June Tabor, Iain Ballamy & Huw
Quercus [ ECM / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] 'Quercus' means 'oak' in Latin and the roots of this particular tree dig deep into British folk music, while leaves and branches reach upward to embrace jazz-inspired lyrical improvising. The trio features the venerable English singer June Tabor... |
PROKOFIEV / TCHAIKOVSKY / SAINT-SAENS / DUKAS / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / etc
Children's Classics Box Set Various storytellers including Dame Edna Everage, Prunella Scales, Bernard Cribbins, Angela Rippon & June Whitfield [ Naxos Audio Books / 7 CD Box Set - released 29/Oct/2007 ] Musical stories, captivatingly told by storytellers including Prunella Scales, Bernard Cribbins, Angela Rippon and June Whitfield, featuring music by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Dukas, Saint-Saëns and many more. |
Carmen McRae, Miles Davis Quartet, Sarah Vaughan, Ruby Braff, Paul Desmond, June Christy, etc
Rodgers & Hart Songbook - Blue Moon [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. |
PORPORA / HANDEL / ALBINONI / STEFFANI / VINCI / VIVALDI
Cecilia Bartoli: Queen of Baroque Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), with Sol Gabetta (cello), June Anderson (soprano) & Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) with various orchestras [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] A collection of the very best of Bartoli's treasured recordings of musical delights and discoveries of the 17th and 18th century. Featuring two previously unreleased world premiere recordings of forgotten jewels. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: The Turn of the Screw (Complete Opera with libretto) Helen Donath, Heather Harper, Robert Tear, Ava June / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis [ Philips Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/1995 ] "The Philips recording boasts luscious stereo sound and a good cast, including a youthful sounding Helen Donath as an appropriately idealistic Governess" (EnjoyTheMusic.com) |
Johnny and June Carter Cash
Duets [ Sony & BMG Entertainment / CD - released 7/Feb/2006 ] Partners in life and in song, Johnny and June had some of the best duets like "Jackson" and "It Ain't Me Babe", collected here for the first time. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' - Ode to Freedom June Anderson, Sarah Walker, Klaus König & Jan-Hendrik Rootering / Various orchestras, Leonard Bernstein [ EuroArts / Medici Arts DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] The historic concert in celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: re-issued with new packaging, now available at midprice! Leonard Bernstein spontaneously accepted an invitation to conduct a performance to celebrate freedom.Adding to the... |
June Christy
Five Classic Albums (June's Got Rhythm / This Is June Christy / The Song Is June / Those Kenton Days / Off Beat) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Five Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD second set release from June Christy, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details |
June Christy
Four Classic Albums (Something Cool / Misty Miss Christy / Gone For The Day / Ballads For Night People) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 26/Jul/2018 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from June Christy, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel detail... |
June Tabor
An Introduction to... [ Topic Records / CD ] Specially selected 15 track CD compilation / Features recordings from her many TOPIC LP releases / Recordings feature Maddy Prior, Martin Simpson ,Oysterband, Nic Jones and Andrew Cronshaw. June Tabor is quiet simply one of Britain's greatest... |
June Tabor & Oysterband
Ragged Kingdom [ Topic / CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] With Ragged Kingdom, two of the linchpins of the British folk scene, June Tabor and Oysterband, team up for a second time, 21 years after collaborating on what's considered as one of the genre's modern classics. |
Peggy Lee, Four Freshman, Dinah Shore, Julie London, Nancy Wilson, Keely Smith, NAt King Cole, June Christy, etc
Gershwin: Song Book Collection [ EMI / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] An outstanding anthology presenting many classic vocalists and instrumentalists doing Gershwin selections. The honor roll includes Peggy Lee, Four Freshman, Dinah Shore, Judy Garland, Louis Prima, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Mel Torme and many others |
Valerie June
The Order of Time [ Concord CD / CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] On this enthralling and illuminating leap forward, the Tennessee-bred, Brooklyn based songwriter weaves electric blues, African rhythms, cosmic atmospherics and delicate soul into an inventive and wholly original rumination on love, family, struggle... |
100 BEST OPERETTA
100 Best Operetta Various Artists incls Victoria de los Angeles, Sari Barabas, Teresa Berganza, June Bronhill, José Carreras, Michel Dens, Nicolai Gedda, etc [ EMI Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 2/Nov/2012 ] This 6CD set contains 100 tracks from the international catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics of the best songs from the most famous operettas from Vienna, Berlin, London, New York and Madrid. |
June Tabor
Ashore [ Topic / CD - released 21/Feb/2011 ] |
Miss June
Bad Luck Party [ FrenchKiss Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Raised in the embers of punk rock and described as "some unholy union between Sonic Youth and Le Tigre," the Auckland four piece harness jagged, noisy guitars filtered through the unrivalled stage presence of front-person Annabel Liddel, guitarist... |
Miss June
Bad Luck Party (LP) [ Frenchkiss Records / LP - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Raised in the embers of punk rock and described as "some unholy union between Sonic Youth and Le Tigre," the Auckland four piece harness jagged, noisy guitars filtered through the unrivalled stage presence of front-person Annabel Liddel, guitarist... |
