1000 YEARS OF SACRED MUSIC - CD
1 [78.11] Ambrosian and Gregorian Chant for the Feast of the
Epiphany Halleluiah (Puer Natus Est) [5.10] - Symbolum
(Credimus in Unum Deum) [3.25] - XIth Century French Polyphony:
Easter Mass Trope: Paschale Carmen - Introit: Resurrexit
[5.40] - Gradual: Haec Dies [3.23] - Organum: Alleluia
V, Pascha Nostrum V, Epulemur [4.33] - Antiphon: Ego sum Alpha
et Omega [3.45] - Office for the New Year at Puy-en-Velay
Cathedral (XIIth century) Veni Redemptor Gancium [4.37]
- Pater Noster [1.53] - Pierre ABELARD
(1079-1142) O Quanta Qualita, motet [7.47] - PEROTIN
(c. 1200) Alleluia Posus Adjutorium [9.24] - Llibre
Vermell de Montserrat (XIVth century) O Virgo Splendens Hic
in Monte Celso [3.57] - Mariam Mater Virginem [7.18] -
Guillaume DE MACHAUT (c. 1300-1377) Messe
De Notre Dame Kyrie [5.12] - Gloria [4.01] - Sanctus
and Benedictus [4.30] - Agnus Dei [3.05] - CD
2 [76.03] John DUNSTABLE (c. 1390-1443)
Veni Sancte Spiritus [6.24] - Guillaume
DUFAY (1400-1474) Nuper Rosarum Flores [6.45] -
Johannes OCKEGHEM (c. 1410-1497) Alma
Redemptoris Mater [5.43] - Josquin DES
PREZ (c. 1440-1521) Pater Noster [7.35] - Orlando
de LASSUS (1532?-1594) Resonet in Laudibus [3.15]
- Giovanni Perluigi da PALESTRINA (c.
1525-1594) The Song of Songs: Pulchra es Amica Mea [2.37]
- Ave Maria [3.27] - Heinrich SCHÜTZ
(1585-1672) Jauchzet Dem Herren Alle Welt SWV493 [7.34]
- Gregorio ALLEGRI (1582-1652) Miserere
[12.54] - Claudio MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)
Selva Morale e Spirituali (1640): Beatus Vir [8.54] -
Thomas TALLIS (c. 1505-1585) Spem
in Alium [10.17] - CD3
[79.01] Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER
(1643-1704) Te Deum: Pré lude [1.51] - Te Deum Laudamus
[1.28] - Te Aeternum Patrem [1.43] - Pleni Sunt Coeli
et Terra [2.10] - Messe de Minuit: Kyrie [6.25] - Antonio
VIVALDI (1678-1741) Gloria in D: Gloria in Excelsis [2.25]
- Et in Terra Pax [4.46] - Henry DU
MONT (1668-1733) Nisi Dominus (verse 1) [2.32] -
André CAMPRA (1660-1744) Tum
Acceptaberis (verse 20 of the Miserere) [2.34] - Louis
CLÉRAMBAULT (1676-1749) Justificeris Domino [0.31]
- Miserere Mei Deus [3.57] - François
COUPERIN (1668-1733) Tabascere Me Fecit [3.56] -
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU (1683-1764) In
Convertendo, Dominus: In Convertendo [3.09] - Tunc Repletum
est Gaudio [3.06] - Magnificat Dominus Facere Nobiscum [3.41]
- Giovanni Battista PERGOLESI (1710-1736)
Stabat Mater: Stabat Mater Dolorosa [4.39] - Vidit Suum
Dulcem Natum [3.20] - Eja Mater Fons Amoris [2.08] - George
Frideric HANDEL (1685-1759) Dixit Dominus [5.18] -
Messiah: Halleluiah [4.20] - Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Jesu Bleibet Meine Freude BWV147
[2.12] - Mass in B Minor: Qui Sedes ad Dexteram Patris [4.26]
- St John Passion: Ruht Wohl, Ihr Heiligen Gebeine [8.03] -
CD4 [78.04] Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
(1756-1791) Requiem K.626: Requiem Aeternam [4.01] - Kyrie
Eleison [2.13] - Lacrimosa [3.35] - Ave Verum Corpus K.618
[2.36] - Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Hymn to the Holy Ghost D.964 [7.20] - Ludwig
van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Missa Solemnis Op..123: Agnus
Dei [6.11] - Luigi CHERUBINI (1760-1842)
Requiem in Memory of Louis XVI: Introit and Kyrie [7.17]
- Gioachino ROSSINI (1792-1868) Stabat
Mater: Inflammatus et Accensus [4.17] - Felix
MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) Wie Der Hirsch Schreiet Nach Frischen
Wasser [5.50] - Charles GOUNOD (1818-1893)
Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile: Domine Salvum [3.32]
- Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) A
German Requiem: Ihr Habt Nun Traurigkeit [6.22] - Guiseppe
VERDI (1813-1901) Messa da Requiem: Dies Irae [2.15]
- Lux Aeterna [6.17] - César
FRANCK (1822-1890) Rédemption: Devant la Loi Nouvelle
[4.15] - Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924)
Requiem: Pie Jesu [3.24] - Libera Me [4.33] - In
Paradisum [3.33] - CD 5 [74.15] Sergei
RACHMANINOV (1873-1943) Vespers Op.37: Nunc Dimittis [3.29]
- Ave Maria [2.38] - Samuel BARBER (1910-1981)
Angus Dei [7.42] - Francis POULENC
(1899-1963) Quatre Motets Pour le Temps de Noë l - O
Magnum Mysterium [3.21] - Quem Vidistis Pastores Dicite [2.37]
- Videntes Stellam [3.10] - Hodie Christus Natus Est [2.04]
- Maurice DURUFLÉ (190-1986)
Requiem Op.9: Kyrie [3.31] - Pie Jesu [3.26] - Libera
Me [5.37] - In Paradisum [2.44] - Olivier
MESSIAEN (1908-1992) O Sacrum Convivium [5.04] -
Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976) A Shepherd's
Carol [4.06] - Igor STAVINSKY (1882-1971)
Credo [2.54] - Krzystof PENDERECKI
(b.1933) Ave Maria [7.00] - Henryk
GORECKI (b.1933) Totus Tuus [8.50] - Arvo
PÄRT (b.1935) De Profundis [5.27] - Various Artists
including: Schola Cantorum Coloniensis/Harald Scloßmacher - Ensemble
Gilles Binchois/Dominique Vellard - Studio der Frühen Musik/Thomas
Binkley - Hespérion XX/Jordi Savall - Taverner Consort, Choir
and Players/Andrew Parrott - The Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier - The
King's Singers - The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge/Timothy Brown
- Knabenchor Hannover / London Baroque/Heinz Hennig - The Choir of King's
College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury - Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville
Marriner - English Chamber Orchestra/David Willcocks - Les Pages de
la Chapelle / Musica Aeterna Orchestra of Bratislava/Olivier Schneebeli
- La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy/Jean-Claude Malgoire - Les Demoiselles
de Saint-Cyr/Emmanuel Mandrin - Les Talons Lyrique/Christoph Rousset
- Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet - Il Seminario Musicale/Gérard
Lesne - Schütz Choir / London Classical Players/Roger Norrington
- Capella Bavariae / Symphony Orchestra of Bavarian Radio/Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Tallis Chamber Choir / English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate - Ambrosian
Singers / Philharmonia Orchestra/Ricardo Muti - Chorus and Orchestra
of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Ricardo Muti - London Symphony Chorus
/ City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox - Choeurs et Nouvel Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio-France/Georges Prêtre - Orféon Donostiarra
/ Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse/Michel Plasson - Winchester Cathedral
Choir / Bournemouth Sinfonietta/David Hill - Swedish Radio Choir/Tö
no Kaljuste - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers - London Sinfonietta Voices
and Chorus- Terry Edwards - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Tö
no Kaljuste - rec. various dates between 1967 and 1998.
VIRGIN CLASSICS 7243 5 62126 2 6 [78.11+76.03+79.01+78.04+74.15]
[PW]
While
not all of the recordings are particularly desirable, the set as a whole
has much to offer, and for any student of Western music, of whatever
age, will be a valuable resource in developing understanding of traditions.
… see Full Review
Claudio
Arrau in Concert 2 - Ludwig
van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Piano
Sonata No 3 in C Op 2 No 3 (1794-95) - Johannes
BRAHMS (1833-1897) Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor Op 5 (1853)
Claudio Arrau (piano) -
Recorded at the 1976 Prague Spring Festival (Beethoven) and at Fisher
Hall, New York on 5th February 1978 (Brahms)
APR 5632 [68.58]
Fuelled
by drama with leonine, if occasionally occluded, gestures. … see Full
Review
Simon Barere. His
celebrated live recordings at Carnegie Hall. Volume Four: 1949 -
Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849) Andante
Spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat Op. 22 - Scherzo
No. 3 in C sharp minor Op 39 - Waltz No. 5 in A flat op 42 - Etudes
Op. 10 Nos. 4, 5 and 8 - Franz LISZT (1811-1886)
Etude de Concert Gnomenreigen S145/2 - Ludwig
van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90
- Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856) Carnaval
Op. 9 Simon Barere (piano)
- Recorded live in concert at Carnegie Hall 1949
APR 5624 [71.40] [JW]
A
stunning pianist – I just wish sometimes he had been as consistently
stunning a musician. … see Full Review
Baroque
Esprit: Joseph
HAYDN (1732-1809)
Grosse Orgelmesse Es-dur Hob. XXII:4 for 4 solo voices, choir,
2 English horns, horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings and organo
concertante (1766) - Kyrie [5.02] - Gloria [9.34] - Credo [11.59] -
Sanctus [1.56] - Benedictus [6.53] - Agnus Dei [6.19] - Wolfgang
Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) Te Deum C-dur/C major K 141
(1769) - Te Deum laudamus [3.25] - Te ergo quaesumus [0.56] - Aeterna
fac [1.54] - In te, Domine, speravi [2.42] - Gerhard Kögel (Sopran(o))
- Wolfgang Drasch (Alt(o)) - Hartmut Quotschalla (Tenor) - Urlich Streckmann
(Bass) Augsburger Domsingknaben
- Müncher Residenz Orchester/Reinhard Kammler - Rudolf Brauckmann
(organ positive) - Recorded: 1978, St. Thekla, Welden, Germany
