WAGNER
Wesendonck-Lieder (with lieder by Prokofiev, Rorem, Quilter, Strauss, etc) Susan Bullock (soprano) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 17/Mar/2007 ] "Now the finest British dramatic soprano of her generation, Susan Bullock has yet to be heard in her homeland as Brunnhilde, though she impressed as Isolde at English National Opera...Few voices of this kind scale down effectively in song recital,... |
MAHLER
Songs with Orchestra (Incls ‘Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen’ & ‘Rückert-Lieder’) Susan Graham (mezzo) Thomas Hampson (baritone) / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Tilson Thomas is as good a Mahler conductor as is currently alive..the SFS (is) rapidly becoming the premiere Mahler orchestra in (the USA) if not the world. A solid recommendation for a series worth owning, each and every disc." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
GYORGY KURTAG
The Edge of Silence: Works for Voice by György Kurtág Susan Narucki (soprano), Donald Berman (piano), Curtis Macomber (violin), Nicholas Tolle (cimbalom), Kathryn Schulmeister (double bass) [ AVIE / CD - released 2/Aug/2019 ] Grammy Award-winning American soprano Susan Narucki, one of today's most committed advocates of the music of our time, has a deep and lasting working relationship with Hungarian composer György Kurtág which dates back to 1986. Susan's luminouS... |
HUMPERDINCK
Hansel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretal) [Complete opera in English] Susanne Mentzer (mezzo) Grant Murphy (sop) Judith Forst (mezzo) Janice Taylor (mezzo) / Milwaukee Children's Choir & Symphony Orchestra / Delfs [ Avie / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "The important point about this set is that the sense of live performance - and a magical, fun one at that - is viscerally captured" - MusicWeb Dec 2004 |
DVORAK / BACEWICZ / HAYDN
String Quartets Szymanowski Quartet [ Avie SACD / SACD - released 19/Oct/2006 ] "it comes highly recommended." (MusicWeb May 2006) |
MONTEVERDI
L'Orfeo Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott [ Avie / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2013 ] Daniels is magnificent in the title role - technically brilliant...impassioned...and lyrically supple...As one may expect from Andrew Parrott, the instruments are very adroitly deployed and controlled |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Secret Lover Tenet [ Avie Records / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] New York's leading early music ensemble TENET presents The Secret Lover, a programme that celebrates music by, for, and about women and pays tribute to the 17th century Concerto delle donne, a trio of extraordinarily gifted professional female... |
MONTEVERDI / CASTALDI / ROSSI / CASTELLO / PESENTI / KAPSBERGER
UNO + ONE Tenet [ Avie / CD - released 18/Oct/2013 ] AVIE welcomes the pre-eminent New York-based vocal ensemble TENET to the label with UNO + ONE: Italia Nostra, an imaginative recording that reflects the group's hallmark qualities of innovative programming, virtuosic singing, and a particular command... |
BRAHMS
Violin Concerto (with Schumann - Symphony 4) Thomas Zehetmair (Violin and director) Northern Sinfonia [ Avie / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "Zehetmair's Brahms is unrivalled; his Schumann maintains a high level of excitement." (Recording of the Month BBC Music July 2007) |
BRAHMS / SCHUMANN
Sonata for clarinet and piano Nos 1 & 2 / Romances for clarinet and piano Todd Levy (clarinet) / Elena Abend (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 14/Apr/2006 ] "Most warmly recommended." (MusicWeb March 2006) |
RAMEAU
Les Cyclopes Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord [ Avie / CD - released 24/Aug/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2005 – Baroque Instrumental |
KREUTZER / BACH / BRAHMS / MOZART / SCHUBERT / RICHARD STRAUSS
Long Road Home William Barnewitz (French horn) with Carol Anderson (piano) Anne-Carolyn Bird (soprano) Margaret Butler (oboe) Joyce DiDonato (soprano) etc [ Avie / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] “Bill Barnewitz's platonically beautiful reading of the long horn melody in the second movement was the signal event in a performance that took the high road to big emotional impact.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
Yuri Bashmet
Sun [ Avie / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] |