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HANDEL
Orlando (complete opera) Christophe Dumaux, Elena de la Merced, Jean-Michel Fumas / La grande Ecurie et la Chamvre du Roy / Jean-Claude Malgoire [ K617 Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 1/May/2010 ] In his setting of Orlando (drawn from Tasso's Orlando furioso) Handel offers us a score of remarkable dramatic power, diversity and originality. |
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MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Te Deum Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Jean Tubéry; La Fenice; Les Agrémens [ Ricercar / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] The works presented on this CD place us firmly in the midst of the events and ceremonies of 17th century France, the period known as the Grand Siècle. That period's unusually splendid pomp and ceremony can be seen in the famous Te Deum, whilst the... |
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JOHN BLOW
Venus and Adonis Céline Scheen & Marc Mauillon / Les Musiciens du Paradis & La Maîtrise de Caen, Bertrand Cuiller [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] After the successes of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Cadmus & Hermione, Alpha is continuing its audiovisual exploration of lyric repertoires offering, for the first time on DVD, John Blow's Venus and Adonis, accompanied by his Ode to Saint Cecilia.. |
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Cluytens/No De La Radiodiffus
Shostakovich:symphony No.11 [ Testament / CD ] |
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PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 / Violin Concerto Ruggiero Ricci (violin) / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Erich Kleiber / New Symphony Orchestra of London, M. Sargent [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Despite being recorded under 78rpm conditions, in four- or five-minute sections, the Fourth Symphony is marked by a palpable symphonic rigour as well as the edgy brass which lends such intensity to Decca's Paris recordings of Russian music. |
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Cut La Vis
One Step Forward (LP) [ Nice Up! / LP - released 11/Dec/2015 ] "One Step Forward" is the debut album from Brighton based DJ and producer Cut La Vis aka David Lavis. Raised on a diet of 90s hip hop, roots reggae and ska, this debut album is a melting pot of exactly that. |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Les Troyens (complete opera recorded in 2009) Daniela Barcellona / Lance Ryan / Elisabete Matos / Gabriele Viviani / Eric Cutler / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana / Valery Gergiev [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] "while Padrissa's computer projections and airborne acrobats achieve memorable visions, he underproduces the human element. Embattled Troy is a dystopian ruin under nuclear dustclouds, the robotic Trojan Horse unleashing, like an internet 'Trojan',... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel's Unsung Heroes Iestyn Davies, Christine Rice, Lucy Crowe (vocals) / Paul Sharp (trumpet) Roger Montgomery (horn) Joe Walters (horn) / La Nuova Musica, David Bates [ Pentatone / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "This project is a heroic achievement for all involved." Recording of the Month BBC Music Magazine Christmas 2021 |
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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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De La Soul
3 Feet High and Rising (LTD Edition Double Yellow Coloured LP) [ Chrysalis Records / 2 LP - released 31/Mar/2023 ] 3 Feet High and Rising is the debut studio album by American hip hop trio De La Soul. It was released on March 3, 1989, by Tommy Boy. It marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical... |
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De La Soul
Buhloone Mind State (LP) [ AOI Records / LP - released 5/May/2023 ] Buhloone Mindstate is the third studio album by American Hip Hop group De La Soul, released on September 21, 1993. Buhloone Mindstate, delivered a jazzier palette than their two previous albums and has ended up an unduly underrated gem in not only... |
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De La Soul
De La Soul's Plug 1 & 2 Present: First Serve [ Liberation Music / CD - released 6/Apr/2012 ] A collaborative project by Pos (AKA Plug One) & Dave (AKA Plug Two) of the legendary hip hop group, De La Soul, and acclaimed French production team 2 & 4 (AKA Chokolate & Khalid). |
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De La Soul
Stakes Is High (Double LP) [ Chrysalis / 2 LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] Stakes is High is the 4th studio album by De La Soul, released on July 2, 1996. Stakes is High was critically lauded for its music, lyricism, and its overall message concerning the artistic decline rap music began to face in the mid-90s. The title... |
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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. |