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ALAN
RAWSTHORNE
(1905-1971)
Born
in Haslingden, Lancashire. Studied at
the Royal Manchester College of Music
with Frank Merrick (1886-1981, composed
a Symphony in D minor in 1912) and Carl
Fuchs. He held various teaching posts
but was able to devote most of his energies
to composition producing a large body
of works ranging from chamber music
to film scores. His other major concert
pieces for orchestra are 3 Symphonies,
Symphonic Studies and Divertimento.
Piano
Concerto No. 1 (1942)
Malcolm
Binns (piano)/Nicholas Braithwaite/London
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphonic Studies,
Street Corner Overture)
LYRITA
SRCD.255 (2007)
(original
LP release: LYRITA SRCS.101) (1979)
Jane
Coop (piano)/Mario Bernardi/CBC Symphony
Orchestra
(
+ Finzi: Eclogue, Britten: Piano Concerto
and Ireland: Legend)
CBC
SM 5208 (2001)
Peter
Donohoe (piano)/Takuo Yuasa/Ulster Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto No. 2 and Improvisations
on a theme by Constant Lambert)
NAXOS
8.555959 (2003)
Moura
Lympany (piano)/Herbert Menges/Philharmonia
Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto No. 2, Practical Cats
and Bagatelles)
EMI
CDM 5-66935-2 (1998)
(original
LP release: HMV CLP1118) (1957)
Geoffrey
Tozer (piano)/Marius Bamert/London Philharmonic
Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto No. 2 and 2 Piano Concerto)
CHANDOS
CLASSICS CHAN 10339 (2007)
(original
CD release: CHANDOS CHAN 9125) (1993)
Piano
Concerto No. 2 (1951)
Malcolm
Binns (piano)/Nicholas Braithwaite/London
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphonic Studies,
Street Corner Overture)
LYRITA
SRCD.255 (2007)
(original
LP release: LYRITA SRCS.101) (1979)
Sir
Clifford Curzon (piano)/Sir Malcolm
Sargent/London Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and
27, Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5,
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Franck:
Symphonic Variations, Falla: Nights
in the Gardens of Spain, Litolff: Scherzo
and Schubert: Sonata No. 17 and Impromptus)
DECCA
ORIGINAL MASTERS 473 116-2 (4 CDs) (2003)
(original
LP release: DECCA LX 3066) (1952)
Peter
Donohoe (piano)/Takuo Yuasa/Ulster Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto No. 2 and Improvisations
on a theme by Constant Lambert)
NAXOS
8.555959 (2003)
Dennis
Matthews (piano)/Sir Malcolm Sargent/BBC
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto No. 1, Practical Cats
and Bagatelles)
EMI
CDM 5-66935-2 (1998)
(original
LP release: HMV CLP1164) (1958)
John
Ogdon (piano)/Sir John Pritchard/BBC
Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1983)
(
+ 2 Piano Concerto and Simpson: Piano
Concerto)
CARLTON
BBC RADIO CLASSICS 15656 91762 (1996)
Geoffrey
Tozer (piano)/Marius Bamert/London Philharmonic
Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto No. 1 and 2 Piano Concerto)
CHANDOS
CLASSICS CHAN 10339 (2007)
(original
CD release: CHANDOS CHAN 9125) (1993)
Concerto
for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1968)
John
Ogdon and Brenda Lucas (pianos)/Sir
John Pritchard/London Philharmonic Orchestra
(rec. 1968)
(
+ 2 Piano Concerto and Simpson: Piano
Concerto)
CARLTON
BBC RADIO CLASSICS 15656 91762 (1996)
Geoffrey
Tozer and Tamara-Anna Cislowski (pianos)/Marius
Bamert/London Philharmonic Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2)
CHANDOS
CLASSICS CHAN 10339 (2007)
(original
CD release: CHANDOS CHAN 9125) (1993)
Violin
Concerto No. 1 (1948)
Rebecca
Hirsch (violin)/Lionel Friend/BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Violin Concerto No. 2 and Corteges)
NAXOS
8.554240 (1998)
Theo
Olof (violin)/Sir Adrian Boult/New Philharmonia
Orchestra (rec. 1972)
(
+ Violin Concerto No. 2, Improvisations
on a Theme by Constant Lambert and Divertimento)
CARLTON
BBC RADIO CLASSICS 15656 91952 (1997)
Violin
Concerto No. 2 (1956)
Rebecca
Hirsch (violin)/Lionel Friend/BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Violin Concerto No. 1 and Corteges)
NAXOS
8.554240 (1998)
Manoug
Parikian (violin)/Rudolf Schwarz/BBC
Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1968)
(
+ Violin Concerto No. 2, Improvisations
on a Theme by Constant Lambert and Divertimento)
CARLTON
BBC RADIO CLASSICS 15656 91952 (1997)
Cello
Concerto (1966)
Alexander
Baillie (cello)/David Lloyd-Jones/Royal
Scottish National Orchestra
(
+ Symphonic Studies and Oboe Concerto)
NAXOS
8.554763 (2000)
Concerto
for Clarinet and String Orchestra (1937)
Dame
Thea King (clarinet)/Alun Francis/Northwest
Chamber Orchestra Seattle
(
+ Cooke: Clarinet Concerto and Jacob:
Mini-Concerto)
HYPERION
HELIOS CDH55069 (2002)
(original
LP release: HYPERION A66031 (1982)
Concerto
for Oboe and String Orchestra (1947)
Jill
Crowther (oboe)/Alan Cuckston/English
Northern Philharmonia
(
+ A Canticle Of Man, Quartet for Oboe
Violin Viola and Cello, Lament for a
Sparrow and Studies on a Theme of Bach)
ASC
CS CD46 (2002)
Stephanie
Rancourt (oboe)/David Lloyd-Jones/Royal
Scottish National Orchestra
(
+ Symphonic Studies and Cello Concerto)
NAXOS
8.554763 (2000)
Concerto
for String Orchestra (1949)
Sir
Adrian Boult/BBC Symphony Orchestra
(rec. 1966)
(
+ Bliss: Music for Strings amd Moeran:
Sinfonietta)
CARLTON
BBC RADIO CLASSICS 15656 91632 (1996)
Leslie
Jones/Little Orchestra of London
(
+ Piano Quintet and Cello Sonata)
PYE
COLLECTOR GSGC 7060 (LP) (1965)
David
Lloyd-Jones/Northern Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Concertante Pastorale, Light Music
for Strings, Suite for Recorder, Elegiac
Rhapsody and Divertimento)
NAXOS
8.55367 (1999)
Concertante
Pastorale for Flute, Horn and Strings
(1951)
Rebecca
Goldberg (flute)/Conrad Marshall (horn)/David
Lloyd-Jones/Northern Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Concerto for Strings, Light Music
for Strings, Suite for Recorder, Elegiac
Rhapsody and Divertimento)
NAXOS
8.55367 (1999)
Concerto
for Ten Instruments (1962)
Fibonacci
Sequence
(
+ Sonatina for Flute, Oboe & Piano,
Quintet for Clarinet, Horn, Violin,
Cello & Piano, Suite for Flute,
Viola & Harp and Quintet for Piano
& Winds)
ASV
CDDCA1061 (1999)
Suite
for Recorder and String Orchestra (c.
