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JOSEF HAYDN / W. A. MOZART
Haydn, Mozart: Live In Concert Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti [ ABC Classics / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] "This album covers the gamut of expressive musical possibilities - from extreme anguish and despair to heart-aching simplicity, from intellectual rigour and pure consonance to shattering dissonance. It is everything." - Richard Tognetti Hot on the... |
Chick Corea
Return to Forever [ ECM Records / CD - released 9/Sep/1999 ] Recorded in February 1972, this was initially a solo album by ex-Miles Davis keyboardist, Chick Corea which became the debut for the first incarnation of his legendary group Return to Forever, featuring bassist Stanley Clarke. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Madama Butterfly (complete opera with full libretto) Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Christa Ludwig, Robert Kerns / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Herbert von Karajan [ Decca / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2019 ] "Freni is an enchanting Butterfly, constantly growing in stature...Pavarotti is an intensely imaginative Pinkerton" Penguin Guide |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Officium Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) / The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] A hauntingly beautiful combination of medieval unaccompanied choral music and jazz saxophone. |
Judith Durham
The Platinum Album [ Universal / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] When Australia's first lady of song, Judith Durham, celebrated her 70th birthday, Decca celebrated with a gorgeous anthology featuring 23 standout tracks from the past 50 years. All tracks were personally selected by Judith before she sufered a... |
Keith Jarrett
The Koln Concert [ ECM Records / CD - released 16/Nov/1999 ] "Jarrett's message from the keyboard took off from the small enclave of an informed and dedicated minority audience, and reached the huge worldwide constituency of listeners. His albums would turn up in the collections of people who would otherwise... |
Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden
Jasmine [ ECM / CD - released 24/May/2010 ] 31 years after the break-up of Keith Jarrett's great 'American quartet', the pianist and bassist Charlie Haden are reunited for an album of standards, played with deep feeling. |
André Rieu
Welcome To My World 2 - Episodes 8-10 [ Universal Music / DVD - released 16/Aug/2019 ] André Rieu is back with a brand new series! After the huge success of Welcome to My World the audience wanted more! So, the cameras returned to follow André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra on their latest worldwide tour, capturing all the... |
Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai
Playing The Room [ ECM / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan making important... |
Charles Mingus
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Mingus's second Impulse! album, released in 1963, was another large-ensemble masterpiece featuring two of the bassist/bandleader's greatest compositions - "Celia" and "Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul" - plus a famous version of Duke Ellington's "Mood... |
Chick Corea
Return to Forever (180g LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 18/Oct/2010 ] The legendary first lineup of Chick Corea's fusion band Return to Forever debuted on this classic album (titled after the group but credited to Corea), featuring Joe Farrell on soprano sax and flute, the Brazilian team of vocalist Flora Purim and... |
Enrico Rava / Joe Lovano
Roma [ ECM / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Recorded live at Rome's Auditorium Parco della Musica last November, this album documents the meeting of the doyen of Italian jazz, Enrico Rava, with Joe Lovano, masterful US tenorist of Sicilian heritage. Rava and Lovano front a spirited quintet... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Ildar Abdrazakov - Verdi Ildar Abdrazakov (bass) / Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with Rolando Villazón (tenor) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] .Never change a winning team - Ildar Abdrazakov, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Orchestre Métropolitain came once again together to record Ildar's first solo album on Deutsche Grammophon. |
HUGO WOLF
Wolf: Italianisches Liederbuch Irmgard Seefried (soprano) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Erik Werba, Jörg Demus (piano) [ Deutche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] 'The most original and artistically consummate of all my works,' Hugo Wolf said (with justice) of the Italienisches Liederbuch which he wrote in 1890-1 to the poetry of Paul Heyse. |
Israel IZ Kamakawiwo'ole
