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Sharon Shannon / Frankie Gavin / Michael McGoldrick / Jim Murray
Tunes [ Compass Records / CD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] This Sharon Shannon album features collaborations with her talented friends, Frankie Gavin, Michael McGoldrick and Jim Murray. |
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NIGEL WESTLAKE
Shadow Dances - music for guitar Slava Grigoryan (guitar) with Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Leonard Grigoryan (guitar), Saffire & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. [ ABC Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] Internationally renowned guitarist Slava Grigoryan plays the music of Australian composer Nigel Westlake on this new album. Grigoryan is a long-time champion of Westlake's music, and in this CD he showcases pieces such as Antarctica, with the... |
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SCHUBERT
Symphonies Nos. 8 'Unfinished' & 9 'Great' Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Failoni Orchestra, Michael Halász [ NAXOS / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Schubert's last two symphonies are ambitious in scale and brimming with striking ideas, though only two movements of the Symphony No. 8 were finished and the score rediscovered and first performed 43 years after the composer's death. The 'Great' C... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker (The) / Swan Lake / Sleeping Beauty Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Michael Halasz / Ondrej Lenard [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] The music of Tchaikovsky, in spite of the reservations of contemporaries at home and abroad, must seem to us both essentially Russian and firmly in the West European tradition. |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies.5 & 8 / Rosamunde - Ballet Music Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Halász [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] Vienna has always claimed Franz Schubert as its own. Of his immediate predecessors, Haydn came from the village of Rohrau, Mozart came to the city from provincial Salzburg, while Beethoven travelled there from his native Bonn. |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker (complete ballet recorded in 2014) Staatsballett Berlin / Iana Salenko, Marian Walter, Michael Banzhaf / Robert Reimer (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] At long last, the State Ballet Berlin has The Nutcracker back in repertoire, one of the most popular ballets ever. Vasily Medvedev and Yuri Burlaka, two choreographers and connoisseurs of the tradition, have developed a version based on the original. |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Staatsoper Stuttgart / Michaël König, Simone Schneider, Martin Gantner, Okka von der Damerau / Cornelius Meister [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Nov/2020 ] What are heroes made of and why do our societies need them so badly ? At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, stage director Árpád Schilling tries to answer this mythological, political and existential question, lying at the core of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.... |
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Litwin, Stefan / Stern, Michael / RSO Saarbrücken
Cowell, H.D. - American Piano Concertos [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] Betweenthe generations of Charles Ives and John Cage, American music produced anothertrue original in Henry Cowell, whose work in the realm of musical theory (heoriginated the term 'clusters', for example, subsequently much-used inavant-garde music... |
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DANIEL SCHNYDER
Around the World - works for bass trombone Stefan Schulz (bass trombone) / Daniel Schnyder (soprano saxophone) / Tomoko Sawano (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Michael Sanderling [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The present disc gives a broad picture of Schnyder's creative range, from duos to orchestral works, and includes subZero, his celebrated concerto for bass trombone, but also adaptations of Bach and Vivaldi. |
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WAGNER / HANDEL / MENDELSSOHN / VIVALDI / PARRY / RUTTER / WIDOR / etc
101 Wedding Stephen Cleobury (organ), The Michael Laird Brass Ensemble, The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, The National Philharmonic Orchestra, etc [ Decca / 6 CD Box Set - released 14/Jul/2014 ] For many people their Wedding will be the most important day of their lives and choosing the right music is an important element in the making of the special day. |
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Stephen Rippy / Martin O'Donnell / Michael Salvatori
Halo Wars (Original Soundtrack) [ Shock Records / 2 CD/DVD - released 30/Mar/2009 ] 'Halo Wars' Original Soundtrack will immerse listeners in a sweeping song soundscape of ear candy that's nothing less than sublime. The bonus DVD contains 9 additional tracks, exclusive 5.1 surround sound mixes, behind-the-scenes videos and the... |
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Michael Stearns, Ron Sunsinger & Steve Roach
Kiva [ Hearts of Space Records / CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] |
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PACHELBEL / BECK / HUMMEL / ABERT / KELEMEN
Stuttgart Compositions Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Michael Hofstetter [ Hanssler Classic / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
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Mendelssoh
Streichersinfonien Stuttgarter Kammerorchester Michael Hofstetter [ ORFEO / 3 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] |
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MAHLER
Songs with Orchestra (Incls ‘Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen’ & ‘Rückert-Lieder’) Susan Graham (mezzo) Thomas Hampson (baritone) / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Tilson Thomas is as good a Mahler conductor as is currently alive..the SFS (is) rapidly becoming the premiere Mahler orchestra in (the USA) if not the world. A solid recommendation for a series worth owning, each and every disc." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
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AZIO CORGHI
Divara - Wasser un Blut (complete opera) Susanna von der Burg / Hanslutz Hildmann / Michael Holm / Christopher Krieg / Robert Schwats [ Naxos 21st Century Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
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JOACHIM
Violin Concerto in G minor Op 3 / Violin Concerto in D Op 11 Suyoen Kim (violin) / Staatskapelle Weimar / Michael Halasz [ Naxos 19th Century Violinist Composers / CD - released 20/Dec/2009 ] "Suyoen Kim plays with the technical brillance and musical maturity that have already brought her, at the age of 18, to the attention of conductors like Kurt Mazur and Seiji Ozawa." The Strad |
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SCHUMANN
Symphonies 2 & 3 SWR Sinfonieorchester / Michael Gielen [ Haenssler / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] A new recording from Michael Gielen is always an event and this CD is his exciting contribution to Schumann's anniversary year. There are no other recordings of Gielen conducting Schumann in the catalogue and after hearing these vivacious and... |