1940 - orch. version by J. McCabe, 1993)
John
Turner (recorder)/Conrad Marshall (horn)/David
Lloyd-Jones/Northern Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Concerto for Strings, Light Music
for Strings, Concertante Pastorale,
Elegiac Rhapsody and Divertimento)
NAXOS 8.55367 (1999)
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MÁTYÁS
SEIBER
(1905-1960)
Born
in Budapest. He studied under Kodály
at the Budapest Academy of Music. He
taught composition in Frankfurt am Main
and was a cellist in a string quartet
before emigrating to England in 1935.
In his new home he founded both the
Society for the Promotion of New Music
and the Dorian Singers and became a
teacher at Morley College. His musical
output was large and varied consisting
of operas, operettas, ballets, film
scores as well as works for orchestra,
chamber groups, solo instruments and
voices. He had a strong interest in
jazz that he often combined with more
standard classical music. His other
concertante works were additional short
pieces for cello and flute.
Fantasia
Concertante for Violin and String Orchestra
André
Gertler (violin)/Václav Smetáček/Prague
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Casella: Violin Concerto)
SUPRAPHON
1 10 1838 (LP) (1977)
Elegy
for Viola and Small Orchestra (1954)
Cecil
Aronowitz (viola)/Mátyás
Seiber/London Philharmonic
(
+ 3 Fragments from "Portrait of
an Artist as a Young Man" and Searle:
Symphony No. 1)
DECCA
SXL 2232 (LP) (1962)
Concertino
for Clarinet and String Orchestra (1951)
Dame
Thea King (clarinet)/Andrew Litton/English
Chamber Orchestra
(
+ H. Blake: Clarinet Concerto and Lutosławski:
5 Dance Preludes)
HYPERION
CDH55068 (2002)
(original
CD release: HYPERION CDA66215) (1987)
James
Livingston/Jorge Mester/Louisville Orchestra
(
+ Dorati: Cello Concerto and Kodály:
Symphony in C major)
FIRST
EDITION 1911 (2006)
(original
LP release: LOUISVILLE S-701) (1970)
Improvisation
for Oboe and Orchestra (1957)
Lajos
Lencsés (oboe)/Peter Eötvös/Stuttgart
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Wittinger: Concerto for Oboe, Harp
and Strings, Hidas: OboeSonata, Arma:
Solioque, Kocsár: Saltus Hungaricus,
Szendi: Arabesque and Takács:
Sonata Missoulana)
BAYER
100340 (2003)
Notturno
for Horn and String Orchestra (1944)
Sören
Hermansson (horn)/Edvard Tjivzjel/Umeå
Sinfonietta
(
+ Atterberg: Horn Concerto, Larsson:
Horn Concertino, Jacob: Horn Concerto
and Reger: Scherzino)
BIS
CD-376 (1993)
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SIR
MICHAEL TIPPETT
(1905-1998)
Born
in London. Studied at the Royal College
of Music initially with Charles Wood
and C.H. Kitson and later with R.O.
Morris. He held various posts as a teacher
and conductor and involved himself in
various social causes. His musical output
was very large and covered most genres
from opera to works for solo piano.
Additional orchestral works include
3 Symphonies, Fantasia on a Theme from
Handel, Suite in D and a Symphony written
in 1933 that preceded the numbered cycle.
