More By Artist: The Music
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MONTEVERDI / LEGRENZI / BORETTI / STRADELLA / MERULA
Infinite Refrain - Music of Love's Refuge Randall Scotting (counter-tenor), Jorge Navarro Colorado (tenor), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings [ Signum / CD - released 27/Oct/2023 ] The first of its kind, this duet album is a musical journey that draws back the curtain that has obscured gay love-stories for centuries. |
LUDWIG DASER
Daser: Polyphonic Masses Huelgas-Ensemble (early music ensemble) Paul Van Nevel [ Deutche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] "this larger ensemble creates a rich, wellbalanced sound which at times I found attractively wistful...I'm already looking forward to the next volume." Gramophone Award WINNER 2023 - Early Music |
Sam Corkin (saxophones), Choir of Canterbury Cathedral, David Newsholme (director of music), Jamie Rogers (organ)
Palimpsest: New Works from Old for Saxophone and Choir [ Signum / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] This album marks the culmination of a landmark project to re-imagine new works from old for saxophone, choir and organ. Celebrated saxophonist Sam Corkin is joined by Canterbury Cathedral Choir to bring a fresh perspective to some well-loved... |
The Music Man
Robert Preston & Shirley Jones [ Movie Musicals DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] The Music Man is a 1962 American musical film directed and produced by Morton DaCosta, based on Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which DaCosta also directed. Robert Preston reprises the title role from the stage version,... |
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Vincent Dumestre
Mon amant de Saint-Jean [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stephanie d'Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean, their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a... |
Hesperion XXI (early music ensemble), Jordi Savall (viola da gamba)
Oriente Lux [ Alia Vox / 2 CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] Over the last 15 years, Jordi Savall has been exploring the links between Western and Eastern repertoires because he regards this work as a way to develop a better mutual understanding. In this new album, Hespèrion XXI plays alongside the ensemble... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Serse The English Concert (early music ensemble), William Dazeley, Paula Murrihy, Emily D'Angelo, Lucy Crowe, The English Concert and Harry Bicket [ Linn Records / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Jun/2023 ] "The superb cast is led by Emily D'Angelo, whose opening aria - beautifully controlled and rich in tone - will not disappoint...this new Serse is surely one of the most charismatic recordings now available." Gramophone Recording of the Month July 23 |
FRYDERYK CHOPIN
Great Composers in Words and Music: Fryderyk Chopin Lucy Scott (narrator), with music from the vast Naxos catalogue [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] Polish by birth, Fryderyk Chopin made his name in post-Revolutionary Paris and is often depicted as the archetypal Romantic artist - blessed with extraordinary talent but consumed by the flame of genius, tormented by intense and tempestuous... |
Roxy Music
Flesh + Blood (Half-Speed Remaster LP) [ UMC / LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Flesh + Blood gave Roxy Music their second #1 album in the UK when it was released in May 1980. It was preceded by the single "Over You," a #5 UK hit that also provided the band with a rare entry on Billboard's Hot 100 at #80. Flesh + Blood also... |
Roxy Music
For Your Pleasure (Half-Speed Remaster Gatefold LP) [ UMC / LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] In 1973 Roxy Music followed up their debut with For Your Pleasure. This time, they were able to spend more time in the studio, resulting a more elaborate and experimental production. Brian Eno's blend of tape loops are apparent on "The Bogus Man",... |
Roxy Music
Siren (Half-Speed Remaster LP) [ UMC / LP - released 21/Oct/2022 ] Released in 1975, Siren produced the singles "Love Is the Drug" and "Both Ends Burning". Siren is a captivating offering from Roxy Music, which draws you in ever closer on each listen. Each Roxy Music album has been reissued with a fresh... |
JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse Le Concert Spirituel (early music ensemble); Hervé Niquet [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] In 1743, two years before Rameau's Platee, Boismortier created an extraordinarily modern and madcap "comic ballet", Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse. As the exuberant plot unfurls, Cervantes' hero encounters monsters, enchanters, princesses and people... |
Roxy Music
Avalon (Half-Speed Remaster LP) [ Virgin Records / LP - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Avalon, the final studio offering from Roxy Music, would draw upon a smoother, more adult orientated sound giving us the now iconic single 'More Than This'. Avalon would be yet another UK no'1 album staying there for more than three weeks and in the... |
Roxy Music
Manifesto (Half-Speed Remaster LP) [ Virgin Records / LP - released 23/Sep/2022 ] In the four years between 1975's 'Siren' and 1979's 'Manifesto' pop music had undergone a series of seismic shifts, with both disco and new wave threatening to cast into obsolescence many of Roxy Music's contemporaries. No such worries for Roxy,... |
Roxy Music
Roxy Music (Half-Speed Remaster, Gatefold LP) [ Virgin Records / LP - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Arriving seemingly perfectly formed from nowhere, Roxy Music's self-titled debut instantly propelled the band into the affections of both the music-buying public and the serious music press - no mean feat in 1972. Frontman Bryan Ferry's lyrical... |
Roxy Music
Stranded (Half-Speed Remaster Gatefold LP) [ Virgin Records / LP - released 23/Sep/2022 ] 'Stranded', the third long playing outing from Roxy Music, not only gave the band their first No. 1 album in the UK but was also the first to come to the wider attention of US audiences. An incredibly accomplished and consistent collection of... |
Roxy Music
The Best Of (Double Gatefold LP) [ UME / 2 LP - released 2/Sep/2022 ] The very first time an all-career-spanning Roxy Music collection has been made available on vinyl! Since their inception in 1972, multi-platinum Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Roxy Music have left an indelible mark on the worlds of music,... |
Roxy Music
Country Life (LP) [ Universal / LP - released 8/Jun/2022 ] The first Roxy album to break the US Top 40 demonstrated that, four records in, the band were at least as creative, audacious and pioneering as on their debut. Opening with the urgent, propulsive 'The Thrill Of It All', 'Country Life' embraces... |
HANDEL / GIBBONS / PARRY / WALTON / WESLEY / STANFORD / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - Music From the Official Record 2nd June 1953 Massed Trumpeters from the Royal Military School of Music, Coronation Choir, Coronation Orchestra, Dr. Osborne Harold Peasgood (organ) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] This recording of the BBC's broadcast of the coronation service from Westminster Abbey was taken by means of a direct line to Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood, London. |
JOHANN JOHANNSSON
Jóhannsson: Drone Mass (LP) Theatre of Voices, American Contemporary Music Ensemble, Paul Hillier [ Deutsche Grammophon / LP - released 20/May/2022 ] The previously unrecorded Drone Mass was described by its composer, the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, as "a contemporary oratorio". Written for voices, string quartet and electronics, it was commissioned and premiered by the American Contemporary Music... |
