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JEROME KERN
Showboat (1932, 1946) Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Jan Clayton, Helen Morgan & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 23/May/2005 ] Show Boat shares something with the Mississippi River so central to its story: it never flows the same way twice. Perhaps more than any other work in modern theatre, Show Boat has varied with each new incarnation, due to changes in political or... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Mass in E flat major, D950 Susan Gritton, Pamela Helen Stephen, Mark Padmore, James Gilchrist / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2008 ] Schubert's final mass and most ambitious setting was composed during the summer of 1828, only months before his death. It was premiered posthumously, on October 4, 1829, under the direction of his brother, Ferdinand. |
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HUMMEL
Mass in D minor / Salve Regina Susan Gritton / Pamela Helen Stephen / Mark Padmore / Stephen Varcoe / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Oct/2005 ] 'But Susan Gritton sings it [Salve Regina] with gusto, while she and the other soloists form a well-blended quartet in the Mass, whose performance under Hickox is confident and shapely, as well delivered in warm lucid sound.' BBC Music Magazine |
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J. S. BACH
Cantatas BWV51, BWV202. BWV10, BWV80, BWV140, etc Suzanne Danco, Helen Watts, Werner Krenn, Tom Krause / Wiener Akademie Chor / Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Muchinger [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "excellently transparent and well-detailed Decca digital recording and a fine team of soloists ... the chorus' vigorous contribution is given striking body and presence" - [BWV 80 and 140] Gramophone. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Little Sweep, Op. 45 / Cantata Academica, Op. 62 Jennifer Vyvyan, Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, George Malcolm / English Opera Group, Benjamin Britte [ Heritage / CD - released 23/Jan/2012 ] Two of Britten's rarities, his children's opera The Little Sweep and the Cantata Academica, have been unavailable for several years. The definitive recordings made with the English Opera Group and the London Symphony Orchestra are now available on... |
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FORCES' SWEETHEART / HEART-THROBS OF WWII
Forces' Sweetheart & Heart-Throbs of World War II Judy Garland, Vera Lynn, Connee Boswell, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, The Andrew Sisters, Helen Ward, Peggy Lee, Mary Martin, etc [ Retrospective / 2 CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] The definitive album of wartime nostalgia: 20 forces' sweethearts and 21 of their heart-throb male counterparts sing 50 great songs, mostly on the theme of parted lovers. For all the soldiers, sailors and airmen parted from their loved ones during... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas [Complete on 71 CDs plus CDR] Helen Donath, Arleen Auger, Christoph Pregardian, Christine Schafer, Andreas Achmidt, Peter Schreier, Matthias Goerne, etc, Helmuth Rilling (cond) [ Hanssler Classic / 71 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2011 ] At the center of Bach's amazing output stand the more than 200 surviving cantatas. While these works are rightly regarded as timeless masterpieces, the majority were performed only once or twice. Bach's church cantatas were composed during just 20... |
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Vienna Symphonic Orchestra / Erich Leinsdorf / Helen Donath / Werner Hollweg
Strauss, Johann - Famous Works [ Silverline Classics / Am@ado / Cascade / DVD - released 5/Jul/2004 ] G :- All Regions - Regular 1.33:1 / 4:3 - Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround / Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - Colour - 90 Minutes - PAL 'His popularity is immense: in all parts of the world melodies by Johann Strauss can be heard and in our part of the... |