MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi - L'Orfeo (Complete opera) John Mark Ainsley - Catherine Bott - Andrew King - Tessa Bonner - Julia Gooding. New London Consort. Philip Pickett [ Decca Critics' Choice / 3 CD - released 25/Jul/2005 ] 'A wonderfully vital account ... Pickett directs with great flair.' (Gramophone) |
John Metcalfe / Sophie Harris / Richard Pryce / Ralph Salmins
Metcalfe, John - Scorching Bay [ Black Box / CD - released 20/Jun/2004 ] "It is the music's eclecticism that make it "genre-defying". In this respect, John Metcalfe has impeccable credentials. Classically trained, he has an impressive record of non-classical arrangements to his credit including those for Morrissey and... |
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas Op. 2 Jonathan Cohen; Arcangelo; Thomas Dunford; Sophie Gent; Jonathan Manson [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] The sonata concertata form is perfectly illustrated in these trios by Dietrich Buxtehude which, according to Peter Wollny constitute 'a landmark in the history of the sonata'. They provide a better understanding of a composer who has owed his fame... |
Julia Banse & Andreas Schmidt
Brahms:lieder Comp Edition 5 [ Cpo / CD - released 3/Dec/2001 ] |
Julia Brown
Bach, W.F.: Keyboard Works Vol [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jul/2012 ] |
Julia Brown
Buxtehude: Organ Music Vol.2 [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2003 ] |
Julia Brown
Scheidemann: Organ Works Vol 6 [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] |
Julia Brown
Scheidemann: Organ Works Vol.4 [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2003 ] |
W.F. Bach
Keyboard Works, Vol. 2-Fantasias and Fugues Julia Brown (harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] The eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach was hailed as the greatest organist in his time. Living in a time of transition, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach forged his own highly original style, combining the traditional writing learned from his father with new... |
W. F. BACH
Keyboard Works Volume 4 Julia Brown (harpsichord), and Barbara Baird (harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was significant in developing the relatively new keyboard sonata form between the Baroque and Classical periods. |
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Organ Music, Vol. 6 Julia Brown (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Oct/2007 ] This sixth volume of his complete organ music includes four Praeludia, works that had a strong influence on the following generation of organ composers, and compositions based on chorale melodies, including two versions of Nun lob, mein seel, den Herrn. |
W.F. BACH
Organ Works Julia Brown (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] Julia Brown, who has made several acclaimed recordings of keyboard music by Buxtehude and Scheidemann for Naxos, has been praised as 'a first-class artist and superb technician … an exceptionally sensitive stylist' (Classics Today). |
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Organ Works Vol. 5 Julia Brown (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (pre 1700) - "The Martin Pasi Organ is a magnificent instrument, and the engineering does full justice to its solo and ensemble configurations. This is another fine addition to Naxos' Buxtehude... |
HEINRICH SCHEIDEMANN
Organ Works, Vol. 7 Julia Brown (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jan/2014 ] |
Julia Brown, organ
Scheidemann - Organ Works, Vol. 4 (Benedicam Domino Praeambulum in F major Canzona in F major, etc) [ Naxos The Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] Born in about 1595 in Wöhrden in Holstein, where his father, a native of Hamburg, had recently been appointed organist, Heinrich Scheidemann studied between 1611 and 1614 with Sweelinck in Amsterdam. |
SCHEIDEMANN
Scheidemann-Organ Works, Vol. 5 (Fuga in D minor, Kyrie dominicale, Magnificat IV Toni, etc) Julia Brown, organ [ Naxos The Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] "Given the Naxos price policy there is no excuse not to collect these Scheidemann recordings, wonderful music, in this instance compellingly played." - MusicWeb Nov 2004 |
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Organ Music Vol 7 Julia Brown (organ, Saint Cecilia Cathedral, Omaha, Nebraska) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "A good cross-section of Buxtehude's music in good, unforced, performances, well recorded." (MusicWeb Feb 2008) |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah Julia Doyle, Justin Doyle, Thomas Hobbs, Roderick Williams, Tim Mead , RIAS Kammerchor Berlin [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin and its chief conductor Justin Doyle present Handel's Messiah, together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and an all-British quartet of outstanding soloists, consisting of Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead... |
J. C. BACH
Welt, gute Nacht Julia Doyle, Katharine Fuge, Clare Wilkinson, Jeremy Budd, James Gilchrist / The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] "Bach of any generation from Gardiner's eminently engaged and engaging forces is self-recommending; yet for its rarity value alone Welt, gute Nacht is as important a release as that of a B minor Mass or St Matthew Passion." (BBC Music) |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concertos 3 & 4 (stereo re-release) Julia Fischer, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg [ Pentatone / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Pentatone re-issues Julia Fischer's epoch-making Mozart Violin Concertos recordings, starting with her readings of the famous 3rd and 4th concertos, as well as the Adagio in E Major and Rondo in B-flat Major, first released in 2005. Fischer performs... |