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J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051 (complete) Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 26/Sep/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Samson Joshua Ellicott, Sophie Bevan, Fflur Wyn, Mary Bevan, Jess Dandy, Hugo Hymas / Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "This new Samson now becomes the top recommendation: for its uniformly excellent soloists, its excitingly 'present' choral singing and, above all, its more urgent sense of theatre" Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Choral |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ode for St Cecilia's Day Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Director), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Polish Radio Choir [ Linn Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Choral |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespers 1610 Dunedin Consort; His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, John Butt [ Linn / 2 CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] "using just ten singers creates a great transparency of texture" Five Stars BBC Music |
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ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: Haddon Hall [with Cellier: Captain Billy & Ford: Mr Jericho] Ed Lyon, Henry Waddington, Ben McAteer, Fiona Kimm, Adrian Thompson, Donald Maxwell, Angela Simkin, Eleanor Dennis / BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andre [ Dutton Epoch SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] |
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Eddie Gomez / John Abercrombie / Jack DeJohnette / Lester Bowie
New Directions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. "My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters". He'd worked with Eddie Gomez in the... |
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FRANCISCO BRAGA
Jupyra (complete opera) / Cauchemar (1895) for orchestra Eliane Coelho (soprano) Orquestra de Sao Paulo conducted by John Neschling [ BIS / CD - released 16/Oct/2002 ] a splendid South American opera. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn BWV1127 Elin Manahan Thomas / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 10/Oct/2005 ] Premiere recording of a newly discovered aria by Bach, unearthed in a library in June 2005 |
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ANDRE CAMPRA
Messe de Requiem Elisabeth Baudry, Monique Zanetti, Josep Benet, John Elwes & Steven Varcoe / La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] This French Baroque icon from the early days of harmonia mundi [around 1986? Ed] has been 'download only' for some years and we are delighted that Herreweghe's benchmark Campra 'Requiem' is now reissued at mid price, on hm gold, due to popular demand. |
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HAROLD MELTZER
Meltzer: Brion / Sindbad / Exiles Elizabeth Farnum (soprano) / Gregory Hesselink (cello) / John Shirley-Quirk (narrator) / Cygnus Ensemble / The Peabody Trio / Sequitur / James Baker [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "[Brion] is a haunting, quirky and continually inventive chamber work for a small ensemble including guitar and mandolin. It receives an elegant, colorful performance on a splendid recording of four fascinating chamber and vocal works by Mr.... |
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Elton John
21 at 33 [ Rocket Records / CD - released 12/May/2003 ] European imported, digitally re-mastered re-issue CD. |
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Elton John
Blue Moves (2CD) [ Mercury / 2 CD - released 3/Jun/1996 ] The immense creativity that had spurred Elton John to realize no less than 11 studio albums in under seven years was beginning to show signs of inevitable fatigue. The same can be said as well of the artist's unfathomable physical stamina, which had... |
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Elton John
Breaking Hearts [ Rocket Records / CD - released 12/May/2003 ] European imported, digitally re-mastered re-issue CD. |
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Elton John
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy [ Mercury Records / CD - released 5/Oct/1987 ] Digitally re-mastered re-issue CD with bonus tracks. |
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Elton John
Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (Gatefold LP) [ Mercury Records / LP - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Originally released in 1975, this concept album showed Elton John and Bernie Taupin at the peak of their game. The album shows off a variety of genres including hard rock and country music and contains the stand out track, 'Someone Saved My Life... |
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Elton John
The Captain & The Kid (Enhanced) [ Mercury / CD - released 18/Sep/2006 ] This is Elton John and Bernie Taupin's all-new, autobiographical sequel to the "classic" 1975 album that documented their experiences to that point - 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy'. 'The Captain and The Kid' is Elton John and Bernie... |
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Elton John
Caribou (LP) [ LP - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Caribou, the 1974 album by Elton John, was his fourth chart-topping album in the United States. The album contains the singles, 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me' which hit #2 in the U.S. and 'The Bitch Is Back.' Now available on 180 gram heavyweight |
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Elton John
Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player [ Rocket Records / CD - released 6/Jul/1989 ] Digitally re-mastered re-issue CD with bonus tracks. Elton John became a true superstar with 1972's Honky Chateau. He followed that album with Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, his most direct, pop-oriented album to date. Designed as a... |
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Elton John
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player (LP) [ Mercury / LP - released 21/Jul/2017 ] Reissue of Elton's sixth studio album as part of the initiative to have a greater representation of Elton's catalogue on vinyl in the marketplace, to tie in with the celebrations of Elton's 70th birthday year and 50 years of the writing partnership... |
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Elton John
Elton 60 [ Mercury UK / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/May/2008 ] |