An Emerald City
Circa Scaria [ Banished From the Universe / CD - released 9/Aug/2013 ] |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
War Requiem, Op. 66 (live from Coventry Cathedral, May 2012) Erin Wall, Mark Padmore, Hanno Müller-Brachmann / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus & CBSO Youth Chorus, Andris Nelsons [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
War Requiem, Op. 66 (live from Coventry Cathedral, May 2012) BLU-RAY Erin Wall, Mark Padmore, Hanno Müller-Brachmann / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus & CBSO Youth Chorus, Andris Nelsons [ Arthaus Musik Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2012 ] 2012 brought the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Britten's War Requiem, one of the most powerful pacifist statements in music. |
ORAZIO BENEVOLI
Benevoli: Missa Tu Es Petrus Fagiolini, The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth [ Coro / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] I Fagiolini explore the dazzling multi-choir soundworld of Orazio Benevoli - a crucial figure in 17th-century Italian music. As maestro of the papal choir and providing four-choir masses for special occasions, Benevoli invigorated the multi-choir... |
Freak City
Sounds Of Freak City Volume 1 [ Freak City / CD - released 23/Nov/2012 ] |
MENDELSSOHN / EWALD / BOHME
Romantic Music For Brass Geoffrey Hardcastle (solo cornet) / Center City Brass Quintet [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in stereo & multi-channel sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. |
Geoffrey Hardcastle solo cornet; Center City Brass Quintet
Romantic Music For Brass (Mendelssohn; Ewald; Bahme) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] 'Sparkling runs, impeccable chording, sensitive nuancing between foreground and background, sweet phrasing, a faultless balance in an ideal acoustic - this is becoming dangerously enthusiastic... This is the real McCoy - naughty but very, very nice.'... |
Gorgon City
Sirens [ Virgin EMI / CD - released 3/Oct/2014 ] With a deft history of music making behind them individually as Foamo & RackNRuin, Kye Gibbon and Matt Robson-Scott joined forces as Gorgon City and things quickly began to snowball at a barely comprehensible rate. "Because we each had a bit of... |
PERCY WHITLOCK
The Complete Oragn Works Graham Barber plays the Organ of Hull City Hall [ Priory / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Percy Whitlock did not devise a 'new' music - he was no Dupré or Messiaen. However, what he achieved was a perfect fusion of late romantic, neo-classical and dance hall styles. |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos 21 (K467) & 24 (K491) Howard Shelley (piano) / City London Sinfonia (conducted from the keyboard) [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "Shelley's disc seems to me to deserve the warmest recommendation for its natural-sounding recording, clarity of texture and combination of depth and high spirits." - International Record Review (April 2002) |
SIBELIUS / ELGAR
Violin Concertos (recorded 1984 & 1993) Ida Haendel (violin) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ Testament / CD - released 10/Oct/2009 ] "..it is Haendel's thoroughly personal input of humanity, expressive power, and her dynamic fusion of immediacy and profound insight that puts this performance in a class of its own. It is simply mind-blowing." The Telegraph, 28th July 2009 ***** |
RESPIGHI
Trittico Botticelliano / Aretusa / Lauda per la Nativita del Signore / etc Janet Baker (mezzo) / City of London Sinfonia / Rchard Hickox [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Respighi studied orchestration with Rimsky Korsakov, another master of the orchestra, and his use of the orchestral palate was a huge influence on the young Italian. |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Complete Works for Clarinet Janet Hilton (clarinet) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi / Lindsay String Quartet / Keith Swallow (piano) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] 'Janet Hilton's is a very fine performance. The slow movements are ruminative and beautifully played.' Fanfare |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Janet Hilton Plays Weber Janet Hilton (clarinet) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi / Lindsay String Quartet / Keith Swallow (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jan/1982 ] 'Janet Hilton's is a very fine performance. The slow movements are ruminative and beautifully played.' Fanfare |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Peter Grimes (complete opera) Janice Watson, Yvonne Barclay, Anne Collins, Philip Langridge / City of London Sinfonia; London Symphony Chorus (amateur) / Richard [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 10/May/2004 ] "Up to the highest tradition of Chandos sound: indeed, quite spectacular, vast in range, with well-managed perspectives and just enough hints of stage action to be convincing." - Alan Blyth (Gramophone) ) |
EDOUARD LALO
Symphonie Espagnole / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 20 / Fantaisie Norvegienne Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin) / Granada City Orchestra / Kees Bakels [ BIS / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The three works gathered here all resulted from the friendship between the composer and the Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate. The melodious and charming violin concerto held a great significance for Lalo who regarded it as his first work truly... |
JOHN RUTTER
Mass for the Children and other sacred works by John Rutter Joanne Lunn (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) Cantate Youth Choir, The Cambridge Singers / City of London Sinfonia directed by John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] John Rutter's Mass of the Children, for adult and children's choir with orchestra, is premiered here with a recital of eight of his recent anthems. |
JOHN BARRY
Film Music Masterworks (Incls 'Born Free' & 'Somewhere In Time') City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra [ Silva Screen Records / CD - released 16/May/2006 ] This collection of film composer John Barry's finest moments includes music from 'Out Of Africa', 'Born Free', 'Lion In Winter', 'You Only Live Twice', 'Midnight Cowboy' and many more! |
BEETHOVEN
An introduction to Beethoven (Incls Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor' & Symphony No. 5 in C minor) John Lill (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Walter Weller [ Chandos Intro / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] 'You'll know the meaning of the term 'heart-rending beauty' when you listen to the slow movement of the Piano Concerto.' CD Review |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concertos 2 & 3 Jorge Luis Prats (piano) / Mexico City Philharmonic / Enrique Batiz [ Regis Records / CD - released 3/Jun/2007 ] "virtuoso flamboyance guaranteed to set the pulse racing... enthusiastically recommended" (CD Review) |