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OLIVER DAVIS
Davis: Flight Kerenza Peacock (violin) Huw Watkins (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Paul Bateman [ Signum / CD - released 15/Apr/2015 ] Flight is the stunning new album of works from British composer Oliver Davis (b.1972), composed for and in collaboration with violinist Kerenza Peacock. Flight captures the spirit of movement and energy present in many of Davis's compositions, which... |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN / COLE PORTER / IRVING BERLIN
Kiss Me Kate - The Best of Broadway Musical Kiri te Kanawa, Kim Criswell, Thomas Hampson, Chris Groenendaal / Ambrosian Chorus, London Sinfonietta, John McClinn [ Warner Classics Inspiration / CD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] Brought together here are 20 of the loveliest songs from great musicals by songwriting legends George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin - bursting with irresistible groove and infectious swing. |
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POWER / DUFAY / ISAAC / DE MONTE / SCHUTZ / BACH / etc
The Hilliard Ensemble: Renaissance & Baroque Music Hilliard Ensemble / London Baroque / Knabenchor Hannover / Paul Hillier [ Erato Warner Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 22/Aug/2017 ] Now reissued at a special price |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi;The Four Seasons Gidon Kremer (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Galleria / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] Classic recording of one of the greatest and most popular of classical compositions. |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: The Piano Concertos / Valses nobles et sentimentales (orchestral version) Krystian Zimerman (piano) Cleveland Orchestra / London Symphony / Pierre Boulez [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/2001 ] 1999 Gramophone Award Winner: Concerto - A Penguin Stereo Guide Rosette recording |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos Krystian Zimerman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD - released 13/Aug/2021 ] "..these performances are as near-definitive as I ever expect to hear...[Zimerman's] interpretations here have a fleet grace which takes the breath away." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 Shortlisted - Concerto |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos [3 CDs with Blu-ray Audio / Dolby Atmos & Blu-ray video] Krystian Zimerman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Deutsche Grammophon / 5 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 22/Apr/2022 ] Krystian Zimerman, Sir Simon Rattle, and Ludwig van Beethoven: three exceptional musicians and five great piano concertos brought together for this landmark recording. |
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Laurence Perkins, bassoon, New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp
The Playful Pachyderm (Includes 'Funeral March of a Marionette' (Gounod) & Romance (Elgar) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Jan/2005 ] 'Perkins is a compelling advocate of the instrument, not only in his painstaking work as orchestrator and arranger, and his enthusiastic and well-researched booklet notes, but most of all in his playing … This is a delightful disc which will be of... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
18th Century Portuguese Love Songs L'Avventura London, Zak Ozmo [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] "L'Avventura's performances tend towards the genteel, suggesting decorous courtly soirees rather than raunchy street theatre...These are, in short, charming accounts" (BBC Music) |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Complete Piano Concertos (2CD) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] "Pappano and the orchestra breathe together...If Andsnes's playing is arresting for the quantity of relevant detail that he conveys, so too is the orchestra's." Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 |
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DVORAK
Requiem (recorded Feb 2009) Lisa Milne, Karen Cargill, Peter Auty, Peter Rose / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ LPO Live / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Gramophone Magazine - Editor's Choice - January 2010 |
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BACH / MENDELSSOHN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Cantata BWV63 'Christen, aetzet diesen Tag' / Von Himmel Hoch / The First Nowell Lisa Milne / Ruxandra Donose / Andrew Staples / Christopher Maltman / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "The LPO and Choir provide serious nourishment while opening our ears to the sort of Christmas music that gets overlooked amid the tinsel...Jurowski makes an unlikely but worthy VW champion...All in all, this is a programme combining enterprise and... |
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London All Stars Steel Orchest
Caribbean Steeldrums [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
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FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Apothaoses London Baroque [ BIS Baroque / CD - released 28/Jun/2004 ] "These refreshing period-instrument performances are stylish, poised and technically assured. Tempos are well measured, articulations is crisp and uniform, ensemble has admirable precision throughout and there is excellent internal rapport and... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy London Baroque [ BIS / CD - released 2/Apr/2013 ] The seventh and penultimate disc in London Baroque's highly acclaimed survey of the Trio Sonata genre through the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries, lets us sample the developments in Italy which led to the genres decline and eventual... |
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London Baroque
The Trio Sonata through Two Centuries [ BIS / 8 CD - released 28/Oct/2018 ] Formed in 1978, London Baroque enjoys the position of being one of the most experienced and long-lived baroque chamber groups. Combining 8 CDs originally released between 2003 and 2013, the present boxed set of trio sonatas can be seen as the fruit... |
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London Baroque
Various: Trio Sonata 18Th C Ge [ BIS / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] |
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BOISMORTIER / COUPERIN / DOLLE / GUIGON / LECLAIR
The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century France London Baroque [ Bis / CD - released 3/Sep/2012 ] London Baroque presents a disc charting the Trio Sonata in 18th-century France - a musical environment undergoing rapid changes following the death of Louis XIV in 1715. |
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HANDEL
Trio Sonatas Op.2. London Baroque / C. Medlam [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 16/Jun/2003 ] Aside from the technical and descriptive considerations, it is in letting oneself be carried away by the nobility and the elegance of the style, the refreshing rhythmic vitality and the sensuous charms of some of the slow movements, that one most... |
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C. P. E. BACH
Trio Sonatas London Baroque, Charles Medlam [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 10/May/2012 ] This title was released for the first time in 1994. |