DHM DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77860 2 [50.59] [CA]
Performances
lack outright conviction … though there are some good moments … see
Full Review
Baroque Violin Favourites Tomaso
VITALI (1663-1745) Chaconne in G minor Giuseppe
TARTINI (1692-1770) The Devil’s Trill Arcangelo
CORELLI (1653-1713) La Folia Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Air on the G string (arr. from
Suite in D major BWV 1068) Partita in E major, BWV 1006 (Excerpts) George
Frederick HANDEL (1685-1759) Sonata in D major Op. 1 No.13
Antonio VIVALDI (1678-1741)
Sonata in A major RV 31
Bin Huang (violin) Hyun-Sun Kim (piano) Recorded at the River Run Centre,
Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 23-24 January 2002 DDD
NAXOS 8.555960 [63:58] [MC]
A
hidden gem of a player … undoubtedly deserves wider public acclaim.
… see Full Review
Sir
Thomas Beecham conducts
Tchaikovsky - Piotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY
(1840-1893) The
Nutcracker Op 71a Ballet Suite (1892) - Symphony No 2 in C Op 17
Little Russian (1872 rev 1879)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Thomas Beecham - Recorded 1953 (Symphony)
and 1954 (Nutcracker Suite)
SONY SMK87875 [60.21] [JW]
Chock-full
of charm and verve, of elegance and charm. … see Full
Review
Sir
Thomas Beecham conducts Schubert
- Franz SCHUBERT (1770-1828) Symphony
No. 1 in D major D82 91813) - Symphony No. 2 in B flat major D485 (1814-15)
- Symphony No. 8 in B minor Unfinished D759 (1822)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Thomas Beecham - Recorded 1951 (Symphony
No 8) and 1953 (Symphonies 1 and 2)
SONY SMK87876 [77.27] [JW]
Lyricism
and care were the watchwords – the lyricism is generally taken for granted
but the care all too often overlooked. … see Full
Review
Sir
Thomas Beecham conducts
Sibelius and Brahms - Jean SIBELIUS
(1865-1957) Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 47 (1903 rev 1905) -
Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) Violin
Concerto in D Op. 77 (1878) - Isaac Stern (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Thomas Beecham - Recorded in London in
August (Sibelius) and November (Brahms) 1951
SONY SMK87799 [70.54] [JW]
Catches
something of the sympathetic collaboration that existed between both
musicians and the Brahms is certainly a standout recording … see Full
Review
Sir
Thomas Beecham conducts
Handel and Goldmark - George Frideric HANDEL
(1685-1759) The Faithful Shepherd – adapted Beecham - Károly
GOLDMARK (1830-1915) Ländliche Hochzeit (Rustic Wedding)
– symphonic poem Op 26 (1877)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Thomas Beecham - Recorded 1950 (Handel)
and 1952 (Goldmark)
SONY SMK87780 [66.38] [JW]
Another
feather in the cap for Sony’s Beecham series. Don’t stop now! … see
Full Review
Jussi Björling Collection Volume 2.
Songs in Swedish 1929-37 - Ernesto de CURTIS
(1875-1937) Torna
a Surriento - Henry GEEHL (1881-1961)
For You Alone - Mogens SCHRADER
(1894-1934) Sommarnatt - Ruggiero
LEONCAVALLO (1858-1919) Mattinata - Enrico
TOSELLI (1883-1926) Serenata -
ARTHUR Today - Edward ELGAR
(1857-1934) Salut d’amour [Violer] -
TRADITIONAL Tantis serenad - Varför älskar jag
- Svarta ögon [Ochi chernye] - Sommarglädje
- Giuseppe de CURTIS Carmela
- BALL Love me and the World
is Mine - Axel ASTROM I lyckans
temelgård - Folke TÖRNQUIST
O milda sang - BICKVOR Min
sommarmelodi - Johnny BODE Min
längtan är du - Michael HANDBERG-JØRGENSEN
Klownens tango - Walter JURMANN
(1903-1971)/Bronislaw KAPER (1902-1983)
Ninon - Hugo GYLDMARK (1899-1971)
Gitarren klingar - Osman PÉREZ-FREIRE
(1880-1930) Ay, Ay, Ay - Enrico
CARUSO (1873-1921) Dreams of Long Ago - Paul
DRESSER (1859-1906) Barndomshemmet [On the Banks
of the Wabash] Jussi
Björling (tenor) with
Nils Grevillius and His Orchestra - except two items with the Björling
Juvenile Trio with anonymous piano and violin accompaniment, recorded
1929-37 NAXOS 8.110740
[70.20] [JW]
Beauty
of vocal production … songs and lighter traditional material … see Full
Review
Carole BOGARD -
A Collection of American Songs -
John Alden CARPENTER (1876-1951)
(John Moriarty, piano) Two Poems by Siegfried Sassoon (1920)
[8:25] - Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore
(1914) [21:45] - John DUKE
(1899-1984)
(also accompanies) Songs to portions of From the Sea by Sara
Teasdale [10:29] - Six Poems by Emily Dickinson [10:10] - Four
Poems by e.e. cummings [7:43] - Richard
CUMMING (also accompanies) As Dew in April (anon.
