Les Paul & Mary Ford
In Perfect Harmony [ Proper Records / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Sep/2007 ] This definitive 4-disc collection brings together 109 tracks from the original guitar genius, Les Paul with singer, Mary Ford. Les Paul pioneered electric guitar design and multi-track recording... |
LISZT
Complete Piano Music: Harold In Italy Leslie Howard (piano) with Paul Coletti (viola) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 23 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Howard joue tout cela avec beaucoup de raffinement et un vrai sens du châtoiement sonore. De belles découvertes' (Répertoire, France) |
MOZART
Mozart: Piano Quartets Paul Lewis (piano), Leopold String Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/May/2003 ] |
BRAHMS
String Sextets 1 & 2 The Lindsays, with Louise Williams (viola) and Paul Watkins (cello) [ Alto / CD - released 3/Sep/2015 ] both sextets have a compelling sense of direction - in the Second's magnificent first movement, we can feel what a giant young Brahms had become. |
HANDEL
Twenty Sonatas 'Opus 1' Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Rachel Beckett (recorder) Paul Goodmwin (oboe) Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 30/Oct/2014 ] "This set gives authoritative readings, impeccable in style, dependable in text" (Gramophone) |
J.S. BACH
Flute Sonatas (Complete) Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Rachel Brown (flute) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month)BBC Music Magazine (July 2002) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas Vol 27: Whit Tuesday BWV184 & 175 / Trinity Sunday BWV194, 176, 165 & 129 Lisa Larsson, Nathalie Stutzmann, Christoph Genz, Paul Agnew / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 22/Mar/2008 ] 'What this survey reveals is a deep personal affection for the repertoire and a refreshing, expressive spontaneity often missing from studio recordings but which here captures the moment of live performance.' BBC Music Magazine Awards 2009: Choral... |
ROLF MARTINSSON
Martinsson: Into Eternity Lisa Larsson (soprano), Malmö Symphony Orchestra / Paul Mägi [ BIS SACD / CD - released 5/Jul/2019 ] The music on Presentiment, a 2018 release with four orchestral works by Rolf Martinsson, was described by one critic as 'bold and uncompromisingly personal, eschewing avant-garde modernism and engaging us with solidly expert conventional techniques... |
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Lulu (complete opera in English) Lisa Saffer / Susan Parry / Anna Burford / Graham Danby / English National Opera Orchestra / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Chandos / 3 CD - released 5/Mar/2006 ] '"Lisa Saffer makes an ideal Lulu, dramatically compelling to watch, and with a voice to equal the sustained high note writing which Berg gives his protagonist… John Graham-Hall's Alwa is splendid. Robert Haywood an excellent Dr Schön…"' Peter... |
GUSTAV HOLST
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Essential Holst (Incls 'The Planets' & 'The Perfect Fool') London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Adrian Boult, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood, The Purcell Singers [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 25/Jan/1995 ] Holst's works were played frequently in the early years of the 20th century, but it was not until the international success of The Planets in the years immediately after the First World War that he became a well-known figure. (Wiki) |
SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT
Lieder Recordings, Vol. 3 (1941) Lotte Lehmann (soprano) / Bruno Walter and Paul Ulanowsky (accompanists) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] With her impassioned delivery, warm tone, telling word-painting and occasional use of portamento, Lehmann makes her own very personal yet utterly compelling case for Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -Leben and Dichterliebe. |
SCHUBERT / RICHARD STRAUSS
Lieder Recordings, Vol. 5 (recorded 1941-42) Lotte Lehmann (soprano) / Paul Ulanowsky (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] In Die schöne Müllerin Lehmann's judicious use of portamento and her wonderful feeling for the text make her performance one to treasure. |
WILLIAM WALLACE
Maritana (Complete Opera recorded in 1995) Majella Cullagh / Lunda Lee / Paul Charles Clarke / Rte Philharmonic Choir / Rte Concert Orchestra / Proinnsias O Duinn [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] "[the cast] all sing with total dedication and conviction. It isn't at all difficult to understand Maritana's popularity, nor with the ensuing snobbery of the twentieth century, why it fell out of favour." (Gramophone) |
Manfred Mann & Paul Jones
Original Album Series [ Warner / 5 CD - released 8/Aug/2014 ] This 5 CD set includes the Manfred Mann and Paul Jones albums The Five Faces of Manfred Mann, Mann Made, Mann Made Hits, Soul of a Mann and My Way. |
DESPRES / AGRICOLA / DALZA / GHIZEGHE / etc
Two Lutes with Grace - Plectrum Lute Duos of the late 15th century Marc Lewon (lute, gittern), Paul Kieffer (lute), Grace Newcombe (vocals) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "The plectrum lute duo was one of the most popular ensembles for professional instrumentalists in late 15th-century Western Europe. This recording presents for the first time the bulk of a surviving repertoire that can arguably be considered for the... |
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 |
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... |