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Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez - Ponce: Concierto del sur - Garcia: China Sings! / Kuang

Naxos

$9.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 50% Jul 24, 2020

Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez is the most celebrated classical guitar work of the 20th century, music that conjures up the color, sophistication and glories of eternal Spain. The founding father of Mexican music, Manuel Ponce, wrote his Concierto del sur for Segovia, and it is a work of vivid grandeur, Sevillian dances and melodic richness. To complete the programme, prize-winning international virtuoso Junhong Kuang plays a piece dedicated to him – Gerald Garcia’s China Sings! – a rhapsody inspired by two popular Chinese tunes. Darrell Ang is the artistic director and chief conductor of China’s Sichuan Symphony since December 2016. He regularly conducts the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ Symphony Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony and at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. Darrell Ang received a GRAMMY Award nomination for his Naxos debut recording of Symphony ‘Humen 1839’ by Zhou Long and Chen Yi (8.570611). His most recent albums feature Kabalevsky’s First and Second Symphonies (8.573859) and d’Indy’s incidental music Médée (8.573858), among others.

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Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez - Ponce: Concierto del sur - Garcia: China Sings! / Kuang
Naxos Jul 2020
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~~$19.99~~ $9.99

TANIA LEON: HORIZONS RAICES (ORIGINS) STRIDE

LPO

$15.99 Jul 25, 2025

Cuban-born American composer Tania Leon was Composer-in-Residence with the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 2023-2025. During this period, she not only brought a bold new voice to the concert stage with a number of world premieres, but also mentored the LPO's Young Composers, championing living composers and diversity in contemporary music. Premiered in the UK by the LPO under Karina Canellakis at the Royal Festival Hall in October 2023, Horizons (1999) is an evocative orchestral work reflects Leon's fluid musical form - an ever-shifting stream punctuated by vivid foreground events and rich textures. Commissioned by the LPO and Concertgebouw Brugge and [world] premiered by the LPO under Edward Gardner in March 2024, Raices explores Leon's multicultural heritage through a vibrant, three-part structure that fuses contemplative textures, lively Latin rhythms and jazz-inflected exuberance. A Pulitzer Prize-winning work premiered by the New York Philharmonic and given it's UK premiere by the LPO in 2023 under the baton of Dima Slobodeniouk, Stride draws inspiration from women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony's determined spirit. It's powerful rhythmic language blends Black music traditions from the US and Caribbean with the modality of the orchestra. With it's European premiere by the LPO under Edward Gardner in February 2025, the vivid four-part Pasajes evokes the sounds, sights, and joyful spirit of Leon's childhood in Cuba. Rich in color, rhythm and narrative, it is a sonic gallery of cultural memory, celebration and radio playing in the street.

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TANIA LEON: HORIZONS RAICES (ORIGINS) STRIDE
LPO Jul 2025
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$15.99

Guarnieri: Pedro Malazarte, A Serra do Rola-Moca & Quatro Po

Naxos

$19.99 Jun 26, 2026

Camargo Guarnieri loved writing for the human voice, composing hundreds of vocal works over the course of his long and distinguished career. The works in this programme all use texts by Mario de Andrade - a hugely influential writer who was Guarnieri's friend and long-term collaborator. The comic opera Pedro Malazarte is representative of an attractively unconventional and colourful Brazilian modernism that sets it apart from Romantic traditions. Alongside other powerful settings, A Serra do Rola-Moca is one of Guarnieri's finest dramatic vocal works, narrating the tragic story of two young people who die on their wedding day as they and their horses plunge into a ravine.

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Guarnieri: Pedro Malazarte, A Serra do Rola-Moca & Quatro Po
Naxos Jun 2026
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$19.99

Mix & Match

Ying Wang: Tun·Tu

Wergo

$10.49 ~~$20.99~~ Save 50% Mar 17, 2017

Shaped equally by her roots in China as well as European influences, Ying Wang, with her struggle for an individual musical language, embodies in an exemplary way the challenges of finding a point of balance between two cultures. Ying Wang mediates between the two cultures. She has achieved quite personal solutions in her works, integrating dramatic impulses and meditative sensual sonorities. She regards as especially fruitful the transferring of techniques for the creation of electronic sounds to acoustical instruments. Restriction and freedom are important criteria in "Wave in D", where Wang, out of extremely limited tonal material, draws a rich assemblage of differentiated sound colors from the possibilities of the traditional instrument and the electronics. In "Tun Tu" baritone saxophone and electronic sounds interact and come together in an imaginary sound landscape. The distorted sounds of the instrument, embedded in a cosmos of mysterious electronic colorations, seem at first almost improvisatory, but "Tun Tu" is rigorously organized. In "Coffee & Tea" Ying Wang reflects on contrasts between the cultures of Asia and Europe and uses coffee and tea as metaphors.

