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SHOSTAKOVICH / WEINBERG
Chamber Symphonies & Concertino Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/May/2015 ] "The playing has individual distinction and corporate unity of purpose. The choice of tone-colours, the thrust and definance in fast movements and the matching of nuance to the range of quieter moods make for a fine combination of chamber-music fines |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Works for Voice & String Orchestra (Incls 'Les illuminations, Op. 18') Barbara Hannigan (soprano) / Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson (artistic director) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] "wonderfully alert readings by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta" Financial Times, 23rd February 2013 |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / VERDI
String Quartets Amsterdam Sinfonietta /Candida Thompson (leader) [ Channel Classics / SACD ] Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice - June 2004 |
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VIVALDI / DANZI / JACOB / DOWNEY / BAX / etc
The Art of the Bassoon Robert Thompson (bassoon) with the London Mozart Players, the Coull Quartet & the English Chamber Orchestra [ Heritage / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "This set of CDs has a musical importance which goes far beyond any detailed specialist appeal, and one cannot imagine a finer set of discs to demonstrate the unique qualities of this extraordinarily expressive instrument" (Musical Opinion) |
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Butch Thompson & Pat Donohue
Vicksburg Blues [ Red House / CD - released 24/Sep/2012 ] |
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PIAZZOLLA / GOLIJOV / GINASTERA
The Argentinian Album Candida Thompson (artistic director, violin) / Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2014 ] "they have mastered the slides and snaps that are required to bring something of the flavour of the original to [the Four Seasons], but they never quite manage to capture its essential earthiness. It is the Ginastera Concerto, the composer's own expa |
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Carroll Thompson
Hopelessly In Love (40th Anniversary Edition) Limited LP [ Ada / Warner / LP - released 29/Oct/2021 ] |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' Majella Cullagh, Mary Nelson, Adrian Thompson / NSO of Ireland / RTe Phil Choir / Reinhard Seifrie [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2001 ] "This new budget-priced disc might introduce many listeners to a marvelous piece of music; it is a very good performance." American Record Guide |
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CHARLES IVES
Ives: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4 Curt Thompson (violin) Rodney Waters (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2004 ] "Ives's four extraordinary Violin Sonatas were written between 1902 and 1906, and are quite a find. Their erratically stimulating originality is in no doubt, but they are also among his most immediately appealing works." Penguin Guide |
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Daniel/Fielding/Thompson
Dubugnon: Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2002 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Landmarks - 40 Years of Chandos Dmitri Shostakovich Jr. (piano), James Thompson (trumpet), Stephen Hough (piano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Michael George (bass) [ Chandos / CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2019 ] Released to celebrate Chandos' 40th Anniversary, this is a handsomely packaged 40-disc set. Each of the four decades is represented, and each recording has been hand-picked by Managing Director Ralph Couzens. |
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ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: Haddon Hall [with Cellier: Captain Billy & Ford: Mr Jericho] Ed Lyon, Henry Waddington, Ben McAteer, Fiona Kimm, Adrian Thompson, Donald Maxwell, Angela Simkin, Eleanor Dennis / BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andre [ Dutton Epoch SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] |
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Eddie Thompson
Piano Moods [ Vocalion / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] |
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BRITTEN
Les Illuminations, Op. 18 / Quatre Chansons franASaises / Serenade,Op. 31 Felicity Lott (soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Michael Thompson (horn) / Scottish National Orchestra / Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/May/2004 ] 'These are profoundly sympathetic performances, with Lott at her best in the 14-year-old composer's precocious settings of Hugo and Verlaine. Bryden Thomson and the RSNO support attentively, and the recordings are truthful and atmostpheric in the... |
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French Frith Kaiser Thompson
Invisible Means [ CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] |
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ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Solo Songs (Complete) Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) / Adrian Thompson (tenor) / Roderick Williams (baritone) / John Talbot (piano) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 18/Aug/2010 ] "The songs comprise an impressive body, light-hued but intense, tinged with a distinctly Celtic melancholy...they're all well worth hearing." BBC Music Magazine, June 2010 ***** |
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HANDEL
Messiah (complete oratorio) Gillian Keith, Daniel Taylor, Tom Randle, Sumner Thompson / Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers [ Coro / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society release a new recording of Handel's ever-popular Messiah, recorded live in the superb acoustic of Boston's Symphony Hall. |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy: Preludes Book 2 / Suite Bergamasque Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano) [ ASV / CD - released 1/Jul/1990 ] Fergus-Thompson has been a professor of piano at the Royal College of Music since 1996. He was awarded a FRCM in May 2010. He has given masterclasses throughout the UK, USA, Australia and the Far East (Wiki) |
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Hank Thompson
Five Classic Albums (Songs Of The Brazos Valley / Dance Ranch / Songs For Rounders / Most Of All / An Old Love Affair) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] AVID Country continues with its Five Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release featuring country legend Hank Thompson, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. |
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Hank Thompson
In The Mood For Hank [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Hank Thompson, a man destined to be one of Country music's greatest performers, was signed in late 1947 by the up-and-coming CAPITOL label, following a recommendation by Tex Ritter... |