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Review English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner / J.S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 72; 73; 111; 156
Tracks J.S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 72; 73; 111; 156
  • 4. Aria: "Mein Jesus will es tun" - Joanne Lunn, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 3. Recitative: "Mein Angst und Not" - Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 3. Recitative: "O Törichter! der sich von Gott entzieht" - Sara Mingardo, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 2. Aria: "Entsetze dich, mein Herze nicht" - Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 1. Chorus & Rec.: "Herr, wie du willt, so schick's mit mir" - Julian Podger, Stephen Varcoe, Joanne Lunn, The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 2. Aria and Chorale: "Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe" - Julian Podger, The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 5. Recitative: "Drum wenn der Tod zuletzt den Geist" - Joanne Lunn, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 5. Chorale: "Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit" - The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 2. Recitative, Arioso and Aria: "O selger Christ" - Sara Mingardo, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 5. Recitative: "Und willst du, daß ich nicht soll kranken" - Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 3. Recitative: "So glaube nun!" - Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 6. Chorale: "Herr, wie du willt, so schick's mit mir" - The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 4. Aria: "Herr, so du willt" - Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 1. Sinfonia - English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 1. Chorus: "Alles nur nach Gottes Willen" - The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 4. Aria: "So geh ich mit beherzten Schritten" - Julian Podger, Sara Mingardo, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 2. Aria: "Ach senke doch den Geist der Freuden" - Julian Podger, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 1. Chorus: "Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit" - The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 6. Chorale: "Noch eins, Herr, will ich bitten dich" - The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 3. Recitative: "Ach, unser Wille bleibt verkehrt" - Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 4. Aria: "Herr, was du willt, soll mir gefallen" - Sara Mingardo, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
  • 5. Chorale: "Das ist des Vaters Wille" - The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Publisher: Universal Classics
Release date: 2000-05-22
Run time: 57 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.98

Review J.S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 72; 73; 111; 156 / English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner:

John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the gut-strung English Baroque Soloists sound fresh and incisive on this Deutsche Grammophon CD of the four cantatas which Bach wrote for the third Sunday after Epiphany. The cantatas were performed and recorded live on that day in January 2000, early into the Bach Pilgrimage Tour. They had reached Milan, Italy, and were keen, new pilgrims not long into a journey. The gospel reading for Epiphany III depicts a similarly young, enthusiastic and wilful Jesus at the start of his mission. Lepers walk; the palsied revive; whatever Jesus wills, happens. Three of the cantatas begin with bracing choruses about divine will. "Allein nur nach Gottes Willen" opens the disc with a blaze of determined, rhythmic singing and playing. It is the finest track on the CD although the beautiful Sinfonia at the start of "Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe", an occasional encore piece, also makes it worth the purchase. The soloists have mixed fortunes. Soprano Joanne Lunn soars brightly-she has been the star of the tour. [+]
Contralto Sara Mingardo sounds edgy, tenor Julian Podger dry, and bass Stephen Varcoe, a last-minute replacement, sometimes trips on his ornaments. Audience applause has been wiped, which may be a mistake. -Rick Jones.

Review Apex / Purcell - Music for Queen Mary
Tracks Purcell - Music for Queen Mary
  • See Nature, Rejoicing
  • The Day That Such A Blessing
  • In The Midst Of Life
  • Come, Ye Sons Of Art, Come Away
  • These, Are The Sacred Charms
  • Strike The Viol
  • Canzona
  • Canzona
  • March
  • Ouverture
  • Sound The Trumpet
  • Thou Knowest Lord, The Secret Of Our Hearts (3rd Sentence)
  • Bid The Virtues
  • Come, Ye Sons Of Art, Come Away
  • Man That Is Born
  • March
Publisher: Apex
Release date: 2002-11-25
Run time: 45 min.
Creator: Equale Brass
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.51

Review Purcell - Music for Queen Mary / Apex:


Review The Lindsays / Haydn: Seven Last Words (quartet version)
Tracks Haydn: Seven Last Words (quartet version)
  • The Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour From The Cross, Op. 51: No. 3 In E 'Mulier, ecce filius tuus, et tu, ecce mater tua'
  • The Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour From The Cross, Op. 51: No. 1 In B Flat 'Pater, dimitte illis; non enim sciunt quid faciunt'
  • The Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour From The Cross, Op. 51: No. 6 In G Minor 'Consummatum est'
  • The Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour From The Cross, Op. 51: No. 2 In C Minor 'Amen dico tibi; hodie mecum eris in paradiso'
  • The Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour From The Cross, Op. 51: Introduction: Maestoso ed adagio
  • The Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour From The Cross, Op. 51: No. 4 In F Minor 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?'
  • The Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour From The Cross, Op. 51: No. 5 In A 'Sitio'
  • The Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour From The Cross, Op. 51: No. 7 In E Flat 'Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum'
  • The Seven Last Words Of Our Saviour From The Cross, Op. 51: Il Terremoto: Presto con tutta la forza
Publisher: ASV
Release date: 2008-04-21
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Joseph Haydn
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.49

