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add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock HANDEL Ultimate Handel: Includes Water Music Suites, Concerto grosso in B flat & Messiah [selection] Daniel Chorzempa (Organ) Concerto Amsterdam / The Brandenburg Consort / David Hill / Gillian Fisher (Soprano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / e [ Decca Budget Boxes / 5 CD - released 22/May/2007 ] 5 CDs in presentation slip case at SUPER-BUDGET price. An outstanding collection of Handel Favourites. Great value gift purchase.
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL Handel: Coronation Anthems (Includes Zadok The Priest) David Bates (counter-tenor) / Elizabeth Franklin-Kitchen / Rebecca Ryan (sopranos) / Royal Academy Consort / Tallis Chamber Choir / Jeremy Summers [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Feb/2003 ] ""Jeremy Summerly and his forces have assembled one of the more consistently fine performances of these challenging works that I have heard in some time, and have thrown in a much lesser known solo motet as a delightful and unexpected bonus......
add to cart $18.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY Tchaikovsky: Secular Choruses The Moscow Academy of Choral Singing, Victor Popov [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] In the field of choral music Tchaikovsky is known as the first Russian composer to have composed cycles of the Liturgy and the Vespers, but his considerable output of secular choral music is less well-known, and a delightful surprise.
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock W.A. MOZART Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Complete opera) Lynne Dawso, Marianne Hirsti, Uwe Heilmann, Günter von Kannen, Wolfgang Hinze / Academy Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 5/May/2003 ] This recording was made in 1990 after a series of stage performances.
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GABRIEL FAURE Faure: Requiem (with Mozart-Ave verum corpus, K618, etc) Elin Manahan Thomas, Roderick Williams, Ruth Massey, Mark Dobell / The Sixteen / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Harry Christophers [ Coro Live / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] The result of a brand new collaboration between two of the finest modern day exponents of classical music, this exquisite disc brings fresh life to Fauré's peerless Requiem and injects imaginative invention and poetic phrasing into two of Mozart's...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-6 weeks GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL Handel: Gloria in excelsis Deo (first recording) / Dixit Dominus Emma Kirkby, Anne Sofie von Otter / Royal Academy Baroque Orch / Drottingholm Baroque Ensemble [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2001 ] 'The Handel discovery of our time performed with sublime dexterity by Emma Kirkby.' Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Aug 2001)
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock JOSEF HAYDN The Creation (Complete oratorio in English) Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood [ L'Oiseau-Lyre / Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "fine clarity of detail and an attractive freshness" *** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide
add to cart $16.00 Out of Stock HENRY PURCELL Sweeter Than Roses Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Paul Esswood, Catherine Bott, Stafford Dean, Ian Partridge / The Academy of Ancient Music, English Chamber Orchestra [ Decca Budget Boxes / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Purcell's Theatre music on a specially priced budget CD.
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock PURCELL Theatre Music (music from Abdelazer, Don Quixote, The Virtuous Wife, Oedipus, etc) Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Elizabeth Lane, Joy Roberts, Prudence Lloyd, James Bowman / Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood [ Decca Budget Boxes / 6 CD Box Set - released 14/Jun/2004 ] All of Purcell's Theatre music on a 6 CD budget set
add to cart $27.00 Out of Stock DOWLAND / PURCELL / MOZART / HANDEL / etc Emma Kirkby - A Portrait Emma Kirkby, soprano, Christopher Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] Rosette (highest rating) - Penguin Stereo Guide
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks RICHARD STRAUSS / AARON COPLAND Strauss: Duet Concertino, Prelude To Capriccio / Copland: Clarinet Concerto, Appalachian Spring Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet) Stepan Turnovsky (bassoon) / Academy of London, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Richard Stamp [ Signum / CD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] "Richard Stamp secures real zip in the faster music, secures real zip in the faster music, and there is some lovely tender playing from the Royal Northern Sinfonia principals in the more tender passages." BBC Music
add to cart $160.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks BEETHOVEN Beethoven Edition: Complete works [Symphonies, chamber, concertos, dances, operas, songs, instriumental & incidental music] Alfred Brendel, Staatskapelle Dresden, Elly Ameling, Suske Quartett, Janet Baker, Yefim Bronfman, Walter Klien, Academy St Martins-in-the-Fields, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 86 CD Box Set ] t would not be an overstatement to declare that Ludwig van Beethoven stands as one of the most significant figures in Western civilisation: a composer who shaped the course of music history through his mastery of rhythm, melody and harmonic...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Tchaikovsky: String Quartets 1 - 3 / Souvenir de Florence Gabrieli String Quartet / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] "the Gabrielis give a finely conceived performance, producing well-blended tonal quality" Penguin Guide
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock BACH / VIVALDI / HANDEL / PACHELBEL / MARCELLO / PURCELL / etc Essential Baroque (Includes 'the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba', Albinoni's Adagio & the Hallelujah chorus) George Malcolm (harpsichord) Barbara Bonney (soprano) RenACe Fleming (soprano) / The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] Essential Baroque is the perfect CD for those who would like to purchase an introduction to baroque music.
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GLAZUNOV Orchestral Works, Vol. 18 - Masquerade / 2 Pieces / Pas de caractere / Romantic Intermezzo Gnesin Academy Chorus / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "An automatic purchase at this price for anyone with an interest in this composer or the byways of theatrical music..is conducted and played with sympathy and insight. Appealing yet very rare music performed with great aplomb. (MusicWeb Sept 2009)
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks ANTONIO VIVALDI / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL Vivaldi, Handel Grace Davidson (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music [ Signum / CD - released 29/Jun/2018 ] "The voice is radiantly fresh and clean, and she successfully navigates almost all the technical perils in her programme of sacred motets by Handel and Vivaldi, spiritedly backed by another of Britain's Academies, the Academy of Ancient Music" Times
add to cart $55.00 Out of Stock VARIOUS COMPOSERS The Art of the Trumpet Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner / with Roland Pontinen & Peter Solomon (piano) [ Decca Collector's Edition / 5 CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] This collection of three centuries of trumpet music ranges from Baroque concertos by Vivaldi and Albinoni and cornerstones of the trumpet repertory such as the concertos by Haydn and Hummel, to contemporary classics such as Luciano Berio's Sequenza...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-6 weeks PIAZZOLLA / ROTA / WEILL / RODGERS / MORRICONE / etc Both Sides Now Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet) / Academy of St Martins in the Fields, Kenneth Sillito [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "Hardenberger is often rhythmically too straitlaced for this material. Still, we can admire his smoky flugelhorn tone and deft high passagework on muted trumpet. And the selection, from My Funny Valentine to The Godfather theme, is enjoyable...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks HANDEL Concerti Grossi Op. 3 Nos. 1-6, HWV312-317 The Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "The Academy of Ancient Music is in world-beating form once more with this magnificent Handel disc. Egarr and the musicians play with dynamism and warmth which suggests that Egarr's tenure with this band is going to be a rewarding one. Long may it...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator) Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen Stravinsky: A Soldier's Tale [ Linn / CD - released 25/Mar/2017 ] For his debut recording with Linn, conductor Oliver Knussen has assembled an impressive cast of contemporary composers for The Soldier's Tale: Harrison Birtwistle as the soldier and George Benjamin as the Devil, with actress Dame Harriet Walter as...