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CESAR GUERRA-PEIXE
Guerra-Peixe: A Retirada da Laguna Abner Landim (violin) / Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] César Guerra-Peixe is one of the leading composers associated with musical nationalism in Brazil. A Retirada da Laguna is a programmatic suite that describes one of the most dramatic moments in the Paraguayan War of 1864-70 |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: La Cetra - 12 concerti, Op. 9 / Concerto in D minor for Two Oboes, RV 535 / etc Iona Brown, Neil Black, Celia Nicklin / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2014 ] Penguin Guide Rosette Winner |
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JOHN PSATHAS
Rhythm Spike David Arend, Neil Becker, David Downes, Dan Poynton, etc [ Rattle Records / CD - released 17/Jun/2000 ] A roller-coaster ride from this bright young New Zealand composer! |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (Complete Opera recorded in 1993) Gran Teatro la Fenice, Venice / Edita Gruberova / Neil Shicoff / Giorgio Zancanaro / Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ NVC Arts / DVD - released 6/Jun/2000 ] This famous work was recorded at the Gran Teatro, La Fenice in Venice, one of the most famous and beautiful venues in all opera. The theatre has been the scene for first nights for Rossini, Bellini, Verdi and more. |
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SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse Ian Comboy, Christopher Keyte, Neil Mackie / BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Collins Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] "Loosely based on a true story, the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote island in 1900, it is gripping from beginning to end." |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH / RICHARD WAGNER / HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Jessye Norman - Diva Jessye Norman, with Neil Shicoff (tenor) Ann Murray (mezzo), various orchestras [ EMI Classics / CD - released 18/Aug/2000 ] "The sense of a theatrical event is palpable all the way through...The recording, made in the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, is very well balanced, clean spacious." (Gramophone) |
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KARL JENKINS
Jenkins: Quirk - The Concertos Karl Jenkins, with Marat Bisengaliev (violin) Gareth Davies (flutes) Neil Parcy (marimba) Catrin Finch (harp) etc [ Universal Classics / CD - released 3/Dec/2019 ] Features the world premiere recordings of the four concertos "Over The Stone" Stone", a double harp concerto; "La Folia" for marimba; " Quirk", a concertante for flutes, keyboards, percussion and Sarikiz "", a violin concerto. The album is... |
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KARL JENKINS
Jenkins: Quirk (The Concertos) Marat Bisengaliev (violin) Catrin Finch (harp) Neil Mercy (marimba) / London Symphony Orchestra, Karl Jenkins [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "As a composer, he recognises no boundaries - musical, commercial, geographical or cultural. His is a way of thinking and composing that is perfectly in tune with the spirit of the times..." - Classic FM Magazine |
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PURCELL / HANDEL / HAYDN
To Saint Cecilia Lucy Crowe, Nathalie Stutzmann, Richard Croft, Anders J Dahlin, Neil Baker / Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski (Conductor) [ Naive / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Hail! Bright Cecilia! Three major composers celebrated in 2009 pay vibrant homage to Cecilia, the patron saint of music... One couldn't dream of a better musician to record these three Odes and Masses than Marc Minkowski. |
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CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Cello Concerto / Symphony No. 8 / Três Abstrações Marina Martins (cello) Denise de Freitas (mezzo-soprano) / Goias Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The 1960s proved to be a significant decade in Claudio Santoro's ever-eventful life. The charged atmosphere of the Cello Concerto can be attributed to his experiences in East Berlin at the moment construction started on the Berlin Wall. Despite its... |
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Neil Finn
Try Whistling This [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] The debut solo album by Neil Finn, released in 1998. The album topped the charts in Australia & New Zealand, landed at #5 in the UK album chart and #19 in the US Heatseekers Chart. |
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Neil Sedaka
Laughter In The Rain: the Best of 1974-1980 [ Varese Sarabande / CD ] |
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Neil Sedaka
The Songbook [ Not Now Music / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2014 ] A man who wrote his own chapter of musical history in several languages, Sedaka was not to be underestimated as stellar hits 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do', 'Calendar Girl' and 48 more tracks across 2 discs of equal quality show. |
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Neil Watson
Studies In Tubular [ Neil Watson / CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] This latest offering encapsulates a unique hybrid of approaches into an all original 9 track album which unifies New Orleans style clave rhythms, hard-bop 'Coltrane changes', Boogaloo grooves reminiscent of Lee Morgan's 'The Sidewinder' and... |
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Neil Young
Arc (Live) [ Reprise / Warner / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Arc (1991) is a live companion release to Weld. Also recorded on the 1991 US tour, it is a 35-minute composition of feedback, improvisation, guitar solos and vocal fragments. |
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Neil Young
Chrome Dreams [ Reprise / Warner / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] 'Chrome Dreams', one of Neil Young's most individual and powerful albums, was scheduled to be released in 1977, but as is often the case with Young, things change. And then change again. With 'Chrome Dreams', it has been a long time coming to get... |
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Neil Young
Chrome Dreams II (+Dvd) [ Wea / CD - released 22/Oct/2007 ] |
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Neil Young
Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live At The Bottom Line) [ Warner / CD - released 6/May/2022 ] A surprise solo acoustic performance following a Ry Cooder show on May 16, 1974. Citizen Kane Jr. Blues (The Bottom Line) notably features songs that would be included on "On The Beach". The album title comes from Neil introducing the opening... |
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Neil Young
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere [ Warner / CD ] |
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Neil Young
Harvest (50th Anniversary CD / DVD & Book Box Set) [ Reprise / Multi-Format Box Set - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Neil Young's fourth solo album remains one of the most beloved in his catalogue and is dense with songs that have long-permeated radio waves. This set includes the original album, three studio outtakes, two DVDs (an unreleased live 1971 BBC solo... |