MARK HAGERTY / TWIN POETS
Hagerty: United Sounds of America University of Delaware Symphony Orchestra, James Allen Anderson, Twin Poets, Makeda Hampton, Jonathan Whitney, Oksana Glouchko [ Delos / CD - due 14/Feb/2025 ] united sounds of america melds the power and rhythms of street poetry with the expressive capacity of the symphony orchestra to bring urgent social questions to the symphonic stage. united sounds is not a traditional musical work, nor is it one... |
Foster & Allen
Sing The Number 1s [ Rajon Music Group / 2 CD ] Featuring "Unchained Melody", "Strangers In The Night", "This Ole House", "You Belong To Me", "Memories Are Made Of This", "I Have A Dream", "Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" and many more! |
Lily Allen
No Shame [ Parlophone / CD - released 8/Jun/2018 ] Lily Allen has had three UK number 1 singles, two number 1 albums and she has sold over 5 million albums worldwide. After a decade of being a pop star, Lily Allen is back with her most personal, insightful and fully-formed record to date. No Shame... |
Steve Allen
The Steve Allen Collection [ Frenzy / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] This release is a whole lot more than just "Join Together". It includes a couple of big hits, a handful of should have been hits, the first ever cover of a Bowie song, a host of finely crafted self written pop songs, collaborations with Wellington... |
Stewart Allen
9 Rooms [ Rattle Records / CD - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Stewart Allan's 9 Rooms has been a long time coming, with some songs taking shape over many years. During that time, Stewart has been searching for the right sonic framework for his work, a sound world that would serve the aesthetic and intellectual... |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen (complete opera recorded in 1995) BLU-RAY Théâtre Musical de Paris - Châtelet / Thomas Allen, Eva Jenis, Hannah Minutillo , Ivan Kusnjer / Charles Mackerras (cond) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Mar/2016 ] This enchanting production by Nicholas Hytner, sung in the original Czech, is conducted by Charles Mackerras, a master of the best Janáček style. Through myriad shifts of scene, the episodic story is presented in brightly coloured sets and costumes... |
Al Bowly, Marlene Dietrich, Nat King Cole, Vera Lynn, Fred Astaire, George Formby, Dorothy Lamour, Flanagan and Allen, Perry Como, Noel Coward, etc
Perfect Nostalgia [ Past Perfect / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] Bask in a comforting warm nostalgic glow. Some wit once quipped "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be". I think when you hear this collection you will disagree. Happy listening! |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera filmed on Aldeburgh beach in 2013) BLU-RAY Alan Oke, Giselle Allen, David Kempster / Guildhall School of Music & Drama & Britten-Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bedford [ Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Feb/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
SCOTT JOPLIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Joplin: Treemonisha (Complete opera) Carmen Baltrop, Betty Allen, Curtis Rayam, Willard White / Original Cast Orchestra & Chorus / Gunther Schuller [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/1976 ] 'Performance and recording are first class' - Penguin Guide |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vaughan Williams: Choral Works [Incls Serenade to Music; Five Mystical Songs & Fantasia on Christmas Carols] (4 CD set) Corydon Singers, Matthew Best, with John Mark Ainsley, Thomas Allen, Elizabeth Connell, John Gielgud, Bryn Terfel, Sarah Walker, etc [ Hyperion / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'The performances are splendid, graced by such soloists as Thomas Allen and Bryn Terfel … The rapturous Serenade to Music has a cast of 16 singers fit to rival those of the original recording' (Sunday Times) |
HANDEL / CARULLI / KRANTZ / GIULIANI / DEBUSSY / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Summer Music Deborah Carter (flute) Allen Krantz (guitar) [ Direct-To-Tape Recording Company / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] "Summer Music" is a flute and guitar recital spanning three centuries of music performed by flutist Deborah Carter and composer/guitarist Allen Krantz. |
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
The River In Reverse [ Verve / CD - released 29/May/2006 ] |
Foster & Allen
Best Friends [ Telstar / CD ] |
Foster & Allen
The Essential Foster & Allen [ Big Jo-Ke / CD - released 8/Jun/2009 ] This 2CD set features 36 Foster & Allen hits & favourites - including "Maggie", "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen", "The Mountains of Mourne", "Bunch of Thyme", "The Fiddler' and more. |
Foster & Allen
I Will Love You All My Life [ Ritz / CD - released 12/May/2015 ] |
Foster & Allen
One Day at a Time [ Big Jo-Ke / DVD - released 12/Jan/2009 ] Foster and Allen are perhaps the most famous duo to come out of Ireland. For thirty years they regularly toured the world taking their music to North America, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia and the U.K. 'One Day at a Time'... |
Foster And Allen
Timeless [ Sony / 2 CD/DVD - released 6/Apr/2018 ] This collection features Foster & Allen's most popular songs over the 30 + years of their career including "The Irish Rover", "Red Haired Mary", "Red Is The Rose", "The Jacqueline Waltz" and "Sweethearts In The Spring". The DVD is a wonderful... |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: The Barber of Seville [Il Barbiere di Siviglia] (Complete Opera recorded in 1983) Francisco Araiza, Agnes Baltsa, Thomas Allen, Robert Lloyd / Academy St Martins / Neville Marriner [ Decca Opera! / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] Sir Neville Marriner makes one of his rare appearances as an opera conductor and the combination of a superb cast and stylish orchestral playing combine to make a magnificent recording of Rossini's comic masterpiece. |
ROSSINI / W. A. MOZART / J. STRAUSS II
Love, Passion & Deceit: Classic Opera productions from Glyndebourne [La Cenerentola, Cosi fan Tutte, Die Fledermaus] Glyndebourne Opera / Topi Lehtipuu, Luca Pisaroni, Miah Persson, Ruxandra Donose, Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, etc [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2015 ] 'I had to search long and hard down memory lane to recall a Così that so vividly revealed both the pleasure and the overwhelming pain of this evermore disturbing masterpiece, and I failed.' Opera on Cosi |
Henry 'Red' Allen
Three Classic Albums Plus (Red Allen Meets Kid Ory / We've Got Rhythm / Red Allen Plays King Oliver) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |