Bay City Rollers
Gold (3CD) [ Sony Crimson Gold / 3 CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] The 'Gold' collection includes 50 tracks across 3CDs, covering the band's most successful line up of Les, Eric, Woody, Alan and Derek and features all 12 of their UK chart hit singles |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer, Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "A Mahler 8 that seems dutifully fervent against a euphoric Rattle and his forces" - Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine April 2005 |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Gloria / Litanies à la Vierge noire Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Westminster Singers, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Erato Classics Red Line / CD - released 25/Oct/2018 ] "French soprano Catherine Dubosc sings with Gallic nobility and passion, but the affecting sincerity of her interpretation raises her above ethnicity to sublimity." AllMusic.com |
An Emerald City
The Fourth [ Banished From the Universe / CD - released 9/Aug/2013 ] An Emerald City have evolved and grown since the release of their critically acclaimed debut. 'The Fourth' shows a band unafraid to explore in new dimensions in sound and space. |
VIVALDI
The Best of Vivaldi Volume 1 Kako Nishizaki (violin), Capella Istropolitana, Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, Wasa Baroque Ensemble, and many more [ Naxos Best Of / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] Classic Vivaldi recordings drawn from the vast Naxos catalogue. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 & 2 Lars Vogt (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Red Line / CD - released 12/Feb/2007 ] "This is a remarkable record, as fine a recorded account of these two concertos as we have had for many a long year." (Gramophone) |
Owl City
All Things Bright and Beautiful [ Universal Music U.S.A. / CD - released 26/May/2011 ] Adam Young's adventures over the past two years are evocatively detailed on the impossibly catchy electro-pop songs that make up Owl City's follow-up to 'Ocean Eyes'. |
TRADITIONAL
Christmas in Christchurch Christchurch City Choir, Christchurch Cathedral Choir, Woolston Brass, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra [ CSO / CD - released 11/Nov/2009 ] Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is an artistic icon of the South Island and an established force in orchestral music within New Zealand. |
Harbour City Electric
Harbour City Electric [ HCE Music New Zealand / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] HCE are a live seven piece based in Wellington, New Zealand. Drawing on influences from the legendary Funk and Soul of the 60s and 70s, through to boundary pushing Hip hop and Electronica |
Surf City
Surf City [ Arch Hill Recordings / CD - released 7/Aug/2007 ] Following a couple of tours, numerous day jobs and several flat evections, Surf City release their debut self titled EP! “It seems like decades since any NZ band has managed to evoke the same feeling that The Clean and Straightjacket Fits did... |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.10 / Symphony in C Major for Piano, Cello and Violin Op. 56 Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio / English Chamber Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Walter Weller [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 7/Aug/2003 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Music Of The Star Wars Saga [ Silva Screen / CD - released 22/May/2015 ] |
RESPIGHI
Trittico Botticelliano / Aretusa / Lauda per la Nativita del Signore / etc Janet Baker (mezzo) / City of London Sinfonia / Rchard Hickox [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Respighi studied orchestration with Rimsky Korsakov, another master of the orchestra, and his use of the orchestral palate was a huge influence on the young Italian. |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concertos 2 & 3 Jorge Luis Prats (piano) / Mexico City Philharmonic / Enrique Batiz [ Regis Records / CD - released 3/Jun/2007 ] "virtuoso flamboyance guaranteed to set the pulse racing... enthusiastically recommended" (CD Review) |
EDWARD ELGAR / RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands / Vaughan Willams: In Windsor Forest / Towards tthe Unknown Region Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Sinfonietta, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Norman Del Mar [ EMI / CD - released 1/Feb/1981 ] |
JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat major, Op. 82 (with Nielsen - Symphony No. 4 'The Inextinguishable') City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI Recommends / CD - released 14/Oct/2007 ] "Rattles account of the Fifth Symphony with the Philharmonia was to the 1980s what Karajan's Berlin account was to the 1960s. The Philharmonia Orchestra play spendidly and the EMI recording is very good indeed." (3 Stars Penguin Stereo Guide) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem / Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Simon Rattle [ EMI Studio Plus / CD - released 30/Sep/1993 ] The Sinfonia da Requiem, composed in 1940, was Britten's first major work for full orchestra without a soloist and is now regarded as the finest of all of Britten's orchestral works. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto / Concerto for Flute and Harp David Campbell / Philippa Davies / Rachel Master / City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Alto / CD - released 15/Mar/2010 ] "Campbell's agile and pointed performances bring … a fresh unmannered style… [Concerto for Flute and Harp] is just as freshly and sympathetically done."-Penguin Guide "My favorite version of the Concerto for Flute and Harp is the one from Richard... |
City Oh Sigh
Fragments Fine [ Home Alone Music / CD - released 21/Feb/2014 ] Home Alone Music is proud to announce the release of 'Fragments Fine', the debut album from Wellington chamber-folk band City Oh Sigh. Combining unique cello-laden instrumentation with subtle elements of folk and minimalist pop, City Oh Sigh have... |
TRADITIONAL
Bawdy Ballads of Old England -17th Century Songs & Dances The City Waites [ Alto / CD - released 10/Feb/2020 ] "..lively entertainments..full marks to the City Waites.. swinging dialect style..taste of the broadside ballad style..good fun, but not very clean!" - Gramophone |