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Around Britten - works for solo cello by Benjamin Britten, John Tavener and Matthew Barley / Matthew Barley, cello

1 CD / Signum UK / 2013-02-07

Works: Benjamin Britten: Suite for solo cello no 3, Op. 87; Greensleeves, folksong arrangement for high voice & piano; Folksongs (7), Volume 1; The Holy Sonnets; Gloriana; Oliver Cromwell, for voice & piano...
Performers: Barley, Matthew

Let The Bright Seraphim: works by J.S. Bach; Telemann; A. Scarlatti; Handel / Armonico Consort. Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano; Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet

1 CD / Signum UK / 2012-08-03

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 51, "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen," BWV 51; Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto for Trumpet in D major, TV 51 no D 7; Alessandro Scarlatti: Su le sponde del Tebro, cha...
Performers: Steele-Perkins, Crispian [Trumpet]; Thomas, Elin Manahan
Conductors: Monks, Christopher
Ensemble: Armonico Consort

Expedition Audio - Music that deserves to be heard
The music and the performances are all top shelf... The magic of the recording is provided by...continue...

Mozart: An Italian Journey / Jeremy Ovenden, tenor

1 CD / Signum UK / 2011-09-02

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lucio Silla; La finta semplice; Il sogno di Scipione; La finta giardiniera; Il rè pastore; Idomeneo; Misero! o sogno...Aura che intorni spiri, K 431 (425b); Don Giovanni...
Performers: Ovenden, Jeremy
Conductors: Cohen, Jonathan
Ensemble: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

The English tenor Jeremy Ovenden has established himself as being among the best Mozart tenors of his generation (notably in the role of Don Ottavio)...continue...
Recording information: St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town (09/29/2010-10/02/2010)....continue...

For You

2 CD / Signum UK / 2010-09-06

Works: Michael Berkeley: For You, opera
Performers: Cook, Allison; Lemmings, Christopher; Nicholas, Rachel; Opie, Alan [Baritone Vocals]; Williams, Helen [Soprano Vocal]; Williams, Jeremy Huw
Conductors: Rafferty, Michael

For You is a new opera that brings together the music of composer and BBC Radio 3 presenter Michael Berkeley and Booker-prize winning author Ian...continue...
Recording information: Linbury Studio Theatre (2008-10-28&2008-10-30&2008-)....continue...

A Family Christmas

1 CD / Signum UK / 2010-08-07

Works: Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival; Sleigh Ride, popular song (with lyrics by Mitchell Parrish); Buddy Kaye: Christmas Alphabet, song; Traditional: Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman; Katherine K. Davis: The...
Performers: Aitken, Julie; Docherty, Niall; Mansfield, Roshni; McKechnie, Charlotte
Conductors: Bell, Christopher

Eton College Chapel Choir perform an enchanting selection of 20th Century French Choral and Organ music. As well as music by composers who were at...continue...
Recording information: RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow (09/14/2009-09/15/2009)....continue...

Deep In My Soul / Music for Flute

1 CD / Signum UK / 2010-04-03

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Work(s); Lisa Friend: Deep in My Soul; Ennio Morricone Medley; Camille Saint-Saëns: Ascanio; romance; Sergey Rachmaninov: Songs (14), Op. 34; Edward German: Romance for Clar...
Performers: Friend, Lisa [Flute]; Friend, Rodney [Violin]; Kinkaid, Mark; Redford, Martin

Lisa Friend started the flute age five. At sixteen she studied in New York with flautist Renee Siebert of the New York Philharmonic. She was...continue...
Recording information: Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, UK (04/02/2009-04/03/2009)....continue...

Andrew Kennedy Sings Arias By Mozart, Gluck, Berlioz

1 CD / Signum UK / 2010-03-11

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide; Alceste; Orpheé ed Euridice; Iphigénie en Tauride; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the S...
Performers: Vocal], Andrew Kennedy [Tenor
Conductors: Over, Simon

Star tenor Andrew Kennedy is accompanied by Southbank Sinfonia in this collection of arias by three unique Classical-era composers. This disc showcases some of the...continue...
Recording information: All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, England (07/03/2009-07/05/2009)....continue...

Rossini Mezzo - Scenes and Arias / Silvia Tro Santafé

1 CD / Signum UK / 2009-10-03

Works: Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Tancredi; La Donna del Lago; Semiramide
Performers: Santarelli, Silvio
Conductors: Reynolds, Julian
Ensemble: Navarra Symphony Orchestra

If it were not for the operas of Gioachino Rossini, the operatic repetory of the mezzo soprano would lack some of its most interesting characters...continue...

Emilia / Graham Dalby, Esterházy Orchestra

1 CD / Signum UK / 2009-05-09

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Ennio Morricone: Nella fantasia, for voice & orchestra; Nicholas Brodszky: I'll Walk with God, song for voice & piano (or orchestra); English Traditional: Over the H...
Performers: Busher, Andrew; Dalby, Emilia; Whyman, Pete
Conductors: Dalby, Graham; Lamb, Ben

Emilia Dalby was born in London in 1995 but migrated to Wiltshire after winning a choral scholarship to Salisbury Cathedral, where she sang for four...continue...
Recording information: Olympic Studios, London....continue...

Spanish Heroines - Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Massenet, Bizet, etc / Silvia Tro Santafe, et al

1 CD / Signum UK / 2009-03-05

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorite; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Jules Massenet: Le Cid; Do...
Performers: Puig, Susanna; Santafe, Silvia Tro
Conductors: Reynolds, Julian

Since her American debut in the early nineties, Silvia Tro Santafe has become one of the most sought after coloratura mezzos of her generation. On...continue...
Recording information: Auditorio de Baranain, Pamplona, Spain (04/30/2008); Auditorio de Baranain, Pamplona, Spain (05/02/2008)....continue...

The Organ of Westminster Cathedral - Brahms, etc / Quinney

2 CD / Signum UK / 2007-01-05

Works: Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture in C minor, Op. 80; Variations on a Theme of Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a "St. Anthony"; Songs (4) for voice & piano, Op. 70; Sonata for Violin and Piano n...
Performers: Quinney, Robert

"This is a great recording - I've no hesitation in saying it's one of the best organ CDs you'll ever hear... Alongside his impeccable performances,...continue...

Lullabyes and Goodbyes / Cantabile Vocal Quartet, Martineau

1 CD / Signum UK / 2006-02-01

Works: Billy Joel: Lullabye "Goodnight, my angel"; Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, opera; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Richard M. Sherman / Robert B. Sherman: Chitty Chit...
Performers: eau, Martin

Music for Gainsborough - Abel, J.C. Bach, Linley, Straube

1 CD / Signum UK / 2000-09-19

Works: Carl Friedrich Abel: Sonata no 1 in G major (from The Countess of Pembroke's Music Book); Vivace for solo viola da gamba, WKO 190; Sonata for cello & continuo in G major, WKO 147; Johann Christian Ba...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Charivari Agréable

Includes sonata(s) for guitar & continuo: adagio by Rudolf Straube....continue...