More By Artist: Billy May
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Billy Eckstine
Four Classic Albums Plus (Sarah Vaughan And Billy Eckstine Sing The Best Of Irving Berlin / Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones At Basin Street East / Basie [ Avid / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2014 ] AVID Jazz presents four classic Billy Eckstine albums plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. "Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine Sing the Best of Irving Berlin"; "Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones at... |
Billy Fury
Maybe Tomorrow (The Billy Fury Story 1958-1960) [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2011 ] Billy Fury was by far the UK's most credible and charismatic Rock & Roller and his 1960 10' LP 'The Sound Of Fury', is acknowledged as the UK's finest ever Rockabilly album. This compilation features Billy's first eight singles; a couple of stereo... |
Billy Hart, Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Ben Street
All Our Reasons [ ECM / CD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] First ECM recording of a quartet formed in 2003. Originally billed as the Ethan Iverson-Mark Turner Quartet, it soon became the Billy Hart Quartet, and under this name has played shows to packed houses each year in New York City. The group's first... |
Billy Hart, Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Ben Street
Just [ ECM / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] After twenty years of playing together, the Billy Hart Quartet - with Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson and Ben Street - is distinguished by its stylistic openness. "If ever there was an example of contemporary jazz that draws extensively on all the... |
Billy Hart Quartet
One Is the Other [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] The second ECM album by the Billy Hart Quartet is a major musical statement, and one of the outstanding jazz albums of the season. The group's reach - already broad on 2011's widely-acclaimed All Our Reasons - is yet more expansive here. Strong... |
Billy May
By Arrangement - Arrangements for The Big Bands & Vocalists 1939-52 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2004 ] This two disc collection is a celebration of good music, Billy May's music. His genius as an arranger of top quality popular music is showcased throughout the 48 recordings he made between 1939 and 1952. You will hear music that swings with a beat... |
Billy May & His Orchestra
Let's Go To Town with Billy May & His Orchestra (Transcription Recordings) [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2002 ] Billy May was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1916. At school he learned to play the brass bass (tuba), trombone and trumpet, and performed not only in several of the school bands but also with outside groups. At first, his regular instrument... |
Billy May & His Orchestra
Studio Recordings 1951-53 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2003 ] Billy May was born in 1916 in Pittsburgh, a city that produced a wealth of jazz musicians. At school he learned to play the tuba, trombone and trumpet. He took a keen interest in musical arranging and earned a little extra money by transcribing... |
BILLY MAYERL
Billy Mayerl Volume 2 (1934-1946) Billy Mayerl & others [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] In a broadcast he made during the 1930s, Sir Walford Davies stated that his three favourite composers were: Bach, Beethoven and Billy Mayerl. That so eminent a composer and musician should say this shows the high regard in which Mayerl was held at... |
BILLY MAYERL
Billy Mayerl, Vol. 1 (1925-1936) Court Symphony Orchestra; Jack Hylton Orchestra; Ray Noble Orchestra, with Al Bowlly & Billy Joseph Mayerl [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] Billy Mayerl was born in London and from 1926 ran his own School of Modern Syncopation in the cause of the style of piano-playing that he championed. Thanks to correspondence courses his 'teachings' spread worldwide, and he even counted the future... |
Gary Daverne
Gypsy Girl Billy T James (narrator) [ Viscount / CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] Music is by Gary Daverne, story and words by Ruth Hamilton and recorded with Billy T. James as the narrator. |
Billy Williams
A Letter From .... [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] Billy Williams was one of the founding members of The Charioteers who had several hit records in the 1940s. Here we focus on the later part of his career as he forms his own Quartet before finally going solo in the late 1950s... |
Charles Lloyd (tenor and alto saxophones) with Billy Higgins (drums, percussion, guitar)
Which Way is East [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 8/Jun/2004 ] Tenor great, Charles Lloyd has this 2CD offering - a duet album with the late Billy Higgins on drums and percussion. |
DUKAS
Ariane et Barbe-bleue (complete opera recorded in 2005) Deborah Polaski / Jane Henschel / Kwangchul Youn / Ruxandra Donose / Stella Grigorian / Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Bertrand de Billy [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 11/Sep/2011 ] 'Bertrand de Billy is a strong advocate for the work in this live recording from a concert performance in the Vienna Konzerthaus. The sound is vivid enough and chorus and orchestra are splendid' MusicWeb. |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Macbeth (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, August 2013) Globe / Joseph Millson, Samantha Spiro, Stuart Bowman, Billy Boyd / Eve Best (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his... |
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JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Cendrillon [Cinderella] (the complete opera, recorded in 2011) Royal Opera House / Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, Eglise Gutierrez, Ewa Podles / Bertrand de Billy (conductor) [ Virgin Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 11/May/2012 ] "Bertrand de Billy leads a highly sympathetic reading of the score...revelling in the pomposity of the court dances while conjuring magic in the duets." (International Record Review) |
BEETHOVEN / CHERUBINI
Bertrand de Billy conducts Beethoven & Cherubini Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Bertrand de Billy [ MDG SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] Bertrand de Billy has selected Luigi Cherubini's only symphony with his new orchestra in mind. This recently appointed guest conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne revealingly relates Cherubini to Ludwig van Beethoven, with Maria Bengtsson... |
BEETHOVEN
Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 Pastoral Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Bertrand de Billy [ Oehms Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] The international reviews for the recording of the 3rd Symphony were full of praise. "A jewel of musical listening pleasure", "Beethoven taken seriously", "Finally a Beethoven for music-lovers": Bertrand de Billy and the Radio Symphony Orchestra of... |
ERWIN SCHULHOFF
Schulhoff: Flammen Raymond Very (Don Jun), Iris Vermillion (La Morte), Arnold Schoenberg Chor, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand De Billy [ Capriccio / 2 CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] In the 1920s and 30s, Czechoslovakia was flourishing culturally and boasted a multi-faceted musical scene. In considering the works of composers such as Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann and Erwin Schulhoff, we can see how they... |
LERNER & LOWE / KURT WEILL
Paint Your Wagon (Original Broadway Cast 1951) / Love Life (1955) Kaye Ballard, Allen Hanlon, Clyde Lombardi, Robert Penn, Billy Taylor, Dave Thomas, Olgar San Juan, Rufus Smith, & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] There's a fairly simple rule for evaluating the lasting merit of the shows written by Alan Jay Lerner: the stronger the original source material, the more durable the final product. |
