Mahler - Symphony No.10 (Berliner Philharmoniker; Simon Rattle)

Gustav MAHLER (1860-1911)

Symphony No.10

(performing version prepared by Deryck Cooke, in collaboration with 

Berthold Goldschmidt, Colin Matthews and David Matthews)

 Berliner Philharmoniker

Simon Rattle

Korngold - Piano Quintet and String Sextet

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD (1897-1957)

Piano Quintet Op.15 (1921)

String Sextet Op.10 (1917)

Doric String Quartet 

Alex Redington (violin)

Jonathan Stone (violin) 

Simon Tandree (viola) 

John Myerscough (cello)

 Kathryn Stott (piano)

 Jennifer Stumm (viola)

Bartholomew LaFollette (cello)

Astor Piazzolla - Suite Troileana; Lumiere/ Astor Piazzolla

Astor Piazzolla

Suite Troileana & Lumiere

Franz Schmidt - Complete Symphonies (Neeme Jarvi)

Franz SCHMIDT (1874-1939) 

Complete Symphonies 

Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Neeme Järvi (1, 4) 

Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Neeme Järvi (2, 3) 

CD 1 

Symphony No. 1 in E major (1896-9) [44:51] 

CD 2 

Symphony No. 2 in E flat major (1911-2) [46:55] 

CD 3 

Symphony No. 3 in A major (1927-8) [42:19] 

CD 4 

Symphony No. 4 in C major (1932-3) [42:12] 

 Marcy Chanteaux (cello) (4) 

Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Neeme Järvi (1, 4) 

Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Neeme Järvi (2, 3) 

rec. Orchestra Hall, Detroit (1, 4), Orchestra Hall, Chicago (2, 3), 12-13 November 1994, 26 May 1996, 20-22, 25 April 1989, 30 January-3 February 1991. DDD 

Max Reger - Music for Viola

Max REGER (1873-1916)

Music for Viola

Romance for Viola & Piano (1901); 

Three Suites for Solo Viola Op. 131d; 

Sonata in B-flat major Op. 107 

Nobuko Imai (Viola)

Ronald Brautigam (Piano)

Nino Rota - Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2

Nino ROTA (1911-1979)

Cello Concertos – Nos. 1 (1972) and 2 (1973)

Dmitry Yablonsky (cello)

I Virtuosi Italiani

Daniel Boico

Nino Rota - Concertos

Nino ROTA (1911-1979)

Concertos

Harp Concerto

Bassoon Concerto

Castel del Monte

Trombone Concerto

Luisa Prandina, harp

Paolo Carlini, bassoon

Guido Corti, horn

Andrea Conti, trombone

I Virtuosi Italiani

Marzio Conti

Franz Schreker - Flammen Op.10

Franz SCHREKER (1878-1934)

Flammen Op. 10

Jörg Sabrowski (baritone)

Manuela Uhl (soprano)

Heike Wittlieb (soprano)

Robert Chafin (tenor)

Katharina Peetz (alto)

Hans Georg Ahrens (bass)

Windfuhr, Ulrich (conductor)

Chorus Opera Kiel

Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra

Alexander Grechaninov - Symphonies 1 and 2

Alexander  GRECHANINOV (1864 - 1956)

Symphony No. 1 in B minor, Op. 6

Symphony No. 2 in A major, Op. 27, "Pastorale"

Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra

Richard Edlinger

Johannes Wildner

Martinu - Field Mass; Double Concerto; Les Fresques de Piero della Francesca

Bohuslav MARTINŮ (1890-1959) 

Field Mass for male chorus, with baritone solo and orchestra (1939) 

Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani (1938) 

Les Fresques de Piero della Francesca (1955)

Václav Zítek (bar) (Mass) 

Czech Philharmonic Chorus/Lubomír Mátl (Mass) 

Czech PO

Charles Mackerras (Mass) 

Josef Růžička (piano) (Concerto) 

Jan Bouše (timp) (Concerto) 

Prague Radio SO

Charles Mackerras (Concerto, Frescoes) 

rec Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague, 20-21 Jan 1984 (Field Mass); 15-16 Feb 1982 (Frescoes, Concerto)

Stradella - Violin Sonatas & Chamber Music

Alessandro STRADELLA (1639-1682)

