WILLIAM WALTON / CONSTANT LAMBERT
Walton/Lambert: Façades James Geer (tenor) Andrew West, Ronald Woodley (piano) [ Somm / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Façades takes its title from Walton's era-defining "entertainment", heard here in arrangements for four-hand piano of its two orchestral Suites by Lambert - regarded by Walton as the definitive reciter of Edith Sitwell's nonsense verses. |
J. S. BACH
St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist, Matthew Rose, Ashley Riches, Elizabeth Watts, Sarah Connolly / Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra & Chorus, Richard Egarr [ AAM Records / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] "Egarr whips up venomous indignation for the crowd's joustings with Pilate. Sarah Connolly's 'Es ist vollbracht' is searing...And Elizabeth Watts's 'Zerfliesse, mein Herze' is almost unbearably poignant." BBC Music |
HANDEL
Jephtha (complete oratorio) (two CDs for the price of one) James Gilchrist / Mona Julsrud / Elisabeth Jansson / Marianne B. Kielland / Collegium Vocale Gent / Stavanger Symphony Orchestra / Fabio Biondi [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "...He (James Gilchrist) is now unsurpassed among lyric tenors in sweetness and technical security, and for his musical intelligence." The Independent |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
Cox and Box / Trial by Jury (Complete operettas) James Gilchrist, Neal Davies, Donald Maxwell, Rebecca Evans / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] "If you are a G& If S fan, you won't be able to live without this disc; if you are not, this CD just might convert you." (William Dart NZ Herald 3rd Aug 2005) |
J. S. BACH
Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist, Neal Davies, Sophie Bevan, Iestyn Davies, Benedict Kearns / Academy of Ancient Music & King's College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Cleobu [ King's College SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 15/May/2017 ] "The Academy of Ancient Music retains it standing as one of the best period music ensembles in the world, King's College nonpareil among contemporary sacred music bands, and the recording gorgeously captured in a venue most of us are quite familiar." |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244 James Gilchrist, Stephan Loges, Hannah Morrison, Zoë Brookshaw, Charlotte Ashley, Reginald Mobley / Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "..a thoughtfully moulded, expertly executed and deeply committed reading, so honestly communicative of its intent and so free of self-conscious monumentalism, sententiousness or melodramatics...one of his finest achievements." Gramophone |
ROMANTIC RESIDUES
Romantic Residues AE Songs for tenor & harp James Gilchrist (tenor) Alison Nicholls (harp) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] '[Roth] These are attractive works … The resources of voice and instruments are imaginatively exploited. And the performances are excellent. On the Hyperion disc Roth shares with Britten, Ravel and others, the whole working together as an unusual and... |
MURIEL HERBERT
Songs James Gilchrist (tenor) Alison Tynan (soprano) David Owen Norris (piano) [ LINN / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] "If her music is innately conservative, her harmonic palette and melodic invention are individual; these songs linger in the memory." The Guardian, 29th May 2009 **** |
ROGER QUILTER
Quilter: Songs James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tibrook (piano) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] Born in Sussex in 1877, Roger Quilter was a fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott, and H. Balfour Gardiner at the Hoch Conservatory, in Frankfurt, where he studied for almost five years under the guidance of the German professor of... |
LENNOX BERKELEY
Songs of Lennox Berkeley James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tibrook (piano) Alison Nicholls (harp) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] "The tenor James Gilchrist sings sweetly and cleanly, without affectation, and Anna Tilbrook is finely responsive to the subtleties of the piano parts." (Daily Telegraph) |
LEIGHTON / BRITTON
Earth, Sweet Earth / Winter Words James Gilchrist (tenor) / Anna Tilbrook (piano) [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "Gilchrist and Tilbrook are an outstandingly accomplished and sensitive modern combination...the Leighton is a great gift." Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 |
JOHN JEFFREYS
The Far Country: 26 English Songs James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano) [ Divine Art / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "This is music for a quiet evening - in contemplation of some of the less complex emotions aroused by things fine and beautiful - all beautifully sung by James Gilchrist with Anna Tilbrook accompanying." - Colin Scott-Sutherland (MusicWeb) |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Song Cycles James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Jul/2015 ] James Gilchrist's latest recording for Linn encompasses three of the greatest examples of the song cycle genre. Moving away from English song into the core Germanic Lieder repertoire, James's expressive tenor voice is ideally suited to showcase the... |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
On Wenlock Edge (with Warlock-The Curlew / Gurney-Ludlow & Teme) James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano) / Fitzwilliam String Quartet [ LINN SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - Solo Vocal -- "The developing tale of Bredon Hill has never been more vividly told on records, and the desolation of Warlock's masterpiece becomes more poignant still because of the beauty evoked...Gurney's... |
FINZI
Dies natalis / Farewell to Arms / 2 Sonnets James Gilchrist (tenor) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / David Hill [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "James Gilchrist's singing is guided by a refined (yet passionate) sensibility, just right for Finzi, and his voice has substantial reserves of resonance and power." (Gramophone) |
FRANCIS POTT
The Cloud of Unknowing James Gilchrist (tenor) Jeremy Filsell (organ) / Varsari Singers / Jeremy Backhouse [ Signum / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] "James Gilchrist is a passionate and occasionally volatile soloist… Jeremy Backhouse and the mighty Vasaris give this uneven piece everything they can muster. It is worth persevering with." Gramophone Magazine, October 2007 |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Madrigals of Love and Loss James Gilchrist (tenor) Katherine Watson (soprano) & Anna Dennis (soprano) Thomas Walker (tenor) / Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] 'These are not easy pieces, but the opening ballet swings along with panache, and there is some excellent tenor solo singing in the first section … the two sopranos in the duet Ohimè, dov'è il mio ben show poise and taste' (BBC Music Magazine) |
James Gilchrist (tenor) Matthew Wadsworth (lute)
When Laura Smiles: Lute solos and songs from Elizabethan England [ Avie / CD - released 20/Jan/2006 ] "This disc is pleasurable, urbane, civilized, beautifully presented and recorded. For anyone who loves or who is even just interested in this repertoire then I would advise you to snap it up without delay." (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
GREGSON / STEPTOE / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / GOLLAND
British Tuba Concertos James Gourlay (tuba) / Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Feb/2007 ] James Gourlay is a considerable player, an imposing presence in the Gregson Concerto with his glowing lyricism (he conveys a strong brass-band identity but nuanced with a thoughtful and cultivated chamber-music sound) and a direct, unequivocal... |
James Hardway
L.A. Instrumental [ Ubiquity / CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] Hardway works most often with cool textures, cutting his own path on a genre-defying jazz funk excursion that echoes the punk-soul of James Blood Ulmer, evokes the spirit of Fela Kuti's epic jams and is infused with a Cali bounce. |