MAXWELL DAVIES / BARRY / MATTHEWS / WATKINS / TURNAGE / HOLLOWAY
Sea Eagle (works for horn) Richard Watkins (horn) with Mark Padmore (tenor) Laura Samuel (violin) & Huw Watkins (piano) [ NMC / CD - released 5/Feb/2015 ] All of the works on this release have been premiered by Richard Watkins, with both Colin Matthews' Three of a Kind and Robin Holloway's Trio receiving their first performance on this album. Richard Watkins holds the Dennis Brain Chair of Horn... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake (complete ballet from the Sadler's Wells Theatre) Richard Winsor, Domonic North, Nina Goldman, Madelaine Brennan / Matthew Bourne (choreographer) [ KULTUR Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2012 ] When it premiered at Sadler's Wells in 1995, Matthew Bourne's triumphant modern re-interpretation of SWAN LAKE turned tradition upside down, taking the dance world by storm. |
Richard Wright & Dave Harris
Zee Identity 2019 (LTD Edition Pink Coloured LP) [ LP ] A collaborative effort from Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright and David Harris from Fashion, originally released in 1984 and reissued on LTD Edition Pink Vinyl. |
Richard Youngs
Advent (reissue) [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 1/Sep/2005 ] Jagjaguwar reissue of Richard Youngs' Advent, Youngs' very first record originally released in 1990 in the vinyl format on Youngs' own No Fans label. Only 300 LPs were released initially. It was then later released on the Table Of The Elements label... |
Richard Youngs
Airs of the Ear [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 1/Sep/2005 ] |
Richard Youngs
Amplifying Host (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 18/Jul/2011 ] |
Richard Youngs
Autumn Response [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 7/Apr/2008 ] Autumn Response is a spartan folk-"pop" record filled with tinder-box intimacies, composed of some of the shortest songs ever recorded by Richard Youngs. The simplest form of trickery comes from Richard Youngs' restrained use of an acoustic guitar,... |
Richard Youngs
Autumn Response (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 12/Nov/2007 ] Autumn Response is a spartan folk-"pop" record filled with tinder-box intimacies, composed of some of the shortest songs ever recorded by Richard Youngs. The simplest form of trickery comes from Richard Youngs' restrained use of an acoustic guitar,... |
Richard Youngs
May [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 3/Aug/2009 ] |
Richard Youngs
The Naive Shaman (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 12/Sep/2005 ] Richard Youngs has been making music for over two decades. The Naive Shaman, released in dual format (cd and lp), is his seventh album for Jagjaguwar and is a deeply personal work. Created on a computer at home, it is a high density digital song... |
Richard Youngs
The Naive Shaman [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 12/Sep/2005 ] Richard Youngs has been making music for over two decades. The Naive Shaman, released in dual format (cd and lp), is his seventh album for Jagjaguwar and is a deeply personal work. Created on a computer at home, it is a high density digital song... |
Richard Youngs
Under Stellar Stream [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] Richard Youngs' latest solo work for Jagjaguwar is a collection of neodruid hymns and chants for the minutiae of homelife and fatherhood - poetic transcendance through repetition and a focus on the (seemingly) micro. Once again proving himself a... |
Richard Youngs
Under Stellar Stream (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 22/Feb/2010 ] Richard Youngs' latest solo work for Jagjaguwar is a collection of neodruid hymns and chants for the minutiae of homelife and fatherhood - poetic transcendance through repetition and a focus on the (seemingly) micro. Once again proving himself a... |
DAVID SCHIFF
Schiff: Gimpel the Fool (complete opera) Richard Zeller / D'Anna Fortunato / Kevin Walsh / Thomas Glenn / Third Angle Ensemble / Kenneth Kiesler [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] Gimpel the Fool is a setting of the story by Polish-born American Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991). In the words of the composer, also of Polish descent, "it turned out to be world full of spirits and demons, as well as a world... |
Rick Braun & Richard Elliot
R N R [ Artizen Music Group / CD - released 28/Sep/2007 ] |
Rick Danko and Richard Manuel
Live at O'Tooles [ CD ] |
RAWSTHORNE / PROKOFIEV / BRITTEN
Practical Cats / Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 / The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 Robert Donat & Richard Baker (speakers) / New Philharmonia Orchestra & Philharmonia Orchestra / Alan Rawsthorne & Raymond Leppard [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] Practical Cats is first time complete on CD. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' Robert Holzer (bass) Gabriele Lechner (soprano) Michael Pabst (tenor) Diane Elias (mezzo) / Zagreb Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Richard Edlinger [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/1990 ] The Austrian conductor Richard Edlinger was born in Bregenz in 1958 and directed his first concerts at the age of seventeen. He completed his studies at the Vienna Academy in conducting and composition in 1982. |
GEORGE DYSON
The Canterbury Pilgrims (complete opera in English) Robert Tear / Stephen Roberts / Yvonne Kenny / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Richard Hichox [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2007 ] "'The Canterbury Pilgrims' by 20th century English composer George Dyson is a highly orchestrated song cycle or oratoria based on eleven stories out of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'." (Amazon.com) (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Feb 2006) |
FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Works Volume 5 (Includes Suite for Strings & Two Songs of Robert Bridges) Roderick Williams, baritone BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox, conductor [ Chandos / CD - released 5/Oct/2004 ] "Charming miniatures performed with great refinement ... enchants from beginning to end. Strongly recommended" - MusicWeb Oct 2004 |