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CARL HEINRICH REINECKE
Reinecke: Complete Cello Sonatas Ana Turkalj (cello), Aleck Carratta (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] The fundamentally Romantic idiom of Carl Reinecke coexists with the twilight of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th century. He was a precocious and prolific composer, who wrote music from an early age after his birth in the North German town... |
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MORENO-TORROBA
Guitar Music, Vol. 1 Ana Vidovic (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] Moreno-Torroba's guitar music is particularly rich in its use of colour, melody, and lively rhythms to transport the listener into an essentially Spanish expression of a poetic and romantic sensibility. |
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J.S. BACH / PONCE / TARREGA / SULEK / WALTON
Guitar Recital - First Prize: 1998 International Francisco Tarrega Competition Ana Vidovic (guitar) [ NAXOS / CD - released 18/Oct/2009 ] "First Prize winner of the Tarrega competition in Spain in 1998 at the age of 18 was Croatian guitarist Ana Vidovic. To comment on an international competition winner's technique seems a bit unnecessary - of course it's fabulous." (American Record Guide) |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620 [The Magic Flute] (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Bregenz Festival / Alfred Reiter, Norman Reinhardt, Ana Durlovski, Bernarda Bobro / Patrick Summers (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2013 ] Staged by: David Pountney Subtitles: E, G, F, Sp, Kor, Chin Sound Format: DD 2.0, dts 5.1 Picture: 16:9, HD Booklet: E, G Total Running Time: 150 mins |
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SERGIO AZEVEDO / ANTONIO FRAGOSO / JOLY BRAGA SANTOS
Bows Up! - Portuguese Music for Strings Camerata Atlântica, Ana Beatriz Manzanilla [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Portuguese orchestral music was scarce until the 20th century, when composers were able to build on the great legacy of Luís de Freitas Branco. |
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VERDI
Falstaff (Complete opera) Carlos Alvarez, Balent Bezduz, Alasdair Elliott, Ana Ibarra, Peter Hoare / London Symphony Chorus / London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] "A memorable evening's fun is fully captured on disc: bouquets all round" Editor's Choice Gramophone Nov 2004 - Hybrid SACD Compatible with all CD players. Includes high denstity stereo and surround tracks that can be read by SACD players. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Solomon (complete oratorio) Christopher Lowrey, Matthew Newlin, Ana Maria Labin, Gwendolyne Blondeel / Millenium Orchestra, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Leonardo García Alarcón [ Ricercar / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] "This thrilling new release of the Transylvanian composer's music for string quartet embraces three contrasting periods of his output." BBC Music Choral & Song Choice April 2023 |
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JOSEPH-HECTOR FIOCCO
Fiocco: Lamentationes Hebdomadæ Sanctæ Ana Vieira Leite, Diana Vinagre and Ensemble Bonne Corde [ Ramée / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] At the time of his death, in 1741, Joseph-Hector Fiocco's widow sold the manuscripts of the composer's works to Joannes Vanden Boom, Dean and Chapel Master of the Cathedral Saint Michel and Saint Gudule in Brussels, where the composer had held the... |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Poliuto (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Michael Fabiano, Ana Maria Martinez, Igor Golovatenko, Matthew Rose / Enrique Mazzola (conductor) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 22/Aug/2016 ] Glyndebourne has brought to light a long-overlooked winner in Donizetti's Poliuto, delivering 'a superb musical performance' (The Telegraph) offering 'lucent accounts of the principal roles and an incandescent London Philharmonic Orchestra, under... |
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EDUARDO GRAU
Grau: Concertos for Soloists and String Orchestra Jana Jarkovská (flute) Simon Reitmaier (clarinet) Ana María Valderrama (violin) David Fons (viola) Fabio Banegas (piano) / Anima Musicæ Chamber Orches [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] The music of Spanish-Argentine composer Eduardo Grau is imbued with Hispanic elements. His Concerto of 'Yuste' for Violin, Piano and Timpani was inspired by the Spanish monastery of its title and is notable for its rhythmic drive, lyricism and... |
