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

Berthold Goldschmidt - Violin; Cello & Clarinet Concertos

Berthold GOLDSCHMIDT (1903-1996)

The Concertos

Cello Concerto,Clarinet Concerto,Violin Concerto

Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Montreal SO

Charles Dutoit

Sabine Meyer (clarinet)

Komische Oper Orchestra

Yakov Kreizberg

Chantal Juillet (violin) 

Philharmonia Orchestra

Berthold Goldschmidt

Recording locations: Henry Wood Hall, London, December 1994 (Violin Concerto); Salle Wilfred-Pelletier, Place des Artes, Montreal, 'live', February 1996 (Cello Concerto); Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin Dahlem, January/February 1997 (Clarinet Concerto).

Muzio Clementi - The Complete Symphonies

Muzio CLEMENTI (1752-1832)

The Complete Symphonies

Symphony in B flat, Op.18 No.1 (1787)

Symphony in D, Op.18, No.2 (1787)

Symphony No.1 in C

Symphony No.2 in D

Symphony No.3 in G "The Great National"

Symphony No.4 in D

Overture in C

Minuetto Pastorale

Overture in D

Philharmonia Orchestra

Francesco d'Avalos

Howard Blake - Orchestral Music

Howard BLAKE (b.1938)

Orchestral Music

Symphony No. 1: Impressions of a City, Op. 42/409 (1967, rev. 1990) (14:34)ac

Concert Dances for piano and orchestra, Op. 432 (1992)abc

The Court of Love, Op. 286 (1979)ac

A Month in the Country, Op. 446 (1992)d

Philharmonia Orchestra a

Howard Blake, piano b and conductor c

English Northern Philharmonia and Paul Daniel, conductor d

Respighi - Ballad of the Gnomes; Three Botticelli Pictures

Ottorino RESPIGHI (1879-1936)

Ballad of the Gnomes (1920)

Trittico Botticelliano (1927)

Suite in G for Strings and Organ (1905)

Adagio con variazioni for Cello and Orchestra (1921)

Leslie Pearson (organ)

Alexander Baillie (cello)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Geoffrey Simon

rec. 1990, Goldsmiths College, London

Robert Schumann - The Symphonies (Otto Klemperer)

Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

The Symphonies

CD1

Symphony No. 1 in B flat, Op.38 Spring*

rec. Abbey Road Studio No 1, London, 21-23, 25 and 27 October 1965

Symphony No. 2 in C, Op.61*

rec. Abbey Road Studio No 1, London, 3, 5 and 6 October 1968

 

CD2

Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op.97 Rhenish*

rec. Abbey Road Studio No 1, London, 5-8 February 1969

Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op.120 

rec. Kingsway Hall, London, 4-5 May 1960

Scenes from Goethe’s Faust , WoO 3: Overture *

rec. Abbey Road Studio No 1, London, 8 February 1969

Philharmonia and *New Philharmonia Orchestras

Otto Klemperer

Malcolm Arnold - Dances

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)

Dances

English Dances

First Set, Op.27

Second Set, Op.53

Four Scottish Dances, Op.59

Four Cornish Dances, Op.91

Four Irish Dances, Op.126

From the Ballet Solitaire

Sarabande and Polka

The Phiharmonia

Bryden Thomson

Wagner - Tristan und Isolde / Historical 1952 Recording/ Fürtwangler

Richard WAGNER (1813-1883)

Tristan und Isolde (1865)

Ludwig Suthaus (tenor) Tristan; Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) Isolde; Blanche Thebom (mezzo) Brangäne; Josef Greindl (bass) King Mark; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Kurwenal; Rudolf Schock (tenor) Sailor/Shepherd; Edgar Evans (tenor) Melot; Rhoderick Davies (baritone) Helmsman;

Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Philharmonia Orchestra

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Rec. 10-22 June 1952, Kingsway Hall, London. ADD

Rubbra - Smphonies Nos. 6 and 8; Soliloquy

Edmund RUBBRA (1901-1986)

Symphony No. 6, Op. 80 (1953/4)

Symphony No. 8, Op. 132, ‘Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin’ (1966-68) 

Soliloquy for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 57 (1947) 

Philharmonia Orchestra/Norman Del Mar (symphonies)

Rohan de Saram (cello); London Symphony Orchestra/Vernon Handley (Soliloquy).

