BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Still Falls The Rain Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano), Jennifer Montone (horn), Sivan Magen (harp) & Alan Cumming (narrator) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Sep/2012 ] "The tenor turns in a first-class performance, and pianist Myra Huang lends the songs personality throughout. More please!" (BBC Music) |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / MOZART / MENDELSSOHN / WAGNER / etc
Otto Klemperer - The Warner Classics Remastered Edition Otto Klemperer (conductor) with Daniel Barenboim, Alan Civil, Yehudi Menuhin, Janet Baker, Dennis Brain, Annie Fischer, Christa Ludwig, etc [ Warner Classics / 95 CD Box Set - released 2/Jun/2023 ] The German-born conductor Otto Klemperer, a towering figure in the musical history of the 20th century, died at the age of 88 on July 8th 1973, so 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of his death. |
ALAN HOVHANESS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hovhaness: Symphony No 50 "Mount St. Helens" / Symphony No 22 "City Of Light" Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz & Alan Hovhaness [ Delos / CD - released 2/Feb/1993 ] "Although he has been stereotyped as a self-consciously Armenian composer, his output assimilates the music of many cultures. What may be most American about all of it is the way it turns its materials into a kind of exoticism." Boston Globe |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
50 Best Handel Various Artists incls Arleen Auger, Max Emaanuel Cencic, Alan Curtis, Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, Emmanuelle Haim, Richard Hickox, etc [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 4/Apr/2011 ] This 3 CD set offers an impressive assortment of well-known and beloved works by one of the greatest Baroque composer, Georg Friedrich Handel. This collection features performances by prestigious artists of some of his best loved works including... |
Various Artists including Monty Python, Flanders & Swann, Spike Milligan, Woody Allen, Ben Elton, Alan Partridge, etc.
I Love Comedy: 62 tracks of side-splitting laughter [ EMI / Virgin Records / 3 CD Box Set - released 23/Jun/2008 ] This triple disc set features 62 cuts of fun material from the likes of Monty Python, Woody Allen, Billy Connolly, the Goons, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Morecambe & Wise, Harry Enfeld, Dead Ringers, and Spike Milligan. |
Alan Jackson
Angels and Alcohol [ ACR / CD - released 29/Jul/2015 ] This is Country Superstar Alan Jackson's first studio album in three years of all new music. He wrote seven of the ten tracks on the album, and it was produced by long time collaborator and friend Keith Segall, who has produced all but one of... |
Alan Vega
Mutator [ Sacred Bones / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] A never-before-heard full-length recorded by legendary NYC musician Alan Vega (Suicide) in the mid '90s with his frequent collaborator Liz Lamere - Mutator is the first release in the Alan Vega Vault series on Sacred Bones. |
Alan Vega
Mutator (LP) [ Sacred Bones / LP - released 23/Apr/2021 ] A never-before-heard full-length recorded by legendary NYC musician Alan Vega (Suicide) in the mid '90s with his frequent collaborator Liz Lamere - Mutator is the first release in the Alan Vega Vault series on Sacred Bones. |
Alan Vega
Mutator (Dark Red Coloured LP) [ Sacred Bones / LP - released 23/Apr/2021 ] A never-before-heard full-length recorded by legendary NYC musician Alan Vega (Suicide) in the mid '90s with his frequent collaborator Liz Lamere - Mutator is the first release in the Alan Vega Vault series on Sacred Bones, collecting rare and... |
Curtis Salgado / Alan Hager
Rough Cut [ Alligator / CD - released 12/Jan/2018 ] Six original songs imbued with the spirit of the blues' greatest traditions and seven vibrant takes on classic tunes by Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Son House and more. From front porch acoustic finger-picking to swaggering Chicago shuffles and dark,... |
Alan Project Parsons
Vulture Culture (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 31/Oct/2013 ] The subject of this album from 1980 centers around the age-old temptation of gambling and its stranglehold on the human psyche. With two of the Alan Parsons Project's best songs, the lovely ballad "Time" and the wavy-sounding "Games People Play," The... |
Alan Jackson
34 Number Ones [ Arista Records / 2 CD ] |
Alan Broadbent
Developing Story [ Eden River Records / CD - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Alan Broadbent is a musician's musician. As a pianist, composer, arranger and conductor, his work has tremendously enhanced albums by Woody Herman, Natalie Cole, Charlie Haden's Quartet West and Sir Paul McCartney. Broadbent wrote orchestrations for... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Academy of St Martin in the Fields - 60th Anniversary Edition Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, Iona Brown & Joshua Bell, with Alan Loveday (violin) [ Decca Collectors Edition / 60 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2019 ] This new Edition, an exciting new collaboration between Decca and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, celebrates the Academy's international reputation for its distinctive, polished and refined sound through a selection of 60 recordings from... |
Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader (Read by Alan Bennett) [ BBC Radio Collection / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2007 ] When the Queen chases a straying corgi through the grounds of Buckingham Palace, she happens upon the City of Westminster travelling library, and begins a journey of discovery. |
Alan Bown
The Alan Bown [ Esoteric / CD - released 30/Mar/2010 ] |
Alan Bown
Listen [ Esoteric / CD - released 27/Apr/2010 ] |
Alan Bown
Stretching Out [ Esoteric / CD - released 27/Apr/2010 ] |
Alan Broadbent
Every Time I Think Of You [ Artistry Music / CD ] |
Alan Broadbent
You And The Night And The Music [ Artistry / CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] The two-time Grammy winning arranger for Natalie Cole and Charlie Haden is used to working with big band charts and multi-harmonic orchestral arrangements, but at heart he's a pianist with a great love for standards and all things jazz. |