Decades: A Century of Song – Vol. 2 (1820–1830) The second volume in this major recording series, across which a host of world-renowned singers draw listeners, decade by decade, through a century of song, from 1810 to 1910. Each volume features a carefully planned, varied programme performed by...
West End’s most exciting new supergroup Leading Ladies – starring Amber Riley (“Dreamgirls”), Beverley Knight (“The Bodyguard”), and Cassidy Janson (“Beautiful”) – have released Songs From The Stage, an album of unforgettable songs from iconic musicals. Songs From The Stage hears the Leading Ladies...
Pulse (2015) is performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)—an artist collective committed to transforming the way music is created and experienced—and Quartet (2013) is played by the Colin Currie Group, an ensemble led by percussionist Colin Currie that specializes in the music of...
The second EP from The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra, ‘A Little Bit Wonderful’ features the group's unique renditions of Christmas fave, “Feliz Navidad”, Goodshirt's hit, “Sophie”, Desmond Dekker's, “Israelites”, and more.
Following nearly three years of silence, FatCat’s 130701 imprint is reactivated, with several new signings lined up ahead of next year’s fifteenth anniversary of the label that played a pioneering role in the development of today’s vibrant post-classical scene. The first of these signings, Dmitry...
Tenth release on the VIVAT label brings the latest in The King’s Consort’s acclaimed recordings of Henry Purcell’s brilliant chamber music: the Twelve Sonatas of Three Parts. Proudly published by the young composer in 1683, Purcell’s highly individual, extraordinarily inventive music combines...
Latest release on VIVAT brings Mendelssohn’s astonishing reconstruction of Handel’s great oratorio Israel in Egypt. Mendelssohn’s 1833 Düsseldorf performance has been painstakingly reconstructed from fragments and sources across Europe: the large and colourful orchestra, playing...
The first volume in a major new recording series across which a host of world-renowned singers draw listeners, decade by decade, through a century of song, from 1810 to 1910. Each volume features a perfectly planned, varied programme performed by household names, whilst the series overall creates a...
A beautifully themed collection of fourteen of the finest unaccompanied British choral masterpieces of the last 125 years performed by award-winning Choir of The King's Consort. The fascinating mix of familiar and unfamiliar includes five paired settings: William Harris's classic 1959 Bring us, O...
Mirusia is an Australian – Dutch soprano and has gained worldwide fame as soloist with Andre Rieu. She studied opera at the Queensland Conservatorium in Australia and at the age of 21, Mirusia was announced as the youngest winner ever of the prestigious Dame Joan Sutherland Opera Award. After this...
Fourth release on the new VIVAT label features an outstanding collection of vocal music by Claudio Monteverdi. 14 glorious tracks present an exquisitely varied programme on the theme of love in all its conflicting emotions, its joys and sweet pains affecting gods and mere mortals. All-star cast...
Acclaimed countertenor Iestyn Davies and The King’s Consort perform an outstanding programme of Handel arias from some of the composer’s finest oratorios. Eleven varied solo arias include ‘O sacred oracles of truth’, the delicate ‘Tune your harps’, ‘Eternal source of light’ (with supreme trumpet...
Sixth release on the VIVAT label features Henry Purcell’s brilliant yet melancholic “Ten Sonatas in Four Parts”. The King’s Consort holds a worldwide reputation as leading performers of Purcell. This new release adds to TKC’s 25 recordings of the composer’s music, which have won numerous...
In a church in a quiet northern Italian town, Alice Castello, survives a hidden jewel: an organ dating from 1749, perfect for Bach’s organ music. The latest release on the acclaimed VIVAT label, performed by renowned Italian organist Luca Guglielmi, presents a remarkable programme of some of Bach’s...
In December 1917, Sergei Rachmaninov had to flee Moscow in haste, never to return again. Some sixty years later, the composers Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov found themselves blacklisted in Russia (alongside five other composers, including Sofia Gubaidulina); after a difficult decade, and just...
24 Tone Clocks Featuring two of New Zealand's finest pianists, Jenny McLeod's 24 Tone Clocks is the definitive recording of an extraordinary series of compositions. A lifetime in the making, 24 Tone Clocks is a summation of Jenny's decades-long immersion into Peter Schat's ‘tone clock’ theory of...
Released in 2012, ‘Bish Bosch’ was Scott Walker’s final solo record. Scott began writing new material around 2009 and recorded it sporadically over the following three years. He was aided again by co-producer Peter Walsh and joined by the regular core of musicians Ian Thomas (drums), Hugh Burns...
Released in 2006, The Drift was Scott Walker's first album in eleven years. Tracks like “Cossacks” and “Hand Me Ups” rock with a dark, insistent force that's quite unlike anything else in the Walker catalogue, while the vast open spaces of “Clara”, “Jesse” and “Cue” open up to admit beauty and...
Music for Wood and Strings is the official follow-up to Bryce Dessner's 2013 solo debut Ahyem. But don't call this a solo record. Rather it is the meeting of three great musical entities that sound even better together. ONE: Bryce Dessner wrote the piece. Best known as a guitarist and songwriter in...
On ‘Long Time Passing,’ the trailblazing Kronos Quartet celebrates the music of Pete Seeger and rejoices in the spirit, inspiration, and fearlessness inherent in his life's work. Along with guests Sam Amidon, Maria Arnal, Brian Carpenter, Meklit, Lee Knight, and Aoife O'Donovan, the group examines...
