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Mel Brown
The Wizard / Blues For We [ Verve / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] This remastered two-fer combines guitarist Mel Brown's second Impulse release from 1968, The Wizard, with Blues for We released the following year. The Wizard is a straight-ahead soul-jazz date picking up where Chicken Fat left off with a few... |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Cello Concertos in D & C (LP) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) / Academy St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/Mar/2024 ] "A quite extraordinary achievement. Marvellously expressive cello playing. The orchestra gives splendid support and the sound is warm and ingratiating" (Gramophone) |
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WILLIAM LLOYD WEBBER
Piano Music, Chamber Music and Songs The Nash Ensemble with John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Ian Brown (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] 'These modest miniatures reveal a composer who was able, not only to invent memorable ideas, but to do some artful things with them'- The Sunday Times |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quintet in C minor, Op 104 / Piano Quartet in E flat Op 16 / etc The Nash Ensemble, with Ian Brown (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] The Nash Ensemble continues its critically acclaimed survey of Beethoven's rarer chamber music in an intriguing new disc. |
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VIVALDI
Vivaldi Adagios Neville Marriner / Philip Pickett / Christopher Hogwood / Karl Munchinger / Iona Brown / George Malcolm / etc [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] 2 hours & 28 tracks of Vivaldi's most serene & beautiful slow movements |
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Norman Brown
Stay With Me [ Universal Music / CD - released 22/May/2007 ] Smooth guitarist/singer/songwriter Norman Brown continues his Grammy winning style with this breezy, warm collection of original tunes. |
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Paquito d'Rivera, Diego Urcola, Alex Brown, Oscar Stagnaro, Mark Walker, Arturo Stable
Jazz Meets the Classics [ Paquito Records / CD - released 5/Aug/2014 ] The mixture of jazz, classical and Afro-Latin traditions into a cohesive whole is wonderfully executed by the leader and his phenomenal sextet. |
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HANDEL
Organ Concertos [2 CDs] Paul Nicholson (organ) / Frances Kelly (harp) / Choir of Clare College, Cambridge with Timothy Brown, director / The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2005 ] 'The great coup of this new recording ... is to have secured the instrument on which the composer played. Nicholson's playing is unfailingly stylish' - The Times |
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QUANTZ
Quantz-Flute Concertos Rachel Brown, copy of a Quantz flute with two keys / The Brandenburg Consort / Roy Goodman, director [ Hyperion / CD - released 17/May/2005 ] 'Brown's playing makes a highly plausible argument for enjoying the richness and diversity of these pieces' - BBC Record Review |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Rejoice, the Lord is king! - Great Hymns from Westminster Abbey Robert Quinney (organ), Julian Empett (bass), Jonathan Brown (bass) Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell [ Hyperion / CD - released 6/Jan/2014 ] "the quality of the singing is on a high level and Robert Quinney negotiates the organ accompaniments excellently' (MusicWeb International) |
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Ruth Brown
Rockin' in Rhythm; The Best of Ruth Brown [ Rhino / CD ] |
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Savoy Brown
Live And Kickin' [ CD ] |
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JOSEF HAYDN
The Creation (Die Schupfung) Sylvia McNair, Donna Brown, Michael Schade, Gerald Finley / The Monteverdi Choir / The English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / 2 CD - released 3/Mar/2007 ] '...yet his (Gardiner) is a fun Creation and a real enrichment of the library...Gardiner stands firm as an easy first choice; a re-creator of vision, a great invigorator and life-enhancer' Gramophone |
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BEETHOVEN / HANDEL / BOIELDIEU / DITTERSDORF
Harp Concertos Marisa Robles (harp) / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown [ Decca / CD - released 20/Jan/2009 ] Penguin Guide - Rosette Winner |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Academy of St Martin in the Fields - 60th Anniversary Edition Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, Iona Brown & Joshua Bell, with Alan Loveday (violin) [ Decca Collectors Edition / 60 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2019 ] This new Edition, an exciting new collaboration between Decca and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, celebrates the Academy's international reputation for its distinctive, polished and refined sound through a selection of 60 recordings from... |
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GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL
Händel: Concerti Grossi Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown [ Hanssler Classic / 4 CD - released 7/Aug/2020 ] The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the music by Handel, intrinsically tied to each other with the revival of "ancient music". Founded in 1959 by Neville Marriner and a group of London musicians, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields has... |
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Alexander / Brown / Ellis
Straight Ahead [ Concord Jazz / 2 CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] 'Trio' and 'Overseas Special' - two classic albums in one unique package. |
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Alison Brown
The Song Of The Banjo [ Compass / CD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] With THE SONG OF THE BANJO (Compass Records), her first album since 2009, GRAMMY-winning musician/composer/producer/entrepreneur Alison Brown plants another flag in her journey of musical exploration. Acclaimed as one of today's finest progressive... |
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HANDEL
Apollo e Dafne / Overtures / Orchestral Suites / Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 2 Andrea Lauren Brown / Dominik Woerner / cantus firmus consort / Andreas Reize [ CPO Records / CD - released 21/Sep/2011 ] The classical-dramatic structure of the work with its exposition, climax, and catastrophe demonstrates the great importance attached by Handel to the exploitation of theatrical resources - far from the sphere of his Arcadian idyllic cantatas. |
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DONIZETTI
Aristea (Cantata) Andrea Lauren Brown (soprano), Sara Hershkowitz (soprano), Caroline Adler (alto), Cornel Frey (tenor), Robert Sellier (tenor) & Andreas Burkhart (bass [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jun/2013 ] Gaetano Donizetti's 'mini opera' Aristea follows the 19th century fashion for composing celebratory scenic works with a large cast and full orchestra, in this case to honour Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies. Librettist Giovanni Schmidt recycled... |