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Ying Wang: Tun·Tu
Wergo Mar 2017
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GINASTERA: Concerto per corde / VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas brasi
Chandos Feb 1996
CD
$21.99

Castiglioni: La buranella; Altisonanza; Salmo XIX / Noseda, Danish National SO

Chandos

$10.99 ~~$21.99~~ Save 50% Apr 28, 2015

Musical America’s ‘Conductor of the Year’ for 2015 Gianandrea Noseda continues his Chandos ‘Musica Italiana’ series with select works of Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-96), an intellectual and an aesthete who occupied a singular place in the profound renewal of Italian and European musical life of the 1960s-‘70s.Having a predilection for clear sonorities and airy, transparent textures, Castiglioni created his own unique and original artistic philosophy, from tonal harmonies to the more fragmented and experimental.Mr. Noseda leads the Danish National Symphony and guest vocalists.

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Castiglioni: La buranella; Altisonanza; Salmo XIX / Noseda, Danish National SO
Chandos Apr 2015
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A Tenors Valentine / Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti

Sony Masterworks

$11.98 Jan 05, 1999

There is no better way to celebrate romance then with the passion of great arias from grand operas. Of course there are no better practitioners of the lyric drama then the Three Tenors: José Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. This romantic celebration in music offers the most beautiful arias and duets from operas by Puccini, Donizetti, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Giordano and Bizet.
The crowd-pleasing repertoire and enormous artistry of the singers make this a special collection. It's always a thrill to hear Domingo sing Puccini, but it's particularly delightful to hear an aria from the lesser-known 'Gianni Schicchi.' Bel canto repertoire is also served by Domingo in his graceful rendition of "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's 'L'Elisir d'amore.' Luciano Pavarotti is a stellar Verdian and the sublime "Quando le sere al placido" from 'Luisa Miller' allows the great tenor to glow in Verdi's unmatched lyricism. Carreras is stirring in two arias from Puccini's 'Tosca' and dazzles in excerpts from Bizet's 'Carmen.'
An added bonus is the addition of sopranos Eva Marton, Renata Scotto and Agnes Baltsa in duets with Domingo and Carreras.

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A Tenors Valentine / Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
Sony Masterworks Jan 1999
CD
$11.98

GUITARE - GRANDS COMPOSITEURS

Frémeaux

$32.99 Apr 01, 2013

The portelo label Acqua Records has provided Fremeaux & Associates with this program of arrangements for solo guitar devoted to four superstars of 20th century Argentinean popular music: Abel Fleury, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Astor Piazzolla and Eduardo Fale. These four composers have varying styles, but all share a common desire to express the popular musical soul of Argentina. This four disc boxed set covers an immense range of Argentinean folk music, from the mountain peaks in Salta to the vast plains of the Pampas - milonga, zamba, chacarera, vidala - here played by masters of the guitar Carlos Martinez and Maximo Pujol.

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GUITARE - GRANDS COMPOSITEURS
Frémeaux Apr 2013
CD
$32.99

CLANGS

ICTUS RECORDS

$18.49 Dec 14, 2010

Clangs was the fruit of a number of concerts and two weeks we spent together, sometimes talking, sometimes just simply in silence, a silence nonetheless already thick with references and interpretative codes. The structure of his music, though at times incredibly advanced, goes back to the old jazz idiom of theme/ solo /theme, features that Lacy has always kept in his mind when composing. On Clangs too, it is Lacy's themes which serve as the guiding thread for a series of duets that investigate timbral relationships, the fragmentation of melody, and abrasive, provocative noise. - Andrea Centazzo.

