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Barbara Hernandez
All Nite Tonight (12") [ Soundway / 12in - released 31/May/2024 ] Cult soca disco 12", produced by Leston Paul and originally released in 1984 - now available in full vocal and instrumental versions for the first time in 40 years. Barbara Hernandez was working as a backing singer for Kool and the Gang in New... |
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Barbara Lynn
The Atlantic Years 1968-1973 (LP) [ Atlantic / Warner / LP - released 3/Jul/2020 ] Barbara Lynn Ozen is an American rhythm and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter born in Beaumont, Texas and played piano as a child but switched to guitar, which she plays left-handed, inspired by Guitar Slim, Jimmy Reed, Elvis Presley and Brenda... |
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DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux Edition [6 CD set] Anssi Karttunen (cello) Barbara Hannigan (soprano) Lynn Harrell (cello) Renee Fleming (soprano) Esa-Pekka Salonen (cond) Charles Dutoit (cond), etc [ Deutsche Grammophon / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2014 ] "Hannigan has made the music very much her own...a wonderful 97th birthday present for a musician who has patiently extended older French traditions of civility and high polish into an age of aesthetic meltdown." (Gramophone Award Winner for Correspo |
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HASSE
Sinfonias / Motette / Salve Regina / etc Barbara Bonney / Bernarda Fink / Musica Antiqua Koln / Goebel [ Archiv Al Fresco / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "First-rate sound, very clean and well balanced." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 "Choral" Barbara Bonney, Birgit Rammert, Kurt Streit, Thomas Hampson / Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "These discs are history: nine indubitable masterpieces lovingly recorded in gripping reinterpretations of our age." (NZ Herald on the complete set) |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (Nos 1-9) Barbara Bonney, Birgit Remmert, Kurt Streit, Thomas Hampson / City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2010 ] A superbly played account by one of the world's great orchestras. ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: The 5 Symphonies & The 13 String Symphonies Barbara Bonney (soprano I), Edith Wiens (soprano II) & Peter Schreier (tenor) / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Concerto Köln, Kurt Masur [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 12/Aug/2016 ] "Masur (knows) the scores inside out and how to make every note count, plus the Gewandhaus, Mendelssohn's old orchestra, plays with consummate dedication." (AllMusic.com) |
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DONIZETTI
L'elisir d'amore (Complete opera) Barbara Bonney, Gasta Winbergh, Bernd Weikl, Rolando Panerai. Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Gabriele Ferro [ DG Opera House / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2005 ] 'A performance that bubbles along as brightly and affectionately as the music itself' BBC Record Review |
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EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Complete music with orchestra (Includes Peer Gynt; Piano Concerto in A minor & the Holberg Suite) Barbara Bonney (soprano) Lilya Zilberstein (piano) / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Neeme Jarvi [ Deutsche Grammophon / 6 CD - released 2/Jun/2001 ] One of the best collections of Grieg's music ...ever! |
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PURCELL
Complete Secular Solo Songs Barbara Bonney / Susan Gritton / Charles Daniels / Roger Covey-Crump / James Bowman / Michael George / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion / 3 CD - released 23/Mar/2010 ] 'Those who need all of Purcell's songs at their fingertips should invest in Hyperion's three-disk survey of secular songs, with outstanding performances by Barbara Bonney, Rogers Covey-Crump and James Bowman' (The New York Times) |
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W. A. MOZART
Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] (complete opera recorded in 1988) Barbara Bonny / Edita Gruberova / Hans Peter Blochwitz / Thomas Hampson / Zurich Opera / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "Harnoncourt's Mozart can veer between the playful and the over solemn, but here it's spot on and sustained by a strong cast. Gruberova is a stellar Queen of the Night." BBC Music Magazine, January 2010 *** |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder Barbara Haveman, Claudia Mahnke, Brandon Jovanovich, Gerhard Siegel, Thomas Bauer, Johannes Martin Kränzle (speaker) / Kartäuserkantorei Köln [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "Excellent performances throughout from orchestra, soloists and choruses - rarely have the lush textures of Schoenberg's late-Romantic cantata sounded this fresh." (Gramophone Award WINNER 2016 - Choral) |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Gloria in D, RV589 (with Bach - Magnificat in D BWV243) Barbara Hendricks, Ann Murray, Jean Rigby, Uwe Heilmann / Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields / Sir Neville Marriner [ Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] "Barbara Hendricks and Ann Murray are the admirably paired soloists in Vivaldi's Gloria; both bring beauty of line and a feeling of élan. Hendricks and Murray recur in Bach's Magnificat along with Jean Rigby, Uwe Heillman and Jorma Hynninen" MusWeb |
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DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Cantatas / Membra Jesu nostri Barbara Schlick, Monica Frimmer (sop) Michael Chance, Rene Jacobs (alto) Knabenchor Hannover / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2017 ] Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was Danish-born, but made his career in Germany. He was celebrated as an organist (Johann Sebastian Bach was among his admirers) and as a composer, with many sacred vocal works in his output. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV47 Barbara Schlick, Nancy Argenta, Guillemette Laurens, Guy de Mey, Klaus Mertens / Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2017 ] La Resurrezione, composed in Rome in 1708, was Handel's first oratorio on a sacred theme. The soloists take the roles of an Angel, Mary Magdalene, Mary Cleophas, St John and Lucifer, who are portrayed in vivid operatic terms with the help of a... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 Barbara Schlick, Michael Chance, Howard Crook, Peter Kooy / Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] Classic recording now reissued at a special price |
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FRANCIS POULENC
Georges Pretre plays Francois Poulenc Denise Duval, Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Maurice Durufle (organ), Gabriel Tacchino (piano) / Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Pretre [ Erato / 7 CD Box Set - released 13/Sep/2024 ] Composer Francis Poulenc, who celebrated the 125th anniversary of his birth in 2024, placed his deepest trust in conductor Georges Prêtre. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2009) Thomas Hampson, Robert Holl, Edita Gruberova, Roberta Alexander, Barbara Bonney, / Royal Concertgebouw orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 3 CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] "No interpretation of this endlessly fascinating work will ever hold all the answers, but this one provides a good deal of them in its lean, direct and perceptive way." Gramophone |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Best of Messiah HMV56 Barbara Schlick (soprano) Michael Chance (alto) Howard Crook (tenor) Peter Kooy (bass) /English Chamber Orchestra & Chorus, Raymond Leppard [ Warner Classics Inspiration / CD ] "Tempos are lively, though never breathless, and always well judged, and ornamentation is judicious. Choruses are resilient and have an agreeable sense of joy." Gramophone |