Ravel - Complete Orchestral Works

Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)

Complete Orchestral Works

London Symphony Orchestra

Claudio Abbado

Disc 1

Bolero

Rapsodie Espagnole

My Mere L'Oye (Ballet)

Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte

Disc 2

Daphnis Et Chloe (Complete)

Chorus – London Symphony Chorus

Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales

Disc 3

Le Tombeau de Couperin

Alborada Del Gracioso

Sheherazade (Ouverture)

Menuet Antique

Une Barque Sur L'ocean

L'Eventail de Jeanne (Fanfare)

La Valse

Previously released material: 1981 - 1989

Ernst Toch - Symphonies Nos.1 and 4

Ernst TOCH (1887-1964)

Symphony No. 1, Op. 72 (1950) 

Symphony No. 4, Op. 80 (1957) 

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Alun Francis (reciter).

Rec. Jesus-Christus-Kirche Berlin on April 8th-11th, 2002 and July 2nd-4th, 2001. DDD

 

Alan Hovhaness - Symphonies Nos.1 and 50; Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints

Alan HOVHANESS (1911-2000)

Symphony No.1 'Exile', Op.17, No.2 (1936, rev.1970) 

Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, Op.211 (1965)

Symphony No.50 'Mount Saint Helens', Op.360 (1982) 

 

Ron Johnson (marimba)

Seattle Symphony

Gerard Schwarz

rec. Seattle Opera House, Seattle, WA, USA, 6-7, 12 June 1990 (Symphony No.1); 17, 19 May 1992 (Fantasy; Symphony No.50).

 

Alan Hovhaness - Symphony No.48; Soprano Saxophone Concerto

Alan HOVHANESS (1911-2000)

Symphony No. 48 Vision of Andromeda

Prelude and Quadruple Fugue

Concerto for Soprano Saxophone

Greg Banaszak (soprano saxophone), 

Eastern Music Festival Orchestra

Gerard Schwarz 

Recorded at the Eastern Music festival, Dana Auditorium, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, from 3rd to 7th July, 2013

Ernest Bloch - Works for Piano and Orchestra

Ernest BLOCH (1880-1959)

Works for Piano and Orchestra

Concerto Symphonique 

Concerto Grosso No.1 

Scherzo fantasque 

Jenny Lin (piano), 

SWR Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern

Jiřī Stárek

rec. SWR Studio, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2006

Arnold Schoenberg - Moses und Aron; Chamber Symphony No.2

Arnold SCHOENBERG (1874-1951)

Moses und Aron

Opera in Three Acts

Chamber Symphony No.2, Op.38*

Günther Reich (Moses)

Richard Cassilly (Aron)

BBC Singers; Orpheus Boy's Choir

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Ensemble InterContemporain*

Pierre Boulez

Recording: West Ham Central Mission, London. November 30 and December 3,5 and 6, 1974 (Moses un Aron)

IRCAm, Centre Georges Pompidu, Paris, April 5, 1980 (Symphony)

Casella - Symphony No.1; Concerto for Piano, Timpani, Percussion and Strings

Alfredo CASELLA (1883-1947)

Symphony No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 5

Concerto for Piano, Timpani, Percussion and Strings, Op. 69

Antonio Ceravolo (Percussion)

Desiree Scuccuglia (Piano)

Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma

Francesco La Vecchia

Recorded at Auditorium Conciliazione, Rome, April 5 and 6, 2009 (Symphony)

Recorded at the OSR Studios, Rome October 23 to 27, 2008 (Concerto)

Ethel Smyth - Complete Piano Works

Ethel SMYTH (1858-1944)

Complete Piano Works

4 Dances

Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major

2 Canons

Invention in D major

Piano Suite in E major

Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor

Piano Sonata No. 3 in D major

Aus der Jugendzeit!!

