More By Artist: Manuel
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BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / FAURE / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Proust, or How The Heart Skips A Beat (complete ballet recorded in 2007) Choreography by Roland Petit Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris / Stéphanie Romberg / Eleonora Abbagnato / Manuel Legris / Koen Kessels (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / Harmonia Mundi Distibution / DVD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] G - In 1974, Roland Petit, probably the greatest and certainly one of the most prolific of 20th century French choreographers he was the first person to create a work based on Proust's novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, completed in 1922, the... |
PAUL DUKAS
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Polyeucte & Cantate Velleda Chantal Santon, Julian Dran , Jean-Manuel Candeno / Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth [ Actes Sud Musicales / CD - released 29/Dec/2013 ] With this new recording, François-Xavier Roth, leading conductor of many ensembles and repertoires, and Les Siècles, with several award-winning discs under their belt return to an unsung genius, Paul Dukas. |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Scala di Seta (complete opera recorded live at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, August 2009) Daniele Zanfardino, Olga Peretyatko, Anna Malavasi, José Manuel Zapata / Claudio Scimone (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] "The cast is uniformly good. With her film-star looks and shiny top register, Olga Peretyatko has a lot of fun as Giulia, Carlo Lepore shows off as the vacuous Blansac, Jose Manuel Zapata makes an engaging Dorvil" (BBC Music) |
ONSLOW / CHERUBINI
String Quintets Diogenes Quartett, with Manuel van der Nahmer (cello) [ CPO / CD - released 29/May/2006 ] |
Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria
Sing Sinck, Sing (LP) [ Constellation / LP - released 10/May/2019 ] Efrim Manuel Menuck - founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion - and Kevin Doria from Growing, Total Life and Hiss Tracts, are now officially a duo. Menuck recruited Doria to help him translate his acclaimed 2018 album... |
MANUEL DE FALLA
La Vida breve (complete opera) Enrique Baquerizo (tenor) / Manuel Cid (tenor) / Alfonso Echeverria (bass) / Alicia Nafe (mezzo-soprano) / Asturias Symphony / Maximiano Valdes [ Naxos Opera Classics / CD - released 2/Jun/2004 ] Manuel de Falla is universally acknowledged as the central personality of twentieth-century Spanish musical culture. Born in 1876 in Cádiz, Andalusia, he aspired as a young boy to be a writer but by the mid-1890s had decided to concentrate on music. |
GIOVANNI LEGRENZI
Legrenzi: La morte del cor penitente Ensemble Masques; Olivier Fortin; Raffaele Giordani; Cristina Fanelli; Hana Blažíková; William Shelton; Manuel Nunez-Camelino; Romain Bockler [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] A highly prolific composer, Giovanni Legrenzi practised his art in oratorios and other works for the church, as well as in opera and chamber music. In fact he explored all the musical genres of his period, taking over the baton handed on by Gabrieli... |
ERIC SATIE
Orchestral Music (Incls 'Parade') French National Radio & Television Orchestra. / Manuel Rosenthal [ Everest / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "If you'd like to hear a French orchestra playing Satie and having a whale of a time, this will be an excellent starting point." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
IGNAZ JOSEPH PLEYEL
Symphonies Concertantes & Bassoon Concerto Gaby Pas-van Riet (flute) Wolfgang Wipfler (horn) Anne Angerer (oboe) Hanno Donneweg (bassoon) Manuel Fischer-Dieskau (cello) Konstanze Brenner (bass) [ CPO / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] For May CPO presents Pleyel's Symphonies Concertantes. Pleyel was fated to learn one of life's most painful lessons: worldly fame is fleeting and quickly fades. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Guerra Manuscript Volume 1 - 17th Century Secular Spanish Vocal Music Isabel Monar (soprano) / Manuel Vilas (Spanish baroque harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] The recently discovered Guerra Manuscript is an anthology of the finest pieces heard in Madrid during the second half of the 17th Century and was probably prepared for a high-ranking noble or member of the Spanish royal family. It contains a hundred... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Cenerentola (Cinderella) (Complete opera) Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) Josa Manuel Zapata (tenor) Paolo Bordogna (baritone) / Prague Chamber Choir / SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslauten / Alberto Zedda [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 18/Dec/2005 ] "A wonderfully spirited live recording of what is probably Rossini's masterpiece. With an ensemble of mostly young singers, where American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in the title role could hardly be bettered." (MusicWeb) |
BUXTEHUDE
Seven Sonatas, Op. 1 BuxWV 252-258 Manfredo Kraemer & Juan Manuel Quintana [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Manfredo Kraemer & Juan Manuel Quintana |
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ESSENTAIL BALLROOM CLASSICS
Essential Ballroom Classics [2 CD set] Manuel amd his orchestra, Gran Orquesta de Profesores Solistas, London Sinfonietta, The John Wilson Orchestra, Wiener Johann Strauss Orchestra, etc [ EMI Essential / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] Over two hours of captivating dance music |
Manuel and the Music of the Mountains
Mountain Carnival [ Jasmine / CD - released 4/Sep/2014 ] The name, Manuel & The Music of the Mountains perhaps strikes up an image of a mysterious Mexican villager with a propensity to romanticise the possible goings-on in distant God-like mountain ranges. However you'd be quite wrong, for Manuel was in... |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto & Harmonica Concerto Manuel Barrueco (guitar), José Staneck (harmonica) São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, OSESP Ensemble, Giancarlo Guerrera [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] "The uniformly first rate performances by members of the São Paulo Symphony are excellently engineered, making the whole disc a joy from start to finish-a true voyage of discovery and delight." 10/10 ClassicsToday |
Manuel El Chachi and Spanish Gypsy
Gypsy Rumba Flamenco [ Arc / CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] Gipsy Kings-inspired 'Flamenco-Rumba'! Catchy and rousing flamenco, as well as more ballad-like songs, oozing passion and swagger, accompanied on guitars, palmas (syncopated clapping), zapateos ('step dance') and various percussion. Information in... |
DAVID BAKER
Singers of Songs: Music with Violoncello Manuel Fischer-Dieskau (cello) [ MDG / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] Dave Baker, the famous jazz trombonist and composer mixes styles, genres, and instrumentations to produce pure joy. Manuel Fischer-Dieskau has now discovered works for us that Baker dedicated to the great cello genius Janos Starker, who recently... |
Manuel Guajiro Mirabal
Buena Vista Social Club Presents Manuel Guajiro Mirabal [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 20/Sep/2004 ] The solo debut from the unmistakable trumpet player of the Buena Vista Social Club. Recommended! |
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Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6
Dulcet Crush [ HatHut Records / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
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Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6
Into The Barn [ HatHut Records / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
