Ferdinand Ries - Symphonies Nos.1 & 2

Ferdinand RIES (1784-1838)

Symphony No. 1 In D Major, Op. 23

Symphony No. 2 In C Minor, Op. 80

Tapiola Sinfonietta

Janne Nisonen 

Release Date: 05/2024

Malcolm Arnold - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)

Symphony No.1, Op. 22

Symphony No.2, Op.40

London Symphony Orchestra

Richard Hickox 

Recorded in All Saints' Church, Tooting, London, April 25-6, 1994.

Walter Braunfels - Orchestral Works

Walter BRAUNFELS (1882-1954)

Don Gil von den Grünen Hosen, Op 35/2 – Prelude (1921-23) 

Divertimento for radio orchestra, Op 42 (1929)

Ariels Gesang, Op 18 (1910)

Serenade in E flat major, Op 20 (1910)

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Gregor Bühl

Louis Glass - Piano Works Vol.2

Louis GLASS (1864-1936)

Piano Works Volume 2

Piano Sonata No.1 in E major, op.6 (1890)

Skitser, op.21 (?1894)

Landlige Billeder, op.48 (1915)

Sommerminder (Lyse Nætter), op.53, No.2 (c.1927)

Mazurka, op.53, No.3 (c.1927)

Aquareller, op.58 (1921)

Vort Bal (1896)

Jakob Alsgaard Bahr (piano)

rec. 2023, Festsalen, Hjørring Gymnasium, Denmark

Constantino Gaito - Piano Trio; Cello Sonata; Piano Quintet

Constantino GAITO (1878-1945)

Piano Trio, Op. 25 (1917)

Cello Sonata, Op. 26 (1918)

Piano Quintet, Op. 24 (1917)

Agustina Herrera (piano)

Sarastro Quartett

rec. 2009, Zurich, Switzerland

Louis Glass - Piano Works Vol.1

Louis GLASS (1864-1936)

Piano Works Vol.1

Jakob Alsgaard Bahr (piano)

Recorded June 30-July 3, 2022 at Hjorrin Gymnasium Denmark

Romance del Diablo - The Music of Astor Piazzolla

Astor PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992)

Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas* (arr. Albonetti)

Romance del Diablo (arr. Albonetti) 

Oblivion (arr. P Ziegler); 

Años de Soledad (arr. Albonetti) 

Libertango (arr. Albonetti) 

plus P Ziegler: Improvisation on ‘Oblivion’ 

Marco Albonetti (saxophone) 

*Cesare Carretta (violin) 

*Virgilio Monti (double bass) 

*Alessandra Gelfini (piano);

Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana

Released 2021

Edward German - Orchestral Works Vol.1

Edward GERMAN (1862-1936)

Orchestral Works Vol. 1

Richard III Overture (1889)

Theme and Six Diversions (1919)

The Seasons: (1899) (Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter)

RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Andrew Penny

Rec. Taney Parish Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 1994

Germaine Teilleferre - Her Piano Works, Revived Vol.1

Germaine TAILLEFERRE (1892-1983)

Her Piano Works, Revived 1

Exercise d’harmonie (Chant donné par Florent Schmitt) 

Impromptu 

Romance 

Pas trop vite 

Pastorale in D 

Fandango

Hommage à Debussy 

Trés vite…..

Petites Ouvertures d’airs anciens (transcription et realisation de la basse continue)

Sous le tampart d’Athènes 

Sicilienne 

Pastorale in A flat 

Pastorale in C

Fleurs de France 

Pastorale Inca 

Pasorale Amazone 

Berceuse 

Suite dans le style ‘Louis XV’ 

Marche Funèbre (Comique?) 

Au pavillon d’Alsace [

Nicolas Horvath (piano)

rec. 2021, Misy sur Yonne, France

Ludolf Nielsen - Symphony No.2; Romance for Violin & Orchestra; Concert Overture

Ludolf NIELSEN (1876-1939)

Symphony No. 2 (1907-09) [39.03]

Romance for violin and orchestra (1908) [6.16]

Concert Overture in C major Op. 13 (1906) [13.41]

Anton Kontra (violin)

South Jutland Symphonic Orchestra

Frank Cramer

Rec. Aug 1996, Frihedshallen Idraetshojskolen I Sønderborg. 

