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Cello For Africa cover
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PETER KLATZOW / HANS HUYSSEN
Cello For Africa
Heleen du Plessis (cello)
[ Ode Records / CD - released 18/Oct/2013 ]
Cello for Africa saw Heleen du Plessis (South African cellist and Williams Evans Executant lecturer for cello at the University of Otago, member of the TriOtago piano trio and principal cellist of the Southern Sinfonia) set out on a journey of...
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / HOWELLS / WALTON / BOWEN
British Music for Viola and Orchestra
Helen Callus (viola) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Marc Taddei
[ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ]
"Helen Callus plays with sumptuous tone matched by flawless intonation" Gramophone
Bach: Six Suites For Solo Cello cover
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J.S. BACH
Bach: Six Suites For Solo Cello
Inbal Megiddo (cello)
[ Atoll Records / CD - released 16/Mar/2018 ]
While much of Bach's music is deeply associated with the church, for six years Bach served as Kapellmeister at the little Calvinist court at Cothen, where sacred music did not hold much importance. Bach was in a unique position, having the resources...
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MARTIN LODGE
Toru: chamber music
James Tennant, Richard Nunns, Peter Scholes, William Dowdall, Edward King, Jeremy Mayall, etc
[ Atoll Records / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ]
Brilliantly performed chamber works by Martin Lodge
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Complete Incidental Music
Jenny Wollerman, Pepe Becker (sopranos) / Varsity Voices / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd
[ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2010 ]
"The self-contained numbers...may be familiar items, but on disc...you discover and enjoy so much more: the flashes of instrumental colour, the exquisite little tone paintings that intersperse or accompany the spoken text...Judd's New Zealand and...
Sarajevo: A Collection of New Zealand Piano Works cover
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JACK BODY / GARETH FARR / ROSS HARRIS / JENNY MCLEOD / JOHN PSATHAS / ANTHONY RITCHIE
Sarajevo: A Collection of New Zealand Piano Works
Jian Liu (piano)
[ Atoll Records / CD - released 5/May/2017 ]
A theme of remembrance pervades this recital of works by some of New Zealand's foremost composers, sometimes elusive and discomforting as in Jack Body's Sarajevo, which launches the programme, and at other times affectionate or nostalgic.
Chamber Music cover
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GARETH FARR
Chamber Music
Katherine Austin, James tennant, Alexa Still, Gareth Still, Gareth Farr
[ Trust / CD - released 17/Jun/2000 ]
New Zealand's top musicians go Farr!
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TRADITIONAL
Waiata
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
[ Sony / CD - released 15/Nov/2013 ]
In 1999 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa released 'Maori Songs', her second collection of Maori folk songs and prayers. That project was initiated by prominent NZ pianist/arranger Carl Doy, who has 13 years later created the follow up album 'Waiata'.
I Could Have Danced all Night (Concert & Portrait) BLU-RAY cover
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KIRI te KANAWA
I Could Have Danced all Night (Concert & Portrait) BLU-RAY
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Stephen Barlow
[ Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2015 ]
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's story has all the best elements of an operatic fairytale. Coming from a part-Maori background she went on to become one of the world's most famous opera stars.
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The Very Best of Shostakovich
Konstantin Scherbakov (Piano) Michael Houstoun (Piano) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Conductor) Ilya Kaler (Violin)
[ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/May/2006 ]
"As an introduction to the composer's work, it gives a wide-ranging and typical selection, which is in itself some achievement." (MusicWeb August 2006)
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BENDA / PISENDAL / TORELLI
Concerti By Benda, Pisendal, Torelli
Lara Hall (baroque violin) / NZ Barok, Peter Walls
[ Atoll Records / CD - released 25/May/2018 ]
This CD is the culmination of a long-held desire to record little-known 18th century concerti. Players' parts were prepared for this project from digital copies of manuscripts in the Schank II Collection (Dresden) including Pisendel's scores of his...
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TELEMANN
Telemann - 12 Fantasias for solo violin
Lara Hall (violin)
[ Atoll Records / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ]
"As a performer on both the baroque and modern violin, I have two very different musical personas. With this CD I have tried to create, on a modern violin, as much of the sound world of a baroque violinist as possible with minimal concession to the...
Harris: Symphony No. 4, "To the memory of Mahinārangi Tocker" / Cello Concerto cover
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ROSS HARRIS
Harris: Symphony No. 4, "To the memory of Mahinārangi Tocker" / Cello Concerto
Li-wei Qin (cello) / Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Brett Dean, Garry Walker
[ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2014 ]
"There is no question that the Auckland Philharmonic are superbly in control as is Brett Dean, himself a violist and composer and just forging an extra career as a conductor. The recording is vivid and allows the music space although the quiet passag
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Quays
Luca Manghi, flute, David Kelly, piano
[ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ]
These mainly unrecorded 20th c. Italian and 21st c. NZ pieces reveal Manghi as an exceptional musician.
Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 cover
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ROSS HARRIS
Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3
Madeleine Pierard (soprano) / Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Marko Letonja
[ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ]
Described as "often beautiful and sometimes frightening" (NZ Listener), Ross Harris's Symphony No 2 is a setting of poems on the subject of New Zealand soldiers shot for desertion in World War One.
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mina Foley and Michael Tarawhiti McGifford cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mina Foley and Michael Tarawhiti McGifford
Mina Foley / Michael Tarawhiti McGifford with Val Hungerford (piano)
[ Ode Records / CD - released 16/Aug/2007 ]
This recording is available for the first time on CD and features a selection of fine songs for solo voice along with duets performed by Mina with another NZ great Michael Tarawhiti McGifford.
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BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano
Monique Lapins (violin), Jian Liu (piano)
[ Rattle Records / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ]
An album of newly recorded works composed by Béla Bartók featuring Monique Lapins (violin) and Jian Liu (piano).
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Christmas Spectacular [includes John Rutter - Gloria]
Musica Sacra conducted by Indra Hughes
[ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 10/Nov/2011 ]
"What sets this stunning CD apart..is that it avoids the often over-reverberant, stained-glass window sound-world of distant, ethereal Cathedral organs, boys and men choir and liturgical carol services." Martin Setchell writing in ORGANZ
Mozart, (L.): Symphonies cover
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LEOPOLD MOZART
Mozart, (L.): Symphonies
New Zealand Chamber Orchestra. Donald Armstrong, conductor
[ Naxos 18th Century Symphony / CD - released 18/Aug/2002 ]
"Clean, vital playing" (BBC Music Magazine)
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Semele
New Zealand Opera Chorus, Holy Trinity Cathedral Choir, New Zealand Opera Baroque Orchestra, Peter Walls
[ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 21/Jul/2023 ]
"Amitai Pati is the pick of the bunch. The Samoan tenor is an outstanding Jupiter, bright-toned and fullvoiced, lyrical lines anchored by enough weight to make this reluctant smiter believable as both lover and thug." Gramophone