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W. A. MOZART
50 Best Mozart Classics [3 CDs special price] Thomas Allen, Cheryl Studer, Daniel Barenboim, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sabine Meyer, Neville Marriner, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2019 ] All the greatest works of Amadeus Mozart performed by teh world's top soloists and performers. |
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Stewart Allen
9 Rooms [ Rattle Records / CD - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Stewart Allan's 9 Rooms has been a long time coming, with some songs taking shape over many years. During that time, Stewart has been searching for the right sonic framework for his work, a sound world that would serve the aesthetic and intellectual... |
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Tony Allen
Afro Disco Beat - Complete 70s Anthology [ Vampisoul Records / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2007 ] Some of the deepest, most sizzling African funk ever made! This is an excellent introduction to both the joys of Tony Allen and the sound of Afrobeat. |
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Allan Vaché & Harry Allen
Alan Vache and Harry Allen [ Nagel Heyer / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] Alan Vache is an American clarinetist, born 16 December 1953 in Rahway, New Jersey, USA. He is the younger brother of jazz cornetist Warren Vaché, with whom he frequently collaborates. |
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Allen Toussaint
The Allen Toussaint Story [ Charly / 2 CD - released 28/Feb/2011 ] |
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Lily Allen
Alright, Still (Explicit) [ EMI Music / CD - released 20/Jul/2006 ] This cocky 20-year old is teaching a thing or two about getting herself heard. "Lily Allen is the archetypal singer-songwriter for the iPod generation. Brilliant."- NME |
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Lily Allen
Alright, Still (20th Anniversary Edition Limited Picture Disc LP) [ Warner Music UK / LP - released 4/Sep/2026 ] Lily Allen's era-defining iconic debut album Alright, Still celebrates its 20th anniversary with this limited-edition picture disc. Housed in a gatefold sleeve with silver foil featuring new anniversary artwork, the tracklist includes the hits... |
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Lily Allen
Alright, Still (Crystal-Clear Vinyl LP) [ Warner Music UK / LP - released 24/Apr/2026 ] Lily Allen's era-defining debut 'Alright, Still' is now available for the first time on crystal-clear vinyl. Wrapped in the original iconic sleeve, this Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum album includes the hits 'Smile', 'LDN', 'Alfie' and 'Littlest... |
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GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors / Sebastian: Ballet Suite Chet Allen / Rosemary Kuhlmann / Andrew McKinley / David Aiken / Leon Lishner / Orchestra and Chorus / Thomas Schippers [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "Best of all here is the wonderful conducting of Thomas Schippers, who finds more energy, more poetry and more pathos in Amahl than any other conductor I've heard: in Schippers's hands it is both moving and adorable, and this Naxos transfer by Mark... |
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Allen Toussaint
American Tunes [ Nonesuch / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] AMERICAN TUNES, is the new studio album by legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint. Toussaint had just completed the album when he passed away in November of last year during a European tour. Recording took place at two sets of sessions... |
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Allen Toussaint
American Tunes (LP) [ Nonesuch / 2 LP - released 8/Jul/2016 ] AMERICAN TUNES, is the new studio album by legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint. Toussaint had just completed the album when he passed away in November of last year during a European tour. Recording took place at two sets of sessions... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung performance...Skorokhodov, as a wounded airman, has lungs |
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SIMON MAYR
Arianna in Nasso (Ariadne on Naxos) Cornelia Horak, Thomas Michael Allen & Franz Hauk (directed from the harpsichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "[Cornelia Horak] doesn't quite have the necessary star quality, though Thomas Michael Allen in the distinctly secondary role of Bacchus is much more than adequate, and Franz Hauk ensures Mayr's striking orchestral textures make their point." (The... |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Candide Leonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cunegonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (Old Lady), Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss/Narrator) LSO, Marin Alsop [ LSO / 2 CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Marin Alsop conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a new recording of Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta based on Voltaire's satirical novella, in a performance that is full of dry wit, absurd humour, and stirring optimism. Marin Alsop leads... |
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SAINT-GEORGES / STILL / COLERIDGE-TAYLOR / CORDERO / KAY / WALKER / etc
Black Composer Series - The Complete Album Collection Miriam Fried, Jaime Laredo, Sanford Allen (violins) Faye Robinson, Doralene Davis (sopranos) Juilliard String Quartet, London Symphony Orchestra, etc [ Sony Classical / 10 CD Box Set - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "The sound is in general typical of Sony at this period in time, close set with good spatial definition. Some journey, this, and I'd heartily recommend it." Gramophone |
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Peter Allen
The Boy From Down Under: Very Best Of [ CD - released 9/Jun/2008 ] |
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Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 6/Jul/2009 ] For the first time in his storied career, the legendary composer, pianist explores the work of his New Orleans forebears on a soulful, live-in-the-studio jazz set. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Peter Grimes (complete opera) Alan Oke, Giselle Allen, David Kempster / Chorus of Opera North, Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Britten-Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bed [ Signum / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "...[Oke's] is a strong, ballasted performance, less purely plangent than many, but deeply moving in its simple strength and keen imagination...There's much to relish throughout this hand-picked cast." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 - Opera WINNER |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Turn of the Screw La Monnaie Chamber Orchestra; Ben Glassberg / Sally Matthews; Julian Hubbard; Carole Wilson; Giselle Allen; Ed Lyon; Henri de Beauffort; Katharina Bie [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Nothing is as it appears in the old English manor house of Bly. A new governess takes up her post and discovers that the children who are her new charges are under the influence of the ghosts of the previous governess and her depraved lover. |