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Lester Young
Four Classic Albums (Count Basie Kansas City Seven & Lester Young Quartet / Blue Lester / The Jazz Giants 56 / Count Basie At Newport) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD second release from Lester Young, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. Having released a fine set by Lester Young (AMSC1307) over two years... |
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Lester Young
Four Classic Albums (Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio / The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio / Pres & Sweets / Pres & Teddy) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 26/Jul/2018 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Lester Young, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details... |
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Lester Young
Kansas City Sax [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jun/2003 ] The great tenor saxophonist Lester Young will forever be associated with Kansas City, the musical capital of America's Mid-West. |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT / AIRAT ICHMOURATOV
Schubert: Death and the Maiden / Ichmouratov: Concerto Grosso No. 3 'Liechtenstein' LGT Young Soloists / Alexander Gilman (leader and artistic director) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Gustav Mahler arranged Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden' by expanding it into a grand orchestral spectacle. It reveals his admiration for Schubert and serves to intensify the quartet's journey through life, death and human... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Recomposed: Cello Sonata No. 3 / Violin Sonata No. 9 (arr. for strings) Luka Coetzee (cello), Miclein LaiPang (violin), LGT Young Soloists, Alexander Gilman [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Russian born arranger Paul Struck has arranged two of the composer's great mid-period chamber masterpieces for soloist and string ensemble. |
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BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle Michelle De Young (mezzo); John Relyea (bass); Pál Mácsai (actor); Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Gardner (conductor) [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Following outstanding reviews for his interpretation of Duke Bluebeard around the world, notably at the Paris Opéra and then in Philadelphia and New York with Michelle DeYoung, John Relyea stars in the first studio SACD Surround Sound recording of... |
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Neil Young
Official Release Series: Volumes 1-4 (4CD) [ Rhino Records / 4 CD - released 15/Jun/2012 ] Here is the perfect way to start a Neil Young collection - his first 4 solo albums in their remastered editions. With so many downright classic songs it's hard to know where to begin... |
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DOUGLAS LILBURN / LYELL CRESSWELL / DAVID HAMILTON / ROSS HARRIS / etc
Landscapes - New Zealand Orchestral Music New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Young [ Trust / CD - released 7/Dec/2001 ] showcases works by seven of the foremost New Zealand composers |
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EDWIN CARR
Carr: Symphony No 4, Promenade, Sinfonietta, Pacific Festival Overture New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young [ Continuum / CD - released 1/Aug/2000 ] The delightful music of New Zealand's own Edwin Carr! |
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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Young (with Patricia Wright)
Kenneth Young - Symphony / Virgen de la Esperanza / Dance [ Trust / CD - released 17/Jun/2000 ] Riveting music from New Zealand's distinguished composer! |
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Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club
Ko Ngati Poneke Hoki Matou [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 13/Oct/2003 ] SPECIAL PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIME - These classic concert party recordings of the Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club feature solos by Witarina Harris, founder member. The recordings, dating from the late 1930s. |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / SAINT-SAENS / ROSSINI
New Year's Eve in Saint Petersburg (recorded in 2006) Orchestra & Academy of Young Singers of the Mariinsky Theatre / Valery Gergiev (conductor) [ BelAir Classiques / DVD - released 31/Dec/2007 ] G - Directed for video by Denis Caiozzi, Produced by François Duplat |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 inC minor (1st version) Philharmoniker Hamberg / Simone Young [ Oehms Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Following on from Symphonies 2, 3 and 4 the cycle continues with the large-format Eighth. Critically acclaimed conductor Simone Young recently gained notoriety from appearing on the BBC's 'Maestro' series. |
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Remember (1911-1928): Incls 'When You And I Were Young, Maggie' & 'Keep The Home Fires Burning'
John McCormack, tenor [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 16/Jun/2005 ] It might be said that McCormack, however shining an example of a lost tradition,was just one among many other great singers, but in any serious evaluation of his vocal credentials it is impossible to play down the superlatives |
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HAYDN / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / WAGNER / LISZT
Sir Thomas Beecham: BBC Recordings [1954, 1956 & 1959] Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham, with Alexander Young (tenor) [ ICA Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/May/2018 ] This release has been sourced from the Richard Itter archive. The collection is very important for collectors because it has never been released before onto the market. Beecham caught 'live' often showed the mercurial side of his character and no... |
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JOHN CORIGLIANO / WILLIAM HOFFMAN
The Ghosts of Versailles Victoria Livengood, So Young Park, Vanessa Becerra, Peabody Southwell, Frederick Ballentine, Patti LuPone / LA Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Conlon [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to celebrate its 100th anniversary, John Corigliano's The Ghost of Versailles received its premiere at the Met in 1991, twelve years after it had been commissioned and eight years past the centennial season for... |
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JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Le Due Duchesse (complete opera) Young -Jun Ahn, Jaegyeong Jo, Eun-Hye Choi, Markus Scafer, Jorg Lindemann / Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Concerto de Bassus, Franz Hauk [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] As one of the leading operatic composers of his generation, Johann Simon Mayr nurtured a fascination with the chivalric stories of medieval England. Le due duchesse, an opera semiseria with buffa elements, is set during the reign of the 10th-century... |
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BRETT DEAN
Composer and performer Brett Dean (viola) / Sydney Symphony Orchestra / Simone Young / Hugh Wolff [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "The concerto has plenty of good ideas - a brief, meditative introduction, a vivid hunt of soloist by orchestra, and finally a dank reverie, the elegiac quality of which is suffused with quasi-expressionist angst. Curiously beautiful, somewhat... |
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Choir of Young Believers
Rhine Gold [ Ghostly International / CD - released 4/May/2012 ] There's a chilly rigour to the orchestral compositions of Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, the singer/writer behind Copenhagen's Choir of Young Believers. |
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Christopher Young
Drag Me To Hell (Original Soundtrack) [ Silva Screen / CD - released 22/Feb/2010 ] |