Alexander Moyzes - Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6

Alexander MOYZES (1906-1984)

Symphony No. 5 (1948)

Symphony No. 6 (1951)

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ladislav Slovák

rec 2-5 Jan 1995, 28 Nov-1 Dec 1994, Concert Hall, Slovak Radio, Bratislava

Ingvar Lindholm - Orchestral Works 1944-1958

Ingvar LINDHOLM (1921-2017)

Orchestral works (1944-1958)

Toccata E Canto (1944)

Concerto For String Orchestra (1945/1948)

Three Songs (1940-45)

Music For Strings (1952)

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

Lu Jia

Recording data: (Tracks 1, 2 and 10) May 2001; Tracks 3, 4, 8, 9) january 2003; (5 to 7) April 2002; 

at the Louis de Geer Concert Hall, Norrköping, Sweden

Karl Jenkins - Cantata Memoria - For the Children (In Memory of Aberfan 1966)

Karl JENKINS (b.1944)

Cantata Memoria

For the Children (In Memory of Aberfan 1966)

Bryn Terfel 

Elin Manahan Thomas

Catrin Finch  

David Childs

Sinfonia Cymru

Karl Jenkins

Released: 2016

Joly Braga Santos - Complete Chamber Music Vol.2

Joly BRAGA SANTOS (1924-1988)

Chamber Music Vol.2

Piano Quartet Op.28 (1957) 

Suite of Dances Op. 63 (1984) 

Piano Trio Op.64 (1985) 

Adagio e Scherzino (1956) 

Suite for Brass (1985)

Jill Lawson, piano (quartet, dances, trio)

Eliot Lawson, violin (quartet, trio)

Natalia Tchitch, viola (quartet, dances)

Catherine Strynckx, cello (quartet, trio)

Adriano Aguiar, double bass (dances)

Ricardo Lopes, oboe (suite, adagio)

Nuno Ivo Cruz, flute (adagio)

António Saiote, clarinet (adagio)

Carolino Carreira, bassoon (adagio)

Paulo Guerreiro, horn (adagio, brass)

Jorge Almeida, trumpet (brass)

António Quítalo, trumpet (brass)

Pedro Monteiro, trumpet (brass)

Jarrett Butler, trombone (brass)

Vítor Faria, trombone (brass)

Ilídio Massacote, tuba (brass)

 rec. 2017/18, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon

Tarik O'Regan - Threshold of Night (Music for Voices & Strings)

Tarik O'REGAN (b.1978)

Threshold of Night (Music for Voices & Strings)

Had I Not Seen the Sun (2007) 

The Ecstasies Above (2006) 

Threshold of Night (2006) 

Tal vez tenemos tiempo (2007) 

Care Charminge Sleepe (2003, rev. 2007)

Triptych (2005) 

I Had No Time to Hate (2007)

Conspirare Company of Voices

Craig Hella Johnson

Recorded October 2007 at Troy Savings bank Musi Hall, Troy, New York

Milton Babbit - An Elizabethan Sextette; Solo Piano Works; Groupwise; Vision and Prayer

Milton BABBIT (1916-2011)

An Elizabethan Sextette

"When I Was Fair And Young"

"Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind"

"Your Face, Your Tongue, Your Wit"

"Can Doleful Notes To Measured Accents Set"

"First Love"

"Neopolitan"

Solo Piano Works

Minute Waltz (Or) ¾ ± ⅛

Partitions

It Takes Twelve To Tango

Playing For Time

About Time 12:20

Groupwise

Vision And Prayer

Group for Contemporary Music

Nancy Bergman,Janet Steele, Johanna Arnold, Susan Jacquemot, Martha Rafferty-Page, Barbara Ann Martin (Voice 

Benjamin Hudson (Violin); Maureen Gallagher (Viola); Fred Sherry (Cello); Alan Feinberg (Piano); Aleck Karis (Piano); Harvey Sollberger, (Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo, Conductor) 

Daniel Shulman (Conductor) 

Bethany Beardslee (Soprano)

Krysztof Penderecki - Sinfoniettas; Three Pieces in Old Style; Oboe Capriccio

Krysztof PENDERECKI (1933-2020)

Three pieces in old style (1963) 

Capriccio for oboe and string orchestra (1964) 

Intermezzo for 24 strings (1973) 

Sinfonietta No. 1 (1992) 

Sinfonietta No. 2 (1994) 

Serenade (1997) 

Jean-Louis Capezzali (oboe)

Artur Pachlewski (clarinet: sinfonietta 2)

Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra

Antoni Wit

rec. Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, 6-9 and 22-24 September 2008 and 3 December 2008

 

Peter Mennin - Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9; Folk Overture

Peter MENNIN (1923-1983)

Symphony No.8 (1973)

Symphony No.9 (1981)

Folk Overture (1945)

Columbus Symphony Orchestra

Christian Badea 

Recorded at the Ohio Theatre, Columbus, Ohio, November 16 and 17, 1988.

