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LENNOX BERKELEY
Horn Trio / Flute Sonatina / Viola Sonata / Quintet for Wind and Piano Susanne Stanzeleit (violin) / Stephen Stirling (horn) / Patrick Williams (flute) / Morgan Goff (viola) / Members of the New London Chamber Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] Lennox Berkeley amassed over 100 works and contributed to almost every genre. Since he had the opportunity to write for some of the leading performers of the time-the Horn Trio was written for Dennis Brain-chamber music featuring wind and strings... |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV / ERNEST BLOCH
Prokofiev/Bloch -: Violin Concertos (with Bartok - Portrait Op 5 No 1) Joseph Szigeti (violin) / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris, Charles Munch / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 2/Jun/2003 ] Penguin Guide - Rosette Winner |
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COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kiss Me Kate Josephine Barslow, Thomas Hampson, Kim Criswell, Karla Burns / Ambrosian Chorus & London Sinfonietta, John McGlinn [ EMI Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/1990 ] This set brings together the five complete recordings of famous Broadway musicals made under the direction of the American conductor and musical theatre archivist John McGlinn - Show Boat (1927) by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cole Porter's... |
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Theophilus London
Timez are Weird These Days [ Warner Bros. Music / CD - released 12/Aug/2011 ] This debut record from the producer extraordinnaire is catchy and clever, synthy and deep. Recall TV On The Radio, mix it with some Prince, add some Hurts and you'll be heading down the right track... |
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MAHLER
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen / Symphony No. 1 in D major 'titan' Thomas Hampson (baritone) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Klaus Tennstedt [ LPO Live / CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] 'Thomas Hampson impressively sustained his long lines both here and elsewhere, finding an enviable range of colour between and within songs.' (Barry Millington, The Times 1991) |
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GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Double Bass Concertino in C minor / Elegy No. 1 in D major / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Francesca Petracchi (double bass) / London Symphony Orchestra / Matthew Gibson [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 2 / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Known to his contemporaries as the Paganini of the double bass, Giovanni Bottesini significantly extended the technical possibilities of the instrument both as a composer and virtuoso soloist. After the Prelude to Ero e Leandro, Bottesini's greatest... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Serenades [Incls 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'] Philomusica of London, Thurston Dart / Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Oct/2020 ] A first international CD issue for two contrasting albums of light-orchestral Mozart from Joseph Keilberth and Thurston Dart. |
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KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs-An American Place / Eventide / Out of the Dark Timothy Jones, horn / London Symphony Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] Kenneth Fuchs has written for orchestra, band, chorus, jazz ensemble, and various chamber ensembles. |
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SIR CHARLES HUBERT H. PARRY
Parry: Judith, or The Regeneration of Manasseh (complete oratorio recorded in 2019) Toby Spence, Kathryn Rudge, Sarah Fox, Henry Waddington / London Mozart Players, William Vann [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "Conductor William Vann, who avoids any suggestion of bombast or sentimentality, and builds Parry's great paragraphs so eloquently and with such assurance that you'd think he'd been conducting this music all his life" Gramophone Award 2020 Short List |
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Toumani Diabaté And The London Symphony Orchestra
Kôrôlén [ World Circuit/Warner / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] Kôrôlén is a very special collaboration between two titans in music: Toumani Diabaté, the Grammy-winning Malian kora virtuoso, and the London Symphony Orchestra, renowned worldwide for their performances of orchestral music on record, film and... |
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Toumani Diabaté And The London Symphony Orchestra
Kôrôlén (LP) [ World Circuit/Warner / LP - released 23/Apr/2021 ] Kôrôlén is a very special collaboration between two titans in music: Toumani Diabaté, the Grammy-winning Malian kora virtuoso, and the London Symphony Orchestra, renowned worldwide for their performances of orchestral music on record, film and... |
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JACOB / LEIGH / LLOYD / LAMBERT / MATHAIS / PARRY / STANFORD / WORDSWORTH / etc
Celebrating 50 Years Devoted To British Music - Set 2 Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) John Ogdon (piano) / BBC Symphony / London Symphony / London Philharmonic [ Lyrita / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2009 ] "The idea is to offer a single substantial orchestral track for the majority of composers represented in the Lyrita catalogue. You can sometimes argue with the selection but overall the right note has been struck - right and bold" (MusicWeb Oct 2009) |
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WALTER LEIGH
Concertino for Harpsichord / Music for String Orchestra / A Midsummer Night's Dream Suite / etc Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "The composer, Walter Leigh, is little known today yet was undoubtedly one of England’s gifted and versatile composers" (MusicWeb Aug 2007) |
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SCHOENBERG
String Trio / 4 Pieces for Mixed Chorus / 3 Satires / Suite Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Simon Joly Chorale / London Sinfonietta / London Symphony Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "The performance has the right idea in not attempting to gloss over the discontinuities [of the String Trio]...[these players] give a good sense of the way angry expression dissolves into wistful lyricism at the end...Schoenberg's voice...is heard to... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125 'Choral' Twyla Robinson, Karen Cargill, John Mac Master, Gerald Finley / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Bernard Haitink [ Alto / CD - released 10/Feb/2020 ] "a magnificent Ninth, done with total commitment under Haitink's inspiring leadership…with splendid chorus and soloists in full cry, and orchestra in blazing form" (Sunday Times) |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No 9 'Choral' Twyla Robinson, Karen Cargill, John Mac Master, Gerald Finley / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Bernard Haitink [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Sep/2006 ] Hybrid/SACD - playable on all compact disc players Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is a landmark in the history of music, changing the concept of what a symphony could be. The use of solo singers and a chorus in the final movement was revolutionary, and |
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MESSIEAN
Des Canyons aux Étoiles (recorded Nov 2013) Tzimon Barto (piano), John Ryan (horn), Andrew Barclay (xylorimba) & Erika Öhman (glockenspiel) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach [ LPO Live / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] "This performance of Messiaen's late, great 100-minute orchestral cycle - 12 pieces for an altering configuration - was recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall in 2013, and makes a powerful, colourful, even apocalyptically witty effect, I find, on s |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 3 (with Bartok - Piano Concerto No 2) Tzimon Barto (piano) / London Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach [ EMI Redline / CD - released 29/Jun/2002 ] "...an exceptionally well-filled CD with an attractively unusual coupling." (Gramophone) |
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DELIUS
Florida Suite / North Country Sketches / On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring / etc Ulster Orchestra & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jul/2000 ] '…the Chandos recording allows Delius's palette of colours to shine through' BBC Music Magazine |