1917 - Works for Violin and Piano ( Elgar, Debussy, Respighi, Sibelius)

1917

Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Violin Sonata in G minor, L140 (1916-17) 

Ottorino RESPIGHI (1879-1936)
Violin Sonata in B minor, P110 (1917) 

Jean SIBELIUS (1865-1957)
Five Pieces for violin and piano, Op.81 (1915-18)  

Edward ELGAR (1857-1934)
Violin Sonata in E minor, Op.82 (1918)  

Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
Huw Watkins (piano)
rec. November 2013, St George’s Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol

Guitar Music of Venezuela

Guitar Music of Venezuela

Carlos SILVA
1. El Guarenero

Blas Maria TOVAR
2. Danza venezolana
Anonymous
3. Sobre la arena

Inocente CARREÑO (1919 – 2016)
Suite No. 2:
4. I. Vals
5. II. Serenata
6. III. Merengue
7. IV. Danza
Suite para guitarra (1966):
8. I. Preludio
9. II. Madrigal
10. III. Aire de Danza

Evencio CASTELLANOS (1915 – 1984)
11. Evocación (c. 1972)
12. Homenaje a Antonio Lauro (1959)

Juan Bautiste PLAZA (1898 – 1965)
Obras pata guitarra (1937 – 1954):
13. I. Homenaje a los Vihuelistas (1937)
14. II. Sonata antigua
15. III. Cortejo de sombras (1954)
16. IV. Lejanias (1954)

Federico RUIZ (b. 1948)
17. Pieza Numero Uno (1970)
18. Piezas para niños menores de cien años (1982 – 1994) – Valles del Tuy (arr. José Gregorio Guanchez)

Pedro Mauricio GONZÁLEZ (b. 1959)
Tetralogía (2016) (dedicated to Nirse González) :
19. I. Tonada
20. II. Sangueo
21. III. Llameda
22. IV. Golpe

Nirse González (guitar)
rec. 2016, St. John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Delius and Bax - Choral Music

 Frederick DELIUS (1862-1934)

On Craig Ddu (1907)
Ave Maria (1887)
Durch den Wald (1887)
An den Sonnenschein (1887)
Fruhlingsanbruch (1887)
He ute skal gildet stan (1891)
Sonnenscheinlied (1887)
Two unaccompanied part-songs: To be sung of a summer night on the water (1917)
The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls (1923)
Midsummer Song (1908)

Arnold BAX (1883-1953)

This Worldes Joie (1922)
Five Greek Folksongs (1941)
Of a Rose I Sing a Song (1920)
I Sing of a Maiden that is Makeless (1923)
Mater Ora Filium (1921) 

Carice Singers/George Parris
Ann Denholm (harp); Gabriel Amherst (cello); Timothy Amherst (double bass)

rec. St Michaels and All Angels Church, Summertown, Oxford, 31 August-2 September 2016

Ronald Stevenson - Piano Music Vol.1

Ronald STEVENSON (1928-2015)

Piano Music - Volume 1: A Celtic Album

A Wheen Tunes fae Bairns tae Spiel: 4 Scottish Pieces for Piano (I Croon; II Drone; III Reel; IV Spiel) (1964)
A Scottish Triptych (1959-67)
(I Keening Sang for a Makar; II Heroic Song for Hugh MacDiarmid; III Chorale-Pibroch for Sorley MacLean) (1959-67)
South Uist (Hebridean) Folk-Song Suite (I Sailing Song: Lively, jolly, robust; II A Witching Song for the Milking; III A Little Mouth Music; IV A Waulking Song; V Spinning Song; VI A Tired Mother’s Lullaby; VII The Christ Child’s Lullaby) (1969)
A Rosary of Variations on Sean O Riada’s Irish Folk Mass (1980)
Scottish Folk Music Settings: (I John Anderson, my Jo; II Waly, Waly; III A Rosebud by my Early Walk; IV Lang hae we Pairted Been; V From an Old Pibroch; VI Ca’ the Yowes; VII Jock o’ Hazeldean; VIII The Hielan Widow’s Lament; IX Hard is my Fate; X Ne’erday Sang) (1956-80)

Christopher Guild (piano)
rec. 2014, Recital Room, Edinburgh Society of Musicians, Edinburgh

Boult conducts Ireland

John IRELAND (1879-1962)

Tritons, symphonic prelude (c.1905) [10:29]
The Forgotten Rite, prelude (1913) [7:07]
Mai-Dun, symphonic rhapsody (1920-21) [11:23]
A London Overture (1936) [11:57]
Epic March (1942) [8:12]
Themes from Julius Caesar (arr. Geoffrey Bush) (Scherzo; Cortège) (1942) [6:45]
The Overlanders, suite (ed. Charles Mackerras) (Scorched Earth; Mary & Sailor; Open Country; The Brumbies; Night Stampede) (1946-47) [20:07]

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Adrian Boult

rec. 1960s. ADD
recordings originally made in association with John Ireland Trust

Guitar Music of Mexico

GUITAR MUSIC OF MEXICO

Ernesto Hernández LUNAGÓMEZ (b.1974)

