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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... |
Hesperion XXI (early music ensemble), Jordi Savall (viola da gamba)
Oriente Lux [ Alia Vox / 2 CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] Over the last 15 years, Jordi Savall has been exploring the links between Western and Eastern repertoires because he regards this work as a way to develop a better mutual understanding. In this new album, Hespèrion XXI plays alongside the ensemble... |
Hot Water Music
Exister [ Rise Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] |
Hot Water Music
Exister (Vinyl Edition) [ Rise Records / LP - released 1/Jun/2012 ] |
Hot Water Music
A Flight and a Crash [ Epitaph Records / CD - released 5/Jul/2001 ] Superpunks emerge from the swamps of Gainesville, Florida. Good stuff |
Hot Water Music
A Flight And A Crash (LP) [ Epitaph / LP - released 25/Jan/2019 ] Visceral, intense, and simply unforgettable - A Flight And A Crash (2001) is a sonic exploration of the pain and triumph of life with an energy and emotion seldom heard. With some of the most intricate yet hard-driving rhythms the band has ever... |
Hot Water Music
The New What Next (LP) [ Epitaph / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Reissue of Hot Water Music's The New What Next. Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve. |
Hot Water Music
The New What Next [ Epitaph Records / CD - released 27/Sep/2004 ] With a unique blend of heartfelt punk, guttural rock, and explorative neo-hardcore, Hot Water Music deliver their third album on Epitaph. |
SIMONE de BONEFONT
Simone de Bonefont: Missa pro Mortuis Huelgas-Ensemble (early music ensemble) / Ensemble Huelgas, Paul Van Nevel [ Cypres / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 WINNER - Early Music |
LUDWIG DASER
Daser: Polyphonic Masses Huelgas-Ensemble (early music ensemble) Paul Van Nevel [ Deutche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] "this larger ensemble creates a rich, wellbalanced sound which at times I found attractively wistful...I'm already looking forward to the next volume." Gramophone Award WINNER 2023 - Early Music |
Ipelegang Ensemble & Serankure Music Arts
Master Drummers of Africa [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
PROKOFIEV / KHACHATURIAN / SHOSTAKOVICH / GLIERE / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Russian Wind Band Classics Jacques Mauger (trombone) / Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra / Clark Rundell [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] '..the performances get the thumbs up. Chandos' recording engineers have done their work with the necessary bravado.' - International Record Review |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Orlando (complete opera) James Bowman, Arleen Augér, Catherine Robbin, Emma Kirkby / The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] "James Bowman's portrayal of Orlando is both impassioned and intelligent […]Emma Kirkby is perfectly cast in the tragi-comic role of the shepherdess Dorinda […] as unfailingly stylish an account as you're likely to get" (Gramophone) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 / Octet in E flat major, Op. 20 James Ehnes (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy / Seattle Chamber Music Octet [ Onyx / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "The first thing that hits you about Ehnes's reading is the rhythmic propulsion of the concerto's outer movements, which lifts the music, revealing its glorious bone-structure." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 |
BARBER / BERNSTEIN / CARTER / COPLAND / IVES
American Chamber Music American Chamber Music James Ehnes (violin) / Seattle Chamber Music Society [ ONYX / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] James Ehnes and friends from the Seattle Chamber Music Society hit the road on a fascinating journey through chamber music by some of the giants of 20th-century American classical music. Aaron Copland's masterful Violin Sonata, Leonard Bernstein's... |
J. S. BACH
St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist, Matthew Rose, Ashley Riches, Elizabeth Watts, Sarah Connolly / Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra & Chorus, Richard Egarr [ AAM Records / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] "Egarr whips up venomous indignation for the crowd's joustings with Pilate. Sarah Connolly's 'Es ist vollbracht' is searing...And Elizabeth Watts's 'Zerfliesse, mein Herze' is almost unbearably poignant." BBC Music |
J. S. BACH
Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist, Neal Davies, Sophie Bevan, Iestyn Davies, Benedict Kearns / Academy of Ancient Music & King's College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Cleobu [ King's College SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 15/May/2017 ] "The Academy of Ancient Music retains it standing as one of the best period music ensembles in the world, King's College nonpareil among contemporary sacred music bands, and the recording gorgeously captured in a venue most of us are quite familiar." |
LYELL CRESSWELL
Prayer for the Cure of a Sprained Back / Sextet / etc Jane Manning (soprano) / New Music Group of Scotland [ Metier / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "this composer is most effective when writing for voices." Gramophone |
FRANZ LISZT
The Very Best of Liszt Jeno Jando (Piano) Peter Nagy (Piano) / Franz Liszt Academy of Music Orchestra / Matyas Antal (Conductor) and many more [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] A selection of Liszt's most popular piano and orchestral pieces. |
ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Symphonies Nos. 4, 20 and 53 John Wallace (trumpet) / Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra / Keith Brion (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 16/Dec/2005 ] "Anyone interested in the composer or in 20th century wind music will find this to be a worthwhile bargain" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
