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SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tippett: String Quartet No.2 / The Heart's Assurance / Boyhood's End / Songs for Ariel (with Seiber: Quartetto lirico) Amadeus Quartet / Sir Peter Pears (tenor) / Noel Mewton-Wood, Benjamin Britten piano) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2003 ] EMI has issued numerous, and excellent, single-disc releases. One offers another view of three of the song-cycles ("Boyhood's End", "The Heart's Assurance" and "Songs for Ariel"). The tenor is Peter Pears. (ClassicalSource) |
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Bruce Russell & Luke Wood
Visceral Realists (LP) [ VHF / LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] Debut LP by the New Zealand duo of Bruce Russell (Dead C, Handful of Dust, etc) and Luke Wood. Visceral Realists is a high-concept commentary on the state of vinyl, analogue recording, music culture, art, etc. A 45-rpm bullet of short bursts of... |
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EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Interpreters on Record, Vol. 1 - Vocal & Dramatic Music Maurice D'Oisly, Clara Butt, Tudor Davies, Peter Dawson, Alice Moxon, Haydn Wood, Kathleen Ferrier, Glasgow Orpheus Choir [ Dutton The Elgar Society / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] "This wonderful collection of recordings, made for the most part in Elgar's own lifetime, has not only authenticity of period; for those born into that time it is something to be played and savoured." Gramophone |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, 2014) Globe / Clive Wood, Eve Best, Jolyon Coy, Phil Daniels / Jonathan Munby (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Antony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare's great historical love story, a tragedy infused with comic elements that explores the conflicting claims of sex and power, expressed in poetry of breath-taking beauty. Conveying the polarities of Rome and... |
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WEBER / CHOPIN / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN
The Art of Noel-Mewton Wood Noel-Mewton Wood (piano) with Peter Pears and Dennis Brain [ Heritage / CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] That the Australian Mewton-Wood was one of the greatest of all pianists was an almost universal opinion of his Protean genius. He died, tragically, in 1953, at the early age of 35. His recorded legacy is desperately small; these rare wartime solo... |
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Ronnie Wood & The Ronnie Wood Band
Mr Luck - A Tribute To Jimmy Reed: Live At The Royal Albert Hall [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ] Ronnie Wood and the Ronnie Wood Band is back with the second instalment of his live album trilogy, 'Mr Luck - A Tribute to Jimmy Reed: Live at the Royal Albert Hall'. When self-taught guitarist Eddie Taylor imparted his skills onto his friend... |
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Ronnie Wood With His Wild Five
Mad Lad: A Live Tribute To Chuck Berry [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 15/Nov/2019 ] Artist, author, producer and raconteur Ronnie Wood returns with the release of Mad Lad: A Live Tribute to Chuck Berry. The 11-track album was recorded live at Wimborne's Tivoli Theatre last year and is a loving nod to one of Ronnie's musical... |
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Roy Wood
Super Active Wizzo [ Wounded Bird / CD - released 16/Jul/2007 ] The very title of Super Active Wizzo suggests a fizzy, over-charged, amped-up version of Roy Wood's first band as a leader, Wizzard -- and, in a way, that's exactly what Wood's Wizzo Band was, with its lone 1977 LP recalling nothing so much as... |
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St. Johns Wood Affair
St. Johns Wood Affair [ CD - released 28/Jul/2023 ] |
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STANFORD / FRANCK / HADLEY / BRITTEN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / PARRY / etc
With Heart And Voice Trinity Church Boston Choir, Brian Jones (director), Ross Wood (organist) [ Gothic Records / CD ] The Trinity Church on Copley Square in Boston is the setting for this program of choral music. A generous amount of music from the Anglican tradition included, but what makes this recording distinctive is the inclusion of music from other traditions. |
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Roy Wood & Wizzard
Main Street - Remastered And Expanded Edition [ Esoteric / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] After earning success as a performer and songwriter with The Move, ELO and Wizzard, the supremely talented Roy Wood recorded the material for what should have been his third solo album in the Spring of 1976. The album was originally intended to... |
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Will Wood
Broken Man [ Lyttelton Records / CD - released 19/Sep/2014 ] Will Wood never really thought he'd be a solo artist. Growing up as a classically trained pianist and violinist, at the age of 19 he decided what he really wanted to do was be a drummer, so he took a weekend job at Auckland's fabled pair of... |
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Will Wood
Magpie Brain & Other Stories [ Lyttelton Records / CD - released 26/Mar/2016 ] Will Wood is a Hardcore Troubadour straight out of New Zealand preserving the traditions of country/folk story-telling all wrapped up in a punk rock attitude. By day he works as a psychiatric nurse and spends his spare time rescuing and... |
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FREDERICK DELIUS / EDWARD ELGAR
Delius/Elgar: Violin Concertos (Rec 1929 & 44) Albert Sammons (violin) / Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / New Queen's Hall Orchestra / Malcolm Sargent, Henry Wood (conductors) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 10/Jan/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |
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GUILLAUME DUFAY
Dufay: L'alta bellezza Alta Bellezza; Ann Allen; Hanna Geisel; Nathaniel Wood [ Arcana / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] In this debut release, the ensemble ALTA BELLEZZA traces the footsteps of 15th century composer Guillaume Dufay through Italy, Savoy and his Burgundian homeland. Considered the most illustrious composer of his generation, Dufay was employed by... |
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COLE PORTER
Kiss Me, Kate (Original Broadway Cast 1949) / Let's Face It (1941) Harry Clark, Harold Lang, Patricia Morison, Eddie Sledge, Mary Jane Walsh, Charles Wood, Alfred Drake & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] The overture is about to start. You cross your fingers and hold your heart. Those lines from the opening number of Kiss Me, Kate were probably running through the brains of everyone connected with the nowclassic musical when it opened on 30... |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: The Dream Of Gerontius David Butt Philip, Karen Cargill, Roland Wood [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/2026 ] It was the Huddersfield Choral Society which made the first complete recording of Gerontius on 8-12 April 1945; this latest chapter in the Society's ties to the work was recorded eighty years later, virtually to the day, on 5 April 2025 and displays... |
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George Scott Wood
Volume 3 [ Vocalion / CD - released 10/Nov/2008 ] |
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George Scott-Wood
Volume 2 - Swing For Sale [ Vocalion / CD ] |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: The Globe Collection Globe / George Irving, Catherine Bailey, Clive Wood, Eve Best, John Light, Pearce Quigley, Brendan Hughes, Naomi Frederick, and many others [ Opus Arte DVD / 23 DVD Box Set - released 25/Jun/2020 ] An invitation to stand with kings in battle, to fall in love, to witness the brutal machinations of politics, and to laugh with rogues in this 23-disc collection. |