Real Kids
Grown Up Wrong [ CD ] |
Soul For Real
Candy Rain [ CD ] |
Sunny Day Real Estate
The Rising Tide [ Time Bomb / CD ] |
JANACEK
Jenufa (complete opera recorded in 2009) Amanda Roocroft / Deborah Polaski / Miroslav Dvorský / Nikolai Schukoff / Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid / Ivor Bolton [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "Amanda Roocroft has won laurels as Jenufa in various stage productions and comes across as a deeply sincere performer here, even if the voice is apt to turn shrill at the top...[Polaski's] very understatement is moving in its own way." (Gramophone) |
B-Real
Smoke 'n' Mirrors [ Shock Records / CD - released 6/Mar/2009 ] B-Real was raised in South Central LA, and is best known as lead vocalist in the multi-Platinum selling rap group Cypress Hill. His debut solo album features Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Kurupt, Damian Marley, Buckshot, Sean Price, Too $hort and Sen Dog. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida / La Traviata / Rigoletto (complete operas recorded 2002 - 2006) Royal Opera, Teatro Real, Liceu Opera / Daniela Dessi, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Norah Amsellem, Renata Bruson, Christine Shafer, Marcelo Alvarez, etc [ Opus Arte DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 20/Dec/2014 ] "José Antonio Gutiérrez's production is, by definition, ultra-traditional, but everything looks beautiful thanks to Cabanes's feeling for colour - ochres and blues dominate - and perspective." (BBC Music on Aida) |
DAVID LANG
Lang: Pierced / Heroin / Cheating / Wed / etc Real Quiet with Theo Blockmann (vocals) & Evan Ziporyn (bass clarinet) / Boston Modern Orchestra / Gil Rose [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Mr. Rose and his team filled the music with rich, decisive ensemble colors and magnificent solos. These musicians were rapturous - superb instrumentalists at work and play." The New York Times |
SERGIO AZEVEDO
Azevedo: Hukvaldy Cycle Ensemble Darcos, Nuno Côrte-Real [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Taking its title from the village in which Leoš Janáček was born, this album of chamber works by the prize winning Portuguese composer Sérgio Azevedo reveals his deep affinity for the music and personality of the great Czech composer. |
JANACEK
Janacek: Kata Kabanova (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Karita Mattila / Miroslav Dvorsky / Guy de Mey / Dali Schaechter / Orchestra del Teatro Real Madrid / Jiri Belohlavek [ FRA Musica Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Dec/2012 ] "Throughout, Mattila sings with a flood of golden tone… Bělohlávek's conducting is beautifully judged, whether in tension or release. Utterly brilliant!" (Gramophone) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti:Roberto Devereux (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Mariella Devia, Marco Caria, Silvia Tro Santafe, Gregory Kunde / Bruno Campanella (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2017 ] In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux, one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Donizetti in 1837 (along with Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Il Castello di Kenilworth), the protagonist, Queen Elizabeth I of England, exclaims:... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
17th-Century Violin Music in Spain La Real Camara / Emilio Morena [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] Works by Falconiero, Bruna, Anon, Victoria, Botelero, Lorente & Sola |
FRANCISCO JOSE de CASTRO
Castro: Trio sonatas Op 1 [1695] La Real Cámara [ Glossa / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] The 17th century violinist-composer, Francisco José de Castro, who travelled from his birthplace in Seville to the Northern Italian city of Brescia where he composed chamber music, provides the focus for Emilio Moreno's latest exploration of the... |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
La Bona Notte La Real Cámara [ Glossa / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] La Real Cámara |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Sei Terzettini, Op. 47: Trios Nos 1-6, G107-112 La Real Cámara [ Glossa / CD - released 31/Mar/2015 ] Few musicians today possess so much awareness and experience with the music of Luigi Boccherini as Emilio Moreno, or can invest their performances with so much insight. With his ensemble La Real Cámara and for his seventh recording of Boccherini's... |
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
Wasted [ Tone Tided Records / CD ] |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2003) Madrid Teatro Real / Daniela Dessi, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi / Maurizio Benini (cond) [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "...An absolutely magnificent cast of voices." EL MUNDO, Madrid |
KURT WEILL
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (complete opera recorded in 2010) Measha Brueggergosman / Jane Henschel / Willard White / Michael Konig / Teatro Real Madrid / Pablo Heras-Casado [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 9/Nov/2011 ] Bel Air present the hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Catalan collective, La Fura dels Baus, from the Teatro Real de Madrid. |
LEO BROUWER / JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Guitar Concertos Miguel Trápaga (guitar) / Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Óliver Díaz [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] "[Trápaga] is highly attuned to the different sound worlds of the Brouwer and the Rodrigo and, together with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia under Óliver Díaz, creates another kind of musical conversation that is vibrant, exciting and revealing in eq |
VERDI / MOZART / MONTEVERDI / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI / WAGNER
The Essential Opera Collection (19 DVD) Muziektheater Amsterdam / Glyndebourne Opera / Madrid Teatro Real / Gran Teatre del Liceu / Netherlands Opera / Royal Opera House / Paris Opera [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 19 DVD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2015 ] The 'Essential Opera Collection' is an exciting new mid-price series that brings together popular operas and classic productions in simple stylish packaging. The ten launch titles represent the leading opera houses of the world, including The Royal... |
Neil Worboys and The Real Time Liners
Some Day Soon [ Ode Records / CD - released 14/Jul/2008 ] Neil Worboys is a lead singer and multi-instrumentalist, playing and recording with guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, blues harmonica, kazoo and jug. He has previously played in jug bands, such as Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band. |