Anton Bruckner - Symphonies Nos.8 & 0 " Die Nullte" (Zubin Mehta)

Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896)

Symphony No.8 in C minor

Version 1890; Edition: Leopold Nowak

Symphony No.0 in D minor "Die Nullte"

Version 1869; Edition: Leopold Nowak

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Zubin Mehta

Recorded at the Mann Auditorium, Tel-Aviv, Israel, February 1989 (Symphony No.8) & 

July 1989 (Symphony 0)

Harrison Birtwistle - Theseus Games; Earth Dances

Harrison BIRTWISTLE (1934-2022)

Theseus Games (2003)

Earth Dances (1985)

Ensemble Modern

Martyn Brabbins & Pierre-André Valade

Ensemble Modern Orchestra

Pierre Boulez

Recorded live: Ruhr Biennale, Duisberg 19-20 September 2003 & 

Frankfurt Alte Oper, 29 October 2001.

Erno Dohnanyi & Leos Janacek - Violin Sonatas

Erno DOHNANYI (1877-1960)

Violin Sonata in C sharp minor Op.21

Ruralia Hungarica Op.32c 

Orchestral Suite No. 1, Op.19 – Romanza (arr. Heifetz) 

Leos JANACEK (1854-1928)

Violin Sonata 

Dumka 

Romance 

Allegro (discarded from Violin Sonata) 

On an Overgrown Path – A blown-away Leaf (arr. Stedron)

Hagai Shaham (violin)

Arnon Erez (piano)

Recorded in Jerusalem Music Centre, Israel, on 4–6 January 2009

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 (Ivan Fischer)

Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896)

Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107 (1881-1883, revised 1885)

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Iván Fischer

Recording Location: Budapest Hungary

Released: 2014

Kempe conducts Richard Strauss Vol. 2

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Complete Orchestral Works 2

Violin Concerto

Sinfonia Domestica

Also sprach Zarathustra

Death and Transfiguration

Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes

Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite

Schlagobers Waltz

Josephslegende Symphonic Fragment

Ulf Hoelscher (violin)

Staatskapelle Dresden

Rudolf Kempe

Recorded: 1970, 71, 72, 73, 74 & 75

Casablanca – Classic Film Scores for Humphrey Bogart (Music by Steiner, Waxman, Rozsa, Young & Hollander)

Casablanca – Classic film scores for Humphrey Bogart

Max STEINER (1888-1971)

Casablanca (Warner, 1943)

Passage to Marseilles (Warner, 1944)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Warner, 1948)

The Big Sleep (Warner, 1946) 

The Caine Mutiny (Columbia, 1954)

Virginia City (Warner, 1940)yyyyyyyyy

Key Largo (Warner, 1948) 

Franz WAXMAN (1906-1967)

To Have and Have Not (Warner, 1944) 

The Two Mrs Carrolls (Warner, 1947) 

Frederick HOLLANDER (1896- 1976)

Sabrina (Paramount, 1954) 

Victor YOUNG (1900-1956)

The Left Hand of God (20th Century Fox, 1955) 

Miklós RÓZSA (1907-1995)

Sahara (Columbia, 1943)

 

The National Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Gerhardt

Recorded: Kingsway Hall, London, 6-7 September 1973

Dimitri Shostakovich - The Limpid Stream (Ballet Op.39)

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)

The Limpid Stream Op.39 (1935)

Ballet in 3 Acts and 4 Scenes  (Premier Recording)

revised version by Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Recorded 9 - 14 June 1995

Franz Schubert - Lieder with Orchestra (Orchestrations by: Britten, Brahms, Webern, Reger, Berlioz, Liszt)

Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

Lieder with Orchestra

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo)

Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone) 

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Claudio Abbado

Recorded live, May 2002, Grand Salle, Cité de la musique, Paris, France

Nimrod Borenstein - Piano Works

Nimrod BORENSTEIN (b.1969)

