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Billings: Early American Choral Music -- Hillier, His Majestie's Clerkes

June 8, 2020, 4:00 pm
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William Billings (1746-1800)

Early American Choral Music, Vol I: Anthems and Fuging Tunes

His Majestie's Clerkes
Paul Hillier, dir

Rec 1991
Harmonia Mundi HCX 3957048 (1992; 2001) out of print


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Tracklist
01 O Praise The Lord Of Heaven
02 Is Any Affilicted
03 Emmaus
04 Africa
05 Funeral Anthem: Samuel The Priest
06 Shiloh
07 Jordan
08 I Am the Rose of Sharon
09 Euroclydon
10 Hear My Pray'r
11 Rutland
12 David's Lamentation
13 As The Hart Panteth
14 Creation
15 Brookfield
16 Easter Anthem: The Lord Is Ris'n Indeed
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Beethoven: Complete Works for Solo Piano Vol. 10 (Brautigam)

June 9, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Complete Bagatelles
Bagatelles, Op. 33,  119&126
Assorted Bagatelles
Ronald Brautigam, Fortepiano
BIS-SACD-1882 (2011)





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DG and Decca concerts part 1

June 10, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Robert Schumann
Genoveva: Overture
Piano Concerto
Symphony No. 4
Martha Argerich piano
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Riccardo Chailly







C.P.E. Bach
Concerto for Two Harpsichords Wq 46
Symphonies Wq183 I and IV
F. J. Haydn
Symphony 104
Tini Mathot  harpsichord
Deutsches SO Berlin
Ton Koopman harpsichord and direction






Hector Berlioz
Le Carnaval Romain
La Mort de Cleopatre
Claude Debussy
Le Martyre de San Sebastien
La Mer
Beatrice Uria-Monzon mezzoprano
Orchestre Phlharmonique de Radio France
Myung-Whun Chung






Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture
Academic Overture
Haydn Variations
Symphony No. 3
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Herbert Blomstedt





Edward Elgar
Alassio (In the South)
Enigma Variations
Symphony No. 1
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis







Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Riccardo Chailly







Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6
Orchestre National de France
Daniele Gatti









G. P. Telemann 
Trio for Flute, Oboe and Harpsichord
G. F. Handel
Harpsichord Concerto op. 4 No. 6
J. S. Bach
Cantata 211
Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto "Il Gardellino"
3 Violins Concerto RV 551/3
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center



W. A. Mozart
Symphony No. 33
Piano Concertos Nos. 17 and 18
G. Ligeti: Cantabile
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano and direction







John Antes: String Trio No. 2
George Gershwin: Lullaby
Samuel Barber: String Quartet op. 11
Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet 1931
Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Joan Tower: A Cadeau
The Chamber Music Society of  Lincoln Center





Henrik Andriessen
Racconto dall´Inferno
De Staat
Arvo Part
Tabula Rasa
Cristina Zavalloni
Los Angeles PO
Reinbert de Leeuw





Steve Reich
Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards
Three Movements for Orchestra
Theillim
Synergy Vocals
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Los Angeles PO
Stefan Asbury






Bela Bartok
Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano
Antonin Dvorak
Piano Quintet op. 81
The Chamber Music Society of  Lincoln Center







William Walton
Portsmouth Point Overture
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto
Paul Watkins
BBC SO
Jiri Belohlavek






Benjamin Britten
Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes"
Bohuslav Martinu
Piano Concerto No. 4 "Incantations"
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5
Ivo Kahanek piano
BBC SO
Jiri Belohlavek




Frederick Delius
A Song of Summer
Michael Tippett
Triple Concerto
Daniel Hope violin
Philip Dukes viola
Christian Poltera cello
BBC SO
Sir Andrew Davis




Richard Rodney Bennett
Four Poems of Thomas Campion
Olivier Knussen
Violin Concerto
Leila Josefowicz violin
BBC SO and Chorus
Olivier Knussen
Stephen Jackson



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Jorma Hynninen & Okko Kamu: Sallinen - Songs of Life and Death & The Iron Age Suite

June 11, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Ondine ODE844-2
Aulis Sallinen:
01. - 08. Elaman ja kuoleman lauluja 'Songs Of Life And Death', op.69 [46'55]
09. - 15. Rauta-aika 'The Iron Age'. Suite, op.55# [28'23]

