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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Mariusz Kwiecien, Alex Esposito, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Véronique Gens , Antonio Poli / Nicola Luisotti (cond [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2014 ] Mozart's sublime tragic comedy offers boundless scope for directors, and Kasper Holten has chosen it to follow his directorial debut of Eugene Onegin. He wanted to shift the emphasis from Don Giovanni's sex life into a darker place, showing... |
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SHAKESPEARE
Henry V (recorded live at Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2015) BLU-RAY Royal Shakespeare Company / Alex Hassell, Jane Lapotaire, Sarah Parks, Leigh Quinn, Joshua Richards [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/May/2016 ] Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people. |
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GIOACCHINIO ROSSINI
Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri [An Italian in Algeries] (complete opera recorded in 2013) Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Anna Goryachova, Alex Esposito, Yijie Shi & Mario Cassi / José Ramón Encinar [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Pesaro's new offering in 2013 was an off-the-wall production of Rossini's popular comedy, 'The Italian Girl in Algiers', presented as a Swinging Sixties, James Bond adventure, set in the desert oil fields of the North African coast. Davide... |
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Alex Chilton
From Memphis to New Orleans [ Bar/None Records / CD ] Alex Chilton, lead singer of Boxtops and Big Star, created a unique body of work when he emerged from a self-imposed exile in the 1980s. These are the best of those recordings. A solid collection for the super fans as well as the new listener. |
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Alex Cameron
Oxy Music [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Alex Cameron has always been a great storyteller, finding his ways into the depths of the places where not many others are looking, and Oxy Music continues on that trajectory. It's filled with stories of people who fall outside the system and exist... |
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Alex Cameron
Oxy Music (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Alex Cameron has always been a great storyteller, finding his ways into the depths of the places where not many others are looking, and Oxy Music continues on that trajectory. It's filled with stories of people who fall outside the system and exist... |
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Alex Chilton
Memphis To New Orleans (LP) [ Bar None / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Long Out of Print, Alex Chilton's From Memphis to New Orleans is now reissued on vinyl! These recordings from Alex Chilton (Boxtops, Big Star) have been out of print for over a decade. Chilton was hugely influential to and lauded by the likes of... |
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Alex Chilton
Songs From Robin Hood Lane (LP) [ Bar None / LP - released 15/Mar/2019 ] Long out of print, Alex Chilton's Songs From Robin Hood Lane is now reissued on vinyl! Alex Chilton (Big Star, Boxtops) was always known to surprise his fans with different directions he took over the years. Songs From Robin Hood Lane finds... |
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Alex Skolnick Trio
Veritas [ Palmetto Records / CD - released 9/May/2011 ] The Alex Skolnick Trio has gradually grown from an interesting novelty to a thoroughly respectable jazz-funk-rock unit... |
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Alex The Astronaut
The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing [ Alex The Astronaut / CD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] Alex The Astronaut has always had a supernatural knack for capturing human experience in song. On The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing, she explores friendship, love, loss, pain and change, weaving a constellation of stories about the personal reckonings... |
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Alex Warren
You'll Be Alright, Kid [ Warner Records / CD - released 18/Jul/2025 ] You'll Be Alright, Kid builds upon the vision of Alex Warren's debut. While You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1) focused on dealing with grief, You'll Be Alright, Kid turns the page to show the full picture: struggle and strength, healing and... |
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Alex Williams
Better Than Myself [ Big Machine Records / CD - released 8/Nov/2017 ] Because Alex Williams is signed to Big Machine, the Nashville powerhouse that Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts call home, there may be a tendency to view Alex Williams as the pop version of Chris Stapleton -- a singer/songwriter who is riding a trend i |
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Tico-Tico: Brazilian Melodies Daniel Barenboim (piano) with Robert Kassinger, Larry Combs, Emmanuel Pahud, Milton Nascimento, Alex Klein, Cyro Baptista, Nikolaj Znaider [ Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] The exceptional musician Daniel Barenboim not only unites classical works such as the famous Bachianas Brasileiras by Villa-Lobos with Milhaud's Saudades do Brasil and popular Brazilian hits such as Jobim's Wave or Tico-Tico by Abreu. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (Complete oratorio) Lucy Crowe (soprano), Alex Potter (counter-tenor), Michael Spyres (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), The English Concert & Choir, John Nelson [ Erato CDs + DVD / 3 CD/DVD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] The American conductor John Nelson, especially famed for his interpretations of Berlioz, conducted Handel's most celebrated oratorio at Coventry Cathedral in the heart of England in November 2022. |
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Alex Bleeker & The Freaks
How Far Away [ Woodsist / CD - released 27/May/2013 ] |
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Alex Bleeker & The Freaks
How Far Away [ Woodsist / LP - released 27/May/2013 ] |
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Alex Calder
Time (12") [ Captured Tracks / 12in - released 31/Oct/2016 ] |
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Alex Cameron
Forced Witness (LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 8/Sep/2017 ] "And somewhere between the stadium pop of Heart and the dive-bar dirt of Springsteen, Cameron is undeniable in craft, humour and sax solos." - Loud And Quiet Be Bearing witness to the baroque clusterfuckery of the world is no longer voluntary. We... |
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Alex Cameron
Jumping the Shark LP [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 19/Aug/2016 ] Sydney's strange,artistic Alex Cameron's 'Jumping The Shark' on Secretly Canadian weaves intelligent, poignant lyricism with primitive 80s synths and seemingly minimalist arrangements recalling David Bowie and Ariel Pink, all under a Lynch- like... |
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Alex Cameron
Miami Memory [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Alex Cameron's newest and most musically expansive LP, the glistening Miami Memory, takes a surprising turn. Cameron's flair for narrative and character are still on full display; yet Miami Memory's most frequent narrator is, for the first time,... |