14th c. English) (with Beth Orson. oboe) [2:45] - Two Poems by William
Blake [4:34] - Heart, we will forget him by Emily Dickinson
(with Theodore Mook, cello) [2:47] - Three Poems by Philip Minor
[6:30] - Aaron COPLAND (1900-1990)
(John Moriarty, piano) Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson [30:00]
- William FLANAGAN (b.1923)
(David Del Tredici, piano) - Cycle from Time's Long Ago!
by Herman Melville [14:31] - Three Poems by Howard Moss [11:19]
- Good-bye My Fancy by Walt Whitman (with R. Sullivan, guitar)
[6:20] - Ned ROREM (b.1923)
(John Moriarty, piano) Four Poems by Tennyson (1949) [2:34]
Carole Bogard (soprano)
- Pianists: John Moriarty (Carpenter, Copland, Rorem), John Duke (Duke),
Richard Cumming (Cumming), David Del Tredici (Flanagan) - rec. 1968
Desto LP (Flanagan), European Radio tapes 1970s (Copland, Carpenter,
Rorem), Cambridge LPs early 1980s Duke and Cumming
PARNASSUS PACD 96021/2 [77.27+75.17] [RB]
Indispensable
fine songs to English words. … rapt and lyrical ... a fine, high, slender
voice and evident intelligence …intellect and passion - neither precious
nor blowsy. see Full Review
British String Miniatures
Gareth
WALTERS (b.
1928) Divertimento (1960) Sir
Edward ELGAR (1857-1934) Elegy, op.58 (1909) Michael
ROBERTS (1927-96) Suite (c.1960s-1970s) Frederick
DELIUS (1862-1934) Two Aquarelles (1917 arr. E. Fenby 1938)
Anthony HEDGES (b.1931) Fiddler’s
Green (2001) Sir William WALTON (1902-83)
Two Pieces from Henry V (1944): a) The Death of Falstaff; b) Touch her
soft lips and part John ADDISON (1920-98)
Partita (1961) Royal
Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland Recorded 5-6 July 2001, Sony Music
Studios, London DDD
ASV WHITE LINE CD WHL 2134 [71:37] [MC]
Extremely
pleasurable … smooth tone and effortlessly expressive … see Full
Review
Adolf
Busch (violin):
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Violin
Concerto in D Op 61 (1806) - Ferrucio BUSONI
(1866-1924) Violin Concerto in D Op 35a (1896-97) - Adolf Busch
(violin) New York Philharmonic
Orchestra/Fritz Busch, February 1942 - Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bruno
Walter, 1936 INSTITIUTO
DISCOGRAFICO ITALIANO IDIS 334 [62.29] [JW]
Few
can match him the rapt intensity and concentratedness, the inner light
of Adolf Busch … see Full Review
ENGLISH RECORDER CONCERTOS John
GARDNER (born 1917) Petite
Suite Op.245 (2001) John McCABE (born
1939) Domestic Life (2000/1) Peter LAWSON
(born 1951) Song of the Lesser Twayblade (2000) Kenneth
LEIGHTON (1929 – 1988) Concerto Op.88 (1982)a
Philip LANE (born 1950) Suite Champêtre
(1982) Wilfrid MELLERS (born 1914) Aubade
(1961) Robin MILFORD (1903 – 1953) Two
Pipe Tunes (1929) Norman KAY (1929 –
2001) Mr Pitfield’s Pavane (2000) Stephen
DODGSON (born 1924) Concerto Chacony (2000)
John Turner (recorder); Keith Elcombe (harpsichord)a; Royal
Ballet Sinfonia; Gavin Sutherland Recorded: Sony Music Studios, London,
July 2001
ASV WHITE LINE CD WHL 2143 [76:58] [HC]
Light-hearted,
colourful and tuneful, sometimes with more than a hint of mild irony.
… see Full Review
Samuel Feinberg (1890-1962).
First recordings 1929-48 - Johann Sebastian BACH
(1685-1750) Chromatic
Fantasy and Fugue in D minor BWV 903 - Well Tempered Clavier Book
II: Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G BWV 884 - Prelude and Fugue No.
