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TRADITIONAL
Flamenco Los Malaguenos: El Malagueño (guitar), Marino Cano (guitar), Nena Cano (voice), Conchita Cano (voice) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 6/Nov/2000 ] A difficult, dazzling art, of a painfully restrained violence. It is not, however, an elitist art: born of the people, Flamenco chooses certain exceptional voices, like Nena and Chonchita Cano. With them, the guitars of El Malagueño and Marino Cano... |
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Manuel El Chachi and Spanish Gypsy
Gypsy Rumba Flamenco [ Arc / CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] Gipsy Kings-inspired 'Flamenco-Rumba'! Catchy and rousing flamenco, as well as more ballad-like songs, oozing passion and swagger, accompanied on guitars, palmas (syncopated clapping), zapateos ('step dance') and various percussion. Information in... |
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CACCINI
L'Euridice Nicolas Achten, Celine Vueslet, Magid El-Bushra / Ensemble / Nicolas Achten [ Ricercar / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] When Henri IV of France married Maria de' Medici in 1600, the new art-form, opera, played an important role in the Florentine wedding celebrations, with Jacopo Peri's Euridice being performed at the Palazzo Pitti. |
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Rafa El Tachuela
Flamenco Nuevo [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
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Rafa El Tachuela
Flamenco Nuevo - Rosas Negras [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Rafa El Tachuela extends the forms of purist flamenco using the enormous variety of structures found in contemporary and traditional world music in order to explode fixed flamenco structures and to make them accessible to even wider audiences. |
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Rafa El Tachuela
Flamenco Romantico [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] After his fruitful collaboration with master Egyptian Percussionist H. Ramzy on the best selling album Flamenco Arabe, flamenco guitar virtuso, Rafa El Tachuela, returns with a master piece of work, a collection of romantic and beautiful compositions... |
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Rafa El Tachuela
Flamenco Rumba Guitarras [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Rumba is the most popular style of Flamenco (Gypsy Kings et al.). Rafa El Tachuela presents a gorgeous album filled with fiery and passionate Rumba Flamenco compositions with fast and furious guitars, zapateos (Flamenco "stepdance") and palmas... |
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ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Wolf-Ferrari: Talitha Kumi! Rainer Trost (tenor), Joan Martín-Royo (baritone) / Oviedo Filarmonia, Coro El León de Oro, Friedrich Haider [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Mar/2017 ] Before he sprang to international fame as an operatic composer, Wolf-Ferrari had embarked on an important sequence of choral works. The very early Otto cori, Op. 2, set to Italian and German texts, contain some of the most beautiful music he ever... |
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SAINT-SAENS
Piano Concertos 1 and 2 Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano) / Orchestre de Picardie / Pascal Verrot [ Calliope / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] Too often reduced to a few scores (Carnival of the Animals, La Danse Macabre, the Third Symphony with organ), the music of Saint-Saens did not deserve to be despised. And this disc admirable and admirably defended by its three protagonists provides... |
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HELENE DE MONTGEROULT
De Montgeroult: Complete Piano Sonatas Simone El Oufir Pierini (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Aug/2023 ] Madame Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) lived in a time when significant historical events were shaping France and Europe. Montgeroult's musical oeuvre is distinguished by its interpretive versatility. The collection of nine sonatas presented... |
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3MA/Sissoko/Driss El Maloumi/Rajer
Anarouz [ Six Degrees / CD - released 10/Nov/2018 ] Since their debut record in 2008, the 3MA musicians have been through many individual experiences broadening their knowledge. They meet regularly to give 3MA concerts throughout the world and over the years, new ideas have sprung up, and then have be |
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Abdel Aziz El Mubarak
Abdel Aziz El Mubarak [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 13/Dec/1995 ] |
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Akim El Sikameya
Introducing [ CD - released 25/Sep/2008 ] |
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ALFREDO ROLANDO ORTIZ
South American Suite for harp and orchestra / etc Alfredo Rolando Ortiz (Paraguayan harp) El Paso Symphony Orchestra, Gurer Aykai [ ARO / CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] The acclaimed Suite composed and performed by Alfredo Rolando Ortiz. Orchestration by Paul Hurst. Also in this recording: VENEZOLANA FOR FIVE PEDAL HARPS, performed by members of "HarpFusion:" Dr. Carrol McLaughlin, Director; Hiroko Saito, Jennifer... |
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ANTONIO CALDARA
Caldara: Ii Piu Bel Nome (complete opera) María Espada (soprano), Raquel Andueza (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Robin Blaze (countertenor) / El Concierto Espanol, Emilio Moreno [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "María Espada's Venus faces down Juno in a wonderful display of ornamentation...and Marianne Kielland as Hercules if delightfully mocking and accusatory. The orhcestra is unfailingly perky and nuanced" BBC Music Magazine, October 2010 **** |
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Antonio Gonzalez "El Pescailla"
Tiritando [ Vampisoul / CD - released 31/Oct/2011 ] |
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El Alamein
New Patterns [ Hell Is Now Love Records / CD - released 30/Nov/2012 ] |
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ESTEVE Y GRIMAU / LASERNA / VALLEDOR
La Tirana Contra Mambru: The tonadilla and popular musical comedies in Spain c.1800 El Concierto Espanol / Emilio Moreno (violin & director) [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] The musical soundtrack for the ordinary people of Spain at the turn of the 18th- century, was the tonadilla. |
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El Guincho
Alegranza [ Mistletone / CD - released 6/Oct/2008 ] Mind-boggling Afro, Calypso and Tropicalia-flavoured debut… pitching percussion and tumbling rhythm against a collage of tropical psyche-funk samples, uplifting melodies and pulsing vocal chants.-The Age. |
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El Michels Affair
Murkit Gem b/w Cham Cham Feat. Piya Malik [ Big Crown / 7in - released 12/Mar/2021 ] El Michels Affair is back with another two-sider picture sleeve 7". The A side, Murkit Gem, taken from the upcoming album, Yeti Season, is another pairing of El Michels Affair's unpredictable brand of soul and the lilting vocals of Piya Malik.... |