More By Artist: Anthony D'Amato
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SCHUMANN
Lieder: Maria Stuart Op 135 / Liederkreis op 39 / etc Bernarda Fink (mezzo) Anthony Spirl (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] "The cycle fits Fink's grave, elegant voice ideally, while pianist Anthony Spiri gently highlights some of the stranger timbres. In the Rückert and Myrthen songs, "Jemand" and "O Sonn', o Meer, o Rose!" have extraordinary shimmer" Independent Jan 2010 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
British Music: Green & Pleasant Land Christopher Maltman (Baritone) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor) Graham Johnson (Piano) Nicholas Daniel (Oboe) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] A delightful selection of English music with a pastoral theme featuring several individual tracks from award winning discs in the British Music series. Performed by the elite of British artists. |
ALBINONI
Adagio (19 romantic slow movements from Albinoni's vast catalogue) Capella Istropolitana / Anthony Camden (oboe) / The London Virtuosi. [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jan/2004 ] All the wonderful slow movements from the Concertos of Albinoni |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Violin Concertos Op. 8 Nos. 5-6 Cho-Liang Lin (Violin) / Sejong / Anthony Newman [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "Efficient, well played virtuoso performances" (MusicWeb February 2007) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Violin Concertos Op. 8 Nos. 5-6 BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Cho-Liang Lin (Violin) / Sejong / Anthony Newman [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Praised by Gramophone magazine as "an invigorating account of the Seasons" when first released, Vivaldi's universally popular Four Seasons, with their virtuoso part for solo violinist, depict the changing seasons in a pastoral landscape with dazzling... |
Circle (Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, David Holland, Barry Altschul)
Paris Concert (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Circle was a band on fire with creativity. Chick Corea and Dave Holland had just left Miles Davis's band, keen to explore all parameters of new music in an improvised context. Anthony Braxton, equally inspired by Stockhausen and Coltrane, brought in... |
HANDEL
Alexander's Feast / Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 4b in F major Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Felicity Palmer & Stephen Roberts / Stockholm Bach Choir & Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "All three soloists are really very good indeed" Gramophone |
HANDEL
Saul (complete recorded in 1986) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Paul Esswood & Julia Varady / Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] "Rolfe Johnson is outstanding...in this powerfully dramatic account" (BBC Music) |
JOHN MAYNARD
Maynard - The XII Wonders of the World (with Character songs by Campion, Hume, etc) Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "...the singing is most attractive, the accompaniments rhythmically supportive, the recording clear and efficient" Gramophone Magazine |
JOHN WARD
Ward - The First Set of English Madrigals / Four Fantasias for Viols Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "To hear such expressive singing and to encounter Emma Kirkby and Evelyn Tubb as well as Joseph Cornwell and Richard Wistreich in their prime and freshness is unbeatable. Anthony Rooley's own contribution cannot be underestimated." Bargain of the... |
JOHN DOWLAND
First Book of Songes The Consort of Musicke / Anthony Rooley [ L'Oiseau-Lyre / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] 'This is the recording that launched The Consort of Musicke's series devoted to the complete works of John Dowland. It deserves a permanent place in the lists and the sympathetic performances have much to commend them. A disc for connoisseurs.' Good... |
MONTEVERDI
Madrigale Erotici & Spirituale Consort of Musicke with Emma Kirkby. Anthony Rooley (Director & lute) [ Alto / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] "Monteverdi of this quality will doubtless become a constant reference throughout the group's career. Their performances of the Madrigali Erotic are more overtly impassioned than I have ever heard... both the sacred and secular... thoroughly... |
JOHN DOWLAND
Earth, Water, Fire & Air Consort Of Musicke, Anthony Rooley [ Alto / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "The Consort are in great form and at their best. At budget price this is worth every penny." (MusicWeb Nov 2013) |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Il quarto libro de madrigali, 1603 / Il quinto libro de madrigali, 1605 / etc Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] |
THOMAS WEELKES
Anthems & Madrigals Dame Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb (sopranos) / The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley [ Alto / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "Anthony Rooley's Consort in repertoire they do so well….This anthology might carry the subtitle of 'Weelkes' Greatest Hits': from Thule to When David heard, the best-known pieces are all here, and there is no better-rounded overview of his music... |
HAYDN / TORELLI / TELEMANN / NERUDA / HUMPHRIES
Six Trumpet Concertos Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet) / English Chamber Orchestra / Anthony Halstead [ Alto / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "fine concert... bright, gleaming admirably focussed timbre and precise articulation... sprightly finales" (Penguin Guide 3 stars) |
LORD BERNERS
Berners: Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement (Sung in English) Cynthia Buchan (mezzo), John Winifred (ten), Ian Caddy, Thomas Lawlor (bass-baritone), Anthony Smith (bar) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; RTÉ Sinf [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] "..very satisfying: everyone sings and plays with obvious enjoyment. Again, Berners' temperament was obviously attuned to its times and his music partakes of the then prevailing mood of light-headedness and nonchalance." British Music Society |
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Anthony Braxton
Concept Of Freedom [ HatHut Records / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
JACK HEGGIE
Heggie: Great Scott (complete opera recorded in 2015) Dallas Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Perez, Frederica von Stade, Anthony Roth Costanzo / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station, welcomed as a "deeply moving and musically brilliant work" that "should enter the standard repertory just as Heggie's two previous masterpieces - Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick - already have". |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah / Saul / Alexander's Feast / Ode for St Cecilia's Day / Belshazzar Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Paul Esswood, Felicity Palmer, Roberta Alexander / Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2016 ] These five splendid works for vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra were composed by Handel in the 1730s and 1740s. Treating both sacred and secular themes, they are inspired by the same dramatic genius that made Handel a master of opera. Conducting a... |
