JULIUS KLENGEL
Klengel: Complete Concertinos for Cello and Piano Clare Howick (violin), John Paul Ekins (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ] "Rummel and Kato bring all this off well, particularly the Konzertstuck. The recorded sound is excellently clear. Even listeners other than cellists might find it worthwhile" American Record Guide |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Trios For Clarinet, Cello & Piano Op. 11 & Op. 38 Claudio Bohórquez (cello) / Eric Le Sage (piano) / Paul Meyer (clarinet) [ Alpha / CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] With this new series entitled 'Salon de musique', Alpha presents recordings made by artists who have enlivened the Festival of Salon de Provence for some years now: the pianist Eric le Sage, who has made many recordings for Alpha, the clarinettist... |
TRADITIONAL
Troubadours: Minnesanger & other Courtly Arts (Southern France, 11th & 12th centuries) Clemencic Consort / Rene Clemencic (dir) / Paul Hillier / Theatre of Voices / The Harp Consort / Andrew Lawrence King / Dufay Collective / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, features the poems and songs of the trouvères, troubadours and Minnesingers. These inventors of an (almost) exclusively secular poetic style were also the first musicians to emerge from... |
TRADITIONAL
Trouveres & Troubadours: Minnesanger & other courtly arias Clemencic Consort / Rene Clemencic (dir) / Paul Hillier / Theatre of Voices / The Harp Consort / Andrew Lawrence King / Dufay Collective / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Century / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] A thrilling voyage of discovery of music through the ages. Poems and songs of the Trouveres, troubadours and Minnesingers. |
SCHUBERT / NICOLAI / SIBELIUS / BORODIN / BERLIOZ / SOUSA / etc
Concertgebouw Lollipops [2 CD set] Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Paul van Kempen, Eduard van Beinum, Igor Markevitch, Willem van Otterloo, Antal Dorati, etc [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] "Haitink's sane if not intoxicating choices provide firm ballast." BBC Music |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 / Tone Poems Concertgebouw Orchestra, Paul van Kempen [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] Between January and December 1951 Dutch conductor Paul van Kempen recorded a series of major Tchaikovsky works with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. The performances are at once fiery and incandescent - a kind of meaningful sound and fury - and have long... |
W.A. MOZART
Concerto in A for Basset Clarinet plus vocal items Craig Hill (basset clarinet) Cyndia Sieden (soprano) / Australian Brandenburg Orchestra [period instruments] / Paul Dyer [ ABC Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] |
Marilyn Crispell / Gary Peacock / Paul Motion / Annette Peacock
Nothing Ever Was Anyway [ ECM / 2 CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] It's astonishing to think that the music of Annette Peacock, given its rare and just dues on this essential 1997 release, has not been buried under more attention. Then again, when listening to it in the hands of pianist Marilyn Crispell (in her ECM... |
ELGAR / WALTON / BRITTEN / DELIUS / KNUSSEN / TIPPETT / RODNEY-BENNETT
Best of British from the 2007 BBC Proms [2 CD set] Daniel Hope (violin), Philip Dukes (viola) Christian Poltéra, Paul Watkins (cello) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, Jiríi Belohlávek [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] This special priced two-CD set features selected highlights from the 2007 BBC Proms season, compiled to a survey of the best of British music of the last 100 years. The Album captures the world premiere performance of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's... |
Daniel Hope, violin, Philip Dukes, viola, Paul Watkins, cello
Music from Theresienstadt - Klein, Schulhoff, Krasa [ Nimbus / CD - released 25/Aug/2003 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine Oct 2003 |
BENT SORENSEN
Bent Sørensen: Snowbells - Works for choir Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Paul Hillier [ Dacapo / CD - released 20/Apr/2016 ] Bent Sørensen's atmospheric vocal work Sneklokker (Snowbells) from 2010 arose as the audio accompaniment for the unique art installation 'The White Forest', in which an area in a summer-green forest was partly transformed into a snow-white winter... |
Dave Brubeck Quartet feat. Paul Desmond
In Your Own Sweet Way [ Avid / CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] One of the key jazz groups of the time are here featured with previously unreleased material recorded around the summer and autumn of 1958. Led by the legendary pianist Dave Brubeck these studio transcriptions feature Brubeck's long time sax player... |
Dave Brubeck Quartet Featuring Paul Desmond
On The Radio: Live 1956-57 [ Acrobat / CD - released 14/Aug/2008 ] |
The Dave Brubeck Quartet With Paul Desmond
At Newport 1956 & 1959 [ Phoenix / CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] |
Dave Brubeck/Paul desmond
Newport 1958: Brubeck Plays Ellington [ GAMBIT / CD ] |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel's Unsung Heroes Iestyn Davies, Christine Rice, Lucy Crowe (vocals) / Paul Sharp (trumpet) Roger Montgomery (horn) Joe Walters (horn) / La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Pentatone / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "This project is a heroic achievement for all involved." Recording of the Month BBC Music Magazine Christmas 2021 |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No 6 / Violin Concerto (Rec 1955/60) David Oistrakh (violin) / Stockholm Festival Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Kletzki [ Medici Masters / CD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] "Another fine entrant in this increasingly useful series, this Tchaikovsky release is a testament to Kletzki's under-sung symphonic eloquence and adds the absorbing Oistrakh performance." (MusicWeb Dec 2007) |
David Paul Jones
Something There [ Linn / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos 1, 21 & 25 Derek Han (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Freeman [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Oct/2008 ] |
W. A. MOZART
Complete Piano Concertos (Rec 1993 & 2001) Derek Han, piano, Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Freeman, with Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord, and Zoltan Kocsis, Dezsa Ranki and Andras Schiff (pianos) [ Brilliant Classics SACD / 11 SACD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] On 11 discs we present every single known work by Mozart for piano and orchestra. In addition to the more and less regularly performed 25 concertos with a single soloist we include some Rondos and both concertos for 2 and 3 pianos and orchestra. |