BRITTEN / DORATI / KRENEK
Works for Oboe Helen Jahren (oboe) Elisabeth Westenholz (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 21/Dec/2004 ] Helen Jahren is one of today's most prominent oboe soloists. |
RICHARD HEUBERGER
Heuberger: Der Opernball (The Opera Ball) (complete Operetta Film, 1970. Sung in German) Helen Mané, Harald Serafin, Maria Tiboldi, Maurice Besançon, Tatjana Iwanow / Symphony Orchestra Kurt Graunke, Munich, Willy Mattes [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Richard Heuberger (1850-1914) was born into a well-to-do middle-class family from Graz. He trained initially as an engineer, but after studying for a degree in music, he was appointed director of the Vienna Singakademie. Heuberger created many... |
Helen Medlyn and Penny Dodd
Darling Its Hell [ Medlyn / Dodd Music New Zealand / CD - released 31/Oct/2006 ] Those two "hell" cabaret divas - the divine Miss Medlyn and Miss Dodd - offer eleven delicious songs of love that lie in the warm, luxurious lap of jazz. |
Helen Merrill
Complete Recordings [ Phoenix Jazz / CD - released 30/May/2011 ] |
Helen Merrill / Clifford Brown
Helen Merril With Clifford Brown (Vinyl) [ Wax Time / LP - released 26/Sep/2011 ] Limited edition vinyl reissue. |
Helen O'Connell
A Long Last Look [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Helen O'Connell had a long career from singing in groups in the '40s to being a solo artist and star of TV shows in the '50s This is the first in depth look at Helen's singles from 1951 - 1957. |
Helen Shapiro
Tops With Me/Helen Hits Out [ CD - released 29/Dec/2007 ] |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 Helen Watts (mezzo-soprano) Wandsworth School Boys Choir & Ambrosian Opera Chorus / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ ABC Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2017 ] "As a combination of top-class recording, orchestral playing and conducting, this is one of the finest recordings I have ever listened to." Gramophone on No 1 |
Helen Webby & Davy Stuart
The Golden Strand [ CD ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (Complete Opera recorded in 1970) Helga Dernesch, Jon Vickers, Zoltán Kéléman, Helen Donath / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Classics Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/1995 ] "Helga Dernesch as Leonare gives a glorious, thrilling peformance. The orchestral playing is superb." (Penguin Guide) |
W. A. MOZART
The Ultimate Mozart Opera Album [2 CD set] Herbert Lippert, Bo Skovhus, John Dickie, Helen Kwon, and other Naxos recording artists [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] This marvellous selection reveals Mozart's astonishing gift for laying bare the inner lives of the many beloved characters from his most famous operas, whether embroiled in farce or defying fate. |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Riders to the Sea / Flos Campi / etc Philip Dukes (viola) / Ingrid Attrot, Lynne Dawson, Linda Finnie, Pamela Helen Stephen / Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 1/Aug/2015 ] As he proved with his recording of A London Symphony - Record of the Year, Gramophone Awards 2001 - Richard Hickox was a Vaughan Williams specialist. This reissue of an original 1995 recording features several lesser known works. |
W. A. MOZART
Mass in C major 'Coronation' / Vesperae solennes de confessore / Exsultate, jubilate Ilena Cotrubas / Helen Watts / Felicity Palmer / Erna Spoorenberg / Academy St Martins, Neville Marriner [ Philips Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "George Guest was an experienced choral conductor, whose reputation in the classical repertoire still goes before him. Hearing this performance it is not hard to see why, and this makes a most pleasing compilation for the discerning... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Masses 'theresienmesse' 'Kleine Orgelmesse' Janice Watson, Pamela Helen Stephen, Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/1996 ] The Chandos Mass Edition continues |
RAVEL
Piano music (Incls 'Sonatine' & 'Le Tombeau de Couperin') Jean Yves Thibaudet (piano) with Helen Grimaud and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Portrait Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Highly acclaimed performances, licensed from Denon. Thibaudet recordings unavailable since the late 1990s |
VERDI
Rigoletto (Complete Opera in English) John Rawnsley (baritone) Arthur Davies (tenor) Helen Field (sop) / English National Opera [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2001 ] .A further addition to Chandos's Opera in English series |
HENRY PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas (complete opera) Jospehine Veasey / John Shirley-Quirk / Helen Donath / Thomas Allen / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields / Sir Colin Davis [ Philips Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] "fresh and enjoyable" Penguin Guide to CDs |
FAURE
Requiem, Op. 48 / La Naissance de Vanus, Op. 29 / Pavane, Op. 50; Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Libby Crabtree (soprano) Mary Plazas (soprano) James Rutherford (bass) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) / BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2003 ] 'The Pavane and Cantique de Jean Racine both breathe the calm of the Requiem. While they are enjoyable makeweights, the disc's revelation is a wonderful performance of the rarely heard La Naissance de Venus… this piece is a little gem'. (Gramophone |
FAURE
Requiem, Op. 48 / La Naissance de VACnus, Op. 29 / Pavane, Op. 50 / Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Libby Crabtree (soprano) Mary Plazas (soprano) James Rutherford (bass) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) / BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos / SACD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "The Pavane and Cantique de Jean Racine both breathe the calm of the Requiem. While they are enjoyable makeweights, the disc's revelation is a wonderful performance of the rarely heard La Naissance de Venus… this piece is a little gem" Gramophone |
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE
Sagesse & Poème - Songs Michael Bundy (baritone) / Helen Crayford (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] Most of the mélodies are relatively early works, and only two of those on this album have been published. Each demonstrates the composer's great melodic gift, love of mystical harmonies and keen ear for 'atmosphere'. |