JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
Rameau: Pieces de clavecin Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2000 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Baroque Instrumental |
JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rameau: Pieces de clavecin Volume 2 (Includes Suites in A & G) Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 1/Aug/2004 ] 'Yates's strengths are clearly suited to those of Rameau: depth of characterisation, polarised moods and a delight in the instrument's sonorities.' - BBC Music Magazine |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Il Cembalo Transalpino Sophie Yates (solo harpsichord) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] All the music in this programme comes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most of it was collected by its founder, Richard, Seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 - 1816). A polymath, lover of music, amateur composer and... |
ALBINONI / BELLINI / HANDEL / BACH FAMILY / MOZART / TELEMANN / VIVALDI / etc
Oboe Concertos Stefan Schilli, Pier Luigi Fabretti, Andrius Puskunigis, Anthony Camden, Julia Girdwood, Anna Starr, etc (oboes) / Various orchestras [ Brilliant Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 16/Jan/2017 ] "There is an abundance of enticing music, well performed by all the soloists. The orchestral sound is beautifully blended and well recorded." (MusicWeb on the Albinoni) |
BEETHOVEN / SIBELIUS / HAYDN / DEBUSSY / BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein Vol 1 Various orchestras conducted by Leonard Bernstein, with James Taylor, Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Peter Serkin, Emanuel Ax (pianos), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) [ C Major DVD / 6 DVD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2017 ] A box set celebrating Leonard Bernstein's upcoming 100th birthday including concerts with the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia as well as the prizewinning documentary Leonard Bernstein: Larger than... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms Cycle [Symphonies, Concertos & Overtures] (recorded in 2015) Yefim Bronfman (piano) Julia Fischer (violin) / The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most [ Belvedere / BBC Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Nov/2017 ] The Cleveland Orchestra is the aristocrat among American orchestras (The Telegraph) and its conductor, Franz Welser-Möst, rules his subjects with a velvet glove. Indeed, velvet and silk keep showing up in descriptions of the Clevelanders sound under... |
JERRY BOCK / SHELDON HARNICK
Bock: Fiddler on the Roof [special edition with bonus tracks] Zero Mostel, Julia Migenes & Bert Convy / Original 1964 Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/2003 ] Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and... |
FRANZ LEHAR
Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns [The Land Of Smiles] (complete operetta recorded in 2017) Zurich Opera / Piotr Beczala, Julia Kleiter, Rebeca Olvera, Spencer Lang / Fabio Luisi (conductor) [ Accentus DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] "Fabio Luisi conducts with a subtle consciousness of the requisite style and the orchestra sounds marvellous" Opera |
Julia Holter
Ekstasis (CD) [ Rvng Intl. / CD - released 31/Oct/2016 ] Julia Holter second album, Ekstasis, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Los Angeles, California. Holter's songwriting stems from a mythological reverence of that which is incomprehensibly beautiful. Her... |
Julia Holter
Aviary [ Domino / 2 CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Aviary is an epic journey through what Julia Holter describes as "the cacophony of the mind in a melting world." It's the Los Angeles composer's most breathtakingly expansive album yet, full of startling turns and dazzling instrumental... |
Julia Holter
Something In The Room She Moves (Deluxe Vinyl LP) [ Domino / 2 LP - released 22/Mar/2024 ] "My heart is loud," Julia Holter sings on her sixth album Something in the Room She Moves, following an inner pulse. The Los Angeles songwriter's past work has often explored memory and dreamlike future, but her latest album resides more in presence:... |
Julia Kent
Asperities [ Leaf / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Asperities is the fourth solo album by acclaimed Vancouver-born, New York-based cellist Julia Kent. Her extensive résumé includes recent work with Swans, Aidan Baker, Rachel Grimes, Rutger Zuydervelt, Barbara Morgenstern, Library Tapes and Khan of... |
Julia Kent
Asperities (LP/CD) [ Leaf / LP/CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Asperities is the fourth solo album by acclaimed Vancouver-born, New York-based cellist Julia Kent. Her extensive résumé includes recent work with Swans, Aidan Baker, Rachel Grimes, Rutger Zuydervelt, Barbara Morgenstern, Library Tapes and Khan of... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Israel In Agypten [Israel in Egypt] (Sung in German and arranged by Mendelssohn) Lydia Teuscher, Julia Doyle, Hilary Summers, Benjamin Hulett, Roderick Williams / The King's Consort, Robert King [ Vivat / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] "This reconstruction of Mendelssohn's reconstruction is of great interest from a historical perspective, but also richly rewarding from a musical one." (Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2016) |
Julia Deans
We Light Fire [ Julia Deans / CD - released 11/May/2018 ] With the release of bold first single Walking In The Sun in September 2017, Julia Deans whet the appetite of fans and critics alike for her new album. It had been seven years since we were last seduced by her songwriting, when her acclaimed first... |
Julia Stone
Sixty Summers [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 30/Apr/2021 ] With Julia Stone's new record comes the grit and glitter of the city, and all its attendant joys and dangers, romances and risks. No longer content to merely explore the wildernesses of folk and indie-rock, Sixty Summers, Stone's third solo outing,... |
Julia-Sophie
forgive too slow (LP) [ Ba Da Bing / LP - released 2/Aug/2024 ] Throughout her music career, Anglo-French avant-garde electronic artist Julia-Sophie has repeatedly burnt everything down to the ground. Each time, she has risen from the embers transformed, forging new paths, her past casting a silhouette onto her... |
Sophie B Hawkins
If I Was Your Girl: The Best.. [ Columbia / CD - released 9/Dec/2002 ] |
Sophie Milman
In The Moonlight [ Eone / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] |
HANDEL
Messiah Allan Clayton (tenor) Julia Doyle (soprano) Andrew Foster-Williams (bass) / Polyphony & Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] 'No-one, but no-one performs Messiah better every year than the choir Polyphony under the conductor Stephen Layton' (Evening Standard) |