Jorma Haininen- baritone*, Margit Papunen- soprano#, Opera Festival Chorus, East Helsinki Music Institute Choir#, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Okko Kamu

Ondine ODE844-2 (recorded January 1995; CD issued 1995)

(digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, no booklet provided)

Recording venue: Finlandia Hall, Helsinki
Recording engineer: Enno Mäemets; Producer: Seppo Siirala

Another terrific pair of performances and recordings of the music of Aulis Sallinen kindly provided by friend Howard. It is particular unfortunate that the main work, the song cycle for baritone, chorus, and orchestra Songs of Life and Death - music described by the distinguished American music writer Henry Fogel has described as "one of Sallinen's most important works" - has commercial digital downloads missing the detailed booklet notes and texts. It is very sad to see the usually exemplary Ondine label join EMI/Warner, Sony/BMG and Universal Music in this contempt for their audience.

Both works are written in Sallinen's most accessible voice. The very powerful song cycle, using texts specially written by Lassi Nummi, Songs of Life and Death is in effect Sallinen's Requiem Mass. It has also been quite accurately described as the choral and orchestral masterpiece that Sibelius should have written. The work was completed in 1994 and this recording (so far the only recording) was made shortly after its premiere by the same forces. To quote Fogel again "This is music (and poetry) of immense humanity, dealing with, as Sallinen himself says, the inseparability of life and death, death's harshness and beauty."

The Iron Age Suite is drawn from music that Sallinen wrote for a television documentary series in the early 1980s and although it is much more lightweight than Songs of Life and Death, it is very attractive music and I imagine that it must have aptly accompanied the visual images.Although I have no knowledge of the actual subjects of the documentaries, some of the titles are eerily reminisent of Sibelius' Lemminkainen Suite -  Lemminki and the Maidens of the Island and Lemminki in Tuonela for instance.

The recorded sound is excellent and the performances of both works is absolutely first-rate. Sallinen's champion, Okko Kamu, leads intense and committed performances from the choral and orchestral forces with the great baritone Jorma Hynninen at his very best here. Because there is no information provided with this digital download, I have included a copy of Henry Fogel's perceptive review for Fanfare Magazine in the download.

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Sibelius: The Seven Symphonies -- Maazel, Wiener Philharmoniker

June 12, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

CD1 Symphonies n1, 2
CD2 Symphony n3, 4
CD3 Symphonies n5, 6
CD4 Symphony n7; Karelia Suite, Tapiola

Wiener Philharmoniker; Lorin Maazel dir

recorded 1963-1968, Sofiensaal, Vienna (AT)

Decca 478 8541 (2015) (4-CD box)
Ripped and contributed by grasprelease; please direct your comments, queries, and thanks to him


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Tracklist
CD1
01 Symphony No. 1 in E minor, op. 39 (1899-1900) - I. Andante ma non troppo
02 Symphony No. 1 - II. Andante (ma non troppo lento)
03 Symphony No. 1 - III. Scherzo; Allegro
04 Symphony No. 1 - IV. Finale (quasi una fantasia)
05 Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 43 (1902) - I. Allegretto - Poco allegro
06 Symphony No. 2 - II. Tempo andante, ma rubato - Andante sostenuto
07 Symphony No. 2 - III. Vivacissimo - Lento e suave - Largamente
08 Symphony No. 2 - IV. Finale; Allegro moderato

CD2
01 Symphony No. 3 in C major, op. 52 (1907) - I. Allegro moderato
02 Symphony No. 3 - II. Andantino con moto, quasi allegretto
03 Symphony No. 3 - III. Moderato - Allegro (ma non tanto)
04 Symphony No. 4 in A minor, op. 63 (1911) - I. Tempo molto moderato
05 Symphony No. 4 - II. Allegro molto vivace
06 Symphony No. 4 - III. Il tempo largo
07 Symphony No. 4 - IV. Allegro

CD3
01 Symphony No. 5, op. 82 (1915, rev. 1916, rev. 1919) - I. Tempo molto moderato.flac
02 Symphony No. 5 - II. Andante mosso, quasi allegretto
03 Symphony No. 5 - III. Allegro molto
04 Symphony No. 6 in D minor, op. 104 (1923) - I. Allegro molto moderato
05 Symphony No. 6 - II. Allegretto moderato
06 Symphony No. 6 - III. Poco vivace
07 Symphony No. 6 - IV. Allegro molto

