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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Chamber Works (Incls Viola Sonata by Glinka) Maxim Rysanov (viola), Evelyn Chang (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] "In this beautifully recorded recital Rysanov makes out an excellent case for taking up teh Franck A major sonata, his arrangement judiciously steering a middle course between the violin and cello versions, but gaining an extra degree of richness of... |
ALBINONI / VIVALDI / LEGRENZI / VALENTINI / etc
The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690-1740: Volume One: The Dawn of the Virtuoso Mhairi Lawson (soprano) / La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler (violin and director) [ Avie / CD - released 23/Nov/2006 ] "If only all history lessons were as delightful as this. It may have one of the most boring titles ever committed to a CD-case, but don’t be fooled. With consummate skill, La Serenissima provide a guide through the emergence of the violin as a... |
FLORENCE PRICE / VALERIE COLEMAN / JESSIE MONTGOMERY
Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman Michelle Cann (piano), New York Youth Symphony, Michael Repper (conductor) [ Avie / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] In the midst of the COVID pandemic, the remarkably resourceful personnel and musicians of the New York Youth Symphony (NYYS), with Music Director Michael Repper, found a way to come together during a time of separation to make their debut recording. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Kindertotenlieder Michelle DeYoung (mezzo soprano) / Women of the San Francisco Chorus / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "The San Francisco Orchestra is on fine form throughout and they are recorded with depth and spread in a realistic sound picture that packs a punch when needed but can pare down to intimacy too." (MusicWeb May 2003) |
J. S. BACH
Orchestral Suites for a young prince Monica Huggett (violin/director) & Gonzalo X. Ruiz (oboe) / Ensemble Sonnerie [ Avie / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "I greatly appreciate these performances. This disc is indispensable for Bach aficionados, but more average music-lovers will certainly enjoy it as well because of the quality of the playing of Sonnerie and Gonzalo Ruiz." (MusicWeb July 2009) |
BYRD / CORNYSH / TALLIS / SMITH / TAVERNER / etc
Tudor City New York Polyphony [ Avie / CD - released 11/Sep/2010 ] "Recorded in New York's Cathedral of St John the Divine, these are beautifully blended voices of individual distinction" (The Independent) |
BLOW / DOWLAND / FERRABOSCO / JOHNSON / PURCELL
A Painted Tale Nicholas Phan (tenor), Michael Leopold (lute), Ann-Marie Morgan (viola da gamba) [ Avie / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] 'As shown by this programme of Dowland, Purcell and others, Nicholas Phan is a wonderfully communicative tenor: a fine follow-up to his two Britten recitals.' (Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2015) |
LILI & NADIA BOULANGER
Clairières - Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulanger Nicholas Phan (tenor) / Myra Huang (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 17/Jan/2020 ] Nominee: Best Classical Solo Vocal Album - 63rd Grammy Awards 2021 The selections on this album are songs that both Nadia and Lili Boulanger were composing during these years leading up to and immediately after their respective successes at the Prix |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Winter Words: Songs by Britten Nicholas Phan (tenor) / Myra Huang (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2011 ] Winter Words is the solo debut release by American tenor Nicholas Phan. |
Benjamin Britten / Claude Debussy / Gabriel Fauré
Illuminations - Britten, Debussy Fauré Nicholas Phan (tenor) / Myra Huang (piano) / Telegraph Quartet / The Knights (ensemble) / Colin & Eric Jacobsen (artistic directors) [ AVIE / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Following acclaimed albums devoted to Britten, baroque lute songs and German lieder, Grammy Award-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan continues to spread his wings with Illuminations, an album featuring compositions by Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy... |
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Franz Joseph Haydn, Joseph Martin Kraus
Music for a Viennese Salon Night Music, Steven Zohn (flute), Heather Miller Lardin (violone) [ AVIE / CD - released 7/Aug/2020 ] Philadelphia-based period-instrument ensemble Night Music re-creates an afternoon of music making from October 1801 at the Austrian capital's Palais Arnstein, with a flamboyant Quintet for flute and strings by Joseph Kraus, a duo by Carl Ditters... |
W.A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 24 & 25 Northern Sinfonia / Imogen Cooper (piano and director) [ Avie / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "I expected that this would be good, but not just how good. These performances capture the individuality of each work in what sounds like a delightfully spontaneous way." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month May 2008) |
W.A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 9 & 23 Northern Sinfonia / Imogen Cooper (piano and director) [ Avie / CD - released 21/Nov/2006 ] "Lively and subtle performances from a probing Mozartian. Imogen Cooper once again reminds us of her own very individual, melodic style with her excellent new Mozart disc. She clearly feels this music deeply and infectiously communicates that sense... |
HANS GAL
Kindred Spirits: Symphony No. 1 Op. 30 (with Schubert - Symphony No. 6 in C D589) Northern Sinfonia, Thomas Zehetmair [ AVIE / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "Zehetmair finds a mellifluous way of shaping melody while keeping the momentum virile and the music buoyant...the entire performance exudes a genuine delight in Schubert's palette of orchestral colours" (Gramophone) |
HANS GAL
Symphony No. 2 (with Schubert's Symphony No. 9 "Great") Northern Sinfonia / Thomas Zehetmair [ Avie Records / 2 CD - released 2/May/2011 ] "gloriously tuneful late-Romantic masterworks … music that compels attention." - Gramophone |
Christopher Tyler Nickel
Christopher Tyler Nickel: Symphony No. 2 Northwest Sinfonia, Clyde Mitchell [ AVIE / CD - released 16/Apr/2021 ] Vast, deep and emotional are apt descriptions of the single-movement, 53-minute-long Symphony No. 2 by Christopher Tyler Nickel. The award-winning Canadian composer elaborates, "One can think of this music as consisting of mirrors between ideas... |
HANS GAL
Symphony No. 2 (with Schumann - Symphony No. 4) Orchestra of the Swan, Kenneth Woods [ Avie Records / CD - released 20/Apr/2013 ] Kenneth Woods and Orchestra of the Swan continue their revelatory cycle pairing the symphonies of Hans Gál and Robert Schumann, with Gál's Second and Schumann's Fourth. |
HANS GAL
Symphony No. 3 (with Schumann - Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”) Orchestra of the Swan / Kenneth Woods [ Avie Records / CD - released 6/Jun/2011 ] "a committed performance of a work that grows on me with each hearing...Woods provides a strong reading and the disc as a whole, with splendid sound, is warmly recommended." (Gramophone) |
HANS GAL
Symphony No. 4 (with Schumann - Symphony No. 2, in C) Orchestra of the Swan, Kenneth Woods [ Avie Records / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "The Orchestra of the Swan provide a quietly compelling account, relishing the many solos, duos and textural intricacies that Gal wrings from his orchestra. Their account of Schumann's C major brings playing necessarily of great fire." Editor's... |
VIVALDI
Gods, Emperors and Angels - Concertos for Recorder, Violin, Bassoon and Strings Pamela Thorby (recorder) / Peter Whelan (bassoon) / Sara Deborah Struntz (violin) / La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler (violin) [ Avie / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Whelan with Pamela Thorby provide an evenly balanced partnership with plenty of tasteful ornaments." BBC Music Magazine, September 2010 **** |
