Nieman, Paul

Duke Ellington

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-05-17

Works: Duke Ellington: Caravan; Le Sucrier Velours; The Mooche; Sultry Sunset; Minnehaha; Isfahan, song; Sonnet for Caesar; Star-Crossed Lovers, song; In a Mellotone; I let a song go out of my heart; Don't ...
Performers: Barclay, John; Beckett, Edward; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Brooks, Stuart; Downey, Alan; Eastop, Philip; Edwards, Terry [Bass Vocal]; Findon, Andrew; Harle, John; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano...
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Ensemble: Monty Alexander Trio

BBC Music Magazine
The Duke might have bridled at John Harle's arrangement of Ellington standards, but the saxophonist's virtuosity would have brought him to his feet.
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Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore / Philip Pickett, et al

1 CD / Decca / 2008-01-08

Works: Michael Praetorius: Terpsichore
Performers: Beznosiuk, Pavlo; Chateauneuf, Paula; Cheetham, Richard [trombone]; Eaton, Nigel; Finucane, Tom; Hamilton, Kenneth; Hunt, Richard; Isserlis, Anette; Kelly, Frances; Lawrence-King, Andrew; Nieman, Pau...
Conductors: Pickett, Philip
Ensemble: New London Consort

"The New London Consort, numbering forty players for this recording, presented Pickett the fullest possible range of period instruments indicated in Praetorius' 'Syntagma musicum', so...continue...

Music for Tudor Kings from the Time of Henry VII & Henry VIII

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2008-01-08

Works: Robert Fayrfax: I Love, Loved, And Loved Wolde I Be; That Was My Woo; Most Clere of Colour for 3 voices; William Cornysh: Woefully arrayed; Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin, for 3 voices; Ah Robyn, gent...
Performers: Elliot, Paul [Tenor Vocal]; Hillier, Paul; James, David; Nelson, Judith [Soprano Vocal]; Nieman, Paul; Nixon, Leigh; North, Nigel [Lute]; Pickett, Philip
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Ensemble: New London Consort

These recordings were amongst the very first by one of the world's most successful vocal groups. The Hilliard Ensemble was formed in 1974 to perform...continue...

The Sixteen Edition - Martin: Mass for Double Choir, etc

1 CD / Coro / 2006-02-27

Works: Frank Martin: Cantate pour le 1er août, for chorus & piano or organ; Choral Works (3) (Janeton, Si Charlotte avait voulu, Petite église) for male & female chorus; Ariel Songs (5), for choru...
Performers: Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Edwards, Catherine; Gunton, Simon; Hensel, Joanna; Kennedy, Richard; Margaret Phillips, Margaret [Organ]; Nieman, Paul; Nwanoku, Chi Chi; Saunders, Stephen [Tr...
Conductors: Christophers, Harry
Ensemble: The Sixteen

Frank Martin was arguably Switzerland's greatest composer. His shimmering Mass for Double Choir, completed in 1926 as "an affair between God and himself," is one...continue...