JACQUES OFFENBACH
The World of Offenbach Regine Crespin, Plácido Domingo, Sumi Jo, Joan Sutherland & Huguette Tourangeau [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Jul/2011 ] "Joan Sutherland gives a virtuoso performance … Bonynge's direction is unfailingly sympathetic … Domingo gives one of his finest performances on record … Superb atmospheric recording quality" (Penguin Guide) |
JOHANN STRAUSS II
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Tribute to Johann Strauss: Echoes from Vienna Sumi Jo (soprano) / Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, Rudolf Bibl (Conductor) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 16/Feb/1998 ] "No mere technician of the vocal chords, she sings intelligently with both heart and head in gear." MusicWeb on the Tribute to Johann Strauss |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] (Complete opera) Barbara Bonney, Gilles Cachemaille, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Kurt Streit, Sumi Jo / Drottningholm Court Theatre / Arnold Ostman [ Decca / L'Oiseau-Lyre / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/May/1993 ] "Barbara Bonney is a charming Pamina, with Kurt Streit a free-toned tamino and with Gilles Cachemaille as Papageno both finely focused and full of fun." (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
Cheikh Lô
Né La Thiass (LP) (Record Store Day 2018) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 21/Apr/2018 ] A limited reissue of Cheikh Lô's classic debut album Né La Thiass. Produced by Youssou N'Dour in Dakar in 1995. Cheikh ranks the album as his favourite release. Available for the first time on vinyl, with new artwork and mastered from the original... |
Jo Stafford
Four Classic Albums (Starring Jo Stafford / Autumn In New York / Swingin' Down Broadway / Jo + Jazz) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Jo Stafford, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. |
Jo Stafford & Gordon McCrae
Old Rugged Cross [ EMI Music / CD - released 9/Jul/2001 ] Here are 20 "religious" songs sung in a "popular" smooth style by Jo and Gordon. Features "Abide With Me", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere", "The Lord Is My Shepherd", "Peace In The Valley", etc. |
Jo/Skovhus/Kowalski/Lpo/Mehta
Orff:carmina Burana [ Teldec / CD - released 10/Nov/1993 ] |
Judy Garland, Dorus Day, Billie Holiday, Sarah vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Kay Starr, Jo Stafford, etc
The First Ladies of Sing [ K.Tel / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] Compilation originally released in 2002 |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No.8 Symphony of a Thousand / Adagio from Symphony No.10 Studer-Blasi-Jo-Meier-Nagai-Lewis-Allen-Sotin / The Southend Boys' Choir. Philharmonia Chorus. Philharmonia Orchestra. Giuseppe Sinopoli [ Double Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 28/Nov/2004 ] "Sinopoli conveys a warmth of expression that brings joyful exuberance to the great outburst of the opening. It builds into one of the most thrilling accounts ever, helped by a superb team of soloists and incandescent choral singing." Rosette Penguin |
VERDI / ROSSINI / MOZART / GOUNOD / STRAUSS / DONIZETTI / etc
Sumi Jo: The Erato Recitals Sumi Jo (soprano) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Garzenich-Orchester Kalner Philharmoniker, English Chamber Orchestra, etc [ Warner Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 16/Feb/2018 ] International Korean superstar Korean soprano Sumi Jo made 10 recital albums for Erato and Warner Classics. They include some of her most captivating performances from Mozart to Johann Strauss, from Bach to Rossini, from Scarlatti to Verdi, Baroque,... |
BELLINI / DONIZETTI / ROSSINI / VERDI / RICCI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sumi Jo - Bel Cantio Sumi Jo (soprano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Giuliano Carella [ Erato / CD - released 15/Sep/1997 ] A top recital recording from the beautiful Sumi! |
DANIEL-FRANCOIS-ESPRIT AUBER
Auber: Le domino noir / Gustave III Ballet Music Sumi Jo, Isabelle Vernet, Bruce Ford, Patrick Power / London Voices & English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 13/Dec/2017 ] "Bonynge makes the ideal advocate, moulding melodies, springing rhythms and aerating textures to make the music sparkle from first to last. … The recording is among Decca's most vivid." Penguin Guide |
OFFENBACH / DAVID / GRETRY / BALFE / MESSAGER / DELIBES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sumi Jo - Carnival! Sumi Jo (soprano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca / CD - released 15/Sep/1994 ] Jo was born Jo Su-gyeong in Changwon, South Korea. Her mother was an amateur singer and pianist who had been unable to pursue her own professional music studies because of politics in Korea during the 1950s. Determined to provide her daughter with... |
BELLINI / ADAM / MOZART / OFFENBACH / BERNSTEIN / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sumi Jo - Live at Carnegie Hall Sumi Jo (soprano) / LOrchestra of St. Luke's, Richard Bonynge [ Erato / CD - released 15/Sep/1997 ] recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, November 14th 1996 |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Tancredi (Complete opera) Sumi Jo (sop) Anna Maria di Micco (contralto) Stanford Olsen (tenor) Ewa Podles (contralto) / Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Alberto Zedda [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Jan/2004 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Sumi Jo Collection Sumi Jo (soprano) with various orchestras & conductors [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2011 ] Praised for the remarkable agility, precision and warmth of her voice, and for her outstanding musicianship, Sumi Jo has established herself as one of her generations' most sought-after sopranos. |
Lo'Jo
Cosmophono [ Iris Light Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] After almost two decades of mind-boggling musical adventures and gritty survival against numerous odds Lo'Jo have honed their sound down to something incomparable either in France or the rest of the world. |
