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Music by Alexandre Desplat
Tamara Drewe (Original Soundtrack) [ Silva Screen / CD - released 27/Sep/2010 ] Alexandre Desplat's spirited score to Stephen Frears' humorous and romantic film based on Posy Simmonds' well-loved graphic novel. In Tamara Drewe, Desplat's animated contemporary orchestral score is driven by tuned percussion leitmotifs. It leads... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (LP) Alice Coote, Stephen Cleobury, Academy of Ancient Music [ Warner Classics / 3 LP - released 18/Sep/2020 ] In 2009 in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel, and the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge, the Choir of King's College, Cambridge performed Handel's best known work, Messiah, on Palm Sunday,... |
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BLOW
Venus and Adonis (complete opera) Amanda Forsythe / Tyler Duncan / Mireille Lebel / Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles / Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs [ CPO Records / CD - released 18/May/2011 ] Again in cooperation with the Boston Early Music Festival, we are now releasing yet another baroque opera, this time a work by John Blow regarded as the first »real« English opera. |
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American Music Club
A Toast To You - Live In Pittsburgh, PA - November 2004 [ Decor / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] |
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THOMAS PITFIELD
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Anthony Goldstone (piano) / Peter Donohoe (piano) / Royal Northern College of Music Orchestra / Andrew Penny [ Naxos British Piano Concertos / CD - released 18/Oct/2009 ] |
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ALEXANDER TIKHONOVICH GRETCHANINOV
Gretchaninov: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom No. 4 Father Alexei Godunov / Father Alexander Korotsky / Ludmila Arshavskaya / Cantus Sacred Music Ensemble [ Alto / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] "One hardly expects such richness of harmony simply looking at the page. Grechaninov employs some very subtle harmonic shading (for example, in the first and second antiphons and the memorable Creed) to decorate what are essentially plain liturgical... |
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Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra
Baby Einstein:- Meet the Orchestra [ CD - released 2/Jul/2009 ] |
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Ball Park Music
Ball Park Music [ Inertia / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] |
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Ball Park Music
Ball Park Music (LP) [ Inertia / LP - released 23/Oct/2020 ] |
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IGOR STRAVINKSKY
Stravinsky: Chamber Works Barbara Hannigan; Julliard School Ensemble; Royal Academy of Music [ Linn Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] Barbara Hannigan, a Grammy award-winning artist at the forefront of creation, leads an ensemble of outstanding young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School. Since 2002, the Academy and The Juilliard School, both... |
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GERALD BARRY
Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest (complete opera) Barbara Hannigan, Peter Tantsits, Joshua Bloom / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Thomas Adès [ NMC / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2016 Finalist - Opera |
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BOB CHILCOTT
The Angry Planet BBC Singers, The Bach Choir, The Young Singers, London Youth Choir, Finchley Children's Music Group, David Hill [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] The three works on this 2CD set further confirm Chilcott's status as one of the world's most popular active choral composers. The BBC recently gave Chilcott a [sell-out] concert from BBC Maida Vale, on 5th June, to celebrate BBC Music Day... |
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W.A. MOZART
Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622 (with Brahms - Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115) Bernard Walton (clarinet) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan / Members of the Music Group of London [ Testament / CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] Bernard Walton (1917-72) was one of the finest orchestral musicians of his age. Though barely known to the public at large – he shunned the kind of media exposure won by his contemporary Jack Brymer (1915-2003) and made few solo recordings – he... |
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POUL RUDERS
Four Dances / Nightshade / etc Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen [ Dacapo / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "From the flittering opening of Four Dances to the unresolved menace that closes Abysm, the performances, marshalled by Knussen, bristle with controlled energy and colour. The music both beguiles and unsettles, revealing a stunning mastery of chamber... |
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Bob Downes Open Music Trio
Diversions [ Vocalion / CD - released 15/Oct/2007 ] |
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Boston Early Music Festival
Charpentier: Baroque Operas [ Cpo / CD - released 29/Nov/2010 ] |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Peter Grimes (complete opera) Alan Oke, Giselle Allen, David Kempster / Chorus of Opera North, Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Britten-Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bed [ Signum / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] "...[Oke's] is a strong, ballasted performance, less purely plangent than many, but deeply moving in its simple strength and keen imagination...There's much to relish throughout this hand-picked cast." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 - Opera WINNER |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem) Bror Magnus Tødenes (tenor) / Choir of Collegiûm Mûsicûm, Bergen Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music Choir, etc, Edward Ga [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] With this surround-sound recording of Berlioz's Requiem, Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra tackle the infinite and the immeasurable.All the grandiose, striking beauty of the Requiem's large-scale ceremonial is encapsulated by... |
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TRADITIONAL CATALAN SONGS
Traditional Catalan Songs for Voice, Lutes and Viol The Canigó Early Music Ensemble, William Gaston Waters [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] A unique collection of songs from Catalonia, a Spanish region rich in culture and with a strong identity, its origins going back to the Middle Ages, a period in which troubadours sang of love, war, nature, honor and betrayal. |
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LULLY
Psyche (complete opera) Carolyn Sampson, Karina Gauvin, Aaron Sheehan, Colin Balzer / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus / Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs [ CPO / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2009 ] Gramophone Awards 2009 Finalist: Baroque Vocal - "Carolyn Sampson, charming of voice and intelligent with detail as ever, is Psyché, and Karina Gauvin, as Venus. Shows herself a natural in French dramatic recitative..." Gramophone |