George Enescu - Symphony No.1; Suite d'Orchestre No.1; Intermede

George ENESCU (1881-1955)

Suite No. 1 for orchestra  ***

Intermède for strings  **

Symphony No. 1 *

George Enescu Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra

Cristian Mandeal 

rec Bucharest Romanian Athenaeum Hall 

* 12-14 July 1993 ** 12 Dec 1995 *** 4-7 June 1994

Adam Schoenberg - American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies

Adam SCHOENBERG (b 1980)

Finding Rothko (2006) 

American Symphony (2011) 

Picture Studies (2012) 

Kansas City Symphony

Michael Stern

rec. 20-21 June, 2014, Helzberg Hall, 

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri

Josef Suk - Complete Works for String Quartet; Piano Quintet

Josef SUK (1874-1935)

Complete Works for String Quartet

String Quartet op. 11 in B flat Major (1896) 

Quartet Movement in B flat Major (1888)

String Quartet op. 31 (1911) 

Piano Quintet op. 8 (1893 rev. 1915) 

Menuet in G Major (1897/1900) 

Ballade in D minor ((1890) 

Barkarole in D minor (1888) 

Meditace na Starocesky Choral op. 35a (1914) 

Matthias Kirschnereit (piano)

Minguet Quartett

rec. 1-4 November 2010, 23-24 May 2011, 23-25 February 2012

American Violin Sonatas - works by Alexander Reinagle and Rubin Goldmark

American Violin Sonatas

Before 1900

Rubin GOLDMARK (1872-1936)

Sonata in B Minor, Op. 4 (1900)

Alexander REINAGLE (1756-1809)

Sonata in F Major (1790)

Ting-Lan Chen (violin); Nathan Buckner (piano)

Paul Moravec - The Blizzard Voices

Paul MORAVEC (b. 1957)

The Blizzard Voices (2008)

Emily Pulley (soprano)

Deborah Selig (soprano)

Erica Brookhyser (mezzo-soprano)

Matthew DiBattista (tenor)

David Kravitz (baritone)

David Cushing (bass-baritone)

New England Conservatory Concert Choir

Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Gil Rose

Release Date: 5th Jan 2018

Tadeusz Szeligowski - Concerto For Orchestra; Piano Concerto

Tadeusz SZELIGOWSKI (1896-1963)

Uwertura burleska (Comedy Overture) (1952) 

Four Polish Dances (1954)

Piano Concerto (1941)

Nocturne for Orchestra (1947) 

Concerto for Orchestra (1930)* 

Bogdan Czapiewski (piano)

Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra

Mariusz Smolij

*Anna Ziółkowska (violin) (Concerto for Orchestra)

rec. Auditorium, Adam Minkiewicz University, Poznań, 19-21 December 2006 and 20-22 February 2007

Max Reger - Violin Concerto (Arr.Rudolf Kolisch)

Max REGER (1873-1916)

Violin Concerto in A major, Op.101 (1908) 

arr. 1922 for Violin and chamber ensemble by

 

  Rudolf Kolisch (1896-1978) 

Winfried Rademacher (violin)

Linos Ensemble

rec. Deutschlandfunk Cologne, Chamber Music Hall, December 2010

Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Le Descente d'Orphee aux Enfers

Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER (1643-1704)

Le Descente d'Orphee aux Enfers

Les Arts Florissants

William Christie

Benjamin Britten - The Choral Edition Vols.1, 2 and 3

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976) 

The Choral Edition

The Choral Edition Vol.1

Hymn to St.Peter, Op.56a

A Hymn to St.Columba

A Hymn to thr Virgin

Hymn to St.Cecilia, Op.27

Rejoice the Lamb, Op.30

Choral Dances from Gloriana

A.M.D.G.

Andrew Lundsen (Organ)

The Finzi Singers

Paul Spicer

Recorded: 23, 24 October 1995

Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, London, UK

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The Choral Edition Vol.2

Jubilate Deo

Te Deum

Antiphon, Op.56b

Missa Brevis, Op.63

A Wedding Anthem, Op.46

Sweet was the Song the Virgin Sung

A Ceremony of Carols, Op.28

Festival Te Deum, Op.32

Susan Drake (Harp)

Andrew Lumsden (Organ)

The Finzi Singers

Paul Spicer

Recorded: 7, 8 March 1996

Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, London, UK

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The Choral Edition Vol.3

Five Flower Songs,Op.47

Advance Democracy

Sacred and Profane, Op.91

A Boy was Born, Op.3

Lichfield Cathedral Choristers

The Finzi Singuers

Paul Spicer

Recorded: 28, 29 April 1997

Church of St Augustine, Kilburn, London, UK

John Duarte - Guitar Music

John DUARTE (1919-2004) 

Guitar Music

Antigoni Goni (guitar)

Recorded at St.John Chrisostom Church, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada 

from May 11-17, 2000

Paul Von Klenau - Symphony No.9

Paul von KLENAU (1883-1946)

Symphony No. 9 (1945) 

Cornelia Ptassek (soprano)

Susanne Resmark (mezzo-soprano)

Michael Weinius (tenor)

Steffen Bruun (bass)

Danish National Concert Choir

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Michael Schønwandt

rec. live, DR Konserthuset, Copenhagen, 20-21 March 2014

The Legacy of Pancho Vladigerov

The Legacy of

Pancho VLADIGEROV (1899-1978)

