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Avalanche City
We Are For The Wild Places [ Warner Music Australia / CD - released 3/Jul/2015 ] Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Avalanche City is the musical moniker of Dave Baxter, whose debut single Love, Love, Love was propelled into radio mainstay back in 2011. While he spent two years travelling the world off the back of the breakout... |
City & Colour
A Pill For Loneliness [ Dine Alone Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] A Pill for Loneliness is produced by three-time Grammy-winning Jacquire King (Kings Of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse, Norah Jones) and mastered by Emily Lazar (Beck, Coldplay, Dolly Parton, The Chainsmokers), the first female mastering engineer to... |
GEORGES BIZET / GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: Symphony in C / Faure: Pavane (with works by Ibert & Ravel) City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/1989 ] Original recording from the Henry Wood Hall, February 1988 |
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. |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: In Years Defaced / Prelude Op 25 / Romance Op 11 / Concerto for Small Orchestra John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Tasmin Little (violin) / City of London Sinfonia, Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/2001 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE: Editor's Choice (May 2001) |
CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
This is Alkan John Wells (organ St Matthews-in-the-city) [ Ribbonwood / CD - released 15/Sep/2001 ] 'An excellent new recording' (The Diapason, USA) |
Spike Jones & his City Slickers
'Mis-taken Music' [ Alto / Take: 2 / CD - released 12/Sep/2015 ] Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 - May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuate |
CHARLES Villiers STANFORD
Stanford: Requiem Carolyn Sampson, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, James Way, Ross Ramgobin / University of Birmingham Voices, City of Birmingham Symphony, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Jun/2023 ] "Brabbins, who truly understands the language of this music, judges the tempos and balance of the ensemble with instinctive sensitivity...For anyone interested in British choral music of the period, it is a must!" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2023 |
FRANZ XAVER SCHARWENKA / EMIL von SAUER
Scharwenka/Sauer: Piano Concertos Stephen Hough (piano) City of Birmingham Symphony / Lawrence Foster [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 11 / CD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE / CRITICS' CHOICE |
GUSTAV MAHLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' Arleen Auger, Janet Baker / City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI Classics Great Recordings of the Century / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/1987 ] 100 Classical Music Recordings You Must Own (ClassicFM) |
Avalanche City
My Babylon [ The Guacamole Farm / CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] Respected Kiwi singer and songwriter, Avalanche City (AKA Dave Baxter), returns with his first new album in three years, My Babylon. The new album presents a less folky and more moody Avalanche City than we've heard before. That's probably a... |
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
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mahler: Symphony No 10 (with Brahms/Schoenberg: Piano Quartet No 1) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 5/May/1985 ] Simon Rattle has performed the 10th more times than any other conductor. In many ways it's become his signature work. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
O Praise the Lord of Heaven: Music of rejoicing and reflection The Cambridge Singers & City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] |
JOHN RUTTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rutter: Requiem / I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes The Cambridge Singers, The City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Oboe Concertos Nos.1-3 / Air & Rondo / etc Anthony Camden (oboe) / City of London Sinfonia, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Oct/1996 ] "First-rate sound from All Saints, East Finchley." Penguin Guide |
GORDON SHI-WEN CHIN
Chin: Double Concerto / Formosa Seasons Cho-Liang Lin (violin) / Felix Fan (cello) / Kansas City Symphony Orchestra / Michael Stern [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "Formosa Seasons" is based on a series of Haiku-like poems, and is dedicated to the celebrated Taiwanese-American violinist Cho-Liang Lin. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies 1 & 4, Volume 3 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] "Album of the Weekend" ClassicFM |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert - Symphonies, Volume 2 [Symphonies Nos 2 & 6, etc] City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] "I think it is safe to say these Schubert performances are excellent, and I would be surprised if you could do significantly better with any others. Highest recommendation!" MusicWeb recommended |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ EMI / CD - released 30/Sep/1986 ] Shostakovich's triumphant Symphony No. 10 is a work of liberatory spirit, performed here by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. |