Lord Berners - Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement; Caprice péruvien

Lord BERNERS (1883-1950)

Caprice péruvien (arr. for orchestra by Constant Lambert)

Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement (based on Prosper Mérimée’s play, sung in English, 1920/23)

Ian Caddy (baritone): Viceroy

Alexander Oliver (tenor): Martinez

John Whitfield (tenor): Balthasar

Cynthia Buchan (soprano): La Périchole

Thomas Lawlor (bass): Thomas d’Esquival

Anthony Smith (bass): Bishop of Lima

RTÉ Sinfonietta

David Lloyd Jones (Caprice)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Nicholas Cleobury (Le Carrosse )

rec. 16 August 1983, BBC Studio 1, Glasgow, Scotland (Caprice), 

10 January 1995, O’Reilly Hall, Dublin, Ireland (Le Carrosse)

Constantino Gaito - String Quartets

Constantino GAITO (1878-1945)

String Quartet No.1, Op.23 (1916)

String Quartet No.2, Op.33 "Incaico" (1924)

Sarastro Quartett (Winterhut, Switzerland)

recorded in Marthallen Church, Switzerland in 2005

World Premier Recordings

Henri Sauguet - Symphony No. 2 "Allegorique" (Les Saisons)

Henri SAUGUET (1901-1989)

Symphony No. 2 "Allegorique" (Les Saisons)

Genevieve Ruscica (soprano)

Moscow Capella

Moscow Symphony Orchestra

Antonio de Almeida

Recorded: September 1995 at Mosfilm Studio in Moscow

Mark-Anthony Turnage - From the Wreckage; Speranza

Mark-Anthony TURNAGE (b.1960)

From the Wreckage*

Speranza 

Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) *

London Symphony Orchestra

Daniel Harding

rec. live, February 2013, Barbican, London

Reihold Glière - Symphony No.3 "Il'ya Muromets"

Reinhold GLIÈRE (1875-1956)

Symphony No. 3 "Il'ya Muromets", Op.42 (1911)

 

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

JoAnn Falletta

Recorded at Kleinhaus Music Hall, Buffalo, New York,USA, from 3rd to 5th May, 2013

Ronald Stevenson - Piano Works

Ronald STEVENSON (1928-2015)

Piano Works

Peter Grimes Fantasy on themes from Benjamin Britten’s opera for piano solo (1971)

Suite for piano from Paderewski’s opera Manru (1961):

Introduction and Gypsy March, Gypsy Song, Lullaby, Cracovienne

Romance from Concerto in D minor, Mozart K 466, realised by Ronald Stevenson (2002)

Quintet from Die Meistersinger, ‘elaborated for left hand alone’, Wagner-Wittgenstein (1980)

Ostinato Macabro on the name Godowski (c.1980)

Etudette d’après Korsakov et Chopin (Spectre d’Alkan) (1987)

6 Pensées sur des Préludes de Chopin (1959)

Little Jazz Variations on Purcell’s New Scotch Tune (1964/1975)

Piccolo Niccolò Paganinesco (1986)

Preludette on the name George Gershwin (1981)

Tauberiana (Song My Heart and I) (1980)

Peter Jablonski (piano)

rec. 2024, Palladium, Malmö, Sweden

Harvard Composers (Piston; Kirchner; Kim; Rands; Davidovsky)

"Harvard Composers"

Walter PISTON (1894 - 1976)

String Quartet No.1 (1933)

Leon KIRCHNER (1919-2009)

String Quartet No.2 (1958)

Earl KIM (1920 - 1998)

Three Poems in French (1989) 

Lucy Shelton, soprano

Bernard RANDS (b.1934)

String Quartet No.2 (1994) 

Mario DAVIDOVSKY (1934-2019)

String Quartet No.5 (1998) 

 

Mendelssohn String Quartet: 

Miriam Fried, Nicholas Mann (Violins) 

Ulrich Eichenauer (Viola)

Macy Rowen (cello

Recording: May 2001 at Länna Church, Sweden

Christian Sinding - Symphonies Nos.3 & 4

Christian SINDING (1856-1941)

