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JAMES WHITBOURN
Living Voices Jeremy Powell (soprano saxophone) & Ken Cowan (organ) / Westminster Williamson Voices, James Jordan [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "Tonal, tuneful, technically accessible, harmonically palliative: James Whitbourn's music ticks many of the boxes beloved by choral societies" (BBC Music) |
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine 1610 [Vespers] / Motetes [with works by Gabrieli] Jill Gormez, James Bowman, John Shirley-Quirk, Philip Langridge, Michael Rippon / Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "Gardiner's purposeful approach is stirringly dramatic, boldly eventful and full of ideas" Gramophone |
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J. S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 12: BWV55, BWV89, BWV115, BWV60, BWV139, BWV163, BWV52, BWV140 Joanne Lunn / James Gilchrist / Peter Harvey / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 16/Dec/2010 ] "One of the most ambitious musical projects of all time" Gramophone |
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HANDEL
Messiah (highlights) Joanne Lunn, Melanie Marshall, James Gilchrist, Christopher Purves / Cambridge Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 23/Nov/2007 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
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HANDEL
Messiah (complete) Joanne Lunn, Melanie Marshall, James Gilchrist, Christopher Purves / Cambridge Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / John Rutter [ Collegium / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/2007 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
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J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 4: 6th and 7th Sundays after Trinity Joanne Lunn / Michael Chance / James Gilchrist / Stephen Varcoe / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Gardiner's Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine award-winning Bach Cantata series on his hugely successful label, Soli Deo Gloria, releases volume 4 in the series featuring Cantatas for the Sixth and Seventh Sunday after Trinity. Recorded live in July... |
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J.S. BACH
Cantatas Vol 14: BWV91, BWV110, BWV40 & BWV121 Joanne Lunn / William Towers / James Gilchrist / Peter Harvey / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of the cantatas for Christmas Day and the 2nd Day of Christmas. Recorded on Christmas Day in St Bartholomew's, New York. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The English Clarinet (Incls Finzi - 5 Bagatelles, Op. 23) John Bradbury (clarinet) James Cryer (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] The clarinet is the most versatile of all wind instruments, able to express warmth, brilliance, passion and elegy. All facets of the clarinet are represented here, unified by the English school. Lloyd Webber and Edward German give us enchanting... |
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James P Johnson, Art Tatum, Fats Waller
The Gods Are In The House [ Avid / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] This production represents the highest level of achievement in the art of re-creating the music from classic, historic piano solo recordings to 21st century audio clarity. Its basis is the unique work of John Farrell, who has transcribed the music... |
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CHARLES WOOD
St Mark Passion Jonathan Vaughn (organ), Simon Wall (tenor), James Birchall (baritone), Edward Grint (bass) Ruth Jenkins (soprano) / Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] "Modestly tasteful, Wood's St Mark still fails to engender any passion." Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 |
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PURCELL
Dido And Aeneas Susan Bickley, Della Jones & Peter Harvey / St. James's Baroque Players & St. James's Singers, Ivor Bolton [ Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / CD - released 26/Oct/2009 ] |
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Joni James
Let There Be Love [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Mar/1993 ] This isn't Joni's legendary first album, "Let There Be Love," but a collection of cleaned-up radio transcriptions from programs done for the U.S. government and military as a civic service. |
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VIERNE / WIDOR / DUPRE
French Cathedral Music Joseph Cullen, Andrew Reid (organs) / The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O'Donnell (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O'Donnell |
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HANDEL
4 Coronation Anthems / Foundling Hospital Anthem / Utrecht te Deum / Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne HWV74 Judith Nelson, Shirley Minty, James Bowman, David Thomas / Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, The Brandenburg Consort, David Hill [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "the choir sing most beautifully throughout and of the soloists, John Elwes is particularly sensitive to Handel's setting of charitable texts." (Gramophone on the Foundling Hospital Anthem) |
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J. C. BACH
Welt, gute Nacht Julia Doyle, Katharine Fuge, Clare Wilkinson, Jeremy Budd, James Gilchrist / The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] "Bach of any generation from Gardiner's eminently engaged and engaging forces is self-recommending; yet for its rarity value alone Welt, gute Nacht is as important a release as that of a B minor Mass or St Matthew Passion." (BBC Music) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas & Ernste Gesänge Julian Bliss (clarinet), James Baillieu (piano) [ Signum Classics / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] Julian Bliss and James Baillieu present a recording Johannes Brahms' Clarinet sonatas, Op. 120 and an arrangement of his 4 Ernste Gesänge, Op.121 arranged by Bliss. These late works were inspired by the great clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld, principal... |
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NATIVITAS
Nativitas: American Christmas Carols Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy (conductor) with James Higdon, organ [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "As beautiful a disc of precious Christmas music as you are likely to hear this or any year." (MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
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GARETH FARR
Chamber Music Katherine Austin, James tennant, Alexa Still, Gareth Still, Gareth Farr [ Trust / CD - released 17/Jun/2000 ] New Zealand's top musicians go Farr! |
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Gustav Mah
Symphonie No. 2 c-Moll "Auferstehung" Kathleen Battle, Christa Ludwig, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, James Levine [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 2/Aug/2011 ] |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (highlights from the opera recorded in 1990) Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Enzo Dara, Dawn Upshaw / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, james Levine [ Deutache Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Jun/2018 ] "Levine conducts a lively performance, Battle makes a sympathetic Adina, Dara is a thoroughly professional purveyor of the elixir … spirited virtuosity in the orchestral playing" Gramophone |