Sergei Prokofiev - Complete Works for Violin

Sergey PROKOFIEV ( 1891-1953)

Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 19 (1914) 

Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56 (1932) 

Sonata for Violin Solo, Op. 115 (1947) 

Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 63 (1935)

Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 80 (1938)

Five Melodies, Op. 35bis (1925) 

Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 94bis (1944) 

James Ehnes (violin)

Amy Schwartz Moretti (violin) (Op. 56) 

Andrew Armstrong (piano) (Op. 80, 35bis, 96bis) 

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Gianandrea Noseda

rec. 28 June 2012, 23 February 2013 BBC Studios, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 

Salford, UK (concertos); 

20-22 June 2012, Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK (other works)

Richard Rodney Bennett - The Film Music

Richard Rodney BENNETT (1936-2012)

Film Music  

Murder on the Orient Express

Far from the Madding Crowd

Lady Caroline Lamb*

Tender is the Night

Enchanted April

Four Weddings and a Funeral

 

Philip Dukes (viola)*

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba 

Recorded January 24-25 and July 4-5, 2000.

H.K.Gruber - Frankenstein!!; Perpetuum mobile; Charivari; dancing in the dark

H.K.GRUBER (b.1943)

Frankenstein!!

Perpetuum mobile, 'Perpetual Motion'(Johann Strauss II)

Charivari (An Austrian journal for Orchestra)

Dancing in the Dark

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Heinz Karl Gruber (Conductor & Composer)

rec. 25-27 February 2005, BBC Broadcasting House, Manchester.

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

Edward MacDowell - Orchestral Works Vol. 1

Edward MACDOWELL (1860-1908)

Orchestral Works Volume 1

Lancelot und Elaine, Op.25 (1886)

Piano Concerto No.1 in A minor, Op.15 (1882)

Two Fragments after The Song of Roland, Op.30 (1886-1890)

To a Wild Rose, Op.51 No.1 (1895)

Lamia, Op.29 (1887-1888)

Xiayin Wang (piano), 

BBC Philharmonic

John Wilson

rec. 2023/24, Media City, Salford, UK

George Lloyd - Symphonies Nos. 7 - 12

George LLOYD (1913-1998)

The Symphonies Nos.7-12 (4 CDs)

Symphony No.7 ‘Proserpine’ (1957-59)

Symphony No.8 (1961 orch 1965)

Symphony No.9 (1969)

Symphony No.10 ‘November Journeys’ (1981-82)

Symphony No.11 (1985)

Symphony No.12 (1989)

Orchestral Suite No.1 from The Serf (1938 arr 1997)

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

BBC Philharmonic Brass

Philharmonia Orchestra

Albany Symphony Orchestra

George Lloyd

rec. 1984-2000, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, Watford Town Hall, London; 

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, UK

Johann Sebastian Bach - King of Kings (Orchestrations by Andrew Davis)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

King of Kings

Orchestrations by Andrew Davis

Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731*

In dulci jubilo, BWV 608

Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn, BWV 630

Fantasia & Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 “The Great”

Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV 727

O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß, BWV 622

Passacaglia & Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582*

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645

Organ Trio super “Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend”, BWV 655*

Prelude & Fugue in E-Flat Major, BWV 552 “St. Anne”*

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Andrew Davis *

Martyn Brabbins

rec. 2023/2024, MediaCityUK, Salford, UK

George Lloyd - Symphonies Nos. 1 - 6

George LLOYD (1913-1998)

The Symphonies Nos.1-6 (4 CDs)

Symphony in A (No.1) (1932)

Symphony No.2 (1933, rev. 19832)

Symphony No.3 (1933)

Symphony No.4 (1945-1946)

Symphony No.5 (1947-1948)

Symphony No.6 (1956)

Charade (1968)

Overture ‘John Socman’ (1951)

Albany Symphony Orchestra (Symphonies 1, 4) 

BBC Philharmonic (other works)

George Lloyd

rec. 1986-1992, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, UK; 1987-1990, 

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, USA

Ernst von Dohnanyi - Symphony No.1; American Rhapsody

Ernst VON DOHNÁNYI (1877-1960)

Symphony No. 1, Op. 9

American Rhapsody, Op. 47

Gillian Callow (Solo cor anglaise)

John Bradbury (Solo clarinet)

