Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Piano Works

Mario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO (1895-1968)

Piano Works

Crinoline

Cipressi Op. 17

Alghe Op. 12

Vitalba e Biancospino, fiaba silvana Op. 21

Epigrafe Op. 25

I naviganti Op. 13

Massimo Palumbo

Recorded at Villa Nazari, S. Giorgio su Legnanno (MI), Italy. July 12-15, 1996

Cantar d'amore - Italian lovesongs from Renaissance and folk tradition

Cantar d'amore

Italian lovesongs from Renaissance and folk tradition

Ensemble Oni Wytars

Composers

Joan Ambrosio DALZA (fl.1508)

Giacomo GORZANIS (c.1520-a.1575)

Pietro Jacopo de JENNARO(1436-1508)

Athanasius KIRCHNER (1602–80)

Giovan Tomaso di MAIO(c.1500-53)

Alonso MUDARRA (1510–80)

Barbara STROZZI (1619–77)

Bartolomeo TROMBONCINO (1470–1535)

Works

trad.: Alla femminisca

trad.: Alla montanara

trad.: Cinquecento catenelle

trad.: La Rondinella

trad.: Ninna nanna palermitana

trad.: Pizzica di San Vito

trad.: Vurria ca fosse ciaola

Dalza: Calata

Gorzanis: Questi capelli d'or

Jennaro: Vulumbrella

Kirchner, A: Antidotum Tarantulae

Maio, G: Maronna non è cchiù

Mudarra: Romanesca

Strozzi: Che si può fare

Tromboncino: Tu dormi

Nikolai Medtner - The Three Piano Concertos; Sonate-Ballade Op. 27

Nikolai MEDTNER (1880-1951)

The Three Piano Concertos; Sonate-Ballade Op. 27

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 33

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 50

Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor, Op. 60 'Ballade'

Sonata-Ballada in F sharp major, Op. 27

Geoffrey Tozer (piano)

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Neeme  Järvi

Release Date: June 2005 (Compilation)

Originally recorded in March 1991

Japanese Orchestral Favourites - Ifukube; Akutagawa; Toyama

Yuzo TOYAMA (1931-2023)

Rhapsody

Hidemaro KONOYE (1898-1973)

Etenraku

Akira IFUKUBE (1914-2006) 

Japanese Rhapsody

Yasushi AKUTAGAWA (1925-1989)

Music for Symphony Orchestra

Kiyoshige KOYAMA (1914-2009)

Kobiki-Uta

Takashi YOSHIMATSU (b.1953)

Threnody to Toki

Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Ryusuke Numajiri

William McClelland - Where the Shadow Glides (Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works)

William McCLELLAND (b.1950)

Where the Shadow Glides 

Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works

Cædmon’s Hymn • Five for Piano • These Last Gifts

Krista River, Mezzo-soprano • Alex Guerrero, Tenor

Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone • Robert May, Margaret Dudley,

Thomas McCarger and Suzanne Schwing, Narrators

Donald Berman and Blair McMillen, Pianos • David Enlow, Organ

The New York Virtuoso Singers • Harold Rosenbaum

Michael Daugherty - Bay of Pigs; Gee's Bend; TROYJAM

Michael DAUGHERTY (b.1954)

Bay of Pigs (2006), for Classical Guitar amd Strings

Gee's Bend (2009), for Electric Guitar and Orchestra

TROYJAM (2008) for narrator and Orchestra

Manuel Barrueco (Classical Guitar)

D.J.Sparr (Electric Guitar)

Michael Lippert (Narrator)

Anne Carson (Librettist)

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra

Neal Gittleman

Recorded Live at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio, USA. *Nov 1 & 2 2013, **March 24, 25, 26, 2011 and ***Nov. 9 & 10 2012

Tan Dun - Pipa Concerto; Takemitsu - Nostalghia; Hayashi - Concerto-elegia

TAN DUN (b. 1957)

Concerto for String Orchestra and Pipa (1999)*

Toru TAKEMITSU (1930-1996)

Nostalghia for solo violin and strong** orchestra (1987)

 "in memoriam Andrey Tarkovsky"

Three Film Scores for Strings***

Hikaru  HAYASHI (1931-2012)

Concerto-elegia for viola and strings (1995)***8

Moscow Soloists

Yuri Bashmet (violin & conductor)

Roman Balashov (conductor)** ***

Wu Man (pipa)

*World Premier recording

Olivier Messiaen - Éclairs sur l'Au-Delá...

Olivier MESSIAEN (1908-1992)

Éclairs sur l'Au-Delá... (1988-92)

(Lightning over the Beyond...)

I. Apparition du Christ glorieux 

II. La Constellation du Sagittaire 

III. L'Oiseau-lyre et la Ville-flancée 

IV. Les Élus marqués du sceau 

V. Demeurer dans l'Amour...

VI. Les Sept Anges aux sept trompettes                   

VII. Et Dieu essuiera toute larme de leurs yeux... 

VIII. Les Étoiles et la Gloire 

IX. Plusieurs Oiseaux des arbres de Vie 

X. Le Chemin de l'Invisible 

XI. Le Christ, lumière du Paradis

Wiener Philharmoniker

Ingo Metzmacher

rec. live, 20 January 2008, Grosser Musikvereinsaal, 

Vienna, Austria, ORF.

Andrzej Panufnik - Sinfonia Sacra; Symphony No.10; Cello Concerto

Andrzej PANUFNIK (1914-1991)

Sinfonia Sacra (1963) 

Symphony No. 10 (1988-1990) 

Cello Concerto (1991) 

Andrzej Bauer (cello)

Warsaw Philharmonic-National Orchestra of Poland

Kazimierz Kord

rec. Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, Jan 2000 (Sacra, 10), March 2000

Schubert & Beethoven - String Quartets arranged for String Orchestra by Gustav Mahler

Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

String Quartet in D minor, D.810 (Der Tod und das Mädchen).

