OSCAR BROWN Jr / JOHN ADAMS / SAMUEL BARBER / BILLY TAYLOR / SANDY DENNY
Julia Bullock - Walking in the Dark Julia Bullock (singer) & Christian Reif (piano) [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 9/Dec/2023 ] "The tracks for voice and piano are a highlight. Bullock's performance of 'City Called Heaven', a traditional Black spiritual in an arrangement by Hall Johnson, is quite something." BBC Music Magazine January 2023 Choral & Song Choice |
ARIANNA SAVALL
Bella Terra Arianna Savall (harp and singer) / Pedro Estevan (bendir, palos de agua, caxixi) / Dimitris Psonis (bendir, saz, buzuki, oud) / Julio Andrade (contrab [ Alia Vox / CD - released 28/Apr/2006 ] Debut solo CD by the daughter of Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras on which Arianna Savall performs her own musical settings of Catalan, Spanish and Arabic poems with a typically multicultural accompaniment. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
White Night - Impressions of Norwegian Folk Music Berit Opheim Versto (folk singer) / Gjermund Larsen (fiddle/hardanger fiddle) / The Norwegian Soloists' Choir (Det Norske Solistkor) / Grete Pedersen [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2011 ] .Combining traditional folk songs with recent compositions springing from folk music, the Norwegian Soloists' Choir on the present disc makes a compelling case for the powerful hold that this music has over the country's cultural life |
COPLAND / ALDRIDGE
Clarinet Concertos David Singer (clarinet) / A Far Cry Orchestra / The Shanghai Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Classical, folk, jazz and klezmer influences are brought together in a work which is infectious in its driving rhythms and soaring melodies. |
DONNACHA DENNEHY
Gra Agus Bas Dawn Upshaw (soprano) / Iarla O’Lionaird (singer) / Crash Ensemble / Alan Pierson [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 5/May/2011 ] "[Grá agus Bás]...is a powerful symbiosis of old and new: modal inflections and reflections driven forward by muscular post-minimalist patterns and processes." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, August 2011 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Chansons d'Enfance Kristin Sharpin (singer) [ Kirsten Sharpin / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Diaspora Sefardi - Romances and Musica Instrumental Montserrat Figueras (singer) / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] "Here is 130 minutes of incredibly evocative, primal music with the potential to go way beyond the early music market and become a huge hit with followers of folk, world, jazz and perhaps even rock. Quite simply, a great recording" (Amazon.com) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
El Nuevo Mundo - Folias Criollas Montserrat Figueras (singer) / Tembembe Ensamble Continuo / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2010 ] After meeting the musical traditions of the New World, the European Baroque repertoire enriched itself with new colours and rhythms, which make it irresistible. Jordi Savall invites us to an unprecedented instrumental and vocal journey from Spain to... |
Singer
Mindreading (Vinyl) [ Drag City / LP - released 24/Oct/2011 ] |
Singer Pur
A German Christmas [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 16/Jul/2012 ] |
Singer Pur
Herztone - Love Songs [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2005 ] |
Singer Pur
Memento - La Hele/Rihm/Part/La [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 7/Dec/2009 ] |
Singer Pur
The Song Of Songs [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 15/Jun/2009 ] |
Singer Pur
Sos - Save Our Songs [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2006 ] |
Singer Pur
Sting: Singer Pur Sings Sting [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] |
Singer Pur
Various: Letztes Gluck - Roman [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 16/May/2011 ] |
Singer Pur
Various: Rhineland Renaissance [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] |
Singer Pur
Various: Sos - Save Our Songs! [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 27/Nov/2012 ] |
Singer Pur
Willaert: The Motets [ Oehms Classics / 3 CD - released 25/Feb/2013 ] |
GIOSEFFO ZARLINO
Modulations sex vocum Singer Pur [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 15/Oct/2013 ] Having recently recorded the motets by Willaert to great acclaim, Singer Pur now turn their attention to Zarlino and his skilled use of harmony-based keys, counter-point and fugue. |