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GOUNOD / VERDI / BIZET / MASCAGNI / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI / etc.
50 Best Choruses Choeurs du Capitole de Toulouse / Chorus del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Ambrosian Opera Chorus / etc. [ Warner Classics 50 Best / 3 CD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] This three-CD set contains a collection of 50 operatic choruses performed by some of the world's leading ensembles. |
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ANONYMOUS
Canto Gregoriano Coro de monjes del Monasterio Benedictino de Santo Domingo de Silos [ Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2001 ] The acapella voices of the Monks of Monasterio Benedictino de Santo Domingo de Silos drift gently from the CD Player and float through the layers of my mind. |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda (Blu-ray) Coro y Orquesta Titulares del Teatro Real José, Miguel Pérez-Sierra (conductor) [ Naxos / Blu-ray - released 10/Jul/2026 ] Gaetano Donizetti's tragic opera Maria Stuarda depicts the merciless rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, who is seen as a martyr facing up to the illegitimate Queen of England. The opera was a victim of censorship at its premiere... |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda (DVD) Coro y Orquesta Titulares del Teatro Real José, Miguel Pérez-Sierra (conductor) [ Naxos / DVD - released 10/Jul/2026 ] Gaetano Donizetti's tragic opera Maria Stuarda depicts the merciless rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, who is seen as a martyr facing up to the illegitimate Queen of England. The opera was a victim of censorship at its premiere... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 / Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77 (Rec 1960/61) David Oistrakh (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Norman Del Mar; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ BBC Legends / CD - released 7/Jan/2004 ] "The big tone, the generous gestures, the energy and the poetry, all are here, plus an extra shot of 'live' adrenalin" Gramophone |
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LENNOX BERKELEY
Piano Concerto in B flat / Concerto for Two Pianos David Wilde (piano) / New Philharmonia / Nicholas Braithwaite / Garth Beckett & Boyd McDonald (pianos) / London Philharmonic / Norman Del Mar [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "The recording is superb. The performance seems to me to bring out the best of the music...although these pieces may not be for those of you unfamiliar as yet with Lennox Berkeley, for those of you looking to add these pieces to your library then do... |
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NINO ROTA
Symphony No. 3 / Concerto soirée for piano and orchestra / Divertimento concertante for double-bass and orchestra Davide Botto (double-bass) / Barry Douglas (piano) / Filarmonica ’900 del Teatro Regio, Turin / Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 26/Apr/2011 ] "Barry Douglas plays with admirable clarity and fondness, careful not to upset the precisely crafted balance between piano and orchestra... Three very engaging works, then, performed with skill and affection, excellently recorded and with good... |
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Del Shannon
Recorded Live in Australia [ Umbrella Entertainment / DVD - released 21/Oct/2005 ] G :- |
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Del Shannon
Runaway & Other Great Hits 1961 - 1962 [ Jasmine / CD - released 15/Jul/2013 ] Del Shannon was without doubt the most popular American pop star of the immediate pre-Beatles era and unlike many of his contemporaries he also managed to remain popular in their wake... |
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Del Thomas
Driving Home Alone [ Saltaire / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] A cool combination of blues and country-folk-rock can be heard on 'Driving Home Alone'. |
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The Del-Vikings
Cool Shake - The Very Best of [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] The story of the Del Vikings (or Dell Vikings, or Del-Vikings) is one of the most glorious and complicated of any successful doo-wop group in music history. From being one of the first racially integrated groups to the ever changing line up and... |
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WOLF-FERRARI
Complete Wind Concertos Diego Dini Ciacci (oboe / Cor Anglais) Paolo Carlini (bassoon) / Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto / Zsolt Hamar [ CPO / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] The Bassoon Concerto too is a musical fantasy with a scherzo touch here and there, while the English Horn Concerto creates more of a melancholy mood of elegiac beauty - all of this in keeping with the times in which it was written. |
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MUFFAT / TELEMANN / FISCHER
Lully's Followers in Germany El Gran Teatro del Mundo [ Ambronay Éditions / CD - released 8/Oct/2021 ] The musicians of El Gran Teatro del Mundo venture into the very heart of this German Baroque repertoire, deeply inspired by the French style typical of the reign of Louis XIV. This programme offers the opportunity to discover, through the prism of... |
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GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Duetto / Capriccio / Gran Quintetto Elda Laro (piano) & Alessandro Dorella (clarinet) Davide Botto, Davide Ghio (double-bass) / Quintetto d'Archi del Teatro Regio Torino [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Jun/2015 ] Musicians from the Orchestra del Teatro Regio Torino with Elda Laro (piano) here bring up a unique recording of chamber works by Giovanni Bottesini. |
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CONSTANT LAMBERT
Pomona / Music for Orchestra / Romeo and Juliet / King Pest English Chamber Orchestra, Norman Del Mar / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Joly [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Constant Lambert was a man of outstandingly wide cultural range, a man as well-informed about painting and literature as about music. For this reason his contribution to the development of what is now the Royal Ballet proved invaluable.A triumvirate... |
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Estampas De Mexico, Del Tecnologico De Monterrey
Traditional Music from Mexico [ ARC Music / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Estampas de México present a great variety of Mariachi music, folk, and excellent a cappella multi-part singing, in this upbeat and exhilarating album of Mexican music |
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J.S. BACH
Bach: Concertos, Inventions & Motets for Recorder Ensemble Fiati del Collegium Pro Musica, Stefano Bagliano [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Jan/2026 ] Bach's music is often described as indestructible, in the sense that no matter how it is performed or in whichever arrangement, its essential spirit survives. In the Baroque period the practice of arranging one's own music or that of other composers... |
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NINO ROTA
Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Filarmonica 900 del Teatro Regio di Torino / Marzio Conti [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2009 ] Nino Rota achieved international recognition primarily as a composer of film music. His most admired and enduring work in this field sprang from his collaboration with Federico Fellini. |
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MASCAGNI
Mascagni in Concert Filarmonica '900 del Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda / Luciano Ganci (tenor) [ Chandos Musica Italiana / CD - released 8/Oct/2013 ] On this disc, which is part of our ongoing series of Italian music, a selection of his works for the concert hall receives idiomatic performances by Gianandrea Noseda and the Filarmonica '900 del Teatro Regio Torino, with the tenor Luciano Ganci. |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Ernani (complete opera recorded in 2022) Francesco Meli, Roberto Frontali, Vitalij Kowaljow, Maria José Siri / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, James Conlon [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Victor Hugo's 1830 stage drama Hernani won overwhelming admiration, and over a decade later Verdi's attention was drawn to it as an operatic vehicle that would give him opportunities for full dramatic unity. |