Siena, homenaje a Andrew York

Julio César OLIVA (b.1947)

Imágenes de Yucatán

Sonata para el Final de los Tiempos

 

Jorge RITTER (b.1957)

Tres Piezas

Cecilio PERERA (b.1983)

Marina

Alfredo TAMAYO (1880-1957)

Sueño (Soñó mi mente loca)

Cutberto CÓRDOVA (b.1963)

Mabi

Juan HELGUERA (b.1933)

Un retrato

Gerardo TAMEZ (b.1948)

Aires de Son

Cecilio Perera (Guitar)

rec. 19-21 January 2017 at St. John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

Elgar and Bruch - Violin Concertos (Rachel Barton Pine)

Edward ELGAR (1857-1934)

Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 (1910)

Max BRUCH (1838-1920)

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 (1866, rev, 1867)

Rachel Barton Pine (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Litton

rec. 2017, Studio 1, BBC Maida Vale, London

Guitar Music of Chile

Guitar Music of Chile - José Antonio Escobar

Javier CONTRERAS (b. 1983)

1. Euclídica (Tonada acuecada) (2006)

Horacio SALINAS (b. 1951)

Suite del Tiempo Ausente (1987):
2. IV Cristalino 

Antonio RESTUCCI (b. 1956)

3. La disyuntiva (2000)

4. Coihues (2000) 

5. Arrayanes (2000)

Juan Antonio SÁNCHEZ (b. 1965)
6. Chiloética (1998)

Javier CONTRERAS

7. Tonada dal Retorno (2005)

8. Sentido y razón (Homenaje a Victor Jara)(2006)

9. Tonada a mi madre (2003) 

Violeta PARRA (1917 – 1967)
5 Anticuecas (1961)

10. Anticueca No. 1 

 11. Anticueca No. 2

12. Anticueca No. 3 

13. Anticueca No. 4 

14. Anticueca No. 5

Juan Antonio SÁNCHEZ
Guitar Sonata ‘Homenaje a Violeta Parra’ (2004)   

15. I Misterioso

16. II Dulce 

17. III Rápido súbito

18. IV Final 

19. Tonada por despedida (1999)

José Antonio Escobar (guitar)
rec. St John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket, Canada, 23–26 August 2006

Bartók - Bluebeard's Castle

Béla BARTÓK (1881-1945)

Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Christa Ludwig (Mezzo Soprano),
Walter Berry (Bass)

London Symphony Orchestra
István Kertész

Waiting for Benny - A Tribute to Benny Goodman

Waiting for Benny: 

A Tribute to Benny Goodman

Francis POULENC (1899-1963)
Sonata for clarinet and piano, FP 184 (1962)

Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918-1990)
Sonata for clarinet and piano (1941-42)

George GERSHWIN (1898-1937)

Three Preludes (arr. James Cohn) (1926/87)

Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

Three Pieces (1918)

Morton GOULD (1913-1996)
Benny’s Gig (1962/79)

Béla BARTÓK (1881-1945)
  Contrasts, BB 116 (1938-40)

Julien Hervé (clarinet), Maud Lovett (violin: Bartók), Jean-Hisanori Sugitani (piano: all except Stravinsky), Ying Lai Green (double bass: Gould)
rec. Conservatoire de Paris, France, 25-28 July 2011

Tor Aulin - Swedish Dances; Dances from Gotland; Master Olof

Tor AULIN (1866-1914)

Four Swedish Dances, Op. 26
Three Dances from Gotland, Op. 28
Master Olof, Op. 22

WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne
Niklas Willén

rec. 12-14 January, 2011, WDR, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Cologne

Andrés Alén - Cuban Memoirs (Piano Music)

Andrés ALÉN (b.1950)

Cuban Memoirs

Piano Music

William Villaverde (Piano)

Michel Legrand - Piano and Cello Concertos

Michel LEGRAND (1932-2019)

Concerto pour piano et orchestre (2016?)
Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre (2012)

Michel Legrand (piano); Henri Demarquette (cello)

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Mikko Franck

rec. 5-6, 25-26 Sept 2016,
Auditorium de la Maison de la radio et Salle Colonne, Paris, France

Bruckner - Symphony No.4 "Romantic"

Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896)

Symphony No. 4 in E flat, Romantic (1874, 1878/80)

ORF Radio-Symphony Orchestra, Vienna
Cornelius Meister

rec. ORF RadioKulturhaus, Vienna, September 2012

Alfredo Casella & Guido Turchi - Works for String Quartet

Alfredo CASELLA (1883-1947)

Concerto per archi, Op. 40b (1923)
Cinque pezzi, Op. 34 (1920)

Guido TURCHI (1916-2010)

Concerto breve (1947)

Quartetto di Venezia (Andrea Vio (violin I), Alberto Battiston (violin II), Giancarlo Di Vacri (viola), Angelo Zanin (cello))

rec. Area Studio, Preganziol, Treviso, Italy, 21-22 August 2012, 7-8 November 2012.
*world première recording of the Concerto per archi