DELERUE / LEGRAND / KOSMA / PETIT / YARED / ROUBAIX / etc
Les Choses de la Vie - Cinema II Renaud Capuçon (violin) / Les Siècles, Duncan Ward [ Erato / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Following his beloved and best-selling 2018 album of music from popular films, Renaud Capuçon returns to the magical world of cinema in Les Choses de la Vie - Cinema II. The violinist has dedicated this sequel to 19 titles written by French film... |
M. Ward
Supernatural Thing [ Anti- / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The album's guest stars - First Aid Kit, Shovels & Rope, Scott McMicken, Neko Case, Jim James and others - enliven the album with surprises. Eight of the album's ten songs are Ward originals, but there is also an unusual Bowie choice, "I Can't Give... |
M. Ward
Supernatural Thing (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The album's guest stars - First Aid Kit, Shovels & Rope, Scott McMicken, Neko Case, Jim James and others - enliven the album with surprises. Eight of the album's ten songs are Ward originals, but there is also an unusual Bowie choice, "I Can't Give... |
DARIUS MILHAUD / CHARLES KOECHLIN / EDWARD ELGAR
Milhaud: La création du monde - Koechlin: Vers la voûte étoilée / Ward: Fumes / Elgar: Enigma Variations philharmonie zuidnederland; Duncan Ward [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] This fourth album by philharmonie zuidnederland includes works by Darius Milhaud, Charles Koechlin, Duncan Ward and Edward Elgar. Principal conductor Duncan Ward takes you on a symphonic journey with Darius Milhaud's La Création du monde for small... |
TALLIS / LUDFORD / TAVERNER / SHEPPARD ETC
Tudor Music Afterlives Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward, Magnus Williamson, Toby Carr, Elisabeth Paul, Fiona Fraser [ Delphian / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] Following the freshness and vigour of their quincentenary portrait celebration of Robert Fayrfax, Ensemble Pro Victoria's second Delphian album brings a similar boldness of approach to a wider-ranging collection, charting some rarely explored... |
EDWARD ELGAR / FRANK BRIDGE
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Bridge: Oration Gabriel Schwabe (cello) / ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] "..That plaintive quality is much in evidence in the Elgar, and I admire so much Schwabe's approach to this work, surely one of the most recorded concertos in the catalogue." MusicWeb Recommended Jan 2022 |
ANDRE PARFENOV / PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Parfenov/Tchaikovsky: Aachener Walzer - Orchestral Works Ioana Cristina Goicea (violin) André Parfenov (piano) / Aachen Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Tchaikovsky stayed in Aachen for six weeks in 1887, during which time he orchestrated his Mozartiana. He also left behind 16 bars of music from his diary, and the Aachener Walzer is André Parfenov's completion of this otherwise unknown mini-waltz. |
HANS ROTT
Rott: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 Gürzenich Orchester Köln, Christopher Ward [ Capriccio / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] The 1989 premiere of Hans Rott's Symphony No. 1 in E major (it was written more than 100 years earlier) introduced the international music world to a composer who had remained unknown, or known by name only, even among experts. His colleagues and... |
M. Ward
Think Of Spring [ Anti- / CD - released 18/Dec/2020 ] M. Ward's Think of Spring is a collection of songs originally recorded by Billie Holiday. Ward achieved the intimate sound of this record by filtering the original songs and strings through a single acoustic guitar, using various alternate tunings... |
M. Ward
Think Of Spring (Limited Edition LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 11/Dec/2020 ] M. Ward's Think of Spring is a collection of songs originally recorded by Billie Holiday. Ward achieved the intimate sound of this record by filtering the original songs and strings through a single acoustic guitar, using various alternate tunings... |
HANS ROTT
Rott: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol.1 Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Christopher Ward [ Capriccio / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] 'It simply cannot be gauged what music has lost with him' (Gustav Mahler) Hans Rott was a composer from Gustav Mahler's time who had been unknown or known only by name even to most pundits. Many people have expressed the opinion, perhaps justifiably,... |
M Ward
Migration Stories [ Epitaph / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] A prolific writer, producer, and performer, M. Ward has established himself as one of modern American music's most unique and versatile voices. In just the last decade alone he's teamed up with Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Jim James to form the... |
M Ward
Migration Stories [ Epitaph / LP - released 24/Apr/2020 ] A prolific writer, producer, and performer, M. Ward has established himself as one of modern American music's most unique and versatile voices. In just the last decade alone he's teamed up with Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Jim James to form the... |
ROXANNA PANUFNIK
Roxanna Panufnik: Love Abide Colla Voce Singers, London Mozart Players, Lee Ward [ Signum / CD - released 8/Feb/2019 ] "A rich offering on a theme of interfaith connectivity. The Japanese lullaby-inspired Zen Love Song and title work Love Abide are totally absorbing." BBC Music |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Orchestral Works (Incls 'St Paul's Suite') Andrew Watkinson (violin) & Nicholas Ward (violin) Duke Dobing (flute) & Christopher Hooker (oboe) / City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] This 1994 recording is one of the first Holst collections made by Hickox and the City of London Sinfonia. An orchestra he conducted for thirty seven years, until his death. Having brought neglected works by Holst to a more deserved fame in the early... |
Clara Ward & The World Famous Ward Singers
In Memory Of Willa Ward-Royster [ Gospel Friends / CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] In 1953, an American magazine reported that …when Clara Ward's big voice delivers a gospel song, she transforms a quiet audience of 10.000 or more men and women into a pandemonium of screaming, shouting and crying. Apart from outdrawing contemporary... |
M Ward
More Rain [ Liberation / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] M. Ward returns with a stunning new album, More Rain, out on Bella Union.. Ward has released a string of acclaimed solo albums over the past several years, along with five LPs with Zooey Deschanel as She & Him and a 2009 collaborative album with My... |
PHYLLIS TATE
The Lodger (opera in 2 ats) Owen Brannigan, Johanna Peters, Marion Studholme, Joseph Ward / BBC Northern Singers & Orchestra, Charles Groves [ Lyrita Mono / 2 CD - released 15/Nov/2015 ] The Lodger was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music and first performed there in July 1960. This revised score, adapted for the BBC, was the opera's first broadcast. |
Lucy Ward
I Dreamt I Was A Bird [ Betty Beetroot / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] 'I Dreamt I Was A Bird' is the intimate and beautiful new record by Lucy Ward. It is an album about being earthed, grounded, and dreaming of what lies ahead; being of and for the landscape both urban and rural. All the stories are about real people... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Albert Herring Peter Pears, Sylvia Fisher, Sheila Rex, John Noble, Catherine Wilson, Joseph Ward / English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten [ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "Pears was not at his best, but in Britten's hands it is clear that, without losing any pathos, Albert Herring was first and foremost a superior piece of theatrical fun." (BBC Music) |