More By Artist: Michael O'Leary
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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th Birthday - The Royal Albert Hall Celebration Various Artists incls Michael Ball, Sarah Brightman, Antonio Banderas, Kiri te Kanawa, Tina Arena & Glenn Close [ Universal Pictures DVD / DVD - released 23/May/2001 ] A musical tribute to famed composer Andrew Lloyd Webber in celebration of his 50th birthday. This fantastic show features music from all his major musicals, as performed by the stars of his stage and film productions. Featuring tracks from Whistle... |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Assassins Michael Cerveris, Alexander Gemignani & Neil Patrick Harris / The Broadway Cast [ PS Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman, based on an original concept by Charles Gilbert Jr. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
The Best of Schubert Jenö Jandó (piano), Leonard Hokanson (piano) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Villa Musica Ensemble, Mandelring Quartet, Michael Halász [ Naxos / CD ] Artists: Jenö Jandó (piano), Leonard Hokanson (piano) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Villa Musica Ensemble, Mandelring Quartet, Michael Halász |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN / WILLIAM WALTON / MICHAEL TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten/Walton/Tippett: British Composers [Symphonies, Concertos, Chamber Music] Dame Janet Baker, Robert Tear, Sheila Armstrong, Ida Haendel, Michael Thompson Horn Quartet, Paavo Berglund, Neville Marriner, Andre Previn [ EMI Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2011 ] "The Britten-Walton-Tippett set is an exemplar of the excellence found in the EMI house tradition. There are whoopingly good recordings of the Spring Symphony and the Four Sea Interludes - sadly the Grimes - Passacaglia is not included. What a... |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / SOR / TOMASEK / etc
Decades: A Century of Song - Volume 1: 1810-1820 Michael Schade, Lorna Anderson, Sylvia Schwartz, Ann Murray, Florian Boesch / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Vivat / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "Schade is always an involved, communicative singer, eagerly responsive to mood and verbal detail, and excelling in tenderness and intimacy…the diamond-bright Spanish-English soprano Sylvia Schwartz also makes her mark, finely sustaining the high tes |
JERRY HERMAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hermann: Miss Spectacular Christine Baranski & Michael Feinstein / The Concept album [ DRG Theater / CD - released 17/Jun/2002 ] Miss Spectacular is an unproduced musical with a libretto by Robert L. Freedman, lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and additional lyrics by Steve Lawrence and Michael Feinstein. |
Devvie Byrne, Gary Morris, Gay Soper, Philip Quast, Michael Ball, etc / The International Cast Recording
Les Miserables (Highlights) [ Polygram / CD - released 28/Nov/2000 ] The international cast perform highlights from "Les Miserables". Includes tracks performed by Australian cast members Anthony Warlow, Philip Quast & Debbie Byrne. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Capriccio (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Renee Fleming, Bo Skovhus, Michael Schade, Angelika Kirchschlager / Christoph Eschenbach (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Apr/2014 ] "Kurt Rydl crowns a fine stage career with a gloriously eccentric impersonation of La Roche...The singing honours belong entirely to Angelika Kirchschlager as Clairon." BBC Music |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Vladimir Feltsman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas [ Sony Masterworks / CD - released 1/Jul/1989 ] Vladimir Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at the age of eleven and he went on to win numerous competitions including the prestigious Marguerite Long International Piano Competition. |
JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL
Vanhal: Symphonies, Vol. 5 (with Oboe Concertino) Vojtěch Podroužek (oboe), Pavla Honsová (viola) / Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Michael Halász [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Johann Baptist Vaňhal was one of Haydn's most important contemporaries. His symphonies in particular were widely admired throughout Europe. Vaňhal's symphonies were known in England before those of Haydn. |
RICAHRD WAGNER
The Best Of Wagner Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz, Uwe Mund & Johannes Wildner [ Naxos / CD - released 6/May/1997 ] The perfect introduction to the orchestral music of Richard Wagner |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Chout, Op.21 (ballet in 6 scenes) WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Michael Jurowski [ CPO / CD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] "The playing of the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln - supple and varied, discreet and explosive - is very impressive indeed. Jurowski is measured, but on the whole he skirts sluggishness; also, he scales climaxes very nicely." MusicWeb |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
prokofiev: Le Pas d'Acier / L'enfant prodigue WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln, Michael Jurowski [ CPO / CD ] "I've been listening to some late 20th and early 21st century scores of late and am still amazed as to how Prokofiev anticipates much of what goes for "modern music" but he did it so much better." |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded in 2013) Wiener Staatsoper / Monika Bohinec, Anna Gabler, Roberto Saccà, Peter Sonn, Michael Volle, Markus Werb / Daniele Gatti [ EuroArts DVD / 2 DVD - released 30/Sep/2016 ] "A fresh, charming and perceptive production, magical and irresistible!" (New York Times) "All narrative and poetry is nothing but the key to true dreams" (Hans Sachs). Spontaneously emerging from just such a truthful dream by the cobbler-poet on... |
MAX BRUCH / W. A. MOZART / ROBERT SCHUMANN / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Clarinet Trios Wigmore Soloists: Michael Collins (Clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen (violin / viola), Michael McHale (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] As core members of the ensemble Wigmore Soloists, Michael Collins, Isabelle van Keulen and Michael McHale present four works for clarinet trio composed over a period of some 130 years. Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio was long believed to have been composed... |
GEORGES BIZET / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carmen Jones Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Sharon Benson, Damon Evans, Michael Austin, Gregg Baker / Original London Cast [ EMI Classics / CD - released 18/Feb/1991 ] The first London production from April 1991. Original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Overtures Zagreb Festival Orchestra, Michael Halasz [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2017 ] Italian composer whose father was an inspector of slaughter-houses, but also a professional trumpeter. When the father was imprisoned for having backed the wrong side during the Napoleonic invasion, his mother took the young Rossini to Bologna where... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 3 & 8 Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Richard Edlinger (cond), Michael Halasz (cond) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "there are few to match him [Edinger] for his immediacy of communication" - Penguin Guide |
Michael Jackson
The Essential Michael Jackson [ Epic Records / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2005 ] Everything's here, from J5 Motown classics to Jackson's disco favorites and all of his solo smashes, including "Billie Jean", "Thriller", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", and "Smooth Criminal". |
George Michael
George Michael & Wham! Last Christmas The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [ Epic / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Last Christmas is the accompanying soundtrack to the highly anticipated film of the same name and features the incredible music of George Michael and Wham! Last Christmas is produced by the Academy Award winning Emma Thompson, directed by Paul... |
