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Big Brother & The Holding Company
Cheap Thrills (Gatefold LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 16/Aug/2012 ] Cheap Thrills is Big Brother and the Holding Company's last album with Janis Joplin as lead singer. For Cheap Thrills, the band and producer John Simon incorporated recordings of crowd noise to give the impression of a live album, for which it was... |
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Company
Old Baby [ Jagjaguwar / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] |
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Company Of Strangers
S/T [ CD ] |
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Company of Wolves
S/T [ CD ] |
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GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The Gondoliers (complete operetta recorded in 1977) John Reed, Geoffrey Shovelton, Kenneth Sanford, Barbara Lilley / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic, Royston Nash [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] "the appealing gondoliers of Meston Reid and Michael Rayner, John Reed's typically reliable Duke and Kenneth Sandford's pillar of strength Don Alhambra" (Gramophone) |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Offenbach: Orpheus In The Underworld (operetta in English) Mary Hegarty, David Fieldsend, Jill Pert, Richard Suart, Rosemarie Arthars, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, John Owen Edwards [ Sony music / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/1994 ] ".. the whole production has a real lived-in feel and, in Mary Hegarty's flighty Eurydice, a nymphet - sorry, nymph - virtually to die for. " BBC Music |
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The Music Company
Rubber Soul Jazz [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Nine German Arias / Music for the Royal Fireworks Nuria Rial (soprano), Austrian Baroque Company, Michael Oman (recorder & director) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / Sony / CD - released 4/Jan/2010 ] Soprano Nuria Rial performs Georg Friedrich Handel's stunningly beautiful but rarely recorded German Arias, accompanied by the Austrian Baroque Company. Handel's Deutsche Arien of 1724-7 stands relatively alone in the context of his Italian operas... |
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GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado / Trial By Jury Peter Pratt, Donald Adams, Thomas Round, Jean Hindmarsh, Kenneth Sandford, Julia Goss / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isadore Godfrey, Royston Nash [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2015 ] I am pretty safe in saying that this recording is probably one of the best G & S recordings..ever! A cast to die for! Listen to Thomas Round's most beautiful rendering of "Wand'ring minstrel" and the horrific crazy laugh of Donald Adams as the Mikado |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Mass (A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers) Randall Scarlata (baritone) / Company of Music / Tolzer Knabenchor / Tonkunstler-Orchester Niederosterreich / Kristjan Jarvi [ Chandos / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2009 ] "Bravo and thrice-triple bravo! Bernstein's flower child finally comes of age." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
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T. S. ELIOT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Murder in the Cathedral (Unabridged historic 1953 recording) Robert Donat (Becket) / Old VIc Company / Robert Helpmann (director) [ EMI Classics for Pleasure - Classic Drama / 2 CD - released 1/May/2010 ] T.S. Eliot's verse-drama was first performed in 1935 in Canterbury Cathedral, the very place where Thomas Becket was brutally killed in 1170. Using the medieval morality play as a model, Eliot creates a tense study of Becket's journey from spiritual... |
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GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance / Cox & Box Peter Pratt, Donald Adams, Thomas Round, Jean Hindmarsh, Kenneth Sandford / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isadore Godfrey, Royston Nash [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 25/Aug/2015 ] "A classic recording and one of the very first Gilbert and Sullivan recordings ever made in stereo. The solo singing is all first-class with Thomas Round and Jean Hindmarsh (as Frederic and Mabel) being at their very best." Mel@Marbecks |
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Tono and The Finance Company
Fragile Thing [ LFL / CD - released 28/Jun/2010 ] Singer/guitarist Anthonie Tonnon, bassist Chris Miller and drummer Andy Straight recorded their sophomore EP over four days in September 2009 with Tex Houston in Dunedin. |
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Various Artists / Mixed by UK Dance Act Bad Company
Skool of Hard Knocks [ Renegade Hardware / 2 CD - released 17/May/2004 ] Featuring core Hardware artists Loxy, DJ Ink, Dylan, Keaton, Friction, Bad Company - plus tracks by some of the brightest new talents: Digital, Pendulum, Bulletproof and our very own Concord Dawn. |