FASCH
Overtures Il Fondamento / Paul Dombrecht [ Fuga Libera / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] |
HANDEL
Rinaldo (Complete Opera recorded in 1977) Ileana Cotrubas, Carolyn Watkinson & Paul Esswood / La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2010 ] "The vigour of Malgoire's direction of an opera which plainly for him is very much alive, makes this a very attractive set. The finest singing comes from Ilena Cotrubas, but the whole team is convincing. The bright but spacious recording adds to the... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Music for the Chapel Royal - Verse Anthems Inia Te Wiata, Robert Tear, Charles Brett, Paul Esswood / Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, George Guest / Academy of St Martin in the Fields [ Decca / London Serenata / CD - released 20/Sep/1995 ] Purcell wrote so much in so many different spheres of musical activity that it is easy to forget that one of his main tasks was to be a royal composer, to provide music for the occasions of State in Westminster Abbey, just as the Gabrielis had done... |
Isabelle Faust : violin / Paul Meyer : clarinet / Petersen String Quartet
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus - Funabre [ ECM Records / CD - released 16/May/2002 ] Hartmann was one of the most important and independently-minded German composers of the 20th century. This recording embraces two of his most well-known works, which bridge the epochs of the Late Romantic and the Modern, as well as a premiere... |
Jai Paul
Jasmine [ XL Recordings / 12in - released 20/Jul/2012 ] |
SCHUTZ
Weinachtshistorie & Auferstehunghistorie Jakob Bloch Jespersen, Johan Linderoth, Adam Riis & Else Torp / Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen & Sirius Viols, Paul Hillier [ Dacapo / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Schütz recordings of such ardent beauty are much too rare, so this is not to be missed." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Baroque Vocal |
DEBUSSY
The Claude Debssy Collection [18 CD set] James Galway, Paul Crossley, Tokyo String Quartet, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, etc [ Sony Classics / 18 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2012 ] This limited-edition boxed set is a real bargain for all who would like to hear more from the composer of famous works like Clair de lune and La Mer. |
James Morrison, Judy Bailey, Paul Grabowsky, Don Burrows, Bernie McGann, Dale Barlow, Angela Davis, etc
Jazz Chill [ ABC / 2 CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] Experience ultimate relaxation with Jazz Chill. Over two hours of smooth, easy jazz from Australia's top artists and ensembles, specially selected to help you unwind and de-stress. Whatever you're up to - busy around the house, sharing some time... |
PAUL SCHOENFIELD
Refractions / 6 British Folk Songs / Peccadilloes James Tocco (piano) / Yehuda Hanami (cello) / Alexander Fiterstein (clarient) / Paul Schoenfield (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Paul Schoenfield's music attracts listeners with its combination of exuberance and seriousness, familiarity and originality, lightness and depth, often with sly twists. Six British Folk Songs was written in 1985 as a tribute to the cellist Jacqueline... |
Jean-Luc Godard / Soundtrack (featuring Dino Saluzzi / David Darling / Patti Smith / Jean Schwartz / Werner Pirchner / Paul Hindemith / etc)
Nouvelle Vague [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] This is the complete soundtrack - music, dialogue, sounds - of Jean-Luc Godard's Nouvelle Vague, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. |
DEBUSSY / FELDMAN / DAHL / BERNSTEIN / TCHAIKOVSKY / COSTELLO / GRIEG / SCHUMANN
Michael Tilson Thomas - Complete Deutsche Grammophon & Argo Recordings Jean-Marc Luisada (piano), Paul Zukofsky (violin), Frederica von Stade; Thomas Hampson / London Symphony, Boston Symphony, etc, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / 14 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Michael Tilson Thomas's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon (1970-2003) and Argo (1992-1995) encapsulate the conductor's restlessly exploratory nature and masterful handling of the modern orchestra. The recordings in this collection... |
REBEL / FRANCOEUR
Zelindor, roi des Sylphes / Suite from 'Le Trophee' Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Heidi Grant Murphy, William Sharp / The Opera Lafayette Orchestra / Ryan Brown [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "The evening's strength, however, was the crisp, resilient playing of the period orchestra, bringing the lilting dance music to colorful life." The New York Times |
RAMEAU
Operatic Arias for Haute-contre Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor) / Opera Lafayette / Ryan Brown [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Oct/2007 ] "Musically this is a string of pearls of wonderful scenes with dances and arias, joyful, dramatic, elegiac, beautiful. For a taster of Fouchécourt's accomplishment try the little arietta from Platée - Quittez nymphes, quittez (tr. 2), where his... |
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience [ Flying Nun Records New Zealand / CD - released 10/Oct/2002 ] Re-issued at last! A cheeky grab-bag assortment of beguiling songs by band members Dave Yetton, David Mulcahy, Jim Laing and Gary Sullivan. |
QUANTZ / GALUPPI / VIVALDI / ALBINONI / GIORDANI / etc
18-th Century Flute Concertos Jed Wentz, Marion Moonen (traverso) / Musica ad Rhenum (with Lex Vos, Paul van der Linden, oboes) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Jun/2006 ] The six Italian concerti recorded here were all written within 60 years. They show remarkable variety. Of these the Galuppi and the Ferrandini are the most extreme with sometimes weird harmonies. |
MIKLOS ROZSA
Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Incls 'Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song') Jennifer Pike (violin) Paul Watkins (cello) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "These are four first-rate works by a still neglected composer, marvellously played and recorded." (Editor's ChoiceGramophone Sept 2011) |
HENRY COWELL / LOU HARRISON / EDGAR VARESE
American Mavericks Jeremy Denk (piano) Paul Jacobs (organ) / San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] "Michael Tilson Thomas's time at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony has been marked by a courageous dedication to modernist American outsiders, and American Mavericks bears out the orchestra's experience with such outré material." (The Independent) |
ROUSSEL
Complete Chamber Music Jet Reling (piano) Jean-Jacques Kantorow (violin) Herre-Jan Stegenga (cello) Paul Verhey (flute) Henk Guittart (viola) Irene Maessen (soprano) etc [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Jan/2007 ] "This attractively packaged set is a convenient assemblage of Roussel’s work in the field of chamber music, a sequence of works characterised by the acute, even astringent, intelligence that has gone into their writing and the distinctive beauty of... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony' Joan Rodgers (soprano) & Christopher Maltman (baritone) / Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Paul Daniels [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "The orchestral playing is refined, the choral singing robust and the ensemble tight." Daily Telegraph |