FRANZ WAXMAN / BERNARD HERMANN / JOHN ADDISON / ALFRED NEWMAN
Psycho: The Essential Alfred Hitchcock City of Prague Symphony Orchestra, Paul Bateman [ Silva Screen Records / 2 CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] |
BERNARD HERRMANN
Bernard Herrmann - The Essential Film Music Collection [2 CD set] City of Prague Symphony Orchestra, Carl Davis [ Silva Screen Records / 2 CD - released 3/May/2006 ] The term "Hermannesque" is now standard classical music terminology - underlining Bernard Herrmann's stature as a legendary film composer. |
CHARLES CHAPLIN / CARL DAVIS
Charlie Chaplin - The Essential Film Music Collection City of Prague Symphony Orchestra / Carl Davis [ Silva Screen Records / 2 CD - released 3/May/2006 ] The author, actor and director of over 80 films, the cinematic giant of the 20th Century also composed the music for his 18 feature films Chaplin’s standards include Smile, Eternally and This Is My Song |
The City
Now That Everything's Been Said (LP) [ Light In The Attic / LP - released 27/Nov/2015 ] First official vinyl reissue with 24 bit / 96 kHz remaster from the original tapes, new notes by Steve Hochman featuring interviews with band members and album producer Lou Adler. This is a LP expanded gatefold edition housed in deluxe Stoughton... |
The City Waites
The English Tradition - 400 Years of Music & Song [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] The City Waites are the specialists in English traditional music. This album presents music from Medieval times to Queen Victoria played on authentic period instruments such as hurdy-gurdy, harpsichord, lute, fiddle, rebec, bass viol, cittern, etc. |
ANONYMOUS / THOMAS JORDAN & OTHERS
The English Stage Jig: Musical comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries for the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men and the Ignorant The City Waites / Lucie Skeaping (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2009 ] "These performers are well-renowned for championing the popular music of earlier centuries… the singing and instrumental performances are as genially accomplished as ever with The Waites." BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 **** |
TRADITIONAL
Bawdy Ballads of Old England -17th Century Songs & Dances The City Waites [ Alto / CD - released 10/Feb/2020 ] "..lively entertainments..full marks to the City Waites.. swinging dialect style..taste of the broadside ballad style..good fun, but not very clean!" - Gramophone |
The City Waites
Penny Merriments: Street Songs of 17th Century England [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2005 ] "These songs are great fun, and all the performers seem to thoroughly enjoy themselves, with energetic and vivacious renditions. Interesting and informative notes from Lucy Skeaping about the history, use, popularity and performance (and so on) of... |
HOW THE WORLD WAGS
How the world wags: Social Music for the 17th Century Englishman The City Waites (with Pethick Edwards, reader) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] 'Rollicking good fun' (The Cornish Guardian) |
City Waites/Grant/Wootton/Thom
How The World Wags [ Helios / CD ] |
ANONYMOUS
Lusty Broadside Ballads & Playford Dances from 17th Century England City Waites, Lucie Skeaping [ Alto / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] The City Waites are gifted musicians who competently perform on a myriad of authentic 17th century instruments. This provides a wide variety of timbre and thus prevents monotony to help us enjoy these lively songs that might once have reflected the... |
Crime And The City Solution
American Twilight [ CD - released 29/Mar/2013 ] |
Crown City Rockers
The Day After Forever [ Gold Dust Media / CD - released 2/Nov/2009 ] Crown City Rockers, one of the Bay Area's best-kept secrets is no longer a secret. Hip Hop is alive and well on 'The Day After Forever'. |
Diazmunoz/City Of Mexico Po
Catan:rappacini's Daughter [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera) Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Nadine Sierra, Francesco Demuro / Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian [ Delos / 2 CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] "Hvorostovsky gives a russet-toned, compelling performance, joined by an impressive cast for a gripping and, in every sense, poignant performance." New York Times Recordings of the year 2017 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (complete opera) Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Marco Caria, Kostas Smoriginas, Ildar Abdrazakov, Barbara Frittoli / Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian [ Delos / 2 CD Box Set - released 5/May/2015 ] "It is obvious [that Hvorostovsky] has thought deeply about Boccenegra and is absolutely inside the character; he is also able to realise his portrayal with an impressive largesse of tone." BBC Music |
KHATCHATURIAN
Cello Concerto / Concerto-Rhapsody Dmitry Yablonsky (cello) / Moscow City Symphony Orchestra / Maxim Fedotov [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] The Naxos series devoted to the orchestral music of Aram Khachaturian continues with his two works for cello and orchestra. The Cello Concerto, whose brooding emotional unease did not endear it to the authorities at a difficult time for Soviet... |
PHILIP GLASS
Philip Glass: The Complete Sony Recordings Douglas Perry, Paul Esswood, Claudia Cummings, Yo Yo Ma / New York City Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Christopher Keene / The Philip Glass Ensemble [ Sony Opera House / 24 CD Box Set - released 17/Dec/2016 ] This Ltd, deluxe x24 CD box set see's the first ever release of the complete Philip Glass recordings on Sony Classical. The release coincides with the occasion of the composer's 80th Birthday celebrations on 31st January 2017. |
PHILIP GLASS
The Best of Philip Glass (incls 'Lightning', 'Facades' & 'Evening Song') Douglas Perry. Paul Esswood / The Philip Glass Ensemble / New York City Opera Orchestra & Chorus. Dennis Russell Davies [ Sony Essential Masterworks / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2016 ] "Philip Glass is familiar to pop audiences, crossover audiences, new music audiences, opera audiences and increasingly to chamber music audiences and symphony goers," (Gramophone) |
Dublin City Ramblers
Craic & Porter Black [ CD ] |