VICTORIA / THOMPSON / RACHMANINOV / BARBER / SCHOENBERG / DELIUS / etc
Peace: A choral album for our time Handel and Haydn Society Chorus / Grant Llewellyn [ Avie / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] A collection of popular a capella works |
HANDEL / LECLAIR / CORELLI / GEMINIANI
Handel 'Oxford' Water Music Brook Street Band [ Avie / CD - released 14/Jan/2004 ] "The Brook Street Band - named after the London street where Handel lived for a large part of his life - are gaining quite a reputation for their stylish and imaginative programmes. Here they offer a mixed collection of trio sonata repertoire... |
BACH / BERIO / BEN-HAIM / BLOCK
4 Strings Only Herwig Zack (violin) [ Avie Records / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] J. S. Bach providing the foundations on which arguably all solo violin repertoire was created, Zack places his Second Sonata at the heart of the program and surrounds it with four mid-20th century works which were indelibly inspired by the Baroque... |
BARTOK / BACH / YSAYE / SKALKOTTA / KREISLER
Essentials - Works for solo violin Herwig Zack (violin) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "An excellent, revealing programme then, chosen with intelligence and a more than worthy successor to Zack's Catoire Avie disc....this a pungent recital, dashingly delivered." (MusicWeb April 2009) |
ROBERT SCHUMMAN
Schumann: Complete Piano Trios Horszowski Trio [ AVIE / 2 CD - released 5/Apr/2019 ] The Horszowski Trio debuts on AVIE with the complete piano trios by Robert Schumann, music that the ensemble is as passionate about as the composer's Romantic works exude. Schumann's works for piano trio were written within a decade of each other... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Live - Volume 2: Sonatas 18, 19, 4 Impromptus, D935, etc Imogen Cooper (piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine January 2010 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 22 Imogen Cooper (piano & director) / Northern Sinfonia [ Avie / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Pianist Imogen Cooper continues her critically acclaimed series of Mozart concerti, directing the Northern Sinfonia from the keyboard. |
Edvard Grieg, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann
Chopin, Grieg, Schumann Inbal Segev (cello) / Juho Pohjonen (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 20/Sep/2018 ] Cellist Inbal Segev's debut release for AVIE features the lush and romantic sonatas by Chopin and Grieg, and the Fantasiestücke by Robert Schumann. She is joined by Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen, a fitting partner for the pianistic Chopin and the... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Solo Piano Works Indrė Petrauskaitė (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Award-winning Lithuanian, London-based pianist Indrė Petrauskaitė makes her AVIE label debut with a selection of Mozart's piano works with a twist: she uniquely brings together the composer's solo keyboard works written in minor keys... |
SCHUBERT
Piano Sonatas in C minor D958, and A major D959 / Impromptu Inon Barnatan (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 13/Nov/2013 ] "More Schubert from this pianist would be more than welcome. Highly recommended!" (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
BERTALI / BIBER / CASTELLO / CAVALLI / LEGRENZI / etc
Flights of Fantasy: Early Italian Chamber Music Irish Baroque Orchestra / Monica Huggett [ Avie Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2010 ] Flights of Fantasy' presents Monica Huggett and her Irish Baroque Orchestra exploring the remarkable range, diversity and whimsy of Italian baroque chamber music. |
Gomidas Vartabed, Mihran Toumajan, Parsegh Ganatchian
Armenian Songs for Children Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) [ AVIE / CD - released 18/Jun/2021 ] Lebanese-born, Canadian-Armenian-American soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is as celebrated for her beauty, dynamic presence, and style as for her strikingly multidimensional voice. With this deeply personal project, she gathers a selection of haunting... |
Antonín Dvořák, Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Lehár, Franz Liszt etc
La Zingarella: Through Romany Songland Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Mark Fewer (violin), Juan-Miguel Hernandez (viola) [ Avie / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian has travelled far and wide, as an international opera star and an Armenian who was born in Lebanon, immigrated to Canada, and is now settled in southern California. Her life is a journey that informs her new recording... |
Jacob Heringman, lute
The Siena Lute Book [ Avie / CD - released 12/Sep/2004 ] "The sound is excellent. One for lute music devotees, one feels, though, rather than for a wider audience." (MusicWeb) |
James Gilchrist (tenor) Matthew Wadsworth (lute)
When Laura Smiles: Lute solos and songs from Elizabethan England [ Avie / CD - released 20/Jan/2006 ] "This disc is pleasurable, urbane, civilized, beautifully presented and recorded. For anyone who loves or who is even just interested in this repertoire then I would advise you to snap it up without delay." (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
STRAVINSKY
Octet / L’Histoire du Soldat Jan Opalach (narrator) / Eastman Wind Ensemble & Eastman Virtuosi, Mark Scatterday [ Avie / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "Avie has recorded them in an intimate, dryish space at the Eastman School of Music in New York, recalling the atmosphere on the old Robert Craft Stravinsky discs, but the playing is more sharply focused than one recalls from that era." [The Sunday... |
MAHLER
Das Lied von der Erde (arr. Schoenberg/Rhien) Jane Irwin (mezzo) / Peter Wedd (tenor) / Manchester Camerata / Douglas Boyd [ Avie Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2011 ] Manchester Camerata, conducted by Douglas Boyd and joined by mezzo-soprano Jane Irwin and tenor Peter Wedd, give a vivid and memorable performance of Schoenberg's chamber transcription of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. |
LANQUETUIT / BOULNOIS / MULET / JONGEN / BOWEN / etc
Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ, Volume 1 Jane Parker-Smith (organ) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] Jane Parker-Smith is one of the world's leading concert organists, acclaimed by the critics and public alike for her musicianship, virtuosity and interpretative ability. Jane joins the Avie label with a unique programme linking European composers who... |
EDMUNDSON / KROMOLICKI / IRELAND / VIERNE/ WEITZ/ etc
Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ, Volume 2 Jane Parker-Smith (organ) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "This is the kind of repertoire in which Jane Parker-Smith excels; big, gutsy, colourful, occasionally passionate, occasionally frothy, bristling with opportunities for virtuoso display but with a deeply hidden inner core of intellectual substance... |
COCHEREAU / LANDMANN / PARRY / BAIRSTOW / LISZT / etc
Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ - Volume 3 Jane Parker-Smith (organ) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "This is an interesting programme, excellently performed and recorded and well presented, as were the earlier volumes. At 77:04, the CD is well filled, too." (MusicWeb April 2009) |