VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: If I Loved You - Love Duets from the Musicals Valerie Masterson, Thomas Allen / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Owen Edwards [ TER VIP Series / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] To have Valerie Masterson and Thomas Allen perform this recital of musical theater songs in the original stage orchestrations is indicative of a trend which is long overdue for the dissolution of the barriers between opera and musical theater. |
John Allen / Gabriel Dell
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Ghost Stories for Young People / Famous Monsters Speak [ Micro Werks / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] This collection brings together two classic LPs from the early '60s, featuring some great spine-tingling horror tales. ;-) |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Dona Nobis Pacem & Towards the Unknown Region Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Corydon Singers, Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD - released 19/Jul/1993 ] |
BEETHOVEN
Folksong Settings DELETED Dame Felicity Lott / John Mark Ainsley / Christopher Maltman / Ann Murray / Sarah Walker / Catrin Wyn Davies / Thomas Allen / Malcolm Martineau (piano [ DG Collector's Edition / 7 CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] Specially recorded for Deutsche Grammophon's monumental Beethoven Edition in 1997, this seven-CD set of the complete Beethoven folksong arrangements was undoubtedly one of the edition's highlights and one of the volumes to gain most praise. Now it is... |
W.A. MOZART
Cosi Fan Tutte (complete opera) Helena Dose / Sylvia Lindenstrand / Daniele Perriers / Thomas Allen / Anson Austin / Franz Petri / London Philharmonic Orchestra / John Pritchard [ Arthaus Musik / EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 2/Jul/2004 ] G :- All Regions - Regular 1.33:1 / 4:3 - PCM Stereo - Colour - 158 Minutes - NTSC A performance of the Mozart opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" in two acts recorded live at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1975. Sung in Italian. Starring Helena... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Highlights from the operettas John Mark Ainsley / Thomas Allen / Rebecca Evans / Felicity Palmer / Richard Suart / Welsh National Opera / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2005 ] "...this anthology is a delight." -Daily Press (Newport News, VA) |
CORIGLIANO
A Dylan Thomas Trilogy John Tessier (tenor) Thomas Allen (baritone) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] Fern Hill is a blithe poem, yet touched by darkness; time finally holds the poet "green and dying" … Poem in October begins in Thomas's seafront town: the poet, marking his birthday, climbs to a high hill, where he reflects on his youth and mulls his... |
HENRY PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas (complete opera) Jospehine Veasey / John Shirley-Quirk / Helen Donath / Thomas Allen / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields / Sir Colin Davis [ Philips Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] "fresh and enjoyable" Penguin Guide to CDs |
ERIC COATES
Sound and Vision: Orchestral Music [Incl 'From the Countryside Suite'] / Music for Voice & Orchestra [Incls 'The Mill OAE Dreams Song Cycle'] Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor) / BBC Concert Orchestra / John Wilson [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] In his unmissable Eric Coates programme, with the BBC Concert Orchestra on top form, conductor John Wilson demonstrates his special empathy with and long-study of the music of this quintessential British composer, with celebrated baritone Sir Thomas... |