Since you are interested in Canticles I-V, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
BRITTEN / SHOSTAKOVICH
Cello Concertos Jamie Walton (cello) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Briger [ Signum / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Walton's performance of the Shostakovich 2nd Concerto is wholly satisfying. He hits exactly the right melancholic tone for the majority of the first movement." (MusicWeb Jan 2009) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten Abroad: A collection of songs by Benjamin Britten set in Italian, Russian, French & German Susan Gritton (soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "What an inspired idea not only to bring together Britten's mature foreign-language songs, but also to have the programme shared by two of Britain's keenest and brightest singers. …delight and spiritual depths go hand in hand." BBC Music 5 STARS |
BRITTEN / SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV
Cello Sonatas Jamie Walton (cello) Daniel Grimwood (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "Both players are technically flawless, play with the utmost musical intelligence and sensitivity, and are totally at one in all three works." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb July 2012) |
TIPPETT / BRITTEN / PURCELL / HUMFREY
Remember Your Lovers John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 2/Feb/2006 ] "A spendid book-end to close Tippett Year, imaginatively planned and beautifully performed by Ainsley and Burnside." Editor's Choice Gramophone January 2006 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The King's Singers: Royal Rhymes & Rounds The King's Singers [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jun/2012 ] On a new disc to celebrate the 2012 Diamond Jubilee, The King's Singers present a selection of works from the past 500 years written in honour of the great Monarchs of Britain. |
PETER WARLOCK
Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy (a flim by Tony Britten) Mark Dexter, Lucy Brown, Maimie McCoy and cast [ Signum Vision / DVD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] A film about a man who, by his death at thirty six, had composed some of the most perfect gems of English songwriting and elevated hedonism to an art form. |
VERDI / BOITO
Falstaff (complete opera recorded in 2006 in a new version by Tony Britten) Music Theatre London / Ian Jervis / Jan Hartley / Julia Forsyth / Simon Butteriss / Rosamund Shelley [ Signum Vision / DVD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] G; - "The DVD was recorded on location in and around a real golf club and the club acts as the setting for most of the scenes barring a few in the Fords' home." (MusicWeb Oct 2008) |
ALLEGRI / TAVENER / IRELAND / RACHMANINOV / BRITTEN / etc
Miserere: Choral works Tenebrae / Nigel Short (director) [ Signum / CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] "The disc ends with that locus classicus of English choral singing, Faire is the Heaven, in which one would be forgiven for thinking Spenser's final words,'such endlesse perfectnesse' refer to the choir themselves rather than the state of Heaven"... |