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Chung Woong Traditional Korean Music Ensemble
Traditional Music from Korea [ ARC Music / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] A colourful, varied palette of Korean music, from solemn and contemplative court and ceremonial music to lively and exuberant rural pieces. The music is played on authentic instruments, some of which have a history of thousands of years. Information... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Great Composers in Words and Music: Ludwig van Beethoven Leighton Pugh (narrator), with music from the vast Naxos catalogue [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Illustrated with music from each period, this enlightening life history tells us about Beethoven's place in society from his earlier career as a fine pianist, his life on the edge of the Napoleonic war, his professional triumphs and many misfortunes. |
W. A. MOZART
Great Composers in Words and Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Leighton Pugh (narrator), with music from the vast Naxos catalogue [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] This entertaining and informative biography takes us from Mozart's beginnings as a child prodigy to his greatest successes and cruellest setbacks. The narrative is illustrated with music from each stage of Mozart's intense career. |
W.A. MOZART
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Complete opera) Lynne Dawso, Marianne Hirsti, Uwe Heilmann, Günter von Kannen, Wolfgang Hinze / Academy Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 5/May/2003 ] This recording was made in 1990 after a series of stage performances. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Henry VIII and his Six Wives The Early Music Consort of London / David Munrow [ Testament / CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] David Munrow (August 12, 1942 - May 15, 1976) was a musician and early music historian. He was the son of Albert Munrow, a Birmingham University lecturer and physical education instructor who even wrote a book on the subject, and was so highly... |
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Early Music Consort/Munrow
Music For Ferdinand & Isabella [ Testament / CD - released 12/Jan/2004 ] |
HOWARD HANSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hanson: Symphonies No. 3 / Elegy / The Lament For Beowulf Eastman-Rochester Orchestra / Eastman School of Music Chorus. Howard Hanson [ Mercury Living Presence / CD - released 11/Oct/1991 ] Recorded 1957 - 1963 The original Three Track original recording |
NONO / BERIO / KOENIG / STOCKHAUSEN
Espaces Électroacoustiques II Electroacoustic music realized at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology of the Zurich University of the Arts [ Col Legno SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] This 2 SACD set is intended as a complement to the release Les espaces electroacoustiques, Masterpieces of electroacoustic music presented in 5.1 surround and stereo, published by col legno in 2016. Like its predecessor, the album at hand presents a... |
RALF VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony & other works Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Kitty Whately (mezzo) / Royal College of Music Brass Band / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ] "This splendid performance is now the best way to hear the 1920 version of A London Symphony." MuscWeb Nov 2017 |
PURCELL
Theatre Music (music from Abdelazer, Don Quixote, The Virtuous Wife, Oedipus, etc) Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Elizabeth Lane, Joy Roberts, Prudence Lloyd, James Bowman / Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood [ Decca Budget Boxes / 6 CD Box Set - released 14/Jun/2004 ] All of Purcell's Theatre music on a 6 CD budget set |
VIVALDI / PERGOLESI / BACH
Stabat Mater Emma Kirkby (soprano) / Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor) / Theatre of Early Music [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "A mightily impressive disc with affecting performances throughout." Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - November 2009 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Serse The English Concert (early music ensemble), William Dazeley, Paula Murrihy, Emily D'Angelo, Lucy Crowe, The English Concert and Harry Bicket [ Linn Records / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Jun/2023 ] "The superb cast is led by Emily D'Angelo, whose opening aria - beautifully controlled and rich in tone - will not disappoint...this new Serse is surely one of the most charismatic recordings now available." Gramophone Recording of the Month July 23 |
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ELLIOTT CARTER
Carter: Mosaic / Dialogue / Solo Pieces Erica Goodman (harp) Robert Aitken (flute) Max Christie (clarinet) / New Music Concerts [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Elliott Carter is internationally recognized as one of the leading American voices of the classical music tradition. He recently received the Prince Pierre Foundation Music Award, bestowed by the Principality of Monaco. |
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Film Music Of Jerry Goldsmith
Golds [ CD ] |
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Folk Music Ensemble
Traditional Music From Turkey [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski’s Last Concert Fujiko Imajishi (violin) / Valdine Anderson (soprano) / New Music Concerts Ensemble / Witold Lutoslawski [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "The composer conducted for the last time on October 24, 1993 in Toronto, Canada, and was recorded by the CBC. The programme consisted of his Partita, Chain-1 and 2 and the little-heard Chantefleurs et Chantefables, from poems by Robert Desnos, with... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: The Seasons (1801) Carolyn Sampson (sop) Jeremy Ovenden (ten) / Gabrieli Consort & Players, National Forum of Music Choir, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (cond [ Signum / 2 CD Box Set - released 24/Mar/2017 ] "McCreesh and his massed Anglo-Polish forces have given us a Seasons that thrillingly catches both the work's bucolic exhilaration and its invocations of the sublime..for sheer sonic splendour it's in a class of its own" Gramophone Award Nomination |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Vivaldi, Handel Grace Davidson (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music [ Signum / CD - released 29/Jun/2018 ] "The voice is radiantly fresh and clean, and she successfully navigates almost all the technical perils in her programme of sacred motets by Handel and Vivaldi, spiritedly backed by another of Britain's Academies, the Academy of Ancient Music" Times |
ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Works for Orchestra & Soprano Saxophone Greg Banaszak (saxophone) / Eastern Music Festival Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] Alan Hovhaness's remarkable legacy of 67 symphonies and hundreds of other works stands as a testimony to one of the most individual musical voices of the 20th century. Written when Hovhaness was 25, the Prelude and Quadruple Fugue represents not only... |
