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SHCHEDRIN / BIZET
Carmen (a ballet with choreography by Mats Ek recorded in 1994) Cullberg Ballet / Ana Laguna / Marc Hwang / Yvan Auzely [ Arthaus / kultur / DVD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] "Anna Laguna, with her long cigars, is never going to stay for long with the gentle, expressive Marc Hwang, and Yvan Auzely is an irresistible competitor for her fickle, uncontrollable desires." - Seen&Heard OperaReview |
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Lou Reed
Coney Island Baby (LP) [ RCA / LP - released 27/Nov/2020 ] White Vinyl. Coney Island Baby is a 1976 solo studio album by Lou Reed, first released in January 1976. The album has been described by Anthony DeCurtis as "perhaps the most romantic album of Reed's career." Many of the album's songs were inspired... |
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Lou Reed
Transformer (LP) [ Sony / LP - released 19/Jan/2018 ] David Bowie has never been shy about acknowledging his influences, and since the boho decadence and sexual ambiguity of the Velvet Underground's music had a major impact on Bowie's work, it was only fitting that as Ziggy Stardust mania was reaching... |
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Ana Moura
Moura [ Univeral Music / CD ] |
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BORODIN / VERDI / MUSSORGSKY / GLUCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Boris Christoff: Opera Arias Boris Christoff (bass) with Ana Alexieva (mezzo) / Various orchestras & conductors [ EMI Studio / CD - released 14/Oct/1988 ] "...should on no account be missed by lovers of great singing." (MusicWeb Nov 2007) |
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RICHARD ROGERS
Rodgers: The King and I Donna Murphy, Lou Diamond Phillips, Taewon Kim / 1996 New Broadway Cast [ Varese Sarabande / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] This production was produced on Broadway, opening on April 11, 1996, at the Neil Simon Theatre, starring Donna Murphy as Anna, who won a Tony Award for her performance, and Lou Diamond Phillips as the King |
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Lou Bond
Lou Bond [ Light in the Attic / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] |
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CY COLEMAN
Coleman: The Life [A New Musical] Lou Rawls, Jennifer Holliday, Liza Minnelli, Lesley Gore, Jack Jones / Concept album [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/1995 ] The Life is a musical with a book by David Newman, Ira Gasman and Cy Coleman, music by Coleman, and lyrics by Gasman. Based on an original idea by Gasman, the show explores the underbelly of Times Square's 42nd Street, inhabited by pimps and... |
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Lou Reed
Magic and Loss [ Sire Records / CD - released 10/Jan/1992 ] American imported disc. A painful look at death - the ones it takes and those who are left behind. |
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Lou Reed
Rock n Roll Animal [ RCA Records / CD - released 8/Apr/2000 ] Now digitally re-mastered, this edition of 'Rock n Roll Animal' includes two bonus tracks! Recorded in December 1973, this live album captures Uncle Lou in peak form... |
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JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rameau: Zoroastre (highlights) Nancy Deering, Lou Ann Wyckoff, Bruce Brewer / Hamburg Chamber Orchestra, Richard Kapp [ Vox Turnabout / CD - released 27/Jun/1987 ] Zoroastre, one of Rameau's major operas, never appeared in the edition of his "Complete Works" which date from early in the twentieth century, and consequently it was long in the shadows and passed over in favor of some of the published operas. |
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Ana Da Silva & Phew
Island (LP) [ Shouting Out Loud / 2 LP - released 28/Sep/2018 ] The new collaborative album from Ana da Silva (of The Raincoats) and Japanese electronic musician Phew. A bracing odyssey in industrial noise, Island is full of absorbing textures, tactile beats, and a masterfully dynamic compositional style. Each... |
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Ana Frango Elétrico
Mormaço Queima [ Mr Bongo / CD - released 15/Aug/2025 ] Mormaço Queima is where it all began for Ana Frango Eléctrico. Raw, quirky and lo-fi, it's a debut album brimming with attitude and youthful energy, characteristics that would go on to define their sound. Previously released digitally in Brazil in... |
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Ana Frango Elétrico
Mormaço Queima (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 15/Aug/2025 ] Mormaço Queima is where it all began for Ana Frango Eléctrico. Raw, quirky and lo-fi, it's a debut album brimming with attitude and youthful energy, characteristics that would go on to define their sound. Previously released digitally in Brazil in... |
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Ana Frango Elétrico