Piano Works

Etudes Op. 66 (2019)*

Etudes Op. 86 (2020)*

Reminiscences of Childhood Op. 54 (2012) 

Water Droplets in Venice Op. 75 No.2 (2019)*

Lullaby Op. 81a (2018)*

Tra Nguyen (piano) 

* World Premier Recordings

Released 2024

Andres Segovia - 1950's American Recordings, Vol.5

Andrés Segovia - The 1950s American Recordings: Volume 5

Mario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO (1895–1968)

Capriccio diabolico 

Tonadilla (on the name of Andrés Segovia), Op. 170, No. 5

Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet, Op. 143*

Gaspar CASSADÓ (1897–1966)

Sardana chigiana 

Alexandre TANSMAN (1897–1986)

Cavatina: 

Preludio

Sarabande

Scherzino

Barcarole

Danza Pomposa 

Joaquín RODRIGO (1901–1999)

Zarabanda lejana 

Jorge GÓMEZ CRESPO (1900–1971)

Norteña 

Antonio LAURO (1917–1986)

Venezuelan Dance 

Hans HAUG (1900–1967)

Alba  

Postlude 

 

Andrés Segovia (guitar)

Quintetto Chigiano*

rec. 1954–1956, New York, except *, Siena, August 1955

Frank Bridge - Dance Rhapsody; Dance Poem; Overture 'Rebus'; Two Poems

Frank BRIDGE (1879-1941)

Dance Rhapsody, H.84 (1908)

Dance Poem, H.111 (1913) 

Two Poems by Richard Jefferies, H.119 (1916): 

I - The Open Air

II - The Story of My Heart

Overture "Rebus", H.191 (1940)

Allegro Moderato for string orchestra, H.192 (1941)

 

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Nicholas Braithwaite

Released 1979

Kempe conducts Richard Strauss Vol. 1

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Complete Orchestral Works 1

Horn Concertos Nos.1 & 2

Oboe Concerto

Duet Concertino

Burleske

Parergon zur Sinfonia Domestica

Panathenaenzug

Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

Don Juan

Ein Heldenleben

Peter Damm (horn)

Manfred Clement (oboe)

Manfred Weise (clarinet)

Wolfgang Liebscher (bassoo

Malcolm Frager (piano in Burleske)

Peter Rosel (piano)

Peter Mirring (violin)

Dresden Staatskapelle

Rudolf Kempe

Recorded VI.1970 (Till Eulenspiegel & Don Juan); III.1972 (Ein Heldenleben); IX.1975 (Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Oboe Concerto, Duett-Concerto, Burleske); I.1976 (Parergon, Panathenäenzug), Lukaskirche, Dresden.

John McCabe - Visions (Choral Music)

John McCabe (1939-2015)

Visions (Choral Music)

Three Marian Carols (1964; 1973; 2008)

Soprano Vocals – Margaret Feaviour

Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Jacqueline Fox

Tenor Vocals – Edward Goater

Bass Vocals – Stephen Charlesworth 

Mangan Triptych (1979; 1980; 1983)

Amen/Alleluia (1991) 5:19

Proud Songsters (1989) 2:41

The Lily-White Rose (2009)

Soprano Vocals – Emma Tring

The Morning Watch (1968)

Organ – Iain Farrington

The Evening Watch (2003)

Organ – Iain Farrington

Great Lord Of Lords (1967)

Organ – Iain Farrington

A Hymne To God The Father (1966)

Soprano Vocals – Olivia Robinson

Tenor Vocals – Edward Goater

The Last And Greatest Herald (2008)

Organ – Iain Farrington

BBC Singers

David Hill

Recorded at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London, 19 February 2009 and 2 July 2010.