Review Haydn: Seven Last Words (quartet version) / The Lindsays:

The Seven Last Words is a one-off whose musical interest gives it more than just novelty status. Haydn wrote the work for orchestra in 1787, promptly arranging it for string quartet, piano, even chorus and orchestra. That the quartet version is the most-often played is no coincidence: it's the ideal medium for Haydn's musical depiction of Christ's alleged seven last "phrases"-seven pieces, all at an adagio tempo, preceded by a similarly marked introduction and concluded by a violent presto evoking the storm of God's wrath. Serious stuff, but thanks to Haydn's subtle changes in mood and gravitas, not the hard slog you might expect. The Lindsays have given many performances of the whole cycle, so they've no problems when it comes to sustaining interest in the work over its 50 minutes, or of unleashing the coda's massive pent-up energy. Its not hard when listening to foresee the profound, slow movements of Beethoven's late quartets, and beyond them to the symphonies of Bruckner and Mahler. Powerful music worth getting to know. -Richard Whitehouse.

Review Archiv Produktion / Gabrieli: Music for San Rocco (1608) /Gabrieli Consort & Players · McCreesh
Tracks Gabrieli: Music for San Rocco (1608) /Gabrieli Consort & Players · McCreesh
  • Music For San Rocco: Sonata No. 21 con tre violini
  • Music For San Rocco: Audi, dulcis amica mea
  • Music For San Rocco: Intonazione del nono tono
  • Music For San Rocco: Ardens est cor meum
  • Music For San Rocco: Magnificat a 33
  • Music For San Rocco: Sonata No. 18 a 14
  • Music For San Rocco: Sonata No. 20 a 22
  • Music For San Rocco: Canzona No. 14 a 10
  • Music For San Rocco: Suscipe, clementissime Deus a 12
  • Music For San Rocco: Sonata No. 19 a 15
  • Music For San Rocco: Misericordia tua, Domine a 12
  • Music For San Rocco: Timor et tremor a 6
  • Music For San Rocco: Toccata a 4
  • Music For San Rocco: Intonazione duodecimo tono
  • Music For San Rocco: In ecclesiis a 14
  • Music For San Rocco: Buccinate In neomenia tuba a 19
  • Music For San Rocco: Domine Dues meus a 6
  • Music For San Rocco: Jubilate Deo a 10
Publisher: Archiv Produktion
Release date: 2000-10-05
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Timothy Roberts
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.37

Review Gabrieli: Music for San Rocco (1608) /Gabrieli Consort & Players · McCreesh / Archiv Produktion:


Review Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin / Chopin: Piano Works [Box set] [Etudes - Impromptus - Sonatas - Concertos - Mazurkas - Polonaise - Berceuse]
Tracks Chopin: Piano Works [Box set] [Etudes - Impromptus - Sonatas - Concertos - Mazurkas - Polonaise - Berceuse]
  • 3. Rondo (Vivace) - Tamás Vásáry, Berliner Philharmoniker, Jerzy Semkow
  • Impromptu No.3 in G flat, Op.51
  • 3. Largo
  • No. 7 in C sharp minor
  • 1. Allegro maestoso
  • 2. Scherzo - Più lento - Tempo I
  • 4. Finale (Presto non tanto)
  • No. 8 in D flat
  • No. 11 in A minor "Winter Wind"
  • Poco mosso
  • No. 1 in A flat "Harp Study"
  • 4. Finale (Presto)
  • No. 6. in E flat minor
  • Allegro non troppo
  • Andante
  • No. 3 in F
  • Maestoso
  • Impromptu No.1 in A flat, Op.29
  • Impromptu No.4 in C sharp minor, Op.66 "Fantaisie-Impromptu"
  • No. 5. in G flat "Black Keys"
  • Vivace
  • No. 10. in A flat
  • 2. Scherzo (Molto vivace)
  • 1. Allegro maestoso - Tamás Vásáry, Berliner Philharmoniker, Jerzy Semkow
  • 1. Maestoso - Tamás Vásáry, Berliner Philharmoniker, Janos Kulka
  • 1. Grave - Doppio movimento
  • 2. Larghetto - Tamás Vásáry, Berliner Philharmoniker, Janos Kulka
  • 3. Marche funèbre (Lento)
  • No. 9 in G flat, "Butterfly Wings"
  • No. 7. in C
  • No. 12. in C minor "Revolutionary"
  • No. 2 in F minor
  • Impromptu No.2 in F sharp, Op.36
  • 2. Romance (Larghetto) - Tamás Vásáry, Berliner Philharmoniker, Jerzy Semkow
  • No. 1. in C
  • No. 3 in E "Tristesse"
  • No. 9. in F minor
  • Allegretto
  • No. 4. in C sharp minor
  • No. 5 in E minor
  • Introduction and Variations on a German National Air Op.posth. (KK 925-927)
  • Lento
  • 3. Allegro vivace - Tamás Vásáry, Berliner Philharmoniker, Janos Kulka
  • No. 10 in B minor
  • No. 2. in A minor "chromatique"
  • No. 12 in C minor
  • No. 4 in A minor
  • No. 6 in G sharp minor
  • No. 11. in E flat
  • No. 8. in F
Publisher: Universal Classics
Release date: 2005-07-11
Run time: 228 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.29

