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Handel: Sosarme (complete opera recorded in 1955) cover
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Sosarme (complete opera recorded in 1955)
Alfred Deller, William Herbert, Nancy Evans, Margaret Ritchie, etc / The Saint Cecilia Orchestra, Anthony Lewis
[ ABC Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ]
'Sosarme should cause a good deal of excitement … L'Oiseau-Lyre has assembled a brilliant cast.' New York Times
Elusive Affinity cover
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2-4 weeks
SCHNITTKE / SHCHEDRIN / RIHM
Elusive Affinity
Anna Gourari
[ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
In this imaginatively shaped and sensitively played album - her third for ECM - Russian pianist Anna Gourari explores musical connections and influences extending across the arts. Three suites of contemporary music are heard here. Alfred Schnittke's...
Bellini: Norma (the complete opera, recorded in 2006) cover
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (the complete opera, recorded in 2006)
The Bavarian State Opera / Edita Gruberova / Zoran Todorovich / Roberto Scandiuzzi / Sonia Ganassi / Markus Herzog / Friedrich Haider
[ Deutsche Grammophone DVD / 2 DVD - released 29/Jan/2007 ]
"Gruberova delivers her own wholly individual interpretation ... she translates Bellini's interplay of pain, love and desire into physically palpable inner and outer drama. Immensely moving." - Die Welt
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008) cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008)
Bayreuth Festival / Michael Volle, Klaus Florian Vogt, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Anne Schwanewilms / Philippe Jordan (cond)
[ Deutsche DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Jun/2019 ]
"The performances of the cast are of a high standard dramatically and mostly musically. Volle now paces himself well and Lehmkuhl is a magical and unclichéd Magdalene." Gramophone
Bruckner: 9 Symphonies [9 CDs plus Blu-ray audio] cover
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: 9 Symphonies [9 CDs plus Blu-ray audio]
Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra], Herbert von Karajan
[ Deutsche Grammophon Karajan Edition CD set plus Blu-ray audio / 10 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
"It is Karajan who is best able to present a Bruckner Symphony as a single vision … some of the most consistently impressive Bruckner recordings of recent years" - Gramophone
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (complete ballet recorded in 2007) cover
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (complete ballet recorded in 2007)
The Royal Ballet / Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo, Jose Martin / Boris Cruzin (cond)
[ Decca DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2009 ]
"Rojo rises to the fierce dramatic challenges of the last act with electrifying intensity. ...and Prokofiev's score is vigorously conducted by Boris Gruzin." Gramophone DVD of the Month Feb 2010
The Vivaldi Album cover
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
The Vivaldi Album
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
[ Decca / CD - released 25/Oct/1999 ]
"Bartoli tackles her discoveries with infectious glee, enjoying too the beguiling instrumental palette of Il Giardino Armonico, whose pair of flageolets, duetting over muted violins and pizzicato violas and cellos, calm the torments of love" Gramopho
Allegri: Miserere / Palestrina: Stabat Mater; Magnificat primi toni; etc cover
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ALLEGRI / PALESTRINA
Allegri: Miserere / Palestrina: Stabat Mater; Magnificat primi toni; etc
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Sir David Willcocks
[ Decca Legends / CD - released 1/Nov/2002 ]
"The famous 1963 King's performance of Allegri's Miserere, with its equally arresting treble solo so beautifully and securely sung by Roy Goodman, is now reissued, impressively remastered in Decca's Legends series." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo...
Money Jungle cover
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Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach
Money Jungle
[ Blue Note Records / CD - released 5/Aug/2002 ]
Duke Ellington surprised the jazz world in 1962 with his historic trio session featuring Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Not in a mood to simply rework older compositions, the bulk of the album focused on music he wrote specifically for the session....
Sol y Vida cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sol y Vida
Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano) / Orquesta Filarmónica De Gran Canaria, Karel Mark Chichon
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ]
"The singing is a delight, full of vitality and warmth" MusicWeb
Aragon: Snow White (complete ballet recorded in 2005 with choreography by Ricardo Cué) cover
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EMILIO ARAGON
Aragon: Snow White (complete ballet recorded in 2005 with choreography by Ricardo Cué)
Tamara Rojo & Inaki Urlezaga / Bilbao Symphony Orchestra / Emilio Aragon
[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 14/Jan/2008 ]
"Tamara Rojo, indisputable muse of my music, and a reference for all of us due to her sacrifice and professionalism" (Emilio Aragón)
Out To Lunch cover
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Eric Dolphy
Out To Lunch
[ Blue Note / CD - released 3/May/1999 ]
"Recorded just four months before his tragic demise, Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch (1964) represents a pinnacle moment in avant-garde jazz of the 1960s. and an album to approach with a very open mind. It is also the only full studio record that Dolphy...
Britten: War Requiem (plus Rehearsal sequences bonus) (Rec 1963) cover
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: War Requiem (plus Rehearsal sequences bonus) (Rec 1963)
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) Peter Pears (tenor) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) / London Symphony & chorus, Benjamin Britten, with Simon Preston
[ Decca Originals / 2 CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ]
1001 Classical Recordings you must hear before you die (1951 - present). "This superb recording, definitive in so many ways, speaks to us as powerfully today as it ever did" (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Sept 2006)
Bach: Goldberg Variations cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ]
'Malcolm takes full advantage of his Goff instrument to avoid any suggestion of monotony … in keeping with [his] generally large-scale virtuoso conception of what is, after all, a large-scale virtuoso work.' Gramophone
Ravel: Complete Music for Solo Piano cover
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete Music for Solo Piano
Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano)
[ ASV Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ]
'Fergus-Thompson confirms his calibre and status as a distinguished, most individual Francophile …Even the most experienced Ravelians will find themselves returning to these finely recorded accounts for a special and magical enlightenment' Gramophone
Idle Moments cover
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Grant Green
Idle Moments
[ Blue Note / CD - released 16/Oct/2000 ]
Idle Moments, a languid, seductive gem may well be Grant Green's greatest moment on record. Right from the opening bars of the classic title cut, this ingratiating and accessible album, features some of Green's most stylish straight jazz playing....
Helen Watts - Lieder Recital cover
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WOLF / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS
Helen Watts - Lieder Recital
Helen Watts (contralto), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ]
Presented on CD for the first time and newly remastered, a pair of Romantic Lieder recitals by the Welsh contralto who inherited the mantle of Kathleen Ferrier.
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Classical Symphony / Overture on Hebrew Themes cover
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Classical Symphony / Overture on Hebrew Themes
Henry Feagins / Roy Hudd / Sting / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Claudio Abbado
[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 26/Sep/2007 ]
This brilliantly inventive visualisation of Prokofiev's beloved musical tale features Sting, Claudio Abbado, members of London's celebrated Theatre de Complicite, and some fantastic Spitting Image puppetry. "Sting's knack for getting into...
Song For My Father cover
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Horace Silver
Song For My Father
[ Blue Note / CD - released 14/Jun/1999 ]
Song for My Father is a 1965 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label in 1965. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares...
Jonas Kaufmann Sings Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner cover
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MOZART / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER
Jonas Kaufmann Sings Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Claudio Abbado
[ Decca Music Group / CD - released 11/Sep/2009 ]
"His beautiful phrasing and controlled singing in the "Winterstürme" shows why he has become the most sought-after tenor of his generation, and is a highlight of this exciting new release." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Recital