Vika & Linda
The Wait (Deluxe CD) [ Bloodlines / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] The Wait is the new album from beloved duo Vika & Linda. The Wait is their first new original studio album in 19 years. The song writing credits for The Wait read like a who's who of Aussie music royalty: Don Walker, Glenn Richards, Chris Cheney,... |
VIVALDI / DONIZETTI / ROSSINI / HANDEL / HASSE
Arias [3 CD set] Vivica Genaux (mezzo soprano) / Europa Galante, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Les Violons du Roy [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2015 ] "Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux is superb. Her voice is perfectly suited to this type of repertoire, with the ability to tackle the stratospheric scales, arpeggios and trills, while remaining comfortable in the lower registers." (MusicWeb Feb 2010) |
LISZT
Wild and crazy [2 CD set] Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Lang Lang, Wilhelm Kempff, Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] This is a revelatory compilation of Liszt's most daring and virtuosic piano music, a special celebration of his wild and crazy side from an array of great pianists - dazzling virtuosity, extreme harmonies and textures. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas (10 CD set. ) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Bargain Boxes / 10 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/2004 ] "(Ashkenazy) delivers the music with songful grace as well as strength" (Gramophone) |
SCHUMANN
The Works for Solo Piano (Incls 'Kreisleriana', 'Humoreske' & 'Carnival') [7 Cd set] Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Collectors Edition / 7 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2012 ] This seven CD Decca release brings together Schumann's solo works in recordings Ashkenazy made earlier in his career. |
Volker Hemken
Bass Clarinet (+ Cd) [ Profil / Hybrid SACD ] |
Walk the Moon
Talking Is Hard [ Sony Classical / CD+DVD / CD - released 30/Jan/2015 ] This is Walk The Moon's highly anticipated sophomore album which featured the double platinum hit 'Shut Up And Dance'. |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUMANN / GRIEG / DEBUSSY
Walter Gieseking (4 CD set, 20 page booklet) Walter Gieseking (piano) with various orchestras & conductors [ ArtOne / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Gieseking will always remain as one of the best interpreters of French Impressionistic piano music, but as a pianist and musician his range and scope was far wider, and his repertoire more comprehensive. |
W.A.S.P.
The Sting (CD + DVD) [ Madfish / 2 CD/DVD - released 9/Nov/2012 ] |
Various Artists
Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli (CD) [ Numero / CD - released 31/Oct/2016 ] |
Waylon Jennings
Live From Austin, TX '84 (CD + DVD) [ New West Records / CD/DVD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Why did it take ten years to finally lure Waylon Jennings to the Austin City Limits stage for his first performance? Like everything else about the man, he did things his own way - when he was damn good and ready. |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphonies / Jazz Suites / Chamber music [3 CD] WDR Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai / National Symphony of Urkraine, Theore Kuchar / Edwar Auer, piano [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "No. 9: Magnificent; Shostakovich's subversive, Haydnesque wit and underlying anxiety is made perfectly plain; wonderful brass playing. No. 10: A lithe, lean, and dramatic reading, with powerful climaxes" (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
Weather Report
The Colombia Albums 1976 - 1982 / The Jaco Years [ Music On CD / 6 CD Box Set - released 12/Feb/2021 ] The Columbia Albums 1976-1982 anthologizes the Jaco Pastorius era of Weather Report. Black Market (1976), Heavy Weather (1977), Mr. Gone (1978), 8:30 (1979), Night Passage (1980), and Weather Report (1982) are packaged in Clamshell Box with wallets.... |
The Wedding Present
Seamonsters: 30th Anniversary (LP & CD) [ Sony Music Uk / 2 LP/CD - released 28/May/2021 ] The Wedding Present 'Seamonsters' album will be celebrating its 30th anniversary on 28th May 2021. To mark this mileston, Sony Music are releasing a double vinyl set 30 years to the day it was originally released in 1991. This is the third studio... |
The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra
Collected Hits [ Ukecorp CD / CD - released 7/Nov/2014 ] Collected Hits is a new CD comprising of all of the The Ukes' previous EP releases: 'I Love You', 'A Little Bit Wonderful', 'The Heartache' and 'The Dreaming' |
Werner Muller & his orchestra
Echoes of Italy & Great Strauss Waltzes (rec 1964 & 1970) [2 LPs on one CD] [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 30/Jan/2009 ] German orchestral maestro Werner Mueller makes his ninth appearance on Vocalion with two further albums drawn from his extensive Teldec catalogue, both of which demonstrate that he was a master of light classical music repertoire in addition to the... |
Werner Muller and his orchestra
Percussion in the Sky / Wild Strings (Recorded 1962/63) (2 Original LPs on the one CD) [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 10/Apr/2004 ] 25 tracks from the master conductor and arranger |
WERNER MULLER
Learn to Love / Sentimental Journey [2 original LPs on 1 CD] Werner Muller & his orchestra [ Dutton Vocalion / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] Werner Muller was born in Berlin 2 AUG 1920. He studied music and performance on bassoon, trombone and violin. He headed the RIAS dance orchestra and recorded many hits including How High The Moon and Malaguena with vocalist Caterina Valente. |
Wetdog
Frauhaus! (CD) [ Captured Tracks / CD - released 31/Oct/2016 ] |
The Who
My Generation (2 CD Deluxe Edition) [ Polydor / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] An explosive debut, and the hardest mod pop recorded by anyone. At the time of its release, it also had the most ferociously powerful guitars and drums yet captured on a rock record. Pete Townshend's exhilarating chord crunches and guitar distortions... |