More By Artist: My Best Friend
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ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Rawsthorne: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Fantasy Overture: Corteges Rebecca Hirsch (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Friend [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Dec/2000 ] "The performances bring out the best in this intense and very engaging music" Fanfare |
DEBUSSY / FAURE
Essence - Lisa Friend plays Fauré & Debussy Lisa Friend (flute) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] The flute takes a very special place in French music, particularly so in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a result (and in addition to a great deal of original repertoire for the instrument) there is a significant body of work... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Flute Quartets Lisa Friend (flute) / Brodsky Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 30/Jan/2017 ] Members of the Brodsky Quartet meet the internationally famous flautist Lisa Friend in an album of key works of the flute repertoire: Mozart's flute quartets. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rodney Friend [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/May/2020 ] Itzhak Perlman is the supreme violinist of his time, adored by audiences around the world and a musician whose powerful but sympathetic artistic personality provides a model for the players who have followed him. |
HAVERGAL BRIAN
Symphony No 3 BBC Symphony Orchestra / Lionel Friend [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jun/2001 ] 'The performance is powerful, the recording superb'-New York Times |
Friend
Inaccuracies and Omissions [ Flying Nun Records New Zealand / CD - released 28/Mar/2003 ] Chris Knox's first band was called The Enemy. Prepare to meet his new project, Friend |
Funeral For A Friend
Conduit [ Roadrunner / CD - released 25/Jan/2013 ] |
Funeral for a Friend
Memory and Humanity [ Roadrunner Records / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Welsh group, FFAF are back with their fourth album, 'Memory and Humanity', the band's darkest and most poignant record to date - sonically it's their rawest, most honest and energetic. |
Funeral for a Friend
Welcome Home Armageddon [ Roadrunner / CD - released 21/Mar/2011 ] British post-hardcore band Funeral for a Friend present 'Welcome Home Armageddon', their first offering of music since 2008's 'Memory and Humanity'. |
Funeral for a Friend
Your History is Mine [ Roadrunner Records / CD - released 2/Nov/2009 ] While some bands may be content with releasing a "best of" Funeral for Friend have created a "must have" in 'Your History Is Mine'. |
BRITTEN
Phaedra and other chamber music Jean Rigby (mezzo) Roger Chase (viola) NIigel Hawthorne (narrator) The Nash Ensemble / Lionel Friend [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 23/Jan/2006 ] 'I can highly recommend this CD for the wonderful mixture of Britten's chamber works and the all-round excellent playing' (The Musician) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Voyage Central Park Lisa Friend (flute), Craig Ogden (guitar) Aquarelle Guitar Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 19/Sep/2019 ] Following her acclaimed recording of Mozart's Flute Quartets with the Brodsky Quartet and her more recent disc of Fauré and Debussy, the flautist Lisa Friend continues her journey to explore another sound-world in this programme of works for flute... |
Lucifer's Friend
Awakening [ Lucifer's Records / CD ] |
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HAVERGAL BRIAN
Brian: Symphony No. 18 / Violin Concerto / The Jolly Miller Marat Bisengaliev, violin / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Lionel Friend, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] "The violin concerto is a great work and deserves the recognition that it has so long been denied. I can only hope that this present recording does much to remedy this oversight" (MuusicWeb July 2005) |
HAVERGAL BRIAN
Brian: Symphony No. 18 / Violin Concerto / The Jolly Miller Marat Bisengaliev, violin / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Lionel Friend, conductor [ Marco Polo / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] "The violin concerto is a great work and deserves the recognition that it has so long been denied. I can only hope that this present recording does much to remedy this oversight" (MuusicWeb July 2005) |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Messa da Requiem Marta Mathéu (soprano), Gemma Coma-Alabert (mezzo-soprano), Agustín Prunell-Friend (tenor) & Enric Martínez-Castignani (baritone) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Feb/2013 ] Composed in response to the death of his brother Luigi, Bottesini's large scale Requiem combines ecclesiastical counterpoint with formal innovation and the expressive lyricism and dramatic orchestration of operatic models. |
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Anacreon 1754 Matthew Brook, Anna Dennis & Agustín Prunell-Friend / The Choir of the Enlightenment & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Jonathan Williams [ Signum / CD - released 20/Oct/2015 ] Rameau wrote two complete 'Anacréons', both of them one-act acte de ballets, but with two different plots and librettos. 'Anacréon' (1754) was set to a libretto by Louis de Cahusac and had a successful premiere followed by some performances in Paris... |
My Best Friend
In Ghostlike Fading [ Warp / CD - released 4/May/2012 ] The music My Best Fiend create resides in a spacious, dreamlike world all its own, both unsettling and uplifting at the same time. |
PETER DICKINSON
Mass of the Apocalypse / Larkin's Jazz / Five Forgeries / Five Early Piano Pieces Peter Dickson (piano) / John Flinders (piano) / Nash Ensemble / Various Artists / Lionel Friend (conductor) / Ivor Bolton (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2009 ] Peter Dickinson weaves together musical styles popular and classical, past and present.... |
GERALD FINZI
Grand Fantasia & Toccata / Eclogue / Nocturne / etc. Rodney Friend (solo violin) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor, Peter Katin (piano) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley (co [ Lyrita / CD - released 12/Apr/2007 ] "Superb sound and Diana McVeagh's astute notes cap a mandatory purchase for lovers of the English muse, and of course for Finzi lovers in particular." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Oct 2007) |
ALUN HODDINOTT / S. COLERIDGE-TAYLOR / E.J. MOREAN / GERALD FINZI / etc
British String Concertos Rohan de Saram, Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Yfrah Neaman, John Georgiadis, Rodney Friend (violin), Cecil Aronowitz (viola) / Various orchestras [ Lyrita / 4 CD Box Set - released 25/Jun/2015 ] "this is an historic collection for all sorts of reasons. These recordings will be listened to for many years to come. The heyday of Lyrita was an extraordinarily rich period for British music and for performers who were committed to it." (MusicWeb) |
DAVID MATTHEWS
Winter Passions / Terrible Beauty, Op. 104 / Clarinet Quartet / String Trio / String Trio No. 2 / Winter Passions Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) / Stephan Loges (baritone) / The Nash Ensemble / Lionel Friend [ NMC Records / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] "The writing has many of David Matthews's familiar strengths: a fine sensuous imagination, adventurous harmony that makes clear aural sense, an equally clear sense of organic development of ideas...It's hard to imagine this music played, sung, or... |
HAVERGAL BRIAN
The Tigers (complete opera recorded 1983) Teresa Cahill, Marilyn Hill-Smith, Alan Opie & Kenneth Woollam / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Friend [ Testament / 3 CD - released 11/Mar/2015 ] "this 1983 BBC studio recording, issued on CD for the first time, reveals a stunningly inventive, eclectic score, performed here with gusto by a A-team cast of 1980s ENO regulars under Lionel Friend. Irresistible." (The Times) |
Your Friend
Gumption [ Domino / CD - released 4/Mar/2016 ] Taryn Miller, aka Your Friend, is pleased to share the first taste of new music since last year's debut EP, in the form of her debut full-length, titled Gumption, Since the release of her debut self-recorded EP, Jekyll/Hyde, in early 2014, Taryn... |
