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J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos / Harpsichord & Violin Concertos Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell, with Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2010 ] "The sound is closely miked, and the most is made of the variety of instrumental colour Bach puts so exhilaratingly on show." Sunday Times |
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 |
MODES MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music Claire Booth (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "A Mussorgsky melange full of surprises … David Nice enjoys [a] multi-faceted recital… vivid character… a picture-perfect presentation of both text and music… classy work all-round" ★★★★ Choral & Song Choice, BBC Music magazine Christmas 2021 |
Julian Bream (guitar)
My Life in Music [ Avie Records DVD / DVD - released 13/Nov/2006 ] "This is a splendid presentation with wide musical appeal but to guitarists it is an Aladdin's cave." (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The French Connection 2 Katy Bircher (flute) / La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler [ Avie Records / CD - released 6/Jun/2011 ] "La Serenissima remain buoyant and sweet, eschewing the taut, opaque sound of many of today's Baroque orchestras, and embracing something more relaxed and open, helped by a pleasing bloom." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2012) |
JAMES LEE III
Voyages - Orchestral music by James Lee III ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conductor [ Avie / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] In Voyages, prolific American composer James Lee III takes the listener on a colourful journey through his endlessly creative orchestral music; painting biblical imagery in Beyond Rivers of Vision and celebrating the joyous Feast of Tabernacles... |
ALBINONI / CALDARA / CORRELLI / TARTINI / TORELLI / VIVALDI
The Italian Job: Baroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States Rachel Chaplin and Gail Hennessy (oboes) Peter Whelan (bassoon), La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (violin / director) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "the whole underpinned by a scholarly attittude to programming and performance style which is yet worn with a light grace." Gramophone Award WINNER 2017 - Baroque Insrumental |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Simon Trpceski (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko [ Avie Records / CD - released 6/Jun/2011 ] "Trpceski is aided throughout by the unanimity of feeling produced by Vassily Petrenko's direction of the orchestra, conductor and pianist working hand in glove." (BBC Music) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 Simon Trpceski (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko [ AVIE / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "His playing has that rare combination of power, passion, and precision which, combined with his rich tone and singing line, make this one of the most moving and musical Rachmaninov Third's on disc." (10/9 ClassicsToday.com) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: "Trout" Quintet / Waltzes / Ländler Thymos Quartet, with Christoph Eschenbach, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (pianos) & Yann Dubost (double bass) [ Avie / CD - released 15/May/2020 ] "there's no rigid ensemble, either; the mood is convivial, like conversing friends who occasionally interrupt each other. Eschenbach's solo moments have memorable rhetorical swagger…I couldn't stop smiling." BBC Music August 2020 Chamber Choice |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schubert/Schumann: Cello Works Antonio Meneses (cello) Gerard Wyss (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 9/Mar/2007 ] "Virtuoso and sensitive players who put themselves at the music's service." Editor's Choice Recording of the Month March 2007 |
LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete works for Cello and Piano Antonio Meneses (cello) Menahem Pressler (piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "Anyone collecting other discs from the Avie label with Antonio Meneses will know what to expect from the recording. The detail and colour of both instruments is audible to the last drop of refinement, and as a result is a joy from beginning to end."... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (CD+DVD) Apollo's Fire, Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, JeannetteSorrell [ Avie / 2 CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] "The 18-strong Apollo's Fire ensemble...plays with great crispness and vigour, offering terse supporting musical pillars to the voices and emphasizing rhythmic vigour over a sense of line." International Record Review |
BELA BARTOK / FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Bartók, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto N. 2 / Violin Concerto Augustin Hadelich, Miguel Harth-Bedoya / Norwegian Radio Orchestra [ Avie Records / CD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] Augustin Hadelich's first major concerto recording paired the Violin Concertos of Sibelius and Thomas Adès (AV 2276). Universally acclaimed, it was nominated for a Gramophone Award, was one of The New York Times' Top Classical Albums of the Year |
