Thea Musgrave - Concerto for Orchestra; Clarinet Conceto; Horn Concerto

Thea MUSGRAVE (b. 1928)

Concerto for Orchestra (1967) [20:26] *

Clarinet Concerto (1969) [23:38] ** Sample

Horn Concerto (1971) [22:06] *** Sample

Monologue, for solo piano (1960) [6:02]

Excursions, eight duets for piano, four hands (1965) [9:51]

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet); Barry Tuckwell (horn); Thea Musgrave (piano); Malcolm Williamson (piano)

*Scottish National Orchestra/Alexander Gibson

**London Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar

***Scottish National Orchestra/Thea Musgrave

rec. January 1974, City Hall, Glasgow (Concerto for Orchestra; Horn Concerto); January 1972, London Opera Center (Clarinet Concerto); September 1971, Kingsway Hall, London (Monologue; Excursions)

Robert Simpson - Sonata for Violin and Piano; Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano

Prokofiev - Symphony No. 3; Varese - Arcana; Mosolov - Iron Foundry

Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953

Symphony No. 3

Edgar VARESE (1883-1965)

Arcana

Alexander MOSLOV (1900-1973)

Iron Foundry

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Riccardo Chailly

Verdi & Variations

Verdi and Variations

Marc-Olivier Dupin 

Fantasia on Arias from La traviata* 19:08

1 I Introduction: Presto - Moderato - 1:26

2 II Allegretto - 2:30

3 III Andantino - 3:51

4 IV Brillante - 1:26

5 V Andantino - 4:56

6 VI Allegro brillante 4:57

 

Antonio Pasculli 

7-Grand Concerto on Themes from Verdi's I vespri siciliani 13:23

Giuseppe Verdi 

String Quartet 23:58

in E minor - e-Moll - mi mineur

arr. for strings by Y. Turovsky

8 I Allegro 8:19

9 II Andantino 8:10

10 III Prestissimo 3:06

11 IV Allegro assai mosso 4:16

  56:46

  Phillipe Magnan oboe*

  Alexander Trostiansky violin

  I Musici de Montréal

  Yuli Turovsky

Paderewski - Symphony in B minor "Polonia"

Howard Blake - The Passion of Mary; Four Songs of the Nativity

Howard BLAKE (b.1938)

The Passion of Mary, op.577 (2006) 

Four Songs of the Nativity, op.415 (1990) 

Patricia Rozario (soprano);

Robert William Blake (treble) 

Richard Edgar–Wilson (tenor)

 David Wilson–Johnson (bass–baritone)

London Voices

Terry Edwards

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Howard Blake

Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Robert Simpson - The Art of the Fugue

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

The Art of Fugue (arr. Robert Simpson)

Delmé Quartet

Geoffrey Burgon - Requiem

Geoffrey BURGON (1941-2010)

 Requiem (1976)

City of London Sinfonia / London Symphony Chorus / Wooburn Singers

Jennifer Smith, soprano / Ann Murray, mezzo soprano / Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor

Conductor Richard Hickox

Fibich - String Quartets

Zdenek Fibich 

String Quartets, Variations 

Panocha Quartet

Arvo Part - Miserere, Festina Lente, Sarah was Ninety Years Old

Arvo PÄRT

Miserere

Festina Lente

Sarah eas Ninety Years Old

The Hilliard Ensemble

David James countertenor

Rogers Covey-Crump tenor

John Potter tenor

Gordon Jones baritone

Paul Hillier director

Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn

Western Wind Chamber Choir

Dennis Russell Davies conductor

Sarah Leonard soprano

Christopher Bowers-Broadbent organ

Pierre Favre percussion

Recorded September 1990, St. Jude-on-the-Hill, London (Miserere, Sarah Was Ninety Years Old)

Recorded December 1990 at Beethovenhalle, Bonn (Festina Lente)

Gottschalk - Piano Music Vol.8

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

Piano Music, Vol. 8*

Philip Martin (piano)

Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Piano Music Vol.7

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

Piano Music, Vol. 7

Philip Martin (Piano)

Villa-Lobos - Symphony No.7; Sinfonietta No.1

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)

Symphony No. 7; Sinfonietta No. 1

Carl St. Clair / SWR Radio So Stuttgart

Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Piano Music Vol.6

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

Piano Music, Vol. 6

Philip Martin (piano)

