VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The NMC Songbook (4 CD set) Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton, Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby, Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett, etc [ NMC / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2009 ] Gramophone Award WINNER 2009: Contemporary - "…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... |
Dermot Kennedy
Sonder (LP) [ Interscope / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Irish superstar Dermot Kennedy's second studio album includes tracks 'Something To Someone', 'Better Days' and 'Dreamer'. 'Sonder', the encapsulating phrase for "the realisation that each random passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as... |
Dermot Kennedy
Without Fear [ CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] |
VIVALDI
Orlando Furioso RV728 Anne Desler, Nicki Kennedy, Marina De Liso, Lucia Sciannimanico / Coro da Camera Italiano & Modo Antiquo / Eico Maria Sardelli [ CPO / 3 CD Box Set - released 28/Jun/2008 ] Orlando Furioso is one of Vivaldi's most important operas. The story goes back to the epic of the same name by Ludovico Ariosto, set on an island ruled by the sorceress Alcina, and tells of Orlando's unhappy love for Angelica. Composed in 1727, the... |
Kennedy
Life Is A Party [ Rykodisc / Cordless / CD - released 29/Jun/2010 ] |
Kennedy Nigel
Plays Jazz [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/1990 ] |
Kennedy/Dante Quartet
On Wenlock Edge [ Signum / CD - released 7/Jan/2008 ] |
Kennedy/Dante Quartet
Venables: At Midnight - Songs [ Signum Classics / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] |
Luke Kennedy
A Time For Us [ Universal / CD - released 30/Aug/2013 ] |
W.A. MOZART
Requiem in D minor Marie Arnet (soprano) Anna Stephany (mezzo) Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Darren Jeffrey (bass) / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 9/Jun/2008 ] 'Davis's approach to the Requiem...contained both tragic grandeur and high drama, with the Dies Irae pointing the way towards the theatrical vividness of some 19th-century settings, but nothing was remotely sentimental of self-pitying' The Guardian |
JOHANN MATTHESON
Christmas Oratorio Nicki Kennedy, Anna Crookes (sopranos), Ursula Eittinger (mezzo), Andreas Post (tenor), Stephan MacLeod (bass-baritone) / Die Kölner Akademie [ CPO / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] For a long time Johann Mattheson was relatively unknown among composers of the 18th Century. |
NIGEL KENNEDY
The Four Elements Nigel Kennedy [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] The Four Elements, written for violin, orchestra, band and voices, is a suite of pieces which Kennedy conceived as his own 21st century response to Vivaldi's baroque masterpiece The Four Seasons, a work with which Kennedy is intrinsically linked. |
Nigel Kennedy
Recital [ Sony Classical / CD - released 18/Mar/2013 ] |
Nigel Kennedy
Vivaldi: The New Four Seasons [ Sony / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] In 1989 Nigel Kennedy made his breakthrough recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In his sleeve notes to that famous release, Kennedy stressed that he had rejected the idea of playing Vivaldi's suite of violin concertos in either the "authentic"... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Nigel Kennedy (violin) / English Chamber Orchestra [ EMI Classic DVD / DVD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Nigel Kennedy's recording was released on September 25, 1989 on vinyl, cassette and CD and went on to become one of the best-selling classical albums of all-time. |
J. S. BACH
Kennedy Plays Bach Nigel Kennedy (violin) / Irish Chamber Orchestra [ Emi Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2000 ] Nigel Kennedy teams up with the renowned Irish Chamber Orchestra in a live performance of Bach violin concertos. Filmed at the stunning church in Dingle in County Kerry with its fine acoustics and great intimacy with the audience. Bonus features... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classic Kennedy [incls Massenet: Meditation & Gershwin: Preludes] Nigel Kennedy (violin) with various orchestras and accompaniments [ EMI Classics / CD - released 13/Jan/2000 ] Classic Kennedy is an outstanding collection of popular classical and contemporary works plus traditional folk songs uniquely arranged for violin and orchestra. Vivaldi: Presto from Summer (The Four Seasons) feature's on this album. |
BUXTEHUDE
Une Alchimie Musicale Raphaele Kennedy (soprano) / Da Pacem [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] This 'themed' programme by Da Pacem derives from a series of concerts devoted to Bach's infamous journey on foot to hear Buxtehude play. Did he have leave of absence from his employers? Did the four month absence change his style for... |
LISZT
Liszt Abroad Rebecca Evans (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Matthew Rose (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] "The singing too is exemplary, with Rebecca Evans's floated high notes things of exquisite beauty." BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009 ***** |
BEN FOSKETT
Dinosaur Richard Uttley (piano) Mark van de Wiel (clarinet) Eric Lamb (flute) Jean-François Becquaert (soprano saxophone) Raphaële Kennedy (soprano), etc [ NMC / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "The early Five Night Pieces, for piano, played by Richard Uttley, have a lucid modernist assurance, but Foskett's 2009 Prom commission, the orchestral From Trumpet, is something else again: big, monolithic, broodingly textured, with a rich internal |