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Will Young
20 Years: The Greatest Hits (Deluxe CD) [ Sony Music CG / 2 CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Will Young's 20 Years - The Greatest Hits features the Pop Idol winner's single 'Evergreen', the No.1 hits 'Light My Fire' and 'Leave Right Now', Crying On The Bathroom Floor's 'Daniel', plus new tracks 'Why Does It Hurt' and 'Breaking Free'. This... |
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William Onyeabor
CD Box Set 1 (9 CDs) [ Luaka Bop / 9 CD - released 12/Dec/2014 ] William Onyeabor was born outside Enugu, a small, rural town in Eastern Nigeria, he created his own genre of African electronic funk in the late 70s and early 80s, making music completely unique for his time. Today, he is reaching cult status among a... |
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Zammuto
Zammuto (CD) [ Temporary Residence / CD - released 31/Oct/2016 ] |
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THREE TENORS
The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 in Los Angeles (complete on CD & DVD) Luciano Pavarotti / Jose Carreras / Placido Domingo / Zubin Mehta [ Warner Classics / 2 CD/DVD - released 30/Jan/2015 ] This is the fantastic Los Angeles concert by the world famous three tenors. Complete on CD & DVD. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Of Beauty & Light: The Music of Philip Glass (3 CD set) Adele Anthony (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop / Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2008 ] This is Glass in full flight, with an aural illusion of the work speeding up yet retaining a constant pulse throughout the work's lively changes of texture and melodic figuration." --New Zealand Listener |
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JOHN IRELAND
The Piano Music (3 CD set) Alan Rowlands (piano) [ Lyrita / 3 CD - released 10/May/2008 ] I first heard the name of John Ireland from my father, who knew some of his songs and had broadcast Twilight Night with the choral group he conducted in Swansea before the War. (Alan Rowlands) |
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J.S. BACH / RAMEAU / COUPERIN
Three Original Recordings [3 CD set] Alexandre Tharaud (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] This prestige set brings together the three 'Baroque' recordings made by Alexandre Tharaud for Harmonia Mundi between 2001 and 2007. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
The Lost Concerts (Rec 1947) [two CD set] Alfred Blumen (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Richard Strauss [ Testament / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "This London account communicates... fervently his tender and passionate belief in the piece." Gramophone Magazine, April 2009 |
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ALFRED DELLER
Portrait of a Voice - a film by Benoit Jacquot (with free CD of Shakespeare Songs) Alfred Deller [ Harmonia Mundi France / 2 DVD/CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] G : - Back in 1975 Benoit Jacquot, then a very young director met up with Alfred Deller to make this documentary-interview, which offers one of the very few filmed documents of the most famous countertenor of the modern era. |
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ALISTAIR COOKE
Alistair Cooke: Letter from America [13 CD set] Alistair Cooke [ BBC Radio Collection / 13 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2010 ] Following the sad death of Alistair Cooke after 58 years in broadcasting, this impressive collection features both volumes 1 and 2 of Cooke's Letter From America as well as a third volume. The political and social landmarks of the last 50 years are... |
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MATTEIS / REBEL / BACH / CORELLI / VIVALDI / etc
Portrait (2 CD set) Amandine Beyer (violin) [ Zig-Zag Territoires / 2 CD - released 24/Aug/2013 ] This double album offers a portrait of the violinist Amandine Beyer drawn from the recordings she has made for ZZT. The first CD selects highlights from her chamber repertoire, including works by Jean-Féry Rebel, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Nicola... |
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Andrea Bocelli
Cinema (CD/DVD) [ Universal Music CD + DVD / CD/DVD - released 23/Oct/2015 ] International superstar Andrea Bocelli returns with his new eagerly awaited album Cinema. Cinema celebrates the greatest movie songs of all time and reunites a team of musical legends including David Foster, Humberto Gatica and Tony Renis who worked... |
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von WOLKENSTEIN / DOWLAND / HANDEL / BACH / etc
The Art of Folksong / Baroque Cantatas [2 CD set] Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) with Andreas Martin, Julian Behr (lute) / Accademia Bizantina / Collegium Vocale [ Harmonia Mundi Initiales / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "Whether Scholl's voice at all resembles that of the great original [Senesino] we cannot know, but it is wonderfully pure and moves with marvellous flexibility. He has the art of making recitative sound spontaneous and of catching the rhythmic... |
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PONCE / ALBENIZ / GRANADOS / VILLA-LOBOS / CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / etc
Andres Segovia (4 CD set, 20 page booklet) Andres Segovia (guitar) [ ArtOne / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Andres Segovia, the most celebrated classical guitarist the world has ever known, is unquestionably acknowledged as the founding father of the modern classical guitar movement. |
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ALBENIZ / BACH / GRANADOS / TARREGA & OTHERS
Definitive Gold [Five CD set] Andres Segovia, guitar [ Deja Vu / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2010 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Grand Organ of Exeter Cathedral (concert recorded in 2011) [plus free CD] Andrew Millington (Grand organ of Exeter Cathedral) [ Priory DVD + CD / DVD/CD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] "This is one of the finest DVDs to come my way in quite some time...Millington makes every piece sound as if it had been written for Exeter.Beautifully filmed by Richard Knight - this is a splendid release, informative, enlightening and warmly recomm |
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RICHARD. STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 1995) Royal Opera House / Ann Murray / Anna Tomowa-Sintow / Kurt Moll / Barbara Bonney / Andrew Davis (cond) [ Opus Arte CD / 3 CD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] "All three characters are splendidly drawn here, Octavian (a winning Ann Murray, not too feminine), Baron Ochs (Kurt Moll) with a rich low register to all but dignify his underlying boorishness, and Anna Tomowa-Sintow a commandingly sympathetic,... |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY/ MAURICE RAVEL / GABRIEL FAURE
Anne Queffelec [3 CD set] Anne Queffelec (piano) with Pierre Amoyal (violin) / Orchestre National de Monte-Carlo [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] A collection of Anne Queffélec's Erato recordings of French repertoire which in which she expresses great musicality, allowing us to rediscover her fine recordings of Ravel's Miroirs, Debussy's Etudes and Fauré's Violin Sonatas (with Pierre Amoyal),... |
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TOMASO ALBINONI
Albinoni: The Collected Concertos for Oboes & Strings [3 CD set] Anthony Robson, Catherine Latham (oboes) / Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage [ Chandos / 3 CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] "[Robson's] tone is most appealing and his phrasing and musicianship are second to none. Simon Standage provides alert accompaniments, also using original instruments, and creates bright, athletic string timbres...The artistic results are very lively |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (CD+DVD) Apollo's Fire, Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, JeannetteSorrell [ Avie / 2 CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] "The 18-strong Apollo's Fire ensemble...plays with great crispness and vigour, offering terse supporting musical pillars to the voices and emphasizing rhythmic vigour over a sense of line." International Record Review |