Joseph Haydn - String Quartets Op. 20 "Sun", Nos. 4-6

Joseph HAYDN (1732-1809)

String Quartets Op. 20 Nos. 4-6, ‘Sun’ (1772)

No. 4 in D major 

No. 5 in F minor 

No. 6 in A major 

Chiaroscuro Quartet 

(Alina Ibragimova (violin); Pablo Hernán Benedí (violin); Emilie Hörnlund (viola); Claire Thirion (cello))

rec. Sendesaal, Bremen, 2015

Miklos Rozsa - Young Bess (Original Sountrack)

Miklos ROZSA (1907-1995)

The Spectacular Fim Music of Miklos Rozsa Vol.3

Young Bess (Original Soundtrack) 1953

Prelude / Hatfield / Reminiscing / Exit Anne Boleyn

Changing Mothers / King Henry / New Stepmother / Hatfield Again

Tom Seymour's Mission / Whitehall / The Prince Of Wales

Eavesdropping

Dies Irae

Princess Elizabeth / Appointment With Love

Anne Boleyn's Daughter / Dinner Music

Dreams / Reality / Disillusion

The King's Diary / The King's Finances / The King's English

Returning Hero

Royal Tact / Old Harry / Chelsea

The King's Ballad

Desperate Love / Crossroads / Catherine's End

Bad News / Night Visitor / Farewell

Inquisition / Alone

Finale

Miklos Rozsa (Conductor)

Released 1993

Alberto Posadas - Oscuro abismo de llanto y de ternura; Nebmaat; Cripsis; Glossopoeia

Alberto POSADAS (b.1967)

Oscuro abismo de llanto y de ternura (2005) for ensemble

Nebmaat (2008) for quintet

Cripsis (2007) for ensemble

Glossopoeia (2009) for 3 dancers, 4 musicians, video and electronics

Ensemble Intercontemporain

François-Xavier Roth 

Recording:

1) 21-22 December 2009, Cité de la musique, Paris

2) 11 April 2008, IRCAM (Espace de projection), Paris

3) 11 May 2007, IRCAM (Espace de projection), Paris

4) 19 December 2009, IRCAM (Espace de projection), Paris

Jan Levoslav Bella - Piano Music (Complete)

Jan Levoslav BELLA (1843–1936)

Sonata In B Flat Minor

Piece For Piano In C Minor (Two Movements)

Variations On In Pressburg By The Danube, Op. 9 (Pro Prešporku Na Dunaji)

Variations On A Swarm Is Flying, Op. 21 (Letí, Letí Roj)

Sonatina In E Minor

Four Little Pieces

Daniela Ruso (Piano)

Recorded 18 July (tracks 1-4), 20 October (tracks 5-8) & 6 December 1993 (tracks 9-13) at Moyzes Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Elsa Barraine - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2

Elsa BARRAINE (1910-1999)

Symphony No.2 “Voïna” (1938)

Illustration symphonique pour Pogromes d’André Spire (1933)

Symphony No.1 (1931)

Musique funèbre pour la mise au tombeau du Titien* (1953)

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln

Elena Schwarz

Alberto Carnevale Ricci* (piano)

rec. March 2024 Kölner Philharmonie, Köln Germany

Charles Ives - Sonatas for Violin and Piano

Charles IVES (1874-1954)

Violin Sonata No. 3

First Sonata for Violin and Piano

Second Sonata for Violin and Piano

Fourth Sonata for Violin and Piano, "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting"

Liana Gourdjia (Violin)

Matan Porat (Piano)

Recorded at the Rainier III, Auditorium, Monaco 

Jakob Kreizberg Concert Hall from 31 March to 2 April 2018

Bethoven for Three - Symphony No.6 "Pastoral"; Piano Trio No.3, Op.1

Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Beethoven for Three

Symphony no.6 in F major ‘Pastoral’ op.68 (arr. Wosner)

Piano Trio no.3 in C minor op.1 no.3

Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Emanuel Ax (piano)

Recorded May 2022, in Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox, MA.

