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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - complete opera) Metropolitan Opera / Ben Heppner / Karita Mattila / James Morris / Rene Pape / James Morris / James Levine (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] G :- The MET video production of Richard Wagner's only comedy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg features the revival of Otto Schenk's 1993 production in December 2001, with an unmatchable ensemble. |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 1988) Metropolitan Opera / Eva Marton, Placido Domingo, Leona Mitchell / James Levine (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 17/May/2003 ] Stage production & set design: Franco Zeffirelli |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (Complete opera recorded in 1981) Metropolitan Opera / Louis Quilico, Christiane Eda-Pierre, Luciano Pavarotti, Isola Jones / James Levine (cond) [ Decca Music Group DVD / DVD - released 5/Nov/2014 ] "Musically there's much to admire...The vocalism is strong and occasionally outstanding." Gramophone |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlo (Complete Opera recorded in 1993) Michael Sylvester, Aprile Millo, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Vladimir Chernov, Dolora Zajick / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Release includes a booklet with a three language synopsis [English / French / German], full cast list and detailed track list |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Don Carlo (Complete Opera with libretto recorded in 1993) Michael Sylvester, Aprile Millo, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Vladimir Chernov, Dolora Zajick / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine [ Sony Classical / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1993 ] "Levine's performance of the five-act Italian Don Carlo supersedes all other versions, because he conducts Verdi's spacious score with such masterly skill and meticulous attention to detail, and has so magnificent an orchestra at his command" BBC |
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Mike James Kirkland
Don't Sell Your Soul (Vinyl Edition) [ Ubiquity Records / Love 'n' Haight / 2 LP - released 30/Jan/2012 ] Limited edition double album vinyl issue. |
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Mike James Kirkland
Don't Sell Your Soul [ Ubiquity Records / Love 'n' Haight / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/2012 ] Before the release of his seminal, socially-conscious, 1972 soul album, 'Hang On In There', a young Mike James Kirkland released a number of singles as Mike and The Censations. |
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Mike James Kirkland
Hang on in There (Vinyl) [ Ubiquity / LP - released 4/Apr/2011 ] Limited edition vinyl. |
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Joni Mitchell & James Taylor
Royal Albert Hall 1970 [ Time Line / CD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Here we have Joni and James together in London. Two weeks earlier they had played at the event in Vancouver which launched Greenpeace. They were truly a golden couple, displaying unguarded affection towards one another on stage, romantically entwined... |
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Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter & James Cotton
Breakin' it Up, Breakin' it Down [ Sony Music / CD - released 12/Jun/2007 ] This album captures the 30th Anniversary of the 1977 tour to celebrate the release of Muddy's ‘Hard Again’ - documenting some of the greatest blues players in history at the peak of their powers. |
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JAMES MacMILLAN
Visitatio Sepulchri Netherlands Radio Choir; Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic / Celso Antunes [Sun-Dogs] & James MacMillan [Visitatio] [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "It is remarkable that a Dutch choir can offer such strong and polished performances of these two choral works by James Macmillan, readily surmounting any problems over singing the English text of the a cappella writing in Sun-Dogs" (Gramophone Award... |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia / Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 / Fantasia on Greensleeves and others New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / James Judd, conductor [ Naxos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Jan/2005 ] "Helped by vivid sound, James Judd conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in glowing performances of these favourite [sic] Vaughan Williams works." (Gramophone) |
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GUBAIDULINA
Offertorium, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Rejoice! Sonata Oleh Krysa (violin) / Royal Stockholm Symphony Orchestra/ James DePreist; Torleif [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/1993 ] Great music of Sofia Gubaidulina |
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James Horner
Back to Titanic (Original Soundtrack) [ Sony Music / CD - released 21/Sep/1998 ] Featuring Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On", Gael Storm's "Irish Party In Third Class", the salon music of Alexander's Ragtime Band, the haunting vocals of Clannad's Maire Brennan and "Nearer My God To Thee" by Riverdance's own Eileen Ivers. |
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Original Soundtrack / Composed and Conducted by James Horner
The New World [ Silva Screen Records / CD - released 13/Feb/2006 ] Horner delivers another brilliant score and an epic song - "Listen To The Wind", which is performed by angelic New Zealand teenager, Hayley Westenra. |
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Hans Zimmer & James Newtown Howard
Batman Begins (Original Score) [ Silva Screen / CD - released 12/Jul/2010 ] The collaboration of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard brings together an intriguing blend of electronic and orchestral music. Tracks from the score (all named after species of bat) have featured in a succession of trailers for other films. |
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Original Soundtrack / Music Composed by James Newton Howard
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them [ Watertower Music/Sony Music / CD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone... |
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Paul Kelly James Ledger
Thirteen Ways To Look At Birds [ Decca / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds brings six musicians from broad-ranging backgrounds together to interpret bird inspired poems, written by John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Judith Wright, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gwen Harwood, A D Hope and... |
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Peter James Trio
Soul Story [ Mulberry Tree Music / CD - released 2/Apr/2012 ] |
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VERDI
Aida (Complete opera recorded in 1991) Placido Domingo, Aprile Millo, James Morris / Metropolitan Opera / James Levine [ Sony Opera House / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2010 ] Release includes a booklet with a three language synopsis [English / French / German], full cast list and detailed track list |