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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea (complete opera recorded in English in 1971) Janet Baker / Robert Ferguson / Anne Collins / Katherine Pring / Clifford Grant / Sadler's Wells Chorus and Orchestra / Raymond Leppard [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Richly enjoyable...Baker catches the langour and the selfish ambition of this unpleasant character with subtly varied tone...And the diction! Put down the libretto, listen, and weep for what was." Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 - Historic |
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TRISTAN e ISEULT
Tristan & Iseult: A Medieval Romance in Music and Poetry Anne Azema, Henri Ledroit, Andrea von Ramm / The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen [ Warner Music / CD - released 20/Mar/2008 ] The oldest versions of 'Tristan' from the Celtic lands of Western Europe were recited by bards and minstrels, and to a greater extent, were never written down. |
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SCHOENBERG / WEBERN / BERG
Second Viennese School (5 CD set incls 'Gurrelieder') Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Philip Langridge / Berlin Philharmonic Simon Rattle [ EMI Classics Budget Box Sets / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2011 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2002 - Choral (for Gurrelieder) |
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Marie Davidson
Working Class Woman [ Ninja Tune / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] Marie Davidson arrives on Ninja Tune with her vital new album Working Class Woman, a vividly important document that expresses both her state of mind and acts as a comment on the night after night, nightclub culture of which her music has... |
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Marie Davidson & L'Œil Nu
Renegade Breakdown [ Ninja Tune / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Marie Davidson is back with a new album, a new band, and a bold new sound under the banner of Marie Davidson & L'Œil Nu - a trio formed of friends and collaborators with shared roots in Montreal's DIY scene: Marie, Pierre Guerineau and Asaël R.... |
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Marie Davidson & L'Œil Nu
Renegade Breakdown (Double Gatefold LP) [ Ninja Tune / 2 LP - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Marie Davidson is back with a new album, a new band, and a bold new sound under the banner of Marie Davidson & L'Œil Nu - a trio formed of friends and collaborators with shared roots in Montreal's DIY scene: Marie, Pierre Guerineau and Asaël R.... |
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Marie Osmond
The magic of Christmas [ CD ] |
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Marie Queenie Lyons
Soul Fever [ Vampisoul Records / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] More than three decades after its original release, and for the very first time on CD, here is Marie Queenie Lyons cult classic 'Soul Fever'! |
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Marie-Claire Alain
Widor: Organ Symphonies (2CD) [ Apex / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2005 ] |
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LAMBERT / BATAILLE / LULLY / BALLARD / MOULINIE / etc
Sous l'Empire d'Amour: French Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Lute Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Luca Pianca (lute) [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] Featuring exquisite and rarely performed 17th-century French songs for mezzo-soprano and lute. The first half of the seventeenth century marked the heyday of the air de cour at the French court. This was a monophonic lute-accompanied song that was... |
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BRAHMS / LIGETI
Horn Trios Marie-Luise Neunecker, horn, Antje Weithaas, violin, Silke Avenhaus, piano [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2012 ] BIS present two major works for horn, violin and piano, bringing together Johannes Brahms, generally regarded as the great traditionalist of the late 19th century, and György Ligeti, born 90 years after Brahms, and one of the most innovative and... |
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50 BEST ROMANTIC CLASSICS
50 Best Romantic Classics: Includes Offenbach 'Barcarolle', Debussy 'Clair de lune' & Dvorak 'Song to the Moon' Martha Argerich, Julian Bream, Herbert von Karajan, Moura Lympany, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Carlo Bergonzi, etc [ EMI Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] All the greatest romantic classics performed by the world's greatest soloists, instrumentalists and orchestras. |
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Mary-Anne Hobbs/Various Artists
Wild Angels [ 2 CD ] |
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J.S. BACH
Bach: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Double Concerto Anne-Sophie Mutter, Salvatore Accardo (violins) / English Chamber orchestra, Salvatore Accardo [ Emi Classics / CD - released 23/Jan/1984 ] Recorded in 1983 |
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MARI TAKANO
LigAlien: Works by Mari Takano Nathan Nabb (soprano saxophone) / Winston Choi (piano) / Kioko Yasuda (violin) / Sharon Bezaly (flute) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Anne Manson (dir) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] BIS present a disc of works by the Japanese composer Mari Takano, composed between 2003 and 2009. The four duos and trios that share the title LigAlien are all results of the idea of what would it be like to implant 'alien' music into one of... |
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Nils Frahm & Anne Muller
7 Fingers [ Erased Tapes / CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Regula Mühlemann (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (bass) / Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antoni [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/Feb/2019 ] "If you're in the market for a Ninth full of surprise and delight rather than soulful yearning or triumphalist breast-beating, look no further." Gramophone |
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Teena Marie
It Must Be Magic (LP) [ Motown / LP ] Maybe the greatest album that Teena Marie ever cut - and that's saying a lot, given the strength of the lady's work for Motown! The set's got this bright, positive bounce that grabs you right from the start - but also moves into a depth that's way... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626 / Ave verum corpus, K618 / Exsultate, jubilate, K165 / etc Sara Macliver (sop) Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo) Paul McMahon (ten) Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar) / Orchestra of the Antipodes & Cantillation [ ABC Classical / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] ABC presents a period-instrument performance with a stellar line-up of Australian soloists; Sara Macliver, Paul McMahon, Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Sally-Anne Russell. The conductor Antony Walker is Pittsburgh Opera's Musical Director. |
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SCHUMANN
Schumann Gold [2 CDs special price] Various Artists including John Elliot gardiner, Hagen Quartet, Fritz Wunderlich, Lynn Harrell, Vladimir Horowitz & Anne Sofie von Otter [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 7/Apr/2010 ] Schumann's music embodies the Romantic spirit in all its passion, fantasy and sense of longing. This specially priced 2 CD set, celebrating his 200th birthday, is an essential collection of favourites. |