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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures London Symphony Orchestra, The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Lucy Crowe (soprano) [ LSO / 4 CD Box Set - released 21/Sep/2019 ] LSO Live presents Sir John Eliot Gardiner's award-winning Mendelssohn series together in its entirety for the first time. Captured over three seasons during critically acclaimed concerts in the Barbican Hall, this set offers listeners the definitive... |
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Long John Baldry
Long John Baldry Trio Live [ Stony Plain Records / CD - released 19/Oct/2009 ] |
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Long John Baldry
Remembering Leadbelly [ Stony Plain Music / CD - released 1/Mar/2002 ] Totally fresh interpretations, recalling the legend, the roots |
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Lou Donaldson & Big John Patton
Possum Head + Signifyina‚„ [ CD ] |
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Lou Reed and John Cale
Songs for Drella [ Sire Records / CD - released 11/Apr/1990 ] A joint effort between Velvet Underground alums Reed and John Cale. Simply put, this is the story of the life of Andy Warhol... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Semele (complete musical drama) Louise Alder, Hugo Hymas, Lucile Richardot, Carlo Vistoli, etc / The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ SDG / 3 CD Box Set - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "A new recording is always welcome, especially when it comes from someone who knows his dramatical business as John Eliot Gardiner does." Gramophone Editor's Choice Sept 2020 |
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Lpo/John Alldis Choir/Haitink
Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloe [ Lpo / CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] |
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FERDINANDO PAER
Leonora Ursula Koszut, Siegfried Jerusalem, Edita Gruberová, Norbert Orth, John van Kesteren / Bayerisches Symphonieorchester, Peter Maag [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD Box Set - released 28/Nov/2014 ] "Maag directs a piece for which he has an obvious affection with a care for both its lyrical and histrionic possibilities" (Gramophone) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Pavarotti: Duets Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) with Bryan Adams, Andrea Bocelli, Elton John, Celine Dion, and many others [ Decca Classics / CD - released 9/Oct/2008 ] Classic duets with a glittering array of singing legends including: Celine Dion, Elton John, Mariah Carey, Andréa Bocelli, Sting, Bono and many more. |
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PAVAROTTI & FRIENDS
Duets Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) with Bryan Adams, Andrea Bocelli, Elton John, Celine Dion, and many others [ Decca Classics / DVD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] G : - The legendary tenor duets with a host of the world's greatest musical stars in such classics as 'O sole mio', 'Miss Sarajevo' and 'Panis Angelicus'. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123 (recorded in Oct 2012) Lucy Crowe, Jennifer Johnston, James Gilchrist, Matthew Rose / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique & Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] "Such is the visceral intensity of the music-making, a certain girding of the loins may be required before a second hearing, but isn't that precisely how it should be with a work of this power and magnitude?" Editor's Choice Gramophone, February 2014 |
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GEORGE FREDERICK McKAY
Violin Concerto / Sinfonietta No. 4 / Song Over the Great Plains Ludmilla Kovaleva, piano / Brian Reagin, violin / Ukraine National Radio Symphony Orchestra / John McLaughlin Williams, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2005 ] "Naxos's third McKay disc ... a worthy revival of music that could otherwise have been lost to posterity" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
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HANDEL
Messiah (complete recorded in 1994) Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles / Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Brandenburg Consort / Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] 'John Mark Ainsley sings with remarkable spiritedness throughout, exhibiting an accomplishment and beauty of his articulation in his early numbers which afford constant repetition.' Gramophone |
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HANDEL
Messiah (highlights) Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles / Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Brandenburg Consort / Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Oct/2008 ] Originally Handel was Händel. But the German composer was welcomed in England with open arms. Thus he could leave out the Umlaut from his name. The great oratorio Messiah is Handel's best known work. This is a selection of highlights, of course the... |
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Mable John
Stay Out Of The Kitchen [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
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TRADITIONAL
Christmas Carols From Oxford Magdalen College Choir, John Harper, conductor [ Alto / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "..Magdalen College Oxford played an important part in the Victorian revival of the celebration of Christmas and especially of carol singing.. key figure.. J R Bloxam, Fellow of Magdalen.. first held a musical entertainment for Magdalen choristers.. |
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BYRD / TALLIS / PURCELL / BOYCE / HOWELLS / BRITTEN / etc
English Anthems from Oxford Magdalen College Choir, Oxford / John Harper [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] 17 anthems in date order including Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons, Weelkes and Tomkins. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas Vol 18: BWV191, BWV63, BWV123, BWV65, BWV154, BWV32, BWV 124 Magdalena Kožená, Bernarda Fink, Michael Chance / James Gilchrist / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 16/Dec/2010 ] "With 10 top-flight soloists, it brings this awe-inspiring project to a powerful end." The Independent on Sunday, 31st October 2010 |
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HINDEMITH
Orchestral works: Mathis der Maler, Nobilissima Visione, Symphonic Metamorphosis São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) / John Neschling [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] The three orchestral scores gathered here are certainly among Paul Hindemith's most well-loved works If his style in the 1920's at times had struck listeners as sparse and utilitarian, in Mathis der Maler (from 1934) the musical language is more... |
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J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 8: BWV51, 99, 100, 138; BWV8, 27, 95, 161 Malin Hartelius, Katharine Fuge, William Towers, Robin Tyson; James Gilchrist . Monteverdi Choir. English Baroque Soloists. John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2005 ] Cantatas for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity and the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage. St. Giles Cripplegate, London, England In total SDG will release 51 CDs, each corresponding to one of the... |