More By Artist: Little John
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John Lee Hooker
Boogie Chillen [ Le Chant du Monde / 2 CD ] |
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John Lee Hooker
Burnin [ Charly / LP - released 3/Feb/2017 ] |
John Lee Hooker
Four Classic Albums (I'm John Lee Hooker / Travelin' / Plays And Sings The Blues / Burnin') [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Aug/2016 ] The story of John Lee Hooker is another classic blues story but with a twist, this one has a happy ending! Born into a poor sharecropping family with eleven children near Clarkesdale, Mississippi, by 1921 John Lee was saying hello to his new step... |
JOHN IRELAND
Piano Works, Vol. 1 (Incls London Pieces) John Lenehan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jul/2007 ] "John Lenehan is a very accomplished performer: not only is his technical address impeccable, but he also possesses a strikingly wide dynamic range and sophisticated variety of tone colour......Lenehan's supremely affectionate and wonderfully... |
JOHN IRELAND
Piano Works, Vol. 2 (Incls Sonatina) John Lenehan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jul/2007 ] "John Lenehan, a strong and sympathetic interpreter, time and again makes you wonder at works aptly described as 'some of the most appealing English piano music written this century, too long neglected...Lenehan's playing is of a special integrity... |
JOHN IRELAND
Piano Works, Vol. 3 (Incls Green Ways) John Lenehan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] "Lenehan effortlessly maintains the favourable impression left by the first two instalments in this series. What's more, he has been accorded crystal-clear yet nicely atmospheric engineering." (Gramophone) |
MICHAEL NYMAN
The Piano Concerto / Where the Bee Dances John Lenehan (piano) Simon Haram (saxophone) / Ulster Orchestra. Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jan/2003 ] "any recordings of modern music at a price that allows you experimentation really deserves to be bought first and questioned later" - Gramophone |
John Leyton
Johnny Remember Me [ Jasmine / CD - released 14/Mar/2014 ] Singing actor John Leyton (Biggles, The Great Escape, Guns At Batasi, Von Ryan's Express, Jericho, Krakatoa East Of Java, etc.) topped the UK charts for 4-weeks in the summer of 1961 with the haunting, dramatic, ethereal "Johnny Remember Me", a song... |
BRAHMS / SCHUMANN
3 Intermezzi Op 117 / Fantasie in C, Op 17 John Lill (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 30/Jun/2006 ] "this CD is an attractive purchase ...a masterpiece from a composer by a player who knows exactly what is needed and delights in communicating it" Musical Opinion |
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RACHMANINOV
Piano music [incls 'Moments Musicaux, Op. 16'] John Lill (piano) [ Regis Records / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] "a hotline to Rachmaninov's dark poetry. The Variations and Moments Musicaux are vividly characterised, the Sonata majestic." (BBC Music) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Piano Sonatas John Lill (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 16/May/2007 ] "He is one of the greatest Pianists alive today. Across the board, I do not know another pianist who could hold a candle to this magisterial keyboard player. Unsurpassed playing. An intellectual giant and a master craftsman." Michael Tumelty, The... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
An introduction to Beethoven (Incls Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor' & Symphony No. 5 in C minor) John Lill (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Walter Weller [ Chandos Intro / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] 'You'll know the meaning of the term 'heart-rending beauty' when you listen to the slow movement of the Piano Concerto.' CD Review |
GIACOMO CASANOVA / LORENZO DA PONTE / W. A. MOZART
The Giacomo Variations: A chamber opera play John Malkovich, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Florian Boesch & Sophie Klussmann / Martin Haselböck (cond) [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] Giacomo Casanova received a doctorate as jurist, scratched along as violinist in a theatre, dabbled in the role of a lieutenant and was cofounder of France's lottery. |
CHARLES AUGUSTE de BERIOT
Duos concertants / 6 Duos caracteristiques John Marcus, Christine Sohn (violins) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Complementing the release of Bériot's Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 8 & 9 (8.555104) and Nos. 2, 3 & 5 (8.570360), this disc presents his equally virtuosic Duos concertants for two violins whose disarming lyricism, cheerful vivacity and Classical... |
GABRIEL FAURE
The Complete Songs of Fauré, Vol. 4 John Mark Ainsley, Iestyn Davies, Lorna Anderson, John Chest / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] "Chest performs Fauré's final four-song cycle, L'horizon chimérique (1921), with the kind of elegance and cool passion this music demands: a fitting close to an excellent series." The Guardian |
BRITTEN
Billy Budd (complete opera recorded in 2010) John Mark Ainsley / Jacques Imbrailo / Phillip Ens / Glyndebourne Chorus / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Mark Elder [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 8/Aug/2011 ] "[Elder paces] the developing tragedy with airily lyrical detail and brooding, ominous power. John Mark Ainsley' s plangent, dark-toned tenor and intense diction show us a more neurotic Vere than usual, ridden with doubts and anxieties" (The Times) |
POULENC
Complete Songs Vol. 3 John Mark Ainsley / Lorna Anderson / Sarah Fox / Jonathan Lemalu / Lisa Milne / Malcolm Martineau [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "Martineau's apparently limitless wisdom about the musicians, the music, and indeed the piano continues at full stretch. The uneasy postlude to 'Voyage', frmo Calligrammes, makes for one of his most breathtaking moments, but the level of intensity is... |
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J.S. BACH
St John Passion [complete oratorio recorded in 1996] John Mark Ainsley / Stephen Richardson / Catherine Bott / Michael Chance / Paul Agnew / Stephen Varcoe / Choir Of King'S College, Cambridge [ Brilliant Classics Musica Sacra / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] 'There are fine contributions especially from Stephen Varcoe, and an exceptionally immediate and affecting 'Es ist vollbracht' from Michael Chance.' Gramophone |
GERALD FINZI
Dies Natalis / Intimations of Immortality John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / Corydon Singers / Corydon Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] 'Rich, glowing performances in a class apart' (BBC Music Magazine) |
PERCY GRAINGER
Jungle Book & other choral works John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) / Polyphony, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "Generous timing, discoveries, Delian gauzy harmonies, tangy instrumentation, sentimentality, aureate vocal light, succinct and touching settings." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Jan 2011) |