CD4
01 Symphony No. 7 in C major, op. 105 (1924)
02 Karelia Suite, op. 11 (1893) - I. Intermezzo; Moderato
03 Karelia Suite - II. Ballade; Tempo di menuetto
04 Karelia Suite - III. Alla marcia; Moderato
05 Tapiola, op. 112 (1926)
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DG and Decca concerts Part 2

June 13, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Olivier Messiaen
Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuom
Witold Lutoslawski
Concerto for Orchestra
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Myung-Whun Chung










Jean Sibelius: Finlandia
W. A. Mozart: "Haffner" Symphony
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Philharmonia Orchestra
Charles Dutoit








Camille Saint-Saens
Symphony No. 3
Josef Tal
Symphony No. 5
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta








Gioacchino Rossini
Semiramide: Overture
Paul Hindemith
Sancta Susanna
Alexander Scriabin
Symphony No. 3
Tatiana Serjan soprano
New York Philharmonic
Riccardo Muti



Franz Liszt
Les Preludes
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5
Deutsches SO Berlin
Ingo Metzmacher







Claude Debussy
Sonata for Fllute , Viola and Harp
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Sonata for Cello and Piano
Steven Stucky
Sonata en forme de preludes
Kajia Saariaho
Je sens un deuxieme Coeur
Marc-André Dalbavie
Axiom
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center



Ottorino Respighi
Il Tramonto
Leos Janacek
Prohadka
William Bolcom 
Dream Music No. 2
John Corigliano
Fancy on a Bach Air
F. J. Haydn
Arianna a Naxos
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center





Symphonic Works, Arias and Songs by Rossini, 
Donizetti, Verdi, Granda, Lara, 
Moncayo, Gutierrez, Grever, Marquez 
Juan Diego Florez tenor
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel







Antonin Dvorak
Carnival Overture
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Christoph Eschenbach







Ludwig van Beethoven
Coriolan Overture
P. I. Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1
Christian Tetzlaff violin
City of Birmingham SO
Edward Gardner





Edward Elgar
Serenade for Strings
W. A. Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 5
Gustav Holst
The Planets
Alina Pogostkina violin
City of Birmingham SO
Edward Gardner





Richard Strauss
Don Juan
Death and Transfiguration
Dance of the Seven Veils
Rosenkavalier Suite
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel




William Craft 
Timpani Concerto No. 1
Leonard Rosenman
Suite from "Rebel Without Cause"
John Adams
The Dharma at Big Sur
Joseph Pereira timpani
Leila Josefowicz electric violin
Los Angeles Philharmonic
John Adams








Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1
Symphony No. 5
Lynn Harrell cello
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel






Manuel de Falla
Three dances from "El amor Brujo"
Maurice Ravel
Ma Mere l´Oie (complete ballet) 
Claude Debussy
La Mer
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Essa-Pekka Salonen








Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Essa-Pekka Salonen








Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 7
Johannes Brahms
Haydn Variations
Zoltan Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel



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Kodály: Háry János Suite/Summer Evening/Peacock Variations -- Á Fischer, Hungarian RSO

June 14, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

01-06 Hary Janos Suite
07 Summer Evening
08 Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock)

Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Ádám Fischer, dir

Recorded May 2007, Studio 22 Hungarian Radio
Budapest Music Center BMC CD 141 (2007) (nearly) out of print

Note: New recording in 2007, not to be confused with the 1990s Ádám Fischer/HRSO Háry János on Nimbus (that one had Galánta Dances as the third piece; here it’s the less often heard Nyári este/Summer Evening).
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01 Háry János szvit - I. Kezdődik a mese (The fairy tale begins)
02 II. Bécsi harangjáték (Viennese musical clock)
03 III. Dal (Song)
04 IV. Napóleon csatája (The battle and defeat of Napoleon)
05 V. Intermezzo
06 VI. A császári udvar bevonulása (Entrance of the emperor and his court)
07 Nyári este (Summer Evening)
08 Fölszállott a páva - variációk egy magyar népdalra (Variations on a Hungarian folksong 'The Peacock')
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Beethoven: Complete Works for Solo Piano Vol. 11 (Brautigam)

