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CLAUDE DEBUSSY / LOUIS VIERNE / JACQUES IBERT / MAURICE RAVEL / JOSEPH JONGEN
French Trios Anneleen Lenaerts (harp), Timothy Ridout (viola), Adam Walker (flute) [ Warner Classics / CD - due 23/Oct/2026 ] Anneleen Lenaerts presents French Trios, the captivating new album also featuring the acclaimed Timothy Ridout (viola) and Adam Walker (flute). This album is the first in a triptyque dedicated to French music. Through the unique combination of harp,... |
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CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Flute Concerto, Symphony No. 3, Pan and Syrinx Adam Walker (flute), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 5/May/2024 ] "An involuntary "whoa" escaped my lips when I heard the initial cannon volley that opens this new recording of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 3. Each successive shot came more powerful and faster than I had expected." MusicWeb Recording of the Month |
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Bill Mackay & Ryley Walker
Spiderbeetlebee (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 8/Dec/2017 ] Shared joy and acoustics in rambling conversation, as two friends travel the continents via high-road, short-cut and their own paths, yet untravelled. Picking in the tradition, Walker and MacKay summon drafts of slide blues, baroque dance,... |
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Daphne Walker
Haere Mai (Everything Is Kapai): The TANZA Recordings [ Frenzy / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Daphne Walkers original recordings on CD for the first time from the TANZA tapes. Some of these songs were re-recorded in later years, but these superior recordings are all you need. |
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ROSS HARRIS
Harris: Violin Concerto / Symphony No 5 Ilya Gringolts (violin), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano) / Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Eckehard Stier & Garry Walker [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] "orchestral tone and clarity is smooth and clean" (MusicWeb) |
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Josienne Clarke And Ben Walker
Seedlings All (LP & CD) [ Rough Trade / LP/CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] 'Seedlings All' is Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker's first album to be made up of all original songs, and is songwriter Clarke's most autobiographical work to date. As she explains: "For the first time I'm out there alone with a bunch of songs that... |
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SIDNEY JONES
Jones: The Geisha (Complete operetta) Lillian Watson / Sarah Walker / Harry Nicoll / Richard Suart / Christopher Maltman / New London Light Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 12/Feb/2006 ] 'The recording that has given me the most joy during the year. A work I have waited fully 40 years to find on LP or CD' (Gramophone) |
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Ryley Walker
Golden Sings That Have Been Sung [ Dead Oceans / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] Ryley Walker is back with his brand new album, 'Golden Sings That Have Been Sung' which was written and recorded late last year in Chicago, following nearly 10 months of touring. The album is directly inspired by his return to the Windy City, as well... |
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Tom Walker
I Am Exclusive (Brick & Mortar Purple Vinyl LP) [ Sony Music Uk / LP - released 20/Sep/2024 ] After becoming 2019's biggest UK-signed selling artist, with a number 1 debut album, an international hit single in 'Leave A Light On', three million worldwide album sales and over four billion global streams in tow, Tom Walker makes his hard-fought... |
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HUW WATKINS
Watkins: Flute Concerto, Violin Concerto and Symphony Adam Walker (flute), Alina Ibragimova (violin) / Hallé, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth, Edward Gardner [ NMC / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] Watkins is one of today's leading composer-pianists and this album (his second for NMC Recordings) showcases his vibrant, lyrical and impeccably crafted orchestral writing. Both the Flute and Violin Concertos were composed for soloists with whom he... |
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POULENCE / MESSIAEN / BARTOK etc
Vocalise: Adam Walker Adam Walker (flute) & James Baillieu (piano) [ Opus Arte / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] Principal flute of the London Symphony Orchestra, Adam Walker presents a recital of alternately lyric and dynamic music for flute and piano. A lovelorn song from Die schöne Müllerin forms the basis of a set of variations by Schubert, and reflective... |
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Bill Mackay And Ryley Walker
Land Of Plenty Land Of Plenty (Reissue LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 26/Sep/2025 ] Drag City are pleased to present the reissue of hypnotic syncretic guitar duo Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker's recorded debut, 'Land of Plenty'. And just in time for the 10th anniversary of theoriginal release. Now, who remembers where they were in... |
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Bill Mackay & Ryley Walker
Spiderbeetlebee [ CD - released 8/Dec/2017 ] In 2015, intrepid guitarists Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker issued their first album of guitar duets, Land of Plenty, after developing their mutual dialogue over a monthlong residency at Chicago's Whistler. Two years later, SpiderBeetleBee reveals... |
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Daphne Walker
Golden Hits Of Daphne Walker [ Viking Seven Seas / CD ] Since the peak of her recording career in the 1950s and 1960s, Daphne Walker has been a favourite sound of the South Pacific for some forty years… |
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GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan Favourites (from The Gondoliers, Iolanthe, Ruddigore, The Mikado & The Yeomen of the Guard) The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company / James Walker / Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 7/Jul/1995 ] 'all the performances are as good as they get' ClassicsToday.com |
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GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore (Complete Opera recorded in 1971) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, with John Reed, Pauline Wales, Thomas Lawlor, Christine Palmer, Ralph Mason / James Walker (cond) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2018 ] "There is a real sense of staging and movement which is all to the good. The dialogue is well handled and is very much a plus factor.' Fanfare, November/December 1983 |
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J. S. BACH / ANTONIO VIVALDI / GEORG HANDEL / WILLIAM HAYES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Emma Kirkby - Magnificat Emma Kirkby (soprano) / Cantillation and the Orchestra of the Antipodes, Antony Walker. [ ABC Classics / CD - released 6/Jan/2006 ] Widely considered as one of the leading exponents in early music, Emma Kirkby is renowned for her purity of production, clarity of diction and extraordinary degree of vocal control. |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Violin Concerto / Violin sonata & sonatina Jack Liebeck (violin) Katya Apekisheva (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Garry Walker [ Sony Classical / CD - released 24/Aug/2009 ] "He shines most with the pianist Katya Apekisheva in Dvorák's Violin Sonata, winningly dispatched with plenty of depth and colour... Sweetness of tone and a prancing gait enliven the Violin Concerto." The Times, 30th May 2009 |
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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER / BEN ELTON
Lloyd Webber: The Beautiful Game [Original Cast] Josie Walker, David Shannon / 2000 London Cast [ Telstar Records / CD - released 17/May/2000 ] The Beautiful Game (sometimes performed as The Boys in the Photograph) is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton about a group of teenagers growing up during The Troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1969. |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: On The Town Nancy Walker, Adolph Green, Betty Comden / 1960 Cast (featuring four members of the original 1944 cast) [ Sony / Columbia / CD - released 17/May/1998 ] On the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on Jerome Robbins' idea for his 1944 ballet Fancy Free, which he had set to Bernstein's music. |