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STRAVINSKY
Les Noces / Oedipus Rex Gerard Depardieu (narrator) Sergei Semishkur, Ekaterina Semenchuk / Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg / Valery Gergiev [ Mariinsky SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "this performance [of Les Noces], recorded live, has idiomatic vocal forces, essential for this fundamentally Russian work...the Mariinsky Chorus and players relish the primitivist rhythmic verve of this singular masterpiece." Sunday Times, 16th May... |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique / Lélio, ou Le Retour a la vie Gérard Depardieu (narrator), Mario Zeffiri (tenor) & Kyle Ketelsen (bass-baritone) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti [ CSO Resound / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] This recording features Berlioz's 'Symphonie fantastique' with its sequel 'Lelio' presented as Berlioz intended. Actor Gerard Depardieu is the narrator in 'Lelio', and Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as part of their 120th season,... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker & Rimsky Korsakov: Christmas Eve Suite Prunella Scales (narrator), Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz, Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Oct/2000 ] Narrated version with Prunella Scales |
ERICH KORNGOLD
Korngold: Complete Incidental Music to Much Ado About Nothing & Der Vampir Hans Jörg Mammel (tenor) Ekkehard Abele (narrator) / Holst-Sinfonietta Chorus, Holst-Sinfonietta, Klaus Simon [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Korngold's greatest critical successes lay in the field of opera and in his film scores. The early sets of incidental music reflect these two elements, sharing the theatrical bravura of opera and anticipating his own later filmic techniques. The... |
Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator) Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
Stravinsky: A Soldier's Tale [ Linn / CD - released 25/Mar/2017 ] For his debut recording with Linn, conductor Oliver Knussen has assembled an impressive cast of contemporary composers for The Soldier's Tale: Harrison Birtwistle as the soldier and George Benjamin as the Devil, with actress Dame Harriet Walter as... |
DEBBIE WISEMAN
Different Voices Hayley Westenra (solo voice) Stephen Fry (narrator) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Debbie Wiseman [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] '"How about composing a new Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra?" suggested Ian Maclay, the General Manager of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. I've always loved composing for full symphony orchestra, so this was a challenge that simply had to be... |
ALIGHIERI DANTE
Dante: The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatory - Paradise (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 13 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2004 ] Dante's vision The Divine Comedy has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early fourteenth century. |
ELGAR
Alphabicycle Order / Horn Concerto Henry Goodman (narrator) Richard Watkins (horn) / Halle Youth Choir & Orchestra / Mark Elder [ Halle / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "Alphabicycle Order might not be Matthews's most serious work but it is an extraordinarily accomplished one. Brilliantly diverse in its musical language. Alphabicycle Order is a textbook example of how to write for diverse forces in a meaningful,... |
GRIEG
Sigurd Jorsalfar (incidental music for baritone, male choir and orchestra, Op.22) / etc Hakan Hagegard (baritone) Garild Mauseth (narrator) / Male-voice choir from the Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Bergen Philharmonic / Ole Kristian Ruud [ BIS / SACD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] "..you really need to hear this sensational disc. The Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak offers about eight minutes of orchestral Sturm und Drang as intense as anything by Berlioz or Mahler; and as recorded here it sounds like a tone poem of Jon... |
LUCRETIUS
On the Nature of Things (Unabridged) Hugh Ross (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD Box Set - released 2/Mar/2011 ] On the Nature of Things is also a poem of striking imagery, intimate natural observation and touching pathos. It is one of the most influential writings in Western thought. |
SHAKESPEARE
Humphrey Carpenter: Shakespeare without the boring bits Carol Boyd (narrator) [ BBC Radio Collection / 2 CD - released 26/Sep/2008 ] Only the Brits could have produced a Shakespeare, and only they could rewrite the Bard four hundred years later without losing a beat or ruffling a feather! Carpenter has recreated several plays in a modern setting, using today's vocabulary and... |
ORAZIO VECCHI
L'Amfiparnaso (complete musical comedy) I Fagiolini / Eligio Quinteiro / Robert Hollingworth (cond) with Simon Callow (narrator) [ Chandos / DVD - released 1/May/2004 ] G :- "L'Amfiparnaso" is the classic music theatre work of the Italian Renaissance, written just before the first opera and based on the characters of the commedia dell'arte. |
BACH / SHCHEDRIN / MOZART / LISZT / GERSHWIN
Polonaise-Fantaisie: The Story of a Pianist Inna Faliks (piano), Rebecca Mozo (narrator) [ Delos / 2 CD - released 3/Jul/2017 ] Inna Faliks is a spellbinding Ukrainian-born pianist with a glowing international reputation. Her long-standing practice of alternating musical interludes with the spoken word takes the form here of narrative storytelling. And with this unique CD-her... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (English version) Isabelle Faust (violin), Dominique Horwitz (narrator) with ensemble / Alexander Melnikov (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] "Faust and her colleagues do indeed evoke the mise en scène of performers pulling up in a dusty square late one afternoon and performing from the back of an old truck" Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Chamber |
JACQUELINE WILSON
Diamond Girls Finty Williams (narrator) [ BBC Audio / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2008 ] Dixie is the youngest of the Diamond family. She and her sisters, dreamy Martine, glamourous Rochelle and tough Jude, could hardly be more different from each other but their Mum's tried to teach them the value of sticking together. |
JACQUELINE WILSON
Dustbin Baby Tessa Peake-Jones (narrator) [ BBC Audio / 4 CD - released 6/Jun/2006 ] Tessa Peake-Jones reads Dustbin Baby, an original and unforgettable story about one girl's search for her real family. Running time: 3 hours 15 minutes Unabridged |
STRAVINSKY
Octet / L’Histoire du Soldat Jan Opalach (narrator) / Eastman Wind Ensemble & Eastman Virtuosi, Mark Scatterday [ Avie / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "Avie has recorded them in an intimate, dryish space at the Eastman School of Music in New York, recalling the atmosphere on the old Robert Craft Stravinsky discs, but the playing is more sharply focused than one recalls from that era." [The Sunday... |
Jeff Wayne / Various Artists, includes Richard Burton (narrator)
The War of the Worlds [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 24/Jul/2007 ] Re-mixed by Jeff Wayne and producer Gary Langham, this is a fantastic re-issue of the 90-minute double album musical masterpiece, 'The War of the Worlds'. |
MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Incidental music, Op. 61 Jenny Wollerman (soprano), Aletta Lohmeyer (narrator), Fernando Tiberini (narrator), Samuel Peter Jackson (narrator), Stephan Grothgar (narrator), Mic [ Naxos / CD ] Jenny Wollerman (soprano), Aletta Lohmeyer (narrator), Fernando Tiberini (narrator), Samuel Peter Jackson (narrator), Stephan Grothgar (narrator), Michael Hulsmann (narrator), Klemens Koehring (narrator), Gertrude Thoma (narrator), Wolf Kahler... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / BENJAMIN BRITTEN / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf / Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals / Britten: The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Jeremy Nicholas (Narrator) / Marian Lapsansky / Peter Toperczer / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ondrej Lenard [ Naxos / CD ] "excellent value at budget price" - Classic CD |