Piano
Concerto (1953-5)
Benjamin
Frith (piano)/George Hurst/BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ The Midsummer Marriage: Ritual Dances)
NAXOS
8.553591 (1999)
John
Ogdon (piano)/Sir Colin Davis/Philharmonia
Orchestra
(
+ Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2)
EMI
BRITISH COMPOSERS 5865862 (2005)
(original
LP release: HMV ASD621) (`1963)
Steven
Osborne (piano)/Martyn Brabbins/BBC
Scottish Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Fantasia on a Theme of Handel, Piano
Sonatas Nos. 1 – 4)
HYPERION
CDA67461-2 (2 CDs) (2007)
Howard
Shelley (piano)/Richard Hickox/Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Symphony No. 1)
CHANDOS CHAN 9333 (1995)
Martino
Tirino (piano)/Sir Michael Tippett/BBC
Philharmonic Orchestra
(
+ Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello
and Orchestra)
NIMBUS
NI5301 (1992)
Concerto
for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra
(1979)
Levon
Chilingirian (violin)/ Simon Rowland-Jones (viola)/
Philip De Groote (cello)/Richard
Hickox/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Concerto for Orchestra)
CHANDOS
CHAN 9384 (1995)
Daniel
Hope (violin)/Philip Dukes (viola)/Christian
Poltéra (cello)/Sir Andrew Davis/BBC
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Elgar: Cello Concerto, Knussen: Violin
Concerto, Britten: Peter Grimes-4 Sea
Interludes, Delius: Song of Summer,
R.R. Bennett: 4 Poems of Thomas Campion
and Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture
DEUTSCHE
GRAMMOPHON 477 7352 –2 (2 CDs) (2007)
Ernst
Kovacic (violin)/Gérard
Caussé/(viola)/ Alexander Baillie (cello)/Sir
Michael Tippett/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto)
NIMBUS
NI5301 (1992)
Ernst
Kovacic (violin)/Rivka Golani (viola)/Karen
Georgian (cello)/David Atherton/London
Sinfonietta (rec. 1985)
(
+ Vision of Saint Augustine)
CARLTON
BBC RADIO CLASSICS 15656 91902 (1996)
György
Pauk (violin)/Nobuko Imai (viola)/Ralph
Kirshbaum (cello)/Sir Colin Davis/London
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Concerto for Orchestra)
PHILIPS
4767144 (2005)
(original
LP release: PHILIPS 6514 209) (1983)
Concerto
for Orchestra (1962-3)
Sir
Colin Davis/London Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello
and Orchestra)
PHILIPS
4767144 (2005)
(original
LP release: PHILIPS SAL 3497) (1965)
Richard
Hickox/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello
and Orchestra)
CHANDOS
CHAN 9384 (1995)
Concerto
for Double String Orchestra (1938-9)
Rudolf
Barshai/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
(
+ The Midsummer Marriage: Ritual Dances)
EMI
CDC 747 3302 (1985)
Rudolf
Barshai/Moscow Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto, Fantasia Concertante.
String Quartet No. 2 and Piano Sonatas
Nos. 1 – 2)
EMI CMS 7 63522 2 (2 CDs) (1993)
(original
LP release: HMV ASD 512) (1963)
William
Boughton/English String Orchestra
(
+ Fantasia Concertante, Little Music,
A Child of Our Time: 5 Negro Spirituals
and Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis)
NIMBUS
NI7026 (1995)
Sir
Andrew Davis/BBC Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Fantasia Concertante and The Midsummer
Marriage: Ritual Dances)
APEX
8573890982 (2006)
(original
CD release: TELDEC 4509 945 2) (1996)
John
Farrer/English Sinfonia
(
+ Little Music and Vaughan Williams:
Partita and 5 Variants of Dives and
Lazarus)
RESONANCE
RSN3057 (2006)
(original
CD release: CARLTON CLASSICS 30366 00542)
(1997)
Walter
Goehr/orchestra (rec. c.1943)
(
+ Piano Sonata No.1, String Quartet
No. 2 and Tallis: Spem in Alium)
NMC
103 (2005)
Walter
Goehr/Philharmonia Orchestra (rec. 1952)
(
+ Rawsthorne: Symphonic Studies)
HMV
CLP 1056 (LP) (1955)
Vernon
Handley/London Philharmonic Orchestra
(
+ Britten: Violin Concerto and Serenade)
CLASSICS
FOR PLEASURE 5759782 (2003)
(original
LP release: CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CFP
40068) (1974)
Richard
Hickox/City of London Sinfonia
(
+ Little Music, Divertimento on Sellinger's
Round and
The Heart's Assurance)
CHANDOS
CHAN 9468 (1996)
Rudolf
Kempe/BBC Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1976)
(
+ Berg: Violin Concerto and Janáček:
Sinfonietta)
BBC LEGENDS BBCL42152 (2007)
Sir
Neville Marriner/Academy of St. Martin
in the Fields
(
+ Concerto for Orchestra, Concerto for
Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra,Little
Music, Fantasia Concertante, Dance,
Clarion Air, Fanfare No. 1 and Byzantium)
Decca British Collection 4701962 (2
CDs) (2001)
(original
LP release: ARGO ZRG 680) (1972)
Sir
Neville Marriner/Academy of St. Martin
in the Fields
(
+ Divertimento on Sellinger's Round,
Little Music and -Sonata for 4 Horns)
CD:
EMI CDC5 55452-2 (1995)
Leopold
Stokowski/London Symphony Orchestra
(rec. 1961)
(
+ Nielsen: Symphony No. 6, Liszt: Mephisto
Waltz No. 1 and Gabrielli: Sonata pian
e forte)
BBC
LEGENDS BBCL 4059-2 (2000)
Sir
Michael Tippett/ Scottish Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of
Corelli and Songs of Dov)
EMI
BRITISH COMPOSERS 5865882 (2005)
(original
CD release: VIRGIN VC 7 90701 2) (1988)
Fantasia
on a Theme from Handel for Piano and
Orchestra (1939-41)
Margaret
Kitchin (piano)/Sir Michael Tippett/London
Symphony Orchestra
( + The Vision of Saint Augustine)
RCA RED SEAL SER 5620 (LP) (1972)
Steven
Osborne (piano)/Martyn Brabbins/BBC
Scottish Symphony Orchestra
( + Piano Concerto, Piano Sonatas Nos.
