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DEBUSSY / FAURE
Essence - Lisa Friend plays Fauré & Debussy Lisa Friend (flute) [ Chandos / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] The flute takes a very special place in French music, particularly so in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a result (and in addition to a great deal of original repertoire for the instrument) there is a significant body of work... |
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Lisa Gerrard
Come Tenderness [ Gerrard Records / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Lisa Gerrard, the renowned Australian vocalist and composer, presents the compilation 'Come Tenderness' With the inspiration of the healing power of water at its core, the album has been personally curated by Lisa and features ten of her most... |
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WILLIAM FINN
Finn: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Lisa Howard & Jay Reiss / Original 2005 Broadway Cast [ Ghostlight / CD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, with a book written by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob XX/2 (Choral version) Lisa Milne / Ruxandra Donose / Andrew Kennedy/ Christopher Maltman / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 11/May/2011 ] "[Jurowski shows] a vital sense of motion in presenting this music - an essential challenge, given its predominant slowness - as well as pointing up the work's intensity and revealing its inner parts." (BBC Music) |
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Lisa O'Neill
All Of This Is Chance [ Rough Trade / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Following 5 BBC Folk Awards nominations and a designation by the Guardian as Folk Album of the Year in 2019, it is fair to say that Lisa O'Neill is one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today. Fresh off 2018's collection... |
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CARL MARIA von WEBER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weber: Der Freischutz (complete opera with libretto) Hermann Prey, Elisabeth Grummer, Lisa Otto, Rudolf Schock / Berlin Philharmonic, Joseph Keilberth [ EMI Studio / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/1989 ] "All soloists in this effort shine like the stars. Particularly the lovely (as always) Elisabeth Grummer...my God this lady was wonderful, and is, I am sure, greatly missed by all the great German opera houses today." (review) |
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Lisa
Alter Ego [ RCA / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] World-renowned rapper, singer, dancer, and style icon, LISA, releases her debut solo album. With "Alter Ego", LISA emulates five unique characters, showcasing her versatility and edge. The album will include previously released singles,... |
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Lisa
Alter Ego (LP) [ Rca / LP - released 28/Feb/2025 ] World-renowned rapper, singer, dancer, and style icon, LISA, releases her debut solo album. With "Alter Ego", LISA emulates five unique characters, showcasing her versatility and edge. The album will include previously released singles,... |
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HENRYK GORECKI
Górecki: Symphony No. 3 - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs Lisa Gerrrad, Genesis Orchestra, Yordan Kamdzhalov (cond.) [ Besant Hall / CD - released 28/Nov/2025 ] The Genesis Orchestra, led and conducted by Yordan Kamdzhalov, have collaborated with renowned vocal artist and composer Lisa Gerrard for this recording of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No 3, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, which is now... |
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Knapp, Lisa
Hidden Seam [ Navigator / CD - released 27/Sep/2013 ] |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Songs 2 Lorna Anderson (soprano) Lisa Milne (soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "The first thing to say that the performances by sopranos Lorna Anderson and Lisa Milne are consistently beautiful, alert to the implications of Debussy's word-setting, whether ecstatic or subdued...Martineau matches them in the subtlety,... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto (with Clara Schumann - Violin Sonatas) Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann, with Sara Ott (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 24/Jan/2013 ] "Batiashvili can always justify revisiting a popular work such as the Brahms Violin Concerto. Her reading of this tough masterpiece is more lyrical than combative, but there is a tensile quality throughout. Speeds are well judged and the Dresden band... |
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CHAPLIN / BACH / LEGRAND / MORRICONE / PIAZZOLLA / etc
Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Georgia Philharmonic, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Nikoloz Rachveli [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] In her new project, City Lights, Lisa Batiashvili gathers all the places and memories that have been important in her life and career together with some of the world's most beautiful music. |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 / Songs (arr piano and violin) Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "I have to hand it to Yannick Nezet-Seguin: this is without question one of the finest Pathetiques to have come my way in the last 30 or so years. Proof of credentials appears fairly early on." (Gramophone) |
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KANCHELI / PART / RACHMANINOV / SHOSTAKOVICH
Echoes of Time Lisa Batiashvili (violin) / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Esa-Pekka Salonen [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "few if any [recordings of the Shostakovich] are finer than this one...Batiashvili's reflective, almost weightless approach in the opening Nocturne...is rendered more distinctive by the resonant acoustic of the empty Herkulessaal." (Recording of the... |
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HANDEL
Twenty Sonatas 'Opus 1' Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Rachel Beckett (recorder) Paul Goodmwin (oboe) Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 30/Oct/2014 ] "This set gives authoritative readings, impeccable in style, dependable in text" (Gramophone) |
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J.S. BACH
Flute Sonatas (Complete) Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Rachel Brown (flute) Paul Nicholson (harpsichord) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month)BBC Music Magazine (July 2002) |
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VIVALDI
L'estro armonico Op 3 / 6 flute concertos Op 10 Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) / The English Concert / Trevor Pinnock [ DG Double / 2 CD - released 4/May/2005 ] PINNOCK'S VIVALDI: Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert's 1980s digital recordings of Vivaldi remain a highlight of the Archiv catalogue, offering benchmark interpretations of this ever-popular composer, whose rhythmic energy and plangent lyricisml... |
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HANDEL / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / WOLF / STRAUSS
Lisa della Casa sings Handel and Mozart Lisa della Casa (soprano) with Karl Hudez (piano) & Wiener Philharmoniker, Heinrich Hollreiser [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 12 / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] "stylistic approaches to Hande's Giulio Cesare may have moved on...but her Lieder singing...remains treasurable in its tonal and textual expertise." (BBC Music) |
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Lisa Hannigan
At Swim [ Liberation / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] At Swim is the new album from Irish artist Lisa Hannigan. Produced by Aaron Dessner (The National), this is Hannigan's third - and most bewitching - record. Recording took place in a church in Hudson, New York, during a furiously creative... |