LECUONA / BARBIERI / GIMENEZ / LUNA / TORROBA / etc
Mis Amores Son Las Flores - Zarzuela Arias Lisette Oropesa (soprano), Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real [ EuroArts SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Oct/2024 ] Zarzuela was born as a court genre in the 17th century, and became a mass spectacle in the mid-19th century, spreading throughout the whole of Spain. |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Noise And Flowers [ Reprise / Warner / CD - released 5/Aug/2022 ] Noise & Flowers documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Young's lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at age 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Paradox (Original Music From The Film) [ Reprise / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Neil Young recorded the music for the Paradox soundtrack on the MGM soundstage with three different groups: Promise of the Real, an orchestra, and another backing band comprised of Jim Keltner, Paul Bushnell and Joe Yankee. Paradox (the film) is... |
MASCAGNI / CILEA / ALFANO / CANTALANI / GIORDANO / PUCCINI / etc
Saioa - Il Verismo d'Oro Saioa Hernández (soprano) / Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real, Carlo Montanaro [ Euroarts SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 31/May/2024 ] The award-winning Spanish opera soprano Saioa Hernández and the Orquestra Titular del Teatro Real under the direction of Carlo Montanaro invite you on an unforgettable musical journey of discovery through the aria world of Italian verismo and more. |
GABRIELE ROBERTO / DMITRI CERVO / NICOLA TESCARI / MENACHEM ZUR
Alchemy: New Music for Trumpet and Orchestra Fabio Brum (trumpets, Cornets, Flugelhorn, Horn) / Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Seville, Noam Zur [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2022 ] Like alchemists of old, attempting to recombine the four elements, here Fábio Brum presents four distinct musical languages in a programme forged during lockdown. Gabriele Roberto's Tokyo Suite charts the astonishment of a traveller dazzled by the... |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: Kata Kabanova (complete opera recorded in 2008) Teatro Real, Madrid / Karita Mattila, Miroslav Dvorsky, Guy de Mey, Dali Schaechter / Jiri Belohlavek (cond) [ FRA Musica DVD / DVD - released 12/Dec/2010 ] "Its luminosity is reflected in Jiří Bělohlávek's conducting, undoubtedly the most airily lyrical Katya I can remember, which uses Mackerras's edition but applies less spiky gestures" BBC Music Magazine, January 2011 ***** |
Neil Young + The Promise Of The Real
The Visitor [ Warner Music / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Neil Young reteams with Promise of the Real for a new album titled The Vistor, their second studio LP together. The album comes just three months after Young released Hitchhiker, his long-lost LP of acoustic songs recorded over one night in August... |
The Real Thing
The Very Best Of [ Pulse / CD - released 29/May/2006 ] Northern soul had emerged in the north of England when the Real Thing formed in 1970, but the disco/funk/soul quartet couldn't get into the obscure R&B sounds, preferring instead the more progressive soul of the Temptations, Barry White, and funk... |
Sunny Day Real Estate
LP2 (Double LP) [ Sub Pop Records / 2 LP - released 19/Oct/2009 ] Released on LP for the first time in years, LP2 has been remastered from the original tapes and includes 2 bonus tracks. Delivering on the promise Sunny Day Real Estate showed on their 1994 debut Diary, the following year's LP2 (a.k.a. The Pink... |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: The Perfect American (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / David Pittsinger, Donald Kaasch, Christopher Purves, Janis Kelly / Dennis Russell Davies (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "The dark tone is set from the beginning...Purves impresses conveys the complex and ultimately flawed character of Walt...Opus Arte's production is excellent...and brings The Perfect American - such as it is - very vividly to life." Gramophone |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: Jenufa (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Amanda Roocroft, Deborah Polaski, Nikolai Schukoff / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "Something in the composer's writing brings out the best in [Roocroft's] creamy voice and committed acting, and here she's superb as a young woman who forgives her stepmother for committing a terrible crime." (ClassicFM) |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Barbiere de Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (complete opera recorded in 2005) Teatro Real, Madrid / Maria Bayo, Juan Diego Florez, Pietro Spagnoli, Ruggero Raimondi / Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor) [ Decca DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Dec/2005 ] G :- A top international cast including soprano María Bayo, tenor Juan Diego Flórez, and the great bass baritone Ruggero Raimondi. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera [The Masked Ball] (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Marcelo Alvarez / Violeta Urmana / Marco Vratogna / ElenaZaremba / Jesus Lopez-Cobos (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Passion, loyalty and political conspiracy are the three pillars of Un ballo in maschera (1859), the 'most operatic of all operas'. Set in XIX century Boston, Mario Martone's atmospheric production for the Teatro Real in Madrid brings out all the... |
