Lou Rhodes
Bloom [ A & G Records / Infinite Bloom / CD - released 23/Nov/2007 ] "Bloom ... quite simply breathtaking."-BBC, UK. "Multi-layered, deeply rewarding ... marvelous."-THE SUN, UK (5 Stars). "Haunting, disturbing and dynamic."-UNCUT, UK. |
Maria Ana Bobone
Fado & Piano [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
DELIBES / GOUNOD / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI / VERDI / MOZART / etc
SPECTACULAR SOPRANO - Best Loved Opera Arias Maria Pia Ionata, Monika Krause, Hellen Kwon, Ana María Martínez, Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz, Luba Orgonášová, Antonietta Stella, Krassimira Stoyanova [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] The soprano voice occupies the highest-sounding line of music (in Italian 'sopra' means 'over' or 'above') and it is subdivided into various types. The coloratura is the virtuoso, suited for rapid ornamentation such as in Mozart's Queen of the Night. |
Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou's Mass [ Smithsonian Folkways / CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] This re-mastered re-issue album includes bonus material from her 1969 masterpiece 'Music For Peace' (the third of her four masses), and two hymns written in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Mary Lou Williams
TBC [ Acrobat / CD - released 28/Nov/2008 ] |
Mary Lou Williams with Andy Kirk and His Clouds Of Joy
The Lady Who Swings the Band [ Definitive / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] |
HENRY PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas (complete opera recorded in 2014) Opera de Rouen / Vivica Genaux, Henk Neven, Ana Quintans, Marc Mauillon / Vincent Dumestre (cond) [ Alpha DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] CHOEUR ACCENTUS Vivica GENAUX Dido Henk NEVEN Æneas Ana QUINTANS Belinda Marc MAUILLON Sorceress, Marin Vincent DUMESTRE Musical direction Cécile ROUSSAT & Julien LUBEK Staging, Choregraphy, Set, Costumes Laurent CASTAINGT Lights Stéphane... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Amor, vida de mi vida: Zarzuelas (recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Placido Domingo & Ana Maria Martinez / Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg / Jesus Lopez Cobos [ Medici Arts / EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "A live concert of zarzuela, the genre in which Domingo cut his teeth, with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra delivering stylish playing and soloists assured." (BBC Music) |
LUIS TINOCO
Round Time / From the depth of distance / Search Songs / Cancoes do Sonhador Solitario Ana Quintans (soprano) Yeree Suh (soprano) Raquel Camarinha (soprano / Gulbenkian Orchestra, David Alan Miller [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Portuguese composer Luís Tinoco's works are "as engrossing as they are entertaining" (Musical Opinion), and these première recordings represent some of the most exciting new orchestral work to appear in recent years. Conductor David Alan Miller... |
Lou Reed
Lou Reed's Berlin [ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 22/Jan/2009 ] Lou Reed's 2006 live concert performance of his 1973 concept album. Staging 'Berlin' has been discussed for over 30 years and in December of 2006 it became a reality. 'Berlin' was said to be one of the most depressing albums ever made and as it... |
Stan Getz Quartet With Lou Levy
Complete Studio Master Takes [ 2 CD - released 27/Dec/2007 ] |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: La Sonnambula (complete opera recorded in June 2013) Stuttgart Opera / Ana Durlovski, Luciano Botelho, Catriona Smith, Enzo Capuano / Gabriele Ferro (cond) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 28/Feb/2014 ] "The Stuttgart team...bluntly portray Amina's sleepwalking as a mental problem...Musical, we are in the safe but far from unexciting hands of Gabriele Ferro…As well as fielding a Caruso/Bjorling-like ability to crescendo on those high peaks, Durlovsk |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Stuttgart Opera / Ana Durlovski, René Barbera, Roland Bracht, Diana Haller / Manlio Benzi, conductor [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Oct/2019 ] "Barbera sings Arturo with a mellow beauty of tone that has surely never been matched in the 21st century, enhanced by expressive diction, the smoothest of legatos and a rare ease in the vocal stratosphere." Opera |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (complete operettas recorded in 2014) Teatro Real / Anne Sofie von Otter, Vito Priante, Eric Cutler, Ana Durlovski, Measha Brueggergosman / Sylvain Cambreling (cond) [ Bel Air Classics DVD / DVD - released 8/Sep/2015 ] "Musically it's mostly excellent...Cutler is all vocal ease, elegance and passion. Von Otter's communicative and dramatic powers remain wonderfully persuasive." Gramophone |
G-Wi Khoe G-Ana Khoe
Bushmen of the Kalahari [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] THE BUSHMEN: THE LOST PEOPLE This album documents the almost extinct Bushman culture in Southern Africa. It contains Bushmen shaman healing rituals, hunting songs, rain-making songs, tracking songs, a spoken history of the Qwii… accompanied on... |
James Moody/Paul Horn/Lou Donaldson/Jimmy Woods
Alto Sax - Four Classic Albums (Last Train From Overbrook/Something Blue/Sunny Side Up/Awakening) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 6/Apr/2018 ] AVID Jazz is proud to introduce an exciting new addition to our Four Classic Album series, Four Classic Jazz Instrumentalists. We continue with Four Classic Jazz Alto Saxophonists, a re-mastered 2CD set complete with original artwork, liner notes and... |
W.A. MOZART
Cosi fan Tutte (complete opera recorded the Salzburg Festival in 2006) Vienna State Opera / Ana Maria Martinez/ Sophie Koch / Shawn Mathey / Thomas Allen / Vienna Philharmonic / Manfred Honeck(cond) [ Decca Classics Mozart 22 / 2 DVD - released 23/Nov/2006 ] G - "A musical and vocal pleasure... A major festival event in the anniversary year." -Donaukurier |