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Sonny Clark
Four Classic Albums (Dial "S" For Sonny" / Sonny Clark Trio / Cool Struttin' / Leapin' And Lopin') [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Jul/2017 ] Considering he died at the tragically early age of 31, Sonny Clark actually had an amazingly prolific career in jazz, both as a leader and a sideman. At age 20, he was in California working with Wardell Gray and by 1953 was touring the States and... |
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Sonny Clark (piano), with Donald Byrd, Curtis Fuller, John Coltrane & others
Sonny's Crib [ Blue Note / CD - released 19/Sep/1987 ] "Sonny's Crib is a phenomenal recording, one that opened the door to hard bop becoming the norm in the late '50s, and one that drew deft, imaginative performances from all its players" AllMusic |
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Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The supremely swinging pianist Sonny Clark hit the Blue Note scene in 1957 with a burst of creativity recording three albums in three months including the sublime Sonny Clark Trio, a 6-song set of bebop themes and standards featuring bassist Paul... |
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Steven A. Clark
The Lonely Roller [ Secretly Canadian / CD - released 2/Oct/2015 ] Whether it's someone searching or someone who doesn't want to be found, we can't help but be drawn to the drifters. Steven A. Clark is that next stranger to roll into town, a restless artist recasting R&B. He's a straight-talker in a genre filled... |
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Steven A. Clark
Where Neon Goes To Die (Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 7/Sep/2018 ] Living in a city is like having a love affair, and like any love affair, the passion for a city can produce monumental music. On Steven A. Clark's second LP, Where Neon Goes to Die, the North Carolina-born singer-songwriter follows in the footsteps... |
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Don McGlashan & Anita Clark
Take It To The Bridge [ Doncorp / CD - released 22/Aug/2025 ] Don McGlashan's first live album. Don won fame with the iconic groups The Mutton Birds, The Front Lawn and Blam Blam Blam, and has continued to fly high with four acclaimed solo albums - Bright November Morning was his first number 1 album. At... |
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Sonny Clark
Dial "S" For Sonny (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 5/Aug/2022 ] One of the finest pianists and composers of the hard bop era, Sonny Clark seemed to arrive fully formed on his supremely swinging debut album Dial "S" for Sonny recorded for Blue Note in 1957. Clark assembled a top-flight sextet for the occasion with... |
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CARL CZERNY
Complete music for horn and pianoforte Andrew Clark (natural horn) Geoffrey Govier (fortepiano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] 'I put the disc on and was immediately intrigued and delighted' (Early Music Review) |
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VARIOUS
Madame D'Amours-Music for Renaissance Flute Consort The Attaignant Consort / Kate Clark (director) [ Ramee / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] The elegant, keyless, cylindrical flute of the sixteenth century had a reedy, penetrating sound, closer to the cornetto than to any other wind instrument of the day. It had an impressive range of two and a half octaves and an evenness of tone quality... |
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The Clark Sisters
A Salute To The Great Singing Groups / The Clark Sisters Swing Again [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jul/1996 ] For those of you, who love swing era vocal group for their sound and nothing else - you are in for a treat. Just close your eyes and listen. The quality of the recording, selection, musical arrangement and most important the sound of it are first... |
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Clark Terry
Four Classic Albums (Introducing Clark Terry / One Foot In The Gutter / Clark Terry Quartet With Thelonious Monk / It's About Time) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] |
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COLE PORTER
Kiss Me, Kate (Original Broadway Cast 1949) / Let's Face It (1941) Harry Clark, Harold Lang, Patricia Morison, Eddie Sledge, Mary Jane Walsh, Charles Wood, Alfred Drake & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] The overture is about to start. You cross your fingers and hold your heart. Those lines from the opening number of Kiss Me, Kate were probably running through the brains of everyone connected with the nowclassic musical when it opened on 30... |
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FERSINANDO PAER
Il Santo Sepolero (oratorio) Cornelia Horak, Miriam Clark, Vanessa Barkowski, Valer Barna-Sabadus / Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] Together with Johann Simon Mayr, Ferdinando Paër counts as one of the most important opera composers of his day, and he was unable to resist filling his oratorio on Christ's Passion, Il Santo Sepolcro with expressive extremes. Pain and grief contrast... |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending, Greensleves & Job David Jurwitz (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Robert Haydon Clark, Barry Wordsworth [ Alto / CD - released 20/Feb/2019 ] "The much underrated Barry Wordsworth delivers a powerful and sensitive Job with the Philharmonia; David Juritz excels with the Consort of London in The Lark Ascending." BBC Music Five Stars |
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Dee Clark
A History 1952-1960 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] Dee Clark enjoyed a brief but spectacular chart career between 1958 and 1961 including the UK hit 'Just Keep It Up'... |
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Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Strathclyde Concertos 7 & 8 / A spell for green corn: The MacDonald dances Duncan McTier (double-bass), Ursula Leveaux (bassoon), James Clark (violin) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] "The demise of Collins Classics - on which label many of the composer's recordings were originally issued - removed from the catalogue a great many valuable discs. It is to the great credit of Naxos they have over the years so assiduously re-released |
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GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers (complete operetta recorded in 2021) Scottish Opera / William Morgan, Mark Nathan, Richard Suart, Ellie Laugharne, Sioned Gwen Davies, Yvonne Howard / Derek Clark (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 14/May/2025 ] "Bolder G&S stagings are available (live, if not on record), but this Gondoliers is fresh, affectionate and intensely musical proof that these masterly comic operas can still hit their mark".. DVD/Bluray of the Month Gramophone Magazine January 2026 |
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WAGNER
Siegfried (complete opera recorded in 1999) Het Muziektheater Amsterdam / Heinz Kruse / Graham Clark / John Brocheler / Henk Smit / Carsten Stabell / Anne Gjevang / Hartmut Haenchen (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 3 DVD - released 19/Jun/2006 ] G :- "This Siegfried definitely had me hooked from beginning to end" (MusicWeb July 2006) |
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PROKOFIEV / KHACHATURIAN / SHOSTAKOVICH / GLIERE / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Russian Wind Band Classics Jacques Mauger (trombone) / Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra / Clark Rundell [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] '..the performances get the thumbs up. Chandos' recording engineers have done their work with the necessary bravado.' - International Record Review |
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REINHOLD GLIERE
Gliere: Symphony No. 2 / The Zaporozhy Cossacks Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Keith Clark [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] "This is still by far the best rendition of this symphony, even as of late 2002. This masterfully orchestrated symphony couldn't be more Russian, romantic sounding, as is the accompanying symphonic poem honoring the heroism of the Cossacks." |