Tag: Naxos

• Fritz Kreisler: The Complete Solo Recordings, Vol.7

  It’s slightly misleading to call this classical: it’s a bloke playing popular tunes on the violin, so it’s really pop music, just pop from the days when a new tune was Dame Clara Butt singing Old Folks At Home. Austrian-born Kreisler was busy after WWI with a comeback in America, world tours, and a warm […]

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  August 5, 2017

  Classical, Uncategorized

  8.111406, Apple Blossoms: Letter Song Apple Blossoms: I’m in Love Les millions d’Arlequin Sérénade Sérénade espagnole Old Viennese Dances Viennese Waltz Fantasy Mélodies pour le piano Pièces: No. 2, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Dear Rose-Marie: Indian Love Call, early, Fritz Kreisler The Complete Solo Recordings, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, La cinquantaine Paraphrase on 2 Russian Folk Songs Aloha ‘Oe Symphony No. 9 in E Minor From the New World 4 American Indian Songs From the Land of the Sky-blue Water La Ritrovata Figlia Di Ottone Gavo, music, Naxos, Op. 18 Londonderry Air Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Marche miniature viennoise Syncopation Gli tre cicisbei ridicoli Tre giorni son che Nina Andante favori Klavierstücke für kleine und große Kin, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Sérénade viennoise, soul, Vol.7

• Patrick Hawes: Revelation, Beatitudes and Quantia Qualia

  This is a tranquil and calming album, despite the title (Revelations featuring blood, mountains of fire, bottomless pits and destruction). It’s a weighty topic delivered with a light touch; the nine pieces that make up the album are inspired by the Book of Revelation and its imagery. A second work, Beatitudes, is a collection setting […]

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  March 17, 2017

  Classical, Singers

  8.573720, A Great and Wondrous Sign, albums, Alsager Chronicle, alto saxophone, Be Still, Beatitudes, Beatitudes and Quantia Qualia, Biddulph Chronicle, buy this, Coming with the Clouds, Congleton Chronicle Series, Epilogue: The Alpha and the Omega, Fallen is Babylon the Great, From the Throne, good music, Hallelujah (The Marriage of the Lamb), I Saw a New Heaven, Jem Condliffe, Julia Morson, Let Us Love, Naxos, new music, opinion, Patrick Hawes, Peace Beyond Thought, Prologue: This Prophecy, Quanta Qualia, Revelation, review, Sandbach Chronicle, The Edenham Eucharist, The Elora Singers, The Lord’s Prayer, The Meek, The Merciful, The Peacemakers, The Poor in Spirit, The Pure in Heart, The Word, Those who are Persecuted for Righteousness’ Sake, Those who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness, Those Who Mourn, Worthy is the Lamb

• Randall Thompson: Requiem

  We should have played this sooner: it’s superb and would be a great recording for early Christmas morning (or late Christmas Eve). The sleeve notes say that more than 30 years after Thompson’s death, several of his choral works are performed “with regularity”, and Alleluia (1941) at one point had more copies in print than […]

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  January 4, 2017

  Christmas, Classical, Singers

  8.559789, albums, alleluia, Alsager Chronicle, Amen and amen, Be filled with the spirit, Biddulph Chronicle, buy this, Congleton Chronicle Series, good music, Good tidings to the meek, I am their music, Jem Condliffe, Lamentations, Let everything that hath breath, Let them give glory, Naxos, new music, O let the nations be glad, opinion, Philadelphia Singers, Praise Him all ye stars of light, Randall Thompson, Requiem, Return unto thy rest, review, Sandbach Chronicle, Sing unto Him, Sing with the spirit, The Call to Song, The Garment of Praise, The Leave-taking, The Lord shall be unto thee, The Triumph of Faith, Thou hast given him, Utter a song, What man is he, Why make ye this ado, Ye were sometimes darkness

• My First Christmas Album

  If you’re looking for a Christmas album that the kids will like but won’t drive you up the wall, try this. It’s one of a series of Naxos CDs that try and introduce children to classical music, My First Complete Ring Cycle and My First Foray into Schoenberg’s Free Atonality being others. (OK, we made […]