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CLANGS
ICTUS RECORDS Dec 2010
CD
$18.49

Intavolatura De Cimbalo

Brilliant Classics

$13.99 May 25, 2018

The Naples of Antonio Valente was the principal city of the Spanish Empire of the day, second only to Istanbul of Mediterranean cities in population, a cultural and intellectual hub where ideas were traded as readily as goods at the port. This is the context for ready wit and vivid characters dancing before us in the harpsichord manuscript left to us as the principal work of an instrumental virtuoso who was blind from birth. Little else is known of Valente, though he became an organist in one of the city's private chapel between 1565 and 1580, and we know that this Intavolatura was published in 1576, by which time the composer's reputation had spread far beyond the kingdom of Naples. It seems certain that the collection was the first of it's kind to be written in southern Italy. These are popular dances rather than original melodies, and Valente transcribes and elaborates them in various genres of song and dance: there are hymns (a Salve Regina), galliards, ricercars, ballads, even a flamboyant 'Bascia Flammignia', placed in exuberant juxtaposition, hardly designed to be heard in strict order but a collection to delight and entertain. The Intavolatura does so here, thanks to the imaginative re-instrumentation and sparkling performances of an Italian early-music ensemble, L'Amorosa Caccia. The songs are reattributed to a pair of singers (Giulia Valentini and Marcos Garcia Gutierrez), accompanied by two violas da gamba and a recorder, with the overall artistic direction undertaken from the keyboard by Fabio Antonio Falcone.

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Intavolatura De Cimbalo
Brilliant Classics May 2018
CD
$13.99

La tarantella - A Retrospective / Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata

Alpha

$39.99 Oct 14, 2022

L’Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar have blazed new trails in the rediscovery and interpretation of Baroque music, Italian in particular. The five recordings they made for Alpha are among the biggest-ever successes in this repertory. La Tarantella, above all, has enjoyed undimmed enthusiasm from the public ever since its original release: this blend of Baroque music on period instruments and traditional repertory from southern Italy, served by instrumentalists and singers in search of an authentic interpretation, made the ensemble’s reputation. In this boxed set, L’Arpeggiata offers us an anthology combining sacred and secular music, dances and improvisations.

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“L'Arpeggiata” is a European early music ensemble led by Christina Pluhar, founded by her in 2000. The group has presented traditional early music as well as various collages and themed performances and recordings and focuses on Italian, French and English music from the 17th century. In their music they often use instrumental improvisations, collaborating not only with baroque musicians, but also with jazz musicians. L'Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar have now broken new ground in the rediscovery and interpretation of baroque music, especially Italian. The recordings they made for Alpha are among the greatest successes ever in this repertoire.

The CD “La Tarantella” has enjoyed undiminished enthusiasm from the public since its original release: this mix of baroque music on historical instruments and traditional repertoire from southern Italy, by instrumentalists and singers in search of an authentic interpretation, made the ensemble's reputation. In this box, L'Arpeggiata offers an anthology on 6 CDs that combines religious and secular music, dance and improvisations.

L'Arpeggiata brings together artists from different musical backgrounds, based on both sides of Europe and the world, around program projects, expertly conceived by Christina Pluhar according to her musicological research, her encounters, the curiosity that drives her and her great talent. The sound of the whole, which was formed around the plucked strings, is immediately recognizable.

The programs of L'Arpeggiata are in line with surprise and the unexpected and return to the original meaning of the Baroque: an irregularly shaped pearl (16th century), an astonishing element (18th century). Works from the Baroque period offer L'Arpeggiata an environment of freedom where artists from here and elsewhere flourish, where genres and traditions mingle[.]

-- Stretto

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La tarantella - A Retrospective / Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata
Alpha Oct 2022
CD
$39.99

Donizetti: L'Ange de Nisida / Tingaud, Donizetti Opera Orchestra [Blu-Ray]

Dynamic

Blu-Ray

$36.99 Oct 16, 2020

This Blu-ray Disc is only playable on Blu-ray Disc players and not compatible with standard DVD players.

Also available on standard DVD

Gaetano Donizetti's L’Ange de Nisida was commissioned by the director of the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris. The libretto was entrusted to Gustave Vaëz and Alphonse Royer, and the opéra en quatre parties was completed in 1840. Unfortunately the theatre went bankrupt and the opera never reached the stage. Donizetti was aware that other venues would have rejected his work as it stood, for both repertoire and censorship reasons (the plot revolved around the King of Naples, Ferdinando d’Aragona, and his mistress). Consequently, he revised the score and incorporated a significant portion of it within his new one, La favorite. The autograph score of L’Ange was subsequently lost and it is only thanks to the painstaking research of musicologist Candida Mantica that it was brought to light again. She took on the huge challenge of classifying the roughly 470 randomly alternate pages of L’Ange de Nisida that had survived at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris; she re-established their original order and finally managed to reconstruct roughly 97 percent of Donizetti’s music. The few gaps in the score were judged as irrelevant by both Mantica and Donizetti Opera, so that the opera was considered a complete work in itself, with no need for additions written by other composers. 180 years after its composition, the opera was finally performed for the first time in its original theatrical form in Donizetti’s native Bergamo, at the construction site of the city theatre bearing his name, a most symbolic coincidence that added emotional value to a long-awaited event. The performance was hailed as a triumph by both the public and the critics and was awarded a special prize at the 39th Franco Abbiati Prize of Italian music critics.

