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HANDEL
Messiah (highlights) Joanne Lunn, Melanie Marshall, James Gilchrist, Christopher Purves / Cambridge Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 23/Nov/2007 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
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HANDEL
Messiah (complete) Joanne Lunn, Melanie Marshall, James Gilchrist, Christopher Purves / Cambridge Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / John Rutter [ Collegium / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/2007 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
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J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 4: 6th and 7th Sundays after Trinity Joanne Lunn / Michael Chance / James Gilchrist / Stephen Varcoe / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Gardiner's Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine award-winning Bach Cantata series on his hugely successful label, Soli Deo Gloria, releases volume 4 in the series featuring Cantatas for the Sixth and Seventh Sunday after Trinity. Recorded live in July... |
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J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 14: BWV91, BWV110, BWV40 & BWV121 Joanne Lunn / William Towers / James Gilchrist / Peter Harvey / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of the cantatas for Christmas Day and the 2nd Day of Christmas. Recorded on Christmas Day in St Bartholomew's, New York. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The English Clarinet (Incls Finzi - 5 Bagatelles, Op. 23) John Bradbury (clarinet) James Cryer (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] The clarinet is the most versatile of all wind instruments, able to express warmth, brilliance, passion and elegy. All facets of the clarinet are represented here, unified by the English school. Lloyd Webber and Edward German give us enchanting... |
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SCHUBERT
Trout Quintet / A minor Quartet John O'Conor (piano) / Cleveland Quartet with James Vandermark (double bass) [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2002 ] "plenty of controlled emotion." -Fanfare |
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James P Johnson, Art Tatum, Fats Waller
The Gods Are In The House [ Avid / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] This production represents the highest level of achievement in the art of re-creating the music from classic, historic piano solo recordings to 21st century audio clarity. Its basis is the unique work of John Farrell, who has transcribed the music... |
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CHARLES WOOD
St Mark Passion Jonathan Vaughn (organ), Simon Wall (tenor), James Birchall (baritone), Edward Grint (bass) Ruth Jenkins (soprano) / Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] "Modestly tasteful, Wood's St Mark still fails to engender any passion." Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 |
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Joni James
Let There Be Love [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Mar/1993 ] This isn't Joni's legendary first album, "Let There Be Love," but a collection of cleaned-up radio transcriptions from programs done for the U.S. government and military as a civic service. |
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Jose James
Black Magic [ Brownswood / CD - released 8/Mar/2010 ] |
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Jose James
Blackmagic Ep [ Brownswood / 12in - released 8/Mar/2010 ] |
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Jose James
The Dreamer (LP) [ Brownswood / LP - released 9/Oct/2015 ] The jazz voice of a generation, José James released his debut LP 'The Dreamer' in 2007 on Brownswood Recordings. It was crammed with smoky, low-slung jazz grooves blessed with Jose's rich baritone vocals - magnificent self-pennedNworks nestling... |
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Jose James
The Dreamer (Vinyl) [ Brownswood / LP - released 28/Jan/2008 ] |
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Jose James
No Beginning No End [ CD - released 25/Jan/2013 ] A seamless musical experience that moves between different styles with remarkable fluidity, bound together by James' transcendent voice. |
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Jose James
While You Were Sleeping (180g Double LP) [ Bluenote / 2 LP - released 20/Jun/2014 ] José James' new album, While You Were Sleeping, his fifth studio album and his second album for Blue Note Records, is the follow-up to his widely acclaimed R&B and jazz steeped No Beginning No End, and signals a new creative direction for the... |
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Jose James
Yesterday I Had The Blues - The Music of Billie Holiday [ EMI Bluenote US Jazz / CD - released 3/Apr/2015 ] Acclaimed vocalist José James releases his new album, Yesterday I Had The Blues: The Music of Billie Holiday, a tribute to the legendary singer in honor of Holiday's 100th birthday. James celebrates the woman he refers to as his "musical mother" with... |
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FAURE / DURUFLE
Requiems Judith Blegen (soprano) James Morris (bass) / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Robert Shaw [ Telarc / CD - released 17/Jan/2008 ] Grammy Award Winner for Best Engineered Recording, Classical |
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J. C. BACH
Welt, gute Nacht Julia Doyle, Katharine Fuge, Clare Wilkinson, Jeremy Budd, James Gilchrist / The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] "Bach of any generation from Gardiner's eminently engaged and engaging forces is self-recommending; yet for its rarity value alone Welt, gute Nacht is as important a release as that of a B minor Mass or St Matthew Passion." (BBC Music) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas & Ernste Gesänge Julian Bliss (clarinet), James Baillieu (piano) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] Julian Bliss and James Baillieu present a recording Johannes Brahms' Clarinet sonatas, Op. 120 and an arrangement of his 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op.121 arranged by Bliss. These late works were inspired by the great clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld, principal... |
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NATIVITAS
Nativitas: American Christmas Carols Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy (conductor) with James Higdon, organ [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "As beautiful a disc of precious Christmas music as you are likely to hear this or any year." (MusicWeb Nov 2009) |