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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Fairy Tales Susan Platts, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - due 22/May/2026 ] Igor Stravinsky is renowned for his legacy of glittering fairy tales in treasured favourites such as Petrushka and The Firebird. Another favourite is the ballet Pulcinella, a lovable melange of Baroque theatricality, heard here in its concert suite... |
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Buffalo Springfield
Last Time Around (LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - released 19/Jul/2019 ] The third and final album from Buffalo Springfield, originally released in 1968. Includes 'On the Way Home' and 'The Hour of Not Quite Rain'. |
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Buffalo Tom
Birdbrain (LP) [ Beggars Banquet / LP - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Beggars Arkive is excited to release a limited edition 30-year Anniversary edition of Buffalo Tom's epic second album Birdbrain. Available on mint green vinyl, the album has been out of print for years. Buffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn... |
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Buffalo Tom
Let Me Come Over 25th Anniversary Edition [ Beggars Banquet / 2 CD - released 19/May/2017 ] Buffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984 - a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. They thrived on college radio in the late 1980's and... |
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Buffalo Tom
Sleepy Eyed (30th Anniversary) [ Beggars Banquet / CD - released 31/Oct/2025 ] Beggars Banquet is happy to release an expanded edition of Buffalo Tom's fifth album Sleepy Eyed, celebrating it's 30th Anniversary this year. The album has been expanded to include six demos that the band unearthed specifically for this release.... |
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Buffalo Tom
Sleepy Eyed (30th Anniversary LP) [ Beggars Banquet / 2 LP - released 31/Oct/2025 ] Beggars Banquet is happy to release an expanded edition of Buffalo Tom's fifth album Sleepy Eyed, celebrating it's 30th Anniversary this year. The album has been expanded to include six demos that the band unearthed specifically for this release.... |
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AARON COPLAND
Copland: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo / Prairie Journal / Red Pony Suite / Letter From Home Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] Rosette Recording (Penguin Guide) |
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CHARLES GRIFFES
Griffes: Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan / The White Peacock Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Apr/2004 ] "A full and deserved celebration of a short-lived American post-Romantic" - Editor's Choice Gramophopne Magazine (April 2004) |
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Buffalo Springfield
Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield [ Atlantic Records / CD - released 25/Jul/1996 ] This budget-priced compilation contains the best numbers from Neil Young's first group - Buffalo Springfield. |
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Grant Lee Buffalo
Copperopolis [ Noble Rot Records / CD - released 16/Jul/2007 ] Copperopolis is the third studio album by alternative rock band Grant Lee Buffalo. It was released in 1996 on Slash Records.[ |
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DANNY ELFMAN / ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK
Elfman: Violin Concerto "Eleven Eleven" / Hailstork: Piano Concerto No. 1 Saandy Cameron (violin) Stewart Goodyear (piano) / Buffalo Philharmonic orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] This recording presents brand new concertos from two vibrant and contrasting American composers. Adolphus Hailstork's First Piano Concerto draws on his African American heritage to create a work brimming with energy and high spirits. |
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FLORENT SCHMITT
Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé Musique sur l'eau Oriane et le Prince d'Amour Légende Susan Platts, Nikki Chooi, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Florent Schmitt was a student of Massenet and Fauré, and winner of the coveted Prix de Rome. His impressionistic style blends influences ranging from Debussy to Wagner, with references to Stravinsky and other contemporaries. |
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Buffalo Tom
Big Red Letter Day (LP) [ Beggars Banquet / LP - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Buffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984 - a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. The three longstanding bandmates recognize the... |
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Buffalo Tom
Birdbrain (LP) [ Beggars Banquet / LP - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Buffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984 - a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. The three longstanding bandmates recognize the... |
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Buffalo Tom
Let Me Come Over (LP) [ Beggars Banquet / LP - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Buffalo Tom (Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis) formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984 - a breeding ground of post punk guitar bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Pixies. The three longstanding bandmates recognize the... |
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The White Buffalo
Year Of The Dark Horse [ Spinefarm / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Loosely based around the shifting of the seasons and the shifting of a relationship, Year Of The Dark Horse is The White Buffalo's most ambitious and challenging work to date. A collection of 12 musical vignettes - individual yet constant in flow... |
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LUKAS FOSS
Foss: Ode / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Symphony No. 1 in G major Amy Porter (flute) Nikki Chooi (violin) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 24/May/2024 ] Berlin-born Lukas Foss studied music in Paris before settling in Philadelphia in 1937. Though he freely explored diverse compositional styles, three of the works in this recording fall into his early neo-Classical period and exemplify his dictum that... |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Orchestral Music from Der Ring des Nibelungen Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] The essential meaning of Wagner's magnum opus Der Ring des Nibelungen is wrapped up in the composer's own lifetime pursuit of transcendent romance, with the redemption of eternal love one of the primary tenets of this and his other music dramas.... |
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FLORENT SCHMITT
Antoine et Cléopâtre Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Oct/2015 ] Schmitt's The Haunted Palace follows the nuances of Mallarmé's translation from Edgar Allan Poe in lush orchestration and a sound-scape of enigmatic symbolist imagery. |
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ZOLTAN KODALY
Kodály: Concerto for Orchestra / Dances of Galanta / etc Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Dec/2017 ] Zoltán Kodály, like his compatriot Béla Bartók, wrote major orchestral scores that were deeply enriched by his research into Hungarian folk music. The Dances of Galánta are full of swagger and vitality, and the Concerto for Orchestra, commissioned... |
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VITEZSLAV NOVAK
