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 ] |
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 |
COLIN MATTHEWS
No Man's Land / Crossing The Alps / Aftertones Roderick Williams (baritone) Ian Bostridge (tenor) / halle Youth Choir, Halle Choir, Nicholas Collon, Richard Wilberforce [ Halle / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] Hallé marks the centenary of the First World War with a recording of award winning work by Composer Emeritus Colin Matthews. The main work on the recording, No Man's Land follows on from Matthews' very positive collaboration with Christopher Reid... |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 / Nocturne Roderick Williams (baritone) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] 'Finally, there's a real treat: the first recording of a recently discovered Nocturne, an intensely moving setting of Walt Whitman's 'Whispers of Heavenly Death' composed in 1908. It's evocatively sung here by Roderick Williams.' (BBC Music Magazine) |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 / Nocturne Roderick Williams (baritone) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos SACD / SACD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] "The surround sound balance offers considerably enhanced definition" (Gramophone) - On Hybrid Surround Super Audio CD (SACD) format - PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. |
SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45 (An Opera in Two Scenes, Libretto by Paul Dehn) Roderick Williams, Yvonne Kenny, Claire Rutter, Jean Rigby, Anne Collins, Robin Leggate, Blake Fischer / City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Jul/2004 ] "A long-neglected British opera at last makes a sparkling début on record" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Sept 2004 |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A Cotswold Romance / The Death of Tintagiles Rosa Mannion / Thomas Randle / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] 'Richard Hickox directs a vivid performance [of A Cotswold Romance] with splendid support from his assembled forces. Although not major works, these are notable additions to the catalogue, and the performances could hardly be better' BBC ***** |
MASSENET
Amoureuse: Sacred and Profane Arias Rosamund Illing (soprano) / The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra / Richard Bonynge (conductor) [ Melba Recordings SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "Rosamund Illing - we do appreciate her full and brilliant tone - sings them with sincerity. Her voice shows many colours, her diction is refined ... her charm is evident ... Bonynge weaves a voluptuous accompaniment around the singer ... 4... |
CARL CZERNY
Bel Canto Concertante Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Carl Czerny wrote so much more than just studies, and it is great to have more and more of it become available on CD. At Naxos's bargain price, it would be virtually impossible not to welcome this charming CD. After all, each work is both attractive |
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Piano Concertinos / Fantaisie et Variations brillantes Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] Carl Czerny found fame and fortune in 19th-century Vienna by writing fashionable and popular works as well as developing techniques for the newly emerging piano with his numerous études. Much of Czerny's concert music for piano was considered 'wild... |