Amanda Palmer
There Will Be No Intermission (LP) [ CVUK Music / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] Amanda Palmer is a singer, writer, pianist, activist and blogger who simultaneously embraces and explodes traditional frameworks of music, theatre, community and art. She first came to prominence as one half of the Boston-based punk cabaret duo The... |
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra
Theatre is Evil [ Inertia / CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] |
QUILTER
Folk-Song Arrangements / Part-Songs for Women's Voices (Complete) Amanda Pitt (soprano) Joanne Thomas (mezzo-soprano) Philip Langridge (tenor) David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone) David Owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 11 / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] "A worthy addition to British song history. Quilter enhances traditional tunes with understated, self effacing arrangements" (MusicWeb June 2005) |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Songs & Piano Music [2 CDs] Amanda Pitt (soprano) Mark Wilde (tenor) Peter Savidge (baritone) David Owen Norris (1844 Broadwood Square Piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "A veritable treasure-trove." (BBC Radio 3) |
JANACEK
Jenufa (complete opera recorded in 2009) Amanda Roocroft / Deborah Polaski / Miroslav Dvorský / Nikolai Schukoff / Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid / Ivor Bolton [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "Amanda Roocroft has won laurels as Jenufa in various stage productions and comes across as a deeply sincere performer here, even if the voice is apt to turn shrill at the top...[Polaski's] very understatement is moving in its own way." (Gramophone) |
HUBERT PARRY
Choral Works (Incls 'Jerusalem' & 'The Birds of Aristophanes') Amanda Roocroft (soprano) / BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] "This is breast-swelling stuff...the BBC National Orchestra of Wales gives warmly sympathetic renditions of music which was probably completely unfamiliar to them before the recording sessions. The Chandos sound is excellent." (BBC Music) |
ELGAR
Complete songs for voice and piano (Vol 1) Amanda Roocroft (soprano) Konrad Jarnot (baritone) Reinild Mees (piano) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] "Here's another fresh slant on Elgar's masterly Sea Pictures, this time a most persuasive first recording employing a male voice. Both sound and presentation are absolutely first-rate." (Gramophone April 2008) |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Creation Amanda Forsythe, Keith Jameson, Kevin Deas / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Linn SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 9/Jul/2012 ] "Pearlman adopts near-ideal tempi for every number, and his choir and period band - medium forces for a work the composer conducted with up to 200 - are excellent." (Sunday Times) |
Jack & Amanda Palmer
You Got Me Singing [ Cooking Vinyl / CD - released 29/Jul/2016 ] Amanda Palmer and her father Jack Palmer release You Got Me Singing, a lovingly put together album. Amanda sings, and plays piano and ukulele, and Jack, a semi-professional choral singer, plays guitar and lends his rich bass voice to a variety of... |
TRADITIONAL
Sephardic Journey Karim Sulayman, Nell Snaidas, Jeffrey Strauss, Amanda Powell, Brian Kay / Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] Cast out of Jerusalem, cast out of Spain. The Spanish Jews in their travels absorbed the colorful musical accents of Italy, Turkey and North Africa, including exotic percussion. Apollo's Fire's musical journey interweaves Sephardic folk song with the... |
Luc Beauséjour, Sylvain Bergeron, Amanda Keesmaat Space Time Continuo
Pachelbel: Magnificat Fugues [ Analekta / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] The threads that weave through this entire music program, and indeed that inspired it, are 15 fugues taken from the 95 such works covering the eight church modes written by Pachelbel as preludes to settings of the Marian Magnificat canticle sung at... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Complete Songs Vol 2 Amanda Roocroft (soprano) Konrad Jarnot (baritone) Reinild Mees (piano) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Feb/2010 ] "Konrad Jarnot leaves a most favourable impression, his timbre fresh and diction impeccable...[Roocroft] sings with infectious ardour...Reinild Mees's accompaniments are past praise in their discerning refinement and shapeliness" (Gramophone) |
VERDI
Don Carlo (complete opera recorded in 2004) Netherlands Opera / Rolando Villazón, Robert Lloyd, Amanda Roocroft / Riccardo Chailly (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/Jul/2011 ] "a fabulous summation of Chailly's qualities as a Verdi conductor… A wonderful piece of stagecraft" (The Guardian) |
Various Artists including La Calaca, Claudia Martinez, Amanda martinez, Binni Gula'za & others
Putumayo Presents - Mexico [ Putumayo World Music / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] Savour the spicy and romantic flavours of Mexican music, from the sons of Veracruz to the boleros of Oaxaca. Updated with 4 new songs. Mexican culture is as diverse as its landscape. Its roots stretch back thousands of years to the Aztec, Maya,... |
BERNSTEIN / COPLAND / STEINHARDT / GRUSIN / FOSS / etc
American Journey Victor Steinhardt (violin) with Amanda Forsyth, Dave Grusin & Lincoln Mayorga [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/2006 ] In this American Journey, violinist Arnold Steinhardt performs some of his favourite twentieth-century works that contribute to the delightfully rich and varied landscape of American classical music. |