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Rose City Band
Garden Party [ Thrill Jockey / CD - released 21/Apr/2023 ] On Garden Party, Rose City Band's country psychedelic rock evokes the wide-open spaces of the American west and free spirits who call it home. Lead by acclaimed guitarist and vocalist Ripley Johnson, Rose City Band are some of the best players in... |
Rose City Band
Sol Y Sombra (Limited Edition Indie Exclusive LP) [ Thrill Jockey / LP - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Rose City Band's music is sun-kissed timeless country rock whose seemingly effortless momentum carries the joy of its creation without ignoring the darkness pervading our consciousness. Led by guitarist/vocalist Ripley Johnson, the music of Rose City... |
Rose City Band
Sol Y Sombra (LP) [ Thrill Jockey / LP - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Rose City Band's music is sun-kissed timeless country rock whose seemingly effortless momentum carries the joy of its creation without ignoring the darkness pervading our consciousness. Led by guitarist/vocalist Ripley Johnson, the music of Rose City... |
Surf City
Jekyll Island [ Fire Records / CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] New Zealand psychgazers Surf City return with an album of sticky summer jams and fuzzy swirls and out and out dream pop blasts. Harnessing the explorations of 2013's We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This into more focused packages, the group still... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies 1-10 (complete) Arleen Auger, Janet Baker / City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra / Berlin Philharmonic / Vienna Philharmonic / Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 4/Aug/2017 ] "There's no doubt that Rattle has inspired all concerned to an achievement which joins his groundbreaking readings of the Third, Seventh and Tenth Symphonies in the Mahlerian heaven." ***** BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, on Mahler 8 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (Nos 1-9) Barbara Bonney, Birgit Remmert, Kurt Streit, Thomas Hampson / City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2010 ] A superbly played account by one of the world's great orchestras. ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols / Saint Nicolas The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge / Holst Singers / City of London Sinfonia, Stephen Layton (cond) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Choral |
City and Colour
If I Should Go Before You [ Dine Alone Records / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] If I Should Go Before You, the new album from world-renowned singer, songwriter and performer City and Colour (aka Dallas Green). Recorded at Nashville, Tennessee's Blackbird Studios, If I Should Go Before You was produced by Green with additional... |
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird; Petrushka (Complete ballets) / Symphony in Three Movements / Scherzo a la Russe / Four Studies City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Rattle gives a reading which brings out powerfully the sturdy jollity of the ballet, contrasting it with the poignancy of the puppet's own feelings." *** Three Stars Penguin... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer, Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "A Mahler 8 that seems dutifully fervent against a euphoric Rattle and his forces" - Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine April 2005 |
ROBERT SIMPSON
Symphony 11 / Variations on a theme by Nielsen City of London Sinfonia Matthew Taylor, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Aug/2004 ] "This release, appropriately dedicated to the late Ted Perry, is up to Hyperion's best. Performances and production are simply magnificent, so that this splendid disc is warmly and unreservedly recommended." Recording of the Month MusicWeb (Sept 2004) |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Gloria / Litanies à la Vierge noire Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Westminster Singers, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Erato Classics Red Line / CD - released 25/Oct/2018 ] "French soprano Catherine Dubosc sings with Gallic nobility and passion, but the affecting sincerity of her interpretation raises her above ethnicity to sublimity." AllMusic.com |
ANONYMOUS / THOMAS JORDAN & OTHERS
The English Stage Jig: Musical comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries for the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men and the Ignorant The City Waites / Lucie Skeaping (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2009 ] "These performers are well-renowned for championing the popular music of earlier centuries… the singing and instrumental performances are as genially accomplished as ever with The Waites." BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 **** |
HOW THE WORLD WAGS
How the world wags: Social Music for the 17th Century Englishman The City Waites (with Pethick Edwards, reader) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] 'Rollicking good fun' (The Cornish Guardian) |
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City Waites/Grant/Wootton/Thom
How The World Wags [ Helios / CD ] |
NICCOLO PAGANINI / ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Paganini / Wolf-Ferrari: Violin Concertos Francesca Dego (violin) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "Dego and her maestro husband, Rustioni, are highly idiomatic interpreters; she is alert to the Paganini's bel canto lyricism and wittily demonic in its devilish pyrotechnics. Rustioni encourages a lush, rhapsodic account of the Wolf-Ferrari." Sunday |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 & 2 Lars Vogt (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Red Line / CD - released 12/Feb/2007 ] "This is a remarkable record, as fine a recorded account of these two concertos as we have had for many a long year." (Gramophone) |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Piano Concerto in C major Op 39 Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mark Elder (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 22 / CD - released 4/Feb/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |
SIBELIUS
Symphonies 1-7 / Night Ride and Sunrise / Scene with Cranes / The Oceanides City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Jan/2015 ] The legendary partnership of Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra bears fruit in this definitive collection of the complete symphonies of Jean Sibelius. Rattle's powerful interpretations of these seminal works - the core of... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos / Piano Works / Symphonies / Orchestral Works Nikolai Lugansky (piano) Alexander Kniazev (cello) / City of Birmingham Symphony, Sakari Oramo / London Symphony, Andre Previn [ Warner Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "…a glorious example of Russian romantic virtuosity" Gramophone |
