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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
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 1989) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 1989)
Metropolitan Opera / Aprile Millo, Dolora Zajick, Placido Domingo / James Levine, conductor
[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 20/Sep/2003 ]
"Levine's is a stalwart reading, less flashy than Maazel's and with a finer orchestra, although he could have turned up the tempo and temperature a little for the war declaration and the tomb scene." Gramophone
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
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I cover
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J. S. BACH
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I
Keith Jarrett (piano)
[ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ]
"These are performances in which tempos, phrasing, articulation and the execution of ornaments are convincing," wrote Gramophone of Jarrett's first recorded account of The Well-Tempered Clavier. "Both instrument and performer serve as unobtrusive...
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...
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?
Cool Struttin' cover
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Sonny Clark
Cool Struttin'
[ Blue Note / CD - released 14/Jun/1999 ]
Recorded in 1958, this legendary date with the still-undersung Sonny Clark in the leader's chair also featured a young Jackie McLean on alto (playing with a smoother tone than he had before or ever did again), trumpeter Art Farmer, and the legendary...
Strauss, (J): Der Zigeunerbaron [The Gipsy Baron] (complete operetta filmed in 1975) cover
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JOHANN STRAUSS
Strauss, (J): Der Zigeunerbaron [The Gipsy Baron] (complete operetta filmed in 1975)
Siegfried Jerusalem, Ellen Shade, Ivan Rebroff, Martha Modl / Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Kurt Eichhorn
[ Universal Classics / Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 7/Apr/2008 ]
"Beautifully filmed on location in Hungary with a fine cast of singers, this production is a delight." (MusicWeb August 2008)
Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (complete opera recorded in 1972) cover
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JOHANN STRAUSS
Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (complete opera recorded in 1972)
Vienna State Opera / Gundula Janowitz, Eberhard Wacher, Renate Holm, Erich Kunz / Karl Bohm (cond)
[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 11/Nov/2007 ]
G - "It breathes the wondrous, intoxicating atmosphere of Vienna, features the orchestra and select singers of that city's legendary opera and is presided over by that master among Strauss conductors, Karl Böhm" (San Francisco Examiner)
Verdi: Don Carlo (complete opera recorded in 1983) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlo (complete opera recorded in 1983)
Metropolitan Opera / Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Grace Bumbry, Nicolai Ghiaurov / James Levine (cond)
[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 13/Oct/2005 ]
Filmed in 1983, this DVD captures the Metropolitan Opera's sweeping sets, its army of authentically costumed singers, and a cast of glowing soloists led by Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Grace Bumbry and Nicolai Ghiaurov
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...
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...
An Evening With Pavarotti And Joan Sutherland (recorded at the Met in 1987) cover
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DONIZETTI / VERDI
An Evening With Pavarotti And Joan Sutherland (recorded at the Met in 1987)
Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland with Leo Nucci and the Metropolitan Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge
[ Decca DVD / DVD - released 21/Mar/2008 ]
Two of the greatest opera stars of the time, and long-term singing partners, Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland, come together to perform four famous scenes from Acts I and III of Lucia di Lammermoor, Act III of La Traviata and Act III of...
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....
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.
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
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.
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....
Puccini: La Boheme (complete opera recorded in 1977) cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Boheme (complete opera recorded in 1977)
Metropolitan Opera / Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, Ingvar Wixell / James Levine (cond)
[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 22/Sep/2005 ]
Puccini's masterpiece shows young love at its most heartbreaking in this rich production from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.