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J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Guitar Music (LP) Luigi Attademo (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / LP - released 1/Sep/2023 ] A newly recorded collection of highlights from Bach's great corpus of instrumental writing, in transcriptions by Luigi Attademo himself. |
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ENNIO MORRICONE
Plays Ennio Morricone (Double Gatefold LP) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 24/Mar/2016 ] Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone is a 2004 album featuring recordings from Morricone's various film scores by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone. The album was recorded with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra and Gilda Buttà on piano. Morricone... |
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Various Composers
Lys (LP) Mari Samuelsen (violin) [ Deusche Grammophon / CD - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Inspired by light in all its forms, Samuelsen's latest album features 14 works by female composers, from Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé. All are new commissions or arrangements, ambient and glowing, without an ugly bump or crevice in sight. |
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Maria Callas (soprano), Angelina Jolie (narrator), Pierfrancesco Favino (narrator), Vincent Macaigne (narrator)
Maria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (LP) [ Warner / 2 LP - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, which delves into the tumultuous final days of the iconic opera singer in 1970s Paris, interpreted by Angelina Jolie. |
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EVGUENI GALPERINE
Galperine: Theory of Becoming (LP) Maria Vasyukova (voice), Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Sebastien Hurtaud (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] The ECM New Series debut of Evgueni Galperine is one of the most strikingly original and evocative albums of the year. A composer of Russian and Ukrainian heritage, living in Paris since 1990, Galperine is working with sound, texture and dynamics in... |
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MAX RICHTER
Richter: Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works (2 LP) Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 LP - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Max Richter explores time and memory in his latest Deutsche Grammophon album, Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works Virginia Woolf's sharp eye for the detail of life guided her work as a writer, its presence felt in everything from pioneering... |
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MAX RICHTER
Richter: From Sleep (180g Double Transparent Edition LP) Max Richter (piano, organ, synthesizers, electronics) [ Deutsche Grammophon vinyl / 2 LP - released 18/Sep/2015 ] Acclaimed British composer Max Richter has written a new landmark recording: From SLEEP is actually and genuinely intended to send the listener to sleep. The ground-breaking new work is scored for piano, strings, electronics and vocals - but no... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem (LP) Simone Kermes, Stephanie Houtzeel, Markus Brutscher / MusicAeterna / New Siberian Singers, Teodor Currentzis [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Mozart's Requiem is a supreme masterpiece of the history of music and a work inextricably bound up with the Mozartian legend. Now Alpha's recording of it under the direction of Teodor Currentzis is given a new lease of life in a vinyl reissue. A... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Songs (LP) Nicola Benedetti (violin), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Gerald Finley (baritone) / Philharmonia Orchestra [ Decca / 2 LP - released 19/Jul/2024 ] "Unbend the Triple with big personalities and it can topple, but here the balance is absolutely right, a model of judicious pacing, too; there's character to spare, which is as it should be." Gramophone |
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STRAVINSKY / BERG / SCRIABIN
Petruschka-Suite • Sonate Op. 1 • Klavierstücke Oleg Maisenberg (piano) [ Orfeo / LP - released 1/Aug/2015 ] |
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PUCCINI / GOUNOD / MASSENET / MASCAGNI / VERDI / BERLIOZ
Nessun Dorma (LP) Pene Pati (tenor) / Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Emmanuel Villaume [ Warner Classics / LP - released 20/Sep/2024 ] Taking its title, Nessun Dorma, from the greatest tenor hit of them all, Pene Pati's second album balances favourite numbers with operatic rarities - one of them in world premiere recording. In addition to Puccini, the Italian composers are Verdi,... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert in Love (LP) Rosemary Standley; Ensemble Contraste; Johan Farjot; Arnaud Thorette [ Alpha Classics / LP - released 8/Jul/2022 ] "A few years after the success of her album crossing Baroque music with folk, Love I Obey (ALPHA538), the Franco-American singer Rosemary Standley visits Schubert, this time with the complicity of the ensemble Contraste: 'We all have a few notes of... |
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W. A. MOZART
Amadeus - The Best of Mozart (LP) Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Christian Zacharias (piano), Wiener Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, etc [ Warner Classics Vinyl / LP - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Selected highlights from Mozart's masterpieces by wonderful artists such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Riccardo Muti, Sabine Meyer, Natalie Dessay, Cecilia Bartoli and Christian Zacharias. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mozart y Mambo (Limited Edition LP) Sarah Willis (horn) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the French horn, which she champions around the world. A horn player with the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2001, she launched what was soon to become a famous TV programme,... |
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Sarah Willis; Jonathan Kelly; Wenzel Fuchs; Stefan Schweigert; Harold Madrigal Frías; Havana Lyceum Orchestra; José Antonio Méndez Padrón; The Sarahba
Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana LP) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] |
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Ravi Shankar / Philip Glass
Passages (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 9/Jun/2016 ] Passages is a collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990. The album is a hybrid of Hindustani Classical music and Glass' distinct American minimal contemporary Classical style. |
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STEVE REICH
Reich: Pulse / Quartet (LP) Steve Reich [ Nonesuch / Warner Music / LP - released 13/Apr/2018 ] Pulse/Quartet collates two previously performed pieces, Quartet and Pulse. The former was performed in 2013 by the Colin Currie Group, and the latter was played in 2015 by the International Contemporary Ensemble. (Both ensembles replayed the... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Sviatoslav Richter Volume 1 (LP) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) [ Melodiya / LP - released 18/Aug/2014 ] |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Mariss Janson - His Last Concert (LP) Mariss Jansons conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra [ BR-Klassik / LP ] On November 8, 2019, at Carnegie Hall, New York, during a tour with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and only a few weeks before his unexpected death, Mariss Jansons conducted his final concert. On the programme was Johannes Brahms'... |
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ISAO TOMITA
Snowflakes Are Dancing (LP) Isao Tomita [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Isao Tomita, also known as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements. Many of his albums are electronic versions... |