JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Works for Cello and Piano Bartholomew Lafollette (cello), Caroline Palmer (piano) [ Champs Hill Records / CD - released 27/Oct/2017 ] As a young boy, Brahms was given rudimentary lessons on both the violin and cello by his father, although it was the piano that primarily activated his executant and creative imagination. Accordingly, his first published works included three virtuoso... |
MICHELANGELO FALVETTI
Il Diluvio Universale Magali Arnault (Acqua), Mariana Flores (Rad), Caroline Weynants (Natura humana), Evelyn Ramirez Munoz (Giustizia Divina), Fabián Schofrin (Morte), Fer [ Ambronay Editions / CD - released 29/Sep/2011 ] "There is indeed something 'other' about this piece, a hint of some ancient energy that perhaps reflects how Sicily itself differs from the rest of Italian. The performers make the most of the lovely present they have been handed" Gramophone Editor's... |
Caroline
Dark Blue (12") [ Rough Trade / 12in - released 24/Apr/2020 ] London based caroline began as a three-piece (Jasper Llewellyn, Mike O'Malley, Casper Hughes) in early 2017, initially evolving out of weekly improvisation sessions. Bringing together shared influences in, and experiences of playing, midwestern 'emo'... |
Caroline
Monaco [ CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] |
SIMON MAYR
Il sogno di Partenope (Cantata Opera) Caroline Adler (soprano)/ Florence Lousseau (mezzo-soprano)/ Andrea Lauren Brown (soprano)/ Cornel Frey (tenor)/ Simon Mayr Ensemble / Franz Hauk [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] Franz Hauk and the Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble have spear headed the revival of the music of Johann Simon Mayr who was born in Bavaria but lived in Italy. In the latest instalment of their critically acclaimed recordings they turn to Il sogno di... |
MIKE SHEPPARD
The Soul Rests Eternal Caroline Dale (cello) / English Chmaber Orchestra, Steve Sidwell [ Signum / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] "It would be hard for anyone to top the humanity of Caroline Dale's interpretation. Nor her warmth, sonority and depth of tone, which just accentuates the music's sustained, almost heady emotion. The ECO support her with playing that perfectly... |
KREISLER / CORIGLIANO / VIEUXTEMPS / GERSHWIN / etc
Caroline Goulding Caroline Goulding (violin) & Christopher Riley (piano) [ Telarc Classical / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] Although she has already performed with several leading orchestras, violinist Caroline Goulding is still only sixteen. Her debut recording, in which she is accompanied by pianist Chris O'Riley, features an intriguing selection of works with an... |
Caroline Herring
Golden Apples of the Sun [ Signature Sounds Recording Company / CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] "On 'Golden Apples of the Sun' Herring has never sounded better, there's a delicacy and world-weariness that makes her perfect for emotionally powerful songs; there are moments here that are breathtaking in their power and simplicity."-Fish Records, UK. |
Caroline Herring
Lantana [ Signature Sounds / CD - released 6/Mar/2009 ] Herring confidently returns to the forefront of the American roots music scene with a masterpiece of understated intensity. There is no artifice on 'Lantana'. It's an album full of delights, lyrically and musically. |
JEFFREY LEWIS
Silence of the Night Caroline MacPhie (soprano) Zheng-Yu Wu (violin) David Jones (piano) [ Metier / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] |
ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
Grechaninov: Passion Week, Op. 58 Caroline Markham (mezzo-soprano) Paul Davidson (tenor) Bryan Taylor (baritone) / Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "The massed forces of the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale make a formidable choral machine…If Grechaninov's music is sentimental in the best sense, this performance has an integrity and honesty to it which I found profoundly... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Lieder Edition, Vol. 10 Caroline Melzer (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Simon Bode (tenor), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] Some of Schumann's early songs, such as Lied für xxx, show the influence of Schubert, but it was in 1840, his 'Year of Song', that Schumann fully turned his attention to vocal music. The Zweistimmige Lieder, Op. 43 were the first that he composed... |
GYORGY KURTAG
Kafka-Fragments Op. 24 Caroline Melzer (soprano) / Nurit Stark (violin) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Oct/2015 ] One of the truly grand old men on the music scene today, György Kurtág composed his Kafka-Fragmente in the mid-1980s, and these forty settings of text fragments by Franz Kafka remain one of his most often-performed works. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Lieder Edition, Vol. 11 - Lieder und Gesänge Soldatenlied • Jugendlieder Caroline Melzer (soprano), Simon Bode (tenor), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Few if any composers equalled Schumann in the breadth of his literary taste. His reading encompassed the major figures of European literature in German translation. |
ERNST KRENEK
Sechs Motetten nach Worten von Franz Kafka Caroline Stein (soprano) Philip Mayers (piano) / RIAS-Kammerchor / Hans-Christoph Rademann [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] After a critically acclaimed first disc devoted to his Lamentations of Jeremiah RIAS Kammerchor now returns to one of its favourite composers. Krenek was born in Vienna as the son of a Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. He studied there and... |
Caroline Weeks
Songs for Edna [ Manimal Vinyl / CD - released 30/Nov/2009 ] |
ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Piano Works Volume 1 Caroline Weichert (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] During his short life Erwin Schulhoff absorbed a wide range of musical styles. The jazz-inspired Partita includes witty takes on the Tango, Foxtrot and Shimmy. Further synthesis comes in the Suite No. 3, written for the left hand alone, which adapts... |
ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Piano Works Vol 2 Caroline Weichert (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 15/Aug/2013 ] This is a fascinating disc of music that is rarely heard and when as lovingly played as it is here deserves a wide listenership. |
STEPHEN HARTKE
Hartke: The Greater Good (complete opera) Caroline Worra / John de Haan / Christine Abraham / Andrew Wentzel / Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra / Stewart Robertson [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Jul/2007 ] "Having amply demonstrated his ingenious skills and audacious imagination as a composer of symphonic and chamber works, Mr. Hartke emerges in this engaging live recording as an opera composer to reckon with." New York Times |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Turn of the Screw (complete opera) City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox / Mark Padmore / Lisa Milne / Catrin Wyn Davies / Diana Montague / Nicholas Kirby Johnson / Caroline Wise [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 2/Mar/2005 ] G :- "With its short intimate scenes and concentrated lines, the Screw is so cinematic that it's surprising there's only been one previous film. This has just won a Viennese TV award. It's one of the truest opera films to date." (BBC Music) |