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

Eugene Goossens - Orchestral Works Vol.3 - Phantasy Concerto; Symphony No.2

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)

Phantasy Concerto, Op.63 (1946-48 rev 1958)

Symphony No.2, Op.62 (1942-45)

Tasmin Little (violin)

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis

rec. 2018/19, Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Eugene Goossens - Orchestral Works Vol.2 - Kaleidoscope; Tam o'Shanter; Three Greek Dances

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)

Orchestral Works - Volume 2

Kaleidoscope - Suite for Children Op. 18 (1933) 

Tam o'Shanter, Scherzo for Orchestra Op. 17a (1918-19) 

Three Greek Dances for small orchestra, Op. 44 (1926, revised 1927)

Concert Piece for oboe/cor anglais, two harps, and orchestra, Op. 65 (1957)

Four Conceits - Suite, Op. 20 (1918) 

Variations on Cadet Rousselle (French Folk-Song) (1930) 

Two Nature Poems, Op. 25 (1937-38) 

Intermezzo from Don Juan de Mañara, Op. 54 (1935)

Jeff Crellin (oboe; cor anglais)

Marshall Maguire (harp I)

Alannah Guthrie-Jones (harp II)

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis

rec. Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 15-16 June 2010, 5 September 2011, 7 September 2012

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 

Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy – Musical Tributes to Debussy

Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy – Musical Tributes to Debussy

Joint Composition*

Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy (1920) 

Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)

Sonata for Violin and Cello (1922)

Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920/1947) 

Manuel de FALLA (1876-1946)

Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy – Homenaje (version for guitar) (1920)

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Details of the joint composition*

Paul DUKAS (1865-1935)

La plainte, au loin, du faune

Manuel de FALLA (1876-1946)

Homenaje (version for piano) 

Florent SCHMITT (1870-1958)

À la mémoire de Claude Debussy: Et Pan, au fond des blés lunaires, s’accouda (No 1 from Mirages, Op 70) 

Erik SATIE (1866-1925)

À la mémoire de Claude Debussy: En souvenir d’une admirative et douce amitié de trente ans: Que me font ces vallons [0:57]

Gian Francesco MALIPIERO (1882-1973)

Hommage à Claude Debussy: Lento 

Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

Fragment des symphonies d’instruments à vent à la mémoire de Claude Achille Debussy 

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)

Hommage à Debussy, Op 28 

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Tomer Lev (piano), Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (soprano), Janna Gandelman (violin), Dmitry Yablonsky (cello), Ruben Seroussi (guitar), Buchmann-Mehta Symphony Orchestra, Tel Aviv University/Zeev Dorman

Recording venue and dates

Clairmont Hall, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 20 November 2017 (de Falla), 30 January 2018 (Stravinsky), 5 April 2018 (Ravel), 20 March 2020 and 24 April 2020 (Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy

Robert Still - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4; Humphrey Searle - Symphony No.2

Robert STILL (1910-1971)

Symphony No. 3 (1960) *

Symphony No. 4 (1964) **

Humphrey SEARLE (1915-1982)

Symphony No. 2 op. 33 (1957)***

 

London Symphony Orchestra/Eugene Goossens * 

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Myer Fredman **

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Josef Krips***

rec. Walthamstow Assembly Hall, 

19 May 1962* 

6 January 1974 ** 

18 September 1972 ***

 

Eugene Goossens - Chamber Works

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962) 

Chamber Works:

Four Sketches, for Flute (or Violin), Violin and Piano (Legend; Serenade; Romance; Humoreske) Op. 5 (1913) 

Three Pictures for Flute and Piano, (From the Belfry of Bruges (For my friend, Ary van Leeuwen); From Bredon in the Cotswolds; From a Balcony in Montparnasse) Op. 55 (1935) 

Five Impressions of a Holiday (Cinq Impressions d'un séjour à la campagne) for Flute or Violin, Cello and Piano, (In the Hills (Parmi les collines); By the Rivers (Le Long des rivières); The Water Wheel (Le Petit Moulin à eau); The Village Church (L'Église du village); At the Fair (À la vogue)) Op. 7 (1914) 

Suite, for Flute (or Violin), Violin and Harp (or Piano) (Impromptu; Serenade; Divertissement) Op. 6 (1914) 

To Miss (Miriam) Timothy 

Pastorale et Arlequinade, for Flute (or Violin), Oboe (or Violin), and Piano Op. 41 (1924) 

À Léon Goossens 

 London Chamber Music Group: 

Susan Milan, flute; David Theodore, oboe; Jan Peter Schmolck, violin; John Heley, cello; Christina Rhys, harp; Ian Brown, piano 

Recorded in: St Michael's Church, Highgate, London, 16-18 June 2003. DDD 

Eugene Goossens - Orchestral Works Vol.1 - Phantasy Concerto, Symphony No.1

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)

Phantasy Concerto for piano and orchestra Op. 60 (1942) 

Symphony No. 1 Op.58 (1938-1940) 

Howard Shelley (piano)

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox

rec. Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 21-24 April 2008. 

Eugene Goossens - Complete Music for Violin and Piano

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)

Complete Music for Violin and Piano

Violin Sonata in E minor Op.21 (1918) 

Lyric Poem Op.35 (1919-20) 

Old Chinese Folk-Song (from the Yang-tse-Kiang) (1912) 

Romance (from Act III Don Juan de Mañara) (1937) 

Violin Sonata No.2 Op.50 (1930) 

Robert Gibbs (violin); Gustáv Fenyö (piano)

Eugene Goossens - Orchestral Works

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)

Orchestral Works

CD1 [79.55]

Symphony No. 1 (1940) [42.02]

Oboe Concerto (1927) [12.22]

Tam O’Shanter (1919) [3.10]

Concert Piece for two harps, oboe (doubling cor anglais) and orchestra (1958) [22.00]

West Australian Symphony Orchestra/Vernon Handley

CD2 [61.57]

Symphony No 2 (1944)

Concertino (1927)

Fantasy for Nine Winds (1924)

Sydney Symphony Orchestra/Vernon Handley.

CD 3 [76.12]

Divertissement (1959-60) 18.37

Variations on a Chinese Theme (1911-12) [27.18]

The Eternal Rhythm (1913) [20.24]

Kaleidoscope (1917, 1933) [9.50]

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Vernon Handley

rec. March; Nov 1996 Perth Concert Hall (CD1); Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House 19-20 Nov 1993, 30 Nov 1993 (Symphony 2, Concertino); Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Center, Sydney, 30 Nov 1993 (Fantasy); Oct 1995 Melbourne Concert Hall (CD3). DDD