Neil Young
Before And After (Blu-Ray Audio) [ Reprise / Warner / Blu-Ray Audio - released 8/Dec/2023 ] On his new album, Before And After, Young has approached a totally eclectic collection of mostly obscure songs like a painter with a new palette. Picking from a vast array of his originals, Young chooses favorites from his playbook like a trip... |
Neil Young
Human Highway (Director's Cut Blu-Ray) [ Reprise Records Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 24/Jun/2016 ] Neil Young directs, co-writes and stars in this American cult comedy. The film follows Otto Quartz (Dean Stockwell) as he inherits a roadside diner after his father dies from radiation poisoning. With a lack of income from the diner, Otto hatches a... |
Neil Young
Le Noise (BluRay) [ Warner Bros. Music / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Dec/2010 ] A 38-minute black and white film of eight live-in-studio performances of the eight songs that appear on legendary rocker Neil Young's 'Le Noise' album. The performances, shot by filmmaker Adam CK Vollick, feature Young on acoustic and electric... |
FRANK MOON
Pita after Kafka: The Metamorphosis (complete ballet recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Royal Ballet / Edward Watson, Laura Day, Nina Goldman, Neil Reynolds [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2015 ] 'It's unique and absurd … timeless and universal.' So choreographer and director Arthur Pita describes Kafka's powerful novella The Metamorphosis, which has inspired this award-winning production for The Royal Ballet. |
CESAR GUERRA-PEIXE
Guerra-Peixe: A Retirada da Laguna Abner Landim (violin) / Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] César Guerra-Peixe is one of the leading composers associated with musical nationalism in Brazil. A Retirada da Laguna is a programmatic suite that describes one of the most dramatic moments in the Paraguayan War of 1864-70 |
Al Fraser, Sam Leamy, Neil Johnstone
Panthalassa [ Rattle Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Panthalassa was the super ocean that surrounded the super continent Pangaea during the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic era. Panthalassa, the album, is an abstract and impressionist work in which conceptual ideas are explored through the luminous ngā taonga... |
Al Fraser, Steve Burridge, Neil Johnstone
Shearwater Drift [ Rattle Records / CD - released 15/Jun/2018 ] Seemingly familiar but tantalisingly mysterious, these beautifully composed sonic landscapes offer a unique experience of the world through sound - the known and the unknown. Shearwater Drift is a vast sonic collage that explores real and imagined... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: La Cetra - 12 concerti, Op. 9 / Concerto in D minor for Two Oboes, RV 535 / etc Iona Brown, Neil Black, Celia Nicklin / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] Penguin Guide Rosette Winner |
VERDI
Otello (Complete Opera in English) Charles Craig (tenor) Neil Howlett (baritone) / English National Opera / Mark Elder [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 28/Apr/2002 ] A live recording of ENO's 1983 production, directed by Jonathan Miller |
JOHN PSATHAS
Rhythm Spike David Arend, Neil Becker, David Downes, Dan Poynton, etc [ Rattle Records / CD - released 17/Jun/2000 ] A roller-coaster ride from this bright young New Zealand composer! |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (highlights from the opera recorded in 1992) Edita Gruberova, Neil Shicoff, Alexander Agache / Ambrosian Singers, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Teldec Basic Edition / CD - released 16/Aug/2001 ] Highlights from the original 1992 release. |
CARLOS GOMES / FRANCISCO BRAGA / ALBERTO NEPOMUCENO / LEOPOLDO MIGUÉZ
Serenata - Brazilian Music for Chamber Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Brazilian composers in the 19th century often sought state scholarships to enable them to study in Europe where they were to become influenced by the German, Italian and French compositional schools. They also became involved in the vogue for writing... |
EDINO KRIEGER
Krieger: Ludus Symphonicus / Variações Elementare / Canticum Naturale / etc Flavia Fernandes (soprano), São Paulo Symphony Choir, Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra • Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Edino Krieger was a leading figure in Brazilian music as both composer and arts director who influenced a generation of his compatriots during his long life. |
Fred Neil
The Sky is Falling [ Revola / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] |
Fred Neil
Tear Down The Walls & Bleecker And MacDougal [ CD - released 8/Mar/2008 ] |
George Shearing / Louis Stewart / Neil Swainson
That Shearing Sound [ Telarc Discover Jazz / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] George Shearing enjoys an international reputation as a pianist, arranger and composer. Equally at home on the concert stage as in jazz clubs, Shearing is recognized for inventive, orchestrated jazz. He has written more than 300 compositions,... |
CESAR GUERRA-PEIXE
Guerra-Peixe: Symphonic Suites Nos. 1 & 2 Goias Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] César Guerra-Peixe was one of the most versatile Brazilian musicians of the 20th century, gaining a particular mastery of orchestration and creating his own inimitable sound through extensive work in radio, television and cinema. The toe-tapping... |
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Symphonies,, Vol. 1 - Nos. 5 and 7 Goias Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Claudio Santoro was one of Brazil's most eminent and influential composers. Over a 50-year period, he wrote a cycle of 14 symphonies that is widely acclaimed as the most significant cycle of its kind ever written in Brazil. |
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Symphonies Nos. 11 & 12 / Concerto Grosso / Três Fragmentos sobre BACH Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Claudio Santoro's prolific output includes a cycle of 14 symphonies that is widely recognised as the most significant of its kind from Brazil. All of the works in this programme come from Santoro's remarkable final decade, in which he allied more... |
VERDI
La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1982) Edita Gruberova, Neil Shicoff, Giorgio Zancanaro / London Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Teldec / Warner Classics The Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 21/Sep/2009 ] "This is a recording to have and to turn to, especially if the opera is, you feel, being taken for granted, becoming 'part of the furniture'." (Gramophone) |