BOSSI / BRAHMS / HANDEL / KAIHAU / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Australasian Organs Vol 8 Douglas Mews (The Norman & Beard Organ of Wellington Town Hall, New Zealand) [ Priory / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] This fine Norman and Beard Organ stands untouched in Wellington Town Hall in New Zealand. Douglas Mews, the Town hall organist plays an exciting progamme of little recorded music to suit this fabulous instrument. |
Kemp English (at the organ of the Dunedin Town Hall)
Stormin' Norma 3 [ Ode Records / CD - released 6/Nov/2008 ] "Volume Three of "Stormin' Norma" and a worthy successor to the previous two it assuredly is, with the redoubtable Kemp English in command of this incredible instrument, and a varied and imaginative selection of favourites old and new." (Organ News) |
LEFEBRE-WELLS / BACH / RAWSTHORNE / TCHAIKOVSKY / WIDOR / etc
Stormin' Norma 1 Kemp English (at the organ of the Dunedin Town Hall) [ Ode Records / CD - released 10/Mar/2004 ] "More lollipops that you could shake a stick at: Stormin Norma (the nickname of the instrument not the performer) will make purists shudder, but both she and Kemp English have a crispness of delivery and panache in performance that recall a day at... |
JOPLIN / LEFEBURE-WELY / BACH / BOELLMANN / ROSSINI / FAULKES / J. STRAUSS / etc
Stormin' Norma 2 Kemp English (at the organ of the Dunedin Town Hall) [ Ode Records / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "Once again the mighty 'Norma', under the masterful hands and feet of Kemp English peals forth its glorious sounds to delight your ear and put a smile on your face - and also test the limits of your stereo system!!" (Barry Brinson) |
GUILMANT / HAHN / BOSSI / VIERNE / REGER / WIDOR / etc
Resounding After Shocks Martin Setchell (The Rieger Organ of Christchurch Town Hall, New Zealand) [ Pipeline Press / CD - released 25/Mar/2019 ] Martin Setchell brings the magnificent Christchurch Town Hall organ back to life. |
Ghost Town
Sky Is Falling (LP) [ Ghost Recordings / LP - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Legendary NZ post punk and electronic music pioneer Jed Town has a new band and a new album. GHOST TOWN is a collaboration between Jed Town (The Features, Fetus Productions, ICU ) and Mark Beesley ( Dean Savage) with Bryan Shaw on drums. Sky Is... |
STANFORD / VIERNE / BATISTE / BUXTEHUDE / RATCLIFFE / etc
Auckland Town Hall Organ (recorded in 2010) John Wells (Organ of Auckland Town Hall) [ Atoll / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] This recording is dedicated to the memory of Neil Stocker, Scott Lucy and Paul Dunlop, organ builders who died in the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011. |
JONATHAN BESSER / GREG FOX
Cathedral Jonathan Besser (St Paul's Cathedral Organ, Dunedin Town Hall), Greg Fox (Guitar & Treatments) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] An improvised live concert featuring Jonathan Besser (St Paul's Cathedral pipe organ) and Greg Fox (electric guitar and treatments), originally performed and recorded in 1984, here presented in a newly edit, mixed and mastered version. |
On The Town
Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett & Ann Miller [ Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] On the Town is a 1949 American Technicolor musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944 (which... |
FRANZ LISZT / JULIUS REUBKE
Organ Works Robert Costin at the Organ of Wellington Town Hall [ Atoll / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "Displaying consummate control he expertly demonstrates the range and luxuriant tone colours of the Norman and Beard organ at Wellington." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / FRANCIS POULENC
Celebrating the Organ Thomas Trotter at the Organ of Auckland Town Hall, with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra [ Atoll / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "Three cheers (and more) for Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's new Celebrating the Organ CD." (William Dart NZ Herald) |
Little Big Town
Greatest Hits (LP) [ Capitol Nashville / LP - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Multi-platinum GRAMMY Award-winning four-piece Little Big Town - comprised of Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook - releases their first-ever, career-spanning Greatest Hits album via Capitol Records Nashville. The... |
Crazy Town
The Gift of Game [ Sony / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] American imported disc. |
Little Big Town
Little Big Town [ CD ] |
Little Big Town
A Place to Land [ Equity / CD ] |
Little Big Town
Reason Why [ Capitol Records / CD - released 24/Aug/2010 ] It's anybody's guess why Little Big Town's three fine singles from 2007's excellent A Place to Land failed to crack the Top 30, or why the album didn't build upon the platinum success of its predecessor, The Road to Here. That said, the bluesy roil... |
Little Big Town
Road To Here [ CD ] |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol 10 (Incls Trois Praludes et Fugues op. 36) Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Organ of Birmingham Town Hall [ MDG / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] On his tenth Dupré tour Ben van Oosten presents to us not only a new volume in his complete recording but also one of England's most magnificent historical organs. This extraordinary organist and the tireless MDG recording team pay a visit to the... |
Big Town Playboys
Hip Joint [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
Big Town Playboys
Now Appearing [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 1/Jul/2002 ] |
Big Town Playboys
Roll The Dice [ CD - released 24/Sep/2010 ] |
Cape Town Po/So
Barber/Korngold/Waxman/Weiss: [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 16/Jul/2007 ] |
Choc Quib Town
Oro [ World Connection / CD - released 26/Apr/2011 ] |
SCHNITTKE
Symphony No.0 / Nagasaki (Oratorio) Hanneli Rupert (mezzo-soprano) / Cape Town Opera Voice of the Nation / Cape Philharmonic Orchestra / Owain Arwel Hughes [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "If you couldn’t predict the road Schnittke’s work would ultimately follow from these pieces alone, you would certainly come away with the sense that his career was safely assured." (MusicWeb July 2007) |
BRAHMS / WELLS / GUILMANT / BAIRSTOW / etc
Inaugural Concert (recorded in March 2010) John Wells & Indra Hughes at the Organ of Auckland Town Hall, with combined choirs conducted by Terence Maskell & John Rosser [ Atoll / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] This inaugual concert presented the rebuilt organ in a variety of roles: as a solo instrument , accompanying choirs, with orchestra, and as a ceremonial civic instrument. |
Little Big Town
Pain Killer [ EMI Capitol / CD - released 7/Nov/2014 ] Painkiller is Little Big Town's sixth studio album. Produced by Jay Joyce, it features current single "Day Drinking," written by LBT's Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Phillip Sweet and songwriters Troy Verges and Barry Dean. The foursome co-wrote... |
Little Big Town
Tornado [ Capitol / CD - released 26/Oct/2012 ] |
Maroon Town
Urban Myths [ Paper Recordings / CD - released 7/Mar/2011 ] |
ALAIN / BERTULETTI / HANDEL / JENKINS / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Great Australasian Organs Vol 7 Martin Setchell (The Rieger Organ of Christchurch Town Hall, New Zealand) [ Priory / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] This is a newish organ that sits in the main concert hall in Christchuch, New Zealand. Built by Rieger, its sounds are exciting and for a concert hall not entirely dry. Martin Setchell is well known throughout the world as a concert organist and here... |
The Organ of Reading Town Hall / Adrian Partingham
Great European Organs Vol 60 [ Priory / CD - released 16/Jun/2002 ] Volume 60 of the on-going series |
This Town Needs Guns
Animals [ Sargent House / CD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] |
This Town Needs Guns
This Town Needs Guns [ Sargent House / CD - released 15/Feb/2013 ] |
This Town Needs Guns
This Town Needs Guns (Vinyl) [ Sargent House / LP - released 15/Feb/2013 ] Limited edition vinyl issue. |
BRITTEN / HOLLOWAY / PANKHURST / McCABE
War Memorials Tredegar Town Band & Cory Band, Ian Porthouse, Philip Harper & Robert Childs [ NMC / CD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] The period between the two world wars was one of the richest in music composed for brass bands. Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, Arthur Bliss, John Ireland and others added their voices to a growing repertoire, but little of that paid... |