ROSSINI
The Cantatas Vol 1 Mariella Devia, Paul Austin Kelly, Francesco Piccoli, Michele Pertusi. Orchestra e coro Filarmonico Della Scala. Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Jan/2004 ] "Chailly gives lightly articulated and well-sprung accounts of both and draws excellent singing from his splendid team" (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
ÉTIENNE NICHOLAS MEHUL
Méhul: Uthal (complete operetta) Marie-Ève Munger, Marie Lenormand, Jeanne Crousaud, Michael Spyres / Coro e Orquestra Gulbenkian, Paul McCreesh [ Bru Zane Ediciones Singulares / CD/Book - released 20/Apr/2017 ] "Speech and song are seemlessly integrated here, maintaining both dramatic tension and consistency of characterisation throughout. It's hard to imagine a better bicentenary tribute: do listen to it." Gramophone |
HANDEL
Harnoncourt conducts Handel (incls 'Messiah' [excerpts] & Organ Concerto, op.4 no.3} Lucia Popp, Paul Esswood, Roberta Alexander, Alice Harnoncourt, Herbert Tachezi / Concentus musicus Wien / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Eighty - Harnoncourt & Handel |
SCHUBERT
Die Schone Mullerin Mark Padmore (tenor) Paul Lewis (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Besides being the most lyrically beautiful modern rendition of this oft-recorded cycle, the recording is a model of clear, natural presentation of voice and piano in a very complementary acoustic." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE
Undance UNDANCE Band, Rambert Orchestra, Tim Murray, Paul Hoskins [ NMC / CD - released 5/Sep/2014 ] UNDANCE (2011) is a project created for Sadler's Wells by Turnage with choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Mark Wallinger, inspired by the work of photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. Its edgy syncopation frames various tunes and motifs that... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concertos / Piano Quintet Martin Helmchen (piano) / Paul Beniston (trumpet) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] "Helmchen proves a deft interpreter of both, aided by Jurowski at his most engaging; and the outstanding performance of the weightier Piano Quintet (1940), studio-recorded with members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, makes this a rare means of... |
Paul McCartney
Get Back [ Umbrella Entertainment / DVD - released 24/Aug/2011 ] G :- Region 4 - Colour / Black & White - 85 Minutes - PAL Special Features :- -Press Kit: including interviews, favourite moments, promos and bloopers from director Richard Lester, Paul McCartney and band. -Theatrical... |
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Lulu (complete opera recorded in December 2016) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Marlis Petersen, Susan Graham, Daniel Brenna, Paul Groves, Johan Reuter / Lothar Koenigs [ Nonesuch Classics Blu-Ray+DVD / 2 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] "conducting, singing, direction: they're all of a piece, working to domesticate Berg's feral beast, and making it the funniest, least absurd and most approachable Lulu on film" Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded 2000) Metropolitan Opera / Renee Fleming, Bryn Terfel, Solveig Kringelborn, Paul Groves / James Levine (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 5/Sep/2014 ] "It's hard not to give this Don a warm welcome. For those irritated by modern psychological stagings, this set could well provide the perfect answer" - MusicWeb April 2005 |
PERRY
William Perry: Music for Great Films of the Silent Era Michael Chertock (piano), Helen Kearns (soprano) / RTÉ National Symphony, Paul Phillips [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] |
VERDI / MONTEVERDI / MOZART / BOESMANS
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence Vol.2 - La Traviata / L'Incoronazione di Poppea / Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail / Julie (complete operas) Mireille Delunsch / Anne Sofie von Otter / Matthew Polenzani / Marc Minkowski / Zeljko Lucic / Jean-Paul Fouchecourt / and more [ Bel Air Classiques / 4 DVD Box Set - released 17/Oct/2011 ] Four operas filmed in the Aix-en-Provence Festival from 2000 to 2006 in a limited edition box sets: internationnaly acclaimed productions of L'Incoronazione di Poppea by Klaus Michael Grüber, Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Deschamps & Makeïeff or... |
ELLINGTON / EMERSON / GERSHWIN / SEDAKA
Manhattan Intermezzo Jeffrey Biegel (piano) / Brown University Orchestra, Paul Phillips [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] This programme brings together four works for piano and orchestra by composers best known from the fields of jazz, popular song and progressive rock |
Paul Motian, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell
Time And Time Again [ ECM / CD - released 29/Oct/2007 ] |
VIVALDI / TARTINI / BOCCHERINI
Cello Concertos Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / Collegium Musicum Zurich / Paul Sacher [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / CD - released 15/Feb/2007 ] "Rostropovich turns each phrase to perfection…"the reading of the tragic slow movement (on Tartini) is deeply moving.." Stereo Review, New York |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / GIUSEPPE TARTINI / C.P.E. BACH
Vivaldi / Tartini / CPE Bach: Baroque Cello Concertos Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, with Layton James (harpsichord continuo) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] While J.S. Bach's Suites for solo cello are, by definition, closely identified with Mstislav Rostropovich as the supreme cellist of his time, the B flat concerto of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach represents a more unusual departure. It is programmed here... |
Gerry Mulligan / Paul Desmond & The Dave Brubeck Trio
The Complete 1972 Berlin Concert [ Jazz Row / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] |
PROKOFIEV / RAVEL
Peter and the Wolf / L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges The Nederlands Dans Theater / Lorin Maazel / The Royal Ballet School / Paul Murphy [ Arthaus Musik / RM Associates / DVD - released 23/Jul/2004 ] G :- Regions 2 + 5 - Widescreen 16:9 & Regular 1.33:1 / 4:3 - PCM Stereo - Colour - 82 Minutes (total) - PAL Prokofiev's classic and Ravel's fairy tale ballet are different in content but both are thoroughly recommended to all. Starring The... |
LEIGHTON
Cathedral Music Neil Mackie (tenor) / St Paul's Cathedral Choir / John Scott (director) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] 'Leighton at his most moving. St Paul's choir brings glowingly alive both the strength and the tenderness of this music. I can enthusiastically recommend this record' - Organists Review |
HINDEMITH
Mathis der Maler; Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Franz-Paul Decker, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2002 ] A programme of Hindemith with our beloved NZSO |
MAX REGER
Reger: Mozart and Hiller Variations New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Franz-Paul Decker (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2002 ] A programme of Reger variations with our beloved NZSO |