Gottschalk - The Piano Music Vol.5

 

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

Piano Music, Vol. 5

Philip Martin (piano)

Rachmaninov - Symphony No.1; The Rock; Vocalise

Sergei RACHMANINOV (1873-1943)

 Symphony No.1 in D minor. Op 13

The Rock Fantasy Op.7

 Intermezzo from the Opera Aleko

Vocalise Op 34 Nr.14

Berlin Phiharmonic

Lorin Maazel

Gurdjieff - de Hartmann - Vols. 1 & 2 - Chercheurs de Vérité

George Ivanovich GURDJIEFF (1866-1949)

Thomas de HARTMANN (1885-1976)

Chercheurs du Verité

(Seekers of theTruth)

Alain Kremski (Piano)

Gurdjieff - de Hartmann - Vol.3 - Chants Religieux

Georges GURDJIEFF (1877-1949)

Thomas de HARTMANN (1885-1956)

Volume 3

Chants Religieux

Alain Kremski (Piano)

Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa; Fratres; Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten

Arvo PART ()

Tabula Rasa

Fratres (for violin and piano)

Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten

Fratres (for 12 celli)

Tabula rasa

Gidon Kremer (violin)

Keith Jarrett (piano)

Staatsorchester Stuttgart 

Dennis Russell Davies 

The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 

Tatjana Grindenko (violin)

Alfred Schnittke (prepared piano)

Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra 

Saulius Sondeckis

Recorded November 1977, October 1983

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Shotakovich - Symphony No.1; Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky

Dimitri Shostakovich

Symphony No.1 Op 10

Sergei Prokofiev

Alexander Nevsky OP.78

Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife

Coro de la Filarmonica Checa

Victor Pablo Perez

Zdenek Fibich - Mood, Impressions & Souvenirs

Zdenek FIBICH (1850-1900)

Moods, Impressions & Souvenirs

William Howard (Piano)

Musica Española para Piano / Achúcarro

Spanish Music for Piano

Manuel de Falla

Noche en los Jardines de España

and works by Turina, Albeniz, Granados and Mompou

Joaquin Achucarro (Piano)

London Symphony Orchestra

Eduardo Mata

Albeniz - Piano Music Vol.4

Isaac ALBENIZ (1860-1909)

Piano Music - Volume 4

Suite ancienne No. 3, T. 76 (1886) [6:20]

Sonata No. 5 in G flat major, Op. 82, T. 85 (1887) [22:40]

Diva sin par: Mazurca-Capricho, T. 63 (1886) [4:44]

Balbina Valverde: Polka brillante humoristica, T. 64 (1886) [4:25]

Estudio Impromptu, T. 50 (c. 1885) [6:13]

Reves, Op. 201, T. 99 (1890) [9:54]

Serenata arabe, T. 60 (c. 1885) [5:41]

Cadiz-Gaditana, T. 93 (1890) [3:39]

Zambra granadina, T. 97 (c. 1891) [3:38]

Tres improvisaciones (transcr. Milton R. Laufer) (1903) [7:35]

Ruben Ramiro (piano)

rec. 8-9 July 2013, Conservatorio Profesional de Musica ‘Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos’, Spain.

Arvo Part - In Principio

Poulenc - Dialogue des Carmelites

Francis POULENC

Dialogue des Carmelites

Soloists; Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera de Lyon

Kent Nagano

John Williams plays Albeniz and Granados

John Williams plays Albéniz & Granados

Albéniz:

Granada (from Suite española No. 1, Op. 47)

Asturias (from Suite espanola, Op. 47)

Mallorca, barcarola, Op. 202

Piezas Características, Op. 92: Torre Bermeja

Cadiz (from Suite Española, Op. 47)

Zambra Granadina

Tango

Córdoba (from Chants d’Espagne Op. 232)

Sevilla (from Suite Española, Op. 47)

Piezas Características, Op. 92: Torre Bermeja

Granados:

Valses Poeticos (7)

Goyescas (opera): Intermezzo

Danza española, Op. 37 No. 6 'Jota'

Samuel Barber - Vanessa

Samuel BARBER (1910-1981)

Vanessa

Soloists

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra

Dimitri Mitrpoulos

Recorded in 1958