Booker T & The MGs Meet The Mar-Keys
Memphis Soul Beat [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 17/Jun/2013 ] Featured over these two CDs is the first flowering of the 'Stax' sound, a sound that would develop throughout the '60s to become one of the most predominant sounds of American R&B and soul around the world. Included are three complete albums, two... |
FREDERICK DELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring & other Delius favourites Bournemouth Sinfonia, Norman del Mar [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 21/Jul/1990 ] Originally recorded in 1977 |
Mar De Grises
Streams Inwards [ Season of Mist / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] De Grises hails from Chile and performs a complex mixture of Doom Metal, Progressive and Post Rock elements. |
WALTON / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / HOLST / DELIUS / ELGAR / etc
Great British Orchestral Classics (Incls 'Nimrod' from 'Enigma' Variations by Elgar, Tintagel by Bax & Summer Night on the River by Delius) Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Neville Marriner / City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox / Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Norman Del Mar / etc [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2005 ] Chandos is famous for its recordings of British music and this 2-CD set, available for the price of one full-price disc, is a compilation of some of its finest and most popular recordings. |
ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Wolf-Ferrari: Das Himmelskleid ('The Garment of Heaven') (complete opera) Angelina Ruzzafante, Anna-Maria Dur, Sibrand Basa, Reinhard Leisenheimer, Peer-Martin Sturm / Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra & Opera Chorus, Gerhard Mar [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is best known for his comic operas. With this reputation established, the appearance of Das Himmelskleid in 1927, with its 'symbolical twilight world… that rises musically to religious greatness and a world of dreams' was a... |
PETER RACINE FRICKER / DAVID MORGAN / DON BANKS
Violin Concertos Yfrah Neaman (violin) Erich Gruenberg (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Norman Del Mar / Vernon Handley [ Lyrita / CD - released 20/Mar/2008 ] New recording |
Blu Mar Ten
Natural History [ Blu Mar Ten / CD - released 5/Nov/2009 ] |
Booker T & The Mg's/The Mar-Ke
Green Onions/Last Night & Do T [ Not Now / 2 CD - released 11/Feb/2013 ] |
FRANK BRIDGE
Summer / There is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook / Suite for String Orchestra (with works by Butterworth & Bantock) Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Norman Del Mar [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/1991 ] British Music For Small Orchestra |
Cafa Del Mar / Various Artists
Cafa Del Mar: Rue De Soliel - Emotions [ Cafa Del Mar / CD - released 21/Jul/2008 ] |
Cafa Del Mar / Various Artists
Cafa Del Mar: The Best Of Aria [ Cafa Del Mar / CD - released 21/Jul/2008 ] |
TCHAIKOVSKY / BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 / Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77 (Rec 1960/61) David Oistrakh (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Norman Del Mar; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ BBC Legends / CD - released 7/Jan/2004 ] "The big tone, the generous gestures, the energy and the poetry, all are here, plus an extra shot of 'live' adrenalin" Gramophone |
LENNOX BERKELEY
Piano Concerto in B flat / Concerto for Two Pianos David Wilde (piano) / New Philharmonia / Nicholas Braithwaite / Garth Beckett & Boyd McDonald (pianos) / London Philharmonic / Norman Del Mar [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "The recording is superb. The performance seems to me to bring out the best of the music...although these pieces may not be for those of you unfamiliar as yet with Lennox Berkeley, for those of you looking to add these pieces to your library then do... |
El Perro Del Mar
El Perro Del Mar [ Rogue Records / CD - released 7/Feb/2007 ] El Perro Del Mar is a unique Swedish siren, bridging a warmth and depth of humanity with an ice-cool delivery. This NZ / Australian edition of her debut artist album is packed with an extra 4 bonus tracks! |
El Perro Del Mar
El Perro Del Mar [U.S. Import with Bonus Track] [ The Control Group / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] With a voice that wavers between Jane Birkin's and Neil Young's, Swede Sarah Assbring, or El Perro del Mar as she calls herself, writes of hope and loneliness, sometimes at the same time. |
El Perro Del Mar
From the Valley to the Stars [ Rogue Records / CD - released 23/Jun/2008 ] Recorded and produced at home by Sarah Assbring with assistance from members of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, this album creates its own universe. "A magical trip to the centre of heartache." |
El Perro Del Mar
Love is Not Pop [ Rogue Records / CD - released 28/Sep/2009 ] |
TRADITIONAL
Lux Emma Ahlberg Ek (five stringed violin), Emilia Amper (nyckelharpa, vocals), Fredrik Gille (percussion), Olle Linder (double bass, vocals), Bridget Mar [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] In 2012, Emilia Amper's solo début disc Trollfågeln ('The Magic Bird', BIS-2013) was a revelation. Not only to those who had never before heard the silvery sound of the nyckelharpa ('keyed fiddle'), but also for the way Emilia on it combined her... |
NICHOLAS MAW
