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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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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. |
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... |