Richard Strauss - Complete Tone Poems Vol. 5

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Complete Tone Poems Vol.5

Symphonia Domestica, Op 53 

Metamorphosen

 

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

François-Xavier Roth

rec. 2012-2015, Freiburg, Germany

Vasily Kalinnikov - Tsar Boris; Epic Poem; The Cedar and the Palm

Vasily Sergeyevich KALINNIKOV (1866–1901)

Tsar Boris – Incidental Music to Alexey Tolstoy’s drama 

Bilina (Epic Poem): Overture  

Kedri i palma (The Cedar and the Palm) – Symphonic Picture after Heinrich Heine’s poem  

Nimfi (The Nymphs) – Symphonic Picture after Ivan Turgenev’s Poem in Prose

Budapest Symphony Orchestra

Antal Jancsovics

Recorded at the Mafilm Music Hall in Budapest, 20th to 25th November 1987 (tracks 1-5) 

and the Italian Institute in Budapest, 22nd to 23rd September 1988 (tracks 6-8).

 

Joly Braga Santos - Complete Chamber Music Vol.1

Joly BRAGA SANTOS (1924-1988) 

Complete Chamber Music, Vol 1

String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 4 (1945)

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 27 (1957)

String Sextet, Op. 65 (1986)*

Irene Lima (Cello)*

Leonor Braga Santos (Viola)*

Lopes-Graça Quartet

Luís Pacheco Cunha (Violin)

Maria José Laginha (Violin)

Isabel Pimentel (Viola)

Catherine Strynckx (Cello)

First Complete Recordings

Recorded at Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon

Edvard Grieg - The Complete Songs Vol. 2

Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907) 

The Complete Songs - Volume 2

Romancer, Op. 15

Romancer (Aeldre Og Nyere), Op. 39

Romancer Og Ballader Af Andreas Munch, Op. 9

Digte Af Vilhelm Krag, Op. 60

4 Songs Without Opus Numbers

Monica Groop (Mezzo-Soprano)

Ilmo Ranta (Piano)

Recording: 1996 - 01-11/14 at Danderyd Grammar School, Danderyd, Sweden

Grace Williams - Orchestral Works

Grace WILLIAMS (1906-1977)

Four Illustrations for the Legend of Rhiannon (1939/1940)

Castell Caernarfon (1969)

Ballads (1968)

Sea Sketches for String Orchestra (1943/1944)

BBC Philharmonic

John Andrews

rec. 2024, BBC Philharmonic Studio, Salford, UK

Egon Wellesz - Symphonies Nos. 4, 6 & 7

Egon WELLESZ (1885-1974)

Symphony No 4 Op. 70 ("Sinfonia Austriaca") (1951-1953) 

Symphony No. 6 Op. 95 (1965) 

Symphony No 7 Op. 102 ("Contra Torrentem") (1967)

 

Radio Symphonieorchester Wien

Gottfried Rabl

Recorded: Grosser Sendesaal, Funkhaus ORF, 13-16, 26-27 Nov 2003

Edward MacDowell - Piano Music Vol. 1

Edward MACDOWELL (1860-1908)

Piano Music Vol. 1 

Woodland Sketches

Sea Pieces

Fireside Tales

New England Idylls

James Barbagallo (piano)   

rec 14-18 May 1993, Novato, California

Matthew Taylor - Piano Trio; String Quartet No.3; Confict and Consolation

Matthew TAYLOR (b. 1964)

Piano Trio Op. 17 (1993-94) 

String Quartet No. 3 Op. 18 (1995) 

Conflict and Consolation Op. 19 (1996) 

Lowbury Piano Trio 

(Pauline Lowbury, violin; Ursula Smith, cello; Elizabeth Burley, piano)

Schidlof Quartet 

(Ofer Falk and Rafael Todes, violins; Graham Oppenheimer, viola; Oleg Kogan, cello)

Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins

rec. St. George’s, Bristol, 10 November 1997 (Piano Trio); 

Music Department, University of Exeter, 19 April 1997 (String Quartet No. 3); 

St. Augustine’s Church, Kilburn, 13 November 1996 (Conflict and Consolation). DDD

 

Edvard Grieg - The Complete Songs Vol. 1

Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907) 

The Complete Songs, Vol.1

Seks Digte, Op.4

Hjertets melodier, Op.5 (Texts: Hans Christian Andersen)

Seks Digte af Ibsen, Op.25 (Texts: Henrik Ibsen)

Barnslige Sange. Fra Nordahl Rolfsens Laesebog, Op.61

Haugtussa, Op.67

Monica Groop (Mezzo-Soprano)

Love Derwinger (Piano)

Recorded 1993

Sergei Lyapunov - Violin Concerto; Symphony No.1

Sergei LYAPUNOV (1859-1924)

Violin Concerto, Op. 61 (1915, rev. 1921) 

Symphony No. 1 in B minor, Op. 12 (1887) 

Maxim Fedotov (violin)

Russian Philharmonic Orchestra

Dmitry Yablonsky

rec. 27-30 October 2007, Studio 5, Russian State TV and Radio Company KULTURA, 

Moscow

Grazyna Bacewicz - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4; Overture

Grażyna BACEWICZ (1909-1969)

Orchestral works Vol 1

Symphony No 3 (1952)

Symphony No 4 (1953)

Overture (1943)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo

rec. 2023, Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK

Philip Glass - Études Pour Piano (Intégrale)

Philip GLASS (b.1937)

Études Pour Piano (Intégrale)

Études Pour Piano, Vol. 1

Études Pour Piano, Vol. 2 

François Mardirossian (Piano)

ecorded At – Studio Stephen Paulello, Villethierry, France

Miloslav Kabeláč - Mystery of Time; Hamlet; Reflections; Metamorphoses II

Miloslav KABELAC (1908-1979)

Mystery of Time, Passacaglia for orchestra, Op 31 (1953-57)

Hamlet Improvisation for orchestra, Op 46 (1962-63)

Reflections, Op 49 (1963-64)

Metamorphoses II of the oldest Czech Hymn Hospodine, pomiluj ny, for piano and orchestra, Op 58 (1979)

Miroslav Sekera (piano)

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marko Ivanović

rec 2019-2021, Studio 1, Czech Radio, Prague, Czech Republic

French Piano Duets (Faure; Poulenc; Debussy; Stravinsky; Ravel)

French Duets

Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924)

Dolly, Op 56 

Francis POULENC (1899-1963)

Sonata for four hands, FP8 

Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)

Six épigraphes antiques L139 

Petite suite L71

Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

Three easy pieces 

Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)

Ma mère l’oye

Paul Lewis & Steven Osborne (Piano)

rec. March 2020, Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, UK

Antonin Dvorak - Rusalka (Opera in 3 Acts)

Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841-1904)

Rusalka – opera in three acts (1900)

Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil  on Karel Jaromír Erben's and Božena Němcová's fairy tales 

Cheryl Barker - Rusalka (soprano) 

Rosario La Spina - Prince (tenor) 

Anne-Marie Owens - Ježibaba (mezzo) 

Bruce Martin - Water Sprite (bass) 

Elizabeth Whitehouse - Foreign Princess (soprano) 

Barry Ryan - Gamekeeper/Huntsman (baritone) 

Sian Pendry - Turnspit (soprano) 

Sarah Crane - 1st Wood Nymph (soprano) 

Taryn Fiebig - 2nd Wood Nymph (soprano) 

Domenica Matthews - 3rd Wood Nymph (mezzo)

Opera Australia Chorus

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra/

Richard Hickox

rec. live, March 2007, Sydney Opera House

Richard Strauss - Complete Tone Poems Vol.4

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Complete Tone Poems Vol. 4

Eine Alpensinfonie, Op 64

Don Juan, Op 20 

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

François-Xavier Roth

rec. 2012-2015, Freiburg, Germany

George Crumb - Makrokosmos Vols. 1 & 2

George CRUMB (1929-2022)

Makrokosmos Volumes 1 & 2

Stephanos Thomopoulos (Piano)

Recorded at the Auditorium Rainier III de Monaco, Salle Yakov Kreizberg, 

December 8-9, 2017