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Brian Wilson And Van Dyke Parks
Orange Crate Art (Double LP) [ ADA / Warner / 2 LP - released 19/Jun/2020 ] In 1966, when Brian Wilson prepared the follow up to his masterpiece Pet Sounds, he employed the services of Mississippi born Van Dyke Parks as lyricist for The Beach Boys next album, SMiLE. As history would soon document, SMiLE became the most... |
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VARIOUS
David Garrett - Iconic David Garrett (violin), Franck van der Heijden, orchestra the Prezent [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 9/Dec/2022 ] The inspiration behind this album was the golden age of the star violinist. Players such as Heifetz, Kreisler, Francescatti, Grumiaux and, of course, the great Yehudi Menuhin are all idols of mine, and that's why I chose the title Iconic" - David... |
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Gaby Moreno And Van Dyke Parks
¡Spangled! (LP) [ Nonesuch / Warner / LP - released 4/Oct/2019 ] ¡Spangled! is a collaboration between Guatemalan-born singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno and American musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer Van Dyke Parks. The ten-song set celebrates the migration of song across the Americas and spans more than... |
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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Piano Music (LP) Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / LP - released 19/Jan/2024 ] The LP version of a highly successful CD issue of the complete piano music by John Adams (born 1947). "Minimalism, but not as you know it", thus described The Guardian the John Adams' music. John Adams is active in almost every musical genre,... |
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Sharon Van Etten
Are We There [ Jagaguwar / CD - released 23/May/2014 ] Stunning Brooklyn-based songstress Sharon Van Etten follows up her third and breakthrough album - 2012's Tramp with an equally heartbreakingly beautiful release Are We There. Sharon sings heartbreaking and heartfelt songs that are intensely... |
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Sharon Van Etten
epic Ten [ Ba Da Bing / 2 CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] "epic represents a crossroads for me as an artist. Going from intern to artist at Ba Da Bing, from solo folk singer to playing with a band for the first time and beginning to play shows on tour where people showed up. I am in awe of the artists who... |
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Sharon van Etten
I Don't Want to Let You Down (EP) [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 5/Jun/2015 ] Sharon Van Etten has never needed much room to make a grand statement. With four albums diligently released during the last six years, she's become one of music's most astute new cartographers of the heart, able to capture emotional trials and... |
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Sharon Van Etten
Remind Me Tomorrow [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Sharon Van Etten's Remind Me Tomorrow comes four years after Are We There, and reckons with the life that gets lived when you put off the small and inevitable maintenance in favor of something more present. Throughout Remind Me Tomorrow, Sharon Van... |
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Sharon Van Etten
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 7/Feb/2025 ] From the off, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is sonically different from Van Etten's previous work. Writing and recording in total collaboration with her band for the first time, Van Etten finds the freedom that comes by letting go. The... |
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Sharon Van Etten
We've Been Going About This All Wrong [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 6/May/2022 ] Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, We've Been Going About This All Wrong, concerns itself with how we feel, mourn, and reclaim our agency when we think the... |
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Sharon Van Etten
We've Been Going About This All Wrong (Deluxe 2LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, We've Been Going About This All Wrong, concerns itself with how we feel, mourn, and reclaim our agency when we think the... |
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Sharon Van Etten
We've Been Going About This All Wrong (LP) [ Jagjaguwar / LP - released 6/May/2022 ] Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, We've Been Going About This All Wrong, concerns itself with how we feel, mourn, and reclaim our agency when we think the... |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Siegfried (complete opera recorded 2017) Simon O'Neill, Matthias Goerne, David Cangelosi, Heidi Melton, Werner van Mechelen / Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos / 4 CD Box Set - released 2/Nov/2017 ] "New Zealand tenor Simon O'Neill is surely the Siegfried for our generation." MusicWeb |
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BEETHOVEN / RIES / PUNTO / DANZI
Horn and Piano: A Cor Basse Recital Teunis van der Zwart (horn), Alexander Melnikov (paino) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] "van der Zwart exploits the disruptive contrasts between registers, and between stopped and open notes, as vividly as I've ever heard...A winner, and not only for horn fanciers." Gramophone Editor's Choice March 2022 |
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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 5 (Incls Barbar, the little Elephant) Francois Mouzaya (narrator), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Laurent Lefevre (bassoon), Stephane Logerot (double bass), Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] "The narrators are two gifted children, the pianist Alezandre Tharaud, whose acute playing has sparked the series." Turok's Choice |
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Thijs Van Leer
Collections [ Music on CD / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] If you are a big fan of the Dutch band Focus, you might be intrigued by the solo work of band-member keyboardist and virtuoso on the flute Thijs van Leer. The album includes musical references to Bach in some numbers, and shows of Van Leer's... |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Van Cliburn Van Cliburn (piano) / RCA Symphony Orchestra, Symphony of the Air, Kirill Kondrashin [ Philips / BMG/RCA / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (July 12, 1934 - February 27, 2013) was an American pianist. At the age of 23, Cliburn achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War |
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Van Halen
1984 (LP) [ Warner Bros. / LP - released 26/Sep/2011 ] 30th Anniversary reissue of the classic Van Halen album on 180g Vinyl At the time of its release, much of the fuss surrounding 1984 involved Van Halen's adoption of synthesizers on this, their sixth album -- a hoopla that was a bit of a red... |
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Van Halen
Balance (Expanded Edition) [ Rhino / 2 CD - released 15/Aug/2025 ] Originally released in 1995, Balance marked the final studio album from the classic Van Halen lineup of Sammy Hagar, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony. The Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum record debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200... |