HANDEL / TALLIS / MONTEVERDI / VIVALDI / LULLY / RAMEAU / BACH / CHARPENTIER / etc
100 Best Baroque Classics: Incls 'spem in alium', 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' & 'Toccata & fugue in D minor' Patricia Petibon (soprano) David Daniels (countertenor) / Boston Early Music Festival / Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Maggie Cole (harpsichord) / etc [ Virgin Budget Boxes / 6 CD Box Set - released 22/Jun/2006 ] The "BEST 100" series continues its incredible success - almost two million sales worlwide to date - with 100 Best Baroque works. |
Country Music Story
100 Golden Hits [ CD ] |
London Music Works, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, etc
100 Greatest Film Themes Take 3 [6 CD set] [ Silva Screen / 6 CD Box Set - released 12/Apr/2013 ] Silva Screen's packed with value 100 track box sets have achieved over 23,000 sales in the UK with a repertoire ranging from film and TV soundtracks to military themes. This third soundtrack release in the series embraces over 80 years of first-class... |
HANDEL
12 Solo Sonatas Op 1 Academy of Anciet Music / Richard Egarr [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Handel wrote the solo sonatas of Opus 1 for the professional musicians of his London opera orchestra.They demand considerable skill and stamina both from the soloist and the continuo. Prominent bass parts give the sonatas a contrapuntal strength and... |
Music by Thomas Newman
1917 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Feb/2020 ] This is the x19 song, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the highly anticipated British-American war film, composed by the six-time Grammy award-winning composer Thomas Newman. Newman has composed the music to Skyfall, Tolkien, Spectre, Finding... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: A Faust Symphony (Version for Two Pianos, S647/R369) (Complete Piano Music Vol. 34) Marcus Ullmann (tenor) / Franz Liszt Piano Duo / Liszt School of Music Chamber Choir, Weimar [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music Edition / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] A recording of the Faust Symphony arranged for two pianos |
SAMUEL ADLER
Adler: One Lives But Once, A 90th Birthday Celebration Eastman School of Music, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Emily Freeman Brown [ Linn / 3 CD Box Set - released 23/Feb/2018 ] March 4th 2018 marks the 90th birthday of one of the twenty-first century's most influential and prolific composers: Samuel Adler. This three-disc boxed set provides a cohesive overview of his output and includes many premiere recordings. |
THOMAS ADES
Adès: In Seven Days Kirill Gerstein (piano) Thomas Adès (piano/conductor), Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra [ Myrios / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Contemporary |
Music by Daniel Pemberton
All the Money in the World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] This soundtrack album for Ridley Scott's dramatic thriller All the Money in the World features original music composed by Daniel Pemberton (Steve Jobs, Molly's Game, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Gold) who previously... |
Music of Handel / Bellini / Verdi / Puccini / etc
Alma Gluck [ Pearl / CD - released 7/May/2000 ] First artist to sell a million copies of one record! |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Alma Mater - Featuring the Voice of Pope Benedict XVI Music From The Vatican [ Polydor Records / CD - released 30/Nov/2009 ] For the first time in history hear the Voice of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on eight enchanting original pieces of modern classical music, featuring The Choir of the Philharmonic Academy of Rome and the world famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. |
WILLIAM ALWYN
Alwyn: Film Music Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Mark Heron, Clark Rundell [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 30/Oct/2017 ] "These transcriptions work surprisingly well especially for the marches and the swiftly moving extrovert scores. Try the swashbuckling excitement that is The Crimson Pirate and the military pride and pomp and braggadocio of Desert Victory." MusicWeb |
BARBER / BERNSTEIN / CARTER / COPLAND / IVES
American Chamber Music American Chamber Music James Ehnes (violin) / Seattle Chamber Music Society [ ONYX / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] James Ehnes and friends from the Seattle Chamber Music Society hit the road on a fascinating journey through chamber music by some of the giants of 20th-century American classical music. Aaron Copland's masterful Violin Sonata, Leonard Bernstein's... |
BOB CHILCOTT
The Angry Planet BBC Singers, The Bach Choir, The Young Singers, London Youth Choir, Finchley Children's Music Group, David Hill [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] The three works on this 2CD set further confirm Chilcott's status as one of the world's most popular active choral composers. The BBC recently gave Chilcott a [sell-out] concert from BBC Maida Vale, on 5th June, to celebrate BBC Music Day... |
AURORA AUSTRALIS
Aurora Australis: Asia Pacific Festival 2007 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea, Strike Percussion Ensemble, STROMA, New Zealand Trio, etc [ Atoll / Lilburn Trust / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] |
Roxy Music
Avalon [ Virgin Records / CD - released 12/Apr/1999 ] Originally released in 1982, the brilliant 'Avalon' album features smooth songs, such as "More Than This", "Avalon" and "Take a Chance With Me". |
Roxy Music
Avalon (LP) [ Virgin Records / LP - released 21/Jul/2017 ] There could be no more fitting swansong for one of British music's most consummate bands ever than 1982's swooning, romantic 'Avalon'. Co-producer Rhett Davies and the band unveil layers of sound, best represented by its hits, title track and 'More... |
Roxy Music
Avalon (Half-Speed Remaster LP) [ Virgin Records / LP - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Avalon, the final studio offering from Roxy Music, would draw upon a smoother, more adult orientated sound giving us the now iconic single 'More Than This'. Avalon would be yet another UK no'1 album staying there for more than three weeks and in the... |
VICTORIA
Ave Regina caelorum Westminster Cathedral Choir Robert Quinney (organ & continuo) Martin Baker (master of music) [ Hyperion / CD - released 24/Nov/2004 ] The Choir of Westminster Cathedral continues its survey of the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria with this new recording of the Missa Ave Regina caelorum, an opulent double-choir setting based on Victoria's two eponymous motets. |
Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra
Baby Einstein:- Meet the Orchestra [ CD - released 2/Jul/2009 ] |