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Minuetto-1999 Chamber Music Festival Highlights
Various [ NAXOS / CD - released 16/Jan/1999 ] |
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J.C. BACH / J C F BACH
Keyboard Concertos The Music Collection [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of Johann Sebastian, made his career first in Italy and then, from 1762, in London, where he was a pioneer in the use of the fortepiano. |
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Music Of Remembrance
Heggie: For A Look Or A Touch [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] |
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Music Of Remembrance
Schoenfield:camp Songs [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] |
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JAMES DILLON
East 11th Street Music Projects London / Richard Bernas, conductor [ NMC / CD - released 4/Jun/2005 ] Gramophone Award nomination - Best Contemporary Recording 1993 |
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VERDI / BOITO
Falstaff (complete opera recorded in 2006 in a new version by Tony Britten) Music Theatre London / Ian Jervis / Jan Hartley / Julia Forsyth / Simon Butteriss / Rosamund Shelley [ Signum Vision / DVD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] G; - "The DVD was recorded on location in and around a real golf club and the club acts as the setting for most of the scenes barring a few in the Fords' home." (MusicWeb Oct 2008) |
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Music Theatre Wales/Rafferty
Berkeley: For You [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] |
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MICHAEL BERKELEY
Jane Eyre (Complete Opera) Natasha Marsh, Fflur Wyn, Beverley Mills / The Music Theatre Wales Ensemble [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Oct/2002 ] 'Michael Rafferty's deeply committed conducting elicits fine performances from the entire cast and ensemble' - Sunday Times |
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Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Franz Joseph Haydn, Joseph Martin Kraus
Music for a Viennese Salon Night Music, Steven Zohn (flute), Heather Miller Lardin (violone) [ AVIE / CD - released 7/Aug/2020 ] Philadelphia-based period-instrument ensemble Night Music re-creates an afternoon of music making from October 1801 at the Austrian capital's Palais Arnstein, with a flamboyant Quintet for flute and strings by Joseph Kraus, a duo by Carl Ditters... |
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WILLIAM BYRD / JOHN DOWLAND / HENRY PURCELL / etc
Elizabethan Lute Songs / Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary Norma Burrowes (Soprano), James Bowman & Charles Brett (Countertenors) / Robert Lloyd (Bass) / Early Consort of Music / David Munrow [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] "The solo singing, however, is strong, and the music represents Purcell at his finest - the counter tenor duet "Sound the trumpet" (Bowman and Charles Brett) never palls." (Irish Times) |
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GORDON CROSSE
Purgatory (1966) Opera in One Act Peter Bodenham (tenor) Glenville Hargreaves (baritone) / Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Northern College of Music / Michael Lankester, [ Lyrita / CD - released 20/Mar/2008 ] "This edgy, ruthless, creepy and dissonant little two-hander is presented to best advantage. One cannot imagine needing another recording after this despite its three decades' vintage." (MusicWeb March 2008) |
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Krenek, Er
Spätwerk: Zwei Zeitlieder op. 215, Drei Lieder op. 216, Opus 231 für Violine und Orgel, Streichtrio in zwölf Stationen o Phyllis Bryn-Julson; The Southwest Chamber Music Society, Jeff von der Schmitt [ ORFEO / CD - released 4/Apr/1997 ] |
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ELLIOTT CARTER
Carter: Late Works Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Isabelle Faust (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Colin Currie (percussion) / Birmingham Contemporary Music [ Ondine / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ] "Carter's very last, centenarian works...prove concise, poetic and delightfully mischievous as ever." BBC Music Award WINNER 2018 - Jury Award - Premiere |
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Quartet Music
Summer Night [ Delos / CD ] |
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POULENC / MILHAUD / BARTOK
Concertos for Two Pianos Quattro Mani (piano duo) / Colorado College Summer Music festival Orchestra / Scott Yoo [ Bridge / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Divine Impresario: Nicolini on Stage Randall Scotting (countertenor), Mary Bevan (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music [ Signum / CD - released 13/Mar/2026 ] Divine Impresario is countertenor Randall Scotting's portrait of the celebrated castrato Nicolò Grimaldi ("Nicolini"), performed with the Academy of Ancient Music and Laurence Cummings. Drawing on arias and duets written for Nicolini by Handel,... |
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J.S. BACH
Harpsichord Concertos BWV1052, BWV1053 & Triple BWV1044 (special price with Harmonia Mundi catalogue) Richard Egarr (harpsichord) / Academy of Ancient Music / Andrew Manze, director [ Harmonia Mundi / CD/Book - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "While Manze draws spirited playing from his ensemble, it's Egarr's intimately dramatic approach that really makes these discs special." ***** The Independent |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Messiah (1751 Version) Robert Brooks / Iestyn Davies / Eamonn Dougan / New College Choir / Academy of Ancient Music / Edward Higginbottom (Conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 7/Nov/2006 ] "This is a very special recording. Not only is it of quite outstanding quality both musically and dramatically, but, being sung entirely by male voices associated with a single institution, it probably comes as close as modern conditions permit to |
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Room-Music
Catoire: Chamber Music [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Feb/2005 ] |
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Room-Music
Gyorgy Catoire - Chamber Music [ Hyperion / CD - released 13/Apr/2005 ] 'This is music which could certainly appeal to those who are attracted by Russian Impressionism, or by Scriabin's piano works, especially in these performances. They are led by Stephen Coombs, author of an informative insert-note, who is undaunted by... |