Associates
Over the years, we have worked with a huge number of highly respected artists, in top venues all over the world. We have made recordings for many classical labels and individuals.
Please see below for a list of some of our Associates:
Record Labels
Giraffe Productions have engineered or edited discs released on the following labels:
Art Union Records
ASV
Avie Records
BIS
Centaur
Chandos Records
Claves
CRD
Decca
Deux-Elles
Dutton
EMI
First Hand Records
Glissando
Guild Music
Heritage
Hyperion Records
Kalan
Linn Records
LIR Classics
Lyrita
Mapa Mundi
MPR
MSR Classics
Naxos Records
Nimbus Records
Omnibus Classics
Onyx
Opus Arte
Orchid Classics
Regis
RTÉ Lyric FM
Rubicon
Signum
SOMM Recordings
Stirling Records
Stone Records
Toccata Classics
Upper Note
Wigmore Hall Live
Artists and Ensembles
Ben Connellan has recorded a wide variety of artists and ensembles, including (but not limited to):
Orchestras
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
City of London Sinfonia
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
English Symphony Orchestra
The Halle
London Mozart Players
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Northern Sinfonia
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Orchestra of Opera North
Orchestra of St Gallen
Orchestra of St Paul’s
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
The Philharmonia
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Residentie Orkest, The Hague
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
RTE National Symphony Orchestra
Sinfonia 21
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Ulster Orchestra
Vasteras Sinfoinietta
Early Music Groups
Arcangelo
The Cantors
Collegium Musicum 90
Concordia
Dufay Collective
Early Opera Company
Fretwork
I Fagiolini
The Instruments of Time and Truth
L’Avventura London
London Handel Players
Orlando Consort
Purcell Quartet
Sirinu
Chamber Ensembles
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble
Art Deco Trio
Brodsky Quartet
Callino Quartet
Chilingirian Quartet
Concordia
Dante Quartet
Delme Quartet
Elias Quartet
Goldner Quartet
Holywell Ensemble
Karolos
Kreutzer Quartet
McCapra Quartet
Piatti Quartet
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Smith Quartet
Sorrel Quartet
Wigmore Soloists
Choirs
Bath Camerata
Choir of Gloucester Cathedral
Finzi Singers
Joyful Company of Singers
Serenata Voices
St Johns Voices
Vasari Singers
Conductors
Marin Alsop
Matthias Bamert
Martyn Brabbins
Jirí Belohlávek
Richard Hickox
Neeme Järvi
Kirill Karabits
Roger Norrington
Tadaaki Otaka
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Heinrich Schiff
Jac van Steen
Bryden Thomson
Tamas Vasary
Mark Wigglesworth
John Wilson
Kenneth Woods
Soloists
Thomas Ades (piano)
Joseph Alessi (trombone)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Daniel Bates (oboe)
Juliette Bausor (flute)
Lisa Beznosiuk (baroque flute)
Christian Blackshaw (piano)
Claire Booth (soprano)
James Brawn (piano)
Rachel Brown (baroque flute)
Adrian Butterfield (violin)
Simon Callaghan (piano)
Allan Clayton (tenor)
Laurence Cummings (harpsichord)
Philippa Davies (flute)
Francesca Dego (violin)
Peter Donohoe (piano)
James Ehnes (violin)
Jeremy Filsell (piano)
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
April Fredrick (soprano)
Christopher Glynn (piano)
Ben Goldscheider (horn)
Andrey Gugnin (piano)
Chloe Hanslip (violin)
Stephen Hough (piano)
William Howard (piano)
Rustem Hyroudinoff (piano)
Clelia Iruzun (piano)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Kirsten Johnson (piano)
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Julia Kleiter (soprano)
Heidi Krutzen (harp)
Piers Lane (piano)
Sten Lassmann (piano)
Frank Lloyd (horn)
Louis Lortie (piano)
Leon McCawley (piano)
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin)
Míceál O’Rourke (piano)
Steven Osborne (piano)
Lucy Parham (piano)
Jennifer Pike (violin)
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
Tom Poster (piano)
Lawrence Powers (viola)
Christopher Purves (bass-baritone)
Anthony Robson (baroque oboe)
Joan Rodgers (soprano)
Martin Roscoe (piano)
Jackie Ross (baroque violin)
Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
Karim Said (piano)
Cristian Sandrin (piano)
Matthew Schellhorn (piano)
Howard Shelley (piano)
Josephine Smyth O’Donnell (jazz singer)
Nicky Spence (tenor)
Stephen Stirling (horn)
David Stout (baritone)
Geoffrey Tozer (piano)
Nicholas Unwin (piano)
Nicholas Walker (piano)
Huw Watkins (piano)
Paul Watkins (cello)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Silas Wollston (harpsichord)
Actors
Niamh Cusack
Keith Michell
Timothy West
Kevin Whately
Venues
Ben Connellan has recorded in a number of venues around the world, including:
Australia:
- Adelaide Town Hall
- Hobart Federation Concert Hall
Czech Republic:
- Spanish Hall, Prague
- Prague Castle
The Netherlands:
- Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
- Dr. Anton Philipszaal, The Hague
Norway:
- Bergen Concert Hall
Sweden:
- Royal Concert Hall, Stockholm
- University Hall, Uppsala
Switzerland:
- Geneva Concert Hall
- St. Gallan Concert Hall
United Kingdom:
- Bristol: St George’s, Brandon Hill
- Cambridge: Faculty of Music Concert Hall, West Road
- Dundee: Caird Hall
- East Woodhay, Berks.: St Martin’s Church
- Forde Abbey, Somerset
- Glasgow: RSNO Centre (Henry Wood Hall), City Halls
- Hillesden, Bucks: All Saints’ Church
- London: All Hallows’ (Gospel Oak), All Saints’ (East Finchley), All Saints’ (Tooting), Blackheath Concert Halls, Henry Wood Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, St John’s (Smith Square), St Jude-on-the-Hill (Hampstead Garden Suburb), St Silas the Martyr (Kentish Town), The Warehouse (Waterloo), Wigmore Hall
- Lydbury North, Staffs.: Walcott Hall
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne: All Saints’, Quayside
- Orford, Suffolk: St Bartholomew’s Church
- Potton Hall, Suffolk
- Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk
- Toddington, Glos.: St Andrew’s Church
