LEROY ANDERSON
Orchestral Favourites (Includes 'The Syncopated Clock', 'the Typewriter' & 'the Waltzing Cat') Hayman Symphony Orchestra. Richard Hayman [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Jun/2002 ] "the performances affectionate and enthusiastic." (Gramophone July 2002) |
LERNER and LOEWE
Orchestral Selections from My Fair Lady, Camelot, Gigi, etc Hayman Symphony Orchestra. Richard Hayman [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Jun/2002 ] |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: War Requiem / Sinfonia da Requiem / Ballad of Heroes Heather Harper (soprano) John Shirley-Quirk (bass) Martyn Hill (tenor) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 10/May/2004 ] "Heather Harper has at last recorded the 'role' she created-indeed it is her farewell to her many admirers as she has now retired. I heard her sing it in St Paul's not long ago and thought then that her peculiar accents, her inevitable shaping of so... |
EDWARD GERMAN
German: Merrie England Suite / Nell Gwyn / Gipsy Suite / etc Hellgren Staykov / Richard Morrison / Heather Schipp / National Festival Chorus and Orchestra / David Russel Hulme [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] 'There is only one man to follow me who has genius, and that is Edward German.' Thus did Sir Arthur Sullivan, in the last years of his life, acknowledge the stature of the modest but highly talented composer German Edward Jones, born 17 February 1862 |
EDWARD GERMAN
German: Tom Jones (operetta) Hellgren Staykov / Richard Morrison / Heather Schipp / National Festival Chorus and Orchestra / David Russel Hulme [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "David Russell Hulme imbues the score with freshness in his spirited reading. The orchestra plays magnificently in the warm acoustic of the RNCM's Concert Hall." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
ELGAR
Alphabicycle Order / Horn Concerto Henry Goodman (narrator) Richard Watkins (horn) / Halle Youth Choir & Orchestra / Mark Elder [ Halle / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "Alphabicycle Order might not be Matthews's most serious work but it is an extraordinarily accomplished one. Brilliantly diverse in its musical language. Alphabicycle Order is a textbook example of how to write for diverse forces in a meaningful,... |
Hickox Richard
A Celebration [ CD ] |
PURCELL
Dido & Aeneas (complete opera) Maria Ewing, Rebecca Evans, Patricia Rozario (sopranos) James Bowman (alto) / Collegium Musicum 90 Choir / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chaconne / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] "Maria Ewing..is both distinctive and stylish. Combined with Hickox's lively direction, unmarred by intrusive re-allocation of voices, it makes an impressive version." (Three Stars Penguin Stereo Guide) |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Riders to the Sea / Flos Campi / etc Philip Dukes (viola) / Ingrid Attrot, Lynne Dawson, Linda Finnie, Pamela Helen Stephen / Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics The Hickox Legacy / CD - released 1/Aug/2015 ] As he proved with his recording of A London Symphony - Record of the Year, Gramophone Awards 2001 - Richard Hickox was a Vaughan Williams specialist. This reissue of an original 1995 recording features several lesser known works. |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold: Symphonies 1 & 2 London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] "Above all, these are real performances without any of the inhibitions of 'studio' recording." Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51 / Sursum corda, Op. 11 / etc Margaret Marshall, Felicity Palmer, Arthur Davies & David Wilson-Johnson / London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2015 ] Following the success of The Dream of Gerontius in 1900 and The Apostles in 1903, the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival commissioned Elgar to produce another large oratorio for the 1906 festival. The Kingdom continues the narrative of the lives of... |
Hidekazu Katoh and Richard Stagg
Masters Of The Shakuhachi [ Arc Music / CD ] |
Hidekazu Katoh and Richard Stagg
Masters of the Shakuhachi [ ARC Music / CD - released 13/Oct/2017 ] The two masters of the Japanese shakuhachi, Hidekazu Katoh (shakuhachi, nishaku-issun, nishaku-yonsun) and Richard Stagg (shakuhachi), present atmospheric shakuhachi duets ranging from ancient to modern pieces. Extensive information with biographies... |
DEL TREDICI / THEOFANIDIS / BERNSTEIN
Paul Revere's Ride / The Here and Now / Lamentation from Jeremiah Hila Plitmann (sop) Richard Clement (tenor) Brett Polegato (bar) Nancy Maultsby (mezzo) / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / Robert Spano [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] "Two Americans stir widely varying styles into tthe cookpot for two tasty dishes" Editor's Choice from Gramophone Magazine (December 2005) |
Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri
Not the Weapon But the Hand (Mediabook) [ Kscope / CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] Moving, complex, multilayered, spooky, and at times goofy and personal, this debut album from Steve Hogarth (Marillion) & Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree, Japan) is a collaboration well worth checking out. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Holiday Classics: 5 CDs with a distinct holiday flavour National Philharmonic, Richard Bonynge / Montreal Symphony, Charles Dutoit / Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel / Detroit Symphony, Antal Dorati, etc [ Decca / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Nov/2009 ] A specially priced five CD set featuring a talent of top Decca recording artists like Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Julius Katchen, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dame Joan Sutherland, Willi Boskovsky, Pascal Roge and the Academy of St Martins in the Fields. |
FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Works, Volume 3 (Includes Sir Roger de Coverley: A Christmas Dance ) Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 18/Nov/2004 ] 'The performances exhibit commitment and a strong sense of familiarirty with all these works. Hickox is thoroughly persuasive at all times, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales delivers the goods with deserved confidence... Full marks for this... |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC Symphony/ Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2001 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Concerto |
TIPPETT
Piano Concerto / Praeludium / Fantasia on a Theme of Handel / Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli Howard Shelley (piano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 19/Jun/2001 ] 'committed and taut performances, and beautiful natural, yet dynamic, recordings.'-Fanfare |
DOREEN CARWITHEN
Concerto for Piano and Strings / Suffolk Suite / etc Howard Shelley (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] 'Shelley, Hickox and the LSO put not a foot wrong.' Tempo |