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AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe (complete opera) Karina Gauvin, Philippe Jaroussky, Amanda Forsythe, Aaron Sheehan / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 18/Jan/2015 ] "The performance is never forced but always emotive...An exemplary testament of superb musicianship from all participants...this is a landmark event in Steffani's much-deserved rehabilitation." (Gramophone Magazine Award Nomination 2015 Baroque Vocal |
MAHLER / BUSONI / ZEMLINSKY / WAGNER
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg) & chamber arrangements Katie Bray (mezzo) / Royal Academy of Music Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2015 ] Historical performance pioneer Trevor Pinnock conducts the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble in revealing chamber arrangements from Mahler to Zemlinksy. Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr.Schoenberg) is the third in the series... |
THOMAS ADES
Adès: In Seven Days Kirill Gerstein (piano) Thomas Adès (piano/conductor), Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra [ Myrios / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Contemporary |
TOM CIPULLO
Cipullo: The Parting Laura Strickling (soprano), Catherine Cook (mezzo-soprano), Michael Mayes (baritone) / Music of Remembrance, Alastair Willis [ Naxos American Opera Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Heard here in its world premiere recording, The Parting is a daring opera by award-winning composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Mason that explores the life and art of Miklós Radnóti, one of the most important poetic witnesses to the Holocaust.. |
JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse Le Concert Spirituel (early music ensemble); Hervé Niquet [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] In 1743, two years before Rameau's Platee, Boismortier created an extraordinarily modern and madcap "comic ballet", Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse. As the exuberant plot unfurls, Cervantes' hero encounters monsters, enchanters, princesses and people... |
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Vincent Dumestre
Mon amant de Saint-Jean [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stephanie d'Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean, their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a... |
J. S. BACH
Great Composers in Words and Music: Johann Sebastian Bach Leighton Pugh (narrator), with music from the vast Naxos catalogue [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Johann Sebastian Bach today has a reputation as the Godfather of Western European music, as a fountainhead of classical music theory and the creator of some of the greatest works the world has ever produced. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Great Composers in Words and Music: Claude Debussy Lucy Scott (narrator), with music from the vast Naxos catalogue [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Claude Debussy is regarded by many as the quintessential French composer, with music that invited both warm applause and frosty criticism in his day. |
LISZT
Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108 Andras Molnar (tenor) Franz Liszt Academy of Music Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Andras Ligeti [ Naxos / CD ] "There's a lot right with this performance, not least being its outspoken acknowledgement of Faust's stormy character. Liszt's first-movement portrait receives zestful advocacy, less polished than some, perhaps, but fired by immense gusto. The... |
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Liszt Piano Music
Vol.10 [ Naxos / CD ] |
SIR EUGENE GOOSSENS
Chamber Works London Chamber Music Group [including Susan Milan, flute] [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2004 ] Five Impressions of a Holiday was Susan Milan's first encounter with the seductive, impressionistically inclined music of Eugene Goossens. Charmed by the work, she resolved to discover more: 'he was very much connected to the Les Six generation and... |
J.S. BACH / HANDEL
Lorraine at Emmanuel: Celebrating the lives of Craig Smith and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Lorraine Hunt Lieberson / Orchestra of Emmanuel Music / Craig Smith [ Avie / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "This is a superb disc that all admirers of this much-missed singer will want to have. And if you've not heard Lorraine Hunt Lieberson before, buy this disc and discover for yourself what all the fuss is about." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month July... |
FRYDERYK CHOPIN
Great Composers in Words and Music: Fryderyk Chopin Lucy Scott (narrator), with music from the vast Naxos catalogue [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] Polish by birth, Fryderyk Chopin made his name in post-Revolutionary Paris and is often depicted as the archetypal Romantic artist - blessed with extraordinary talent but consumed by the flame of genius, tormented by intense and tempestuous... |
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MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
The Music of Volume 3 The Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble / Curtis Macomber (violin) / Aleck Karis (piano) / Eric Bartlett (cello) [ Bridge Records / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] |
Manuel And His Music Of The Mountains
Masquerade & Y Viva España [ Vocalion / CD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] |
Manuel and the Music of the Mountains
Mountain Carnival [ Jasmine / CD - released 4/Sep/2014 ] The name, Manuel & The Music of the Mountains perhaps strikes up an image of a mysterious Mexican villager with a propensity to romanticise the possible goings-on in distant God-like mountain ranges. However you'd be quite wrong, for Manuel was in... |
Manuel & The Music of the Mountains
Manuel & The Music of the Mountains Viva Manuel! & The Music of Manuel [ Vocalion / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: A Faust Symphony (Version for Two Pianos, S647/R369) (Complete Piano Music Vol. 34) Marcus Ullmann (tenor) / Franz Liszt Piano Duo / Liszt School of Music Chamber Choir, Weimar [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music Edition / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] A recording of the Faust Symphony arranged for two pianos |
HANDEL / GIBBONS / PARRY / WALTON / WESLEY / STANFORD / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - Music From the Official Record 2nd June 1953 Massed Trumpeters from the Royal Military School of Music, Coronation Choir, Coronation Orchestra, Dr. Osborne Harold Peasgood (organ) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] This recording of the BBC's broadcast of the coronation service from Westminster Abbey was taken by means of a direct line to Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood, London. |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: In the Penal Colony (complete opera) Michael Bennett, Omar Ebrahim / Music Theatre Wales [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "Glass homes in with scary effectiveness on the officer's description of the machine...Omar Ebrahim's officer moves from robotic vibrato to loving devotion as Michael Bennett's lighter timbre darkens, and the quintet maintains momentum." (BBC Music) |
