More By Artist: Bar-Kays
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Lieder / Scnes from Goethe's Faust Olaf Bar, Dame Janet Baker, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Juliane Banse, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Hampson, etc [ EMI Budget Boxes / 6 CD Box Set - released 15/Oct/2010 ] Celebrating Robert Schumann's 200th Anniversary with four CD sets from EMI's catalogue performed by many of the world's leading artists, orchestras and conductors. |
JAN DISMAS ZELENKA
Zelenka: Missa Dei Patris, Psalms & Capriccio's Peter Schreier (tenor), Olaf Bär (baritone), René Jacobs (alto) & Ludwig Güttler (corno da caccia, trumpet & conductor) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2013 ] "Zelenka was one of Bach's and Telemann's most musically colourful contemporaries." (Gramophone) |
ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: On Shore and Sea / Kenilworth Sally Silver (sop); Nico Darmanin (ten); Louise Winter (mezzo); Donald Maxwell (bass-bar) / Orchestra of Victorian Opera Northwest, Richard Bonynge [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] "Rousing applause for Dutton and these musicians for this disc of first commercial recordings. A red letter day for these are substantial and very rare Sullivan works. They emerge in good heart under veteran Richard Bonynge's life-ebullient convictio |
Schellenberger/Bar/Orth/Welker
D'albert:die Toten Augen [ Cpo / 2 CD - released 31/Jan/2000 ] |
Bar Italia
The Twits (Indie Exclusive LP) [ Matador / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] 'The Twits' was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia's economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally... |
Bar Italia
The Twits (LP) [ Matador / LP - released 3/Nov/2023 ] 'The Twits' was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia's economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally... |
Bar Italia
The Twits [ Matador / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] 'The Twits' was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia's economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally... |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Christiane Oelze (sop) Petra Lang (mezzo) Klaus Florian Vogt (ten) Matthias Goerne (bar) / Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen / Paavo Jarvi [ RCA SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "Even if you think you know the work intimately, Järvi's interpretation will likely render it afresh in many ways, a precious gift from a major talent." The Independent, 15th January 2010 ***** "The Bremen Chamber Philharmonic plays superlatively... |
JACEK SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: Litany to the Virgin Mary / Stabat Mater / Symphony No. 3 'Song of the Night' Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano) Agnieszka Rehlis (mezzo) Dmitry Korchak (tenor) Artur Ruciński (bar) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Jacek Kaspsz [ Warner Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2017 ] "This huge ensemble is captured in brilliant sound - essential for appreciating the composer's luxuriantly detailed soundworld...[in the Stabat Mater] Kaspszyk ensures that everything is balanced between introversion and dramatic impact" BBC Music |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Mors et Vita Barbara Hendricks (sop) Nadine Denize (mezzo) John Aler (ten) José van Dam (bass-bar) / Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "Plasson's remains a serviceable rendition of Gounod's grandiose conspectus of human spiritual experience." BBC Music |
W.A. MOZART
Don Giovanni (complete opera) Alexandrina Pendatchanska (sop) Olga Pasichnyk (sop) Johannes Weisser (bar) Lorenzo Regazzo (bass) / Freiburger Barockorchester / Rene Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 12/Oct/2007 ] "Jacob's period Don is among the liveliest and most enjoyable on offer" (Recording of the Month Gramophone Awards Issue 2007) |
FINZI / BRITTEN / HOLST
Works for Choir and Orchestra Alison Barlow (sop) John Mark Ainsley (ten) David Hoult (bar) Stephen Varcoe (bar) / Britten Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Hickox Legacy / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] "If any lover of the music of English twentieth century composers does not have this disc in their collection, they should take steps to rectify the omission immediately." (Recording of the Month musicWeb Aug 2013) |
ELGAR
The Apostles (complete oratorio) Anna Leese (sop) Louise Poole (mezzo) Andrew Staples (ten) Colin Campbell (bar) / Canterbury Choral Society / Philharmonia Orchestra / Richard Cooke [ Quartz / 2 CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] Elgar embarked seriously on The Apostles in 1902 and the first performance took place in October of the following year at the Birmingham Festival conducted by Hans Richter. |
MENDELSSOHN
Die erste Walpurgisnacht / etc Annelies Burmeister (contralto), Eberhard Buchner (tenor) & Siegfried Lorentz (bar) / Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] "Mendelssohn's Druidic cantata is a relative rarity, but makes a fresh, vital impression in this Leipzig performance under seasoned Mendelssohnian Kurt Masur. Three overtures add ballast, and are also excellent." (BBC Music January 2016) |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
The very best of Puccini: Excerpts from operatic and orchestral works Armando Ariostini (baritone) Lando Bartolini (tenor) Felipe Bou (bass) Silvano Carroli (bar) Giovanna Casolla (sop) Masako Deguci (sop) & many more [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
Bar-Kays
Soul Finger (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Soul Finger is the debut album of the Bar-Kays, recorded by Tom Dowd and Chris Huston. The instrumental band was tutored by Al Jackson, Jr. and the other members of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, which shows in the tightness of the rhythm section. This is... |
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Bar-Kays
Too Hot To Sleep / Flying High On Your Love [ Superbird / CD - released 27/Apr/2010 ] |
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The Bar-kays
Gotta Groove/Black Rock [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Christina Landshamer (sop) Anke Vondung (mezzo) Kenneth Tarver (ten) & Andreas Wolf (bass-bar) / Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Concerto Köln, Peter [ BR Klassik / 3 CD Box Set - released 9/Jun/2017 ] For Bach, the Mass in B minor marked the culmination and also the end point of his life's work as a composer. This "great Catholic Mass," the only mass he composed, and in which he set to music the complete Ordinary of the Latin Mass, was his last... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Der glorreiche Augenblick / Choral Fantasia Claire Rutter (soprano) Matilde Wallevik (mezzo-soprano) Peter Hoare (tenor) & Stephen Gadd (bar) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2012 ] "With first-rate recorded sound, the disc is strongly recommended." (BBC Music) |
