MOZART / GLUCK / CHERUBINI / HAYDN / PERGOLESI
Teresa Berganza - Eighteenth-Century Portraits Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Félix Lavilla (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] 'This has always been one of Teresa Berganza's most attractive records.' Opera, September 1968 (Mozart arias) |
ROSSINI / SCARLATTI / TURINA / GRANADOS / FALLA / GUERRERO / etc
Brava Berganza! - Rossini: Arias / Canciones Espanolas: Spanish Songs & more Teresa Berganza (soprano) Félix Lavilla (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson, Benito Lauret, Gerardo Gombau [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] "I called her performance of [the Falla songs] incomparable, and it still remains so, with her completely idiomatic interpretation, vitality, exemplary enunciation, beautifully clean melismata, and wide range of colour" Gramophone |
FELIX ARNDT / MIKE BERNARD / ROY BARGY / FRANK BANTA / RUBE BLOOM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Keyboard Wizards Of The Gershwin Era - Volume V Felix Arndt / Mike Bernard / Roy Bargy / Frank Banta / Rube Bloom [ Pearl / CD - released 15/Aug/1998 ] The iconography of jazz usually features smoky images of coolly wasted-looking individuals in natty hats blowing saxophones. But if saxes and trumpets have seemed like the quintessential jazz instruments, it's the piano that has been absolutely... |
GORDON SHI-WEN CHIN
Chin: Double Concerto / Formosa Seasons Cho-Liang Lin (violin) / Felix Fan (cello) / Kansas City Symphony Orchestra / Michael Stern [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "Formosa Seasons" is based on a series of Haiku-like poems, and is dedicated to the celebrated Taiwanese-American violinist Cho-Liang Lin. |
Felix Mendelssohn's Hawaiian Serenaders
We Got Rhythm - The Swing Side Of The Serenaders [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] Unlike "Dreams Of Hawaii", this compilation focuses on the non-Hawaiian repertoire of the Serenaders, and reveals a 'hot' band more than capable of getting the clientele in a cosy night-club onto the dance floor... |
Julie Felix
First, Second & Third (Complete Decca LPs 1964-1966) [ RPM / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] Julie Felix grew up in a musical household -- her father was a professional mariachi musician and her mother was an amateur singer who loved the music of Burl Ives. Her father taught her to play ukulele and then guitar. |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: L'Heure espagnole, Boléro Isabelle Druet, Julien Behr, Loïc Félix / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] "As in previous releases, the orchestral playing is exquisite, the strings silky, woodwinds perfumed, the trumpets (1930s Selmers) sweetly tangy, the trombones suggestively louche." Gramophone Editor's Choice Aug 2023 |
MAX REGER
Reger: Complete String Trios and Piano Quartets Volume 2 Felix Schwartz (viola) / Aperto Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] This is the second of two discs of the complete piano quartets and string trios of Max Reger. The Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 133, completed during the first month of World War I, is a deeply expressive and intense work, using the full range of... |
Dino Saluzzi, Anja Lechner & Felix Saluzzi
Navidad De Los Andes [ ECM / CD - released 29/Aug/2011 ] Cellist Anja Lechner and clarinet and sax man Felix Saluzzi both appeared as soloists on Dino's orchestral recording "El Encuentro" in 2009, a shared pleasure in the work leading to the formation of the present trio, a group which draws on much... |
Felix Cavaliere
S/T [ CD ] |
Felix Da Housecat
GU34 Milan [ 2 CD - released 30/May/2008 ] |
Felix Da Housecat
He Was King [ Nettwerk / CD - released 24/Aug/2009 ] |
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn's Hawaiian Serenaders - Dreams Of Hawaii [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jun/1999 ] Since way, way back, the beautiful Hawaiian islands have been popularly adorned with a flowery lei of romantic glamour. Described by countless visitors as 'the Paradise of the Pacific', referred to by Mark Twain as ... |
Felix Mottl
Wagner Mecanique [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 17/Jan/2005 ] |
Felix Ribel
Paper Doors [ CD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] Paper Doors is collection of ten elegant and inspiring songs, kicking off with the energetic 'Shadows', and the gentler, melodic style of 'In Your Arms' with the magnetic Martha Wainwright. The album features a stunning cover image created by... |
Felix Ribel
Paper Doors [ LP - released 9/Sep/2016 ] Paper Doors is collection of ten elegant and inspiring songs, kicking off with the energetic 'Shadows', and the gentler, melodic style of 'In Your Arms' with the magnetic Martha Wainwright. The album features a stunning cover image created by... |
PETER SCHICKELE
Schickele: A Year in the Catskills Felix Wang (cello), Melissa Rose (piano) / Blair Woodwind Quintet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] A Year in the Catskills is a five-movement quintet - a seasonal retrospective suffused with clever baroque tints, elements of pastoral fantasy, and a jazzy finale to dissipate any feelings of melancholy. |
Felix Weingartner
Beethoven: Triple/Pno Conc No3 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/Mar/2004 ] |
ALBINONI / CORELLI / PACHELBEL / HANDEL / BACH
Baroque Favourites I Musici, with Enzo Altobelli (cello) Felix Ayo (violin) Walter Gallozzi (violin) Maria Teresa Garatti (organ) Severino Gazzelloni (flute) etc [ Philips Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Dec/1999 ] Eloquence offers the perfect introduction to baroque music |
J-Felix
101 Reasons [ Tru Thoughts / CD - released 28/Jul/2015 ] '101 Reasons' is the debut album on Tru Thoughts from singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist J-Felix. The heavy '80s funk lilt and dubby rhythmic driving force of his sound was first showcased with January's "101 Reasons" EP, supported by Don... |