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Waxahatchee
Saint Cloud (LP) [ Merge / LP - released 27/Mar/2020 ] Waxhatchee's Saint Cloud is an unflinching self-examination whose raw, exposed narrative terrain is aided by a shift in sonic arrangements. While her last two records (Out in the Storm and Ivy Tripp) featured the kind of big guitars, well-honed... |
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The Weeknd
Dawn FM [ Universal / CD - released 4/Feb/2022 ] Dawn FM is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd. The album is narrated by Jim Carrey, and features guest appearances from Tyler, the Creator and Lil Wayne. The production was handled by The Weeknd himself alongside... |
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Will Martin
By Request [ Will Martin Entertainment / CD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] • New Zealand born Will Martin is set to release his brand new studio album on Friday 26 April 2019. Will Martin's By Request, is a unique collection of twelve songs all arranged and performed with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, in a... |
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ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
San Giovanni Battista Anke Herrmann, Martin Oro, Antonio Abete, Fredrik Akselberg, Elena Cecchi Fedi / Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De Marchi [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Dec/2007 ] The oratorio San Giovanni Battista was written for performance on Palm Sunday in the Holy Year of 1675 where some fourteen oratorios were commissioned by the confraternity of the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome - an auspicious event.... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano), Martin Oro (countertenor) Jörg Dürmüller (tenor) / Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro De [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno is a landmark in baroque music. It is Handel's first oratorio, product of his astonishing flowering in Italy in his early twenties, suffused with the youthful vigour and virtuosity of his early works . The... |
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RALF VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending / Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis / Symphony No. 5 in D major / Fantasia on Greensleeves Iona Brown (violin) / Academy Of St Martin In The Fields, Neville Marriner / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Roger Norrington [ Decca Virtuoso / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] A delightful disc from Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, neatly encompassing four of Vaughan Williams' most enduringly popular orchestral works. |
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Academy Of St Martin-In-The Fields, with Felicity Lott (soprano), Westminster Abbey Choir, Ivan Moravec (piano), etc
Amadeus [soundtrack] (2CD) [ Fantasy / 2 CD Box Set - released 6/Aug/2007 ] Amadeus is a 1984 American period biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman, and adapted by Peter Shaffer from his 1979 stage play of the same name, in-turn inspired by the 1830 play Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pushkin. Set in Vienna,... |
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LOUIS SPOHR
Double Quartets Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 20/May/2012 ] The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble |
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BOCCHERINI / CHOPIN / POPPER / SAINT-SAENS / WAGNER / etc
Casals Encores Alban Gerhardt (cello) Cecile Licad (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2011 ] "This is cello playing of exquisite sophistication and bold imagination. Casals, I feel sure, would have approved." (BBC Music Chamber Choice Aug 2011) |
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The Allman Brothers Band
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues [ Polydor Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2004 ] European import. From the acclaimed PBS series, featuring 11 tracks, including 7 lengthy live versions of classic Allmans. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah Elly Ameling, Anna Reynolds, Philip Langridge, Gwynne Howell / Academy & Chorus of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "There have been many recordings of Messiah since this 1976 release and there will no doubt be many more to come, but few, if any, will match, let alone surpass, this of Marriner. It is truly a masterpiece!" (Fanfare) |
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BACH / DEBUSSY / FAURE / MESSIAEN / LISZT / SAINT-SAENS / MacDOWELL
Andrew von Oeyen - Angel & Demons Andrew von Oeyen (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] American-born pianist Andrew von Oeyen has an ambitious new album that combines works for solo keyboard with piano transcriptions from orchestral, opera and choral repetoire. The album possess a unique duality between the 'angelic' works of Bach,... |
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SAINT-SAENS
Organ Music (Incls 'Preludes & Fugues' & 'Fantaisie No 3, Op 157') Andrew-John Smith (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] 'The charm and elegance of these preludes, fugues and fantasies … brilliantly played by the hugely talented Smith on the great Cavaillé-Coll instrument that Saint-Saëns knew' (Observer) |
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SAINT-SAENS
Organ Music Volume 3 Andrew-John Smith (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "The mighty Fantasie pour orgue-Aeolian, complete with tubular bells, written for the new American Aeolian organ in 1906, sounds epic on this vast, brooding instrument, so splendidly tamed by the dextrous Smith." (Observer) |
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VASKS / WEILL
Violin Concertos Anthony Marwood, violin / Academy of St. Martin in the Field [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Nov/2005 ] 'Anthony Marwood has championed the Vasks over a number of years and delivers a wonderfully moving and intense performance of the solo part. The strings of the ASMF are responsive partners … Their colleagues in the wind, brass and percussion... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4, BWV1066-1069 William Bennett (flute), Thurston Dart (continuo) / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] Originally recorded in 1970 |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder Barbara Haveman, Claudia Mahnke, Brandon Jovanovich, Gerhard Siegel, Thomas Bauer, Johannes Martin Kränzle (speaker) / Kartäuserkantorei Köln [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "Excellent performances throughout from orchestra, soloists and choruses - rarely have the lush textures of Schoenberg's late-Romantic cantata sounded this fresh." (Gramophone Award WINNER 2016 - Choral) |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Gloria in D, RV589 (with Bach - Magnificat in D BWV243) Barbara Hendricks, Ann Murray, Jean Rigby, Uwe Heilmann / Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields / Sir Neville Marriner [ Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] "Barbara Hendricks and Ann Murray are the admirably paired soloists in Vivaldi's Gloria; both bring beauty of line and a feeling of élan. Hendricks and Murray recur in Bach's Magnificat along with Jean Rigby, Uwe Heillman and Jorma Hynninen" MusWeb |
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W. A. MOZART / ANTONIO ROSETTI
Die Schonsten Horn Konzerte (Best-Loved Horn Concertos) Barry Tuckwell (horn) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner / English Chamber Orchestra, Barry Tuckwell [ Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - released 13/Jun/2014 ] "The Academy strings sound very fresh and dance beautifully in the allegros... this reissue can be strongly recommended on all counts." - Gramophone on the Mozart |