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Real Estate
In Mind (LP) [ Domino / LP - released 17/Mar/2017 ] In Mind, the fourth full-length record from Real Estate, is a portrait of a mature band at the height of its power. Long respected for their deft lyrical hand and gorgeous melodies, In Mind builds upon the band's reputation for crafting perfect songs... |
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Real Estate
The Main Thing [ Universal Music / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specializing in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The new album dives even further into the musical dichotomies they're... |
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Real Estate
The Main Thing (LP) [ Domino / 2 LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specializing in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. The new album dives even further into the musical dichotomies they're... |
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Real Estate
Real Estate [ Woodsist / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] |
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Real Estate
Real Estate [ Woodsist / LP - released 22/Mar/2010 ] |
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Real Estate
Real Estate [ Woodsist / LP - released 18/Feb/2010 ] |
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JOSE ARRIOLA
Arriola: Orchestral Music Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Maximino Zumalave, with Joaquín Soriano (piano) & David Alonso (horn) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] These are the first-ever recordings of music composed by José (Pepito) Arriola, whose works are virtually unknown. Born in Betanzos in the northern Spanish region of Galicia in 1895, Arriola was a celebrated child prodigy known at the time as a... |
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Son Real Orchestra
Salsa [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] The 7-14 piece band is comprised of a funky rhythm section, a tight and bright brass section, and vocally they are fronted by three female singers, who engage audiences with their own unique vocal stylings and dynamic stage performances |
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Sunny Day Real Estate
How It Feels To Be Something (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 23/Sep/2016 ] The cryptically titled How It Feels to Be Something On was the first fruit of Sunny Day Real Estate's reunion, and it simultaneously smoothed out their sound while shifting it into something altogether more ambitious. Always somewhat arty and... |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (complete operettas recorded in 2014) Teatro Real / Anne Sofie von Otter, Vito Priante, Eric Cutler, Ana Durlovski, Measha Brueggergosman / Sylvain Cambreling (cond) [ Bel Air Classics DVD / DVD - released 8/Sep/2015 ] "Musically it's mostly excellent...Cutler is all vocal ease, elegance and passion. Von Otter's communicative and dramatic powers remain wonderfully persuasive." Gramophone |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka (complete opera in 2021) Teatro Real / Asmik Grigorian, Eric Cutler, Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev, Katarina Dalayman, Karita Mattila / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 2/Nov/2021 ] 'Loy's concept works well and the stylish production values make this one of the most successful Rusalkas on film...Central to the success is Asmik Grigorian's outstanding, passionate Rusalka.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Opera |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka (complete opera recorded in 2021) ) [Blu-ray] Teatro Real / Asmik Grigorian, Eric Cutler, Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev, Katarina Dalayman, Karita Mattila / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 2/Nov/2021 ] 'Loy's concept works well and the stylish production values make this one of the most successful Rusalkas on film...Central to the success is Asmik Grigorian's outstanding, passionate Rusalka.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Opera |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2005) Teatro Real / Carlos Alvarez, Alfred Reiter, Marla Bayo, Jose Bros, Sonia Ganassi, Lorenzo Regazzo / Víctor Pablo Pérez (cond) [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] ""Magnificent Maria Bayo as Donna Anna, the evolution of this soprano is spectacular. José Bros is tenor Midas: he converts everything he touches into gold. What a delightful performance! " Opera Actual |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, María Bayo, José Bros, Sonia Ganassi / Víctor Pablo Pérez (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Apr/2016 ] "The cast set to with a will vocally and dramatically...Víctor Pablo Pérez accompanies accommodatingly in a performance of appropriate but not over-grand scale...The Blu-ray pictures convey well the perspective depth of Frigerio's set." Gramophone |
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PHILIP GLASS
The Perfect American (complete opera recorded in 2013) Teatro Real / David Pittsinger, Donald Kaasch, Christopher Purves, Janis Kelly / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2016 ] Orange Mountain Music presents the premiere recording of Philip Glass's 2013 opera The Perfect American about the death of Walt Disney performed by an esteemed roster of soloists including Christopher Purves as Walt Disney. |
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PHILIP GLASS
The Perfect American (complete opera recorded in 2013) Teatro Real / David Pittsinger, Donald Kaasch, Christopher Purves, Janis Kelly / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first performances in Madrid in January 2013. Phelim McDermott's spectacular production is worthy of Disney's... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Real de Madrid / Anett Fritsch, Paola Gardina, Kerstin Avemo, Juan Francisco Gatell / Sylvain Cambreling (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Dec/2013 ] "Everyone in the cast collaborates well musically and dramatically, and they can handle the physicality asked of them onstage...Shimell's Don Alfonso is unnervingly suave, seductive, even Mephistophelian at times." International Record Review |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Idomeneo (complete opera) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Eric Cutler, David Portillo, Anett Fritsch, Eleonora Buratto / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 1/May/2020 ] "The sound on the Blu-ray disc is excellent and gives plenty of weight to Bolton's superlatively engaged conducting." MusicWeb Recommended July 2020 |
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PUCCINI
La Boheme (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Inva Mula / Aquiles Machado / Laura Giordano / Fabio Maria Capitanucci / Jesus Lopez-Cobos (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - 'Centre-stage is Inva Mula's appealing, vulnerable and intensely sung Mimì…She sings with finely shaped and expressive phrasing.' Gramophone |
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Giacomo PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera directed by Robert Wilson) Teatro Real / Iréne Theorin, Gregory Kunde, Yolanda Auyanet, Andrea Mastroni / Nicola Luisotti (cond) [ Bel Air DVD / DVD - released 22/May/2020 ] Giacomo Puccini wrote what was supposed to be his last opera at a time where, riddled with disease and old age as he was, he felt like his own turmoil was reflected in the outside world. |