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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Organ Music from Guildford Cathedral, The Albert Hall, Nottingham, Coventry Cathedral and Kidderminster Town Hall Philip Moore, Michael Overbury, Christopher Bowers Broadbent and Andrew Millington (organists) [ Priory LP Archive Series Vol 4 / CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] "...Priory contines to admirable project of remastering the best of its LP recordings from the 1980s and making them available as CDs...all played brilliantly by Christopher Bowers Broadbent...all brilliantly captured by Priory's very capable... |
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HARRY BURLEIGH / WILLIAM Levi DAWSON / FLORENCE PRICE / WILLIAM Grant STILL
DVOŘÁK'S PROPHECY - Film 3: The Souls of Black Folk and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music Kevin Deas, Arthur Fagan, James Jeter, Roderick Cox, Joseph Horowitz, Michael Morgan, George Shirley [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] If George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess embodies a glorious (and controversial) fulfilment of Dvořák's prophecy, there also exists a buried lineage of exceptional compositions by Black composers following in Dvořák's wake. |
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KAKABDSE
The Phantom Listeners / Arabian Rhapsody Suite / The Mermaid Kit Hesketh-Harvey (narrator) / Emma Brain-Gabbott (soprano) / Clare McCaldin (mezzo) / Michael Bundy (baritone) / Instrumentalists / George V [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Of Georgian/Russian and Greek/Austrian parentage, British composer Lydia Kakabadse has a number of music theatre, vocal, choral and chamber works to her credit. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Overtures Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/Jan/2024 ] "The Kölner Akademie is in period instrument guise, and the sound is of ten suitably thrilling and zippy" BBC Music |
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E.T.A. HOFFMANN
Symphony in E flat major & Overtures Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens [ CPO / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] E. T. A. Hoffmann is one of the great writers of German romanticism. This month, CPO release his two overtures Undine and Aurora and his Symphony in E flat major. The Symphony is hailed as one of his greatest works, and this gem shines in this... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Serenades - 'Haffner' Kölner Akademie / Michael Alexander Willens, with Alexander Janiczek (violin solo) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] "Rhythms are nicely pointed, the phrasing elegant but never precious, and the ensemble sonority never turns crude in pursuit of "authenticity."...The engineering, as so often with BIS, is ideal." ClassicsToday |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The Very Best of Shostakovich Konstantin Scherbakov (Piano) Michael Houstoun (Piano) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Conductor) Ilya Kaler (Violin) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/May/2006 ] "As an introduction to the composer's work, it gives a wide-ranging and typical selection, which is in itself some achievement." (MusicWeb August 2006) |
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Korstick Michael
Beethoven: Complete Piano Sona [ Oehms Classics / 10 CD - released 27/Nov/2012 ] |
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Korstick, Michael
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 4 [ Oehms Classics / Hybrid SACD - released 27/Nov/2012 ] |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Krassimira Stoyanova / Lioba Braun / Michael Schade / Michael Volle / Chor-und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons [ BR Klassik SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "The key to Jansons's reading is its clarity and understated intensity, the stripping away of all extraneous gesture and, in the finale, of any hint of easy triumphalism." (Gramophone) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Stopping By: American Songs Kyle Bielfield (tenor), Lachlan Glen (piano) & Michael Samis (cello) [ Delos / CD - released 15/Jan/2014 ] Outstanding tenor and recent Juilliard School graduate Kyle Bielfield has lost no time in making quite a name for himself in the realms of opera and art song alike. In his debut recording, he offers a collection of outstanding American art songs |
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things 2: Original Soundtrack [ Invada / CD - released 8/Dec/2017 ] |
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things Volume Two [ Invada / CD - released 11/Nov/2016 ] The spellbinding, synth-heavy soundtrack to Netflix's 1980s-set smash hit horror 'Stranger Things'. With its pillowy synth-pads and rich textures, the soundtrack to volume 2 seamlessly wanders through the 80s world of 'Stranger Things', breeding... |
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things Volume Two (Double LP) [ Invada / 2 LP - released 11/Nov/2016 ] The spellbinding, synth-heavy soundtrack to Netflix's 1980s-set smash hit horror 'Stranger Things'. With its pillowy synth-pads and rich textures, the soundtrack to volume 2 seamlessly wanders through the 80s world of 'Stranger Things', breeding... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
L'Orfeo (Complete opera filmed in 1997) Muziektheater Amsterdam / John Mark Ainsley, Juanita Lascarro, Michael Chance, Brigitte Balleys / Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "Simply the most compelling account of L'Orfeo yet produced...John Mark Ainsley is simply superb as Orfeo…" BBC Music Magazine |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
The Complete Wind Concertos La Stagione Frankfurt, Camerata Köln, Michael Schneider [ CPO / 8 CD - released 17/Aug/2015 ] Telemann's Wind Concertos - Complete! Telemann wrote instrumental concertos for all the wind instruments of his epoch - for example, for oboe and oboe d'amore and for transverse flute, recorder, and flauto pastorale. Since he could play most of these... |
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TELEMANN
Wind Concertos Vol. 6 La Stagione Frankfurt / Camerata Koeln, Michael Schneider [ CPO Records / CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] Volume 6 of Cpo's successful Telemann Wind Concerto series continues with La Stagione Frankfurt under its proven conductor Michael Schneider. Included on this disc is the "Concerto polonaise" performed by the Camerata Köln. |
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FRANZ IGNAZ BECK
Beck: 9 Symphonies La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider [ CPO / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Jun/2019 ] Beck emerges as a true progressive and individualist, projecting the expressive resources of his time far into the future. |
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TELEMANN
Wind Concertos Vol. 7 La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider [ CPO Records / CD - released 20/May/2012 ] |
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TELEMANN
Wind Concertos Volume 2 La Stagione Frankfurt / Michael Schneider (conductor) [ CPO / CD - released 15/Feb/2009 ] CPO returns with volume two of CPO's complete Telemann wind concertos. The five concertos featured on this disc reflect the broad instrumental and stylistic spectrum over which Telemann ranged. |