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RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung performance...Skorokhodov, as a wounded airman, has lungs |
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ROSSINI / W. A. MOZART / J. STRAUSS II
Love, Passion & Deceit: Classic Opera productions from Glyndebourne [La Cenerentola, Cosi fan Tutte, Die Fledermaus] Glyndebourne Opera / Topi Lehtipuu, Luca Pisaroni, Miah Persson, Ruxandra Donose, Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, etc [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2015 ] 'I had to search long and hard down memory lane to recall a Così that so vividly revealed both the pleasure and the overwhelming pain of this evermore disturbing masterpiece, and I failed.' Opera on Cosi |
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Hartelius/Paulsen/Allen/Hanesc
Bach: Christmas Oratorio [ Farao / 2 CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] |
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Jackie Allen
Which? [ Naxos Jazz / CD ] |
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CORIGLIANO
A Dylan Thomas Trilogy John Tessier (tenor) Thomas Allen (baritone) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] Fern Hill is a blithe poem, yet touched by darkness; time finally holds the poet "green and dying" … Poem in October begins in Thomas's seafront town: the poet, marking his birthday, climbs to a high hill, where he reflects on his youth and mulls his... |
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Claudio Mo
Il ritorno d´Ulisse in patria King, Schenk, Murray, Allen, Kuhlmann, Ramirez, Stamm, Protschka, Tate, ORF-Symph. [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 27/Jul/2000 ] |
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GALUPPI
La Diavolessa (Complete opera) Kremena Dilcheva (alto) Matthias Vieweg (baritone) Tom Allen (tenor) Lautten Compagney Berlin / Wolfgang Katschner [ CPO / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2004 ] "This is a creditable performance, well paced by Wolfgang Lautner. If not quite perfect, it well enables us to appreciate the strengths (and weaknesses) of Galuppi and Goldoni's opera, and to allow us to learn more about one of the 18th century's... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Turn of the Screw La Monnaie Chamber Orchestra; Ben Glassberg / Sally Matthews; Julian Hubbard; Carole Wilson; Giselle Allen; Ed Lyon; Henri de Beauffort; Katharina Bie [ Alpha Classics / 2 CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Nothing is as it appears in the old English manor house of Bly. A new governess takes up her post and discovers that the children who are her new charges are under the influence of the ghosts of the previous governess and her depraved lover. |
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PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No. 6 'Plutonian Ode' Lauren Flanigan (Soprano) / Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies, with Allen Ginsberg (speaker) [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "By some way Philip Glass's most powerful concert work, Plutonian Ode, sets a scathing anti-nuclear poem by Allen Ginsberg." (BBC Music) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Eine Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 Lucia Popp, Thomas Allen / London Philharmonic Choir / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Klaus Tennstedt [ BBC / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] "As an admirer of Klaus Tennstedt I'm pleased to add this performance to my collection though it would certainly yield to Klemperer and Gardiner as a library choice for this wonderful work." (MusicWeb July 2008) |
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JACOB ter VELDHUIS
Paradiso Oratorio: Oratorio based on Dante's 'Divine Comedy' Claron McFadden (soprano), Tom Allen (tenor) / North Netherlands Concert Choir & Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/May/2003 ] "it is hard to imagine a better testament to their partnership than this magnificent two-disc set of Debussy's orchestral works. These are especially sensuous accounts, luxuriating in not only Debussy's wondrous orchestral colours, but also his love... |
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JOHANN STRAUSS 11
Die Fledermaus (complete operetta recorded in 2003) Glyndebourne Opera / Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Ragnar Ulfung, Hakan Hagegard / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ BBC / Opus Arte / Kultur DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "Malena Ernman is a stunning Orlofsky (at the end, Lawless reveals that the prince was really a princess after all), and Håkan Hagegård and Pamela Armstrong are very satisfying as Dr. Falke and Rosalinde, respectively." ClassicalNet |
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Rex Allen
Cowboy Under the Western Sky [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] They call Rex Allen 'The Voice of the West' and this is not just a fancy phrase! With echoes of the old frontier, the rhythm of the trail, the music of the cowboy and the corral this is western music at it's best! The First twelve tracks are taken... |
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Rex Allen
Riding All Day - The Life Of A Cowboy [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] |
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Rex Allen
The Versatile Rex Allen [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] |
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Rosalie Allen
The Versatile [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] |
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ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK
Hansel und Gretel (complete opera recorded in 2008) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Angelika Kirchschlager / Diana Damrau / Elizabeth Connell / Thomas Allen / Colin Davis, conductor [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] 'Angelika Kirchschlager's tousled, boyish Hänsel and Diana Damrau's Gretel are dramatically convincing and vocally superb, while their parents, excellently sung and played by Elizabeth Connell and Thomas Allen, earn our sympathy as well as our... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2010) The Royal Opera / Pavol Breslik, Stephane Degout, Thomas Allen, Rebecca Evans / Thomas Hengelbrock (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2021 ] "It's a wry take on the opera, Miller emphasising that the plot is not so much about testing the fiancées' faithfulness, but an adventure in self-discovery" Gramophone |
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LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS
The Last Night of the Proms: Land of Hope & Glory Sarah Walker (mezzo) Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) / London Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Roger Norrington [ Australian SBS Decca Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "A great collection of British favourites that are just right for any time of the year, very well recorded and performed … and at a great price too! You won't be disappointed." (MusicWeb June 2008) |