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  December 6, 2016

  Christmas, Classical, Singers

  ” Petite Bande de Montréal, “Carol of the Bells, “Christmas Concerto”: II. Allegro, “Trepak”, 20 Polish Christmas Carols: No. 7. Hurrying to Bethlehem, 8.578340, A Ceremony of Carols, A Maiden Most Gentle (arr. A. Carter for choir), albums, Alsager Chronicle, Away in a Manger (arr. D. Hunt for choir), Örebro Chamber Choir, BBC Concert Orchestra, Biddulph Chronicle, buy this, Capella Istropolitana, Choir of New College, City of London Choir, Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Congleton Chronicle, Dancing Day: No. 8. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, Ding Dong Merrily on High (arr. D. Willcocks for choir and organ), Elora Festival Singers, Esta bella noche, Finchley Children’s Music Group, Folksongs of the 4 Seasons: Winter: II. Wassail song, Gaudete Christus est natus, Good King Wenceslas (arr. R. Jacques for choir), H. 534: Vous qui désirez sans fin Aradia Ensemble, HWV 56, In the Bleak Midwinter, is Born a Son (arr. D. Willcocks for choir and organ), Jem Condliffe, Jeremy Condliffe, Jingle Bells (arr. P. Breiner for orchestra), King Jesus hath a Garden, Kun Joulu on (At Christmas Time), La, Messiah, My First Christmas Album, Naxos, New London Children’s Choir, No. 8, Noël Ukrainien, Noëls sur les instruments, Once in Royal David’s City, Op. 28: This Little Babe, Op. 6, Op. 71a: III. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, Op. 71a: IV. Russian Dance, opinion, Oxford, Oxford Camerata, Part I: Chorus: For unto us a Child is born (1751 Version), Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Choir, Resonus Chorus, review, Rocking, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (arr. R. Hayman for orchestra), Sandbach Chronicle, Sans Day Carol (arr. J. Rutter for choir), Silent Night, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Tewkesbury Abbey Choir, The Holly and the Ivy (arr. H.W. Davies for choir), The Nutcracker Suite, Thredbo Suite: III. Sleighride to Thredbo (arr. P. Lane for orchestra), Tonus Peregrinus, Unto us is born a Son (arr. D. Willcocks for choir and organ): Unto Us, We Three Kings of Orient Are (arr. A. Pitts for vocal ensemble), Winter Wonderland (arr. for orchestra), Worcester Cathedral Choir

• Victor Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos. 1, 2, and Irish Rhapsody

  We like the sound of Victor August Herbert, an Irish, German American who worked as a composer, cellist and conductor and was well-known in the US a century ago. A prolific composer, he sounds like a hard-working man upon whom no flies would be found: he was among the composers who worked on the famous […]

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  August 5, 2016

  Classical

  8573517, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, Antonín Dvorák, Congleton Chronicle, Review Corner, new music, album review, music, classical, rock, jazz, folk, eletronica, Jem Condliffe, Biddulph Chronicle, Alsager Chronicle, Sandbach Chronicle, good music, buy t, Naxos, Tin Pan Alley, Victor August Herbert, Victor Herbert Cello Concertos Nos. 1, 2, and Irish Rhapsody

• Vivaldi: Sacred Music, Vol 4, In Turbato Mare Irato

    Another CD in the “nice for Christmas without being Christmassy” vein, and you can impress your friends with your erudition, saying: “Ah, yes, Vivaldi, seen as a one-hit wonder because of his big album Four Seasons but actually a prolific composer across a variety of genres”. The cover’s got Latin on, too. Antonio Vivaldi […]

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  December 13, 2015

  Classical, Uncategorized

  8.573324, Aradia Ensemble, Claire de Sévigné, Four Seasons, In Turbato Mare Irato, Maria Soulis, mezzo-soprano, Naxos, Ospedale della Pietà, Sacred Music, soprano, Vestro Principi Divino, Vivaldi, Vol 4

• Michael Habermann: Sorabji, Piano Music

  It’s impossible to say anything bad about this, to be honest. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was born Leon Dudley Sorabji in Chingford, his father being a civil engineer of Parsi parentage from Bombay. As a teenager, Sorabji took interest in the work of Schoenberg, Mahler and Debussy among others and eventually created his own system of […]

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  July 5, 2015

  Classical, Uncategorized

  Bombay, Chingford, Congleton Chronicle, Corfe Castle, Debussy, John Tobin, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Leon Dudley Sorabji, Michael Habermann, Naxos, Parsi, Piano Music, Sorabji