PIETRO MASCAGNI / RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (complete operas recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Violeta Urmana / Vincenzo La Scola / Vladimir Galouzine / Maria Bayo/ Carlo Guelfi / Jesus Lopez-Cobos (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Feb/2009 ] Blu-Ray - "The performances are uniformly superb; especially Violeta Urmana's Santuzza and Vladimir Galouzine's Canio, especially in the aria Vesti La Giubba, where he almost brings down the house. Very highly recommended!" (AudAud.com) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Lucio Silla (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Theatro Real / Kurt Streit (Silla), Patricia Petibon, Silvia Tro Santafé, Inga Kalna / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Nov/2018 ] "But the vocal laurels, and the principal reason for recommending this recording, belong to Patricia Petibon who tears into Giunia's arias as if her really depended on it." BBC MusicBBC Music Magazine October 2018 Opera Choice |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Earth [ Reprise Records / CD - released 24/Jun/2016 ] Neil Young's new album, EARTH features performances of songs from a range of Young's albums, including last year's THE MONSANTO YEARS, 1990's RAGGED GLORY, and 1970's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH. The audio was captured during Young's 2015 tour with The... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Noise And Flowers (2LP, CD & Blu-ray Box Set) [ Reprise / Warner / Multi-Format Box Set - released 5/Aug/2022 ] Noise & Flowers documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Young's lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at age 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real
Noise And Flowers (Double Gatefold LP) [ Reprise / Warner / 2 LP - released 5/Aug/2022 ] Noise & Flowers documents a 9-date tour that began just two weeks after Young's lifetime friend and manager of more than 50 years, Elliot Roberts, passed away at age 76. Performing alongside a photograph of Roberts taped to his road case, Young... |
Neil Young + Promise Of The Real (CD + DVD)
The Monsanto Years [ Warner Brothers / CD/DVD - released 26/Jun/2015 ] Neil Young + Promise of the Real have joined forces and release this new studio album. For this guitar-centric, full steam-ahead and highly-charged rock album, Young is joined by Promise of the Real, an LA-based rock band fronted by Lukas Nelson... |
Real Estate
Atlas [ Domino / CD - released 28/Feb/2014 ] The most collaborative Real Estate record to date, Atlas was written by Martin Courtney, Matt Mondanile, Alex Bleeker and Jackson Pollis while cruising through the Arizona desert and during a presser in Madrid, in a practice room in Greenpoint,... |
Real Kids
Grown Up Wrong [ CD ] |
Soul For Real
Candy Rain [ CD ] |
Sunny Day Real Estate
The Rising Tide [ Time Bomb / CD ] |
JANACEK
Jenufa (complete opera recorded in 2009) Amanda Roocroft / Deborah Polaski / Miroslav Dvorský / Nikolai Schukoff / Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid / Ivor Bolton [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "Amanda Roocroft has won laurels as Jenufa in various stage productions and comes across as a deeply sincere performer here, even if the voice is apt to turn shrill at the top...[Polaski's] very understatement is moving in its own way." (Gramophone) |
B-Real
Smoke 'n' Mirrors [ Shock Records / CD - released 6/Mar/2009 ] B-Real was raised in South Central LA, and is best known as lead vocalist in the multi-Platinum selling rap group Cypress Hill. His debut solo album features Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Kurupt, Damian Marley, Buckshot, Sean Price, Too $hort and Sen Dog. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida / La Traviata / Rigoletto (complete operas recorded 2002 - 2006) Royal Opera, Teatro Real, Liceu Opera / Daniela Dessi, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Norah Amsellem, Renata Bruson, Christine Shafer, Marcelo Alvarez, etc [ Opus Arte DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 20/Dec/2014 ] "José Antonio Gutiérrez's production is, by definition, ultra-traditional, but everything looks beautiful thanks to Cabanes's feeling for colour - ochres and blues dominate - and perspective." (BBC Music on Aida) |
DAVID LANG
