ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Complete Secular Choral Works, a cappella (Rec 1996-97) Gesa Hoppe (soprano) Gundula Schneider (mezzo-soprano) Fumiko Hatayama (contralto) Studio Vocale Karlsruhe. Werner Pfaff / Renner Ensemble. Bernd Enge [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 20/Jul/2012 ] "This four CD set from Brilliant Classics is most attractively presented...choral works sensitively performed and recorded with numerous precious gems to be unearthed. A most appealing set! Highly recommended!" (MusicWeb June 2004) |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: Magdalena - A musical adventure Judy Kaye & George Rose / 1988 Studio recording of the complete score [ Sony / CD - released 1/Jun/1989 ] Magdalena: a Musical Adventure is a folk operetta in two acts with music by Heitor Villa-Lobos, original book by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Homer Curran, and lyrics and musical adaptations by Robert Wright and George Forrest. |
MICHEL LEGRAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Magic - Kiri sings Michel Legrand Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) / London Studio Orchestra, Michel Legrand [ Teldec / CD - released 17/Aug/1992 ] "The result is a wonderful kaleidoscope of vocal sounds which could never be applied to classical music but which could only have come from a classically trained singer." MusicWeb |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Wonderful Town {first complete recording) Rebecca Luker & Ron Raines / Studio Cast conducted by John Owen Edwards [ Jay Digital / 2 CD Box Set - released 17/May/1996 ] Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. |
HARVEY SCHMIDT
Schmidt: 110 in the Shade [First complete recording] Ron Haines & Karen Ziemba / 1999 Studio Cast [ Jay Productions Masterworks Edition / 2 CD - released 17/May/1999 ] 110 in the Shade is a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Tom Jones, and music by Harvey Schmidt. A 1992 New York City Opera production, directed by Scott Ellis and choreographed by Susan Stroman, starred Karen Ziemba as Lizzie. |
COATES / BINGE / DUNN / KETELBEY /GRAINGER / DUNCAN / FARNON / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: British Light Classics (Incls 'Shepherd's Hey', 'Bells Across the Meadow' & 'Portrait of a Flirt') Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves / Studio Two Concert Orchestra, Reginald Kilbey / Philharmonia Orchestra, John Lanchbery [ EMI Classics for Pleasure / CD - released 21/Jul/2008 ] "This is music to cherish and enjoy and these performances are top notch. The sound is generally very good...Don't be without this scrumptious disk." (MusicWeb Nov 2008) |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: A Little Night Music Sian Phillips, Bonaventura Bottone & Susan Hampshire / Studio Cast, John Owen Edwards [ TER / Thats Entertainment / CD - released 3/Nov/2008 ] A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English... |
MILTON SCHAFER
McBroom: Heartbeats - a new musical Amanda McBroom, George Ball & Michelle Maika / Studio Cast Recording [ Varese Sarabande Spotlight Series / CD - released 25/Aug/1994 ] A mid-Western housewife is on the verge of discovering a new definition for happiness. Informed by tremendous humor and insight, this contemporary musical contemplates and illuminates the age-old conundrum known as "self discovery." |
ALEXANDER BORODIN / ROBERT WRIGHT & GEORGE FORREST
Borodin: Kismet [plus songs from 'Timbuktu'] Valerie Masterson & Donald Maxwell / 1990 Studio Cast [ TER / CD - released 17/May/1990 ] Kismet is a musical adapted by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis from the 1911 play of the same name by Edward Knoblock, with lyrics and musical adaptation (as well as some original music) by Robert Wright and George Forrest. The music was mostly... |
MILTON SCHAFER
Schafer: Drat! The Cat! Susan Egan, Elaine Stritch & Jason Graae / Studio Cast Recording [ Varese Sarabande Spotlight Series / CD - released 25/Aug/1997 ] Drat! The Cat! is a musical with a book and lyrics by Ira Levin and music by Milton Schafer. |
RICHARD RODGERS / LORENZ HART
Rodgers: Boys From Syracuse Portia Nelson & Jack Cassidy / 1953 Studio Cast [ Sony Broadway / CD - released 9/Apr/1993 ] The Boys from Syracuse is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, based on William Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors, as adapted by librettist George Abbott. |
JIMMY McHUGH
McHugh: Lucky In The Rain Barbara Cook & Malcolm Gets / Studio Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 9/Apr/2000 ] Conceived and written by Sherman Yellen: Music by Jimmy McHugh; Lyrics by Harold Adamson, Dorothy Fields. Additional Music/lyrics by Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Donaldson, Al Dubin, Ted Koehler, Jan Savitt and Johnny Watson Opened: Goodspeed Opera... |
Various Artists incls Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Nelson Riddle, Julie London, Dean Martin, Hollywood Studio Orchestra, Louis Prima, King Curtis, etc
MARBECKS RARE: Ultra Lounge [Leopard Skin Cover] [ EMI / CD - released 2/Feb/1986 ] Selections from the original EMI Ultra Lounge series...all digitally remastered. |
Bill Withers Studio Rio
Lovely Day Versions 7" [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Mr Bongo proudly presents a reissue of this brilliant, bossa-channelling Bill Withers reinterpretation from Studio Rio's 2014 release 'The Brazil Connection'. Masterminded by the German Grammy award-winning Berman Brothers, the project was born out... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Troubadours, Trouveres, Minstrels Studio der Frühen Musik, Thomas Binkley [ Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 2 CD - released 5/May/2008 ] "The Studio's cult mezzo Andrea von Ramm and lutenist-director Binkley still chill the blood in the lament of a pilgrim captured by Saracens, just one highlight of this classic, bold imaginative survey." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
MUSIC FROM THE MIDDLE AGES
Music from the Middle Ages [5 CD set] Andrea von Ramm, Richard Levitt & Sterling Jones / Studio der fruhen Musik, Thomas Binkley [ Virgin / Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |
FERENC ERKEL
Hunyadi László Beatrix Fodor, Dániel Pataky, Attila Fekete / Honvéd Male Choir, Budapest Studio Choir & Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Domonkos Héja [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] Ferenc Erkel was one of the foremost romantic composers of Hungary, one might be tempted to call him the Hungarian Verdi. His operas were based on the rich, long and troublesome history of his home country and are the first to be written in Hungarian |
MOZART / MONTEVERDI / SCARLATTI / MASCAGNI
London Recordings (1947-1949) Beniamino Gigli (Tenor) / Studio orchestra / Rainaldo Zamboni (Conductor) / Vito Carnevali (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Gigli Edition Vol 13 / CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] "With good sound, excellent transfers, insightful notes, as usual, from Alan Blyth and discographical details a model of their kind this is another worthy addition to the series. Gigli completists will need it but so will anyone interested in good... |
Elisabeth Schumann (soprano) / Studio orchestra
Early Recordings (1915-1923) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "One can savour the beauty of Schumann’s tone unimpeded. A fine collection of a soprano at the start of an auspicious career" (MusicWeb March 2006) |
BRAHMS / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN
Elisabeth Schumann: Lieder Vol 2 Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) Studio orchestra / Walter Goehr (Conductor) / Leo Rosenek (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] Apart from the last eleven Brahms songs on this disc, all the items on this disc were made when Elisabeth Schumann was a member of the Vienna State Opera, the happiest, and in operatic terms, the most successful time of her career. |