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Mark Vincent
Best So Far [ Sony CD / CD - released 24/Oct/2014 ] At the age of 15 Mark Vincent was the 2009 winner of Australia's Got Talent. Since then he has gone on to release five hugely successful albums. Each of his releases has achieved a #1 spot on the classical chart as well as topping the ARIA album... |
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CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan: Grande Sonate, Op.33 / Trois Morceaux dans le genre, Pathétique Op.15; Mark Viner Mark Viner (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2020 ] "And whether or not you care for Alkan's music, here is a disc of piano-playing out of the top drawer." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2020 |
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CECILE CHAMINADE
Chaminade: Piano Music Mark Viner (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] "A charming listen. Chaminade is an unsung hero of her time, and this disc showcases just how colourful her music is. Mark Viner plays with panache, his renditions light and sensitive." BBC Music |
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SIGISMOND THALBERG
Thalberg: Opera Fantasies Mark Viner (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] A swashbuckling extravaganza of nineteenth century pianism and a veritable contribution to Romantic Revivalism. This, Mark Viner's début recording, presents the operatic paraphrases of the neglected pianistācomposer Sigismond Thalberg, aristocratic... |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes (The Card Game) / Danses concertantes / Capriccio Mark Wait (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / St. Luke's Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 9 / CD - released 4/Jan/2008 ] "This compilation of material previously issued on Koch International Classics...continues Robert Craft's highly regarded series of Stravinsky works for Naxos. If you didn't purchase these earlier at full price, now is the time to take advantage of... |
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Mark Walton
Fretless [ Sonamax / CD - released 7/Dec/2007 ] After many years performing around the world as a DJ, plus numerous tours with Resin Dogs, Mark Walton finally makes his highly anticipated album 'Fretless', a reality. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Complete Scottish Songs Mark Wilde (tenor) / Lucy Wakeford (harp), David owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2011 ] "The mood is mostly bleak, haunted and haunting: this is Britten at his most austerely romantic and melancholy." (Daily Telegraph) |
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RONALD CORP
String Quartets / Country Matters Mark Wilde (tenor) / Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "The First Quartet, which draws its inspiration from the character and habitat of that noble bird the bustard, is, like its companion piece, well made and securely in an English tradition voiced with supple energy." (Dailt Telegraph) |
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RODERICK ELMS
Festive Frolic: A celebration of Christmas Mark Wilde (tenor) Stuart Nicholson (organ) Joyful Company of Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Stephen Bell [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] Roderick Elms' Christmas music ranges from charming and witty arrangements of well-loved traditional carols to new settings and festive orchestral pieces written for this very special season. The charm and immediate appeal of his music has been... |
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Mark Writz
Writz and Music [ Fantastic Voyage / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2016 ] Mark Wirtz (born 1943 in Strasbourg) came to prominence in the British music scene of the sixties as a producer and composer. Working as an in-house producer for EMI from 1967, his biggest success was "Excerpt From A Teenage Opera" a psych-pop epic... |
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Mark Wonder & Friends
The Stories of Mark Wonder & Friends [ Irie Music / CD - released 11/Apr/2011 ] |
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ELLIOT CARTER
Carter: Symphony 1 / Piano Concerto Mark Wait (piano) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] "Early and middle-period Carter at his most accessible and challenging." (BBC Music) |
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SYLVESTER LEVAY / MICHAEL KUNZE
Levay: Elisabeth (complete musical recorded at the Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, July 2022) Maya Hakvoort, Abla Alaoui, Mark Seibert, David Jakobs, Daniela Ziegler / Orchester der Vereinigten Bühnen Wien, Michael Römer [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] For a lot of tour groups from the Far East, this can even be their main motive for visiting Austria. This is just one example of the success that the musical by dream team Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay has enjoyed since its 1992 premiere. |
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COLON NANCARROW
Nancarrow: Pieces for Small Orchestra / Tango? / String Quartet No. 1 Mia Wu (violin) Mark Steinberg (violin) Rachel Evans (viola) Maria Kitsopoulos, cello / Cheryl Seltzer (piano) Joel Sachs (piano) etc [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] The United States has spawned numerous composers so original that they were initially rejected as eccentrics. Among the best known are Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Lou Harrison. For many years, rumours told of another such musician,... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Great British Choral Works Michael Chance, Michael George & Mark Padmore / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 20/Oct/2011 ] Since they were founded in 1979 Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have recorded over 100 discs of choral music spanning 600 years. On this new collection, CORO presents a selection of their most celebrated recordings of music by British composers. |
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HANDEL / RAMEAU / RITTLER
Light Divine: Baroque music for treble and ensemble The MIN Ensemble, Aksel Rykkvin (treble), Mark Bennett (trumpet & artistic director) [ Signum / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] The prodigious Norwegian treble Aksel Rykkvin returns to disc on Signum with a new disc of Baroque works, accompanying the MIN Ensemble under trumpeter Mark Bennett and the ensemble director Lazar Miletic. Featuring both instrumental pieces and... |
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Morphine / Mark Sandman
Cure For Pain: The Mark Sandman Story (DVD + CD) [ Gatling Pictures / 2 DVD/CD - released 14/Dec/2012 ] Rating TBC: |
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MIKHAIL GLINKA
"Kamarinskaya" Orchestral Dances Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mark Ermler, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Konstantin Ivanov [ Alto / CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "almost 80 minutes of Russian-sourced dance music by Glinka and all in vivacious, colourful and spatially well-upholstered recordings. Ballet recordings conducted by Ermler are already well known. Here we are treated to the pointedly delicate, airily... |
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ALFRED SCHNITTKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schnittke: Quasi Una Sonata / Piano Trio / Piano Sonata No 2 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello/conductor) Mark Lubotsky (violin) Irina Schnittke (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra [ Sony / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "Quasi una sonata remains one of the composer's seminal pieces in either of its versions, marking the debut of his celebrated 'polystylism' and his breakaway from the avant-garde. Stravinsky, serialism and Bach rub shoulders in a fiery performance by... |
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J.S. BACH
Lutheran Masses, Vol 2 (BWV529 & 236) Nancy Agenta (soprano) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) Mark Padmore (ten) Peter Harvey (basses) / Purcell Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/2000 ] 'The Singers balance beautifully… and oboes shadowed their parts and thicken the texture. Everyone bounced along in autonomous counterpoint.' Evening Standard on the concert of this recording |