Felix Mendelssohn - The Symphonies & A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Felix MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (1809-1847)

Symphony No. 1, Op. 11

Symphony No. 5, Op. 107, "Reformation"

Symphony No. 2, Op. 52, "Lobgesang"*

Symphony No. 3, Op. 56, "Scottish"

Symphony No. 4, Op. 90, "Italian"

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61

Patrick Grahl (tenor)*

Chen Reiss (soprano)*

Sophia Burgos (soprano)*

Katharina Konradi (soprano)*

Marie Henriette Reinhold (soprano)*

Zürcher Sing-Akademie

Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich

Paavo Järvi 

Charles Villiers Stanford - Orchestral Songs

Sir Charles Villiers STANFORD (1852–1924)

Orchestral Songs

An Irish Idyll in Six

Miniatures, Op. 77, No. 2

A Fairy Lough

The Clown’s Songs from

Twelfth Night, Op. 65, No. 2

Come Away Death

Is it the Wind of the Dawn?

La belle dame sans merci

From The Triumph of Love, Op.82

I think that we were children

When in solemn stillness

O Flames of Passion

Cavalier Songs, Op. 17

From Songs of Faith, Op. 97

To the Soul

Tears

Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

From Irish Songs and Ballads

Chieftain of Tyrconnell

From Songs of Old Ireland

The Foggy Dew

When She Answered me

O Ye Dead

From Songs of Old Ireland

Battle Hymn

Lament for O R O’Neill

Emer’s Farewell to Cucullain

Songs of Erin, Op. 76, No. 22

The Alarm

Bible Songs, Op. 113, No. 3

A Song of Hope

Sharon Carty (mezzo-soprano); Morgan Pearse (baritone)

BBC Singers (male voices)

BBC Concert Orchestra

John Andrews

Recorded: 2023, Battersea Arts Centre, London

Sergei Rachmaninov - Symphony No.1; Prince Rostislav

Sergei RACHMANINOV (1873-1943)

Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13 (1895) 

Prince Rostislav, Symphonic Poem (1891)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Owain Arwel Hughes

Recorded: Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, September 2001

Alberto Franchetti - Symphony in E minor; Nella Foresta Nera & Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari - Sinfonia da camera

Alberto FRANCHETTI (1860-1942)

Symphony in E minor (1884)

Nella Foresta nera – Impressione sinfonica (1900)

Ermanno WOLF-FERRARI (1876-1948)

Sinfonia da camera in B-flat major, Op 8 (1901)

Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma

Francesco La Vecchia

MiNensemblet

Recorded: 1995, Alter Pfarrsaal, Nöttingen, Germany (Wolf-Ferrari)

2011, OSR Studios, Rome, Italy (Franchetti)

Frank Martin - Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2; Ballade

Frank MARTIN (1890-1974)

Piano Concerto No.1 (1934)

Ballade for Piano and Orchestra (1939)

Piano Concerto No.2 (1968-1969)

Jean-Francois Antonioli (piano) 

I Filarmonici di Torino

Marcello Viotti

Recorded in Auditorium RAI, Turin, August 1985

Leos Janacek - The Cunning Little Vixen /MacKerras

Leos JANACEK (1854-1928)

The Cunning Little Vixen  (1923)

Libretto the composer himself adapted from a novella by Rudolf Těsnohlídek.

Lucia Popp (Vixen)

Dalibor Jedlicka (Gamekeeper)

Eva Randová (Fox)

Eva Zigmundova (Gamekeeper's wife)

Vladimir Krejcik (Schoolmaster)

Richard Novak (Priest)

Vaclav Zitek (Harasta, a tramp)

Beno Blachut (Pasek, innkeeper)

Ivana Mixova (Inkeeper's wife)

Libuse Marova (Lapak)

Gertrude Jahn (Cock)

Eva Hribikova (Frantik)

Zuzana Hudecova (Pepik)

Peter Saray (Frog/Grasshopper)

Miriam Ondraskova (Cricket)

Wiener Philharmoniker

Charles Mackerras

Recording location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, March 1981

HK Guber - Piano Concerto; Short Stories from the Vienna Woods

HK GRUBER (b.1943)

Piano Concerto (2016)

Short Stories from the Vienna Woods (2019)

Luftschlösser (Castle in the Air) (1981)

Frank Dupree (piano)

Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

HK Gruber

Recorded: 2024 Vienna & Stuttgart

Sur - Piano Music from Argentina

Agustin Muriago

Sur - Piano Music from Argentina

Lilian SABA (b.1961)

Para Empezar a Volar

Tres Marias

Jose RESTA (1880-1962)

Tres Danzas

Aire de Tango 

Vidalita

Bailecito

Juan Jose RAMOS (1930-1995)

Vals Miraflores

Manuel GOMEZ CARRILLO (1883-1968)

Fiesta Criolla

Miguel FRANCESE (1913-1970)

Triste

Lia CIMAGLIA (1906-1998)

