GILLIAN WHITEHEAD
Arapatiki Ben Hoadley (bassoon) Stephen de Pledge (piano) with Richard Nunns, Aroha Yates-Smith, Janet Roddick & others [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Smaller-scale Whitehead, all pieces based on a single artistic theme - and featuring solo bassoonist Ben Hoadley. |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: The Complete Songs vol.3 Felicity Lott (sop) Jennifer Smith (sop) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (ten) Christopher Maltmann (bar) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] 'recording and presentation are the stuff of dreams. Hyperion has done Fauré proud' - Gramophone |
Hollie Smith
Coming In From The Dark [ Warner Music NZ / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] Hollie Smith, one of Aotearoa's most beloved artists, has revealed her return with Coming In From The Dark. Her fourth solo album, Coming In From The Dark is the first album from Smith in over five years. It follows the critically acclaimed and... |
John Coulter, Chris Cree Brown, David Downes, John Elmsly, Paul Smith
Sound Dome [ Rattle Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] A set of five works created specifically for the sounddome, a 25-loudspeaker instrument designed for composing with space that brings to life a three-dimensional sound world previously conceivable only in the imagination of the composer. |
Louis Prima & Keely Smith
His Greatest Hits [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] This CD contains some Louis Prima's New York hits from the days of "His New Orleans Gang" to some time with his Orchestra. It is also the first album in which music master Morgan Thomas joined the band... |
Patti Smith
Easter [ Arista Records / CD - released 18/Jun/1996 ] Patti Smith came back from the year-and-a-half break caused by her fall from a stage in January 1977 without having resolved the art-versus-commerce argument that had marred her second album, Radio Ethiopia. In fact, that argument was in some ways... |
Patti Smith
Horses [ Arista Records / CD - released 18/Jun/1996 ] Wholly embraced by the press and "underground / beat" generation, 'Horses' presented Patti's challenging, lyrical tomes alongside lengthy, improvisational pieces and thumping garage rock cover versions. |
JOHN CORIGLIANO / AARON COPLAND / LEONARD BERNSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Copland/Corigliano: Clarinet Concertos Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) / London Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Leighton Smith [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 30/Sep/1988 ] "Corigliano's clarinet concerto is the first by an American composer to have entered the standard repertoire since Aaron Copland's clarinet concerto." Wiki |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and other British Choral Anthems Roderick Williams (baritone) with Julia Smith, Elizabeth Limb, Rachel Limb & Kate Jurka (soprano) / Martin Ford (organ) / Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backh [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] Featuring Vaughan Williams' masterly and intensely personal Five Mystical Songs, this album reflects on the sources of inspiration of some of his sacred choral works, alongside gems of 19th- and early-20th-century English church music. |
Sam Smith
In The Lonely Hour [ Capitol Records / CD - released 23/May/2014 ] 'In The Lonely Hour' is BRIT and BBC Sound Poll winner Sam Smith's debut album. 'In The Lonely Hour' is a 10-track labour of love for Sam 'I said to myself, I don't want to have a genre. 'I wanted to take a risk'. In the course of putting it... |
Sam Smith
The Thrill Of It All [ Capitol Records / CD - released 3/Nov/2017 ] It's been over three years since Sam Smith's debut album was released, and in the meantime he has become one of the biggest acts on the planet with millions of album sales and an array of awards including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, three Brit... |
Shade Smith
Our World [ Frenzy / CD - released 12/Aug/2022 ] 'OUR WORLD' Is the new album of original songs from one of New Zealand's premier singer/ songwriters - Shade Smith. Shade Smith has had a long and illustrious career which started with The Surfires summer of 1967 hit, 'I Can't Wait For Summer time'.... |
Sonny Smith
Rod For Your Love (LP) [ Warner / LP - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Produced by Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach and recorded in Nashville, Rod For Your Love roots itself in old-school, guitar-fuelled rock & roll. These are love songs built for the garage and the dance floor, with big-hearted melodies and thick... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Staatskapelle Dresden / Renée Fleming, Robert Dean Smith, Sophie Koch / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2015 ] Filmed live in Baden-Baden by the veteran director Brian Large, Renée Fleming makes her debut in the role of Ariadne together with fellow key Strauss interpreters Sophie Koch and Christian Thielemann, following on from their Rosenkavalier... |
Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell
Lebroba (LP) [ ECM / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago:... |
SAINT-SAENS
Organ Music (Incls 'Preludes & Fugues' & 'Fantaisie No 3, Op 157') Andrew-John Smith (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] 'The charm and elegance of these preludes, fugues and fantasies … brilliantly played by the hugely talented Smith on the great Cavaillé-Coll instrument that Saint-Saëns knew' (Observer) |
SAINT-SAENS
Organ Music Volume 2 Andrew-John Smith (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/Sep/2011 ] "The preludes and fugues make a sharply contrasted trio: the first and last, in D minor and C, are grand in scale and conception; the second, in G, is much more compact and relaxed. Smith makes full use of the resources of the Madeleine instrument to... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded live in 2009) BLU-RAY Bayreuth Festival / Robert Dean Smith, Robert Holl, Irene Theorin, Jukka Rasilainen / Peter Schneider (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2010 ] G - 'In Tristan the standard of conducting and singing is high. Peter Schneider draws seamless playing from the orchestra, contouring Wagner's long arcs of sound as only someone of his experience can do.' The Financial Times |
Bessie Smith
The Anthology (2CD) [ Not Now Music / 2 CD - released 14/May/2010 ] |
Bessie Smith
Sings The Blues [ Collectables / CD ] |