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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
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.
Tootsie cover
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6+ weeks
Original Broadway Cast
Tootsie
[ Decca Broadway / CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ]
Music & Lyrics by David Yazbek
Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2 cover
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Ray Charles
Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2
[ Concord Jazz / CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ]
The groundbreaking albums, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2 are now reissued on CD.
Farewell - Deluxe Collector's Edition Box cover
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The Seekers
Farewell - Deluxe Collector's Edition Box
[ Decca / 3 CD/DVD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2019 ]
First ever deluxe Seekers collector's item box released by Universal! The Seekers "Farewell" has been one of their fastest selling CDs and DVDs, debuting at No. 4 in the Overall ARIA Album Charts, continuing to hold a Top 5 position.
Classic 100: Composer (Limited Deluxe Box Set) cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classic 100: Composer (Limited Deluxe Box Set)
Various Performers
[ ABC Music / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2019 ]
Who is your favourite composer? In 2019, the Classic 100 asked the ultimate musical question: who is the composer you can't live without?
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...
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
Ramirez: Misa Criolla / Navidad en Verano / Navidad Nuestra cover
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ARIEL RAMIREZ
Ramirez: Misa Criolla / Navidad en Verano / Navidad Nuestra
José Carreras (tenor) / Coral Salvé de Laredo, Sociedad Coral de Bilbao, José Luis Ocejo, Damián Sanchez
[ Philips / Decca / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
"Ramirez' Creole Mass is a daring fusion of Catholic liturgy and Latin American folk music. This particular performance is made even better by the presence of José Carreras as lead singer. Carreras seems to have a personal feeling for this music and...
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (complete opera recorded in 1981) cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (complete opera recorded in 1981)
Metropolitan Opera / Luciano Pavarotti, Judith Blegen, Sesto Bruscantini, Brent Ellis / Nicola Rescigno
[ Decca DVD / DVD - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
Filmed in 1981, live from the Metropolitan Opera, Luciano Pavarotti sings Nemorino in Donizetti's comic opera. This one of his Pavarotti's most famous roles and here he sings it in his prime joined by an all-star ensemble: Judith Blegen sings the...
When Will The Blues Leave cover
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Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian
When Will The Blues Leave
[ ECM / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
In 1999, a year after recording the splendid reunion album Not Two, Not One, Paul Bley's highly innovative trio with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian took to the road with concerts on both sides of the Atlantic. When Will The Blues Leave documents a...
Lost River cover
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Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset
Lost River
[ ECM / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
Lost River is an evocative post-ambient, richly textured sonic event, and one of the outstanding beyond-category recordings of recent ECM history. Drummer Michele Rabbia and guitarist Eivind Aarset had played many duo concerts, and Rabbia had also...
Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust [recorded in 1959] (2 CDs plus Blu-ray audio) cover
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust [recorded in 1959] (2 CDs plus Blu-ray audio)
Richard Verreau, Consuelo Rubio, Michel Roux, Pierre Mollet / Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch
[ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
2-CDs + Blu-ray Audio disc. Presenting Igor Markevitch's searing 1959 reading of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust with the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux and a cast led by the impressive Richard Verreau.
The Brown Beatnik Tomes - Live at BRIC House cover
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Ron Carter, Danny Simmons
The Brown Beatnik Tomes - Live at BRIC House
[ Blue Note / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
On one autumn night at Brooklyn's BRIC House, Carter and Simmons turned raw plucked bass lines and hotly read poetry into something that rang with meaning and felt like magic What they created that night was, and still is, called The Brown Beatnik...
Getz at the Gate [1961 live recording] cover
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Stan Getz (saxophone), Steve Kuhn (piano), John Neves (double bass), Roy Haynes (drums)
Getz at the Gate [1961 live recording]
[ Verve Records / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
Previously unreleased 1961 live recording from the historic Village Gate in New York City
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos (The Three Cornered Hat) / El Amor Brujo / etc cover
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MANUEL de FALLA
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos (The Three Cornered Hat) / El Amor Brujo / etc
Teresa Berganza (soprano) Marina de Gabarin (mezzo-soprano) / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
[ Decca Legends / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ]
During the war, Falla wrote a pantomime ballet titled El Corregidor y la Molinera ('The Magistrate and the Miller's Wife') based on a novella by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, was at the 1917 premiere....
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY
Bayreuther Festtspiele / Piotr Beczała, Anja Harteros, Waltraud Meier / Christian Thielemann (cond)
[ Deutsche Gramophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 4/Jul/2019 ]
Featuring an illustrious cast including Piotr Beczala and Anja Harteros in their house debuts, as well as the acclaimed return of Waltraud Meier to the Bayreuth Festival.
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded in 2018) cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded in 2018)
Bayreuther Festtspiele / Piotr Beczała, Anja Harteros, Waltraud Meier / Christian Thielemann (cond)
[ Deutsche Grammaphon DVD / 2 DVD - released 4/Jul/2019 ]
Featuries an illustrious cast including Piotr Beczala and Anja Harteros in their house debuts, as well as the acclaimed return of Waltraud Meier to the Bayreuth Festival.
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
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