Piano Piece in E major

Variations on an Original Theme (of an Exceedingly Dismal Nature) in D flat major

Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major

Prelude and Fugue in C major

Liana Serbescu (Piano)

Recording 1-2 July 1992; 30 August 1993 at Hans Rosbaud Studio. Baden-Baden. Germany

Schnittke - Music featured in Volker Schlöndorff´s film ´Der Neunte Tag´ (Cello Concerto No1; Concerto grosso No.1)

Alfred SCHNITTKE (1934-1998)

Music featured in Volker Schlöndorff´s film ´Der Neunte Tag´ (The Ninth Day)

Concerto grosso No.1*

Cello Concerto No.1

Roland Pöntinen (Piano)*

Patrik Swedrup; Christian Bergqvist (Violins)*

New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra*

Lev Markiz, conductor*

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Torleif Thedéen (Cello)

Leif Segerstam, conductor

Recording Date: 20-22 August 1987 (Concerto Grosso No. 1); 

2-3 November 1989 (Cello Concerto No. 1)

Russian Piano Music Series Vol.8 - Mussorgsky

Modest MUSSORGSKY (1839-1881)

Russian Piano Music Vol. 8

1 - Hopak

2 - On the Southern Shore of the Crimea

3 - Ein Kinderscherz

4 - Nurse and I (from Memories of Childhood)

5 - Nurse Shuts Me in a Dark Room (from Memories of Childhood)

6 - In the Village

7 - Pictures at an Exhibition (performed from the composer's manuscript)

8 - The Seamstress

9 - Impromptu passioné

10- Intermezzo in modo classico

11- Gnomus (from earlier manuscript of Pictures at an Exhibition)

12- The Hut on Fowl's Leg (from earlier manuscript of Pictures at an Exhibition)

13- The Great Gates of Kiev (from earlier manuscript of Pictures at an Exhibition)

Anthony Goldstone (Piano)

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras Integrales

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)

Bachianas Brasileira Integrales

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1, for 8 cellos, A. 246

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2, for orchestra, A. 247

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 3, for piano & orchestra, A. 388

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, for piano & orchestra, A. 424

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, for voice & 8 cellos, A. 389

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6, for flute & bassoon, A. 392

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 7, for orchestra, A. 432

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8, for orchestra, A. 444

Nélson Freire, piano (no. 3)

Leila Guimaraes, soprano (no. 5)

Cellos from the Brasil Symphony Orchestra (nos. 1 and 5)

Norton Morozowicz, flute (no. 6)

Noel L. Devos, bassoon (no. 6) 

Brasil Symphony Orchestra

Isaac Karabtchewsky

Recorded at

Sala Cecilla Meireles, Rio de Janeiro,

March 1987 (Bachianas 1-4, 7-9) ;

Salon Leopoldo Miguez de l'ecole de musique de l'Universite Federale de Rio de Janeiro,

March 1987 (Bachianas no 5) ;

Sala Vera Janacopoulos, Rio de Janeiro,

February 1987 (Bachianas no 6)

English Piano Trios - Boughton; Coleridge-Taylor; Ellicott; Forrester & Warner

English Piano Trios

Rosalind ELLICOTT (1857-1924)

Piano Trio no.1 in G (not F) major (1889) 

Samuel COLERIDGE-TAYLOR (1875-1912)

Trio in E minor (1893) 

Rutland BOUGHTON (1878-1960)

Celtic Prelude "The Land of Heart’s Desire" 

James Cliffe FORRESTER (1860-1940)

Trio "Folk Song Fantasy" (1917) 

Harry Waldo WARNER (1874-1945)

Trio, op.22 (1921) 

Trio Anima Mundi

Kenji Fujimura (piano), Rochelle Ughetti (violin), Noella Yan (cello)

rec. 2017, The Music Auditorium, Clayton, Australia

Vasily Kalinnikov - Orchestral Works

Vasily KALINNIKOV (1866-1901)

Orchestral Works

Disc 1

Suite in B Minor (1891)

Cedar and Palm - Symphonic Picture in A Major- (1897/1898)

Bylina - Overture in B-Flat Major

Disc 2

Symphony No.2 in A Major (1896/1897)*

Intermezzo No.1 in A Major (1896)

Intermezzo No.2 in G Major (1897)

Serenade for Strings in G Minor (1891)

Nymphs - Symphonic Picture- (1889)

USSR Symphony Orchestra

Evgeny Svetlanov

Recorded in Moscow; 1968* and 1988

Fartein Valen - Orchestral Music Vol.3

Fartein VALEN (1887-1952)

Orchestral Music - Vol.3

Kirkegarden vid Havet op. 20 (1933-34) 

