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TRADITIONAL
Gregorian Feast: Chants for Festive Days Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] "Mellifluous singing of the plainsong confirms PCAs fluent versatility.. impeccable ensemble, manly tone and value for money" - BBC Music |
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LASSUS
Lassus - Music For Holy Week Pro Cantione Antiqua / Bruno Turner / Mark Brown [ Regis Records / CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] "..glorious Aurora Lucis Rutilat.. Mark Brown's fine performance in the Requiem.." (Penguin Guide 3 stars) |
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ORLANDO LASSUS
Requiem & Music for Easter Sunday Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner & Mark Brown [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner & Mark Brown |
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PALESTRINA
Choral Works (Incls Missa Papae Marcelli & Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet) Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown & Bruno Turner (directors) [ Brilliant Classics Choral Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "eloquence & power..whatever versions you have, this has special claims" (Penguin Guide 3*) |
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GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
Palestrina: Best Masses James Griffett, Neil Jenkins, Ian Partridge, Gordon Jones, Christopher Keyte, Stephen Roberts / Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown [ ALTO / CD - released 16/Sep/2013 ] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a long-lasting influence on the development of church and secular... |
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TRADITIONAL
Medieval Christmas Pro Cantione Antiqua / Mark Brown, with English Medieval Wind Ensemble [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] "A spicy Christmas feast, from a time when classic and folk music mixed. There was little difference in the popular music of the church or the tavern! Often more Chaucer than Christian… A lively record to sit back and enjoy! The attraction of the... |
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Pro Cantione Antiqua/Brown
Palestrina: Missa Brevis/Missa [ Alto / CD - released 16/Apr/2012 ] Lauda Sion is, in Pro Cantione Antiqua's sober and elegant account, hardly less beautiful than the Brevis…slightly plangent countertenor complements the minor inflexions of this major-mode work….but there is nothing tentative in the delivery. The... |
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THOMAS TALLIS
Tallis: Spem In Alium Pro Cantione Antiqua, Mark Brown (director) [ Alto / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] |
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PALESTRINA
Missa Aeterna Christi Munera & Stabat Mater Pro Cantione Antiqua, Bruno Turner & Mark Brown [ Alto / CD - released 10/Sep/2012 ] |
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QUANTZ
Quantz-Flute Concertos Rachel Brown, copy of a Quantz flute with two keys / The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman, director [ Hyperion / CD - released 17/May/2005 ] 'Brown's playing makes a highly plausible argument for enjoying the richness and diversity of these pieces' - BBC Record Review |
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Ray Brown / John Clayton / Christian Mcbride
Superbass 2 [ Hybrid SACD ] |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Der Messias [Messiah] German version Donna Brown, Cornelia Kallisch, Roberto Saccà, Alastair Miles / Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling [ Hanssler / 2 CD Box Set - released 28/Sep/1991 ] Version by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart recorded in 1991 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Rejoice, the Lord is king! - Great Hymns from Westminster Abbey Robert Quinney (organ), Julian Empett (bass), Jonathan Brown (bass) Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Jan/2014 ] "the quality of the singing is on a high level and Robert Quinney negotiates the organ accompaniments excellently' (MusicWeb International) |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Triple Concertos Rachel Brown (flute), Anthony Robson (oboe), Cherry Forbes (oboe), Collegium Musicum 90 [ Chaconne / CD - released 1/Jun/1995 ] |
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Ruth Brown
Four Classic Albums (Rock & Roll / Miss Rhythm / Late Date With Ruth Brown / Along Comes Ruth) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] The Queen of R&B, otherwise known as Miss Ruth Brown had a classic, storybook adventure musical beginning when in 1945 she ran away from home at the age of 17 with musician Jimmy Brown to sing in bars and clubs, before joining Lucky Millinders... |
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Ruth Brown
Taking Care of Business (Singles As & Bs 1953 - 60) + Bonus Hits [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2011 ] |
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WILLIAM BYRD / JOHN TAVENER
Four Part Mass / 4 Motets / Alternatim Pieces Sacred Polyphony / Pro Cantione Antiqua / Bruno Turner & Mark Brown, directors [ Regis Records / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "..sung with conviction and understanding.." - Organists Review |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Rachmaninoff: Vespers (All-Night Vigil, Op. 37) Ory Brown mezzo (soprano) & David Vanderwal (tenor) / Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York (choir); John Scott [ Resonus Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "It is a magnificent rendition, showing just how this masterpiece has been convincingly absorbed into the wider choral tradition, and I recommend it very highly indeed.' - Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Choral |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Suite and Concertino for 2 pianos (with music by Khachaturian) Seta Tanyel & Jeremy Brown (pianos) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] Jeremy Brown (piano), Seta Tanyel (piano) |
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ANDRE-MODESTE GRETRY
Gretry: L'Épreuve Villageoise Sophie Junker, Talise Trevigne, Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Thomas Dolié / Opera Lafayette, Ryan Brown [ Naxos Opera / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] L'épreuve villageoise (The Village Trial) - which, in its original form as Théodore et Paulin, was first performed before Marie Antoinette at Versailles - was one of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry's most popular works. For a century after its 1784... |