Violin Sonatas & Chamber Music

Violin Sonatas (11)

Sonatas for two violins (9)

Trumpet Sonata in D major

Sonata for two violins and two cornets No. 1 in D major

Sonata di viole in D major, 'Concerto-concerto grosso'

Sonata for violin and cello No. 2 in B flat major

Violin Sonata No. 12 in A minor - Theme and Variations

Mario Ferraris, Angelo Ephrikian, Giovanni Adamo (violins)

William Bignami, Giuliano Nalesso, Federico Zampieri (violins)

Giorgio Alessandri, Franco Borgatti, Armando Burattin (violas)

Enrico Miori, Antonio Pocaterra, Francesco Bruni (cellos)

Nazareno Cicoria, Enrico Emiliani (cellos)

Bruno Ferraris, Osvaldo Rizzoli, Artemio Versari (double basses)

Maria Isabella de Carli (harpsichord & organ)

Emilia Fadini (harpsichord)

Edward Hankins Tarr, Holger Eichorn (trumpet & cornets)

Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphony; L'ascencion

Olivier MESSIAEN (1908-1992)

Turangalîla-Symphony

L'ascension

 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Antoni Wit

Baldassare Galuppi, 25 Harpsichord Sonatas

Baldassare GALUPPI (1706-178)]

Manuscript Sonatas for Harpsichord
 

cd1 Sonatas 1-6  

cd2 Sonatas 7-11

cd3 Sonatas 12-16

cd4 Sonatas 17-25

Ilario Gregoletto,

Dual-Manuel 'Pierre Donzelague' harpsichord,

copied by Malcolm Rose

Bruckner - Requiem ; Psalms 112 and 114

Anton BRUCKNER (1894-1896)

Requiem in D minor

Psalm 114

Psalm 112

Corydon Singers

English Chamber Orchestra

Matthew Best

Henry Vieuxtemps - Music for Viola and Piano

Henry VIEUXTEMPS (1820-1881)

Sonata in B Flat Op 36

Elegie for Viola and Piano Op 30

Capriccio for Viola Solo Op post No 9

La Nuit – by Felicien David, arr Vieuxtemps

Sonata Op post No 14 – unfinished

Roberto Diaz (viola)

Robert Koenig (piano)

Recorded Toronto Centre for the Arts February 2001

Franz Waxman - Sunset Boulevard: The Classic Film Scores of Franz Waxman

Franz WAXMAN (1906-1967)

Sunset Boulevard: The Classic Film Scores

Prince Valiant

Prelude/King Aguar's Escape/The Fens/The Fir

A Place in the Sun

Prelude/Angela/Loon Lake/Farewell & Frenzy

The Bride of Frankenstein

The Creation of the Female Monster

Sunset Boulevard

Title/Norma Desmond/The Studio Stroll

Old Acquaintance

Elegy for Strings and Harp(s)

Rebecca

Prelude/After the Ball/Mrs. Danvers/Confession Scene

The Philadelphia Story

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Fanfare/Main Title/T

Taras Bulba

The Ride to Dubno

National Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Gerhardt

Tchaikovsky and Korngold - Violin Concertos /Korcia

Korngold / Tchaikovsky - Violin Concertos

Laurent Korcia (Violin) 

Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 

 Jean-Jacques Kantorow

Korngold Violin Concerto, Op 35 & Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Op 35

Mauricio Kagel - Exotica; Tactil

Mauricio KAGEL (1931-2008)

Exotica

Tactil

Michel Portal · Vinko Globokar

Christoph Caskel · Wilhelm Bruck

Theodor Ross · Siegfried Palm

Mauricio Kagel

Kagel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into a Jewish family which fled from Russia in the 1920s (Anon. [n.d.]). He studied music, history of literature, and philosophy in Buenos Aires (Grimshaw 2009). In 1957 he came as a scholar to Cologne, Germany, where he lived until his death.

From 1960–66 and 1972–76, he taught at the International Summer School at Darmstadt (Attinello 2001).

He taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1964 to 1965 as Slee Professor of music theory and at the Berlin Film and Television Academy as a visiting lecturer. He served as director of courses for new music in Gothenburg and Cologne (Attinello 2001). He was professor for new music theatre at the Cologne Conservatory from 1974 to 1997.

