More By Artist: Richard Little
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Sir Richard Bishop
Oneiric Formulary [ Drag City / LP - released 19/Jun/2020 ] The Sir Richard Bishop show is back in town, alive as ever with exotic action, plus a bit of everything but the kitchen sink. Oneiric Formulary is the sound of surprise - first Sir Rick being surprised, then us! Not simply by six-string acoustic... |
LUIGI NONO
Prometeo, tragedia dell'ascolto Soloistenchor Freiburg / Ensemble Recherche / Andre Richard / Peter Hirsch / Kwame Ryan [ Col Legno / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] At last a new recording of Luigi Nono's late, great masterpiece. Comes complete with a specially produced "listening score" to guide the listener through the dense network of texts set by the composer. This is one of the most important and... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
G & S: H.M.S. Pinafore (Complete Operetta) Richard Suart, Thomas Allen, Rebecca Evans, Donald Adams / Welsh National Opera, Charles MacKerras [ Telarc Records / CD - released 7/Jul/2000 ] "Richard Suart is an excellent as Sir Joseph and Donald Adams is well cast (as usual) as Deadeye. It's great to have the women's chorus actually sounding 'out at sea' in Act One." Mel@Marbecks |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: The Bear Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Alan Opie (baritone) & John Shirley-Quirk (bass) / Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Richard Hickox Legacy / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Sir William Walton wrote two operas, the second - The Bear - far more readily acclaimed than the first, and more often performed. Its premiere took place in Aldeburgh in June 1967 as part of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival, and followed the... |
MENDELSSOHN / ROSSINI / GLINKA / MASSENET / BEETHOVEN / HAHN / etc
Souvenirs de Venise The Songmakers' Almanac with Felicity Lott, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Ann Murray and Richard Jackson [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 4/Oct/2005 ] 'Delightful' - The Sunday Times |
HANDEL
The Triumph of Time and Truth Sophie Bevan, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Tim Mead (countertenor), Ed Lyon (tenor), William Berger (bass) / Ludus Baroque, Richard Neville-Towle [ Delphian / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] "The small orchestra playing is stylish and characterful...Excellent, spirited singing from both choir and soloists throughout - Ludus Baroque's most valuable Handel recording so far confirms that this unclassifiable, peculiar work is well worth rev |
RUBBRA
Missa cantuariensis, Op. 59 / Dormi Jesu, Op. 3 / Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op. 66 / etc St Margaret's Westminster Singers, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 28/Sep/2007 ] "The singing of the St Margaret's Singers is smooth, spiritual and intellectually engaged. The two brief carols are atmospherically done. Of the two masses the Missa in Honorem Sancti Dominici (a cappella) is the most constantly rewarding, right from... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / WAGNER / STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHOENBERG / etc
450 Years Staatskapelle Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin, Richard Strauss, Leo Blech, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Joseph Keilberth, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 15 CD Box Set - released 3/Apr/2020 ] As the Staatskapelle Berlin celebrates its 450th anniversary, Deutsche Grammophon presents 15 discs of sound recordings of outstanding artistic merit from the venerable, world-class orchestra under its great conductors. |
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Piano Concerto / Five Studies for Piano / Capriccio for Piano Duet / Commedia IV Stephen Kovacevich, Richard Rodney Bennett, Thea Musgrave (pianos) / London Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Gibson / with Philip Jones Brass Ensemble [ Lyrita / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] "Magnificently played and recorded". (MusicWeb Oct 2007) |
Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri
Arc Light [ Peaceville / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] The new collaborative release from Steve Hogarth (Marillion) and Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree). Arc Light is a 5-track mini-album 'little brother' to the splendid Not The Weapon But The Hand, Arc Light features 4 new tracks and a new version... |
Steve Hogarth + Richard Barbieri
Arc Light [ KScope / CD - released 12/May/2014 ] A 5-track mini-album 'little brother' to the splendid Not The Weapon But The Hand, Arc Light features 4 new tracks and a new version of Intergalactic featuring Aziz Ibrahim (Stone Roses, Ian Brown) on guitar. Steve Hogarth is best known as the... |
Steve Jansen & Richard Barbieri
Stone To Flesh [ Kscope / CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] A new edition of Steve Jansen & Richard Barbieri's 1995 album 'Stone To Flesh'. |
BACH / HANDEL / SCARLATTI
Gamba Sonatas Steven Isserlis (cello), Richard Egarr (harpsichord) with Robin Michael (cello) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "Isserlis judges the scale of his performances to a nicety." Financial Times, 11th September 2015 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (complete opera recorded in 1981) Royal Opera / Stuart Burrows / Thomas Allen / Richard Van Allan / Kiri Te Kanawa / Agnes Baltsa / Colin Davis (cond) [ Opus Arte CD / 3 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "it offers abundant pleasures. Te Kanawa recorded an earlier Fiordiligi...and a later...: neither manifests the personality and velvety warmth of tone of show here, and her virtuosity in 'Come Scoglio' is staggering. Thomas Allen's Guglielmo, too, is... |
EDMUND RUBBRA
Sinfonia concertante / Ode to the Queen / etc Susan Bickley (mezzo) Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC National Orchestra Wales, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2001 ] 'A mouthwatering reissue comprising four outstandingly eloquent performances...' Gramophone |
MENOTTI
The Consul (Complete opera) Susan Bullock (soprano) John Horton Murray (tenor) Louis Otey (baritone) / Spoleto Festival / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2008 ] 1001 Classical Recording you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |
MENDELSSOHN
Paulus (St Paul) Op.36 Susan Gritton / Jean Rigby / Barry Banks / Peter Coleman-Wright / BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/May/2009 ] 'Another superb performance from Hickox, who gets a quartet of tremendous soloists and a first-rate orchestra and chorus… One of this year's musts.' (Cathedral Music) |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Complete Mass Edition Susan Gritton, Pamela Helen Stephen, Janice Watson, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Padmore / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Richard Hickox's plaudit-winning Haydn Mass Edition is now available as a complete boxed set. A full price collection but now available at a special price. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Mass in E flat major, D950 Susan Gritton, Pamela Helen Stephen, Mark Padmore, James Gilchrist / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2008 ] Schubert's final mass and most ambitious setting was composed during the summer of 1828, only months before his death. It was premiered posthumously, on October 4, 1829, under the direction of his brother, Ferdinand. |
HUMMEL
Mass in D minor / Salve Regina Susan Gritton / Pamela Helen Stephen / Mark Padmore / Stephen Varcoe / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Oct/2005 ] 'But Susan Gritton sings it [Salve Regina] with gusto, while she and the other soloists form a well-blended quartet in the Mass, whose performance under Hickox is confident and shapely, as well delivered in warm lucid sound.' BBC Music Magazine |
