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ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in D minor (with Shostakovich - Quartets) James Ehnes (violin) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth / Ehnes Quartet [ Onyx / CD - released 10/May/2014 ] "Ehnes' urgent and energetic finale [of the Khachaturian] is full of gypsy spirit and freshness without feeling too sweet-toothed...This rather unusual mix of concerto and chamber music only serves to increase the desirability of this release." (MW) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 / Octet in E flat major, Op. 20 James Ehnes (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy / Seattle Chamber Music Octet [ Onyx / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "The first thing that hits you about Ehnes's reading is the rhythmic propulsion of the concerto's outer movements, which lifts the music, revealing its glorious bone-structure." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Romances (with Schubert: Rondo in A) James Ehnes (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze [ Onyx Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] "Technically, Ehnes's playing is a marvel...But, really, it's his - and Manze's - thoughtfulness and patience that make this recording so satisfying." Gramphone Editor's Choice November 2017 |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 33 / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 53 James Ehnes (violin) Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) / BBC Philharmonic / Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Jul/2005 ] 'James Ehnes is an excellent soloist in the magnificent Violin Concerto on this Chandos release. His phrasing has a most natural elasticity and he has a sure sense of the dramatic that seems to filter through to the orchestra, who impart a layer of... |
BARBER / BERNSTEIN / CARTER / COPLAND / IVES
American Chamber Music American Chamber Music James Ehnes (violin) / Seattle Chamber Music Society [ ONYX / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] James Ehnes and friends from the Seattle Chamber Music Society hit the road on a fascinating journey through chamber music by some of the giants of 20th-century American classical music. Aaron Copland's masterful Violin Sonata, Leonard Bernstein's... |
VIVALDI
The Four Seasons (with sonatas by Tartini & Leclair) James Ehnes (violin) / Sydney Symphony, Andrew Armstrong [ ONYX / CD - released 1/Dec/2015 ] James Ehnes takes a break from the 19th and 20th century repertoire and has recorded for the first time in his career four of the most famous baroque violin concertos - Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the first four works in his set of 12, Op. 8. James also... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto in D / Souvenir d'un lieu cher / etc James Ehnes (violin) / Sydney Symphony, Vladimir Ashkenazy [ ONYX / CD - released 16/Dec/2011 ] "The key word that characterises his playing is grace. This is the finest reading of the concerto that I have come across in a very long time, and I urge lovers of the work to hear it." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb June 2012) |
BARBER / KORNGOLD / WALTON
Barber / Korngold / Walton: Violin Concertos James Ehnes (violin) / Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey [ ONYX / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] Rosette Recording - Penguin Stereo Guide - "A fine violinist excels himself in an outstanding trio of romantic concertos" (Gramophone) |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Violin Concerto Nos 1 and 2 / Viola Concerto James Ehnes (violin / viola) / BBC Philharmonic / Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 21/Sep/2011 ] "I can't think of a finer CD version of the First Concerto than this...[Ehnes's] rich, yielding tone makes an even stronger impression [in the Viola Concerto], reminiscent of William Primrose in his prime" Gramophone Award Finalist 2012: Concerto |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Harold en Italie / Reverie et Caprice, Op. 8 / etc James Ehnes (violin & viola) / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2015 ] The virtuosic and nine-times Juno-winning Canadian James Ehnes is centre stage in a new recording of orchestral works by Berlioz, with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. This recording follows an extraordinarily rare... |
WILLIAM WALTON / CONSTANT LAMBERT
Walton/Lambert: Façades James Geer (tenor) Andrew West, Ronald Woodley (piano) [ Somm / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Façades takes its title from Walton's era-defining "entertainment", heard here in arrangements for four-hand piano of its two orchestral Suites by Lambert - regarded by Walton as the definitive reciter of Edith Sitwell's nonsense verses. |
J. S. BACH
St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist, Matthew Rose, Ashley Riches, Elizabeth Watts, Sarah Connolly / Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra & Chorus, Richard Egarr [ AAM Records / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] "Egarr whips up venomous indignation for the crowd's joustings with Pilate. Sarah Connolly's 'Es ist vollbracht' is searing...And Elizabeth Watts's 'Zerfliesse, mein Herze' is almost unbearably poignant." BBC Music |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
Cox and Box / Trial by Jury (Complete operettas) James Gilchrist, Neal Davies, Donald Maxwell, Rebecca Evans / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] "If you are a G& If S fan, you won't be able to live without this disc; if you are not, this CD just might convert you." (William Dart NZ Herald 3rd Aug 2005) |
J. S. BACH
Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist, Neal Davies, Sophie Bevan, Iestyn Davies, Benedict Kearns / Academy of Ancient Music & King's College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Cleobu [ King's College SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 15/May/2017 ] "The Academy of Ancient Music retains it standing as one of the best period music ensembles in the world, King's College nonpareil among contemporary sacred music bands, and the recording gorgeously captured in a venue most of us are quite familiar." |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244 James Gilchrist, Stephan Loges, Hannah Morrison, Zoë Brookshaw, Charlotte Ashley, Reginald Mobley / Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "..a thoughtfully moulded, expertly executed and deeply committed reading, so honestly communicative of its intent and so free of self-conscious monumentalism, sententiousness or melodramatics...one of his finest achievements." Gramophone |
ROMANTIC RESIDUES
Romantic Residues AE Songs for tenor & harp James Gilchrist (tenor) Alison Nicholls (harp) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] '[Roth] These are attractive works … The resources of voice and instruments are imaginatively exploited. And the performances are excellent. On the Hyperion disc Roth shares with Britten, Ravel and others, the whole working together as an unusual and... |
MURIEL HERBERT
Songs James Gilchrist (tenor) Alison Tynan (soprano) David Owen Norris (piano) [ LINN / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] "If her music is innately conservative, her harmonic palette and melodic invention are individual; these songs linger in the memory." The Guardian, 29th May 2009 **** |
ROGER QUILTER
Quilter: Songs James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tibrook (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] Born in Sussex in 1877, Roger Quilter was a fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott, and H. Balfour Gardiner at the Hoch Conservatory, in Frankfurt, where he studied for almost five years under the guidance of the German professor of... |
LENNOX BERKELEY
Songs of Lennox Berkeley James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tibrook (piano) Alison Nicholls (harp) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] "The tenor James Gilchrist sings sweetly and cleanly, without affectation, and Anna Tilbrook is finely responsive to the subtleties of the piano parts." (Daily Telegraph) |
LEIGHTON / BRITTON
Earth, Sweet Earth / Winter Words James Gilchrist (tenor) / Anna Tilbrook (piano) [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "Gilchrist and Tilbrook are an outstandingly accomplished and sensitive modern combination...the Leighton is a great gift." Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 |
