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Kate Tempest
The Book Of Traps & Lessons (LP) [ Republic Records / LP - released 16/Aug/2019 ] |
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Kate Tempest
Everybody Down [ Big Dada / CD - released 23/May/2014 ] There's a strong, vibrant formal tradition in hip hop: the story rhyme. Rather than the bragging and boasting of many raps, in a story rhyme the MC presents a narrative - a street update of Ovid or Homer if you want to get hifalutin about it. Traced... |
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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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MOHAMMED FAIROUZ
No Orpheus Kiera Duffy, Kate Lindsey, Christopher Burchett, Margaret Lancaster, Emily Ondracek, Ashley Bathgate, David Moody, Russell Miller [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] The theme of loss is also compellingly expressed, with the intense, distilled narrative of No Orpheus, a portrait of departed family members, and concluding with Edgar Allan Poe's last completed poem, the hauntingly mournful Annabel Lee. |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50 Mark Padmore, Sally Matthews, Kate Royal, Bernarda Fink, Andrew Staples / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2015 ] "You can really tell that Rattle loves this work. His approach is full of affection - listen to the care he lavishes on the stunning ending of Part Two - but also architectural breadth." (MusicWeb) |
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Martha Carter, kate Webster, Miss Lavell, Margo White,Barbara George, Berna Dean, etc
Gulf Coast Girls - Swamp Pop Revisited 1958-1962 [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Following on from Jasmine's first Swamp Pop compilation JASCD968 - Sea of Love… which not only delivered strong sales but also a considerable amount of positive press and radio attention comes 'Gulf Coast Girls'. This time the attention is on the... |
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Michael Sheen, Kate Beckinsale
Romeo & Juliet [ Naxos / 3 CD - released 22/Oct/2004 ] |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Camille Saint-Saëns: Déjanire Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; Chœur de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo; Kazuki Yamada; Kate Aldrich; Julien Dran; Anaïs Constans; Jérôme Boutillier; [ Bru Zane / 2 CD/Book - released 12/Apr/2024 ] 'It will be a strange score: people will either not like it at all, or will like it enormously', prophesied Camille Saint-Saëns a few days before the premiere of Déjanire. The opera, first performed in Monte Carlo on 14 March 1911, is based on... |
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DEBUSSY / RAVEL / CHAUSSON
String Quartets Quatuor Van Kuijk, Kate Lindsey, Aphonse Cemin [ Alpha / CD - released 17/Sep/2017 ] releaseseptember2017Quatuor Van KuijKKatelindsey*alphonse Cemin*- alpha 295 -The first disc of the quartet founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk, a programme of Mozart, was awarded a 'Choc de Classica' and 'Diapason Découverte'. Now they return to their roots... |
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Roger Eno & Kate St. John
The Familiar [ Hannibal / All Saints / CD - released 29/Jun/2010 ] |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Gloriana (complete opera recorded in June 2013) Royal Opera House / Susan Bullock, Toby Spence, Patricia Bardon, Mark Stone, Kate Royal / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection DVD / DVD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] Central to the Royal Opera's centenary celebrations marking the birth of Benjamin Britten was Richard Jones's witty and insightful new production of the royal operatic pageant that Britten wrote to honour the Coronation, exploring the late life, love... |
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MOZART / VERDI / BIZET / WAGNER / PUCCINI / R. STRAUSS / etc
The Royal Opera - The Collection BLU-RAY The Royal Opera / Renee Fleming, Gerald Finley, Miah Persson, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Simon O'Neill, Erwin Schrott, Kate Royal, Jonas Kaufmann, etc [ BBC / Opus Arte Blu-ray / 18 Blu-ray Box Set - released 8/Oct/2021 ] Over a decade of opera is represented here with no fewer than 16 operas in this magnificent 18-disc collection of stunning performances by The Royal Opera, with amazing casts, featuring some of the greatest singers of this century. |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (compete opera recorded in 2016) The Royal Opera / Vittorio Grigolo, Kate Lindsey, Thomas Hampson, Christine Rice, Sonya Yoncheva / Evelino Pidò (cond) [ Sony Classical DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] "Vittorio Grigolo acts with terrific fervour as both the drunken wreck of the exordia and the ingenuous patsy of the central episodes, making the conflicted character deeply sympathetic if faintly risible." Telegraph |
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JACQUES OFFENBACHI
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (compete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY The Royal Opera / Vittorio Grigolo, Kate Lindsey, Thomas Hampson, Christine Rice, Sonya Yoncheva / Evelino Pidò (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Jul/2017 ] "Vittorio Grigolo brought as much colour and vigour to the (title) role as possible, his wonderful freely projected voice growing in size and intensity as the evening progressed." (Spectacular) |
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Kate Rusby
The Girl Who Couldn't Fly [ Pure Records / CD - released 6/Jun/2006 ] |
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Something For Kate
Elsewhere For Eight Minutes: 25th Anniversary Edition (Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Sony Music Australia / LP - released 26/Aug/2022 ] Originally released in July 1997, Elsewhere for Eight Minutes was the first full length release for Something for Kate. Produced & recorded in New Zealand by US producer Brian Paulson (Slint, Wilco, Archers of Loaf, Superchunk), the album's title... |
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MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas Op. 1 & 13 Soyeon Kate Lee (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Dec/2019 ] Muzio Clementi was born four years before Mozart and outlived Beethoven by the same span. His legacy to pianists as a composer and teacher was a significant one, introducing new virtuosity and exploring the expressive possibilities of the piano, a... |
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SCRIABIN
Piano Music Soyeon Kate Lee (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] Rivalling Rachmaninov as a virtuoso musician, the colourful young pianist/composer Scriabin found inspiration in his hero Chopin, while adding Russian darkness to his Impromptus and sensuous passion to the technically demanding Sonate-fantaisie. |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
La Favorite (Complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse / Kate Aldrich, Yijie Shi, Ludovic Tézier / Antonello Allemandi (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2015 ] One of the composer's most beguiling scores, La Favorite is Donizetti's La favorita in its original French form - a tale of love and war that represents a glorious mix of Italian bel canto and 19th century grand opera. Today's scholarly interest... |
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PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Einstein on the Beach (recorded in 2012-13) Theâtre du Châtelet / Helga Davis, Kate Moran, Antoine Silverman / The Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] "The static tableaux are as much art installation as music theatre, and need to be seen rather than just heard" Financial Times |