Cesar Franck - Piano Quintet; Franz Liszt - Harmonies Poétiques et Réligieuses (excerpts)

César FRANCK (1822-1890)

Piano Quintet in f minor (1878-9)

Franz LISZT (1811-1886)

Harmonies Poétiques et Réligieuses (1845-52): 

IV. Pensée des morts 

IX. Andante lagrimoso 

Ave Maria 

Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

Borodin Quartet (Franck)

Mikhail Kopelman (violin I)

Andrei Abramenkov (violin II)

Dimitri Shebalin (viola)

Valentin Berlinsky (cello)

Recorded: December 1981, Pushkin Museum, Moscow (Franck); September 1984, 

Kloster Polling, Germany (Liszt)

Gioacchino Rossini - Otello (Lopez-Cobos, Carreras, von Stade, Ramey)

Gioacchino ROSSINI (1792-1868)

Otello - Opera in three acts. (1816)

Libretto by Francesco Berio di Salsa

Otello: José Carreras (tenor) 

Desdemona: Frederica von Stade (soprano) 

Elmiro: Samuel Ramey (bass) 

Rodrigo: Salvatore Fisichella (tenor) 

Jago: Gianfranco Pastine (tenor) 

Emilia: Nucci Condo (mezzo-soprano); 

Lucio: Keith Lewis (tenor)

 

Ambrosian Opera Chorus

John McCarthy

Philharmonia Orchestra

Jesús López-Cobos

Recorded London September 1978

Uuno Klami - Whirls (Suites 1 & 2); Lemminkainen's Island Adventures; Song of Lake Kuujarvi

Uuno KLAMI (1900-1961)

Lemminkaisen seikkailut saaressa (Lemminkainen's Island Adventures)

Laulu Kuujarvesta (Song of Lake Kuujarvi)

Pyorteita (Whirls), Ballet Suite Nos. 1 and 2

Esa Ruuttunen (baritone)

Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Osmo Vanska

Tracks 1 & 2 recorded in December 14–15, 1993; tracks 3 to 14 recorded in September 9, 1993

Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No.2; The Poem of Ecstasy

Alexander SCRIABIN (1872–1915)

The Poem of Ecstasy, Op.54 (Symphony No.4) (1905-1908)

Symphony No. 2, in C minor, Op.29 (1901)

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

JoAnn Falletta

Recorded: 2019-2022, Buffalo, NY, USA

Arnold Schoenberg - The Piano Music

Arnold SCHOENBERG (1874-1951)

The Solo Piano Music

Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 (1909)

Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19 (1911)

Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23 (1921-1923)

Suite For Piano, Op. 25  (1921-1923)

Piano Piece, Op. 33a (1928-1931)

Piano Piece, Op. 33b (1928-1931)

Maurizio Pollini (piano)

Recording: May 1974, Munich, Plenarsaal der Bayerischen Akademie de Wissenschaften.

Alfred Zimmerlin - Euridice - Chamber Music

Alfred ZIMMERLIN (b. 1955)

String Quartet No. 2 (2003)

Euridice singt (2004-05)

String Quartet No. 1 (2001/02) 

Carmina Quartett (Quartet 2)

Æquatour (Euridice singt)

Aria Quartett (Quartet 1)

rec. October 2007, Kultur-& Kongresshaus Aarau (Euridice singt), and August 2006, Radio Studio DRS, Zurich (Streichquartette)

Gioachino Rossini - La Donna del Lago

Gioachino ROSSINI (1792-1868)

La donna del Lago (1819)

Opera in two Acts to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola

based on The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott 

Elena – Katia Ricciarelli

Malcolm – Lucia Valentini-Terrani

Giacomo (James V of Scotland) disguised as Uberto – Dalmacio González

Rodrigo di Dhu – Dano Raffanti

Douglas D’Angus – Samuel Ramey

Albina – Cecilia Valdenassi

Serano – Oslavio Di Credico

Bertram – Antonio D’Uva

Prague Philharmonic Chorus

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Maurizio Pollini

Recorded August & September 1983 at Sala Pedrotti, Conservatory of Pesaro, Italy