Recuerdos de mi Tierra

Evocacion Criolla

Danza

Milonga

Zapateado

Arturo LUZZATTI (1875-1959)

Aire de Milonga

Leonardo BRUNELLI (1929-1964)

Milonga, Op.2

Carlos AGUIRRE (b.1965)

Milonga Gris

Adolfo CIPRIOTA (1879-1944)

Bocetos del Litoral

En la Llanura

Idilio Campero

Ladera Resbaladiza

Osvaldo GOLIJOV (b.1960)

Levante

Agustin Muriago (piano)

Romancillo - Guitar Works by Sor; Martinez Palacios; Llobet Soles & Sainz de la Maza

Romancillo:

Fernando SOR (1778 – 1839)

Andantino

from “24 Exercices très faciles” Op. 35 n.18

Antonio José MARTINEZ PALACIOS (1902 – 1936)

Sonata para guitarra

Miguel LLOBET SOLES (1878 – 1938)

Scherzo-Vals (1909)

Cinco Preludios

Preludio (1916) a Maria Luisa Anido

Preludio (1928) para Mimita

Preludio (1935) a Rosita Lloret

Preludio en la mayor (1935)

Preludio en mi mayor (1935)

Cançons populars catalanes

La filla del Merxant

La filla del Merxant (Lira Orfeo)

L’Hostal de la Peyra (Lira Orfeo)

L’Annunciació (Lira Orfeo)

Lo Rossinyol

Lo Rossinyol (incompiuto da Lira Orfeo)

Arr. Leonardo Lospalluti

Regino SAINZ de la MAZA (1896 – 1981)

La frontera de Dios

Albada y paisaje

Meditación

Idilio

Romancillo de María Belén

Sacrificio

Leonardo Lospalluti (guitar, arrangement, conductor)

Umberto Cafagna (guitar)

Mauro Squillante (mandolin)

Orchestra dell’Accademia Mandolinistica Pugliese:

Mandolins: Mauro Squillante, Sergio Vacca, Gaio Ariani, Denise Colaianni

Mandole: Valerio Fusillo, Fedele Depalma

Guitar: Leonardo Lospalluti, Nicola Nesta

Mandoloncello: Gaetano Depalma

Recording: 14-15 may 2022 “Music Suite” – Sammichele di Bari

Edward MacDowell - Piano Music Vol. 3

Edward MACDOWELL (1860-1908)

Sonata No. 4 "Keltic", Op.59 (1901)

Forgotten Fairy Tales, Op.4 (1897)

Six Heine Poems, Op.31 (1887)

Twelve Virtuoso Studies, Op.46 (1894)

James Barbagallo (piano)

Recorded 2-4 August 1994 at Fisher Hall, Santa Rosa

Knudage Riisager - The Symphonic Edition Vol. 1

Knudage RIISAGER (1897-1974)

The Symphonic Edition Volume 1

Overture for Erasmus Montanus, op. 1 (c. 1918-1920) Danish Pictures no. 1

Klods Hans (Jack the Dullard), op. 18 (1929) Danish Pictures no. 2

Symphony no. 1, op. 8 (1925)

Comoedie, op. 21 (1930) Danish Pictures no. 4

Fastelavn (Carnival), op. 20 Danish Pictures no. 3

Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

Bo Holten

Recorded in the Symphonic Hall, Musikhuset Aarhus, on 14-18 September 2010 (tracks 1-5 & 7) 

and 21 February 2011 (track 6)

Modest Mussorgsky - Complete Piano Works (Alice Ader)

Modest MUSSORGSKY (1839-1881)

Complete Piano Works

Une Larme

Impromptu Passionné (Souvenir de Beltov Et Liouba)

Scène de Foire (La Foire de Sorotchinsk)

Au Village/ En Crimée (Ghourzouff. Notes de voyage)

En Crimée

Hopak de Jeunes Ukrainiens Gaillards (La Foire de Sorotchinsk)

Souvenir D'enfance/ Souvenirs D'enfance

Souvenirs D'enfance

La Capricieuse

La Couturière (Scherzino)

Scherzo En Do Dièse Mineur

Intermezzo In Modo Classico (Transcription By – Modeste Moussorgsky)

Jeux D'enfants-les Quatre Coins

Une Nuit Sur Le Mont Chauve (Arranged By – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

Méditation (Feuillet d'album)

Tableaux D'une Exposition

Alice Ader (piano)

Recording: Paris, IRCAM, 19-23 October 2009.

Mieczysław Weinberg - Violin Concerto; Sonata for Two Violins

Mieczysław WEINBERG (1919-1996)

Concerto For Violin And Orchestra, Op. 67 (1959)

Sonata For Two Violins, Op. 69 (1959)*

Gidon Kremer (violin)

Madara Pētersone (violin)*

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Daniele Gatti

Recorded live at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, February 2020 (Violin Concerto) 

and at Studio Residence Paliesius, December 2019 (Sonata)

Mieczysław Weinberg - Sonatas for Solo Violin

Mieczyslaw WEINBERG (1919-1996)

Sonatas for Violin Solo

Sonata No. 3, op. 126 (1979)

Sonata No. 2, op. 95 (1967) 

Sonata No. 1, op. 82 (1964)

Gidon Kremer (violin)

Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 recorded December 2019 at Studio Residence Paliesius, Lithuania

Sonata No. 3 recorded July 2013 at Lockenhaus Kammermusikfestival

Andrzej Panufnik - Nocturne - Symphonic Works Vol.1

Andrzej PANUFNIK (1914-1991) 

Symphonic works volume 1.

