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Neil Diamond
The Classic Christmas Album [ Capitol / CD - released 2/Oct/2015 ] 2013 holiday collection from one of the most beloved names in the music business. Deck the halls, wrap those gifts, jingle those bells and usher in the holidays with this platter of joyful Christmas melodies that will make your season even brighter. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS / KROMMER / ANTHEIL / STRAVINSKY / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / etc
Netherlands Wind Ensemble - Complete Philips Recordings Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Edo de Waart [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 17 CD Box Set - released 18/Apr/2022 ] Issued complete for the first time, including several albums new to CD, is the Philips catalogue of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble - an ensemble that made a defining contribution to Dutch musical life in the 1970s. ... |
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W. A. MOZART / SCHOENBERG / SCHUBERT / HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / DANZI / etc
New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists - The Decca Recordings New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 18 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Postcards from Vienna: drawn largely from the supreme players of the Wiener Philharmoniker, collected here are the Decca recordings of Viennese chamber music ensembles, including the New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists, Wiener Waldhornverein, etc |
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MAHLER
Bruno Walter conducts Mahler [7 CD set] New York Philharmonic, Columbia Symphony, Bruno Walter [ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] "This record comes to us so loaded with history and legend, and it carries its burden with such triumphant sure-footedness, that I have no hesitation in declaring it one of the greatest musical monuments of our time." (Gramophone on Symphony No 9) |
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WAGNER
Orchestral Music (Incls 'Good Friday Music') New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 1/May/2011 ] "Zubin Mehta became the Philharmonic's Music Director in 1978. Mehta's 13-year tenure as the New York Philharmonic's Music Director - during which he conducted more than 1,000 concerts - was the longest in the Orchestra's history." (nyphil.org) |
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New York Philharmonic/Bernstei
Liszt: A Faust Symphony [ Sony Classical / CD - released 6/Jun/2011 ] |
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New York Po/Bernstein
Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue & A [ Sony Classical / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia / Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 / Fantasia on Greensleeves and others New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / James Judd, conductor [ Naxos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Jan/2005 ] "Helped by vivid sound, James Judd conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in glowing performances of these favourite [sic] Vaughan Williams works." (Gramophone) |
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DOUGLAS LILBURN
The Three Symphonies New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / John Hopkins [ Kiwi Pacific Records International Ltd. / CD - released 23/Jan/2000 ] A powerful reading of three great New Zealand symphonies! |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / ELGAR / DELIUS / HOLST / BAX
O, to be in England: Music for a green and pleasant land New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / The English Northern Sinfonia [ Heritage of Music / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] A fine collection of moving and wistful orchestral works which celebrate the English landscape and its natural beauty. English composers have always excelled at pastoral music with a hint of nostalgia: from 'the lark ascending' to the strains of... |
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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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NIGEL KENNEDY
The Four Elements Nigel Kennedy [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] The Four Elements, written for violin, orchestra, band and voices, is a suite of pieces which Kennedy conceived as his own 21st century response to Vivaldi's baroque masterpiece The Four Seasons, a work with which Kennedy is intrinsically linked. |
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Nigel Kennedy
Recital [ Sony Classical / CD - released 18/Mar/2013 ] |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN / GEORG FRIEDERIC HANDEL
Händel & Mendelssohn Reimagined Niklas Liepe (violin) / NDR Radiophilharmonie, Joseph Bastian [ Sony Classical / CD - released 13/Jun/2025 ] "it's Aleksey Igudesman's Peace‑acaglia that breaks out as the album's philosophical-but-fun centrepiece - a musical statement that demolishes cultural boundaries through its synthesis of Western and Eastern traditions." Gramophone |
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Bach: Cantatas Bwv 29, 61 & 14 [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 4/Jan/2010 ] |
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Nino Machaidze
Various: Arias & Scenes [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/May/2013 ] |
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Nino Machaidze
Various: Romantic Arias [ Sony Classical / CD - released 4/Jul/2011 ] |
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SCARLATTI / PASQUINI / CALDARA / PORPORA / LOTTI
Sacred Duets Nuria Rial (Soprano) Valer Sabadus (countertenor) & Julia Schroder (violin) / Kammerorchester Basel [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Mar/2017 ] Sony Classical present Italian duets and arias with baroque stars Nuria Rial and Valer Sabadus. The Spanish soprano Nuria Rial and the countertenor Valer Sabadus are both stars of the booming baroque music scene. Nuria Rial is a bright soprano with... |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Ivan The Terrible Olga Borodina (mezzo), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Staats-und Domchor Berlin, Tugan Sokhiev [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Oratorio for Alto, Bass, Boys' Choir, Choir & Orchestra based on the original Film score (1942-44) |
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ROSSINi / DONIZETTI / OFFENBACH / MASSENET / VERDI / PUCCINI / etc
La bellezza del canto Olga Peretyatko 9soprano) / Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Miguel Gomez-Martinez [ Sony Classical / CD - released 29/Aug/2011 ] |