Review Chopin: Piano Works [Box set] [Etudes - Impromptus - Sonatas - Concertos - Mazurkas - Polonaise - Berceuse] / Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin:


Review Living Stereo / Chopin - Ballades; Scherzos
Tracks Chopin - Ballades; Scherzos
  • No. 2, Op. 31 in B-Flat Minor
  • No. 2, Op. 38 in F
  • No. 3, Op. 47 in A-Flat
  • No. 1, Op. 20 in B Minor
  • No. 1, Op. 23 in G Minor
  • No. 3, Op. 39 in C-Sharp Minor
  • No. 4, Op. 52 in F Minor
  • No. 4, Op. 54 in E
Publisher: Living Stereo
Release date: 2004-10-11
Run time: 71 min.
Creator: Artur Rubinstein
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.58

Review Chopin - Ballades; Scherzos / Living Stereo:


Review Herbert von Karajan / Wagner: Parsifal
Tracks Wagner: Parsifal
  • "Hier war das Tosen!" - Barbara Hendricks, Janet Perry, Doris Soffel, Inga Nielsen, Audrey Michael, Rohangiz Yachmi, Peter Hofmann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Walter Hagen-Groll
  • "Mein Sohn Amfortas, bist du am Amt?" - Victor von Halem, José van Dam, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Walter Hagen-Groll
  • "Ach! Ach! Tiefe Nacht! Wahnsinn!" - "Furchtbare Not!" - Dunja Vejzovic, Siegmund Nimsgern, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Nun sag'! Nichts weißt du, was ich dich frage" - Kurt Moll, Peter Hofmann, Dunja Vejzovic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Weh! - Hoho! - Auf! - Wer ist der Frevler?" - Marjon Lambriks, Anne Gjevang, Heiner Hopfner, Georg Tichy, Claes-Håkon Ahnsjö, Kurt Rydl, Kurt Moll, Peter Hofmann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Nicht so! Die heil'ge Quelle selbst erquicke unsres Pilgers Bad" - Kurt Moll, Peter Hofmann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Recht so! Habt Dank! Ein wenig Rast!" - "Gawan! - Herr! Gawan weilte nicht!" - José van Dam, Kurt Rydl, Kurt Moll, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Höchsten Heiles Wunder!" - "Erlösung dem Erlöser!" (Knaben, Jünglinge, Ritter) - Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Walter Hagen-Groll
  • "He! Ho! Waldhüter ihr" - Kurt Moll, Claes-Håkon Ahnsjö, Kurt Rydl, Marjon Lambriks, Anne Gjevang, Dunja Vejzovic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Geleiten wir im bergenden Schrein" - Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Walter Hagen-Groll
  • "Grausamer! Fühlst du im Herzen" - "Ich sah ihn" - "Nun such' ich ihn von Welt zu Welt" - Dunja Vejzovic, Peter Hofmann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Amfortas! Die Wunde!" - Peter Hofmann, Dunja Vejzovic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust" - Dunja Vejzovic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Parsifal! Weile!" - Dunja Vejzovic, Peter Hofmann, Barbara Hendricks, Janet Perry, Doris Soffel, Inga Nielsen, Audrey Michael, Rohangiz Yachmi, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Walter Hagen-Groll
  • Verwandlungsmusik - Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Wein und Brot des letzten Mahles" - Kurt Moll, Hanna Schwarz, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • Prelude - "Die Zeit ist da" - Siegmund Nimsgern, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • Du siehst, das ist nicht so (Gurnemanz, Parsifal) - Kurt Moll, Peter Hofmann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Nicht Dank! Haha! Was wird es helfen?" - "He! Du da! Was liegst du dort wie ein wildes Tier?" - Dunja Vejzovic, Heiner Hopfner, Georg Tichy, Kurt Moll, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • Prelude - Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Vom Bade kehrt der König heim" - Kurt Moll, Peter Hofmann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • Prelude - Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Wehe! Was tat ich? Wo war ich?" - "Bekenntnis wird Schuld in Reue enden" - Peter Hofmann, Dunja Vejzovic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Nun achte wohl und laß mich seh'n" - "Zum letzten Liebesmahle" - Kurt Moll, Claes-Håkon Ahnsjö, Kurt Rydl, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Walter Hagen-Groll