Cheikh Lo
Ne La Thiass [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 28/Oct/1996 ] Infused with a deep sense of integrity and spirituality, Cheikh Lô's 1996 album 'Ne La Thiass' won the Senegalese musician both critical acclaim and an international audience, and led to comparisons with both Youssou N'Dour and Baaba Maal. |
Ismael Lo
Best of [ Capitol / CD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] |
Cee Lo Green
Cee Lo Green's Magic Moment [ Atlantic / CD - released 16/Nov/2012 ] A soulful take on a host of Christmas classics. Featured artists include Rod Stewart, B.o.B. and Straight! |
Cee Lo Green
The Lady Killer: Platinum Edition [ Warner Bros. Music U.K. / CD - released 7/Feb/2012 ] Along with big album tracks such as "Bright Lights, Bigger City" and "F U", the Platinum Edition also features new songs such as "Anyway", "Scarlet Fever" and "No One's Gonna Love You". |
Cee Lo Green
The Lady Killer [ Warner Music U.K. / CD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] Cee Lo co-wrote, and sung, the biggest song of 2006: Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy'. But not content with having one of the most successful singles... |
Cheikh Lo
Bambay Gueej [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 15/Sep/1999 ] The second World Circuit album from this Senegalese singer-songwriter, described by Time as "one of Africa's rising stars", is a funk-laden followup to his acclaimed NE LA THIASS of 1997. Recorded in Youssou N Dour's studio, BAMBAY GUEEJ ("bomb bay... |
Cheikh Lo
Jamm [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] Senegalese sufi troubadour Cheikh Lo's signature blend of semi-acoustic flavours has been distilled into his most mature, focused, yet diverse statement to date. |
Cheikh Lo
Lamp Fall [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 22/Nov/2005 ] Senegalese musical maverick Cheikh Lô is a unique figure in contemporary African music. He draws with luxurious ease from a myriad of African forms as well as flamenco, Cuban, Brazilian, jazz and funk... |
Damita Jo
Very Best Of Damita Jo [ Collectables / CD ] |
ALESSANDRO STRADELLA
Stradella: Amare e fingere Ensemble Mare Nostrum; Andrea De Carlo; José Maria Lo Monaco; Paola Valentina Molinari; Silvia Frigato; Mauro Borgioni; Luca Cervoni; Chiara Brunello [ Arcana / 2 CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] The discovery of the inventory of an extraordinary collection of music from the late seventeenth century has made it possible to track down a previously unknown work by Stradella: Amare e fingere (Loving and feigning), composed in Rome, but performed... |
TOMKINS
Above the Starrs: Verse Anthems & Consort Music Fretwork, Emma Kirkby-soprano, Catherine King-alto, Charles Daniels-tenor, Donald Greig-baritone, Richard Wistreich-bass, Jo [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Sep/2003 ] " Fretwork's considerable experience in this kind of repertoire shows in these faultlessly assured performances. A clear and attractive recorded sound completes a most accomplished release." - Gramophone |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Belle Helène (complete operetta sung in French recorded in 2014) Hamburg State Opera / Jennifer Larmore, Jun-Sang Han, Peter Galliard, Viktor Rud, Rebecca Jo Loeb / Gerrit Priessnitz (cond) [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] Director Renaud Doucet and designer André Barbe treat the piece as a "great show" with numerous choreographic elements, relocating the action of Offenbach's classical spoof and setting it on a cruise ship in the 1960s |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Belle Helène (complete operaetta sung in French recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Hamburg State Opera / Jennifer Larmore, Jun-Sang Han, Peter Galliard, Viktor Rud, Rebecca Jo Loeb / Gerrit Priessnitz (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2015 ] Staged by Renaud Doucet Jacques Offenbach's La Belle Hélène has always been one of its composer's most successful works. Its first performance in Paris was quickly followed by productions in Vienna, Berlin, London, Milan and New York. A satire of... |
The Hi-Lo's
A Musical Thrill [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2006 ] Born out of members from the Billy May Band the Hi-Lo's already had their footing as a great vocal group... |
VACCAJ
Vaccai: La sposa di Messina - world premiere recording Jessica Pratt, Filippo Adami, Armando Ariostini, Wakako Ono, Maurizio Lo Piccolo / Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] [Vaccaj's] dramatic sense is exceptional, and the opera has an implacable momentum that makes it compelling...the star is Jessica Pratt as Isabella, fearsomely impressive in a big role... |
Jo Ann Greer
Hollywood's Secret Singing Star [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] The first ever CD collection featuring Jo Ann Greer, one of the most talented and distinctive vocalists of the 1950s, who toured with the Les Brown Orchestra for more than 30 years... |
Jo Jo Gunne
Jo Jo Gunne [ Rhino / CD - released 18/Aug/2008 ] |
Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons
I'm In A Dancing Mood - The Best of [ Warner Music / CD - released 16/May/2016 ] |
Jo Little
Till the Blue Skies Come [ CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] |
Jo Passed
Their Prime [ Sub Pop / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] Formats LP, CD, Cassette, and Digital The nicest thing anyone has ever - ever - said to Jo Hirabayashi, frontman of Jo Passed, is that his band's debut album sounds like "fucked-up Beatles". Their Prime, the full-length follow-up to Jo Passed's... |
Jo Passed
Their Prime (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 25/May/2018 ] |
Jo Stafford
The Best Of [ CD ] |
Jo Stafford
The Jo Stafford Story [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Sep/1997 ] The American soldiers, who adored her, called her G.I Jo. Included on this collection are favourites such as "Too Marvellous for Words," "Over the Rainbow," and " Candy", featuring Johnny Mercer. |