W.A. MOZART
Der Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) Highlights Barbara Hendricks / June Anderson / Ulrike Steinsky / Jerry Hadley / Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles MacKerras [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2006 ] "...the sound is outstanding-both clean and rich." -American Record Guide |
SAMUEL ADLER
Cantos, Close Encounters & Five Snapshots David Fulmer (violin), Randolph Kelly (viola), Amir Eldan (cello), Kurt Muroki (double bass), Ricardo Iznaola (guitar), June Han (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] The winner of many prestigious awards for composition, Samuel Adler is also Professor emeritus at the Eastman School of Music. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Candide Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, Adolph Green, Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon CD & DVD / 3 CD/DVD - released 15/Mar/2018 ] Grammy Awards(1991): Best Engineered Album, Classical Classical Album of the Year |
BERNSTEIN
Candide (Complete musical) Jerry Handley, June Anderson, Della Jones, Christa Ludwig / London Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 26/May/2003 ] "It was an Original Cast highlights LP that first turned Candide into a cult musical after what was only modest success for the show on Broadway in the winter of 1956-7. Nowafter what seems like an eternity of revivals and revisions Candide once... |
Johnny Cash and June Carter
Johnny & June [ Primo / 2 CD - released 22/Feb/2010 ] |
June
Make It Blur [ CD ] |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Maometto Secondo (Complete opera recorded in 1985) June Anderson, Margarita Zimmermann, Ernesto Palacio, Samuel Ramey / Ambrosian Opera Chorus / Philharmonia Orchestra, Claudio Scimone [ Decca Grand Opera / 3 CD - released 20/Jun/2012 ] "... the performance is exemplary in its fidelity to the letter of the score and the style of the composer ... Scimone directs with an acute ear for Rossini's imaginative use of orchestral sonority...the recording is excellent" Gramophone (June 1985) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 "Ode an die Freiheit" (LP) June Anderson, Sarah Walker, Klaus Konig, Jan-Hendrik Bootering / Various orchestras, Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon LP / 2 LP - released 27/Sep/2019 ] Bernstein's legendary Beethoven performance "Ode to Freedom" (Symphony No. 9) with a special orchestra formed by members from both German States and the four Occupation Powers, celebrating the fall of Berlin Wall. |
June Carter Cash
Press On [ Dualtone Music Group / CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] The final album from one of Country Music's most prominent and beloved figures. Featuring Johnny, Laura and Carlene Cash, and iconic instrumentalists Norman Blake and Marty Stuart. |
June Christy
A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Mar/1992 ] This is a re-issued collection of former Stan Kenton vocalist June Christy singing with the Jerry Gray orchestra and Shelly Manne combos. |
June Christy with Johnny Guarnieri
A Friendly Session, Vol. 1 [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Apr/1998 ] Would you believe that June Christy was only four years old when she made these recordings? No, she was not a child prodigy, but actually, as far as music is concerned, the name 'June Christy' simply did not exist until Summer, 1945. |
June Christy with Johnny Guarnieri
A Friendly Session, Vol. 2 [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] By the time these songs were recorded, 23-year-old June Christy had an interesting Curriculum Vitae - in brief, six years of obscurity and four years of stardom. After several chilly seasons in Chicago, singing (sometimes) and learning how to... |
June Christy with Johnny Guarnieri
A Friendly Session, Vol. 3 [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Aug/2000 ] This is the third in a series of songs sung by June Christy with piano accompaniment from Johnny Guarnieri during a radio series from the late 1940s. Like the two earlier volumes, this CD chronicles her conversion from lead singer for Stan Kenton... |
June Christy with Stan Kenton
Somewhere There's Music [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Apr/2000 ] Stan Kenton rarely recruited well-known performers to his orchestra - take June Christy, for example. In March, 1945, shortly after award-winning singer Anita O'Day had left Kenton to try her luck as a single act, Stan invited the completely... |
June Hayes
Journey for the Return Home [ June Hayes / CD - released 8/Feb/2013 ] June Hayes, of Ngapuhi, NgatiPukenga and NgatiManiapoto ancestry, was well-known on Auckland's live music entertainment scene as a jazz singer with a 'voice like velvet'... |
June Of 44
Anahata (LP) [ Quarterstick / LP - released 17/Aug/2018 ] |
June of 44
In the Fishtank [ In the Fishtank / CD - released 19/Oct/1999 ] |
June of 44
Tropics and Meridians [ Quarter Stick / CD - released 18/Jun/1996 ] |
June Panic
Baby [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 14/Dec/2006 ] |
June Panic
The Fall of Atom: A Thesis On Entropy [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] |
June Panic
Hope You Fail Better [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 3/Aug/2009 ] |
June Richmond
Hey, Lawdy Mama! - Rare Recordings, 1938-1961 [ Jasmine Records / 2 CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] The first-ever comprehensive collection of recordings by June Richmond, the Chicago-born singer who found early success with the bands of Jimmy Dorsey, Andy Kirk and Cab Calloway, made films with Louis Jordan, and appeared on Broadway. But race... |
June Tabor
Airs and Graces [ Shanachie / CD - released 30/Sep/1991 ] une Tabor's first solo record is an understated triumph full of good songs, great arrangements, and a crack group of backing musicians led by the guitar playing of Nic Jones. Much of Airs and Graces is pure British folk, and Tabor has much fun with... |