GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 Carolyn Sampson, Jacquelyn Wagner (sopranos), Sasha Cooke (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Barry Banks (tenor), Minnesota Orchestra [ BIS SACD / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] For its final concert of the 2021-22 season and Osmo Vänskä's last as artistic director, the Minnesota Orchestra chose to present Mahler's mammoth Eighth Symphony, which calls for one of the largest complement of performers in the history of music, a... |
MASON BATES
Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (complete opera) Edwards Parks, Garrett Sorenson, Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones / Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, Michael Christie [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 25/Feb/2019 ] "Christie conducts with plenty of energy and verve, and the playing and choral singing are exemplary in their precision" Gramophone |
HEGGIE / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN
Violins Of Hope Sasha Cooke, Daniel Hope, Sean Mo, Dawn Harms, Kay Stern, Emil Miland, Patricia Heller [ Pentatone / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Violins of Hope presents instruments that were owned by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust, representing strength and optimism for the future during mankind's darkest hour. They have been refurbished by luthiers Amnon and Avshalom... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection' Sasha Cooke, Ruby Hughes / Minnesota Chorale, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony started life as a single-movement tone poem called Todtenfeier ('Funeral Rites'). Completed in 1888 - one year before Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration - it echoed the composer's vision of seeing himself... |
Sasha Alex Sloan
I Blame The World [ RCA Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] The follow-up to her 2020 critically praised debut 'Only Child', 'I Blame The World' finds Sasha Alex Sloan embracing the weary apathy of the world around her and ushering in a bold new era of musicality. Sasha describes the new album as an... |
Sasha
Late Night Tales presents Sasha : Scene Delete [ Late Night Tales / CD - released 8/Apr/2016 ] Imagine listening to music inspired by Frahm, Richter andSteve Reich, but made by one of the UK's leading house and techno DJs. Away from the hubbub of the club, the craziness of Ibiza, there's a contemplative side to everybody. Forget the beats and... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ (complete oratorio) Andrew Goodwin, Shane Lowrencev, Matthew Brook, Sasha Cooke / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Mar/2019 ] "The marvelous solo singers are utterly convincing, from Andrew Staples' mellow tenor as the Narrator and Matthew Brook's complex Herod, to the love of Joseph and Mary (Williams and Cooke) for their baby and their rush to escape." 10/10 ClassicsToday |
TRADITIONAL
The Manchester Carols Carol Ann Duffy, Sasha Johnson Manning / Manchester Carollers / Northern Chamber Orchestra / Richard Tanner [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] This new sequence of Christmas carols was written in 2007 by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy and composer Sasha Johnson Manning, and premièred in the same year. |
JOHN PSATHAS
White Lies [Soundtrack] Emma Sayers (piano) Richard Nunns (taonga puoro) Sasha Gachenko (bass) Matt Cave (bass) & others [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] White Lies is a single piece of music for piano, taonga puoro and strings composed by John Psathas. The music was written for the film White Lies, directed by Dana Rotberg and released by South Pacific Pictures. The story is based on the novella... |
JOHN ADAMS
Doctor Atomic (complete opera recorded in 2008) Metropolitan Opera / Gerald Finley, Sasha Cooke, Eric Owens / Alan Gilbert (cond) [ Sony Metropolitan Series DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "Video and audio are state-of-the-art. This is a major addition to the operatic DVD catalog." (ClassicalCdReview) |
Sasha
The emFire Collection: Mixed, Unmixed and Remixed [ emFire Music / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2008 ] This 2CD set is a definitive view of Sasha's emFire catalogue - featuring originals, remixes and his award winning score to the movie 'New Emissions of Light & Sound'. |
Sasha
Fundacion NYC [ Fundacion / CD - released 5/Jul/2005 ] The legendary Sasha is re-invigorated and re-energised on this mixed compilation! 'Fundacion NYC' captures a great DJ having the time of his life. |
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Invol2ver [ 2 CD - released 25/Sep/2008 ] |
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Involver 3 (2 Disc) [ Mos UK / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2013 ] |
Sasha
Involver 3 (Triple Vinyl) [ Mos UK / 3 LP - released 15/Mar/2013 ] Limited edition 3LP vinyl issue. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 4 Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] "[Sasha Cooke's] even, expressive voice is equal to all technical demands and rises to tremendous intensity for 'Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass' while offering a deeply considered account of 'Sei still'" (BBC Music) |
Various / Sasha and John Digweed
Renaissance: The Mix Collection [ Renaissance / 3 CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] Voted as the #1 mix CD of all time!! Presenting the fully re-mastered triple CD 10th anniversary edition of the absolute classic house compilation', selected and mixed by the legendary DJ superstar duo. |