JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Three Sonatas MIchael Collins (clarinet), Stephen Hough (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] "This is a disc which will grace any Brahms collection." MusicWeb |
LOUIS SPOHR
Clarinet Concertos Nos 3 & 4 Michael Collins (clarinet) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Robin O'Neill [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] 'Collins completes his recordings of these delightful concertos with the contrasting works presented here … Collins dazzles like a bel canto diva in the pyrotechnic leaps, trills and runs, while he lavishes his rich tone, phenomenal breath control... |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / etc Michael Collins (clarinet) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Robin O'Neill, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2005 ] 'Michael Collins … repeats the success of his disc of Nos 1 and 2 with elegantly phrased melodies, immaculate passagework and wondurously even trills.' (BBC Music Magazine five stars) |
Michael Crawford
The Music Of The Night (The Ultimate Collection) (2CD) [ Ambition / Universal / 2 CD - released 27/Mar/2015 ] A fabulous new double CD career collection by this much admired performer. Whether you know him as Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do Ave Em or as the original Phantom of the Opera, there is no denying the popularity of this living legend of the... |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
An Introduction To Vaughan Williams (incls 'The Lark Ascending' & 'A London Symphony') Michael Davis (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Intro / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] "Thomson's mighty London risks creating a following. This is a magnificent performance which impresses more with each hearing" (MusicWeb bargain of the Month Sept 2006) |
Michael Doucet
From Now On [ CD - released 10/Sep/2008 ] |
MENDELSSOHN
The Complete Organ Sonatas Michael Dudman (organ). [ ABC Classics Discovery / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Six Sydney organs were selected by Michael Dudman for this grand recording of the complete Organ Sonatas of Mendelssohn. They date from 1844-45, the very end of his life although they began to take form many years earlier when Mendelssohn was at the... |
MARCEL DUPRE
Dupre: Organ Symphony / Cortege et Litanie / Organ Concerto Michael Dudman (organ) / Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Patrick Thomas [ ABC Classics Discovery / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Marcel Dupre was one of the master organists of his time and one of the major figures in French organ music of the 20th Century. Deploying the stunning range of colours of the organ of the Sydney Town Hall, this recording presents works for both solo... |
JACQUES IBERT
Chamber Music Michael Dussek (piano), Bryan Lewis (harp), Richard Alsop (double bass), Bridge Quartet [ Somm / CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] Released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his death, French composer Jacques Ibert is a major composer who won the Prix de Rome in his youth was a pupil of Fauré. |
Michael Endres
Schumann: Piano Works [ Oehms Classics / 3 CD - released 17/Sep/2012 ] |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Complete Piano Sonatas Michael Endres (piano) [ Oehms Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "Some collectors may, in fact, prefer Michael Endres's altogether more thrusting, structure-conscious view of the four numbered Bax sonatas. It's an approach that yields particularly handsome dividends in No 3, which receives bracingly clear-sighted... |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Sonatas 1-18 (complete) Michael Endres (piano) [ Oehms Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2011 ] The pianistic refinement and interpretive imagination Michael Endres brings to his Mozart sonata cycle easily ranks alongside leading modern-day contenders... (ClassicsToday.com) |
Michael English
Best of Friends [ CD ] |
FRANK MARTIN
Concertos Michael Erxleben (violin) Adrienne Soos & Ivo Haag (piano duo) / Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur, Jac van Steen [ MDG / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI / GAETANO DONIZETTI
Verdi / Donizetti Michael Fabiano (tenor), London Philharmonic Orchestra and London Voices [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/May/2019 ] American star tenor Michael Fabiano presents a spectacular set of scenes taken from late Donizetti and middle Verdi operas, revealing the strong ties between these two composers. The album documents a paradigmatic shift in Italian opera, from the... |
Michael Fakesch
Dos [ K7 Records / CD - released 7/Aug/2007 ] This is the debut solo album from Michael Fakesch, who used to be in Funkstörung, the mercurial German electronic duo who pioneered a collision of beat-based mayhem, digital electro madness and broad techno rhythms to great effect. |
KAGEL
Mauricio Kagel: Works for Flute Michael Faust (flute) & Paulo Álvares (piano) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä & Ensemble Contrasts/ Robert HP Platz & Patrick Gallois [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Arriving in Europe from Buenos Aires in 1957, Mauricio Kagel soon developed his own subversive and theatrical musical aesthetics. Performed here by the work's dedicatee, Das Konzert is his typically oblique response to writing a flute concerto,... |
PETERIS VASKS
Flute Concerto, etc Michael Faust (flute) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois / Sheila Arnold (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2013 ] Renowned for its luminosity and searing expressiveness, the music of Lithuanian composer PÄ“teris Vasks frequently explores the relationship between nature and humanity, not least in the Flute Concerto (written for Michael Faust), which is among the... |
Michael Feinstein
Big City Rhythms [ CD ] |
Michael Feinstein & Andre Prev
Change Of Heart - The Songs Of [ Telarc / CD - released 20/May/2013 ] |