Lo'Jo
Au Cabaret Sauvage [ World Village Music / CD - released 10/Sep/2002 ] More amazing sounds from the world music group Lo'Jo! |
Lo'Jo
Boheme de cristal [ World Village Music / CD - released 12/Jun/2001 ] Strong influences of Arabia, Berber, Africa & Jamaica meld into a fusion of irresistable foot-tapping rhythms. Brush up your school-French and get into the eclectic sounds of Lo'Jo. |
Lo'Jo
Mojo Radio [ World Village Music / CD - released 8/Jan/2002 ] The brilliant 'Mojo Radio' album from world music septet, Lo'Jo, was originally released in 1998 - and is finally now available again! |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman (The Tales of Hoffman) (complete opera) Roberto Alagna, Jose van Dam, Natalie Dessay, Sumi Jo / l'Opera National de Lyon, Kent Nagano [ Erato Warner Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "Kent Nagano uses Kaye's complete edition preserving the recitatives. He balances this by taking quite a brisk view of the tempi and the pacing of the piece." MusicWeb |
VIVALDI / PURCELL / BACH / HANDEL
Baroque Journey Sumi Jo (soprano) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra [ Warner Classics / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] "For her part, Jo sounds splendid on this whole recording, even in the ultra-difficult Vivaldi aria "Agitata da due venti" from the opera Griselda, nailed by labelmate Angelina Reaux in its equivalent version from the opera Bajazet in Fabio Biondi's... |
TOMKINS
Above the Starrs: Verse Anthems & Consort Music Fretwork, Emma Kirkby-soprano, Catherine King-alto, Charles Daniels-tenor, Donald Greig-baritone, Richard Wistreich-bass, Jo [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Sep/2003 ] " Fretwork's considerable experience in this kind of repertoire shows in these faultlessly assured performances. A clear and attractive recorded sound completes a most accomplished release." - Gramophone |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Belle Helène (complete operetta sung in French recorded in 2014) Hamburg State Opera / Jennifer Larmore, Jun-Sang Han, Peter Galliard, Viktor Rud, Rebecca Jo Loeb / Gerrit Priessnitz (cond) [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] Director Renaud Doucet and designer André Barbe treat the piece as a "great show" with numerous choreographic elements, relocating the action of Offenbach's classical spoof and setting it on a cruise ship in the 1960s |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Belle Helène (complete operaetta sung in French recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Hamburg State Opera / Jennifer Larmore, Jun-Sang Han, Peter Galliard, Viktor Rud, Rebecca Jo Loeb / Gerrit Priessnitz (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2015 ] Staged by Renaud Doucet Jacques Offenbach's La Belle Hélène has always been one of its composer's most successful works. Its first performance in Paris was quickly followed by productions in Vienna, Berlin, London, Milan and New York. A satire of... |
Jo Ann Greer
Hollywood's Secret Singing Star [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] The first ever CD collection featuring Jo Ann Greer, one of the most talented and distinctive vocalists of the 1950s, who toured with the Les Brown Orchestra for more than 30 years... |
Jo Jo Gunne
Jo Jo Gunne [ Rhino / CD - released 18/Aug/2008 ] |
Jo Little
Till the Blue Skies Come [ CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] |
Jo Passed
Their Prime [ Sub Pop / CD - released 25/May/2018 ] Formats LP, CD, Cassette, and Digital The nicest thing anyone has ever - ever - said to Jo Hirabayashi, frontman of Jo Passed, is that his band's debut album sounds like "fucked-up Beatles". Their Prime, the full-length follow-up to Jo Passed's... |
Jo Passed
Their Prime (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 25/May/2018 ] |
Jo Stafford
The Jo Stafford Story [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Sep/1997 ] The American soldiers, who adored her, called her G.I Jo. Included on this collection are favourites such as "Too Marvellous for Words," "Over the Rainbow," and " Candy", featuring Johnny Mercer. |
Jo Stafford
Love, Mystery and Adventure [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2006 ] This 55 track 2CD set dedicated to her Columbia Years (1950-1955), with many tracks being issued on CD for the first time since their initial vinyl release. |
Jo Stafford
Reflections [ Jasmine / 4 CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Very few singers of the 20th Century achieved the popularity and respect of Jo Stafford. |
Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae
Yesterday - The Definitive Duo [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae were two of America's best loved singers to emerge from the 1940s. They were teamed in the recording studio for more than two years and their recordings as a duet sold millions. |
TRADITIONAL
The Songs of England John Potter / Lucie Skeaping / Jo Freva / The Broadside Band [ Regis Records / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "Unadulterated magic, not a disappointing track" Folk Roots / "A delightful record" The Gramophone |
J.S. BACH
St. Matthew Passion Karl Erb (tenor) / Willem Ravelli (bass) / Jo Vincent (soprano) / Ilona Durigo (alto) / Willem Mengelberg [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / 3 CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "...Naxos provides an unexpectedly rich sound-frame, quite amazing given the year. There are times when Mengelberg's (truncated) Bach Passion sounds almost as Wagnerian as Furtwangler's Tristan, rapt one moment, explosively emotional the next, but... |
Lo' Jo
310 Lunes [ World Village / CD - released 5/Sep/2014 ] Described in The Independent (UK) as "probably one of the best live bands in the world right now", Lo'Jo was formed two decades ago when singer, songwriter and one-off Gallic visionary Denis Péan met violinist Richard Bourreau in the music school of... |