Exotic Bulgarian Masterworks for Piano

Krassimira Jordan (Piano)

Nocturno, Op. 59, No. 4

Prelude, Op. 15, No. 1

Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 59, No. 5

Andantino from Sonatina Concertante, Op. 28

Rhythmic Movement, Op. 37, No. 6

Autumn Elegy, Op. 15, No. 2

Rhapsody "Vardar" Op. 16

Chant, Op. 25, No. 1

Variations "Dilmano, Dilbero", Op. 2 (by Alexander Vladigerov)

Britten - Canticles; The Heart of the Matter

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Canticles & The heart of the matter

Daniel Norman (tenor)

Christopher Gould (piano)

Benjamin Maclean (treble)

William Towers (countertenor)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Harriet Walter (speaker) 

Richard Watkins (horn)

Hugh Webb (harp)

Recorded live in Oxford’s Holywell Music Room to celebrate the centenary of the composer’s birth.

Canticle III presented in its complete version as “The heart of the matter” with readings by Harriet Walter.

Canticle II (Abraham & Isaac) sung by Norman with boy treble Benjamin Maclean.

Enrique Granados - Maria del Carmen (Opera in Three Acts)

Enrique GRANADOS (1867–1916)

Maria del Carmen

Opera in Three Acts (1898) 

María del Carmen – Diana Veronese (soprano)

Concepción – Larisa Kostyuk (mezzo)

Fuensanta – Silvia Vázquez (soprano)

Pencho – Jesús Suaste (baritone)

Javier – Dante Alcalá (tenor)

Domingo – Gianfranco Montresor (baritone)

Don Fulgencio – David Curry (tenor)

Pepuso – Alberto Arrabal (baritone)

Migalo – Stewart Kempster (bass)

Antón – Ricardo Mirabelli (tenor)

Roque – Alex Ashworth (baritone)

Andrés – Nicholas Sharratt (tenor)

Un cantaor huertano – Vicenç Esteve (tenor)

Wexford Festival Opera Chorus

National Philharmonic Orchestra of Belarus

Max Bragado-Darman

rec. Theatre Royal, Wexford, 23, 26, 29 October 2003

Asger Hamerik - Symphonies Nos.5 and 6

Asger HAMERIK (1843-1923)

Symphony No. 5 in G minor Op.36 (Symphonie sérieuse) (1889-91)

Symphony No.6 in G major (Symphonie Spirituelle) Op.38 (1897)

Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard

Recorded at the Helsingborg Concert Hall on 15th December 1997, 11th –12th June 1998 and 25th –26th May 2000.

 

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Symphonies Nos.1 and 2

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887–1959)

Symphony No. 1 ‘O Imprevisto’

Symphony No. 2 ‘Ascensão’

Sao Paulo SYmphony Orchestra

Isaac Karabtchevsky

Recorded 13-23 February 2017 at the Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

Zygmunt Noskowski - Orchestral Works Vols.1, 2 and 3

Zygmunt NOSKOWSKI (1846-1909)

Orchestral Works - Volume 1

Morskie Oko (1875)

Symphony No. 1 in A major (1875) 

Pan Zolzikiewicz – overture (1888)

National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Gabriel Chmura (Morskie); 

Slawek A Wróblewski (symphony); 

Zygmunt Rychert (Pan)

rec. Polish Radio, 28 August 2003 (Morskie); 2 September 2004 (symphony); 23 February 2001 (Pan)

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Orchestral Works - Volume 2

Symphony No. 2 in C minor Elegiac (1875-79) 

Odgłosy Pamiątkowe (Commemorative Sounds) (1904-05)

Variations on an Original Theme (before 1883) 

Polish Radio Orchestra

Łukasz Borowicz

rec. Witold Lutoslawski Concert Studio, Polish Radio, Warsaw, March 2009

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Orchestral Works - Volume 3

Symphony No. 3 in F major From Spring to Spring (1904) 

From the Life of the Nation (1901)

Livia Quintilla - Prelude to Act II (1898) 

Elegiac Polonaise (1885) 

Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radio Katowice

Jose Maria Florencio

Polska Orkiestra Radiowa Warszawa

Lukasz Borowicz

rec. Grzegorz Fitelberg Concert Hall, Katowice, 28 May-1 June 2012 (Symphony); Witold Lutoslawski Concert Hall of Polish Radio, 26 January-1 February 2000.

Rimsky-Korsakov - Romances

Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908)

Romances

Marina Prudenskaya (mezzo-soprano)

Cord Garben (piano)

rec. SWR Chamber Studio, Stuttgart, Germany, June and October 2010

Amorisms - Music of Paul Moravec

 

Paul MORAVEC  (b.1957)

Amorisms

The Music of Paul Moravec

Portara Ensemble

ALIAS Chamber Ensemble

Manuel Maria Ponce - Guitar Music Vol.1

Manuel Maria PONCE (1882 - 1948)

Guitar Music Vol.1

Vespertina

Matinal (Rondino)

Tres Canciones Populares Mexicanas

24 Preludes

Four Pieces

Scherzino Mexicano

Seis Preludios Cortos Estrellita

Adam Holzman

Recorded 10-14 January 1996 at St.John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket, Canada

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Symphonies Nos.8, 9 and 11

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)

Symphony No. 8 (1950) 

Symphony No. 9 (1952) 

Symphony No. 11 (1955) 

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Isaac Karabtchevsky

rec. Sala São Paulo, Brazil, 2015/16. DDD