More By Artist: Michael O'Leary
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BACH / BUXTEHUDE / POULENC / REUBKE / WIDOR / etc
Organ: Greatest works Edward Power Biggs, Hans Heintze, Michael-Christfried Winkler, Michael Pohl (organs) with various accompaniments [ Berlin Classics / 2 CD - released 31/Jan/2008 ] A new series from Berlin Classics which provides an overview of the character of each classical instrument, featuring a cross-section of both well-known and more unusual pieces from solo works to chamber and orchestral music. Wonderfully presented in... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Rachmaninov/Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Bernd Glemser (piano) Michael Houstoun (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] The Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major was written in 1957 for Shostakovich's son Maxim, who gave the first performance of the work on his nineteenth birthday. The work has about it a youthful appeal for performers and audience alike. |
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things Volume One [ Invada / CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] Stranger Things is the breakout Netflix original series set in 1983 Indiana where a young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government... |
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things, Volume One (Double LP) [ Invada / 2 LP - released 18/Nov/2016 ] Stranger Things is the breakout Netflix original series set in 1983 Indiana where a young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government... |
Various Artists Incl Robert Shaw, Fredrick Fennell, Michael Murray, Seiji Ozawa
Telarc - Celebrating 25 Years: The Classical Collection [ Telarc Records / 2 CD - released 2/Jul/2002 ] the truest, most authentic listening experience possible in recorded music. |
WEDDING CLASSICS
Wedding Classics (Incls Air on the G String, Sheep May Safely Graze & Trumpet Voluntary) Various artists incls BBC Philharmonic, Phillip McCann, Michael Austin, Nigel Kennedy, Yuri Torchinsky, etc [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2003 ] Wedding Classics is an enterprising and original compilation that offers a wealth of fresh musical ideas for every wedding service. |
Various Artists incls Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Amy Grant, Michael Buble, Bon Jovi, etc
A Very Special Christmas (25th Anniversary Edition) [ Universal Music International / 2 CD - released 22/Nov/2012 ] 2012 marked the 25th anniversary of the AVSC series and to celebrate, the first edition of the 1987 album is combined with a brand new 25th year edition as a bonus CD. |
Various / Recordings by Michael Church
Songs of Survival: Traditional Music of Georgia [ Topic Records / 2 CD - released 17/Jul/2007 ] This specially priced 2 CD set is a comprehensive survey of the traditional music of Georgia with well over two hours of mostly vocal music celebrating the three part polyphonic music that lies at the heart of their musical life. |
W.A. MOZART
Mass In C Minor / Kyrie In D Minor Norine Burgess (soprano) Robert Holzer (bass-baritone) / Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia / Michael Halasz [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of the violinist and composer Leopold Mozart, a musician employed by the ruling Archbishop. |
MONTEVERDI
Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (complete opera) Vesselina Kasarova / Dietrich Henschel / Klaus-Michael Gruber / Giacomo Badoaro / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] G :- "Fine vocal contributions and a typically purple score adorn this fresh production." (Gramophone) |
MEHUL / GOUNOD / HALEVY / DELIBES / LECOCQ / OFFENBACH / etc
Opéra-Comique Overtures Vienna Radio Symphony, Michael Halász [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] With innovative features, colourful orchestration, drama, wit and atmospheric writing, these operettas proved very popular and these overtures encapsulate their immense vivacity and charm. |
JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL
Vanhal: Symphonies, Vol. 5 (with Oboe Concertino) Vojtěch Podroužek (oboe), Pavla Honsová (viola) / Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Michael Halász [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Johann Baptist Vaňhal was one of Haydn's most important contemporaries. His symphonies in particular were widely admired throughout Europe. Vaňhal's symphonies were known in England before those of Haydn. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Schwanegesang Michael Volle (baritone), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano), Sjon Scott (horn) [ Naxos / CD ] "Naxos may be a budget label, but this is a full-price performance. Volle can produce smooth steady tones-the kind you want to drink in for hours. The voice is sonorous yet warm, full yet flexible, controlled yet impassioned. Naxos should line him up... |
RICAHRD WAGNER
The Best Of Wagner Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz, Uwe Mund & Johannes Wildner [ Naxos / CD - released 6/May/1997 ] The perfect introduction to the orchestral music of Richard Wagner |
BRUCH
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 Weimar Staatskapelle / Michael Halasz [ Naxos / CD - released 11/May/2010 ] Famed in his lifetime for his large-scale choral works, but perhaps best known today for his Violin Concerto No. 1 and Kol Nidrei, Max Bruch also composed three symphonies. The First, dedicated to Brahms and indebted to Mendelssohn and Schumann, was... |
PHILIP GLASS
Voices for Organ & Didgeridoo / etc Michael Riesman (organ) with Mark Atkins (didgeridoo) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] Voices for organ & Didgeridoo was commissioned by the City of Melbourne to relaunch the Melbourne Town Organ in 2001. The piece was the first collaboration between Glass and didgeridoo player Mark Atkins. The two would later work together on... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie Wiener Singakademie, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen [ Orfeo / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] Hector Berlioz's Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie was a sequel to his Symphonie fantastique, which premiered in 1830 at the Paris Conservatory. Comprising six sections, it was composed during his travels to and around Italy, and made use of material that... |
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POUL RUDERS
Selma Jezkova [Dancer in the Dark] (complete opera recorded in 2010) Ylva Kihlberg / Palle Knudsen / Hanne Fischer / The Royal Danish Opera / The Royal Danish Orchestra / Michael Schønwandt [ Dacapo DVD / DVD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] "Musically, the work is descended from Berg, in that its free tonality provides an expressive focus yet without the schematic framework becoming inflexible...The cast is dominated, as it needs to be, by Ylva Kihlberg's Selma: her dramatic soprano... |
SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder Yvonne Naef (Mezzo) Ralf Lukas (Bariton) Andreas Schmidt (Bass) / MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig / Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freibu / Michael Gielen [ Hanssler SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 30/Dec/2007 ] "There are a number of very fine recordings of this extraordinary work, but this newcomer, celebrating the great Michael Gielen's 80th birthday, is, in my view, the finest of the lot. Everything has the feel of absolute 'rightness', and the SWR... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral" / Leonore Overture No. 2 CRR Symphony Orchestra, Michael Hahasz [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/1988 ] Recorded in the Concert Hall of Czechoslovak Radio, March 1988 |
