BACH / BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / SCULTHORPE / GRAINGER / etc
Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra: Celebrating 20 Years Together Richard Tognetti (violin) / Australian Chamber Orchestra [ ABC Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2014 ] "…the playing is extremely stylish…one can't fail to be impressed by the air of buoyancy…captures the excitement the works first caused." Duncan Druce, Gramophone on the Bach |
W. A. MOZART
Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 / Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola & Orchestra Richard Tognetti (violin & leader) /Australian Chamber Orchestra, with Christopher Moore (viola) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] Experiencing the Australian Chamber Orchestra and their leader Richard Tognetti in concert has been described in The Times as 'like taking a swig of a vitamin drink'. |
VIVALDI
The Four Seasons / Concerto in B minor, RV 580 for 4 violins / etc Richard Tognetti, violin & direction / Australian Chamber Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2015 ] Countless violinists have recorded Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Now Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, a team internationally recognized for its virtuosity, energy and individuality, has recorded their take |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Holberg Suite / String Quartetin G minor / etc Richard Tognetti (violin & leader) / Australian Chamber Orchestra, with Christopher Moore (viola) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "Tognetti's masterstroke is to have fully assimilated all the characteristics of Grieg's scoring...Transferring this procedure to the Quartet serves to enhance dramatic impact on its music narrative...The Australian Chamber Orchestra delivers playing... |
W. A. MOZART
Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4 / Rondo in C / Adagio in E Richard Tognetti (violin & leader) / Australian Chamber Orchestra, with Christopher Moore (viola) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2011 ] Completing the cycle of Mozart's violin concertos, begun on BISSACD1754, Richard Tognetti and his Australian Chamber Orchestra offer us the first, second and fourth concerto, along with two shorter works for violin and orchestra: the Adagio in E... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A minor / Legends Op 59 Richard Tognetti (violin) / Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "Tognetti's tone is clean, rather than fruity with vibrato. His reading of the first movement...is marked by a clean attack to bring out the freshness of imagination so typical of Dvorak...The Slavonic dance of the finale is done with exceptional... |
Richard Tunnicliffe
Bach, J.S.: Cello Suites [ Linn / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] |
BEN FOSKETT
Dinosaur Richard Uttley (piano) Mark van de Wiel (clarinet) Eric Lamb (flute) Jean-François Becquaert (soprano saxophone) Raphaële Kennedy (soprano), etc [ NMC / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "The early Five Night Pieces, for piano, played by Richard Uttley, have a lucid modernist assurance, but Foskett's 2009 Prom commission, the orchestral From Trumpet, is something else again: big, monolithic, broodingly textured, with a rich internal |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Wagner's Ring A Tale Told In Music Richard Wagner, Heath Lees [ Les Reed Films / 4 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2012 ] Wagner's Ring: A Tale Told In Music written and presented by Emeritus Professo Heath Lees, with musical illustrations from Der Ring des Nibelungen written by Richard Wagner (1813-1883) |
Richard Wahnfried & Arthur Brown
Time Actor [ Esoteric Recordings / CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] One of the great overlooked albums of the 1970s, 'Time Actor' was a collaboration between legendary Crazy World & Kingdom Come visionary Arthur Brown and German Synthesiser and Ambient genius Klaus Schulze. |
Richard Walters
The Animal [ Kartel / CD - released 12/Apr/2010 ] This lush, love-lorn & critically-lauded album showcases Walters' mesmeric mix of falsetto folk & cinematic storytelling, & have earned him comparisons to Jeff Buckley and Antony & The Johnsons. |
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,... |