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    AUTOGRAPH
    WARNER CLASSICS

    AUTOGRAPH

    CD · 7 discs

    $24.99
    Composer
    GOETHE MOZART BRITTEN
    Artist
    Ian Bostridge
    Released
    Sep 25, 2015
    Dating from the years between 1928 and 1948, the recordings in this collection were all made during the lifetime of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). They can be credited with playing a substantial role in propagating his works around the world and in cementing his international reputation as one of the towering figures of 20th century music. The seven CDs constitute a wide-ranging survey of the composer's music. Rightly, the seven symphonies are at the heart of the collection. Symphonies No.s 1, 2, 3 and 5 are conducted by the Finn Robert Kajanus, whom Sibelius described in 1934 as "the best conductor my music ever had... he worked and studied and sought unceasingly to play my works exactly as I wanted them to sound." Kajanus was Creating a biographical panorama of his career, the British tenor Ian Bostridge has personally selected each track in this 7CD Autograph collection. With a focus on both song (in German and English) and opera (from Monteverdi to Ades by way of Handel, Mozart and Britten), it demonstrates just why he is recognized as one of today's most distinctive, intelligent and compelling singers. The tenor also complements his performances with an exclusive and illuminating audio interview. This is the fourth release in the Autograph series, launched earlier in 2015 with collections devoted to Angela Gheorghiu, Thomas Hampson and Jose van Dam. Each box focuses on a single artist, providing a biographical panorama of his or her career through a series of thematically programmed CDs and fascinating documentation. Each collection is devised in collaboration with the featured artist and includes a newly-recorded exclusive interview, Illustrated with musical extracts and conducted by the distinguished journalist and broadcaster Jon Tolansky, discussing his or her life and work. Bostridge, a former Oxford academic who has written three books and has been described as "something of a polymath" by the New York Times, can be relied upon to provide articulate and stimulating opinions on his career and the music he performs. Bostridge is a highly distinctive artist, an interpreter of exceptional intensity who uses his fundamentally lyrical voice to powerful dramatic effect. When he appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall in 2011 the New York Times wrote: "... this was a Dichterliebe in which an insightful vocal artist had a compelling idea about the words and music of every phrase." [Schumann's song cycle Dichterliebe appears on CD6 of this collection.] Bostridge expressed his philosophy as a performer to the Financial Times in an interview in 2013: "It may not be obvious at first why such music is enjoyable but it is consciousness-raising. It makes you think about what is valuable in life - the things music ultimately wants to address... Art is part of the good life but it's also part of what it means to be a human being... Art has transcendent value and if you live in a democratic society, you want to bring it to as many as possible."
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  • AUTOGRAPH

    AUTOGRAPH

    WARNER CLASSICS Sep 2015
    7 discs
    CD
    $24.99
  • SUNDAY MORNING JAZZ (1950-1959)

    SUNDAY MORNING JAZZ (1950-1959)

    Gift of Music Apr 2011
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    • RIDE INTO THE SUN
    NONESUCH

    RIDE INTO THE SUN

    CD · 1 disc

    $14.99
    Artist
    MEHLDAU, BRAD
    Released
    Aug 29, 2025
    Nonesuch Records releases pianist and composer Brad Mehldau's Ride into the Sun-a songbook recordof music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Featured musicians include singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear); singer/mandolinist Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, NickelCreek); bassists Felix Moseholm (Brad Mehldau Trio) and John Davis; drummer Matt Chamberlain (FionaApple, Tori Amos, Randy Newman, etc.); and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman. Ride into the Sun's ten Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions that he says are "inspired by, and reflect, Smith's oeuvre." Also included are interpretations of Big Star's "Thirteen," which Smith also covered, and "Sunday" by Nick Drake, who Mehldau says, "I look at in some ways assort of Smith's visionary godfather." Recalling how he first got to know Smith and his music, which has been a regular part of his repertoire for years, Mehldau said that after years living in New York, he moved to Los Angeles "and there was this wonderful scene of singer-songwriters that was congregating at a club called Largo. That included Elliott but it also included artists like Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple. And then other musicians who had been around for a while would come down every Friday night to sit in on a gig that was led by Jon Brion. I played behind Elliott on his own tunes with Jon. It felt to me like a kind of renaissance in songwriting that flourished for a number of years."
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  • RIDE INTO THE SUN
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    RIDE INTO THE SUN

    NONESUCH Aug 2025
    1 disc
    CD
    $14.99
    • SUPERBLUE: THE IRIDESCENT SPREE
    BIG SHOULDERS RECS

    SUPERBLUE: THE IRIDESCENT SPREE

    CD · 1 disc

    $13.99
    Artist
    ELLING, KURT
    Released
    Sep 15, 2023
    2023 release. SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree, the followup to the 2021 GRAMMY nominated album, by genre-bending trailblazers Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter see the pair reunited with Corey Fonville and DJ Harrison for a kaleidoscopic collection of new songs, surprising covers, and dynamic reinvention
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  • SUPERBLUE: THE IRIDESCENT SPREE
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    SUPERBLUE: THE IRIDESCENT SPREE

    BIG SHOULDERS RECS Sep 2023
    1 disc
    CD
    $13.99
    • IN BALTIMORE
    REAL TO REEL

    IN BALTIMORE

    CD · 1 disc

    $9.99
    Artist
    COLEMAN, GEORGE
    Released
    Dec 10, 2020
    One of jazz's most powerful tenor saxophonists is heard at his freewheeling, unfettered best on The George Coleman Quintet in Baltimore, a hitherto unheard live recording from the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, Maryland in 1971. It's a hard swinging and free wheeling, a style George Coleman was known for!
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  • IN BALTIMORE
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    IN BALTIMORE

    REAL TO REEL Dec 2020
    1 disc
    CD
    $9.99
    • COMPLETE PHILLIPS RECORDINGS
    DECCA

    COMPLETE PHILLIPS RECORDINGS

    CD · 21 discs

    $98.83
    Artist
    WILLIAMS, JOHN & BOSTON POPS
    Released
    Feb 06, 2026
    Williams' legacy with the Boston Pops is superbly represented in this boxed set which collects the albums made for Philips from his first decade at the helm of the orchestra. Rounding out the set is an intimate project with the unforgettable Jessye Norman: Williams returns to his pianist roots accompanying Norman in songs by Leonard Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Frederick Loewe, and Billy Joel. Jessye also features on a second disc in this collection with the Pops, singing the Great American Songbook. The Philip Classics recordings constitute one of the most salient testimonies of the importance of Williams' Boston Pops tenure, and the most comprehensive showcase of the musical skills, the interpretive acumen, and the stylistic range of conductor John Williams.
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  • COMPLETE PHILLIPS RECORDINGS
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    COMPLETE PHILLIPS RECORDINGS

    DECCA Feb 2026
    21 discs
    CD
    $98.83
    • RARE LIVE RECORDINGS 1935-1959
    ESP DISK LTD.

    RARE LIVE RECORDINGS 1935-1959

    CD · 5 discs

    $55.99
    Artist
    HOLIDAY, BILLIE
    Released
    Dec 04, 2007
    In 1972, thirteen years after her death, Congress extended copyright protections to include recorded musical performances. Billie Holiday would have benefited greatly from such protection: during the more than twenty-five years of her career, Holiday gave an unknown number of live performances on TV & Radio and in clubs & concert halls, many of which were recorded both officially and unofficially by sound engineers, fellow musicians and fans. Today, ESP-Disck, which for many years has been assembling unofficial recordings of several artists from before 1972, has released one of the most comprehensive collections of live Billie Holiday recordings to date, some previously available but most not. These recordings, laid out in chronological order, not only demonstrate the arc of Holiday's development as a vocalist but give a rare behind-the-scenes look into how the singer approached her musicians and her audience. The first disc of this compilation opens with a twenty-year-old Billie Holiday performing with Duke Ellington in 1935, followed by a radio broadcast from the Savoy Hotel in New York two years later in which Holiday fronts the Count Basie Orchestra. The next four discs cover Holiday's career from 1949 to her death in 1959.
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  • RARE LIVE RECORDINGS 1935-1959
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    RARE LIVE RECORDINGS 1935-1959

    ESP DISK LTD. Dec 2007
    5 discs
    CD
    $55.99
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