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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (complete opera recorded in 1969) Plácido Domingo, Fiorenza Cossotto, Leontyne Price, Sherrill Milnes / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers, Zubin Mehta [ Sony RCA Classical Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "The soaring curve of Leontyne Price's rich vocal line is immediately thrilling in her famous Act 1 aria, and it sets the style of the RCA performance, full-bodied and with dramatic tension consistently high." Rosette. Penguin Guide |
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Price/Boston So/Munch
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 In D [ Sony Classical / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] |
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Public Image Limited
Album (Super Deluxe Version) LP Box Set [ Universal Music / 4 LP - released 13/Jan/2017 ] With its striking minimalist generic style artwork, 'Album' arrived in February 1986. Written by John Lydon and produced with Bill Laswell (with music for some tracks co-written with Jebin Bruni and Mark Schulz from the 1984-85 PiL live band) the... |
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Queen
Queen I Collector's Edition (6CD & LP SET) [ Emi (Uk) / 6 CD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] The 6CD + 1 LP Queen I box set contains 63 tracks with 43 brand new mixes, comprising the original album with its intended running order restored, intimate fly-on-the-wall audio of Queen in the studio, demos, rare live tracks, BBC session... |
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Soundtrack / Rachel Portman
Chocolat [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Feb/2001 ] . Rachel Portman's innocuously pretty score for Hallström's innocuously pretty 1999 screen adaptation of The Cider House Rules played by the director's rules, melding pleasantly and forgettably into the glossy period landscape. The score brought her... |
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MENDELSSOHN / BRUCH / TURINA / ALBÉNIZ / TORROBA / RODRIGO / etc
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos - The Decca Legacy Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Narciso Yepes, Alicia de Larrocha, Ion Voicu [ Decca Eloquence / 11 CD Box Set - released 16/May/2025 ] Of German parentage, but growing up in Burgos, Spain, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos had an innate sympathy with both musical traditions of his heritage, and Decca played to this strength. |
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RACHMANINOV / CHOPIN / SCHUMANN / LISZT
Rafael Orozco - The Philips Legacy Rafael Orozco (piano) / Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart [ Decca / Eloquence / 8 CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2024 ] Collected here are the complete Philips recordings of one of Spain's piano aristocracy, winner of the 1966 Leeds Piano Competition. There is passion and poetry in equal measure, and an instinctive feeling for the ebb and flow of a phrase... |
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BACH / GABRIELI / HANDEL / MOZART / VIVALDI / etc
Canadian Brass: from Monteverdi to Mozart [5 CD set] Canadian Brass [ Sony Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2011 ] This album is a re-issue of the acclaimed ensemble Canadian Brass who have recorded works from the Renaissance and Baroque as well as a number of works by Mozart. |
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Rainbow
A Light in the Black 1975-1984 (5 CD / 1 DVD Box Set) [ Polydor / 6 CD/DVD - released 11/Feb/2015 ] This set features rare and unheard tracks as well as fan favourites and a DVD featuring the band in concert at Monsters of Rock in 1980. A Light in the Black comes in a book-style package and has been compiled by Blackmore expert Andy Francis, who... |
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Ramin Djawadi
Ost: Pacific Rim [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Jul/2013 ] |
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Ramones
The Sire Years Box [ Rhino / 6 CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] "Hey ho, let's go!" With that call to arms Ramones launched their recording career and changed the face of music forever, spawning punk rock and reinvigorating the ailing art form known as rock 'n' roll. Formed in the Forest Hills section of Queens,... |
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HILDEGARD von BINGEN / HENRY PURCELL / CLARA SCHUMANN / AMY BEACH / FLORENCE PRICE / etc
Raphaela Gromes - Femmes Raphaela Gromes (cello), Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds, Julian Riem (piano) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] For years the star cellist and Opus Klassik laureate Raphaela Gromes has taken up the cause of women composers. Three of her albums, acclaimed by critics and listeners alike, have featured music by unknown women composers, and she maintains a... |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Cello Concerto (with works by Ukrainian composers) Raphaela Gromes (cello) / National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Volodymyr Sirenko [ Sony Classical / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Following the tremendous success of her album "Femmes" (2023), Raphaela Gromes releases a new album, "Dvorák: Cello Concerto", featuring one of the most renowned cello concertos alongside inspiring and moving pieces by Ukrainian composers. It was... |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach Raphaela Gromes (cello), Wen-Sinn Yang (cello), Julian Riem (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] On 20 June 1819, 200 years ago, the famous composer Jaques Offenbach was born "Jakob" Offenbach in Cologne. The young cellist Raphaela Gromes, who already received excellent reviews for her first two albums for Sony Classical and even celebrated... |
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Ray Chen
Various: Virtuoso [ Sony Classical / CD - released 17/Jan/2011 ] |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3) ; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2 ; The Running Set ; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 Rebecca Evans (soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - This latest SACD release in the series features the premiere recording of the reconstructed Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2. |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Reformations-Oratorium 1755, TWV 13:18 Regula Mühlemann (sop) Daniel Johannsen (ten) Benjamin Appl (bari) Stephan MacLeod (bass) / Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, Reinhard Goebel [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Aug/2017 ] "I enjoyed the singing a lot (especially the soloists), and I loved the music and wondered at the still fertile and creative mind of its septuagenarian composer." Early Music Review |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart Arias II Regula Mühlemann (soprano) / Basel Chamber Orchestra, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli [ Sony Classical / CD - released 18/Sep/2020 ] "Her voice is gently luminous and true in pitch, her singing of a scale ideal for this acoustic - yet she can pack an emotional punch." BBC Music |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart Arias Regula Mühlemann (soprano) / Kammerorchester Basel, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli [ Sony Classical / CD - released 11/Nov/2016 ] "Mühlemann's soprano suits this repertoire, though its clear brilliant sound does turn hard at times…for a debut solo disc this makes an attractive proposition" Gramophone |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Regula Mühlemann (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (bass) / Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antoni [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/Feb/2019 ] "If you're in the market for a Ninth full of surprise and delight rather than soulful yearning or triumphalist breast-beating, look no further." Gramophone |