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Stephen Costello (tenor), Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Be My Love - A Tribute to Mario Lanza [ Delos / CD - released 25/Sep/2026 ] "As a tenor raised in Northeast Philadelphia, recording an album dedicated to Mario Lanza felt like coming home in the most profound way." This is how Stephen Costello introduces his second album on Delos, Be My Love. A homage to the great tenor,... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera) Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Nadine Sierra, Francesco Demuro / Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian [ Delos / 2 CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] "Hvorostovsky gives a russet-toned, compelling performance, joined by an impressive cast for a gripping and, in every sense, poignant performance." New York Times Recordings of the year 2017 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (complete opera) Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Marco Caria, Kostas Smoriginas, Ildar Abdrazakov, Barbara Frittoli / Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian [ Delos / 2 CD Box Set - released 5/May/2015 ] "It is obvious [that Hvorostovsky] has thought deeply about Boccenegra and is absolutely inside the character; he is also able to realise his portrayal with an impressive largesse of tone." BBC Music |
KHATCHATURIAN
Cello Concerto / Concerto-Rhapsody Dmitry Yablonsky (cello) / Moscow City Symphony Orchestra / Maxim Fedotov [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] The Naxos series devoted to the orchestral music of Aram Khachaturian continues with his two works for cello and orchestra. The Cello Concerto, whose brooding emotional unease did not endear it to the authorities at a difficult time for Soviet... |
GEORGE DYSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dyson: Three Concertos Eric Parkin (piano) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 3/May/1993 ] Dyson was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. Studied with Charles Stanford at the Royal College of Music (he later became director of that institution) and traveled to Germany and Italy on A Mendelssohn Scholarship. |
ALEXIS ALRICH / KARL JENKINS / NED ROREM
Concertos for Mallet Instruments Evelyn Glennie (percussion), City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Jean Thorel [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jan/2021 ] This compilation of concertos for mallet instruments features triple GRAMMY Award-winning percussion virtuoso Dame Evelyn Glennie and City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. Alexis Alrichs Marimba Concerto, a rich amalgam of bold rhythms and exuberance,... |
ORAZIO BENEVOLI
Benevoli: Missa Tu Es Petrus Fagiolini, The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth [ Coro / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] I Fagiolini explore the dazzling multi-choir soundworld of Orazio Benevoli - a crucial figure in 17th-century Italian music. As maestro of the papal choir and providing four-choir masses for special occasions, Benevoli invigorated the multi-choir... |
Geoffrey Hardcastle solo cornet; Center City Brass Quintet
Romantic Music For Brass (Mendelssohn; Ewald; Bahme) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] 'Sparkling runs, impeccable chording, sensitive nuancing between foreground and background, sweet phrasing, a faultless balance in an ideal acoustic - this is becoming dangerously enthusiastic... This is the real McCoy - naughty but very, very nice.'... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21 Gidon Kremer (violin) / Kremerata Baltica, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Grazinytė-Tyla [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2019 ] All in all, this has to be one of the most important symphonic releases of the year." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Orchestral / RECORDING OF THE YEAR |
PERCY WHITLOCK
The Complete Oragn Works Graham Barber plays the Organ of Hull City Hall [ Priory / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Percy Whitlock did not devise a 'new' music - he was no Dupré or Messiaen. However, what he achieved was a perfect fusion of late romantic, neo-classical and dance hall styles. |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 21 (K467) & 24 (K491) Howard Shelley (piano) / City London Sinfonia (conducted from the keyboard) [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "Shelley's disc seems to me to deserve the warmest recommendation for its natural-sounding recording, clarity of texture and combination of depth and high spirits." - International Record Review (April 2002) |
SIBELIUS / ELGAR
Violin Concertos (recorded 1984 & 1993) Ida Haendel (violin) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ Testament / CD - released 10/Oct/2009 ] "..it is Haendel's thoroughly personal input of humanity, expressive power, and her dynamic fusion of immediacy and profound insight that puts this performance in a class of its own. It is simply mind-blowing." The Telegraph, 28th July 2009 ***** |
RESPIGHI
Trittico Botticelliano / Aretusa / Lauda per la Nativita del Signore / etc Janet Baker (mezzo) / City of London Sinfonia / Rchard Hickox [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Respighi studied orchestration with Rimsky Korsakov, another master of the orchestra, and his use of the orchestral palate was a huge influence on the young Italian. |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Complete Works for Clarinet Janet Hilton (clarinet) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi / Lindsay String Quartet / Keith Swallow (piano) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] 'Janet Hilton's is a very fine performance. The slow movements are ruminative and beautifully played.' Fanfare |
JOHN RUTTER
Mass for the Children and other sacred works by John Rutter Joanne Lunn (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) Cantate Youth Choir, The Cambridge Singers / City of London Sinfonia directed by John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] John Rutter's Mass of the Children, for adult and children's choir with orchestra, is premiered here with a recital of eight of his recent anthems. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
An introduction to Beethoven (Incls Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor' & Symphony No. 5 in C minor) John Lill (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Walter Weller [ Chandos Intro / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] 'You'll know the meaning of the term 'heart-rending beauty' when you listen to the slow movement of the Piano Concerto.' CD Review |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concertos 2 & 3 Jorge Luis Prats (piano) / Mexico City Philharmonic / Enrique Batiz [ Regis Records / CD - released 3/Jun/2007 ] "virtuoso flamboyance guaranteed to set the pulse racing... enthusiastically recommended" (CD Review) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.10 / Symphony in C Major for Piano, Cello and Violin Op. 56 Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio / English Chamber Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Walter Weller [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 7/Aug/2003 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
NATIVITAS
Nativitas: American Christmas Carols Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy (conductor) with James Higdon, organ [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "As beautiful a disc of precious Christmas music as you are likely to hear this or any year." (MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 & 2 Lars Vogt (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Red Line / CD - released 12/Feb/2007 ] "This is a remarkable record, as fine a recorded account of these two concertos as we have had for many a long year." (Gramophone) |
