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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kissing Her Hair - Twenty early songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Roderick Williams (baritone) Sarah Fox (soprano) Andrew Staples (tenor) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Albion / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] The twenty songs on this CD were composed over 30 years and demonstrate in the early songs of 1895 and 1896 a remarkable assurance. They show that Vaughan Williams was aware of the beauty and musical quality of lyric poetry in his early twenties. |
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Pops Staples
Don't Lose This [ CD - released 13/Feb/2015 ] Pops Staples, patriarch of the iconic Staple Singers, died in 2000. In 1999, he recorded his final tracks. Fifteen years later, daughter Mavis Staples teamed up with her collaborative partner Jeff Tweedy (who produced her albums You Are Not Alone and... |
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The Staples
Family Tree [ ADA / Warner / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] While Curtis Mayfield produced Let's Do It Again and 1976's Pass It On, The Staples switched it up on 1977's Family Tree, opting to work with another Chicago-based producer Eugene Record who had experienced his own chart success co-writing and... |
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Mavis Staples
If All I Was Was Black [ Anti / CD - released 17/Nov/2017 ] Mavis Staples has again joined forces with songwriter-producer Jeff Tweedy for a new album entitled If All I Was Was Black. The history Mavis recalls from her early years touring with her family as The Staple Singers, the prejudice, ugliness and... |
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Mavis Staples
One True Vine [ Anti / CD - released 28/Jun/2013 ] |
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Mavis Staples
One True Vine (LP) [ Anti / LP - released 28/Jun/2013 ] Coming off the huge success of her first collaboration with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy the Grammy winning You Are Not Alone Mavis Staples wanted to make their second album together both a continuation of the joyous spirit of the first, and an... |
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Mavis Staples
Sad And Beautiful World (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 7/Nov/2025 ] |
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Mavis Staples
We Get By [ Epitaph / CD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] 2019 release. Mavis Staples returns with a studio album produced and written by Ben Harper. Backed by Mavis' critically acclaimed live band, We Get By features 10 songs of longing, strength, and spirituality, presented with simplicity, grit and... |
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Mavis Staples
We Get By (LP) [ Epitaph / LP - released 24/May/2019 ] Mavis Staples returns with a brand new studio album produced and written by Ben Harper. Backed by Mavis' critically acclaimed live band, We Get By features 10 songs of longing, strength, and spirituality, presented with simplicity, grit and... |
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Mavis Staples
Your Good Fortune [ Anti- / CD - released 21/Apr/2015 ] |
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The Staples
Pass It On [ ADA / Warner / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Rock & Roll and Gospel Hall of Fame inductees, The Staple Singers are an American musical treasure. In the '50s they were among the greatest of the post-war gospel groups. The '60s found them... |
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Vince Staples
Ramona Park Broke My Heart (LP) [ Motown / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Esteemed hip-hop artist Vince Staples follows up his intimate self-titled album with RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART. "There's a direct correlation," Staples says of the two records. "They were kind of created at the same time. I was in a similar state... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete oratorio) Lucy Crowe, Andrew Staples, Tim Mead, Christopher Purves / Le Concert d'Astrae, Emmanuelle Haim [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2014 ] "..the fusion of dramatic mood, orchestral texture and an inspired soloist often pays off handsomely." Gramophone |
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Mavis Staples
Don't Change Me Now [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Les Illuminations, Serenade, Nocturne Andrew Staples, Christopher Parks, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] In these three song cycles, Britten draws his inspiration from the peaks of European poetry (Shakespeare, Blake, Shelley, Keats, but also Rimbaud), the better to push back the boundaries of the genre. He multiplies the relationship between voices and... |
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ELGAR
The Apostles (complete oratorio) Anna Leese (sop) Louise Poole (mezzo) Andrew Staples (ten) Colin Campbell (bar) / Canterbury Choral Society / Philharmonia Orchestra / Richard Cooke [ Quartz / 2 CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] Elgar embarked seriously on The Apostles in 1902 and the first performance took place in October of the following year at the Birmingham Festival conducted by Hans Richter. |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust, WoO 3 [recorded in 2013] Christiane Karg, Mari Eriksmoen, Bernarda Fink, Andrew Staples, Christian Gerhaher / Chor & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Hardi [ BR Klassik / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Ever since his debut in 2005 with Berg's "Wozzeck" (concertante) with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding has regularly attracted public attention with spectacular concerts. With the "Faust Scenes" by Robert Schumann -... |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas / Dona Nobis Pacem Christina Pier (soprano) Matthew Brook (baritone) Andrew Staples (tenor) / Winchester Cathedral Choristers / Winchester College Quiristers [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] "These performances under David Hill are fine, responsive to the beauty and the terror" Gramophone Awards 2010: Finalist - Choral |
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SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: The Music Makers / The Spirit of England Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (solo tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Nov/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Choral |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah [New Concert Edition by Sir Andrew Davis] Erin Wall, Elizabeth DeShong, Andrew Staples, John Relyea / Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jan/2017 ] "A performance I will return to often and with great pleasure." MusicWeb International, 13th December 2016 |