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Etta James
Losers Weepers [ Kent / CD - released 15/Jun/2012 ] No matter how well you might think you know Etta James, this set of songs will increase and enrich your knowledge of the lady's work no end. |
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Etta James
Matriarch Of The Blues (LP) [ Music on Vinyl / CD - released 10/Jan/2020 ] Matriarch of the Blues, as Etta James is called many times, is an 2000 album marking her return to the blues, after recording country, jazz, and pop songs. The album reached a peak position of number two on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart, and was... |
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Etta James
Queen of Soul [ Kent / CD - released 13/Jul/2012 ] That Etta James stands as one of the greatest female singers of the post-World War 2 era is unarguable, Ace Records continue to re-release classic from the Chess Records vaults and this is another stunner. |
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Etta James
Sings For Lovers [ Hallmark / CD - released 26/Aug/2013 ] The fourth album of Etta's career, Sings For Lovers was produced by label heads Phil and Leonard Chess and released on the Argo imprint in 1962. Only one track was issued as a single, Fools Rush In, which barely made #87 on the Billboard Hot 100. The... |
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Etta James
Something's Got A Hold On Me (LP) [ Wax Time / 2 LP - released 3/Nov/2017 ] |
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Etta James
Tough Woman - The Early Recordings 1955 - 1960 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] Etta James is no shrinking violet and this is the first CD release for this iconic artist that covers her earliest recordings with her classic Chess recordings. |
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Etta James
The Very Best of Etta James [ Not Now Music / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] |
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Etta James
Who's Blue?: Rare Chess Recordings of the '60s and '70s [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 4/May/2012 ] Arguably Etta's most successful work, both commercially and artistically, was unleashed during her 15-year tenure with Chicago's fabled Chess Records. |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R): Eine Alpensinfonie [Alpine Symphony] (with Mahler - Adagio from Symphony 10) European Union Youth Orchestra, James Judd [ Alto Records / CD - released 9/Oct/2017 ] "Special praise is due to the twenty horns who play flawlessly and of which a band is atmospherically positioned for the "offstage" hunting passage." Recording of the Month MusicWeb June 2017. |
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MIKLOS ROZSA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rozsa: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra / Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Evelyn Chen (piano) Brinton Smith (cello) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares [ Koch International Classics / CD - released 5/Jun/1998 ] This is the fifth CD in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's admirable traversal of all of Rozsa's orchestral music. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN / HENRY PURCELL
Britten/Purcell: The Complete Purcell Realizations Felicity Lott, Susan Gritton (sopranos) Sarah Walker (mezzo soprano) James Bowman (countertenor) John Mark Ainsley, Ian Bostridge (tenors) etc [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] 'Altogether a marvellous treat - Another Hyperion triumph' (Classic CD) |
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WILL TODD
TODD: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Fflur Wyn, James Cleverton, Robert Burt, Victoria Simmonds / Opera Holland Park, Matthew Waldren [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "The label "opera" gives the wrong impression. Although it is sung the whole way through, the score's idioms range from bluesy jazz and big band swing to West End musical." |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Pulcinella [complete] / Danses Concertantes Fiona James (soprano) / Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Henry Herford (baritone) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Stefen Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Even if the performance were less than excellent this newcomer would be welcome. But it is very good indeed... Fiona James, Ian Bostridge and Henry Herford are outstandingly good... What can I say? Another "another Naxos winner"!!" - Classic CD 5... |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Ernani (complete opera recorded in 2022) Francesco Meli, Roberto Frontali, Vitalij Kowaljow, Maria José Siri / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, James Conlon [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Victor Hugo's 1830 stage drama Hernani won overwhelming admiration, and over a decade later Verdi's attention was drawn to it as an operatic vehicle that would give him opportunities for full dramatic unity. |
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Frank Sinatra, Rene Geyer, Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, Etta James, etc
Palm Beach OST [ Universal Music / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ] Palm Beach is directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker, Rachel Ward and celebrates a lineup of both Australian and International stars, Bryan Brown, Greta Scacchi, Sam Neill, Jacqueline Mackenzie, Heather Mitchell, and Academy Award Nominee Richard... |
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RORY BOYLE
Rory Boyle: Music for Clarinet Fraser Langton, James Willshire, Trio Dramatis [ Delphian / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] Building on the legacy of Rory Boyle's own youthful studies as a clarinettist and pianist, the works on this new portrait disc span a near fortyyear compositional period, from the Sonatina - written as a gift to Boyle's teacher Lennox Berkeley - to... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol 10: Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135 Gal James (soprano), Alexander Vinogradov (baritone) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] At its première in June 1969 Shostakovich described his Symphony No. 14, in effect a symphonic song cycle, as 'a fight for the liberation of humanity... a great protest against death, a reminder to live one's life honestly, decently, nobly...'... |
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J.S. BACH
Cantatas 34, 50, 147 Gillian Fisher, David James, Ian Partridge, Michael George / The Sixteen / Harry Christophers [ Coro / CD - released 11/Nov/2006 ] "The Sixteen are, as usual, in excellent form here… Recording and remastering are top-notch; notes and texts are complete. Thanks to CORO, many choral collectors who never got around to taking their full pick of this legendary group's old Collins... |
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Giovanni Guidi, James Brandon Lewis, Thomas Morgan, Joao Lobo
A New Day (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Rekindling the familiarly flowing interplay with fellow travellers Thomas Morgan and João Lobo - the trio's musical partnership goes back over a decade at this point -, on A New Day Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi moreover expands the group's... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream Glyndebourne, James Bowman, Ileana Cotrubas, Curt Appelgreen, Felicity Lott [ Opus Arte / DVD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Bernard Haitink conducts in this landmark recording of the Peter Hall's inimitable production |