PAGANINI / BARTOK / YSAYE / ZIMMERMANN
Flying Solo Augustin Hadelich (violin) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Augustin Hadelich… meets and surmounts all obstacles, yet it's not technical wizardry that most impresses but his musicianship. He makes the musical sense of each piece crystal clear, and his playing has an inner life." Gramophone |
DEBUSSY / POULENC / PROKOFIEV / STRAVINSKY
Echoes of Paris Augustin Hadelich (violin) & Robert Kulek (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "These are exceptionally compelling performances, sharply defined in character, immaculately articulated, rich in interpretative acumen and blessed with extraordinary finesse." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine April 2011 |
HANS GAL / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Gál, Shostakovich: Piano Trios Briggs Piano Trio [ Avie / CD - released 17/Aug/2018 ] Continuing AVIE's acclaimed and influential series of recordings of the music of Austrian émigré Hans Gál, this latest release brings together two of today's most eminent Gál interpreters, Sarah Beth Briggs and Kenneth Woods with violin virtuoso... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Trio Sonatas for Two Violins and Basso Continuo Brook Street Band [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "[They] approach everything with a spring in their step, relishing the harmonic crunches and keeping everything vital and vivacious." The Guardian |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Cypresses For String Quartet / String Quartet No. 13 Op. 106 Cypress String Quartet [ Avie / CD - released 18/Mar/2013 ] "...the eponymous Cypress Quartet play these arrangements with exquisite shading and a fine sense of nuance." BBC Music |
BEETHOVEN
The Early String Quartets, Op. 18 Cypress String Quartet [ Avie Records / 2 CD - released 1/May/2016 ] The Cypress String Quartet completes their cycle of the genre's greatest oeuvre with a two-album set of Beethoven's six ground-breaking quartets, Op. 18, alongside a reissue of their previously self-released recording of the late quartets. For the... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: 48 Piano Sonatas (8CD Box Set) Daniel-Ben Peinaar (piano) [ Avie / CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Autumn 2020 offered Daniel-Ben Pienaar an opportunity, not because the world was in lockdown but rather for the benefit it provided. A professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, Daniel-Ben was allowed overnight access to the RAM's Angela Burgess... |
AUGUSTA READ THOMAS / SALLY GREENAWAY / LAURA ZAERR / LIBBY LARSEN / etc
In Transit Emily Granger (harp) [ Avie / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] "Yes, it's beautiful, but it also showcases the instrument's versatility and depths of colour and timbre attainable." ★★★★ - BBC Music Magazine |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Francisco Fullana (violin), Apollo's Fire (Baroque orchestra), Jeannette Sorrell (director, harpsichord), Alan Choo (leader, violin) [ Avie / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] "Fullana and Sorrell's brilliant baroque band from Cleveland reveals Vivaldi's most popular work in spring-cleaned colours, like the restoration of an old master." - The Sunday Times (No. 3: Top 10 Classical Albums of the Year 2021) |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine [Vespers of 1610] Ian Honeyman, Gareth Morrell (tenors) / Apollo's Fire Braoque Orchestra, Jeannette Sorrell [ Avie / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "Sorrell's is an eclectic Vespers in which there's never a dull moment. The instrumentation is the fullest, the playing the most high spirited I've ever heard." (MusicWeb Jan 2011). |
ANNA CLYNE / EDWARD ELGAR
Clyne: DANCE / Elgar: Cello Concerto Inbal Segev (cello) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Avie / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "Here is a cellist with something to say" Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2020 |
ADES / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / STEVENSON
Darknesse Visible Inon Barnatan (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] "Barnatan's sustaining of the disrupted stillness in Ades's piece typifies his ability to hold the attention...And it's in Ronald Stevenson's Fantasy on Peter Grimes that this recital becomes revelatory...the magical string-plucking in its moonlight... |
JAKE HEGGIE
Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie Isabel Bayrakdarian / Zheng Gao / Susan Graham / Joyce diDonato / Frederica von Stade / Paul Groves / Keith Phares / etc. [ Avie Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2010 ] "...the composer's own fluent piano-playing, an expert string group and a good if sometimes over-glossy recording provide support for some world-class singers...who are clearly revelling in the opportunities that Heggie has offered them here." BBC... |
ANNA CLYNE
