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Fred Again & Brian Eno
Secret Life (LP) [ Text / LP - released 26/May/2023 ] One the biggest electronic artists on the circuit right now, UK act Fred again.. has thrown a slow, contemplative spanner in the works with this surprise ambient collaboration with his long-time mentor Brian Eno. While the results may flummox Fred's... |
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Tom Phillips / Gavin Bryars / Fred Orton
Irma LP [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 20/Jun/2025 ] Between 1975 and 1978, Brian Eno's Obscure imprint produced ten LPs to document the work of virtually unknown composers at the time. These records continue to inspire both practitioners and fans of experimental, ambient and modern classical... |
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Alice Zawadzki, Fred Thomas, Misha Mullov-Abbado
Za Gorami [ ECM / CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] Vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadzki, pianist Fred Thomas (who also plays the vielle and drums here) and bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado present a rare alchemy on their trio debut, fusing folk idioms from a multitude of sources with free flowing... |
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WUORINEN
Scherzo / First String Quartet / Viola Variations / Second Piano Quintet Curtis Macomber (violin) / Jesse Mills (violin) / Lois Martin (viola) / Fred Sherry (cello) / Peter Serkin (piano) / Brentano String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "In contrast to the city's minimalists, Wuorinen is a New York maximalist, a consummate wielder of rich, relentless polyphony, complex and speedily rhythmic textures, able to show each time that high modernism is not only alive and kicking, but a... |
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Enrico Rava / Fred Hersch
The Song is You (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Their collaboration has been hailed as a summit meeting of two jazz masters. Enrico Rava, trumpeter from Trieste, and Fred Hersch, pianist from Cincinatti, share a deep affection for the tradition and a profound sense for melodic invention. In this... |
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Fred Astaire
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Can't sing, Can't act .Balding. Can dance a little! So went the now legendary report following Fred Astaire's screen test at RKO Studios in the early 30's. Fortunately RKO still offered Fred fifth billing in a movie called Flying Down To Rio and... |
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Fred Hersch
Silent, Listening [ ECM / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Silent, Listening is a major addition to ECM's distinguished line of solo piano recordings, featuring one of the outstanding improvising pianists and jazz masters of our time: Fred Hersch. The album features seven original creations and a handful of... |
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Fred Hersch
Silent, Listening (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Silent, Listening is a major addition to ECM's distinguished line of solo piano recordings, featuring one of the outstanding improvising pianists and jazz masters of our time: Fred Hersch. The album features seven original creations and a handful of... |
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Fred Hersch Trio
The Surrounding Green (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 27/Jun/2025 ] Fred Hersch's work is marked by its inwardness, the allusiveness, the restraint. But beneath such apparent discretion bursts a raw sensuality-the flesh of the music, its pulse. - Francis Marmande, Le Monde Masterful trio interplay reliant on... |
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CZERNY / DEBUSSY / HELLER / GLASS / CAGE / BORTKIEWICZ / RACHMANINOV / etc
Virtuoso Piano Etudes Fred Oldenburg, Alessandro Marangoni, Jan Vermeulen (piano), Zlata Chochieva, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Peter Frankl, Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 22 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2019 ] This monumental set dedicated to the Virtuoso Piano Étude offers a rewarding opportunity to witness two centuries in the evolution of masterpieces for the study of the piano. |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4 Fred Sherry String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "The energy and eloquence of Fred Sherry and his colleagues ensure that the effect is never merely strenuous, never turgid. Though often aggressive, the music dances and sings" Gramophone Editor's Choice Dec 2010 |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Three Or One Fred Thomas (piano), Aisha Orazbayeva (violin), Lucy Railton (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Here is Johann Sebastian Bach in transfigured light: with organ chorale preludes, vocal cantata movements and orchestral sinfonias - 24 pieces in all - transcribed for trio and solo piano by Fred Thomas, and threaded into a compelling new sequence by... |
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Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians
Say It With Music - The Many Moods of Fred Waring [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] Say It with Music presents Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians at their very best and is a MUST for those interested in owning one of the greatest Fred Waring compilations ever released! |
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Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians
We All Scream For Ice Cream! [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] Fred Waring was recognised as one of the most outstanding and dynamic personalities in American show business and even if, as has sometimes been suggested, he made no mark on music history, he certainly knew what middle-America wanted |
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TURINA / BERNSTEIN / BONNEY / NIXON / KOH
Converging Cultures Fred Hamilton (guitar) / Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Eugene Migliaro Corporon [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] This programme brings the old world of festive Spain in Turina's La Procession du Rocío into a meeting with Roger Nixon's Californian 'tonal fresco' Fiesta del Pacifico. Chang Su Koh's Korean Dances use exotic traditional rhythms, whereas Bernstein's... |
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WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: The Complete Façades Hila Plitmann, Fred Child, Kevin Deas (narrators) / Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Edith Sitwell's invitation to William Walton to collaborate on an innovative, revolutionary new work came at a critical moment in the young composer's career, and Façade proved to be his first great success. The peerless combination of a peculiarly... |
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SCHOENBERG
6 A Cappella Mixed Choruses / String Quartet No. 2 / Suite in G major Jennifer Welch-Babidge (soprano) / Simon Joly Singers / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Fred Sherry Quartet / Robert Craft (conductor) [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 3 / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "A thoroughly enjoyable release which should convert many to Schoenberg's music." (MusicWeb Feb 2006) |
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RACHMANINOV
Transcriptions & Arrangements for Organ Jeremy Filsell (the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia, USA) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "I like the commitment Filsell shows in exploring this familiar repertoire in unfamiliar ways. Overall this is an excellent disc and greatly enjoyable for those who like their Rachmaninov with a twist." (MusicWeb April 2015) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
L'Espirit Galant Johannette Zomer (soprano) Fred Jacobs (French theorbo) [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Nov/2007 ] "Fred Jacobs is both expert as accompanist and as soloist in his various solos, notably a fine chaconne by Robert de Visée. Johannette Zomer is adept in dealing with the vocal ornament needed to leaven repetition and, in this sympathetic recorded... |
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KASBERGER / MAZZOCCHI / MICHI / ROSSI
Splendore di Roma Johannette Zomer (soprano) Fred Jacobs (theorbo) [ Channel Classics SACD / SACD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] 'SPLENDORE DI ROMA', a collection of poetic 17th century lyrics performed by soprano Johannette Zomer. - On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |