Leóš Janáček (1854-1928) Sinfonietta, Lachian Dances, Taras Bulba, The Cunning Little Vixen: Suite (V.Talich) Jealousy, original prelude to Jenůfa From the House of the Dead: Prelude The Makropulos Case: Symphonic synthesis (J.Serebrier)
Czech State Philharmonic, Brno José Serebrier
Reference Recordings RR-2103 (2001). Recorded 1995-96 [flac, cue, log, scans]
CD 1 63:02 CD 2 60:09 CD 3 58:48 Recorded 1998 - 2004 Published 2006
TRACKLIST
Luciano BERIO (1925-2003)
Sequenzas I-XIV
CD 1 63:02
[1] Sequenza I for flute (1958) 5:16 Nora Shulman Recorded on 21st November, 1999
[2] Sequenza II for harp (1963) 9:28 Erica Goodman Recorded on 7th October, 2000
[3] Sequenza III for female voice (1966) 7:37 Tony Arnold Recorded on 26th January, 2002
[4] Sequenza IV for piano (1966) 10:56 Boris Berman Recorded on 17th June, 1998
[5] Sequenza V for trombone (1965) 5:34 Alain Trudel Recorded on 4th May, 2000
[6] Sequenza VI for viola (1967) 14:53 Steven Dann Recorded on 17th and 18th June, 2002
[7] Sequenza VIIa for oboe (1969) 9:17 Matej Sarc Recorded on 11th and 12th January, 2002
CD 2 60:09
[1] Sequeuza VIII for violin (1976) 12:32 Jasper Wood Recorded on 16th and 17th December, 2000
[2] Sequenza IXa for clarinet (1980) 14:01 Joaquin Valdepenas Recorded on 25th and 26th October, 2003
[3] Sequenza X for trumpet in C and pianoresonance (1984) 17:08 Guy Few Recorded on 1st and 2nd October, 2000
[4] Sequenza XI for guitar (1987-88) 16:28 Pablo Sáinz Villegas Recorded on 10th and 11th May, 2003
CD 3 58:48
[1] Sequenza XII for bassoon (1995) 16:18 Ken Munday Recorded on 10th and 11th January, 2004
[2] Sequenza XIII for accordion (chanson) (1995) 8:16 Joseph Petric Recorded on 18th December, 2000
[3] Sequenza XIV for cello (2002) 13:09 Darrett Adkins Recorded on 29th and 30th May, 2004
[4] Sequenza VIIb for soprano saxophone (1995) 7:15 Wallace Halladav Recorded on 12th and 13th February, 2004
[5] Sequenza IXb for alto saxophone (1981) 13:50 Wallace Halladay Recorded on 5th and 6th September, 2003
Playing Time: 3:01:59
All tracks recorded at St John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. Production and Editing: Bonnie Silver and Norbert Kraft - Engineer: Norbert Kraft Cover image: Bodega by Juan Hitters (P) + (C) 2006 Naxos Rights International Ltd. www.naxos.com Naxos 8.557661-63
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber(1644-1704) · Sonata No.5 in E minor · Sonata No.7 in G major · Nisi Dominus for violin, bass voice and continuo · Sonata No.2 in D minor · Sonata No.3 in F major · Passacaglia for solo violin Monica Huggett, Sonnerie Thomas Guthrie, bass CD Gau 203 - 2001
01. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis [16'48] 02.- 07. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus [11'25] 08. - 19. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Job. A Masque for Dancing [48'39]
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley
EMI CfP 5753142 (recorded December 1973 -Tallis Fantasia; December 1983 -Job; June 1985 -Dives and Lazarus; this CD issued 2002)
(flac and scans) Recording venues: Fairfield Halls, Croydon -Tallis Fantasia; St Augustine's, Kilburn -Job & Dives and Lazarus. Recording engineers: John Boyden -Tallis Fantasia; Mike 'Mr Bear' Clements -Job & Dives and Lazarus. Producers: John Boyden -Tallis Fantasia; Andrew Keener -Job; Martin Compton -Dives and Lazarus.
This wonderful performance and recording of Job was first issued on EMI's Eminence label and was posted here on MIMIC by Scoredaddy back in January 2009. However, the links on that post appear to be dead so it seemed worthwhile to make it available again - and in this reissue on Classics for Pleasure it is accompanied by Handley's early recording of the Tallis Fantasia - much nore measured and grander than his later recording in Liverpool. For me, this recording of Job has only been seriously challenged by Adrian Boult's early (1959) stereo recording with the same orchestra for Everest, although some may be put off by the then cavernous acoustic of the Royal Albert Hall.
This recording by Vernon Handley was subsequently packaged together, by Classics for Pleasure, with Handley's equally fine cycle of the Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and those recordings of the symphonies have subsequently appeared in EMI's large Vaughan Williams Collectors Edition. But for some reason, EMI substituted Boult's later, and inferior, EMI recording of Job.
For completeness, I have also included a download of Boult's Everest recording of Job (not my rip - thanks to the original uploader). This comes coupled with The Wasps Overture, recorded in the same location, and Malcolm Arnold's definitive 1959 recording of his Four Scottish Dances, also with the London Philharmonic, (Everest EVC9006).
