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GILLIAN WHITEHEAD
Arapatiki Ben Hoadley (bassoon) Stephen de Pledge (piano) with Richard Nunns, Aroha Yates-Smith, Janet Roddick & others [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Smaller-scale Whitehead, all pieces based on a single artistic theme - and featuring solo bassoonist Ben Hoadley. |
Bette Smith
Goodthing (LP) [ Bette Smith / LP - released 12/Jul/2024 ] New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee Bette Smith returns with her 3rd studio album - 'Goodthing' - a triumphant injection of soul music and gospel into rock & roll. Produced by Grammy-winning producer Jimmy Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, James Bay, Paulo... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: The Complete Songs vol.3 Felicity Lott (sop) Jennifer Smith (sop) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (ten) Christopher Maltmann (bar) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] 'recording and presentation are the stuff of dreams. Hyperion has done Fauré proud' - Gramophone |
Hollie Smith
Coming In From The Dark [ Warner Music NZ / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] Hollie Smith, one of Aotearoa's most beloved artists, has revealed her return with Coming In From The Dark. Her fourth solo album, Coming In From The Dark is the first album from Smith in over five years. It follows the critically acclaimed and... |
Hollie Smith
Coming In From The Dark (Limited Edition LP) [ Warner Music NZ / LP - released 22/Oct/2021 ] Limited edition marble green vinyl. Hollie Smith, one of Aotearoa's most beloved artists, has revealed her return with Coming In From The Dark. Her fourth solo album, Coming In From The Dark is the first album from Smith in over five years. It... |
Hollie Smith
Water Or Gold [ Warner Music / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Undoubtedly one of Aotearoa's strongest voices, Hollie Smith emerged in the late 1990s, working with the likes of Fat Freddy's Drop and Trinity Roots, she then cemented her place as one of the country's most cherished acts with the 2006 Don McGlashan... |
John Coulter, Chris Cree Brown, David Downes, John Elmsly, Paul Smith
Sound Dome [ Rattle Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] A set of five works created specifically for the sounddome, a 25-loudspeaker instrument designed for composing with space that brings to life a three-dimensional sound world previously conceivable only in the imagination of the composer. |
Louis Prima & Keely Smith
His Greatest Hits [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] This CD contains some Louis Prima's New York hits from the days of "His New Orleans Gang" to some time with his Orchestra. It is also the first album in which music master Morgan Thomas joined the band... |
Patti Smith
Horses (50th Anniversary LP) [ Legacy / Sony / 2 LP - released 10/Oct/2025 ] Celebrate 50 years of Patti Smith's debut studio album with the release of Horses (50th Anniversary). The 2LP features the iconic album remastered direct from the original master tapes, and previously unreleased outtakes and rarities - including... |
JOHN CORIGLIANO / AARON COPLAND / LEONARD BERNSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Copland/Corigliano: Clarinet Concertos Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) / London Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Leighton Smith [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 30/Sep/1988 ] "Corigliano's clarinet concerto is the first by an American composer to have entered the standard repertoire since Aaron Copland's clarinet concerto." Wiki |
Sam Smith
Writing's On The Wall (7") [ Capitol Records / 7in - released 13/Nov/2015 ] Multi-platinum selling British artist Sam Smith has become the latest musician to record a James Bond theme song, for the forthcoming SPECTRE. "Writing's On The Wall" was co-written by Sam Smith and fellow GRAMMY® Award winner Jimmy Napes. The track... |
Shade Smith
Our World [ Frenzy / CD - released 12/Aug/2022 ] 'OUR WORLD' Is the new album of original songs from one of New Zealand's premier singer/ songwriters - Shade Smith. Shade Smith has had a long and illustrious career which started with The Surfires summer of 1967 hit, 'I Can't Wait For Summer time'.... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Staatskapelle Dresden / Renée Fleming, Robert Dean Smith, Sophie Koch / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2015 ] Filmed live in Baden-Baden by the veteran director Brian Large, Renée Fleming makes her debut in the role of Ariadne together with fellow key Strauss interpreters Sophie Koch and Christian Thielemann, following on from their Rosenkavalier... |
Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell
Lebroba [ ECM / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago:... |
SAINT-SAENS
