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DAVID FARQUHAR
Farquhar: Ring Round the Moon Jian Liu (piano) / Martin Riseley (violin) / Jenny Wollerman (soprano) / Jane Curry (guitar) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 13/Nov/2015 ] Ring Round the Moon is an album of chamber music by New Zealand composer, David Farquhar. The programme was curated by Jack Body for a concert in the Adam Concert Room on May 8 (2014) called Remembering David, which celebrated David's artistry and... |
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EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: A Self Portrait: The Music Makers / Dream Children / Froissart / etc Jane Irwin (Mezzo) / Halle Orchestra / Mark Elder [ ASV Halle / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] This is the first time in a decade that this music has been recorded, and the different works perfectly illustrate the different aspects of Elgar's personality. |
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Laura Jane Grace
Stay Alive [ Cooking Vinyl / CD - released 18/Dec/2020 ] "Hi, my name is Laura Jane Grace. This is my album. This album is about staying alive. Stay alive. Don't die. Work hard. Fight back. This album is an entirely analog recording. No computers were involved in the making of this album. These recordings... |
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VERDI / BELLINI / DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Operatic Duets Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Jane Berbie, Huguette Tourangeau, Mirella Freni, Christa Ludwig, Marilyn Horne, Carlo Bergonzi, etc [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 10/Oct/1982 ] Original recordings from 1959 to 1974 |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN & OTHERS
The Chopin Project - Essential Camille Thomas (cello), with Julien Brocal & Julien Libeer (piano), Daniel Hope (violin) & Jane Birkin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 17/Jun/2023 ] The Chopin Project is Camille Thomas's most ambitious project to date. It's a journey in three chapters to discover Chopin's life through the sound of the cello. This album is an essential selection from the entire series. |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI / CHRISTOPH GRAUPNER
Graupner / Vivaldi - Concerti for Viola D'Amore Donald Maurice (viola d'amore) Jane Curry (guitar) Marcin Murawski (viola) Orkiestra Ars Longa / Eugeniusz Dabrowski (conductor) [ Acte Prealable / CD - released 31/Jan/2016 ] The Vivaldi-Graupner Project was motivated by the desire to concretely document the ongoing musical connections between Poland and New Zealand which have developed in recent years. In particular the Project focuses on the collaborations between... |
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VARIOUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE; The Hoffnung Festival of Music - Royal Festival Hall 1988 Guests include Bill Oddie, Jane Glover, Jill Gormez, Robin Ashby, Felicity Lott, Joseph Horovitz,, Richard Watkins, etc [ Double Decca / CD - released 27/Aug/2014 ] On February 12th & 13th, 1988, two reprise concerts were performed and recorded at the Royal Festival Hall and released by Decca. Many distinguished guests appeared, including Donald Swann, Annetta Hoffnung (playing the role of "orchestral maid"),... |
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EMMERICH KALMAN
Kalman: Die Zirkusprinzessin [The Circus Princess] (complete Operetta Recorded 1969, sung in German) Ingeborg Hallstein, Rudolf Schock, Isy Orén, Peter Karner, Jane Tilden / Symphony Orchestra Kurt Graunke, Munich, Werner Schmidt-Boelcke [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] With The Csardas Princess and Countess Mariza, Emmerich Kálmán created two operetta classics that remain popular to this day. His successes from the Viennese "Silver Operetta Era" include The Circus Princess (1926), which contains elements of modern... |
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SIR MALCOLM ARNOLD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnold: Wind Concertos Jane Hilton (clarinet) Gordon Hunt (oboe) Richard Adeney (flute) Alan Civil (horn) John Wallace (trumpet) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Norman Del Mar [ EMI Classics / CD - released 2/Oct/1989 ] Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold CBE was an English composer and conductor. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band.... |
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ROBERT WRIGHT & GEORGE FORREST
Wright/Forrest: Grand Hotel Jane Krakowski & Timothy Jerome / Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/1989 ] Grand Hotel is a musical with a book by Luther Davis, music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, and additional music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. |
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LLOYD WEBBER / GUILMANT / SUMSION / MATHIAS / BUCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Australasian Organs Vol. VI Jane Watts (the organ of Wellington Cathedral) [ Priory / CD - released 2/Feb/2002 ] Recorded in Wellington Cathedral, New Zealand, on 18/19 April 2001. |
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Jane's Addiction
The Great Escape Artist [ EMI / CD - released 17/Oct/2011 ] |
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Jane's Addiction
Kettle Whistle [ Warner Bros. Records / CD - released 3/Nov/1997 ] Live tunes, demos & out-takes, plus 4 new songs! |
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PUCCINI / VERDI / DELIBES / OFFENBACH / BERLIOZ / BELLINI / DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Operatic Duets Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Mario del Monaco, Mirella Freni. Christa Ludwig, April Cantelo, Hugette Tourangeau, Jane Berbié [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 5/Apr/1994 ] Decca's recorded legacy is dominated by the huge number of complete opera recordings and vocal recitals. These extracts are taken from complete recordings. |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN / COLE PORTER / ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN / etc