  • "Heil dir, mein Gast!" - Kurt Moll, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • Heil mir, daß ich dich wiederfinde! (Parsifal, Gurnemanz) - Peter Hofmann, Kurt Moll, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Vergeh, unseliges Weib!" - Peter Hofmann, Dunja Vejzovic, Siegmund Nimsgern, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • Ja, Wehe! Wehe! Weh' über mich! (Amfortas, Ritter) - José van Dam, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Walter Hagen-Groll
  • Enthüllet den Gral! - Victor von Halem, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Walter Hagen-Groll
  • Nur eine Waffe taugt (Parsifal) - Peter Hofmann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Dies alles hab' ich nun geträumt?" - Peter Hofmann, Dunja Vejzovic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "O Herr! War es ein Fluch" - "Die heil'ge Speisung bleibt uns nun versagt" - Kurt Moll, Peter Hofmann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Von dorther kam das Stöhnen" - Kurt Moll, Dunja Vejzovic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Komm, holder Knabe!" - Barbara Hendricks, Janet Perry, Doris Soffel, Inga Nielsen, Audrey Michael, Rohangiz Yachmi, Peter Hofmann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Walter Hagen-Groll
  • "Titurel, der fromme Held" - Kurt Moll, Marjon Lambriks, Anne Gjevang, Heiner Hopfner, Georg Tichy, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Gesegnet sei, du Reiner, durch das Reine!" - "Wie dünkt mich doch die Aue heut so schön!" - Kurt Moll, Peter Hofmann, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "O wunden-wundervoller heiliger Speer" - Kurt Moll, Marjon Lambriks, Anne Gjevang, Heiner Hopfner, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
  • "Mittag. Die Stund' ist da" - Verwandlungsmusik (Gurnemanz) - Kurt Moll, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon
Release date: 1984-07-05
Run time: 255 min.
Creator: Richard Wagner
RRP: £61.99
Price: £33.56

Review Wagner: Parsifal / Herbert von Karajan:


Review St Petersburg Valery Gergiev / Tchaikovsky / Myaskovsky: Violin Concertos
Tracks Tchaikovsky / Myaskovsky: Violin Concertos
  • 2. Adagio e molto cantabile
  • 2. Canzonetta (Andante)
  • 3. Finale (Allegro vivacissimo)
  • 1. Allegro
  • 3. Allegro molto - Allegro scherzoso
  • 1. Allegro moderato
Publisher: Universal Classics
Release date: 2003-03-03
Run time: 71 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.19

Review Tchaikovsky / Myaskovsky: Violin Concertos / St Petersburg Valery Gergiev:


Review Naxos / Finzi - Songs for Baritone and Piano
Tracks Finzi - Songs for Baritone and Piano
  • Channel Firing
  • Epeisodia
  • He Abjures Love
  • Come Away, Come Away, Death
  • Amabel
  • The Too Short Time
  • In The Mind's Eye
  • Overlooking The River
  • The Self-Unseeing
  • Before And After Summer
  • For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly
  • O Mistress Mine
  • I Said To Love
  • I Need Not Go
  • Two Lips
  • In Five-Score Summers (Mediation)
  • Childhood Among The Ferns
  • It Was A Lover And His Lass
  • Who Is Silvia?
  • At Middle-Field Gate In Febuary
  • Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun
Publisher: Naxos
Release date: 2005-05-02
Run time: 61 min.
Creator: Iain Burnside
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.95

Review Finzi - Songs for Baritone and Piano / Naxos:


Review Studio Plus / Fauré/Bach: Choral Works
Tracks Fauré/Bach: Choral Works
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Gloria Patri
  • Requiem, Op. 48: Introit et Kyrie
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Et misericordia
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Quia fecit mihi magna
  • Requiem, Op. 48: Pie Jesu
  • Pavane, Op. 50
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Esurientes implevit bonis
  • Requiem, Op. 48: In Paradisum
  • Requiem, Op. 48: Libera Me
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Quia respexit
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Omnes generationes
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Fecit potentiam
  • Requiem, Op. 48: Agnus Dei
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Sicut locutus est
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Magnificat
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Suscepit Israel
  • Requiem, Op. 48: Sanctus
  • Requiem, Op. 48: Offertoire
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Et exsultavit
  • Magnificat, BWV 243: Deposuit potentes
Publisher: Studio Plus
Release date: 1992-11-30
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Anne Pashley
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.98

Review Fauré/Bach: Choral Works / Studio Plus:


Review Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Walton - Symphony No 1; Coronation Marches
Tracks Walton - Symphony No 1; Coronation Marches
  • III. Andante Con Maunconia
  • I. Allegro Assai
  • II. Presto, Con Malizia
  • Orb & Sceptre
  • IV. Maestoso
  • Crown Imperial
Publisher: Telarc
Release date: 2004-08-23
Run time: 59 min.
Creator: André Previn
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.18

Review Walton - Symphony No 1; Coronation Marches / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra:


Review King's College Choir / O Come All Ye Faithful
Tracks O Come All Ye Faithful
  • Seven Joys Of Mary
  • O Come All Ye Faithful
  • First Nowell
  • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
  • Once In Royal David's City
  • Silent Night
  • Up Good Christian Folk And Listen
  • In The Bleak Mid Winter
  • Holly And The Ivy
  • Ding Dong Merrily On High
  • Hark The Herald Angels Sing
  • O Little Town Of Bethlehem
  • I Saw Three Ships
  • Away In A Manger
  • On Christmas Night
  • Infant King
Publisher: Decca
Release date: 1984-11-01
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.05

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Review Wolfgang Schneiderhan Berliner Philharmoniker Eugen Jochum / Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Mozart: Violin Concerto No.5
Tracks Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Mozart: Violin Concerto No.5
  • 2. Larghetto - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum
  • 1. Allegro aperto - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Berliner Philharmoniker
  • 3. Rondeau. Tempo di Menuetto - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Berliner Philharmoniker
  • 2. Adagio - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Berliner Philharmoniker
  • 3. Rondo. Allegro - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum
  • 1. Allegro ma non troppo - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum
Publisher: Universal Classics
Release date: 1995-04-04
Run time: 74 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.52

Review Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Mozart: Violin Concerto No.5 / Wolfgang Schneiderhan Berliner Philharmoniker Eugen Jochum:


Review Plácido Domingo Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi Marcello Viotti Sissel / Plácido Domingo - Sacred Songs
Tracks Plácido Domingo - Sacred Songs
  • Pregária
  • Ave Maria
  • Frondi tenere / Ombra mai fu
  • Preghiera (Alla mente confusa)
  • Repentir (O Divine Redeemer)
  • Sanctus - Plácido Domingo, Marcello Viotti, Romano Gandolfi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
  • Ave Maria (arranged from "Intermezzo sinfonico") - Plácido Domingo, Sissel, Marcello Viotti, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
  • Climb Ev'ry Mountain [The Sound of Music]
  • Der Engel
  • "Ye people, rend your hearts" - "If with all your hearts"
  • Panis Angelicus
  • Domine Deus
  • "Bist du bei mir", BWV 508 Aria - Plácido Domingo, Sissel, Marcello Viotti, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
  • Wiegenlied, D.498 - Arr. & Orch. Steven Mercurio as "Mille Cherubini in coro" - Plácido Domingo, Marcello Viotti, Romano Gandolfi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
  • Kyrie - Plácido Domingo, Paolo Rustichelli, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Marcello Viotti, Romano Gandolfi, Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
  • Ave Maria: arr. from Bach's Prelude No.1 BWV 846 - Plácido Domingo, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Marcello Viotti, Luisa Domingo
Publisher: Universal Classics
Release date: 2002-10-28
Run time: 64 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.95

Review Plácido Domingo - Sacred Songs / Plácido Domingo Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi Marcello Viotti Sissel:

In February 2002, Plácido Domingo spent some time in the recording studio. The result is Sacred Songs, a 16-track disc of music which spans three centuries. There are a few favourites here, such as the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria and "Ombra mai fu" from Handel's opera Serse. But it's not all familiar-Sacred Songs has plenty of surprises too. The collection opens with an arrangement of the much loved Intermezzo from Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana where Domingo is joined by the Norwegian soprano Sissel. She appears on one other track but her breathy voice is no match for the great tenor. Next up is a setting of the Kyrie by the Italian composer Paolo Rustichelli (b. 1953) which almost takes the disc into pop territory with its synthesizers and guitar solo. Plácido Domingo Jr turns up as the composer of another Ave Maria setting, preceded by his father's cringing rendition of "Climb Ev'ry Mountain". The Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, which makes three appearances, is not on good form so the rendition of Franck's "Panis angelicus", where a cello replaces the chorus, is even more welcome. [+]
A mixed bag overall but definitely one for Domingo devotees. -Rebecca Agnew.

Review Celestial Harmonies / The Complete Hildegard von Bingen, Vol.1 [IMPORT]
Tracks The Complete Hildegard von Bingen, Vol.1 [IMPORT]
  • The Devil's Suggestion (O You Who Are Illumined-O Tu Illustrata)
  • Living-Light Angels (O Gloriosissimi Lux Vivens Angeli)
  • Honey And Milk Beneath Her Tongue (Dripping Honeycomb-Favus Destillans)
  • O Orzchis Ecclesia
  • Place Of The Ancient Heart (O You Angels-O Vos Angeli)
  • The Firstwoman (Deus Enim In Prima Muliere)
  • Zeal Of Divinity (Studiium Divintatis)
  • O Fiery Spirit (O Ignee Spiritus)
  • Red River Falling (O Rubor Sanguinis)
  • From Their Homeland (De Patria)
  • Ursula's Virgins (Et Ideo Puelle)
  • Song To Ecclesia (Nunc Graudant Materna Viscera Ecclesia)
  • But The Devil Mocked (Sed Diabolus In Invidia)
  • The Clouds Are Grieving (Our King Is Swift-Rex Noster Promptus Est)
Publisher: Celestial Harmonies
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 62 min.
Creator: Oxford Girls' Choir
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.08

Review The Complete Hildegard von Bingen, Vol.1 [IMPORT] / Celestial Harmonies:


Review Naxos / The Spanish Guitar
Tracks The Spanish Guitar
  • Danza Española No.1 - Granados
  • Sevilla - Albéniz
  • Asturias - Albéniz
  • Allegro giocoso from "Carmen Concerto" - Bizet
  • Mallorca - Albéniz
  • Tarantella op.87b - Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  • Adagio from "Concierto de Aranjuez" - Rodrigo
  • Allegro moderato from Sonata - José
  • Escarramán - Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  • Soleares - Turina
  • En Los Trigales - Rodrigo
  • Dance of the Miller - Falla
  • Theme and Variations op.11 - Sor
  • Danza Española No.5 (orchestral version) - Granados
  • Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Tárrega
  • Danza Española No.5 (solo version) - Granados
  • Suite Compostelana - Mompou
  • 3 Estancias - Ruiz-Pipó
  • Fandanguillo - Turina
  • Sonatina - Torroba
Publisher: Naxos
Release date: 2002-07-29
Creator: Camerata Cassovia
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.62

Review The Spanish Guitar / Naxos:

You probably need to be a real guitar enthusiast to want the two-CD collection The Spanish Guitar, but anyone who fears that at more than 140 minutes this Naxos set may be a few plucky numbers too many should swiftly be won over. Where the set scores is in some clever programming that never allows the ear to tire of a particular sound-world or even a particular style. After the longest piece of the set, Mompou's beautiful Suite Compostelana, an orchestra broadens the aural world with Peter Breiner's concerto based on Bizet's Carmen. Three pieces fulfil a similar function on the second disc. Some of the best known Spanish "guitar" music was written for piano-Granados' 12 Spanish Dances; here we get the first, in an arrangement for guitar and orchestra, and the famous fifth, which tops and tails the set with a guitar transcription as an opener and a guitar and piano version as a finale. In between you can find everything from foot-stomping flamenco to moody languorous pieces, played with great atmosphere by a fine line-up of soloists. Listeners in need of persuasion need look no further than Norbert Kraft's playing of Tárrega's celebrated Recuerdos de la Alhambra, a cracking piece, beautifully played. -Keith Clarke.

