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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... |
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... |
Paul Kelly James Ledger
Thirteen Ways To Look At Birds [ Decca / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds brings six musicians from broad-ranging backgrounds together to interpret bird inspired poems, written by John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Judith Wright, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwen Harwood, A D Hope and... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Thurston Dart: Consort Music Philomusica of London, Jacobean Ensemble, Thurston Dart (harpsichord) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] A feast of melancholia: three L'Oiseau-Lyre albums of early English chamber music from the dawn of the period-performance era, newly remastered and compiled together for the first time with much material new to CD. With this and several other... |
Renée Zellweger
Original Soundtrack: Judy [ Decca / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger releases her first solo album, as she stars on the Original Soundtrack for the highly-anticipated feature film JUDY. Based on the true story of Judy Garland's final concerts in London in the late 1960s, the... |
