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Richard Tauber
Vol 3: Love's Serenade [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 31/May/2004 ] |
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AUBER / PUCCINI / VERDI / THOMAS / KORNGOLD / etc
Richard Tauber-Opera Arias Vol 1 Richard Tauber (tenor) with various accompanments [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 14/Feb/2002 ] From the mid-1920s until his death on 8th January 1948, and even to this day, operetta and ballads have remained, primarily through his recordings, Tauber's most widely remembered repertoire. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Richard Tauber: Operetta Arias (Rec 1921-1932) Richard Tauber with Karin Branzell (mezzo-soprano) Lotte Lehmann (soprano) Grete Merrem-Nikisch (soprano) Vera Schwarz (soprano) / various orchestras [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 7/Jul/2004 ] Among tenors, the range of Tauber's operatic repertoire, albeit incompletely captured on shellac, remains legendary, and the same might be said of his association with operetta. |
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Richard Tauber with various accompaniments
Richard Tauber: 18 Favourites (1927-1939) [Incls 'You are my heart's delight] [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "Tauber is a singer not to be missed, especially at the Naxos price; so this CD, makes us eagerly anticipate Volume 2." - Classics Today |
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VIVALDI
The Four Seasons / Concerto in B minor, RV 580 for 4 violins / etc Richard Tognetti, violin & direction / Australian Chamber Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2015 ] Countless violinists have recorded Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Now Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, a team internationally recognized for its virtuosity, energy and individuality, has recorded their take |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A minor / Legends Op 59 Richard Tognetti (violin) / Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Christian Lindberg [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] "Tognetti's tone is clean, rather than fruity with vibrato. His reading of the first movement...is marked by a clean attack to bring out the freshness of imagination so typical of Dvorak...The Slavonic dance of the finale is done with exceptional... |
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Richard Tunnicliffe
Bach, J.S.: Cello Suites [ Linn / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] |
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BEN FOSKETT
Dinosaur Richard Uttley (piano) Mark van de Wiel (clarinet) Eric Lamb (flute) Jean-François Becquaert (soprano saxophone) Raphaële Kennedy (soprano), etc [ NMC / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "The early Five Night Pieces, for piano, played by Richard Uttley, have a lucid modernist assurance, but Foskett's 2009 Prom commission, the orchestral From Trumpet, is something else again: big, monolithic, broodingly textured, with a rich internal |
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MAXWELL DAVIES / BARRY / MATTHEWS / WATKINS / TURNAGE / HOLLOWAY
Sea Eagle (works for horn) Richard Watkins (horn) with Mark Padmore (tenor) Laura Samuel (violin) & Huw Watkins (piano) [ NMC / CD - released 5/Feb/2015 ] All of the works on this release have been premiered by Richard Watkins, with both Colin Matthews' Three of a Kind and Robin Holloway's Trio receiving their first performance on this album. Richard Watkins holds the Dennis Brain Chair of Horn... |
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DAVID SCHIFF
Schiff: Gimpel the Fool (complete opera) Richard Zeller / D'Anna Fortunato / Kevin Walsh / Thomas Glenn / Third Angle Ensemble / Kenneth Kiesler [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] Gimpel the Fool is a setting of the story by Polish-born American Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991). In the words of the composer, also of Polish descent, "it turned out to be world full of spirits and demons, as well as a world... |
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RAWSTHORNE / PROKOFIEV / BRITTEN
Practical Cats / Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 / The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 Robert Donat & Richard Baker (speakers) / New Philharmonia Orchestra & Philharmonia Orchestra / Alan Rawsthorne & Raymond Leppard [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] Practical Cats is first time complete on CD. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' Robert Holzer (bass) Gabriele Lechner (soprano) Michael Pabst (tenor) Diane Elias (mezzo) / Zagreb Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Richard Edlinger [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/1990 ] The Austrian conductor Richard Edlinger was born in Bregenz in 1958 and directed his first concerts at the age of seventeen. He completed his studies at the Vienna Academy in conducting and composition in 1982. |
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FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Works Volume 5 (Includes Suite for Strings & Two Songs of Robert Bridges) Roderick Williams, baritone BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox, conductor [ Chandos / CD - released 5/Oct/2004 ] "Charming miniatures performed with great refinement ... enchants from beginning to end. Strongly recommended" - MusicWeb Oct 2004 |
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COLIN MATTHEWS
No Man's Land / Crossing The Alps / Aftertones Roderick Williams (baritone) Ian Bostridge (tenor) / halle Youth Choir, Halle Choir, Nicholas Collon, Richard Wilberforce [ Halle / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] Hallé marks the centenary of the First World War with a recording of award winning work by Composer Emeritus Colin Matthews. The main work on the recording, No Man's Land follows on from Matthews' very positive collaboration with Christopher Reid... |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 / Nocturne Roderick Williams (baritone) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 7/Sep/2003 ] 'Finally, there's a real treat: the first recording of a recently discovered Nocturne, an intensely moving setting of Walt Whitman's 'Whispers of Heavenly Death' composed in 1908. It's evocatively sung here by Roderick Williams.' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45 (An Opera in Two Scenes, Libretto by Paul Dehn) Roderick Williams, Yvonne Kenny, Claire Rutter, Jean Rigby, Anne Collins, Robin Leggate, Blake Fischer / City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Jul/2004 ] "A long-neglected British opera at last makes a sparkling début on record" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Sept 2004 |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A Cotswold Romance / The Death of Tintagiles Rosa Mannion / Thomas Randle / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] 'Richard Hickox directs a vivid performance [of A Cotswold Romance] with splendid support from his assembled forces. Although not major works, these are notable additions to the catalogue, and the performances could hardly be better' BBC ***** |
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MASSENET
Amoureuse: Sacred and Profane Arias Rosamund Illing (soprano) / The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra / Richard Bonynge (conductor) [ Melba Recordings SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "Rosamund Illing - we do appreciate her full and brilliant tone - sings them with sincerity. Her voice shows many colours, her diction is refined ... her charm is evident ... Bonynge weaves a voluptuous accompaniment around the singer ... 4... |
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CARL CZERNY
Bel Canto Concertante Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Carl Czerny wrote so much more than just studies, and it is great to have more and more of it become available on CD. At Naxos's bargain price, it would be virtually impossible not to welcome this charming CD. After all, each work is both attractive |