Ralph Vaughan Williams - Riders to the Sea; Epithalamion; Merciless Beauty

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Riders to the Sea (Opera after John M.Synge)*

Nora......Norma Burrowes (soprano)

Cathleen...Margaret Price (soprano)

Maurya...Helen Watts (contralto)

Bartley...Benjamin Luxon (baritone)

A Woman...Pauline Stevens (mezzo-soprano)

...Valerie Hill (soprano).Gloria Jennings (contralto)

Ambrosian Singers

Orchestra Nova of London

Meredith Davies (Conductor)

Merciless Beauty (Chaucer): Three rondels for voice and string trio

Philip Landridge (tenor)

Members of the Endrillon String Quartet

 Epithalamion (Spenser)

for Baritone, Chorus, Piano, Solo Flute and String Orchestra

Stephen Roberts (baritone). Howard Shelley (piano), Johnathan Snowden (flute)

The Bach Choir

London Philarmonic Orchestra

Sir David Willcocks (Conductor)

Bax - Symphonic Variations; Morning Song

Arnold BAX (1883-1953)

Symphonic Variations

Morning Song

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Bryden Thomson

Margaret Fingerhut (piano)

Haydn - String Quartets Op.54, Nos. 1-3

Joseph HAYDN (1732 -1809) 

String Quartets Op. 54, Nos. 1 - 3

Kodaly Quartet

Joaquim Homs - Music for Chamber Orchestra

Joaquim HOMS (1906–2003) 

Music for Chamber Orchestra

Suite “Between Two Lines” (1948) [9:52] 

Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1946/7)a [16:42] 

Suite for Piano Op.1 (1921)a [5:34] 

Adagio for Strings (1950) [10:55] 

Cycle I “El caminant i el mur” (1962)b [9:11] 

Diptych I (1976)a [4:58] 

Soliloquy II for Strings (1974) [6:26] 

Jordi Masó (piano)a; Montserrat Torruella (mezzo-soprano)b; 

Granollers Chamber Orchestra/Francesc Guillén 

rec. Teatre Auditori de Granollers, Spain, January 2006 

Haydn - Symphonies 100, 82 and 96

Joseph HAYDN (1732 - 1809)

Symphony No.96 in D Major, The Miracle 

Symphony No.100 in G Major, Military

Symphony No. 82 in C Major, L'Ours/The Bear

Capella Istropolitana

Barry Wordsworth

Busoni - Seven Elegies . Piano Works

Ferruccio BUSONI (1866-1924) 

Seven Elegies; Piano Works

Elegien, suite of elegies (6) for piano, KiV 249

Kurze Stück zur Pflege des polyphonen Spiels, etudes (5, 6 or 7) for piano (Klavier-Übung I), KiV 296

Prélude et Etude en Arpèges, for piano, KiV297

Roland Pöntinen (Piano)

Chavez and Revueltas - Orchestral Works

Carlos Chavez & Silvestre Revueltas

Orchestral Works

Musica Mexicana Vol.8

Orquesta Filarmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico 

Enrique Batiz (Revueltas)  

London Philharmonic Orchestra, 

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, 

Enrique Batiz (Chavez)

George Dyson - Symphony in G major; Concerto da Chiesa

Sir George DYSON (1883-1964)

At the Tabard Inn – Overture (1943) [11:13], 

Concerto da Chiesa for String Orchestra (1949) [19:06], 

Symphony in G major (1937) [42:14]

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/David Lloyd-Jones

Recorded 1st-2nd November 2004
at the Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, UK

Silvestre Revueltas - The Night of the Mayas

Silvestre REVUELTAS (1899-1940)
The Night of the Mayas

Orchestral Music

Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca *

Sensemaya *

Ocho por Radio **

Toccata **

Alcancias **

Planos **

La Noche de los Mayas ***

New Phiharmonia Orchestra *
Eduardo Mata *

London Sinfonietta **
David Atherton **

Orquesta Sinfónica de Jalapa ***
Luis Herrera de la Fuente ***

George Dyson - Violin Concerto; Children's Suite

George Dyson: 

Violin Concerto; Children's Suite

Lydia Mordkovitch (Violin)

City of London Sinfonia 

Richard Hickox 

Kabalevsky - Piano Concertos Nos.1 and 2

 

 Dmitri KABALEVSKY (1904-1987)

Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 9 (1928) [31:35]

Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 23 (1935 rev. 1973) [24:26]

In-Ju Bang (piano)

Russian Philharmonic Orchestra

Dmitri Yablonsky

Leevi Madetoja - Symphonies 1, 2 and 3; Orchestral Works

Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947)

Symphonies 1, 2 and 3; Orchestral Works (2 CDs)

Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Petri Sakari

Constant Lambert - Piano Concerto; Romeo and Juliet; Elegiac Blues

Constant LAMBERT (1905-1951)

Romeo and Juliet (1924-25) [29.51]

Elegiac Blues (1927 orchestrated 1928) [2.54]

Piano Concerto (1924) [17.01]

The Bird Actors – Overture (1925 revised 1927) [3.18]

Prize Fight – Ballet in One Act (1924 revised 1927) [9.12]

Jonathan Plowright (piano)
English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones
Recorded Clothworkers’ Hall, University of Leeds, 19-20 December 2004

Xavier Benguerel - Concertante an other Orchestral Works

Xavier BENGUEREL (1931-2017)

Concertante 

Music for Percussion and Strings

Concert de Tardor

Porta Ferrada Double Concerto

Melodie Giot (Cello)

Manon Philippe (Violin)

Philippe Spiesser (Percussion)

Jaume Torrent (Guitar)

Orchestre Perpignan Mediterranee

Daniel Tosi

Astor Piazzolla - La Camorra

Astor PIAZZOLLA (1922-1992)

His Last Recordings

La camorra

Astor Piazzolla & Quinteto Nuevo Tango

Produced by Kip Hanrahan

Boris Tchaikovsky - Piano and Clarinet Concertos; Signs of the Zodiac

Boris TCHAIKOVSKY (1925-1996)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1971)

Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra (1957)

Signs of the Zodiac, Cantata for Soprano, Harpsichord and String Orchestra (1974)

Olga Solovieva (Piano and Harpsichord); Anton Prischepa (Clarinet); Yana Ivanilova (Soprano);

Irina Goncharova (Harpsichord); Pavel Alfyorov (Double Bass Solo).

Russian Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra

Timur Mynbaev (Conductor)

Weyse - Piano Sonatas Nos. 5 - 8

Christoph Ernst Friedrich WEYSE (1774-1842)

Piano Sonata No. 6 in B flat major

Piano Sonata No. 8 in G minor

Piano Sonata No. 5 in E major

Piano Sonata No. 7 in A minor

Thomas Trondhjem (piano)