Leos Janacek - Sinfonietta; Glagolitic Mass

Leos JANACEK (1854-1928) 

Sinfonietta* 

Glagolitic Mass**   

Philharmonia Orchestra*

Felicity Palmer (sop)**; Ameral Gunson (mez)**; John Mitchinson (ten)**; Malcolm King (bass)**; Jane Parker-Smith (org)** 

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra** 

Simon Rattle* **  

Recorded 1983 and 1982 

Gyorgy Ligeti - Le Grand Macabre

Gyorgy LIGETI (1923-2006)

Le Grand Macabre

Esa-Pekka Salonen 

Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus  

London Sinfonietta Voices 

Cast:

Derek Lee Ragin (Counter Tenor), 

Charlotte Hellekant (Mezzo Soprano),

Steven Cole (Tenor) 

Jard Van Nes (Mezzo Soprano), 

Sibylle Ehlert (Soprano)

Graham Clark (Performer), 

Willard White (Bass Baritone)

Graham Clark (Tenor)

Laura Claycomb (Soprano)  

Frode Olsen (Bass)

Richard Suart (Baritone)

Ernest Farrar - Orchestral Works

Ernest Farrar (1885-1918)

Orchestral Works

Howard Shelley, piano

Philharmonia Orchestra - Alasdair Mitchell

Manuel de Falla - Atlántida; El sombrero de tres picos

Manuel de FALLA

Atlantida (arr. Ernesto Halffter)

Enriqueta Tarres

Anna Ricci

Eduardo Gimenez

Vincente Sardiniero

Children's Chorus of Our Lady of Remembrance

 Spanish National Orchestra and Chorus

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

El sombrero de tres picos

Victoria de los Angeles

Philharmonia Orchestra

Oliver Knussen - Symphonies Nos.2 and 3 and other Orchestral Works

Oliver Knussen (*1952)

Symphony No. 2

Symphony No. 3

Ophelia Dances

Trumpets

Coursing

Cantata

Elaine Barry, Linda Hirst (sopranos) & Michael Collins, Dward Pillinger, Ian Mitchell (clarinets)

The Nash Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, 

Michael Tilson Thomas & Oliver Knussen

Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos.8 and 9

Ralph Vaughan Williams:

Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9; Flourish for Glorious John

Philharmonia Orchestra

Leonard Slatkin

Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos.5 and 6

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Symphonies 5 & 6

Philharmonia Orchestra

Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos.3 and 4; Fantasia on Greensleeves

 

  Vaughan Williams: 

Symphonies 3 & 4, Greensleeves

Leonard Slatkin

Philharmonia Orchestra

Vaughan Williams - Sinfonia Antartica; 5 Variants of "Dives an Lazarus"

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sinfonia Antartica, Sea Songs, Variants of "Dives an Lazarus"

Philharmonia Orchestra

Leonard Slatkin

Prokofiev - October Cantata Op.74; The Stone Flower (excerpts)

Sergei Prokofiev: 

Cantata For the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution*

The Stone Flower (excerpts)

Gennady Rozhdestvensky*, Neeme Jarvi

Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus*

William Alwyn - Miss Julie

William ALWYN (1905-1985)

Miss Julie

Opera in Two Acts
libretto by the composer after August Strinberg

Philharmonia Orchestra

Vilem Tausky

Benjamin Luxon (Baritone)

Jill Gomez (Soprano)

Della Jones (Mezzo-soprano)

John Mitchinson (Tenor)