|
MONTEVERDI / LEGRENZI / LOTTI / STEFFANI / BERNABEI / COLONNNA
Harmonies Of Devotion Contrapunctus, Owen Rees [ Signum Classics / CD ] Harmonies of Devotion is both an exploration of the Italian motet repertory of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and a celebration of the devotion to this sacred repertory displayed by English antiquarian collectors of the eighteenth... |
|
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Piano Concerto (Completed Walker) / The Immortial Legions / Spanish Serenade op.23 / etc David Owen-Norris (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra (David Lloyd Jones) & the BBC Singers [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 18/Mar/2005 ] "Concerto: majestic, extremely impressive ... captured with craggy mastery. Enthusiastically recommended to Elgarians everywhere" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
|
Duo Tapas (Rupa Maitra, violin & Owen Moriarty, guitar)
Incantation [ Ode Records / CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] In early 2010, Rupa Maitra, violin and Owen Moriarty, guitar, formed Duo Tapas, with the aim of performing a wide range of music written for this beautiful combination of instruments as well as exploring and introducing exciting new arrangements of... |
|
FREDERICK LOEWE
Loewe: My Fair Lady Alec McCowen, Tinuke Olafimihan & Bob Hoskins / National Symphony Orchestra, John Owen Edwards [ Jay Digital / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/1988 ] My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor... |
|
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse Charles Owen (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ] "Accomplished with thorough and refined pianistic skill and a wholehearted identification with Liszt's message, Owen's music-making is powerfully compelling." - Editor's Choice, Gramophone November 2021 |
|
FAURE
The Complete Barcarolles / Trois Romances sans paroles Charles Owen (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] Following a critically acclaimed recording of Fauré's Complete Nocturnes (AV2133), Charles Owen surveys the composer's Complete Barcarolles, uniquely coupled with Trois Romances sans paroles. |
|
HOWELLS / STANFORD / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BEDNALL / MUHLY
The House of the Mind Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford Owen Rees (director) [ Signum / CD - released 8/Jun/2018 ] The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford celebrate the works of choral music icon Herbert Howells in a disc that sets his works alongside pieces that they inspired and influenced - such as Nico Muhly's Like as the Hart for choir, solo violin and... |
|
CONSTANT LAMBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lambert: Piano Concerto / Merchant Seamen Suite / etc David Owen Norris (piano) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth [ ASV / CD - released 12/Aug/1999 ] "More gaps in the Lambert discography are enterprisingly plugged by these sensitive and shapely performances, which display most agreeable dash and commitment." Gramophone |
|
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: The Jupiter Project David Owen Norris (piano), Katy Bircher (flute), Caroline Balding (violin), Andrew Skidmore (cello) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Aug/2019 ] An intriguing re-creation of how Mozart's largescale orchestral works might have been encountered in Georgian Britain, realized by the kind of ensemble which played such a prominent role in its musical life. |
|
ARNOLD BAX
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bax: Piano Quintet in G Minor & String Quartet No. 2 David Owen Norris (piano), Mistry String Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] Recorded: 29 March 1990 |
|
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete oratorio recorded in 1954) (with Bach: Magnificat) Jennifer Vyvyan, Norma Procter, George Maran, Owen Brannigan, London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "Beautifully engineered sound. Balance is exceptional … excellent singing … really fine choral discipline" High Fidelity (Handel) |
|
Jonathan Pryce, Maria Friedman, Gregg Edelman, John Mark Ainsley / National Symphony Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cabaret - selected highlights [cast recording] [ Showtime! / CD - released 29/Jun/1995 ] A Studio Cast recording from 1995 |
|
ROBERT SCHUMANN / CARL MARIA VON WEBER / RICHARD STRAUSS
Horn Concertos Martin Owen (horn) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson [ Chandos / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Regarded as one of Europe's leading horn players, Martin Owen appears as a soloist and chamber musician around the world. Currently principal horn at the BBC Symphony Orchestra, he has previously served as principal horn of the Royal Philharmonic... |
|
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: Songs Mary Bevan (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone) & David Owen Norris (piano) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2017 ] "the powerful Tennyson cycle The Window, George Herbert's Sweet Day and many others - thanks to Norris's inspired direction - make you realise what a fine, underrated songwriter Sullivan was." Sunday Times |
|
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: The Harmonious Echo Mary Bevan (soprano), Kitty Whately (mezzo), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), David Owen-Norris (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Although most widely remembered for his operettas in partnership with W.S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan was the most famous of all British composers of the nineteenth century. He was revered as a composer of oratorios, and was urged by Queen Victoria... |
|
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. |
|
SERGEY RACHMANINOV / FREDERIC CHOPIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Natalie Clein - Romantic Cello: sonatas Natalie Clein (cello) Charles Owen (piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Recorded 17-20 April 2006 at Wathen Hall, St Paul's School, Barnes, London |
|
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Benjamin Britten - The Rarities Norma Proctor, Owen Brannigan, Heinz Holliger, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mstislav Rostropovich, Andres Schiff, Benjamin Britten, etc [ Decca British Music Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] "The skill and imaginative power with which Britten has used these forces defy adequate description. There are inevitably rough edges in the singing and playing, but the spirit is there in abundance." (Gramophone) |
|
Owen Mac
This I Promise You [ Owen Mac / CD - released 10/Oct/2018 ] |