PETER KLATZOW / HANS HUYSSEN
Cello For Africa Heleen du Plessis (cello) [ Ode Records / CD - released 18/Oct/2013 ] Cello for Africa saw Heleen du Plessis (South African cellist and Williams Evans Executant lecturer for cello at the University of Otago, member of the TriOtago piano trio and principal cellist of the Southern Sinfonia) set out on a journey of... |
WEBER / BRUCH / CRUSELL / KROMMER / STAMITZ / HOFFMEISTER / COPLAND / etc
Clarinet Concertos Henk de Graaf (clarinet) Maria Du Toit (clarinet) Oskar Michallik (clarinet) Giovanni Punzi (clarinet), Eva Katrine Dalsgaard (viola), etc [ Brilliant Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2018 ] Many of the composers in this set wrote for the clarinet at times when the orchestral status and design of the instrument were still in transition: the 18th century saw the gradual establishment of the clarinet as a more-or-less standard orchestral... |
REYNALDO HAHN
Reynaldo Hahn: L'île du rêve Hervé Niquet, Hélène Guilmette, Artavazd Sargsyan, Cyrille Dubois, Münchner Runddfunkorchester, Ludivine Gombert, Thomas Dolié, Chœur du Concert Spiri [ Bru Zane / CD/Book - released 23/Oct/2020 ] "To have written that, you must be a poet", Massenet told Reynaldo Hahn when he read through the score of L Île du rêve. Composed when the young man was not yet eighteen years old, this curtain-raiser already had the qualities of the great works of... |
Histoire du Cinema (The History of the Cinema)
Jean-Luc Godard / Soundtrack [ ECM Records / 5 CD ] Recorded 1988-1997. Box set/Complete soundtrack to 8-part video edition. |
LAURENT PETITGIRARD
Petitgirard: Little Prince Mari Lili-Laurila / Budapest Studio Choir, Honvéd Male Choir & Solistes du Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Budapest, Laurent Petitgirard [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] The prize-winning French composer Laurent Petitgirard has earned acclaim for the unusually personal power of his theatrical imagination. |
Husker Du
Candy Apple Grey (LP) [ Rhino / LP - released 29/Jun/2009 ] |
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Eight Miles High / Makes No Sense at All [ SST Records / CD - released 1/Nov/1991 ] |
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Flip Your Wig [ SST Records / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] American imported disc. |
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Flip Your Wig (LP) [ SST Records / LP - released 17/Oct/1990 ] Flip Your Wig would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing. |
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Land Speed Record [ SST Records / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] American imported disc. |
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Metal Circus [ SST Records / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] American imported disc. |
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New Day Rising (LP) [ SST Records / LP - released 17/Oct/1990 ] |
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Zen Arcade [ SST Records / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] American imported disc. |
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Zen Arcade (Double LP) [ SST Records / LP - released 17/Oct/1990 ] In many ways, it's impossible to overestimate the impact of Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade on the American rock underground in the '80s. It's the record that exploded the limits of hardcore and what it could achieve. Hüsker Dü broke all of the rules with Zen... |
HANDEL
Rinaldo (Complete Opera recorded in 1977) Ileana Cotrubas, Carolyn Watkinson & Paul Esswood / La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2010 ] "The vigour of Malgoire's direction of an opera which plainly for him is very much alive, makes this a very attractive set. The finest singing comes from Ilena Cotrubas, but the whole team is convincing. The bright but spacious recording adds to the... |
THIERRY LANCINO
Violin Concerto & Prelude and Death of Virgil Isabelle Faust (violin) Orchestre national de France, Gerard Schwarz / Matteo de Monti (baritone) Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg, Arturo Tamay [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] Lancino writes of his Violin Concerto that his imagination was fired by 'the thought of a little piece of wood (in reality a 1704 Stradivarius), played by Isabelle Faust, confronting a gigantic machine (the full orchestra)'. |
JOSEF HAYDN / LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Haydn / Boccherini: Cello Concertos Jacqueline du Pre (cello) / English Chamber Orchestra / London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 20/Apr/2016 ] "These Jacqueline du Pré performances have been classics for decades and now sound better than ever in their latest remastering." (MusicWeb) |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Waldesruhe (Silent woods) Jacqueline du Pre (cello) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 15/Oct/2017 ] "Impressively remastered, spectacular in its realism, with well-defined detail, superb warmth and body, and fine perspective." |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Jacqueline du Pre (cello) Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 20/May/2022 ] Renowned as a great interpreter of Brahms, Jacqueline du Pré, here at the peak of her art and technical abilities, delivers the latest version recorded with her husband Daniel Barenboim in May-August 1968. |
EDWARD ELGAR / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Beethoven: The Ghost... Jacqueline du Pre in Portrait Jacqueline du Pre (cello) / Daniel Barenboim / Pinchas Zukerman / Sir John Barbirolli / Philharmonia Orchestra [ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2004 ] Jacqueline du Pré's extraordinary career was cut cruelly short by illness in 1973 when she was only 28 years old. When she died 14 years later, she remained as vibrant a figure in the public mind as she had been at the pinnacle of her career. |