretative insight to a role that had sometimes been treated by... |
TE DEUM
Te Deum and other church music Cambridge Singers / City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 25/Jan/2001 ] 'this music has unfailing appeal' CD Review (USA) |
JOHN RUTTER / TRADITIONAL / BACH / etc
Christmas Night: Carols of the Nativity The Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 28/Oct/2020 ] The Cambridge Singers in 1985 were at the top of their game, and the choir list includes at least two singers who are now internationally renowned as soloists. We hope you will enjoy this classic recording in its newly restored form. |
JOHN RUTTER
Be thou my vision The Cambridge Singers / The City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter, director [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] Sacred music by John Rutter. |
JOHN RUTTER
Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter The Cambridge Singers / The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / The City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "This is a jewel of a record" (Gramophone) |
JOHN RUTTER
The Sprig of Thyme: A cycle of folk song settings for mixed choir The Cambridge Singers with members of the City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] This is a lovely disc; one to head my list of Christmas presents for musical friends. (Gramophone) |
TRADITIONAL
The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album The Cambridge Singers with Stephen Varcoe (baritone); The City of London Sinfonia; directed by John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] "Rutter has become the musical equivalent of Dickens, synonymous with the season of Christmas." Guardian |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Oboe Concertos Nos.1-3 / Air & Rondo / etc Anthony Camden (oboe) / City of London Sinfonia, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Oct/1996 ] "First-rate sound from All Saints, East Finchley." Penguin Guide |
ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
Grechaninov: Passion Week, Op. 58 Caroline Markham (mezzo-soprano) Paul Davidson (tenor) Bryan Taylor (baritone) / Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "The massed forces of the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale make a formidable choral machine…If Grechaninov's music is sentimental in the best sense, this performance has an integrity and honesty to it which I found profoundly... |
JONATHAN DOVE
There Was a Child CBSO Chorus / CBSO Youth Chorus / CBSO Children's Chorus / City of Birmingham Symphony / Simon Halsey [ Signum / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] "This is a live recording of an astonishingly assured performance...One might have preferred a less operatic voice than that of Joan Rodgers in this work, but this fine singer's performance is nonethless a most affecting one." (International Record... |
ARNOLD / BOZZA / DAHL / MAURER / etc
Center City Brass Quintet Center City Brass Quintet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Sep/2002 ] the third release on Chandos from the USA's Brass Quintet. |
Center City Brass Quintet Feza Zweifel, drums
Streetsong [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2004 ] Renowned for its high energy and finely polished style, the Center City Brass Quintet comprises well-known soloists and leading players in America's top orchestras who convene regularly and who perform a diverse range of musical styles with equal... |
Taoist Music Orchestra Shanghai City God Temple
Chinese Taoist Music [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] This CD features simple, solemn and delicate Chinese Taoist melodies with traditional wind, string and percussion instruments. 'Chinese Taoist Music' is spiritual and relaxing. |