Arranged for string orchestra by Gustav Mahler

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op.95. (Serioso)

 Arranged for string orchestra by Gustav Mahler

Amsterdam Sinfonietta

Lev Markiz

Recorded April 19/20, 1994 (Schubert) and June 28/29, 1994 (Beethoven), at the Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alban Berg - Lulu

Alban BERG (1885-1935)

Lulu (1928-35) 

Lulu - Anneliese Rothenberger (soprano)

Countess Geschwitz - Kerstin Meyer (mezzo)

Dr. Schön - Toni Blankenheim (baritone)

Alwa - Gerhard Unger (tenor)

Schigolch - Kim Borg (baritone)

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Leopold Ludwig

rec. live, 16-19 February and 15 March 1968, Hamburgischer Staatsoper

Tomás Marco - Symphonies Nos. 2, 8 and 9

Tomas MARCO (b.1942)

Symphony No.2 "Espacio cerrado"

Symphony No.9 "Thalassa"*

Symphony No.8 "Gaia's Dance"*

Malaga Philharmonic

Jose Serebrier

*World Premier recordings

Recorded at the Orchestra's Rehearsal Hall in Carranque, Malaga, 

Spain, from 5th to 8t October, 2010

Dvorak - Symphony No.4; Biblical Songs

Antonin DVORAK (1841-1904)

Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op.13

Ten Biblical Songs, Op.99 (sung in Czech)

Brian Rayner Cook (Baritone)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Neeme Järvi

Recorded in the Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, on 27-29 October 1987

Antal Dorati - Orchestral Works

Antal DORÁTI (1906-1988)

Orchestral Works

Sette Pezzi per orchestra (1961) 

Night Music for flute and small orchestra (1968) 

American Serenade for string orchestra (c.1941) 

Sharon Bezaly (flute)

Aalborg Symphony Orchestra

Moshe Atzmon

rec: Dec 1999, May 2000, Aalborghallen, Aalborg, Sweden

The Whistling Book - English Music for Recorder and Piano

The Whistling Book - English Music for Recorder and Piano

John Turner (recorder) & Peter Lawson (piano)

Works and Composers

Skally Skarecrow’s Whistling Book (Geoffrey Poole)

Prospero’s Music (Michael Ball)

Recipes (Alan Bullard)

Suite (Alan Rawsthorne)

Caprice (Nicholas Marshall

Song (Douglas Steele)

A Book of Song and Dance (Robin Walker)

Air (Walter Leigh)

Capriccio (Arnold Cooke)

Farings (Anthony Gilbert)

Four Diversions (John Turner)

Shadows in Blue (David Ellis)

Divertissement (John Golland)

New World Dances (John Golland)

Saturday Soundtrack (Kevin Malone)

John Turner (solo recorder):

Spring Dances (John Addison)

Her Rapture (Robin Walker)

Richard Whalley (prepared piano):

Kokopelli (Richard Whalley)

Three works receive their premiere recording – recorded 2021 

(Spring Dances and her Rapture) and 2017 (Kokopelli).

Enrique Fernandez Arbós - Complete Orchestral Works

Enrique FERNANDEZ ARBOS (1863-1939)

La Obra Orquestal - Complete Orchestral Works

Bolero

Tress Piezas de concierto, para violin y orquesta

Pequeña suite española

Ana Malikian (Violin)

Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid

Jesus Lopez-Cobos

Recorded Nov-Dec 2004. Teatro Real de Madrid

The Argentinian Album - Ginastera; Golijov; Piazolla

The Argentinian Album

Piazzolla, Ginastera, Golijov

Astor PIAZOLLA (1921-1992)

Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Alberto GINASTERA (1916-1983)

Concerto for string orchestra

Variazioni per i solisti, Scherzo fantastico, Adagio angoscioso, Finale Furioso

Osvaldo GOLIJOV (b.1960)

Last Round for double quartet and bass

Amsterdam Sinfonietta

Candida Thompson (violin)

Peteris Vasks - Works for Piano Trio

Peteris VASKS (b.1946)

Works for Piano Trio

Lonely Angel (Vientulais engelis), 

Meditation for violin and string orchestra (Version for Piano Trio) (2019)

Episodi e canto perpetuo (1985)

Plainscapes (Lîdzenuma ainavas) (2011)

Trio Palladio

Eva Bindere (Violin)

Kristina Blaumane (Cello)

Reinis Zarins (Piano)

Recorded: April 5, 2019 - April 7, 2019

Dzintari Concert Hall (The Small Hall), Jūrmala, Latvia

Eduard Tubin - Complete Symphonies Vol.5 - Symphonies Nos.9, 10 and 11

Eduard TUBIN (1905-1982)

Complete Symphonies Vol.5 

Symphonies Nos. 9 "Sinfonia semplice"

Symphony No.10

Symphony No.11 (unfinished)

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Arvo Volmer

Gavin Bryars - Epilogue from Wonderlawn; Eight Irish Madrigals

Gavin BRYARS (b.1943)

Epilogue from Wonderlawn (1994) 

Eight Irish Madrigals (2004) 

The Church Closest to the Sea (2007) 

Susan Hamilton (soprano) 

Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) 

Rick Standley (double-bass) 

Mr McFall’s Chamber

rec. 12-13 January 2009, St Mary’s Parsdih Church, Haddington.