Clyne: Mythologies Jennifer Koh (violin), Irene Buckley (voice), BBC Symphony Orchestra [ Avie / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] "...compelling and tautly directed by Oramo. Irrespective of the conductors, it is the BBC Symphony Orchestra who shine throughout, with superbly mastered sound (by Jody Elff). Another winner from Avie." Gramophone |
JON LORD
To Notice Such Things Jon Lord (piano) Cormac Henry (flute) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Clark Rundell [ Avie / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Familiar from Lord's previous concert-hall works is his fluent enjoyable reimagining of later-19th- and earlier-20th-century symphonic writing and the subject matter of friends pictured within...Performance and recording are both first-class."... |
SCARLATTI / CURRIER / DEBUSSY / SCHUMANN / LIEBERMANN
Joyce Yang: Collage Joyce Yang (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 3/Oct/2011 ] "This is an intriguingly programmed recital from a young South Korean pianist with strong hands and big ideas...Her playing offers impressive moments" BBC Music |
BARTOK / HINDEMITH / RACHMANINOV / SCHUMANN
Wild Dreams Joyce Yang (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 11/Mar/2014 ] "Yang gives us the 1931 version [of the Rachmaninov Sonata], and what a memorable account it has turned out to be, too. She ladles on the passion with commendable aplomb, while achieving some enviable finesse and individuality in the central movement |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The French Connection La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler [ Avie / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "The orchestral sound, as always with La Serenissima, achieves bright attractiveness and vivacity without feeling the need to pursue the taut energy of some other groups." Gramophone Awards 2010 - Finalist (Baroque Instrumental) |
KURT RHODE / OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time | Rohde: one wing Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Anna Presler (violin), Tanya Tomkins (cello) Jerome Simas (clarinet), Eric Zivian (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 19/Mar/2021 ] "The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble take the Quartet's shifting instrumental and emotional perspectives in their stride. Pick of the soloists is clarinettist Jerome Simas, who shines in the unaccompanied 'Abîme des oiseaux'." Gramophone |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Etudes & Six Polish Songs Luiza Borac (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "In these transcriptions Borac plays with lyrical beauty and unaffected poetry, projecting a sensitively-voiced singing line." BBC Music |
TARREGA / PUJOL / LLOBET / CHOPIN
Invocacion Mattias Jacobsson (guitar) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] "The playing throughout is refined, intelligent and highly musical; the tone, though never sweet, is fulsome and appealing. An outstanding debut." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, September 2012 |
VIVALDI
The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690-1740: Volume Two: Virtuoso Impresario Mhairi Lawson (soprano) / La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler (violin and director) [ Avie / CD - released 23/Sep/2007 ] "An outstanding collection, vividly characterised and full of energy, of fine - but not over-familiar - music" (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 8 / Symphony No. 10 (Adagio) Michelle DeYoung (mezzo soprano) / Women of the San Francisco Chorus / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie SACD / 2 SACD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony reach the 11th instalment of their award-winning Mahler cycle with a live recording of the mighty Eighth Symphony, "Symphony of a Thousand", coupled with the Adagio from Symphony No. 10. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Still Falls The Rain Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano), Jennifer Montone (horn), Sivan Magen (harp) & Alan Cumming (narrator) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Sep/2012 ] "The tenor turns in a first-class performance, and pianist Myra Huang lends the songs personality throughout. More please!" (BBC Music) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos & Sinfonia Concertante Rachel Barton Pine (violin) / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, with Matthew Lipman (viola) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2015 ] "there is much to enjoy in Barton Pine's sensitive, finely honed performances, especially of Nos. 4 & 5 (plenty of temperament in the latter's 'Turkish' eruption). With a nod to period performance, she articulates crisply and uses vibrato modestly." |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Highlights Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Avie / CD - released 26/Nov/2007 ] "Vasily Petrenko demonstrates his qualities in choice selections from Tchaikovsky's masterful ballet scores, characterising every moment while his orchestra brings their colours to vibrant life." (BBC Music) |