1 – 4)
HYPERION CDA67461-2 (2 CDs) (2007)
Howard
Shelley (piano)/Richard Hickox/Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra
( + Symphony No. 4 and Fantasia Concertante
on a Theme of Corelli)
CHANDOS CHAN 9233 (1933)
Fantasia
Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (1953)
William Boughton/English String Orchestra
(
+ Concerto for Double String Orchestra,
Little Music, A Child of Our Time: 5
Negro Spirituals and Magnificat and
Nunc Dimittis)
NIMBUS
NI7026 (1995)
Douglas
Boyd/Chamber Orchestra of Europe
(
+ Britten: Lachrymae, Pärt: Cantus
in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, Purcell
/ Britten: Chacony in G minor, Purcell
/ Stokowski: Dido's Lament, Vaughan
Williams: Fantasia on a Theme and Walton:
Henry V: Passacaglia and Touch Her Soft
Lips and Part)
Warner
Classics 2564601902 (2004)
Iona
Brown/Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 and Grieg:
2 Elegiac Melodies and 2 Norwegian Melodies)
CD: NAIM AUDIO NAIMCD 009 (1995)
Sir
Andrew Davis/BBC Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Concerto for Double String Orchestra
and The Midsummer Marriage: Ritual Dances)
APEX
8573890982 (2006)
(original
CD release: TELDEC 4509 945 2) (1996)
Sir
Charles Groves/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(
+ Elgar: Serenade for Strings, Britten:
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
and Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a
Theme by Thomas Tallis)
REGIS
RRC1138 (2003)
(original
CD release: RPO RECORDS CDRPO 8020)
(1990)
Richard
Hickox/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Symphony No.4. Fantasia on a Theme
of Handel)
CHANDOS
CHAN 9233 (1993)
Christopher
Hogwood/St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Holst: A Fugal Concerto, St. Paul’s
Suite, Handel: Concerto Grosso in F,
Trio Sonata, Op. 3 #4 and Bach: Fugue
in B minor)
DECCA
440 376 2 (1994)
Raymond
Leppard/BBC Symphony Orchestra (rec.
1976)
(
+ Symphony No. 3)
CARLTON
BBC RADIO CLASSICS BBC RD 9140 (1995)
John
Lubbock/Orchestra of St. Johns Smith
Square
(
+ Little Music for Strings)
PYE VIRTUOSO TPLS 13069 (LP) (1975)
Sir
Neville Marriner/Academy of St. Martin
in the Fields
(
+ Concerto for Orchestra, Concerto for
Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra,Little
Music, Concerto for Double String Orchestra,
Dance, Clarion Air, Fanfare No. 1 and
Byzantium)
Decca British Collection 4701962 (2
CDs) (2001)
(original
LP release: ARGO ZRG 680) (1972)
Sir
Neville Marriner/Academy of St. Martin
in the Fields
(
+ Elgar: Serenade for Strings, Vaughan
Williams:Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas
Tallis and The Lark Ascending)
ASV
CDDCA518 (1983)
Kenneth
Sillito/Academy of St. Martin in the
Fields
(
+ Britten: Simple Symphony, Berkeley:
Serenade, Holst: St. Paul’s Suite and
Walton: Walton: Henry V: Passacaglia
and Touch Her Soft Lips and Part)
COLLINS
CLASSICS 12342 (1991)
Sir
Michael Tippett/Bath Festival Orchestra
(
+ Piano Concerto and Concerto for Double
String Orchestra)
HMV
CLASSICS HMV 5 687832
(original
LP release: HMV ASD 637) (1965)
Sir
Michael Tippett/ Scottish Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Concerto for Double String Orchestra
and Songs of Dov)
EMI
BRITISH COMPOSERS 5865882 (2005)
(original
CD release: VIRGIN VC 7 90701 2) (1988)
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MURRAY
ADASKIN
(1906-2002)
Born
in Toronto. After extensive training
on the violin he studied composition
with John Weinzweig, Darius Milhaud
and Charles Jones. He taught at the
University of Saskatchewan where he
was also composer-in-residence. His
musical output was extensive ranging
from opera to solo instrument pieces.
He wrote an Algonquin Symphony in 1958,
a Concerto for Orchestra and other works
for orchestra.
Bassoon
Concerto (1960)
George Zuckernan (bassoon)/John Avison/CBC
Vancouver Chamber Orchestra
(
+ . Divertimento for Orchestra, Suite
for Orchestra, In Praise of Canadian
Painting in the Thirties
and Diverimento No.6)
CENTREDISCS CMCCD 8102 (2 CDs) (2002)
(original
LP release: CBC BR SM 143) (1970)
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ARNOLD
COOKE
(1906-2005)
Born
in Gomersal, Yorkshire. He studied with
E.J. Dent at Cambridge and then had
further lessons in Germany with Paul
Hindemith. He taught from 1933 to 1977
first at the Royal Manchester College
of Music and then at the Trinity College
of Music in London. He wrote a total
of 6 Symphonies the unrecorded ones
are: No. 2 in F major (1963), No. 4
in E flat major (1974), No. 5 in G major
(1978-9), No. 6 in E flat major (1983-4)
and also a Sinfonietta for Chamber Orchestra
(1954). Other works include a Concerto
for Orchestra and Concertos for Piano,
Violin, Cello, Oboe and 2 for Clarinet.
