La Roux
Sidetracked [ Renassance / CD - released 26/Jul/2010 ] |
La Roux
Trouble In Paradise [ Polydor UK / CD - released 18/Jul/2014 ] Grammy winning artist La Roux returns with the new album Trouble In Paradise which features nine tracks, each written and played by multi-instrumentalist Elly Jackson with Ian Sherwin on co-production. When it came to making the new album, she... |
HANDEL / CORELLI / BABELL / GEMINIANI / SCHICKHARDT
London Circa 1720: Corelli's Legacy La Rêveuse [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "La Rêveuse bring us a disc of splendid music-making...The theme of the disc makes for a lovely coherence between works... There is enough variety, both timbral and affectual, to keep one in sonic rapture" Gramophone Editor's Choice Nov 2020 |
TELEMANN
Trios & Quartets with viola da gamba La Rêveuse [ Mirare / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] A major musical figure of the 18th-century, in his time, Telemann was more popular than Bach. This master of instrumental music was open to French and Italian influences and to the new galant style that flourished in Germany. Telemann wrote music... |
ANONYMOUS / SCHEIDEMANN / STEFFKINS / JENKINS / etc
My precious manuscript - Fantastic sonatas from England to German La Sainte Folie Fantastique [ Alpha / CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "This highly captivating programme is performed with great dedication. The musicians deliver strongly rhetorical and gestural interpretations which lend these pieces a pronounced theatrical character." (MusicWeb Aug 2013) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: La finta giardiniera (complete opera recorded in 2018) La Scala / Krešimir Špicer, Julie Martin du Theil, Bernard Richter / Diego Fasolis (cond) [ Naxos DVD / 2 DVD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] On 13 January La finta giardiniera, a dramma giocoso, was premiered at the Salvatortheater in Munich, then on 23 April the serenata Il re pastore was staged at the archbishop's palace in Salzburg. |
PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Lo frate 'nnamorato (Complete opera recorded in 1989) La Scala Opera / Alessandro Corbelli / Nuccia Focile / Amelia Felle / Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Opus Arte La Scala Collection DVD / DVD - released 23/Jul/2004 ] G :- "…delivered with a polish that makes almost every moment a delight." (BBC Music) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco (complete opera recorded in 2017) La Scala Opera / Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Carlos Álvarez, Michele Mauro / Riccardo Chailly (cond) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] "Anna Netrebko as Giovanna is simply a force of nature. Across her huge vocal range and the role's giant proportions, her tone remains powerful and her charisma sweeps all before it." BBC Music |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Olivo e Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 2016) La Scala Opera / Bruno Taddia, Filippo Morace, Laura Giordano, Pietro Adaini / Federico Maria Sardelli (cond) [ Dynamic DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "Donizetti enthusiasts will find this recording to be a lively and enjoyable performance of a virtually unknown work from the Master's second tier. These are rare, and should be celebrated and cherished." MusicWeb |
W. A. MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete recorded in 2006) La Scala Opera / Diana Damrau, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Pietro Spagnoli, Marcella Orsatti Talamanca / Gérard Korsten (cond) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "The availability on (Blu-ray) of any production by Giorgio Strehler, even one recorded many years after it was new, is automatically a major event. But this film - a 2006 revival of Strehler's Le Nozze di Figaro from 1980 - is much more than a... |
ROSSINI
Guglielmo Tell [William Tell] (complete opera recorded in 1988) La Scala Opera / Giorgio Zancanaro / Chris Merritt / Giorgio Surjan / Cheryl Studer / Riccardo Muti (cond) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade / La Scala Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 4/May/2004 ] G :- Riccardo Muti conducts a fine cast led by Giorgio Zancanaro in the title role of Rossini's towering and opulent last opera with the Corps de Ballet, Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala. Sung in Italian |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (7 Disc Complete operas recorded in 2010-13) La Scala Opera / René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Doris Soffel, Simon O'Neill, Iréne Theorin / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / 7 DVD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2015 ] "This was opera magic where Daniel Barenboim brought out the full depth and passion of Wagner's music" (The Telgraph) |
ROSSINI
La donna del lago (complete opera recorded in 1992) La Scala Opera / Rockwell Blake / Giorgio Surjan / Chris Merritt / June Anderson / Riccardo Muti (cond) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade / La Scala Collection DVD / DVD - released 16/Dec/2004 ] G :- "Mature Rossini at his best and most demanding. I recommend it to enthusiasts of the opera seria now slowly gaining a foothold in the repertoire" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky Gala - highlights from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty & Nutcracker (Recorded at the Teatro all Scala in 2007) La Scala / Polina Semionova / Nadja Saidakova / Ronald Savkovic / David Coleman (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] G : - "The dancing is uniformly excellent, and conductor David Coleman leads the La Scala orchestra in bravura performances of some of Tchaikovsky's greatest ballet music." (AudAud.com) |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky Gala - highlights from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty & Nutcracker (Recorded at the Teatro all Scala in 2007) BLU-RAY La Scala / Polina Semionova / Nadja Saidakova / Ronald Savkovic / David Coleman (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jan/2009 ] Blu-Ray - "The dancing is uniformly excellent, and conductor David Coleman leads the La Scala orchestra in bravura performances of some of Tchaikovsky's greatest ballet music." (AudAud.com) |
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde (Complete opera recorded live in 2007) BLU-RAY La Scala Opera / Waltraud Meier, Ian Storey, Gerd Grochowski, Matti Salminen / Daniel Barenboim (conductor) [ Erato / Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 16/Nov/2015 ] "The gaudiest event of the opera season in Europe, La Scala's opener on Dec. 7 was a sublime new version of Tristan und Isolde directed by Patrice Chéreau under the baton of the house's new principal guest conductor, Daniel Barenboim." New York Times |
La Sera
Sees the Light [ Hardly Art / CD - released 16/Apr/2012 ] Katy Goodman's second long-player under the La Sera moniker is moored heavily in the melodies and sugary-vocals of 60s girl groups and the gentle sway of early country music |
ALBINONI / PISENDEL / VIVALDI
Per Monsieur Pisendel La Serenissima: Adrian Chandler, violin Gareth Deats, cello Robert Howarth, harpsichord [ Avie / CD - released 10/Mar/2003 ] This is the debut recording by the young English violinist Adrian Chandler, whose passion for Vivaldi led to his exploration of several of the Red Priest's contemporaries, including Albinoni, and the younger, dazzling German violinist and composer... |
La Serenissima
Vivaldi: L'amore Per Elvira [ Linn / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Oct/2006 ] |
ALIBINONI / LOTTI / VERACINI / VIVALDI / PORTA / POLLAROLO
Venice by Night Peter Whelan (bassoon) Mhairi Lawson (soprano) Simon Munday (trumpet) / La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler [ Avie / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] "Peter Whelan is a virtuoso bassoonist...Simon Munday proves an impeccable trumpeter...With five 'first recordings', this is not to be missed." (BBC Music) |