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Dean Martin
Dean Martin: Four Classic Albums Plus...Seven Bonus Tracks [ Avid Easy / CD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] AVID Easy presents the latest release in our Four Classic Albums Plus series with a 2CD set from Dean Martin, complete with original artwork, liner notes, personnel details. |
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Dean Martin
Greatest Hits (King of Cool) [ Capitol / CD - released 12/Jul/1995 ] |
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Dean Martin
Original Album Classics [ Sony / 5 CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] DREAM WITH DEAN (1964) EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY (1964) THE DOOR IS STILL OPEN TO MY HEART (1964) HOUSTON (1965) THE DEAN MARTIN TV SHOW (1966) |
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Deanna Durbin, Andrew Sisters, Carmen Miranda, Ella Fitzgerald, Marlene Dietrich, Frances Lanfford, Mary Martin, Judy Garland, etc
Hollywood Sings - The Girls [ Charly Records / CD - released 4/Sep/1994 ] Original recordings from the 30s and 40s |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Haydn - Die Jahreszeiten [The Seasons] Edith Mathis, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegfried Jerusalem / Academy & Chorus of St Martin in the Fields [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 29/Jul/1981 ] "Neville Marriner's Philips recording of Haydn's The Seasons is generally well-regarded, particularly for its refined orchestral playing and the youthful, precise singing of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chorus." |
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WALTER BRAUNFELS
Braunfels: Ulenspiegel (complete opera recorded in 2014) EntArteOpera / Marc Horus, Christa Ratzenböck, Joachim Goltz, Hans Peter Scheidegger / Martin Sieghart (cond) [ Capriccio DVD / DVD - released 12/Jul/2017 ] Charles de Coster's novel Thyl Ulenspiegel provided the source for Braunfels' opera of the same name. It narrates one of the darkest chapters in human history - the Spanish Inquisition in 16th-century Flanders. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Song of Destiny - Works for Choir and Orchestra Eric Ericson Chamber Choir & Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martín [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] "A clean and deft approach to Brahms. Darkly-hued choral pieces concerning fate and destiny are balanced by the delicious Liebeslieder Waltzes." BBC Music |
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J. C. BACH / COUPERIN / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / RAMEAU / etc
The World of George Malcolm George Malcolm (harpsichord) / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 16/Sep/2017 ] "[Malcolm's] obvious musicality, fluent and clean technique, rhythmic control and polished phrasing place him firmly among the world's leading harpsichordists" Gramophone [on the Bach] |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Comedy, Romance, Tragedy (As You Like It / Love's Labour's Lost / Romeo & Juliet) BLU-RAY Globe Theatre / Brendon Hughes, Jack Laskey, Trevor Martin, Philip Cumbus, Trystan Gravelle, William Mannering, etc [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / 3 Blu-ray Box Set - released 25/Nov/2015 ] Shakespeare's Globe productions of As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost and Romeo & Juliet are offered in this exclusive limited edition Blu-ray box set. |
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LEOPOLD MOZART / JEAN-JOSEPH MOURET / JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart (L.),Fasch,Mouret: Concerti da caccia Hermann Baumann, Radovan Vlatkovic (horns) / Les Trompes de France, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields [ Philips / CD - released 11/Jan/1986 ] After starting his musical career as a singer and jazz drummer Hermann Baumann switched to horn at the age of 17. He studied with Fritz Huth at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and then played principal horn in various orchestras for 12 years,... |
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Concertos KV 466, 488, 491, 503 Ivan Moravec (piano) / Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Piano Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] The great Czech pianist Ivan Moravec is one of the most highly regarded musicians of his generation. His sparkling and witty Mozart concerto recordings from the 1990s feature conductor Sir Neville Marriner leading The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-... |
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JOHN TAVENER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tavener: Akathist of Thanksgiving James Bowman & Timothy Wilson (counter-tenors) / Westminster Abbey Choir & BBC Singers, Martin Neary [ Sony Classical / CD - released 10/Oct/1994 ] "the score is a catalogue of riches. The dark-hued, quasi Bulgarian male-voice sections, the sparkling countertenor duets, the variety of the scoring and the deeply moving recurring ''Amin'', and the unexpected quiet climax." Gramophone |
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GURNEY / FINZI / IRELAND / WARLOCK / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
Anthology of English Song Janet Baker (contralto) / Martin Isepp (piano) [ Regis Records / CD - released 3/Jun/2007 ] "The selection of songs could not be better; all are gems, especially the two by Howells, which are also two of the most inspired in performance. I found Ivor Gurney's I will go with my father a-ploughing almost unaccountably moving, and Dame Janet's... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas BWV170, BWV82. BWV159, BWV56, BWV211, BWV212 Janet Baker, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Julia Varady, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Academy of St. Martin of the Fields, Neville Marriner [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2020 ] PENGUIN ROSETTE AWARD: Cantatas BWV 170, 82, 159 |
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Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mario Lanza, Tony Martin, Richard Crooks, Howard Keel, Tony Bennett, and more
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Deep in My Heart - The Songs of Sigmund Romberg [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 1/Jul/2006 ] Romberg created a long string of musicals, the most memorable being his operettas of the 20s, The Student Prince, The Desert Song and The New Moon. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
For the Love of Brahms Joshua Bell (violin) & Steven Isserlis (cello) Jeremy Denk (piano) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields [ Sony Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] "[Bell and Isserlis] are distinct musical personalities yet they work together extremely well in Brahms's interpretatively perilous Double Concerto - Bell's sweet-toned ardour is at once anchored and buoyed by Isserlis's gruffer, more ruminative styl |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Violin Concertos Julia Fischer (violin) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields [ Decca / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] "…her playing is beautifully honed, technically without flaw." Gramophone Magazine, February 2009 |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet Julian Prégardien; Martin Helmchen; Christian Tetzlaff; Florian Donderer; Rachel Roberts; Tanja Tetzlaff; Marie-Elisabeth Hecker [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2021 ] "Julian Prégardien, his tone lighter and brighter than that of his father Christoph, is a sentient, involving interpreter who always compels you to listen. His diction, like his father's, is invariably clear and expressive." Gramophone |
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DEBUSSY / DELIBES / CANTELOUBE / ORFF / R. STRAUSS / RODRIGO / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kate Royal Kate Royal (soprano) / The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Edward Gardner [ EMI Classical / CD - released 3/Sep/2007 ] Kate Royal was born in London and attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, Dorset. Her teachers as a youth included Jon Andrew.[citation needed] She later studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then the National Opera Studio. |
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Kevin Martin & The HiWatts
MARBECKS RARE: The Possibility Of Being [ Tympanic Records / CD ] |