LOUIS VIERNE
Complete Organ Symphonies Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Cavailla-Coll Organs in St. Francois des Sales, Lyon, etc [ MDG / 4 CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] "The three instruments used here are famous examples of the work of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, the romantic organist´s ideal builder ... van Oosten paces Vierne´s miles of tonal corridors with sympathy." (Gramophone) |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol 10 (Incls Trois Praludes et Fugues op. 36) Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Organ of Birmingham Town Hall [ MDG / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] On his tenth Dupré tour Ben van Oosten presents to us not only a new volume in his complete recording but also one of England's most magnificent historical organs. This extraordinary organist and the tireless MDG recording team pay a visit to the... |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol 7 (Incls Poame haroa¯que, Op. 33) Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Organ of Princeton University Chapel [ MDG / CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] Ben van Oosten was born in The Hague in 1955. He studied the organ and the piano at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and subsequently in Paris. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3, 7, 8 & Consecration of the House Overture Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Paul van Kempen [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] "this is an outstanding issue. […] Van Kempen and the Berlin orchestra do indeed play the work in a wonderfully sensitive manner" (Gramophone on Symphony 3) |
ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-6, Op. 5 Bob van Asperen (harpsichord) / Bob van Asperen (organ) / Lucy van Dael (violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "Ms. van Dael plays these wonderful works brilliantly and arrestingly." - MusicWeb Jan 2005 |
J. S. BACH
Bram van Sambeek plays Bach on the Bassoon Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] Following a rock/metal album recorded with his band ORBI [BIS-2297], Bram van Sambeek returns with his own idea of a dance album. For it he has selected four works by Johann Sebastian Bach that consist mainly of typical baroque dances . |
JORIS ROELOFS
Roelofs: Rope Dance Bram van Sambeek, bassoon; Joris Roelofs, bass clarinet and clarinet; Bram de Looze, piano; Clemens van der Feen, double bass; Martijn Vink, drums [ BIS / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] The award-winning Dutch composer and bass clarinet player Joris Roelofs is also currently working on a PhD dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, improvisation and the notion of freedom. On the album Rope Dance he is able to combine all of this, in a... |
SEBASTIAN FAGERLUND / KALEVI AHO
Fagerlund / Aho - Bassoon Concertos Bram van Sambeek (bassoon), Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu, Dima Slobodeniouk [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2016 ] "A truly captivating disc…Bram van Sambeek takes everything in his evidently extensive stride. The agility, conviction, impish humour and searing seriousness all stem from a remarkably rounded musicianship" BBC Music Award WINNERt 2018 - Concerto |
DUPUY / OLTHUIS / VIVALDI / VILLA-LOBOS
The Art of the Bassoon Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) / Sinfonia Rotterdam, Conrad van Alphen [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) |
W. A. MOZART / CARL MARIA von WEBER / ÉDOUARD DU PUY
Mozart, Weber, Du Puy - Bassoon Concertos Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Alexei Ogrintchouk, conductor [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] "None shall sleep through this disc - what a winner!" MusicWeb recommended May 2020 |
ROSSINI / BODDECKER / GUBAIDULINA / PIAZZOLLA / HAGEN / etc
Bassoon Kaleidoscope Bram van Sambeek (bassoon) with accompliment [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2012 ] The programme on this new recording spans nearly 400 years, and brilliantly showcases the many colours and moods that the bassoon is ideally suited to creating. |
Brian Wilson And Van Dyke Parks
Orange Crate Art [ ADA / Warner / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] In 1966, when Brian Wilson prepared the follow up to his masterpiece Pet Sounds, he employed the services of Mississippi born Van Dyke Parks as lyricist for The Beach Boys next album, SMiLE. As history would soon document, SMiLE became the most... |
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE / JACQUES IBERT
Rouse / Ibert: Flute Concertos Katherine Bryan (flute) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jac van Steen [ Linn / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2013 ] "Bryan certainly has complete mastery of the [Rouse's] technical and expressive demands, as she does in Ibert's Concerto of 1933...Her playing of Debussy's Syrinx, the ne plus ultra of the solo flute repertoire, is exquisitely eloquent." Gramophone |
GYORGY LIGETI
Ligeti: Lux Aeterna Cappella Amsterdam, Suzanne van Els (viola) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "In this performance [of Lux aeterna] by the astoundingly good Capella Amsterdam it sounds more meditative and less apocalyptic than it did [in Kubrick's 2001], but no less haunting." Daily Telegraph |
Cappella Figuralis. Conductor: Jos van Veldhoven
Love & Lament (Monteverdi-Della Ciaia-Carissimi) [ Channel Classics / CD - released 14/Jul/2002 ] The soloist ensemble Cappella Figuralis was founded in 1989 |
ANTHONI van NOORDT
Van Noordt: Works for organ Vol 2 Cees van der Poel (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 1/May/2004 ] "The playing is stylistically intelligent and seems exemplary. This disc, at budget price, surely merits the highest recommendation." - Organists' Review (Michael Overbury), February 2000 |
PROKOFIEV
The Love for Three Oranges (recorded live in 2005) Charles Workman / José Van Dam / Philippe Rouillon / Barry Banks / Béatrice Uria-Monzon / Opéra National de Paris / Sylvain Cambreling [ ArtHaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] Conducted by 20th century specialist Sylvain Cambreling and sung in the original French version by superb singer-actors, this production presents a stage performance set in perfect harmony with Prokofiev's inventive music. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' Charlotte Margiono, Jard van Nes / Chor der Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden, Sinfoniechor Dresden, Staatskapelle Dresden/ Bernard Haitink [ Hanssler Profil / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2008 ] "the strings have a warmly cosseting quality, the winds are mellifluous, the brass powerful but cleanly focused...The voices are well balanced and Haitink's willingness to let the music breathe while never allowing it to sag benefits Mahler's... |
RODOLPHE KREUTZER
Kreutzer: La Mort D'abel (2CD + Book) Katia Velletaz, Yumiko Tanimura, Jennifer Borghi, Sébastien Droy, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Pierre-Yves Pruvot / Les Agrémens, Guy Van Waas [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / 2 CD/Book - released 22/Oct/2012 ] "the fine performance of Guy van Waas and Les Agrémens reveals music of imaginative colours and profuse sentimentality that sometimes sounds like a stepping-stone between Haydn's Creation and Berlioz's Damnation of Faust." (Gramophone) |
MARTIN / HONEGGER / SCHOECK
Cello Concertos Christian Poltera (cello) / Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen / Jac Van Steen [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] The Swiss cellist Christian Poltéra here performs works by Frank Martin, Arthur Honegger and Othmar Schoeck. |