SUK
Asrael Symphony, Op. 27 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Supraphon / CD - released 8/Sep/2011 ] "this more recent Mackerras performance digs just that little bit deeper and for that reason edges nearest to the classics by Talich and Kubelík." (Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Orchestral) |
DVORAK
Dvorak - Symphonic Poems Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Supraphon / CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "The Golden Spinning Wheel, a performance full of warmth and vitality, very realistically recorded and surely the highlight of the disc." Gramophone Awards 2010 WINNER - Orchestral |
W. A. MOZART / HANDEL / JENKINS / MARCELLO
Diva [incls 'Exsultate, jubilate'] Danielle de Niese (soprano) with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras & Bryn Terfel [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "Her vocal and musical vitality shines out of every track" (BBC Music) |
MASSENET
Manon (complete opera) (with works by Berlioz & Debussy) Victoria de los Angeles, Henri Legay, Michel Dens / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux, Carol Smith, Charles Munch [ Testament / 3 CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] "Recorded in mono in 1955, the set fell at a unique point in the opera's history on disc. Previous recordings from the 78rpm era had captured the special Opéra-Comique spirit for posterity, but they hold limited sonic appeal to present-day... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Rondine (Complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Deutsche Oper Berlin / Dinara Alieva (Magda de Civry), Charles Castronovo, Alexandra Hutton, Alvaro Zambrano, Stephen Bronk / Roberto Rizzi Brignoli ( [ Delos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 3/Sep/2016 ] "Villázon shows admirable restraint in a straightforward, stylish production that contains a good deal of charm…there's a rich darkness to [Alieva's] voice, especially in Doretta's Dream." (Blu-ray of the Month Gramophone July 2016) |
Dolora Zajick, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles MacKerras
The Art of Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano (Incls arias by Verdi, Gluck & Saint-Saens) [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 12/Aug/2000 ] This collection, amazingly enough, is Zajick's first solo recording! |
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Money Jungle (180G) (LP) [ Vinyl Lovers / LP - released 7/Jan/2013 ] |
GOUNOD
Romeo et Juliette (complete opera recorded live in 1935) Eide Norena / Charles Hackett / Leon Rothier / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Louis Hasselmans [ Naxos Great Opera Performances / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Norena characterizes Juliette as a real teenager: her singing is full of wide-eyed wonder and hope until the tragic dénouement. Hackett declaims Roméo’s music with a beauty of legato tone and an amplitude of phrasing which is rarely heard today.... |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: Kata Kabanova (complete opera) Elisabeth Saderstram, Petr Dvorsky, Nedezda Kniplova, Vladimir Krejcik / Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Decca Originals / 2 CD Box Set - released 11/Apr/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "... Charles Mackerras's ... long knowledge of the score has flowered into the richest account of it he has yet given ... he draws wonderful playing from the Vienna Philharmonic." |
JANACEK
Jenufa (Complete opera in English) Elizabeth Vaughan; Nigel Robson; Dame Josephine Barstow / Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera. Sir Charles Mackerras [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/May/2004 ] "There are few opera composers whose language seems totally to defy time and remain as startlingly new and potent 100 years on. Janá?ek is one of them and his Jen<=fa of 1904 is as powerful today as it must have been a century ago. In the hands of... |
Elly Ameling / Kathleen Battle / Arleen Auger / Barbara Hendricks / Dawn Upshaw / Marie McLaughlin / Prague Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras
Divine Sopranos (music of Berlioz, Handel, Mahler, Vivaldi, Richard Strauss, etc) [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 11/Aug/2003 ] More than any other singer, the public has always been enticed by the scandals and mysteries that surround the diva. Because of this curiosity and genuine love for the soprano voice, there has always been a strong interest in the recordings. |
J. S. BACH
Trauer-Musik: Music to mourn Prince Leopold, BWV 244a Emily Van Evera / Clare Wilkinson / Charles Daniels / Tom Meglioranza / Taverner Consort and Players / Andrew Parrott [ Avie Records / CD - released 5/Sep/2011 ] A unique document and superb performance make this a recording for classical music aficionados and lovers of Bach's music alike. |
COUPERIN / de LALANDE
Lecons de Tanabres Emma Kirkby and Agnas Mellon (sopranos)Charles Medlam (bass viol) Terence Charlston (organ) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] The five Leçons de Ténèbres gathered here are performed by two of the finest sopranos in the field of early music, Emma Kirkby and Agnès Mellon, who here makes her first appearance on BIS. They are given expert support by Charles Medlam |
Emma Kirkby (soprano) / London Baroque / Charles Medlam
Christmas Music [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2000 ] "Kirkby revels in her vocal powers throughout this disc" International Record Review |
J.S. BACH
Early Cantatas :-Volume 1 Emma Kirkby (soprano) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) Charles Daniels (tenor) Peter Harvey (baritone) / The Purcell Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] 'For sheer brilliance of technique, the Purcell Quartet and friends take the biscuit.' International Record Review |
BUXTEHUDE
Membra jesu nostri / Laudate, pueri, Dominum (with Weckmann - Kommet her zu mir alle) Emma Kirkby (soprano) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) Charles Daniels (tenor) Peter Harvey (bass) / Purcell Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "Charles Daniels's soft high tenor has a hushed devotional character...The Purcell Quartet play with reliable stylishness." (Gramophone) |
BUXTEHUDE
Sacred Cantatas - Volume 2 Emma Kirkby (soprano) / Michael Chance (counter-tenor) / Charles Daniels (tenor) / Peter Harvey (bass) / Purcell Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] "If Buxtehude cantatas are the object of your enthusiasm, this disc provides a good number of them performed by some of the best early music specialists out there. They are a homogeneous bunch of works, so listening to the disc in one sitting borders... |
J.S. BACH
Early Cantatas, volume 2 (Weimar) Emma Kirkby (soprano) / Michael Chance (counter-tenor) / Charles Daniels (tenor) / Peter Harvey (bass) / The Purcell Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "This undirected group of soloists and instrumentalists works together with impressive cohesiveness. Without the sense - which in other kinds of performance one can never quite escape, for good or ill - of the personality and interpretative of a... |
J.S. BACH
Early Cantatas, volume 3 (Weimar) Emma Kirkby (soprano) / Michael Chance (counter-tenor) / Charles Daniels (tenor) / Peter Harvey (bass) / The Purcell Quartet [ Chandos Chaconne / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2008 ] This 2-CD set with The Purcell Quartet and a distinguished group of soloists is the third in a series devoted to Bach's early cantatas and the second focussing on the Weimar period. |
HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Symphoniae Sacrae II Emma Kirkby, Suzie Le Blanc, James Bowman, Charles Daniels / Purcell Quartet [ Chandos / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/1994 ] Emma Kirkby (soprano), Suzie Le Blanc (soprano), James Bowman (alto), Charles Daniels (tenor), Nigel Rogers (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Richard Wistreich (bass) |