Symphony no.3 in F major op.121 (1919), 

Symphony no.4 – Rhapsody for Orchestra “Vinter og Vår” (1936)  

NDR Radiophilharmonie

David Porcelijn

Recorded December 2001, November 2002 in the Grosser Sendesaal of the NDR

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony; Serenade to Music

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Symphony No. 1 "A Sea Symphony" 

Serenade to Music 

Eleanor Lyons, Joanne Marie D’Mello (soprano) 

Michelle Neupert (alto) 

Yongkeun Kim (tenor) 

Christopher Maltman (baritone) 

Alexander Knight (bass) 

MDR Symphony Orchestra; 

MDR Radio Choir

Dennis Russell Davies

Recorded Live at Gewandhous, Leipzig 8-5-2022 (Symphony) and 4 and 5-6, 2021 (Serenade)

Daron Hagen - The Art of Song

Daron Aric HAGEN (b. 1961)

The Art of Song

Part I: Summer: America

Part I: Summer: Un-American Activities

Part I: Summer: Peace Quodlibet

Part I: Summer: War is Kind / Irish Airman

Part I: Summer: Mother of Exiles

Part II: Autumn: The Moths

Part II: Autumn: Pomodoro

Part II: Autumn: Quail

Part II: Autumn: No Sad Songs

Part II: Autumn: Brown Penny

Part II: Autumn: Love 

Part II: Autumn: Among the Asmat

Part III: Winter: Western Wind

Part III: Winter: Prayer in Midwinter 

Part III: Winter: That I Know

Part III: Winter: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed 

Part III: Winter: Summer is Gone 

Part III: Winter: The Wolf

Part III: Winter: The Lamb

Part IV: Spring: The New Yorkers 

Part IV: Spring: The Green for Pamela

Part IV: Spring: Almighty Father 

Part IV: Spring: Rain in Spring

Part IV: Spring: The Start of Everything

Lyric Fest

Release Date: 01/2024

Georg Schumann - Piano Quartet, Op.29; Cello Sonata, Op.19

Georg SCHUMANN (1886-1952)

Piano Quartet In F Minor, Op. 29

Sonata For Violoncello & Piano In E Minor Op. 19*

Dietrich Cramer

Münchner Klaviertrio

Gerhard Zank, Donald Sulzen*

Recorded At – Studio 2 des Bayerischen Rundfunks, München

Einojuhani Rautavaara - Angel of Dusk; Symphony No.2

Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA (1928-2016)

Angel Of Dusk (1980), Concerto For Double Bass And Orchestra

Symphony No. 2 (1957/84)

Suomalainen Myytti (A Finnish Myth) (1977)

Pelimannit = Fiddlers Op. 1 (1952)

Esko Laine (double bass)

Tapiola Sinfonietta

Jean-Jacques Kantorow

Recording: November 1997 at Tapiola Concert Hall, Finland.

Henri Sauguet - Symphony No.1 "Expiatoire"

Henri SAUGUET (1901-1989)

Symphony No.1 "Expiatoire" (1947)

Moscow Symphony Orchestra

Antonio de Almeida

Recorded at the Mosfilm Studio in Moscow, Russia in October, 1994.

Paul Le Flem - Aucassin et Nicolette

Paul LE FLEM (1881-1984)

Aucassin et Nicolette – chantefable (1910) 

Delphine Haidan (mezzo)

Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor)

Mélanie Boisvert (soprano)

Armand Arapian (baritone)

Katia Velletaz (soprano)

Les Solistes de Lyon

Bernard Tétu

Orchestre des Pays de Savoie

Nicolas Chalvin

rec. Chaméry, Cité des Arts, 18-20 May 2011

Niels Viggo Bentzon - Piano Works

Niels Viggo BENTZON (1919-2000)

Piano Works

Partita, Op. 38 (1945)

Træsnit (Woodcuts), Op. 65 (1950)

Toccata, Op. 10 (1941)

Passacaglia, Op. 31 (1945)

Ramez Mhaanna (Piano)

Recorded At – Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium, 

on 17-18 October 2020, 25-26 February 2021, and 16-17 July 2021.