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Joe 'Fingers' Carr & Lou Busch
Let's Do It Again - From Honky Tonk To The Classics [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Lou Busch was a major arranger - conductor who created an alter ego for himself in the guise of Joe 'Fingers' Carr the ragtime and honky-tonk pianist. For the first time on one compilation we present both facets of the spectacular Lou Busch / Joe... |
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C. P. E. BACH
The C. P. E. Bach Edition: Symphonies, Concertos, Sonatas & Chamber Music Julian Steckel, Michael Rische, Ana-Marija Markovina, Patrick Gallois, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart & more [ Hanssler Classic / 54 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2016 ] The composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has been rediscovered in recent years. Hardly any other label has done more for the composer's appreciation than Hanssler Classic. Now all, really all, of Hänsslers C.P.E Bach recordings are in a sensational box |
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Lou Donaldson
Four Classic Albums (Blues Walk / Gravy Train / Lou Takes Off / Here 'Tis) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 27/Jul/2017 ] As an alto saxophonist, Lou Donaldson seemed to spend his early jazz career trying to extricate himself from being styled as a copyist of his acknowledged hero and major influence, Charlie Parker. A tricky thing to do of course, as Parker was such a... |
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Lou Monte
American Italian Style (The Hits & More) [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/May/2013 ] During the fifties it seemed that, with a few exceptions, all the top male vocalists in the States were of Italian-American extraction and one look over Lou Monte's list of recordings it is clear that he certainly falls into that category. |
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Maria Ana Bobone
Fado & Piano [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
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DELIBES / GOUNOD / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI / VERDI / MOZART / etc
SPECTACULAR SOPRANO - Best Loved Opera Arias Maria Pia Ionata, Monika Krause, Hellen Kwon, Ana María Martínez, Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz, Luba Orgonášová, Antonietta Stella, Krassimira Stoyanova [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] The soprano voice occupies the highest-sounding line of music (in Italian 'sopra' means 'over' or 'above') and it is subdivided into various types. The coloratura is the virtuoso, suited for rapid ornamentation such as in Mozart's Queen of the Night. |
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HENRY PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas (complete opera recorded in 2014) Opera de Rouen / Vivica Genaux, Henk Neven, Ana Quintans, Marc Mauillon / Vincent Dumestre (cond) [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] CHOEUR ACCENTUS Vivica GENAUX Dido Henk NEVEN Æneas Ana QUINTANS Belinda Marc MAUILLON Sorceress, Marin Vincent DUMESTRE Musical direction Cécile ROUSSAT & Julien LUBEK Staging, Choregraphy, Set, Costumes Laurent CASTAINGT Lights Stéphane... |
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LUIS TINOCO
Round Time / From the depth of distance / Search Songs / Cancoes do Sonhador Solitario Ana Quintans (soprano) Yeree Suh (soprano) Raquel Camarinha (soprano / Gulbenkian Orchestra, David Alan Miller [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Portuguese composer Luís Tinoco's works are "as engrossing as they are entertaining" (Musical Opinion), and these première recordings represent some of the most exciting new orchestral work to appear in recent years. Conductor David Alan Miller... |
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Stuttgart Opera / Ana Durlovski, René Barbera, Roland Bracht, Diana Haller / Manlio Benzi, conductor [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Oct/2019 ] "Barbera sings Arturo with a mellow beauty of tone that has surely never been matched in the 21st century, enhanced by expressive diction, the smoothest of legatos and a rare ease in the vocal stratosphere." Opera |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (complete operettas recorded in 2014) Teatro Real / Anne Sofie von Otter, Vito Priante, Eric Cutler, Ana Durlovski, Measha Brueggergosman / Sylvain Cambreling (cond) [ Bel Air Classics DVD / DVD - released 8/Sep/2015 ] "Musically it's mostly excellent...Cutler is all vocal ease, elegance and passion. Von Otter's communicative and dramatic powers remain wonderfully persuasive." Gramophone |