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ALMA DEUTSCHER
Deutscher: Cinderella (complete recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Opera San Jose / Vanessa Becerra, Jonas Hacker, Nathan Stark, Karin Mushegain / Jane Glover (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 18/Dec/2018 ] "As a dramatic construct, the opera's a marvel for one so young...Deutscher starts with two gifts on her side: natural talent (I'll avoid the word genius) and sincerity. Cinderella may be pastiche, but at the same time nothing is fake." BBC Music |
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JOHN KANDER / FRED EBB
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kander/Ebb: Kiss of the Spider Woman - The musical Vanessa Williams & Howard McGillin / New 1994 Broadway Cast Recording [ Mercury / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with the book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña. Directed by Harold Prince, the musical had runs in the West End (1992)... |
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Vanessa-Mae
The Ultimate Vanessa-Mae [ EMI Music / CD - released 8/Sep/2003 ] 14-track budget compilation from the teenage virtuoso violinist |
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BARBARA
Barbara Alexandre Tharaud (piano) with with Juliette Binoche, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, Radio Elvis, Bénabar, Juliette, Dominique A, Tim Dup, Jean-Louis A [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2019 ] "As usual, Tharaud confounds expectations and the two discs here, each of which is actually a self-contained album, approach Barbara's music in very different ways." Gramophone |
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FERSINANDO PAER
Il Santo Sepolero (oratorio) Cornelia Horak, Miriam Clark, Vanessa Barkowski, Valer Barna-Sabadus / Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] Together with Johann Simon Mayr, Ferdinando Paër counts as one of the most important opera composers of his day, and he was unable to resist filling his oratorio on Christ's Passion, Il Santo Sepolcro with expressive extremes. Pain and grief contrast... |
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LOEILLET
Recorder Sonatas Daniel Rothert (recorder) / Ketil Haugsand (harpsichord) / Vanessa Young (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] |
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Ella Mae Morse
The Morse Code - 50 Classic Original Recordings [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2005 ] This 50 track 2CD set from Jasmine (What great value for money), includes such hits as The Blacksmith Blues, Patty Cake Man, Cow Cow Boogie and other great toe tapping, finger snapping, booty shaking music... |
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Nigl, Georg / Wagner, Vanessa
Dusapin, Pascal - O Mensch! [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
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Mae West
I'm No Angel [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Oct/1996 ] "It's not what I do, but how I do it. It ain't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it". |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Brockes Passion Robert Sellier, Vanessa Waldhart, Yulia Sokolik, Romelia Lichtenstein, Michael Zehe / Oper Halle Chorus, Handelfestspielorchester Halle, Michael Hofst [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Barthold Heinrich Brockes was an influential German poet who added reflective and descriptive poetry into the texture of his Passion. Among several musical settings, the most famous is the one by Handel. |