GABRIELE ROBERTO / DMITRI CERVO / NICOLA TESCARI / MENACHEM ZUR
Alchemy: New Music for Trumpet and Orchestra Fabio Brum (trumpets, Cornets, Flugelhorn, Horn) / Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Seville, Noam Zur [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2022 ] Like alchemists of old, attempting to recombine the four elements, here Fábio Brum presents four distinct musical languages in a programme forged during lockdown. Gabriele Roberto's Tokyo Suite charts the astonishment of a traveller dazzled by the... |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: Kata Kabanova (complete opera recorded in 2008) Teatro Real, Madrid / Karita Mattila, Miroslav Dvorsky, Guy de Mey, Dali Schaechter / Jiri Belohlavek (cond) [ FRA Musica DVD / DVD - released 12/Dec/2010 ] "Its luminosity is reflected in Jiří Bělohlávek's conducting, undoubtedly the most airily lyrical Katya I can remember, which uses Mackerras's edition but applies less spiky gestures" BBC Music Magazine, January 2011 ***** |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Noise And Flowers [ Reprise / Warner / CD - released 5/Aug/2022 ] Noise & Flowers documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Young's lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at age 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Paradox (Original Music From The Film) [ Reprise / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Neil Young recorded the music for the Paradox soundtrack on the MGM soundstage with three different groups: Promise of the Real, an orchestra, and another backing band comprised of Jim Keltner, Paul Bushnell and Joe Yankee. Paradox (the film) is... |
Sunny Day Real Estate
LP2 (Double LP) [ Sub Pop Records / 2 LP - released 19/Oct/2009 ] Released on LP for the first time in years, LP2 has been remastered from the original tapes and includes 2 bonus tracks. Delivering on the promise Sunny Day Real Estate showed on their 1994 debut Diary, the following year's LP2 (a.k.a. The Pink... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Noise And Flowers (Double Gatefold LP) [ Reprise / Warner / 2 LP - released 5/Aug/2022 ] Noise & Flowers documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Young's lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at age 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Paradox (Original Music From The Film) (Double Gatefold LP) [ Reprise / Warner Music / 2 LP - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Neil Young recorded the music for the Paradox soundtrack on the MGM soundstage with three different groups: Promise of the Real, an orchestra, and another backing band comprised of Jim Keltner, Paul Bushnell and Joe Yankee. Paradox (the film) is... |
Neil Young + The Promise Of The Real
The Visitor [ Warner Music / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Neil Young reteams with Promise of the Real for a new album titled The Vistor, their second studio LP together. The album comes just three months after Young released Hitchhiker, his long-lost LP of acoustic songs recorded over one night in August... |
The Real Thing
The Very Best Of [ Pulse / CD - released 29/May/2006 ] Northern soul had emerged in the north of England when the Real Thing formed in 1970, but the disco/funk/soul quartet couldn't get into the obscure R&B sounds, preferring instead the more progressive soul of the Temptations, Barry White, and funk... |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: The Perfect American (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / David Pittsinger, Donald Kaasch, Christopher Purves, Janis Kelly / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "The dark tone is set from the beginning...Purves impresses conveys the complex and ultimately flawed character of Walt...Opus Arte's production is excellent...and brings The Perfect American - such as it is - very vividly to life." Gramophone |