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Alan Brown
Murmur [ Rattle Records / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Alan Brown is a musician with a long and revered history in the New Zealand jazz scene. MURMUR presents ten wonderfully textural environments, a contemplative album rich in open ambiences and colours. This is a restrained and mature work from one of... |
Alan Brown
Ondulation [ Rattle Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] These contemplations and improvisations were partly inspired by an instrument called an Ondomo - a recreation by Naoyuki Omo of the Ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic instruments developed in 1928 by Maurice Martenot (Ondes Martenot... |
Alan Project Parsons
Pyramid (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Jun/2011 ] The British progressive rock band Alan Parsons Project was active between 1975 and 1990. The Project consisted of Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians. Englishman Alan Parsons met Scotsman Eric Woolfson... |
The Alan Parsons Project
Eve (Gatefold LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 18/Jun/2015 ] 1979's Eve must be one of Alan Parsons Project finest works and as well one of the albums with the most intricate songs. Some highlights of the album are the gorgeous "You Won't Be There" about man's insecurity, the loutish "You Lie Down With Dogs"... |
The Alan Parsons Project
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe [ Mercury Records / CD - released 11/Nov/1997 ] An extremely mesmerizing aural journey through Poe's most renowned works. Everything a "concept album" fan could want! |
Alan Parsons Project
Stereotomy (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 27/Sep/2012 ] Alan Parsons Project is well known for building their albums around certain socio-demographic themes. Stereotomy (1985) deals with the way in which modern society molds the personality. At the time, Stereotomy was one of the first completely... |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Mass (A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers) Alan Titus (baritone) / The Norman Scribner Choir, The Berkshire Boy Choir, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] This is a remastered 2-CD edition, which includes a 140-page booklet created in collaboration with The Leonard Bernstein Office with numerous previously unreleased photos and facsimiles, synopsis and libretto, and new liner notes. |
Alan Vega
After Dark [ In The Red / CD - released 20/Aug/2021 ] Alan Vega's name is synonymous with unfettered, tireless creativity. Beginning in the late 1950s, when he was a fine art student at Brooklyn College, through his years playing in Suicide, and all the way up until his death in 2016, Vega was... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Bolshoi Opera Night (recorded live at the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, 6 September 1989) Lucia Aliberti / Alfredo Kraus / Hermann Prey / Carlo Bergonzi / Alan Titus / Irina Archipowa / Luisa Bosabalian / Mark Ermler (cond) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 13/Nov/2006 ] Exclusive and for the first time, the complete gala concert, including two rare and extraordinary interpretations of Russian arias from Mussorgsky and Borodin, is now released on DVD by Arthaus Musik. |
Alan Menken, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Howard Ashman
The Little Mermaid Soundtrack (LP) [ Disney / LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] |
HANDEL / RAMEAU / BACH / COUPERIN / SCARLATTI / POULENC / etc
Handsome Harpsichord: Best loved classical harpsichord music Alan Cuckston, Laurence Cummings, Luc Beauséjour, Glen Wilson, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichords), Wolfgang Rubsam (lute-harpsichord), etc [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] For those who are new to an instrument, the first question is often: where to start? The 'Best Loved' series offers an easy answer to that question and a perfect introduction to the wonderful, varied world of classical music. Spotlighting individual... |
AMY BEACH
Beach: Piano Concerto / Gaelic Symphony Alan Feinberg (piano) Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Schermerhorn (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/May/2003 ] "Prepare to be thrilled by the melodic invention and charming rhythmic energy of this music. Well worth exploring." - Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (June 2003) |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Emerson Concerto / Symphony No. 1 Alan Feinberg (Piano) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland / James Sinclair [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "Alan Feinberg is an ideal exponent of Ives's truculent and tender realism. The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland partners him well... a very strong recommendation" International Record Review |
Alan Jackson
The Essential Collection [ Sony / Arista / 2 CD - released 17/Apr/2012 ] A career-spanning, double-disc collection featuring all 34 of Jackson's #1 hits. With 37 songs in all, the project will also include two rare tracks and the single, "As She's Walking Away," with Zac Brown Band featuring Alan Jackson. Alongside Alan's... |
Alan Jackson
The Greatest Hits Collection (LP) [ Arista / 2 LP - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Alan Jackson has earned his place in country music history. Behind that guitar and knowing smile stands a singer-songwriter with a knack for creating simple yet impactful tunes, combining the honky-tonk sensibilities of vintage Music Row with... |
Alan Jackson, Statler Brothers, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Mac Davis & more
Ultimate Country [ Sony Music / 4 CD Box Set - released 3/Aug/2009 ] This four disc set can legitimately call itself the Ultimate Country Album. With country stars like Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Statler Brothers, Charlie Daniels, John Denver, Ricky Skaggs, George Jones & Tammy Wynette, etc |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera filmed on Aldeburgh beach in 2013) BLU-RAY Alan Oke, Giselle Allen, David Kempster / Guildhall School of Music & Drama & Britten-Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bedford [ Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Feb/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
Alan Parsons Project
I Robot (Gatefold 2LP) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 23/Sep/2013 ] The art of the concept album, as developed and refined by the Alan Parsons Project over the course of their 10 albums released between 1976 and 1987, is celebrated with a Deluxe Edition release of I Robot (Legacy Edition). The first record of this... |
Alan Parsons Project
Ammonia Avenue (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 3/Jun/2022 ] Released two years after their big-selling Eye In The Sky album (MOVLP188), Ammonia Avenue from 1984 offers beautiful tunes, with intelligent lyrical content. Theme of the album is the communication breakdown of mankind in a society turning ever... |
The Alan Parsons Project
Eye in the Sky (Special Expanded Edition) [ Sony / Legacy Records / CD - released 13/Mar/2007 ] Now digitally re-mastered with bonus tracks, the popular Parsons album 'Eye in the Sky' includes "Psychobabble", "Children of the Moon", "Sirius", "Gemini", "Mammagamma" and - of course - the wonderful title track. |
The Alan Parsons Project
Eye in the Sky (LP) [ Arista / Legacy Records / LP - released 1/Jan/2015 ] |
The Alan Parsons Project
Gaudi (Special Expanded Edition) [ Arista Records / CD - released 27/Jan/2009 ] Originally released in 1987 and now digitally re-mastered with seven bonus tracks, 'Gaudi' includes "Sagrada Familia", "Too Late", "Closer to Heaven" and "Standing on Higher Ground". |
The Alan Parsons Project
I Robot (Special Expanded 30th Anniversary Edition) [ Sony / Legacy Records / CD - released 20/Mar/2007 ] Now digitally re-mastered with bonus tracks, the fantastic 'I Robot' album includes "I Wouldn't Want to be Like You", "Don't Let it Show", "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)" and of course, the futuristic title track. |
The Alan Parsons Project
Pyramid (Special Expanded Edition) [ Arista Records / CD - released 27/Jan/2009 ] Now digitally re-mastered with bonus tracks, this imported disc of 'Pyramid' includes "Voyager", "Eagle Will Rise Again", "One More River", "Can't Take It With You", "Shadow of a Lonely Man", and more. |
Alan Project Parsons
Turn Of A Friendly Card (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 8/Dec/2011 ] With two of the Alan Parsons Project's best songs, the lovely ballad "Time" and the wavy-sounding "Games People Play," The Turn Of A Friendly Card remains one of this group's most enjoyable albums. |
The Alan Parsons Project
The Turn of a Friendly Card (Special Expanded Edition) [ Arista Records / CD - released 27/Jan/2009 ] Now digitally re-mastered with seven bonus tracks, this imported APP CD from 1980 includes "May Be a Price to Pay", "Games People Play", "Time" and the "Turn of a Friendly Card" suite. |
Alan Vega
After Dark (LP) [ In The Red / LP - released 20/Aug/2021 ] Alan Vega's name is synonymous with unfettered, tireless creativity. Beginning in the late 1950s, when he was a fine art student at Brooklyn College, through his years playing in Suicide, and all the way up until his death in 2016, Vega was... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: King Olaf / The Banner of Saint George Emily Birsan, Barry Banks, Alan Opie, Bergen Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 12/Feb/2015 ] "The Chandos sound is full-blooded and excellent in every respect... for this project Ralph Couzens was assisted by Gunner Herleif Nilsen of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation; between them they've produced very fine results." (MusicWeb Feb '15) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Arias Bernadette Greevy (contralto), Joan Sutherland (soprano), William Herbert (tenor), Hervey Alan (bass), Forbes Robinson (bass) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2017 ] "An earlier generation of superb Handelians, led by Joan Sutherland, Bernadette Greevy's opulent contralto, William Herbert's textured tenor and the refulgent basses of Hervey Alan and Forbes Robinson." BBC Music |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Vexations (LP) Alan Marks (piano) [ Les Disques Du Crépuscule / LP - released 20/Dec/2019 ] The extraordinary score for Vexations is just three lines long, yet a complete performance (840 repetitions) may last for anything between 14 and 28 hours. First performed under the supervision of John Cage in 1963, this radical, enigmatic,... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Francisco Fullana (violin), Apollo's Fire (Baroque orchestra), Jeannette Sorrell (director, harpsichord), Alan Choo (leader, violin) [ Avie / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] "Fullana and Sorrell's brilliant baroque band from Cleveland reveals Vivaldi's most popular work in spring-cleaned colours, like the restoration of an old master." - The Sunday Times (No. 3: Top 10 Classical Albums of the Year 2021) |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Mass of Life / Prelude & Idyll Janice Watson (soprano) Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano) Andrew Kennedy (tenor) Alan Opie (baritone) / Bournemouth Symphony, David Hill [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] "a marvellous starting point for anyone new to Delius's unique but compelling art." Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - July 2012 |
Gregory Alan Isakov
Appaloosa Bones [ Dualtone / CD - released 29/Jul/2023 ] Gregory Alan Isakov wanted to pare it all back on Appaloosa Bones, the Colorado-based singer's new album. Arrangement-wise, the impulse to keep things simple was a pendulum swing away from his Grammy-nominated 2018 album, Evening Machines. "I set out... |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein: The Composer [25 CD set] Jennie Tourel, Zino Francescatti, Benny Goodman, Nancy Walker, Carol Lawrence, Yo-Yo Ma, Alan Titus, Harolyn Blackwell, etc / Leonard Bernstein (cond) [ Sony Classical Masters / 25 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2017 ] With his centenary upon us, Sony Classical releases the most comprehensive recorded collection ever released of the music of American conductor, composer and educator Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). |
NICOLA PORPORA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Karina Gauvin - Porpora Arias Karina Gauvin (soprano) / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis (conductor) [ Atma / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] "Historians and musicians have assumed than Porpora was an also-ran...There is no reason why we cannot appreciate and enjoy Porpora's music on its own terms - not least when the singer is the marvellous Karina Gauvin." Gramophone |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / JOAN TOWER / WALTER PISTON / JOHN HARBISON
Gershwin: Concerto in F (with works by Tower, Piston & Harbison) Kevin Cole (piano) / National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, David Alan Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] "From the very opening [Gershwin] with its timpani motto, the piece goes like the wind, not sounding rushed so much as bracingly correct. Miller and pianist Kevin Cole set perfect tempos for the cakewalk passage in the first movement" Fanfare |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas Nos.128 - 131 Kurt Equiluz, Paul Esswood, Alan Bergius, Max van Egmond / Collegium Vocale, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Das Alte Werk / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/Oct/1989 ] Original recording from 1983 One of the first recordings using historical instruments, with boys' choirs and boy soloists for most soprano and some alto parts. Adult soloists include the tenor Kurt Equiluz. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera with libretto) Philip Langridge, Janice Watson, Alan Opies, Anne Collins / Opera London, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1997 ] "The casting of Philip Langridge in the title-role is central to the set's success. As on stage, he is unrivalled at conveying the character's moutning hysteria, and the result is chilling. Janice Watson makes a most touching Ellen Orford." Penguin |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Der Freischütz Lise Davidsen (Agathe), Andreas Schager (Max), Sofia Fomina (Ännchen), Alan Held (Kaspar), Markus Eiche (Ottokar), Franz-Josef Selig (Eremit) [ Pentatone / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Maestro Marek Janowski leads a sensational cast - including star vocalists Lise Davidsen and Andreas Schager - on this new recording of Der Freischütz, the German Romantic opera par excellence. |
Marc Hurtado & Alan Vega
MARBECKS RARE: Sniper [ Le Son du Maquis / CD - released 22/Nov/2010 ] |
