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CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Flute Concerto, Symphony No. 3, Pan and Syrinx Adam Walker (flute), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 5/May/2024 ] "An involuntary "whoa" escaped my lips when I heard the initial cannon volley that opens this new recording of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 3. Each successive shot came more powerful and faster than I had expected." MusicWeb Recording of the Month |
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Bill Mackay And Ryley Walker
Land Of Plenty Land Of Plenty (Reissue LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 26/Sep/2025 ] Drag City are pleased to present the reissue of hypnotic syncretic guitar duo Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker's recorded debut, 'Land of Plenty'. And just in time for the 10th anniversary of theoriginal release. Now, who remembers where they were in... |
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Daphne Walker
Haere Mai (Everything Is Kapai): The TANZA Recordings [ Frenzy / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Daphne Walkers original recordings on CD for the first time from the TANZA tapes. Some of these songs were re-recorded in later years, but these superior recordings are all you need. |
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ROSS HARRIS
Harris: Violin Concerto / Symphony No 5 Ilya Gringolts (violin), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano) / Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Eckehard Stier & Garry Walker [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] "orchestral tone and clarity is smooth and clean" (MusicWeb) |
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Josienne Clarke And Ben Walker
The Birds E.P (12") [ Rough Trade / 12in - released 13/Oct/2017 ] The Birds' is a suite of six songs that explore the themes of migration and departure. These are songs of autumn and shorter days, of flying south and the first feelings of early winter. It is deliberately dark and melancholic and ever so slightly... |
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Josienne Clarke And Ben Walker
Seedlings All [ Rough Trade / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] 'Seedlings All' is Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker's first album to be made up of all original songs, and is songwriter Clarke's most autobiographical work to date. As she explains: "For the first time I'm out there alone with a bunch of songs that... |
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Josienne Clarke And Ben Walker
Seedlings All (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 23/Mar/2018 ] 'Seedlings All' is Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker's first album to be made up of all original songs, and is songwriter Clarke's most autobiographical work to date. As she explains: "For the first time I'm out there alone with a bunch of songs that... |
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SIDNEY JONES
Jones: The Geisha (Complete operetta) Lillian Watson / Sarah Walker / Harry Nicoll / Richard Suart / Christopher Maltman / New London Light Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 12/Feb/2006 ] 'The recording that has given me the most joy during the year. A work I have waited fully 40 years to find on LP or CD' (Gramophone) |
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Ryley Walker
The Lillywhite Sessions [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] On The Lillywhite Sessions, Ryley Walker and the similarly indebted trio of drummer Ryan Jewell and bassist Andrew Scott Young cover Dave Matthews' infamously abandoned 2001 art-rock masterpiece of the same name, a record where he and his band... |
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Scott Walker
Bish Bosch [ 4AD / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] Released in 2012, 'Bish Bosch' was Scott Walker's final solo record. Scott began writing new material around 2009 and recorded it sporadically over the following three years. He was aided again by co-producer Peter Walsh and joined by the regular... |
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Scott Walker
The Childhood of a Leader Original Soundtrack [ 4AD / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] Partly inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's short story of the same name, 'The Childhood Of A Leader' is a tense psychological drama tracing the formative years of a young boy and set against the backdrop of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that led to the... |
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Scott Walker
The Drift [ 4AD / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] Released in 2006, The Drift was Scott Walker's first album in eleven years. Tracks like "Cossacks" and "Hand Me Ups" rock with a dark, insistent force that's quite unlike anything else in the Walker catalogue, while the vast open spaces of... |
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Stan Walker
All In [ Sony Music NZ / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] 'All In' is the seventh studio album from the one and only Stan Walker. This is Stan Walker in full glory through equal parts trademark anthems ('Don't Worry Baby' feat. Celina Sharma, 'Come Back Home') and R&B inflected bangers paying homage to the... |
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Stan Walker
Impossible [ Sony / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] 2020 has been a big year for one of New Zealand's most iconic performing artists, Stan Walker. Following the release of his telling memoir 'Impossible: My Story', released in October with Harper Collins New Zealand, a mammoth 11-date nationwide... |
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Tom Walker
I Am [ Sony Music UK / CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] After becoming 2019's biggest UK-signed selling artist, with a number 1 debut album, an international hit single in 'Leave A Light On', three million worldwide album sales and over four billion global streams in tow, Tom Walker makes his hard-fought... |
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Tom Walker
I Am (LP) [ Sony Music Uk / LP - released 20/Sep/2024 ] After becoming 2019's biggest UK-signed selling artist, with a number 1 debut album, an international hit single in 'Leave A Light On', three million worldwide album sales and over four billion global streams in tow, Tom Walker makes his hard-fought... |
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Tom Walker
What A Time To Be Alive [ Relentless / Sony / CD - released 8/Mar/2019 ] The album's title, 'What A Time To Be Alive,' is taken from one of Tom's best-loved songs, 'Blessings,' is indicative of the hope and optimism that permeates this blistering 12 track collection of original songs written or co-written by Tom and sung... |
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HUW WATKINS
Watkins: Flute Concerto, Violin Concerto and Symphony Adam Walker (flute), Alina Ibragimova (violin) / Hallé, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth, Edward Gardner [ NMC / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] Watkins is one of today's leading composer-pianists and this album (his second for NMC Recordings) showcases his vibrant, lyrical and impeccably crafted orchestral writing. Both the Flute and Violin Concertos were composed for soloists with whom he... |
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POULENCE / MESSIAEN / BARTOK etc
Vocalise: Adam Walker Adam Walker (flute) & James Baillieu (piano) [ Opus Arte / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] Principal flute of the London Symphony Orchestra, Adam Walker presents a recital of alternately lyric and dynamic music for flute and piano. A lovelorn song from Die schöne Müllerin forms the basis of a set of variations by Schubert, and reflective... |
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Daphne Walker
Golden Hits Of Daphne Walker [ Viking Seven Seas / CD ] Since the peak of her recording career in the 1950s and 1960s, Daphne Walker has been a favourite sound of the South Pacific for some forty years… |