June 15, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Twelve Variations, WoO 71
Eight Variations, WoO 72
Ten Variations, WoO 73
Seven Variations WoO 75
Eight Variations, WoO 76
Six Variations, WoO 77
Fifteen Variations & a Fugue, Op. 35 (Eroica Variations)
Ronald Brautigam, Fortepano
BIS-SACD-1673 (2012)

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DG and Decca Concerts Part 3

June 16, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 5
Piano Sonata No. 13
Philharmonia Orchestra
Andras Schiff piano and conductor





Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 9
Piano Sonata No. 15
Philharmonia Orchestra
Andras Schiff piano and conductor







Arvo Part
Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles"
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Essa-Pekka Salonen
Read the history of this highly political and bleak work here








Aaron Copland
Dance Symphony
Sregei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 2
Sergei Rachmaninov
Prélude No. 12 Op. 13
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10
Nicolai Lugansky piano
City of Birmingham SO
Ilan Volkov





P. I. Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel








Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture Leonore No. 2
Symphony No. 5
Witold Lutoslawski
Symphony No. 4
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Essa-Pekka Salonen





Maurice Ravel
Concerto for the Left Hand
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo And Juliet (Sel.)
Essa-Pekka Salonen
Helix
Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano
Los Angeles Phlharmonic
Essa-Pekka Salonen

Note: I have found the reading of Romeo and Juliet too cinematographic and clinical, very different from Salonen's previous one with the Berlin Philharmonic. For comparison I have included the Erich Leinsdorf album (1977) with the same orchestra (Sheffield Lab, plus Debussy and Wagner, flac , cue, log, scans).




Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto
Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
Pinchas Zukerman violin
New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta






W. A. Mozart
Symphony No. 39
Symphony No. 40
Symphony No. 41
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel






Edward Elgar
Violin Concerto
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2
Daniel Hope violin
City of Birmingham SO
Sakari Oramo








Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird (complete ballet)
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Essa-Pekka Salonen







Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Albert Roussel
Bacchus et Ariadne: Suite No. 2
Bela Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel





Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet "The Trout"
W. A. Mozart
Piano Quartet No. 2
Menahem Pressler piano
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center








Paul Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphoses on a theme of Weber
Richard Wagner
Scenes and Orchestral Music from Die Meistersinger - 
Tannhauser - Lohengrin - Die Walkure
Bryn Terfel bass-baritone
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Essa-Pekka Salonen



Note: Wagner as Impresionist. Notable in every sense, with Terfel high on emotion. If you want the real thing, hear it here (George London - Hans Knappertsbusch- Wiener Philharmoniker)  




 
Gyorgy Ligeti
Concerto Romanesc
Karel Husa
Music for Prague 1968
Witold Lutoslwaski
Concerto for Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Essa-Pekka Salonen






Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2
Rapsodie Espagnole
Igor Stravinsky
Le Chant du Rossignol
The Firebird, Suite
New York Phiharmonic
Lorin Maazel






Anders Hillborg
Eleven Gates
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7
Symphony No. 8
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Essa-Pekka Salonen










Dmitri Shostakovich
Suite from "The Nose"
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Act I, scene 3
Alexander Mosolov
The Iron Foundry
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Essa-Pekka Salonen




Another discs in this series:

W. A. Mozart
Hector Berlioz
Colin Davis
New York Philharmonic
You can hear it here








Richard Strauss
Ein Heldenleben
Edgar Varese
Ameriques
Deutsches SO Berlin
Ingo Metzmacher
You can hear it here







J. S. Bach
The Art of Fugue
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
You can hear it here





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Beethoven: Complete Works for Solo Piano Vol. 12 (Brautigam)

June 17, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Nine Variations, WoO 63
Six Variations, WoO 64
Twenty four Variations, WoO 65
Thirteen Variations, WoO 66
Twelve Variations, WoO 68
Nine Variations, WoO 69
Six Variations, WoO 70
Ronald Brautigam, Fortepiano
BIS-SACD-1883 (2012)

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Rubbra: Symphonies No.6 & No.8 - Adrian Boult & Charles Groves

June 18, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Intaglio INCD 7311
Edmund Rubbra:

01. - 04. Symphony No.6, op.80 [37'26]
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult

05. - 07. Symphony No.8, op.132 'Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin' [28'18]
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves

Intaglio INCD 7311   (broadcasts recorded in 1971; CD issued 1992)

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Recording venues: not given (Symphony 6); Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool (Symphony 8)
Recording engineers and producers: not given

Here are two significant recordings of performances by great supporters of the composer - the Symphony No.8 being of the work's world premiere performance given on 5 August 1971 (three years after it was composed). Neither conductor recorded these works commercially and these are both in-concert recordings. The Italy-based 'pirate' label did not have a good reputation for recording quality but these two recordings are surprisingly acceptable although not of studio quality for the period and no match for Norman Del Mar's similar coupling for Lyrita. I am most grateful to a friend for sending me this rip from CD.

