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Sam Smith & Kim Petras
Unholy (RSD 2023 7") [ EMI / 7in - released 22/Apr/2023 ] |
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Sammi Smith
Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 [ Ace Records / CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] Sammi Smith sang soulful, melancholy country music. One of the highlights of Ace's acclaimed "Choctaw Ridge" compilation earlier this year was her 'Saunders' Ferry Lane', an eerie tale of doomed romance in a chilly backwater. Her low, distinctively... |
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Smith and Mighty
The Three Stripe Collection 1985-1990 [ Bristol Archive Records / CD - released 11/May/2012 ] |
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George "Harmonica" Smith
Of The Blues (remastered) [ BGO / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] George's 1969 album recorded for Bluesway Records and first time on CD. The album features harpist Rod Piazza. Smith had joined Muddy Waters' band in 1954 and also worked with Otis Rush in that period. He toured with luminaries such as Little... |
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Smith, George & The Chicago Blues Band
Blues With Feeling - A Tribute To Little Walter [ Bgo / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] |
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Walter Smith III
Return To Casual [ Blue Note / CD - released 7/Apr/2023 ] Saxophonist and composer Walter Smith III enters a new era of his band leading career with his remarkable Blue Note debut return to casual, the long-anticipated follow-up to his self-released 2014 recording still casual. Eight original works (and... |
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SAINT-SAENS
Organ Music (Incls 'Preludes & Fugues' & 'Fantaisie No 3, Op 157') Andrew-John Smith (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jul/2008 ] 'The charm and elegance of these preludes, fugues and fantasies … brilliantly played by the hugely talented Smith on the great Cavaillé-Coll instrument that Saint-Saëns knew' (Observer) |
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SAINT-SAENS
Organ Music Volume 3 Andrew-John Smith (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "The mighty Fantasie pour orgue-Aeolian, complete with tubular bells, written for the new American Aeolian organ in 1906, sounds epic on this vast, brooding instrument, so splendidly tamed by the dextrous Smith." (Observer) |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: La Resurrezione (complete oratorio) Annick Massis, Jennifer Smith / Les Musiciens Du Louvre / Marc Minkowski [ ARCHIV / 2 CD - released 4/Jan/2008 ] La Resurrezione (HWV 47) is a sacred oratorio by George Frideric Handel, set to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652-1728). Capece was court poet to Queen Maria Casimira of Poland, who was living in exile in Rome. It was first performed on the... |
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MAX REGER
Choral Music Consortium, Andrew-John Smith [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] A second disc from new chamber choir Consortium, who were acclaimed for their disc of Brahms's secular partsongs. |
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BRAHMS
Zigeunerlieder Consortium / Andrew-John Smith (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "I have much enjoyed Consortium's Brahms, especially for the sheer quality of the singing. They are particularly good at sustaining tone in pianissimo, and they are always rhythmically alive, which is vital in this repertoire" International Record Re |
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Ella Fitzgerald, with Ellis Larkins, Paul Smith and Oscar Peterson
The Complete Piano Duets [ Verve / 2 CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] For the first time, all of Ella Fitzgerald's collaborations with pianists recorded for the Decca, Verve and Pablo labels are brought together on the album The Complete Piano Duets. |
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J.S. BACH
Wedding Cantata, Hunt Cantata & Ich habe genug Emma Kirkby (soprano) David Thomas, Jennifer Smith / The Parley of Instruments [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] 'Still by far the best version. The stronger sense of occasion is boosted by Peter Holman's inspired topping and tailing with sinfonias' (International Record Review) |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Robinson Crusoe / Vert-Vert / Entre Nous John Brecknock, Yvonne Kenny, Roderick Kennedy, Marilyn Hill Smith, Toby Spence, Thora Einarsdottir, Jennifer Lamore / Alun Francis, David Parry (cond [ Opera Rara / 7 CD Box Set - released 17/Feb/2023 ] 'All but dedicated misanthropes will find this set entrancing. Highly recommended' Gramophone |
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Jimmy Smith
Live at the Village Gate [ Verve Records / CD - released 14/Apr/2008 ] This is a digitally re-mastered, European imported re-issue disc of a classic live jazz album by the amazing organist, Jimmy Smith. |
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BEETHOVEN
Symphonies [complete] / Overtures Katerina Beranova (soprano), Lilli Paasikivi (alto), Robert Dean Smith (tenor) & Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass) / Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Riccardo Chailly Complete Beethoven / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2012 ] "There is space around the sound, as there needs to be in Beethoven, complemented by an immediacy and clarity of detail that derives in large measure from the playing itself." (Gramophone) |
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Smith - Delunsch - Falix, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
French Cantatas by Clerambault, Collin de Blamont & Stuck [ Archiv blue / CD - released 12/Oct/2002 ] the new dedicated reduced-price catalogue series for Archiv Produktion. |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur (Complete Opera) Jennifer Smith, Gillian Fisher, Elisabeth Priday / English Baroque, John Elliot Gardiner [ Erato / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] "Solo singing for the most part is excellent, with Stephen Varcoe outstanding among the men." *** Three Stars (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
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PURCELL
Hail Bright Cecilia / Come ye Sons of Art / Funeral Sentences for the death of Queen Mary Jennifer Smith, Ashley Stafford, Brian Gordon, Paul Elliott, Stephen Varcoe / Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Orchestra, John Elliot Gardiner [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] *** Three Stars (Penguin Stereo Guide) |
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ESSENTIAL WEDDING
Essential Wedding [Includes 'Trumpet Voluntary' & 'Sheep may safely graze'] Various Artists including Jane Parker-Smith, Maurice André, Alfie Boe, Wayne Marshall, Noel Rawsthorne, etc [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2012 ] This programme covers favourite pieces of liturgical music suitable for all types of religious wedding services, as well as secular works for non-religious occasions, including civil ceremonies. |