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David Calzado & La Chara
Hey, You, Loca! [ Bis / CD ] |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Parnasso in Festa, HWV73 David Hansen, Robin Johannsen, Kangmin Justin Kim, Jenny Högstrom / La Cetra Barockorchester & Vokalensemble Basel, Andrea Marcon [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 5/Jul/2017 ] "Kangmin Justin Kim is steady and smooth as Orfeo…Good with text, Robin Johannsen's Clio provides neat and attractive vocalism, while grander-scale soprano Jenny Högström's vivid Calliope matches nicely bass Luca Tittito's vigorous Marte." BBC Music |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: TheComplete Symphonies, Ovetures, Haydn Variations, Violin Concerto, Requiem & Alto Rhapsody David Oistrakh, Christa Ludwig, Elizabeth Schwarkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion, Otto [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 23/Aug/2024 ] Klemperer and Brahms had much in common, which may go some way to explaining the empathy with which Klemperer conducts the works of the composer. Richard Osborne says 'no detail was insignificant, yet none was allowed to subvert the larger whole'. |
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RAVEL / GERSHWIN
Ravel & Gershwin Piano Concertos Denis Kozhukhin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Exuberant high spirits, pulsating rhythms and breathless virtuosity jostle with urbane sophistication and deeply felt sentiment in these scintillating jazz inspired concertos by Maurice Ravel and George Gershwin, played with élan by Denis Kozhukhin... |
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CASELLA
Symphony No. 1 / Concerto for strings, piano, timpani & percussion Desiree Seuccuglia (piano) Antonio Ceravolo (percussion) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] This first of four recordings of Alfredo Casella's orchestral music couples his first and last purely orchestral works. Completed the day before his 23rd birthday, the Symphony No. 1, which here receives its world première recording, exudes a... |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera recorded in 1957) Giuseppe Di Stefano, Maria Callas / La Scala Orchestra and Chorus / Serafin [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Transferred by the award-winning Mark Obert-Thorn, this 1957 recording of Manon Lescaut with Callas singing the title rôle and Di Stefano as des Grieux, was one of Callas's last complete recordings at La Scala, Milan. |
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JOHANNES CICONIA
Complete Works (on 2 CDs) Diabolus In Musica / La Morra [ Ricercar / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "La Morra prefer a more ruminative and thoughtful approach to the songs that is again entirely different from what has been heard before...we do get a new and clearer picture of who Ciconia was." Gramophone Magazine, December 2011 |
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VIVALDI
Flute Concertos [Concerti per flauto e flautino] Dorothee Oberlinger (flute) / Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca [ Arcana / CD - released 30/Sep/2010 ] All the recorder concertos on this CD were written expressly for flauto or flautino and show the imagination, delicacy, freshness, virtuosity and sometimes even melancholy, which Vivaldi put into his writing for this instrument. |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto e flautino Dorothee Oberlinger (recorders) / Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca [ Arcana / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] All the recorder concertos on this CD - chamber concertos or solo concertos - were written expressly for flauto or flautino and show the imagination, delicacy, freshness, virtuosity and sometimes even melancholy, which Vivaldi put into his writing... |
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JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL
Vanhal: 3 Sonatas for Clarinet & Harpsichord, 6 Sonatinas for Harpsichord Duo Chirò, Rodolfo la Banca (historical clarinet), Chiara Tiboni (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Johann Baptist Vanhal or Jan Křtitel Vaňhal was born in Nove Nechanice, a small town currently part of the Czech Republic, on May 12, 1739. Thanks to his musical talent, the eighteen-year-old Jan obtained his first position of some importance as an... |
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ANDRE CAMPRA
Messe de Requiem Elisabeth Baudry, Monique Zanetti, Josep Benet, John Elwes & Steven Varcoe / La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] This French Baroque icon from the early days of harmonia mundi [around 1986? Ed] has been 'download only' for some years and we are delighted that Herreweghe's benchmark Campra 'Requiem' is now reissued at mid price, on hm gold, due to popular demand. |
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VERNON DUKE
Violin Concerto / Violin Sonata / Hommage to Offenbach / etc Elmira Darvarova (violon) / Orchestre Symphonique de la radio de Vienne, with Kim Laskowski, basson [ Urlicht / Divine Art / CD - released 28/Jan/2015 ] If you know the songs "Taking a Chance on Love", "I Can't Get Started", "April in Paris", "What Is There To Say", or "Autumn in New York", then you are already familiar with the music of legendary American songwriter Vernon Duke. As a popular... |
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Ensemble La Morra
The Lion's Ear [ Ramee / CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] In 1512, Giovanni di Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (1475-1521) was the eldest surviving male member of the senior line of the celebrated Medici family of Florence, the eldest surviving son of the mythic Lorenzo "il Magnifico." Giovanni had inherited... |
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MARIN MARAIS
Marais: Pieces De Violes Ensemble La Reveuse [ Mirare / CD - released 10/May/2018 ] "This exceptional recording will surely rank among my contenders for recording of the year." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2018 |
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ANTONIO CALDARA
Caldara: Missa Dolorosa Ensemble La Silva, Nanneke Schaap [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2017 ] Antonio Caldara (1670‐1736) was an Italian Baroque composer. Born in Venice he was a chorister in the famous San Marco, where Legrenzi was his teacher. He soon spread his wings across Europe and held several important posts in Mantua, the Spanish... |
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OCKEGHEM
Requiem Ensemble Organum / Les Pages de la Chapelle / Marcel Peres [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] In 1461 at the dawn of the Renaissance, Ockeghem composed the first polyphonic Requiem to have come down to us. In restoring the plainchant which would have accompanied it, Marcel Pérès adds further glory to a monument of purity and piety. |
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LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Complete Guitar Quintets Eros Roselli (guitar) / La Magnifica Comunita [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "If you're looking for a set of Luigi Boccherini's complete guitar quintets on original instruments, you need look no further than this splendid two-disc set" (AllMusic.com) |
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POULENC
La Voix Humaine / La Dame de Monte-Carlo Felicity Lott (soprano) / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Armin Jordan [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Lott uses [her voice] exquisitely. You want to hear Felicity Lott's anguish, textual inflections and lacerating pain in 'La Vox humaine." San Francisco Examiner |
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Fernando De La Mora
The Artistry Of [ CD ] |