J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonates et partitas, BWV 1001-1006 Amandine Beyer (violin) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] The violinist Amandine Beyer interprets Bach's famous Sonatas and Partitas, veritable bravura pieces that push back the limits of the instrument, at the intersection between the German solo tradition and the Italian concerto. |
C.P.E. BACH
Bach: Sonatas For Violin & Fortepiano Amandine Beyer, Edna Stern [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] From the Alpha Collection III of reissues restoring to the limelight some of the gems of early music repertory in their catalogue of labels. The discs in this series allow listeners to renew acquaintance with treasures of the Renaissance and Baroque,... |
VIVALDI
The Four Seasons Op. 8 & other concertos Amandine Beyer (violin) / Gli Incogniti [ Alpha Essential Baroque Masterpieces / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "The one-to-a-part Gli Incogniti offer a pliant, transparent texture, and soloist Amandine Beyer's tone has an attractive brogue to it." Gramophone Magazine |
NICOLA MATTEIS
Matteis: False Consonances of Melancholy Amandine Beyer (violin), Gli Incogniti [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] "Amandine Beyer is a wonderfully expressive and sensitive violinist with a secure technique, clear and sonorous tone and discreet approach to ornamentation... " The Strad Magazine |
SCHUBERT / SHOSTAKOVICH / PÁRTOS
Schubert, Shostakovich & Pártos Amihai Grosz (violin), Sunwook Kim (piano) [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] For this first solo album, Amihai Grosz joins forces with the pianist Sunwook Kim and together they present a programme coupling Schubert, Shostakovich and Pártos. |
Amjad Ali Khan (sarod) with Ayaan Ali Khan, Amaan Ali Khan (sarod) & Satyajit Talwalkar (tabla)
Indian Classical Ragas [ Wigmore Hall Live / CD - released 12/Sep/2011 ] Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, 8 April 2010 Walking straight-backed onto the famous Wigmore Hall stage, Amjad Ali Khan receives a standing ovation before he plays a note. The renowned sarod player has been a regular visitor to London for... |
PETER SCULTHORPE / BRETT DEAN / ROSS EDWARDS
Island Songs Amy Dickson (saxophone) / Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey, Miguel Harth-Bedoya [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] "Amy Dickson is the star of this disc…thrilling performance and vivid recording." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
MONTEVERDI / VIVALDI / SILVESTROV / BACH / FAURE / KOBEKIN / etc
Anastasia Kobekina - Venice Anastasia Kobekina (cello) / Basel Chamber Orchestra [ Sony Classical / CD - released 24/May/2024 ] "The programme is singular and intimate, less about virtuosic solo cello than ensemble musicianship, and all the better for it." The Guardian |
ELGAR / TAFFANEL / FAURE / WOODALL / HARTY / BOWEN / etc
Intimate Landscapes Anda Hollins (flute) Richard Mapp (piano) [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 18/Nov/2002 ] Guest Principal Flute with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra |
BEETHOVEN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / COPLAND / RACHMANNOV / BRITTEN / etc
The Classic Andre Previn Andre Previn (piano / conductor) with Emanuel Ax, Cecile Lucad, Leonard Pennario, Alicia de Larrocha, Julian Bream, etc [ Sony Classical / 55 CD Box Set - released 3/May/2019 ] The Los Angeles Times called him a "candidate for most versatile American musician, past or present". In an unparalleled career extending over seven decades, André Previn has won four Academy Awards and ten Grammy Awards and admirers worldwide as a... |
Andre Previn
Ost: It's Always Fair Weather [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] |
MOZART / MENDELSSOHN / MUSSORGSKY / LIEBERSON
Piano Pieces For Children Andre Previn (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Aug/2016 ] "An attractively played collection" (BBC Music) |
RAVEL / PROKOFIEV / MOZART / BACH / CHOPIN
Andre Tchaikowsky - The Complete RCA Collection André Tchaikowsky (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ RCA Red Seal / Sony Classical / 4 CD Box Set - released 15/Feb/2018 ] First ever release of André Tchaikowsky's complete RCA recordings in a 4CD collection. The set includes Tchaikowsky's debut LP recording remastered for the first time on CD. This recording features Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit which Tchaikowsky... |
Andrea Bocelli, with Matteo Bocelli, Ed Sheeran, Josh Groban, Dua Lipa, Aida Carifullina & Ensemble
Sì (LP) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Presenting Sì: Andrea Bocelli's first album of new material in 14 years. It's a set of powerful, emotional songs, some featuring interpolations of classical themes (from, for example, Bach and Massenet), and an all encompassing positive message of... |
FROBERGER / CASPAR / COUPERIN / MUFFAT / etc
Pour passer la Melancolie Andreas Staier (anon. French harpsichord, late 17th century, Joseph Collesse, 1749, restored by Laurent Soumagnac 2000-4) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Baroque Instrumental |
J. S BACH
The Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 Andrei Vieru (Piano) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 6/Feb/2006 ] "Bach is, of course, the ideal candidate for inventive recreation, and Andrei Vieru's set of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book One scores pretty high on the novelty front… He certainly makes you think.." The Independent |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus Andrew Kennedy (tenor) Klara Ek (soprano) Sophie Bevan (soprano) Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor) / Classical Opera, Ian Page [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2012 ] "Melia is the lovely soprano Klara Ek, and her duet with Apollo that ends Part 2, in which she spurns him and he pleads his case, is a high point of the score. A highly recommendable bauble." (10/10 ClassicsToday July 2012) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (complete opera recorded in 2011) Festspielhaus Baden-Baden / Angela Denoke, Kim Begley, Doris Soffel / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz (conductor), etc [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] This highly acclaimed production of Strauss' Salome from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is staged by German director Nikolaus Lehnhoff. Starring Angela Denoke as "a brilliant Salome" (FAZ), who is joined by a great ensemble of soloists, Kim Begley,... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations (LP) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 LP - released 13/Sep/2024 ] Sixteen years have passed since Angela Hewitt's first, justly celebrated, version of the 'Goldbergs'. She here commits to record her ever-evolving response to a work which contains the 'shadowed lesson of the whole world', and which continues to play... |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): 6 Partitas BWV 825-830 Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD Box Set ] "Effortlessly eclipsing all competition … the whole disc gives unalloyed pleasure; definitely one of my choices of the year" (Gramophone) |