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - The Best of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole [ Universal Music / CD - released 31/Mar/2011 ] Featuring his stirring version of the classic "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", this 'Best of' collection celebrates the life of an extraordinary musician. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete oratorio recorded in 1954) (with Bach: Magnificat) Jennifer Vyvyan, Norma Procter, George Maran, Owen Brannigan, London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "Beautifully engineered sound. Balance is exceptional … excellent singing … really fine choral discipline" High Fidelity (Handel) |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (complete opera recorded in 1971) [2 CDs plus Blu-ray audio] Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Ghiaurov / Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge [ Decca 2 CDs plus Blu-ray audio / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/Sep/2019 ] "The "L'elisir" set was one of the loveliest things Sutherland ever did on record . . . As Donizetti's Adina she is charming -- touching, exuberant, virtuoso (her coloratura is astounding), and always very human." (Gramophone) |
Keith Jarrett
The Koln Concert (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 18/Oct/2010 ] 24 January 1975 proved a memorable, magical night for the 1300 people who witnessed American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett perform a solo recital in the majestic surroundings of Cologne's opera house. The concert was recorded for posterity by ECM... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Messa da Requiem Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cosotto, Luciano Pavarotti, Nikolai Ghiaurov / La Scala Opera, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 24/Aug/2005 ] "An arresting performance with superb soloists under Karajan's mesmeric baton." - Gramophone December 2001 |
THE STRAUSS FAMILY
Josef Krips: Memories of Vienna London Symphony Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Josef Krips, with Hilde Gueden [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] Newly remastered from the original tapes and in the case of two works these hellac discs this compilation presents recordings made in London and Vienna by a conductor born and bred to the rhythms of the Strauss family. |
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Miles Davis
The Complete Birth of the Cool [remastered] [ Capitol Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Features all tracks from the legendary session, completely remastered with 24 page booklet. |
The Seekers
The Carnival Of Hits Tour 2000 [ Decca / 2 CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] This Carnival of Hits Tour 2000 concert captures The Seekers at their absolute best and is, without question, the crowing jewel in their live recording cache. A vocal tour-de-force from all four Seekers, that crystal-clear sound so superbly enhanced... |
Tony Gould & Peter Petrucci
Gathering of Kindness (Hush Collection, Vol. 19) [ ABC / CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] Music can change lives. For almost 20 years, the Hush Foundation has been working with renowned Australian musicians and composers to create music of joy and calm - originally to support children in hospital, and now enjoyed everywhere from concert... |
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE / THOMAS CAMPION / HENRY PURCELL / etc
Alfred Deller - Campion, Purcel,l Buxtehude Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), with Maurice Bevan (bass-baritone), Desmond Dupre (lute), etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] For music-lovers who grew up between the 1950s and the 1970s, Alfred Deller (1912-1979) was the embodiment of the countertenor voice, just as Segovia was the guitar and Casals was the cello. Many who heard his earliest LPs will have applauded the... |
André Rieu
My Music, My World The Very Best Of [ Universal Music / 2 CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] To celebrate his 70th birthday in October this year, André Rieu, the King of Waltz and one of the most famous violinists of our time, presents his first ever greatest hits collection. This 2CD extravaganza includes André's greatest hits, waltzes,... |
André Rieu
Welcome To My World 2 - Episodes 1-4 [ Universal Music / DVD - released 16/Aug/2019 ] André Rieu is back with a brand new series! After the huge success of Welcome to My World the audience wanted more! So, the cameras returned to follow André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra on their latest worldwide tour, capturing all the... |
André Rieu
Welcome To My World 2 - Episodes 5-7 [ Universal Music / DVD - released 16/Aug/2019 ] André Rieu is back with a brand new series! After the huge success of Welcome to My World the audience wanted more! So, the cameras returned to follow André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra on their latest worldwide tour, capturing all the... |
Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano)
Melos [ ECM / CD - released 29/Aug/2008 ] "Melos" is the sequel to Anja Lechner's and Vassilis Tsabropoulos' album Chants, Hymns and Dances, issued in autumn 2004 to much critical and public acclaim. The focus there was on traditional Greek-Byzantine hymns and on melodies by the legendary... |
Charles Mingus
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (180gm LP) [ Impulse! / Verve / LP - released 23/Aug/2019 ] The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history. Charles Mingus consciously designed the six-part ballet as his magnum opus, and -- implied in his famous inclusion of liner... |
Chris Watson (sound effects), Hildur Guðnadóttir (voice), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello), Hildur Guðnadóttir (piano) Homin Lviv Municipal Choir
Chernobyl (Music From The HBO Miniseries) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] Creating the perfect sonic backdrop to Chernobyl, the award-winning five-part TV series, is Icelandic cellist-composer Hildur Guonadóttir. "Guonadóttir takes a cello and gentle voice and, through software manipulation, scales simple phrases up to... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Les Nations; Pieces de Violes Jacobean Ensemble, with Neville Marriner (violin) / Desmond Dupré & Dennis Nesbitt (viola da gamba) Thurston Dart (harpsichord) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] 'Dupre plays sensitively, and is fluent and convincing in ornamentation. Dennis Nesbitt...plays his part firmly but nevertoo obtrusively...the harpsichord [is] here played with style and refinement by Thurston Dart.' Gramophone, July 1958 (Piècesde v |
James Morrison, Judy Bailey, Paul Grabowsky, Don Burrows, Bernie McGann, Dale Barlow, Angela Davis, etc
Jazz Chill [ ABC / 2 CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] Experience ultimate relaxation with Jazz Chill. Over two hours of smooth, easy jazz from Australia's top artists and ensembles, specially selected to help you unwind and de-stress. Whatever you're up to - busy around the house, sharing some time... |
JOHN ADAMS
The John Adams Album Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano [ Decca / CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] Released to coincide with Nagano's final, triumphant season with the Montréal Symphony, this John Adams Album contains his key orchestral works conducted by one of his greatest, lifelong champions. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] (complete opera) Klaus Florian Vogt, Rolando Villazon, Regula Mühlemann, Christiane Karg, Albina Shagimuratova / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised Villazón's "comic talent" in his first Papageno, "achieving 'heights of emotion' with the captivating Regula Mühlemann's Papagena", as well as the "magical tenor" of Klaus Florian Vogt as Tamino. |
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... |
Luciano Pavarotti
Pavarotti: Music From The Motion Picture [ Decca / CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] The official soundtrack album for the documentary Pavarotti. The album features the most popular signature arias and songs performed by opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, alongside iconic live moments from some of the biggest concerts he was involved... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Original Three Tenors Concert in Rome - 25th Anniversary Edition (CD plus DVD) Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras / Zubin Mehta [ Decca Music Group / 2 CD/DVD - released 10/Jun/2010 ] To celebrate the event that changed the course of classical music history this is a remastered and repackaged version (on CD plus bonus DVD) of the most famous classical concert ever staged. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Royal Brass Music of King James I / English Baroque Trumpet Music Maurice André, Jean Pirot (trumpets), Thurston Dart (harpsichord) Philomusica of London [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] 'If, like me, you find brass choirs irresistible, you should enjoy dipping into this collection.' High Fidelity, October 1961 (Royal Brass Music) |
Milos Karadaglić (guitar)
Sound of Silence [ Decca / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] An album of calming and meditative solo guitar works set alongside a selection of pop and jazz hits. Sound Of Silence includes songs by artists stretching from Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen to Portishead and Nora Jones. |
NICO MUHLY / PHILIP GLASS
Muhly / Glass: Unexpected News Omega Ensemble, with Alexandra Osborne, violin & Sally Whitwell, piano [ ABC Music / CD - released 10/Sep/2019 ] Two world premiere recordings of works by the brilliant Nico Muhly are at the heart of this new album by Omega Ensemble, an album that explores the American modern tradition through music by Muhly and Philip Glass. Glass's Violin Sonata is in many... |
