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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Grand Organ of Exeter Cathedral (concert recorded in 2011) [plus free CD] Andrew Millington (Grand organ of Exeter Cathedral) [ Priory DVD + CD / DVD/CD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] "This is one of the finest DVDs to come my way in quite some time...Millington makes every piece sound as if it had been written for Exeter.Beautifully filmed by Richard Knight - this is a splendid release, informative, enlightening and warmly recomm |
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The Andrew Oldham Orchestra
The Rolling Stones Songbook [ Decca Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2004 ] European import. The original classic cult album from the '60s, featuring instrumental versions of The Stones' big hits. |
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ANTHONY HOPE
Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda (Unabridged) Read by Andrew Pugsley [ Naxos Audiobooks / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2010 ] Packed with romance and swashbuckling action, the tale is considered by some to be the best adventure story ever written. |
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ALBINONI / CALDARA / HANDEL / SCARLATTI
Conversazione I: Cantatas from a Cardinal’s Court Andrew Radley (countertenor) / Sounds Baroque / Julian Perkins [ Avie Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2011 ] "Countertenor Andrew Radley is both swoonsome and stately, depending on the material" (The Independent) |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: English Suites Andrew Rangell (piano) [ Steinway & Sons / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "Rangell's free-spirited Bach is distinguished by its powerful drive and intensity and a remarkable articulation that illuminates contrapuntal intricacies with microscopic clarity." New York Times |
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J. S. BACH
A Bouquet Of Bach Andrew Rangell (piano) [ Steinway & Sons / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "The strands of counterpoint sing with extraordinary transparency; you will hear relationships never apparent before." New York Times |
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DONIZETTI / ROSSINI / MOZART / VERDI
Great Operatic Arias: (In English) Andrew Shore (baritone) / Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Parry [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] The latest volume of Chandos' Great Operatic Arias recordings |
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SKEMPTON / FINNISSY / JACKSON / CRANE / SALTER
New Works for Clarinet Andrew Sparling (clarinet) Thalia Myers (piano) Alan Thomas (guitar) [ NMC / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "This disc shows off the clarinet-playing and unusual musical tastes of a familiar figure on the contemporary scene ... The stylistic range is from the jazziness of Nick Hayes' Tongue-Dog to the modernism of Roger Redgate's +R and Michael Finnissy's... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Les Illuminations, Serenade, Nocturne Andrew Staples, Christopher Parks, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] In these three song cycles, Britten draws his inspiration from the peaks of European poetry (Shakespeare, Blake, Shelley, Keats, but also Rimbaud), the better to push back the boundaries of the genre. He multiplies the relationship between voices and... |
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SCARLATTI / SCHUBERT / ALBENIZ / MOMPOU
Landscapes Andrew Tyson [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ] After releasing two recordings - the first devoted to Chopin (ZZT 347) and the second to Ravel and Scriabin (ALPHA 277) - and winning First Prize at the Géza Anda Competition in 2015, which gave his career a powerful momentum, the young American... |
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Andrew Von Oeyen
Liszt: Piano Music [ Delos / CD - released 29/Aug/2011 ] |
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BACH / DEBUSSY / FAURE / MESSIAEN / LISZT / SAINT-SAENS / MacDOWELL
Andrew von Oeyen - Angel & Demons Andrew von Oeyen (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] American-born pianist Andrew von Oeyen has an ambitious new album that combines works for solo keyboard with piano transcriptions from orchestral, opera and choral repetoire. The album possess a unique duality between the 'angelic' works of Bach,... |
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GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Orchestral Works (Incls 'St Paul's Suite') Andrew Watkinson (violin) & Nicholas Ward (violin) Duke Dobing (flute) & Christopher Hooker (oboe) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] This 1994 recording is one of the first Holst collections made by Hickox and the City of London Sinfonia. An orchestra he conducted for thirty seven years, until his death. Having brought neglected works by Holst to a more deserved fame in the early... |
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HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Birtwistle: Angel Fighter / etc Andrew Watts (Angel) & Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Jacob) / BBC Singers & London Sinfonietta, David Atherton [ NMC / CD - released 20/May/2017 ] Gramophone Awards 2016 - Finalist - Contemporary |
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Andrew White
Celtic Gypsy [ Andrew White / CD - released 17/Dec/2007 ] Originally released in 1998, this is an important, original and inspiring work from home grown guitar maestro Andrew White - wholeheartedly recommended! |
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Andrew White
Guitarra Celtica [ Linn Records / CD - released 9/Sep/1999 ] |
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Andrew White
Pray for Rain [ Vertical / CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] 'Pray for Rain' is a Celtic-tinged bluesy album from 2001, which has not been available for 5 years. Production wise it is first class and the material is amongst Andrew's best work. |
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SAINT-SAENS
Organ Music (Incls 'Preludes & Fugues' & 'Fantaisie No 3, Op 157') Andrew-John Smith (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] 'The charm and elegance of these preludes, fugues and fantasies … brilliantly played by the hugely talented Smith on the great Cavaillé-Coll instrument that Saint-Saëns knew' (Observer) |
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SAINT-SAENS
Organ Music Volume 3 Andrew-John Smith (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "The mighty Fantasie pour orgue-Aeolian, complete with tubular bells, written for the new American Aeolian organ in 1906, sounds epic on this vast, brooding instrument, so splendidly tamed by the dextrous Smith." (Observer) |
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RICHARD. STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 1995) Royal Opera House / Ann Murray / Anna Tomowa-Sintow / Kurt Moll / Barbara Bonney / Andrew Davis (cond) [ Opus Arte CD / 3 CD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] "All three characters are splendidly drawn here, Octavian (a winning Ann Murray, not too feminine), Baron Ochs (Kurt Moll) with a rich low register to all but dignify his underlying boorishness, and Anna Tomowa-Sintow a commandingly sympathetic,... |