Angelo De Augustine
Carcassonne [ Asthmatic Kitty / 7in - released 10/Aug/2018 ] The Carcassonne 7" was written and self-produced at home at the tail end of summer, soon after De Augustine released his second LP, Swim Inside the Moon, and played to his biggest audience to date supporting Sufjan Stevens at LA's Hollywood Forever... |
ENNIO PORRINO
Porrino: I Shardana (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Lirico di Cagliari / Manrico Signorini, Angelo Villari, Gianpiero Ruggeri, Domenico Balzani / Anthony Bramall (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2015 ] Porrino's drama mirrors a period in archaeology when Nuragic Sardinia was discussed even in non-specialist circles, with the island's bronze statuettes and megaliths recalling a primeval society at the origins of European civilization. |
FRANCESCO CILEA
L'Arlesiana (Complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Teatro Pergolesi / Stefano Antonucci, Riccardo Angelo Strano, Annunziata Vestri, Mariangela Sicilia / Francesco Cilluffo (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2016 ] This is a rare opera by the great Italian composer Francesco Cilea. Its famous aria 'Il lamento di Federico' has always been a favourite with tenors of all times. This recording also features the aria for tenor, 'Una mattina'. |
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
A Beginner's Mind (Cassette) [ Asthmatic Kitty / Cassette - released 24/Sep/2021 ] It's been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (impossible and absurd). But what about singing about movies? Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have paired up for a collaborative project that does just that. A... |
Angelo Badalamenti / David Lynch
Twin Peaks: Season Two Music And More [ Rhino / Warner / CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] The missing piece in the incredibly successful new release and reissue campaign for the Twin Peaks series has been the mysterious soundtrack to Season Two! The TV program aired in 1990-1991, without the traditional accompanying record release, and... |
FEDERICO MORENO-TORROBA
Moreno-Torroba: Complete Music for Solo Guitar & Guitar Quartets Angelo Colone (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD - released 24/Jan/2020 ] Although not a guitarist himself, Federico Moreno-Torroba struck up a friendship with Andres Segovia in the 1920s, which in turn inspired several of his finest works such as the Sonatina (1924) and Piezas características (1931) are among his finest... |
Angelo De Augustine
Toil And Trouble [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] The fourth solo album from Angelo De Augustine, Toil and Trouble exists according to its own quixotic logic, inhabiting a psychic landscape as sublimely mystifying as a fever dream or fairy tale. In creating such an all-enveloping body of work, the... |
Angelo De Augustine
Tomb [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 25/Jan/2019 ] Tomb is the new album from Angelo De Augustine, his first recorded in a studio and produced by renowned musician Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman: credits include work on albums for St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens, Glen Hansard, and Rhye). |
GILARDINO
Sicilian Guitar Music Angelo Marchese [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2016 ] |
SPYRIDON SAMARAS
Samaras: Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (Complete opera) Angelo Simos, Tassis Christoyannis, Pavlos Maropoulos, Pantelis Kontos / Kaval Choir of Sofia, Pazardzhik Symphony, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] Remembered today for the Olympic Anthem, Spyridon Samaras was the most distinguished Greek composer of his day and the first to gain international recognition. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Mass No. 16 'Coronation Mass' / Missa longa Carolina Ullrich, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Angelo Pollak, Konstantin Krimmel /Cologne West German Radio Chorus, Cologne Chamber, Christoph Poppen [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] The occasion for the composition of Mozart's Missa longa is still a matter of speculation, but the Mass remains an exceptional work with its elaborate choral writing, extended orchestration and dramatic changes. |
D'angelo
Live At The Jazz Cafe, London: The Complete Show [ Virgin / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] In 1995, D'Angelo's star was on the rise around the world, with the exciting young R&B singer-songwriter hailed as the new sound of soul, a genius artist in the tradition of Stevie Wonder, Prince and Curtis Mayfield. His Virgin Records debut, Brown... |
D'Angelo & the Vanguard
Black Messiah [ RCA / CD - released 30/Dec/2014 ] With the shock release of Black Messiah, soul singer and multi-instrumentalist D'Angelo, the man music critic Robert Christgau once earnestly dubbed "R&B Jesus," returns with his first album of new material in 14 years. |
BREATHE
Breathe: The Relaxing Guitar (Includes Rodrigo - Adagio & Bach - Preludes) David Russell, Angelo Romero, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet [ Telarc Records / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] |
Angelo De Augustine
Swim Inside The Moon [ Asthmatic Kitty CD / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Swim Inside the Moon is a record by 24-year-old Angelo De Augustine. This second full-length of Angelo's career captures a sound he's been looking for since he started playing music a decade ago. Shortly after the 2015 release of Spirals of... |
W.A. MOZART
A Little Night Music: Eine kleine Nachtmusic / Symphony No. 29 in A major, I Filarmonici di Bologna / Angelo Ephrikian (conductor) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/May/2003 ] "Delightful" - Classic CD |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (Complete Opera) (recorded 1964-65) Nicolai Gedda, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Victoria de los Angeles, Gianna d'Angelo, Nicola Ghiuselev, Ernest Blanc / Concerts du Conservatoire, Andre Cluy [ Warner Classics The Opera Series / 2 CD - released 1/May/2010 ] 'In a celebrated cast, Gedda, as Hoffmann, sings beautifully and with dramatic feeling, Victoria de los Angeles is a delightful Antonia, Schwarzkopf brings sumptuous creamy tone to Giulietta, Blanc is a splendid Dapertutto, and the smaller parts,... |
Original Soundtrack / Music by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch
Mulholland Drive [ Milan Records / CD - released 26/Jul/2002 ] Ethereal, brooding score plus Connie Stevens, Roy Orbison, Sonny Boy Williamson |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: La Boheme (Highlights from the opera) Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Gianni d'Angelo / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 28/May/1988 ] "it still sounds astonishingly vivid,with a very convincing theatrical atmosphere. Vocally the performance achieves a consistently high standard, with Tebaldi as Mim the most affecting." Penguin Guide |
ROSSINI
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) complete opera Renato Capecchi, Gianna d' Angelo, Nicola Monti, Giorgio Tadeo / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Bruno Bartoletti [ DG Opera House / 2 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] “Bartoletti eschews superficial excitement in favour of elegance, and his orchestra plays beautifully” (The Met Guide) |