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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) |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (complete opera) Fernando Guimarães, Jennifer Rivera, Aaron Sheehan, Leah Wool, Owen McIntosh / Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman [ Linn / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Jul/2012 ] "The strength of this issue is in its strong, youthful cast. The Penelope of Jennifer Rivera almost shakes my allegiance to Jacobs's Bernarda Fink, with a limpid low mezzo of comparable beauty and expressive power, while Fernando Guimaraes's Ulysses |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (recorded live at the Globe Theatre in 2017) Globe Theatre / Marc Antolin, Tony Jayawardena, Joshua Lacey, Katy Owen, Annette McLaughlin [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/Aug/2019 ] Twins Sebastian and Viola are shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, separated and believing each other to be dead. Beside herself with grief, Viola disguises herself as a boy and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Masses, Vol. 1 - Stabat Mater Ann Hoyt (soprano) Luthien Brackett (alto) Stephen Sands (tenor) / Trinity Choir, Rebel bel Baroque Orchestra, Owen Burdick [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] Together with the Missa Cellensis, the Stabat Mater (1767) was one of the first sacred works that Haydn composed in his new position as Kapellmeister of the Esterházy court. The Virgin Mary's vast range of emotions during the Crucifixion are... |
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MURIEL HERBERT
Songs James Gilchrist (tenor) Alison Tynan (soprano) David Owen Norris (piano) [ LINN / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] "If her music is innately conservative, her harmonic palette and melodic invention are individual; these songs linger in the memory." The Guardian, 29th May 2009 **** |
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JACK BODY / JOHN PSATHAS / ANTHONY RITCHIE / TRADITIONAL
Music from New Zealand for Two Guitars Jane Curry, Owen Moriarty (guitars) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ] Guitar works by new Zealand composers continue to display a richness of imagination and sense of colour that makes them intensely attractive to listeners. In 1990 Jack Body wrote African Strings, which transcribed music of the Madagascan valiha tube... |
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Jenny Owen Youngs
Batten The Hatches [ Nettwerk / CD - released 24/Sep/2007 ] |
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HANDEL
Acis and Galatea (opera recorded in 1959) Joan Sutherland / Peter Pears / Owen Brannigan / Philomusica of London / Sir Adrian Boult [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] Originally released on LP by Decca in 1960, this vintage recording, representing a rare collaboration of Peter Pears and Joan Sutherland, has been out of the catalogue for many years and is sure to make a renewed impact in all its remastered glory. |
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Josephine Barstow, Julian Forsyth, Sheila Hancock, Richard van Allan / National Symphony Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Oliver! - selected highlights [cast recording] [ Showtime! / CD - released 29/Jun/1995 ] A Studio Cast recording from 1991 |
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Judith Owen
Happy This Way [ Linn / CD - released 8/Oct/2007 ] |
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JONATHAN DOVE
Dove: In Damascus Mark Padmore (tenor), Charles Owen (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] "The beauty of the piece, for tenor and string quartet, is its restraint. It doesn't sensationalise, get maudlin, moralise or politicise. The words are direct and the music respects that. The performance does, too: clear, focused playing from the Sac |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Complete Scottish Songs Mark Wilde (tenor) / Lucy Wakeford (harp), David owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2011 ] "The mood is mostly bleak, haunted and haunting: this is Britten at his most austerely romantic and melancholy." (Daily Telegraph) |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Offenbach: Orpheus In The Underworld (operetta in English) Mary Hegarty, David Fieldsend, Jill Pert, Richard Suart, Rosemarie Arthars, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, John Owen Edwards [ Sony music / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/1994 ] ".. the whole production has a real lived-in feel and, in Mary Hegarty's flighty Eurydice, a nymphet - sorry, nymph - virtually to die for. " BBC Music |
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Owen
The Avalanche (Clear LP) [ Polyvinyl / LP - released 19/Jun/2020 ] Cloudy clear coloured vinyl. The last Owen album, 2016's The King of Whys showed up just a few months before American Football (LP2), the first new music in over 15 years from the recently reunited group. Kinsella took a relatively relaxed approach... |
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Owen
The Avalanche [ Polyvinyl / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] The last Owen album, 2016's The King of Whys showed up just a few months before American Football (LP2), the first new music in over 15 years from the recently reunited group. Kinsella took a relatively relaxed approach to his solo project in that... |
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A LITTLE NONSENSE
A Little Nonsense Owen Brannigan (baritone) with the Pro Arte Orchestra / Charles Mackerras [ ABC / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] This delightful record presents us with a rich feast of the nonsensical in word and sound, which should satisfy the appetite of even the wisest among us, young or old. |
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PHYLLIS TATE
The Lodger (opera in 2 ats) Owen Brannigan, Johanna Peters, Marion Studholme, Joseph Ward / BBC Northern Singers & Orchestra, Charles Groves [ Lyrita Mono / 2 CD - released 15/Nov/2015 ] The Lodger was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music and first performed there in July 1960. This revised score, adapted for the BBC, was the opera's first broadcast. |
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MICHAEL HURD
The Aspern Papers / The Night of the Wedding [chamber operas] Owen Gilhooly, Pippa Goss, Clare McCaldin, Nicholas Morton, Garry Humphreys / Ulster Orchestra, George Vass [ Lyrita / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] Michael Hurd was born in Gloucester on 19 December 1928. He studied at Pembroke College, Oxford (1950-53) with Sir Thomas Armstrong and Dr Bernard Rose and became President of the University Music Society. In addition, he took composition lessons... |
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Owen Gray, The Jiving Juniors, Derrick Morgan, Jimmy Cliff, Don Drummond Orchestra, The Hi-Tones, etc
Back Beat (Singles From The Island Vaults 1962) [ Not Now Music / 3 CD - released 1/May/2018 ] |
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BIRTWISTLE
Night’s Black Bird / The Shadow of Night / The Cry of Anubis Owen Slade (tuba) / The Halle Orchestra / Ryan Wigglesworth [ NMC Records / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] "these are among the most powerful orchestral pieces of recent years...Wigglesworth and the Halle give performances of amazing concentration, accuracy and passion, aided by recorded sound of a matching depth and clarity." (BBC Music Magazine Awards... |