Lang: Pierced / Heroin / Cheating / Wed / etc Real Quiet with Theo Blockmann (vocals) & Evan Ziporyn (bass clarinet) / Boston Modern Orchestra / Gil Rose [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Mr. Rose and his team filled the music with rich, decisive ensemble colors and magnificent solos. These musicians were rapturous - superb instrumentalists at work and play." The New York Times |
SERGIO AZEVEDO
Azevedo: Hukvaldy Cycle Ensemble Darcos, Nuno Côrte-Real [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Taking its title from the village in which Leoš Janáček was born, this album of chamber works by the prize winning Portuguese composer Sérgio Azevedo reveals his deep affinity for the music and personality of the great Czech composer. |
JANACEK
Janacek: Kata Kabanova (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Karita Mattila / Miroslav Dvorsky / Guy de Mey / Dali Schaechter / Orchestra del Teatro Real Madrid / Jiri Belohlavek [ FRA Musica Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Dec/2012 ] "Throughout, Mattila sings with a flood of golden tone… Bělohlávek's conducting is beautifully judged, whether in tension or release. Utterly brilliant!" (Gramophone) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti:Roberto Devereux (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Mariella Devia, Marco Caria, Silvia Tro Santafe, Gregory Kunde / Bruno Campanella (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2017 ] In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux, one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Donizetti in 1837 (along with Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Il Castello di Kenilworth), the protagonist, Queen Elizabeth I of England, exclaims:... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
17th-Century Violin Music in Spain La Real Camara / Emilio Morena [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] Works by Falconiero, Bruna, Anon, Victoria, Botelero, Lorente & Sola |
FRANCISCO JOSE de CASTRO
Castro: Trio sonatas Op 1 [1695] La Real Cámara [ Glossa / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] The 17th century violinist-composer, Francisco José de Castro, who travelled from his birthplace in Seville to the Northern Italian city of Brescia where he composed chamber music, provides the focus for Emilio Moreno's latest exploration of the... |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
La Bona Notte La Real Cámara [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] La Real Cámara |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Sei Terzettini, Op. 47: Trios Nos 1-6, G107-112 La Real Cámara [ Glossa / CD - released 31/Mar/2015 ] Few musicians today possess so much awareness and experience with the music of Luigi Boccherini as Emilio Moreno, or can invest their performances with so much insight. With his ensemble La Real Cámara and for his seventh recording of Boccherini's... |
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
Wasted [ Tone Tided Records / CD ] |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2003) Madrid Teatro Real / Daniela Dessi, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi / Maurizio Benini (cond) [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "...An absolutely magnificent cast of voices." EL MUNDO, Madrid |
KURT WEILL
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (complete opera recorded in 2010) Measha Brueggergosman / Jane Henschel / Willard White / Michael Konig / Teatro Real Madrid / Pablo Heras-Casado [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 9/Nov/2011 ] Bel Air present the hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Catalan collective, La Fura dels Baus, from the Teatro Real de Madrid. |
LEO BROUWER / JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Guitar Concertos Miguel Trápaga (guitar) / Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Óliver Díaz [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] "[Trápaga] is highly attuned to the different sound worlds of the Brouwer and the Rodrigo and, together with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia under Óliver Díaz, creates another kind of musical conversation that is vibrant, exciting and revealing in eq |
VERDI / MOZART / MONTEVERDI / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI / WAGNER
The Essential Opera Collection (19 DVD) Muziektheater Amsterdam / Glyndebourne Opera / Madrid Teatro Real / Gran Teatre del Liceu / Netherlands Opera / Royal Opera House / Paris Opera [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 19 DVD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2015 ] The 'Essential Opera Collection' is an exciting new mid-price series that brings together popular operas and classic productions in simple stylish packaging. The ten launch titles represent the leading opera houses of the world, including The Royal... |
Neil Worboys and The Real Time Liners
Some Day Soon [ Ode Records / CD - released 14/Jul/2008 ] Neil Worboys is a lead singer and multi-instrumentalist, playing and recording with guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, blues harmonica, kazoo and jug. He has previously played in jug bands, such as Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band. |