Sentence examples for so recordings from inspiring English sources

Mr. Stiles, who proclaimed himself the King of Nostalgia and the Vicar of Vintage Vinyl, unearthed gems from his collection of 200,000 or so recordings going back to the big band era of the 1930s and sometimes the Roaring Twenties.

"Some viol consorts are more democratic groupings, but Laurence Dreyfus founded and has directed Phantasm since they were first formed in 1994 and he's been called director on each of their 17 or so recordings since then.

So recordings have always seemed to me, personally, to be kind of a fly in amber, which was contrary to the spirit of the Grateful Dead".

In the liner notes to "ReJoyce" — a new greatest-hits compilation, drawn from her thirty or so recordings — DiDonato characterizes her roles as "dreamers, princes, queens, sorceresses, mad ladies, lovers, fighters, teenagers, heroes, traitors, nuns".

Of Boulez's hundred and fifty or so recordings, I especially prize his hot-blooded Cleveland Orchestra account of "The Rite of Spring" on Sony; his commanding version of the three-act version of "Lulu," on D.G.; his ruthless reading of Mahler's Sixth Symphony; and just about every record he made of the music of Ravel, whom he obscurely resembled — two ascetic sensualists in communion.

So recordings made in the early- to mid-1950's -- by figures like Maria Callas, Elvis Presley and Ella Fitzgerald -- are entering the public domain in Europe, opening the way for any European recording company to release albums that had been owned exclusively by particular labels.

Mr. Davis's recording was immensely popular and so were recordings of the song by Bing Crosby and Gene Autry.

In the music industry, only ten per cent or so of recordings actually turn a profit.

With Mr. Vickers it is invariably a coruscating one, all the more so, in recordings, for anyone who remembers his manic command of the role onstage.

(Because Beethoven tests and taxes him in a way that Bach or Shostakovich did not?) No matter, there are so many recordings of Beethoven – but there is only one Köln Concert.

Surely both camps find common ground in the belief that with so many recordings of "The Four Seasons" to choose from — Arkivmusic.com lists 241 versions currently in print — an ensemble needs a strong reason to jump into the competition.