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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Royal Odes Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), The King's Consort, Robert King [ Vivat / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Choral |
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Charles Amoah
Sweet Vibration (LP) [ Soundway / LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] Following on from the runaway success of Soundway's release of Kiki Gyan's "24 Hours In A Disco", another Ghanaian legend looks to have his time to shine. One of the most well-known disco and burger highlife artists of the time, Charles Amoah... |
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Charles Bradley
Black Velvet [ Dunham / CD - released 9/Nov/2018 ] November 5th, 2018 would have been Charles Bradley's 70th birthday. In celebration of his extraordinary life, Daptone imprint Dunham Records is proud to release his fourth and final album, Black Velvet. Black Velvet is a celebration of Charles... |
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Charles Bradley
Black Velvet (LP) [ Dunham / LP - released 9/Nov/2018 ] Vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. This 10-track album pulls together previously unreleased material from sessions for each of Bradleys three albums, 2011s No Time for Dreaming, 2013s Victim of Love, and 2016s Changes. The songs include a... |
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Charles Bradley
Changes [ Daptone / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Rolling Stone named Changes one of the "Most Anticipated Albums of 2016," stating "The ageless, limitless 'Screaming Eagle of Soul' swoops back with 'Changes,' an album named after Charles Bradley's affected rework of Black Sabbath's 1972 piano... |
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Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band
Live From The House of Soul (DVD) [ Daptone / DVD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] Live From The House of Soul: Charles Bradley featuring Menahan Street Band. |
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Charles Lloyd
The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (LP) [ Blue Note / 2 LP - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Unsettled by the state of the world in 2020, Charles Lloyd began conceiving of a musical offering in the form of a new studio recording featuring a new band, a quartet that would be a first-time convening of four distinctive voices with the legendary... |
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Charles Lloyd
Trio Of Trios (Triple LP Box Set) [ Blue Note (USA) / 3 LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Charles Lloyd has long been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. For more than 6 decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world, and at 84 years old he remains at the height of his powers and as... |
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Charles Mingus With Dannie Richmond & Hampton Hawes
Mingus Three [ PLGUK / Warner / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] The greatest bassist leader jazz has ever known, Charles Mingus, with his spirited playing and spontaneity, always kept his ears and fingers on the pulse. "Mingus was something else, man," Miles Davis wrote in his own book. "A pure genius, I loved... |
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Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Hot House: The Complete Jazz At Massey Hall Recordings [ Concord / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] 70th years on from the legendary 1953 concert at Massey Hall, Toronto that featured jazz legends Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach on stage together, comes this complete 2-CD collection. Including two... |
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Harry Charles
Movement (LP) [ LOOP Recodings / LP - released 2/May/2025 ] New Zealand-born musician and producer Harry Charles found his creative haven and home in Berlin in 2014, where he honed his craft and cultivated an electrifying fusion of downtempo beats and slow house rhythms and live instrumentation and vocals -... |
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W.A. MOZART
Piano Concertos No 12 K414 & No 17 K453 Alfred Brendel (piano) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles MacKerras [ Decca / CD - released 15/Nov/2005 ] This is the latest release in the highly acclaimed Philips series of Mozart Piano Concerti from two of the World's most distinguished Mozartians - pianist Alfred Brendel and conductor Sir Charles Mackerras (who celebrates his 80th birthday in 2005). |
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CESAR FRANCK
Alfred Cortot - Franck: Symphonic Variations (rec 1934) with concertos by Saint-Saens and Ravel Alfred Cortot (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Landon Ronald / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Charles Munch [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 2/Jul/2001 ] "One of his precious few concerto recordings, this disc shows Cortot at his most beguiling. Mark Obert-Thorn's transfers are exceptional and all lovers of past but ever-present greatness will want this second and final Naxos volume of Cortot's sadly... |
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LISZT / MAHLER
Der Himmlische Leben Anne Schwanewilms (soprano) & Charles Spencer (piano) [ ONYX / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] "Schwanewilms's voice is an acquired taste; those who crave full-bodied Italianate lushness of tone will not 'get' the singing of this gifted German jugendlich dramatisch soprano" (International Record Review) |
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PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY / FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY
Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky - Violin Concertos Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Charles Dutoit, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande [ Pentatone / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] This release arguably features the two greatest concertos ever written for the violin: performed by one of the most brilliant violinists of her generation, together with one of the finest orchestras, and under the baton of one of the world's foremost... |
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GAVIN BRYARS
Three Viennese Dances Arditti String Quartet / Pascal Pongy : French horn / Charles Fullbrook : percus [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded February 1986 |
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HELENA TULVE
Arboles lloran por lluvia Ariana Savall / Charles Barbier / Taniel Kirikal / NYYD Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD ] Recorded in churches in Tallinn as well as the Estonian Concert Hall, the five compositions heard on "Arboles lloran por lluvia" (Trees cry for rain) give deeper insight into the unique sound-world of Helena Tulve, into music which is nourished by... |
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos 3, 4 & 5 Artur Pizarro (piano) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras [ Linn ECHO / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] Renowned conductor Sir Charles Mackerras leads pianist Artur Pizarro and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a truly memorable performance of these great works. Originally released in 2009, 'Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concertos 3, 4 & 5' has been... |
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DVORAK / SUK / JANACEK
Augustin Hadelich: Bohemian Tales Augustin Hadelich (violin), Charles Owen (piano), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Jakub Hruša [ Warner Classics / CD - released 3/Jul/2020 ] " A superb disc on all counts." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2020 |
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PURCELL
Complete Secular Solo Songs Barbara Bonney / Susan Gritton / Charles Daniels / Roger Covey-Crump / James Bowman / Michael George / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion / 3 CD - released 23/Mar/2010 ] 'Those who need all of Purcell's songs at their fingertips should invest in Hyperion's three-disk survey of secular songs, with outstanding performances by Barbara Bonney, Rogers Covey-Crump and James Bowman' (The New York Times) |