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CARL MARIA von WEBER / JOHANNES BRAHMS / JOSEF HOLBROOKE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weber/Brahms/Holbrooke: Clarinet Works Reginald Kell (clarinet) / Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr, with Louis Kentner (piano) & Anthony Pini (cello) [ Testament / CD - released 1/Jan/1991 ] Reginald Clifford Kell was an English clarinettist. He was noted especially for his career as a soloist and chamber music player. He was the principal clarinettist in leading British orchestras, including the London Philharmonic and Philharmonia. |
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J. S. BACH
Cantatas Nos BWV140 & BWV147 Ruth Holton (soprano) Michael Chance (alto) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) / English Baroque Soloists / Sir John Elliot Gardiner [ DG Archiv / CD - released 21/Oct/2000 ] "The solo singing is by and large excellent. I very much enjoyed the unpretentious vocal quality of Ruth Holton" (Gramophone) |
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ENNIO PORRINO
Porrino: I Shardana (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Lirico di Cagliari / Manrico Signorini, Angelo Villari, Gianpiero Ruggeri, Domenico Balzani / Anthony Bramall (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2015 ] Porrino's drama mirrors a period in archaeology when Nuragic Sardinia was discussed even in non-specialist circles, with the island's bronze statuettes and megaliths recalling a primeval society at the origins of European civilization. |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Coronation Ode, Op.44 / The Spirit of England, Op.80 Teresa Cahill (sop) Anne Collins (alto) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 1/Sep/1992 ] "Gibson's performances combine fire and panache, and the recorded sound has an ideal Elgarian expansiveness, the choral tone rich and well focused, the orchestral brass given plenty of weight." Penguin Guide |
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Anthony David
Love Out Loud [ Dome / CD - released 9/Nov/2012 ] |
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Anthony Moore With Aka & Friends
On Beacon Hill (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 21/Nov/2025 ] On Beacon Hill: Anthony Moore with AKA & Friends manifest a sensuous post-devastation lounge act, seeking to re-invoke natural orders by naming - rather than cursing - the darkness in its many guises. Like final-phase Johnny Cash on a lost episode of... |
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Anthony Williams
Life Time (Blue Note Tone Poet Series LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Tone Poet Vinyl Edition reissue produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket. The... |
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Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One
Victims Of The Modern Age (Re-Issue 2022 2LP & 2CD) [ Insideoutmusic / 2 LP/CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] On 2010's Victims of the Modern Age, Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One reunite the stellar cast of lead vocalists from the debut release Space Metal (2002): Russell Allen (Symphony X), Damian Wilson (Headspace, Threshold), Floor Jansen (ReVamp,... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Violin Recital: Adele Anthony Adele Anthony (violin), Jonathan Feldman (piano) [ Naxos Laureate Series Violin / CD ] |
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PHILIP GLASS
Of Beauty & Light: The Music of Philip Glass (3 CD set) Adele Anthony (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop / Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2008 ] This is Glass in full flight, with an aural illusion of the work speeding up yet retaining a constant pulse throughout the work's lively changes of texture and melodic figuration." --New Zealand Listener |
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PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Violin Concerto No 1 / Company / 'Prelude and Dance' from Akhnaten Adele Anthony (violin) / Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (July 2002) |
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PAUL ABRAHAM
Abraham: Ball at the Savoy (complete operetta sung in English) Alison Kelly, Gerald Frantzen, Ryan Trent Oldham, Cynthia Fortune Gruel / Folks Operetta, Anthony Barrese [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] Hungarian composer Paul Abrahám enjoyed huge success across Europe with his 'jazz operettas', not least in Weimar Berlin where his works scored for an orchestra augmented by a jazz band caused a sensation. |
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JOSEPH MARX
Ausgewahlte Lieder Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo) Anthony Spiri (piano) [ CPO / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "there's the simplest matching of music to words to remind us what a craftsman Marx was. That is a greatly underestimated virtue. We owe a debt to Kirchschlager for taking this craftsman's songs under her wing and letting them soar... |
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AUBER
La Muette De Portici (complete opera) Diego Torre, Oscar de la Torre, Angelina Ruzzafante, Wiard Witholt / Anhaltische Philharmonie, Anthony Hermus [ CPO / 2 CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] "[de la Torre's] singing exudes a notable confidence above the stave...[Hermus] and his excellent orchestra bring an appropriate vitality and dramatic fire to the proceedings." (International Record Review) |
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Anthony Braxton
Creative Orchestra (Koeln) 1978 [ HatHut Records / 2 CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
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Anthony Braxton
Eight(1) Tristano Compos. 1989 [ HatHut Records / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
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Anthony Braxton
Quintet (Basel) 1977 [ HatHut / CD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] I leave the discovery of favorite episodes or events to you. But it's important to remember that despite Braxton's compositional craft-the motivating factors behind the music and the formal glue that holds it together-this is, as Braxton intended... |
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Anthony Braxton
Braxton Anthony/Seven Compositions [ HatHut Records / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
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Anthony Braxton
Town Hall 1972 [ HatHut Records / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] |
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TOMASO ALBINONI
Albinoni: Oboe Concertos, Vol. 1 Anthony Camden (oboe) / London Virtuosi / John Georgiadis [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Sep/2006 ] "Anthony Camden and Julia Girdwood produce liquid sounds from their modern instruments and are as meltingly expressive in the slow movements as they are light on their feet in the flanking ones" - Gramophone |