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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... |
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Sonny James
Southern Gentleman (The first four albums) [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] |
HUGO WOLF
The Complete Songs Volume 2 Sophie Daneman / Anna Grevelius / James Gilchrist / Stephan Loges [ Stone / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] The second disc in the first complete recording of the songs of Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), recorded live at the Oxford Lieder Festival. This second disc features settings of Mörike. |
ALFRED CELLIER
Cellier: The Mountebanks (operetta) / Suite Symphonique Soraya Mafi, Thomas Elwin, James Cleverton, John Savournin, Sharon Carty / BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Andrews [ Dutton Epoch SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] "The Mountebanks is as much a Savoy operetta as any of Sullivan's…Nevertheless [Cellier] has his own distinctive voice, flowingly melodic, orchestral writing more elegant and modern-sounding , looking forward to Edwardian operetta." BBC |
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. |
JAMES WOOD
Phainomena / Two Men Meet / Venancio Mbande Talking with the Trees Steven Schick (percussion) / The Critical Band / James Wood [ NMC / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "James Wood is an all-round musical explorer of a philosophical cast of mind yet with an ardent Messiaen-like sensibility... each piece is an ambitious synthesis of music and the world." The Sunday Times 1997 |
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 ] |
HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR
Hancock's Half Hour: The Lift / Twelve Angry Men Tony Hancock with Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques & Bill Kerr [ BBC Audio / CD - released 4/Feb/2010 ] Two television soundtracks from the BBC's memorable series Hancock's Half Hour by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson starring Tony Hancock, Sid James and John Le Mesurier. In 'The Lift', Hancock gets stuck in a lift at the BBC with eight other people.. |
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... |
