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GUSTAV HOLST / RICHARD STRAUSS
Holst: The Planets / Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (LP) CBSO Youth Chorus, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Edward Gardner [ Chandos LP / LP - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "Edward Gardner's driven, finely balanced conducting ensures this is one for collectors as well as supporters." The Guardian, 10th February 2017 **** |
GIACOMO PUCCCINI
Puccini: La Bohème Celine Byrne (soprano), Anna Devin (soprano), Irish National Opera, Sergio Alapont (conductor) [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2022 ] The Paris of love and art. A poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher. Living hand to mouth in a freezing garret. Christmas cheer and a heart won by girl next door. The tragedies of love and poverty. Puccini's best-loved opera is touching,... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Maitre Peronilla (complete operetta) Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Markus Poschner, Antoinette Dennefeld, Tassis Christoyannis, Véronique Gens / Orchestre National de France [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - released 28/Feb/2020 ] "Markus Poschner conducting the Orchestre National de France and the French Radio Choir encourages the bubbles to rise to the surface in a never-ending stream." BBC Music Magazine May 2020 Opera Choice |
GEORGE DYSON
Quo Vadis: a cycle of poems Cheryl Barker (soprano) Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano) Philip Langridge (tenor) / BBC National Chorus of Wales ; BBC National Orchestra of Wales ; Richar [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 26/May/2003 ] 'All four soloists are in superb voice, each of them strong, firm and characterful; and both choruses sing with fresh, incandescent tone... the result will delight all devotees of the English choral tradition.' - Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges & Ma Mère l'Oye Choeur Britten, Jeune Choeur symphonique, Maitrise de l'Opera National de Lyon & Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Ravel's opera L'Enfant et les sortilèges captures an imaginative child's world in which the creatures and objects around him come to life. |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Orchestral Works (Incls 'Daphnis et Chloe', 'Ma Mere l'Oye' & 'Bolero') Choeurs du Theatre National de l'Opera / Orchestre de Paris, Jean Martinon [ Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 21/Oct/2007 ] "Fortunate the collector who chances on this set; delight and revelation await. At bargain price this is a gift that will cast its smiling spell for years to come" (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month October 2007) |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Organ Concerto / Concert champêtre Philippe Lefebvre (organ) Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord) / Lille National Orchestra, Jean-Claude Casadesus [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2016 ] "The wind and percussion of the Lille orchestra get a chance to demonstrate their quality in accomplished playing of the spry dances of the Suitefrançaise. This is an eminently recommendable disc." (Gramophone Classucal Music Guide) |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Op. 35; Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 23 Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Nikolai Lugansky (piano) / Russian National Orchestra. Kent Nagano [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 6/Jul/2005 ] "In Multi Channel you can feel the sound waves reverberating through the hall!" ---SA-CD.net |
Chœur de Radio France, Maîtrise de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Solistes de l'Orchestre National de France
Thierry Escaich: Cris [ Formations musicales de Radio France / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] For its 28th edition in 2018, the Festival Présences of Radio France paid tribute to Thierry Escaich -one of the greatest French living composers. Composer, but also organist and improviser, Thierry Escaich does not dissociate the three aspects of... |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: The Planets, Op.32 / The Mystic Trumpeter (with Matthews - Pluto: The Renewer) Claire Rutter (soprano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jun/2002 ] "an expansive, richly recorded performance" (Sunday Telegraph) |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst-The Planets / Mystic Trumpeter Clare Rutter, soprano / RSNO Ladies Chorus / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is considered to be one of the UK's leading symphony orchestras. Formed in 1891 as the Scottish... |
GERSHWIN / BERNSTEIN / RODGERS / MORTIER
Summertime: Music For Clarinet Quartet The Clarinet Quartet Of The Belgian National Orchestra [ NAXOS / CD ] Terence Thompson's witty jazz suite City Scenes starts with a light-hearted Stroll in the City, delicately sketched. Blowing the Blues provides a leisurely interlude, before the cheerful and lively Hot Potato Boogie, a blues derivative, with its... |
DARIUS MILHAUD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Milhaud: Le Carnaval d'Aix / Le boeuf sur le toit / la creation du monde / Concertos Claude Helffer (piano) Frederique Cambreling (harp) / Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon [ Warner Classics Erato / 2 CD - released 16/Nov/1998 ] Distinctively French, yet cosmopolitan in his personal and artistic horizons, Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was adventurous, prominent, and prolific. A pupil of Dukas and d'Indy, he became a member of Les Six and a distinguished teacher in the USA and... |
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY
Daugherty: Rapture-concerto for percussion & orchestra / An American Abroad / Jasper Colin Currie (percussion) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "Colin Currie is a brilliant British percussionist, and Marin Alsop leads performances that seem well rehearsed and committed. Torke fans will want this, especially for the two tone poems, I'm sure." - Stephen Ellis, Fanfare |
ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: Prince Igor (Complete Opera recorded in 1967) Constantin Chekerliksi, Boris Christoff, Todor Todorov / Orchestra & Chorus of the National Opera theatre of Sofia, Jerzy Semkow [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2017 ] "Boris Christoff is a past master at subtly altering his vocal colour: at this stage of his career, he was in full command of a magnificent voice with many shades of colour in it. This is superlative artistry." (Gramophone) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
So Romantique! Cyrille Dubois (tenor) / Orchestre National de Lille; Pierre Dumoussaud [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] "The album is a treasury of rarely heard (and previously unheard) music...Dubois handles them all with intelligence, finesse and flair, singing with perfect native French diction." Opera |
ZDENEK FIBICH
Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (Incls 'Symphony No 1') Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Marek Štilec [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] Zdenĕk Fibich's career overlapped those of his countrymen Smetana and Dvořak, but his music remained poised between the twin poles of Czech Nationalism and the New German School. |
ZDENEK FIBICH
Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Othello, Op. 6') Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Marek Štilec [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] "The recordings are agreeably detailed and with plenty of dynamic contrast. All who are already friends of Ma Vlast and the Dvorak late tone-poems will want to hear this and can expect to find new friends." (MusicWeb July 2014) |
ZDENEK FIBICH
Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Marek Štilec [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2014 ] This fourth volume in the first complete recording of the orchestral works of Zdeněk Fibich features shorter orchestral works and occasional pieces for theatre projects. They include the evocative overture A Night at Karlštejn Castle, the... |
ZDENEK FIBICH
Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (Incls 'Symphony No 2') Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Marek Štilec, with Irvin Venyš (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2014 ] "Major works like the cycle of three melodramas Hippodamia show [Fibich] to be a writer of no mean accomplishment, who despite his early death by no means deserves to be overshadowed by his contemporaries Smetana and Dvořák. Indeed those who enjoy th |