Invited by Walter Fink, he was the second composer featured in the annual Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1991. In 2000 he received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.

Among his students were Maria de Alvear, Carola Bauckholt, Branimir Krstić, David Sawer, Rickard Scheffer, Juan Maria Solare, Gerald Barry and Chao-Ming Tung.

He died in Cologne on September 18, 2008 after a long illness, at the age of 76 (Nonnenmann 2008).

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Many of his later pieces give specific theatrical instructions to the performers (Kennedy & Bourne Kennedy 2006), such as to adopt certain facial expressions while playing, to make their stage entrances in a particular way, to physically interact with other performers and so on. His work is comparable to the Theatre of the Absurd.

Staatstheater (1971) is probably the piece that most clearly shows his absurdist tendency.[citation needed] This work is described as a "ballet for non-dancers",[this quote needs a citation] though in many ways is more like an opera, and the devices it uses as musical instruments include chamber pots and even enema equipment. As the work progresses, the piece itself, and opera and ballet in general, becomes its own subject matter.[citation needed] Similar is the radio play Ein Aufnahmezustand (1969) which is about the incidents surrounding the recording of a radio play.

Kagel also made films, with one of the best known being Ludwig van (1970), a critical interrogation of the uses of Beethoven's music made during the bicentenary of that composer's birth (Griffiths 1978, 188). In it, a reproduction of Beethoven's studio is seen, as part of a fictive visit of the Beethoven House in Bonn. Everything in it is papered with sheet music of Beethoven's pieces. The soundtrack of the film is a piano playing the music as it appears in each shot. Because the music has been wrapped around curves and edges, it is somewhat distorted, but Beethovenian motifs can still be heard. In other parts, the film contains parodies of radio or TV broadcasts connected with the "Beethoven Year 1770". Kagel later turned the film into a piece of sheet music itself which could be performed in a concert without the film - the score consists of close-ups of various areas of the studio, which are to be interpreted by the performing pianist.

Other pieces include Con Voce (With Voice), where a masked trio silently mimes playing instruments and Match (1964), a tennis game for cellists with a percussionist as umpire (Griffiths 1978, 188) (for Siegfried Palm), also the subject of one of Kagel's films and perhaps the best-known of his works of instrumental theatre (Griffiths 1981, 812).

Kagel also wrote a large number of more conventional, "pure" pieces, including orchestral music, chamber music, and film scores. Many of these also make references to music of the past by, amongst others, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, and Liszt (Warnaby 1981, 38; Decarsin 1985, 260).

He has been regarded by music historians as deploying a critical intelligence interrogating the position of music in society (Griffiths 1978, 188).

Richard Strauss - The Complete Works for Piano Solo

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)

The  Complete Works for Piano Solo

Stefan Valadar

Kenneth Leighton - Orchestral Works Vol.2

Kenneth Leighton - Orchestral Works Vol.1

Martinu - Ariane (Opera in 1 Act)

Bohuslav MARTINU (1890-1959)

Ariane (Opera in One Act) 

Composed 1958 - first performance 1961

Soloists; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Vaclav Neumann

Ariane is a one-act opera by Bohuslav Martinů to a French libretto by the composer drawn from a play by Georges Neveux, (who also supplied the text to the composer's opera Julietta).

Egon Wellesz - Symphonies 3 and 5

Egon Wellesz

Symphonies 3 and 5

Radio Symphonieorchester  Wien

Gottfried Rabl

Kenneth Leighton - The World's Desire

Kenneth LEIGHTON (1929-1988)

The World's Desire

A Sequence for Epiphany

The World's Desire, Op. 91

Morning Canticles

Sequence for all Saints, Op. 75

God, enfold me in the sun

Rockingham – organ solo

David Bednall, organ

Wells Cathedral School Chapel Choir

Wells Cathedral Choir/Matthew Owens

Mieczyslaw Karlowicz - Symphonic Poems Vol. 2

Mieczysław KARLOWICZ (1876-1909) 

Symphonic Poems Vol.2

Returning Waves 

A Sorrowful Tale

 Eternal Songs

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Antoni Wit

Susan Gritton sings Britten, Finzi and Delius

Susan Gritton Sings Finzi, Britten and Delius

Susan Gritton (Soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Edward Gardner