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Josienne Clarke And Ben Walker
Seedlings All (LP & CD) [ Rough Trade / LP/CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] 'Seedlings All' is Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker's first album to be made up of all original songs, and is songwriter Clarke's most autobiographical work to date. As she explains: "For the first time I'm out there alone with a bunch of songs that... |
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Ryley Walker
Course In Fable [ Husky Pants Records / CD - released 21/May/2021 ] Ryley Walker currently resides in New York City. But his latest LP is a Chicago record in spirit. The masterful Course In Fable, the songwriter's fifth solo effort, draws from the deep well of that city's fertile 1990s scene, when bands like... |
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Ryley Walker
Deafman Glance [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] Deafman Glance, the follow-up to 2016's Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, is the second Ryley Walker album produced by LeRoy Bach and Walker himself. Deafman Glance was largely recorded at the Minbal Studios in Chicago, with some later sessions... |
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Ryley Walker
Deafman Glance (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 18/May/2018 ] Deafman Glance, the follow-up to 2016's Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, is the second Ryley Walker album produced by LeRoy Bach and Walker himself. Deafman Glance was largely recorded at the Minbal Studios in Chicago, with some later sessions... |
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Ryley Walker
Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (LP) [ Dead Oceans LP / LP - released 19/Aug/2016 ] In November 2015, at the end of a ten-month period which saw Ryley play over 200 shows in support of his last album Primrose Green, Ryley decided that he should probably head home. He went into the studio over the Christmas vacation to record... |
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Ryley Walker
The Lillywhite Sessions (Double LP) [ Dead Oceans / 2 LP - released 16/Nov/2018 ] On The Lillywhite Sessions, Ryley Walker and the similarly indebted trio of drummer Ryan Jewell and bassist Andrew Scott Young cover Dave Matthews' infamously abandoned 2001 art-rock masterpiece of the same name, a record where he and his band... |
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Scott Walker
The Childhood of a Leader Original Soundtrack LP (Limited) [ 4AD / LP - released 19/Aug/2016 ] Partly inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's short story of the same name, 'The Childhood Of A Leader' is a tense psychological drama tracing the formative years of a young boy and set against the backdrop of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that led to the... |
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Scott Walker
The Drift (Vinyl) [ 4AD / 2 LP - released 20/Jul/2012 ] Limited edition vinyl issue. |
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Summer Walker
Clear 2: Soft Life EP [ Interscope / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Summer Walker, the reigning empress of modern-day R&B, returns to the genre's forefront with her CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE EP release. The nine-track project includes a starry lineup headlined by Childish Gambino, Solange, Steve Lacy, and J. Cole. |
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Tim Walker
You / Me [ Tim Walker Music NZ / CD - released 7/Dec/2012 ] Tim's songs are lush love stories that would make even the most jaded person melt. The proof of the pudding lies in Walker's debut album 'You / Me'. |
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Ash Walker
Aquamarine [ Night Time Stories / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] A heavyweight astral shower of rhythm and vibes, Ash Walker's third album 'Aquamarine' is set for release on 12th July via Night Time Stories. Ash's production output is similarly exploratory: his journeys have taken him far and wide, from tunnels... |
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BOWEN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / L. BERKELEY / BAX / FERGUSON
Shadow Dances: British Works for Flute and Piano Adam Walker (flute) Huw Watkins (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] For his second album for Chandos, the flute virtuoso Adam Walker explores the music of British composers with pianist Huw Watkins. Vaughan Williams's Suite de ballet was commissioned by the French flute virtuoso Louis Fleury (who had given the... |
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SAINT-SAENS / WIDOR / DURUFLE / FRANCK / BARRERE
French Works For Flute Adam Walker (flute), James Baillieu (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] "Walker's clear, cool, bright tone, effortless technique and finely nuanced expressiveness will win you over whether or not you naturally gravitate towards solo flute." - Gramophone, May 2021 |
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HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: Le Loup / Sonatine / Sonate / Sarabande et Cortège Adam Walker (flute) Juliana Koch (oboe) Jonathan Davies (bassoon) / Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] "Wilson seizes on the opportunities to bring out the vivid colours of Dutilleux's score, with the brass blazing superbly and every rhythm alive with meaning. No less striking is the music's lyricism, phrased by Wilson with great tenderness." BBC |
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KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 Adam Walker (flute) / Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chando SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Jul/2023 ] The Grammy-Award-winning Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956) is without doubt one of American music's leading orchestral composers. His orchestral output has grown and developed to encompass a wide range of genres, from overtures and tone poems to suites and... |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
The Delius Collection [7 CDs] Anthony Rolf Johnson, Felicity Lott, Sarah Walker, Thomas Allen, Julian Lloyd Webber, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Heritage / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2012 ] "The present set, sumptuous in quantity and quality, is quite a coup for Heritage. The price is right and the content is classic...Classic Delius overwhelmingly in fruity early digital sound." (MusicWeb) |
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JOHN GAY
The Beggar's Opera (complete) Bob Hoskins, Sarah Walker, Charles Daniels, Adrian Thompson / The Broadside Band / Jeremy Barlow [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - 'I have never heard, and can't imagine, better performances ... A delightful performance of this timeless opera' (American Record Guide) |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Late Works Berit Norbakken (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano), Guy Cutting (tenor), Thomas Walker (tenor), Cappella Amsterdam [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] Cappella Amsterdam, its celebrated chief conductor Daniel Reuss, and the Noord Nederlands Orkest present a recording of Igor Stravinsky's late works, showcasing the composer's remarkable transformation. Embracing the twelve-tone technique in his... |
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Connell/Dawson/Kitchen/Walker/
Vaughan Williams:sernade To [ Hyperion / CD ] |
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Dame Janet Baker, Christopher Booth-Jones, Sarah Walker, English National Opera
Handel - Julius Caesar (Scenes from the opera in English) [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 4/Oct/2002 ] Dame Janet Baker's famous interpretation |