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FRANZ SCHUBERT / HUGO WOLF
Schubert: String Quartet in C major / Wolf: Italian Serenade in G major (LP) The Hollywood String Quartet, with Kurt Reher (cello) [ Vinyl Passion Classical / LP - released 25/Feb/2018 ] Recorded in Hollywood December 26th, Hollywood |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op.87 [Igor Levit on DSCH] (LP) Igor Levit (piano) [ Sony Classical / 3 LP - released 12/Jun/2020 ] The new album "On DSCH" by Igor Levit is a tour de force by "one of the essential artists of our time" (The New York Times). |
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FRANZ LISZT / HANS WERNER HENZE / RICHARD WAGNER / GUSTAV MAHLER
Igor Levit: Tristan (LP) Igor Levit (piano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Franz Welser-Möst [ Sony Classical / 3 LP - released 9/Sep/2022 ] On Igor Levit's "Tristan" the pianist explores nocturnal themes of love and death, fear, ecstasy, loneliness & redemption in the music of Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler & Hans Werner Henze. |
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James Heather
Stories From Far Away on Piano (LP) [ Ahead of Our Time / LP - released 4/May/2018 ] Contemporary pianist James Heather presents his debut album - 'Stories From Far Away On Piano'. On the surface 'Stories From Far Away On Piano"s solo minimal piano pieces have a simple, innate beauty, but there's also a stark intensity simmering... |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI / AMILCARE PONCHIELLI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Insieme - Opera Duets (LP) Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Sony Classical Vinyl / 2 LP - released 28/Oct/2022 ] On stage they're usually rivals, but in real life Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier share a close friendship. After many live performances together these two extraordinary artists have recorded their first duet album: "Insieme".. |
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Ólafur Arnalds
Some Kind Of Peace (LP) [ Mercury LP / LP - released 27/Sep/2024 ] some kind of peace was born out of the mantra: "we can't control anything that happens to us. All we can do is control how we react to what life gives us." Touches on what it means to be alive, daring to be vulnerable and the importance of rituals. A... |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOFF / ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 / Scriabin: Etudes (LP) Lang Lang, Yuri Temirkanov, & St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra [ Craft / 2 LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Marking the debut orchestral recording of legendary Lang Lang's illustrious career, this album includes the pianist's performance of Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, Op 30 with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra from Proms at the Royal Albert... |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Poetic Tone Pictures, Op.85 (LP) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) [ Sony Classical / 2 LP - released 28/Oct/2022 ] "a pianist of magisterial elegance, power and insight" (New York Times). |
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Leontyne Price, Vienna Philharmonic Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)
Songs For Christmas (LP) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 6/Nov/2020 ] Leontyne Price's heavenly soprano lights up 13 Christmas favorites on this wonderful 1961 album recorded in Vienna, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. On this vinyl "Silent Night", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", "O Tannenbaum", "Ave Maria", "O Holy... |
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HENRYK GORECKI
Górecki: Symphony No. 3 - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (LP) Lisa Gerrard, Genesis Orchestra, Yordan Kamdzhalov (cond.) [ Besant Hall / LP - released 28/Nov/2025 ] The Genesis Orchestra, led and conducted by Yordan Kamdzhalov, have collaborated with renowned vocal artist and composer Lisa Gerrard for this recording of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No 3, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, which is now... |
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MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain (LP) The Cleveland Orchestra / Lorin Maazel [ Craft / LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Hailed as "one of the best recordings Telarc has ever done" by Stereophile, the 1980 recording of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, performed by The Cleveland Orchestra and conducted by the legendary Lorin Maazel, cemented Telarc's status as... |
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LUDOVICO EINAUDI
Einaudi: In A Time Lapse (LP) Ludovico Einaudi (piano) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 29/Apr/2013 ] "It's not hard to understand why Ludovico Einaudi is one of the world's most successful living classical composers: there's a deeply satisfying emotional logic to his piano-based progressions that makes him as much the inheritor of Chopin and Satie... |
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ENNIO MORRICONE
Plays Ennio Morricone (Double Gatefold LP) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 24/Mar/2016 ] Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone is a 2004 album featuring recordings from Morricone's various film scores by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone. The album was recorded with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra and Gilda Buttà on piano. Morricone... |
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Various Composers
Lys (LP) Mari Samuelsen (violin) [ Deusche Grammophon / CD - released 26/Jan/2024 ] Inspired by light in all its forms, Samuelsen's latest album features 14 works by female composers, from Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé. All are new commissions or arrangements, ambient and glowing, without an ugly bump or crevice in sight. |
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Maria Callas (soprano), Angelina Jolie (narrator), Pierfrancesco Favino (narrator), Vincent Macaigne (narrator)
Maria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (LP) [ Warner / 2 LP - released 14/Feb/2025 ] The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, which delves into the tumultuous final days of the iconic opera singer in 1970s Paris, interpreted by Angelina Jolie. |
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MAX RICHTER
Richter: Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works (2 LP) Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 LP - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Max Richter explores time and memory in his latest Deutsche Grammophon album, Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works Virginia Woolf's sharp eye for the detail of life guided her work as a writer, its presence felt in everything from pioneering... |
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MAX RICHTER
Richter: From Sleep (180g Double Transparent Edition LP) Max Richter (piano, organ, synthesizers, electronics) [ Deutsche Grammophon vinyl / 2 LP - released 18/Sep/2015 ] Acclaimed British composer Max Richter has written a new landmark recording: From SLEEP is actually and genuinely intended to send the listener to sleep. The ground-breaking new work is scored for piano, strings, electronics and vocals - but no... |
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Michael Giacchino
Spider-Man: No Way Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Picture Disc LP) [ Sony Classical / LP - released 3/Jun/2022 ] For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighbourhood hero's identity is revealed, bringing his Superhero responsibilities into conflict with his normal life and putting those he cares about most at risk. When he... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Songs (LP) Nicola Benedetti (violin), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Gerald Finley (baritone) / Philharmonia Orchestra [ Decca / 2 LP - released 19/Jul/2024 ] "Unbend the Triple with big personalities and it can topple, but here the balance is absolutely right, a model of judicious pacing, too; there's character to spare, which is as it should be." Gramophone |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World' (LP) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Warner Classics Vinyl / LP - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "Harnoncourt eschews tradition for tradition's sake in the symphony. He approaches the score afresh, and the result is a reading both idiomatic and illuminating." MusicWeb |