Clarinet
Concerto No. 1 (1955)
Dame
Thea King (clarinet)/Alun Francis/Northwest
Chamber Orchestra Seattle
(
+ Cooke: Clarinet Concerto and Jacob:
Mini-Concerto)
HYPERION
HELIOS CDH55069 (2002)
(original
LP release: HYPERION A66031 (1982)
Concerto
in D major for String Orchestra (1948)
Nicholas
Braithwaite/London Philharmonic Orchestra
(rec. 1988)
(
+ Symphony No. 1 and Jabez and the Devil:Suite)
LYRITA
SRCD.203 (2007)
Divertimento
for Recorder and String Orchestra (1959)
John
Turner (recorder)/Philip Mackenzie/Manchester
Camerata Ensemble
(
+ A. Butterworth: Rêverie, Jackson:
Moonrise, Hurd: Three-Piece Suite, Hedges:
Three Miniatures, Crosse: Water Music
and Pehkonen: Concerto Over the Water)
DUTTON
EPOCH CDLX 7191 (2007)
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BENJAMIN
FRANKEL
(1906-1973)
Born
in London. He studied at the Guildhall
School of Music after some lessons as
a teenager in Germany. Worked as a jazz
musician, taught at the Guildhall and
wrote numerous scores for motion pictures.
His other orchestral works comprise
8 Symphonies plus a number of shorter
works.
Violin
Concerto, Op. 24 "In Memory of the
Six Million" (1951)
Ulf
Hoelscher (violin)/ Werner Andreas
Albert/Queensland Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Viola Concerto and Serenata Concertante)
CPO
999422 (1998)
Viola
Concerto, Op. 45 (1967)
Brett
Dean (viola)/ Werner Andreas Albert/Queensland
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Violin Concerto and Serenata Concertante)
CPO
999422 (1998)
Serenata
Concertante for Piano Trio and Orchestra,
Op. 37 (1960)
Alan
Smith (violin)/David Lale (cello)/Stephen
Emmerson (piano)/Werner Andreas
Albert/Queensland Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Violin Concerto and Viola Concerto)
CPO
999422 (1998)
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ELIZABETH
LUTYENS
(1906-1983)
Born
in London. She began her musical studies
in Paris at the École Normale
and went on to the Royal College of
Music where Harold Darke was her composition
teacher. She initially earned her living
as a musical copyist and arranger but
later progressed to writing scores for
films and radio. She composed prolifically
in various genres including, opera,
orchestral, chamber, instrumental and
vocal music. Her larger scores for orchestra
include a Viola Concerto, 6 Chamber
Concertos and Symphonies for Piano and
Orchestra.
Chamber
Concerto No. 1, Op. 8 No. 1 (1939-40)
Roger
Montgomery/Jane's Minstrels
Valley
of Hatsu-Se, 6 Tempi for 10 Instruments,
Isis and Osiris: Lament of Isis, Triolets
I and II and Requiescat)
NMC
NMCD 011 (1992)
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GRACE
WILLIAMS
(1906-1977)
Born
in Barry, Glamorganshire, Wales. Studied
at the Royal College of Music with Ralph
Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob. She
had further lessons in Vienna with Egon
Wellesz. Her employment included school
teaching and writing for the BBC. She
destroyed most of her early works. Her
other major orchestral works are 2 Symphonies,
Sinfonia Concertante for Piano and Orchestra
and a Violin Concerto.
Trumpet
Concerto (1963)
Howard
Snell (trumpet)/Sir Charles Groves/London
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes, Carillons,
Penillion and Sea Sketches)
LYRITA
SRCD.323 (1995)
(original
LP release: HMV ASD 3006) (1974)
Carillons
for Oboe and Orchestra (1965)
Anthony
Camden (oboe)/Sir Charles Groves/London
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes, Trumpet
Concerto, Penillion and Sea Sketches)
LYRITA
SRCD.323 (1995)
(original
LP release: HMV ASD 3006) (1974)
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DAME
ELIZABETH MACONCHY
(1907-1994)
Born
in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. Studied
at the Royal College of Music with Charles
Wood, Ralph Vaughan Williams and C.H.
Kitson and had further training with
Karel Jirák at the Prague Conservatory.
She was able to devote herself almost
solely to composing but was very active
with professional composers associations
such as the Composers Guild of Great
Britain and the Society for the Promotion
of New Music. She wrote a Symphony for
full orchestra (1945-8) as well as a
Sinfonietta (1976) and a Little Symphony
(1980). Other major works for orchestra
are 2 Concertos for Piano and a Viola
Concerto.
Clarinet
Concertino No. 1 (1945)
Dame
Thea King (clarinet)/Barry Wordsworth/English
Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Clarinet Concertino No. 2, Britten:
Concerto Movement and Arnold: Clarinet
Concertos Nos. 1 and 2)
HYPERION
HELIOS CDH55060 (2001)
(original
CD release: HYPERION CDA66634) (1993)
Clarinet
Concertino No. 2 (1984)
Janet
Hilton (clarinet)/Rumon Gamba/BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Harper: Clarinet Concerto, Hoddinott:
Clarinet Concerto No 2 and McCabe Clarinet
Concerto)
Clarinet
Classics CC0034 (2001)
Dame
Thea King (clarinet)/Barry Wordsworth/English
Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Clarinet Concertino No. 1, Britten:
Concerto Movement and Arnold: Clarinet
Concertos Nos. 1 and 2)
HYPERION
HELIOS CDH55060 (2001)
(original
CD release: HYPERION CDA66634) (1993)
Romance
for Viola and Orchestra (1979)
Sarah-Jane
Bradley (viola)/George Vass/Orchestra
Nova
(
+ McCabe: Concerto Funèbre, Alwyn:
Pastoral Fantasia, Holst: Lyric Movement
and Matthews: Winter Remembered)
DUTTON
EPOCH CDLX 7186 (2007)
Epyllion
for Cello and Strings (1975)
Raphael
Wallfisch (cello)/William Boughton/Südwestdeutsches
Kammerorchester Pforzheim
( + Patterson: Cello Concerto No. 2-,
Hindemith: Trauermusik, Lutosławski:
Metamorposes and Kopytman: Kaddish)
NIMBUS NI5815 (2007)
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JEAN
COULTHARD
(1908-2000)
Born
in Vancouver, British Columbia. After
initial musical studies in Vancouver,
she attended the Royal College of Music
where her composition teachers were
Vaughan Williams and R.O. Morris. She
later had additional lessons with Arthur
Benjamin, Gordon Jacob and Bernard Wagenaar.
