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The Carpenters
Christmas Collection [ A & M / 2 CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] How about snowy days and Mondays? The soft, soothing sounds of Karen and Richard Carpenter are perfectly suited to a white Christmas with a crackling fire; here are their Christmas Portrait ('78) and An Old Fashioned Christmas ('84) LPs, together in... |
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Cas Mccombes
A Folk Set Apart [ CD - released 11/Dec/2015 ] Cass McCombs's new anthology, A Folk Set Apart, is subtitled "Rarities, B-Sides & Space Junk, Etc." which is, on the surface, true but it's so much more than that. It's an alternate retelling of the last decade and a half of an enigmatic career long... |
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Dame Malvina Major with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Brian Law, conducto
Casta Diva: arias from the opera stage [ Kiwi-Pacific / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] 100 Years of opera heroines: a beautiful concert by our top classic diva |
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Cat Stevens
Buddha and the Chocolate Box [ Island Records / CD - released 2/Apr/2001 ] Now digitally re-mastered, 'Buddha and the Chocolate Box' was originally released in 1974. On this album Cat deals with the contrasts between faith and material posessions, featuring the single "Oh Very Young". |
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DEBUSSY / MUSSORGSKY / RAVEL / CHOPIN / RACHMANINOV / FAURE / etc
Cécile Ousset - The Complete Warner Recordings Cecile Ousset (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra [ Warner Classics / 16 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2022 ] "Cecile Ousset is an arrestingly ebullient artist...who leaves her own distinctive stamp on everything she plays" Gramophone |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Antonio Vivaldi (LP) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi [ Decca / LP - released 12/Dec/2018 ] Almost 20 years after her landmark Vivaldi album, Bartoli turns to the composer once again for her brand new solo recording. It is a glorious collection of Vivaldi arias, performed with French baroque orchestra Ensemble Matheus under Jean-Christophe... |
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Celtic Frost
Danse Macabre (Box Set) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 28/Oct/2022 ] It almost seems churlish to regard Celtic Frost as one of the great extreme metal bands, because they were so much more than that. It's better to hail them as among the finest extreme and experimental bands of the 1980s. Refusing ever to do what... |
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Celtic Tenors
Remember Me [ Telarc Classical / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] |
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Cerys Matthews
Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas / Poems & Tiger Eggs [ Marvels of the Universe / 2 CD - released 7/Nov/2014 ] It was a Christmas in South Carolina that reawakened Cerys' love for Thomas and inspired her to mark his centenary with her most ambitious project yet - setting his words to music. Includes the whole of' A Child's Christmas in Wales' and poems... |
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Cesaria Evora
Cesaria Evora & ... [ Sony Classical / CD - released 7/Feb/2011 ] |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Goldberg Variations Charles Rosen (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 17/Feb/1992 ] Besides establishing himself as one of the most influential musical writers of the 20th century, Charles Rosen remained a world-class pianist of exceptional musical insight and formidable if unostentatious virtuosity. Many of his most highly praised... |
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Charlie Poole
The Essential (4CD Box Set) [ CD Box Set ] In his short life Charlie Poole altered the shape of white American Folk music by pioneering the band set-up, approach and many songs that would be the backbone of Bluegrass. Just by his way of living he created the Country outlaw archetype and his... |
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Cheap Trick
The Box Set Series [ Sony / 4 CD - released 18/Jul/2014 ] This set offers four discs and 41 tracks of highlights from Cheap Trick's Epic recordings, balancing hits with alternate takes and album tracks. |
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Cher
It's A Man's World (Deluxe Edition Box Set 4LP) [ Warner UK / 4 LP - released 14/Jul/2023 ] Cher's timeless 1995 album, It's a Man's World, featured the singles "Walking In Memphis," "One By One," "Not Enough Love In the World," "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" and "Paradise Is Here". This limited-edition vinyl box set contains the... |
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Chet Baker
The Essential Recordings (The Primo Collection 2CD Set) [ Primo / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] This compilation captures Chet Baker in the first decade of his career when he was at the height of his powers, refining and defining the West Coast Jazz scene of the 50s. |
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Chicago So/Reiner
Wagner: Reiner Conducts Wagner [ Sony Classical / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss (5 CDs) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, with Antonio Janiqro (cello) Bryon janis (piano) Inqu Borkh (soprano) [ Sony Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ] "These were the first stereo sessions the RCA engineers arranged with Fritz Reiner. The RCA recording team 'got it right' from the very beginning. Reiner achieves an admirable balance and whatever he does is convincing." Rosette (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
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TALLIS / BYRD / PALESTRINA /TAVENER / POULENC / SCARLATTI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Easter at Canterbury - Lent Holy Week and Easter The Choir of Canterbury Cathedral, David Flood, with Timothy Noon (organ) [ York CD The canterbury Collection / CD - released 20/Aug/2000 ] Originally recorded 2000 |
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ANONYMOUS
Gregorian Chant Choir of the Monks of the Abbey of Santa Domingo de Silos: Dom Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta. [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / CD - released 24/May/2000 ] Authentic Gregorian Chants from Spain |
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CARL NIELSEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Nielsen Cho-Liang Lin (violin) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra [ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2017 ] The second core cycle of symphonic works in this Masters Series comes from the 20th century. The six masterful symphonies by Nielsen with the Swedish Radio Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, "performances of great thrust and unflagging energy,... |