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Destroy Boys
Sorry, Mom (LP) [ Epitaph / LP - released 29/Nov/2024 ] DESTROY BOYS formed in 2015, when founding members Violet Mayugba and Alexia Roditis were just 15 years old, and each release has marked a period of growth and change. "Looking back, our first three albums marked the deaths of things," says guitarist... |
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HANDEL / WOLF / MOZART / BACH / MASCAGNI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Grace Kathleen Battle (soprano) with the American Boys Choir & Nancy Allen (harp) [ Sony Music / CD - released 15/Apr/1997 ] the world's most popular works from the sacred music repertoire. |
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VERDI / BIZET / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / GOUNOD / HANDEL / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Dies Irae - The Essential Choral Collection The Monteverdi Choir. Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala, Münchener Bach-Chor, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Choir Of Westminster Abbey, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/1997 ] 30 of the greatest classical choral works ever written. From Monteverdi to Orff, here are the choral bangers absolutely guaranteed to make your heart sing. |
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ALEXANDER KNAIFEL
Knaifel: Chapter Eight Patrick Demenga, The State Choir Latvija, Riga Cathedral Boys Choir, Youth Choir Kamēr, Andres Mustonen [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Mar/2025 ] "It is amazing with what a deep sense of beauty this composition for church, choruses and cello is imbued" said Mstislav Rostropovich on first experiencing Chapter Eight. Basing the music on the Old Testament Song of Songs, The Song of Solomon,... |
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Pet Shop Boys
Behaviour (2018 Remaster) [ PLG / CD - released 1/Aug/2025 ] New single CD featuring the 2018 remaster from the Further Listening Series. 'Behaviour' was Pet Shop Boys' fourth studio album, recorded largely in Munich, Germany at co-producer Harold Faltermeyer's studio. The album was then completed at... |
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Pet Shop Boys
Disco 5 (LP) [ PLG UK / 2 LP - released 21/Nov/2025 ] Disco 5 is the latest instalment of Pet Shop Boys' continuing 'Disco' album series, which started in 1986. The 12-track collection features ten Pet Shop Boys' recent remixes of songs by artists including Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Primal... |
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Pet Shop Boys
Discography: The Singles Collection (Remastered LP) [ Plg Uk / 2 LP - released 18/Jul/2025 ] 'Discography' was first released in 1991. The album charted No 3 in the UK album chart and includes 'West End Girls', 'Always on My Mind', 'It's a Sin', 'Domino Dancing' and 'Suburbia'. |
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Pet Shop Boys
Introspective (LP) [ Warner / LP - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Pet Shop Boys' 1988 release 'Introspective' has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide to date and features the hits 'Left to My Own Devices' and 'Always On My Mind'. The album was the first to feature production by Trevor Horn, whose lavish... |
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Pet Shop Boys
Nonetheless (LP) [ PLG / Warner / LP - released 26/Apr/2024 ] 'Nonetheless' is the duo's first with producer James Ford, who has previously worked with artists including Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Blur, Gorillaz and Simian Mobile Disco. The album also sees the duo return to Parlophone, the label which... |
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Pet Shop Boys
Please (LP) [ Warner / LP - released 2/Mar/2018 ] The Pet Shop Boys debut album, originally released in 1986. Remastered and featuring the singles 'West End Girls', 'Opportunities' and 'Suburbia'. |
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Pet Shop Boys
Smash - The Singles 1985 - 2020 [ Plguk / Warner / 3 CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] This 3CD set covers Pet Shop Boys' career from 1985 with their first number 1 single 'West End Girls' and subsequent number 1's 'It's a Sin' and 'Always on My Mind' through to the 1990's with hits including 'Go West', 'Before' and 'I Don't Wanna'... |
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Pet Shop Boys
Very (LP) [ Parlophone / LP - released 31/Aug/2018 ] The 1993 album 'Very' was a number one record for Pet Shop Boys in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland, and has to date sold in excess of five million copies worldwide. It contains 5 singles, including their cover of 'Go West' - a number 2 hit... |
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SCUBERT / MOZART / TCHAIKOVSKY / DOWLAND / EDWARDS / ORFF / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Swooning Various Artists incls Yvonne Kenny, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Vienna Boys Choir, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Barbara Bonney, etc [ ABC Classics / CD - released 9/Dec/2001 ] Showcasing some of the most stunning music ever written, this collection is a must-have for Swoon devotees new and old. |
