SERGIO AZEVEDO / ANTONIO FRAGOSO / JOLY BRAGA SANTOS
Bows Up! - Portuguese Music for Strings Camerata Atlântica, Ana Beatriz Manzanilla [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Portuguese orchestral music was scarce until the 20th century, when composers were able to build on the great legacy of Luís de Freitas Branco. |
VERDI
Falstaff (Complete opera) Carlos Alvarez, Balent Bezduz, Alasdair Elliott, Ana Ibarra, Peter Hoare / London Symphony Chorus / London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] "A memorable evening's fun is fully captured on disc: bouquets all round" Editor's Choice Gramophone Nov 2004 - Hybrid SACD Compatible with all CD players. Includes high denstity stereo and surround tracks that can be read by SACD players. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Solomon (complete oratorio) Christopher Lowrey, Matthew Newlin, Ana Maria Labin, Gwendolyne Blondeel / Millenium Orchestra, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Leonardo García Alarcón [ Ricercar / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] "This thrilling new release of the Transylvanian composer's music for string quartet embraces three contrasting periods of his output." BBC Music Choral & Song Choice April 2023 |
Coro Victoria, Ana Fernández-Vega
LOBO: Sacred Vocal Music [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2019 ] Motets and Mass movements by a master from the Golden Age of Spanish polyphony. On this new recording, Coro Victoria offers a portrait of Alonso Lobo (1555-1617) through a cross-section of his sacred output (his works in Spanish are all lost). The... |
TRADITIONAL
Plácido Domingo: The Latin Album Collection Plácido Domingo (tenor) with Julio Iglesias, Ana Gabriel, Daniela Romo, Patricia Soso, Pandora, etc [ Sony Classical / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Popular songs, ballads and light repertoire have always played a huge part in Plácido Domingo's career, from his first appearances on stage in his parents' zarzuela (operetta) company to his recent collaborations with stars such as Josh Groban and... |
JOSEPH-HECTOR FIOCCO
Fiocco: Lamentationes Hebdomadæ Sanctæ Ana Vieira Leite, Diana Vinagre and Ensemble Bonne Corde [ Ramée / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] At the time of his death, in 1741, Joseph-Hector Fiocco's widow sold the manuscripts of the composer's works to Joannes Vanden Boom, Dean and Chapel Master of the Cathedral Saint Michel and Saint Gudule in Brussels, where the composer had held the... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Poliuto (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Michael Fabiano, Ana Maria Martinez, Igor Golovatenko, Matthew Rose / Enrique Mazzola (conductor) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 22/Aug/2016 ] Glyndebourne has brought to light a long-overlooked winner in Donizetti's Poliuto, delivering 'a superb musical performance' (The Telegraph) offering 'lucent accounts of the principal roles and an incandescent London Philharmonic Orchestra, under... |
LIGETI
Le Grand Macabre (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Gran Teatre del Liceu / Chris Merritt, Ines Moraleda, Ana Puche / Michael Boder (cond) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] Barcelona's Grand Teatre del Liceu presents György Ligeti's sole opera "Le grand macabre" in a stunningly imaginative and highly theatrical production by La Fura dels Baus. |
EDUARDO GRAU
Grau: Concertos for Soloists and String Orchestra Jana Jarkovská (flute) Simon Reitmaier (clarinet) Ana María Valderrama (violin) David Fons (viola) Fabio Banegas (piano) / Anima Musicæ Chamber Orches [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] The music of Spanish-Argentine composer Eduardo Grau is imbued with Hispanic elements. His Concerto of 'Yuste' for Violin, Piano and Timpani was inspired by the Spanish monastery of its title and is notable for its rhythmic drive, lyricism and... |
Joe 'Fingers' Carr & Lou Busch
Let's Do It Again - From Honky Tonk To The Classics [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Lou Busch was a major arranger - conductor who created an alter ego for himself in the guise of Joe 'Fingers' Carr the ragtime and honky-tonk pianist. For the first time on one compilation we present both facets of the spectacular Lou Busch / Joe... |
C. P. E. BACH
The C. P. E. Bach Edition: Symphonies, Concertos, Sonatas & Chamber Music Julian Steckel, Michael Rische, Ana-Marija Markovina, Patrick Gallois, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart & more [ Hanssler Classic / 54 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2016 ] The composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has been rediscovered in recent years. Hardly any other label has done more for the composer's appreciation than Hanssler Classic. Now all, really all, of Hänsslers C.P.E Bach recordings are in a sensational box |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur (complete opera recorded in 2009) Ana Maria Labin, Chantal Santon-Jeffrey, Melodie Ruvio / Le Concert Spirituel / Herve Niquet [ Glossa DVD / DVD - released 16/Mar/2010 ] G - "Directed by French comedy duo Corinne and Gilles Benizio… conductor Hervé Niquet's knockabout rewrite of King Arthur is as much a tribute to Monty Python as it is to Henry Purcell. Purists beware." (BBC Music) |
Lou Barlow
Goodnight Unknown [ Spunk! Records / CD - released 27/Oct/2009 ] Borrowing the live-band energy of Dinosaur Jr. and the stylistic reach of Sebadoh, Barlow has built on 'Emoh's full production and written a set of immediate, melodic pop songs. |
Lou Bond
Lou Bond [ Light in the Attic / LP - released 10/May/2010 ] |
Lou Doillon
Lay Low [ Cartell Music CD / CD - released 2/Jun/2017 ] Lou Doillon's follow-up to 2012′s Places finds her in largely the same territory as that sultry record: elegant, undemonstrative, slightly gothic songs defined by her lovely voice. Part Beth Orton, part Keren Ann, it is a deep, confident groan, so... |
Lou Donaldson
Lush Life (180g LP) [ EMI Bluenote US Jazz LP / LP - released 26/Sep/2014 ] This 180g Heavyweight Vinyl LP includes a download code and is newly remastered from the original analog tape. After brief sojourns at Argo and Cadet, Lou Donaldson marked his 1967 return by recording Lush Life, the grandest project he ever... |
Lou Donaldson
Musty Rusty [ CD ] |
Lou Donaldson & Big John Patton
Possum Head + Signifyina‚„ [ CD ] |
Lou Johnson
Incomparable Soul Vocalist [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
Lou McGarity Quintet
Music From Some Like It Hot [ Lonehill / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] |