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Bar Italia
Some Like It Hot [ Matador / CD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] Some Like It Hot is the new album by London three-piece bar italia. It pulses with romance, intrigue, self-discovery and rapture over lustful rockers, spellbinding folk pop, punch-drunk ballads and undefinable moments that sneak up on you like a... |
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Bar Italia
Some Like It Hot (LP) [ Matador / LP - released 17/Oct/2025 ] Some Like It Hot is the new album by London three-piece bar italia. It pulses with romance, intrigue, self-discovery and rapture over lustful rockers, spellbinding folk pop, punch-drunk ballads and undefinable moments that sneak up on you like a... |
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Bar Italia
The Twits (Indie Exclusive LP) [ Matador / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] 'The Twits' was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia's economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally... |
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Bar Italia
The Twits (LP) [ Matador / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] 'The Twits' was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia's economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally... |
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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 |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette / Cléopâtre Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Cyrille Dubois (ten), Christopher Maltman (bar) / Coro Gulbenkian, Chœur de l'OnR, Philharmonique de Strasbourg, John Nelson [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] "What makes Hector Berlioz such a great composer?", asks conductor John Nelson. "In one word, originality ... He broke all existing traditions of orchestration, structure, harmonic language and storytelling. Even today, his music is fresh, surprising... |
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BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / WOLF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Olaf Bar - Lieder Recital Olaf Bar (baritone) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ EMI Red Line / CD - released 15/Oct/1998 ] "..Bar has already won himself an altogether enviable reputation as an interpreter of Lieder.." Gramophone |
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JAN DISMAS ZELENKA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Zelenka: Missa Dei Patris, Psalms & Capriccio's Peter Schreier (tenor), Olaf Bär (baritone), René Jacobs (alto) & Ludwig Güttler (corno da caccia, trumpet & conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2013 ] "Zelenka was one of Bach's and Telemann's most musically colourful contemporaries." (Gramophone) |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Complete Songs: An 1815 Schubertiad (II) Simon Keenlyside (bar), Patricia Rozario (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley (ten), Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Graham Johnson (p [ Hyperion Complete Schubert Edition Vol 22 / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] 'This is an archive of glorious Lieder singing as much as it is a definitive treasury of the greatest Lieder ever composed' (The Guardian). |
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MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ravel: Chamber Music [Musique de chambre] Christian Ferras (violin) Pierre Barbizet (piano) Gerard Jarry (violin) Georges Pludermacher (piano) Michel Toumus (cello) Jean-Christophe Benoit (bar [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/1991 ] "... the performances are supple, soulful, and sensitive but ever so slightly ironic....one could not wish for performances that believe more deeply in the worth of the music. And, for that, listeners must all be grateful." James Leonard |