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In 'N' Out: Coffee Break, Dining, Jazzy Car Ride / Every moment has its Music

3 CD / Analekta / 2012-01-31

Works: Niccolò Paganini: Centone di Sonate no 1; Cantabile e Valtz in E major; Felix Mendelssohn: Song without words for Cello and Piano in D major, Op. 109; Trio for Piano and Strings in D minor; Erne...
Performers: Baril, Louise-Andree; Bessette, Louise; Blaha, Bernadene; Booth, Jane; Dolin, Elizabeth; Dubeau, Angele; Ehnes, James [Violin]; Fortin, Lyne; Groulx, Jean-Francois; Kodama, Mari [Piano]; Kuerti, Anto...
Conductors: ; Nagano, Kent; Desmarais, Lorraine; Rescigno, Joseph
Ensemble: ; Duo Campion-Vachon; Duo Gaulin-Riverin; Gryphon Trio; Montreal Jazz Club; Quatuor Alcan; Trio Lorraine Desmarais

Just Songs! / Popular songs - Die Singphoniker

1 CD / Oehms / 2011-10-25

Works: Kurt Weill: Wouldn't You Like to Be on Broadway?, song for voice & piano (from "Street Scene"); September Song, song for voice & piano (from "Knickerbocker Holiday"); John Dowland: Second Booke of So...
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Ensemble: Die Singphoniker

"...just songs!" is the title of the Singphoniker's newest concept album. This top German vocal ensemble presents an enticing, brilliant and completely conclusive musical still-life....continue...
Recording information: Studio 1, Bayerischer Albrecht (01/29/2011-01/30/2011); Studio 1, Bayerischer Albrecht (11/19/2010-11/20/2010)....continue...

A Lindberg Extravaganza

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2011-10-03

Works: Andrea Lindberg-Tarrodi: A Tribute to Dorsey, Miller and Teagarden, for trombone & ensemble; Anders Högstedt: A Tribute to Jussi Björling, for trombone & ensemble; A Night at the Opera, for...
Performers: Lindberg, Christian
Conductors: Ek, Hans
Ensemble: Swedish Wind Ensemble

Described as 'a potent antidote to the stuffiness that still passes for seriousness at many a concert', Christian Lindberg, whose most recent appearances on disc...continue...
Recording information: Nacka Aula, Sweden (11/2009)....continue...

Shape of My Heart

1 CD / KML Records / 2009-11-10

Works: Sting: Moon over Bourbon Street; Dominic Miller / Gordon Sumner: Shape of My Heart; Bill Evans: We Will Meet Again; Richard Rodgers: My Funny Valentine; Frédéric Chopin: Prelude for piano n...
Performers: Chalmin, David; Corea, Chick; Hancock, Herbie; Labeque, Katia; Rubalcaba, Gonzalo; Sting
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Ensemble: Katia and Marielle Labèque

Pianist Katia Labeque performs a series of duets with Sting, and pianists, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. This album opens with Sting's "Moon...continue...

Icon - Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grapelli (4 CDs)

4 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Jacob Gade: Jalousie (Jealousy), tango for orchestra; Richard Rodgers: Blue Room, song (from musical "The Girlfriend"); The Lady is a Tramp, song (from musical "Babes in Arms"); My Funny Valentine; I...
Performers: Blok, Jan; Clare, Alan [piano]; Etheridge, John [Guitar]; Fosset, Marc; Ganley, Allan; Grappelli, Stephane; Harris, Max; Holloway, Laurie; Lemmon, Brian; Menuhin, Yehudi; Price, Derek; Snell, David [...
Conductors: Harris, Max; Riddle, Nelson
Ensemble: ; Alan Claire Trio

This 4 CD set containing all the recordings that the two legendary violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli made for EMI is a further release...continue...

At Home with Friends

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2009-09-29

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; John Dowland: Come Again; Astor Piazzolla: Enrico IV; Ennio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso; Traditional: Para Ti; Richard Rodgers: My Funny Valentine; I'll Take Manhattan...
Performers: Abt-Greenfield, Meryl; Bell, Joshua; Blinn, David; Botti, Chris; Bush, Sam; Chatterjee, Samir; Chenoweth, Kristin; Childs, Billy; Denk, Jeremy; Eggar, Dave [Piano]; Erdody, Stephen; Finck, David; Gro...
Conductors: Redford, J.A.C.;
Ensemble: ; Tiempo Libre

The concept of 'At Home With Friends' was inspired by Bell's long-time practice of holding "musical soirees" at his New York residence - eclectic gatherings...continue...
Personnel: Joshua Bell (violin); Frankie Moreno, Regina Spektor (vocals, piano); Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Sting (vocals); Nathan Gunn (baritone); Sam Bush, Mike Marshall (guitar, mandolin); Ro...continue...

Guitarist Roland Dyens / "Anyway" / Includes A Night in Tunisia; My Funny Valentine [DVD]

1 DVD Video / GHA / 2008-12-01

Works: Roland Dyens: Improvisation; Sols d'leze; Anyway; Djembe; Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Tunisia; Ariel Ramirez: Alfonsina y el mar; Baden Powell: Berimbau; Antonio Carlos Jobim: Felicidade; Richard Rod...
Performers: Dyens, Roland

"A great French guitarist, probably the greatest" one could read, already in the eighties, in L’événement du jeudi, at the occasion of a concert of...continue...

Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac

1 CD / RCA Records / 2008-04-01

Works: Kenji Bunch: Dies Irie, for piano trio; Magic Hour, for piano trio; Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac, for piano trio; Richard Rodgers: My Funny Valentine; Michael Nyman: The Piano, film score; The H...
Performers: Brabcová, Ema; Doubrava, Marek; Shin, Insun; Suh, Susie
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Ensemble: Ahn Trio

Born in Seoul, Korea, and educated at Juilliard in New York City, the members of Ahn Trio - sisters Maria (cello), Lucia (piano) and Angella...continue...
On 2008's LULLABY FOR MY FAVORITE INSOMNIAC, the New York City-based chamber ensemble Ahn Trio offers up an adventurous yet accessible set of classical-pop crossover tracks. Consisting of Korean-Ameri...continue...

Lush Life / Karl-Heinz Steffens, David Gazarov

1 CD / Tudor / 2006-01-24

Works: Duke Ellington: I'm beginning to see the light; Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, song; George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Antonio Carlos Jobim: Corcovado, song; Wave, song; Sonny Rollins: Oleo; Victor Young...
Performers: Gazarov, David; Steffens, Karl-Heinz

Captured! / The Bassoon Brothers

1 CD / Crystal Records / 2002-05-21

Works: Mark Eubanks: Fanfare for the common bassoonist, for bassoons & percussion (after Copland); The Carmen Crusader Suite, for bassoon quartet & ensemble; Louie, Louie, Roll Out the Barrel, for bassoon q...
Performers: Brothers, Bassoon; Korman, Fred
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Ensemble: Bassoon Brothers