Back in Vancouver, she was the administrator
of several music schools and taught
at the University of Vancouver for 26
years. She composed steadily both before
and after her retirement and produced
a huge amount of works in all genres.
In addition to the Piano Concerto, her
large-scale works for orchestra include
4 Symphonies, Violin Concerto, the suite
"Canadian Mosaics" and the
symphonic poem "Endymion."
Piano
Concerto (1963)
Robert
Silverman (piano)/Dwight Bennett/CBC
Vancouver Orchestra
(
+ Sketches from the Western Woods and
12 Essays on a Cantabile Theme)
CENTREDISCS
CMCCD 8202 (2 CDs) (2002)
Burlesque
for Piano and String Orchestra (1977)
Margaret
Bruce (piano)/Peter Gellhorn/ Canadians
and Classics Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Archer: Divertimento and Tučapský:
Piano Concertino)
Fish
Ear Communcations FECD 622 (1996)
Music
on a Quiet Song for Flute and String
Orchestra (1946)
Timothy
Hutchins (flute)/Mario Bernardi/CBC
Vancouver Orchestra
(
+ McCauley: Miniatures, Rodrigo: Concierto
Pastoral, Chaminade: Flute Concertino,
Fauré: Fantaisie and Saint-Saëns:
Romance)
CBC
SMCD 5171 (1998)
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HOWARD
FERGUSON
(1908-1999)
Born
in Belfast. He studied at the Royal
College of Music where his teachers
were Harold Samuel (piano), Malcolm
Sargent (conducting) and R.O. Morris
(composition). He later taught at the
Royal Academy of Music while and pursued
parallel careers as musicologist, pianist
and composer. His compositional output
was not vast and he is probably best-known
for histwo large scale choral works,
"Amore Langueo" and "Dream
of the Rood." His few other orchestral
works include a Partita and 4 Diversions
on Ulster Airs.
Concerto
for Piano and String Orchestra, Op.
12 (1951)
Peter
Donohoe (piano & conductor)/Northern
Sinfonia
(
+ Darnton: Piano Concertino, Rowley:
Piano Concerto and Gerhard: Piano Concerto)
NAXOS
8.557290 (2005)
Howard
Shelley (piano)/Richard Hickox/City
of London Sinfonia
(
+ Amore Langueo and Finzi: Eclogue)
EMI
CDC 7 49627 2 (1987)
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SIDNEY
TORCH
(1908-1990)
Born
in London, original name Tochinsky.
He learned piano at the Blackheath Conservatoire
and gained fame as a young man as a
cinema pianist and organist. Later on
he switched to conducting and began
writing light orchestral pieces for
the BBC. His connection with the BBC
lasted for many years and he became
one of its most popular conductors.
His compositions were exclusively of
a light nature and were very well known
in their time.
Concerto
Incognito for Piano and Orchestra
Philip
Martin (piano)/Barry Wordsworth/BBC
Concert Orchestra
(
+ Slavonic Rhapsody, London Transport
Suite, All Strings and Fancy Free, Barbecue,
Trapeze Waltz, On a Spring Note, Bicycle
Belles, Comic Cuts, Mexican Fiesta,
Petite Valse. Samba Sud, Shortcake Walk,
Cresta Run, Shooting Star, Going for
a Ride and Duel for Drummers)
MARCO
POLO 8.223443 (1996)
Slavonic
Rhapsody for Two Pianos and Orvchestra
Philip
Martin and Clair Hiles (pianos)/Barry
Wordsworth/BBC Concert Orchestra
(
+ Concerto Incognito, London Transport
Suite, All Strings and Fancy Free, Barbecue,
Trapeze Waltz, On a Spring Note, Bicycle
Belles, Comic Cuts, Mexican Fiesta,
Petite Valse. Samba Sud, Shortcake Walk,
Cresta Run, Shooting Star, Going for
a Ride and Duel for Drummers)
MARCO
POLO 8.223443 (1996)
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ISADOR
GOODMAN
(1909-1982)
Born
in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied
at the Royal College of Music, London,
and appeared in concerts in England
and Europe before emigrating to Australia
in 1930 and became a teacher at the
New South Wales Conservatorium in Sydney
and supplemented his income by playing
piano for cinemas and theaters. For
the next 5 decades he was a well-known
recitalist and soloist with leading
orchestras in Australia and the United
Kingdom. In addition to the New Guinea
Fantasy he wrote music in various genres
both serious and popular.
New
Guinea Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra
(1944)
Isador
Goodman (piano)/Patrick Thomas/Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto, Bath:
Cornish Rhapsody, Williams: Dream of
Olwen, Rózsa: Spellbound Concerto,
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Evans: Idyll,
Litolff: Scherzo and Rachmaninoff: excerpts
from Piano Concerto No. 2 and Paganini
Rhapsody)
PHILIPS
(Australia) 476 7333 (2005)
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MINNA
KEAL
(1909-1999)`
Born
in London. She was an early pupil of
William Alwyn at the Royal Academy of
Music. Her budding musical career was
replaced by familial duties and did
not resume until she was in her sixties.
In addition to the Cello Concerto she
also produced a large-scale Symphony
and several chamber works.
