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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Serenades [Incls 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'] Philomusica of London, Thurston Dart / Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Oct/2020 ] A first international CD issue for two contrasting albums of light-orchestral Mozart from Joseph Keilberth and Thurston Dart. |
HAYDN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN / etc
Albert Ferber - Decca Recordings 1945 - 1951 Albert Ferber (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 25/May/2005 ] "Albert Ferber is very successful at catching the changing moods of the music … His scale passages are beautifully even and his singing tone is a joy." Gramophone, March 1947 (Beethoven) |
Danny Kaye, with Gordon Jenkins & Victor Young & their orchestras
Danny Kaye: Hans Christian Andersen / Tubby The Tuba [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/Oct/2020 ] Now, for the first time on a Universal Music label, the original tapes have been retrieved from the archive and newly remastered for release on Eloquence. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15 / 6 Piano Variations in F Major, Op. 34 Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Berliner Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] Celebrated pianist and renowned Beethoven specialist Rudolf Buchbinder releases his second album with Deutsche Grammophon following his exclusive contract with the label in 2019. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Jan Smeterlin Plays Chopin Jan Smeterlin (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2020 ] Jan Smeterlin was a born Chopin interpreter on home soil. Presented here is a collection that includes rare and previously unissued recordings. Writing to Gramophone in 1965, a Royal Navy Commander stationed in India made an impassioned plea: I have... |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS & OTHERS
Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals [plus 'Grandpa Christmas'] The Kanneh-Masons with Michael Morpurgo and Olivia Colman [ Decca / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Carnival is a very special collaboration between Academy Award-winning actor Olivia Colman, children's author Michael Morpurgo and the seven "extraordinarily talented" (Classic FM) Kanneh-Mason siblings: Isata, Braimah, Sheku, Konya, Jeneba, Aminata... |
MOZART / SCHUBERT / WEBER
Mozart / Schubert: Symphonies London Symphony Orchestra, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Walter Susskind, Antal Dorati [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] 'Like most of the great European conductors,' wrote the critic Harold C. Schonberg, '[Schmidt-Isserstedt] has been brought up in a tradition that insists on selflessness before great music.' |
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Orson Welles, Bing Crosby, Lurene Tuttle, Charles Laughton, Gregory Peck, Loretta Young (narrators)
Stories for Christmas [includes 'The Small One' & 'The Happy Prince'] [ Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "For the Christmas stocking, Ronald Colman as Scrooge and Charles Laughton as Mr. Pickwick … would be perfect." Gramophone, January 2006 (A Christmas Carol, Mr. Pickwick's Christmas) |
Gregory Porter
All Rise [ Universal Music / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Following 2017's Nat King Cole & Me, a loving dedication to his lifelong idol, All Rise marks a return to Porter's beloved original songwriting - heart-on-sleeve lyrics imbued with everyday philosophy and real-life detail, set to a stirring mix of... |
Allira Wilson / Harry Mitchell / Ben Vanderwal / Karl Florisson
I Am Like The Rain: Songs Of Paul Simon [ ABC Jazz / CD - released 31/Jul/2020 ] 'The Sounds of Silence', 'Graceland', 'Mrs Robinson', '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover' - Paul Simon has one of the richest and most-loved catalogue of songs of any songwriter who ever lived. On I Am Like the Rain, a quartet of Australia's most... |
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Just Coolin' [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] A never-before-released studio album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack, New Jersey studio on March 8, 1959, and featuring the legendary drummer, along with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Hank... |
Bill Frisell
Valentine [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] The debut recording of guitarist Bill Frisell's trio with bassist Thomas Morgan & drummer Rudy Royston is a wide-ranging 13 song set that mixes Frisell originals new & old, jazz standards, traditional songs, and covers. |
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes [ Verve / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] Verve Records releases the never-before-heard stellar live recording from the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald. The Lost Berlin Tapes were recorded - incredibly in both mono and stereo - at Berlin's Sportpalast on March 25, 1962 and finds Ella at... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony 7 / Leonore Overture 3 Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa [ Decca / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] "This is Beethoven, refined, elegant, sculptural, exciting at times, but lacking depth. Ozawa creates a billowing cloud of lovely, elegant sound, assiduously sculpting the dynamic range." BBC Music |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Women Of Note: A Century Of Australian Composers - Vol. 2 Asmira Woodward-Page (violin) Scott Davie (piano) Kees Boersma (double bass) ACO Collective / Sydney Symphony / Melbourne Symphony / etc [ ABC Classics / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] This 2CD album celebrates the music from pioneers of Australia's musical heritage: Margaret Sutherland, Miriam Hyde, Dulcie Holland, and introducing Linda Phillips. |
Katie Noonan
Sweetest Taboo [ ABC / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Katie Noonan's 20th studio album sees her revisit the songs that made her fall in love with music. From the first album she ever bought (Crowded House) to her female icons (Annie Lennox, Cyndi Lauper). |
Ólafur Arnalds
Some Kind of Peace [ Mercury / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] some kind of peace was born out of the mantra: "we can't control anything that happens to us. All we can do is control how we react to what life gives us." Touches on what it means to be alive, daring to be vulnerable and the importance of rituals. |
CARLOS SALZEDO / WILLIAM G. JAMES
Christmas Music For Harp Alice Giles (harp) [ ABC Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Angelic classics for the Christmas season or any time: favourite carols in sublime arrangements by harp master Carlos Salzedo, performed with grace and charm by Australian harp virtuosa Alice Giles. |
PIAZZOLLA / DEBUSSY / FALLA / RAMEAU / HOUGHTON / etc
Alchemy Andrew Blanch, Ariel Nurhadi (guitar) [ ABC Classic / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Andrew Blanch and Ariel Nurhadi are "two stunning young guitarists" ( Sydney Arts Guide) who have been performing together since 2014, touring as a duo as well as with baritone José Carbó in The José Carbó Trio. |
JOHN WILLIAMS
John Williams In Vienna Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Wiener Philharmoniker, John Williams [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] "A superb testament to the impact of Williams's music and his ability to move an audience" James Longstaffe.. |
