Schwalbe and Partners - Artists Recommend

Suggestions from Schwalbe and Partners’ Artists

The artists at Schwalbe and Partners recommend the following recordings for your gift-giving lists and listening pleasure.

	Kendra Colton, soprano *Handel Messiah, A Soulful Celebration* A Quincy Jones production Reprise/Word Entertainment Love Songs (various composers) Arlene Auger and Dalton Baldwin Delos *Ballads* John Coltrane Quartet Grp Records The Rubinstein Collection -- Brahms and Schumann piano quintets Artur Rubinstein, piano RCA

	Thomas Cooley, tenor *Ride on King Jesus!* Florence Quivar and the Boys Choir of Harlem Capitol Simply the best classical gospel singer ever! Handel Ariodante Les Musiciens du Louvre Anne Sofie von Otter Mark Minkowski, conductor Archiv Produktion One of Händel's best operas with an amazing cast. *Della Della Cha Cha Cha!* Della Reese BMG International A fantastic CD to clean to! All kinds of old jazz standards done in a Cha Cha style. *Songs to Shakespeare* Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Graham Johnson Hyperion A beautiful collection of songs to Shakespeare texts with Anthony Rolfe Johnson in his prime.

	Andrew Foster-Williams, bass-baritone R. Strauss Four Last Songs Soile Isokoski Ondine Pure, simple and exquisite. Heartbreaking and yet uplifting. These songs, and this recording, tell you everything you need to know about love. Debussy Pelleas et Melisande Any recording My favourite opera! Manages to combine sublime music with a profound dissection of the human condition. *Emma Bell Sings Richard Strauss; Bruno Walter & Joseph Marx* Linn Records A great friend and a fine artist. If you ever get the chance to see Emma perform live, do it! She sets the stage alight with her presence and dramatic honesty. Anything by Mado Robin For the sheer joy of the singing, technical prowess and enormous entertainment value. One to share with friends. Anyone who manages to actually sing, instead of just screech, a C inhalt above Queen of the Night is pretty special in my book! Tres, tres français . . .

	Steven Fox, conductor Michael Haydn Requiem/Missa in Honorem Sanctae Ursulae King’s Consort Robert King, conductor Hyperion Bruckner Symphony No. 4 Orchestre Champs Elysée Phillippe Herreweghe, conductor Harmonia mundi Prokofiev The Complete Symphonies London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev, conductor Philips Verdi Falstaff Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Philips

	Emma Kirkby, soprano Sting Songs from the Labyrinth: Songs of John Dowland Deutsche Grammophon James MacMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia Stephen Layton, conductor Hyperion *Allegri Miserere* Tenebrae Nigel Short, conductor Signum Classics Galuppi Forgotten Arias of a Venetian Master Catherine King, mezzo-soprano Il canto di Orfeo Gianluca Capuano, Director Avie

	Dominique Labelle, soprano J.S. Bach The 6 cello suites Phoebe Carrai, cello Avie It is my favorite CD when I am cooking. I LOVE it! *Best of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong* Polygram I love those duets. Beautiful music making. Hot hot hot! Nirvana Nevermind Geffen Records My son has been listening to this CD and I really have enjoyed it. Kurt Cobain's poetry is very raw. Nirvana's music reminds me of Shostakovitch. I have never heard anything like it.

	Gregory Lorenz, tenor Bartok The 6 String Quartets The Takacs Quartet Decca Vaughan-Williams On Wenlock Edge, Ten Blake Songs, others John Mark Ainsley The Nash Ensemble Hyperion

	Anne Manson, conductor J.S. Bach 6 Cello Suites Yo-Yo Ma, cello Sony Domenico Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas Joanna MacGregor, piano Collins Bartok Concerto for Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra George Solti, conductor Polygram Beethoven Complete Symphonies London Classical Players Sir Roger Norrington, conductor Angel Records

	Nicholas McGegan, composer *Amália Rodrigues. Fado Lisboeta.* Sounds of the World. Magical songs from Portugal. The Ave Maria is my favourite! Toulouse Lautrec: Témoinages musicaux. Various artists Fremeaux & assoc. Songs performed by many of the artists for whom Toulouse Lautrec did portraits and posters. A wonderful evocation of fin de siècle Paris. *Haydn Scottish Folk Songs.* Haydn Trio Eisestadt, Lorna Anderson, Jamie MacDougall Brilliant Great music from Haydn's last years. The poetry by Robert Burns and others is great too. Mozart Piano Sonatas Vol 1. Robert Levin, piano DHM One master plays the music of another!

	Ann Monoyios, soprano Bach St. Matthew Passion English Baroque Soloists/Monteverdi Choir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Archiv Produktion Haydn The Creation Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra/Tolzer Knabenchor Bruno Weil, conductor Sony Vivarte Norah Jones Come Away With Me Blue Note Records Llasa The Living Road Nettwerk Records

	Mary Phillips, mezzo-soprano Paul Simon Graceland Rhino Records *John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman* Impulse Tom Petty Wildflowers Warner Nanci Griffith Blue Roses from the Moons Elektra *Soundtrack from "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou"* Lost Highway

	Lisa Saffer, soprano Pelham Humfrey Verse Anthems Romanesca/Choir of Clare College Cambridge Nicholas McGegan, conductor Harmonia Mundi Wonderful 17th c. choral music with so much soul. Anything by Ben Webster I love tenor sax, and he's old school jazz and Fabulous. Makes it sound like he's talk/singing. Emmy-Lou Harris Red Dirt Girl Nonesuch Great songwriting, especially the title track: a thumbnail but emotionally detailed sketch of a life. Lyle Lovett and his Large Band Live in Texas MCA Very loopy, wry, and musically and textually literate. Great back-up singing.

	Daniel Taylor, counter-tenor Schubert Winterreise Russell Braun and Carolyn Maule CBC records Anything by Rufus Wainwright JS Bach Weinachts Oratorium English Baroque Soloists/Monteverdi Choir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Archiv Produktion Bing Crosby Christmas album