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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete oratorio) Andreas Scholl, Barbara Schlick, Sandrine Piau, Mark Padmore, Nathan Berg / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] |
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FRANCIS POULENC
The Complete Songs Vol.4 Ann Murray, John Mark Ainsley, Magdalena Molendowska, Malcolm Martineau, etc. [ Signum / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] Composing over 150 works for piano and voice over a period of 44 years, the songs of Francis Poulenc remain consistently popular to concert audiences the world over. |
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ERIC BIDDINGTON
Southern Melodies (Including the Sonatina for treble recorder and piano & Sonatina for tenor saxophone and piano) Anthony Ferner (flute) / Mark Hobson (tenor saxophone) / Joanne Drimatis (violin) / Gretchen Dunsmore (clarinet) / Cathy Irons, Elen Rapoport (pianos) [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 18/Jan/2006 ] Eric Biddington was born in Timaru in October 1953. He received his schooling in Timaru and Christchurch. On leaving school he started work as a labourer and combined this with study at the University of Canterbury. |
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JOHN JOUBERT
Jane Eyre: An Opera In Two Acts April Fredrick, David Stout, English Symphony Orchestra, Gwion Thomas, Kenneth Woods, Mark Milhofer [ Somm / 2 CD - released 17/Mar/2017 ] With this new release SOMM pays an affectionate tribute to John Joubert who is turns 90 in March 2017. It also adds a veritable gem to the operatic catalogue: the world première of his 2-Act Opera Jane Eyre recorded live during a concert performance... |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Die Donner-Ode, TWV 6:3 / Deus judicium tuum Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Catherine Denley (contralto), Mark Tucker (tenor), Michael George (bass), Stephen Roberts (bass) / Collegium Musicum 90, Ri [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Oct/1993 ] Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Catherine Denley (contralto), Mark Tucker (tenor), Michael George (bass), Stephen Roberts (bass) |
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GRIEG
Peer Gynt Suites / Lyric Pieces Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Ermler / Håkon Austbø (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] The composer Edvard Grieg was at the forefront of a flourishing of creativity that took place in Scandinavian culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, alongside his contemporaries, Nielsen and Sibelius. His imagination was particularly... |
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FRANCESCO CAVALLI
Vespro della Beata Vergine (1656) Barbara Borden / Emily van Evera / Rodrigo del Pozo / Gerd Turk / Mark Padmore / Harry van der Kamp / Concerto Palatino / Bruce Dickey [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] On this recording Glossa present the principle musical items which could have been heard at second Vespers on a feast of the Virgin Mary (in this case the Feast of the Assumption) either at St. Mark's or at one of a variety of other Venetian... |
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DARON ARIC HAGEN
Everyone, Everywhere Barkidjija, Bryan Murray, Shavon Lloyd, A. Farid, The Cecilia Chorus of New York with Orchestra, Mark Shapiro [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Feb/2025 ] Daron Hagen is a multi-award-winning composer with a lifelong commitment to emotionally accessible and heartfelt music-making. Everyone, Everywhere is a sweeping cantata composed to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: New Babylon [complete score] Basel Sinfonietta, Mark Fitz-Gerald [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] "[The New Babylon] was the last gasp of this anything-goes era, and boasted a blistering score by the 22-year-old Shostakovich. So blistering, in fact, that nobody could perform it, and it was "lost" for decades...it is sardonic, brittle and laden... |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: La Favorite [complete opera recorded in 2016] BLU-RAY Bavarian State Opera / Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecień, Elina Garanca, Mika Kares / Karel Mark Chichon (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2017 ] The premiere of the French version of Gaetano Donizetti's La Favorite at the Bayerische Staatsoper on 23 October 2016 was a memorable event and this is why: • star mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanca gave her acclaimed theatrical role debut as Léonor de... |
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Benjamin Lackner, Mathias Eick, Mark Turner, Linda May Han Oh, Matthieu Chazarenc
Spindrift [ ECM / CD - released 17/Jan/2025 ] Back with a newly formed quintet, gathered together for a particularly fruitful 2024 session in Southern France, the German pianist Benjamin Lackner presents a different and exciting side of his composer-approach. Trumpeter Mathias Eick is the sole... |
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Benjamin Lackner, Mathias Eick, Mark Turner, Linda May Han Oh, Matthieu Chazarenc
Spindrift (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 17/Jan/2025 ] Back with a newly formed quintet, gathered together for a particularly fruitful 2024 session in Southern France, the German pianist Benjamin Lackner presents a different and exciting side of his composer-approach. Trumpeter Mathias Eick is the sole... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83 (complete opera recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Manuela Uhl, Mark Delavan, Matthias Klink, Thomas Blondelle / Andrew Litton (cond) [ Arthaus Musik BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "fine dynamic control (here is one heroic baritone who really can sing intimately), expansive personality and fabulously clear and meaningful textual projection...the orchestra revel in the score under Andrew Litton." (International Record Review) |
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WOLFGANG PUSCHNIG
Puschnig: For the Love of It Bernarda Fink / Wolfgang Puschnig / Mark Feldman / Mike Richmond [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] Wolfgang Puschnig is one who has returned from faraway musical realms, and whose compositions take us into the borderlands: The instrumentation including flutes, violin, saxophone, double bass and voices bridges the gap between folk music and jazz,... |
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Billy Hart, Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Ben Street
All Our Reasons [ ECM / CD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] First ECM recording of a quartet formed in 2003. Originally billed as the Ethan Iverson-Mark Turner Quartet, it soon became the Billy Hart Quartet, and under this name has played shows to packed houses each year in New York City. The group's first... |
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Billy Hart, Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Ben Street
Just [ ECM / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] After twenty years of playing together, the Billy Hart Quartet - with Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson and Ben Street - is distinguished by its stylistic openness. "If ever there was an example of contemporary jazz that draws extensively on all the... |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell - Miscellany Catherine Bott (soprano), Mark Bennett (trumpet) / The Purcell Quartet [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 19/Sep/1996 ] Pièces vocales et instrumentales : Fairy Queen (extraits), Sonate pour trompette, Ouvertures, Suites... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas Vol 24: BWV12, BWV103, BWV146; BWV166, BWV108, BWV117 Brigitte Geller, William Towers, Mark Padmore, Julian Clarkson, Robin Tyson / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2005 ] Cantatas for the Third Sunday after Easter (Jubilate)and the Fourth Sunday after Easter (Cantate) |
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JOHANN JOACHIM QUANTZ
Quanz: Flute Sonatas Rachel Brown (flute), Mark Caudle (viol), James Johnstone (harpsichord) [ Chaconne / CD - released 1/Aug/1997 ] |
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W. A. MOZART
The Complete Operas (complete operas recorded the Salzburg Festival in 2006) Camerata Salzburg / Ramon Vargas, Magdalena Kozena, Ekaterina Siurina, Erwin Schrott, Annette Dasch, Topi Lehtipuu, John Mark Ainsley, Mojca Erdmann [ Decca Classics / Mozart 22 DVD / 33 DVD Box Set - released 14/Jul/2014 ] All 22 Mozart Operas from the 2006 Salzburg Festival. 33 DVDs! Deutsche Grammophon and Decca release all Mozart Operas performed at this year's Salzburg Festival - including the new Figaro starring Anna Netrebko. |