GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Fantasia on Bellini's La sonnambula / Melodia, Romanza patetica / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Anthony Halstead (piano) with Jacquelyn Fugelle, soprano [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 4 / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Giovanni Bottesini, an accomplished and respected conductor, also enjoyed a globe-trotting career as "the Paganini of the double bass". For this recording manuscript sources have been used for his Fantasia on Bellini's La sonnambula, Variations on... |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Fantasia on Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor / Bolero / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Anthony Halstead (piano) with Jacquelyn Fugelle, soprano [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 3 / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] Giovanni Bottesini enjoyed a globe-trotting career as "the Paganini of the double bass" but was also an accomplished and respected conductor in Europe. When conducting operas Bottesini would often perform fantasies on the evening's entertainment... |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Double Bass Concertino in C minor / Elegy No. 1 in D major / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Francesca Petracchi (double bass) / London Symphony Orchestra / Matthew Gibson [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 2 / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Known to his contemporaries as the Paganini of the double bass, Giovanni Bottesini significantly extended the technical possibilities of the instrument both as a composer and virtuoso soloist. After the Prelude to Ero e Leandro, Bottesini's greatest... |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Gran Duo Concertante / Gran Concerto in F sharp minor / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Jose-Luis Garcia (violin) Emma Johnson (clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 1 / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "At the heart of most of the music by Bottesini which I have heard, there is an essential simplicity, a kind of directness of feeling, a sense of social conversation, which while it may not make for music of great profundity certainly led Bottesini... |
GIOANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Fantasia on Rossini's Canzonette / Passione amorose / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Timothy Cobb (double bass) Christopher Oldfather (piano) [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 5 / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] These works for two double basses by Giovanni Bottesini date from his student days at the Milan Conservatory. The delightful Fantasia on themes of Rossini features an opening Tarantella, a lyrical middle section and a stormy finale. Passioni amorose,... |
KIENZL
Don Quixote (complete opera) Thomas Mohr / Michelle Breedt / Celina Lindsley / James Wagner / Rundfunk Orchester / Gustav Kuhn [ CPO / 3 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
Thomas Newman
The Debt (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Silva Screen Records / CD - released 28/Nov/2011 ] |
Thomas Newman
Ost: Skyfall - Limited [ Sony Classical / LP - released 26/Nov/2012 ] |
Thomas Newman
Ost: The Best Exotic Marigold [ Sony Classical / CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] |
Thomas Newman
Skyfall (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Sony Music / CD - released 9/Nov/2012 ] |
Thomas Newman
Spectre - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [ Decca / CD - released 6/Nov/2015 ] Decca Records is releasing one of the most anticipated film soundtracks of the year: SPECTRE - the 24th James Bond adventure. After the success of Skyfall and winning a BAFTA for best film music, Thomas Newman ('American Beauty', 'The Shawshank... |
CESAR FRANCK / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / GABRIEL FAURE / JACQUES BREL
Formidable! French Chansons Thomas Oliemans; Amsterdam Sinfonietta; Candida Thompson [ Channel Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] I have had French chansons in my head for as long as I can remember: on a scratchy car radio or a cassette player, in the back seat for hours on end on the way to the Vendée or Dordogne, or softly issuing from a gramophone record in my father's study... |
Thomas Quasthoff
The Jazz Album: Watch What Happens [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 13/Mar/2007 ] Internationally acclaimed, three-time Grammy Award winner Thomas Quasthoff presents his first non-classical album, a collection of popular and lesser-known jazz standards. |
Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone) with Bruno Muller (guitars) Frank Chastenier (piano) & ensemble
Tell it Like it Is [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 23/Sep/2010 ] Deutsche Grammophon's best-selling release of bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff's The Voice astonished music lovers with tuneful proof of Quasthoff's ability to sing jazz as superbly as they knew him to sing classical music. |
LORTZING / WEBER / WAGNER / RICHARD STRAUSS
Evening Star-German Opera Arias Thomas Quasthoff, baritone, Berlin Deutsche Opera. Thielemann (with Christiane Oelze) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] Editor's Choice (Gramophone Magazine) July 2002 |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Die Schopfung [The Creation] (complete oratorio sung in German recorded in 2009) Thomas Quasthoff (baritone) Christoph Strehl (tenor) Annette Basch (sop) / Vienna Philharmonic / Adam Fischer [ Medici Arts / Euro Arts DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "…the chamber choir is finely disciplined and light on its collective feet, the orchestra has good period manners and conductor Adam Fischer provides firm and keenly motivated direction. Baritone Thomas Quasthoff is in a league of his own." (BBC Music) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / ROBERT SCHUMANN / W. A. MOZART
Thomas Quasthoff - The Complete RCA Recordings Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone) with Charles Spencer & Roberto Szidon (piano) / Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Jörg Faerber [ Sony Music / RCA Red Seal Masters / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] A treat for lovers of great singing, the complete RCA recordings of Thomas Quasthoff on 4 CDs, including Winterreise, Dichterliebe, and the op. 39 Liederkreis |
GRANADOS
Piano Works (complete) - Includes 12 Spanish Dances & Goyescas Thomas Rajna (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2008 ] Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the first so-called "national" composers of Spain. Together with his compatriot Isaac Albeniz, he created a new style of pianism in which elements of the Spanish folklore and folksong are embedded. |
HANDEL
Samson (Complete oratorio) Thomas Randle (tenor) Mark Padmore (tenor) Lynda Russell (soprano), Lynne Dawson (Alto) Sixteen / Symphony of Harmony and Invention / Christophers [ Coro / 3 CD - released 14/Jul/2003 ] "Powerful choral singing from The Sixteen and alert playing by the period-instrument band make this the most pleasurable Samson yet recorded." - Sunday Times |
BIBER / FASCH / HANDEL / REINHART / SCHICKHARDT / STÖLZEL / TELEMANN
German Baroque Trumpet Concertos Thomas Reiner (trumpet) / Interpreti Veneziani [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Baroque works for oboe have long been fertile ground for transcription to the trumpet and there are several examples here of this refashioning. The sequence of concertos and sonatas include examples from Handel's Italian years. |