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Nina Simone
You've Got To Learn (Limited Edition LP) [ Verve / LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] The Newport Jazz Festival had always brought the best out of Nina Simone. On July 2, 1966, the audience was treated to the full range of her artistry-from the opener, a breathtaking version of "You've Got To Learn" to a swinging take on "Mississippi... |
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Nina Simone
You've Got To Learn (LP) [ Verve / LP - released 21/Jul/2023 ] The Newport Jazz Festival had always brought the best out of Nina Simone. On July 2, 1966, the audience was treated to the full range of her artistry-from the opener, a breathtaking version of "You've Got To Learn" to a swinging take on "Mississippi... |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
The Very Best of Gershwin Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Nina Simone, Boston Pops orchestra, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, etc [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/1998 ] This European imported 2CD set is a fabulous collection of 28 Gershwin greats including Oscar Peterson "Strike Up the Band"; Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong "Summertime"; Sarah Vaughan "The Man I Love"; Fred Astaire "Funny Face", Audrey Hepburn... |
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Nina Simone
At the Village Gate [ Masterworks Singles / CD - released 15/Jun/2016 ] This edition presents the complete original album At the Village Gate (Colpix SCP421) by the great Nina Simone. It showcases her singing and playing the piano backed by a trio of guitar, bass and drums. Six tracks recorded by Nina at the 1960... |
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Nina Simone
Little Blue Girl [ NEON / CD ] |
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Simone
Traume [ CD - released 16/Jul/2011 ] |
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VIVALDI
Viva! Simone Kermes sings Vivaldi Simone Kermes (soprano) / Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 22/Apr/2012 ] "Kermes's distinctive voice has an appealing smoothness and roundedness of tone…an intensely dramatic personality at work…super-precise coloratura…Kermes's technique is something to marvel at" (Opera Magazine) |
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Au Revoir Simone
Still Night Still Light [ Moshi Moshi / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Poets Of Sensibility Vols 1 & 2 Thomas Bauer (baritone) Simone Nold (soprano) Marcus Ullman (tenor) / Ulrich Eisenlohr (fortepiano) [ Naxos Schubert Lieder Edition Vol 19 / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] |
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LEOS JANACEK
Janáček: From The House of The Dead (complete opera) Bayerische Staatsoper / Peter Rose, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Aleš Briscein, Charles Workman / Simone Young (cond) [ Bel Air DVD / DVD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "The cast is large and too numerous to acknowledge everyone, and there are no weak links. Bo Skovhus scores another career highlight as Šiškov and makes almost a mini-opera of his long scene." Five Stars OperaNow |
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LEOS JANACEK
Janáček: From The House of The Dead (complete opera) BLU-RAY Bayerische Staatsoper / Peter Rose, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Aleš Briscein, Charles Workman / Simone Young (cond) [ Bel Air Blu-ray / DVD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Death is never far away in Leo Janáeks work : in The Cunning Little Vixen, the main character falls under the fire of a hunter, Katia Kabanova kills herself, Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Case has to deal with the hard consequences of eternal youth.... |
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BRETT DEAN
Composer and performer Brett Dean (viola) / Sydney Symphony Orchestra / Simone Young / Hugh Wolff [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "The concerto has plenty of good ideas - a brief, meditative introduction, a vivid hunt of soloist by orchestra, and finally a dank reverie, the elegiac quality of which is suffused with quasi-expressionist angst. Curiously beautiful, somewhat... |
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NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, A Tale Ensemble K; Simone Menezes; Golshifteh Farahani; Kristin Winters [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] This album offers a new approach to the character of Scheherazade, with Rimsky-Korsakov's musical masterpiece transcribed for the forces of Ensemble K and a previously unpublished text, freely adapted from the Thousand and One Nights and ancient love... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, K492 [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete opera) [plus Blu-ray audio] Fanie Antonelou, Christian van Horn, Simone Kermes, Andrei Bondarenko / MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis [ Sony Classics / 4 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Aug/2017 ] "Currentzis's cast has a character and blend of its own. A premium has been put on crackling recitative, deft vocalisation (limited vibrato) and dramatic truthfulness: the sense of ensemble is palpable." Financial Times, 14th February 2014 *****t |
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PONCHIELLI
Concertos Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet) Simone Sommerhalder (oboe) Roland Froscher (euphonium) / Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin, Matthius Foremny [ MDG / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] "The music itself is all appealingly wrought and displays an almost extravagant level of melodic fecundity. Don't expect the sweeping, veristic style of La Gioconda, however...The soloists are all excellent. Giuliano Sommerhalder's clear, open tone... |
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PONCHIELLI
Trumpet Concertos / Gran Capriccio for Oboe / Concertos for Euphonium Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet) / Simone Sommerhalder (oboe) / Roland Fröscher (euphonium) / Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin / Matthias Foremn [ MDG SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/May/2011 ] "Magnificent playing..especially by brand-spanking new Principal Trumpeter of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, 26-year-old Giuliano Sommerhalder, whose astounding technique redounds in every bar, and who approaches this music with a real... |
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DONIZETTI
Don Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 2007) Grand Theatre de Geneve / Patrizia Ciofi / Simone Alaimo / Norman Shankle / Evelino Pido (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / DVD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] G : - "Donizetti's final comic masterpiece dmands velocity, pathos and above all wit. This Don Pasquale from Geneva has them all, and with Evelino Pidò conducting in the pit, it bubbles with excitement." BBC Music Magazine DVD Choice - May 2008 |
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BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major Hamburg Philharmonic, Simone Young [ Oehms Classics / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] It is a bold undertaking indeed nowadays to launch a Bruckner cycle in SACD quality. Dieter Oehms, together with Simone Young and the Hamburg Philharmonic, have succeeding it bringing it off! The climax of this extraordinarily fruitful and congenial... |
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BRUCKNER
Symphony No 0 Hamburg Philharmonic, Simone Young [ Oehms Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "[Young] presides over a conscientious, deeply considered reading, beautifully played by her Hamburg orchestra" (Gramophone) |
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WILLIAM YOUNG
An Englishman Abroad: Works for Viola da Gamba Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert [ CPO / CD - released 20/Jun/2012 ] |