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SCHUMANN
Schumann: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 Sir John Eliot Gardiner London Symphony Orchestra [ LSO / CD - released 21/Feb/2020 ] The second album in Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Schumann series with the London Symphony Orchestra travels from glorious fanfare to dream-like passages with the lively Spring and Rhenish symphonies. From the dramatic first trumpet-call which awakens... |
WILLIAM WALTON
Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario / Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence / etc Sir John Gielgud (narrator) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] Among the sumptuous and deeply romantic music on this disc is the substantial selection from Walton's score for Richard III; colourful and richly detailed music, the suite is conducted by Sir Neville Marriner and makes a fitting tribute to William... |
WALTON
Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario / Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence Sir John Gielgud (narrator) / Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields / Neville Marriner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] 'The Chandos series of William Walton Film Music is simply and obviously certain to be a great classic of recording art. It serves all the higher purposes of truly distinguished record-making: not only are all aspects of performance and recording... |
WALTON
Hamlet: A Shakespeare Scenario / As you Like it: A Poem for Orchestra Sir John Gielgud (narrator) Catherine Bott (soprano) / Academy St Martins / Neville Marriner [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "Marriner and the Academy draw out all the romantic warmth of both scores, and the sound is richly atmospheric to match, with a sharper focus and a keener sense of presence than on some recordings from this source. The Hamlet music may not match... |
SCHUBERT
Schubert: Swansong Sir John Tomlinson (bass), Christopher Glynn (piano), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Juian Bliss (clarinet), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn) [ Signum / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] Christopher Glynn continues his series of late Schubert song cycles in English, joined by celebrated soloists Sir John Tomlinson, Sophie Bevan, Julian Bliss and Alec Frank-Gemmill. Titled by the works first publisher following Schubert's death,... |
BARTOK
Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11 Sir John Tomlinson, Michelle DeYoung & Juliet Stevenson (narrator) / Philharmonia Orchestra & Philharmonia Voices, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Signum Classics / CD - released 3/Jun/2014 ] An unforgettable live-concert recording, selected from the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa- ekka Salonen's season of works by Béla Bartók - 'Infernal Dance'. |
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Sleepy John Estes
Goin' To Brownsville [ Testament / CD ] |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur (Complete Opera) Jennifer Smith, Gillian Fisher, Elisabeth Priday / English Baroque, John Elliot Gardiner [ Erato / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "Solo singing for the most part is excellent, with Stephen Varcoe outstanding among the men." *** Three Stars (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
PURCELL
Hail Bright Cecilia / Come ye Sons of Art / Funeral Sentences for the death of Queen Mary Jennifer Smith, Ashley Stafford, Brian Gordon, Paul Elliott, Stephen Varcoe / Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Orchestra, John Elliot Gardiner [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] *** Three Stars (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
CHAUSSON / BERLIOZ / DUPARC
Soile Isokoski sings Chausson, Berlioz & Duparc Soile Isokoski (soprano) / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Ondine / CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] Soprano Soile Isokoski is singing orchestral songs by three different French composers in her new recording. The recording includes two major works in the French song repertoire - Ernest Chausson's Poème de l'amour et de la mer and Hector Berlioz's... |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: The Bear Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Alan Opie (baritone) & John Shirley-Quirk (bass) / Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Richard Hickox Legacy / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Sir William Walton wrote two operas, the second - The Bear - far more readily acclaimed than the first, and more often performed. Its premiere took place in Aldeburgh in June 1967 as part of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival, and followed the... |
ALFRED CELLIER
Cellier: The Mountebanks (operetta) / Suite Symphonique Soraya Mafi, Thomas Elwin, James Cleverton, John Savournin, Sharon Carty / BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Andrews [ Dutton Epoch SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] "The Mountebanks is as much a Savoy operetta as any of Sullivan's…Nevertheless [Cellier] has his own distinctive voice, flowingly melodic, orchestral writing more elegant and modern-sounding , looking forward to Edwardian operetta." BBC |
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St John's Cath Choir & Orch
America The Golden Dream [ Delos / CD ] |
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St John's Cath Choir & Orch
Hovhaness: Magnificat [ Delos / CD ] |
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St John's Choir/Pearson
Sing We Merrily [ Delos / CD ] |
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St John's Choir/Pearson
Sing We Noel [ Delos / CD ] |
DURUFLE / HOWELLS
Voices from heaven St. John's College Cambridge, Christopher Robinson, George Guest [ Portrait Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] 'Beautifully crafted choral sound' Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Eastertide Evensong St John's College Choir Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor), with James Anderson-Besant & Glen Dempsey (organ) [ Signum / CD - released 15/Apr/2022 ] St John's first live Evensong album, Ash Wednesday, marked the period of Lent and reflected the tradition of the organ remaining silent. Now with Eastertide Evensong, organists rejoin choir in a blaze of rejoicing. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Psalms St John's College Choir Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge is considered to be one of the finest collegiate choirs in the world. It is part of the English cathedral tradition, having been founded to sing the daily liturgy in the College Chapel, though it is set apart... |
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St John's College Choir/Hill
Bairstow: Choral Music [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Jul/2007 ] |