Marin Marais (1656-1728) Pièces en Trio in C major Suite in D major Pièces en Trio in E major Les folies d'Espagne William Hunt, The Purcell Quartet (Period Instruments) Hyperion CDA66310 (1989)
Francois Joseph Gossec (1734-1829) Symphonie Concertante in D major for Violin & Viola André Modeste Grétry (1741-1813) Concerto in C major for Flute Dieudonné Pascal Pieltain (1754-1833) Concerto No.3 in Bb major for Violin Antoine Frédéric Gresnick (1755-1799) Symphonie Concertante in Bb major for Clarinet & Bassoon Guy van Waas, Les Agrémens (Period Instruments) Ricercar RIC 242 (2005)
Deutsche Cembalomusik - Colin Tilney 01 Böhm - Praeludium, Fuga & Postludium g -moll 02 Böhm - Suite nr 6 Es-dur 03 Kuhnau - Suonata quarta c-moll "Hiskias agonizzante" 04 J. Pachelbel - Aria quinta a-moll 05 Böhm - Capriccio D-Dur 06 JS Bach - Fantasie und Fuge a-moll BWV 904
Recorded in 1978/79; [flac and photos]
For harpsichord-lovers the thing to get from this one is especially the Kuhnau, which is very rarely recorded. Also, if you don't know BWV 904, this is a nice performance. Although I have to say for me the Fantasia is perfect for the organ, while the Fugue suits harpsichord the best :-)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Concerto in C minor, for Treble Recorder, RV441 Concerto in C major, for Sopranino Recorder, RV444 Concerto in A minor, for Treble Recorder, RV108 Concerto in A minor, for Sopranino Recorder, RV444 Concerto in F major, for Treble Recorder, RV442 Concerto in C major, for Sopranino Recorder, RV443 Peter Holstag, Treble & Sopranino Recorders Peter Holman, The Parley of Instruments (Period Instruments) Hyperion CDA66328 (1988) [Flac & Scans]
01. - 07. Gustav Holst - The Planets, op.32. Suite for large orchestra. [50'02] 08. Gustav Holst - Egdon Heath, op.47 [13'07]
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis with Women from the BBC Symphony Chorus in Neptune.
Warner Apex 8573-890872 (recorded December 1993; this CD release 2001)
(flac and scans)
Recording venue: St Augustine's Church, Kilburn Recording engineer: Tony Faulkner; Producer: James Mallinson
Here's another from the series of British music recorded by Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony in the 1990s. This remains one of my favourite recordings of The Planets (after Adrian Boult with the London Phil. and Zubin Mehta with the LA Phil.). The recorded sound is stunning and I much prefer this to Davis' later Chandos recording with the BBC Philharmonic. The wonderful Egdon Heath provides an excellent fill-up.
The inlay card suggests that Andrew Davis also plays the organ of King's College Cambridge throughout The Planets. Although he was an organ scholar and member of the King's College Choir in his earlier career, I find this statement to be unlikely!
Carl Joseph Toeschi (1731/32-1788) Sinfonia in D major (1770's) Franz Danzi (1763-1826) Piano Concerto in Eb (1800) Johann Baptist Wendling (1723-1797) Flute Concerto in G major (1769) Johann Christian Cannabich (1731-1798) Sinfonia in Bb major (1790's) Christoph Hammer, Neue Hofkapelle München (Period Instruments) Capriccio 10 861 (2000)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Symphony No. 27 in G major, K199 (K162a) March in D major, K215 (K213b) Serenade No. 5 in D major, K204 (K213a) Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien (Period Instruments) Teldec 9031-72289-2 (1991)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) La finte contesse, Intermezzo in Two Parts (1766) Orchestra Barocca "La Confraternita de' Musici" (Period Instruments) Bongiovanni GB 2462/63-2 (2013) 2-Disc Set
Jan Zach (1699-1773) Sonata a tre Stromenti Jan Krittel Vanhal (1732-1813) Six Sonatas for Two Clarinets & Bass, Op. 18 (ca. 1780) Jiri Krejci & Luigi Magistrelli, Clarinets Petr Hejny, Cello (Period Instruments) Arta F1 0092-2 (1999)
J. Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez H. Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra No 1, Opus 99
Norbert Kraft - Guitar Northern Chamber Orchestra - Nicholas Ward Label: Naxos 8.550729 Recorded October 1992
01. - 04. Gustav Holst - St Paul's Suite for String Orchestra, op.26 no.2 [12'29] 05. - 07. Gustav Holst - A Fugal Concerto for Flute and Oboe*, op.40 no.2 [8'33] 08. - 10. Gustav Holst - Brook Green Suite for String Orchestra [7'05] 11. Gustav Holst - A Somerset Rhapsody, op.21 no.2 [9'16] 12. Gustav Holst - Ballet from 'The Perfect Fool', op.39 [10'36]
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Yehudi Menuhin with Jonathan Snowden- flute and David Theodore- oboe*
EMI Eminence 5653992 (recorded April 1993; this CD release 1994)
(flac and scans) Recording venue: St Augustine's Church, Kilburn Recording engineers: Mike Hatch and Mike 'Mr Bear' Clements; Producer: John H West
Here's an attractive short collection of a number of Holst's most popular works, again recorded in the favourite acoustic of St Augustine's. Holst was a long-time music teacher at St Paul's Girls School near Brook Green in Hammersmith and the Brook Green Suite was written for their junior orchestra.
At this stage of his career, Menuhin was a rather more accomplished conductor than violinist and he serves up lively and affectionate performances. The flute and oboe soloists are particularly fine in the Fugal Concerto. I see that this CD is currently trading on Amazon for $90.00!