Cello
Concerto (1988-94)
Alexander
Baillie (cello)/Martyn Brabbins/BBC
Scottish Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Ballade for Cello and Piano)
NMC
D0485 (1998)
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HERBERT
MURRILL
(1909-1952)
Born
in London. He attended the Royal Academy
of music where his teachers were York
Bowen, Stanley Marchant and Alan Bush.
He took a teaching post at Oxford and
also worked as an organist and choirmaster.
He joined the staff of the BBC and eventually
became Head of Music. He composed a
lot of light music including film scores
but there is also his Cello Concerto
No. 1 (1935) as well as choral, chamber
and instrumental pieces.
Cello
Concerto No. 2 "The Song of
the Birds" (1951)
Raphael
Wallfisch (cello)/Vernon Handley/BBC
Concert Orchestra
(
+ Rubbra: Soliloquy, Haydn Wood: Philharmonic
Variations and Dyson: Prelude, Fantasy
and Chaconne)
WHITE
LINE CDWHL 2153 (2004)
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GILBERT
VINTER
(1909-1969)
Born
in Lincoln. He studied at the Royal
Academy of Music and later taught at
this school. He worked as a conducter
and bassoonist and made his name in
the BBC Wireless Band and the London
Philharmonic Orchestra. During World
War II he
conducted the Royal Air Force Central
Band and afterwards rejoined the
BBC as staff conductor and led the well-known
BBC Midlands Light Orchestra for many
years. He composed numerous works for
brass band, the cantata "The Trumpets
and also a ballet, an opera, Saxophone
Concerto, Christmas Sinfonietta and
other works for orchestra.
Hunter’s
Moon for Horn and Orchestra (1942)
Dennis
Brain (horn)/Vilem Tausky/BBC Concert
Orchestra
( + Jacob: Sextet for Piano and Winds,
Beethoven: Quintet for Piano, Oboe,
Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn and Hindemith:
Horn Sonata)
BBC LEGENDS BBCL4164-2 (2005)
David
Pyatt (horn)/Nicholas Braithwaite/London
Philharmonic Orchestra
(rec. 1994)
( + Jacob: Horn Concerto, Arnold: Horn
Concerto No. 2, Bowen: Horn Concerto
and Gipps: Horn Concerto)
LYRITA SRCD.316 (2007)
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RONALD
BINGE
(1910-1979)
Born
in Derby. He had some piano lessons
but was basically self-taught, getting
most of his early experience on the
job accompanying silent movies. He became
one of the leading composers, conductors
and arrangers of light orchestral music
and worked for many years with Mantovani.
His only large-scale work was The Saturday
Symphony but the Saxophone Concerto
as well as the Scottish Rhapsody and
Elizabethan Serenade are more ambitious
examples of his usual type of piece.
Alto
Saxophone Concerto in E flat major (1956)
Aage
Voss (saxophone)/ Ronald Binge/South
German Radio Orchestra
(
+ Saturday Symphony and various light
orchestra pieces)
ASV
WHITELINE CDWLZ245 (2 CDs) (2000)
(original
LP release: Rediffusion ZS75) (1971)
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FRANZ
REIZENSTEIN
(1911-1968)
Born
in Nuremberg. He studied with Leonid
Kreutzer and Paul Hindemith at the Hochschule
für Musik in Berlin. He fled to
England in 1934 after the advent of
the Nazi regime and finished his musical
education at the Royal College of Music
studying composition with Vaughan Williams.
He later held teaching positions at
the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal
Manchester College of Music. He composed
steadily from childhood until his death
and produced an opera and many works
for orchestra and chamber groups. His
larger orchestral works include 2 Piano
Concertos (1941 and 1961), Violin Concerto
(1954), Cello Concerto (1936) and Concerto
for Strings (1966-7).
Concerto
Popolare (A Piano Concerto to End All
Piano Concertos) (1956) (written for
the Hoffnung Festival)
Yvonne
Arnaud (piano)/Norman Del Mar/Hoffnung
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Arnold: A Grand, Grand Overture, Jacob:
Variations on Annie Laurie and other
works by L. Mozart, Chopin, Searle and
Baines)
EMI
CLASSICS CMS7 63302 2 (2002)
(original
LP release: COLUMBIA CX 1406) (1957)
Partita
for Recorder and String Orchestra, Op.
18b (1939-54)
John
Turner (recorder)/Louise Thomson (harp)/Philip
Mackenzie/Manchester Camerata Ensemble
(
+ A. Butterworth: Rêverie, Hopkins:
Suite, Cooke: Divertimento, Jackson:
Moonrise, Hurd: Three-Piece Suite, Hedges:
Three Miniatures, Crosse: Water Music
and Pehkonen: Concerto Over the Water)
DUTTON
EPOCH CDLX 7191 (2007)
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PEGGY
GLANVILLE-HICKS
(1912-2000)
Born
in Melbourne. Studied at the Royal College
of Music with Ralph Vaughan Williams,
Arthur Benjamin and Constant Lambert.
She also had further composition lessons
with Egon Wellesz in Vienna and Nadia
Boulanger in Paris. She basically relocated
to America in 1942 and wrote most of
her major works there, returning permanently
to Australia in 1976. She was most known
for her operas. Her other large works
for orchestra are Sinfonia Pacifica,
2 Sinfoniettas and Concertos for Piano
and Flute .
Etruscan
Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
(1955)
Carlo
Bussotti (piano)/Carlos Surinach/M-G-M
Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Concerto No. 11)
MGM 3357 (LP) (1956)
Concerto
Romantico for Viola and Orchestra (1946)
Walter
Trampler (viola)/Carlos Surinach/M-G-M
Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Richter: Aria and Toccata and B. Weber:
Rapsodie Concertante)
MGM
3559 (LP) (1957)
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BARBARA
PENTLAND
(1912-2000)
Born
in Winnipeg. She went to America to
study with Frederick Jacobi and Bernard
Wagenaar at the Juilliard School of
Music and also took courses with Aaron
Copland at the Berkshire Music Center.
