VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age Of Light Music: Charles Williams & the QHLO Queen's Hall Light Orchestra, Charles Williams [ Guild / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] Charles Williams conducting the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra |
Ray Charles
Genius After Hours (Atlantic Masters) [ Atlantic / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] |
Ray Charles
Genius Loves Company [ EMI Music / CD - released 30/Aug/2004 ] WINNER OF 8 GRAMMY AWARDS 2005! The great man's final recording, featuring duets with Norah Jones, James Taylor, Diana Krall, Elton John, Natalie Cole, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Michael McDonald, B.B. King, Gladys Knight, Johnny Mathis, and Van... |
Ray Charles
Genius Of Ray Charles [ Warner / CD - released 21/Mar/2005 ] |
Ray Charles
Genius + Soul = Jazz - Deluxe Edition [ Concord Records / CD - released 6/Apr/2010 ] American import |
Ray Charles
Live in Concert [ Concord / CD ] |
Ray Charles
Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2 [ Concord Jazz / CD - released 1/Aug/2019 ] The groundbreaking albums, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2 are now reissued on CD. |
PAGANINI
Complete Recordings Including the complete concertos (Special price) Salvatore Accardo (Violin) / London Philharmonic, Charles Dutoit [ Deutsche Grammophon / 6 CD Box Set - released 25/May/2000 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - "This disc represents an outstanding example of performances that transcend any occasional creative limitations...all diehard Romantics should definitely give a spin." International... |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: 150Th Anniversary Edition Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves, [ Warner Classics / 18 CD Box Set - released 14/Nov/2011 ] The present generous set has no parallels nor would I anticipate that there will be for many years. The performances and recordings are healthy and pleasing." (MusicWeb) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age Of Light Music: EuropeanTour Various performers incls George Melachrino, Charles Williams, Robert Farnon, Mantovani, Frank Chacksfield, Cyril Stapleton, etc [ Guild Light Music / CD - released 22/Oct/2016 ] Once again it's time for Guild's 'Golden Age of Light Music' series to take another musical tour around Europe, prompted by so many appealing works created by talented composers from near and far. In the world of music you do not have to be a native... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age of Light Music: Great British Light Orchestras Ray Martin, Norrie Paramor, Charles Williams, Sidney Torch, Stanley Black, etc [ Guild Light Music / CD - released 1/Jun/2016 ] This new Guild Light Music series has already focussed attention on the many fine recordings made during the 1940s and 1950s, and it is now appropriate to concentrate on the output from British studios. A combination of talented composers, plus... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Romantic Adagios Various Artists incls Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Georg Solti, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Charles Dutoit, Kyung Wha Chung, etc [ Decca / 2 CD - released 31/Jan/2000 ] Over 2 hours of the world's most passionate music |
ALLEGRI / GABRIELI / MONTEVERDI / PALESTRINA
The Renaissance of Italian Music: The National Gallery Collection Gerald Finley (bari), Timothy Beasley-Murray (treble), Charles Daniels (ten) / Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh, Taverner Consort, Choir, Andrew Parrot [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] "[The Allegri] is one of the highlights, the 1970 recording by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge achieving an almost weightless sublimity, particularly in the Sanctus. The Taverner Consort of the 1980s offers similarly impressive interpretations... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky / The Stone Flower / Suites from: Lieutenant Kija, Love for Three Oranges, etc. Various orchestras conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy / Silvio Varviso / Charles Dutoit / Neville Marriner [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 3/Jan/2003 ] This programme includes such rarities as the early orchestral tone-poem Dreams and excerpts from the equally rarely heard Stone Flower. |
100 BEST ROMANTIC CLASSICS
100 Best Romantic Classics [6 CD special price] Various performers incls Leif Ove Andsnes, Martha Argerich, Charles Dutoit, Julian Bream, Montserrat Caballe, Yehudi Menuhin, etc [ EMI / Virgin / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2012 ] This 6 CD set contains an unrivalled collection of 100 favourite romantic classics, performed by some of the world's leading artists. Among them are the singers Maria Callas, Natalie Dessay, Angela Gheorghiu. Barbara Hendricks, Luciano Pavarotti and... |
W.A. MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) Complete opera Alastair Miles, Nuccia Focile, Carol Vaness / Scottish Chamber Chorus / Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles MacKerras [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2009 ] 1001 Classical Recordings you must hear before you die - "There is something about Mackerras's rhythms, his placing of accents, his vitality and his allusiveness that makes this very much a performance of the theatre." (Gramophone) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Alexander Brailowsky plays Chopin: The Complete RCA Album Collection Alexander Brailowsky (piano) / RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch [ RCA Red Seal / Sony / 8 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2019 ] Mr. Brailowsky has a sheer instinct for the secrets of the piano, declared the distinguished New York Times music critic Olin Downes in his review of the Ukrainian-American pianist s 1925 Carnegie Hall recital. He recreates his music with all the... |
CESAR FRANCK
Alfred Cortot - Franck: Symphonic Variations (rec 1934) with concertos by Saint-Saens and Ravel Alfred Cortot (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Landon Ronald / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Charles Munch [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 2/Jul/2001 ] "One of his precious few concerto recordings, this disc shows Cortot at his most beguiling. Mark Obert-Thorn's transfers are exceptional and all lovers of past but ever-present greatness will want this second and final Naxos volume of Cortot's sadly... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Alicia de Larrocha (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Concerto). The Philadelphia Orchestra (Symphonic Dances). Charles Dutoit [ Decca ABC Eloquence / CD - released 18/Aug/2005 ] Recorded early in Dutoit's career and originally coupled with the Schumann concerto, this is the first appearance on CD of his Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 with Alicia de Larrocha as a fine and poetic soloist. |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Enigma Variations / Froissart / Starlight Express / etc Alison Hagley (soprano) Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) Robert Cohen (cello) / Royal Philharmonic / Welsh National Opera Orch. / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] "Mackerras captures the wistful charm of the quieter pieces (on CD2) very effectively, and spirits are high in the more robust items" Gramophone |