Funky Music Machine / Ashley Tyrone
Let Me Be Your Man (Vinyl) [ Truth & Soul / LP - released 14/Apr/2008 ] |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: The Seasons (1801) Carolyn Sampson (sop) Jeremy Ovenden (ten) / Gabrieli Consort & Players, National Forum of Music Choir, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (cond [ Signum / 2 CD Box Set - released 24/Mar/2017 ] "McCreesh and his massed Anglo-Polish forces have given us a Seasons that thrillingly catches both the work's bucolic exhilaration and its invocations of the sublime..for sheer sonic splendour it's in a class of its own" Gramophone Award Nomination |
Ghost Music
I Was Hoping You'd Pass By Here [ Arlen / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Despite this record being their debut, Ghost Music has produced a veritable wealth of music over the past 20 years in various guises. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of Matt Randall and Lee Hall, who had played together in the... |
DUPRÉ / SAINT-SAËNS / CHARPENTIER / VIERNE
French Virtuoso Organ Music Gillian Weir, at the Hradetzky organ in The Royal Northern College of Music [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] "it is great to have this exciting, technically demanding and imaginative recording in my library once again." MusicWeb |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Vivaldi, Handel Grace Davidson (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music [ Signum / CD - released 29/Jun/2018 ] "The voice is radiantly fresh and clean, and she successfully navigates almost all the technical perils in her programme of sacred motets by Handel and Vivaldi, spiritedly backed by another of Britain's Academies, the Academy of Ancient Music" Times |
ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Works for Orchestra & Soprano Saxophone Greg Banaszak (saxophone) / Eastern Music Festival Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] Alan Hovhaness's remarkable legacy of 67 symphonies and hundreds of other works stands as a testimony to one of the most individual musical voices of the 20th century. Written when Hovhaness was 25, the Prelude and Quadruple Fugue represents not only... |
Group For Contemporary Music
Druckman: String Quartets 2/3 [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Apr/2006 ] |
DRUCKMAN
String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3 Group for Contemporary Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] "A fine release of rewarding music well performed and recorded" (MusicWeb June 2006) |
CHARLES WUORINEN
Wuorinen: String Sextet / String Quartet No. 2 / Piano Quintet / Divertimento Group for Contemporary Music / Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society / Tashi [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] "If you are up for a challenge then you will certainly find plenty to spar with on this disc" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
CHARLES WUORINEN
The Dante Trilogy The Group for Contemporary Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Charles Wuorinen's Dante Trilogy is a sequence of three ballets written in the 90s for Peter Martins and the New York City Ballet, inspired by the three books of the Divine Comedy." American Record Guide |
MORTON FELDMAN
String Quartet (1979) The Group For Contemporary Music [ NAXOS / CD ] "Morton Feldman's mind worked in a manner unlike that of any other composer. This fact alone makes him important and his music riveting." --Review by Phillip Scott, Fanfare |
Guitar Music from Cuba
Marco Tamayo, guitar [ Naxos Guitar Collection / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Cuban culture is essentially an amalgam of three dominant factors: 400 years of Spanish colonial rule, ending in 1901; the impact of religion as a result of white and African slave immigration; and the 60-year exposure to North American culture,... |
HANDEL
Concerti Grossi Op. 3 Nos. 1-6, HWV312-317 The Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "The Academy of Ancient Music is in world-beating form once more with this magnificent Handel disc. Egarr and the musicians play with dynamism and warmth which suggests that Egarr's tenure with this band is going to be a rewarding one. Long may it... |
Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator) Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
Stravinsky: A Soldier's Tale [ Linn / CD - released 25/Mar/2017 ] For his debut recording with Linn, conductor Oliver Knussen has assembled an impressive cast of contemporary composers for The Soldier's Tale: Harrison Birtwistle as the soldier and George Benjamin as the Devil, with actress Dame Harriet Walter as... |
Hesperion XXI (early music ensemble), Jordi Savall (viola da gamba)
Oriente Lux [ Alia Vox / 2 CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] Over the last 15 years, Jordi Savall has been exploring the links between Western and Eastern repertoires because he regards this work as a way to develop a better mutual understanding. In this new album, Hespèrion XXI plays alongside the ensemble... |
Hot Water Music
Exister [ Rise Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] |
Hot Water Music
Exister (Vinyl Edition) [ Rise Records / LP - released 1/Jun/2012 ] |
Hot Water Music
A Flight And A Crash (LP) [ Epitaph / LP - released 25/Jan/2019 ] Visceral, intense, and simply unforgettable - A Flight And A Crash (2001) is a sonic exploration of the pain and triumph of life with an energy and emotion seldom heard. With some of the most intricate yet hard-driving rhythms the band has ever... |
Hot Water Music
The New What Next (LP) [ Epitaph / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Reissue of Hot Water Music's The New What Next. Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve. |