TRADITIONAL
Daniel Hope: Irish Roots Daniel Hope (violin) with Seán Smyth (fiddle) Kevin Crawford (flute) Trevor Hutchinson (double bass) Cillian Vallely (uilleann pipes) Siobhan Armstron [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 5/Jul/2024 ] "There's charm here for sure, though a better title might have been 'Irish Stew ' given the different array of flavours. The traditional tunes, like Morning Nightcap, are really appealing and the Ina Boyle is grand." BBC Music |
David Antony Clark & Rawiri Toia
Tribal Blood - Manawataki Maori [ Tasmantis / CD - released 12/Jul/2010 ] Around one thousand years ago, voyaging Polynesian canoes discovered a remote, uninhabited wilderness in the southern Pacific Ocean: a land with a flora and fauna unlike any on Earth... |
Gene Clark
No Other [ 4AD / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Recorded at the Village Recorder in West Hollywood and produced by Thomas Jefferson Kaye, No Other was originally released in 1974 on Asylum Records, coming a year after the Byrds short-lived reunion. Reaching for the stars, Gene delivered a... |
ERIKS ESENVALDS
Ešenvalds: Translations Kate Ledington, Maeve Stier, Celine Clark, Juan Castaneda, Jonathan Roberts, etc / Portland State Chamber Choir, Ethan Sperry [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] "All the solo vocal contributions are magnificent...A stunning, timely triumph, therefore, full of ravishing, transformative and deeply touching music." Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2020 |
Sonny Clark
Four Classic Albums (Dial "S" For Sonny" / Sonny Clark Trio / Cool Struttin' / Leapin' And Lopin') [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Jul/2017 ] Considering he died at the tragically early age of 31, Sonny Clark actually had an amazingly prolific career in jazz, both as a leader and a sideman. At age 20, he was in California working with Wardell Gray and by 1953 was touring the States and... |
Brandy Clark
Brandy (LP) [ Warner / LP - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Produced by 9-time Grammy winning Brandi Carlile, this self-titled album showcases Clark's versatility with eleven songs that span the emotional spectrum, including the first single "Buried". Over the course of her celebrated career, Clark has... |
The Clark Sisters And Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark
You Brought The Sunshine (The Sound Of Gospel Recordings 1976-1981) [ Westbound Records / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] |
The Clark Sisters
He Gave Me Nothing To Lose (LP) [ Westbound / LP - released 26/May/2023 ] The Clark Sisters' fourth album for Westbound's Sound Of Gospel label is the one that pushed them firmly towards the crossover market. Whilst there was traditional soul-based gospel fare on tracks like 'My Cup Runneth Over' they hustled onto the... |
ALBINONI / PACHELBEL / HANDEL ZIPOLI / BACH / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Baroque Orchestral Music (Incls Albinoni: Adagio & Pachelbel: Canon) Consort of London, Robert Clark, with Julia Girdwood (oboe) & Joseph Frohlich (violin) [ Collins Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/1989 ] A generous selection of popular baroque works. |
Gary Clark Jr
Blak and Blu [ Warner Bros / CD - released 19/Oct/2012 ] This is a modern amalgam of rock & soul, informed by the blues and everything in-between aimed at a new generation of music fans who want it all. Dig The New Breed! |
Gary Clark Jr.
Jpeg Raw [ Warner Records / CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Gary Clark Jr.'s fourth studio release marks a grand step in his musical evolution, it's a powerful and expansive artistic statement. While retaining the deep and true resonance of his blues foundations and guitar virtuosity with subtlety yet... |
Gary Clark Jr
Jpeg Raw (LP) [ Warner Records / 2 LP - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Gary Clark Jr.'s fourth studio release marks a grand step in his musical evolution, it's a powerful and expansive artistic statement. While retaining the deep and true resonance of his blues foundations and guitar virtuosity with subtlety yet... |
JON LORD
To Notice Such Things Jon Lord (piano) Cormac Henry (flute) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Clark Rundell [ Avie / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Familiar from Lord's previous concert-hall works is his fluent enjoyable reimagining of later-19th- and earlier-20th-century symphonic writing and the subject matter of friends pictured within...Performance and recording are both first-class."... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas Janet Baker, Patricia Clark, Raimund Herincx / English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Lewis [ Decca Legends / CD - released 14/Feb/2000 ] "It is a truly legendary recording...everything is put in the shade by Dame Janet Baker's portrayal of Dido: her celebrated, despairingly moving, closing lament is unforgettable. This was also Anthony Lewis's finest record" Gramophone |
Petula Clark
From Now On [ Warner Music / CD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] |
VILLA-LOBOS / CHAVEZ / RODRIGO
Latin Winds RNCM Wind Orchestra, Clark Rundell, Mark Heron [ Chandos / CD - released 4/May/2018 ] "Congratulations to all involved in this superb and enterprising issue, perhaps most of all to the brilliant young musicians of the RNCM. Manchester rules!" MusicWeb May 2018 |
WILLIAM ALWYN
Alwyn: Film Music Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Mark Heron, Clark Rundell [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 30/Oct/2017 ] "These transcriptions work surprisingly well especially for the marches and the swiftly moving extrovert scores. Try the swashbuckling excitement that is The Crimson Pirate and the military pride and pomp and braggadocio of Desert Victory." MusicWeb |
ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
Bennett: Old American Dances Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Clark Rundell, Mark Heron [ Chandos / CD - released 16/Sep/2016 ] The Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra and its director Clark Rundell, with the guest conductor Mark Heron, explore the works of Robert Russell Bennett in this eagerly-awaited new recording. Bennett is best known for his orchestrations... |
Sonny Clark
3 Essential Albums [ Verve / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Includes Cool Struttin', Sonny Clark Trio and Leapin' and Lopin'. |
Sonny Clark
Cool Struttin' [ Blue Note / CD - released 14/Jun/1999 ] Recorded in 1958, this legendary date with the still-undersung Sonny Clark in the leader's chair also featured a young Jackie McLean on alto (playing with a smoother tone than he had before or ever did again), trumpeter Art Farmer, and the legendary... |