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TAVENER
Choral Ikons The Choir / James Whitbourn [ Opus Arte CD / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "James Whitbourn's singers, seasoned yet still young, robustly engage with compositions that many groups treat with bloodless reverence...Those who like their Tavener pure and ethereal should not be deterred from tasting The Choir's more muscular... |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman recorded in 1968 at the Royal Festival Hall, London) Theo Adam / Anja Silja / Martti Talvela / James King / BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer [ Testament / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2008 ] Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine October 2008 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Clarinet Hive - Clarinet Ensemble Music Theodore Schoen, Laura Ardan, Ricardo Morales, James Ognibene, Timothy Paradise, Evan Ziporyn (clarinets) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] Taking its name from Evan Ziporyn's Hive, which grew out of the composer's experience as a beekeeper, this album brings together an engaging selection of pieces for solo clarinet and clarinet ensembles of various sizes. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete oratorio) Marjanne Kweksilber, James Bowman, Paul Elliott & Gregory Reinhart / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & The Sixteen, Ton Koopman [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 6/Apr/2009 ] |
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HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR
Hancock's Half Hour: The Lift / Twelve Angry Men Tony Hancock with Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques & Bill Kerr [ BBC Audio / CD - released 4/Feb/2010 ] Two television soundtracks from the BBC's memorable series Hancock's Half Hour by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson starring Tony Hancock, Sid James and John Le Mesurier. In 'The Lift', Hancock gets stuck in a lift at the BBC with eight other people.. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios & Triple Concerto Trio Wanderer, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, James Conlon [ Harmonia Mundi / 5 CD - released 30/Sep/2022 ] This set assembles for the first time the Beethoven legacy of the Trio Wanderer: the group's superb interpretation of the Triple Concerto is now presented alongside its masterly recording of the composer's complete original works for piano trio, a... |
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BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto Trio Wanderer, Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker, James Conlon, [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] A concerto for four? The Triple Concerto may well be one of Beethoven's most enigmatic works: some commentators have seen it as no more than a vast rhapsody intented to show off the virtuosity of three hand-picked soloists. But when a piano trio that... |
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CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano) Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, James Conlon [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] When Nobuyuki Tsujii rose from the piano, having completed his performance at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, audience members leapt to their feet and jurors were moved to tears by his passionate interpretation of Chopin's... |
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MARK HAGERTY / TWIN POETS
Hagerty: United Sounds of America University of Delaware Symphony Orchestra, James Allen Anderson, Twin Poets, Makeda Hampton, Jonathan Whitney, Oksana Glouchko [ Delos / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] united sounds of america melds the power and rhythms of street poetry with the expressive capacity of the symphony orchestra to bring urgent social questions to the symphonic stage. united sounds is not a traditional musical work, nor is it one... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
American Choral Music University of Texas Chamber Singers / James Morrow [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] American choral music has many faces and, while aware of tradition, often looks resolutely towards the future. Vincent Persichetti's Mass envelops an original cantus firmus in a shimmering silken garment of ever-shifting harmonies, while Lukas Foss... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto & Violin Sonata No. 1 Vadim Gluzman (violin) / Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan, with Angela Yoffe (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 22/May/2017 ] One of Johannes Brahms's sunniest works, the Violin Concerto in D major was conceived during the summer of 1878, which Brahms spent by the idyllic Wörthersee in Kärnten, Austria. By the end of the summer he was able to send the violin part of the... |
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James Moody/Paul Horn/Lou Donaldson/Jimmy Woods
Alto Sax - Four Classic Albums (Last Train From Overbrook/Something Blue/Sunny Side Up/Awakening) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 6/Apr/2018 ] AVID Jazz is proud to introduce an exciting new addition to our Four Classic Album series, Four Classic Jazz Instrumentalists. We continue with Four Classic Jazz Alto Saxophonists, a re-mastered 2CD set complete with original artwork, liner notes and... |
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Trio Con Brio / Nalley, James ao.
Kubík, Ladislav - Chamber Music III [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen [The Ring of the Nibelungen] (recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Deborah Voigt, Bryn Terfel, Jonas Kaufmann / James Levine, Fabio Luisi (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / 5 Blu-ray Box Set - released 18/Oct/2012 ] The most famous, the most performed, the most thrilling, and the most recorded opera cycle in music history. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Operas [incls 'Peter Grimes', 'The Turn of the Screw' & 'Billy Budd'] Various Artists incls Pop Wagner, James Bowman, Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Elisabeth Comeaux Nelson, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Felicity Lott [ Erato Classics / 13 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2019 ] Gramophone Awards 1988 Winner - Opera |
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BURGON / DUBRA / MacMILLAN / MAW / TAVENER / etc
Dreamland: Contemporary choral riches from the Hyperion catalogue [special price] Various Artists (Including Holst Singers, Polyphony, Stephen Layton, Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] A new and intriguing sampler features a selection of pieces from Hyperion's extensive and varied choral collection. This disc seeks to give a flavour of the contemporary choral music recorded by Hyperion over the last decade. Whilst on one level it... |
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SEBASTIAN KNUPFER
Sacred Music Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram, Lisa Beckley, James Bowman, Robin Blaze, etc / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] 'Robert King draws fine singing and playing from his ensemble. The soloists are uniformly excellent ... Knüpfer is a real discovery - full marks to all concerned.' - International Record Review |
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JOHN CORIGLIANO / WILLIAM HOFFMAN
The Ghosts of Versailles Victoria Livengood, So Young Park, Vanessa Becerra, Peabody Southwell, Frederick Ballentine, Patti LuPone / LA Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Conlon [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to celebrate its 100th anniversary, John Corigliano's The Ghost of Versailles received its premiere at the Met in 1991, twelve years after it had been commissioned and eight years past the centennial season for... |