She taught successively at the Toronto
Conservatory and the University of British
Columbia. She composed in all genres
but appears to have specialized in instrumental
music. Some of her other orchestral
works are 4 Symphonies and Concertos
for Violin and Organ.
Concerto
for Piano and String Orchestra (1956)
Mario
Bernardi (piano)/Victor Feldbrill/CBC
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Symphony, Shadows, String Quartet
and 2 Sung Songs)
CENTREDISCS
CMCCD 9203 (2 CDs) (2003)
(original
LP release: RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL
RCI 184) (1962)
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MIRIAM
HYDE
(1913-2005)
Born
in Adelaide. Her initial musical studies
were with her mother and at the Elder
Conservatorium in Adelaide. She then
went to London to attend the Royal College
of Music where her teachers were Howard
Hadley and Arthur Benjamin for piano
and R.O. Morris and Gordon Jacob for
composition. Returning to Australia
and settling in Sydney she pursued a
multi-facetted career as composer, recitalist,
teacher and writer. She composed steadily
though not prolifically and most of
her compositions are on a smaller with
only a few other works beyond the Piano
Concertos for orchestra.
Piano
Concerto No. 1 in E flat minor (1934)
Miriam
Hyde (piano)/Geoffrey Simon/West Australian
Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1975)
(
+ Piano Concerto No. 2 and Village Fair)
ABC
CLASSICS 4657352 (2006)
(original
CD release: ABC CLASSICS 446 285-2 {2
CDs}) (1995)
Piano
Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor (1935)
Miriam
Hyde (piano)/Joseph Post/Sydney Symphony
Orchestra
(
+ Heroic Elegy and Lyric for Strings)
ABC
PRX/4158 (non-commercial LP) (1957)
Miriam
Hyde (piano)/Geoffrey Simon/West Australian
Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1975)
(
+ Piano Concerto No. 1 and Village Fair)
ABC
CLASSICS 4657352 (2006)
(original
CD release: ABC CLASSICS 446 285-2 {2
CDs}) (1995)
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BENJAMIN
BRITTEN
(1913-1976)
Lord
Britten of Aldeburgh, to give him his
full title, was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
At the age of 13 he received composition
lessons from Frank Bridge. He later
studied at the Royal Academy of Music
with John Ireland for composition and
Arthur Benjamin and Harold Samuel for
piano. His professional composing career
began with scores for documentary films
but he went on to become the most played,
recorded and famous English composers
of the second half of the twentieth
century composing successfully in all
genres especially opera. The major works
for orchestra that supplement the Concertos
are Sinfonia da Requiem, Sinfonietta
and his most popular pieces, Variations
on a Theme of Frank Bridge and the Young
Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
Piano
Concerto in D major, Op. 13 (1938, rev.
1945)
Jacques
Abram (piano)/Herbert Menges/Philharmonia
Orchestra
(
+ Prelude and Fugue and Rubbra: Piano
Concerto)
EMI
BRITISH COMPOSERS CDM 574781 (2001)
(original
LP release: HMV CLP 1118) (1957)
Leif
Ove Andsnes (piano)/ Neeme Järvi/
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
and Enescu: Legend)
EMI
CD 556760-2 (1999)
Jane
Coop (piano)/Mario Bernardi/CBC Symphony
Orchestra
(
+ Rawsthorne: Piano Concerto No. 1,
Ireland: Legend and Finzi: Eclogue)
CBC
SM 5208 (2001)
Barry
Douglas (piano)/Marek Janowski/French
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
(
+ Debussy: Fantaisie)
RCA 09026 68127-2 (1997)
Ralf
Gothóni (piano)/Okko Kamu/elsingborg
Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Soirées Musicales and Matinées
Musicales)
ONDINE
ODE8252 (1994)
Robert
Leonardy/Saarbrucken Radio SO/Stanislaw
Skrowaczewski
(
+ Elgar: Enigma Variations)
ARTE
NOVA 74321 27769 2 (1997)
Gillian
Lin (piano)/John Hopkins/Melbourne Symphony
Orchestra
(
+ Copland: Piano Concerto)
Chandos
Collect CHAN 6580 (1992)
(original
LP release: CHANDOS ABR 1061) (1982)
Joanna
MacGregor (piano)/Steuart Bedford/English
Chamber Orchestra
(includes
original and revised 3rd
movement)
(
+ Overture to Paul Bunyan {arr. C. Matthews}
and Johnson over Jordan: Suite {arr.
P. Hindmarsh})
NAXOS
8.557197 (2005)
(original
CD release: COLLINS CLASSICS 1102-2)
(1990)
Marjorie
Mitchell/William Strickland/North German
Radio Symphony Orchestra
(
+ Busoni: Indian Fantasy and Bortkiewicz:
Piano Concerto No. 1)
Millenium
MCD80116 (c. 1995)
(original
US LP release: DECCA GOLD LABEL 710133)
(1966)
Sviatoslav
Richter (piano)/Benjamin Britten/English
Chamber Orchestra
(
+ Violin Concerto)
DECCA
417 308-2 (1989)
(original
LP release: DECCA SXL 6512) (1971)
Sviatoslav
Richter (piano)/ Yevgeni Svetlanov/USSR
State Symphony Orchestra (rec. 1967)
(
+ Lachrymae and Cello Sonata)
Revelation
RV10060 (1997)
Annette
Servadei (piano)/Joseph Giunta/London
Philharmonic Orchestra
(
+ Khachaturian: Piano Concerto)
HYPERION
CDA66293 (1988)