Asterix Music
Cupid's Arrow/Let Your Body Show You How [ Firehouse Sound Labs / 7in - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Funk is a dish best served hot and these two modern funk anthems are bound to get your body temperature up. "Cupid's Arrow" recounts a tale of genuine love at first sight over an infectious synth funk groove, it's honest and true to life content make... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas (complete opera) Catherine Bott, Emma Kirkby, John Mark Ainsley, David Thomas / Chorus and Orchestra of The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood [ Decca / CD - released 23/Jan/2006 ] "…Catherine Bott's Dido is perfectly rendered as part of an integrated recorded sound in a performance that's breathtakingly well nuanced. Emma Kirkby's Belinda is similarly finely turned In addition" (BBC Music) |
TAVENER / ALLEGRI / BARBER / FAURE / PALESTRINA / and many more
The Glory Of New College Choir Choir of New College, Oxford / Edward Higginbottom, with the Academy of Ancient Music [ Erato / Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2018 ] "This is one of the most sublime choral records I have ever heard." - Organists' Review |
JOSEF HAYDN
Cello Concertos Christophe Coin (cello) / The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood [ Decca L'Oiseau-Lyre / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Reissued from the L'Oiseau-Lyre catalogue |
W.A. MOZART
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Complete opera) Lynne Dawso, Marianne Hirsti, Uwe Heilmann, Günter von Kannen, Wolfgang Hinze / Academy Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 5/May/2003 ] This recording was made in 1990 after a series of stage performances. |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Creation (Complete oratorio in English) Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood [ L'Oiseau-Lyre / Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "fine clarity of detail and an attractive freshness" *** Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide |
HENRY PURCELL
Sweeter Than Roses Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Paul Esswood, Catherine Bott, Stafford Dean, Ian Partridge / The Academy of Ancient Music, English Chamber Orchestra [ Decca Budget Boxes / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Purcell's Theatre music on a specially priced budget CD. |
PURCELL
Theatre Music (music from Abdelazer, Don Quixote, The Virtuous Wife, Oedipus, etc) Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Elizabeth Lane, Joy Roberts, Prudence Lloyd, James Bowman / Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood [ Decca Budget Boxes / 6 CD Box Set - released 14/Jun/2004 ] All of Purcell's Theatre music on a 6 CD budget set |
DOWLAND / PURCELL / MOZART / HANDEL / etc
Emma Kirkby - A Portrait Emma Kirkby, soprano, Christopher Hogwood, The Academy of Ancient Music [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] Rosette (highest rating) - Penguin Stereo Guide |
Hot Water Music
A Flight and a Crash [ Epitaph Records / CD - released 5/Jul/2001 ] Superpunks emerge from the swamps of Gainesville, Florida. Good stuff |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe (complete opera) Karina Gauvin, Philippe Jaroussky, Amanda Forsythe, Aaron Sheehan / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 18/Jan/2015 ] "The performance is never forced but always emotive...An exemplary testament of superb musicianship from all participants...this is a landmark event in Steffani's much-deserved rehabilitation." (Gramophone Magazine Award Nomination 2015 Baroque Vocal |
TAKEMITSU
In an Autumn Garden / Voyage for 3 Biwas / Autumn (Excerpts) / etc Kinshi Tsuruta, Biwa Katsuya Yokoyama, Shakuhachi Music Department, Imperial Hou [ DG 20/21 Series / CD - released 23/Jun/2002 ] newly remastered for this reissue. |
Langley Schools Music Project
Innocence and Despair [ Bar None / CD ] |
Various Artists / Music of Lully. Musica Antiqua Koln
Le Roi Danse [The King is Dancing] (Original Soundtrack) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 4/Oct/2002 ] A film by Gerard Corbiau |
HANDEL / GIBBONS / PARRY / WALTON / WESLEY / STANFORD / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - Music From the Official Record 2nd June 1953 Massed Trumpeters from the Royal Military School of Music, Coronation Choir, Coronation Orchestra, Dr. Osborne Harold Peasgood (organ) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] This recording of the BBC's broadcast of the coronation service from Westminster Abbey was taken by means of a direct line to Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood, London. |
Music For Renaissance Instruments
Kagel / Collegium Instrumentale 1898 [ CD - released 14/Jun/1999 ] |
Music Go Music
Expressions [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 6/Oct/2009 ] "Music Go Music begin with a bright-eyed Scandinavian sashay and end with a ten-minute Mediterranean disco romp featuring programmed drums, making detours along the way into rainy day ballads and guitar infernos... |
The Music
Freedom Fighters [ Virgin Records / CD Single ] |
WILLIAM BYRD / JOHN DOWLAND / HENRY PURCELL / etc
Elizabethan Lute Songs / Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary Norma Burrowes (Soprano), James Bowman & Charles Brett (Countertenors) / Robert Lloyd (Bass) / Early Consort of Music / David Munrow [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] "The solo singing, however, is strong, and the music represents Purcell at his finest - the counter tenor duet "Sound the trumpet" (Bowman and Charles Brett) never palls." (Irish Times) |