TRADITIONAL
Traditional Christmas Carol Collection The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 11/Nov/2006 ] "Simple, sincere and thoroughly engaging" American Record Guide |
TRADITIONAL
Traditional Christmas Carol Collection Vols 1 & 2 The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2015 ] CORO is very proud to release a double CD containing wonderful, festive music that deserves to be better known. The collection is both traditional and genuine, and performances have been kept as close as possible to the original texts. |
Sixth Floor Orchestra, The
Classical Age In Finland [ Ondine / CD - released 23/Apr/2001 ] |
RODRIGO / WESTLAKE / BACARISSE / VIVALDI / EDWARDS / ALBENIZ / etc
The Classical Guitar Slava Grigoryan, Leonard Grigoryan, Karin Schaupp, Gareth Krek, Timothy Kain, Garreth Koch [ ABC Classics / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2015 ] One of Australia's leading guitarists, Karin Schaupp, brings her passionate playing style to these jewels of the concerto repertoire. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Four Last Songs and other Lieder Soile Isokoski (soprano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski, conductor [ Ondine 20th Anniversary / CD - released 10/Jun/2004 ] "Strauss singing doesn't come much better than this. I suspect that the composer him∆self‚ with his love of the soprano voice‚ would have been enthralled by Isokoski's glorious singing." (Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2002) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
The Chopin Album Sol Gabetta (cello) Bertrand Chamayou (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 7/Mar/2015 ] On her new album, cello superstar Sol Gabetta teams up with one of the best young artists, French pianist Bertrand Chamayou. Gabetta and Chamayou have played together on many occasions and quickly became both friends and artistic partners. They... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / SAINT-SAENS / GINASTERA
Sol Gabetta plays Tchaikovsky, Saint Saens & Ginastera Sol Gabetta (cello) / Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Ari Rasilainen [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Feb/2018 ] "..from the moment she makes her first entry in the Rococo, she seizes attention through the remarkable vocal quality of her sound." Gramophone |
HOFMANN / HAYDN / MOZART
Haydn / Hofmann / Mozart: Cello Concertos Sol Gabetta (cello) / Kammerorchester Basel, Sergio Ciomei [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Feb/2018 ] "…lovely performances from a cellist who combines a winningly smooth cantabile with a focused light tone and incisive rhythmic precision. The Basle Chamber Orchestra gives support which is handsomely coloured and stylishly clean-lined" Gramophone |
J. S. BACH / SCHELLE / KUHNAU
Magnificat - Christmas in Leipzig Solomon's Knot's, Jonathan Sells [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "A glittering debut recording for the musicians, whose live sound has been decanted beautifully here in celebration of three of Leipzig's finest. Bach's offering shines brightest" BBC Music Five Stars |
MAHLER
Symphony No 4 [Chamber arrangement by Erwin Stein] (with Debbusy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune} Sonia Grane (soprano) / Royal Academy of Music Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 27/Jul/2013 ] "Under Pinnock, the Royal Academy of Music's Chamber Ensemble bring to the surface the lithe counterpoint that usually lumbers under thicker string textures." Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: The Piano Music Of Sonia Rubinsky (piano) [ Naxo / 8 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2010 ] |
Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Various: Coffrets Rtl Classiqu [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 28/Feb/2011 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The String Quartets [Live from Suntory Hall, Tokyo] Kuss Quartet [ Rubicon Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2020 ] "This is one of the finest cycles I've heard and one I'll most certainly be returning to, especially over this Beethoven anniversary year." MusicWeb Recommended July 2020 |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Karine Deshayes (mezzo) / Ensemble Amarillis, Heloise Gaillard and Violaine Cochard [ Sony RCA Classical Opera / CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] "Sonya Yoncheva brings to her lines a fragile sensitivity that astonished me, given the power of her voice…the Ensemble Amarillis plays with great charm." BBC Music |
Soundtrack (Hans Zimmer)
Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice [ Sony Classical / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] The soundtrack "Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice" is a collaborative effort by film composers Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL (aka Tom Holkenborg). |
David Sardy
Ost: End Of Watch [ SONY CLASSICAL / CD - released 26/Nov/2012 ] |
MANUEL de FALLA / MAURICE RAVEL / GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gérard Souzay - Falla / Ravel / Faure Gérard Souzay (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau & Dalton Baldwin (piano) [ Testament / CD - released 1/Sep/2003 ] "Canciones populaires espanolas could not be sung with greater feeling...it has lost none of its ability to enchant and remains one of the most eloquent of Souzay's song records." Penguin Guide |
St George's Chapel Choir Windsor / James Vivian, Luke Bond
Christmas at St George's Windsor [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] The Choir of St George's Chapel, world famous through its royal patronage, is one of this country's foremost, participating in daily services throughout the year at its Windsor Castle home. Here the choir performs a wide range of music appropriate... |
ANTONIN DVOARK
Dvořák: Complete Symphonies Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2019 ] In this complete edition of the Dvorák Symphonies, Otmar Suitner unites in an exemplary way the various characteristics of his conducting - formal awareness, idiomatic familiarity and an always onward-pressing, unsentimental temperament. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Complete Symphonies & Rosamunde Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt, Willi Boskovsky [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "The playing of the Staatskapelle Dresden is quite excellent, with fine work from the strings and commendable clarity of wind textures. This may be "big-band" Schubert, but never once did I sense a heaviness to the ensemble." (MusicWeb) |