Butterworth & Holst - Orchestral Works

Butterworth & Holst Orchestral Works 

George BUTTERWORTH (1885-1916)

A Shropshire Lad; 

The Banks of the Green Willow; 

Two English Idylls. 

Gustav HOLST (1874-1934) 

Egdon Heath, Op. 47; 

Two Songs without Words, Op. 22; 

A Fugal Concerto, Op. 40, No. 2;

St. Paul’s Suite Op. 29, No. 2. 

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Manze

Recorded at The Friary, Liverpool October 27 & 28, 2024.

Orchestral Music of the Americas I - Venezuela

Venezuela!

Orchestral Music from the Americas I

Juan Bautista PLAZA (1898-1965)

Vigilia (Poema Sinfónico) (1928)

Evencio CASTELLANOS (1915-1984)

El Río de las Siete Estrellas (Poema Sinfónico) (1946)

Santa Cruz de Pacairigua (Suite Sinfónica) (1954)

Inocente José CARREÑO (1919-2016)

Margariteña (Glosa Sinfónica) (1954)

Antonio ESTEVEZ (1916-1988)

Mediodía en el Llano (1942)

Yuri Hung (b. 1968)

Kanaima (2004)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Domingo Hindoyan

rec. 2023, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK 

Dora Bright & Ruth Gipps - Piano Concertos

Dora BRIGHT (1862-1951)

Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor (1888) 

Variations for Piano and Orchestra (1910) 

Ruth GIPPS (1921-1999)

Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 34 (1947) 

Ambarvalia, Op. 70 (1988) 

Samantha Ward (piano)

Murray McLachlan (piano: Gipps concerto)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Peebles

rec. 2019, The Friary, Liverpool

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Willow-Wood; The Sons of Light; Toward the Unknown Region

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1873-1958)

Toward the Unknown Region (1907) 

Willow-Wood (1909) *

The Voice of the Whirlwind (1947)

Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (1939)

The Sons of Light (1951) 

 

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra

David Lloyd-Jones

* World Premier recording

rec. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 20 Feb, 8 May 2005. 

Roberto Sierra - Symphony No.6; Sinfonietta for String Orchestra; Fandangos

Roberto SIERRA (b.1953)

Symphony No. 6 

Sinfonietta for String Orchestra

Fandangos 

Two Pieces for Orchestra 

Alegría 

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Domingo Hindoyan 

John Ireland - Piano Concerto; Legend; First Rhapsody

John IRELAND (1879-1962)

Piano Concerto in E flat (1930) 

Legend for piano and orchestra (1933) 

First Rhapsody (1906)

Pastoral (1896)* 

Indian Summer (1932)*

A Sea Idyll (1900)

Three Dances (1913) 

John Lenehan (piano)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

John Wilson

rec. Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, 3 March 2007, 12 March 2011; 

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 18-19 February 2011. 

*World Premiere Recordings 

Vaughan Williams - Piano Concerto; The Wasps

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958) 

The Wasps (Aristophanic Suite)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

English Folk Song Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob)

The Running Set

Ashley Wass, Piano

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

James Judd

recorded in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, England, on 27th and 28th, January 2009

Frederick Delius - A Mass of Life; Songs of Sunset; An Arabesque

Frederick DELIUS (1862-1934)

Songs of Sunset*

An Arabesque+

*Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

*+John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)

Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

A Mass of Life#

(Sung in German)

Heather Harper (soprano)

Helen Watts (contralto)

Robert Tear (tenor)

Bejamin Luxon (baritone)

London Philharmonic Choir

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Groves

Recorded *+ 1968; # 1972

Leonard Bernstein - On the Waterfront and other Orchestral Works

Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918-1990) 

Candide – Overture (1956) [4:15] 

West Side Story: Symphonic Dances (1957) [22:29] 

Fancy Free: Three Dances (1944) [17:27] 

On the Waterfront Suite (1954) [17:41] 

Three Dance Episodes from On the Town (1946) [10:24] 

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Christian Lindberg 

rec. August 2016, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Novak - In the Tatra Mountains; Slovak Suite; Eternal longing

Vitezslav NOVAK (1870-1949)

Orchestral Works

In The Tatra Mountains, Op. 26

Eternal Longing, Op. 33

Slovak Suite, Op. 32

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Libor Pesek

William Alwyn - Symphony No.4; Sinfonietta

William Alwyn:
 Symphony No. 4; Sinfonietta

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra,
 David Lloyd-Jones 

William Alwyn - Symphonies 2 and 5; Lyra Angelica (Concerto for Harp and String Orchestra)

William Alwyn

Symphony No.2

Symphony No.5 "Hydriotaphia"

Concerto for Harp "Lyra Angelica"

Suzanne Willison, harp

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/David Lloyd-Jones

William Alwyn - Symphonies 1 and 3

William ALWYN:

Symphony No. 1. Symphony No. 3. 

Royal Liverpool Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones

Peter Racine Fricker, Robert Simpson and Robin Orr - Symphonies

Peter Racine FRICKER (1920-1990)

Symphony No.2 Op.14 (1951)

Robert SIMPSON (1921-1997)

Symphony No.1 (1951)

Robin ORR (b.1909)

Symphony in One Movement (1960-63)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir John Pritchard (Fricker)

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Adrian Boult (Simpson)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Sir Alexander Gibson (Orr)

Recorded in Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 13 and 14 August, 1954 (Fricker)*

No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 24 and 27 January, 1956 (Simpson)*

City Hall, Glasgow, Summer 1965 (Orr)

*Mono ADD

Robert Simpson - Symphony No.10

Robert Simpson (1921-1997)

Symphony No. 10

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)

Robert Simpson - Symphonies 6 and 7

Robert Simpson (1921-1997)

Symphonies Nos 6 & 7

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)

Alan Hovhaness - Mysterious Mountains; Symphonies 2, 66 and 50

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)

 Mysterious Mountains

Symphony No. 2, "Mysterious Mountain"

Symphony No.66, "Hymn to Glacier Peak"

Symphony No.50, "Mount St. Helens"

Gerard Schwarz , Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra