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... |
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... |
Alan Menken, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Howard Ashman
The Little Mermaid Soundtrack (LP) [ Disney / LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / MOZART / MENDELSSOHN / WAGNER / etc
Otto Klemperer - The Warner Classics Remastered Edition Otto Klemperer (conductor) with Daniel Barenboim, Alan Civil, Yehudi Menuhin, Janet Baker, Dennis Brain, Annie Fischer, Christa Ludwig, etc [ Warner Classics / 95 CD Box Set - released 2/Jun/2023 ] The German-born conductor Otto Klemperer, a towering figure in the musical history of the 20th century, died at the age of 88 on July 8th 1973, so 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of his death. |
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Corigliano: Complete Solo Piano Music Philip Edward Fisher, Piano (piano) / Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] John Corigliano's music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by some of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. He is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, five GRAMMY Awards, the Grawemeyer Award for... |
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... |
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... |
JAMES MACMILLAN
MacMillan: Consecration Cappella Nova; Alan Tavener [ Linn Records / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Cappella Nova has a longstanding reputation of championing contemporary music, and its latest album Consecration is no exception. Comprising world premiere recordings in a programme specially curated by Sir James MacMillan, it includes a very... |
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) |
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... |
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... |
Alan Jackson
Where Have You Gone [ Universal / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Country music icon Alan Jackson releases his 17th studio album 'Where Have You Gone'. His first album since 2015, 'Where Have You Gone' features 20 songs and some of Alan's most personal tracks of his career. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ariodante (complete opera) Joyce DiDonato, Karina Gauvin, Sabina Puertolas, Marie Nicole-Lemieux / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Erato Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 7/May/2021 ] |
Alan Vega
Mutator [ Sacred Bones / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] A never-before-heard full-length recorded by legendary NYC musician Alan Vega (Suicide) in the mid '90s with his frequent collaborator Liz Lamere - Mutator is the first release in the Alan Vega Vault series on Sacred Bones. |
Alan Vega
Mutator (LP) [ Sacred Bones / LP - released 23/Apr/2021 ] A never-before-heard full-length recorded by legendary NYC musician Alan Vega (Suicide) in the mid '90s with his frequent collaborator Liz Lamere - Mutator is the first release in the Alan Vega Vault series on Sacred Bones. |
Alan Vega
Mutator (Dark Red Coloured LP) [ Sacred Bones / LP - released 23/Apr/2021 ] A never-before-heard full-length recorded by legendary NYC musician Alan Vega (Suicide) in the mid '90s with his frequent collaborator Liz Lamere - Mutator is the first release in the Alan Vega Vault series on Sacred Bones, collecting rare and... |
MOZART
Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 17 (arr. Lachner) Alan Goldstein, Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Mozart himself had arranged four of his earlier concertos for the ensemble of piano, string quartet and bass, to enable his works to be performed domestically. Numerous subsequent transcriptions followed during the course of the 19th century,... |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Demofoonte Colin Balzer, Sylvia Schwartz, Ann Hallenberg / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Demofoonte dates from the early 'Milan years' of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714- 1787), long before the radical 'reform operas' for which he is most famous and his break with opera seria and the librettos of Pietro Metastasio. |
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 |