19 in A BWV 888 - Prelude and Fugue No. 20 in A minor BWV 889 - Chorale
preludes arranged Feinberg: Allein Gott in der höh sei her
BWV 711 - Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten BWV 647 - Concerto
after Vivaldi in A minor BWV 593 arranged Feinberg – First Movement
- Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Sonata
in F minor Op 57 Appassionata - Robert
SCHUMANN (1810-1856) Waldszenen Op. 82: Jagdlied (No.
8) - Vogel als prophet (No. 7) - Franz LISZT
(1811-1886) Consolation Nos. 5 and 6 - Anatole
LIADOV (1855-1914) Idylle Op. 25 - Samuel
FEINBERG (1890-1962) Suite Op. 11 – 4 Pieces in Etude Form
(1923) - Alexei STANCHINSKY (1888-1914)
Prelude in canon form (1913-14) - Alexander
SCRIABIN (1872-1915) Mazurka in F sharp minor Op. 25 No.
7 - Etude Op. 42 No. 3 - Fragilité Op. 51 No. 1
Samuel Feinberg (piano) - Recorded Berlin and Moscow 1929-48
ARBITER 118 [77.05] [JW]
Not
yet at the true plateau of his greatness but forceful and sensitive,
and an artist very well worth getting to know. … see Full
Review
Ian
Fountain (piano) PIANO
WORKS - Sergei RACHMANINOV
(1873-1943) Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat, Op.36 (1913, rev.1931) - Leoš
JANÁČEK (1854-1928) Piano Sonata: From the Street
1.X.1905 (1905) - Arnold SCHOENBERG
(1874-1951) Three Piano Pieces, Op.11 (1909) - Alban
BERG (1885-1935) Piano Sonata Op.1 (1908) - Alexander
SCRIABIN (1872-1915) Piano Sonata in F sharp, Op.64 ‘White
Mass’ (1911) Ian Fountain
(piano) - Recorded April 1999 and May 2000, Hessischer Rundfunk, Studio
1, Frankfurt EMI CLASSICS
DEBUT SERIES 7243 5 74164 2 [71’44] [TH]
Mightily
impressive piano playing. … see Full
Review
BARGAIN
OF THE MONTH Wilhelm Furtwängler
1944 -1954 Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN
(1770-1837) Overture
‘Leonora’ no.3 , op.72a (1806) recorded Vienna 1944 Symphony
no.7 in A, op.92 (1813) recorded Berlin 1953 Franz
SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Symphony no.8 in B minor, "Unfinished"(1822)
recorded Berlin 1952 Robert SCHUMANN
(1810-1856) Overture "Manfred", op.115 (1848) recorded
Berlin 1949 Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, op.56a (1873) recorded
Berlin 1950 Symphony no.2 in D (1877) recorded Vienna 1945 Anton
BRUCKNER (1824-1896) Symphony no.8 in C minor (1887) Vienna
1944 Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949) "Don
Juan", op.20 (1888) Berlin 1947 Peter
TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Symphony no.6 in B minor "Pathétique",
op.74 (1893) recorded Cairo April 1951 Paul
HINDEMITH (1895-1963) Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes
by Carl Maria von Weber (1943) recorded September 1947 César
FRANCK (1822-1890) Symphony in D minor (1888) recorded Vienna
1945 Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937) Rapsodie
espagnole (1907) recorded Walheim 1951 Richard
WAGNER (1813-1883)"The Mastersingers" -
Prelude to Act 1 (1867) recorded Berlin 1949 "Tannhäuser"
– Overture (1845) recorded Rome 1951 "Tristan and Isolde"
– Prelude and Isolde’s Love-Death (1859) recorded Berlin 1954 "Twilight
of the Gods" – Siegfried’s Funeral March (1874) recorded
Berlin 1949 "Parsifal" – Good Friday Spell (1882)
recorded Alexandria 1951
Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic/Wilhelm Furtwängler
Recorded at various venues between June 1944 and April 1954
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON Original Masters 474 030-2 [78:35+72:18+77:00+67:09+77:58+61:38]
[GPJ]
Inexorable
power and passion … darkly impressive … a treasure-trove … see Full
Review
Viviane and Nicole HAGNER
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Sonata
for violin and piano in C minor Op.30 No.2 (1801) [26.26] Camille
SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921) Havanaise Op.83 (1887)
[9.40] Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op.28 (1863) [9.13]
Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Fantasie
in C D934 (1827) [26.11]
Viviane Hagner (violin) Nicole Hagner (piano) rec St Michael’s Church,
Highgate, London, November 1997
EMI DEBUT SERIES 7243 5 73161 2 5 [72.05] [CF]
Immaculate
technique … delivered with delectable panache to the manner born … positively
