Nils Landgren Funk Unit
Funk for Life [ Act / CD - released 27/Sep/2010 ] |
Nils Landgren Funk Unit
Licence To Funk [ ACT Music / CD - released 17/Dec/2007 ] |
P-Funk Allstars
Live At The Beverly Theatre In Hollywood [ Westbound / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] A welcome re-release for a 2CD set that originally appeared in 1990. This show was recorded in California in 1983 and was originally broadcast by the Westwood One radio network. This version of the P-Funk All-Stars lives up to its billing, with... |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Mors et Vita Barbara Hendricks (sop) Nadine Denize (mezzo) John Aler (ten) José van Dam (bass-bar) / Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "Plasson's remains a serviceable rendition of Gounod's grandiose conspectus of human spiritual experience." BBC Music |
Jacques Of
Les Contes D´Hoffmann Plácido Domingo, Catherine Malfitano, Ann Murray, José van Dam, Rémy Corazza, Jocelyne Taillon, Gérard Friedmann, Peter [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 4/Sep/2009 ] |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Pelleas and Melisande (Complete Opera recorded in 1978) Richard Stilwell, Frederica von Stade, Josa van Dam. Berlin Philharmonic / Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2017 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "a very characteristically Karajan performance, deeply committed and full of beautiful things. The casting is excellent." (Gramophone) |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman (The Tales of Hoffman) (complete opera) Roberto Alagna, Jose van Dam, Natalie Dessay, Sumi Jo / l'Opera National de Lyon, Kent Nagano [ Erato / Warner Classics The Opera Collection / 3 CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] "With Nagano taking a light, airy view and using the most scholarly text available, this new version certainly has its place." (Gramophone) |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman (The Tales of Hoffman) (complete opera) Roberto Alagna, Jose van Dam, Natalie Dessay, Sumi Jo / l'Opera National de Lyon, Kent Nagano [ Erato Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "Kent Nagano uses Kaye's complete edition preserving the recitatives. He balances this by taking quite a brisk view of the tempi and the pacing of the piece." MusicWeb |
PUCCINI / VERDI / MASSENET / BIZET / BERLIOZ / DONIZETTI / etc
L'enchanteur Roberto Alagna (tenor) with Natalie Dessay, Angela Gheorghiu, Inva Mula, Jose van Dam & others [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2016 ] Roberto Alagna is the kind of 'opera singer' who can sing for all with such infectious pleasure that all we can do is sit back and enjoy. And so happy are we to listen to him that there's only one thing we feel we should say to him: thank you. |
Rock Candy Funk Party (Featuring Joe Bonamassa)
We Want Groove (Double Vinyl) [ J & R / 2 LP - released 22/Feb/2013 ] Limited edition vinyl issue. Spinning a fresh take on classic '70s and '80s funk and jazz, RCFP is powered by a line-up of world-class players... |
HANDEL
Partenope (complete opera recorded in 2009) Royal Danish Opera /Inger Dam-Jensen, Andreas Scholl, Christophe Dumaux / Lars Ulrik Mortensen (cond) [ Decca Music Group / 2 DVD - released 20/Jun/2012 ] |
HANDEL
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (complete opera recorded in 2005) Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen / Andreas Scholl / Inger Dam-Jensen / Randi Stene / Lars Ulrik Mortensen (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 DVD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] G - Here is what is probably Handel's most accomplished opera: the heir to L'incoronazione di Poppea with respect to the villainy of some of its characters, but also the Baroque ancestor of certain Romantic operas! |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollände [The Flying Dutchman] (highlights) José van Dam, Kurt Moll, Dunja Vejzović, Peter Hofmann / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Studio / CD - released 23/Mar/1988 ] Highlights from the classic EMI recording |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1 - 9 (1970s recordings) [BLU-RAY DOBLY ATMOS] Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Agnes Baltsa, Peter Schreier, Jose van Dam / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 Blu-Ray Audio - released 20/Oct/2019 ] Grammy Award Winning Cycle: Winner of "Best Orchestral Performance" - 1978. |
Tony Cook With Dam-Funk
What's on Your Mind? [ Stones Throw / 12in - released 12/Apr/2010 ] |
Wolfgang A
Le nozze di Figaro Van Dam, Tomowa-Sintow, Cotrubas, Von Stade, Krause; Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Herbert von Karajan [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 2/Apr/2012 ] |
PUCCINI
100 Best Puccini (excerpts from La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and others) Various Artists including Roberto Alagna, Josa Van Dam, Angela Gheorghiu, Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Robert Tear, etc [ EMI Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 29/Sep/2008 ] In 2008 the world celebrated the 150th anniversary on 22 December of the birth of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), one of the most popular composers of all time, and perhaps the last in the line of the gifted melodists and dramatists to shape the genre... |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Operas Victoria de los Angeles, Nicolai Gedda, Cheryl Studer, Beverly Sills, Renee Doria, Teresa Berganza, Jose van Dam, Sherrill Milnes, etc [ Erato / 16 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] "This is as good a performance as we are likely to get of this persuasive work. Victoria de los Angeles as Charlotte is adorable, both in character and in the sheer beauty of sound." (Gramophone on Werther) |
WAGNER
Parsifal (Complete Opera recorded in 1991) Waltraud Meier, Siegfried Jerusalem, Jose Van Dam, John tomlinson / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics Home of Opera / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2016 ] "For a studio performance my vote would go now-just-to the new version, largely on the strength of the recording and the performances of Meier and Jerusalem. (Gramophone) |
Yaaba Funk
Afrobeat [ Sterns / CD - released 8/Jun/2010 ] |