La Isla de las Calmas op. 21 (1934) 

Ode til Ensomheten op. 35 (1939)

Symphony No. 4 op. 43 (1947-49) 

Piano Concerto op. 44 (1949-50) 

Einar Henning Smebye (piano)

Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Christian Eggen

rec. Stavanger Concert Hall, Norway, May 2006-June 2007

Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress

Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

The Rake's Progress (1948-1951)

Opera in Three Acts

John Reardon (Baritone), Regina Sarfaty (Mezzo Soprano), Jane Manning (Mezzo Soprano),

Kellis Miller (Tenor), Peter Tracey (Baritone), Judith Raskin (Soprano),

Colin Tilney (Harpsichord), Alexander Young (Tenor), Don Garrard (Bass)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus

Igor Stravinsky

Date of Recording: 06/1964 

London, England 

Richard Danielpour - Symphony No.3; First Light; The Awakened Heart

Richard DANIELPOUR (b. 1956)

First light (1988) 

The awakened heart (1990) 

Symphony No. 3 "Journey without distance" (1989)*

Faith Easham (soprano)*

Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Chorale

Gerard Schwarz

rec. Seattle Opera House, 20 January 1991 (First light) and 13-15 October 1991 (other tracks)

Gershwin and Ravel - Music for Two Pianos

Music for Two Pianos

George GERSHWIN (1898-1937)

Rhapsody in Blue (1924) 

Cuban Overture (1932) 

Variations on I Got Rhythm (1934)

Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)

Ma mère l’Oye (1908) 

Les Sites auriculaires (1895)

Boléro (1928) 

Maurice RAVEL, attributed to F Dante Pilade “Fermo” Marchetti (1876–1940) arranged by Anthony Goldstone

Fascination (Valse tzigane) (1904) 

Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (two pianos and piano duet)

rec. 1997 (Variations on I Got Rhythm only) and 2007, St John the Baptist, Alkborough, North Lincolnshire. 

 

Vaughan Williams - Piano Concerto; The Wasps

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958) 

The Wasps (Aristophanic Suite)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

English Folk Song Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob)

The Running Set

Ashley Wass, Piano

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

James Judd

recorded in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, England, on 27th and 28th, January 2009

Fartein Valen - Orchestral Music Vol.2

Fartein VALEN (1887-1952)

Orchestral music - Volume 2

Nenia op. 18 No. 1 (1932-33) 

An Die Hoffnung op. 18 no. 2 (1933) 

Epithalamion op. 19 (1933) 

Symphony No. 2 op. 40 (1941-44) 

Symphony No. 3 op. 41 (1944-46) 

Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Christian Eggen

rec. Stavanger Concert Hall, Norway, May 2006-June 2007.

Engelbert Humperdinck - String Quartets

Engelbert HUMPERDINCK (1854–1921)

String Quartet in C major (1919/20) 

Piano Quintet in G major (1875) 

Menuet in E flat major for Piano Quintet (1872) 

String Quartet Movement in E minor (1873) 

String Quartet Movement in C minor (1876) 

Notturno in G major for Violin and String Quartet (1879) 

Diogenes Quartet 

(Stefan Kirpal (violin); Gundula Kirpal (violin); Stephanie Krauß (viola); Stephen Ristau (cello)); Andreas Kirpal (piano - Piano Quintet; Menuet); Lydia Dubrovskaya (violin) (Notturno)

rec. 19-21 December 2007, August Everding Saal, Grünwald, nr. Munich, Germany

Gian Carlo Menotti - Tha Saint of Bleecker Street

Gian Carlo MENOTTI (1911-2007)

The Saint of Bleecker Street

Musical Drama in Three Acts (1954)

Annina…………Julia Melinek (soprano)

Michele………..Timothy Richards (tenor)

Desideria………Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)

Don Marco…….John Marcus Brindle (bass-baritone)

Carmela………..Sandra Zeltzer (soprano)

Assunta………...Yvonne Howard (mezzo-soprano)

Salvatore……….Vitali Rozynko (baritone)

Spoleto Festival Chorus and Orchestra

Richard Hickox

Recorded live at the Teatro Nuovo, Spoleto, Italy, 7, 10, 14 July 2001 DDD