fizzes. … see Full Review
Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia:
‘A
Very English Sound’ -
HANDEL arr. Paul
CLARK Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Daryl
RUNSWICK Variations on the Psalm tune Southwell (1986);
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr Denis
BLOODWORTH English Folk Song Suite - ELGAR
arr. BLOODWORTH Moths and Butterflies
- Anne SPARKES (b.1968) Sadko
- Giles FARNABY arr. Daryl
RUNSWICK Five Pieces from the Fitzwilliam Virginal
Book - Colin HAND (b.1929) Fanfare
for a Festival - BYRD arr. H.R.SINFONIA
Fantasia a 6 No. 2 - Warrick
KEAR (b.1950) Three Pieces -
Brian BONSOR
(b.1926) The Seventeenth’s Farewell to Alva - Andrew
CHALLINGER (b.1950) Buskin -
SHERWIN arr. BLOODWORTH
A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square - ALFORD
arr. Chris MAY
Colonel Bogey
Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia/Christopher Burgess - Recorded in the chapel
of the University College Chichester September 8th and 9th
2001 NO CATALOGUE
NUMBER [76.44] [GH]
Some
imaginative and clever music here though some pieces are more of a trial
to listen to … a unique document … see Full
Review
Clara
Haskil and Dinu Lipatti. Hommage Franz LISZT
(1811-1886) Etude
de concert No. 2 La Leggierezza Carl
Heinrich GRAUN (1703/04-1759) Gigue Francis
POULENC (1899-1963) Presto Felix
MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) Pièce charactéristique
Op. 7 No. 4 Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Capriccio Op. 76 No. 5 Intermezzo Op. 76 No. 4 Alexander
SCRIABIN (1872-1915) Prelude Op. 50 No. 2 Sergei
RACHMANINOV (1873-1943) Etude-Tableau Op. 33 No. 2 Ludwig
van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Concerto for Piano. and Orchestra
No. 2 – extract of solo rehearsal [8.01] Robert
SCHUMANN (1810-1856) Abegg Variations Wolfgang
Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)
Piano. Concerto No. 9 Jeunehomme K 271 Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Chorale Prelude Nun komm’ der
Heiden Heiland BWV 599 – two versions, one by each pianist Béla
BARTÓK (1881-1945) Piano. Concerto No. 3 (1945) Dinu
LIPATTI (1917-1950) Sonatina for left Hand
Clara Haskil (piano) - all items except last two - with Bavarian
Radio Symphony Orchestra/Eugen Jochum (Mozart 1st March 1954) Dinu Lipatti
(piano) last three items with
South West German Radio Orchestra/Paul Sacher 30th April
1948 Recorded live (with exception of the Schumann Abegg Variations)
c1929-1954 TAHRA TAH
2.366-2.367 [2 CDs 130.02] [JW]
Reflects
something of the turbulence of time, place and consequence which dogged,
pursued and finally overwhelmed these two irreplaceable artists. … see
Full Review
Jascha
Heifetz (Violin) Johannes
BRAHMS (1833-1897) Double
Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor Op. 102 (1887) Alexander
GLAZUNOV (1865-1936) Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 82 (1904)
Max BRUCH (1838-1920) Scottish Fantasy
Op. 46 (1880) Jascha
Heifetz (violin) with Emanuel Feuermann (cello) and Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene
Ormandy (Brahms) recorded in December 1939 LPO/John Barbirolli (Glazunov)
recorded in March 1934 RCA Victor Orchestra/William Steinberg (Bruch)
recorded in September 1947
NAXOS 8.110940 [74.58] [JW]
Three
commanding performances and classics of the literature in a well transferred
disc all revealing much of Heifetz’s matchless eloquence. … see Full
Review
Huberman in Recital -
Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) Violin
Sonata in No. 1 in G Op. 78 (1878-79) - Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Partita in D minor BWV 1004 (1720)
- Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Fantasy
in C D934 (1827) - Pablo de SARASATE
(1844-1908) Romanza Andaluza Op. 22 No. 1 (1878-82)
Bronislaw Huberman (violin) - Boris Roubakine (piano) - Unknown pianist
(maybe Siegfried Schulze) in the Sarasate - Recorded live in New York
1936-44 ARBITER 105
[79.29] [JW]
Striking … exciting too, revealing an indelible
talent whose live performances take on renewed almost miraculous life
here. … see Full Review
I
met you, my love: Old Russian Romances -
sung by Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Arr.
