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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No 9 'Choral' Twyla Robinson, Karen Cargill, John Mac Master, Gerald Finley / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Bernard Haitink [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Sep/2006 ] Hybrid/SACD - playable on all compact disc players Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is a landmark in the history of music, changing the concept of what a symphony could be. The use of solo singers and a chorus in the final movement was revolutionary, and |
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MESSIEAN
Des Canyons aux Étoiles (recorded Nov 2013) Tzimon Barto (piano), John Ryan (horn), Andrew Barclay (xylorimba) & Erika Öhman (glockenspiel) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach [ LPO Live / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] "This performance of Messiaen's late, great 100-minute orchestral cycle - 12 pieces for an altering configuration - was recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall in 2013, and makes a powerful, colourful, even apocalyptically witty effect, I find, on s |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 3 (with Bartok - Piano Concerto No 2) Tzimon Barto (piano) / London Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach [ EMI Redline / CD - released 29/Jun/2002 ] "...an exceptionally well-filled CD with an attractively unusual coupling." (Gramophone) |
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DELIUS
Florida Suite / North Country Sketches / On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring / etc Ulster Orchestra & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jul/2000 ] '…the Chandos recording allows Delius's palette of colours to shine through' BBC Music Magazine |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN / ARNOLD BAX / FRANK BRIDGE / BENJAMIN BRITTEN etc
Seascapes Ulster Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish National Orchestra [ Chandos Collect / CD ] |
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J. S. BACH / MAX BRUCH / etc
Vanessa-Mae: The Classical Album Vanessa-Mae (Violin) / The London Symphony Orchestra [ EMI Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/1996 ] Vanessa Mae is a Singaporean-born British violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006. (Wiki) |
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London Music Works, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, etc
100 Greatest Film Themes Take 3 [6 CD set] [ Silva Screen / 6 CD Box Set - released 12/Apr/2013 ] Silva Screen's packed with value 100 track box sets have achieved over 23,000 sales in the UK with a repertoire ranging from film and TV soundtracks to military themes. This third soundtrack release in the series embraces over 80 years of first-class... |
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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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The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra / London Music Works / etc
The Definitive Horror Music Collection [ Silva Screen / 4 CD Box Set - released 26/Oct/2009 ] This long awaited 4 CD box set features 60 tracks from Horror movies spanning 90 years of Cinema, from the 1922 landmark silent Nosferatu all the way through to the 2009 release Drag Me To Hell. Includes classics from the genre such as The Shining,... |
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The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, London Music Works, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, etc
Great British TV Themes [2 CD set] [ Silva Screen / 2 CD - released 27/Jun/2011 ] Featuring themes from Monty Python's Flying Circus, Doctor Who, Thunderbirds, The Benny Hill Show, Captain Pugwash, Coronation Street, The Avengers, Red Dwarf, Steptoe And Son, The Professionals and many more! |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Masterworks [28 CD set] Christopher Hogwood & the Academy of Ancient Music / Philip Pickett & the New London Consort / etc [ Decca / 28 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2014 ] A new addition to the very successful series of super-budget boxes. A 28-CD set of Concertos, Sonatas and major vocal works by one of the most popular Baroque composers of all time. |
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Various Artists incls Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Nelson Riddle, Julie London, Dean Martin, Hollywood Studio Orchestra, Louis Prima, King Curtis, etc
MARBECKS RARE: Ultra Lounge [Leopard Skin Cover] [ EMI / CD - released 2/Feb/1986 ] Selections from the original EMI Ultra Lounge series...all digitally remastered. |
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COATES / WALTON / GOODWIN / BLISS / ELGAR / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
Remembrance Classics Various Artists including Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2004 ] Music with a war or patriotic theme including Land of Hope and Glory, Onward Christian Soldiers & the Battle of Britain March |
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RICHARD HICKOX
Within A Dream: A Celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox Various performers / City of London Sinfonia / Northern Sinfonia / Australian Opera & Ballet / Collegium Musicum 90 / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] The premature death of Richard Hickox on 23 November, 2008, at the age of just 60, deprived the musical world of one of its greatest conductors. The depth and breadth of his musical achievements were astonishing as this 2 CD collections reveals. |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Williams: Legendary Recordings (Incls 'On Wenlock Edge' & 'Serenade To Music') Recorded 1938-1955 George Maran (tenor) / London String Quartet / Ivor Newton (piano) / Isobel Baillie / Heddle Nash / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult [ ALTO / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "1938 was Sir Henry Wood's jubilee and the magical Serenade to Music which Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote for it… this, with the original soloists RVW had in mind, has obvious uniqueness but it possesses a very special beauty and atmosphere." - Gramophone |
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Victoria de los Angeles, Richard Lewis, Gerald Moore, London Symph.
Baroque and Religious Arias (Mozart, Handel, Bach & Franck) [ Testament / CD - released 14/Jul/2000 ] Victoria de los Angeles at the peak of her career! |
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BRAHMS
Symphony No 2 / variations on a theme by Haydn Vienna pHilharmonic Oorchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Sep/2015 ] Monteux recorded Brahms's Second Symphony several times; in addition to the present recording for Decca with the Vienna Philharmonic, there are versions with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. He recorded the... |
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Vienna Po/London Po
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 & 8 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 31/Mar/2003 ] |
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MOZART / BEETHOVEN / LISZT
Piano Concertos Walter Gieseking (Piano) Berlin State Opera Orchestra / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Henry Wood (Conductor) Hans Rosbaud (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] 'Mr Gieseking's skill is great enough in some ways… and his pianissimo now and then becomes as nearly nothing as is possible to imagine…' |
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BIZET
Symphony in C / L'Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2 / Jeux d'Enfants Westdeutsche Sinfonia / London Symphony Orchestra / Fruhbeck de Burgos, Barry Wordsworth [ Regis Records / CD - released 21/Dec/2004 ] "this will give much pleasure" - Gramophone |