LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Triple Concerto Maria João Pires (piano), Gordan Nikolitch (violin), Tim Hugh (cello), Lars Vogt (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink [ LSO Live / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] "Haitink keeps the orchestra firmly in classical territory, helped by reduced instrumentation. Pires follows suit technically and stylistically but exploits every opportunity to remind us of the voice she is interpreting," The Whole Note |
Barbra Streisand, with Alec Baldwin, Antonio Banderas, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Melissa McCarthy & others
Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway [ Sony / CD - released 26/Aug/2016 ] On the heels of her first appearance at The Tonys since 1970 comes Barbra Streisand's "Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway", featuring 10 new Streisand duets of Broadway classics with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. |
Barbra Streisand, also featuring Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine, Jamie Foxx, Antonio Banderas, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, etc
Barbra Streisand - Live in Concert: The Music …The Mem'ries...The Magic! [ Sony / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2017 ] The Music…The Mem'ries…The Magic! is the live recordings of Barbra Streisand's triumphant concert tour of the same name in 2016. This collection captures the iconic songstress culminating her 13 city tour in Miami, Florida on Dec 5th, 2016 |
RICHARD RODGERS / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Oklahoma! Hugh Jackman & Josefina Gabrielle / 1998 Royal National Theatre [ First Night Records / CD - released 13/Mar/1998 ] Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. It is set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906. |
Peter Allen & Martin Sherman
Allen: The Boy From Oz Hugh Jackman / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Decca Broadway / CD - released 12/Jul/2003 ] The Boy from Oz is an Australian jukebox musical based on the life of singer and songwriter Peter Allen, featuring songs written by him. The book commissioned for the musical is by Nick Enright, based on Stephen MacLean's 1996 biography of Allen.... |
Hugh Laurie
Live On The Queen Mary [ Eagle / DVD - released 8/Nov/2013 ] On 26 March this year a dream came true for Hugh Laurie when he took to the stage in the magnificent Art Deco surroundings of the famous liner Queen Mary, now moored permanently at Longbeach, California. The show combines tracks from both of his... |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (the complete opera, recorded in 2005) Netherlands Opera / Hasmik Papian / Hugh Smith / Irini Tsirakidis / Julian Reynolds (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 7/Nov/2006 ] G :- "Conductor Julian Reynolds extensively studied Bellini's score in manuscript and introduces lots of surprising details." -De Telegraaf |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Antheil: Symphony No. 3 'American' / 'Tom Sawyer' Overture / etc Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Hugh Wolff [ CPO / CD - released 25/Jul/2005 ] "George Antheil is doing well on disc and he is lucky here to have a conductor of the calibre of Hugh Wolff taking up his cause and reviving a Frankfurt connection going back to the premiere of Transatlantic, the opera acclaimed there in 1930" Gramop |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Cello Concerto / Grand Fantasia and Toccata / Eclogue for Piano & Strings Tim Hugh (cello) / Peter Donohoe (piano) / Northern Sinfonia / Howard Griffiths [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "Tim Hugh and the Northern Sinfonia communicate with depth and feeling. Hugh is recorded more as first among equals than prominent soloist, which works well" (BBC Music) |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Orchestral works (Including Invocation for Cello and Orchestra) Tim Hugh (cello) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2002 ] "Sherbakov rises magnificently to the considerable technical and expressive demands of Respighi's piano writing" - Fanfare |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Cello Concertos Vol 1 No. 1 - 4 Tim Hugh (cello) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Anthony Halstead, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2005 ] "Tim Hugh approaches the music with lightness of touch and exemplary technique. There are cadenza-like flourishes above written accompaniments: notably in 4, which require, and get, extremely precise ensemble." Hi-Fi News |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Cello Concertos Vol 2 Nos. 5 - 8 Tim Hugh (cello) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Anthony Halstead, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2005 ] "I loved the sound of this recording: clear with a sumptuously enveloping hall sound that was very comforting and easy to settle into. Recommended with a glass of port after a fine meal." - Audiophile Audition, May, 2000 |
KABALEVSKY / SHOSTAKOVICH / SCHNITTKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Russian Cello Sonatas Timothy Hugh (cello) Kathron Sturrock (piano) [ IMP Masters / CD - released 30/Aug/1992 ] Originally recorded in July 1991 |
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela
Rejoice (Special Edition LP) [ World Circuit / ADA / 2 LP - released 22/Oct/2021 ] 'Rejoice' is the classic collaboration between Tony Allen, the legendary drummer and co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master trumpet player of South African jazz. The record, released to great acclaim in March 2020, became the first... |
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela
Rejoice Vinyl (LP) [ World Circuit / Warner / LP - released 20/Mar/2020 ] 'Rejoice' is a very special collaboration between Tony Allen, the co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master of South African jazz. Having first met in the 70s thanks to their respective close associations with Fela Kuti, the two... |
Cornwell, Hugh
Totem And Tabu [ Cadiz / CD - released 14/Sep/2012 ] |
Hugh Cornwell
The Fall and Rise of Hugh Cornwell [ Republic of Music / CD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] The first ever Anthology of his post-Stranglers career. Since leaving The Stranglers in 1990, Hugh Cornwell has made a series of well-received solo albums 25 years on from leaving the band, this album brings together 12 (super-high-quality remastered... |
Hugh Cornwell
Monster [ Sony / 2 CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] |
Hugh Marsh