Review DG / Famous Handel Arias - Bryn Terfel
Tracks Famous Handel Arias - Bryn Terfel
  • Honour and arms scorn such a foe
  • Behold I tell you
  • Arm, arm ye brave
  • "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" - "Behold, a ghastly band"
  • But who may abide the day of His coming
  • I feel the Deity within...Arm, arm ye brave
  • Sorge infausta una procella
  • Why do the nations
  • Va tacito e nascosto
  • "Ombra mai fù"
  • Vouchsafe, O Lord
  • Si, tra i ceppi
  • Verdi prati, selve amene
  • "I rage, I melt, I burn!"
  • Thus saith the Lord
  • Where'er you walk
  • The trumpet shall sound
  • Rec. "Frondi tenere e belle"
  • O voi, del mio poter
  • "O ruddier than the cherry"
Publisher: DG
Release date: 1997-10-13
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Bryn Terfel
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.98

Review Famous Handel Arias - Bryn Terfel / DG:


Review Living Stereo / Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé
Tracks Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé
  • The Triumph Of Daphnis And The Ecstatic Union With Chloe
  • Dance Of The Young Girls Around Daphnis
  • Sunrise. Daphnis Prostrate At The Grotto Of The Nymphs
  • Abandoning Their Roles, The Lovers Embrace And Kneel At The Altar Of The Nymphs
  • The Invasion Of The Pirates And Daphnis's Unsuccessful Efforts To Save Chloe
  • Entrance Of Daphnis And Chloe
  • Chloe's Dance Of Supplication
  • Dorcon's Advance To Chloe
  • Dorcon's Grotesque Dance
  • Interlude
  • The Orgiastic Dance Of The Pirates
  • Bryaxis Orders Chloe To Be Brought Forward And To Dance
  • Young Men Invade The Scene, And Joyous Tumult Prevails In Tribute To The Triumph Of The Lovers
  • Entrance Of The Temptress Lyceion And Dance Of Veils
  • Daphnis Reasserts His Love For Chloe/The Dorcon-Daphnis Dance Contest For A Kiss From Chloe
  • Lammon Tells How Pan Saved Chloe In Memory Of His Love For The Nymph Syrinx. Daphnis And Chloe Act Out The Story
  • Invocation To The Nymphs
  • Girls Dressed As Bacchantes Enter With Tambourines
  • Creatures Of Pan Appear And Frighten The Pirates, Who Flee In Terror, Leaving Chloe Alone With A Shining Crown
  • pan (Daphnis) Fashions A Flute From Some Reeds, On Which He Declares His Love For Syrinx (Chloe)
  • Invocation To Pan By The Nymphs And The Prayer Of Daphnis
  • The Gracious Dance Of Daphnis
  • Daphnis And Chloe Are Reunited
Publisher: Living Stereo
Release date: 2004-10-11
Run time: 54 min.
Creator: New England Conservatory Chorus
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.45

Review Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé / Living Stereo:


Review EMI / Szymanowski: Stabat Mater; Litany to the Virgin Mary; Symphony No. 3 [Choral Works]
Tracks Szymanowski: Stabat Mater; Litany to the Virgin Mary; Symphony No. 3 [Choral Works]
  • Stabat Mater, Op.53: II. Is there any, tears withholding Christ's dear Mother thus beholding, in... - Elzbieta Szmytka/Florence Quivar/John Connell
  • Stabat Mater, Op.53: V. Maid immaculate, excelling, peerless one, in heav'n high dwelling, make... - Elzbieta Szmytka/Florence Quivar/John Connell
  • Sym No.3, Op.27, Song of the Night: Such quiet, others sleep... - Jon Garrison
  • Sym No.3, Op. 27, Song of the Night: Oh, do not sleep, friend, through this night... - Jon Garrison
  • Stabat Mater, Op.53: I. Mother bowed with grief appalling must thou watch, with tears slow falling.. - Elzbieta Szmytka/Florence Quivar/John Connell
  • Litania Do Marii Panny, Op.59: Litany to the Virgin Mary: Twelve-toned cithara whose strings are... - Jon Garrison
  • Stabat Mater, Op.53: VI. May his savred cross defend me, he who died there so befriend me... - Elzbieta Szmytka/Florence Quivar/John Connell
  • Sym No.3, Op.27, Song of the Night - Jon Garrison
  • Litania Do Marii Panny, Op.59: Litany to the Virgin Mary: Like a dwarf bush, a dark jumper... - Jon Garrison
  • Stabat Mater, Op.53: IV. In The keeping, watching, weeeping, by the cross may I unsleeping... - Elzbieta Szmytka/Florence Quivar/John Connell
  • Stabat Mater, Op.53: III. Love's sweet fountain, Mother tender, haste this hard heart, soft to... - Elzbieta Szmytka/Florence Quivar/John Connell
Publisher: EMI
Release date: 1994-06-06
Run time: 56 min.
Creator: Jon Garrison
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.24

