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BIZET
Carmen (complete opera recorded in 2009) Opéra Comique, Paris / Anna Caterina Antonacci / Andrew Richards / Anne-Catherine Gillet / Nicolas Cavallier / John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) [ FRA Musica / 2 DVD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] Anna Caterina Antonacci is now acknowledged as a major artist, and her extraordinary vocal timbre and great acting skills have enabled her to perform a vast and varied repertoire in the world's most important theatres. She made her Covent Garden... |
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GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable (complete opera) John Osborn, Nicolas Courjal, Amina Edris, Erin Morley, Nico Darmanin / Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Marc Minkowsk [ Bru Zane CDs + Book / 3 CD/Book - released 23/Sep/2022 ] "It all adds up to a formidable re-evaluation of a seminal if neglected work, as well as being a remarkable achievement in its own right." Gramophone Recording of the Month Awards Issue 2022 |
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RESPIGHI
Brazilian Impressions Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, John Neschling [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 22/Mar/2014 ] Impressioni brasiliane...communicates Respighi's impressions from the summer of 1927, which he spent in Rio de Janeiro. The composer was fascinated by the popular music of Brazil, but also by the nature, animal life, and, naturally, the carnival. |
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RESPIGHI
Metamorphoseon / Belkis, Queen of Sheba / etc Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, John Neschling [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2015 ] "The Liège orchestra plays with great bravura, and BIS's SACD sonics, typically, are just terrific. In short, a very worthy entry in this ongoing series" (ClassicsToday Oct 2015) |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: The Birds & Ancient Dances and Airs Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège / John Neschling [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] With the present album, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and John Neschling bring us the sixth and last instalment in a series that has been called 'the finest-ever survey of the composer's orchestral output undertaken by a single... |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Transcriptions Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège / John Neschling [ BIS / CD - released 5/Feb/2021 ] A great orchestrator adds new colours to music by Bach and Rachmaninov. |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Sinfonia Drammatica & Belfagor Overture Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, John Neschling [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 13/May/2016 ] Ottorino Respighi is primarily associated with his Roman trilogy, composed between 1916 and 1928 and celebrating the eternal city and its fountains, pines and festivals. Respighi was however a highly prolific composer - in most genres - and all of... |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Vetrate di Chiesa [Church Windows] / etc Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège / John Neschling, Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Dec/2017 ] In their acclaimed series of Ottorino Respighi's orchestral music, John Neschling and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège have transported listeners to destinations as diverse as Brazil (Impressione brasiliane) and King Solomon's Jerusalem... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 5 & 7 Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] "These are the kind of performances that remind us of what a revolution of reassessment period-instrument bands provoke." (Gramophone) |
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FLORENCE BEATRICE PRICE
Price: Symphony No. 3 / The Mississippi River / Ethiopia's Shadow in America ORF Vienna Radio Symphony, John Jeter [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Florence Price was one of the most versatile and accomplished american musicians of her generation whose unstoppable creativity and earliest successes were set against the backdrop of 1930s economic depression |
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DAD'S ARMY
Dad's Army: The Very Best Episodes Volume 1 Original cast with Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier & Clive Dunn [ BBC Radio Collection / 2 CD - released 9/Jan/2006 ] Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus selects four of his favourite episodes from the evergreen radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John le Mesurier and Clive Dunn. As with other volumes in the Very Best Episodes range, Jupitus has also written an... |
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DAD'S ARMY
Dad's Army: The Very Best Episodes Volume 2 Original cast with Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier & Clive Dunn [ BBC Radio Collection / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/2006 ] A second volume featuring four of the very best episodes from the evergreen radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn. Diehard Dads Army fan Phill Jupitus has chosen four of his favourite episodes of the sitcom that... |
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DAD'S ARMY
Dad's Army: The Very Best Episodes Volume 3 Original cast with Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier & Clive Dunn [ BBC Radio Collection / 2 CD - released 8/Jan/2007 ] Diehard Dads Army fan Phill Jupitus has chosen four of his favourite episodes of the sitcom that captured the heart of the nation. In addition, he has written an introductory sleeve note explaining just what makes these four episodes great. As he... |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
On the Town (Original Cast Recording 1940-1956) Betty Comden, John Frank, Adolph Green, Nancy Walker, Leonard Bernstein & others [ Naxos Musicals / CD - released 5/Apr/2010 ] "We'll catch up some other time," sing the lovers in the touching finale to On the Town, but the irony is that this show, perhaps more than any other in musical comedy history couldn't have happened at any other time than exactly when it did. Not... |
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CAMARGO GUARNIERI
Symphony Nos 2 & 3 / Abertura Concertante Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo / John Neschling [ BIS / CD - released 3/Apr/2002 ] a world-class orchestra from the city of São Paolo |
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W. A. MOZART
The sonatas for violin and piano [recorded 1977] (4 CD set) Oscar Shumsky (violin) Robin Miller (oboe) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, John Tunnell, violin and director [ Nimbus / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2010 ] It is particularly felicitous that Shumsky and Balsam, both very experienced chamber musicians, should have come together to record Mozart's music for violin and piano. |
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PER NORGARD
Nørgård: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Dacapo / CD - released 5/Sep/2016 ] "The Oslo Philharmonic sound settled at the foundations while suggesting spontaneity on the surface…the brass and percussion offer extreme restraint and delicacy" (Gramophone) |
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Otis Spann, with Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf, Junior Wells, Chuck Berry, etc
Otis Spann in Session - Diary of a Chicago Bluesman 1953-1960 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Joining Eddie Taylor and Jody Williams (JASMCD3070 & JASMCD3100) in Jasmine's popular 'In Session' series comes this excellent 43 track 2CD set of Otis Spann's sessions that he cut in Chicago between 1953 and 1956 along with live performances at... |
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PAGANINI
The Best Of Paganini Ilya Kaler (violin), Moshe Hammer (violin), Norbert Kraft (guitar), Gerald Garcia (guitar), Scott St. John (violin), Simon Wynberg (guitar) Polish Nat [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/1997 ] Artists: Ilya Kaler (violin), Moshe Hammer (violin), Norbert Kraft (guitar), Gerald Garcia (guitar), Scott St. John (violin), Simon Wynberg (guitar) Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser |
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WAGNER
Götterdämmerung (complete opera recorded in Valencia, 2009) BLU-RAY Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia / Juha Uusitalo / John Daszak / Matti Salminen / Anna Larsson / Zubin Mehta (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Mar/2010 ] In this production "the visual codes of the digital era become elemental and dazzlingly employed means of narration" (Opernwelt). |