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John Scofield, with Steve Swallow & Bill Stewart
Swallow Tales (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 15/May/2020 ] Guitarist John Scofield celebrates the music of his friend and mentor Steve Swallow in an outgoing and spirited recording, made in a day in New York in March 2019 - "old school" style as Scofield says, while acknowledging that more than forty years... |
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MENDELSSOHN
Music for organ [2 CD set] John Scott (organ of St Pauls) [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2012 ] 'Excellent performances. The Hyperion recording engineers have done a marvellous job in capturing the many nuances of the powerful five-manual instrument in the cathedral' (Soundscapes) |
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MARCEL DUPRE
Dupre: Organ Music John Scott (St Paul's Cathedral organ) [ Hyperion Dyad / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - 'The whole presentation is masterly - superb playing and superb engineering' (Gramophone) |
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J. S. BACH
The Complete Organ Works Vol 1 John Scott Whiteley (organ) [ Signum Vision / DVD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Originally broadcast as a late-night series for BBC2, 21st Century Bach presents performances by the world-class organist John Scott Whitely in the churches and abbeys where Bach himself worked and performed (for this DVD in Amorbach abbey and the... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Grand Organ of York Minster (concert recorded in 2008) [plus free CD] John Scott Whiteley (organ) [ Priory DVD + CD / DVD/CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Recorded and filmed in York Minster on 25-28 February and 28 April-1 May 2008 |
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / IRELAND / STANFORD / WARLOCK / PURCELL / etc
English Song: John Shirley-Quirk John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone) with Martin Isepp (harpsichord and piano), Ambrose Gauntlett, etc [ Heritage / 2 CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Shirley-Quirk gives us a lovely cross-section of native song...and [his] immaculate diction makes texts unnecessary." (Gramophone Re-issue of the Month - February 2015) |
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BENEDICT FLYNN
A Life Of Dante (Unabridged) John Shrapnel [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2001 ] Dante's vision The Divine Comedy has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early fourteenth century. Here is a brief account of his life, compiled from various sources (including his first biographer, Boccaccio) by... |
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KAIJA SAARIAHO
Graal theatre for violin & chamber orchestra / Solar / etc John Storgards (violin) / Avanti! Chamber Orchestra / Hannu Lintu [ Ondine / CD - released 28/Jun/2008 ] 10/10 for performance and recording quality (Classics Today) - Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952) is today one of the world's most significant contemporary composers. She was recently named 'Composer of the Year 2008' by Musical America. |
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ERNST MIELCK
Symphony in F Minor / Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra John Storgards (violin) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo, conductor [ Ondine 20th anniversary / CD - released 25/Feb/2005 ] "the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra give an ardent account of the symphony" (Gramophone) |
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John Surman
Brewster's Rooster [ ECM / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] After ECM recordings with organ ("Rain on the Window"), strings ("The Spaces In Between"), brass ensemble ("Free and Equal"), choir ("Proverbs and Songs"), and early music experiments with the Dowland Project ("Romaria"). John Surman offers an album... |
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John Surman
Private City [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] The most popular of John Surman's multi-tracked solo albums, "Private City" includes music originally written for the ballet of the same name, premiered at Sadler's Wells. Recorded in December 1987. |
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John Surman
Rarum Volume 13 :-Selected Recordings [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2004 ] 'Selected Recordings' features landmark recordings and old favourites - greatest hits, effectively - from this highly regarded musician. |
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John Surman
Saltash Bells [ ECM Records / CD - released 29/Jun/2012 ] John Surman is an exceptionally versatile musician and his instrumental prowess has been showcased in many contexts. Yet his solo albums may be the best sources for insights into his melodic imagination. If you want to understand the wellsprings of... |
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John Surman
The Spaces In Between [ ECM / CD - released 7/May/2007 ] |
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John Surman
Words Unspoken [ ECM / CD - released 28/Mar/2024 ] Hypnotic and many of its antonyms-stimulating, arousing, reviving-are old school hyperbole which very often separates the hack from the veteran of critical science. But sometimes those everyday words are exactly what need to be said to tell of music... |
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John Surman / Howard Moody
Rain on the Window [ ECM Records / CD - released 21/Apr/2008 ] This is a very special project in the discography of John Surman (baritone and soprano saxophones), an album of intimate duets, improvisations, folk songs and spirituals. |
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John Surman / Jack DeJohnette
The Amazing Adventures Of Simon Simon [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] John Surman and Jack DeJohnette first played together in 1968, but didn't make a duo album together until The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon in 1981. Immediately recognised as a special album it won the Record of the Year Award in Jazz Forum's... |
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John Taylor
Insight [ CD ] |
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CORIGLIANO
A Dylan Thomas Trilogy John Tessier (tenor) Thomas Allen (baritone) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] Fern Hill is a blithe poem, yet touched by darkness; time finally holds the poet "green and dying" … Poem in October begins in Thomas's seafront town: the poet, marking his birthday, climbs to a high hill, where he reflects on his youth and mulls his... |
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John Toll
Gibbons:the Woods So Wild [ Linn / CD - released 29/Oct/2001 ] |