KARL JENKINS
Jenkins: One World World Choir For Peace, World Orchestra for Peace, Karl Jenkins, with Lucy Crowe & Roderick Williams [ UMG Recordings / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Sir Karl Jenkins is one of the world's most-performed living composers. The album presents One World, commissioned by the World Choir for Peace and the World Orchestra for Peace. |
Various performances, including speeches, songs and radio broadcasts from the Second World War
La Resistance [ Le Chant du Monde / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] This CD is a documentation of songs, poetry and voices from France's participation in the Second World War, finishing with the liberation of Paris. Featuring music, songs, voices and speeches from the period of the occupation. NOTE: Booklet is in... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (recorded Nov 2018) Erin Wall (soprano) Annika Schlicht (mezzo) Attilio Glaser (ten) René Pape (bass) / World Orchestra for Peace & Würth Philharmoniker, Donald Runnicles [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2019 ] In 2018, marking the exact 100th anniversary of the Armistice ending World War 1, the all-star World Orchestra for Peace gave two UNESCO designated performances of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Symbolically one in each of the UK and Germany - for the BBC... |
JOE HISAISHI
Dream Songs - The Essential Joe Hisaishi Joe Hisaishi (piano, work arranger, melodica) / London Symphony Orchestra / New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra [ Decca / 2 CD - released 21/Feb/2020 ] Joe Hisaishi, the acclaimed Japanese composer behind some of the world's best-loved animé films, has released his new album, Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi in which he celebrates his diverse and distinguished catalogue of compositions |
COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Porter: Nymph Errant Kaye Ballard, Emile Belcourt, Lorna Dallas / World Premiere Complete Drury Lane Recording [ EMI / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] Nymph Errant is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Romney Brent based upon the novel by James Laver. The somewhat controversial story concerned a young English lady intent upon losing her virginity. Porter considered the score... |
COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Porter: You Never Know Kristin Chenoweth, David Garrison, Harry Groener / World Premiere Cast Recording [ Fynsworth Alley / Varese Sarabande / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] You Never Know is set in Paris in the heady days of 1929 just before the stock market crash. It takes place one evening in Baron Rommer's elegant penthouse suite at the Hotel Ritz. Baron Rommer (Harry Groener) and his Butler, Gaston (David Garrison) |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras, etc Renee Fleming (soprano) / BBC Singers, New World Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 1/Apr/1996 ] Originally recorded in January 1996 |
Cold World
Dedicated to Babies Who Came Feet First [ Deathwish Inc / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] |
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Zim Zam Zim [ Bronze Rat / CD - released 12/Feb/2016 ] 72 years young, Arthur Brown returns brandishing a new album, entitled Zim Zam Zim |
Jimmy Eat World
Surviving [ RCA / CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] |