Novák: In the Tatra Mountains / etc Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Mar/2017 ] "Here is yet another fine release from the Buffalo Philharmonic under its dynamic and enterprising conductor, JoAnn Falletta. All three of these works have been recorded before, but the excellence of these performances shows" ClassicsToday 9/9 |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Orchestral Suites: Josephs-Legende / Der Rosenkavalier / Die Frau ohne Schatten Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] To give renewed life to two of his less well known scores, the fantasy opera Die Frau ohne Schatten and the biblical ballet Josephs-Legende, Richard Strauss created symphonic memoires which preserved both their storylines and musical highlights.... |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy / Symphony No. 2 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Grammy Awards 66th Awards (2024) Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Ariadne Auf Naxos Symphony-Suite / Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Op. 60 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Richard Strauss' Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite was one of his own favourite scores, an absolute jewel of incidental music that combines the composer's romanticism with his love of the Baroque music of Jean-Baptiste Lully. D. Wilson Ochoa has created... |
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SCHUBERT
Symphony, Death and the Maiden (arr. A. Stein) / Symphony No. 8 Unfinished (completed by B. Newbould and M. Venzago) Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Schubert's music has been arranged by many other composers, though few have succeeded in amplifying the astonishing drama and pathos of a masterpiece such as the Death and the Maiden Quartet as has Andy Stein, who writes: 'I have tried to create a... |
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REINHOLD GLIERE
Gliere: Symphony No. 3 in B minor, Op. 42 'Il'ya Murometz' Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2014 ] "Falletta and her excellent orchestra give a visceral account of the score projecting its wide range of moods, from mystery and enchantment to violence and tragic intensity." (Orchestral Choice BBC Music April 2014) |
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RESPIGHI
Vetrate di chiesa / Impressioni Brasiliane / Rossiniana Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] "Brilliance from Buffalo in Respighi's rich orchestration.". - Editor's Choice, Gramophone Magazine Feb 2008 |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY / JACQUES IBERT / MAURICE RAVEL
The French in Spain: Debussy, Ibert, Ravel Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Sep/2025 ] This album presents orchestral works by three French composers who saw Spain as a paradise of warmth, fragrance and colour, whether real or imagined. From the vivid evocations of Debussy's Images and Ibert's Escales, to the dances and landscapes that... |
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DUKE ELLINGTON
Ellington: Black, Brown, and Beige Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta / Sal Andolina (clarinet & alto saxophone) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2013 ] "A vital and very generous collection showcasing a concert Ellington who loved his commercial roots yet had more to give and gave it." (MusicWeb) |
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GERSHWIN
Rhapsody In Blue Falletta/Buffalo Po [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "Weiss veers towards the Romantic piano concerto but is faithful to the score - not always the case these days." |
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MARCEL TYBERG
Marcel Tyberg: Symphony No. 2 & Piano Sonata No. 2 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta / Fabio Bidini [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] This recording of the Second Symphony develops on these musicians' experience and enthusiasm in further revelations from a forgotten composer. The Piano Sonata No. 2 is also in the eminently safe hands of internationally renowned pianist Fabio Bidini |
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JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY
Kodaly: Háry János Suite / Summer Evening / Symphony in C major Chester Englander (cimbalom) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Zoltán Kodály's life was largely occupied with collecting his country's folk music and devising the internationally renowned method of music education that bears his name. |
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Erno DOHNANYI
Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Song / Symphonic Minutes Op.36 / etc Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "If it's an introduction to Dohnanyi's music, or if cost is important to you, then this Naxos issue is very good and it will give much pleasure. At the price you cannot complain." (MusicWeb July 2010) |
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Falletta/Buffalo Po
Converse: Orchestral Works [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] |
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JOHN CORIGLIANO
Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man (version with orchestra) / 3 Hallucinations Hila Plitmann (soprano) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] "A colleague suggested that I look into the poetry of the songs of Bob Dylan. Having not yet listened to the songs, I decided to send away for the texts only … and found many of them to be every bit as beautiful and as immediate as I had heard" |
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FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER / LEOPOLD MOZART / FRIEDRICH WITT
The Golden Age of the Horn - Concertos for 2 Horns Jacek Muzyk (horn primo), Daniel Kerdelewicz (horn secondo), Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Ivor Gurney was a poet as well as a composer and was accomplished in a number of musical genres including song. With his intuitive approach to poetry he selected texts widely, from contemporaries to ballads, Elizabethan and Jacobean poets, and even... |
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GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue / Porgy and Bess Suite / etc BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY John Fullam (clarinet) ion Weiss (piano) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] George Gershwin fired up the New York music scene with his mélange of alluring tunes and refinement of the jazz vibe. His Strike up the Band Overture opened a flashy Broadway hit and, inspired by a train ride, the composer heard his masterpiece... |
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SUK
Fairy Tale / Fantasy for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 24 / Fantastické Scherzo Op. 25 Michael Ludwig (violin) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 18/May/2011 ] Encouraged by Brahms and Dvorák while embracing the innovative influences of Debussy, Mahler and Richard Strauss, Josef Suk ranked among the most important composers of the Romantic Czech school. |
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CORIGLIANO
Violin Concerto, "The Red Violin" / Phantasmagoria Michael Ludwig (violin) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] With this new recording, JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic continue their revelatory exploration of Corigliano's highly engaging and imaginative symphonic music. Phantasmagoria draws material from his immense opera The Ghosts of Versailles,... |
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MARCEL TYBERG
Tyberg: Symphony No. 3 / Piano Trio in F major Michael Ludwig (violin) / Ya Fei Chuang (piano) / Roman Mekinulov (cello) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] "...one of the finest conductors of her generation" The New York Times on Falletta |