J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 2: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir BWV 29 & 6 others Carolyn Sampson (sop) Charles Brett (alto) Mark Padmore (ten) Peter Kooy (b) / La Chapelle Royale / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe (dir) [ Harmonia Mundi Herreweghe Bach Edition / 3 CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "The soloists are outstanding, with Carolyn Sampson and Mark Padmore in especially communicative form… Outstanding work; Herreweghe's occasional oratorios are beginning to achieve some kind of critical mass, a very fine series of Bach recordings... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Serse (complete opera recorded in 1979) Carolyn Watkinson, Barbara Hendricks, Paul Esswood / la Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire [ Sony Classical Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Jean-Claude Malgoire conducts his Parisian ensemble, La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, in a complete 1979 recording of Handel's delightful comic opera Serse, best known for its universally familiar opening aria "Ombra mai fu". |
Caspir/Conti/Maolaioli/La Scal
Verdi: La Traviata [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 26/Feb/2001 ] |
Paul Moravec
Paul Moravec: Useful Knowledge Cecilia Brauer (glass harmonica), Randall Scarlata, Amy Burton, Simon Mulligan (piano), La Fenice & Trio Solisti [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Moravec's tribute to Benjamin Franklin, Useful Knowledge, is a soliloquy-come-fantasy that celebrates Franklin's pioneering rationality with music of dextrous imagination. |
RAMEAU
Les Grands Motets La Chapelle Royale / Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] Music from the age of Enlightenment |
RAMEAU
Les Indes Galantes (orchestral suites) Orchestre de la Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] The delightful orchestral music of Rameau |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Great European Organs No. 65 Charles Matthews (The Cavaille-Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris) [ Priory / CD - released 9/Sep/2002 ] |
DVORAK
Rusalka (complete opera in English) Cheryl Barker (soprano) / Rosario La Spina (tenor) / Bruce Martin (baritone) / Elizabeth Whitehouse (soprano) / Opera Australia / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Opera in English / 3 CD Box Set - released 28/Feb/2008 ] "Cheryl Barker's voice opens up excitingly on the top notes, but in the medium-high range her timbre has no especial qualities. She gives a committed performance" (MusicWeb March 2008) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (Complete Opera with libretto) Cheryl Studer, Plácido Domingo, Juan Pons, Fernando De La Mor / London Symphony Orchestra, Ion Marin [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2012 ] "this 1990 recording, conducted with great energy and character by Ion Marin, has plenty going for it. Studer and Domingo are both idiomatic and the rest of the cast." (International Record Review) |
Choeur De Chambre De Namur/La
Sayve: Messe Pour Le Sacre De [ Ricercar / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] |
HANDEL
Orlando (complete opera) Christophe Dumaux, Elena de la Merced, Jean-Michel Fumas / La grande Ecurie et la Chamvre du Roy / Jean-Claude Malgoire [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 1/May/2010 ] In his setting of Orlando (drawn from Tasso's Orlando furioso) Handel offers us a score of remarkable dramatic power, diversity and originality. |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Te Deum Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Jean Tubéry; La Fenice; Les Agrémens [ Ricercar / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] The works presented on this CD place us firmly in the midst of the events and ceremonies of 17th century France, the period known as the Grand Siècle. That period's unusually splendid pomp and ceremony can be seen in the famous Te Deum, whilst the... |
JOHN BLOW
Venus and Adonis Céline Scheen & Marc Mauillon / Les Musiciens du Paradis & La Maîtrise de Caen, Bertrand Cuiller [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] After the successes of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Cadmus & Hermione, Alpha is continuing its audiovisual exploration of lyric repertoires offering, for the first time on DVD, John Blow's Venus and Adonis, accompanied by his Ode to Saint Cecilia.. |
Cluytens/No De La Radiodiffus
Shostakovich:symphony No.11 [ Testament / CD ] |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 / Violin Concerto Ruggiero Ricci (violin) / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Erich Kleiber / New Symphony Orchestra of London, M. Sargent [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Despite being recorded under 78rpm conditions, in four- or five-minute sections, the Fourth Symphony is marked by a palpable symphonic rigour as well as the edgy brass which lends such intensity to Decca's Paris recordings of Russian music. |
Cut La Vis
One Step Forward (LP) [ Nice Up! / LP - released 11/Dec/2015 ] "One Step Forward" is the debut album from Brighton based DJ and producer Cut La Vis aka David Lavis. Raised on a diet of 90s hip hop, roots reggae and ska, this debut album is a melting pot of exactly that. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Les Troyens (complete opera recorded in 2009) Daniela Barcellona / Lance Ryan / Elisabete Matos / Gabriele Viviani / Eric Cutler / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana / Valery Gergiev [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] "while Padrissa's computer projections and airborne acrobats achieve memorable visions, he underproduces the human element. Embattled Troy is a dystopian ruin under nuclear dustclouds, the robotic Trojan Horse unleashing, like an internet 'Trojan',... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel's Unsung Heroes Iestyn Davies, Christine Rice, Lucy Crowe (vocals) / Paul Sharp (trumpet) Roger Montgomery (horn) Joe Walters (horn) / La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Pentatone / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "This project is a heroic achievement for all involved." Recording of the Month BBC Music Magazine Christmas 2021 |
David Calzado & La Chara
Hey, You, Loca! [ Bis / CD ] |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Parnasso in Festa, HWV73 David Hansen, Robin Johannsen, Kangmin Justin Kim, Jenny Högstrom / La Cetra Barockorchester & Vokalensemble Basel, Andrea Marcon [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 5/Jul/2017 ] "Kangmin Justin Kim is steady and smooth as Orfeo…Good with text, Robin Johannsen's Clio provides neat and attractive vocalism, while grander-scale soprano Jenny Högström's vivid Calliope matches nicely bass Luca Tittito's vigorous Marte." BBC Music |