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Loup/Paulin/Brown
Sacchini: Oedipe A Colone [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 28/Aug/2006 ] |
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PETER WARLOCK
Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy (a flim by Tony Britten) Mark Dexter, Lucy Brown, Maimie McCoy and cast [ Signum Vision / DVD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] A film about a man who, by his death at thirty six, had composed some of the most perfect gems of English songwriting and elevated hedonism to an art form. |
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JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Saffo (complete opera) Markus Schäfer, Andrea Lauren Brown / Concerto de Bassus, Simon Mayr Choir, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] No one did more to combine in his operas the innovations of the Viennese classical composers, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, with the Italian ideal of bel canto than Johann Simon Mayr, the Bavarian composer who rose to fame in Italy. |
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Mel Brown
The Wizard / Blues For We [ Verve / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] This remastered two-fer combines guitarist Mel Brown's second Impulse release from 1968, The Wizard, with Blues for We released the following year. The Wizard is a straight-ahead soul-jazz date picking up where Chicken Fat left off with a few... |
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GEORGE PERLE
Eight Pieces Michael Brown (piano) [ Bridge / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] As the George Perle centennial year (2015) nears, pianist Michael Brown makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the American-master's keyboard music. The earliest work on this disc, Classic Suite, and the recently completed composition,... |
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VARIOUS
Violin Recital Michiko Kamiya / Ian Brown (Piano) [ NAXOS LAUREATE SERIES / 2 CD ] |
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ELLINGTON / EMERSON / GERSHWIN / SEDAKA
Manhattan Intermezzo Jeffrey Biegel (piano) / Brown University Orchestra, Paul Phillips [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] This programme brings together four works for piano and orchestra by composers best known from the fields of jazz, popular song and progressive rock |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Cello Concertos in D & C (LP) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / Academy St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/Mar/2024 ] "A quite extraordinary achievement. Marvellously expressive cello playing. The orchestra gives splendid support and the sound is warm and ingratiating" (Gramophone) |
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WILLIAM LLOYD WEBBER
Piano Music, Chamber Music and Songs The Nash Ensemble with John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Ian Brown (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] 'These modest miniatures reveal a composer who was able, not only to invent memorable ideas, but to do some artful things with them'- The Sunday Times |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quintet in C minor, Op 104 / Piano Quartet in E flat Op 16 / etc The Nash Ensemble, with Ian Brown (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] The Nash Ensemble continues its critically acclaimed survey of Beethoven's rarer chamber music in an intriguing new disc. |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
The Birds Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio, Kyler Brown (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Apr/2014 ] One of Respighi's masterpieces, Gli uccelli (The Birds) includes transcriptions of birdsong and music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in writing of evocative, captivating lyricism. |
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Norman Brown
Stay With Me [ Universal Music / CD - released 22/May/2007 ] Smooth guitarist/singer/songwriter Norman Brown continues his Grammy winning style with this breezy, warm collection of original tunes. |
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BARTOK / JANACEK
Music for Strings Norwegian Chamber Orchestra / Iona Brown [ Chandos / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Iona Brown became Artistic Director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra in 1981. It has since become established as one of the foremost chamber orchestras in Europe, appearing regularly at prestigious venues in Europe and the USA. The orchestra is... |
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SACCHINI
Oedipe a Colone (Oedipus at Colonus) Opera Lafayette Chorus / Opera Lafayette Orchestra / Ryan Brown (Conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 21/Nov/2006 ] "Played with vitality and with singing full of character this is one of the more thrilling finds within the operatic genre for quite some time" (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Nov 2006) |
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PIERRE-ALEXANDRE MONSIGNY
Monsigny: Le Roi et le fermier Opera Lafayette Orchestra, Ryan Brown [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] This release has international significance, and with a star cast and Opera Lafayette's superlative orchestra and production standards it will be one of our early music operatic standard bearers for many years to come. |
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Opera Lafayette/Brown
Lully: The Tragedy Of Armide [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] |
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HANDEL
Organ Concertos [2 CDs] Paul Nicholson (organ) / Frances Kelly (harp) / Choir of Clare College, Cambridge with Timothy Brown, director / The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2005 ] 'The great coup of this new recording ... is to have secured the instrument on which the composer played. Nicholson's playing is unfailingly stylish' - The Times |
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Paul Robeson, with Laurence Brown
Paul Robeson: Spirituals Original Recordings 1925-26 [ Naxos Gospel Legends / CD - released 2/Jun/2003 ] Selected songs including 'Deep River', 'Witness' and more |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas / Clarinet Trio Paul Watkins (cello) Ian Brown (piano) Michael Collins (clarinet) [ Chandos / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] "Collins, Watkins and Brown play as a proper, instinctive ensemble, well tailored in phrasing, unanimous in their attack and architectural finesse, and mellifluous in their shaping of Brahms's melodic and harmonic richness." The Telegraph |
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Pieta Brown
Pieta Brown [ Trailer Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2003 ] Raw emotion oozes through beautifully crafted songs from Pieta, daughter of the legendary Greg Brown. |