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W.A MOZART
Mozart: Requiem Simone Kermes (soprano), Stephanie Houtzeel (mezzo-soprano), Markus Brutscher (tenor), Arnaud Richard (bass), The New Siberian Singers, MusicAeterna [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] This recording of Mozart's Requiem, made by Teodor Currentzis in 2011, attracted great attention and soon became a benchmark in the work's discography! In its incredible ardour and sweeping inspiration, it demonstrates the full talent... |
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HUMMEL
Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer (The Passage through the Red Sea) Simone Kermes, Veronika Winter, Hans Joerg Mammel, Ekkehard Abele / Das Kleine Konzert / Hermann Max [ CPO / CD - released 8/Dec/2007 ] Austrian composer, pianist, and conductor. Hummel was a piano prodigy. Moving at age eight to Vienna, where his father was a conductor, he studied for two years with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. |
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ARVO PART / J.S. BACH
Pärt über Bach Simone Lamsma (violin), Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson (violin) [ Channel / CD - released 16/Aug/2024 ] Violinists Simone Lamsma and Candida Thompson explore connections between J.S. Bach and Arvo Part on their new release Part uber Bach with Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Arvo Part's groundbreaking Tabula Rasa is presented alongside Bach's Concerto for Oboe... |
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SPOHR
Violin Concertos Nos. 6, 8 & 11 Simone Lamsma (Violin) / Sinfonia Finlandia / Patrick Gallois [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] By uniting the virtuosity of the French violin school of Viotti, Kreutzer and Rode with the seriousness, perfection of form and developmental skills of the Viennese classical school of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Louis Spohr imbued his violin... |
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ELGAR
Violin Recital Simone Lamsma (violin) Yurie Miura (piano) [ Naxos Laureate Series / CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] "In this issue in Naxos's Laureate Series we are provided with a fine recital from two promising chamber performers; names to follow." (MusicWeb Sept 2006) |
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Nina Simone
It Is Finished (180gm LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 14/Jul/2016 ] It Is Finished is a live album from Nina Simone with sitar, Madagascar harp, Spanish guitar and lots of interesting-sounding African percussion instruments. This live album includes the epic heavy-afro version of "Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter"... |
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Nina Simone
Nuff Said! (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 9/Apr/2015 ] Nuff Said! Is an album by Jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. In 1969, the album was placed on peak 44 in R&B Albums Chart. The album received an Emmy nomination and featured one of Nina's biggest hits in Europe: "Ain't Got No, I Got... |
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Nina Simone
To Love Somebody (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 15/Jan/2015 ] No slouch as a songwriter herself, Nina Simone ably picked a variety of compositional classics from the new Rock era for her 1969 LP To Love Somebody. Opening with a beautiful, introspective version of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne," Simone shows an... |
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PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Complete Music For Piano Duo Simone Nocchi, Filippo Farinell (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Jun/2022 ] This record contains the complete works for piano duo (piano 4-hands and 2 pianos) by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963). While Hindemith was foremost a violist, not a pianist, he knew his way around the piano, and this familiarity is reflected in his... |
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JOSEPH MARX
Phantasie / 4 Lieder Simone Nold (soprano) Christoph Renz (flute) Felix Schwartz (viola) / Hyperion trio [ CPO / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] Impressionistic twentieth-century Romanticist Joseph Marx was once Austria's most distinguished composer; his fame and authority continued to be unbroken even in the 1950s. |
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BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Early Piano Sonatas Opp. 2-7-10 Simone Pierini (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Feb/2026 ] An experienced early-keyboard specialist brings his expertise to the 'New Testament' of the piano repertoire. 'Period' performances of Beethoven sonatas have become relatively mainstream during the present century, through artists such as Robert... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Intermezzo (Complete opera recorded in 2011) Simone Schneider, Markus Eiche, Martina Welschbach, Peter Nice, Sophie Mitterhuber, Brigitte Fassbaender / Müncher Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmir [ CPO / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] Scenes from a Marriage: The tension between a high-flying artistic existence and down-to-earth middle-class life was the theme of the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2011. The musical highlight of the festival was without a... |
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DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Complete Harpsichord Music Simone Stella (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 30/Jan/2012 ] "you can hardly go wrong with Stella's performances which are very good. He uses the harpsichord well and explores its various stops, mostly in a convincing and stylistically appropriate manner." MusicWeb |
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BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude - Complete Organ Music Simone Stella (organ) [ BRILLIANT CLASSICS / 6 CD Box Set - released 2/Nov/2012 ] The music of Dietrich Buxtehude has gained increased recognition and popularity over the last few years, not in the least due to the invaluable work of pioneers like Ton Koopman (Complete Buxtehude Edition) and others.The great Johann Sebastian Bach... |
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JOHANN PACHELBEL
Pachelbel: Complete Keyboard Music Simone Stella (harpsichord & organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 13 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2019 ] "..the organ used here has much greater possibilities in variety of tonal colours, and Stella uses it to fine effect in the many fugues and chorale variations." Choir & Organ |
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REINCKEN
Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music Simone Stella (harpsichord & organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 9/Feb/2014 ] Brilliant Classics continues its survey of preāBachian keyboard music with the complete keyboard works of Johann Adam Reincken. Reincken's style is rich and elaborate, full of invention and fantasy, requiring a virtuoso technique from the performer. |
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JOHANN GOTTFRIED WALTHER
Walther - Complete Organ Music Simone Stella (at the Francesco Zanin organ, 2006, Church of Sant'Antonio Abate, Padua) [ BRILLIANT CLASSICS / 12 CD Box Set - released 5/Dec/2015 ] "This is a splendid musical monument for one of the most important composers for the organ of the 18th century." MusicWeb Recording of the Month March 2018 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Méditation. Les quatre saisons du luth Simone Vallerotonda [ Arcana / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] On his second solo album for Arcana, after L'Ultimo romano, Simone Vallerotonda explores the metaphysical and sensual world of seventeenth-century French lute music. The result is Méditation: four suites in four different keys, each associated with a... |
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Simone White
Silver White [ Honest Jon's Records / CD - released 4/May/2012 ] |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Staatsoper Stuttgart / Michaël König, Simone Schneider, Martin Gantner, Okka von der Damerau / Cornelius Meister [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Nov/2020 ] What are heroes made of and why do our societies need them so badly ? At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, stage director Árpád Schilling tries to answer this mythological, political and existential question, lying at the core of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.... |