Review Szymanowski: Stabat Mater; Litany to the Virgin Mary; Symphony No. 3 [Choral Works] / EMI:

A triumph in every way, the sumptuous and giddily refined sound-world of the great Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) finds Sir Simon Rattle well and truly in his element. Even more crucially, all three performances radiate inspirational commitment allied to a genuinely exhilarating sense of new discovery. Completed in 1916, the Third Symphony or Song of the Night-a setting for tenor, chorus and orchestra of texts by a 13th-century mystical Persian poet-remains one of the most sheer, intoxicating creations in all music. By contrast, the masterly and awesome Stabat Mater of 1926 (which Szymanowski himself rated as "perhaps my most profound and concentrated work") wears an altogether more loftily serene air, and its piercingly beautiful closing movement (track 6) will haunt you for days. Both here and in the wonderful Litany to the Virgin Mary (1931-3) the Polish soprano Elzbieta Szmytka produces the most ravishing sounds. If you've ever been bitten by the Górecki bug, make a bee-line for this ravishing collection! EMI's fastidiously balanced sound is astoundingly realistic to match. -Andrew Achenbach.

Review Philips / Puccini: Tosca
Tracks Puccini: Tosca
  • "Ha più forte sapore" - "Spoletta è giunto" - Ingvar Wixell, Piero de Palma, William Elvin, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "O dolci mani" - José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Mario! Mario! Mario!" "Son qui!" - "Non la sospiri la nostra casetta" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "E lucevan le stelle" - José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Senti... l'ora è vicina" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Come è lunga l'attesta!" - Montserrat Caballé, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Presto, su! Mario!" - Montserrat Caballé, Piero de Palma, William Elvin, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Sommo giubilo, Eccelenza!" - Domenico Trimarchi, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "E non giungono" - "Trionfal di nova speme" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "E qual via scegliete?" - Montserrat Caballé, Ingvar Wixell, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Vedi, le man giunte" - Montserrat Caballé, Ingvar Wixell, Piero de Palma, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • Prelude - "Io de' sospiri" - Ann Murray, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "E sempre lava!" - "Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae" - "Che fai?" - José Carreras, Domenico Trimarchi, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • Introduzione all' aria - Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" - Montserrat Caballé, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Meno male!" - "Egli è là" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Ingvar Wixell, Piero de Palma, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Orsù, Tosca, parlate." - "Mario, consenti ch'io parli?" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Ingvar Wixell, Piero de Palma, William Elvin, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Tre sbirri... Una carozza... Presto" - Te Deum - Ingvar Wixell, Piero de Palma, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Floria..." - "Amore..." - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Ah, quegli occhi..." - "Qual occhio al mondo può star di paro" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Ed or fra noi parliam da buoni amici" - Montserrat Caballé, Ingvar Wixell, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Mario Cavaradossi?" - "A voi" - José Carreras, William Elvin, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Nel pozzo del giardino. Va, Spoletta!" - "Eccelenza, quali nuove!" - "Vittoria!" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Ingvar Wixell, William Elvin, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Tosca, finalmente mia!" - Montserrat Caballé, Ingvar Wixell, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Ov'è Angelotti?" - "Mario, tu qui?!" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Ingvar Wixell, Piero de Palma, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Or tutto è chiaro..." - "Mario?! Mario?!" - Montserrat Caballé, Ingvar Wixell, Domenico Trimarchi, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Ed io venivo a lui tutta dogliosa" - Montserrat Caballé, Ingvar Wixell, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Gente là dentro!" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Samuel Ramey, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Recondita armonia" - José Carreras, Domenico Trimarchi, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Se la giurata fede" - Montserrat Caballé, Ingvar Wixell, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Un tal baccano in chiesa! Bel rispetto!" - Ingvar Wixell, Piero de Palma, Domenico Trimarchi, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Mia gelosa!" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Sciarrone: che dice il cavalier?" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Ingvar Wixell, William Elvin, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Tosca è un buon falco!" - Ingvar Wixell, William Elvin, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Amaro sol per te m'era il morire" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Ah! Finalmente!" - Samuel Ramey, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Dammi i colori!" - José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "E buona la mia Tosca" - "Siam soli?" - José Carreras, Samuel Ramey, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "Franchigia a Floria Tosca" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
  • "L'ora!" - "Son pronto" - Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, William Elvin, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis
Publisher: Philips
Release date: 1993-05-10
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Giacomo Puccini
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.75

Review Puccini: Tosca / Philips:


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