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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano), Andrew Wan (violin) [ Analekta / CD - due 5/Jun/2026 ] Andrew Wan, Concertmaster of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and Charles Richard-Hamelin, internationally acclaimed pianist and silver medalist at the Chopin Competition, unite their artistic chemistry in a pinnacle of the Romantic... |
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GEORGES BIZET / AMBROISE THOMAS / ANDRE MESSAGER / CHARLES GOUNOD / LEO DELIBES
Opéra Comique Collection, Vol. 2 - - Bizet: Carmen / Thomas: Hamlet / Messager: Fortunio / Gounod: La nonne sanglante / Delibes: Lakmé [5 Blu-rays] Anna Caterina Antonacci, Andrew Richards, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Cyrille Dubois, Michael Spyres, etc [ Naxos Blu-ray / 5 Blu-ray Box Set - due 22/May/2026 ] The Opéra Comique in Paris has a long tradition of giving stylish performances dating back to the 18th century. Five imaginative and critically acclaimed productions are featured in this collection of French operatic masterpieces. |
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GEORGES BIZET / AMBROISE THOMAS / ANDRE MESSAGER / CHARLES GOUNOD / LEO DELIBES
Opéra Comique Collection, Vol. 2 - Bizet: Carmen / Thomas: Hamlet / Messager: Fortunio / Gounod: La nonne sanglante / Delibes: Lakmé Anna Caterina Antonacci, Andrew Richards, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Cyrille Dubois, Michael Spyres, etc [ Naxos DVD / 6 DVD Box Set - due 22/May/2026 ] The Opéra Comique in Paris has a long tradition of giving stylish performances dating back to the 18th century. Five imaginative and critically acclaimed productions are featured in this collection of French operatic masterpieces. |
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HOLMES / WHITEHEAD / GAO PING / CARR / RITCHIE etc
11 Frames Andrew Beer (violin), Sarah Watkins (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Contemporary works for violin and piano by New Zealand composers. |
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BOHUSLAV MARTINU / GEORGY SVIRIDOV / ARVO PART / ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Levansa Trio Andrew Beer (violin), Sarah Watkins (piano), Lev Sivkov (cello) [ Atoll Records / CD - released 17/May/2024 ] Uncompromising music, terrifically played. This album encompasses four of the Eastern European musical masterpieces for Piano Trio that emerged from the maelstrom of the 20th century. It begins with a work by a Czech exiled in Amnerica,... |
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Andrew Keoghan
Every Orchid Offering [ CD - released 29/Jul/2016 ] 'Every Orchard Offering' is a collection of 10 songs that seek to make sense of a peripatetic existence between New Zealand and New York, where Keoghan relocated in 2013. It's a series of personal vignettes about transience, sexuality, conceived... |
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Andrew Keoghan
Every Orchid Offering (LP) [ Rhythmethod LP / LP - released 29/Jul/2016 ] 'Every Orchard Offering' is a collection of 10 songs that seek to make sense of a peripatetic existence between New Zealand and New York, where Keoghan relocated in 2013. It's a series of personal vignettes about transience, sexuality, conceived... |
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ELGAR, elaborated by ANTHONY PAYNE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Symphony No. 3 BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis [ NMC / CD ] Elgar died in 1934, leaving behind the sketches for a 4-movement symphony; the Elgar family's decision to commission Anthony Payne to realise the sketches has produced an astonishing work of truly Elgarian nobility. |
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THOMAS TALLIS
Salve intemerata & other sacred music The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2013 ] "These are commendably committed, full-blooded performances verging at times on over-ripeness...Generally, though, confidence inspires confidence, as in much of the Mass and in Domine, quis habitavit; as for Salve, intemerata, they make as good a cas |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
New Millennium The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge / Andrew Nethsingha (director) [ Signum / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] "Contemporary music and Commissioning have been central features of the last fifteen years at St John's. It's been a joy to work with talented student composers, singers and instrumental- ists; my own musicianship has been greatly enriched by their... |