Organ Music Volume 2 Andrew-John Smith (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/Sep/2011 ] "The preludes and fugues make a sharply contrasted trio: the first and last, in D minor and C, are grand in scale and conception; the second, in G, is much more compact and relaxed. Smith makes full use of the resources of the Madeleine instrument to... |
Bessie Smith
Sings The Blues [ Collectables / CD ] |
Ches Smith / Craig Taborn / Mat Maneri
The Bell [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] The Bell features dynamic chamber music compositions written for masterful improvisers. "The best thing I caught all weekend," said critic Peter Margasak of the 2014 New York Winter Jazzfest, "was a superb trio led by drummer Ches Smith with pianist... |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: The Complete Songs Vol 1 (Includes, L'horizon chimerique Op 118) Felicity Lott, Jennifer Smith, Geraldine McGreevy, Stella Doufexis, sopranos, John Mark Ainsley, tenor, Christopher Maltman, baritone, Graham Johnson [ Hyperion / CD - released 11/Feb/2005 ] "Two views on an auspicious start to what could be a defining cycle" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine March 2005 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Iona Abbey - Songs of Praise & Inspiration Glasgow Phoenix Choir, Marilyn J. Smith [ ITV / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] The world famous Glasgow Phoenix Choir provide these songs of praise and inspiration from the remote island of Iona, off the west coast of Mull, Scotland. Iona is credited with being the launch point of Christianity into Scotland. |
CHARLES IVES
Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition Helen Boatwright (soprano), Charles Ives (piano), Gregg Smith Singers, Thomas Stewart (baritone), American Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, etc [ Sony Classical / 5 CD Box Set - released 18/Oct/2024 ] On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives - acclaimed by his champion Leonard Bernstein as the "first great American composer", who, "all alone in his Connecticut barn, created his own private musical revolution". |
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Huey 'Piano' Smith
Don't You Just Know It - The Very Best of 1956-1962 [ Jasmine / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] Here is a tight and cohesive package featuring 28 classics of New Orleans R&B written and performed by the one and only Huey 'Piano' Smith whose keyboard techniques are a huge influence over a generation of New Orleans piano players and musicians... |
BACH / DEBUSSY / PROKOFIEV / SAINT-SAENS / GERSHWIN / SINDING / HANDEL / etc
Selections from the Heifetz Collection Jascha Heifetz (violin) / RCA Victor Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Brooks Smith, Emanuel Bay (piano), William Primrose (viola) [ RCA Victor Gold Seal / CD - released 12/Feb/1991 ] Recorded 1926 - 1972 |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: The Complete Songs-volume 4 Jennifer Smith, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy, Jean-Paul Fouchecort, Stephen Varoce / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "This final volume is the jewel in the series' crown" - Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice Dec 2005 |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: The Complete Songs Vol. 2 Jennifer Smith, Geraldine McGreevy, Felicity Lott and Stella Doufexis, sopranos / John Mark Ainsley and John-Paul Fouchecourt, tenors / Christopher Ma [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] "This disc has given me enormous pleasure and will continue to do so, I know. I recommend it urgently" (MusicWeb April 2005) |
C. P. E. BACH
Bach, (CPE): Flute Concertos Jennifer Stinton (flute), Orchestra St John's Smith Square, John Lubbock [ Collins Classics / CD - released 21/Feb/1993 ] "crisp, responsive orchestral playing, well-chosen tempos and clean, incisive ensemble. I thoroughly enjoyed this playing of some wonderfully inventive music…. helpful background notes" (Gramophone) |
Jimmy Smith
Organ ization (3CD) [ Not Now Music / 3 CD - released 1/Jan/2014 ] Jimmy Smith is to the Hammond Organ what Parker was to the Sax, Evans to the Piano and Davis to the trumpet, a true master of his craft. Such talents as Jimmy Smith's are rare indeed. Whether this is your first encounter or you are already a... |
Kate Smith
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kate Smith - The Songbird of the South - Original recordings 1927 - 1947 [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "A 19-year-old girl, weighing in the immediate neighborhood of 200 pounds, is one of the discoveries of the season for those whose interests run to syncopators and singers of what in the varieties and nightclubs are known as 'hot' songs. Kate Smith... |
Kelly Smith & Billy May, Nat King Cole & George Shearing,, Art Pepper Quintet, Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle, Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, etc