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The cameras of the filming and the detailed and careful preparation of conductor Tingaud and director Micheli provide viewers of the DVD, through excellent sound and vision, with a more complete visual and aural experience than might have been possible for the real-life audience. Cunningly and efficiently done, both staging and musical interpretation fit the score like a glove. Hugely recommended.

– Gramophone (Editor's Choice, Jan 2021; DVD/Blu-ray of the Month)

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Donizetti: L'Ange de Nisida / Tingaud, Donizetti Opera Orchestra [Blu-Ray]
Dynamic Oct 2020
Blu-Ray
$36.99

Arriaga: Overtures, Herminie & Other Works

Chandos

$21.99 Feb 01, 2019

Spanish music specialist and former Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Juanjo Mena continues the series La Música de España, which has seen the recording of some of the orchestral works of de Falla, Turina and Albéniz, with another important Spanish composer: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, nicknamed after his death as ‘the Spanish Mozart’.The orchestral overture to ‘Los esclavos felices’ (The Happy Slaves) is all that remains of the opera the child prodigy Arriaga wrote aged 14. When Arriaga moved to Paris to study under Fétis, Guérin and Baillot in 1821, he revised the overture, making changes to the instrumentation and removing a third theme group. It is the revised version heard on this recording. Air from Médée and Herminie form parts of the autograph volume ‘Ensayos lírico-dramáticos’ (Lyric-dramatic essays) that completes this release, here sung by one of Scandinavia’s most sought after concert singers, Berit Norbakken Solset. Tonally ambiguous Symphony in D minor (which begins and ends in D major) alongside the Overture in D major, which was written ‘without having learnt the principles of harmony’ are proof that Arriaga’s premature death aged 19 was a ‘sad loss to Basque music’.

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Arriaga: Overtures, Herminie & Other Works
Chandos Feb 2019
CD
$21.99

Boito: Mefistofele / Patané, Ramey, Domingo, Martón
Sony Masterworks Jun 2008
CD
$34.99

Guitar Collection - Guitar Music Of Argentina / Villadangos

Naxos

$19.99 Mar 01, 2002

"Guitarist Victor Villadangos is excellent. His tone is clear, his playing clean, and as a native of Buenos Aires he has a natural feel for this music." - American Record Guide July/August 2002

"A charming programme elegantly played. Argentina has produced many fine guitarists, as notable for their performance of European music as of that of their own country. Victor Villadangos' reputation rests thus far on the latter... Villadangos is a refined player in every good sense and his avoidance of 'folksy' roughness works in the music's favor. Recording quality and annotation (provided largely by the composers themselves) is excellent." - John Duarte Gramophone May 2002

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Guitar Collection - Guitar Music Of Argentina / Villadangos
Naxos Mar 2002
CD
$19.99

Guitar Recital: Brouwer, Clerch, Del Puerto, Arango, De Lucia

Naxos

$13.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 30% Nov 13, 2015

Born in the Cuban capital of Havana, Alí Arango has won numerous awards including the prestigious Alhambra International Guitar Competition in 2014. Arango’s programme follows a tradition of eminent Spanish and Latin American performers who are also distinguished composers, musicians who live and breathe the idiom and style of their national instrument. These include Arango’s teachers and fellow Cubans Joaquín Clerch and Leo Brouwer, the latter acclaimed as one of today’s most innovative composers. This selection ranges from the spectacular Guajiras de Lucía by Paco de Lucía to Arango’s own lullaby to his daughter Lúa.

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Guitar Recital: Brouwer, Clerch, Del Puerto, Arango, De Lucia
Naxos Nov 2015
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Guarnieri: Choros, Vol. 1 - Seresta / Karabtchevsky, São Paulo Symphony

Naxos

$9.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 50% Aug 28, 2020

Camargo Guarnieri’s catalogue of works represents a legacy of incalculable worth for Brazilian culture, as has his influence as a teacher on several generations of younger composers. His association with the poet and musicologist Mario de Andrade led to the birth of the Brazilian Nationalist School and the ideals of using traditional Brazilian music in classical forms. The series of seven Choros and the Seresta for Piano and Orchestra represent Guarnieri’s personal approach to the concerto form, with striking contrasts between potent rhythm and dense, emotionally charged soundscapes and melodies full of Brazilian inspiration. This volume forms part of the first complete recording of the Choros.

