JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Girls of the Golden West (Complete Opera) Julia Bullock, Ryan McKinny, Davone Tines, Hye Jung Lee, Daniela Mack / Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic, John Adams [ Nonesuch Records / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] "The influence of Ives can be heard in the shifting layers; once a funeral march, now a Fourth of July celebration. As Dame Shirley, Julia Bullocks is on scintillating form, particularly as she acts out the part of Lady MacBeth in Act II." BBC Music |
ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: The Sacred Veil Los Angeles Master Chorale, Charles Anthony Silvestri [ Signum / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] The Sacred Veil - a project led by Eric Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri - was created following the passing of Charles' wife, Julia in 2005. It represents a journey towards the answer for many questions, including whether departed loved ones... |
THOMAS ADES
Ades: Dante Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel [ Nonesuch / 2 CD - released 21/Apr/2023 ] "It is physical, vivid and grotesque music from its jump-scare 'abandon hope' opening gambit and thrives on Adès's technical wit (the missing beats of 'The Deviants' and all the outlandish orchestration)." Gramophone |
ANONYMOUS / TALLIS / STANFORD / PURCELL / FAURE / BURGON / etc
Remembrance St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott Master of Music [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Sep/2003 ] 'A lasting souvenir of a moving occasion, a fitting tribute to a great man, but above all, fine listening' (Gramophone) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
The Best Of Berlioz (Includes Royal Hunt And Storm; March To The Scaffold & Reverie et Caprice, Op. 8 ) Rivka Golani (viola), Igor Gruppman (violin) San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Master Chorale, Polish State Phi [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Feb/2003 ] Way ahead of his time, misunderstood, and a rebel. It is difficult to believe, as we hail Beethoven's achievements, that the great German composer had only been dead three years when Berlioz wrote the erotic Symphonie Fantastique. |
Master Peace
How To Make A Master Peace [ Chrysalis / CD - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Master Peace's debut album How To Make A Master Peace, pushes the parameters of genre more than ever. Peace flexes his inspirations by cutting through the sonic generations of British music that have raised him. 'I Might Be Fake' has the urgency of... |
Master Peace
How To Make A Master Peace (LP) [ Chrysalis / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Master Peace's debut album How To Make A Master Peace, pushes the parameters of genre more than ever. Peace flexes his inspirations by cutting through the sonic generations of British music that have raised him. 'I Might Be Fake' has the urgency of... |
STEVE REICH
Reich: Daniel Variations Alan Pierson (Conch Shell) / Los Angeles Master Chorale / London Sinfonietta / Grant Gershon [ Nonesuch / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] "Daniel Variations [is] a haunting work that circles around alternating ideas of celebration and discord, the latter represented literally by the bitter harmonic interval of a second, which nags away somewhere in the score, even when the music... |
JOHN ADAMS
The Gospel According to the Other Mary (complete oratorio) Kelley O'Connor, Tamara Mumford, Russell Thomas, Daniel Bubeck / Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 25/Apr/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
The Master Musicians of Jajouka / Talvin Singh
The Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar [ Point Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2000 ] The world-reknowned Persian / Morroccan Master Musicians produced by Talvin Singh. |