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JONATHAN DOVE
Dove: In Damascus Mark Padmore (tenor), Charles Owen (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] "The beauty of the piece, for tenor and string quartet, is its restraint. It doesn't sensationalise, get maudlin, moralise or politicise. The words are direct and the music respects that. The performance does, too: clear, focused playing from the Sac |
CARPENTER / HEAD / DEAZLEY / JOHNSTON
Only a Singing Bird Karen Cargill (mezzo) & Philip Moore (piano) / NYCoS National Girls Choir, Christopher Bell [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2016 ] A beautiful collection of songs, 'Only a Singing Bird' features Michael Head's best-known works, 'The Ships of Arcady' and 'The Little Road to Bethlehem', as well as his beautifully-imagined, nostalgic song-cycle, 'Snowbirds'. The National Youth... |
JOSEPH HAYDN / FRANZ SCHUBERT / HUGO WOLF
Haydn/Schubert/Wolf: The Divine Muse Mary Bevan (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] After the success of their debut disc, 'Voyages', Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton present their second recital disc exploring Lieder in German and Italian by Schubert, Haydn and Wolf. The programme is woven around songs inspired by the 'muses' of the... |
NOEL COWARD & OTHERS
A Most Marvellous Party with Noel Coward and Friends Mary Bevan (soprano) Nicky Spence (tenor) Joseph Middleton (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 12/Jan/2024 ] "Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and Joseph Middleton are the architects of this musical treasure, and with their sensitive impulse they imprint strength and passion in these songs of great intensity and melodic sense." - Sonograma magazine |
BARLEY / BRITTEN / BRYARS / TAVENER
Around Britten Matthew Barley [ Signum Classics / CD - released 7/Jan/2013 ] As always, Barley's playing is fearless. The disc is a voyage around the cello as well as around Britten... Barley's well crafted, multi-tracked cello arrangements of Britten's folk songs and 'Concord' from Gloriana will appeal to many. |
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Matthew Barley
Metcalfe: Constant Filter [ Signum Classics / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] |
JOHN TAVENER / ROXANNA PANUFNIK
Tavener / Panufnik: 99 Words Matthew Barley (cello), Simon Russell Beale (narrator), James Sherlock (organ), Charlotte Langley (soprano), Voce Chamber Choir, Suzi Digby [ Signum Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Voce Chamber Choir's new disc is a moving tribute to Sir John Tavener, featuring a selection of works by him (many of which are previously unrecorded) and by Roxanna Panufnik. At the heart of the disc is the premiere recording of Panufnik's 99 Words... |
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Matthew Barley/Julian Joseph
Dance Of The Three Legged Elep [ Signum Records / CD - released 24/Aug/2009 ] |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Anacreon 1754 Matthew Brook, Anna Dennis & Agustín Prunell-Friend / The Choir of the Enlightenment & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Jonathan Williams [ Signum / CD - released 20/Oct/2015 ] Rameau wrote two complete 'Anacréons', both of them one-act acte de ballets, but with two different plots and librettos. 'Anacréon' (1754) was set to a libretto by Louis de Cahusac and had a successful premiere followed by some performances in Paris... |
JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: Towards Silence Medici String Quartet / Court Lane Quartet / Finzi Quartet / Cavaleri Quartet [ Signum / CD - released 7/Mar/2011 ] "This must count as one of Tavener's most powerful and sublime achievements." (The Sunday Times) |
SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN
Wanderer Fantasy (orchestrated by Joeseph James) Members of the Schubert Ensemble / English Chamber Orchestra / Orlando Jopling, Conductor [ Signum / CD - released 16/May/2007 ] Schubert's 'Wanderer Fantasy' and Schumann's 'Fantasie' are two highly remarkable works: whilst musically embodying the romantic spirit of the age in their unconventional structures and lyrically imaginative styles, they also act as self-portraits to... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D minor Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis [ Signum / CD - released 2/Sep/2013 ] "Waley-Cohen makes the utmost of [the D minor Concerto's] innocent, songful lyricism...The playing from the soloists is virtuosic and the Orchestra of the Swan give light-footed support." (Observer) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Temple of Chastity: 13th Century Spanish music from Codex Las Huelgas-Volume 1 Mille Fleurs with Jan Walters (harp) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] "the performances are the epitome of sophisticated smoothness.... The recording impresses by its freshness and vigour, and by the excitement the singers clearly find in this fascinating repertoire" Ivan Moody, Gramophone |
HANDEL / RAMEAU / RITTLER
Light Divine: Baroque music for treble and ensemble The MIN Ensemble, Aksel Rykkvin (treble), Mark Bennett (trumpet & artistic director) [ Signum / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] The prodigious Norwegian treble Aksel Rykkvin returns to disc on Signum with a new disc of Baroque works, accompanying the MIN Ensemble under trumpeter Mark Bennett and the ensemble director Lazar Miletic. Featuring both instrumental pieces and... |
BEETHOVEN / MENDELSSOHN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto & No. 4 Mendelssohn: Double Concerto Min-Jung Kym (piano), Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Clemens Schuldt (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] Pianist Min-Jung Kym makes her recording debut on Signum Records, leading the Philharmonia Orchestra under conductor Clemens Schuldt in performances of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, and alongside Zsolt-Tihamer Visontay for Mendelssohn's Double... |
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Mitchell/Ensemble Bash
Fiddle Sticks [ Signum / CD - released 26/Nov/2007 ] |
The Temple Church Choir with The Temple Players, James Vivian (director)
The Majesty of thy Glory [ Signum / CD - released 13/Dec/2010 ] "...absorbing and diffusing the wide dynamic range with ease. Such enterprising and polishing music-making deserves widespread currency." Gramophone |
HAYDN / GLUCK / VANHAL / MYSLIVECEK / J. C. BACH
Sturm und Drang Vol. 2 The Mozartists, Ian Page (conductor) [ Signum Records / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] "Page and his players once again demonstrate their total identification with this music in playing of dizzying drive and accuracy... a programme that scintillates from start to finish." Gramophone Editor's Choice Nov 2020 |
GABRIEL PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev, (G.): Concerto for turntables No 1 / Cello Concerto Mr Switch (turntables) Boris Andrianov (cello) / Ural Philharmonic, Alexey Bogorad (cond) [ Signum / CD - released 22/May/2020 ] Concerto for turntables No 1 Sometimes composers write a piece that takes on a life of its own, and that's what has happened to this concerto. Much credit is due to the phenomenal skills of Mr Switch who has become the unofficial lead soloist. |
VERDI / BOITO
Falstaff (complete opera recorded in 2006 in a new version by Tony Britten) Music Theatre London / Ian Jervis / Jan Hartley / Julia Forsyth / Simon Butteriss / Rosamund Shelley [ Signum Vision / DVD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] G; - "The DVD was recorded on location in and around a real golf club and the club acts as the setting for most of the scenes barring a few in the Fords' home." (MusicWeb Oct 2008) |
