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J. S. BACH
Bach: St. John Passion (complete oratorio recorded in 2021) [CD + Blu-ray video in Dolby Atmos] Nick Pritchard, William Thomas, Alex Ashworth, Julia Doyle, Alexander Chance / The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon CDs + Blu-ray audio/Dolby Atmos / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2000 ] "Don't expect polish at every corner as one would a studio recording; both the deliberate and undeliberate rough edges are part of possibly the most incandescently full-blooded interpretation to date." Gramophone Editor's Choice March 2022 |
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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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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (recorded live in 2014) Royal Shakespeare Company / Antony Sher, Alex Hassell, Jasper Britton / Simon Godwin (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/May/2015 ] Containing Shakespeare's Henry IV parts 1 and 2, this double set features outstanding Royal Shakespeare Company productions available in a specially priced set. |
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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
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
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 G
Beach Music (LP) [ Domino / LP - released 9/Oct/2015 ] Philadelphia's Alex Giannascoli aka Alex G's new full-length album and his first for Domino, Beach Music. Beach Music was written and recorded in Giannascoli's apartment, between the Fall of 2014 and the Spring of 2015, during breaks from touring... |
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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 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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de ABREU / BONFA / AZEVEDO / BARROSO / VEROSO / etc
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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Paquito d'Rivera, Diego Urcola, Alex Brown, Oscar Stagnaro, Mark Walker, Arturo Stable
Jazz Meets the Classics [ Paquito Records / CD - released 5/Aug/2014 ] The mixture of jazz, classical and Afro-Latin traditions into a cohesive whole is wonderfully executed by the leader and his phenomenal sextet. |
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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 ] |