TAVERNER / CORNYSH / ANONYMOUS / HENRY VIII
Western Wind: Music by John Taverner & Court Music for Henry VIII Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "Parrott is perhaps more persuasive in conveying its pacing...the sound recording successively juggles a wide range of distributions, from harpsichord to choir, with no apparent discontinuity." (Gramophone Award WINNER 2016 - Early Music) |
San Francisco So/Tilson Thomas
Mahler: Symphony No 9 [ Avie / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 23/May/2005 ] |
Aasgaard/Rlpo/Schwarz
From Jewish Life [ Avie / CD - released 7/Apr/2008 ] |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Adrian Chandler (director/violin) / La Serenissima [ Avie / CD - released 25/Sep/2015 ] "an intensely dramatic account that will add spice to what has for many listeners perhaps come to resemble a dreary domestic relationship." (Gramophone Magazine award nomination 2016 - Baroque Instrumental) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Music for the Chapel of the Pieta Adrian Chandler (Director/violin); Mhairi Lawson (soprano) / La Serenissima [ Avie / CD - released 17/Jun/2005 ] RECORDING OF THE MONTH - MusicWeb March 2005 "In performances as wonderful as these, you can't help loving it!" |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: x2: Double Concertos for Horns, Oboes, Violin & Cello, Oboe & Bassoon Adrian Chandler, La Serenissima [ Avie / CD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] Vivaldi x2 TITLE: Vivaldi x2 COMPOSER: Vivaldi ARTISTS: Adrian Chandler, violin / director La Serenissima Rachel Chaplin, Mark Baigent - oboes Peter Whelan - bassoon Anneke Scott, Jocelyn Lightfoot - horns Vladimir Waltham,... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: A Tale of Two Seasons - Concertos & Arias Adrian Chandler (violin, director) & Sally Bruce-Payne (mezzo-soprano) / La Serenissima [ Avie / CD - released 30/Jul/2013 ] Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima, with virtuoso soloist mezzo-soprano Sally Bruce-Payne, continue their enlightening exploration of the music of Vivaldi focusing on two contrasting eras of the composer's Venetian operatic career. |
LOUIS-GABRIEL GUILLEMAIN
Guillemain: Brillance Indéniable The Virtuoso Violin in the Court of Louis XV - Sonatas and Symphonies by Louis-Gabriel Guillemain Alana Youssefian (baroque violin) [ AVIE / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] Award-winning baroque violinist Alana Youssefian and her ensemble Le Bien-Aimé debut on AVIE showcasing music of the brilliant but little-known French violinist and composer Louis-Gabriel Guillemain. His precociousness noted at an early age... |
Alexandra Silocea
Various: Sound Waves [ Avie / CD - released 13/May/2013 ] |
SERGE PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 - 5 Alexandra Silocea (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 28/Apr/2011 ] "This debut recording serves as a journey through my own musical path. The aim of recording Prokofiev's first five piano sonatas together was to show all the facets of Prokofiev's musical personality, from Op. 1 to Op. 138, which is the revised... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / LEO JANACEK / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Strauss (R.)/Janacek/Respighi: Violin Sonatas Frank Almond (violin) William Wolfram (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Nov/2006 ] "unassailable technical mastery and absolute temperamental harmonisation. Some sort of standard is offered by Perlman and Ashkenazy; Almond and Wolfram are not out of place in such company." (BBC Music) |
Almond/Wolfram
Various: A Violin's Life [ Avie / CD - released 22/Apr/2013 ] |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Songs & Piano Music [2 CDs] Amanda Pitt (soprano) Mark Wilde (tenor) Peter Savidge (baritone) David Owen Norris (1844 Broadwood Square Piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "A veritable treasure-trove." (BBC Radio 3) |
LUCIANO BERIO
Berio: Complete Piano Music (including Sequenza IV and the Piano Sonata) Andrea Lucchesini (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 24/May/2007 ] "Andrea Lucchesini's account of Berio's Piano Sonata … conjures up some dusky, mesmerising effects and calls for a virtuosity which Lucchesini provided. He wove rich textures around the repeated note which binds the whole piece together so... |
BEETHOVEN / BARTOK / BRAHMS
Perspectives 2 Andreas Haefliger (piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 31/Jul/2008 ] "It is interesting to track Haefliger's career. On the present evidence this is a career that is moving from strength to strength. By providing essentially a recital experience on CD, the strength of comparisons with other pianists' recordings of... |
Andreas Haefliger
Perspectives 3 [ Avie / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / JANACEK
Perspectives 4 Andreas Haefliger (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Andreas Haefliger's concept of replicating his recital programmes on record has been a critical and commercial success. The fourth instalment in the Perspectives series juxtaposes Beethoven with works that are inspired and influenced by that... |
BACH / WEISS / FALCKENHAGEN
The Baroque Lute Andrew Maginley (lute) [ Avie / CD - released 6/Oct/2007 ] Andrew Maginley was born in New York City. He began playing electric guitar as a teenager while studying illustration at the High School of Art & Design. |
ALBINONI / CALDARA / HANDEL / SCARLATTI
Conversazione I: Cantatas from a Cardinal’s Court Andrew Radley (countertenor) / Sounds Baroque / Julian Perkins [ Avie Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2011 ] "Countertenor Andrew Radley is both swoonsome and stately, depending on the material" (The Independent) |
SCHUMANN
Frauenliebe Und Leben (with Lieder by Mahler & Britten) Ann Murray (soprano) Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 21/Oct/2007 ] "what a perceptive and versatile recitalist Ann Murray is … to each group of songs Murray brought a perfectly judged sense of style and delivery. Just as on the operatic stage, she knows exactly how to communicate with an audience and what to tell... |