Mavis Staples
We Get By [ Epitaph / CD - released 4/Sep/2020 ] 2019 release. Mavis Staples returns with a studio album produced and written by Ben Harper. Backed by Mavis' critically acclaimed live band, We Get By features 10 songs of longing, strength, and spirituality, presented with simplicity, grit and... |
The Staples
Pass It On [ ADA / Warner / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Rock & Roll and Gospel Hall of Fame inductees, The Staple Singers are an American musical treasure. In the '50s they were among the greatest of the post-war gospel groups. The '60s found them... |
Vince Staples
Ramona Park Broke My Heart (LP) [ Motown / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Esteemed hip-hop artist Vince Staples follows up his intimate self-titled album with RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART. "There's a direct correlation," Staples says of the two records. "They were kind of created at the same time. I was in a similar state... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1 (with Balakirev - Tamara) Mark Padmore, Sally Matthews, Kate Royal, Bernarda Fink, Andrew Staples / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] "this release completes a superb Rachmaninov symphony cycle…it's a taut, gripping account, Gergiev often pushing the accelerator harder than Mariss Jansons and Mikhail Pletnev" Gramophone |
Mavis Staples
If All I Was Was Black [ Anti / CD - released 17/Nov/2017 ] Mavis Staples has again joined forces with songwriter-producer Jeff Tweedy for a new album entitled If All I Was Was Black. The history Mavis recalls from her early years touring with her family as The Staple Singers, the prejudice, ugliness and... |
Mavis Staples
Live In London (LP) [ Anti / 2 LP - released 8/Feb/2019 ] Live in London was recorded over two nights at London's Union Chapel (which she calls "the best place in the world to sing") and produced by Staples herself. Live in London reveals that the singer retains astonishing power after seventy years as a... |
Mavis Staples
Livin' On A High Note [ Anti / CD - released 19/Feb/2016 ] Mavis Staples is an alchemist of American music, and has continuously crossed genre lines like no musician since Ray Charles. Weaving herself into the very fabric of gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, blues, rock, and even hip hop over the better part of... |
Mavis Staples
Livin' On A High Note (LP) [ Anti / LP - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Mavis Staples is an alchemist of American music, and has continuously crossed genre lines like no musician since Ray Charles. Weaving herself into the very fabric of gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, blues, rock, and even hip hop over the better part of... |
Mavis Staples
One True Vine [ Anti / CD - released 28/Jun/2013 ] |
Mavis Staples
One True Vine (LP) [ Anti / LP - released 28/Jun/2013 ] Coming off the huge success of her first collaboration with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy the Grammy winning You Are Not Alone Mavis Staples wanted to make their second album together both a continuation of the joyous spirit of the first, and an... |
Mavis Staples
You Are Not Alone (LP) [ Anti / LP - released 20/Jul/2011 ] |
Mavis Staples
Your Good Fortune [ Anti- / CD - released 21/Apr/2015 ] |
Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
Carry Me Home [ Anti- / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Captured live in the summer of 2011, Carry Me Home showcases two of the past century's most iconic voices coming together in love and joy, tracing their shared roots, and celebrating the enduring power of faith and music. The setlist was righteous... |
The Staples
Family Tree [ ADA / Warner / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] While Curtis Mayfield produced Let's Do It Again and 1976's Pass It On, The Staples switched it up on 1977's Family Tree, opting to work with another Chicago-based producer Eugene Record who had experienced his own chart success co-writing and... |
Mavis Staples
Live In London [ Anti / CD - released 8/Feb/2019 ] Live in London was recorded over two nights at London's Union Chapel (which she calls "the best place in the world to sing") and produced by Staples herself. Live in London reveals that the singer retains astonishing power after seventy years as a... |
Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
Carry Me Home (LP) [ Anti- / 2 LP - released 5/Aug/2022 ] Captured live in the summer of 2011, Carry Me Home showcases two of the past century's most iconic voices coming together in love and joy, tracing their shared roots, and celebrating the enduring power of faith and music. The setlist was righteous... |
Mavis Staples
Don't Change Me Now [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Les Illuminations, Serenade, Nocturne Andrew Staples, Christopher Parks, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Aug/2022 ] In these three song cycles, Britten draws his inspiration from the peaks of European poetry (Shakespeare, Blake, Shelley, Keats, but also Rimbaud), the better to push back the boundaries of the genre. He multiplies the relationship between voices and... |
ELGAR
The Apostles (complete oratorio) Anna Leese (sop) Louise Poole (mezzo) Andrew Staples (ten) Colin Campbell (bar) / Canterbury Choral Society / Philharmonia Orchestra / Richard Cooke [ Quartz / 2 CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] Elgar embarked seriously on The Apostles in 1902 and the first performance took place in October of the following year at the Birmingham Festival conducted by Hans Richter. |
SCHUMANN
Scenes from Goethe's Faust, WoO 3 [recorded in 2013] Christiane Karg, Mari Eriksmoen, Bernarda Fink, Andrew Staples, Christian Gerhaher / Chor & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Hardi [ BR Klassik / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] Ever since his debut in 2005 with Berg's "Wozzeck" (concertante) with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding has regularly attracted public attention with spectacular concerts. With the "Faust Scenes" by Robert Schumann -... |