Artistic director and conductor of the Orquestra Petrobras Sinfonica, Isaac Karabtchevsky is also artistic director of the Baccarelli Institute and the Heliopolis Symphony Orchestra. He was awarded the Premio da Musica Brasileira four times for his recordings of the complete symphonies of Villa-Lobos with the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra on Naxos. He has served as the musical director of the Teatro La Fenice, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and the Tonkunstler Orchestra.

REVIEW:

Each of the four short works on this disc proves to be thoroughly entertaining. Rhythmically they bounce along in the allegros, often driven by Brazilian syncopation, while the slow movements are heartfelt and tender without being over-Romanticized. The performances are excellent. The soloists are members of the São Paulo orchestra—Davi Graton is also a renowned teacher—and Isaac Karabtchevsky boasts a long pedigree in conducting Brazilian music. (He led the same orchestra in Naxos’s first-rate series of the complete Villa-Lobos symphonies.) This initiative to record lesser-known Brazilian repertoire got off to a great start, and the new disc promises even more.

-- Fanfare

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Guarnieri: Choros, Vol. 1 - Seresta / Karabtchevsky, São Paulo Symphony
Naxos Aug 2020
CD
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Melancolía / Música Temprana

PENTATONE

$19.99 Sep 24, 2021

Música Temprana, one of today’s most exciting Hispanic early music ensembles, presents its first PENTATONE album Melancolía, on which they present Spanish courtly songs on mourning and unrequited love around 1500 together with the apocalyptic liturgical tradition of El Canto de la Sibila. Many of the villancicos, canciones, romances and estrambotes performed here have been documented in songbooks such as the famous Cancionero Musical de Palacio. They show the transition from troubadour lyricism to the flourishing Siglo de Oro (Golden Age), and the shift from a medieval to a Renaissance aesthetic in Spanish music. El Canto de la Sibila is a religious tradition that can be traced back as far as St Augustine, who put his contemplation on the end of times into the mouth of a pagan prophetess from Graeco-Roman mythology. Música Temprana’s interpretation revives religious practices in 15th-century Cuenca. Altogether, the works performed on this album underline the strong melancholic connections between worldly and religious Spanish musical traditions around 1500, a period full of change and conflict, during which Christian Europe feared the hypothetical end of the world. The extraordinary beauty of these austere works offers solace for our troubled times as well.

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Melancolía / Música Temprana
PENTATONE Sep 2021
CD
$19.99

Tansman: Complete Works for Solo Guitar, Vol. 1 / De Vitis

Naxos

$19.99 Sep 13, 2019

It was a pivotal meeting in the mid-1920s that marked the beginning of an enduring musical and personal friendship between Alexandre Tansman and the Spanish virtuoso guitarist Andres Segovia. Tansman’s legacy for the instrument ranges over a 57-year period, inaugurated by a dazzling Mazurka and represents Segovia’s ‘most advanced commitment to modern music.’ This first volume presents suites and dances inspired by Italy, Poland and Eastern Europe, and includes Suite in modo polonico, heard here in its original version, not the Segovia-authorized collage. Andrea De Vitis has meticulously researched the original manuscripts to resolve any doubts and omissions in published editions.

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Tansman: Complete Works for Solo Guitar, Vol. 1 / De Vitis
Naxos Sep 2019
CD
$19.99

Guys and Dolls

Chandos

SACD

$43.99 Nov 06, 2026

John Wilson and Sinfonia of London continue their series of complete recordings of shows from the golden age of Broadway with Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. The show opened in 1950, ran for 1,200 performances, and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The book is based on short stories by Damon Runyon, written in the 1920s and 1930s. These stories concerned gangsters, gamblers, and other characters of the New York underworld. Runyon was known for the unique comic dialect he employed in his stories; mixing highly formal language, without contractions, and colourful slang. As in all previous issues in this series, John Wilson has gone back to the original orchestrations of the show's opening night, and the recording includes every note. In the case of Guys and Dolls, these originals were lost (subsequent productions had used a simplified orchestration calling for fewer players), but have been painstakingly reconstructed by Larry Moore. Wilson says of his soloists: 'Casting is so important, choosing singers who not only perform the role but who can make an impression on a record. I keep my eyes peeled and, on every recording, you see new additions, but at the core there is a group of artists who I know can turn up on a Monday morning for the recording and deliver the goods. That extends right through the ensemble which is a collection of the brightest stars in London.' The notable additions for this recording are Damien Humbley as Nicely-Nicely Johnson and Sir Thomas Allen (persuaded by John to come out of retirement!) in the role of Arvide Abernathy.

