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LEONARD SLATKIN
Slatkin Conducts Slatkin - The Raven / Endgames / Kinah / In Fields Alec Baldwin (narrator) / Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphnoy Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honour and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. |
IGOR STRAVINKSKY
Stravinsky: Chamber Works Barbara Hannigan; Julliard School Ensemble; Royal Academy of Music [ Linn Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Barbara Hannigan, a Grammy award-winning artist at the forefront of creation, leads an ensemble of outstanding young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School. Since 2002, the Academy and The Juilliard School, both... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Peter Grimes (complete opera) Alan Oke, Giselle Allen, David Kempster / Chorus of Opera North, Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Britten-Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bed [ Signum / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "...[Oke's] is a strong, ballasted performance, less purely plangent than many, but deeply moving in its simple strength and keen imagination...There's much to relish throughout this hand-picked cast." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 - Opera WINNER |
MAURICE SAYLOR
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits / Music for Silent Films Cantate Chamber Singers / The Snark Pit-band / The Holton-Arms Lower School Chorus / Gisele Becker / Snark Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] The result is music of vibrancy, excitement, and even dangerous volatility. The three silent film scores are pacey, dapper and splendidly jazzy. |
The Choir of the Abbey School, Tewkesbury / Directed by Benjamin Nicholas with Carleton Etherington (organ)
The Complete New English Hymnal (Vol 9) [ Priory / CD - released 21/Nov/2003 ] Recorded in Tewkesbury Abbey on 22nd and 23rd May 2001 |
The Choir of The King's School, Canterbury, Directed by Howard Ionascu with Matthew Martin (organ)
The Complete New English Hymnal (Vol 16) (Includes 'Father Eternal Lord of Ages') [ Priory / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] Recorded in Sandwich Parish Church on 22&23 April 2003 |
HOWARD HANSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hanson: Symphonies No. 3 / Elegy / The Lament For Beowulf Eastman-Rochester Orchestra / Eastman School of Music Chorus. Howard Hanson [ Mercury Living Presence / CD - released 11/Oct/1991 ] Recorded 1957 - 1963 The original Three Track original recording |
ANONYMOUS / ANTICO / GABRIELI / CABEZON / ASTON / etc
The Organ at European Courts Francesco Cera (Positive organ [organ ottavino] of the Neapolitan school, dated 1772) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 6/May/2016 ] The organ is usually associated with the church and sacred music. However, in Renaissance and early baroque small organs were often used in noble mansions and courts for performance of secular music. Collections of instruments held by courts in... |
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Sir PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
A Celebration of Scotland [incls 'An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise'] George MacIlwham (Highland bagpipes) & Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (conductor/pianist) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Choir of St. Mary's School, Edinburg [ Unicorn-Kanchana / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "Davies is a master story-teller in this vividly detailed tone painting…." (Gramophone) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Raw Earth: New Music for Wind Band The Hartt School Wind Ensemble, Glen Adsit [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] The contemporary wind ensemble has expanded and redefined its identity, now offering composers as broad a canvas as that of a virtuoso symphony orchestra. Each work heard on this recording reflects this new image of the wind ensemble |
HANDEL
Judas MacCabeus (recorded in 1971) Heather Harper, Helen Watts, Alexander Young, John Shirley-Quirk / Wandsworth School Boys Choir / English Chamber Orchestra / Johannes Somary [ ALTO / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "The solo singing is excellent with Alexander Young a ringing tenor, and Helen Watts singing the opening aria in Act III exquisitely. Very good recording... the effect is wholly natural - and a sense of commitment throughout from all departments." -... |
NIGEL HESS
Hess: The Winds of Power Pupils of Daubeney Middle School, The London Symphonic Wind Orchestra [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Nov/1999 ] |
GRYC / ZIVKOVIC / SCHWANTNER
Passaggi / Tales from the Center of the Earth / Recoil Joseph Alessi (trumpet) / Benjamin Toth (percussion) / Hartt School Wind Ensemble / Glen Adsit [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Stephen Gryc and Nebojsa Zivkovic composed their concertos-Passaggi and Tales from the Center of the Earth, respectively-for the instruments they play themselves. The artistic integrity and natural virtuosity of these major works is further magnified... |
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MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
The Music of Volume 3 The Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble / Curtis Macomber (violin) / Aleck Karis (piano) / Eric Bartlett (cello) [ Bridge Records / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] |
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Mannheim School
Concertos & Symphonies [ Profil / 2 CD ] |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: A Faust Symphony (Version for Two Pianos, S647/R369) (Complete Piano Music Vol. 34) Marcus Ullmann (tenor) / Franz Liszt Piano Duo / Liszt School of Music Chamber Choir, Weimar [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music Edition / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] A recording of the Faust Symphony arranged for two pianos |
HANDEL / GIBBONS / PARRY / WALTON / WESLEY / STANFORD / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - Music From the Official Record 2nd June 1953 Massed Trumpeters from the Royal Military School of Music, Coronation Choir, Coronation Orchestra, Dr. Osborne Harold Peasgood (organ) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] This recording of the BBC's broadcast of the coronation service from Westminster Abbey was taken by means of a direct line to Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood, London. |
BERNSTEIN
Kaddish (Symphony No. 3); Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis Pablo Strong, treble; Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano; Simon Baker, counter-tenor; Jamie Bernstein narrator; The London Oratory School Schola; BBC Singers; [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] 'Jamie Bernstein has reworked the narration written by her father, adding to the work's frenetic complexity, which registers powerfully in this recording. Fans of heart-on-sleeve Berntsein will enjoy bold versions of his Chichester Psalms and Missa... |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts [Requiem Mass] Ronald Dowd (tenor) / Wandsworth School Boys Choir / London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / Sir Colin Davis [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Aug/2008 ] "AT LONG LAST! WE GET TO HEAR THE FIRST REALLY GOOD RECORDING OF THE BERLIOZ REQUIEM THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE HEARD!!!" (SA-CD.net *****) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (complete ballet recorded in 2010) Royal Opera House / Sergei Polunin, Will Kemp, Kilian Smith, Charlotte Edmonds / The Royal Ballet School & Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Paul Murphy [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 25/Nov/2014 ] "...Matthew Hart's Peter and the Wolf is one of the most beguiling children's ballets around." The Telegraph |
