HANSON
Merry Mount, Op. 31 Lauren Flanigan / Walter MacNeil / Richard Zeller / Northwest Boychoir / Seattle Girls' Choir / Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] The plot of his 1933 opera, Merry Mount, set in New England in 1625 during a conflict between the Puritans and the Cavaliers, is anything but merry. However, the composer described the music as “warm-blooded…essentially a lyrical work [that] makes... |
GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER
Kapsberger: Che fai tu? (Villanelles) Les Kapsber'girls [ Muso / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] "Formed in 2015 by four young musicians, Les Kapsber'girls, by their very name, send a nod and a wink to one of their favourite composers. It is thus quite natural that their first recording be dedicated to the works of Girolamo Kapsberger, a... |
CARPENTER / HEAD / DEAZLEY / JOHNSTON
Only a Singing Bird Karen Cargill (mezzo) & Philip Moore (piano) / NYCoS National Girls Choir, Christopher Bell [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2016 ] A beautiful collection of songs, 'Only a Singing Bird' features Michael Head's best-known works, 'The Ships of Arcady' and 'The Little Road to Bethlehem', as well as his beautifully-imagined, nostalgic song-cycle, 'Snowbirds'. The National Youth... |
Morning After Girls
Alone [ Xemu / CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] Second album from Australian shoegaze pop rock outfit, Morning After Girls. In this current world of technological distractions and depleting attention spans 'Alone' is a refreshing slice of pure emotion and melody. |
Morning After Girls
Alone (Vinyl) [ Xemu / LP - released 14/Mar/2011 ] |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / ELIZABETH POSTON
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols / Poston: An English Day Book NYCoS National Girls Choir, Christopher Bell [ Signum / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "The voices are rich-toned, well-balanced and powered by developing teenage musculature...The singers' Scottish brogue suits the antique poetry" ClassicFM |
TRADITIONAL
A Pageant of Medieval Music The Oxford Girls' Choir / John Rowlands-Pritchard / Sirinu / The Henrician Consort / Jon banks [ Music of the Middle Ages / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] Cheerful dances and songs from all over Europe of the middle ages and early renaissance. From bear dances to Spanish songs, from brawls to revels, here is a happy, cheery album of dynamic medieval music recorded using instruments and playing... |
Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls
Gossip [ Mushroom Records / CD ] |
WILLIAM MATHIAS
Mathias: Choral Music Peter Foggitt (piano), Michael Papadopoulos (organ & Piano) & Tom Winpenny (organ) / St Albans Abbey Girls Choir, The Lay Clerks of St Albans [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] "This is a fine introduction to Sergei Bortkiewicz's piano music. The playing is impressive, technically assured and quite simply beautiful." MusicWeb |
RICHARD RODNEY BENNET
Letters to Lindbergh Philip Moore & Andrew West (piano) National Youth Choir of Scotland Girls Choir, Christopher Bell [ Signum / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] "This debut recording by Christopher Bell's NYCoS National Girls Choir could so easily have been just another recording of Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, but for two things: the wholesome confidence of the choir itself … and the successful... |
Pretty Girls Make Graves
All Medicated Geniuses [ Matador Records / CD - released 8/Dec/2003 ] |
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Elan Vital [ Matador Records / CD - released 28/Mar/2006 ] PGMG are one of the most exciting new groups to have emerged from the new Seattle and ‘Elan Vital’ is pushing their sound even further! |
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Good Health [ Matador Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2004 ] A special re-issue of their debut album, which also features the addition of four bonus tracks from their self-titled debut EP, originally released in 2002. |
Pretty Girls Make Graves
The New Romance [ Matador Records / CD - released 8/Sep/2003 ] Sophomore album from incredibly confident Seattle band. Intellectually stimulating, structurally imaginative, enjoyable hard rock |
Pretty Girls Make Graves
This Is Our Emergency [ Matador Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2003 ] |
Scouting for Girls
Everybody Wants to be on TV [ Epic Records / CD - released 28/Jun/2010 ] Following the amazing success of their debut album, Scouting For Girls are back with 'Everybody Wants to be on TV', featuring their UK #1 single "This Ain't a Love Song". |
Scouting For Girls
Scouting For Girls [ Epic Records / CD - released 7/Jul/2008 ] Scouting For Girls are a 3-piece group who have taken the UK music scene by storm in 2008. Their self-titled album reached #1, and spawned 3 Top 10 singles, including "She's So Lovely". |
Some Girls
Heaven's Pregnant Teens [ Epitaph Records / CD - released 6/Jun/2006 ] Their debut album is an unrelenting musical psychosis, adding new dimensions of brutality to Some Girls now trademark thrash attack. |
Spice Girls
Spice [ Universal / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2021 ] Originally released November 4, 1996, The Spice Girls' debut studio album Spice celebrates its 25th anniversary this year! The album features the smash singles "Wannabe," "2 Become 1," and "Say You'll Be There" and is the best-selling album in music... |
Spice Girls
Spice (LP) [ Virgin / LP - released 4/Nov/2016 ] Spice is the debut studio album by the British girl group the Spice Girls. Five singles were released from the album. The first single, "Wannabe", became a worldwide success went to number one in 31 countries, one of the best-selling singles of... |