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MONTEVERDI
Vespro della beata vergine (with Allegri - Miserere & Palestrina - Stabat Mater Collegium Aureum, Musica Fiata, Hannover Boys Choir & Pro Cantione Antiqua, Heinz Hennig, Mark Brown & Edgar Fleet [ Alto / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] Founded in 1968, Pro Cantione Antiqua has for over four decades been one of the most popular and acclaimed early music vocal ensembles. Their recording of Monteverdi's Vespers, first released on the Ars Musici label in the 1980s, returns to the... |
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PHILIDOR
Sancho Panca (Sancho Panza) Darren Perry / Elizabeth Calleo / Karim Sulayman / Meghan Mccall / Tony Boutte / Opera Lafayette / Ryan Brown [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] Opera Lafayette's production of this comedy revue is a 'sparkle of shining surfaces'. (Washington Post) |
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GRETRY
Le Magnifique Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull / Opera Lafayette, Ryan Brown [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry was the greatest French composer of opéra-comique in the eighteenth century. |
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Florie Brown
Best of Irish Fiddle [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Florie Brown began her studies of the fiddle at an early age and plays various styles, including Celtic, Bluegrass, Cajun, Country, Blues and Swing. |
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PIERRE GAVEAUX
Gaveaux: Leonore (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Opera Lafayette / Kimy McLaren, Pascale Beaudin, Jean-Michel Richer, Keven Geddes / Ryan Brown (cond) [ Naxos Unitel Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Apr/2019 ] "The orchestra under Ryan Brown play with spirit. This is an enterprising and rewarding production, well worth 82 minutes of your time." Gramophone |
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RICHARD DANIELPOUR
Darkness in the Ancient Valley, Lacrimae Beati & A Woman's Life Hila Plitmann (soprano) & Angela Brown (soprano) Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jan/2014 ] Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour has been championed by musicians ranging from Leonard Bernstein to the Emerson String Quartet. Lacrimae Beati owes its origin to Mozart's Requiem and was conceived after a perilous flight in 2002. |
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CONSTANT LAMBERT
Piano Concerto / Eight Poems of Li-Po / Piano Sonata / etc Ian Brown (piano) Philip Landridge (tenor) Nigel Hawthorne (narrator) / The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE / CRITICS' CHOICE |
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SCHUBERT
Complete works for Violin and Piano (Rec 1989) Jaime Laredo (violin) Stephanie Brown (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "I do think Laredo and Brown more than worth a listen. It's good to see their set reissued in this inexpensive and musicianly box." (MusicWeb May 2004) |
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James Brown & the Famous Flames
I've Got To Change - Early Sessions 1956-1959 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/May/2010 ] What can be said about James Brown that hasn't been said before! He was the most influential artist in Black Music history and this compilation of his earliest recordings helped usher in the Soul music ere of the '60s. |
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James Brown
James Brown: Four Classic Albums Plus...Four Bonus Tracks [ Avid R & B / CD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] AVID R&B presents the latest release in their Four Classic Albums Plus series with a re-mastered 2CD set from James Brown & The Famous Flames, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. "Please, Please, Please"; "Think";... |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus, RV 595 Gloria, RV 588 Jane Archibald, soprano / Nils Brown, tenor / Anita Krause, mezzo-soprano, Aradia Chorus and Aradia Ensemble with Kevin Mallon, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] Rather enterprisingly, as the centre-piece of this disc the group features the lesser known of Vivaldi's settings of the Gloria. This is combined with the second of his Dixit Dominus settings and the solo motet, 'Nulla in mundo pax sincera' |
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ANTIONIO VIVALDI
The very best of Vivaldi: Excerpts from concertos, vocal and choral works Jane Archibald (soprano) / Tamas Benkocs (bassoon) / Nils Brown (tenor) / Bela Drahos (flute) / Niklas Eklund (trumpet) and many others [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] "He is an old man who composes furiously and prodigiously. I have heard him compose a concerto with all its pasrts more quickly than a copyist could copy it" (Charles de Brosses on Vivaldi) |
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REBEL / FRANCOEUR
Zelindor, roi des Sylphes / Suite from 'Le Trophee' Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Heidi Grant Murphy, William Sharp / The Opera Lafayette Orchestra / Ryan Brown [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "The evening's strength, however, was the crisp, resilient playing of the period orchestra, bringing the lilting dance music to colorful life." The New York Times |
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RAMEAU
Operatic Arias for Haute-contre Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor) / Opera Lafayette / Ryan Brown [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Oct/2007 ] "Musically this is a string of pearls of wonderful scenes with dances and arias, joyful, dramatic, elegiac, beautiful. For a taster of Fouchécourt's accomplishment try the little arietta from Platée - Quittez nymphes, quittez (tr. 2), where his... |
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MAURICE JACOBSON
Theme and Variations, The Music Room & Mosaic Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Julian Jacobson (piano) & Mariko Brown (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] Maurice Jacobson was regarded in his lifetime as a "musician extraordinary" such was his versatility as a composer, performer and music administrator. His works are fundamentally classicist, varying from the timeless austerity of The Lord is my... |
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NIELSEN / HONEGGER / IBERT / POULENC
20th Century Flute Concerti Jennifer Stinton (flute) Geoffrey Brown (cor anglais) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Steuart Bedford [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "..an intelligently planned and excellently recorded programme which forms a wonderful showcase for this highly accomplished soloist.. Stinton plays with artistry & charm. Recommended." (Gramophone) |
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Jimmy Rowles & Ray Brown
The Duo Sessions [ Concord Jazz / 2 CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] |
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Jimmy Scott / Oscar Brown Jr
Five Classic Albums (Very Truly Yours, If Only You Knew, The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott, Sin & Soul, Between Heaven & Hell) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] AVID Jazz presents the latest release in our Five Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD shared release from Jimmy Scott and Oscar Brown Jr., complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. Here we feature three albums from... |