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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: 48 Piano Sonatas (8CD Box Set) Daniel-Ben Peinaar (piano) [ Avie / CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Autumn 2020 offered Daniel-Ben Pienaar an opportunity, not because the world was in lockdown but rather for the benefit it provided. A professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, Daniel-Ben was allowed overnight access to the RAM's Angela Burgess... |
AUGUSTA READ THOMAS / SALLY GREENAWAY / LAURA ZAERR / LIBBY LARSEN / etc
In Transit Emily Granger (harp) [ Avie / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] "Yes, it's beautiful, but it also showcases the instrument's versatility and depths of colour and timbre attainable." ★★★★ - BBC Music Magazine |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Francisco Fullana (violin), Apollo's Fire (Baroque orchestra), Jeannette Sorrell (director, harpsichord), Alan Choo (leader, violin) [ Avie / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] "Fullana and Sorrell's brilliant baroque band from Cleveland reveals Vivaldi's most popular work in spring-cleaned colours, like the restoration of an old master." - The Sunday Times (No. 3: Top 10 Classical Albums of the Year 2021) |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine [Vespers of 1610] Ian Honeyman, Gareth Morrell (tenors) / Apollo's Fire Braoque Orchestra, Jeannette Sorrell [ Avie / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "Sorrell's is an eclectic Vespers in which there's never a dull moment. The instrumentation is the fullest, the playing the most high spirited I've ever heard." (MusicWeb Jan 2011). |
ANNA CLYNE / EDWARD ELGAR
Clyne: DANCE / Elgar: Cello Concerto Inbal Segev (cello) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Avie / CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "Here is a cellist with something to say" Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2020 |
ADES / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / STEVENSON
Darknesse Visible Inon Barnatan (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] "Barnatan's sustaining of the disrupted stillness in Ades's piece typifies his ability to hold the attention...And it's in Ronald Stevenson's Fantasy on Peter Grimes that this recital becomes revelatory...the magical string-plucking in its moonlight... |
JAKE HEGGIE
Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie Isabel Bayrakdarian / Zheng Gao / Susan Graham / Joyce diDonato / Frederica von Stade / Paul Groves / Keith Phares / etc. [ Avie Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2010 ] "...the composer's own fluent piano-playing, an expert string group and a good if sometimes over-glossy recording provide support for some world-class singers...who are clearly revelling in the opportunities that Heggie has offered them here." BBC... |
ANNA CLYNE
Clyne: Mythologies Jennifer Koh (violin), Irene Buckley (voice), BBC Symphony Orchestra [ Avie / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] "...compelling and tautly directed by Oramo. Irrespective of the conductors, it is the BBC Symphony Orchestra who shine throughout, with superbly mastered sound (by Jody Elff). Another winner from Avie." Gramophone |
JON LORD
To Notice Such Things Jon Lord (piano) Cormac Henry (flute) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Clark Rundell [ Avie / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Familiar from Lord's previous concert-hall works is his fluent enjoyable reimagining of later-19th- and earlier-20th-century symphonic writing and the subject matter of friends pictured within...Performance and recording are both first-class."... |
SCARLATTI / CURRIER / DEBUSSY / SCHUMANN / LIEBERMANN
Joyce Yang: Collage Joyce Yang (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 3/Oct/2011 ] "This is an intriguingly programmed recital from a young South Korean pianist with strong hands and big ideas...Her playing offers impressive moments" BBC Music |
BARTOK / HINDEMITH / RACHMANINOV / SCHUMANN
Wild Dreams Joyce Yang (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 11/Mar/2014 ] "Yang gives us the 1931 version [of the Rachmaninov Sonata], and what a memorable account it has turned out to be, too. She ladles on the passion with commendable aplomb, while achieving some enviable finesse and individuality in the central movement |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The French Connection La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler [ Avie / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "The orchestral sound, as always with La Serenissima, achieves bright attractiveness and vivacity without feeling the need to pursue the taut energy of some other groups." Gramophone Awards 2010 - Finalist (Baroque Instrumental) |
KURT RHODE / OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time | Rohde: one wing Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Anna Presler (violin), Tanya Tomkins (cello) Jerome Simas (clarinet), Eric Zivian (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 19/Mar/2021 ] "The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble take the Quartet's shifting instrumental and emotional perspectives in their stride. Pick of the soloists is clarinettist Jerome Simas, who shines in the unaccompanied 'Abîme des oiseaux'." Gramophone |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Etudes & Six Polish Songs Luiza Borac (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "In these transcriptions Borac plays with lyrical beauty and unaffected poetry, projecting a sensitively-voiced singing line." BBC Music |
TARREGA / PUJOL / LLOBET / CHOPIN
Invocacion Mattias Jacobsson (guitar) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] "The playing throughout is refined, intelligent and highly musical; the tone, though never sweet, is fulsome and appealing. An outstanding debut." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, September 2012 |
VIVALDI
The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690-1740: Volume Two: Virtuoso Impresario Mhairi Lawson (soprano) / La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler (violin and director) [ Avie / CD - released 23/Sep/2007 ] "An outstanding collection, vividly characterised and full of energy, of fine - but not over-familiar - music" (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 8 / Symphony No. 10 (Adagio) Michelle DeYoung (mezzo soprano) / Women of the San Francisco Chorus / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie SACD / 2 SACD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony reach the 11th instalment of their award-winning Mahler cycle with a live recording of the mighty Eighth Symphony, "Symphony of a Thousand", coupled with the Adagio from Symphony No. 10. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Still Falls The Rain Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano), Jennifer Montone (horn), Sivan Magen (harp) & Alan Cumming (narrator) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Sep/2012 ] "The tenor turns in a first-class performance, and pianist Myra Huang lends the songs personality throughout. More please!" (BBC Music) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos & Sinfonia Concertante Rachel Barton Pine (violin) / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, with Matthew Lipman (viola) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2015 ] "there is much to enjoy in Barton Pine's sensitive, finely honed performances, especially of Nos. 4 & 5 (plenty of temperament in the latter's 'Turkish' eruption). With a nod to period performance, she articulates crisply and uses vibrato modestly." |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Highlights Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Avie / CD - released 26/Nov/2007 ] "Vasily Petrenko demonstrates his qualities in choice selections from Tchaikovsky's masterful ballet scores, characterising every moment while his orchestra brings their colours to vibrant life." (BBC Music) |
