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Burna Boy
No Sign Of Weakness (Limited Brown Vinyl LP) [ Atlantic / LP - released 11/Jul/2025 ] Grammy Award-winning global icon Burna Boy ushers in his highly anticipated eighth studio album No Sign of Weakness including the singles TaTaTa (feat. Travis Scott), Sweet Love, Update and Bundle By Bundle. Global superstar Burna Boy stands among... |
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Fall Out Boy
So Much (For) Stardust [ Elektra / Warner / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] GRAMMY Award-nominated and multi-platinum selling rock band Fall Out Boy release their eighth studio album. "Technology has made it really easy to make records much more quickly these days. There's nothing wrong with that, and that spontaneity can... |
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MICHAEL HAYDN
Mass and Vespers for the Feast of the Holy Innocents American Boy Choir [ Linn / CD - released 1/Jan/2011 ] The American Boychoir |
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Baby Boy Warren
Blues From Detroit, 1949-1954 - Plus Bonus Blues Session - The Complete L.C. Green [ Jasmine Records / CD ] In the 1940s and 50s, Detroit boasted a vibrant Blues and Jazz scene, which was largely catered for by a handful of independent record labels. This compilation features two of Detroit's perhaps lesser-known lights, who nonetheless recorded... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
50th Anniversary EP The Boy Choristers of Winchester Cathedral [ Signum / CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] Winchester Cathedral celebrate 50 years since the release of Geoff Stephen's Winchester Cathedral - a 1966 release for the New Vaudeville Band that reached No.1 in the charts in the USA and Canada, selling over 3 million copies and subsequently... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Das klagende Lied / Funf Lieder nach Ruckert / Kindertotenlieder / etc Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo) Susan Dunn (soprano) Markus Baur (boy alto) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Riccardo Chailly [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] "The strength of the Chailly version lies with the splendid singing of the Dutsseldorf Choir and the demonstration-worthy Decca recording, full of presense." (3 Stars Penguin Stereo Guide on Das Klagende Lied) |
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JOPLIN / GLADD / CAROSIO
Spaghetti Rag - Rag Music With Mandolins Center Boy's Rag Band / Raffaele Calace Plectrum Quintet / Italian Mando-Rag Club Citta di Brescia [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] This unique recording sets out to give a flavour of American ragtime through the medium of the mandolin. It is now believed that many of the original early twentieth-century rags were regularly performed by American-Italian mandolin orchestras whose... |
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Ernest Lough (boy soprano)
Here My Prayer [ Pearl / CD - released 1/Mar/2002 ] The world famous boy soprano |
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Ernest Lough (boy soprano)
Wings of a Dove [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 1/Nov/2005 ] While the clarity and precision of his treble voice may have braved the rigours of early electrical recording to make him a legend in his own lifetime, Ernest Lough may in retrospect be regarded as an exemplar of a lost tradition whose vocal virtues... |
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FAURE
Requiem / Pellas et Melisande / Three Melodies / Pavane Furio Zanasi (baritone) Vojlech Dyk (boy soprano) / Pueri Gaudentes / Chamber Orchestra of Bohemia / Douglas Bostock [ Scandinavian Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Famous Cantatas Holland Boy's Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2020 ] 'characteristic performances, marked by a great sense of authenticity' (Gramophone) |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: The Queen of Spades (Symphonic Suite) / On Guard for Peace Irina Tchistjakova (mezzo-soprano), Niall Docherty (boy soprano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Neeme Järvi is universally applauded for his Prokofiev recordings. Here he conducts the first recording of Symphonic Fragments from The Queen of Spades, as arranged and elaborated by Michael Berkeley, coupled with the seldom performed oratorio On... |
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Juke Boy Banner
The Sonet Blues Story [ Universal Music / CD - released 15/Jun/2005 ] Available as an import from Europe. |
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Little Walter / Muddy Waters / Sonny Boy Williamson / Howlin' Wolf
Classic Blues Masters - Four Classic Albums (The Best Of Little Walter / The Best Of Muddy Waters / Down And Out Blues / Sings The Blues) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 22/May/2020 ] AVID Roots continues with its Four Classic Roots Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD release featuring one album apiece from Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson & Howlin' Wolf, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel |
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MICHAEL BERKELEY
Baa Baa Black Sheep: A Jungle Tale (Complete opera) Malcolm Lorimer (boy treble) Ann Taylor-Morley (mezzo-soprano) William Dazeley (baritone) Fiona Kimm (contralto) / Chorus of Opera North; English Nort [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] 'This recording was made at performances by a uniformly strong Opera North cast... warmly recommended: even if you don't think you like contemporary opera, give it a try.' - BBC Music Magazine |
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Otis Spann, with Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf, Junior Wells, Chuck Berry, etc
Otis Spann in Session - Diary of a Chicago Bluesman 1953-1960 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Joining Eddie Taylor and Jody Williams (JASMCD3070 & JASMCD3100) in Jasmine's popular 'In Session' series comes this excellent 43 track 2CD set of Otis Spann's sessions that he cut in Chicago between 1953 and 1956 along with live performances at... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Turn of the Screw (Complete Opera) Peter Pears / Joan Cross / David Hemmings, boy soprano, English Opera, Britten [ Decca Records / CD - released 2/Jan/2002 ] Decca's classic recordings of the music of Benjamin Britten |
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Sonny Boy Williamson
Hoodoo Man Blues [ Le Chant Du Monde / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2017 ] |
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GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors (complete opera, sung in German, recorded in 2022) Tempu Ishijima (boy soprano), Dshamilja Kaiser, Paul Schweinester / Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Symphoniker, Magnus Loddgard [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Long a Christmas favourite, this new Viennese production, sung in German, boldly re-examines the story finding its key elements to be fantasy, empathy and the enduring power of love. |
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GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors (complete opera, sung in German, recorded in 2022) BLU-RAY Tempu Ishijima (boy soprano), Dshamilja Kaiser, Paul Schweinester / Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Symphoniker, Magnus Loddgard [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Dec/2023 ] "The cast under Magnus Loddgard's baton is good. Boy soprano Tempu Ishijima is outstanding in the title role, incredibly touching but not mawkish, and as his mother, Dshamilja Kaiser has a strong mezzo." Opera Now |