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Recordings

(Picture: Photo of various CD’s)

(Picture: Photo of Sir Elton John with the Academy Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Opera House)

‘This admirable recording confirms that the Royal Academy of Music has issued another winner’
Gramophone, November 2006

‘While the big record companies flounder, the independents flourish. The Royal Academy of Music’s own label is a case in point, with some jolly good recordings in its catalogue’
Metro, June 2006

Working in the recording industry is increasingly central to the careers of many performers. The Academy’s excellent recording facilities are available for producing demo tapes, and the Business for Musicians module of the BMus programme includes training on making and promoting a CD.

In addition, the Academy has an expanding catalogue of high-quality CDs featuring student performances. The raison d’être for making CDs at the Academy is threefold:

To provide valuable studio experience for our students

To record music which reflects the range and quality of the Academy’s musical activity across many disciplines

To produce challenging, committed and discerning interpretations of interesting repertoire—something which young, talented people often respond to spectacularly well.

We hope that you will spend a few minutes listening to some of the audio which is available on the Academy’s website at www.ram.ac.uk/discs—if you want to know what really goes on at the Academy, it will give you the best possible idea of the range of performance opportunities and standards.

Classical CDs

Academy recordings are regularly broadcast by BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and the BBC World Service. Selected discs are available for sale to the public, with all proceeds used to fund future recordings.

Our première recording of Handel’s Gloria with Emma Kirkby, Laurence Cummings and the Academy’s Baroque Orchestra (BIS CD-1235) shot up the classical charts on its release in June 2001.

Press comments on our classical CDs appear throughout this Prospectus.

Recent releases include:

A series of highly-acclaimed recordings by Academy SymphonicWind, including the complete wind ensemble music of Richard Strauss.

Song Circle discs featuring 22 diverse ‘Songs of Spring’ and 24 ‘Songs of Seduction’.

Live recordings of Royal Academy Opera productions of The Magic Flute with Sir Colin Davis, The Cunning Little Vixen with Sir Charles Mackerras and a highlights disc of Rameau’s Dardanus with Laurence Cummings

‘Grand Chorus’: twenty-two historic and important organs South of the Thames Strauss and Schoenberg performed by the Royal Academy Soloists directed by Clio Gould

Music by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, including the world première recording of 17 Tate Riffs.