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Yancey Boys
Sunset Blvd Instrumentals (LP) [ Kartel / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Reissue of this sought after & seminal hip-hop record, with all beats by J Dilla, featuring Common, Talib Kweli, Posdnuos, T-3 & Guilty Simpson, and the first time re-issued on vinyl since 2013. Back in 2008, just two years after James Yancey aka... |
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Yancey Boys
Sunset Blvd (LP) [ Kartel / LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Reissue of this sought after & seminal hip-hop record, with all beats by J Dilla, featuring Common, Talib Kweli, Posdnuos, T-3 & Guilty Simpson, and the first time re-issued on vinyl since 2013. Back in 2008, just two years after James Yancey aka... |
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Backstreet Boys
The Very Best Of the Backstreet Boys [ Sony Music / CD - released 3/Oct/2014 ] |
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The Beach Boys
The Millennium Collection [ Capitol / CD ] Calling this collection 10 Great Songs tells you everything you need to know. There are bigger, better, more interesting, and more comprehensive Beach Boys compilations readily available, but this pocket-sized set of hits features ten nuggets of... |
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The Blind Boys of Alabama
Go Tell it to the Mountain - Live in New York [ Kaleidoscope Film & DVD / Shock Entertainment Group / DVD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] The Blind Boys of Alabama have spread the spirit & energy of pure soul gospel music for over 60 years, ever since the first incarnation of the group formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind, back in... |
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LEOPOLD KOZELUCH
Koželuch: Joseph der Menschheit Segen (Masonic Cantata) Siegfried Gohritz (speaker), Simona Eisinger (soprano) Czech Boys Choir Boni Pueri [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Joseph der Menschheit Segen (Joseph, Mankinds Blessing) is a powerful Masonic cantata that unusually includes Melodrama, where spoken text is followed by instrumental passages. The two sacred arias are masterful compositions . |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No 8 'symphony of a Thousand' / Des Knaben Wunderhorn Elisabeth Connell, Edith Wiens, Felicity Lott, Hans Sotin, etc / Tiffin School Boys' Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt [ EMI Double Forte / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2001 ] 'This Symphony of a Thousand is one of the superlative Mahler performances on record. It is very moving and the choral singing and orchestral playing are magnificent. As a rounded and convincing account of this... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler - Symphony No 3 Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boys of the Breda Sacrament Choir & Rijnmond Boys' Choir, Mariss Jansons [ RCO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 25/Apr/2011 ] "the RCO brass and string majesty remains a thing of wonder. Bernarda Fink brings real gravitas and weight to the Nietzsche text and, with the finale on the horizon, Jansons keeps it simple: let the music do the work." (ClassicFM) |
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VARIOUS
All The World's Most Beautiful Melodies (the complete five CD set) The Golden Cornet Of Phillip Mccann / Sellers Engineering Band / Boys Of Leeds Parish Church Choir / Simon Lindley (Organ) / Roy Newsome (Conductor) [ Chandos / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/1995 ] From 'Panis Angelicus' to 'Believe Me If All Those Enduring Young Charms' here are all your favourites performed by the world's number one cornet player. |
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CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Weihnachtsgeschichte [The Christmas Story] / Alpine Christmas Songs Tolzer Boys Choir, Die Hammerauer Musikanten, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden / Collegium Pro Musica Innsbruck [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/May/2000 ] Original recordings from 1985 & 1989 |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Moses und Aron [complete opera] Gunter Reich, Richard Cassilly, Felicity Palmer / BBC Singers, Orpheus Boys' Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez [ Sony Classical / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Recorded: November 30 & December 3, 5 & 6, 1974, West Ham Central Mission, London (Moses Und Aron) |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortileges (complete opera) / Sheherazade Julie Boulianne / Genevieve Despres / Kirsten Gunlogson / Chattanooga Boys Choir / Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Alastair Willis [ Naxos Opera Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "raucous humour with heartfelt tenderness... Julie Boulianne's child has wide-eyed wonder... She can be heard in grown-up, and decidedly seductive mode in the accompanying Shéhérazade." BBC Music |
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Oak Ridge Boys
