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PHILIP WILBY
Breathless Alleluia (A) / Paganini Variations / Symphonic Variations on Amazing Grace / Euphonium Concerto Joseph Cook (tuba) / David Thornton (euphonium) / Philip Gault (baritone) / Philip Wilby (organ) / Black Dyke Band / Nicolas Childs [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Mar/2009 ] This disc of music by internationally-renowned British composer Philip Wilby includes several world première recordings: A Breathless Alleluia is an affectionate tribute to the Black Dyke Band's conductor Nicholas Childs; Paganini Variations exploits... |
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KARITA MATTILA
Fever Karita Mattila (soprano) / Fever band & String section [ Ondine / CD - released 14/Dec/2007 ] "Karita Mattila has good go at scat singing and in the delivering climactic phrases that swing rather than hold the air like operatic high notes." Mike Ashman, Gramophone, March 2008 |
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Kinross & District Pipe Band
Pipes and Drums of Scotland [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Stirring instrumental pipes and drums music from Scotland. The Kinross and District Pipe Band was formed in summer of 1946 to play at local galas and festive events and the pipe band competitions. During its long history the band has always... |
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JOHN ADAMS
Adams- I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky Jeannette Friedrich, Lilith Gardell, Darius De Haas, Jonas Holst, Martina Muhlpointner / The Band of the Holst-Sinfonietta, Klaus Simon [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] Penguin Guide - Rosette Winner |
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KURT WEILL
Weill: Dreigroschenoper [Threepenny Opera] (abridged version) with other songs by Weill & others Kurt Gerron, Lotte Lenya, Willi Trenk-Trebitsch / Lewis Ruth Band, Theo Mackebe / with Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, The Three Admirals & others [ Warner Classics / CD - released 9/Nov/2017 ] Classic 1930 recording featuring Lotte Lenya, Kurt Gerron, Willi Trenk-Trebitsch & the Lewis Ruth Band. |
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Lu Watters & The Yerba Buena Jazz Band
Doing The Hambone At Kelly's [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Apr/2000 ] Sixty years ago, an interest in the earlier forms of jazz seems to have emerged almost simultaneously in several places around the world. In America there had been a successful attempt in 1938 to locate some of the older jazz musicians... |
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Lu Watters & The Yerba Buena Jazz Band
Doing The Hambone At Kelly's, Volume Two [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Mar/2002 ] The first volume of Lu Watters at Hambone Kelly's presented 20 of the recordings made at that location. This CD provides the remaining 16 recordings made by the Yerba Buena Jazz Band together with the 8 sides by the Clancy Hayes... |
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DAVID / SACHSE / GRAFE / REICHE / GABRIELI / SCHUTZ / etc
Trombone: Greatest works Ludwig Guttler Wind Band Ensemble & Berlin Wind Band Quintet [ Berlin Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2012 ] This collection includes trombone concertos by David, Sachse, Gräfe and Reiche as well as pieces by composers ranging from Gabrieli to Stravinsky. |
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TRADITIONAL
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing: 18th Century Gallery Hymns Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band / The Mellstock Band [ Portrait Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "There are times when it is quite impossible not to join in!" Choral Review |
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TRADITIONAL
O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing: 18th Century Gallery Hymns Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band & the Mellstock Band [ Regis Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "There are times when it is quite impossible not to join in!" Choral Review |
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BILL CUNLIFFE / PROKOFIEV / MIKE NOCK
Concerti Michael Houstoun (piano) and the Roger Fox Big Band [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 25/Jun/2015 ] It may seem an incongruous pairing on the face of it, but Michael Houstoun and Rodger Fox have something vital in common - a passion for music, and it shows. |
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MICHAEL NYMAN
The composer's cut volume 1: The Draughtsman's Contract Michael Nyman Band, Michael Nyman [ MN / Launch Music / CD - released 17/Oct/2005 ] |
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MICHAEL NYMAN
Nyman: Facing Goya (complete opera) Winnie Bowe, Marie Angel, Hilary Summers, Harry Nicoll / Michael Nyman Band, Michael Nyman [ Michael Nyman / 3 CD - released 26/Apr/2011 ] "A collage-like 'opera in four acts' investigating the physiology of genius, set to Nyman's usual chugging grooves, smartly packaged on his own label." (BBC Music) |
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XENAKIS
Medea / Nuits / Knephas / Serment / A Colone New London Chamber Choir / Critical Band / James Wood [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] New London Chamber Choir, Critical Band, James Wood |
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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Tiger Rag: Their 25 Finest 1917 - 1923 [ Retrospective / CD - released 10/Dec/2016 ] The origins of jazz itself may go back well into the 19th century, but the origin of jazz on record can be pinpointed exactly to the first recordings made a hundred years ago by a remarkable group of white New Orleans musicians calling themselves The... |
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Paul Motian Band
Psalm [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jun/1982 ] |
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W. A. MOZART
Horn Concertos / Horn Quintet Pip Eastop (horn), The Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead (conductor), with Eroica Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jan/2015 ] Mozart's Horn Concertos are perhaps the most popular works ever written for the instrument. This new album is a collection of all the works Mozart wrote for his lifelong friend, the horn player Joseph Leutgeb (1732-1811), one of the foremost players... |
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VERDI / STRAVINSKY / COPLAND / WALTON
Monumental Work for Winds The President's Own United States Marine Band / Michael J. Colburn (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2006 ] Symphonies of Wind Instruments was composed by Igor Stravinsky in the summer of 1920 and revised from 1945-47. The work is heard on this recording in its original 1920 scoring for 23 wind and brass players |
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Pride Of Murray Pipe Band
Flower of Scotland [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Formed in 1952 in West London by Pilot Officer Murray the band competes at home and abroad and has appeared on TV, radio, in films, carnivals and shows which include their own Highland dancing team. |
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R.A.F Central Band, Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Royal Scots Greys, Irish Guards, Royal Marines
Favourite Military Bands [ Alto / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] 78+ minutes of classics in superb sound. |