popular music: Ronald Smith

popular music: Ronald Smith

popular music:

Ronald Smith

Glory of Gabrieli: Antiphonal Music Brass Choirs

Empire Brass & Gusts, Smedvig

Telarc, 2002

Astonishing
Absolutely the most breathtaking recording yet of Gabrielli, in a very crowded field of superb choices. Telarc's engineers no doubt are deserving of praise, but the playing by the Empire Brass is just stunning & your speakers will shake on deep notes at times. This ...

Ivor Novello Songs

Ivor Novello, Stuart Barry, ...

Chandos, 2002

English Operetta, Beautifully Sung
For those that love operetta, most think of Vienese operettas of Johann Strauss Sr and Jr, Lehar, etc and the American Operettas of Romberg and Victor Herbert, etc. Just a bit later there was an English exponent of the form, one Ivor Novello, who was a contemporary of ...

Cornet Favorites

Jean-Baptiste Arban, Herbert L. Clarke, ...

Nonesuch, 1992

starting over
This is a very good cd for a trumpet player. Many songs of Herbert L. Clarke and Jean Babtiste Arban are there in their familiar versions. If you get this cd, you ought to get Cornet Favorites also. The solos on both cd's stick to the versions found in Arban's Complete ...

Alkan: Piano Works; Ronald Smith

Charles Alkan, Ronald Smith

EMI Classics, 2004

Exceptional Pianist/Inspirational Composer
Ronald Smith died on the 27 May 2004 a week before I was due to hear him perform in concert at the age of 82. Obviously I was incredibly upset by his death and not having ever heard him play - especially ALKAN. Ronald Smith was the man who re-established ...

Chopin: Polonaises

Frederic Chopin, Garrick Ohlsson, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

Chopin Reincarnated
This recording is a must for any music lover! Mr. Ohlsson will help you emerge from the cave of musical shadows, into which you were perhaps driven by lesser performers. You will get no schmaltz from Mr. Ohlsson; he is as far away from the schmaltz as Tolstoy's Anna ...

Greatest Hits: Trumpet

Leroy Anderson, Jean-Baptiste Arban, ...

Sony, 1994

A Wonderful Collection
This is a splendid anthology of music. Traditional Baroque and orchestral pieces up front, and a few surprises nearer the end. A splendid work. The price makes it a steal. Add it to your cart. You will not be sorry. There is technical excellence - peace in some ...

Hail to the Chief

Johannes Brahms, John Bacchus Dykes, ...

Altissimo Records, 2005

Hail to the Chief
Hail to the Chief is unique, educational and without question, absolutely wonderful! I was initially puzzled by the selections but as I began to listen and read the short narrative that is offered I started to realize I was being taken on a very different trip ...

Masters of the Trumpet

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Johann Ernst Altenburg, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

fun trumpets
"Masters of The Trumpet" is a simple and accurate title for this 2- disc collection. The recordings cover trumpet/cornet literature ranging from Gabrieli to Stravinsky. Especially enjoyable moments are Don Smithers playing Reiche's "Abblasen" & Armando Ghitalla's ...

Classical Top 1000

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, John Shirley-Quirk, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2007

Mixmaster
I love this collection! The variety and the balance of these performances makes every CD its own little gem. In concept it reminds me of "greatest hits of classical music" tapes we used to make with turntables and analogue tape decks. Yet the quality of each individual ...

The Classic Trumpet Concerti Of Haydn And Hummel

Franz Joseph Haydn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, ...

Delos Records, 1992

The best
The two great classical trumpet concertos, Haydn and Hummel, are often found on the same record. They were written for the same man, Anton Weidinger, court trumpeter of the Esterhazy family and inveterate tinkerer, seeking to improve the versatility of the natural ...

Beethoven: The Late String Quartets Nos 12-16

Ludwig van Beethoven, Bernard Gregor-Smith, ...

Asv Living Era, 1993

Incredible Performances
I have several versions of the Beethoven Late Quartets including the Alban Berg and Guarneri sets. The Lindsays are the ones I keep playing however. Their interpretations bring extra depth to these profound works. These works require repeated listenings so that one ...

Weber: Complete Works for Clarinet
Bernard Gregor-Smith, Janet Hilton, ...

Chandos, 2007

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8

Gerald Corey, Milan Turkovic, ...

Sony, 1990

Beethoven for the first time
Listening to this recording is like discovering well-known music again. The only competetive version of the 7th symhony is Toscanini's old one with the New York Philharmonic (better than the later NBC version) - but the sound is mediocre. Karajan's 7th with the Vienna ...

Dvorak: String Quintet Op 97 "The American"; Bagatelles; Terzetto

Bernard Gregor-Smith, Antonin Dvorak, ...

Asv Living Era, 1993

SWANSONG
The Lindsay quartet have recently announced their impending retirement. It does not seem long at all since I was attending their concerts with interest and enthusiasm when they were one of the leading new ensembles, I am familiar with several of their records, so it ...

Giovanni Gabriele For Brass/Canadian Brass And Friends

Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, ...

Polygram Records, 1994

Great, full sound....
This was my first introduction to the music of Giovanni Gabrieli, and I have always been quite pleased with this set of pieces. A previous reviewer remarked that this might as well have been written by Mahler or Brahms, but I think that there is great value in having ...