The Definitive Collection [ CD - released 1/Jan/2006 ] |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Requiem / Symphonie funebre et triomphale Ronald Dowd (tenor) / Wandsworth School Boys' Choir / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Colin Davis [ Philips Originals / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2006 ] "Davis's readings of imagination and vision are still highly competitive after 30 years." Gramophone Magazine August 2001. |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas BWV95, BWV101, BWV124, & BWV127 Ruth Holton, Knut Schoch, Sytse Buwalda, Bas Ramselaar, etc / Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Bach's Cantatas have secured their place in the canon of human creations of eternal value. In no other oeuvre one finds the expression of all universal human emotions, from utter grief to extatic joy, from turbulant drama to serene... |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas BWV114, BWV57 & BWV155 Ruth Holton, Knut Schoch, Sytse Buwalda, Bas Ramselaar / Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Bach's Cantatas have secured their place in the canon of human creations of eternal value. In no other oeuvre one finds the expression of all universal human emotions, from utter grief to extatic joy, from turbulant drama to serene... |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas BWV146, BWV28 & BWV48 Ruth Holton, Marjon Strijk, Sytse Buwalda, Bas Ramselaar, etc / Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Bach's Cantatas have secured their place in the canon of human creations of eternal value. In no other oeuvre one finds the expression of all universal human emotions, from utter grief to extatic joy, from turbulant drama to serene... |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas BWV92, BWV54 & BWV44 Ruth Holton, Sytse Buwalda, Bas Ramselaar, Knut Schoch / Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "Pieter Jan Leusink, artistic director of the Cantatas project, managed somehow, against all odds, to create a true best-seller out of what is arguably some of the finest music in the western world." MusicWeb |
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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach: Cantatas BWV98, BWV188 & BWV23 Ruth Holton, Sytse Buwalda, Nico van der Meel, Kmut Schoch / Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The Bach's Cantatas have secured their place in the canon of human creations of eternal value. In no other oeuvre one finds the expression of all universal human emotions, from utter grief to extatic joy, from turbulant drama to serene... |
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Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York (choir); Sara Cutler (harp); John Scott (conductor)
Dancing Day: Music for Christmas [ Resonus Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Sent to press just days before his untimely death in August 2015, John Scott's last recording is Dancing Day, a programme of works for Christmas, made with his beloved Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys of Fifth Avenue, New York. Recorded in the... |
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Scud Mountain Boys
MARBECKS RARE: The Early Year [ Sub Pop / CD - released 2/Apr/2012 ] |
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JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello Steven Isserlis (cello) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir, Omer Meir Wellber [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] BBC Music Award WINNER - Premier Award 2021 Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2020 |
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The Graduate Choir, Calico Jam, Nelson Ecumenical Congregation, Christchurch Community Choir, Musical Island Boys, Wellington Youth Choir, etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Praise Be [ Frequency Media Group / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] 30 tracks carefully chosen to best represent the outstanding choral standards in NZ and the broad styles of Christian music that 'Praise Be' has recorded over the years, for all seasons of the liturgical year. |
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Vienna Boys' Choir
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sacred Songs & Folk Songs From Around the World [ ABC Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Aug/2012 ] Experience the beauty of 24 of the world's youngest voices in one of our oldest musical traditions... |
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JOHANN STRAUSS II
The Vienna Choir Boys sing Johann Strauss; Waltzes & Polkas The Vienna Boys Choir [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 22/Nov/1992 ] Piano, Clavinet, Fortepiano played by Franz M. Farnberger |
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Zero Boys
History Of... 40th Anniversary (LP + 7") [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 9/Aug/2024 ] Includes a bonus 7" vinyl with four live tracks recorded in 1980 at Crazy Al's in Indianapolis, IN! From 1979 into '83, the Indianapolis based ZBs were the finest hardcore blitz in the Midwest if not all the lower 48 states. Proof is Vicious... |
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Beastie Boys
Solid Gold Hits (Double LP) [ Capitol Records / 2 LP - released 8/Nov/2005 ] 15 massive songs, covering the Boys' albums including 'Check Your Head', 'Licensed To Ill', 'To The 5 Boroughs', 'Paul's Boutique', 'Hello Nasty' and 'Ill Communication'. |