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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Tragic Overture Horacio Guiterrez (piano) /Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 11/Aug/2003 ] "The richly enjoyable performance benefits from an aural frame in which the piano and orchestra are especially well balanced, and the overall sound quality equalsthe finest yet achieved on this label." -Stereo |
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SCRIABIN
Orchestral Music (3 CDs for the price of 2) Inger Blom (mezzo) Lars Magnusson (tenor) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir / Leif Segerstam / with Roland Pantinen (piano) [ BIS / 3 CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] This boxed set spans from Scriabin's first large-scale orchestral work, his Piano Concerto (1897), to Prometheus (1909-10), his last completed piece (which incidentally also features an important part for solo piano). |
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FERRUCCIO BUSONI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Busoni: Concerto for piano, orchestra & male chorus, Op.39 John Ogdon (piano) / Men's Voices of the John Alldis Choir / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniell Revenaugh [ EMI Studio / CD - released 12/Feb/1989 ] Busoni's vast Piano Concerto lasts for nearly 70 minutes, and as well as the usual piano and orchestra combination requires, in the last of its five movements, a choir of men's voices. |
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Johnny Cash And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Johnny Cash And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Legacy / CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Produced by Nick Patrick and Don Reedman and recorded at the fabled Abbey Road Studio 2, Johnny Cash and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is the latest in a series of RPO albums showcasing classic recordings by timeless artists in sublime new musical... |
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Johnny Cash And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Johnny Cash And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (LP) [ Legacy / LP - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Produced by Nick Patrick and Don Reedman and recorded at the fabled Abbey Road Studio 2, Johnny Cash and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is the latest in a series of RPO albums showcasing classic recordings by timeless artists in sublime new musical... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Prokofiev-Piano Concerto No 3) Jon Kimura Parker (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2003 ] Since winning the Leeds Piano Competition in 1984, Jon Kimura Parker has maintained an international career at the highest level throughout the world. |
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PROKOFIEV
Symphony 1 & 5 / Romeo & Juliet excerpts / Concerto No. 3 for Piano Jon Kimura Parker (piano) / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi / Royal Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Andre Previn [ Telarc Everybody's Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] "Marvelous!...Levi consistently displays extraordinary imagination both in terms of balancing the various musical strands and in his magical handling of dynamics and articulation." -CD Review |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Concerto / 2 Romances Joseph Swensen (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 25/May/1988 ] Joseph Swensen was born in 1960 in Hoboken, New Jersey, and grew up in Spring Valley, New York, Pearl River, New York and Harlem, New York City. His mother was Japanese-American and his father Norwegian-American. |
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RAVEL / DEBUSSY / BRIDGE / IRELAND / LISZT / FAURE / CHOPIN
Kathryn Stott: The complete solo recordings Kathryn Stott (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Sony Classical / 9 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2017 ] Kathryn Stott: The Complete Solo Recordings presents the celebrated British pianist's entire solo recording output on Conifer Records, newly remastered and collected together in this 9 CD box set. Features works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Liszt,... |
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VARIOUS
Lang Lang - The Disney Book Lang Lang (piano), with Andrea Bocelli & Gina Alice / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Ziegler [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 16/Sep/2022 ] "What could so easily have turned into a hotel lobby-style piano amble in fact does a lot better than that. There's a broad range of Disney from across the ages plus a nice variety of pace, and one or two of the arrangements are engagingly clever." |
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KARL GOLDMARK / ANTONIN DVORAK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony / Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Op. 72 Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Dorati [ Decca / CD - released 10/Feb/1996 ] Original recordings from 1981 (Rustic Wedding Symphony), and, 1984 (Slavinic Dances) |
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HOOKED ON CLASSICS
Hooked On Classics / Can't Stop The Classics / Journey Through The Classics Louis Clark & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ K-Tel / 3 CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] Hooked on Classics was a series of record albums first introduced in 1981, toward the end of the Disco era's peak in popularity. |
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HOOKED ON CLASSICS
Hooked On Classics: The Ultimate Collection Louis Clark & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Music Club Deluxe / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] The Hooked-On-Classics series brings together classical legends like Tchaikovsky, Bach and Mozart and gives them a unique disco twist. |
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GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Le Prophete (Complete opera recorded in 1976) Marilyn Horne, Renata Scotto, James McCracken, Jerome Hines / Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Henry Lewis [ Sony Classical Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2016 ] "The role calls for a Brünnhilde range with an Amneris-type voice: the vocal flexibility and dramatic punch needed are extraordinary. Miss Horne has them all, and she brings out the pathos of the part without sentimentalizing it." (Gramophone) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Martin Fröst: Roots Martin Frost (clarinet) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra & The Adolf Fredrik's Girls Choir [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "Clarinettists and clarinet fans will revel in Fröst's buoyant performance of Crusell's Variations on a Swedish Song…and in his mercurial, technically staggering playing throughout this scatter-shot assortment" BBC Music Magazine, June 2016 ***** |
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MARCEL DUPRE / JOSEF RHEINBERGER
Dupre: Symphony in G minor / Rheinberger: Organ Concerto No. 1 Michael Murray (organ) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Jahja Ling [ Telarc Records / CD - released 26/Jan/2004 ] Michael Murray's recordings for Telarc are among the classical music industry's worldwide best sellers. |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 & other shorter works Natalie Clein (cello) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] "At first what can seem somewhat too introverted is revealed on closer listening as something altogether darker than we are used to in this work. Nothing's comfortable about this reading, nor should it be." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine... |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / TCHAIKOVSKY / VERDI / WAGNER / etc
Paul van Kempen - the Complete Philips Recordings Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Paul van Kempen [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 10 CD Box Set - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "Beethoven is represented by an Eroica that is truly among the greatest of the period - of any period, I'd say...testimony to a genuinely great conductor who up until now has rarely been acknowledged as such." Gramophone reissue of the Month June '20 |
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JOHN RUTTER
Distant Land (Incls The Beatles Concerto) Paul Shaffer, Peter Rostal (pianos) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / John Rutter [ Universal Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] The Beatles Concerto is a panic. Composed for duo pianists Peter Rostal and Paul Schaefer, it treats these famous tunes (about eight of them) in the style of Rachmaninov or Tchaikovsky. |