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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Volume 5 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 31/May/2019 ] Edward Gardner's Mendelssohn in Birmingham series continues with an album that collects eight overtures. As on the previous volumes, a reduced-size CBSO joins Gardner in Birmingham's Town Hall, where Mendelsohn himself conducted many of the UK... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert Symphonies, Vol.1 [Nos 3, 5 & 8] City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Following the highly successful series 'Mendelssohn in Birmingham', the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its former Principal Guest Conductor Edward Gardner here present the first volume in a new surround-sound series devoted to Schubert's... |
ARTHUR BLISS
Music For Strings / Meditations on a Theme by John Blow / A Prayer to the Infant Jesus City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Hugo Rignold, conductor / Ambrosian Singers, Philip Ledger, conductor [ Lyrita / CD - released 18/Jan/2008 ] I have often been told that I am a 'romantic' composer as though that carried in these days some deprecatory significance. I have not the remotest idea of what is implied by that definition, since the very wish to create is a romantic urge, and music... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Hamlet & King Lear (Complete incidental music) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mark Elder [ Signum / CD - released 2/Dec/2004 ] "The sound on this disk is exceptionally clear; not only was it well mastered at 20 bit resolution but the down-sampling and noise shaping were accomplished with exceptional success." - MusicWeb Nov 2004 |
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird; Petrushka (Complete ballets) / Symphony in Three Movements / Scherzo a la Russe / Four Studies City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Rattle gives a reading which brings out powerfully the sturdy jollity of the ballet, contrasting it with the poignancy of the puppet's own feelings." *** Three Stars Penguin... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer, Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "A Mahler 8 that seems dutifully fervent against a euphoric Rattle and his forces" - Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine April 2005 |
JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL
Vanhal: Symphonies, Vol. 2 City of London Sinfonia, Andrew Watkinson [ Naxos The 18th Century Symphony / CD - released 13/Jan/2011 ] "The Vanhal symphonies are technically exceptional and capable of going toe-to-toe with the middle-period symphonies of Haydn and even several of Mozart's." (American Record Guide) |
ROBERT SIMPSON
Symphony 11 / Variations on a theme by Nielsen City of London Sinfonia Matthew Taylor, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Aug/2004 ] "This release, appropriately dedicated to the late Ted Perry, is up to Hyperion's best. Performances and production are simply magnificent, so that this splendid disc is warmly and unreservedly recommended." Recording of the Month MusicWeb (Sept 2004) |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Music for Strings City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Hickox Legacy / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] "[Noseda's] Russian immersion lends dividends...to Ehnes's sizzling accounts of the two popular concertos...Just as compelling are the chamber works...Ehnes and his pianist give performances worthy of the giants (Oistrakh and Richter) for whom their |
JOHN IRELAND
Orchestral Music (Incls A Downland Suite & Concertino Pastorale) City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Aug/2006 ] *** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide |
JOHN IRELAND
Ireland: Orchestral Works City of London Sinfonia; Richard Hickox (conductor) [ Chandos The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 12/Aug/2016 ] In 1971, Richard Hickox founded the Richard Hickox Orchestra, which in 1979 became the City of London Sinfonia. Fifteen years later he made this highly praised recording of orchestral works by John Ireland, now made available at 'classic Chandos'... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Turn of the Screw (complete opera) City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox / Mark Padmore / Lisa Milne / Catrin Wyn Davies / Diana Montague / Nicholas Kirby Johnson / Caroline Wise [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 2/Mar/2005 ] G :- "With its short intimate scenes and concentrated lines, the Screw is so cinematic that it's surprising there's only been one previous film. This has just won a Viennese TV award. It's one of the truest opera films to date." (BBC Music) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto / Concerto for Flute and Harp David Campbell / Philippa Davies / Rachel Master / City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Alto / CD - released 15/Mar/2010 ] "Campbell's agile and pointed performances bring … a fresh unmannered style… [Concerto for Flute and Harp] is just as freshly and sympathetically done."-Penguin Guide "My favorite version of the Concerto for Flute and Harp is the one from Richard... |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Gloria / Litanies à la Vierge noire Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Westminster Singers, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Erato Classics Red Line / CD - released 25/Oct/2018 ] "French soprano Catherine Dubosc sings with Gallic nobility and passion, but the affecting sincerity of her interpretation raises her above ethnicity to sublimity." AllMusic.com |
TONY BANKS
Tony Banks: Six Pieces For Orchestra The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Englishby [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] His new work consists of six evocative songs without words which may arouse in the listener ideas of seduction, journeys, heroes, quests, decisions and goals. |
The City Waites
The English Tradition - 400 Years of Music & Song [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] The City Waites are the specialists in English traditional music. This album presents music from Medieval times to Queen Victoria played on authentic period instruments such as hurdy-gurdy, harpsichord, lute, fiddle, rebec, bass viol, cittern, etc. |
ANONYMOUS / THOMAS JORDAN & OTHERS
The English Stage Jig: Musical comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries for the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men and the Ignorant The City Waites / Lucie Skeaping (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2009 ] "These performers are well-renowned for championing the popular music of earlier centuries… the singing and instrumental performances are as genially accomplished as ever with The Waites." BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 **** |
TRADITIONAL
Bawdy Ballads of Old England -17th Century Songs & Dances The City Waites [ Alto / CD - released 10/Feb/2020 ] "..lively entertainments..full marks to the City Waites.. swinging dialect style..taste of the broadside ballad style..good fun, but not very clean!" - Gramophone |
The City Waites
Penny Merriments: Street Songs of 17th Century England [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2005 ] "These songs are great fun, and all the performers seem to thoroughly enjoy themselves, with energetic and vivacious renditions. Interesting and informative notes from Lucy Skeaping about the history, use, popularity and performance (and so on) of... |
ANONYMOUS
Lusty Broadside Ballads & Playford Dances from 17th Century England City Waites, Lucie Skeaping [ Alto / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] The City Waites are gifted musicians who competently perform on a myriad of authentic 17th century instruments. This provides a wide variety of timbre and thus prevents monotony to help us enjoy these lively songs that might once have reflected the... |
