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FERENC ERKEL
Hunyadi László Beatrix Fodor, Dániel Pataky, Attila Fekete / Honvéd Male Choir, Budapest Studio Choir & Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Domonkos Héja [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] Ferenc Erkel was one of the foremost romantic composers of Hungary, one might be tempted to call him the Hungarian Verdi. His operas were based on the rich, long and troublesome history of his home country and are the first to be written in Hungarian |
MOZART / MONTEVERDI / SCARLATTI / MASCAGNI
London Recordings (1947-1949) Beniamino Gigli (Tenor) / Studio orchestra / Rainaldo Zamboni (Conductor) / Vito Carnevali (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Gigli Edition Vol 13 / CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] "With good sound, excellent transfers, insightful notes, as usual, from Alan Blyth and discographical details a model of their kind this is another worthy addition to the series. Gigli completists will need it but so will anyone interested in good... |
Bill Withers Studio Rio
Lovely Day Versions 7" [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Mr Bongo proudly presents a reissue of this brilliant, bossa-channelling Bill Withers reinterpretation from Studio Rio's 2014 release 'The Brazil Connection'. Masterminded by the German Grammy award-winning Berman Brothers, the project was born out... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Troubadours, Trouveres, Minstrels Studio der Frühen Musik, Thomas Binkley [ Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 2 CD - released 5/May/2008 ] "The Studio's cult mezzo Andrea von Ramm and lutenist-director Binkley still chill the blood in the lament of a pilgrim captured by Saracens, just one highlight of this classic, bold imaginative survey." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
Elisabeth Schumann (soprano) / Studio orchestra
Early Recordings (1915-1923) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "One can savour the beauty of Schumann’s tone unimpeded. A fine collection of a soprano at the start of an auspicious career" (MusicWeb March 2006) |
BRAHMS / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN
Elisabeth Schumann: Lieder Vol 2 Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) Studio orchestra / Walter Goehr (Conductor) / Leo Rosenek (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] Apart from the last eleven Brahms songs on this disc, all the items on this disc were made when Elisabeth Schumann was a member of the Vienna State Opera, the happiest, and in operatic terms, the most successful time of her career. |
EDVARD GRIEG / FREDERIC CHOPIN
Grieg: Piano Concerto, Op. 16 / Chopin: Sonata in B-Flat Minor Ignaz Freidman (piano) / Studio orchestra, Philippe Gaubert [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 30/Sep/2002 ] Until 1914 Friedman lived in Berlin but during World War I he lived in Copenhagen and after the war resided in Italy. Friedman's first visit to America was in 1920 and in April 1923 he made his first records for American Columbia. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Neapolitan Songs (Recorded 1953-1957) Giuseppe Di Stefano / Studio orchestra conducted by Dino Olivieri [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] One of the most charismatic stars of the post-war operatic stage, the Italian tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano made numerous recordings, and was especially renowned as the performing partner of the equally fiery soprano, Maria Callas. Having earned a... |
LAURENT PETITGIRARD
Petitgirard: Little Prince Mari Lili-Laurila / Budapest Studio Choir, Honvéd Male Choir & Solistes du Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Budapest, Laurent Petitgirard [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] The prize-winning French composer Laurent Petitgirard has earned acclaim for the unusually personal power of his theatrical imagination. |
MASSENET / TOSTI / VERDI / SCHUBERT / BACH-GOUNOD
John McCormack Edition Vol. 4: The Acoustic Recordings (1913-14) John McCormack / Studio Orchestra [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] With its focus on Irish songs and Victorian ballads, Volume 4 of the Naxos McCormack Edition completes the tenor’s 1913 recordings. McCormack could be very good in opera, but he was supreme in the world of song |
AITKEN / STERNDALE BENNETT / HERBERT / BIZET
John McCormack:The Acoustic Recordings (1912-1913) John McCormack (Tenor) with Louise Kirkby-Lunn (Mezzo-soprano), Victor Orchestra / Studio orchestra / Percy Pitt (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Naxos The McCormack Edition Vol 3 / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] This volume of recordings continues to document the earliest years of McCormack's success in the United States, the titles indicating his greatly increased concert work. |
AMBROSE FIELD
Being Dufay John Potter (tenor) / Ambrose Field (live and studio electronics) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] British tenor John Potter and fellow countryman Ambrose Field, composer of electronic/digital music, offer a striking juxtaposition of Renaissance music and present-day technology: In seven interconnected pieces, vocal fragments from the songs and... |
PUCCINI / VERDI / PONCHIELLI / MEYERBEER / GOUNOD / GIORDANO / etc
Jussi: Bjorling Collection, Vol. 3: Opera Arias and Duets (1936-1944) Jussi Bjorling, tenor, with Studio orchestra, Nils Grevillius, conductor [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 1/Oct/2008 ] "He didn't have the enjoyable finesse of certain other masters of phrasing, but a noble sensuality that gave the Italian-French repertoire a "fashioned elegance". He originated from the Scandinavian tradition, which - a generation later - Nicolai... |
LIOR ROSNER
Awake and Dream Katia Popov (violin) Janai Brugger (soprano) Lior Rosner (piano) / Hollywood Studio Orchestra, Lior Rosner [ Bridge / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] Lior Rosner divides his time between the creation of concert music and composing for film, television and other media. Recent credits include the score for the upcoming film "The Geography Club", the popular video game "Assassin's Creed 3", the film... |
MENDELSSOHN
Choral Works Kloster Bronnbach, Wertheim, Germany / Studio der Warttembergischen Philharmonie, Reutlingen, Germany [ Brilliant Classics SACD / SACD - released 16/Aug/2005 ] "A great introduction to the choral works of Mendelssohn and wonderfully performed too." (MusicWeb May 2004) |
MICHEL LEGRAND
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Woman) Natalie Dessay (soprano), London Studio Orchestra, Michel Legrand [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/Dec/2017 ] Sony Classical presents Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, a truly unique album from the stunning Natalie Dessay alongside Michel Legrand and the London Studio Orchestra. Composed by multi-award-winning artist Michel Legrand and written by American... |
Nellie Melba (soprano) with Enrico Caruso, tenor, Charles Gilibert, baritone, Studio Orchestra / Walter B. Rogers, conductor
Nellie Melba: American Recordings, Vol. 1 (1907) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "A representative collection of Melba is more of a necessity than a luxury and admirers should have these 1907 sessions in their collection." (MusicWeb March 2005) |
VERDI / BRAHMS / SHELLEY
Rosa Ponselle - American Recordings, Vol. 1 (1923-1929) Rosa Ponselle / Studio orchestra / Rosario Bourdon (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] "She was called "the voice of the century". And with the opening notes of Aida's "O patria mia", heard full and clear through the crackle and needle-hiss of the 1923 recording, you realise why. Not only the voice itself, rich and seamless throughout... |
Studio
West Coast [ Information Records / CD - released 23/Jul/2007 ] Studio is the missing link between The Cure and Lindström touching on Can, Neu, Happy Mondays and The Smiths in their creation of an afrobeat / dub / disco / indie / pop adventure! |
Studio
Yearbook 2 [ Information Music / CD - released 3/Sep/2008 ] Following the critically acclaimed 'West Coast' album, 'Yearbook 2' is THE collection of Studio's celebrated balearic-dub-disco remixes of Kylie etc. "Absolutely love it!"-Kylie. "Brilliant rework of Rubies by our favourite Swedes... |