The Best Of The John Wilson Orchestra The John Wilson Orchestra, with Kim Criswell, Louise Dearman, Joyce DiDonato, Anne-Jane Casey & others [ Warner classics / 2 CD - released 5/Dec/2018 ] The Best of The John Wilson Orchestra - a double-album celebrating a decade of BBC Proms performances with a selection of hit songs and music from Hollywood's greatest movie musicals. Featuring Seth MacFarlane, Curtis Stigers, Joyce DiDonato plus a... |
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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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RICHARD STRAUSS
Elektra (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Linda Watson / Jane Henschel / Manuela Uhl / René Kollo / Albert Dohmen / Munich Philharmonic Orchestra / Christian Thielemann [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 16/Feb/2011 ] "Watson has physical stature, an expressive face...the necessary intelligence and a suitable instrument, which is saying a great deal in this most formidable of roles...[Henschel] makes a capital Klytämnestra" (International Record Review) |
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ALMA DEUTSCHER
Deutscher: Cinderella (complete recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Opera San Jose / Vanessa Becerra, Jonas Hacker, Nathan Stark, Karin Mushegain / Jane Glover (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 18/Dec/2018 ] "As a dramatic construct, the opera's a marvel for one so young...Deutscher starts with two gifts on her side: natural talent (I'll avoid the word genius) and sincerity. Cinderella may be pastiche, but at the same time nothing is fake." BBC Music |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: L'Enfant Et Les Sortilèges / Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales Susan Davenny Wyner, Jocelyne Taillon, Jane Berbié, Arleen Augér, Linda Finnie, Philip Langridge / London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn [ EMI Classics / CD - released 5/Mar/2012 ] L'enfant et les sortilèges was first performed in Monte Carlo in 1925 conducted by Victor de Sabata. This recording, with Andre Previn conducting, is from 1981 |
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Julie Andrews, Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett, Jane Benson (2), Yul Brynner, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Lorna Dallas, Doris Day, etc
Richard Rodgers - With A Song In My Heart [3 CD set] [ Reader's Digest / 3 CD Box Set - released 17/Jun/2013 ] Reader's Digest have the rights to the vast Sony (CBS) and RCA catalogues. This set contains classic recordings of musical standards by top artists of the 1960s. |
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SHAKESPEARE
Henry V (recorded live at Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2015) BLU-RAY Royal Shakespeare Company / Alex Hassell, Jane Lapotaire, Sarah Parks, Leigh Quinn, Joshua Richards [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/May/2016 ] Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people. |
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ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies Sierra Boggess, Anna Jane Casey, Joyce DiDonato, Maria Ewing, Julian Ovenden / The John Wilson Orchestra & Maida Vale Singers, John Wilson [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] John Wilson and his orchestra have become a regular highlight at the BBC Proms, selling out faster than any other proms and bringing the house down each time. Their second appearance in 2010 was A Celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein which is... |
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CACCINi / KOEHNE / DVORAK / GRANADOS / BRAHMS / TRADITIONAL / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Swoon Gift Pack (2 CDs plus DVD) Yvonne Kenny, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Sara Macliver, Diana Doherty, Roger Woodward, Jane Rutter, David Hobson, Diana Doherty, etc [ ABC Classics / 3 CD/DVD - released 14/Oct/2007 ] The best-selling Swoon Gold double CD and the award-winning Swoon DVD now come as a special pack. All your favourites from the popular Swoon program on ABC Classic FM are included for a special price. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS / CHRISTOPHER HEADINGTON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss/Headington: Violin Concertos Xue-Wei (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jane Glover [ ASV / CD ] The Strauss Violin Concerto was first performed publicly on 5 December 1882, in the Bösendorfersaal of the Herrengasse in Vienna. The soloist was the dedicatee Benno Walter. Strauss himself played his own piano reduction of the orchestral parts.... |
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Jeff And Jane Hudson
Flesh (2LP) [ Captured Tracks / LP - released 31/Oct/2016 ] |
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Sloppy Jane
Madison [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Haley Dahl (who records as Sloppy Jane) created this chamber-pop record inside the Lost World Caverns in West Virginia, bringing in 21 bandmates from all around the country to make an impressive and ambitious orchestral album recorded deep inside the... |
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Sloppy Jane
Madison (LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Haley Dahl (who records as Sloppy Jane) created this chamber-pop record inside the Lost World Caverns in West Virginia, bringing in 21 bandmates from all around the country to make an impressive and ambitious orchestral album recorded deep inside the... |
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Sloppy Jane Feat. Phoebe Bridgers
