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Vorsen / John Halvorsen
A World On Fire (Limited Red & Black Marble Vinyl LP) [ Leather Jacket / LP - released 12/Sep/2023 ] From the mind of John Halvorsen (The Gordons, Skeptics, Bailter Space) comes A World on Fire, capturing three decades of solo material released for the very first time. Influenced by retro-futurist science fiction themes and the flashpoint of... |
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BERLIOZ / RAVEL
Véronique Gens sings Berlioz & Ravel Véronique Gens (soprano) / Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, John Axelrod [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "Gens bring [Herminie] to life as sympathetically as any of her operatic portrayals...It is unusual to encounter a recording of Les nuits d'ete in which the colouring is so consistent throughout...Gens has in her sights a purer kind of poetry."... |
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GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem Op 48 / Messe Basse / Motets Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill, St John's College, Cambridge, Robinson [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Top recordings at a special price |
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BEETHOVEN
Resound Beethoven: Egmont [with narration in English & German] Wiener Akademie Orchester, Martin Haselböck, with Bernardo Bobro (soprano) & Herbert Föttinger, John Malkovich (narrators) [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2016 ] With RESOUND the orchestral works of Beethoven are brought back to the halls and theatres of their Viennese premieres or other venues where they received their earliest performances. .. |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet (BBC Third Programme Live Broadcast, 1948) (Abridged) Sir John Gielgud, Andrew Cruickshank, Hugh Griffith, Marian Spencer & cast [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 31/Jul/2006 ] This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud's greatest moments. Though he went on to record it for commercial release, nothing matched this... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Life And Works (4CD Box) Written and narrated by Jeremy Siepmann, with John Shrapnel as Bach [ Naxos Life and Works / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2012 ] |
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FLORENCE BEATRICE PRICE
Price: Concert Overtures / Songs of the Oak / Suite of Dances Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, John Jeter [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] The rediscovery of Florence Price's music has revealed one of the most significant bodies of work by an African American composer in the 20th century. The variety of genres represented on this release place Price's immense artistic imagination on... |
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RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 [original 1926 version] (with Medtner - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 50) Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) / Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / John Neschling [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "…Sudbin's relatively low-key playing, never leaves you in doubt of his musicianship and dexterity." Gramophone Magazine, February 2010 |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / MEDTNER
Piano Concertos Yevgeny Sudbin (piano) / São Paulo Symphony Orchestra / John Neschling [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "Yevgeny Sudbin's performance here fairly explodes with imagination, feeling and desire." Gramophone Magazine Recording of the Month May 2007 |
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W.A. MOZART
Requiem Mass, K.626 Yvonne Kenny (sop) Sarah Walker (mezzo) William Kendall (tenor) / Choir of St John's College, Cambridge / English Chamber Orchestra/ George Guest [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] 'George Guests new recording is distinguished by its deliberate tempos but also its very powerful rhythmic momentum and an expressive intensity of a kind one might not expect from a conductor and choir who belong to the English cathedral tradition.... |