Carrie Underwood / Stephen Moyer / Audra McDonald / Laura Benati / Christian Borle
The Sound of Music Live! - Music From The Television Event [ Masterworks / Storyline / Sony Music / CD ] |
Laura Fygi & Michel Legrand
Watch What Happens When Laura Fygi Meets Michel Legrand [ Mercury Records / CD ] European Import. A very nice "mood" disc. |
FEDERIGO FIORILLO
Violin Concerto / Sinfonia Concertanti Laura Bortolotto (violin) / Accademia d'Archi Arrigoni, Domenico Mason [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2015 ] Though born in Brunswick, Federigo Fiorillo (1755-c.1823) was of Neopolitan descent, as the most casual appreciation of these fine and rare concertante works will confirm. Indeed his work owes as much to the style of Albinoni, who died five years... |
NICOLA PORPORA
Porpora: Cantatas for Soprano Laura Maria Martorana (soprano) / I Virtuosi Italiani, Alberto Martini [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] A dazzling display of vocal virtuosity, by the stunning coloratura soprano Maria Laura Martorana. |
Laura Fygi
Laura Fygi at Ronnie Scotts [ Verve Records / CD - released 6/Nov/2003 ] Her second live album, recorded in March 2002 at the legendary London jazz cafe. |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Sonatas for Flute & Piano Laura Trapani (flute), |Rina Cellini (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) was born in Bonn and moved to Vienna in 1801, where his life became closely related to that of Ludwig van Beethoven (also a native of Bonn…). Ries studied piano with him, copied his scores and was the interpreter of several... |
Laura Fygi
The Lady Wants To Know [ Mercury Records / CD ] 1994 release from Dutch jazz singer Laura Fygi |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Vivere: The Best of Andrea Bocelli Andrea Bocelli (tenor) with with Laura Pansini, Kenny G & Sarah Brightman [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] For the first time during his historic career the world's best selling tenor, Andrea Bocelli, will be releasing a collection of his greatest hits. The Best Of Andrea Bocelli - Vivere marks a decade of chart-topping albums that has made him a... |
LORI LAITMAN
Laitman: Vedem - Music of Remembrance Angela Niederloh (mezzo) / Ross Hauck (tenor) / Laura DeLuca (clarinet) / The Northwest Boychoir / Joseph Crnko [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Every Friday for two years between 1942 and 1944, a group of teenage boy prisoners in the Terezín concentration camp shared their poems, stories and artwork in a secret magazine they called Vedem. Most of those boys perished in the Holocaust, but the... |
GEORGE ENESCU
Enescu: Cello Sonata nos 1 & 2 Buruiana, Laura (cello) Tchiba, Martin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Chamber music was a prominent feature of Enescu's music from his earliest years. Though separated by almost four decades, the two Cello Sonatas were not published until 1935. The First is indebted in many respects to Brahms and to Enescu's French... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded live in 1958) Maria Callas, Alfredo Kraus, Mario Sereni, Laura Zannini, Maria Cristina de Castro / Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisboa Franco Ghione [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Callas sang La traviata more frequently than any other opera, apart from Norma. She performed it over 60 times between 1951 and 1958, most famously in Luchino Visconti's production at La Scala in 1955/56. Her only studio recording of the role was... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Chamber Music & Rarities, Vol. 4: Peches de vieillesse, Vols. 11 [Sins of my old age] Cecilia Molinari (mezzo-soprano), Alessandro Marangoni (piano), Bruno Taddia (baritone), Laura Giordano (soprano), Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano) [ Naxos Peches de vieillesse Vol 11 / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Volume 11 completes Alessandro Marangoni's monumental project to record all 200 or so individual works comprising the Péchés de vieillesse or 'Sins of Old Age' (including some preliminary sketches). Highlights include all four duets from the... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Clarinet Concertino & Flute Divertimento Gianluca Terranova (tenor) Giammarco Casani (clarinet) Laura Minguzzi (flute) / Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Nov/2011 ] "This very well played selection of rarely heard orchestral works moves chronologically through Busoni's career...As so often with Busoni, the mix of styles is baffling." (The Guardian) |
SAMUEL ARNOLD
Polly (complete opera) Laura Albino / Eve Rachel McLeod / Gillian Grossmann / Aradia Ensemble / Kevin Mallon [ Naxos / CD - released 11/May/2010 ] "The Toronto-based Aradia Ensemble, directed by Irish violinist Kevin Mallon, sounds warm and tidy in their accompaniments of the short songs, while in the instrumental numbers they are given a little more opportunity to shine." (TheWholeNote.com) |
Laura Branigan
Self Control [ Atlantic Records / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] American imported disc. |
Laura Cantrell
Humming By The Flowered Vine [ Matador Records / CD - released 28/Jun/2005 ] Laura's 3rd album features extraordinary songs - crafted and caught, but all blessed with reinterpretation by a wonderful musical performer. |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Chamber Music and rarities Vol. 2 Laura Giordano (soprano), Alessandro Marangoni (piano), Alessandro Luciano (tenor), Bruno Taddia (baritone) [ Naxos Peches de vieillesse Vol 9 / CD - released 20/Jul/2018 ] Gioachino Rossini's ambitious younger years saw his composing entirely focused on well-defined projects. In later years he developed musical ideas with or without poetry to hand, and the 'Sins of Old Age' heard here bring together genre songs and... |
Laura Marling
A Creature I Don't Know [ EMI Music / CD - released 19/Sep/2011 ] Since her emergence onto the London music scene in 2007 Laura Marling has steadily secured her position as one of the most exciting musical talents of her generation. |
RESPIGHI
Violin Concerto in A major / Aria for Strings / Suite for Strings / Rossiniana Laura Marzadori (violin) / Chamber Orchestra of New York ‘Ottorino Respighi’ / Salvatore Di Vittorio [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] "Salvatore di Vittorio, an enterprising scholar/ conductor, has completed Respighi's Violin Concerto in A and conducts it here with the sinuous-toned young violinist Laura Marzadori tackling the solo part." (The Times) |