My Misery Will Bury You (7") [ Saddest Factory / 7in - released 4/Nov/2022 ] To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Madison, Dahl has teamed up with former Sloppy Jane bass player, Phoebe Bridgers, for a limited-edition 7" featuring two versions of Madison's focus track, "Wilt." With the original track on Side A and... |
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BARBARA
Barbara Alexandre Tharaud (piano) with with Juliette Binoche, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, Radio Elvis, Bénabar, Juliette, Dominique A, Tim Dup, Jean-Louis A [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2019 ] "As usual, Tharaud confounds expectations and the two discs here, each of which is actually a self-contained album, approach Barbara's music in very different ways." Gramophone |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Complete Wagner Operas [34 CD set] Robert Holl, Falk Struckmann, Jane Eaglen, Waltraud Meier, Siegfried Jerusalem, Siegfried Jerusalem, Günter von Kannen, Anne Evans / Daniel Barenboim [ Teldec Warner Classics / 34 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Barenboim's iconic Wagner performances, available for the first time in a complete set. |
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MONTEVERDI
Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Monteverdi [Incls 'Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria' & 'L'Orfeo'] Cathy Berberian, Lajos Kozma, Kurt Equiluz, Jane Gartner, Rotraud Hansmann, etc / Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 9 CD Box Set - released 21/Aug/2014 ] Warner Classics releases Nikolaus Harnoncourt's first Monteverdi Cycle (1968-74) He conducts Brucker and Gershwin, Beethoven, Verdi and Johann Strauss - but at the beginning of his career Nikolaus Harnoncourt, one of the most renowned Maestros of... |
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DARIUS MILHAUD
Darius Milhaud: Une Vie Heureuse - anniversary edition Various artists incls Dawn Upshaw, Jane Bathori, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jeanne Loriod (onde Martenot) Yvonne Loriod (piano) Quatuor Bernède, etc [ Warner Classics Erato / 10 CD Box Set - released 16/Nov/2014 ] Distinctively French, yet cosmopolitan in his personal and artistic horizons, Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was adventurous, prominent, and prolific. A pupil of Dukas and d'Indy, he became a member of Les Six and a distinguished teacher in the USA and... |
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WAGNER
Tannhauser (complete opera) Rene Pape, Peter Seiffert, Thomas Hampson, Jane Eaglen / Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2016 ] Recording of the Month - Gramophone Magazine (May 2002) |
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Jane Monheit
The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald [ Emerald City Records / CD - released 8/Apr/2016 ] |
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COLE PORTER
Cole Porter in Hollywood John Wilson Orchestra, with Anna-Jane Casey, Kim Criswell, Matthew Ford, Sarah Fox, Richard Morrison [ Warner Classics / CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] Cole Porter is one of the best-known and most prolific composers from the world of twentieth-century jazz, having written over 800 songs, often for the Hollywood stars of his day. His dizzying wordplay combines with a sound redolent of dazzling... |
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BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / RACHMANINOV / MENDELSSOHN / TCHAIKOVSKY / BERLIOZ / etc
Lorin Maazel - The Complete deutsche Grammophon Recordings Lorin Maazel (conductor) with Jane Berbie, Jean Giraudeau, Gabriel Bacquier, Placido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gidon Kremer, Elena Obraztsova [ Deutsche Grammophon / 39 CD Box Set - released 19/May/2023 ] At the age of 9, he made his conducting debut with the LA Philharmonic, and at 11 Toscanini invited him to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra: Lorin Maazel is undoubtedly one of the greatest conductors of his century. His first album with Deutsche... |
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (complete opera recorded in 1994) Jane Eaglen (Norma), Vincenzo La Scola, Eva Mei, Dimitri Kavrakos / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Muti [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] |
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CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Les Beatitudes Louise Lebrun, Jane Berbié, Nathalie Stutzmann, Marcel Vanaud, etc / Nouvel Orchestre philharmonique & Choeurs de Radio France, Armin Jordan [ Erato Warner Apex / 2 CD - released 22/Jun/2009 ] "recorded at a live occasion in Paris, the acoustic is a good one for soloists, choir and orchestra alike, while the conductor Armin Jordan shows the right kind of sympathy with the style." Gramophone |
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ESSENTIAL WEDDING
Essential Wedding [Includes 'Trumpet Voluntary' & 'Sheep may safely graze'] Various Artists including Jane Parker-Smith, Maurice André, Alfie Boe, Wayne Marshall, Noel Rawsthorne, etc [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2012 ] This programme covers favourite pieces of liturgical music suitable for all types of religious wedding services, as well as secular works for non-religious occasions, including civil ceremonies. |
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FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Concerts Royaux Anna Starr (oboe) Jane Gower (bassoon) Ayako Matsunaga, Stefano Rossi (violin) Michael Borgstede (harpischord) Musica ad Rhenum [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2013 ] François Couperin 'Le Grand' is the most important member of the Couperin dynasty, whose elegant and trendāsetting music is known to have influenced great composers such as J.S. Bach, Telemann and Handel. After becoming organist at St. Gervais in... |