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Guys and Dolls
Chandos Nov 2026
SACD
$43.99

EL VIEJO CAMINANTE

ECM RECORDS

$19.99 Aug 15, 2025

Dino Saluzzi/Jacob Young/Jose Maria Saluzzi - "El Viejo Caminante". The Argentinean father and son team of Dino and Jose Maria Saluzzi are joined by Norway's Jacob Young, in an album of musical depth and great charm. "It fills me with joy," says Dino Saluzzi, delighting in this recording's sonic blend. "Jacob and Jose are very good together. They have different sounds, different visions, but when it comes to the artistic output there is something beautiful happening." The elder Saluzzi has lost none of his youthful enthusiasm for artistic collaboration, or for venturing beyond stylistic borders: "I always strive to make contact with new ideas outside my normal element," he says, still seeking out contexts that offer, as he puts it, "potential for both musical and human growth." The program includes originals, new and old, by all three musicians, a song by Karin Krog, as well as a couple of standards.

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EL VIEJO CAMINANTE
ECM RECORDS Aug 2025
CD
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KITANO NOIR

SUNNYSIDE

$16.63 May 26, 2015

There is much to gain in collaborations between musicians from different generations. The younger receives an education, lessons in history, technique and taste that only experience can provide, while the older can utilize the youthful energy and drive, challenging themselves further. The legendary pianist Ran Blake has long been known as a unique and eloquent stylist, his style ranging from the evocative to romantic to avant-garde. He is also known as a tremendous and supportive accompanist to vocalists. Sara Serpa is a vocalist of a much younger generation, who approaches the songs of the American songbook, music from her native Portugal, and her own original material with equal expertise. Taken from live recordings from Jazz at the Kitano made during two residencies in 2013 and 2014, their new recording Kitano Noir displays the duo's development since their first recording in 2010. They present a wide-ranging program of pieces, from original Blake compositions to standards to more eclectic song forms from Europe.

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KITANO NOIR
SUNNYSIDE May 2015
CD
$16.63

Garcia: la vida que vendra

New Focus Recordings

$20.99 May 24, 2024

Cuban-American composer Orlando Jacinto García unveils "la vida que vendrá," showcasing four electro-acoustic solo works that culminate in an ensemble piece performed by the prolific loadbang ensemble. Through this collection, García invites listeners to delve into the realm of timbre, exploring the interplay between harmonious and divergent sounds.

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Garcia: la vida que vendra
New Focus Recordings May 2024
CD
$20.99

Trigos: Guitar Works, Vol. 1

Naxos

$13.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 30% Mar 14, 2025

The Mexican-American composer, Juan Trigos, has developed the concept of 'abstract folklore', a process by which he assimilates various literary and musical traditions in his method of composition. This first volume of his guitar works shows the process in all it's breadth, not least in the large-scale Twelve Variations and Fugue on the Folia de Espana, where old-world dances meet syncopated new-world rhythms. The Partita, based on the principle of variation, also evokes and alludes to dance, while the virtuosic and expressive Ricercare de Camara VII ingeniously explores the fusion of guitar and percussion.

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Trigos: Guitar Works, Vol. 1
Naxos Mar 2025
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Amazônia - Villa-Lobos & Glass / Provenzale, Menezes, Philharmonia Zürich

Alpha

$20.99 Sep 22, 2023

Two Brazilian artists pay tribute to Villa-Lobos and the Amazon rainforest…Sebastião Salgado is a world-renowned photographer who has been working since the 1990s to protect and restore the Atlantic forest and water resources of the Rio Doce valley in Brazil. The Italian-Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes is passionate about the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and his symphonic poem Floresta do Amazonas; for which she created a suite for large orchestra and soprano. Together they travel the world to present an exhibition of Salgado's photographs; combined with concerts conducted by Simone in which the photographs are projected; the photographer having associated each musical phrase with one of his images…The music of this monumental project has been recorded with the Philharmonia Zürich and soprano Camila Provenzale. Ten photos by Salgado; each more striking than the last; are included in the booklet that accompanies this recording; which is completed by another tribute to Amazonian nature; by Philip Glass; with an extract from his Aguas da Amazonia.

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Amazônia - Villa-Lobos & Glass / Provenzale, Menezes, Philharmonia Zürich
Alpha Sep 2023
CD
$20.99