FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 5 (Incls Barbar, the little Elephant) Francois Mouzaya (narrator), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Laurent Lefevre (bassoon), Stephane Logerot (double bass), Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] "The narrators are two gifted children, the pianist Alezandre Tharaud, whose acute playing has sparked the series." Turok's Choice |
Thijs Van Leer
Collections [ Music on CD / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] If you are a big fan of the Dutch band Focus, you might be intrigued by the solo work of band-member keyboardist and virtuoso on the flute Thijs van Leer. The album includes musical references to Bach in some numbers, and shows of Van Leer's... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Van Cliburn Van Cliburn (piano) / RCA Symphony Orchestra, Symphony of the Air, Kirill Kondrashin [ Philips / BMG/RCA / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2018 ] Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (July 12, 1934 - February 27, 2013) was an American pianist. At the age of 23, Cliburn achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War |
Van Morrison
Accentuate The Positive [ Virgin / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Like this year's acclaimed 'Moving On Skiffle', 'Accentuate The Positive' sees Van Morrison returning to one of his childhood passions: this time rock 'n' roll. Growing up in Belfast shortly after World War II, he was immensely inspired by the heady... |
Van Morrison
Astral Weeks (Expanded Edition) [ Warner Brother CD / CD - released 30/Oct/2015 ] Van Morrison's 1968 debut Astral Weeks. In addition to remastered audio, this album also features previously unreleased versions of several album tracks. |
Van Morrison
The Healing Game [ Polydor Records / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] Originally released in 1997, 'The Healing Game' is available again as this re-issued, digitally re-mastered CD, which includes a bonus track. |
Van Morrison
Moving On Skiffle (LP) [ Virgin Music Label & Artist Services / 2 LP - released 10/Mar/2023 ] It should come as no surprise that Van Morrison has made an album inspired by skiffle. Van Morrison's love of skiffle dates back to his childhood. He would hang out at the famed Belfast record store Atlantic Records, where he'd hear early 20th... |
Van Morrison
New Arrangements And Duets [ Virgin / CD - released 27/Sep/2024 ] "This album represents a small percentage of the huge amount of unreleased material we are hoping to roll out in the near future, rather than letting it gather dust in some archive. The big band tracks were recorded in 2014 and the duets more... |
MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER
Charpentier: Médée Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Judith van Wanroij, Thomas Dolié, David Witczak Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / 3 CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Médée, a tragedy in a prologue and five acts on a libretto by Thomas Corneille, was Marc-Antoine Charpentier's first and last collaboration with the Académie Royale de Musique. The work was premiered on 4 December 1693, when Charpentier was exactly... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mendelssohn: Elias (Elijah) (Complete Oratorio in German) Alastair Miles, Jard van Nes, Helen Donath / Israel Philharmonic, Kurt Masur [ Teldec / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/May/1993 ] Contains comprehensive book and translations |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Anima Eterna / Jos van Immerseel [ Zig Zag Territories / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] Gramophone Magazine Recording of the Month - May 2010 - "...it is the sheer raw clarity of every line and colour in these Flemish players' performance, and its effect on the rhythms, that strikes you, especially in their revelatory account of the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 Anima Eterna / Jos van Immerseel (conductor) [ Zig Zag Territoires / CD - released 10/Mar/2010 ] |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust) - From the Royal Albert Hall 1989 Anne Sofie Von Otter, Keith Lewis, Jose Van Dam, Peter Rose / The Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ AWD DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2006 ] Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnificent performance of Berlioz's concert cantata. |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / WIM HENDERICKX
Flow Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet) / NDR Radiophilharmonie, Andrew Manze [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] On her second PENTATONE album FLOW, Annelien Van Wauwe presents a programme inspired by her love for yoga, combining Mozart's famous Clarinet Concerto with the world premiere recording of Wim Henderickx's concerto SUTRA. Van Wauwe performs both... |
CARL ORFF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Orff: Carmina Burana Arleen Augar, John van Kesteren, Jonathan Summers / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra. Riccardo Muti [ EMI Red Line / CD - released 7/Feb/2005 ] *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |
Barry Van Zyl
African Heartbeat - Drums and Percussion from Southern Africa [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] In his first solo album, Barry Van Zyl, world-renowned South African percussionist and drummer with the Johnny Clegg Band since 1999, presents his interpretation of the rhythms and feels of southern African drumming. The album combines musical and... |
JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Massenet: Hérodiade (complete opera with libretto) Cheryl Studer, Jose van Dam, Nadine Denize, Thomas Hampson/ Choeur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, MIchel Plasson [ EMI Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] During the Belle Époque, Jules Massenet rose to become France's leading composer of opera, as notable for his acute dramatic sense as for the refined sensuality of his music. NOTE: Outer cover has some very minor wear |
CHARLES STROUSE
Strouse: Bye Bye Birdie Chita Rivera & Dick van Dyke / Original 1960 Broadway Cast Recording [ Columbia Broadway Masterworks / CD - released 12/Jul/2000 ] Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, based upon a book by Michael Stewart. |
Christopher Keyes, Diego Vega, Ferdinando De Sena, Willem van Twillert, Andrew Schultz
Reason & Reverence: Works For Orchestra [ Navona / CD - released 6/Aug/2018 ] Reason & Reverence features the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Petr Vronsky in a selection of major orchestral works. The overall theme of the these is Reason and Reverence, each of which explores the ecological complexities of the... |
DVORAK / GRIEG / BRAHMS
Dvorak / Grieg / Brahms: Music for Piano, Four hands Claire Chevallier, Jos Van Immerseel (piano Bechstein 1870) [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Apr/2017 ] Jos van Immerseel and Claire Chevallier have enjoyed a close collaboration for many years now. Like Jos van Immerseel, Claire Chevallier loves period pianos; like him, she is a researcher and possesses her own collection of keyboard... |