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TOMAS LUIS de VICTORIA
The Victoria Collection [4 CD set] The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Coro / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/May/2011 ] "Harry Christophers's love of Victoria suffuses this sumptuous recording...the seamless plainsong, searing climaxes, subtle dynamic shading and responsiveness to text is captivating." (BBC Music May 2011 Five Stars) |
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BEETHOVEN
String Quartets Op 95, 127, 130, 131, 132, 135 [3 CD set] Smetana Quartet [ Supraphon / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2012 ] |
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Solas
Reunion (Cd & Dvd) [ 2 CD ] |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Complete Orchestral Works [9 CD set] Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe [ Warner Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2015 ] 'This is one of the great classics of the gramophone..... Highly recommended.' Gramophone of Don Quixote and Til Eulenspiegels |
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Stanley Black & his orchestra
The Big Instrumental Hits / Hollywood Love Themes (rec 1958) [2 LPs on one CD] [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 30/Jan/2009 ] Recorded in 1958 |
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Stanley Black & his orchestra
Exotic Percussion / Intimate Percussion (rec 1961/62) [2 LPs on one CD] [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 30/Jan/2009 ] |
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Stanley Black & The London Festival Orchestra
France / Russia (Recorded 1965/67) (2 Original LPs on the one CD) [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] Reissued from recordings made in 1966 & 1967 |
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JOHN TAVENER
The Essential John Tavener on Naxos [5 CD set] Stefan Berkieta (bar) Maria Kliegel (cello), Eileen Hulse (sop) Ralph van Raat (piano) / Clare College Choir, Cambridge / St. John's College Choir [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "Strongly recommended - but you may need to persevere. It's well removed from the cosy Christmas of renaissance art or of chestnuts roasting by the fire, though there's a place for those, too." (MusicWeb on the Clare College Recording) |
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Sting
Live in Berlin (DVD & CD) [ Deutsche Grammophone / 2 CD/DVD - released 27/Jan/2010 ] This live CD and DVD collection features Sting Live, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, with special guest Branford Marsalis. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (complete opera recorded in 1981) Royal Opera / Stuart Burrows / Thomas Allen / Richard Van Allan / Kiri Te Kanawa / Agnes Baltsa / Colin Davis (cond) [ Opus Arte CD / 3 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "it offers abundant pleasures. Te Kanawa recorded an earlier Fiordiligi...and a later...: neither manifests the personality and velvety warmth of tone of show here, and her virtuosity in 'Come Scoglio' is staggering. Thomas Allen's Guglielmo, too, is... |
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MUSIC FROM THE MIDDLE AGES
Music from the Middle Ages [5 CD set] Andrea von Ramm, Richard Levitt & Sterling Jones / Studio der fruhen Musik, Thomas Binkley [ Virgin / Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |
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BEETHOVEN
Complete String Quartets [7 CD set] Suske Quartett [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 22/Apr/2013 ] The genius of Beethoven is probably not most commonly associated with chamber music. The pieces in this collection can be grouped according to three distinct periods of Beethoven's life. |
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CHEN GANG / XIAN XING-HI
Violin concerto No. 1 'Butterfly lovers' / Yellow River Piano Concerto [DVD with bonus CD] Takako Nishizaki (violin) Yin Chengzong (piano) / Shanghai Conservatory Symphony Orchestra / Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Marco Polo DVD / 2 DVD/CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto was written in 1958 by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang, and is here presented on a 24k gold CD. Musically the concerto is a synthesis of Eastern and Western traditions, although the melodies and overall style are... |
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LISZT / BRAHMS / DEBUSSY
A Portrait of Tamas Vasary [4 CD set] Tamas Vasary (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2012 ] In 1962 Stephen Plaistow wrote of the Liszt E flat Polonaise on this set that 'the playing of the E major Polonaise is outstanding: it has bravura, exquisite timing and poise, colour, delicacy, plenty of rhythmic character and an air of ebullient... |
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Ted Heath & his music
Big Band Bash & America Swings Coast to Coast (Recorded 1962 & 1964) (2 original LPs on the one CD) [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 31/Jul/2007 ] Recorded 1962 & 1964 |
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Ted Heath and Max Bygraves
Hits of the Twenties / Hits of the Thirties (Recorded 1959/60) (2 original LPs on the one CD) [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 10/Apr/2004 ] The teaming of Max Bygraves with Ted Heath and his Music is not as unlikely as at first it may be seen. Both are among the best known and most respected artists in contemporary British show business, Max as a brilliant and imaginative solo... |
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Ted Heath & his Music
Swings in Hi-Fi / Listen to my Music / Selection (Recorded between 1950-56) (Original LP & EPs on the one CD) [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Here is the finest single CD selection available of Britain's greatest and most popular band during the 50s - Ted Heath. |
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TAVENER
Choral Ikons The Choir / James Whitbourn [ Opus Arte CD / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "James Whitbourn's singers, seasoned yet still young, robustly engage with compositions that many groups treat with bloodless reverence...Those who like their Tavener pure and ethereal should not be deterred from tasting The Choir's more muscular... |
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HANDEL / ANONYMOUS / BOYCE / ELGAR / etc
A Shrospshire Idyll (concert recorded in 2013) [plus free CD of the concert] Thomas Trotter (Grand of St Laurence's Church, Ludlow) [ Regent DVD + CD / 2 DVD/CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] Thomas Trotter, one of the world's greatest organists, presents a programme of music to mark the 250th anniversary of the organ in St Laurence's Church, Ludlow - the church where the ashes of A E Housman, writer of A Shropshire Lad, are buried. A... |