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Mark Ronson
Late Night Feelings [ Columbia / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Late Night Feelings is emotionally complex and personal, and has been described by Ronson as a collection of "sad bangers". It comes after a landmark year, with Ronson collecting an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award for his work with Lady... |
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Mark Turner
Return From The Stars [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2022 ] Mark Turner's writing for his quartet on Return from the Stars (titled after Stanislav Lem's science fiction novel) gives the players plenty of space in which to move, on an album both exhilarating and thoughtful in its arc of expression. Solos flow... |
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Richard Nunns / Mark Lockett
Redaction [ Rattle Records / CD - released 26/Jun/2015 ] Redaction, featuring renowned taonga pūoro exponent Richard Nunns, one of our longest serving and most consistently adventurous artists, was conceived first and foremost as an art-project. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Gloriana (complete opera recorded in June 2013) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Susan Bullock, Toby Spence, Patricia Bardon, Mark Stone, Kate Royal / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Nov/2013 ] "At its moments of greatest drama and pathos this 2013 production is undeniably effective." (MusicWeb) |
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GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers (complete opera recorded in 2025) BLU-RAY Scottish Opera / William Morgan, Mark Nathan, Richard Suart, Ellie Laugharne, Sioned Gwen Davies, Yvonne Howard / Derek Clark (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Aug/2025 ] The Gondoliers, the twelfth of fourteen operas from Gilbert & Sullivan, has been an audience favourite since its 1889 premiere. The tunes are infectious, the romantic and family conflicts heartfelt, and the satire of rank and station constantly... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Complete Songs: An 1815 Schubertiad (II) Simon Keenlyside (bar), Patricia Rozario (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley (ten), Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Graham Johnson (p [ Hyperion Complete Schubert Edition Vol 22 / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] 'This is an archive of glorious Lieder singing as much as it is a definitive treasury of the greatest Lieder ever composed' (The Guardian). |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The Gadfly (complete score of the 1955 film) Bachchor Mainz, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Mark Fitz-Gerald [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2018 ] Set in mid-nineteenth-century Italy during a turbulent period of pre-Unification political unrest, The Gadfly drew from Shostakovich one of his most dazzling and popular film scores, heard hitherto on record only in a suite arranged and... |
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GEORGE BENJAMIN
A Mind of Winter / Antara BBC Symphony, Mark Elder / London Sinfonietta, George Benjamin [ Nimbus Records / CD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] "I love Mars Bars, I hate Wagner and I want to record your music!" With this memorable introductory gambit delivered to George Benjamin on New Year's Eve 1979, the founder of Nimbus, Count Alexander Numa Labinsky, began a twenty year exclusive... |
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BELLINI / GLINKA / LOEWE / MENDELSSOHN / NIEDERMEYER / etc
Decades: A Century of Song - Volume 2, 1820-1830 John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Luis Gomes (tenor), Robin Tritschler (tenor) Anush Hovhanissyan (soprano) Sarah Connolly (mezzo) Christopher Maltman (bass) [ Vivat / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] "The second instalment in a perceptively assembled and uncommonly interesting survey of art songs" MusicWeb International, May 2017 |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRAHMS / McIVOR / MOZART / BRITTEN / LALLOUTTE / etc
How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings The Choir of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, Mark Shepherd [ Guild / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] A choir founded in 1123 at the England parish church St. Mary in the town of Warwick. |
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ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Humperdinck: Moorish Rhapsody / Sleeping Beauty / etc Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Fischer-Dieskau [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Humperdinck wrote his Moorish Rhapsody in 1898 and it was first performed at the Leeds Festival in that year. "The Elegy at Sunset" (Elegie bei Sonnenuntergang), set at Tarifa, is gently evocative, something of a Moorish atmosphere created by the use... |
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DONALD SWANN
Swann: Songs Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Christopher Glynn (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] "this is a continually fascinating and diverse selection...The real star of the show is Christopher Glynn, for whom the project has evidently been a labour of love." Gramophone |
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Mark De Clive Lowe, Shigeto, Melanie Charles
Hotel San Claudio [ Soul Bank / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Revered composer, pianist, DJ and two decade-long bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe (MdCL), links up with influential drummer/producer/DJ, Shigeto and Brooklyn-based, Haitian-rooted, flautist/songwriter and Verve Records... |
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Mark De Clive Lowe / Shigeto / Melanie Charles
Hotel San Claudio (LP) [ Soul Bank / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Revered composer, pianist, DJ and acknowledged bridge between jazz, dance and hip-hop, Mark de Clive-Lowe links up with jazz vocalist/flautist Melanie Charles and Detroit drummer/producer & DJ, Shigeto on Hotel San Claudio, a collaborative LP of... |
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ERIC WHITACRE / FINZI / MENDELSSOHN / PURCELL / WEELKES / etc
The Lover's Ghost: A selection of European & American Choral Music Coro, Mark Griffiths [ Dal Segno / CD - released 19/Apr/2015 ] Coro was formed in September 2000 as a London-based chamber choir for young professionals. Under the direction of Mark Griffiths, Coro competed against 45 choirs from around the world to become the first Western European choir to win the Grand Prix... |
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GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: The Complete Songs Vol 1 (Includes, L'horizon chimerique Op 118) Felicity Lott, Jennifer Smith, Geraldine McGreevy, Stella Doufexis, sopranos, John Mark Ainsley, tenor, Christopher Maltman, baritone, Graham Johnson [ Hyperion / CD - released 11/Feb/2005 ] "Two views on an auspicious start to what could be a defining cycle" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine March 2005 |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Billy Budd (complete operetta recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / John Mark Ainsley, Jacques Imbrailo, Phillip Ens / Mark Elder (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "..this is the most compelling Billy Budd on video, and superb in Blu-ray." (DVD Choice - July 2011 BBC Music *****) |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Falstaff / Cello Concerto / Romance for Bassoon / Smoking Cantata Halle Orchestra / Mark Elder / Graham Salvage with Heinrich Schiff (cello) & Andrew Shore (bassoon) [ Halle / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "The playing is glorious, and the recording does it full justice; what what really makes this Falstaff outstanding is Mark Elder's engagement with the musical storyline. A pleasant performance of the Romance is followed by a truly remarkable... |
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BAX / BRIDGE / DELIUS
English Spring Halle Orchestra, Mark Elder [ ASV Halle / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "...a truly cherishable account of a great work to crown a collection that bids fair to be one of my records of the year." (Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Orchestral) |
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LUKAS FOSS
Foss: Song Of Anguish / Elegy for Anne Frank / etc (with Beaser: The Heavenly Feast) James Maddalena (baritone), Kevin McCutcheon (piano), Mark Wilde (tenor), Constance Hauman (sop) / Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 31/Oct/2005 ] "..on the list was a real discovery for me, and a stunner it is, too, from the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music: Robert Beaser's one-act opera The Heavenly Feast, coupled with a differently themed but equally powerful Song of Anguish by Lukas... |