Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach - Württemburg Sonatas Wq49

Carl Philipp Emmanuel BACH (1714-1788)

Württemburg Sonatas Wq49

Keith Jarrett (piano)

Recorded: 1994, Cavelight Studio, USA

Released: 2018

Gavin Higgins - Ekstasis

Gavin HIGGINS (born 1983) 

Gursky Landscapes for string quintet (2015-18)

Ruins of Detroit for piano trio (2014) 

Seven Welsh Folk Songs for solo violin (2020-21) 

Ekstasis for string sextet (2019) 

Piatti Quartet (Michael Trainor, Zara Benyounes, Tetsuumi Nagata, Jessie Ann Richardson)

Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan, violin, Tim Gill, cello, Mary Dullea, piano)

David Cohen (cello)

Thomas Gould (violin)

Sara Roberts (viola)

Recorded 25-29 November 2020, Wyastone Concert Hall, Monmouth, 15 June 2021, 

All Saints East Finchley

Valentin Silvestrov - Symphony No.7; Piano Concertino; Cantata No.4

Valentin SILVESTROV (b. 1937)

Ode to a Nightingale (1983) 

Cantata No.4 (2014) 

Concertino for Piano and Small Orchestra (2015) 

Moments of Poetry and Music (2003) 

Symphony No.7 (2003) 

Inna Galatenko (soprano)

Oleg Bezdorodko (piano)

Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

Christopher Lyndon-Gee

Recorded: 18-24 January 2019, Lithuanian Cultural Centre Recording Studio, 

Vilnius, Lithuania

Stephen Hough's English Piano Album (Rawsthorne, Elgar, Bantock, Bowen, Reynolds, Bridge, Leighton, Hough)

Stephen Hough's English Piano Album

Alan RAWSTHORNE (1905-1971)

4 Bagatelles

Stephen REYNOLDS (b.1947)

Two Poems in Homage to Delius

Two Poems in Homage to Fauré

Stephen HOUGH (b.1961)

Valse Enigmatiques

Edward ELGAR (1857-1934)

In Smyrna

Granville BANTOCK (1868-1946) 

Song to the Seals (arr. Hough)

York BOWEN (1884-1961)

Rêverie d'Amour, Op. 20 #2

Serious Dance, Op. 51 #2

The Way to Polden (an ambling tune) Op. 76

Frank BRIDGE (1879-1941)

The Dew Fairy

Heart's Ease

Kenneth LEIGHTON (1929-1988)

Six Studies (Study-Variations), Op. 56

Stephen Hough (piano)

Arthur Farwell - America's Neglected Composer

Arthur FARWELL (1872–1952)

String Quartet, Op. 65, The Hako (1922) 

Three Indian Songs, Op. 32 (1908) 

Four Indian Songs, Op. 102: (No. 3. Pawnee Horses) (1937) 

From Mesa and Plain, Op. 20: (No. 2. Pawnee Horses) (1905) 

Navajo War Dance No. 2, Op. 29 (1904)

Dawn, Fantasy on Two Indian Themes, Op. 12 (1901)

Impressions of the Wa-Wan Ceremony of the Omahas, Op. 21 (eight pieces) (1905) 

Dakota String Quartet

University of Texas Chamber Singers

William Sharp (baritone)

Emanuele Arciuli (piano)

Recorded: 2019-20, Washington’s National Cathedral; Augustana University, USA

Gian Carlo Menotti - The Old Maid and the Thief (Opera Buffa for Radio)

Gian Carlo MENOTTI (1911-2007)

The Old Maid and the Thief - Opera Buffa for Radio in 14 Scenes (1939)

Libretto by the composer

 

Natalie Arduino (mezzo-soprano)

Lynn Parr Mock (soprano)

Nicole Franklin (soprano)

Blake Davidson (baritone)

Jon Morehouse (narrator)

Lone Spring Arts Orchestra

Victoria Bond

Recorded at Northaven United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas, 26 February 2007

Poul Ruders - Symphony No. 2; Piano Concerto

Poul RUDERS (b.1949)

Symphony No. 2 (Symphony and Transformation) (1995-96)

Piano Concerto (1994)*

Rolf Hind (piano)

Danish National Radio Symphonyy Orchestra

Michael Schønwandt; Markus Stenz*

Recorded at the Danish Radio Concert Hall:

Piano Concerto (tracks 2-4) recorded 28 May, 1997

Symphony No.2 (track 1) recorded 12 March, 1998 (with a live audience)

Camargo Guarnieri - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6; Villa Rica Suite

Camargo GUARNIERI (1907-1993)

Symphony No. 5* (1977) 

Suíte Vila Rica (1957/58) 

Symphony No. 6 (1981) 

*Coro da Orquestra de São Paolo

São Paolo Symphony Orchestra

John Neschling

Recorded 14-19 April 2003, Sala São Paolo, Brazil.

