JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK
Dussek: Messe Solemnelle Academy of Ancient Music / AAM Choir, Richard Eggar, with Stefanie True (soprano) & Gwilym Bowen (tenor) [ AAM Records / CD - released 10/Oct/2020 ] "This enjoyable, well recorded rendition, with lovely solo singing, has clear passionate advocacy; notwithstanding the odd rough edge the performance does Dussek's mass proud." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 Shortlisted - Choral |
J. C. BACH
Bach (J.C.): Symphony for Double Orchestra / Symphony, Op. 18 No. 4 / Overture: Adriano in Siria / etc. The Academy of Ancient Music / Simon Standage (director) [ Chandos Chaconne Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2004 ] '…I have very much enjoyed this record and can recommend it warmly…' - Gramophone |
HANDEL
12 Solo Sonatas Op 1 Academy of Anciet Music / Richard Egarr [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Handel wrote the solo sonatas of Opus 1 for the professional musicians of his London opera orchestra.They demand considerable skill and stamina both from the soloist and the continuo. Prominent bass parts give the sonatas a contrapuntal strength and... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: complete incidental music Actors from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Jaime Laredo [ Nimbus / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] This recording was made with a single Nimbus Ambisonic microphone placed in front of the orchestra. In the space between the conductor and the microphone the actors were free to group themselves according to the demands of the dialogue. However, in... |
Gypsy Music From Turkey
Gypsy Music from Turkey [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] A rich collection of authentic and traditional Turkish gypsy music including Saba dance, Karcihar dance and Çiftetellis from all over Turkey. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Peter Grimes (complete opera filmed on Aldeburgh beach in 2013) Alan Oke, Giselle Allen, David Kempster / Guildhall School of Music & Drama & Britten-Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bedford [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
LEONARD SLATKIN
Slatkin Conducts Slatkin - The Raven / Endgames / Kinah / In Fields Alec Baldwin (narrator) / Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphnoy Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honour and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. |
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Tamara Drewe (Original Soundtrack) [ Silva Screen / CD - released 27/Sep/2010 ] Alexandre Desplat's spirited score to Stephen Frears' humorous and romantic film based on Posy Simmonds' well-loved graphic novel. In Tamara Drewe, Desplat's animated contemporary orchestral score is driven by tuned percussion leitmotifs. It leads... |
BLOW
Venus and Adonis (complete opera) Amanda Forsythe / Tyler Duncan / Mireille Lebel / Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles / Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs [ CPO Records / CD - released 18/May/2011 ] Again in cooperation with the Boston Early Music Festival, we are now releasing yet another baroque opera, this time a work by John Blow regarded as the first »real« English opera. |
American Music Club
A Toast To You - Live In Pittsburgh, PA - November 2004 [ Decor / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] |
THOMAS PITFIELD
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Anthony Goldstone (piano) / Peter Donohoe (piano) / Royal Northern College of Music Orchestra / Andrew Penny [ Naxos British Piano Concertos / CD - released 18/Oct/2009 ] |
ALEXANDER TIKHONOVICH GRETCHANINOV
Gretchaninov: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom No. 4 Father Alexei Godunov / Father Alexander Korotsky / Ludmila Arshavskaya / Cantus Sacred Music Ensemble [ Alto / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] "One hardly expects such richness of harmony simply looking at the page. Grechaninov employs some very subtle harmonic shading (for example, in the first and second antiphons and the memorable Creed) to decorate what are essentially plain liturgical... |
Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra
Baby Einstein:- Meet the Orchestra [ CD - released 2/Jul/2009 ] |
Ball Park Music
Ball Park Music [ Inertia / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] |
Ball Park Music
Ball Park Music (LP) [ Inertia / LP - released 23/Oct/2020 ] |
IGOR STRAVINKSKY
Stravinsky: Chamber Works Barbara Hannigan; Julliard School Ensemble; Royal Academy of Music [ Linn Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Barbara Hannigan, a Grammy award-winning artist at the forefront of creation, leads an ensemble of outstanding young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School. Since 2002, the Academy and The Juilliard School, both... |
GERALD BARRY
Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest (complete opera) Barbara Hannigan, Peter Tantsits, Joshua Bloom / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Thomas Adès [ NMC / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2016 Finalist - Opera |
BOB CHILCOTT
The Angry Planet BBC Singers, The Bach Choir, The Young Singers, London Youth Choir, Finchley Children's Music Group, David Hill [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] The three works on this 2CD set further confirm Chilcott's status as one of the world's most popular active choral composers. The BBC recently gave Chilcott a [sell-out] concert from BBC Maida Vale, on 5th June, to celebrate BBC Music Day... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: String Quartet / Piano Trio / Introduction et Allegro Beaux Arts Trio / Carmirelli Quartet / Chamber Music Society of Amsterdam / Eduard van Beinum [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] 'this new Beaux Arts performance, even more than their previous one, is most sensitive to the music's ebb and flow, acutely aware of its inventive new combinations of sounds ... the new Beaux Arts recording now becomes the prime recommendation'... |
W.A. MOZART
Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 (with Brahms - Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115) Bernard Walton (clarinet) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan / Members of the Music Group of London [ Testament / CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] Bernard Walton (1917-72) was one of the finest orchestral musicians of his age. Though barely known to the public at large – he shunned the kind of media exposure won by his contemporary Jack Brymer (1915-2003) and made few solo recordings – he... |