City Calm Down
Television [ Universal Music / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Faster, simpler, tougher: this is City Calm Down like you've never heard them before. Television is a spectacular record: short, sharp and focused. Recorded with producer Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett, DZ Deathrays, Julia Jacklin) at The Grove Studios... |
City Calm Down
Television (LP) [ Universal Music / LP - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Faster, simpler, tougher: this is City Calm Down like you've never heard them before. Television is a spectacular record: short, sharp and focused. Recorded with producer Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett, DZ Deathrays, Julia Jacklin) at The Grove Studios... |
City City City
The Perimeter Motor Show [ Remote Control Records / CD - released 18/Jul/2006 ] A heady mix of genres embracing ‘60s film scores, post punk, free jazz, kraut rock and chanson pop from Melbourne 7-piece City City City. |
City and Colour
Bring Me Your Love [ Shock Records / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] Juno-award winning act, City and Colour (aka Dallas Green of Alexisonfire) release the much anticipated second studio album, 'Bring Me Your Love'. |
City & Colour
A Pill For Loneliness (Limited Edition LP) [ Dine Alone Records / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2019 ] A Pill for Loneliness is produced by three-time Grammy-winning Jacquire King (Kings Of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse, Norah Jones) and mastered by Emily Lazar (Beck, Coldplay, Dolly Parton, The Chainsmokers), the first female mastering engineer to... |
City & Colour
A Pill For Loneliness (LP) [ Dine Alone Records / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2019 ] A Pill for Loneliness is produced by three-time Grammy-winning Jacquire King (Kings Of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse, Norah Jones) and mastered by Emily Lazar (Beck, Coldplay, Dolly Parton, The Chainsmokers), the first female mastering engineer to... |
Richard St
Eine Alpensinfonie; Salomes Tanz City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ ORFEO / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony / Marche Slave City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Orfeo / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] "such is [Nelsons's] no-holds-barred conviction, sparky temperament and exhilirating mastery of line and texture that the 58 minutes fairly fly by…fingers crossed for the first three Tchaikovsky symphonies from these same artists!" (Gramophone) |
Pjotr I. T
Symphonie No. 4 f-Moll op. 36, Francesca da Rimini - Fantasie op. 32 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ ORFEO / CD - released 23/Sep/2011 ] |
Pjotr I. T
Symphonie No. 5 e-Moll op. 64 Hamlet Ouvertüre op. 67 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ ORFEO / CD - released 28/May/2009 ] |
Pjotr I. T
Symphonie No. 6; Romeo und Julia City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ ORFEO / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 / Romeo and Juliet City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Orfeo / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] "Nelsons's conception of the first movement leaves nothing to chance. Sombre but never earthbound, the slow introduction leads seamlessly to a first subject whose fugitive progress is the more ominous for its understatement." (International Record... |
MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn in Birmingham - Volume 1 [Incls Symphonies 4 & 5] City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2014 ] "So it's three cheers for this disc, and all the more exciting that this is only Volume 1. It's a nice bonus that the cover of the disc is a drawing of Birmingham by Mendelssohn himself, and the essays in the booklet are up to Chandos' usual very hig |
MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn in Birmingham - Volume 2 [Incls Symphony No. 3 'Scottish'] City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its principal guest conductor, Edward Gardner, prove to be interpreters in the best tradition of the city. The symphonies Nos 1 and 3, the "Scottish", get splendidly vital performances that go at quite a |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert Symphonies, Vol.1 [Nos 3, 5 & 8] City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Following the highly successful series 'Mendelssohn in Birmingham', the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its former Principal Guest Conductor Edward Gardner here present the first volume in a new surround-sound series devoted to Schubert's... |
ARTHUR BLISS
Music For Strings / Meditations on a Theme by John Blow / A Prayer to the Infant Jesus City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Hugo Rignold, conductor / Ambrosian Singers, Philip Ledger, conductor [ Lyrita / CD - released 18/Jan/2008 ] I have often been told that I am a 'romantic' composer as though that carried in these days some deprecatory significance. I have not the remotest idea of what is implied by that definition, since the very wish to create is a romantic urge, and music... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Hamlet & King Lear (Complete incidental music) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mark Elder [ Signum / CD - released 2/Dec/2004 ] "The sound on this disk is exceptionally clear; not only was it well mastered at 20 bit resolution but the down-sampling and noise shaping were accomplished with exceptional success." - MusicWeb Nov 2004 |
BERNSTEIN
Essential Bernstein (Incls 'Divertimento for Orchestra' & Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story') City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Davis / Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin etc [ EMI Essential / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] The American composer, conductor, pianist and educator Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history. He was music director of the New York Philharmonic for many years and was a... |
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird; Petrushka (Complete ballets) / Symphony in Three Movements / Scherzo a la Russe / Four Studies City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Rattle gives a reading which brings out powerfully the sturdy jollity of the ballet, contrasting it with the poignancy of the puppet's own feelings." *** Three Stars Penguin... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer, Soile Isokoski, Juliane Banse, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Masters / CD - released 25/Jul/2017 ] "A Mahler 8 that seems dutifully fervent against a euphoric Rattle and his forces" - Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine April 2005 |