A Sua Diversão/ Não Tem Nada Não (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 21/Nov/2025 ] A year and a half after the release of her already acclaimed album Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua, the young and award-winning exponent of the Brazilian music scene releases a double single that ends the album cycle with a flourish. Winner of the... |
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Lou Donaldson
Say It Loud! Blue Note Classic Vinyl [ Blue Note / LP - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Lou Donaldson had been a Blue Note stalwart since his earliest recordings in 1952 and over the following 15 years produced numerous classic dates spanning bebop, hard bop, and soul jazz. But when the alto saxophonist hooked up with the funky drummer... |
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Lou Reed
Berlin (LP) [ Sony / LP - released 19/Jan/2018 ] |
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Lou Reed
Coney Island Baby (Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Legacy / LP - released 27/Nov/2020 ] White Vinyl. Coney Island Baby is a 1976 solo studio album by Lou Reed, first released in January 1976. The album has been described by Anthony DeCurtis as "perhaps the most romantic album of Reed's career." Many of the album's songs were inspired... |
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Lou Reed
The Essential Lou Reed [ Sony / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] One of the most important figures to emerge from the New York art & music movement of the 1960s & 70s, Lou Reed has influenced generations of musicians. The principal songwriter and guitar player in experimental group The Velvet Underground, a band... |
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Lou Reed
Street Hassle (LP) [ Sony / LP - released 19/Jan/2018 ] Street Hassle' is the eighth solo studio album by Lou Reed, released in February 1978. Richard Robinson and Reed produced the album. All of the songs on 'Street Hassle' were written by Reed, including "Real Good Time Together," a track that dates... |
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Lou Reed
Transformer (Gold Series) [ Sony / CD - released 6/Jul/2018 ] |
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Lou Reed
Transformer (Limited Black & White Splatter Vinyl LP) [ RCA / LP - released 17/Oct/2025 ] Lou Reed's second solo album Transformer is an album that everyone should own. Considered an influential landmark of the glam rock genre and anchored by Reed's most successful single, "Walk on the Wild Side" along with "Perfect Day" and "Satellite... |
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Lou Reed
Transmission Impossible [ Eat To The Beat / 3 CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] THREE BROADCAST RECORDINGS ON THREE CDS NEW YORK 1972, LOS ANGELES 1976 & AUSTRALIA 1978 In December 72, Lou Reed released Transformer. David Bowie and Mick Ronson co-produced the album and it introduced Reed to a wider audience, especially in the... |
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Lou'Ana
Moonlight Madness (Limited Edition Red Vinyl LP) [ LP - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Moonlight Madness, Tāmaki Makaurau based artist LOU'ANA's debut album, infuses her trademark funk, jazz and soul with a hint of her pacific roots to create "Mystic Soul Music". The eclectic, free-spirited sound of this three times Pacific Music... |
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George Masso Tentet, featuring Dick Johnson & Lou Colombo
At Long Last Love [ Arbors Records / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] "The musicians must have really enjoyed playing these brilliant charts and they stand as a shining lesson for anyone interested in the arranger«s craft." Steve Voce, Jazz broadcaster for the BBC |
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Mary Lou Williams
MARBECKS RARE: The Circle Recordings [ Progressive / CD - released 5/May/2006 ] This set contains many unique performances. These include lovely treatments of standards like "Talk of the Town" and "People Will Say We're in Love", and even a Monk tune, as well as originals |
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Ana Alcaide
Como la Luna y el Sol [ ARC Music / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] Spanish singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Ana Alcaide, whose album La Cantiga del Fuego debuted at No.3 on the World Music Charts Europe, presents Como la Luna y el Sol - Like the Moon and the Sun. " …Alcaide is masterful in her creation... |
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Ana Alcaide
La Cantiga Del Fuego [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Carving out her own path as a performer and composer, Ana Alcaide has played a pioneering role in introducing and popularizing the nyckelharpa in Spain. La Cantiga del Fuego is beautiful, atmospheric music, inspired by the journey of the Sephardic... |
