Greta Van Fleet
Anthem Of The Peaceful Army (LP) [ Republic / LP - released 19/Oct/2018 ] Anthem of the Peaceful Army follows the two 2017 EPs, Black Smoke Rising and From the Fires by these young Michigan rockers. Collectively written by all four band members - Jake Kiszka/guitars, Sam Kiszka/bass & keys, Josh Kiszka/vocals, and Danny... |
Greta Van Fleet
The Battle At Gardens Gate (Double Gatefold LP) [ Universal / 2 LP - released 23/Apr/2021 ] GRETA VAN FLEET is hurtling into the future with its second album, The Battle at Garden's Gate. A bold evolution from the band's 2018 full-length debut Anthem of the Peaceful Army, The Battle At Garden's Gate came together primarily on the road or... |
Greta Van Fleet
The Battle At Gardens Gate [ Universal / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] GRETA VAN FLEET is hurtling into the future with its second album, The Battle at Garden's Gate. A bold evolution from the band's 2018 full-length debut Anthem of the Peaceful Army, The Battle At Garden's Gate came together primarily on the road or... |
Greta Van Fleet
From The Fires [ Republic / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] The eight-track double EP, From The Fires combines four new tracks recorded in September at Rust Belt Studios in Detroit - two new original songs, "Talk on the Street" and "Edge of Darkness," as well as two covers, Sam Cooke's emotional "A Change Is... |
Greta Van Fleet
Starcatcher [ Republic / CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] Grammy-winning rock band Greta Van Fleet's much anticipated third studio album. The album is written and recorded by the band-lead singer Josh Kizska, guitarist Jake Kizska, bassist/keyboardist Sam Kizska and drummer Danny Wagner-alongside... |
COUPERIN / LE ROUX / RAMEAU
Divine Noise: Theatrical Music for Two Harpsichords Guillermo Brachetta (harpsichord), Menno van Delft (harpsichord) [ Resonus Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] Following on from the resounding critical success of his first solo album (Ciaccona: Works for harpsichord - RES10126), harpsichordist Guillermo Brachetta returns with Divine Noise, a thrilling album of theatrical works for two... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Götterdämmerung BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Gun-Brit Barkmin, Daniel Brenna, Eric Halfvarson, Shenyang / Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2019 ] 24-bit, 96 kHz Stereo and Surround Recordings This unique programme is the first time that all the ballet music from Verdi's operas has been brought together in a single recording. Although The Four Seasons from I vespri siciliani (The Sicilian... |
BOTTESINI / CHOPIN / RACHMANINOV
The Romantic Double Bass (Concertos, sonatas and other works) Hans Roelofsen (double-bass) Rudolf Senn (double-bass) with George Pieterson (clarinet) and Marien van Staalen (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] Say double bass and people will probably think of jazz music. In spite of pioneering composers like Bottesini and active present-day players like Dutch Hans Roelofsen and Rudolf Senn the double-bass does not have a serious image in classical music.... |
HANDEL
Arie per la Cuzzoni Hasnaa Bennani (soprano) / Les Muffatti, Peter van Heyghen [ Ramee / CD - released 22/Jan/2016 ] Among the most famous and also the most notorious stars of European opera houses was the Italian diva Francesca Cuzzoni...This CD features some of the most beautiful and breathtaking arias, composed for the diva by Handel. |
JOSEF HAYDN
Baryton Trios Freek Borstlap (baryton), Helena van Tongern (viola) & Jan Insinger (cello) [ Etcetera / CD - released 28/May/2008 ] The baryton was once a very well known and highly regarded instrument. Very much like a cello in appearance, it has 6 to 7 strings and a typically viola da gamba like sound quality. It is interesting to note that Haydn wrote more works for baryton... |
TELEMANN
Sonatas and Sonatinas for Recorder and Basso Continuo Heiko ter Schegget (recorder) / Mieneke van der Velden (viola) / Benny Aghassi (bassoon) / Zvi Meniker (harpsichord) [ MDG SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/May/2011 ] The most popular recorder works used to be published in the newspaper: in 1728 Georg Philipp Telemann founded Der getreue Music-Meister primarily to divulge his own works. It is thus hardly surprising that Telemann's recorder sonatas today enjoy... |
Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles
The Last Transmission [ Now Again / 2 CD - released 31/Oct/2014 ] |
MOLTER
Clarinet Concertos Henk de graaf (clarinet) Amadeus Ensemble, Rotterdam / Marien van Staalen [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Apr/2008 ] Johann Melchoir Molter wrote six clarinet concertos. The first four of these dating from around 1745 makes them the earliest known solo concertos for this instrument. |
Herman Van Reen
Alfred J Kwak [ CD ] |
LEONARDO LEO
Cello Concertos Hidemi Suzuki (baroque cello / cello piccolo) Orchestra 'Van Wassenaer' / Makoto Akatsu violin/director [ BIS Baroque / CD - released 30/Jun/2004 ] "Uno splendido disco." CD Classica |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / GUSTAV MAHLER
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 / Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (Concert version ed. Mengelberg/Dopper) Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] These two Tenth Symphonies represent powerful statements by composers undergoing the greatest of crises in their eventful lives. Gustav Mahler's last and incomplete symphony was kept a secret by his widow Alma for many years after his death. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 / Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70 Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 was premiered in 1937. It was composed in response to the Soviet denouncement in Pravda of the composer's most recent works. The symphony was an overwhelming success, returning the composer to favour with the... |
WOLFGANG RIHM
Et Lux Huelgas Ensemble & Minguet Quartett, Paul van Nevel [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Tropes waft in from across the ages: this music treads the line of tangibility, with sudden rushes of anger or fondness and the messy half-memories that come with grief...van Nevel doubles the vocal parts to create broad, generous textures that soun |
DUFAY
O Gemma Lux - Complete Isorhythmic Motets Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (Pre 1700) - A sumptuous farewell to the musical Middle Ages. |