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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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) |
Ana Moura
Moura [ Univeral Music / CD ] |
Ana Popovic
Unconditional [ Delta Groove / CD - released 5/Sep/2011 ] |
Rachmanino
Lieder und Romanzen Ana Pusar, Thomas Hans [ ORFEO / CD - released 29/Mar/1994 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier, Op.59 (complete opera recorded in 1985) Ana Pusar-Joric, Theo Adam, Ute Walther, Rolf Haunstein / Staatskapelle Dresden, Hans Vonk [ Denon / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/1995 ] "The Denon set of Der Rosenkavalier was recorded at the re-opening of the Semperoper...In almost every way I find the interpretation superior to the much-vaunted Karajan on DG. It is very much a young man's reading as compared with an old man's" Gram |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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) |
FRANZ LEHAR
Live aus der Semperoper: The Lehar Gala From Dresden (recorded in 2012) Angela Denoke, Ana Maria Labin, Piotr Beczala / Staatskapelle Dresden / Christian Thielemann [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 28/Aug/2013 ] The soloists, Angela Denoke, Ana Maria Labin and Piotr Beczala, assisted by the Dresden State Opera Chorus, offer arias and ensembles that will delight you with their joie de vivre. |
Barton Lou Ann
Old Enough [ CD ] |
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) |
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 |
SERGIO AZEVEDO / ANTONIO FRAGOSO / JOLY BRAGA SANTOS
Bows Up! - Portuguese Music for Strings Camerata Atlântica, Ana Beatriz Manzanilla [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Portuguese orchestral music was scarce until the 20th century, when composers were able to build on the great legacy of Luís de Freitas Branco. |