Arthur Bliss - The Beatitudes

Arthur BLISS (1891-1975)

Madame Noy - A Witchery Song for soprano and instrumental ensemble (1918)* 

Rout, for soprano and chamber ensemble (1920)*

The Enchantress - scena for contralto and orchestra (1951)**

The Beatitudes (1961)*** 

*Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)/Wigmore Ensemble

Recorded: 11 March 1958

**Pamela Bowden (contralto); BBC Symphony Orchestra

Rudolf Schwarz

Recorded: 21 April 1957

***Heather Harper (soprano); Gerald English (tenor); Goldsmiths Choral Union; Royal Choral Society; Wembley Philharmonic Society; BBC Chorus; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Arthur Bliss

Recorded: 31 August 1964, Royal Albert Hall, London

BBC Broadcasts, MONO Recordings

Edmund Rubbra - SInfonia Concertante; Violin Concerto

  

Edmund RUBBRA (1901-1986)

Sinfonia Concertante, Op.38 (1936, 1943) 

Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Cyril Scott, Op.69 (1949)

Cyril SCOTT (1879-1970)

Consolation (1918) (W80)  

Edmund RUBBRA

Violin Concerto, Op.103 (1959) 

Endré Wolf (violin)

Edmund Rubbra (piano)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Hugo Rignold (sinfonia)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Rudolf Schwarz (concerto)

BBC broadcast 20 February 1960 (concerto),  

2 May 1967 (sinfonia), 

9 August 1967 (prelude, consolation). ADD/mono.

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