HERBERT HOWELLS
Hymnus Paradisi / A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song Joan Rodgers (soprano) / Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Bruce Ogston (baritone) / BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Richard Hickox [ Chandos The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |
WEBER / VERDI / ROSSINI / LEONCAVALLO / MEYERBEER / BALFE / etc
Joan Sutherland: Command Performance Joan Sutherland (soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 5/Aug/2015 ] The first complete issue (outside of a limited edition box set collection) of a celebrated 2LP set recorded by Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge in 1962. The songs, arias and ballads were selected to make up the kind of program which, as... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH / GIUSEPPE VERDI / VINCENZO BELLINI
Darwin: Song for a City [Recorded Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, UK, January 1975] Joan Sutherland, Heather Begg Tom McDonnell, Clifford Grant, Louis Quilico, Margreta Elkins / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] Christmas Eve 1974 was a nightmare for the inhabitants of Darwin when it was destroyed by a violent cyclone. A Darwin Appeal Fund was launched and a month later, on 25 January 1975, Richard Bonynge conducted a fund-raising concert at the Royal Opera. |
MOZART / WAGNER / DONIZETTI / SPOHR
The Golden Age of Covent Garden Joan Sutherland (soprano) Jon Vickers (tenor) / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Rafael Kubelik / with Richard Bonynge (piano) [ Pearl / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] Joan Sutherland and Jon Vickers in roles they never recorded commercially, at the very peak of their powers in 1957 and 1958. |
ARE YOU BEING SERVED?
Are You Being Served?: Camping In John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Webdy Richard, Frank Thornton & cast [ BBC Audio / 2 CD - released 12/Feb/2009 ] Four classic episodes of the long-running BBC TV sitcom starring John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister and others, all previously unavailable on audio. The staff of Grace Brothers department store are embroiled in... |
SHAKESPEARE
Othello (A Johannesburg Market Theatre Production, 1988) John Kani / Richard Haines / Joanna Weinberg / Janet Suzman / Janet Suzman [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 19/Jun/2006 ] G :- "...a production that made you rethink Othello - and marvel once again at how Shakespeare can never be out of fashion" The Listener |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Highlights from the operettas John Mark Ainsley / Thomas Allen / Rebecca Evans / Felicity Palmer / Richard Suart / Welsh National Opera / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2005 ] "...this anthology is a delight." -Daily Press (Newport News, VA) |
John Metcalfe / Sophie Harris / Richard Pryce / Ralph Salmins
Metcalfe, John - Scorching Bay [ Black Box / CD - released 20/Jun/2004 ] "It is the music's eclecticism that make it "genre-defying". In this respect, John Metcalfe has impeccable credentials. Classically trained, he has an impressive record of non-classical arrangements to his credit including those for Morrissey and... |
BACH / ALBENIZ / TELEMANN / SCARLATTI / COUPERIN / GIULIANI / etc
John Williams - Five Classic Original Album Classics [5 CDs] John Williams (guitar), with John Etheridge (guitar), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti [ Sony Music / 5 CD Box Set - released 15/Sep/2016 ] John Williams, classical guitar virtuoso, is known for his wide-ranging approach to repertory, which includes appearances playing electric rock guitar and international music. |
ELGAR / DELIUS / ARNE / HOLST / WOOD
The Ultimate Last Night of the Proms (rec 1996) Jonathan Carney (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Richard Cooke [ Royal Philharmonic / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] The Ultimate Last Night of the Proms includes legendary pieces such as Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Greensleeves, Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and classics such as Rule, Britannia! and Jerusalem. |
ELGAR / DELIUS / ARNE / HOLST / WOOD
The Ultimate Last Night of the Proms (rec 1996) Jonathan Carney (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Richard Cooke [ Royal Philharmonic / SACD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] The Ultimate Last Night of the Proms includes legendary pieces such as Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Greensleeves, Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and classics such as Rule, Britannia! and Jerusalem. |
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Orchestral Works, Volume 1 (Incls 'songs before Sleep') Jonathan Lemalu (baritone) / Paul Watkins (cello) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Richard Hickox (cond) [ Chandos / CD - released 24/Nov/2006 ] 'It's hard to imagine a more beguiling start to this series or a more appealing introduction to Richard Rodney Bennett than this CD…I can't imagine anyone not being enraptured by this CD.' Gramophone |
Josephine Barstow, Julian Forsyth, Sheila Hancock, Richard van Allan / National Symphony Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Oliver! - selected highlights [cast recording] [ Showtime! / CD - released 29/Jun/1995 ] A Studio Cast recording from 1991 |
ELGAR
The Light of Life (Lux Christie) Op. 29 Judith Howarth, Linda Finnie / London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] 'Hickox's superior Elgarian credentials are immediately established in the glorious orchestral "Meditation", where his conducting demonstrates a noble flexibility, sensitivity to dynamic nuance and feeling for climax that are wholly beguiling'... |
HANDEL
Messiah (highlights recorded in 1967) Judith Raskin, Florence Kopleff, Richard Lewis, Thomas Paul / Robert Shaw Chorale & Orchestra, Robert Shaw [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 10/Dec/2011 ] Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw |
SCULTHORPE
Quamby Karin Schaupp (guitar) Sue-Ellen Paulsen (cello) / Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra / Richard Mills [ ABC Australian Contemporary Series / CD - released 1/Jul/2005 ] Part of the Tasmanian Symphony's Australian Composer Series, this release is the first in the series from Australia's most distinguished and prolific composer Peter Sculthorpe. Calmly lyrical and sentimental, Sculthorpe draws influences from... |
KALMAN
Csardasfurstin (Die) (The Gypsy Princess) (Complete operetta) Karl-Michael Ebner (tenor) Mojca Erdmann (soprano) Heinz Holecek (bass) Yvonne Kenny (soprano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Naxos Opera Classics SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] Kálmán's great contribution to the musical language of Viennese operetta was to bring to it the brilliant colours, the heady rhythms and the dynamic energy of his native Hungary - not just as an imitator, like so many other composers, but as one who... |
GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto / An American in Paris Kathryn Selby (piano) / Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hayman (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "Kathryn Selby makes a strong showing in the Gershwin Concerto" - Fanfare |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Orchestral works (Incls Masques et bergamasques & Dolly Suite) Kathryn Stott (piano), Peter Dixon (cello), Richard Davis (flute) / BBC Philharmonic. Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 29/Jun/2005 ] "Beautifully played and richly recorded, with Yan-Pascal Tortelier a most understanding interpreter, this neatly brings together the most popular orchestral pieces of Faure." (Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide) |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Piano Quartet No. 2 / Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120 / etc Kungsbacka Piano Trio, with Philip Dukes (viola) & Richard Hosford (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] Gabriel Fauré's chamber works, long overshadowed by his popular Requiem (Naxos 8550765), are regaining their rightful place. This new release from the Kungsbacka Piano Trio follows their recording of Fauré's First Piano Quartet and other chamber... |