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BOUBLIL & SCHONBERG
Boublil/Schonberg: Martin Guerre Stephen Weller & Joanna Riding / 1999 English Cast [ First Night Records / CD - released 26/Apr/1999 ] Martin Guerre is a two-act musical with a book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, lyrics by Alain Boublil, Edward Hardy and Stephen Clark, and music by Claude-Michel Schönberg. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
100 Best Choruses [Six CD set] Incls Academy Chorus of St Martin in the Fields, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Choir of King's College, Royal Opera Chorus, etc [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 3/Oct/2011 ] Compilation of 100 of the best choral works by Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Mascagni, and many more. |
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Various artists including James Melton, Bing Crosby, Connee Boswell, Frances Langford, Carroll Gibbons, Tony Martin, etc
The Songs of Nacio Herb Brown: His 27 Finest 1927 - 1951 [ Retrospective / CD - released 10/Dec/2016 ] Ignacio "Nacio" Herb Brown (February 22, 1896 - September 28, 1964) was an American writer of popular songs, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s. |
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ORFF / WAGNER / ELGAR / PROKOFIEV / HANDEL / BRITTEN / SAINT-SAENS
Simply the best Classical Anthems (2 CDs) Various Performers incls BBC Symphony, London Philharmonic, Monteverdi Choir, Toronto Symphony [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2015 ] Simply the Best Classical Anthems - a 2CD collection featuring 38 of the most powerful classics on earth. Includes O'Fortuna (X Factor), Ride of the Valkyries (Apocolypse Now), and, Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001 A Space Odyssey) |
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CHABRIER / VIVALDI / SATIE / DELIBES / SAINT-SAENS / PART / etc
Van Gogh Alive - The experience Various performers [ ABC Classics Discovery / CD - released 1/Aug/2021 ] The music used in the most visited multi-sensory experience in the world. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Summer Night Concert, Schonbrunn 2023 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, with Elina Garanca (mezzo) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 14/Jul/2023 ] 2023's 'Sommernachtskonzert' ('Summer Night Concert') was performed on June 8th, 2023. It is an annual open-air event, which has been held since 2008. The park of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna/Austria is the magical setting for the concert. The... |
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EDMUND RUBBRA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rubbra: Choral Music Voces Sacrae, Judy Martin [ ASV / CD ] A beautiful disc of (mostly) World Premiere recordings, this first-ever CD to be devoted solely to the choral music of Edmund Rubbra. The earliest are the Five Motets of 1934, settings of 16th century metaphysical poems. |
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LEKEU / FAURE / BERLIOZ / MASSENET / SAINT-SAENS / CHAUSSON etc
Véronique Gens: Nuits Véronique Gens / I Giardini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] As the symbiosis between the art of the poet and that of the composer, the French mélodie became the jewel of the salons of the 'Belle Époque'. By placing a string quartet and a piano around the singer, Chausson's Chanson perpétuelle, Lekeu's... |
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DUBOIS / HAHN / FAURÉ / GOUNOD / CHAUSSON / SAINT-SAËNS
Paysage Véronique Gens (soprano), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] "Her soprano is in remarkably good shape, supple and elegant, her diction exemplary and her phrasing exquisite, deftly capturing the mood of each song." Gramophone Award Finalist - Voice & Ensemble |
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JONATHAN DOVE / JUDITH WEIR / MATTHEW MARTIN
Dove, Weir & Martin: Choral works Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor), Peter Holder (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Feb/2022 ] A diverse selection of works, many written to commemorate state occasions in Westminster Abbey itself, by three composers who demonstrate a particular affinity for choral music. |
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JAMES MacMILLAN
Tenebrae Responsories & other works Westminster Cathedral Choir, London Brass, Martin Baker (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2013 ] Westminster Cathedral Choir returns to acclaimed Scottish composer James MacMillan, whose powerful, passionate and luminous music has made him one of the best-loved choral composers of today. Included on this recording is a dramatic setting of the... |
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JOHN SHEPPARD
John Sheppard: Media vita & other sacred music Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Even by the standards of a time and place-Tudor England-in which masterpieces of choral polyphony appear to have been virtually an everyday occurrence, there is something uniquely and intensely compelling about the surviving works of John Sheppard.... |
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GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
PalestrinaL Missa Dum Complerentur Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 4/Feb/2014 ] "Baker and the Westminster choir communicate a clear sense of the structural logic … the singers are excellent … virtually flawless … shut your eyes and you can almost smell the incense. Very warmly recommended" BBC Music |
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GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
Palestrina: Missa O Rex Gloriae / Missa Viri Galilaei Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/1989 ] 'Under a new Master of Music, James O'Donnell, the Westminster Cathedral Choir are as intense and fervent as ever' (BBC Record Review) |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4) [recorded in 1992] Yefim Bronfman (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Kurt Sanderling [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] "The DVD camera lets us watch his mercurial hands in astonishment as well as pleasure...This is among the most revealing accounts available" (Gramophone) |
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LISZT / RAVEL / SAINT-SAENS
Yevgeny Sudbin plays Liszt, Ravel & Saint-Saëns Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "His Liszt is remarkable. The F minor Transcendental Study's brand of miraculous virtuosity, at once tumultuous and limpid, is marvellously captured." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
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L. & N. BOULANGER / SAINT-SAENS / FAURE / VIARDOT-GARCIA
Merci Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Kathryn Stott (piano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Merci is a deeply personal expression of gratitude, a celebration of the powerful relationships that keep music alive. This effervescent recording is rooted in the compositions of Gabriel Fauré, whom Kathryn Stott calls her "musical soulmate," and... |
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BACH / MEYER / SAINT-SAENS / MORRICONE / VIVALDI / TAN DUN / etc
The Essential Yo-Yo Ma (Gold Series) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with various guests & accompaniments [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] "Discs with snippets like this have to be taken for what they are: appetizers for further exploration or just agreeable easy listening. What is never in doubt is the high quality of the playing and recording." (MusicWeb) |
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Martin Scorsese: Films Of Faith (The Last Temptation Of Christ / Kundun / Silence) (3 Disc Set)
[ Via Vision Entertainment DVD / 3 DVD - released 8/Aug/2024 ] The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) A visually breathtaking re-imagining of faith and sacrifice, guilt and redemption, sin and atonement that follows Jesus Christ's journey to accept his divinity and ultimate fate. Kundun (1997) The incredible... |
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Saint Omer
[ Palace Films Collection DVD / DVD - released 12/Oct/2023 ] Northern France, 2016. Rama, a successful Parisian journalist and author, has travelled to the coastal town of Saint-Omer to document the trial of Laurence Coly, a well-educated young Senegalese Frenchwoman who is accused of abandoning her... |