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J. S. BACH
St Matthew Passion, BWV244 James Gilchrist, Matthew Rose, Ashley Riches, Elizabeth Watts, Christopher Maltman / Academy of Ancient Music & Choir of the AAM, Richard Egarr [ AAM Records / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/Jun/2015 ] "Singing and playing are highly polished and assured throughout, with James Gilchrist superb as the Evangelist, and Matthew Rose a credible if rather forceful Jesus" (BBC Music) |
ROB KEELEY
Rob Keeley: Orchestral Music Sarah Desbruslais (flute) Michael Sluman, James Turnbull (oboes) Patrick Flanaghan (cor anglais) / Málaga Philharmonic & Liepāja Symphony Orchestra [ Toccata / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Rob Keeley - born in south Wales in 1960 but immersed in London musical life since boyhood - embraces a wide range of influences. Stravinsky's angular melodies and Tippett's buoyant rhythms can be heard in the spiky but bucolic Second Symphony. |
PACHELBEL
Complete Organ Works - Vol. I Michael Belotti, James David Christie, Jürgen Essl, Christian Schmitt (organ) [ CPO SACD / 5 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "I have generally admired the way Pachelbel's music is played here. The four organists are excellent interpreters who know how to bring out the qualities of his various works." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb July 2014) |
RAUTAVAARA
Choral Music (Incls 'Magnificat') Schola Cantorum of Oxford / James Burton [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] "From the vibrancy of the very first track, the lively imagination of Rautavaara's writing for voices, the pungent palette of the Schola Cantorum of Oxford, and the clarity and spatial excitement of this record are immediately apparent." BBC Music... |
HANDEL / HOLST / ROSSINI / SIBELIUS / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
Icon: Malcolm Sargent - The Great Recordings Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) with Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, James Johnston, Norman Walker, etc [ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 18 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2015 ] Malcolm Sargent's reputation as one of the great popularisers of classical music in Britain arose not only through his long association with the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts (1947-67), but was in evidence much earlier through chief conductorships of... |
St George's Chapel Choir Windsor / James Vivian, Luke Bond
Christmas at St George's Windsor [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] The Choir of St George's Chapel, world famous through its royal patronage, is one of this country's foremost, participating in daily services throughout the year at its Windsor Castle home. Here the choir performs a wide range of music appropriate... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Eastertide Evensong St John's College Choir Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor), with James Anderson-Besant & Glen Dempsey (organ) [ Signum / CD - released 15/Apr/2022 ] St John's first live Evensong album, Ash Wednesday, marked the period of Lent and reflected the tradition of the organ remaining silent. Now with Eastertide Evensong, organists rejoin choir in a blaze of rejoicing. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Mass in E flat major, D950 Susan Gritton, Pamela Helen Stephen, Mark Padmore, James Gilchrist / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2008 ] Schubert's final mass and most ambitious setting was composed during the summer of 1828, only months before his death. It was premiered posthumously, on October 4, 1829, under the direction of his brother, Ferdinand. |
CHEN GANG / HE ZHAN HAO
Butterfly Lovers: A Music and Dance Film Takako Nishizaki (violin) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / James Judd / Dou Dou / Ding Yue Hong (dancers) [ Marco Polo / DVD - released 9/Feb/2006 ] Butterfly Lovers is a music and dance film by director Marikki Hakola. A synthesis of the ever-popular Chinese violin concerto 'Butterfly Lovers' and choreography inspired by Chinese martial arts and modern dance, the film is an imaginative... |
C.P.E BACH
Bach: Complete Original Works For Violin & Keyboard Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), James Ballieu (piano) [ Signum / 3 CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] "Trills glisten over Waley-Cohen, the perfect partner to transform this into bowed song. Waley-Cohen's achievement of pure legato is wondrous" Gramophone Magazine December 2019 Editor's Choice |
TAVENER
Choral Ikons The Choir / James Whitbourn [ Opus Arte CD / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "James Whitbourn's singers, seasoned yet still young, robustly engage with compositions that many groups treat with bloodless reverence...Those who like their Tavener pure and ethereal should not be deterred from tasting The Choir's more muscular... |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman recorded in 1968 at the Royal Festival Hall, London) Theo Adam / Anja Silja / Martti Talvela / James King / BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer [ Testament / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2008 ] Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine October 2008 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Clarinet Hive - Clarinet Ensemble Music Theodore Schoen, Laura Ardan, Ricardo Morales, James Ognibene, Timothy Paradise, Evan Ziporyn (clarinets) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] Taking its name from Evan Ziporyn's Hive, which grew out of the composer's experience as a beekeeper, this album brings together an engaging selection of pieces for solo clarinet and clarinet ensembles of various sizes. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete oratorio) Marjanne Kweksilber, James Bowman, Paul Elliott & Gregory Reinhart / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & The Sixteen, Ton Koopman [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 6/Apr/2009 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios & Triple Concerto Trio Wanderer, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, James Conlon [ Harmonia Mundi / 5 CD - released 30/Sep/2022 ] This set assembles for the first time the Beethoven legacy of the Trio Wanderer: the group's superb interpretation of the Triple Concerto is now presented alongside its masterly recording of the composer's complete original works for piano trio, a... |
BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto Trio Wanderer, Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, James Conlon, [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] A concerto for four? The Triple Concerto may well be one of Beethoven's most enigmatic works: some commentators have seen it as no more than a vast rhapsody intented to show off the virtuosity of three hand-picked soloists. But when a piano trio that... |
CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano) Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, James Conlon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] When Nobuyuki Tsujii rose from the piano, having completed his performance at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, audience members leapt to their feet and jurors were moved to tears by his passionate interpretation of Chopin's... |
MARK HAGERTY / TWIN POETS
Hagerty: United Sounds of America University of Delaware Symphony Orchestra, James Allen Anderson, Twin Poets, Makeda Hampton, Jonathan Whitney, Oksana Glouchko [ Delos / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] united sounds of america melds the power and rhythms of street poetry with the expressive capacity of the symphony orchestra to bring urgent social questions to the symphonic stage. united sounds is not a traditional musical work, nor is it one... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
American Choral Music University of Texas Chamber Singers / James Morrow [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] American choral music has many faces and, while aware of tradition, often looks resolutely towards the future. Vincent Persichetti's Mass envelops an original cantus firmus in a shimmering silken garment of ever-shifting harmonies, while Lukas Foss... |