Tragic Overture  (1942, recon. 1945, rev. 1955)   

Nocturne (1947, rev. 1955)  

Heroic Overture (1952, rev. 1969) 

Katyń Epitaph (1967, rev. 1969)  

Symphony of Peace (1982-1983)

Harmony  (1989) 

Sylwia Mierzejewska (violin)

Polish Radio Orchestra

Lukasz Borowicz.

Recorded:Polish Radio W.Lutoslawski Concert Studio, Warsaw, Poland. 

February to July 2008

Jesper Nordin - Emerging From Currents And Waves

Jesper NORDIN (b.1971)

Emerging From Currents And Waves (For Clarinet, Orchestra And Live Electronics, 2018)

Currents (Part 1)

Emerging (For Clarinet, Orchestra And Gestrument, Part 2)

Waves (Part 3)**

Martin Fröst (clarinet) 

Magnus Holmander**(clarinet solo)

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Recorded 31 August 2018

"Gestrument" stands for gesture instrument.

Percy Grainger - Transcriptions for Wind Orchestra

Percy GRAINGER (1882-1961)

Transcriptions for Wind Orchestra

Ivan Hovorun (piano)

Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra

Clark Rundell.    

rec. 1-2 April 2007, Studio 7 New Broadcasting House, Manchester. DDD

Angelus ad Virginem (1942)

by Anonymous (thirteenth century)

Ballade No. 17 (1937) 

by Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300-1377)

La Bernardina (1943) 

Canzone in three parts 

by Josquin des Prez (c. 1450/1455-1521)

Prelude in the Dorian Mode (1941) 

Tiènto del Segundo Tono 

by Antonio de Cabezón (c. 1510-1566)

The Four Note Pavan (1940) 

No. 13 from Consort Music to the Viols in 4, 5 and 6 parts 

by Alfonso Ferrabosco II (c. 1575-1628)

Five-Part Fantasy No. 15 (1937-41)

A Five Tone-Strand Fantasy for Viols 

by John Jenkins (1592-1678)

March (1946)

March, BWV Anh. 122 

from Clavierbüchlein II for Anna Magdalena Bach (1725) 

by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

See what His love can do (1937)

'Seht, was die Liebe tut', aria for tenor 

from Cantata, BWV 85 Ich bin ein guter Hirt (1725) 

by Johann Sebastian Bach

O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß (1936-42)

Chorale prelude, BWV 622 

from Das Orgelbüchlein (1713-15) 

by Johann Sebastian Bach 

Hungarian Fantasy (1959)

Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien, S 123, R 458 (1849-52) 

by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Chorale No. 2 (1942) 

from Trois Chorals (1890) 

by César Franck (1822-1890)

Tuscan Serenade (1937) 

'Sérénade toscane', Op. 3 No. 2 (?1878) 

by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Folk-Tune (1942) 

No. 1 from Two Ballades, Op. 38 (1924) 

by Sir Eugene Goossens (1893-1962)

Down Longford Way (1935)

No. 2 from Four Musical Sketches (1928) 

by Katharine Parker (1886-1971)

Edward MacDowell - Piano Music Vol. 2

Edward MACDOWELL (1860-1908)

Piano Music Vol. 2

First Modern Suite, Op. 10

Amourette, Op. 1 (Not Fast, With Simplicity)

In Lilting Rhythm, Op. 2

Six Idyls After Goethe, Op. 28

Sonata No. 3 "Norse", Op. 57

James Barbagallo (piano)

Recorded From 2nd to 5th of May, 1994.

Andrzej Panufnik - The Concertos

Andrzej PANUFNIK (1914-1991) 

Symphonic Works Vol. 8 

The Concertos

Violin Concerto

Cello Concerto 

Piano Concerto

Alexander Sitkovetsky (Violin)

Raphael Wallfisch (Cello)

Ewa Kupiec (Piano)

Konzerthausorchester Berlin

Lukasz Borowic

Recording: Konzerthaus Berlin, Großer Saal, January 29–30, 2013 (1–3), June 24–27, 

2013 (4–8)

John Adams - City Noir & Saxophone Concerto

John ADAMS (b. 1947)

City Noir (2009, rev.2013)

Saxophone Concerto (2013)

Timothy McAllister (alto saxophone)

St. Louis Symphony

David Robertson

City Noir recorded February 15-16, 2013

Saxophone Concerto recorded October 5-6, 2013

Recorded at Powell Hall, St. Louis, MO