More By Artist: Corto.alto
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MICHAEL TIPPETT
A Child of our Time (complete) Indra Thomas (soprano) Mihoko Fujimura (alto) Steve Davislim (tenor) / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] "There are emotional depths here which turn this recording into something very special." (Gramophone Editor's Choice September 2008) |
J.S. BACH
Heavenly Voices: J.S. Bach's most beautiful arias Judit Nemeth (alto) Ibolya Verebits, Teri Dunn, Ingrid Kertesi (sopranos) / Hungarian Festival Choir / Aradia Ensemble / Capella Istropolitana / etc [ Naxos Double / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Over 2 hours of J.S Bach's most glorious music for voice. Including "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" and "Where Sheep May Safely Graze". |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: A Polish Requiem Izabela Klosinska (soprano) Ryszard Minkiewicz (tenor) Piotr Nowacki (bass) Jadwiga Rappe (alto) / Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] "Performed with fervour. This disc is now the top recommendation." - MusicWeb April 2005 |
SALLY BEAMISH
The Singing James Crabb (accordion) Branford Marsalis (alto saxophone) Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] The works on this disc of music by Sally Beamish were composed between 2003 and 2012. As a whole the programme highlights the inspiration she has found in Scotland, her adopted homeland. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Serenades Nos. 1 & 2 / Alto Rhapsody / Variations on a theme by Haydn / etc Janet Baker (alto) / London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Symhony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "Sir Adrian, courteous and thoughtful English gentleman, was for some reason not always willing to thrust Brahms's arguments fully home, and there is a little too much reserve in his music-making. Yet when he conducts for Dame Janet Baker, who sings... |
J.S. BACH
Cantatas for Trinity-O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort. Johannette Zomer (sop) Ingeborg Danz (alto) Peter Kooy (bass) / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe, dir. / cond. [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Jul/2005 ] "Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale...the most stylistically consistent and musically reliable interpreters of this repertoire. Impeccable performances." David Vernier ClassicsToday.com |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 3 (with John Barbirolli - Elizabeth Suite) Lucretia West (alto) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli [ Testament / 2 CD - released 24/Oct/2005 ] Recorded 1969 & 1964 |
FRANK MARTIN
Golgotha (complete oratorio) Judith Gauthier (sop) Marianne Beate Kielland (alto) Adrian Thomson (ten) / Cappella Amsterdam / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra / Daniel Reuss [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "Reuss maintains a tight grip on the unfolding drama...there is such an obvious intensity and love of this extraordinary piece that it never feels as though it is dragging...A revelatory recording." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Choral |
J.S. BACH
St. Matthew Passion Karl Erb (tenor) / Willem Ravelli (bass) / Jo Vincent (soprano) / Ilona Durigo (alto) / Willem Mengelberg [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / 3 CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "...Naxos provides an unexpectedly rich sound-frame, quite amazing given the year. There are times when Mengelberg's (truncated) Bach Passion sounds almost as Wagnerian as Furtwangler's Tristan, rapt one moment, explosively emotional the next, but... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Aus der Tieffen: Early Cantatas BWV131, BWV182 & BWV4 Katharine Fuge (soprano), Carlos Mena (alto), Hans Jorg Mammel (tenor), Stephan Macleod (bass) / Ricercar Consort / Philippe Pierlot [ Mirare / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] The Ricercar Consort have already been awarded a Radio 3 disc of the Week and a Gramophone Editor's Choice for their Bach recordings for Mirare. Here they present three sacred cantatas, among the earliest written by the young Johann Sebastian in his... |
J.S. BACH
Monument for the Queen of Poland BWV198 Katharine Fuge (soprano), Carlos Mena (alto), Jan Kobow (tenor), Stephan Macleod (bass) / Ricercar Consort / Philippe Pierlot [ Mirare / CD - released 22/Aug/2006 ] "A compelling and profoundly musical testament to a beloved ruler." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine September 2007 |
DVORAK
Requiem / Symphony No. 8 Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor) & Thomas Quasthoff (bass) / Royal Concertgebouw, Mariss Jansons [ RCO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "...it's a real performance [of the Symphony] and a worthy makeweight for a magnificent reading of the Requiem, which is a real feather in Jansons's cap" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, July 2010 |
GALUPPI
La Diavolessa (Complete opera) Kremena Dilcheva (alto) Matthias Vieweg (baritone) Tom Allen (tenor) Lautten Compagney Berlin / Wolfgang Katschner [ CPO / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2004 ] "This is a creditable performance, well paced by Wolfgang Lautner. If not quite perfect, it well enables us to appreciate the strengths (and weaknesses) of Galuppi and Goldoni's opera, and to allow us to learn more about one of the 18th century's... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Seriously Sibelius (Incls Lemminkainen in Tuonela & Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op.96) Kristiina Makela (soprano) Matleena Vakkilainen (alto) Jaakko Kuusisto (violin) Marko Ylanen (cello) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vanska [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] "Vänskä and his bright-eyed Lahti band are on irreproachable form, and the BIS production crews have come up trumps once again with some resplendently natural sonics. A strong recommendation." (Gramophone Dec 2006) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
The very best of Handel: Excerpts from orchestral, vocal, keyboard and chamber works Kym Amps (soprano) Ulrike Andersen (alto) Johann Aratore (organ) Anthony Camden (oboe) Alan Cuckston (harpsichord) and many others [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi's women - Instrumental and vocal sacred music La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (conductor/viola d'amore)) with Claire Booth (soprano), Renata Pokupić (mezzo-soprano) & Jessica Dandy (alto) [ Signum / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] A vibrant collection of some of the more unusual works penned by Vivaldi for performance by the figlie di coro at Venice's famous Ospedale della Pietà, this recording also stars a newly commissioned viola d'amore made to a design penned by Stradivari |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Mozart: Der Messias, K572 (after Handel) Felicity Lott (soprano), Felicity Palmer (alto), Philip Langridge (tenor), Robert Lloyd (bass) / Huddersfield Choral Society & Royal Philharmonic Orch [ Signum / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2006 ] "The 1988 recording… benefits from what was arguably the finest quarter of soloists then available, together with the confident participation of the Huddersfield Choral Society and the disciplined Royal Philharmonic Orchestra which moves efficiently... |
DVORAK / JANACEK
Requiem / Glagolitic Mass Magdalena Hajossyova (soprano) Vera Soukupova (alto) Jozef Kundlak (tenor) Peter Mikulas (bass) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus. Zdenek Kosler [ Regis Records / 2 CD - released 2/Jan/2003 ] Great choral works from the continent |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Magnificat [with bonus DVD] Maria Keohane, Anna Zander (Sopranos) Carlos Mena (alto) Stephen MacLeod (bass) / Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot [ Mirare / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] "The best ever Magnificat recording? In my view it certainly is." International Record Review January 2010 |
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