Carl Ruggles - The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles

Carl RUGGLES (1876-1971)

The Complete Music of carl Ruggles 

Toys (Judith Blegen, Soprano - Michael Tilson Thomas, Piano)

Vox Clamans in Deserto (Beverly Morgan, Mezzo - Speculum Musicae)

Men

Angels - Original Trumpet Version (Brass Ensemble - Gerard Schwarz, Leader)

Men and Mountains

Angels - Trumpet/Trombone Version (Brass Ensemble - Gerard Schwarz, Leader)

Sun-Treader  

Portals

Evocations (Original Piano Version - John Kirkpatrick)

Evocations (Orchestral Version)

Organum

Exaltation - For Brass, Chorus and Organ (Gregg Smith Singers - Leonard Raver, Organ)

Buffalo Philharmonic

Michael Tilson Thomas

Released: April 2012 

Hugo Alfven - Symphony No.5; Andante Religioso

Hugo ALFVÉN (1872-1960)

Symphony No. 5 in A minor, Op. 54 (1943-1958)

Andante religioso from Revelation Cantata, Op. 31 (1913)*

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

Niklas Willén

Recorded at: De Geer Hall, Norrköping, Sweden, 15-17 June 2004; 23-27 May, 2005*

William Alwyn - Chamber Works Vol. 2

William ALWYN (1905-1985)

Chamber Works Volume 2

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Divertimento for Solo flute

Crepuscule for Solo Harp

Sonata for Oboe and Piano

Sonata for Flute and Piano

Sonata Impromptu for Violin and Viola

The Haffner Wind Ensemble of London with Guests

Nicholas Daniel 

Kate Hill - flute

Joy Farrall - clarinet

Leland Chen - violin

Clare McFarlane - viola

Ieuan Jones - harp

Julius Drake - piano

Recorded August 19-23, 1992 at The  Faculty Of Music Concert Hall, West Road, Cambridge

Painting: Bird of Paradise Flowers by William Alwyn

Anna Clyne - Mythologies (Orchestral Works)

Anna CLYNE (b.1980)

Mythologies

1-Masquerade (2013) 

2-This Midnight Hour (2015) 

3-The Seamstress, for viol, voice and orchestra (2014) 

4-Night Ferry (2012) 

5-<<rewind<< (2005, rev. 2006) 

Jennifer Koh (violin)

Irene Buckley (voice)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Marin Alsop 1 

Sakari Oramo 2-3

Andrew Litton 4 

André de Ridder 6

rec. live 7 September 2013, Royal Albert Hall (Masquerade), 7 May 2011, Barbican Hall (<<rewind<<), 11 January 2013, Barbican Hall (Night Ferry), 15 January 2016, Barbican Hall (The Seamstress) & 21 March 2018, Barbican Hall (This Midnight Hour)

Nonetto - Works by Nino Rota, Hans Eisler and Bohuslav Martinu

Nonetto

Nino ROTA (1911-1979) 

Nonetto (1959-1974)

For violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn

Hans EISLER (1898-1962)

Nonet No. 2 (1941)

for 3 violins, double bass, flute, clarinet, bassoon, tumpet, percussion

Bohuslav MARTINU (1890-1959) 

Nonet No. 2 H.374 (1959)

for violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn

Oxalys

Recording: Dec. 2020, Studio 1, Flagey, Brussels

Hugo Alfven - Symphony No.4 "From the Outermost Skerries"; Festival Overture

Hugo ALFVÉN (1872-1960)

Symphony No. 4 "From the Outermost Skerries" Op. 39 (1919)

Festival Overture Op. 52 (1944)

Arndis Halla, (soprano vocalise) 

Johann Valdimarsson, (tenor vocalise)

Sigrun Edvaldsdottir (violin) 

Richard Talkowsky (cello) 

Kristjan Th. Stephensen (cor anglais)

Iceland Symphony Orchestra

Niklas Willén.

