Naxos
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Mayr: Il sogno di Partenope (Cantata Opera)
Caroline Adler (soprano), Florence Lousseau (mezzo-soprano), Andrea Lauren Brown (soprano), Cornel Frey (tenor), Sara Hershkowitz (soprano), Andreas Burkhart (bass), Robert Sellier (tenor)
Simon Mayr Ensemble, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Simon Mayr Choir, Franz Hauk
The singing of the chorus is excellent throughout; the orchestra likewise. I have nothing but praise for the soloists with an extra laurel to Andrea Lauren Brown’a Partenope and Cornel Frey’s... —
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Special offer. Kenneth Fuchs - Canticle to the Sun & United Artists
Timothy Jones (french horn)
London Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
Kenneth Fuchs is an energetic American composer now in his early fifties who is based at the University of Connecticut. He has a wide range of compositions and is also involved in music education... —
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Special offer. Ives - Variations on ‘America’
‘The President’s Own’ United States Marine Band, Colonel Timothy W. Foley (director)
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Italian Popular Songs Volume 2
Mario Del Monaco, Beniamino Gigli, Tito Schipa, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Alessandro Valente, Armand Tokatyan, Aureliano Pertile, Joseph Schmidt & Enrico di Mazzei
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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3, Khachaturian: Piano Concerto & Shostakovich: 3 Preludes
William Kapell (piano)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati, Serge Koussevitzky
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Glazunov - Orchestral Works Volume 11
Works for Cello and Orchestra
Alexander Rudin (cello)
Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
Bernd Glemser (piano)
Ireland National Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk
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Mayr: Samuele
Andrea Lauren Brown (Samuele), Susanne Bernhard (Anna), Rainer Trost (Elcana) & Jens Hamann (Eli)
Simon Mayr Choir & Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra, Franz Hauk
Samuele is unusual because it is mainly made up of parodies of some of the composer’s previous operas...The breezy recitatives and arias sung by Andrea Lauren Brown (Samuele) are adorable for... —
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MacFarren, G: Robin Hood
Nicky Spence, Kay Jordan, Magdalen Ashman, George Hulbert, Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks, John Molloy, Louis Hurst & Alex Knox
Victorian Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Ronald Corp
Though intensely conservative [Macfarren] was nevertheless more than a mere pedant. His music recalls Mendlessohn and Weber, but with a four-square Englishness very like his younger contemporary... —