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Complete String Quartets

Mario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO (1895-1968)

Complete String Quartets

String Quartet No. 1 in G major, Op.58 (1919)

String Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op.139 (1948)

No. 3 in F major 'Casa al Dono', Op.203 (1964)

Quartetto Adorno

Recorded 26 (tracks 1-4) and 27 (5-10) June 2023 at the Castello di Bianello,

 Quattro Castella, Italy

Camargo Guarnieri - Symphonies Nos.2 & 3; Abertura Concertante

Camargo GUARNIERI (1907-1993)

Symphony No 2 Uirapuru (1945)

Symphony No 3 (1952)

Abertura Concertante (1942, rev before 1951)

Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paolo

John Neschling

Recorded 2001, Sala São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Kletzki & Szymanowski - Violin Concertos; Lutoslawski - Partita

Paul KLETZKI (1900-1973)

Violin Concerto (1928) 

Karol SZYMANOWSKI (1882-1937)

Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 (1933) 

Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI (1913-1994)

Partita for violin and orchestra (1988)

Robert Davidovici (violin)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Grzegorz Nowak

Recorded Cadogan Hall, London, 2013

Camargo Guarnieri - Smphonies Nos. 1 & 4; Abertura Festiva

Camargo GUARNIERI (1907-1993):

Symphony No. 1* (1944) 

Abertura Festiva (1971)

Symphony No 4, ‘Brasilia’* (1963)

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

John Neschling

* World Première Recording

Recorded: Sala São Paulo, Brazil, February 2002

Georges Bizet & Charles Lecocq - Le docteur Miracle (Two Comic Operas in One Act)

Georges BIZET (1838-1875) 

Le docteur miracle, WD 2

Charles LECOCQ (1832-1918)

Le docteur miracle

Bernard Lefort (baritone)

Fanély Revoil (mezzo-soprano)

Claudine Collart (soprano)

Alexander Young (tenor)

Fanély Revoli (mezzo-soprano)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Stanford Robinson

The production was originally released at the BBC studios in London, featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a distinguished French-speaking cast. Both operas were broadcast on British radio on February 7, 1954, and remained archived for decades until their careful remastering and commercial release on CD in 2019.

Henryk Wieniawski - Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Fantasia 'Faust' Op.20

Henryk WIENIAWSKI (1835-1880)

Violin Concerto No.1, Op. 14

Fantasie brillante sur 'Faust' opera by Charles Gounod, Op. 20

Violin Concerto No. 2 in d minor, Op. 22"* 

Kujawiak in a minor

Obertas No.1, Op. 19 

Vadim Brodsky (violin)

National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice

Antoni Wit, Tomasz Michalak* (conductors)

Recorded: Polskie Radio Katowice

Released: 2003

Gustav Holst - Orchestral Works

Gustav HOLST (1874-1934)

Walt Whitman Op.7 (1899) 

Suite de Ballet in E flat Op.10 (1899)

Suite in E flat Op.28 No.1 orch. Gordon Jacob (1909) 

A Hampshire Suite Op. 28 No.2 orch. Gordon Jacob (1911) 

A Moorside Suite orch. Gordon Jacob (1928) 

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Nicholas Braithwaite

Recorded: Watford Town Hall, 14 Jan 1988 (Whitman); July and 23 August 1993 (Suite E flat); 

26 August 1993 (Hampshire, Moorside); 

Kingsway Hall, 7 March 1980 (Suite de Ballet)

 

Romeo Cascarino - Orchestral Works

Romeo CASCARINO (1922-2002)

Pygmalion (1956) 

Portrait of Galatea (1952)

Blades of Grass (1945) 

Prospice (1948) 

Meditation and Elegy (2000) 

The Acadian Land (1960)

Philadelphia Philharmonia

JoAnn Falletta

Recorded: First Presbyterian Church, Germantown, Pensilvania, 7-10 November 2005.

Ottorino Respighi - La bella dormente nel bosco (Sleeping Beauty)

Ottorino RESPIGHI (1879–1936)

La bella dormente nel bosco (Sleeping Beauty)

Musical fairy-tale in three acts (1921–1933)

Guillermo Dominguez (tenor)

Richard Haan (baritone)

Adriana Kohútková (soprano)

Denisa Slepkovska (mezzo-soprano)

Jana Valaskova (soprano)

Ivana Czakova (soprano)

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Slovak Philharmonic Chorus

Adriano

Recorded at the Concert Hall of the Slovak Radio

in Bratislava, from 8th to 20th June 1994.

Richard Arnell - Smphonies Nos. 1 & 6; Sinfonia quasi Variazioni

Richard ARNELL (1917-2009)

Symphony No.1 (1943)

Symphony No.6 "The Anvil" (1994)

Sinfonia quasi Variazioni (1941)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra 

Martin Yates 

Release Date: 30th Jul 2007

Renée Fleming - Strauss Heroines

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Strauss Heroines

Der Rosenkavalier - Monologue Scene (Act I)

Der Rosenkavalier - Trio And Finale (Act III)

Arabella - Duet (Act I)

Cappriccio

Renée Fleming (soprano)

Susan Graham (mezzo soprano)

Johannes Chum (tenor)

Walter Berry (bass-baritone)

Barbara Bonney (soprano)

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach

Recorded at Wiener Musikverein, 15-19 December 1998

Carl Nielsen - The Complete Piano Music

Carl NIELSEN (1865-1931)

Complete Piano Music

Five Piano Pieces Op 3 (FS10)

Symphonic Suite Op 8 (FS19)

Humoresque Bagatelles Op 11 (FS22)

The Dream Of Merry Christmas (FS34) (Poco Adagio)

Chaconne Op 32 (FS79) (Tempo Giusto)

Theme With Variations Op 40 (FS81) (Andante)

Suite Op 45 (FS91)

Three Piano Pieces Op 59 (FS131)

Piano Music For Young And Old Op 53 (FS148)

Piano Piece In C

Mina Miller (piano)

Recorded 17, 18, 21, 22 July 1986