ORLANDO GIBBONS
Gibbons: Phantasm Susanna Pell (tenor viol), Asako Morikawa (bass viol) / Phantasm [ Linn ECHO / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] Gramophone Awards 2004 Winner - Early Music |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: The Bells / Symphonic Dances Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons [ Br Klassik / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] Two large symphonic tone poems by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov can be experienced on this release: the four-movement symphonic poem 'The Bells' ('Kolokola') op 35, based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, for solo voices, choir and orchestra,... |
ARVO PÄRT
Tintinnabuli [incls 'Magnificat' & 'Triodion'] Tallis Scholars [ Gimell / CD - released 2/Mar/2015 ] "the purity of The Tallis Scholars' sound provides the perfect scaffolding for the pieces on this disc...And in their performance...The Tallis Scholars have presented their chosen repertoire in the way they have always done best - as a sound world o |
JEAN MOUTON
Missa Dietes moy toutes voz pensees Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (director) [ Gimell / CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Early Music |
JOHN TAVERNER
Magnificats / Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips [ Gimell / CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
GEORGE ENESCU
Symphony No. 2 / Chamber Symphony Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Orchestral |
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung (complete opera recorded in 2013) Teatro alla Scala / Lance Ryan, Iréne Theorin, Mikhail Petrenko, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Gerd Grochowski, Waltraud Meier / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
EDWARD ELGAR / ERNEST BLOCH
Elgar (arr. Tertis) - Viola Concerto / Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra Timothy Ridout (viola) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 13/Jan/2023 ] "Ridout is a strong, personable player whose deft handling of the Scherzo and heartfelt playing of the Adagio make the concerto's central episodes exceptionally memorable." Gramophone Award WINNER 2023 - Concerto |
SIR CHARLES HUBERT H. PARRY
Parry: Judith, or The Regeneration of Manasseh (complete oratorio recorded in 2019) Toby Spence, Kathryn Rudge, Sarah Fox, Henry Waddington / London Mozart Players, William Vann [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "Conductor William Vann, who avoids any suggestion of bombast or sentimentality, and builds Parry's great paragraphs so eloquently and with such assurance that you'd think he'd been conducting this music all his life" Gramophone Award 2020 Short List |
OLIVER KNUSSEN
Autumnal Alexandra Wood (violin) Huw Watkins (piano) Leila Josefowicz (violin) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen [ NMC / CD - released 29/Oct/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Contemporary |
PER NORGARD
Nørgård: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 8 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Dacapo / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "The premiere recording of Nørgård's latest symphony is a rewarding listen, the Vienna Philharmonic bringing their perfection to his fascinating and attractive sound world." (Gramophone Award WINNER 2015 - Contemporary) |
LUCIANO BERIO
Sinfonia / Calmo / etc Virpi Räisänen (mezzo-soprano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Ondine SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "In Hannu Lintu's marvellous new recording I hear and admire a rediscovery of the impatience and invention that drove Berio to write it, in the forward, piano-led instrumental balance and the unapologetic grandeur of the finale's climax." |
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Abendmusiken Vox Luminis & Ensemble Masques, Lionel Meunier [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2019 - Choral |
FROMENTAL HALEVY
Halevy: La Reine de Chypre [The Queen of Cyprus] Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Étienne Dupuis / Flemish Radio Choir & Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / 2 CD/Book - released 20/Sep/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD 2019 WINNER - Opera |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Cantates Pour Le Prix de Rome Véronique Gens, Vannina Santoni, Clarisse Dalles, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 6/May/2022 ] "a delicious surprise..what is beyond doubt in the three cantatas and handful of elaborated choruses presented here is his supremely affecting way with the voice above and beyond his already considerable orchestral skills." Gramophone Award Finalist |
TRISTAN MURAIL
Murail: Le partage des eaux / Contes cruels / Sillages Wiek Hijmans (electric guitar), Seth Josel (electric guitar) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Pierre-André Valade [ Aeon / CD - released 22/Aug/2016 ] "It is no exaggeration to say that [Le partage des eaux] does for oceans what Strauss's Alpine Symphony does for mountains…[it is a] compelling reason for acquiring this disc" (Gramophone Award Nomination 2016 - Contempory) |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Persephone (compete melodrama) Andrew Staples & Pauline Cheviller / Finnish National Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Pentatone SACD / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ] "Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise. In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or word seems wasted…The choral singing is warm and focused." |
C.P.E. BACH
C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concertos Xenia Löffler (oboe), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Hamonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "Mingling athletic precision and devil-may-care abandon, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin relish the music's seething energy and harmonic and dynamic shocks" - Gramophone Award 2020 Short List - Concerto |
RACHMANINOV / SCRIABIN / LIGETI / PROKOFIEV
Yuja Wang - The Berlin Recital Yuja Wang (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2019 - Instrumental |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in a minor op. 41 No1 / String Quartet No. 3 in A Major op. 41 No3 Zehetmair Quartett [ ECM Records / CD - released 26/May/2003 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2003 - "Revelatory performances that plumb the soul of Schumann's wild and searching muse" (Gramophone Recording of the Month June 2003) |