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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Horn Concertos Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] "His virtuosity is remarkable, not only in terms of surmounting the technical challenges that Mozart threw at his favourite horn player, Joseph Leutgeb, but also for the expressive and dynamic range of his playing." Gramophone Editor's Choice Jan 202 |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: Princess Ida Ambrosian Opera Chorus with Frank Gorshin, Nan Christie, Laurence Dale, Anne Collins & others [ BBC / Umbrella DVD / DVD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] Music by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and a host of stars including Frank Gorshin, Bernard Dickerson, Anne Collins and Claire Powell. 114 minutes. For more than 100 years the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan have played to... |
NIKOLAI MEDTNER
Medtner: Incantation, Complete Songs, Vol. 1 Ekaterina Levental (mezzo-soprano), Frank Peters (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Medtner's legacy for solo piano is now widely esteemed alongside Rachmaninov and other giants of the Russian 'silver age': melodists to their core, romantics at heart, yet rigorous craftsmen to their fingertips, who took their muse seriously and... |
NIKOLAI MEDTNER
Medtner: Angel - Complete Songs, Vol. 3 Ekaterina Levental (mezzo-soprano), Frank Peters (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Anybody who has entered into the cosmos of Medtner's music, and especially of his songs, will be aware of its introvert, secretive, sometimes even hermetic character. |
Frank Black
Live 2006 (RSD 2023 LP) [ Cooking Vinyl / LP - released 22/Apr/2023 ] Available for the very first time is Frank Black's Live 2006, recorded live during the Pixies frontman's 2006 solo North American tour. Limited edition twelve-track live album pressed on Mandarin Orange Vinyl with printed inners and new artwork by... |
Frank Chacksfield & his orchestra
All time top TV Themes [ Music on CD / CD - released 1/Jan/2018 ] Frank Chacksfield conducted one of the finest light orchestras in the world, and during his long recording career with Decca alone it is estimated that his albums sold more than 20 million copies... |
Frank Talbot
Mundane Life Updates [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 6/Jan/2023 ] You may wonder why Frank Talbot called this album "Mundane Life Updates", especially as the music is far from mundane! It's a term he and his partner use when they share the small quotidian details of their day. Many of Frank's compositions are based... |
New Bop Quintet (Mike Booth, Kevin Field, Pete France, Frank Gibson Jr, Cameron McArthur)
NBQ [ CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] The New Bop Quintet shine a fresh light on the key aspects of Hard Bop - a close link with the blues, a strong rhythmical presence and strong melody lines. NBQ revisit the Hard Bop ethos with stunning original tunes and a familiar yet fresh take on... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: La Traviata (Complete opera recorded in 1994) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Frank Lopardo, Angela Gheorghiu, Leo Nucci / Sir Georg Solti (cond) [ Decca Classics DVD / DVD - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "The singing is glorious, and this is one of the DVDs that should be the cornerstone in any collection. A superb stage spectacle." Penguin Guide Rosette Winner |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Schnittke: Film Music Volume 5 Rundfunkchor Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Frank Strobel [ Capriccio / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Oct/2021 ] Alfred Schnittke's film music encapsulates almost everything that characterises the Russian composer's compositional style. A self-described polystylist, he began writing for film in the 1960s, penning 66 film scores between 1962 and 1984 for Soviet... |
FELIX ARNDT / MIKE BERNARD / ROY BARGY / FRANK BANTA / RUBE BLOOM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Keyboard Wizards Of The Gershwin Era - Volume V Felix Arndt / Mike Bernard / Roy Bargy / Frank Banta / Rube Bloom [ Pearl / CD - released 15/Aug/1998 ] The iconography of jazz usually features smoky images of coolly wasted-looking individuals in natty hats blowing saxophones. But if saxes and trumpets have seemed like the quintessential jazz instruments, it's the piano that has been absolutely... |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach, J. S.: Motets / Easter Oratorio BWV 249 Christine Brenk (soprano) Anne Greiling (alto) Frank Bossert (tenor) Thomas Pfeiffer (bass) / Kammerorchester Pforzheim / Ensemble vocal de Lausanne [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2007 ] It is uncertain how many motets Johann Sebastian Bach composed, because some have been lost, and there are some doubtful attributions among the surviving ones associated with him. There is a case for regarding the six motets catalogued BWV 225-230 as... |
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Frank Chacksfield & his orchestra
The Million Sellers / Hits Of 1965 (rec 1959 & 1965) [2 LPs on one CD] [ CD - released 30/Jan/2009 ] Recorded 1959 & 1965 |
Frank Chacksfield
New York & The Best Of.. [ Vocalion / CD - released 4/Mar/2010 ] |
NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN
Kapustin: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 5 Op. 72 Frank Dupree (piano) [ Capriccio / CD - released 17/Feb/2023 ] When western audiences discovered the music of Nikolai Kapustin, they were truly shocked: who was this composer whose music sounded more like an Oscar Peterson improvisation than anything else - but who wrote detailed scores, black with notes? As we... |
Frank Ocean
Channel Orange [ Def Jam U.S.A / CD - released 19/Jul/2012 ] His debut album, 'Channel Orange' is a staggering event album in waiting that exceeds all expectations. The singer is an R&B prodigy with a very bright future indeed ahead of him. |
MOZART / STRAVINSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
European Concert 1993 - Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major / The Rite of Spring / Romeo & Juliet: Fantasy Overture Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker / Bernard Haitink [ Arthaus Musik Berliner Philharmoniker DVD / DVD - released 21/Dec/2010 ] Under Bernard Haitink's baton, the Berlin Philharmonic have demonstrated here their possibilities in the reduced classical instrumentation, before the full orchestra put on a show after the interval with Stravinsky's „Rite". |
Frank Sinatra
The Concert Sinatra (Expanded with bonus tracks) [ Umc / CD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] The Concert Sinatra is one of Frank Sinatra's best records of the early '60s, an album that successfully rearranges a selection of show tunes, primarily those composed by Richard Rodgers, for the concert stage. Nelson Riddle arranged and conducted... |
Frank Zappa
Just Another Band From L.A. [ Universal Music International / CD - released 9/Aug/2012 ] Remastered FZ reissue - originally released March 1972. |
Frank Zappa
Weasels Ripped My Flesh [ Universal Music / Zappa Records / CD - released 9/Aug/2012 ] Remastered FZ reissue - originally released August 1970. |
Frank Zappa
Zappa '80 Mudd Club Munich [ UME Records / 3 CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] The first is from a set at FZ's favorite NYC nightclub - the famous Mudd Club. Presented from a hi-res transfer of the original master tape. The second from Olympiahalle in Munich is the first ever live direct to digital stereo recording of Zappa.... |
Frank Zappa / Original Soundtrack
200 Motels [ MGM Records / CD - released 17/Dec/2021 ] Frank Zappa's "200 Motels" turns 50! In celebration of FZ's famous 1971 "Surrealistic Documentary," Zappa Records, UMe and MGM are pleased to present the original soundtrack, a double-album set featuring all original packaging. |
RICHTER / DESSNER / EINAUDI / HISAISHI / MUHLY / MONTERO / MAZZOLI / etc
Gaïa Gautier Capucon (cello), with Frank Braley, Jérôme Ducros (piano), Michael Canitrot (electronics), Sarah Rebecca (vocals), etc [ Erato / CD - released 12/Dec/2025 ] Gautier Capuçon's cello becomes the voice of the Earth in an inspired album of world premiere recordings: Gaïa. Uniting seventeen original contributions by sixteen contemporary composers, this project sets out to explore humanity's relationship to... |
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / TCHAIKOVSKY / BRAHMS / CHOPIN / SATIE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Isaac Stern - "Humoresque" - Favourite Violin Encores Isaac Stern (violin) / Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Frank Brieff, Milton Katims [ Sony Music / CD - released 3/Dec/1996 ] Classic recordings of Isaac Stern with the New York Philharmonic |
EMIL NIKOLAUS von REZNICEK
Reznicek: Benzin (complete opera recorded in 2010) Johanna Stojkovic, Carsten Süss, Kouta Räsänen, Guibee Yang, Andreas Kindschuh / Chor der Oper Chemnitz & Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, Frank Beermann [ Cpo / 2 CD Box Set - released 15/May/2018 ] Emil Nikolaus von Rezniceks opera Benzin - set to his own libretto, freely adapting Pedro Calderón de la Barcas El mayor encanto amor - collected dust for more than eighty years and first found its way from his music cabinet to the stage when it came... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart Momentum - 1785 Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 28/May/2021 ] 'Socially distanced they may have been but the camaraderie that was so evident in their groundbreaking Beethoven cycle with Leif Ove Andsnes is, if anything, even more apparent here.' Gramophone Recording of the Month June 2021 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart Momentum - 1786 Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello) Christiane Karg [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] 'Time and again Andsnes had me reaching for the score to confirm things I'd never noticed before...some of the finest Mozart-playing on the planet.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Concerto |
GIOACCHINIO ROSSINI / GAETANO DONIZETTI
Lisette Oropesa - French Bel Canto Arias Lisette Oropesa (soprano) / Sachsischer Staatsopernchor, Dresdner Philharmonie, Corrado Rovaris, with Kristina Fuchs, Frank Blümel, & others [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] On her second solo album Lisette Oropesa has combined two of her greatest loves, the French language and Italian bel canto. This recording with the Dresdner Philharmonie under the baton of Corrado Rovaris showcases the variety of lesser-known and... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (recorded 1996) Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Carla di Censo, Carlo Allemanno, Étienne Ligot, Frank Cassard / Bratislava Chamber Choir, Emmanuel Villaume [ Dynamic / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2016 ] This is a re-issue of one of Dynamic's bestselling titles. It is a pity that Jacques Offenbach's masterpiece La Grande-Duchesse de Gérosltein is not staged more often, but that gap in the repertory is more than amply filled here by conductor Emmanuel... |
BARTOK / ROZSA / SERLY / KURTAG / WEINER / DOHNANYI
Contrasts: Impressions of Hungary Robert Plane (clarinet), Lucy Gould (violin), David Adams (viola), Alice Neary (cello), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Benjamin Frith (piano) [ Champs Hill Records / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Acclaimed and award-winning clarinettist Robert Plane presents a highly spiced collection of Hungarian music by Bartok, Rozsa, Weiner, Dohnanyi and Kurtag. -Includes the world premiere recording of a piece by Tibor Serly, better known as the... |
Various artists incls Frank Sinatra, Chick Henderson, Al Bowlly, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, etc
Wartime Heart-throbs [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 22/Feb/2000 ] This 24-track CD features crooners from World War II era, including Frank Sinatra, Chick Henderson, Dick Todd, Bing Crosby, Al Bowlly, Tony Martin, Vaughn Monroe, Dick Haymes, Hutch, Nat "King" Cole, Perry Como, Bing Crosby and more! |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age Of Light Music: Lightly Classical Various Artists incls Angela Morley, Frank de Vol, Stanley Black, Sidney Torch, David Rose, Ray Conniff, Percy Faith, etc [ Guild Light Music / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] This collection has been prepared with three main aims: firstly to prove that the so-called boundaries between light and classical music are not as insurmountable as some people seem to imagine; secondly to illustrate that many composers, who may... |
ANONYMOUS / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Golden Age of Light Music: Light and Lively Various Artists incls Gerard Calvi, Percy Faith, Helmut Zacharias, David Rose, Joe Leahy, Frank Chacksfield, etc [ Guild / CD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] Although the title of this collection rightly suggests that there is a wealth of 'Light and Lively' music on offer, there are some more gentle - even restful - numbers to provide a welcome contrast. The opening track, Robert Farnon's famous Derby... |
ALWYN / BRITTEN / BUTTERWORTH / FINZI / IRELAND / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
English Song Collection Various Artists including Philip Langridge, Frank Lloyd, Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Andrew Matthews-Owen, Ivan McCready, Thomas Allen, etc [ Naxos / 25 CD Box Set - released 21/May/2021 ] "Keenly priced, this set will surely provide many hours of listening pleasure." Gramophone |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / W. A. MOZART
Brahms / Mozart: Violin Concertos Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Wolfgang Sawallisch [ Warner Classics Redline / CD - released 15/Oct/2018 ] Two great milestones in the discography of Frank Peter Zimmermann, one of the finest of German violin virtuosi. Graceful elegance marks his Mozart interpretation, while his Brahms is all virtuoso fire and dreamy, romantic rapture. |
Frank Black
Teenager Of The Year (30th Anniversary Gold LP) [ 4AD / 2 LP - released 17/Jan/2025 ] This classic 1994 album is remastered for the first time to celebrate the 30th anniversary. A one-time pressing now spread across 2 pieces of gold vinyl and cut at 45rpm. Accompanied by new liner notes by Frank Black & Eric Drew Feldman. Frank... |
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Sticky [ Awal / CD - released 5/Nov/2021 ] Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes had just played the gig of their lives, headlining Alexandra Palace in London, when the world pressed the pause button. At first, they went into the studio to bottle that intensity, of being one of the best live acts... |
Frank Sinatra
Nice 'N' Easy [ Universal Music / CD - released 31/Jul/2020 ] Several tracks are new, "easy" interpretations of songs Sinatra had previously recorded; "Nice 'n' Easy" was then a brandnew song co-written by the new songwriting duo Alan and Marilyn Bergman (née Keith). Another triumph in a series of... |
Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, & Bing Crosby
Christmas with Frank, Nat & Bing [ Big 3 / CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] Christmas With Frank, Nat & Bing One disc each showcasing the vocal talents of 3 of the greatest singers of all time, each with their own characteristics, but all possessed with immaculate interpretation and delivery. Most Christmas favourites are... |
Frank Turner
FTHC [ Universal / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Frank Turner's uncompromising single Non Serviam, a two-minute blast of vitriolic hardcore and the latest track taken from his new album FTHC following the release of singles The Gathering and Haven't Been Doing So Well. Speaking about the track,... |
