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Jose James
The Dreamer (LP) [ Brownswood / LP - released 9/Oct/2015 ] The jazz voice of a generation, José James released his debut LP 'The Dreamer' in 2007 on Brownswood Recordings. It was crammed with smoky, low-slung jazz grooves blessed with Jose's rich baritone vocals - magnificent self-pennedNworks nestling... |
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Jose James
The Dreamer (Vinyl) [ Brownswood / LP - released 28/Jan/2008 ] |
Jose James
While You Were Sleeping (180g Double LP) [ Bluenote / 2 LP - released 20/Jun/2014 ] José James' new album, While You Were Sleeping, his fifth studio album and his second album for Blue Note Records, is the follow-up to his widely acclaimed R&B and jazz steeped No Beginning No End, and signals a new creative direction for the... |
FAURE / DURUFLE
Requiems Judith Blegen (soprano) James Morris (bass) / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Robert Shaw [ Telarc / CD - released 17/Jan/2008 ] Grammy Award Winner for Best Engineered Recording, Classical |
J. C. BACH
Welt, gute Nacht Julia Doyle, Katharine Fuge, Clare Wilkinson, Jeremy Budd, James Gilchrist / The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] "Bach of any generation from Gardiner's eminently engaged and engaging forces is self-recommending; yet for its rarity value alone Welt, gute Nacht is as important a release as that of a B minor Mass or St Matthew Passion." (BBC Music) |
NATIVITAS
Nativitas: American Christmas Carols Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy (conductor) with James Higdon, organ [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "As beautiful a disc of precious Christmas music as you are likely to hear this or any year." (MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
GARETH FARR
Chamber Music Katherine Austin, James tennant, Alexa Still, Gareth Still, Gareth Farr [ Trust / CD - released 17/Jun/2000 ] New Zealand's top musicians go Farr! |
HANDEL
Messiah: Live from the Auckland Town Hall Katherine Wiles, soprano, Kate Spence, Mezzo-soprano, Shaun Dixon, tenor, James Harrison, bass, Pipers Sinfonia. Peter Watts [ Auckland Choral / CD - released 14/Nov/2003 ] "Among the choir's strengths were upward leaps of pinpoint accuracy, entries that breathed their way in pianissimo, yet with clarity of articulation that revelled in the Town Hall's acoustics, and a big full throated sonority for the high points" |
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Gustav Mah
Symphonie No. 2 c-Moll "Auferstehung" Kathleen Battle, Christa Ludwig, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, James Levine [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 2/Aug/2011 ] |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (highlights from the opera recorded in 1990) Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Enzo Dara, Dawn Upshaw / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, james Levine [ Deutache Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Jun/2018 ] "Levine conducts a lively performance, Battle makes a sympathetic Adina, Dara is a thoroughly professional purveyor of the elixir … spirited virtuosity in the orchestral playing" Gramophone |
HARRY BURLEIGH / WILLIAM Levi DAWSON / FLORENCE PRICE / WILLIAM Grant STILL
DVOŘÁK'S PROPHECY - Film 3: The Souls of Black Folk and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music Kevin Deas, Arthur Fagan, James Jeter, Roderick Cox, Joseph Horowitz, Michael Morgan, George Shirley [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] If George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess embodies a glorious (and controversial) fulfilment of Dvořák's prophecy, there also exists a buried lineage of exceptional compositions by Black composers following in Dvořák's wake. |
Kit Downes, Peter Eldh, James Maddren
Vermillion [ ECM Records / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on bass and James Maddren on drums for a carefully assorted piano trio programme that treads gentle lyricism and bold creative outbursts in equal measures. Downes, whose prior ECM... |
Kit Downes, Peter Eldh, James Maddren
Vermillion (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on bass and James Maddren on drums for a carefully assorted piano trio programme that treads gentle lyricism and bold creative outbursts in equal measures. Downes, whose prior ECM... |
FRANZ LISZT
St. Stanislaus (Oratorio) Kristine Jepson (mezzo-soprano) / Donnie Ray Albert (baritone) / Cincinnati May Festival Chorus / Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra / James Conlon [ Telarc Records / CD - released 13/Feb/2004 ] Telarc's recording of Franz Liszt's St. Stanislaus with the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under the direction of James Conlon is the first complete recording of the two scenes Liszt finished for his last great... |
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett - The Mines of Sulphur (Complete Opera) Kristopher Irmiter (bass-baritone) Beth Clayton (mezzo-soprano) Brandon Jovanovich (tenor) James Maddalena (baritone) / Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2005 ] Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Gothic opera The Mines of Sulphur is reminiscent of suspense thrillers from Edgar Allan Poe to Alfred Hitchcock. Love, longing, and dark as well as light comedy abound in this macabre tale of greed and retribution set in... |
RODNEY ROGERS / ROBERT MUCZYNSKI / CHRISTOPHER PAINTER
Facades: Contemporary works for saxophone Lara James (saxophone) Jeremy Young (piano) with Kathryn Price (cello) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] The saxophone is truly an instrument of the modern age, with many composers drawn to the unique tones and colours of which it is capable. On this disc, renowned Saxophonist Lara James, accompanied by a select group of musicians including Sinfonia... |
BARNES / GARLAND / HALL / LAWSON / LYNCH / etc
The Glittering Plain - New Works and Arrangements for Saxophone and Ensemble Lara James (saxophone) / Pavão String Quartet & Will Todd Trio [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] An exciting new disc from one of the UK's leading exponents of contemporary saxophone. |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La forza del destino [The force of destiny] (Complete Opera recorded in 1976) Leontyne Price, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Fiorenza Cossotto / John Allois Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "strongly cast down to the smallest comprimario roles. Admirers of Leontyne Price will undoubtedly be tempted by a set which includes her Leonora, strongly supported by Domingo (his first attempt at Don Alvaro) and Miln." (Gramophone) |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (complete opera with libretto) Thomas Allen, Mirella Freni, Anne Sofie von Otter, Neil Shicoff / Staatskapelle Dresden, James Levine [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1988 ] "James Levine's 1984 recording is characterised by an appropriately full recorded sound and much gutsy playing from his orchestral forces." (MusicWeb) |
FAURE
Requiem, Op. 48 / La Naissance de Vanus, Op. 29 / Pavane, Op. 50; Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Libby Crabtree (soprano) Mary Plazas (soprano) James Rutherford (bass) Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) / BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 15/Nov/2003 ] 'The Pavane and Cantique de Jean Racine both breathe the calm of the Requiem. While they are enjoyable makeweights, the disc's revelation is a wonderful performance of the rarely heard La Naissance de Venus… this piece is a little gem'. (Gramophone |
