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SCHUBERT / SIBELIUS / GRIEG
Songs Miah Persson (soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Wigmore Hall Live / CD - released 1/Sep/2015 ] "So beautiful is her enunciation in the Swedish-language Sibelius songs that you could take phonetic dictation..The Grieg songs show signs of vocal tiring..In 'Die verschwiegene Nachtigall', though, one can hardly imagine a more alluring nightingale" |
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BILL CUNLIFFE / PROKOFIEV / MIKE NOCK
Concerti Michael Houstoun (piano) and the Roger Fox Big Band [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 25/Jun/2015 ] It may seem an incongruous pairing on the face of it, but Michael Houstoun and Rodger Fox have something vital in common - a passion for music, and it shows. |
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: The Complete Songs [6 CDs special price] Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles, Ilmo Ranta & Love Derwinger (piano) [ BIS / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2010 ] 'Something of a landmark in the Grieg discography… Monica Groop penetrates the very essence of the Grieg spirit with the artlessness that conceals art', wrote International Record Review |
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Complete Songs Vol. 4 Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 2/Aug/2002 ] The fourth volume of Grieg songs on BIS |
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Complete Songs Vol 5 Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano) / Roger Vignoles (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jan/2006 ] "These may not be the finest of Grieg's many songs, but this recording is a delightful experience." (MusicWeb April 2006) |
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Complete Songs Vol 6 Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Grieg dedicated his Nine Songs, Op. 18, to his wife Nina, but she actually exerted - as Grieg himself admitted - a great influence on his entire song production. |
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DARON HAGEN
Hagen: Orson Rehearsed Omar Mulero and Robert Frankenberry (tenors), Robert Orth (baritone), Fifth House Ensemble, Roger Zahab [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] Daron Hagen is a Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Kennedy Center Friedheim Award-winning composer, with a catalog of internationally performed work spanning four decades. His operafilm Orson Rehearsed is the psychological, emotional, and spiritual... |
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The Organ of St Laurenskerk, Rotterdam / Roger Judd
Great European Organs Vol 61 [ Priory / CD - released 16/Jun/2002 ] Volume 61 of the on-going series |
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Colm Wilkinson, Roger Allam, Patti LuPone, and London Cast
Les Miserables (Original London Cast) (2CD) [ Universal Music CD / 2 CD Box Set - released 19/Aug/1998 ] This double disc set is the original studio version of 'Les Miserables', which was recorded in 1985. |
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MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein (Unabridged) Read by Daniel Philpott, Roger May & Jonathan Oliver [ Naxos Audiobooks / 7 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Mary Shelley's poignant exploration of the true depths of human ambition has had a profound effect on readers since its conception in 1816. When scientist Victor Frankenstein forms a creature from the body parts of corpses, thus shattering the... |
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W.A. MOZART
Essential Symphonies Vol 1: Nos. 1, 25, 41 Jupiter Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Roger Norrington [ Hanssler / CD - released 19/Apr/2008 ] "These Mozart symphonies were recorded in two weeks at the European Music Festival Stuttgart in September 2006. More than 20 Mozart symphonies, ranging from his earliest to his last ten, were chosen to represent the superb range of his output." - Sir... |
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W.A. MOZART
Essential Symphonies Vol 2: Nos. 12, 29, 39 Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Roger Norrington [ Hanssler / CD - released 19/Apr/2008 ] "With the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, we aimed to recreate as far as possible the playing style of the period. We used the exact orchestra size of each symphony at its first performance (the smallest was a mere 18 players!)." - Sir Roger... |
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W.A. MOZART
Essential Symphonies Vol 3: Nos 8, 40 Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Roger Norrington [ Hanssler / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] "As usual with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, we aimed to recreate as far as possible the playing style of the period. We used the exact orchestra size of each symphony at its first performance (the smallest was a mere 18 players!)." - Sir Roger |
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W.A. MOZART
Essential Symphonies Vol 4: Nos. 22, 33, 38 Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Roger Norrington [ Hanssler / CD - released 19/Apr/2008 ] "These Mozart symphonies were recorded in two weeks at the European Music Festival Stuttgart in September 2006. More than 20 Mozart symphonies, ranging from his earliest to his last ten, were chosen to represent the superb range of his output." - Sir... |
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MAHLER
Symphony No. 9 in D major Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Roger Norrington [ Hanssler / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "It is fascinating to set aside sensationalism in favour of re-evaluation and to hear this remarkable piece stripped, as it were, of its veneer and laid bare before us in all its unsettling majesty and humility" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine,... |
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BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 E flat Major op. 55 & No. 4 B flat Major op. 60 Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart; Sir Roger Norrington [ Hanssler / CD - released 10/Jan/2004 ] "A great, wild fantasy… hardly a symphony" one audience member from the premiere of the Third Symphony proclaimed. Another moaned: "…it lasts a whole hour!" With the premiere of the Third Symphony in 1804, Beethoven forever altered the relationship... |
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BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1 C Major op. 21 & No. 2 D Major op.36 Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Sir Roger Norrington [ Hanssler / CD - released 10/Jan/2004 ] It would be no coincidence that Beethoven would choose the year 1800 for the premiere for his First Symphony, ushering in with the new century, a new major work. |
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DVORAK
Symphony No 9 / Carnival Overture Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart; Sir Roger Norrington [ Hanssler Classic / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] Roger Norrington and his historically sensitive orchestra turn to the music of Dvorak, beginning with the composer's most famous symphony. Norrington and company provide a performance as exciting as discovering a New World. The programme is completed... |
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SCHUBERT
Symphony in C Major D 944 / Overture to The Magic Harp (Die Zauberharfe) Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart. Roger Norrington [ Hanssler / CD - released 16/Apr/2003 ] The premiere on March 21,1839 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus under the direction of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was a tremendous success. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies Nos 1, 96 "Miracle" & 101 "Clock" (plus documentary on Sir Roger Norrington) Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgat des SWR / Roger Norrington [ Hanssler Classic / DVD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] |