Arild Andersen, Bill Frisell, John Taylor, Alphonse Mouzon
Molde Concert [ ECM / CD - released 4/Oct/1982 ] Arild Andersen assembled this distinguished line-up for a dynamic one-off concert at the 1981 Molde Jazz Festival. CD reissue adds more than 20 minutes of previously unreleased material, and the original dramaturgy of the performance has also been... |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Arleen Augar, John van Kesteren, Jonathan Summers / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra. Riccardo Muti [ EMI Red Line / CD - released 7/Feb/2005 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: Macbeth / The Tempest / Marmion Overture Mary Bevan (soprano), Fflur Wyn (soprano), Simon Callow (speaker) / BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Andrews [ Dutton Epoch SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 25/Feb/2018 ] "The BBC Concert Orchestra play with warmth and style, the BBC Singers go at it with spirit and Mary Bevan makes an enchanting Ariel. John Andrews does an excellent job of integrating the orchestra with Simon Callow's spoken chunks of Shakespeare" |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069 Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn Records / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] The magnificent Orchestral Suites, known as Ouvertüren in German, form the final instalment in Dunedin Consort's long-running Bach Masterworks series for Linn, a series lauded as 'nothing short of sensational' by Gramophone. The intricate... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Violin Concertos & Phantasie Baiba Skride (violin) Danish National Symphony Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Orfeo / CD - released 2/Sep/2013 ] These works were written in the last three years of Schumann's life, and it was a stroke of ill luck that the Violin Concerto in D Minor was completed in 1854 just as Schumann succumbed to mental illness. Baiba Skride now offers her performer's... |
The Band of the Coldstream Guards, John Mackenzie Rogan
Ballet 1902-22 [ British Military Music Archive / CD - released 10/Dec/2016 ] The Band of the Coldstream Guards, formed by the Duke of York over two centuries ago, has a recorded catalogue over 125 years old. The earliest recordings in the BMMA, heard in this series, date from 1902; later recordings were broadcast on the air... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Requiem fur Mignon / Nachtlied / Das Paradies und die Peri Barbara Boney, Bernarda Fink, Gerald Finley, etc / Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gar [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / 2 CD Box Set - released 18/Mar/2013 ] Includes complete texts with translations |
FRANZ LEHAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lehar: The Merry Widow [Die Lustige Witwe] Barbara Bonney, Bo Skovhus, Bryn Terfel, Cheryl Studer / Monteverdi Choir / Vienna Philharmonic, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "A great reasonably modern Merry Widow with great acoustics...Great Conducting by Gardiner, the singers in the main parts are enjoyable." Review |
BURTON LANE
Lane: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965) Barbara Harris & John Cullum / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 12/Jul/1993 ] On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a musical with music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner based loosely on Berkeley Square, written in 1926 by John L. Balderston. It concerns a woman who has ESP and has been reincarnated. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY & DVD Bayreuth Festival / John Lundgren, Georg Zeppenfeld, Asmik Grigorian, Attilio Glaser / Oksana Lyniv (conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 20/Apr/2024 ] "Lyniv's conducting is superb in terms of pacing and tonal weight and balance...Grigorian and Zeppenfeld sing as fluently and fearlessly as they act." Gramophone Magazine September 2022 Blu-ray of the Month |
WILLIAM ALWYN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Alwyn: Prelude / Blackdown / Peter Pan Suite / Ad Infinitum / etc (with music by Vaughan Williams, York Bowen & Hubert Parry) BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "This is a wonderful collection of little-known, long-forgotten British music. But what approachable, melodic, evocative, dramatic works they are." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Dec 2009) |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
Anthiel: Symphony No. 1, etc BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] In this their third volume of orchestral works of Antheil, John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic present a collection of scores spanning the whole of Antheil's compositional life. Written in the early 1920s, the First Symphony is full of Antheil's... |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Symphonies, Vol. 3 [Includes Symphony No 3] BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] "Wilson's empathy with this music is infectious." The Sunday Times |
ERIC COATES
Eric Coates: Orchestral Works Vol. 1 [Incls 'The Jester at the Wedding' & 'London Suite'] BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "With good recording, especially as heard in 24-bit sound, I'm very much looking forward to Volume 2. Did I mention the snazzy cover?" MusicWeb Recommended |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
Antheil: Symphonies 4 & 5 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Chandos / CD - released 12/May/2017 ] "A brilliant recording all around, and an important one. Bring on the next instalment." Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2017 |
BELLINI / GLINKA / LOEWE / MENDELSSOHN / NIEDERMEYER / etc
Decades: A Century of Song - Volume 2, 1820-1830 John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Luis Gomes (tenor), Robin Tritschler (tenor) Anush Hovhanissyan (soprano) Sarah Connolly (mezzo) Christopher Maltman (bass) [ Vivat / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] "The second instalment in a perceptively assembled and uncommonly interesting survey of art songs" MusicWeb International, May 2017 |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli [ EMIi Classics / CD - released 5/Oct/1989 ] "If any EMI recording by Sir John deserves inclusion this is it. In my opinion it is the best Mahler recording he left us. I've always felt his view of the first movement's overall tempo and pacing to be as near definitive as you can get. There is... |
Big John Patton
Oh Baby! (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Following the success of Jimmy Smith, Blue Note expanded its stable of Hammond B3 organ whizzes in the 1960s with several master practitioners of the instrument including the soulful Kansas City born dynamo Big John Patton who first appeared as a... |
Bostridge/Fischer-Dieskau/John
Schubert:die Schone Mulleri [ Hyperion / CD ] |
Brian Eno & John Cale
Wrong Way Up: 30th Anniversary Edition (LP) [ Hannibal / All Saints / LP - released 15/Sep/2020 ] This stunning collaboration from Eno and Cale was originally released in 1990 - and has now been re-issued with two bonus tracks. |