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Essential Film Noir: Collection Four (Imprint Collection #210-213) Essential Film Noir: Collection 4 includes five acclaimed and much sought after classics including Rope of Sand (1949), Appointment with Danger (1950), The Enforcer(1951), Beware My Lovely (1952) & Jennifer (1953). Limited 4 Disc...
The Spiral Road (Imprint Collection #224) Directed by Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird), The Spiral Road stars Rock Hudson as an opportunistic young doctor who travels the jungles of the Dutch West Indies on a quest for knowledge and money. Planning to profit later, Dr. Anton Drager (Hudson)...
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, the composer collaboration between Stars of the Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L. A. composer Dustin O'Halloran, are set to release new album ‘Invisible Cities' on the 26th February 2021, the stunning score to the critically acclaimed theatre production directed by...
British Comedy Classics Film Collection 1-3 (Up Pompeii, Up The Chastity Belt, Up The Front, On The Buses, Mutiny On The Buses, Holiday On The Buses, Steptoe & Son, Steptoe & Son Ride Again, Dad's Army) UP POMPEII (1971) The Roman Empire is at its height and the citizens of Pompeii spend all the...
Audrey Hepburn plays that daring, darling Holly Golightly to a new high in entertainment delight! Based on Truman Capote's novella, this is the story of a young, jet-setting woman in New York City who meets a young man when he moves into her apartment building. He is being kept by a wealthy, older...
Deanna Durbin: The Ultimate Collection Blessed with the voice of an angel, Deanna Durbin is now best remembered for her superb performances as a singer, but she was also an exceptionally gifted actress and comedienne. From the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, Durbin's Hollywood musicals were a hit with...
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a smooth-talking but naieve insurance salesman, falls for the seductive charms of his beautiful client Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck). The couple are immediately drawn to each other and an affair begins. Together they plot to get rid of her dull husband and...
West End's most exciting new supergroup Leading Ladies - starring Amber Riley ("Dreamgirls"), Beverley Knight ("The Bodyguard"), and Cassidy Janson ("Beautiful") - have released Songs From The Stage, an album of unforgettable songs from iconic musicals. Songs From The Stage hears the Leading Ladies...
The distinctive soundscape of this CD stems from the unique church interior at Løgumkloster in the south of Jutland, Denmark. Beneath the high vaulting, in the cloisters and in the small hidden spaces of the abbey, the flautist Eva Østergaard (b. 1966) has recorded a series of layers of sounds on...
Although a nobleman by birth, Benedetto Marcello was also a serious amateur composer whose influence reached long beyond his time. This compilation focuses on his 12 Sonatas Op. 2 for solo flute and basso continuo - a charming set of works which, first published in 1712, dates from the early end of...
All six of these orchestral works exemplify Busoni's personalised classicism. The Lustspielouvertüre (Comedy Overture) is light, and almost Mozartian in clarity, whilst Gesang vom Reigen der Geister (Song of the Spirit Dance) is a delicately scored chamber piece, forward-looking in both style and...
Although Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is known mainly for his operatic compositions, he wrote a number of sublimely expressive and lyrical orchestral works, devoting the majority of his time in later life to composing instrumental music. The three delightfully melodic, rhythmically buoyant and, at times...
The wind ensemble repertory has a rich history and a vibrant contemporary presence. Donald Grantham, for example, evokes gospel music of the 1920s and '30s in Starry Crown, which draws on the earthy vitality of call-andresponse sermons. Steven Bryant's Ecstatic Waters reaches forward to present a...
Lucia Kye has proven once again that she is an artist of exquisite taste and style in this stunning representation of twentieth century clarinet literature. Horovitz, Carter, Muczynski, Bernstein and Reich, the composers are heavy weights, the pieces as diverse as the century's legacy. Lucia Kye...
Flute Concerto / Flute Sonata / Aria e danza / Landscape with Birds Naxos 8. 572634 Renowned for its luminosity and searing expressiveness, the music of Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks frequently explores the relationship between nature and humanity, not least in the Flute Concerto written for...
Flute Concertos, Vol. 2 - Nos. 16, 17 and 22 Naxos 8. 573040 Franz Anton Hoffmeister was a formative figure in the musical life of his time and highly regarded as a publisher of famous contemporaries such as Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The variety and appeal of his own works also made him a...
Stefan Schilli is solo oboist with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The Suite liturgique is the focal point of this recording and is an unjustly neglected masterpiece. - Jolivet: Chamber music for oboe and cor anglais by Christiane Karg (CD)
Philip Glass' Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, composed in 2000 and transcribed for wind ensemble by Mark Lortz in 2004, is a significant addition to the repertoire of large-scale works for timpani. The work is rhythmically galvanizing, sonically alluring, and features virtuoso...
This program presents exciting new works by three composers whose backgrounds range from military bands to rock and jazz music. Nigel Clarke's Earthrise represents the drama of the entire NASA Apollo 8 flight. This contrasts with the Heritage Suite, a representation of the day-to-day life of the...
Cantilena is an exciting flute and piano duo with a fast-rising reputation; it was founded in 2007 by Odinn Baldvinsson and Patricia Romero, both distinguished performers in their own right. Their repertoire is an eclectic mix of the well-known and the rarely-heard, ranging from Bach and Mozart to...