classical music: Richard Alison

classical music: Richard Alison

classical music:

Richard Alison

Richard Alison, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Soundart Recordings, 1998

Delightful
I've bought other alubums of mandolin and guitar and enjoyed them, but this is my favorite. All the selections are enjoyable. The blend and balance between Baldassari's mandolin and Mock's guitar are the best I've ever heard on any recording of mandolin and guitar ...

Adagio Albinoni

Tomaso Albinoni, John Georgiadis, ...

Naxos, 1997

A Italian master of the classics has been done good here.
If you like classical composers, this release showcasing some of the classical works of the great Tomaso Albinoni is for you. A lot of these releases here on CD are done by a full orchestra and every piece that he had out is covered here very nicely by the members of ...

Watkins Ale: Music of the English Renaissance

Ann Marie Morgan, Richard Alison, ...

Dorian Recordings, 1992

More than just an alcoholic drink
The Baltimore Consort are performers in the truest sense -- the energy and sheer brilliance they exude during performances is infectious and heady. Luckily for those of us who rarely or never get to see them perform, all of this comes across in their recordings. This ...

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Johann Sebastian Bach, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, ...

Virgin Veritas, 1999

One of the best recordings of Branderburg concertos
I own quite a few recordings of the Branderburg concertos (Suzuki, Saval, Boston Baroque...) this one is one of the best. There is an evident feel of musical joy coming out of this recording. I can't find other ways to describe it. The musicians are enthusiastic ...

Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail / Orgonasova, Sieden, Olsen, Peper, Hauptmann, Minetti; Gardiner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Eliot Gardiner, ...

Archiv Produktion, 1993

Delightful recording of a favorite Mozart opera (Singspiel)
This opera has always been one of Mozart's most popular. Except, apparently, for the very first performances, audiences have loved it. If you have somehow not heard it yet, I believe you will love it as well. The music is delightful and the story is wonderfully ...

Richard Strauss: Die Liebe Der Danae

Richard Strauss, Charles Mackerras, ...

Gala, 2008

Excellent historic performance
This BBC production preserves a superb Jupiter, Norman Bailey, and a marvelous reading of the score by Mackerras. Sound is excellent ecept for some ticks at the end of Act 2. Recommended for all Straussians.

Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical

Rue McClanahan, John Ritter

White Star, 2003

Nuncrackers
bought this as xmas gift so don't know how the receipent likes it yet, but she's a big fan of Rue's so I'm sure she'll love it.

Geminiani: Concerti Grossi VII-XII (after Corelli, Op. 5)
Alison McGillivray, cello] David Watkins [ii, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2007

Bach - The Keyboard Concertos Vol 1

Bach, Angela Hewitt, ...

Hyperion UK, 2005

Exhilarating
This is a stupendous CD. Angela Hewitt's glorious and sensitive touch is beautifully matched by the precision and vitality of the ACO. Although some reviewers have decried the performance of Brandenburg No. 5, to me this is a highlight. The solo at the end of the first ...

Aria, Vol. 2: New Horizon

Paul Schwartz, Rebecca Luker, ...

Koch Records, 2004

A great follow-up to an outstanding musical experience
ARIA volume 1 was certainly a winner and this follow-up CD is fantastic. I liked the first CD so much that every time I went to the record store or online at Amazon I would look to see if Paul Schwartz and written a sequel. Schwartz selects wonderful works from ...

Britten, Holst and Finzi

David Hoult, Stephen Varcoe, ...

Chandos, 1992

Great recordings of lesser-known gems
This disc is a great introduction to the shorter choral works of Finzi, Britten, and Holst. The two major works on the disc--Finzi's "Requiem da Camera" and Britten's "Cantata misericordium"--deserve many more performances than they normally receive. The third ...

Howells: Music for Strings
Shuna Wilson, Herbert Howells, ...

Chandos, 1994

Herbert Howells (1892-1985) was a British composer who took after many of his contemporaries--Walton, Bax, Arnold and a bit of recidivist Vaughan Williams. The Concerto for String Orchestra (1938) is a lucid, if willowy showcase for strings. Howells's "Elegy for Solo Viola, String Quartet and String Orchestra" (1917) has many tonal parallels to ...

Portrait

Richard Alison, Anonymous, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2000

Rock guitarist turned lutanist
I listen to this album over and over and never get tired of it. O'Dette's interpretations keep sounding fresh and alive, perhaps because of his rock background. This was the popular music of the time and he plays it that way. There's no dusty mustiness of age ...

Ultimate Wagner: The Essential Masterpieces

Richard Wagner, Georg Solti, ...

Decca, 2008

Visit Bayreuth for two dollars a disc
This is a fantastic bargain, an overlooked 5-CD tour of Bayreuth from the Sixties (Karl Bohm's mid-decade Ring cycle) through the Seventies (Silvio Varviso's 1974 Meistersinger) to the Eighties (James Levine's 1985 Parsifal). The only outsider is Solti's studio ...

Biber: The Rosary Sonatas

Alison McGillivray, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2004

Simply Amazing - Disregard the Negative Comments
I doubted whether to buy this or Reinhard Goebel's version of the sonatas. Most reviewers praised this one highly, but one was giving it really bad press, which made me doubt. I haven't bought the other one, and therefore I can't really compare them (though i spent ...