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Big Brother & The Holding Company
Cheap Thrills (Gatefold LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 16/Aug/2012 ] Cheap Thrills is Big Brother and the Holding Company's last album with Janis Joplin as lead singer. For Cheap Thrills, the band and producer John Simon incorporated recordings of crowd noise to give the impression of a live album, for which it was... |
PATRICK HADLEY
Fen and Flood - A Cantata (with works by Vaughan Williams) Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano) & Leigh Melrose (baritone) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & The Joyful Company of Singers, Paul Dan [ Albion / Launch Music / CD - released 31/May/2011 ] "Here's something to fascinate any lover of British music...Jane Irwin is radiant in the solos and the Joyful Company of Singers is an excellent, well-balanced choir..Daniel has often demonstrated great warmth and understanding in his performances of |
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Chestnut Brass Company
Berlin:berlin For Brass [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] |
ARNE
Artaxerxes Classical Opera Company / Ian Page [ LINN / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "The very fine cast enters with spirit into the text's convoluted scenario of love and betrayal in ancient Persia and delivering [sic] the notes with assurance. Ian Page conducts the period-instrument forces with conviction and the sound is... |
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Company
Old Baby [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] |
BARBER / CARTER / LAURIDSEN / O'REGAN / TRADITIONAL / etc
A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert Conspirare / The Company of Voices [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Jun/2012 ] This CD captures the exquisite sound of Conspirare's Company of Voices, as heard and seen on national television in the US. In this one-hour concert contemporary music blends seamlessly with classical favourites, taking the listener on a journey of... |
HOWELLS / WHITACRE / GRANTHAM / PIZZETTI
Requiem Conspirare / The Company of Voices [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "The perfect, and perfectly lovely, unity of Conspirare's choral tone was not entirely welcome. But they're not bland: their care for words and expression guards against that, as does their alertness to changes of mood, whether by movement or... |
TARIK O'REGAN
Threshold of Night: Music for strings and voices Conspirare / The Company of Voices [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] A selection of new works by the young British composer Tarik O'Regan, here given their premiere recording. Written since his move to New York, these compositions reflect the cultural plurality of today's urban environment. Here is an art that seeks... |
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The Essential Collection - Gilbert & Sullivan: Highlights & Overtures The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company [ AVID / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2010 ] The glorious Gilbert & Sullivan partnership covered a twenty five year period from 1871 to 1896 during which they collaborated on fourteen comic operas. The most famous of these operas are undoubtedly 'The Mikado', 'HMS Pinafore', 'The Pirates Of... |
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isidore Godfrey, Royston Nash, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Decca / 2 CD - released 14/Jul/2003 ] "If you are looking for a CD to cheer you up on a dull day, either of the pair which make up this Double Decca will serve admirably." Rosette Recording. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan - The Sorcerer (complete) with Martyn Green & Danny Kay's Gilbert & Sullivan recordings The D'oyly Carte Opera Company, with Peter Pratt, Fisher Morgan, Ann Drummond-Grant & Muriel Harding [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Continuing AVID's successful series of Gilbert & Sullivan releases, we present the first full length collaboration between what was to become the famous Gilbert & Sullivan partnership....."The Sorcerer". |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
The Pirates of Penzance / Trial by Jury (Rec 1949) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company / Darrell Fancourt / Leonard Osborn / Martyn Green / Leslie Rands [ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2001 ] "The 1949 Pirates was the old company's high point, with stalwarts such as Green, and the imposing Darrell Fancourt as the Pirate King, reveling in their parts in a way that still sounds fresh. It's and impression greatly enhanced by the deft... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan (Recorded 1948-1954) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company / Darrell Fancourt / Leonard Osborn / Martyn Green / Leslie Rands / Peter Pratt / Muriel Harding / Ella Halman & others [ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 25/Jun/2007 ] "Good news for Anglophiles-the great Gilbert and Sullivan recordings of the late 1940s are on their way back into the catalogue, at budget prices and sounding better than ever. The best of these discs are not only agreeable but almost magical in... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Sorcerer (Rec 1953) plus highlights from the 1933 recording D'Oyly Carte Opera Company featuring Peter Pratt, Neville Griffiths and Donald Adams [ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2005 ] "Nearly two complete recordings of The Sorcerer ... both are among the best of their era. ... One would be hard pressed to find a better rendition" - MusicWeb (April 2005) |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Best of Vintage Gilbert & Sullivan (1950s recordings) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company / Isidore Godfrey (conductor) [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] Vintage favourites from the celebrated 1950s D'Oyly Carte recordings with Martyn Green, Darrell Fancourt, Ella Halman, Leonard Osborne and Richard Watson. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
The Mikado (Complete 1950 Recording) Martyn Green, Margaret Mitchell, Leonard Osborn, Darrell Fancourt / The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isidore Godfrey [ Naxos Historical Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] The first release of the Historic 1950 D'Oyly Carte recordings |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
The Yeomen of the Guard (Complete 1950 Recording) plus orchestral music (1935) The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (with Darrell Fancourt & Martyn Green), Isidore Godfrey / British Light Orchestra [ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 2/Jul/2004 ] Chronologically the eleventh Gilbert and Sullivan opera, if we number Trial By Jury as their first, and the sixth of the Savoy Opera productions, The Yeomen of the Guard was first given at the London Savoy on 3rd October, 1888. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: Princess Ida (complete operetta rec 1954) plus The Gondoliers (excerpts rec 1931) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Donald Adams, George Baker, Leonard Osborn, Peter Pratt, Thomas Round and Victoria Sladen / Isidore Godfrey (conductor [ Naxos Historical Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 13/Mar/2006 ] The three-act comic opera Princess Ida appeared, chronologically, between Iolanthe (1882) and The Mikado (1885) and was first performed under the baton of the composer, on 5th January 1884 at the 'electrically-lighted' Savoy Theatre. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & sullivan: The Gondoliers (Complete with dialogue) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Gillian Knight; Thomas Round; John Reed / New Symphony Orchestra / Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] Isidore Godfrey's conducting is vividly alive and Decca provided a large and excellent orchestra. The solo singing throughout is consistently good. Thomas Round sings Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes very well indeed. *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance (Complete Operetta) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Valerie Masterson; Owen Brannigan; John Reed / Royal Philharmonic Orch. / Isadore Godfrey [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2003 ] "The recording is superbly spacious and clear throughout, with a fine sense of atmosphere. The CD transfer is remarkable in its added presence." (Penguin Guide) |
