Peter Dickinson - Lockdown Blues (works by Lambert, Barber, Berkeley, Poulenc, Gershwin and others)

Peter DIKINSON (1934-2023)

Lockdown Blues

Composers:

Peter Dickinson, Edward MacDowell, Constant Lambert, Francis Poulenc, Samuel Barber, Lennox Berkeley, George Gershwin, Erik Satie, Eugene Goossens, John Cage, Duke Ellington

Works:

Barber: (arr. Dickinson) Canzonetta Op. 48 (1977-8)

Berkeley: Andante Op.23/6 (1945)

Cage: In a Landscape (1948)

Dickinson: Blue Rose (1978); Freda’s Blues (2016); Lockdown Blues (2020)

Ellington: (arr. Dickinson) Twelve Melodies (1932-43)

Gershwin: Three-Quarter Blues (c1925); Who Cares? (1931)

Goossens: Lament for a Departed Doll Op.18/10 (1917)

Lambert: Elegiac Blues (1927)

MacDowell: To a Wild Rose Op.51/1 (1896)

Poulenc: Pastourelle IFP69 (1927); Bal fantôme IFP64/4 (c1934)

Satie: Trois Gymnopédies IES26 (1888); Trois Gnossiennes IES24 Nos.1-3 (1889-90)

Peter Dickinson (piano)

Recorded 16 and 17 April 2021 at Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk. UK 

Duke Ellington - Black, Brown and Beige; The River; Harlem

Duke ELLINGTON (1899-1974)

Harlem (orch. Maurice Peress) (1950) 

Black, Brown, and Beige - Suite (orch. Maurice Peress) (1943) 

Three Black Kings - Ballet (completed by Mercer Ellington)* (1943) 

The River - Suite (orch. Ron Collier) (1970) 

Billy STRAYHORN (1915-1967)

Take the ‘A’ Train† (arr. Ellington) (1939) 

Sal Andolina (clarinet* and alto saxophone*†)

Tony Di Lorenzo (trumpet†) 

Amy Licata (violin†)

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

JoAnn Falletta

rec. Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York, USA, 9-11 May 2012 

Reflections on Duke - Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays the Music of Duke Ellington

Reflections on Duke

Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays the Music of 

Duke Ellington

William Grant Still - Symphony No.1 "Afro-American"/ Duke Ellington - Suite from "The River

 William Grant Still

 Symphony No. 1 'Afro-American'

 Duke Ellington

 Suite from 'The River', orchestrated Collier

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Neeme Jarvi

William Grant Still - Symphony No.2 (Song of a New Race) /William Levi Dawson - Negro Folk Symphony

William Grant Still

Symphony No. 2 in G minor, "Song of a New Race"

William Levi Dawson

 Negro Folk Symphony         

Edward "Duke" Ellington

Harlem

Detroit Symphon Orchestra

Neeme Jarvi