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Sam Smith & Kim Petras
Unholy (RSD 2023 7") [ EMI / 7in - released 22/Apr/2023 ] |
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MOZART / Max RICHTER / DOWLAND / ADES / BOWIE
Music of the Spheres Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Sam Swallow (vocalist) Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] "Aurora is the most bracing breath of fresh air to invigorate the British classical music scene in the past ten years." (Richard Morrison, The Times) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Folk Songs Kronos Quartet, with Natalie Merchant, Olivia Chaney, Sam Amidon & Rhiannon Giddens [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 3/Jul/2017 ] "I've always wanted the string quartet to be vital, and energetic, and alive, and cool, and not afraid to kick ass and be absolutely beautiful and ugly if it has to be. But it has to be expressive of life. To tell the story with grace and humor and... |
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CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
38 Preludes from the two sets of Twenty-four Preludes in all the keys for pianoforte, Op 163 & Op 179 Sam Haywood (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jul/2017 ] Stanford retained an enthusiasm for the music of Bach throughout his life, and the two sets of 'Twenty-four Preludes in all the keys for pianoforte' are a clear homage to JSB's own '48'. Sam Haywood, making his second recording for Hyperion,... |
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ANTHONY RITCHIE
Remember Parihaka Alexa Still (flute) Katherine Hebley (cello) Andrew Uren (bass clarinet) Sam Hunt (poet) / Auckland Chamber Orchestra / Peter Scholes [ Atoll Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] For their debut disc ACO and Music Director Scholes have recorded four of Anthony Ritchie's smaller-scale orchestral works. |
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Fireman Sam
Hearts on Fire [ AudioGo / CD - released 8/Sep/2011 ] Six episodes from the hugely popular all-new animated series featuring Fireman Sam and his friends from Pontypandy - as seen on TV: 'Hearts on Fire', 'Pontypandy Extreme', 'Elvis Sings the Blues', 'Blow Me Down', 'Three Legged Race' and 'Norman's Ark'. |
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Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam
Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam (LP) [ Dolchess / LP ] Although Chess didn't bother to anthologize these sides into album form until the early '60s, this marvelous collection actually dates from 1953. Broonzy and Sam are both in great form here, sharing the vocals throughout and recalling their earlier... |
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Bob Dorough and Sam Most Quartet
Complete Recordings [ Lone Hill Jazz / CD - released 7/Sep/2004 ] Collector's items on CD for the first time ever! Meticulous audio restoration and including a comprehensive booklet. |
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Buddy Guy & Magic Sam
The New Generation of Chicago Blues [ Jasmine / CD - released 13/May/2016 ] The blues in Chicago and indeed the blues on Chess Records, Chicago's top blues label, had by the late 1950s been dominated by just a handful of artists but by 1957 that would change as a new generation of blues men were getting a foothold on the... |
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Cannonball Adderley / Miles Davis / Hank Jones / Sam Jones / Art Blakey
Somethin' Else (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 26/Sep/2011 ] Limited edition vinyl reissue. |
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Elmore James, Magic Sam, Frank Butler, Earl Hooker, Melvin Simpson, Lillian Offitt, etcck Morgan, Jimmy Cliff, Don Drummond Orchestra, The Hi-Tones, e
The Chief Blues Story [ Not Now Music / 2 CD - released 1/May/2018 ] |
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JAMES MacMILLAN
Cantos Sagrados The Elysian Singers / Sam Laughton [ Signum / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "This is an excellent disc ... The performances are exquisite, characterised by great restraint and sensitivity. The perfect blend between parts and ... perfect intonation are also impressive." Simon Smith, Musicweb |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: The Tempest (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, August 2013) Globe / Roger Allam, Jason Baughan, Jessie Buckley, Sam Cox / Jeremy Herrin (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this... |
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SAM RUD-JONES
Rudd-Jones: Three Sonatas Huw Watkins, Darragh Morgan, Kate Romano, Ed Lyon, Sam Rudd-Jones [ Prima Facie / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] 'Three Sonatas' is a debut collection of chamber music recordings from the exciting young composer Sam Rudd-Jones The majority of works on the album are in dialogue with older music, in particular classical forms (Three Sonatas, Variations) and... |
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Mighty Sam Mcclain
Blues For The Soul [ Telarc / CD - released 28/Jul/2008 ] |
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Mighty Sam McClain
Give It Up to Love [ Sledgehammer Blues / CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] Mighty Sam McClain sings soul with incredible power -- he knows when to pull the punches and when to cool it down. "Give It Up to Love," the title track, acknowledges his gospel roots; he performs it as a vocal prayer to God asking for wisdom, love,... |
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Mighty Sam McClain
Sweet Dreams [ Telarc Records / CD - released 1/Jul/2001 ] The great torch bearer of soul accompanied by Mighty Horns |
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Miss Louistine / Sam Dees
Con Me / Con Me (7") [ Deep Soul / 7in - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Miss Louistine's version of 'Con Me' was one of the best Deep Soul finds of recent years. The Paragons smooth Chicago reading of Dees' composition that came out in 1975 has long been admired, but this southern soul treatment of the now-classic is... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: The Turn of the Screw (Complete opera recorded in 1994 with libretto) Philip Langridge, Felicity Lott, Sam Pay, Eileen Hulse, Phyllis Cannan, Nadine Secunde / Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Steuart Bedford, conductor [ Collins Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/1994 ] "The cast could hardly be bettered, with Felicity Lott an involving Governess and Philip Langridge mesmerising as the ghostly Quint. The whole enterprise… is a worthy counterpart to the composer's own" BBC Music |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Turn of the Screw (Complete opera recorded in 1994) Philip Langridge, Felicity Lott, Sam Pay, Eileen Hulse, Phyllis Cannan, Nadine Secunde / Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Steuart Bedford, conductor [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 25/Aug/2003 ] Steuart Bedford is recognised as one of today's leading experts on the works of Benjamin Britten. |