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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... |
HOW THE WORLD WAGS
How the world wags: Social Music for the 17th Century Englishman The City Waites (with Pethick Edwards, reader) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] 'Rollicking good fun' (The Cornish Guardian) |
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City Waites/Grant/Wootton/Thom
How The World Wags [ Helios / CD ] |
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... |
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Diazmunoz/City Of Mexico Po
Catan:rappacini's Daughter [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] |
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... |
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Dublin City Ramblers
Craic & Porter Black [ CD ] |
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. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
War Requiem, Op. 66 (live from Coventry Cathedral, May 2012) Erin Wall, Mark Padmore, Hanno Müller-Brachmann / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus & CBSO Youth Chorus, Andris Nelsons [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
War Requiem, Op. 66 (live from Coventry Cathedral, May 2012) BLU-RAY Erin Wall, Mark Padmore, Hanno Müller-Brachmann / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus & CBSO Youth Chorus, Andris Nelsons [ Arthaus Musik Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2012 ] 2012 brought the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Britten's War Requiem, one of the most powerful pacifist statements in music. |
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.'... |
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) |