Violinvocations [ Western Vinyl / CD - released 15/Feb/2019 ] Even if you've never heard the name Hugh Marsh you almost certainly have heard the sound of his violin. He is a featured player (not just an orchestra member) on major soundtracks by Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams, was nominated for a Juno... |
Hugh Marsh
Violinvocations (LP) [ Western Vinyl / LP - released 22/Feb/2019 ] Even if you've never heard the name Hugh Marsh you almost certainly have heard the sound of his violin. He is a featured player (not just an orchestra member) on major soundtracks by Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams, was nominated for a Juno... |
Hugh O'Conner
For The First Time [ True North / CD ] |
ALISSA FIRSOVA
Fantasy: Music of Alissa Firsova The Tippett Quartet, Mark Van De Wiel (clarinet) Ellie Laugharne (soprano), Tim Hugh (cello), etc [ Vivat / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] "Firsova may be the mature side of 30 but this album radiates youth in all its wonder, complexity and heartening naivety." Gramophone Editor's Choice September 2018 |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Old American Songs / Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson / Billy the Kid Thomas Hampson, Dawn Upshaw /Saint Paul Chamvber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff [ Teldec Apex / CD - released 6/Jun/2005 ] BARGAIN OF THE MONTH MusicWeb October 2005 "Copland is in the first rank of those whose skill has created an American music, quite distinct from that of their own roots. A great disc." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
BARBER / MEYER
Violin Concertos Hilary Hahn (violin) / St Paul Chamber Orchestra / Hugh Wolf [ Sony Music / CD - released 9/May/2000 ] "There have been a number of outstanding versions of the Barber Concerto in recent years... and Hahn's is among the finest ever." (Gramophone) |
Hugh Cornwell
Hi Fi [ CD ] |
Hugh Laurie
Let Them Talk (Digi) [ Warners / CD - released 9/May/2011 ] Music has been present in Hugh Laurie's career in some form or another since the days of Fry & Laurie, even working its way into House, the American television series that turned him into an international star in the 2000s. |
Hugh Masekela
The Best of Hugh Masekela: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection [ Hip-O Records / CD - released 19/Sep/2006 ] American imported disc. |
PROKOFIEV / HAYDN / BIZET
First Symphonies Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff [ Warner Classics Maestro / CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / GIUSEPPE TARTINI / C.P.E. BACH
Vivaldi / Tartini / CPE Bach: Baroque Cello Concertos Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, with Layton James (harpsichord continuo) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] While J.S. Bach's Suites for solo cello are, by definition, closely identified with Mstislav Rostropovich as the supreme cellist of his time, the B flat concerto of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach represents a more unusual departure. It is programmed here... |
CELEBRATION
Celebration: Christmas Fanfares and Carols Aled Jones (readings) / BBC Welsh Chorus / John Hugh Thomas (conductor) with Fanfare Trumpeters of the Welsh Guards [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "A lovely collection of music and readings for Christmas. There are seven readings, which, within the context of the recording, is just about right for ultimately it is the music for which you will be buying this disk." (MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Concertos For Two Pianos Benjamin Frith / Hugh Tinney / Rte Sinfonietta / Proinnsias O Duinn [ NAXOS / CD ] "To the great credit of Benjamin Frith and Hugh Tinney that without score in hand, you would be hard pressed to guess who was playing what. In short, a not-to-be-missed opportunity to explore the precocious young Mendelssohn at super-bargain... |
BRETT DEAN
Composer and performer Brett Dean (viola) / Sydney Symphony Orchestra / Simone Young / Hugh Wolff [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "The concerto has plenty of good ideas - a brief, meditative introduction, a vivid hunt of soloist by orchestra, and finally a dank reverie, the elegiac quality of which is suffused with quasi-expressionist angst. Curiously beautiful, somewhat... |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Violin and Cello Concertos Dong-Suk Kang (Violin) Tim Hugh (Cello) / English Northern Philharmonia / Daniel [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Sep/2000 ] "At any price, this version would be a top contender." BBC Music |
CARL REINECKE
Octet / Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave) / Sextet Fenwick Smith (flute) Hugh Hinton (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, members [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Chamber music purely for wind ensembles was largely overlooked by Romantic composers and as a result Carl Reinecke's genial Sextet and Octet for wind loom rather large in a sparse landscape. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Very Best of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir Glasgow Orpheus Choir, Sir Hugh Roberton [ Alto Records / CD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] "Choir fanciers starting out on an Orphean collection would do very well to start here. The technical aspects have been lovingly handled. The only real criticism is the surfeit of the smooth and the dreamy - but that's the recorded legacy of the... |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No 7 / Triple Concerto Gordan Nikolitch (violin) Tim Hugh (cello) Lars Vogt (piano) London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink (conductor) [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Apr/2006 ] "Haitink demands attention from an orchestra, in his telling pauses as much as in the playing itself and the results were revelatory … To experience Haitink conducting is to witness a master at work" Daily Telegraph (UK), 19 November 2005 |
BRAHMS
Symphony No 2 / Double Concerto Gordan Nikolitch (violin) Tim Hugh (cello) London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink [ LSO Live / CD - released 15/Jan/2004 ] "Haitink revisits Brahms in these imposing and beautifully shaded new accounts" Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (March 2004) |
Hugh Cornwell
The Fall And Rise Of Hugh Cornwell (Lp) [ Invisible Hands Music / LP - released 20/Nov/2015 ] The first ever Anthology of his post-Stranglers career. Since leaving The Stranglers in 1990, Hugh Cornwell has made a series of well-received solo albums 25 years on from leaving the band, this album brings together 12 (super-high-quality remastered... |
Hugh Griffith
Degas: Music Of His Time [ Naxos Educational / CD - released 1/Sep/2003 ] |
Hugh Griffith
Picasso, Music Of His Time [ Naxos Educational / CD - released 6/May/2002 ] |