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GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado / Trial By Jury Peter Pratt, Donald Adams, Thomas Round, Jean Hindmarsh, Kenneth Sandford, Julia Goss / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isadore Godfrey, Royston Nash [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2015 ] I am pretty safe in saying that this recording is probably one of the best G & S recordings..ever! A cast to die for! Listen to Thomas Round's most beautiful rendering of "Wand'ring minstrel" and the horrific crazy laugh of Donald Adams as the Mikado |
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PERGOLESI
Dixit Dominus / Salve Regina in A minor / Confitebor tibi, Domine / Chi non ode, e chi non vede - chamber cantata Rachel Harnisch, Julia Kleiter, Rosa Bove, Lucio Gallo / Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera / Orchestra Mozart / Claudio Abbado [ Archiv Produktion / CD - released 8/Apr/2011 ] "One of the highlights of the third collection is Harnisch's account of the aria of unrequited love, Chi non ode e chi non vede, with its changing tempi and expressive anguish" (Penguin Guide) |
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PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater / Salve Regina / Violin Concerto in B flat major Rachel Harnisch, Sara Mingardo & Julia Kleiter, Giuliano Carmignola (violin) / Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] "The Stabat Mater is the main work, in a striking performance that manages to be at once devotional and operatic. There's a fiery austerity in the conducting and string playing...The real treat here is the Violin Concerto, played with casual sensual |
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HANDEL
Alessandro, HWV21 (Complete Opera recorded in 1985) Rene Jacobs, Sophie Boulin, Isabelle Poulenard & Stephen Varcoe / La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ] Includes a three-language synopsis (English/French/German), full cast list and detailed track list. |
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Sophie
Product [ Numbers / CD - released 6/Feb/2026 ] SOPHIE classics 'BIPP', 'LEMONADE' and 'VYZEE' are joined by two immaculate PRODUCT-era songs 'OOH' and 'GET HIGHER' recorded and produced at the time, each with colourful single artwork completing the set. 'OOH' is one of SOPHIE's earliest... |
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Sophie
Product (LP) [ Numbers / LP - released 21/Nov/2025 ] SOPHIE's foundational sucrose sweet compilation of singles which firmly placed her on the map, PRODUCT celebrates its 10th anniversary available for the first time on one LP, now including 3 additional tracks and 6x double-sided, 12"-sized, colourful... |
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Sophie
Sophie (Indie Exclusive Double Clear LP) [ Future Classic / 2 LP - released 27/Sep/2024 ] This album was created by SOPHIE and some of her most cherished collaborators. Close to completion when she tragically died, it has been lovingly finalised by those who hold her closest. As SOPHIE's studio manager and most trusted sounding board for... |
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Sophie B Hawkins
Timbre (Explicit) [ Rykodisc / 2 CD - released 29/Jun/2010 ] |
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Sophie Barker
Break The Habit [ Disco Geko CD / CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] Perhaps best known as one of the trio of original Zero 7 singers, alongside Sia and Mozez, Sophie's long-awaited 3rd solo album, 'Break the Habit', took 4 years to record but sees her more comfortable than ever in her own skin. Sophie Barker's... |
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Sophie Burbery & Little Bark
Hope is Rubbery [ 2 CD ] |
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Read My Lips (+Bonus Tracks) [ Polydor / CD - released 17/Jun/2002 ] |
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor
The Song Diaries [ Cooking Vinyl / CD - released 1/Jan/2019 ] |
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Sophie Hutchings
Scattered On The Wind [ Mercury / CD - released 24/Apr/2020 ] Australian pianist/composer Sophie Hutchings has been hailed for her approach to the classical genre, with her playing described by The Guardian as having "an intimate, contemplative quality" and a "genuine sense of beauty." Scattered on the Wind is... |
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Sophie Milman
Her Very Best...So Far [ Linus / CD - released 13/May/2013 ] |
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Sophie Milman
Sophie Milman [ Linus / CD - released 26/May/2008 ] |
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WILLIAM BYRD / JOHN BULL / WILLIAM TISDALE / GILES FARNABY / etc
Elizabethan Virginals Music Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2003 ] "I can't recall a more attractive virginal programme than this: largely familiar music from the positively frisky to the deeply sombre, played on two markedly contrasting version of a beautiful Italian pentagonal virginal. Sophie Yates plays with... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Harpsichord Works (Volume 2): Suites Nos 1 - 5 Sophie Yates (harpsichord) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - "Sophie Yates confirms her credentials as one of Britain's most talented harpsichordists" |
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J. S. BACH / GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Bach & Telemann: Arias Valer Barna-Sabadus (counter-tenor), Julia Schröder (violin) / Basel Chamber Orchestra, Julia Schröder [ Sony Classics / CD - released 19/Feb/2021 ] In 2013, Valer made his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Menelao in Cavalli's opera Elena. Since 2014, he has been under contract with the major label Sony. At the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe and at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruh |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Wiener Staatsoper / Soile Isokoski, Daniela Fally, Sophie Koch, Johan Botha / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Unitel / Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2015 ] Director Sven- Erich Bechtolf "has again delved deeply into music and text", observed the opera magazine Opernnetz in its rave review of the performance captured here. "In Rolf Glittenberg's beautiful Jugendstil salon, he is constantly in touch with... |