Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt
Loose Talk (Indies Only Clear Vinyl LP) [ Dene Jesmond / LP - released 11/Apr/2025 ] Loose Talk signals the beginning of a new creative chapter for Bryan Ferry, blurring the lines between music, poetry and art. Fifty-three years since Roxy Music's iconic debut album arrived like a bolt-from-the-blue, his latest project is just as... |
Amelia
Hilary Swank & Richard Gere [ 20th Century Fox DVD / DVD - released 2/Feb/2011 ] Two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank delivers an unforgettable performance as Amelia Earheart, the legendary American aviatrix who boldly flew into the annals of history. Richard Gere co-stars as her charismatic business partner and adoring... |
MEYERBEER / GOUNOD / J. STRAUSS JR / AUBER / OUCCINI /MASSENET / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Amelia Farrugia - Joie De Vivre! Amelia Farrugia (soprano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Briger [ Decca Records / CD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] "...a coloratura with fine agility, a real trill, a very high extension, and an intelligent way with the texts. She also has an innate sense of rubato that can make even a chestnut-showpiece like Auber's "Laughing Song" seem like a new experience." |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra La Scala Opera / Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Anja Harteros (Amelia Grimaldi (Maria), etc / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "[Barenboim] delivers the kind of eloquently moulded, dramatically succinct phrases heard in his Wagner performances of late...[His] status as a Verdian outsider - and the fresh insights that come with that - is a genuine drawing card." |
Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt
Loose Talk (LP) [ Dene Jesmond / LP - released 11/Apr/2025 ] Loose Talk signals the beginning of a new creative chapter for Bryan Ferry, blurring the lines between music, poetry and art. Fifty-three years since Roxy Music's iconic debut album arrived like a bolt-from-the-blue, his latest project is just as... |
JOHN HARBISON
Harbison: Piano Trios / Gatsby Etudes / The Violist's Notebook / 10 Micro-Waltzes Amelia Piano Trio [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Feb/2007 ] |
JOHN HARBISON
Harbison: Piano Trios / Gatsby Etudes / The Violist's Notebook / 10 Micro-Waltzes Amelia Piano Trio [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2007 ] Harbison is one of America's most accomplished musicians, with four symphonies, three operas and a Pulitzer Prize-winning cantata to his credit. Of his Piano Trio No. 2, Harbison writes: '[It] makes little contact with the Mozart-to-Shostakovich... |
PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Lo frate 'nnamorato (Complete opera recorded in 1989) La Scala Opera / Alessandro Corbelli / Nuccia Focile / Amelia Felle / Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Opus Arte La Scala Collection DVD / DVD - released 23/Jul/2004 ] G :- "…delivered with a polish that makes almost every moment a delight." (BBC Music) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R,): Piano Trios & Works for Piano Quartet Max Mandel (viola) / Amelia Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] These youthful chamber works by Richard Strauss, not widely represented on disc, are filled with sparkling inventiveness and lyricism. |
ROSSINI
La Cambiale di Matrimonio (complete opera recorded in 1989) Rococo Theatre Schwetzingen / John Del Carlo / Janice Hall / David Kuebler / Alberto Rinaldi / Carlos Feller / Amelia Felle / Gianluigi Gelmetti (cond [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 9/May/2006 ] G :- This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival with excellent direction, acting and stagecraft. |