DYLAN THOMAS
Dylan Thomas Poetry Richard Burton, Dylan Thomas (narrators) [ ALTO / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "He was greatly affected at the death of his favourite drinking companion, Dylan Thomas.....When Burton died in 1984 he was buried with a copy of Dylan Thomas' Collected Poems." - James Murray |
TECWYN EVANS / ANDREW BALDWIN / HELEN CASKIE / TIMOTHY HURD / etc
New Zealand Organ Music Richard Apperley (organ) [ Organism / CD - released 6/Dec/2012 ] This groundbreaking disc features organ music by some of New Zealand's most talented composers recorded on a variety of significant instruments around Wellington, performed by Richard Apperley, Assistant Director of Music at the Wellington Cathedral... |
Richard Ashcroft
Alone With Everybody [ Hut / CD - released 26/Jun/2000 ] |
ADOLPHE ADAM
Adam: Le Corsaire (complete ballet recorded in 1992) Richard Bonynge, English Chamber Orchestra [ Eloquence / Decca / 2 CD - released 17/Aug/2018 ] For this 1990 Decca recording, Richard Bonynge included a divertissement in Act II, the Pas de fleurs (including the famous NailaWaltz), written by Léo Delibes (who had made his début as a ballet composer in La Sourcethe year before) for an 1867... |
Richard Buckner
Impasse (Reissue LP) [ Merge Records / LP - released 31/Mar/2017 ] The words are entrancingly cryptic, as if their simplicity conceals unfathomable depths. The music is sparse, almost whispered at times, like a secret. The title gives everything away, though. During the gestation of his 2002 album Impasse, which... |
SAMUEL COLRIDGE / DYLAN THOMAS / SHAKESPEARE / JOHN DONNE / THOMAS HARDY
Richard Burton: The Voice - In Poetry Richard Burton (reader) [ Alto / 2 CD - released 4/Jan/2017 ] "One of the most expressive and romantic acting voices, in selections of his own" |
Cliff Richard & The Shadows
Live in London, 2009 [ ViaVision Entertainment / DVD - released 19/Nov/2009 ] G :- Region 4 - Colour - PAL The Shadows are Britain's most successful (instrumental & vocal) group with at least 69 U.K. hit singles, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows, from the 1950s to the 2000s. In fact they are the... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The French Suites Richard Egarr (harpsicord) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2016 ] "a zest and expressive range that's a constant delight, Bach, reinvigorated and in rude health … the sound is very well captured, you're immersed in Bach and Egarr." (CDReview) |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
The Best of Gershwin Richard Hayman and His Symphony Orchestra, Kathryn Selby (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and more [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] The best of Gershwin drawn from the vast Naxos catalogue |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: A Mass Of Life - Requiem Bourneouth Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] Requiem June 1996; A Mass of Life July 1996. |
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet / Clarinet Quintet Richard Hosford (clarinet) / The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 9/Nov/2007 ] BBC Award finalist 2008 - Best Chamber recording - 'Coleridge-Taylor is best-known, when he's remembered at all, for his Violin Concerto…but the Nash Ensemble offers us delightful chamber music from the 1890s, of which the Clarinet Quintet is the... |
RICHARD RODGERS
Rodgers: No Strings Richard Kiley & Diahann Carroll / Original Broadway Cast [ Angel / Broadway / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] No Strings is a musical drama with book by Samuel A. Taylor and words and music by Richard Rodgers. No Strings is the only Broadway score for which Rodgers wrote both lyrics and music. |
ERVIN DRAKE
Drake: Her First Roman Richard Kiley & Leslie Uggams / 25th Anniversary Cast Recording [ Lockett Palmer Recordings / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Her First Roman is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Ervin Drake, based on the 1898 George Bernard Shaw play Caesar and Cleopatra. |
Richard Nunns
Mahi [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Dec/2020 ] One of the largely unseen consequences of the European colonisation of Aotearoa was that the playing of, and knowledge about, the traditional musical instruments of Maori almost disappeared. In the 1970s a young Pakeha schoolteacher, Richard Nunns,... |
BIBER / FINGER / NERUDA / VEJVANOVSKY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Biber: Sonata No 4 / Neruda: Trumpet Concerto / etc Richard Steuart (Trumpet) / Virtuosi di Praga [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/1995 ] Recorded in Prague, November 1994 |
LUKAS FOSS / EINAR ENGLUND / WILLIAM THOMAS MCKINLEY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Foss / Englund / McKinley - Clarinet Concertos Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Lukas Foss [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 30/Sep/1996 ] Recorded in Berlin, May 1993 |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (Complete Opera) Richard Suart, Donald Adams, Marie Mclaughlin, Anthony Rolfe Johnson / Welsh National Opera, Charles Mackerras [ Telarc Records / CD - released 7/Jul/2000 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) Rosette (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide |
Richard Tauber
Volume 3: Operetta [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 31/May/2004 ] |
Cliff Richard & The Shadows
The Best Of The Rock 'N' Roll Pioneers [ Plguk / Warner / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] Sixty years ago, on October 17th, 1959, Cliff Richard and The Shadows hit the No. 1 spot in the UK with 'Travellin' Light'. This was the first single credited to Cliff Richard and The Shadows - re-named from their original title - The... |
Richard Thompson
Live At Rock City Nottingham - November 1986 [ Angel Air / 2 CD - released 5/Aug/2020 ] Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the Top 20 Guitarists of All Time, Richard Thompson is also one of the world's most critically acclaimed and prolific songwriters. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for Songwriting on both sides of... |