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DAVID SCHIFF
Schiff: Gimpel the Fool (complete opera) Richard Zeller / D'Anna Fortunato / Kevin Walsh / Thomas Glenn / Third Angle Ensemble / Kenneth Kiesler [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] Gimpel the Fool is a setting of the story by Polish-born American Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991). In the words of the composer, also of Polish descent, "it turned out to be world full of spirits and demons, as well as a world... |
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Rick Braun & Richard Elliot
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' Robert Holzer (bass) Gabriele Lechner (soprano) Michael Pabst (tenor) Diane Elias (mezzo) / Zagreb Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Richard Edlinger [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/1990 ] The Austrian conductor Richard Edlinger was born in Bregenz in 1958 and directed his first concerts at the age of seventeen. He completed his studies at the Vienna Academy in conducting and composition in 1982. |
GEORGE DYSON
The Canterbury Pilgrims (complete opera in English) Robert Tear / Stephen Roberts / Yvonne Kenny / London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Richard Hichox [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2007 ] "'The Canterbury Pilgrims' by 20th century English composer George Dyson is a highly orchestrated song cycle or oratoria based on eleven stories out of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'." (Amazon.com) (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Feb 2006) |
FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Works Volume 5 (Includes Suite for Strings & Two Songs of Robert Bridges) Roderick Williams, baritone BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox, conductor [ Chandos / CD - released 5/Oct/2004 ] "Charming miniatures performed with great refinement ... enchants from beginning to end. Strongly recommended" - MusicWeb Oct 2004 |
COLIN MATTHEWS
No Man's Land / Crossing The Alps / Aftertones Roderick Williams (baritone) Ian Bostridge (tenor) / halle Youth Choir, Halle Choir, Nicholas Collon, Richard Wilberforce [ Halle / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] Hallé marks the centenary of the First World War with a recording of award winning work by Composer Emeritus Colin Matthews. The main work on the recording, No Man's Land follows on from Matthews' very positive collaboration with Christopher Reid... |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 / Nocturne Roderick Williams (baritone) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] 'Finally, there's a real treat: the first recording of a recently discovered Nocturne, an intensely moving setting of Walt Whitman's 'Whispers of Heavenly Death' composed in 1908. It's evocatively sung here by Roderick Williams.' (BBC Music Magazine) |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 / Nocturne Roderick Williams (baritone) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos SACD / SACD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] "The surround sound balance offers considerably enhanced definition" (Gramophone) - On Hybrid Surround Super Audio CD (SACD) format - PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. |
SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45 (An Opera in Two Scenes, Libretto by Paul Dehn) Roderick Williams, Yvonne Kenny, Claire Rutter, Jean Rigby, Anne Collins, Robin Leggate, Blake Fischer / City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Jul/2004 ] "A long-neglected British opera at last makes a sparkling début on record" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Sept 2004 |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A Cotswold Romance / The Death of Tintagiles Rosa Mannion / Thomas Randle / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] 'Richard Hickox directs a vivid performance [of A Cotswold Romance] with splendid support from his assembled forces. Although not major works, these are notable additions to the catalogue, and the performances could hardly be better' BBC ***** |
MASSENET
Amoureuse: Sacred and Profane Arias Rosamund Illing (soprano) / The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra / Richard Bonynge (conductor) [ Melba Recordings SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "Rosamund Illing - we do appreciate her full and brilliant tone - sings them with sincerity. Her voice shows many colours, her diction is refined ... her charm is evident ... Bonynge weaves a voluptuous accompaniment around the singer ... 4... |
CARL CZERNY
Bel Canto Concertante Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Carl Czerny wrote so much more than just studies, and it is great to have more and more of it become available on CD. At Naxos's bargain price, it would be virtually impossible not to welcome this charming CD. After all, each work is both attractive |
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Piano Concertinos / Fantaisie et Variations brillantes Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] Carl Czerny found fame and fortune in 19th-century Vienna by writing fashionable and popular works as well as developing techniques for the newly emerging piano with his numerous études. Much of Czerny's concert music for piano was considered 'wild... |
CARL CZERNY
Grand Concerto in A minor / etc Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] Carl Czerny, one of Vienna's most illustrious musicians, was Beethoven's student and devoted friend. Renowned today for his piano treatises, he was also a prolific composer in almost every genre, but it is the music for his own instrument that has... |
WILLIAM VINCENT WALLACE
Opera Fantasies and Paraphrases Rosemary Tuck (piano) / Richard Bonynge (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] As an internationally admired opera composer, William Vincent Wallace was perfectly placed to provide brilliant fantasies and paraphrases from the operatic repertoire, refashioned for the domestic piano market. Most in this selection date from... |
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WILLIAM VINCENT WALLACE
William Vincent Wallace: Celtic Fantasies Rosemary Tuck (piano) & Richard Bonynge (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] |
WILLIAM VINCENT WALLACE
Chopinesque Rosemary Tuck (piano) & Richard Bonynge (piano) / Tait Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2013 ] The scintillating virtuoso pianist and composer William Vincent Wallace wrote a sheaf of memorable compositions for his instrument. He met the huge demand for sheet music by producing a series of waltzes, nocturnes, mazurkas, barcarolles, and other... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (recorded live Covent Garden in 1980) Royal Opera House / Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Anne Howells, Stafford Dean / Richard Bonynge (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 15/Jul/2017 ] "Fleet, if not polished...Sutherland tackles the title role with her usual attributes of a voice of considerable size, extention and pinpoint agility, no acting skills but a grand presence" Opera Now |
HOLST
An Introduction to Holst (Incls 'The Planets' & 'Brook Green Suite') Royal Scottish National Orchestra / women's voices of the RSNO Chorus / Sir Alexander Gibson / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Intro / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] 'In every respect this latest Holst anthology from Chandos will be hard to beat. The recording is superb - very real indeed…' The Penguin Complete Guide |
J. S. BACH
J.S. Bach: Matthäus Passion (Deluxe Edition) Rufus Müller, Richard Jackson, Nancy Argenta, Jonathan Peter Kenny, Jamie MacDougall, Stephen Varcoe / Paul Goodwin (conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] The audio version of Jonathan Miller's ground-breaking production for TV of Bach's great sacred drama. |
