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James Brandon Lewis Trio
Apple Cores [ Anti- / CD - released 7/Feb/2025 ] Apple Cores is the latest full-length album from New York tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, "one of the fiercest sounds in jazz today" (The Guardian) with a "penchant for unbound exploration" (Pitchfork) Informed by the rhythms and textures... |
EDOUARD LALO / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / PABLO de SARASATE
Lalo / Saint-Saens / Sarasate: Music for violin and orchestra James Ehnes (violin) / BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 7/Mar/2025 ] "There's also much to enjoy, albumwide, from the playing here. Ehnes, with that elegant, effortless technique of his own, brings a cool, cantabile purity to the Saint-Saëns concerto's lilting central movement, its silky woodwind soloists also lovingl |
JANET JENNINGS
Jennings: Voices Of Men James Harrison, James Ioelu, Will King, Katherine Austin, Richard Liu, Sarah Watkins, James Jin, Bill Stoneham [ Atoll / CD - released 16/Apr/2021 ] Including 'Songs of War' and 'Songs of Exile', Voices of Men features leading male vocalists, accompanied by renowned musicians, singing the words of some of New Zealand's most well-known male poets. Brian Turner's words in 'Taking Off', reflect on... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in 1988) Metropolitan Opera / Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, Tatiana Troyanos / James Levine (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon / DVD - released 29/Aug/2002 ] "This performance represents an above-average night at the Metropolitan in the late 1980s: three of its most popular stars, a generally distinguished cast, the house's musical director conducting its great orchestra in one of the works he does best." |
James Taylor
Greatest Hits [ Warner Records / CD - released 26/Sep/2025 ] Greatest Hits is singer-songwriter James Taylor's eighth album. Released on November 1, 1976. The album featured newly recorded versions of "Carolina in My Mind" and "Something in the Way She Moves", and a previously unavailable live version of "Stea |
James Taylor
James Taylor's Greatest Hits (LP) [ Rhino / Warner / LP - released 27/Mar/2020 ] Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor. Originally released in November 1976, it is the best-selling album of his career and one of the best-selling albums of all time, having sold over 11 Million... |
James Taylor
Sweet Baby James [ Warner Brothers / CD - released 18/Apr/1984 ] The triple platinum selling album from James Taylor, which includes superb songs such as "Country Road", "Sunny Skies" and his first Top 10 hit, the intensely personal "Fire and Rain." |
JOHN PSATHAS
Psathas: Halo James Tennant (cello), Katherine Austin (piano) [ Atoll Records / CD Single - released 6/Dec/2019 ] Commissioned by Ian Graham and Agi Lehar-Graham, Halo was written in 2014 for pianist Katherine Austin and cellist James Tennant, and was premiered by them in February 2016 in the Auckland Town Hall. James Tennant and Katherine Austin are founder... |
MOZART / ROSSINI / TCHAIKOVSKY / WAGNER / BOITO / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jonathan Lemalu: Opera Arias Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. James Judd [ EMI Music / CD - released 18/Apr/2005 ] "Every so often a musician arrives on the scene with a talent so richly endowed that the musical world sits up and takes note." - Gramophone editor James Jolly |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Maggio Muiscale Florentino / Jeanne Michele Charbonnet, Vladimir Vaneev, Vsevolod Grivnov / James Conlon (cond) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] "New Orleans-raised Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet proves a powerful if one-dimensional actress in the title-role. The other key protagonists are authentically Russian. The most distinguished singing comes from Vladimir Vaneev... The main attraction of... |
TRADITIONAL / SCHUBERT / VERDI / RAVEL / etc
Margaret Price in Recital Margaret Price (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, with James Lockhart & Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] A song recital new to CD from a peerless lyric soprano, coupled with classic recordings of Ravel and Verdi. In 1971 Andrew Porter wrote that Margaret Price's voice was among the things that make one 'glad to be alive'. In the 1960s she had... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (complete opera recorded in 2008) Metropolitan Opera / Zeljko Lucic, Maria Guleghina, John Relyea, Dimitri Pittas / James Levine (Cond) [ Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "An auspicious issue in first rate sound and vision further enhanced by an excellent "behind the scenes" documentary featuring the mainstays of this memorable January 2008 night at the MET." (ClassicalNet) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (Complete opera recorded in 1977) The Metropolitan Opera / Placido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas, Cornell MacNeil / James Levine (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 27/May/2004 ] "Yes, Rigoletto is a singer's opera, but Verdi also poured into it some of his most dramatic as well as melodic music. That said, the vivid colours of the production have come up amazingly well and the sound is clear." (MusicWeb Dec 2006) |
MICHAEL WILLIAMS
The Juniper Passion Stepanie Acraman, Julia Booth, Lilia Carpinelli, James Loelu, etc, with orchestra & chorus [ Atoll Records / 2 CD - released 25/Jun/2012 ] Three worlds collide in this moving tale of conflict, passion and betrayal. |
Mitch James
Mitch James [ Sony / CD - released 14/Sep/2018 ] |
Mitch James
patience [ Sony NZ / CD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] 'patience' is the follow-up to local singer-songwriter Mitch James' NZ Platinum-selling, debut album. It's an authentic look into his life, exploring the highs and lows of being a young man growing up in a crazy world. The bulk of the album was... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quartet No 3 / Clarinet Quintet New Zealand String Quartet, with James Campbell (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Brahms wrote his String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 67 in 1876 and its largely unclouded and cheerful qualities culminate in a theme and variations finale of exceptional imagination and mastery of form. His last chamber music was inspired by a great... |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau / Sinfonietta New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "James Judd… galvanises the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra into playing this challenging score with sensitivity and a good deal of virtuosity." BBC Music |
DOUGLAS LILBURN
Lilburn: A Song of Islands / Aotearoa Overture / Forest / etc New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Oct/2006 ] "A Kiwi legend is handsomely served by his homeland. James Judd and his New Zealand forces find an openness and an energy in the music that evokes all the majesty of that country's landscape." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2006) |
BERNARD HERRMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Herrmann: The Devil and Daniel Webster / Currier and Ives / etc New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1994 ] "Koch International's amazing James Sedares zeroes relentlessly in on the essence of Bernard Herrmann's playfully prickly personality in graphically pictorial versions of the Currier and Ives Suite (a first recording) and deeply moving... |
