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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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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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. |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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... |
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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) |
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... |
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 |
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) |
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... |