Jerome Kern Songbook - The Song Is You [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. |
Lauren Spencer Smith
The Art Of Being A Mess [ Island US / CD - released 27/Jun/2025 ] True to its name, THE ART OF BEING A MESS captures the emotional rollercoaster Spencer Smith experienced while writing her second album. Each song taps into a feeling-anger, devastation, love, peace, confusion and everything in between, sometimes all... |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore (complete operetta - original version) Marilyn Hill Smith, Gordon Sandison, Joan Davies, Alexandra Hann / Chorus and Orchestra of the New Sadler's Wells Opera / Simon Phipps [ Jay Productions / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] The New Sadler's Wells Opera was formed in the mid-eighties, filling the void (or so it was thought) that was left by the closure of the original D'Oyly Carte. It has even been suggested that the Powers that Be pushed the old Company gently into the... |
CLARKE / BACH / MOZART / HAYDN / ALBINONI / MARCELLO
A Portrait Maurice Andre (trumpet) with Jan Parker-Smith, Alfred Mitterhofer (organ), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Erato / Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "(These recordings serve, not only,) as an index of the trumpeter's fabulous chops, but also his sense of fantasy and imagination, his concern for colour, and his spurning of velocity and virtuosity for their own sakes." (MusicWeb) |
MORTON GOULD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gould: Fall River Legend / Steven Foster Gallery / Of Time and the River New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. James Sedares, JoAnn Falletta / Greg Smith Singers, New York Choral Society [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1996 ] "Next to perhaps Aaron Copland, Morton Gould was THE voice of American music during his long and fruitful life...a fine reading from the New Zealand Symphony under James Sedares." Daily Press (Virginia) |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and other British Choral Anthems Roderick Williams (baritone) with Julia Smith, Elizabeth Limb, Rachel Limb & Kate Jurka (soprano) / Martin Ford (organ) / Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backh [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] Featuring Vaughan Williams' masterly and intensely personal Five Mystical Songs, this album reflects on the sources of inspiration of some of his sacred choral works, alongside gems of 19th- and early-20th-century English church music. |
BEETHOVEN/LISZT & BACH/BUSONI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Amazing Mr Smith - Beethoven: Symphony No 7 / Bach: Chaconne Ronald Smith (piano) [ Nimbus / CD ] The two great piano transcriptions contrasted on this record demonstrate the unique range and adaptability of the modern concert-grand. While Busoni's piano arrangements of Bach's chaconne for solo violin may be described as a triumph of expression,... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet (recorded live in 2016) Royal Shakespeare Company / Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet), Natalie Simpson (Ophelia), Cyril Nri (Polonius), Clarence Smith (Claudius), Tanya Moodie, Hiran Ab [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] Press Reviews "It is an utterly engaging performance by Paapa Essiedu." (The Times ★★★★) "... the percussive music of Sola Akingbola makes a vital contribution to a production that makes you feel, even if you are seeing Hamlet for the 50th... |
SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet (recorded live in 2016) BLU-RAY Royal Shakespeare Company / Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet), Natalie Simpson (Ophelia), Cyril Nri (Polonius), Clarence Smith (Claudius), Tanya Moodie, Hiran Ab [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 18/Nov/2016 ] ... an arresting, accessible and entertaining production, with a shooting star of a central performance." (The Stage ★★★★) |
RICHARD WAGNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wagner: Tannhauser (complete opera recorded in 2012) Robert Dean Smith, Nina Stemme, Marina Prudenskaya, Christian Gerhaher / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 14/Jan/2013 ] This is the 6th instalment of PentaTone's successful Wagner Edition. It is the first time in the recording history that a label records all major Wagner opera's with the same orchestra, choir and conductor. This makes the PentaTone Wagner Edition a... |
Sam Smith
Gloria [ Capitol / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] |
Sam Smith
In The Lonely Hour [ Capitol Records / CD - released 23/May/2014 ] 'In The Lonely Hour' is BRIT and BBC Sound Poll winner Sam Smith's debut album. 'In The Lonely Hour' is a 10-track labour of love for Sam 'I said to myself, I don't want to have a genre. 'I wanted to take a risk'. In the course of putting it... |