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Matthias Bamert

Recorded: 19-20 November 1997 at New Broadcasting House, Manchester

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

Toru Takemitsu - Spectral Canticle; To the Edge of a Dream

Tōru TAKEMITSU (1930-1996)

Spectral Canticle for guitar, violin and orchestra (1995)

To the Edge of Dream for guitar and orchestra (1983)

Vers, l’arc-en-ciel, Palma for oboe d’amore, guitar and orchestra (1984)

Twill by Twilight (1988)

Jacob Kellerman (guitar)

Viviane Hagner (violin) 

Juliana Koch (oboe d’amore)

BBC Philharmonic

Christian Karlsen

rec. 2022, Philharmonic Studio, Media City UK, Salford, UK

Erich Wolgang Korngold - The Film Music

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD (1897-1957)

Film Music

The Sea Wolf - film music (1941) plus trailer

The Adventures of Robin Hood suite from film music (1938) 

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

rec. Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester; 1, 3 Sept 2004.

 

Malcolm Arnold - Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 & 9; Oboe Concerto

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)

Symphonies: 7 (Op.113), 8 (Op. 124), 9 (Op. 128)

Concerto for Oboe and Strings (Op. 39)

Jennifer Galloway (oboe) 

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

recorded Studio 7, NBH Manchester, Jan. 2001

The Film Music of Alan Rawsthorne

Alan RAWSTHORNE (1905-1971) 

The Film Muisc

The Captive Heart

West of Zanzibar 

The Cruel Sea 

Where No Vultures Fly 

Uncle Silas 

Lease of Life 

The Dancing Fleece 

Burma Victory 

Saraband for Dead Lovers

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba

Recorded in May 1999 at: New Broadcasting House, Manchester

Released March 2000

Kapp Family (Artur, Eugen and Villem) - Orchestral Works

Artur KAPP (1878-1952)

Don Carlos – dramatic overture after Friedrich Schiller (1899) 

Eugen KAPP (1908-1996)

Kalevipoeg – ballet suite (1947) 

Villem KAPP (1913-1964)

Symphony No. 2 in C minor (1955)*

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Neeme Järvi

rec. Studio 7, BBC Broadcasting House, Manchester, 8 July 2005 (Carlos, Kalevipoeg); 

5-6 March 2001 (Symphony)

*Premiere recording of Villem Kapp’s Symphony No. 2, 

first issued on BBC Music Magazine CD

 

Malcolm Arnold - Clarinet Concerto and other Orchestral Works

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)

Commonwealth Christmas Overture Op.64 (1957)

Clarinet Concerto No.1 Op.20 (1948)

Divertimento No.2 Op.24/75 (1950)

Larch Trees Op.3 (1943)

Philharmonic Concerto Op.120 (1976)

The Padstow Lifeboat Op.94a (1967, orch. Philip Lane,2000)

Michael Collins (clarinet)

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba

rec. 2019/22, MediaCity UK Salford, Manchester

Miklos Rozsa - The Film Music

Miklos ROZSA (1907-1995)

Film Music Suites

The Thief of Bagdad

Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book

Sahara

Ben-Hur

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

Recording venue:  MediaCity UK, Salford on 1 and 20 July 2013

Bernard Herrmann - Film Music

Bernard HERRMANN (1911-1975)

Film Music 

Hangover Square

Concerto Macabre*

Citizen Kane**

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Bernard Herrmann, Composer

Martin Roscoe (Piano)*

Orla Boylan (Soprano)**

Tracks 1-8, 10, 11 recorded March 24 & 25, 2009.

Track 9 recorded July 14, 2009.

Rodion Shchedrin - Old Russian Circus Music; Symphony No.2

Rodion SHCHEDRIN (1932-2025)

Old Russian Circus Music

Symphony No. 2

BBC Philharmonic

Vassily Sinaisky

Karol Szymanowski - Violin Concertos Nos.1 and 2; Concert Overture

Karol SZYMANOWSKI (1882-1937)

Concert Overture, Op.12

Violin Concerto No.1, Op.35

Violin Concerto No.2, Op.61

Lydia Mordkovitch (Violin)

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra 

Vassily Sinaiski

Redorded at New Broadcasting House, Manchester; UK 

18-19 April 1996