Evgeny Stetsyuk) - I Met You, My Love (Ya fstretil vas) - No, It's Not
You I Love So Fervently (Net, ne tebia tak pïlko ya liubliu) -
Only Once (Tol'ko raz) - Bright Is the Night (Noch svetla) - I Remember
the Charming Sound of the Waltz (Ya pomniu val'sa zvuk prelestnïy)
- O, If Only I Could Express in Sounds (O, yesli b mog vïrazit'
v zvuke) - Do Not Awaken Memories (Ne probuzhday vospominaniy) - The
Coachman's Song (Pesn' yamshchika) - In the Wide Open Field (V pole
shirokom) - The Lonely Coach Bell Rings (Odnozvuchno gremit kolokol'chik)
- Misty Morning (Utro tumannoye) - But I Love You, Nevertheless (No
ya Vas fsio-taki liubliu) - The Troika Speeds, the Troika Gallops (Troyka
mchitsa, troyka skachet) - The Autumn Wind Moans Mournfully (Zhalobno
stonet veter osenniy) - At That Fateful Hour (V chas rokovoy) - I Loved
You (Ya Vas liubil) - The Weeping Willows Slumber (Dremliut plakuchiye
ivï) - You Cannot Understand (Vam ne poniat') - Shine, Shine, My
Star (Gori, gori, moya zvezda). Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone) - Style
of Five Moscow Chamber
Orchestra/Constantine Orbelian - Rec. 22, 23, 25 Aug 2001, Great Hall,
Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Moscow, DDD
DELOS DE 3289 [61:23] [RB]
Unremitting heroism, immersed nobility or tear-stained
reflection …affecting in small salvoes of three or four songs at a time.
… see Full Review
Tenna Kraft. The Danish Soprano of the 20th
Century Giacomo PUCCINI
(1858-1924) Vissi
d’arte (Tosca) Un bel dì, vedremo (Madama Butterfly) Quando me’n
vo soletta (La Bohème) Ora stammi sentir (Tosca) Vissi d’arte
(Tosca) Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901) Un
di, felice, eterea (La Traviata) Ah, fors’è lui che l’anima (La
Traviata) Sempre libera degg’io (La Traviata) Tu che la vanità
(Don Carlos) Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY
(1840-1893) Tatyana’s Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin) Peter
Arnold HEISE (1830-1879) Lady Ingeborg’s Farewell to the
Marshal (King and the Marshal) Skovensomhed Siegfried
SOLOMON (1885-1962) Med sorrig jeg mig lagde (Leonora Christina)
Der er tre hjørnestene (Leonora Christina) Francis
THOMÉ (1850-1909) Simple aveu Ange
FLÉGIER (1846-1927) Les Stances Franz
SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Ave Maria Peter
Erasmus LANGE-MULLER (1850-1926) Lykken Fini
HENRIQUES (1867-1940) To må man være Henriette
RANTZAU (1844-1913) Hvor tindrer nu min stjerne Christoph
Ernest Friedrich WEYSE (1774-1842) I fjerne kirketårne
Tenna Kraft (soprano) with unnamed accompaniments except variously Vilhelm
Herold (tenor), Louis Jensen (cello), Folmer Jensen (piano) and conductors
Johan Hye-Knudsen, Emil Reesen and Egisto Tango Recorded 1911-1940
DANACORD DACOCD 603 [78.26] [JW]
Fritz
Busch asked "How is it possible to keep such an artist from Europe?
… see Full Review
Jurinac
- Ludwig: Richard STRAUSS
(1864-1949): ‘Vier
letzte Lieder’* [19’12"] - ‘Du meines Herzens Krönelein’,
Op.21 No.2 [2’25"] - ‘Ruhe, meine Seele, Op. 27 No. 1 [3’41"]
- ‘Zueignung’, Op.10 No.1 [2’04"] - Gustav
MAHLER (1860-1911): ‘Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen** [17’43"]
(‘Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft’ [2’53"]; ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden
gekommen’ [6’51"]; ‘Um Mitternacht’ [5’39"]) - Johannes
BRAHMS (1833-1897): ‘Wiegenlied’, Op.49 No. 4 [2’36"]
- ‘Ständchen’, Op.106 No.1 [2’15"]
*Sena Jurinac (soprano) - BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm
Sargent - Recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London on 11 September
1961 - ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) - Philharmonia Orchestra conducted
by André Cluytens - Recorded in the Royal Festival Hall, London
on 2 December 1957 Christa
Ludwig - Geoffrey Parsons (piano) - Recorded at the Summer Festival,
Wigmore Hall, London on 15 July 1978
BBC LEGENDS BBCL 4107-2 [66’47"] [JQ]
An
attractive prospect, offering live performances by two of the leading
singers of the post-war era. … see Full
Review
Ethel
LEGINSKA (1886-1970): The complete Columbia
Masters (1926-28) - Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Four
Impromptus D935 - Six Moments Musicaux D780 - Marche Militaire in D
major No. 1 D773 - Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849)
Polonaise in A major Op. 40/1 - Prelude in D flat major Op. 28/15
- Sergei RACHMANINOV (1873-1943) Prelude
in G minor Op. 23/5 - Prelude in C sharp minor Op. 32/2 - Franz
LISZT (1811-1886) Hungarian Rhapsody No. 8 in F sharp minor
Ethel Leginska (piano)
- Recorded New York 1926-28
IVORY CLASSICS 72002 [72.44] [JW]
A
genuinely useful and handsome release … see Full
Review
Mischa
Levitzki (1898-1941) Christoph Willibald von
GLUCK (1714-1787) Mélodie
from Orfeo Gavotte from Iphigénie en Aulide Franz
SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Marche Militaire arr. Tausig
[Two versions} Felix MENDELLSOHN (1809-1847)
Spring Song Rondo Capriccioso in E major Op. 14 Fryderyk
CHOPIN (1810-1849) Waltz in E minor Op. posth Waltz in G
flat major Op. 70 No. 1 Etude in G flat major Op. 10 No. 5 Etude in
A flat major Op. 25 No. 1 Moritz MOSZKOWSKI
(1854-1925) La Jongleuse Op. 52 No. 4 Franz
LISZT (1811-1886) Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 on D flat major
S242 La Campanella Mischa LEVITZKI (1898-1941)
Valse de Concert Op. 1 Waltz in A flat Op. 2 Pyotr
Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Troika en traineaux (The
Seasons – November) Johann Sebastian BACH
(1685-1750) Prelude and Fugue in A minor arr Liszt Domenico
SCARLATTI (1685-1757) Sonata in A major K113 Ludwig
van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Ecossaise in E flat major WoO 86
Mischa Levitzki (piano)
Recorded 1923-1933 NAXOS
8.110688 [77.06]
Not
simply likeable or sympathetic but curiously affecting as well. … see
Full Review
Dame Moura Lympany.
