Since you are interested in Songs of Cricket, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
VIVALDI / HANDEL / TELEMANN / PURCELL etc
Un'alma innamorata-A Soul in Love Linda Perillo (soprano) / Cordaria / Walter Reiter [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jan/2003 ] This new collection from Cordaria features cantatas for soprano, violin and basso continuo, written by composers including Samuel Capricornus, Dietrich Buxtehude, Antonio Vivaldi , Georg Phillipp Telemann and Georg Frederic Handel. |
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 |
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN
Anais Nin / De Staat London Sinfonietta / Synergy Vocals / David Atherton [ Signum / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "De Staat remains one of Andriessen's supreme achievements, an epic rechannelling of Stravinskyan rhythmic energy into his own raw-edged minimalism. That, much more than the newer work, is the reason for buying this disc." (Guardian) |
J.S. BACH
Harpsichord Music (The Italian Concerto & The French Overture) Lucy Carolan (harpsichord) [ Signum / CD - released 14/Aug/2003 ] "Dynamic playing by harpsichordist Lucy Carolan imbues these works with great spirit and verve. She plays with electrifying skill that adds a sparkle and pizzazz to pieces that require great technical skill.... Carolan's immaculate sense of rhythm... |
PETER WARLOCK
Peter Warlock - Some Little Joy (a flim by Tony Britten) Mark Dexter, Lucy Brown, Maimie McCoy and cast [ Signum Vision / DVD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] A film about a man who, by his death at thirty six, had composed some of the most perfect gems of English songwriting and elevated hedonism to an art form. |
JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: Towards Silence Medici String Quartet / Court Lane Quartet / Finzi Quartet / Cavaleri Quartet [ Signum / CD - released 7/Mar/2011 ] "This must count as one of Tavener's most powerful and sublime achievements." (The Sunday Times) |
SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN
Wanderer Fantasy (orchestrated by Joeseph James) Members of the Schubert Ensemble / English Chamber Orchestra / Orlando Jopling, Conductor [ Signum / CD - released 16/May/2007 ] Schubert's 'Wanderer Fantasy' and Schumann's 'Fantasie' are two highly remarkable works: whilst musically embodying the romantic spirit of the age in their unconventional structures and lyrically imaginative styles, they also act as self-portraits to... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Temple of Chastity: 13th Century Spanish music from Codex Las Huelgas-Volume 1 Mille Fleurs with Jan Walters (harp) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] "the performances are the epitome of sophisticated smoothness.... The recording impresses by its freshness and vigour, and by the excitement the singers clearly find in this fascinating repertoire" Ivan Moody, Gramophone |
VERDI / BOITO
Falstaff (complete opera recorded in 2006 in a new version by Tony Britten) Music Theatre London / Ian Jervis / Jan Hartley / Julia Forsyth / Simon Butteriss / Rosamund Shelley [ Signum Vision / DVD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] G; - "The DVD was recorded on location in and around a real golf club and the club acts as the setting for most of the scenes barring a few in the Fords' home." (MusicWeb Oct 2008) |
Musica Antiqua, directed by Philip Thorby
A Songbook for Isabella: Music from the circle of Isabella d'Este [ Signum / CD - released 14/Aug/2003 ] "there are many imaginative touches, and interpretative subtlety in abundance" Fabrice Fitch, Early Music |
Musica Antiqua, directed by Philip Thorby; with Clare Wilkinson, Mezzo-Soprano
Fire and Ice: Love Songs from 16th Century Venice [ Signum / CD - released 14/Aug/2003 ] "these performances.... communicate an infectious sense of enjoyment and enthusiasm (and) make thoroughly satisfying listening." - Daily Telegraph 12 October 2002 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral" The New Company / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Signum / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "No passage from darkness to light here, but a pervasive exaltation even in the first movement...However many Ninths you own, add this to your treasury." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
RAVEL / FAURE / POULENC / IBERT
Music by Ravel, Faure, Poulenc and Ibert Pascal Roge (piano) / London Chamber Orchestra / Christopher Warren-Green [ Signum LCO Live / CD - released 8/Sep/2011 ] "The latest of the LCO Live series offers an engaging and varied programme of French Romanticism...The centrepiece of the programme is Poulenc's "Piano Concerto", the opening section of which alone seems to incorporate more disparate styles than most... |
Paul Marleyn (Cello) John Lenehan (Piano)
From Jewish Life: works for cello and piano [ Signum / CD - released 30/May/2004 ] "Inventive programming, passionate playing, compelling listening" Jessica Duchan, Classic fm Magazine |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche / Ein Heldenleben Philharmonia Orchestra / Christoph Von DohnAInyi [ Signum Philharmonia Orchestra / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] The fourth release in Signum's hugely successful collaboration with the Philharmonia Orchestra combines two favourite tone poems by Richard Strauss, Til Eulenspiegel and a blistering Ein Heldenleben, conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi. |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 6 in A Minor Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Signum Philharmonia Series / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] Sometimes known as 'The Tragic' - a title suggested but then withdrawn by the composer - Mahler's Sixth Symphony embodies much of the inner turmoil and superstition of its composer. |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie Fantastique The Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Signum Philharmonia Orchestra / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] The Philharmonia Orchestra's 2nd disc with Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen, shifts dramatically in tone from the first, exploring Berlioz's evocative sonic dream Symphonie Fantastique, alongside Beethoven's Leonore Overture. |
MAHLER
Symphony no. 9 The Philharmonia Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Signum Philharmonia Orchestra / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "Salonen emphasises the prophetic rather than the nostalgic. He is electrifying in the grotesque rondo-burlesque scherzo...In the two massive slow outer movements...[he] empathises with the love of life and the beauties of nature that paradoxically... |