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Ana Alcaide
Leyenda [ Arc / CD - released 26/Aug/2016 ] Spanish singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Ana Alcaide presents Leyenda (Legend), a very personal album inspired by legends and mythologies of women and female beings from Spain, Europe and diverse places around the world. The songs portray the... |
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Ana de la Vega (flute) / English Chamber Orchestra, New Dutch Academy / Simon Murphy (direction)
Baroque Bohemia & Beyond VIII: Stamič, Richter, Mysliveček [ Alto / CD ] [Mysliveček] "She is a charming, persuasive advocate ... The ECO, too, offer fine support and with a range of tone colours, match de la Vega's recreative imagination. Pentatone has captured these performances in particularly clear sound ... De la... |
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Ana Frango Elétrico
Me Chama De Gato Qeu Eu Sou Sua (LP) [ Mr Bongo / LP - released 17/May/2024 ] Ana Frango Elétrico is the most effervescent and innovative voice to surge up from Brazil's new wave. Already with two critically acclaimed albums and a swathe of award-winning production turns under their belt, Ana will present their most confident... |
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FRANZ IGNAZ BECK
Beck: L'Isle deserte, Opéra comique in one acte Ana Maria Labin, Samantha Gaul, Theodore Browne, Fabian Kelly, La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider [ CPO / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Franz Ignaz Beck is one of the most fascinating composers of the eighteenth century, a musical visionary as well as a »genuine European« with roots in Mannheim. His opera L'isle déserte, long regarded as lost, has resurfaced in a score manuscript in... |
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PUCCINI / LUNA / LEHAR / VILLA-LOBOS / LOPEZ / CANTELOUBE / etc
Soprano Songs and Arias Ana Maria Martinez (soprano) / Prague Philharmonia / Steven Mercurio (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "One of the freshest, loveliest and most musical soprano voices to have appeared for some time" (MusicWeb Jan 2006) |
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Rachmanino
Lieder und Romanzen Ana Pusar, Thomas Hans [ ORFEO / CD - released 29/Mar/1994 ] |
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HENRY COTTER NIXON
Henry Cotter Nixon: Complete Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 Ana Török (violin) / Kodaly Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Mann [ Toccata / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] The English composer-conductor Henry Cotter Nixon (1842-1907) has entirely disappeared from music history. But this new series - presenting all his surviving orchestral music in its first-ever recordings - reveals Nixon to have been one of the most... |
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CARL HEINRICH REINECKE
Reinecke: Complete Cello Sonatas Ana Turkalj (cello), Aleck Carratta (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] The fundamentally Romantic idiom of Carl Reinecke coexists with the twilight of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th century. He was a precocious and prolific composer, who wrote music from an early age after his birth in the North German town... |
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MORENO-TORROBA
Guitar Music, Vol. 1 Ana Vidovic (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] Moreno-Torroba's guitar music is particularly rich in its use of colour, melody, and lively rhythms to transport the listener into an essentially Spanish expression of a poetic and romantic sensibility. |
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J.S. BACH / PONCE / TARREGA / SULEK / WALTON
Guitar Recital - First Prize: 1998 International Francisco Tarrega Competition Ana Vidovic (guitar) [ NAXOS / CD - released 18/Oct/2009 ] "First Prize winner of the Tarrega competition in Spain in 1998 at the age of 18 was Croatian guitarist Ana Vidovic. To comment on an international competition winner's technique seems a bit unnecessary - of course it's fabulous." (American Record Guide) |
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Bossa Três / Ana Rosely
Imprevisto / Skim Dum Dum Dum (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 30/Aug/2024 ] In Mr Bongo's opinion, 'Imprevisto' is one of the most unmistakable Brazilian jazz records ever made. Dramatic intro and hypnotic piano line, decorated with panned percussion before the hats come in. Then the upright bass. A true classic. Bossa... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620 [The Magic Flute] (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Bregenz Festival / Alfred Reiter, Norman Reinhardt, Ana Durlovski, Bernarda Bobro / Patrick Summers (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2013 ] Staged by: David Pountney Subtitles: E, G, F, Sp, Kor, Chin Sound Format: DD 2.0, dts 5.1 Picture: 16:9, HD Booklet: E, G Total Running Time: 150 mins |