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Amanda Shires & Bobbie Nelson
Loving You [ Ato / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] "Loving You is a reflection on the life and music of Bobbie Nelson," says Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Shires. Shires' mission in making 'Loving You 'is to pay respect to the only woman she saw working in a band... |
Amanda Shires & Bobbie Nelson
Loving You (Limited Edition LP) [ Ato / LP - released 23/Jun/2023 ] "Loving You is a reflection on the life and music of Bobbie Nelson," says Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Shires. Shires' mission in making 'Loving You 'is to pay respect to the only woman she saw working in a band... |
Luc Beauséjour, Sylvain Bergeron, Amanda Keesmaat Space Time Continuo
Pachelbel: Magnificat Fugues [ Analekta / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] The threads that weave through this entire music program, and indeed that inspired it, are 15 fugues taken from the 95 such works covering the eight church modes written by Pachelbel as preludes to settings of the Marian Magnificat canticle sung at... |
Amanda Palmer
There Will Be No Intermission [ CVUK Music / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] Amanda Palmer is a singer, writer, pianist, activist and blogger who simultaneously embraces and explodes traditional frameworks of music, theatre, community and art. She first came to prominence as one half of the Boston-based punk cabaret duo The... |
Amanda Palmer
There Will Be No Intermission (LP) [ CVUK Music / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] Amanda Palmer is a singer, writer, pianist, activist and blogger who simultaneously embraces and explodes traditional frameworks of music, theatre, community and art. She first came to prominence as one half of the Boston-based punk cabaret duo The... |
THOMAS ADES
Ades: The Exterminating Angel (complete opera recorded in 2017) Metropolitan Opera / Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies / Thomas Ades (cond) [ Erato DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Contemporary |
THOMAS ADES
Ades: The Exterminating Angel (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies / Thomas Ades (cond) [ Erato Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Feb/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Contemporary |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Gotterdammerung (complete opera recorded 2018) Gun-Brit Barkmin, Daniel Brenna, Eric Halfvarson, Shenyang, Amanda Majeski, Peter Kálmán / Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2018 ] This is the third and penultimate release in the acclaimed cycle of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen with the Hong Kong Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden. Of the star cast for Siegfried, Matthias Goerne has been singled out for particular... |
Jack & Amanda Palmer
You Got Me Singing [ Cooking Vinyl / CD - released 29/Jul/2016 ] Amanda Palmer and her father Jack Palmer release You Got Me Singing, a lovingly put together album. Amanda sings, and plays piano and ukulele, and Jack, a semi-professional choral singer, plays guitar and lends his rich bass voice to a variety of... |
Various Artists including La Calaca, Claudia Martinez, Amanda martinez, Binni Gula'za & others
Putumayo Presents - Mexico [ Putumayo World Music / CD - released 27/May/2016 ] Savour the spicy and romantic flavours of Mexican music, from the sons of Veracruz to the boleros of Oaxaca. Updated with 4 new songs. Mexican culture is as diverse as its landscape. Its roots stretch back thousands of years to the Aztec, Maya,... |
TRADITIONAL
Sephardic Journey Karim Sulayman, Nell Snaidas, Jeffrey Strauss, Amanda Powell, Brian Kay / Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] Cast out of Jerusalem, cast out of Spain. The Spanish Jews in their travels absorbed the colorful musical accents of Italy, Turkey and North Africa, including exotic percussion. Apollo's Fire's musical journey interweaves Sephardic folk song with the... |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe (complete opera) Karina Gauvin, Philippe Jaroussky, Amanda Forsythe, Aaron Sheehan / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 18/Jan/2015 ] "The performance is never forced but always emotive...An exemplary testament of superb musicianship from all participants...this is a landmark event in Steffani's much-deserved rehabilitation." (Gramophone Magazine Award Nomination 2015 Baroque Vocal |
CHARPENTIER
La couronne de fleurs / La descente d'Orphée aux enfers Aaron Sheehan, Teresa Wakim, Amanda Forsythe, Douglas Williams, Jesse Blumberg, Dorothee Mields / Boston Early Music, Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs [ CPO / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "Sheehan, who sings the role of Orpheus, [delivers] a finely nuanced interpretation...Amanda Forsythe is a charming Euridice and Roselie, Teresa Wakim a beautifully styled Flore, and Dorothee Mields a compelling Amaranthe and Proserpine." Gramophone |
Amanda Palmer
An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer [ 8 Foot Records / 2 LP - released 29/Nov/2013 ] A double-LP set of Neil and Amanda performing audience favorites, duets, cover songs, poetry, short stories, and more. |
HUBERT PARRY
Choral Works (Incls 'Jerusalem' & 'The Birds of Aristophanes') Amanda Roocroft (soprano) / BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] "This is breast-swelling stuff...the BBC National Orchestra of Wales gives warmly sympathetic renditions of music which was probably completely unfamiliar to them before the recording sessions. The Chandos sound is excellent." (BBC Music) |
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra
Theatre is Evil [ Inertia / CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Creation Amanda Forsythe, Keith Jameson, Kevin Deas / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Linn SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 9/Jul/2012 ] "Pearlman adopts near-ideal tempi for every number, and his choir and period band - medium forces for a work the composer conducted with up to 200 - are excellent." (Sunday Times) |
JANACEK
Jenufa (complete opera recorded in 2009) Amanda Roocroft / Deborah Polaski / Miroslav Dvorský / Nikolai Schukoff / Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid / Ivor Bolton [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "Amanda Roocroft has won laurels as Jenufa in various stage productions and comes across as a deeply sincere performer here, even if the voice is apt to turn shrill at the top...[Polaski's] very understatement is moving in its own way." (Gramophone) |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: Jenufa (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Amanda Roocroft, Deborah Polaski, Nikolai Schukoff / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "Something in the composer's writing brings out the best in [Roocroft's] creamy voice and committed acting, and here she's superb as a young woman who forgives her stepmother for committing a terrible crime." (ClassicFM) |
VERDI
Don Carlo (complete opera recorded in 2004) Netherlands Opera / Rolando Villazón, Robert Lloyd, Amanda Roocroft / Riccardo Chailly (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/Jul/2011 ] "a fabulous summation of Chailly's qualities as a Verdi conductor… A wonderful piece of stagecraft" (The Guardian) |
