GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano), Martin Oro (countertenor) Jörg Dürmüller (tenor) / Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno is a landmark in baroque music. It is Handel's first oratorio, product of his astonishing flowering in Italy in his early twenties, suffused with the youthful vigour and virtuosity of his early works . The... |
VARIOUS
Madame D'Amours-Music for Renaissance Flute Consort The Attaignant Consort / Kate Clark (director) [ Ramee / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] The elegant, keyless, cylindrical flute of the sixteenth century had a reedy, penetrating sound, closer to the cornetto than to any other wind instrument of the day. It had an impressive range of two and a half octaves and an evenness of tone quality... |
SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Enigma Variations & other orchestral works BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, with Kate Royal (soprano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] Two much-loved orchestral favourites representing the summit of Elgar's maturity are coupled with three of the lesser-known wartime works, here receiving their rst recordings with the original French texts. Kate Royal is the soprano soloist in 'Une... |
ROBIN HOLLOWAY
Holloway: The Lover's Well Clare Lloyd-Griffiths (soprano), Kate Symonds-Joy (mezzo-soprano), James Robinson (tenor) [ Delphian / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Released on the day of his 75th birthday, six stellar performers associated with Gonville & Caius College Cambridge join together to showcase British composer Robin Holloway, in a celebration of the lyrical and dramatic qualities of his abundant... |
Kate Manning (narrator)
Doctor Who: The Three Doctors [ BBC Audio / 4 CD Box Set - released 19/Apr/2010 ] Jo glanced at the Doctor. 'Things must be pretty serious then'. 'They are, Jo. Very serious indeed. The whole of the Universe is in danger'. This is the most amazing Who adventure yet, in which Doctors One, Two and Three cross Time and Space and come... |
BRITTEN
Let's Make an Opera (an Opera Feature Film by Petr Weigl, 1996) Felicity Palmer / Kate Flowers / Stephen Richardson / John Graham Hall / etc [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] G :- Throughout his compositional work, Benjamin Britten did much to support young people with their musical education – one has only to think for example of works such as The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Rape of Lucretia (complete opera recorded October 2015) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Christine Rice, Allan Clayton, Kate Royal, Duncan Rock, Louise Alder / Leo Hussain (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Sep/2016 ] "Its beautifully acted and sung. Rice wrings your heart throughout and her self-lacerating final scenes have a harrowing immediacy" Gramophone |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Cendrillon [Cinderella] (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Danielle de Niese, Kate Lindsey, Agnes Zwierko, Nina Minasyan / John Wilson (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 19/Jun/2020 ] With its combination of enchanting love story and broad, burlesque comedy, Cendrillon is one of the great operatic fairy tales - a Cinderella that looks back to Charles Perrault's original story in all its richness and ambiguity. Massenet's sensuous... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2010) Glyndebourne Opera / Gerald Finley / Luca Pisaroni / Kate Royal / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ EMI Classics / 2 DVD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "Finley sings as well as he acts, apart from an oddly unhoneyed serenade...The singing is fine and the OAE play like angels." DVD of the Month Gramophone Magazine, August 2011 |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung performance...Skorokhodov, as a wounded airman, has lungs |
Hetty Kate
Dim All The Lights [ Abc / CD - released 17/Apr/2015 ] An intimate recording showcasing the 1950s songs of Peggy Lee, June Christy and Julie London, Dim All The Lights is Hetty Kate's debut album for ABC Jazz. Favourites from the Great American Songbook, including Cry Me A River and I Get Along... |
SAM RUD-JONES
Rudd-Jones: Three Sonatas Huw Watkins, Darragh Morgan, Kate Romano, Ed Lyon, Sam Rudd-Jones [ Prima Facie / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] 'Three Sonatas' is a debut collection of chamber music recordings from the exciting young composer Sam Rudd-Jones The majority of works on the album are in dialogue with older music, in particular classical forms (Three Sonatas, Variations) and... |
YOSHIMATSU
Piano Concerto 'Memo Flora'; While an Angel Falls into a Doze . . .,; etc John Barrow flute, Joe Houghton oboe, Kate Wilson harp, Jonathan Price cello, Kyoko Tabe piano, Manchester Camerata. Sachio Fujioka [ Chandos New Direction / CD - released 10/Jul/2005 ] Takashi Yoshimatsu was born in Tokyo in 1953, at a time when Japanese composers had embraced the trend towards avant-garde techniques. While absorbing these, Yoshimatsu opposed the general fashion, returning to popular rhythms and romantic melody and... |
SCHUMANN
Schumann - The Complete Songs [10 CDs Special Price] Juliane Banse, Edith Barlow, Katherine Broderick, Stella Doufexis, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy, Dorothea Röschmann, Kate Royal, Jonathan Lemalu [ Hyperion / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "As for the music, if you're a fan of Schumann you'll know what you're getting: probably the finest set of lieder after that of Schubert." (Bargain of the Month Sept 2010) |
Kate Bush
50 Words For Snow (Remastered) [ Fish People / CD - released 30/Nov/2018 ] 50 Words for Snow is the tenth studio album by English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. It was her first all-new studio album since Aerial (2005), and marks the first time since 1978 that she has released two new albums in one year. |
Kate Bush
50 Words for Snow (Remastered LP) [ Fish People / 2 LP - released 1/Dec/2023 ] 50 Words for Snow is the tenth studio album by English singer-songwriter Kate Bush. It was her first all-new studio album since Aerial (2005), and marks the first time since 1978 that she has released two new albums in one year. This is part of... |
Kate Bush
Aerial (Remastered LP) [ Parlophone / 2 LP - released 30/Nov/2018 ] Aerial is the eighth studio album by Kate Bush, originally released in 2005, twelve years after her 1993 album The Red Shoes. |
Kate Bush
Before The Dawn (Live) [ Warner Music / 3 CD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] In March 2014 Kate Bush announced plans to perform 15 shows in London in August and September that year, her first live shows since 1979. The shows sold out so quickly that a further seven were immediately added, with all shows selling out in 15... |
Kate Bush
Director's Cut (Remastered LP) [ Parlophone / 2 LP - released 30/Nov/2018 ] Director's Cut is the ninth studio album by Kate Bush that she released in May 2011. It contains no new material: it is only made up of songs from her earlier albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes which have been remixed and restructured, three... |