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Jakob Bro (guitar) with Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jon Christensen (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass)
Returnings [ ECM / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] "Danish guitarist Jakob Bro creates magical music, impossible to categorize", wrote Downbeat recently. On 'Returnings' the magic is intensified as Bro and musical soul-mate Thomas Morgan reconnect with two living legends of European jazz, trumpeter... |
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WAGNER
Wagner Heroes James McCracken (tenor) Matthias Goerne (baritone) Tom Krause (bass-baritone) James King (tenor) Ernst Haefliger (tenor) Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] This is a 50-year retrospective (1950 - 2000) of great Wagner singing on Decca and Deutsche Grammophon featuring twelve extracts from eight operas (including all four operas of the Ring cycle) with nine great singers. Wagner's knowledge of heroes... |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No.13 'Babi Yar' Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass) / Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / Netherlands Radio Choir / Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] "A prime recommendation for an SACD version of this many-facetted symphony…This is thanks to the tremendous sound and the singing of Rootering and the Netherlands Radio singers excels." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Sept 2006) |
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DVORAK
Stabat Mater [recorded live in 2010] Janice Watson (soprano) Dagmar Peckova (mezzo) Peter Auty (tenor) Peter Rose (bass) / London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Neeme Jarvi [ LPO Live / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] |
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EDUARD TUBIN
Tubin: Double Bass Concerto / Violin Concerto No. 2 / etc Hakan Ehren (double bass) Gustavo Garcia (violin) / Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jan/1987 ] Tubin was born in Torila, Tartu County, Governorate of Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire. Both his parents were music lovers, and his father played trombone in the village band. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
The very best of Beethoven: Excerpts from orchestral, concertos and chamber and piano works Jay Baylon (bass-baritone) Diane Elias (contralto) Robert Holzer (bass-baritone) Jeno Jando (piano) Maria Kliegel (cello) and many others [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
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ROSSINI
Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri [The Italian Girl in Algiers] (highlights in English) Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone), Alastair Miles (bass) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Brad Cohen [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The latest instalment in the lauded Chandos Opera in English label is Rossini's The Italian Girl of Algiers. One of Rossini's most wonderful comic operas, it has a plot full of wit, warmth and endearing craziness and music bubbling with fun and laughter. |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No.14 Op.135 for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra Joan Rodgers (soprano) John Tomlinson (bass) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Mark Wigglesworth [ BIS / CD - released 10/Apr/2005 ] "Mark Wigglesworth delivers an exceptionally coherent interpretation supported by fine and idiomatic singing from both soloists...compelling...shattering." - Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music (Oct 2001) |
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HANS SOMMER
Sommer: Lied Edition, Vol 1 Jochen Kupfer (bass-baritone), Marcelo Amaral (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Hans Sommer was a respected composer in his day and achieved widespread popularity with his songs, especially the melodic and catchy pieces in Op. 4 and Op. 5. One biographer described him as 'a direct predecessor of Hugo Wolf... the lines that start... |
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HANS SOMMER
Sommer: Lied Edition, Vol. 2 Jochen Kupfer (bass-baritone) Marcelo Amaral (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jan/2022 ] Hans Sommer's career initially involved science and mathematics, but his affinity for music was apparent from an early age. He became associated with Wagner and Liszt, achieving respect as a theatre composer and gaining widespread popularity with his... |
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Joe Morris Bass Quartet
High Definition [ HatHut Records / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
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GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Music for Double Bass and Piano, Vol. 1 Joel Quarrington (double bass) Andrew Burashko (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Mar/2008 ] "Bass players and fans of the instrument will surely be pleased with Toronto Symphony principal bassist Joel Quarrington's intensely lyrical work, and this CD includes several items not listed in other current compilations." (Fanfare) |
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GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Music for Double Bass and Piano, Vol. 2 Joel Quarrington, Harold Hall Robinson (double bass) Andrew Burashko (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Mar/2008 ] Giovanni Bottesini enjoyed a globe-trotting career as "the Paganini of the double bass". He was also a successful conductor and a composer, although only the music he wrote for his own instrument has outlived him. Many of the works on this recording... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Symphonies (with works by Rodrigo, Berlioz & Strauss) [recorded 2012-14] Johan Reuter (bass) Pepe Romero (guitar) / Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos [ Dacapo Blu-ray / 3 Blu-ray Box Set - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "It's a really gorgeous performance" American Record Guide |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Johanna Winkel (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo-soprano), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor), Arttu Kataja (bass), Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Stuttgart Chamber Cho [ Naxos / DVD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Beethoven's Missa solemnis is the one work the composer admired above all his compositions. It was written for his great patron and friend Archduke Rudolf of Austria at around the same time that he embarked on his Ninth Symphony and as the writer... |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Blu-ray) Johanna Winkel (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo-soprano), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor), Arttu Kataja (bass), Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Stuttgart Chamber Cho [ Naxos / Blu-ray - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Beethoven's Missa solemnis is the one work the composer admired above all his compositions. It was written for his great patron and friend Archduke Rudolf of Austria at around the same time that he embarked on his Ninth Symphony and as the writer... |
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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Piano Trio, Violin Sonatina & Double Bass Sonata Johannes Moser (cello), Elisaveta Blumina (piano), Kolja Blacher (violin) Nabil Shehata (double bass) Ezez Ofer (violin) [ CPO / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "Nabil Shehata performs with distinction the twenty-minute Sonata for double bass." MusicWeb International, 13th May 2014 |
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J.S. BACH
Cantatas for Trinity-O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort. Johannette Zomer (sop) Ingeborg Danz (alto) Peter Kooy (bass) / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe, dir. / cond. [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 30/Jul/2005 ] "Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale...the most stylistically consistent and musically reliable interpreters of this repertoire. Impeccable performances." David Vernier ClassicsToday.com |
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JOHN DOWLAND
Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland John Holloway (violin, viola) Monika Baer (violin, viola) Renate Steinmann (violin) Susanna Hefti (viola) Martin Zeller (bass violin) [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Apr/2014 ] "it's a ravishing listening experience, exactly the right length, played and recorded stunningly. ECM's notes are up to their usual standards, both as education and entertainment." (10/10 ClassicsToday July 2014) |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Jephtha - oratorio in three acts John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Michael George (bass) Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano) RIA Kammerchor . Akademie fer Alte Musik Berlin. Marcus Creed [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "this new recording, at super budget price, allows us to appreciate a new team of soloists. And for those who do not know this moving work, this new recording is a good place to start exploring." (MusicWeb July 2003) |