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Marina Shaguch, soprano, Alexander Kisselev, bass, Residentie Orchestra The Hague
Nabokov, Nicolas - Ode: Maditation sur la majesta de Dieu / Union Pacific [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 28/Apr/2002 ] "projected with great fervour and commitment by Polyansky" (BBC Music) |
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RACHMANINOV
Music for Cello & Piano Marina Tarasova (cello) Alexander Polezhaev (piano) [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] Marina Tarasova (cello) & Alexander Polezhaev (piano) |
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KARL DAVIDOV
Davidov: Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Marina Tarasova(cello) / Alexander Polzhaev (pno) / Davydov Symphony Orchestra, Konstantin Krimetz [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] Marina Tarasova (cello) & Alexander Polezhaev (piano) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Yiddish Winterreisse - A Holocaust Survivor's Inner Journey Told Through Yiddish Song Mark Glanville (bass-baritone) / Alexander Knapp (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] A Yiddish Winterreise is a sequence of songs from the Yiddish repertoire devised by opera singer and cantor Mark Glanville, recreating the original, Schubertian journey in a Holocaust context. The singer reflects on the life and world he has just... |
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REINHOLD GLIERE
Complete Duets with Cello Martin Rummel & Alexander Hülshoff (cellos), Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) & Till Alexander Körber (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2013 ] A highly decorated composer in Soviet Russia, Reinhold Glière maintained a low political profile and a conservative but astonishingly inventive melodic style. His interest in national harmonies and folk-music emerges in the Twelve Album Leaves, and... |
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SCHUBERT
Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition 5: Nacht und träume Matthias Goerne (baritone) Alexander Schmalcz (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] "This is a lovely recital, Goerne's intelligence, grace and lack of ostentation giving each song its due, with admirable support from Schmalcz." (International Record Review) |
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HENRY PURCELL / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Purcell: Songs and Interludes / Handel: Arias from Xerxes Maureen Forrester (contralto) Alexander Young (tenor) Martin Isepp (harpsichord) / Vienna Radio Orchestra, Brian Priestman [ MCA Millennium Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/1996 ] Recording: June 1966 - Mozartsaal, Vienna |
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BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Maxim Rysanov plays Martinu Maxim Rysanov (viola) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek, with Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/May/2015 ] Maxim Rysanov, one of today's leading viola players, explores Martinů's clear fascination with the viola on this disc, opening with the Rhapsody-Concerto from 1952. |
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HOSOKAWA
Landscapes: Music for Sho and Strings Mayumi Miyata (sho) / Münchener Kammerorchester / Alexander Liebreich [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] ECM's ongoing series of recordings with the Munich Chamber Orchestra continues with an intriguing album of new and recent pieces by Japan's leading composer Toshio Hosokawa. Amongst the compositions are Sakura für Otto Tomek and Cloud and Light, both... |
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Michelle Breedt, soprano / Renato Girolami, bass / Judith Halasz, soprano / Alexander Klinger, tenor / Peter Koves, bass / Marina Mescheriakova, sopra
Mozart, W.A. - Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) K. 492 (Highlights) [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 7/Jul/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "The MArriage of Figaro" won considerable success both in Vienna and subsequently in Prague, and was revived in the former in 1789, when two... |
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ALLA PAVLOVA
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Mikhail Adamovich (piano) / Valery Brill (cello) / Leonid Lebedev (flute) / Russian Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Vedernikov [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "Pavlova paints delicately with the unconventional ensemble, creating a sound-world simultaneously precise but also somehow suspended in dream." (BBC Music) |
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TALBOT / EINAUDI / SHORE / SCHUMANN
Miloš : The Moon & The Forest Miloš Karadaglić (guitar) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ben Gernon, National Arts Centre Orchestra Alexander Shelley [ Decca / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] 'Premiere recordings of two dazzling new concertos which offer new perspectives on the relationship between guitar and orchestra, performed with considerable conviction and élan.' Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2021 |
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Milt Jackson & Monty Alexander
Soul Fusion [ Pablo Records / CD - released 8/May/2007 ] |
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PUCCINI
Manon Lescaut (complete opera) Miriam Gauel / Vincente Sardinero / Kaludi Kalundoy / BRT Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra / Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "Naxos has distinguished itself over the past few years by a series of new opera recordings of a consistently high quality at enticingly affordable prices. This time, though, Naxos has surpassed itself...At Naxos prices, why deny yourself the... |
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Dvorák, An
Bläserserenade, Petite Symphonie Münchner Bläserakademie, Alexander Brezina [ ORFEO / CD - released 24/Aug/1984 ] |
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ALEXANDER RAHBARI
Rahbari: My Mother Persia - Symphonic Poems Vol. 2 Mohammad Motamedi (tenor), Antalya State Symphony Orchestra/Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "..this is exciting, edge-of-the-seat music, and beautifully delivered by all concerned." MusicWeb |
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Wellesz, E
Die Bakchantinnen Mohr, Burt, Stamm, Alexander, Barainsky, Breedt; Aschenbach, Gottschick, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Deutsches Symphonieorchest [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2002 ] |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture & Incidental Music Ceri-lyn Cissone (Hermia/Fairy/Titania); Alexander Knox (Lysander/Puck) / Monteverdi Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ LSO Live SACD + BLU-RAY AUDIO / 2 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Continuing his award-winning cycle of works by Felix Mendelssohn, Sir John Eliot Gardiner leads the LSO, his Monteverdi Choir and three talented young actors from the Guildhall in a landmark performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. |
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Monty Alexander
Echoes of Jilly's [ Concord / CD - released 17/May/2010 ] Along with John Patitucci and Troy Davis, Alexander plays melodic and swinging versions of "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Just One of Those Things," "Fly Me to the Moon," "Come Fly With Me" and "Here's That Rainy Day," and more. |
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Monty Alexander
Goin' Yard [ Telarc Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] "I am most excited about my new album because it's a live concert with my brothers from Jamaica, rather than a studio recording. It's a heartfelt collection of mostly my own compositions, with some Bob Marley songs, and it's unique because this is... |