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J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 2: BWV2, BWV10, BWV76 & BWV21, BWV135, BWV1044 Lisa Larsson, Kathrine Fuge, Robin Tyson, Stephen Varcoe / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] John Eliot Gardiner's multi award-winning label SDG begins 2010 with volume 2 in its Bach Cantata series, featuring Cantatas for the second and third Sunday after Trinity, recorded live in July 2000. Performing to an audience of more than 1200, we... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas Vol 26: BWV172, BWV59, BWV74, BWV34; BWV173, BWV68, BWV174 Lisa Larsson / Natalie Stutzmann / Derek Lee Ragin / Christoph Genz / Panajotis Iconomou / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 19/Sep/2006 ] "Another highly successful artistic enterprise. Enormous pleasure. Very high standards of performance, presentation and recorded sound - a very important and distinguished cycle" (MusicWeb July 2006) |
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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... |
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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... |
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ROLF MARTINSSON
Martinsson: Presentiment (Orchestral Works) Lisa Larsson (soprano), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor), Sakari Oramo (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2018 ] One of Sweden's leading composers, Rolf Martinsson had an international breakthrough with the trumpet concerto Bridge, composed for Håkan Hardenberger who has also recorded it (BIS-1208). Martinsson has since gone on to compose soloistic works for... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony no. 2 in c minor 'Resurrection' Lisa Milne / Birgit Remmert / Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer [ Channel Classics SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "This Budapest band have reserves aplenty, and the cumulative effect is overwhelming. As all good performances of this work must be. I listened to it three times in three days." (Gramophone Magazine Recording of the Month Awards Issue 2006) |
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DVORAK
Requiem (recorded Feb 2009) Lisa Milne, Karen Cargill, Peter Auty, Peter Rose / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ LPO Live / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice - January 2010 |
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ROGER QUILTER
O Mistress Mine / To Daisies / Julia's Hair / Go, Lovely Rose and other songs Lisa Milne (mezzo-soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) Duke Quartet [ Naxos The English Song Series / CD - released 25/Aug/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - Roger Quilter was born in Hove in 1877 into comfortable family circumstances. His father was Sir Cuthbert Quilter, who in 1881 founded the National Telephone Company and was for... |
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Lisa Milne, Roderick Williams with Iain Burnside (piano)
Moonstruck: Songs of FG Scott [ Signum / CD - released 16/May/2007 ] "Here's an important discovery ailing from the Scottish Borders...a compelling collection that reveals FG Scott as poetic yet clear-eyed and, above all, songful." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine August 2007 |
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BACH / MENDELSSOHN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Cantata BWV63 'Christen, aetzet diesen Tag' / Von Himmel Hoch / The First Nowell Lisa Milne / Ruxandra Donose / Andrew Staples / Christopher Maltman / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "The LPO and Choir provide serious nourishment while opening our ears to the sort of Christmas music that gets overlooked amid the tinsel...Jurowski makes an unlikely but worthy VW champion...All in all, this is a programme combining enterprise and... |
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JAMES MacMILLAN
The Sacrifice (complete opera) Lisa Milne (sop) Leigh Melrose (bar), Christopher Purves (bass) Sarah Tynan (sop) Peter Hoare (ten) / Welsh National Opera, Anthony Negus [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] 'There is no mistaking James MacMillan has a popular hit on his hands, with the cries of bravo as the curtain fell on the world premiere of his new opera.' (Western Mail) |
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PHILIP GLASS
Mad Rush Lisa Moore (piano) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 16/Mar/2015 ] The new album from star new music pianist Lisa Moore captures iconic piano works from the catalogue of Philip Glass including Mad Rush, Metamorphosis Nos. I-V, the finale from Glass' opera Satyagraha and Closing from the Glass classic Glassworks. |
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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... |
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HANDEL
The Eight Great Suites HWV426-433 Lisa Smirnova (piano) [ ECM / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "Although she engages with period practice...she's no slave to it, producing something unapologetically pianistic and sometimes anachronistic here...Handel with care? Undeniably. And with captivating flair in spades." BBC Music Magazine:... |
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DOMENICO LABOCCETTA
Laboccetta: A Tenor Cellist Matteo Malagoli (cello) Lisa De Polo (piano) Cristina Centa (harp) Yukiko Shimizu (soprano) Raffaele Giordani (tenor), etc [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Romantic miniatures by a forgotten Italian cellist and composer: the first album ever dedicated to the music of Domenico Laboccetta. Born to a poor family in the Sicilian town of Messina, Domenico Laboccetta (1823-1896) was entrusted to the care... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Orphee (complete opera) Philip Cutlip, Georgia Jarman, Lisa Saffer, Ryan MacPherson / Portland Opera, Anne Manson [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 23/Jun/2011 ] "The text is set in the original French, and the shapely vocal lines and cool, clear textures have an unmistakably Gallic feel; listening to this performance... there are constant reminders that Glass studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger in the... |
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VIVALDI / MOZART / MARCELLO / BACH / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / etc
Outstanding Oboe - Best loved classical oboe music Stefan Schilli, Max Artved, Elise Batnes, Charles "Chip" Hamann, József Kiss, Lisa Stewart (oboes) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2019 ] With its roots in ancient Greece and Rome, the oboe has evolved from the rustic medieval shawm and the French Baroque hautbois to become the modern instrument we know today. Italian composers provided the first works befitting of its expressive... |
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GABRIEL FAURE
Best Of Faure Jean Martin (piano), Dong-Suk Kang (violin), Pascal Devoyon (piano), Lisa Beckley (soprano), Colm Carey (organ), Pierre-Alain Volondat (piano), Franco [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Aug/2013 ] All the best bits of Faure |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro (complete opera Cesare Siepi, Hilde Güden, Alfred Poell, Lisa della Casa, Suzanne Danco / Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Erich Kleiber [ Alto / 3 CD Box Set - released 23/Nov/2009 ] the first incontestably great recording [of Figaro]. Everything about [Kleiber's] conducting is just right |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Songs 2 Lorna Anderson (soprano) Lisa Milne (soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "The first thing to say that the performances by sopranos Lorna Anderson and Lisa Milne are consistently beautiful, alert to the implications of Debussy's word-setting, whether ecstatic or subdued...Martineau matches them in the subtlety,... |