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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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
SAINT-SAENS / TCHAIKOVSKY / HAYDN / DVORAK / EINAUDI / BACH / etc
Classical Chill: Cello Various performers [ ABC / 2 CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] Experience ultimate relaxation with Classical Chill: over two hours of beautiful, peaceful classical music featuring the rich, mellow, singing tones of the cello. Sublime favourites by Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Saint-Saëns, Arvo Pärt, Bach and many more. |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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) |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
