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Nina Simone
Nina Simone: The Montreux Years (LP) [ BMG / ADA / 2 LP - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Nina Simone's story from the late sixties to the nineties can be told through her legendary performances in Montreux. Taking to the Montreux stage for the first time on 16 June 1968 for the festival's second edition, Simone built a lasting... |
Nina Simone
Pastel Blues [ Verve Records / CD ] |
Nina Simone
The Real Nina Simone (3CD) [ RCA Victor / Sony / 3 CD - released 27/May/2016 ] |
Nina Simone
Silk & Soul (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 24/Mar/2011 ] Recorded in New York in 1967, Silk & Soul is Nina Simone's second album for RCA. Despite arrangements that don't always best suit her voice, this album does contain classics "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free", which would become a Civil... |
Nina Simone
Sings The Blues (Remastered with Bonus Tracks) [ RCA / CD - released 20/Jul/2004 ] That's a dark shade of blue Nina creates with the aching performances on this 1967 LP (her RCA debut) |
Nina Simone
Strange Fruit (LP) [ Jazz Wax Records / LP - released 10/Dec/2017 ] 180g vinyl, remastered. Limited edition |
Nina Simone
Sunday Morning Classics (LP) [ RCA / 2 LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] This collection of Nina's most loved classics includes "To Love Somebody", "Do I Move You?", "Turn! Turn! Turn!", "Mississippi Goddam", "Mr. Bojangles", "Angel Of The Morning", "Day and Night" and "To Be Young, Gifted and Black". |
Nina Simone
You've Got To Learn [ Verve / CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] The Newport Jazz Festival had always brought the best out of Nina Simone. On July 2, 1966, the audience was treated to the full range of her artistry-from the opener, a breathtaking version of "You've Got To Learn" to a swinging take on "Mississippi... |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS / PHILIP GLASS
Amazônia. Villa-Lobos - Glass Simone Menezes, Camila Provenzale, Philharmonia Zurich [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Two Brazilian artists pay tribute to Villa-Lobos and the Amazon rainforest... Sebastiao Salgado is a world-renowned photographer who has been working since the 1990s to protect and restore the Atlantic forest and water resources of the Rio Doce... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (highlights) Simone Alaimo (bass), Roberto Frontali (baritone), Alessandra Ruffini (soprano), Vincenzo la Scola (tenor), Mariangela Spotorno (soprano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2000 ] Gaetano Donizetti was the leading composer of Italian opera in the short period between the early retirement of Rossini and death of Bellini and Verdi's first success with Nabucco in 1842. He was born in Bergamo in 1797 and had his early musical... |
MONTEVERDI / PURCELL / CESTI / MERULA / DOWLAND
Love Simone Kermes (soprano) / La Magnifica Comunità, Enrico Casazza [ Sony / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "The evidence of [Kermes's] close sympathy with the players of La Magnifica Comunità is everywhere abundant…the sum total, powerfully original and committed in imaginative endeavour and fulfilment, is an inward-looking artistic vision" BBC Music |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Die Schopfung [The Creation sung in German] Simone Kermes, Dorothee Mields, Steve Daviislim / Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble / Thomas Hengelbrock [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "Thomas Hengelbrock directs a clear and unfussy reading. He has an excellent grasp of each of the different elements of the score, which he communicates extremely well to his forces and thence to the listener." MusicWeb |
BELLINI / MERCADANTE / DONIZETTI / VERDI / etc
Bel Canto from Monteverdi to Verdi Simone Kermes (soprano) / Concerto Köln, Christoph-Mathias Mueller [ Sony Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] With her new album Simone Kermes presents her dedication to bel canto. Despite the title the Baroque soprano hasn't suddenly switched from one voice type to another but is simply following her own interpretation of this term, arguing that bel canto... |
PERGOLESI / PORPORA / HASSE / LEO / VINCI
Lava: Opera arias from 18th Century Naples Simone Kermes (soprano) / Le Musiche Nove, Claudio Osele [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "Simone Kermes's… is…a fearless risk-taker of uncommon artistic range and technical prowess... all 12 of the disc's items are delightful." Five Stars BBC Music |
VIVALDI
Amor Profano: Vivaldi Opera Arias Simone Kermes (soprano) / Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon [ Archiv / CD - released 1/Mar/2008 ] "An object lesson in putting together a Baroque opera arias recital disc." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2008) |
ARENA / BONONCINI / GIACOMELLI / HASSE / VINCI / etc
Rival Queens Simone Kermes (soprano) & Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) / Cappella Gabetta, Andres Gabetta [ Sony Classics / CD - released 15/Sep/2014 ] The Album explores the artistic legacies of the two legendary singers (Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni) and the heights of inspiration to which their rivalry moved the leading composers of their era. A thrilling recording, in which Simone... |
PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Complete Music For Piano Duo Simone Nocchi, Filippo Farinell (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2022 ] This record contains the complete works for piano duo (piano 4-hands and 2 pianos) by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963). While Hindemith was foremost a violist, not a pianist, he knew his way around the piano, and this familiarity is reflected in his... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded in 2018) Staatsoper Stuttgart / Michaël König, Simone Schneider, Martin Gantner, Okka von der Damerau / Cornelius Meister [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] What are heroes made of and why do our societies need them so badly ? At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, stage director Árpád Schilling tries to answer this mythological, political and existential question, lying at the core of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.... |
Nina Simone
Nina Simone And Her Friends (2021 Stereo Remaster) [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] The Classic 1959 collection featuring Nina Simone, Carmen McRae and Chris Connors. Features a brand-new stereo mastering by Kevin Gray and a new essay by author of Liner Notes For the Revolution, Daphne A. Brooks. |
Nina Simone
At the Village Gate [ Masterworks Singles / CD - released 15/Jun/2016 ] This edition presents the complete original album At the Village Gate (Colpix SCP421) by the great Nina Simone. It showcases her singing and playing the piano backed by a trio of guitar, bass and drums. Six tracks recorded by Nina at the 1960... |