Tribute to a Legend - Felix MENDELSSOHN (1909-1847)
Piano
Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 (1831) - Henry
LITOLFF (1818-1891) Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in
D minor Op. 102 – Scherzo (c1852) - Manuel
de FALLA (1876-1946) Noches en los Jardines de España
(1907-16) - Franz LISZT (1811-1886)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major (S 125/R456) (1839 rev 1849-61)
Moura Lympany (piano)
with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Malcolm Sargent in all except - RCA
Victor Symphony/Massimo Freccia in de Falla - Recorded London 1964-67
IVORY CLASSICS 70906
[69.04] [JW]
Warmly
recommended performances sounding quite splendid in these transfers.
… see Full Review
The
Art of Pilar Lorengar - CD 1: Giacomo
PUCCINI (1858-1924) La
Bohème: Sì, mi chiamano Mimì (1), La rondine:
Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (1), Madama Butterfly: Un bel
dì (1), Tu, tu, piccolo Iddio (2), Turandot: Tu
che di gel sei cinta (1), Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro
(1), Suor Angelica: Senza mamma (2), Tosca: Vissi d’arte
(2) - Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841-1904)
Rusalka: Mĕsíčku na nebi hlubokém (2) - Wolfgang
Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) Le nozze di Figaro: E Susanna
non vien! … Dove sono I bei momenti (3), Die Zauberflöte: Ach,
ich fühl’s (4), Così fan tutte: Come scoglio (5)
- Gustav CHARPENTIER (1860-1956) Louise:
Depuis le jour (1) - Georges BIZET (1838-1875)
Carmen: C’est des contrebandiers … Je dis que rien (1) -
Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949) Arabella:
Er ist der Richtige nicht für mich … Aber der Richtige (3)
- Richard WAGNER (1813-1883) Tannhäuser:
Dich, teure Halle (3) - Erich Wolfgang
KORNGOLD (1897-1957) Die tote Stadt: Glück, das mir
verlieb (3) - CD
2: Enrique GRANADOS (1867-1916) Goyescas:
La maja y el ruiseñor (6), 9 Tonadillas (7), 3 Majas dolorosas
(7), 6 canciones amatorias (7) - Manuel de
FALLA (1876-1946) La vida breve: Vivan los que rien, Alli
está, riyendo (6) - Joaquin TURINA
(1882-1949) Canto a Sevilla: Semana Santa, Las fuentecitas,
El fantasma, La Giralda (8) Pilar Lorengar (soprano), with Arleen
Auger (soprano, R. Strauss), The Ambrosian Singers (De Falla), Alicia
de Larrocha (piano) (7), Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia,
Roma (1), London Philharmonic Orchestra (2, 5, 6), Wiener Opernorchester
(3), Wiener Philharmoniker (4), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (8)/Giuseppe
Patané (1), Jesús López-Cobos (2, 6, 8), Walter
Weller (3), Sir Georg Solti (4, 5) - Recorded July 1966, Accademia di
Santa Cecilia, Roma (1), September/October 1969, Sofiensaal, Vienna
(4), December 1971, Sofiensaal, Vienna (3), July 1973, Kingsway Hall,
London (5), December 1978, Kingsway Hall, London (2, 6), July 1977,
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, London (7), March 1983, Victoria Hall,
Geneva (8) DECCA 473
317-2 [2 CDs: 77:00+77:23] [CH]
Lovely
performances of arias by Charpentier and Korngold hardly make a recommendation
when Lorengar’s persistent vibrato compromises much of the rest. … see
Full Review
[Detailed listing (last two
days)]
[Part 1 New] [Part
2 A-B] [Part 3 C-L]
[Part 4 M-R] [Part
5 S-Z]
[Part 6 Misc A-L] [Part
7 Misc M-Z]
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