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HANDEL
Messiah Allan Clayton (tenor) Julia Doyle (soprano) Andrew Foster-Williams (bass) / Polyphony & Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] 'No-one, but no-one performs Messiah better every year than the choir Polyphony under the conductor Stephen Layton' (Evening Standard) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / FRANZ SCHUBERT / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms, Schumann & Schubert: Original Transcriptions for Trumpet Andrew Balio, John Wilson [ Delos / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Trumpet was meant to have a bright future after Handel and Bach, but history decided otherwise. Relegated to a military signal role with timpani, it had to wait until the later Romantic period to flourish once again. |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (unabridged) Andrew Buchan, Sean Barrett, Andrew Buchan, Pip Carter, etc [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2012 ] 'How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!' (Act III sc.i) Julius Caesar is Shakespeare's most political play. He examines whether political assassination can ever be justified, and... |
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HENRYK WIENIAWSKI
Wieniawski: Piano Works - Piano Sonata / Polonaises Nos. 2 Andrew Cannestra (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Nov/2025 ] Józef Wieniawski, younger brother of Henryk, was a prolific Polish composer and virtuoso pianist renowned throughout Europe. After studies in Paris he spent two years in Weimar studying with and absorbing the compositional style of Franz Liszt -... |
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CARL CZERNY
Complete music for horn and pianoforte Andrew Clark (natural horn) Geoffrey Govier (fortepiano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] 'I put the disc on and was immediately intrigued and delighted' (Early Music Review) |
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DANIEL DEFOE
Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year (Unabridged) Andrew Cullen (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 8 CD Box Set - released 30/Nov/2018 ] First published in March 1722, 57 years after the event that struck more than 100,000 people, Journal of the Plague Year is a compelling portrait of life during London's horrific bubonic plague. Through the eyes of H.F. (speculated to be Defoe's... |
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Andrew Cyrille Quartet
The Declaration of Musical Independence [ ECM / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] The great avant-jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille - whose associations have ranged from a long, vintage collaboration with Cecil Taylor to co-leading current all-star collective Trio 3 with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman - makes his ECM leader debut with... |
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Andrew Cyrille Quartet
The News [ ECM / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] The new album from the quartet led by one of jazz's innovators, drummer Andrew Cyrille, carries the story forward from the 2016 release The Declaration of Musical Independence, a recording which Down Beat hailed as "an unabashed exploration into... |
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Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell
Lebroba (LP) [ ECM / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago:... |
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MOZART
3 Violin Concertos Andrew English Concert/Manze [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Jan/2006 ] |
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Andrew Gold
Andrew Gold / What's Wrong With This Picture / All This And Heaven Too / etc [ Rhino / 3 CD Box Set - released 3/Oct/2015 ] A joint release from Edsel and Rhino in the U.K., this three-CD compilation features Andrew Gold's first four albums: Andrew Gold (1975), What's Wrong with This Picture? (1976), All This and Heaven Too (1978), and Whirlwind (1979). The first two disc |
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W. A. MOZART
Unheard Mozart - two new sonatas & other unfinished works for piano solo Andrew Goldstone (piano) [ Divine Art / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "Pianist Anthony Goldstone has done a sterling job in realising, reconstructing and completing these fragments, as well as performing them with great musical sensitivity." (BBC Music Instrumental Choice, October 2007) |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ (complete oratorio) Andrew Goodwin, Shane Lowrencev, Matthew Brook, Sasha Cooke / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Mar/2019 ] "The marvelous solo singers are utterly convincing, from Andrew Staples' mellow tenor as the Narrator and Matthew Brook's complex Herod, to the love of Joseph and Mary (Williams and Cooke) for their baby and their rush to escape." 10/10 ClassicsToday |
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Andrew Joy
Various: Best Of Horn Concerto [ Profil / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] |
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IVOR GURNEY / DENIS BROWNE / EUGENE GOOSENS
The Dark Pastoral Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) & Simon Russell-Beale (actor) [ Altara / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] "Andrew Kennedy sings devotedly and with skill, Julius Drake's playing is always responsive, and together they often perform memorably: Goossens's Hardy settings are fine, and contrasted, examples." Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus Andrew Kennedy (tenor) Klara Ek (soprano) Sophie Bevan (soprano) Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor) / Classical Opera, Ian Page [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2012 ] "Melia is the lovely soprano Klara Ek, and her duet with Apollo that ends Part 2, in which she spurns him and he pleads his case, is a high point of the score. A highly recommendable bauble." (10/10 ClassicsToday July 2012) |
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JOHN STAINER
Stainer: The Crucifixion Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Neal Davies (bass) & Darius Battiwalla (organ) / Huddersfield Choral Society / Joseph Cullen (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] John Stainer's The Crucifixion is duly regarded as one of the nation's favourite choral works, so it is fitting that it should be performed on this disc by one England's leading musical establishments: The Huddersfield Choral society |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
The Complete Songs Vol. 3 Andrew Kennedy (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] 'The third volume of Hyperion's Strauss song series comes with a tenor riding the chromatic waves. Kennedy's young voice still has some growing to do in lieder, but his flexible tones and avoidance of the Precious Beautiful Voice give lots of... |
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GLUCK / MOZART / BERLIOZ
Andrew Kennedy sings Arias By Gluck, Mozart & Berlioz Andrew Kennedy (tenor), The Southbank Sinfonia, Simon Over [ Signum / CD - released 26/Jul/2010 ] Andrew Kennedy has established himself as one of the best and brightest young tenors performing today; as a leading exponent of song (winning the song prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2005), and by performing regularly in... |
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LULLY / CAMPRA
'Choregraphie': Music for Louis XIV's dancing masters Andrew Lawrence-King (baroque triple harp) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] Raoul-Auger Feuillet's Choregraphie (Paris, 1700) changed ballet history forever with its pioneering use of dance notation. Virtuoso harpist Andrew Lawrence-King performs music by Lully and Campra in solo settings by d'Anglebert, chosen by Feuillet... |