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J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 25: BWV86, BWV87, BWV97, BWV44, BWV150, BWV183 Katharine Fuge / Joanne Lunn / Robin Tyson / Paul Agnew / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "Gardiner's analyses of the music are both personal and revealing, first to read, and then to hear in practice. This is Bach at a very high level - a match for anything else that is currently available on disc."(Choral & Song Choice of the Month BBC... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas Vol 9: 17th & 18th Sunday after Trinity (BWV47, 96, 114, 116, 148, 169, 226) Katharine Fuge, Nathalie Stutzmann, Mark Padmore, Christoph Genz / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] "This series is mandatory for anyone who collects the cantatas, and it will retain a unique and privileged status for a long time to come." (AudAud.com) |
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TRADITIONAL / QUILTER / STANFORD / PARRY / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRIDGE / WARLOCK
Kathleen Ferrier-Songs of the British Isles (1949-1952) Kathleen Ferrier, contralto / Phyllis Spurr, piano / John Newmark, piano / Frederick Stone, piano [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] "A bit of a wake up call to Decca. Obert-Thorn has has managed to effect an improvement to these recordings - and that can only be a welcome piece of restoration" (MusicWeb June 2005) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; 4 ernste Gesänge, Op. 121 / Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben (Rec 1947-1950) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) with Phyllis Spurr (piano) Phyllis Spurr (piano) John Newark (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos Historic Great Singers / CD - released 24/Oct/2004 ] Kathleen Ferrier was the most significant British singer to emerge following the end of the Second World War in 1945. Although her professional singing career spanned only a single decade (1942-1953) she achieved international recognition in a... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Great European Organs Vol 68 Keith John (organ of Fulda Cathedral) [ Priory / CD - released 6/Oct/2007 ] Recorded in Fulda Cathedral, Germany on 5th and 6th March 2001 |
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LISZT / MOZART / IVES / BRAHMS / SCHOENBERG
Great European Organs Vol 53 Keith John (organ of Kallio Church, Helsinki) [ Priory / CD - released 7/Oct/2007 ] The Organ of The Kallio Church, Helsinki, Finland/ Keith John |
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Keith Mansfield / John Cameron
Voices In Harmony (LP) [ Be With Records / LP - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Be With has worked with original label KPM to re-issue ten albums from across the KPM 1000 Series and the Themes International Music catalog, currently under KPM stewardship. Whether it's killer soul-funk, sweet jazz-samba, scuzzed-up guitars or... |
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KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Volume 2 Sinfonia of London, John Wilson [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Jul/2024 ] Sinfonia of London's second album of works of Kenneth Fuchs features four world première recordings. |
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TRADITIONAL
Kenneth Mckellar's Book of Hymns Kenneth McKellar (tenor) & John Turner (organ) / Choir of Paisley Abbey, George McPhee [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Mar/2016 ] Released by popular demand, this collection brings together 21 favourite hymns and sacred songs sung by that most beloved of tenors, Kenneth McKellar |
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Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (LP) [ New Jazz / Fantasy / LP - released 1/May/1963 ] For his final Prestige-related session as a sideman, John Coltrane (tenor sax) and Kenny Burrell (guitar) are supported by an all-star cast of Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums), and Tommy Flanagan (piano). This short but sweet gathering... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier (highlights in English) Yvonne Kenny, Diana Montague, Rosemary Joshua, John Tomlinson, Andrew Shore [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 13/Sep/2012 ] "Parry paces the score most persuasively, and the orchestral sound is aptly sumptuous...Diana Montague is a winningly expressive Octavian, and Rosemary Joshua a sweet-toned Sophie." (Penguin Guide) |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Kiri te Kanawa sings Verdi and Puccini arias Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Pritchard [ Sony / CD - released 1/Mar/1983 ] "It is a pleasure to recommend this programme of Verdi and Puccini without reservation." (Gramophone) |
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KIRI te KANAWA
I Could Have Danced all Night (Concert & Portrait) BLU-RAY Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Stephen Barlow [ Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's story has all the best elements of an operatic fairytale. Coming from a part-Maori background she went on to become one of the world's most famous opera stars. |
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Kitchen, John
The Organ In The Church Of The [ Delphian / CD - released 26/May/2008 ] |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (complete opera recorded in 2022) Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor) Eva Heidi Stober (soprano) Johan Reuter (bass-baritone) / John Fiore (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray - released 24/Nov/2023 ] Triumphantly premiered in 1868, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg evokes the singing guilds of mid-16th-century Nuremburg, a focal point of the Northern European Renaissance. |
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Koerner John
Raised By Humans: Spider John [ Red House / CD - released 1/Sep/1995 ] |
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ROLF WALLIN
Act Kroumata Percussion Ensemble / Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra / John Axelrod / Jukka-Pekka Saraste / Jaap van Zweden [ Ondine / CD - released 14/Dec/2007 ] "Act" is the première recording on Ondine of Norvegian composer Rolf Wallin - one of Scandinavia's leading composers and a figure of increasingly international renown who celebrates his 50th birthday in 2007. Three of his works are featured in world... |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
L'Orfeo (Complete opera filmed in 1997) Muziektheater Amsterdam / John Mark Ainsley, Juanita Lascarro, Michael Chance, Brigitte Balleys / Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "Simply the most compelling account of L'Orfeo yet produced...John Mark Ainsley is simply superb as Orfeo…" BBC Music Magazine |
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KALEVI AHO
Symphony No.12 ˜Luosto Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Chamber Orchestra of Lapland / John Storga¥rds [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2008 ] "Aho's Twelfth Symphony is tailor-made for surround sound. Scoring it for soprano, tenor and two orchestras...it creates a truely awesome spectacular, especially as Bis's engineering is so spectacular and atmosphere at all dynamic levels."... |
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VAGN HOLMBOE
Holmboe: Chamber Symphonies Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds [ Dacapo / CD - released 30/Jul/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Orchestral |