Recordded at, 10–13 June 2003 at Haskolabo University Cinema Auditorium, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

Ernst Krenek - Orchestral Works

Ernst KRENEK (1900-1991)

Potpourri, Op.54 (1927) 

Seven Orchestra Pieces, Op.31 (1924) 

‘Pallas Athene’ Symphony, Op.137 (1954) 

Tricks and Trifles, Op.101 (1945)

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Karl-Heinz Steffens

Recorded 2019, Ludwigshafen, Philharmonie

Bernard Herrmann - Symphony No.1; Concerto Macabro; For the Fallen; The Devil and Daniel Webster (Suite)

Bernard HERRMANN (1911-1975)

Symphony No. 1 (1941) *

Concerto Macabre 

For the Fallen

The Devil and Daniel Webster (film suite)

Sara Davis Buechner (Piano)

Phoenix Symphony Orchestra *

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

James Sedares

British Tone Poems Vol.2 (Bliss, Foulds, Fogg, Goossens, Vaughan Williams, Howell, Cowen, Hadley)

British Tone Poems - Volume 2

John FOULDS (1880-1939)

April-England, Op.48 No.1 (1926, orchestrated 1932)

Eric FOGG (1903-1939)

Merok (1929) 

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)

By the Tarn, Op.15 No.1 (1916) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Harnham Down (ed. James Francis Brown) (1904-07)

Dorothy HOWELL (1898-1982)

Lamia (1918) 

Frederic Hymen COWEN (1852-1935)

Rêverie (1903) 

Patrick HADLEY (1899-1973)

Kinder Scout (1923) 

Arthur BLISS (1891-1975)

Mêlée fantasque (1921, revised 1937) 

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba

Recorded: 2019, MediaCity UK, Salford

British Tone Poems Vol.1 (Austin, Alwyn, Bantock, Gurney, Balfour Gardiner, Vaughan Williams)

British Tone Poems - Volume 1

Frederic AUSTIN (1872-1952)

Spring. Symphonic Rhapsody (1902-07) 

William ALWYN (1905-1985)

Blackdown. A Tone Poem from the Surrey Hills (1926) 

Granville BANTOCK (1868-1946)

The Witch of Atlas. Tone Poem No 5 for Orchestra (1902) 

Ivor GURNEY (1890-1937)

A Gloucestershire Rhapsody for Orchestra (1919-21), ed. Philip Lancaster and Ian Venables 

Henry BALFOUR GARDINER (1877-1950)

A Berkshire Idyll for Small Orchestra (1913) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Solent. Impression for Orchestra (1902-03) ed. James Francis Brown 

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba

Recccorded:  14-16 September 2016, BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

Frederic Cowen - Symphony No.3 "Scandinavian"; Indian Rhapsody

Frederic Hymen COWEN (1852-1935)

The Butterfly's Ball, overture

Indian Rhapsody

Symphony No. 3 in C Minor "Scandinavian"

Czechoslovakian State Philharmonic Orchetsra, Kosice

Adrian Leaper

Rec. House of Arts, Kosice, Czech Republic, 1989

 

Jules Massenet - Songs with Orchestra

Jules MASSENET (1842-1912)

Songs with Orchestra

Nicole Car (soprano) 2

Jodie Devos (soprano) 3

Cyrille Dubois (tenor) 1

Étienne Dupuis (baritone)6

Véronique Gens (soprano) 4

Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano)5

Orchestre de Chambre de Paris

Hervé Niquet

01.) Pensée de printemps 1

02.) Le Poète et le fantôme 4

03.) Hymne d’amour 6

04.) Amoureuse 2

05.) Si tu veux, Mignonne 3

06.) Chant provençal 5

07.) Rêverie de Colombine (from Le Roman d’Arlequin) instrumental

08.) Souvenez-vous, Vierge Marie! – Prière de Saint Bernard 4

09.) Les Enfants 3

10.) Pensée d’automne 1

11.) Baiser-Impromptu 5

12.) Je t’aime 2

13.) À Colombine 6

14.) Scène religieuse (from Les Érinnyes) instrumental

15.) Sœur d’élection 4

16.) Crépuscule (from Poème pastoral) 3

17.) Aurore (from Poème pastoral) 5

18.) Pitchounette 1

19.) L’improvisatore – Rimembranza di Trastevere 2

20.) Les Fleurs 2 & 6

21.) Menuet d’amour (from Thérèse) instrumental

22.) Marquise 5

23.) On dit! 4

24.) Musette (from Poème pastoral) 3

25.) La Chanson de Musette (from La Vie de Bohème) 1

All tracks except 02, 07, 14 and 21 are first recordings.

rec. 2020, Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique, Philharmonie de Paris