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GLINKA / DARGOMIZHSKY / MUSSORGSKY / BORODIN
Four Hand Piano Music Piotr Laul & Alexander Sandler (pianos) [ Northern Flowers / CD - released 4/Mar/2013 ] |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth (Unabridged) Stephen Dillane/ David Timson / Bruce Alexander / Fiona Shaw [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/Jun/2005 ] Macbeth, Shakespeare's last great tragedy, has remained one of the most popular plays since it's first performance in 1606-probably in front of King James. This exciting new audiobook production is directed with fresh imagination by Fiona Shaw who... |
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM
The Essential Stephen Sondheim Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Ethel Merman, Jason Alexander, Angela Lansbury, Elaine Stritch, Victor Garber, Barbara Cook, Carol Burnett & others [ Sony Masterworks Broadway / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] The Essential Stephen Sondheim spans this iconic artist's unparalleled career, from West Side Story (1957) through Passion (1994), and also includes important works from his forays into television and film. |
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ANNA AKHMATOVA
Anna Akhmatova: Three Works Terence ONeill-Joyce (narrator) wih Alexander Ivashkin (cello) [ Ode Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2008 ] For the people of Russia Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) is a legend. She was one of the Great Russian poets, a real link between the culture of the so called Silver Age (1900-1914) - and the Soviet era. During the Soviet Era her books were almost... |
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ROSSINI / SCARLATTI / TURINA / GRANADOS / FALLA / GUERRERO / etc
Brava Berganza! - Rossini: Arias / Canciones Espanolas: Spanish Songs & more Teresa Berganza (soprano) Félix Lavilla (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson, Benito Lauret, Gerardo Gombau [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] "I called her performance of [the Falla songs] incomparable, and it still remains so, with her completely idiomatic interpretation, vitality, exemplary enunciation, beautifully clean melismata, and wide range of colour" Gramophone |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Coronation Ode, Op.44 / The Spirit of England, Op.80 Teresa Cahill (sop) Anne Collins (alto) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 1/Sep/1992 ] "Gibson's performances combine fire and panache, and the recorded sound has an ideal Elgarian expansiveness, the choral tone rich and well focused, the orchestral brass given plenty of weight." Penguin Guide |
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ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / SERGEI LYAPUNOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glazunov/Lyapunov: Piano Concertos Alexei Nasedkin, Alexander Bakhchiev (piano) Tatiana Grindenko (violin) / USSR Radio & TV Large Symphony Orchestra, Algis Zhiuraitis [ Russian Compact Disc / CD - released 1/Jan/1996 ] Rare recordings from Russia |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Rachmaninoff: Complete Piano Music Zlata Chochieva, Lukas Geniušas, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Nikolai Lugansky, Alexander Ghindin, Elisa Tomellini [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 12/Mar/2021 ] This 8-CD set contains the works for piano solo by Sergei Rachmaninoff, 20-th century romantic, one of the greatest pianists of all time himself. |
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Arthur Alexander
The Greatest [ Ace Records U.K. / CD - released 20/Dec/1993 ] Thirteen years ago, I was an employee of the US-based Country Music Association, and in Nashville on business. On Sunday 6 June I was out and about at Nashville's sadly now-defunct Summer Lights music festival, which occupied several stages spread... |
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Olly Alexander
Polari [ Polydor Uk / CD - released 7/Feb/2025 ] 'Polari' is a pop album for the ages, looking back on history as a means to learn more about yourself. Olly Alexander's first album under his own name takes as its primary inspiration the (almost) lost art of Polari. Originating around Europe and the... |
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Olly Alexander
Polari (Indie Exclusive Purple LP) + Poster [ Polydor Uk / LP - released 7/Feb/2025 ] 'Polari' is a pop album for the ages, looking back on history as a means to learn more about yourself. Olly Alexander's first album under his own name takes as its primary inspiration the (almost) lost art of Polari. Originating around Europe and the... |
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Olly Alexander
Polari (Purple LP) [ Polydor Uk / LP - released 7/Feb/2025 ] 'Polari' is a pop album for the ages, looking back on history as a means to learn more about yourself. Olly Alexander's first album under his own name takes as its primary inspiration the (almost) lost art of Polari. Originating around Europe and the... |
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SELAOCOE / BACH / PLATTI
Where Is Home (Hae Ke Kae) Abel Selaocoe (cello) with Yo-Yo Ma, Colin Alexander, Simran Singh, Max Baillie, Rakhvinder Singh, Ruth Gibson & others [ Warner Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - CHAMBER BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - NEWCOMER |
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PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Favourite pieces for violin and piano Alexander Markov (violin), Alexander Markovich (piano) [ Warner Classics Apex / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "Markov's technical acrobatics are dashed off with arrogant aplomb in virtuosic showpieces such as the Valse-Scherzo" (BBC Music) |
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PAGANINI
Violin Concertos Alexander Markov (violin) / Rudfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrucken, Marcello Viotti [ Warner Classics Apex / 2 CD - released 19/Mar/2007 ] World-renowned artists, superb quality, reassuringly inexpensive. |
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Alexander O'Neal
All Mixed Up [ CD ] |
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Alexander O'Neal
All True Man [ CD ] |
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Alexander O'Neal
Love Makes No Sense [ CD ] |
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NIKOLAI MEDTNER
Medtner: Piano Concerto No.1 / Piano Quintet in C Dmitri Alexeev (piano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev / Bew Pudapest Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Jul/2013 ] "The recordings are judiciously balanced in both works, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Lazarev are fully sympathetic." (Gramophone Classical CD Guide) |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (Complete Opera) Andrea Bocelli, Jennifer Wilson, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, German Olvera / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta [ Decca / 2 CD - released 31/Jul/2015 ] In this new and much-anticipated complete opera recording from superstar Andrea Bocelli, the tenor heads up a fine cast to explore Puccini's last opera. |