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JOSEPH BOULOGNE SAINT-GEORGES
Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos No. 1, Op. 3 and Nos. 2 and 10 Qian Zhou (violin) / Toronto Camerata / Kevin Mallon, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Sep/2004 ] "This music is certainly worth an airing ... it is beautifully played and a joyful listening experience ... an irresistible bargain" (MusicWeb Sept 2004) |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Quartets Quartetto Avos [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] Camille Saint‐Saëns was a highly prolific and eclectic composer, two adjectives which may bear a negative undertone, but not in the case of Saint‐Saëns, a genius who absorbed all current musical styles and forged them in his own inimitable, unique la |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos & Sinfonia Concertante Rachel Barton Pine (violin) / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, with Matthew Lipman (viola) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2015 ] "there is much to enjoy in Barton Pine's sensitive, finely honed performances, especially of Nos. 4 & 5 (plenty of temperament in the latter's 'Turkish' eruption). With a nod to period performance, she articulates crisply and uses vibrato modestly." |
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SAINT-SAENS / CHAUSSON / RAVEL
French Impressions: Works for violin and orchestra Rachel Kolly d'Alba (violin) / Orchestre Symphonique Bienne, Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ Warner Classics / CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] "Impressive playing from the extrovert and intelligent Kolly d'Alba. She gives her all in the hothouse Romanticism of Saint-Saens and is sensitive to the mesmerism of Chausson's Poème and Ravel's Tzigane." (BBC Music) |
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SAINT-SAENS
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt / Eliahu Inbal [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 11/Mar/2006 ] His early symphonic works were dismissed by French audiences as too scholarly. Nevertheless, both his Symphony in A (1850) and his Symphony in F, with the epithet Urbs Romana (1856) - which did not receive an opus number - are full of close motivic... |
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ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Wolf-Ferrari: Talitha Kumi! Rainer Trost (tenor), Joan Martín-Royo (baritone) / Oviedo Filarmonia, Coro El León de Oro, Friedrich Haider [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Mar/2017 ] Before he sprang to international fame as an operatic composer, Wolf-Ferrari had embarked on an important sequence of choral works. The very early Otto cori, Op. 2, set to Italian and German texts, contain some of the most beautiful music he ever... |
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Edouard Lalo / Saint-Saens
Sonatas for Cello & Piano Raphael Chretien, Olivier Peyrebrune [ Ligia Digital / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] |
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LIONEL SAINSBURY / JOHN FOULDS
Sainsbury/Foulds: Cello Concertos Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] "One really could not ask Messrs Wallfisch and Yates and both orchestras for more persuasive world premieres of two concertos that already seem like old friends." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2012) |
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FRANK SINATRA / SAMMY DAVIS JR / DEAN MARTIN
Cool Cat Classics The Rat Pack [ Alto / Take: 2 / CD - released 27/Nov/2014 ] "The new Rat Pack gigs, perceived as the height of cool, featured the group clowning around with what Dickinson called 'total abandoned fun'. They performed on stage as in life, disrupting each others acts, pretending to be drunk and directing sexist... |
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Ray & His Orchest Martin
Sound Of Sight &.. [ Vocalion / CD - released 4/Mar/2010 ] |
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Ray Martin
Decca Archives - Favourite Tv [ Vocalion / CD - released 10/Nov/2008 ] |
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Ray Martin
Million Dollar Melodies [ Vocalion / CD - released 16/May/2005 ] |
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Ray Martin & His Orchestra
In The Martin Manner [ Vocalion / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] |
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DELIBES
Sylvia (complete ballet) (with Saint-Saens - Henry VIII Ballet Music) Razumovsky Sinfonia / Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "There is loving care applied to selection of tempos, shaping of phrases, orchestral balance and refinement of instrumental detail" Gramophone (Editor's Choice), June 1996 |
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BARBARA EUPHAN TODD
Worzel Gummidge (Unabridged) Read by Jessica Martin [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 10/Aug/2017 ] Regarded as one of the most popular children's novels, Barbara Euphan Todd's Worzel Gummidge follows an animated scarecrow who causes chaos and mayhem wherever he goes. The series is perhaps best known through its 1980s television adaptation, and is... |
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SVEN HELBIG
Helbig: Requiem A René Pape (bass), Dresdner Kreuzchor, Staatskapelle Dresden, Martin Lehmann [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 16/May/2025 ] Dresden-based composer and producer Sven Helbig creates Requiem A to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, honouring the victims of war and sending a profound plea for peace. |
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SAINT-SAENS / BERLIOZ / MASSENET / MILHAUD / RAVEL
Le Boeuf sur le toit: French works for violin and orchestra Renaud Capucon (violin) / Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen / Daniel Harding [ Virgin / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - February 2002 |
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CAMILE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Dances and Ballet Music Residentie Orkest The Hague, Jun Märkl [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] This album presents a selection of Saint-Saëns' incidental music and music from his operas. From Samson et Dalila - the only one of Saint-Saëns' operas to remain in the repertory - we hear two memorable and adrenalin-fuelled dances. |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Nachtgesang RIAS Kammerchor, Martin Creed, with Birgit Remmert & Werner Gura [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Whether it be cheerful, melancholy, amorous or piously contemplative, the night - a favorite source of romantic inspiration if ever there was one - is the unbroken thread running throughout this recording on which we will find monumental pieces like... |