GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Music for San Rocco (1608) DELETED JAN 2007 Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ DG Archiv SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] On 16 August 1995, the Gabrieli Consort & Players recreated a famous musical event that took place on 16 August 1608 at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice. |
BIBER
Requiem in F; Mass in B flat Gabrieli Consort and Players. Paul McCreesh [ DG Archiv / CD - released 13/Nov/2004 ] "Wonderfully blended string tone and, in the Requiem, an ethereally silver sound. The chorus is superb, singing with apt weight yet moving with agility . . . This disc provides excellent advocacy for two of Biber's stellar choral works." Early Music... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Spotless Rose Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ DG Archiv / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "Sung throughout with sensitivity to style, this themed programme reveals the reverence and the rapture the Virgin Mary has inspired in music over the centuries." Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2009 |
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh
A Venetian Christmas (works by Gabrieli and de Rore) [ Archiv / CD - released 25/Nov/2001 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2001) |
MONTEVERDI
Vespero della Beata Vergine [Vespers of the Blessed Virgin] Gabrieli Consort and Players / Paul McCreesh [ DG Archiv / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] 'The playing is superbly effective...the singing among the best you are likely to hear' Disc of the Month BBC Music Magazine Nov 2006 |
Gabrieli Consort and Players. Paul McCreesh TO BE DELETED AUG 2006
Music of the Duke of Lerma (works by CabezAn-GaudA-Gombert-Guerrero etc) [ Archiv / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Jan 2003) |
MESSIAEN
Quartet for the End of Time Gil Shaham. Paul Meyer, Jian Wang, Myung-Whun Chung [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Jul/2000 ] Messiaen's moving work for Violin, Clarinet, Cello & Piano |
BARBER / MEYER
Violin Concertos Hilary Hahn (violin) / St Paul Chamber Orchestra / Hugh Wolf [ Sony Music / CD - released 9/May/2000 ] "There have been a number of outstanding versions of the Barber Concerto in recent years... and Hahn's is among the finest ever." (Gramophone) |
ANTOINE BRUMEL
Missa "Et Ecce Terrae Motus" (Earthquake Mass) / Dies Irae Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel [ Newton Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] |
AGRICOLA / BRUMEL / GOMBERT / REBELO / TALLIS / ET AL
A Secret Labyrinth: A Celebration of Music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance Huelgas Ensemble / Paul Van Nevel [ SONY / 15 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2009 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: REISSUE CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - Featuring their famous and now deleted recordings of "Spem in Alium" and the so-called "Earthquake" mass by Antoine Brumel, this 15 CDs boxset includes some of the most prestigious recordings... |
PRAETORIUS
Magnificat;Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir; Der Tag vertreibt die finster Nacht etc. Huelgas Ensemble / Paul van Nevel, director [ Sony Music / CD ] |
PROKOFIEV / HAYDN / BIZET
First Symphonies Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff [ Warner Classics Maestro / CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] |
W.A. MOZART
Music for 2 Pianos / Piano Duets Ingrid Haebler, Paul Badura-Skoda, Jorg Demus (pianos) [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "All the music Mozart composed for piano duet or two pianos, in elegant performances." [**(*) Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Best Cello 100: Includes Bach's cello suites, The Swan & Kol Nidrei (Six CD set at a special price) Janos Starker / Mstislav Rostropovich / Pierre Fournier / Gautier Capucon / Paul Tortelier / Truls Mork / Jacqueline du Pre / Pablo Casals (cellos) [ EMI / 6 CD Box Set - released 27/Jul/2009 ] This 6 CD set contains a fine collection of 100 favourite cello classics, performed by some of the world's leading artists. |
Jason Paul Johnston
Willows Motel [ CD ] |
RAMEAU
Hippolyte et Aricie (Complete opera) Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Veronique Gens, Bernarda Fink / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv Opera! / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2012 ] "Phèdre was a breakthrough role for Bernarda Fink, who sings here with grave sensuality, supported by a characterful and largely Francophone cast." (BBC Music) |
The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
I Like Rain: The Story of (3CD) [ Fire Records / 3 CD - released 26/May/2017 ] The comprehensive Jean-Paul Sartre Experience collection - I Like Rain: The Story of The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, is a triple CD set with bonus tracks showcasing the group's very best. Now you can experience the Christchurch four-piece's full... |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe (complete opera) Karina Gauvin, Philippe Jaroussky, Amanda Forsythe, Aaron Sheehan / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 18/Jan/2015 ] "The performance is never forced but always emotive...An exemplary testament of superb musicianship from all participants...this is a landmark event in Steffani's much-deserved rehabilitation." (Gramophone Magazine Award Nomination 2015 Baroque Vocal |
Paul Kelly
Under The Sun [ CD ] |
POWER / DUFAY / ISAAC / DE MONTE / SCHUTZ / BACH / etc
The Hilliard Ensemble: Renaissance & Baroque Music Hilliard Ensemble / London Baroque / Knabenchor Hannover / Paul Hillier [ Erato Warner Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 22/Aug/2017 ] Now reissued at a special price |