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... |
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 |
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... |
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. |
Hayden Wood
Sixty Years On: The NEMS, Spin, Parlophone, Jam & Cherokee Recordings 1966 - 1978 [ Frenzy / CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] One of New Zealand's most fascinating stories is now on CD. |
Julie Andrewa, Eleanor Parker, Peggy Wood, the singing voice of Bill Lee
The Sound of Music 30th Anniversary Edition (Original Soundtrack) [ RCA Victor CD / CD - released 9/May/1995 ] This CD is the original motion picture soundtrack. This includes two songs that were not in the original stage show. |
DELIUS / WALTON / ELGAR / MIHALOVICI / BUSONI / RAVEL
Max Rostal: 20th-century Violin Sonatas Max Rostal (violin), with Colin Horsley (piano) Monique Haas (piano) Noël Mewton-Wood (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Six Violin Sonatas from the 20th century performed by German violinist Max Rostal and recorded for Argo and Deutsche Grammophon. |
Medeski Martin & Wood
It's A Jungle In Here (LP) [ Real Gone / LP - released 12/Apr/2024 ] The trio of John Medeski, Billy Martin, and Chris Wood did as much to reinvigorate and reimagine jazz as anybody over the last three decades. Now, Real Gone Music is proud to provide the band's classic second album It's a Jungle in Here its first... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Ugo Conte Di Parigi / Ugo conte di Parigi / L'assedio di Calais (complete operas - remastered) Mirco Palazzi, Colin Lee, Majella Cullagh, Manuela Custer, Roland Wood, Yvonne Kenny, Della Jones, Nuccia Focile / Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Various co [ Opera Rara / 7 CD Box Set - released 24/Sep/2021 ] "Newly reissued and remastered, this seven CD set of three Donizetti operas is a necessity for general enthusiasts of bel canto opera who missed them first time around." MusicWeb |
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... |
Roy Wood
Boulders (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 16/Feb/2017 ] Roy Wood is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was particularly successful in the 60s and 70s as member and co-founder of The Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard. As a songwriter, he contributed a number of hits to the... |
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... |
Julie Andrewa, Eleanor Parker, Peggy Wood, the singing voice of Bill Lee
The Sound of Music 40th Anniversary Edition (Original Soundtrack) [ RCA Victor CD / CD - released 9/May/2015 ] This CD is the original motion picture soundtrack. This includes two songs that were not in the original stage show. |
St. Johns Wood Affair
St. Johns Wood Affair [ CD - released 28/Jul/2023 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age Of Light Music: From the Vintage Vaults Various Artists incls Edward Elgar, Haydn Wood, Marek Weber, Arthur Wood, Barnabas von Geczy, Ernst Fischer, etc [ Guild Light Music / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] The title of this CD could almost apply to every release in Guild's "Golden Age of Light Music" series so far, because our mission is to make available once again those recordings which have been neglected for far too long, and are no longer... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age of Light Music: A Trip To The Library Various Artists incls Trevor Duncan, Robert Farnon, Sidney Torch, Arthur Benjamin, Arthur Wood, Ivor Slaney, etc [ Guild Light Music / CD - released 1/Sep/2016 ] "A Trip To The Library" plunders the riches to be found in the recorded music libraries (now usually called production music) operated by leading London publishers. The opportunity has also been taken to widen the scope of music covered, because the... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
John Medeski, John Scofield, Billy Martin, Chris Wood
Juice [ Indirecto Records / CD - released 16/Sep/2014 ] Considering its winning combination of tuneful melodies, danceable rhythms and earthy textures, Juice is Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood's most appealing, cohesive and consistently engaging release to date. |
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Live [ CD - released 6/Dec/2012 ] |
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Tonic [ Blue Note Records / CD - released 2/Oct/2000 ] Recorded over five nights at New York's underground 'Tonic' club in 1999. |
Medeski Martin & Wood
Radiolarians I [ CD ] |
Medeski Martin & Wood + Nels Cline
Woodstock Sessions Vol 2 [ Woodstock Sessions / CD - released 16/May/2014 ] Heard in its entirety, The Woodstock Sessions presents some of the most imaginative playing ever documented in the vast discographies of either Medeski Martin & Wood or Nels Cline. |
Medeski, Scofiled, Martin & Wood
MSMW Live: In Case the World Changes Its Mind [ 2 CD ] |
Ron Wood
Gimme Some Neck [ CD ] |
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) |
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... |
Bruce Russell & Luke Wood (Eds.)
A Record Could Be Your Whole World Book [ Ilam Press / Book - released 1/Jun/2024 ] This is a book about records considered 'in themselves'. It is not about musicians, or music, or design, or music history - though all those things are considered at various points. |
Chris Wood
Handmade Life [ CD - released 13/Apr/2010 ] |
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... |
George Scott Wood
Volume 3 [ Vocalion / CD - released 10/Nov/2008 ] |
George Scott-Wood
Volume 2 - Swing For Sale [ Vocalion / CD ] |
RAVEL
Tzigane: music for violin, cello & piano Kristian Winther (violin) Anthony Romaniuk (piano) Michelle Wood (cello) [ Melba Recordings SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Apr/2009 ] "Recorded in a pleasantly resonant acoustic, produced to the Melba label's high packaging standards and given an orange glow like antipodean sunlight, this is a SACD disc to treasure...this is one disc I can see myself taking on holiday... |
JONATHAN HARVEY
Choral Works (Incls 'Ashes Dance Back') Latvian Radio Choir, Kaspars Putnins, James Wood, conductors [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "both Ashes and Awakening are visionary pieces, and have the makings of modern masterpieces. They require, and will undoubtedly repay, repeated listening. A magnificent disc, superbly performed and recorded, and a magnificent argument for the... |
LILI BOULANGER
Clairieres dans le ciel / Hymne au soleil Martyn Hill (tenor) Andrew Ball (piano) / New London Chamber Choir / James Wood (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 12/May/2004 ] 'Truly one of the great French song cycles of the first quarter of this century' - Fanfare, USA |
PATRICK HADLEY
Stars of the Night: Songs and violin works Matthew Trusler (violin) Roland Wood (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano) [ Albion / Launch Music / CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] "Wood is a fine musical story-teller, articulating words and melodies with equal sensitivity and care...The melodic architecture emerges clearly in Matthew Trusler's vital performance...Once again, Albion Records has given us a treasure trove of a di |
JAMES WOOD
Cloud-Polyphonies MDR Rundfunkchor & Ear Massage Percussion Quartet, James Wood, Yale Percussion Group, Robert Van Sice [ NMC / CD - released 19/Feb/2016 ] James Wood's multi-faceted career has led him into an extraordinarily broad spectrum of musical activities, as conductor, composer, musicologist, instrument designer and percussionist. |