Lisa Milne, Roderick Williams with Iain Burnside (piano)
Moonstruck: Songs of FG Scott [ Signum / CD - released 16/May/2007 ] "Here's an important discovery ailing from the Scottish Borders...a compelling collection that reveals FG Scott as poetic yet clear-eyed and, above all, songful." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine August 2007 |
BACH / MENDELSSOHN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Cantata BWV63 'Christen, aetzet diesen Tag' / Von Himmel Hoch / The First Nowell Lisa Milne / Ruxandra Donose / Andrew Staples / Christopher Maltman / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "The LPO and Choir provide serious nourishment while opening our ears to the sort of Christmas music that gets overlooked amid the tinsel...Jurowski makes an unlikely but worthy VW champion...All in all, this is a programme combining enterprise and... |
JAMES MacMILLAN
The Sacrifice (complete opera) Lisa Milne (sop) Leigh Melrose (bar), Christopher Purves (bass) Sarah Tynan (sop) Peter Hoare (ten) / Welsh National Opera, Anthony Negus [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] 'There is no mistaking James MacMillan has a popular hit on his hands, with the cries of bravo as the curtain fell on the world premiere of his new opera.' (Western Mail) |
TRADITIONAL
Land of Heart's Desire (Songs of the Hebrides from the collection by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser) Lisa Milne (soprano) / Sioned Williams (harp) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] 'A treasure house of gems . . . This is as fine a solo debut album as I have encountered all year and deserves a cult following. It will come near the top of my Christmas list' - The Sunday Times |
Lisa Milne-soprano; Susan Bickley-mezzo soprano; Iain Burnside-piano
Voices Vol 2: Half Close Your Eyes-Songs by Debussy (plus Charpentier, Honegger, Delius, Vaughan Williams, etc) [ Black Box / CD - released 15/Oct/2003 ] "A brilliantly conceived, quite deliciously executed collection of settings of poems by Paul Verlaine." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Aug 2003) |
Lisa Mitchell
Wonder [ Warner Music Australia / 2 CD - released 14/Sep/2009 ] 'Wonder' is the debut album from 19-year-old singer / songwriter, Lisa Mitchell. This special Australasian edition includes a bonus disc of acoustic songs and demos. |
PHILIP GLASS
Mad Rush Lisa Moore (piano) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 16/Mar/2015 ] The new album from star new music pianist Lisa Moore captures iconic piano works from the catalogue of Philip Glass including Mad Rush, Metamorphosis Nos. I-V, the finale from Glass' opera Satyagraha and Closing from the Glass classic Glassworks. |
Lisa Papineau
Red Trees [ Sargent House / CD - released 3/May/2010 ] |
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Lulu (complete opera in English) Lisa Saffer / Susan Parry / Anna Burford / Graham Danby / English National Opera Orchestra / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Chandos / 3 CD - released 5/Mar/2006 ] '"Lisa Saffer makes an ideal Lulu, dramatically compelling to watch, and with a voice to equal the sustained high note writing which Berg gives his protagonist… John Graham-Hall's Alwa is splendid. Robert Haywood an excellent Dr Schön…"' Peter... |
Lisa Smirnova
One Lives But Once [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 27/Nov/2012 ] |
HANDEL
The Eight Great Suites HWV426-433 Lisa Smirnova (piano) [ ECM / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "Although she engages with period practice...she's no slave to it, producing something unapologetically pianistic and sometimes anachronistic here...Handel with care? Undeniably. And with captivating flair in spades." BBC Music Magazine:... |
DOMENICO LABOCCETTA
Laboccetta: A Tenor Cellist Matteo Malagoli (cello) Lisa De Polo (piano) Cristina Centa (harp) Yukiko Shimizu (soprano) Raffaele Giordani (tenor), etc [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Romantic miniatures by a forgotten Italian cellist and composer: the first album ever dedicated to the music of Domenico Laboccetta. Born to a poor family in the Sicilian town of Messina, Domenico Laboccetta (1823-1896) was entrusted to the care... |
JOHN IRELAND
The Songs of John Ireland Lisa Milne, John Mark Ainsley, Christopher Maltman / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/May/2015 ] "Ireland was a songsmith to rival the finest this country has produced, and Hyperion's generous anthology will hopefully encourage others to explore this rewarding and rapt repertoire" (Hi-Fi News) |
HANS ZIMMER
The World of Hans Zimmer - A Symphonic Celebration ORF Radio Symphony Radio, Martin Gellner, with Lisa Gerrard (vocals), Aleksandra Suklar (percussion), El Amir (guitar), etc [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Sony Classical is pleased to release the sensational double-album by one of the world's most accomplished film composer, Hans Zimmer. This stunning album sees Hans Zimmer arrange some of his most successful and recognisable compositions into... |
PHILIP GLASS
Orphee (complete opera) Philip Cutlip, Georgia Jarman, Lisa Saffer, Ryan MacPherson / Portland Opera, Anne Manson [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 23/Jun/2011 ] "The text is set in the original French, and the shapely vocal lines and cool, clear textures have an unmistakably Gallic feel; listening to this performance... there are constant reminders that Glass studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger in the... |
Robert Rich & Lisa Moskow
Yearning [ Hearts of Space Records / CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] |
NICOLAS BACRI
Sturm und Drang Sharon Bezaly (flute) François Leleux (oboe) Riitta Pesola (cello) Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Tapiola Sinfonietta conducted by Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] This highly accessible, colourful and melodic music is here interpreted by the Tapiola Sinfonietta under Jean-Jacques Kantorow, a team whose previous recordings on BIS have been enthusiastically received by the reviewers. A disc of works by... |
FOLKJUL
Folkjul: A Swedish Folk Christmas Sofia Karlsson, Emma Hardelin (vocals) Lisa Rydberg (violin) St Jacobs Kammarkor / Gary Graden [ BIS / CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] In Sweden the unbroken tradition of folk music has influenced both liturgical and classical music - and musicians! Gunnar Idenstam, concert organist with an international reputation, has previously explored folk music in various constellations. |
Soundtrack / Original music composed and performed by Lisa Gerrard
Whale Rider [ 4AD Records / CD - released 18/Feb/2003 ] 'Whale Rider' is a beautiful, graceful and totally inspiring movie, and this score will undoubedly move you. |
BACH / BRUCKNER / PERGOLESI / STRADELLA / DVORAK / etc
Ave Maria: Sacred Songs Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) Mirella Freni (soprano), Lisa Otto (soprano), Maria Stader (soprano), Rita Streich (soprano), Hertha Topper (contralt [ Deutsche Grammophon ABC Eloquence / CD - released 7/Jul/1995 ] Eloquence - great classical recordings reissued at a budget price |