Sinfonia (with music for Brass ensemble) English Chamber Orchestra / Norman Del Mar, conductor / Philip Jones Brass Ensemble [ Lyrita / CD - released 24/May/2008 ] Born on 5 November 1935 in Grantham, Nicholas Maw studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1955 to 1958 with Lennox Berkeley and Paul Steinitz, and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Max Deutsch. Despite the merits of such early works as Nocturne... |
CONSTANT LAMBERT
Pomona / Music for Orchestra / Romeo and Juliet / King Pest English Chamber Orchestra, Norman Del Mar / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Joly [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Constant Lambert was a man of outstandingly wide cultural range, a man as well-informed about painting and literature as about music. For this reason his contribution to the development of what is now the Royal Ballet proved invaluable.A triumvirate... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Spanish Music of the Golden Age The Extempore String Ensemble with Maria del Mar Fernandez Doval, soprano [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 5/Oct/2002 ] 'Huge fun. Unusually captivating' (Gramophone) |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Essential Vaughan Williams [Incls 'Flos campi', 'Suite for viola and orchestra' & 'Serenade to Music'] Frederick Riddle (viola) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta & Chorus, George Hurst, Norman Del Mar [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/1999 ] "A resplendent if rather idiosyncratic collection with plenty of surprises and not a few discoveries." (MusicWeb Sept 04) |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: 'Enigma' Variations / Pomp and Circumstance Marches / Three Bavarian Dances / etc Leon Goossens (oboe) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Norman Del Mar, George Hurst / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/1999 ] "A great bargain and highly recommended." (MusicWeb) |
LENNOX BERKELEY
Symphony No. 1 Op. 16 / Symphony No. 2 Op. 51 London Philharmonic Orchestra / Norman Del Mar, Nicholas Braithwaite (conductors) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "These are fine and handsomely recorded performances" (MusicWeb June 2007) |
ALUN HODDINOTT
Symphony No.2 / Symphony No.3 / Symphony No.5 London Symphony Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Norman Del Mar / David Atherton / Andrew Davis [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "Alun Hoddinott is one of the best and most resourceful of living British symphonists, and the return to the catalogue of three demonstrations of that fact is welcome. … these symphonies are more than ‘resourceful’, more than examples of formal... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro], K492 (recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2015) BLU-RAY Luca Pisaroni, Anett Fritsch, Martina Janková, Adam Plachetka, Mar / Wiener Philharmoniker, Dan Ettinger [ EuroArts / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 22/Sep/2016 ] "Everything about the show exuded immediacy and naturalness: the intriguingly updated production by the director Sven-Eric Bechtolf; the winning performances of a compelling cast; and the supple, glowing playing that the conductor drew from the VPO" |
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Violin Concerto / Lonely Waters / Whythorne's Shadow / Cello Concerto Lydia Mordkovitch (violin) Raphael Wallfisch / Ulster Orchestra / Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Vernon Handley; Norman Del Mar [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] 'The Cello Concerto was written for Peers Coetmore who was to become his wife. Raphael Wallfischs playing makes the neglect of this glorious piece all the more astonishing.' Gramophone |
The Mar-Keys
Damifiknow/Memphis Experience [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
ARNOLD BAX
Symphony No. 6 / Irish Landscape / Overtures New Philharmonia Orchestra, Norman Del Mar / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "Bax’s violent and phantasmal Sixth Symphony is the central work here and is also essential Bax in performance and recording terms...The Del Mar/Lyrita Bax 6 is violent and phantasmal - essential Bax in performance and recording terms. The other... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto / In The South / Elegy for Strings Robert Cohen (cello) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Norma del Mar [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 1/Nov/1980 ] Recorded in the Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London - January 1980 & January 1978 |
ELGAR
Wand of Youth Suites / Nursery Suite / Dream Children Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson / Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Norman Del Mar [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 22/May/2007 ] 'The playing in Ulster is attractively spirited; the music-making engagingly combines refinement and warmth. The Nursery Suite is strikingly well characterised, and with first-class digital sound this is highly recommendable.' Penguin Guide |
BACH / HANDEL / ALBINONI / VIVALDI
Best of Baroque (including the Four Seasons & The Water Music) Various Artists incl Henryk Szeryng, Heinz Holliger, I Musici, Academy of St Mar [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] A specially priced double CD |
Various Artists / Mixed by Pedro del Mar
Mellomania 21 [ Black Hole Recordings / 2 CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] |