The performance of the Sixth symphony under Sir Adrian is arguably the finest of the work issued as a recording - with the majestic finale having just the right tempo. The symphony was given its premiere by the BBC Symphony under Malcolm Sargent in 1954 and it is probably my favourite of Rubbra's symphonies.

Sir Charles delivers a powerful premiere of the eighth symphony but the orchestral playing is a bit rough and less secure than the Royal Philharmonic for Sir Adrian. (Perhaps insufficient rehearsal time for a difficult new work?) The subject of the symphony's title, Chardin, was a twentieth-century Jesuit paleoanthropologist "whose theory of evolution included non-living nature as profound history and that man, a material system within other material systems, experiences his own individual consciousness as 'spiritual energy'." So, there - but the work does indeed have a sense of calm spirituality, in line with Rubbra's deep religious convictions.

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Andras Schiff and Earl Wild plays Dohnanyi´s Piano Quintet and Piano Sextet plus works by Schumann and Kodaly

June 20, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Erno Dohnanyi
Piano Quintet No. 1
Piano Sextet
Zoltan Kodaly
String Quartet No. 2
Andras Schiff piano
Kalman Berkes clarinet
Radovan Vlatkovic horn
Takacs Quartet
Musikverein Quartet (Kodaly)
Recorded in 1988 and 1979 (Kodaly)
Decca Eloquence
digital download, cover

You can read a review (of a previous edition) here

As a bonus I have included this curious album by the great Earl Wild playing arrangements with string orchestra of the Schumann and Dohnanyi piano quintets.

Robert Schumann
Piano Quintet
Erno Dohnanyi
Piano Quintet No. 1
Earl Wild piano
American String Orchestra
Isaiah Jackson
Ivory Clasics 2000
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Mayr: Arianna a Nasso (Franz Hauk)

June 19, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Johann Simon Mayr (1763-1845)
Arianna in Nasso (1818)
Cantata for Soprano, Tenor, Chorus & Orchestra
Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble
(Period Instruments)
Naxos 8.573065 (2012)





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Music Written for the Sistine Chapel - Tallis Scholars - Hi-Res

June 21, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Music Written for the Sistine Chapel

Allegri: Miserere
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli 
Palestrina: Stabat mater
Palestrina: Tu es Petrus

The Tallis Scholars
directed by Peter Phillips



Gimell GIMBD 641 Ultra Quality Stereo LPCM 24/96kHz [P] 2013
Recorded in Merton College Chapel, Oxford, March/April 2005

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Bach: Goldberg Variations -- Charles Rosen, piano

June 22, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Charles Rosen, piano


Recorded 1, 2, 7 & 8 June 1967, 30th Street Studio, NYC
Released on a number of labels over the years, all of which seem to be out of print.
Sony Essential Classics SBK 48173 (1992; digitally remastered)





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01 Goldberg-Variationen Aria
02 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 1 a 1 Clav.
03 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 2 a 1 Clav.
04 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 3. Canone all'Unisono a 1 Clav.
05 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 4 a 1 Clav.
06 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
07 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 6. Canone alla Seconda a 1 Clav.
08 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 7 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
09 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 8 a 2 Clav.
10 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 9. Canone alla Terza a 1 Clav.
11 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 10. Fughetta a 1 Clav.
12 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 11 a 2 Clav.
13 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 12. Canone alla Quarta
14 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 13 a 2 Clav.
15 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 14 a 2 Clav.
16 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 15. Canone alla Quinta in moto contrario a 1 Clav. Andante
17 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 16. Ouverture a 1 Clav.
18 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 17 a 2 Clav.
19 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 18. Canone alla Sesta a 1 Clav.
20 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 19 a 1 Clav.
21 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 20 a 2 Clav.
22 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 21. Canone alla Settima
23 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 22. Alla breve a 1 Clav.
24 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 23 a 2 Clav.
25 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 24. Canone all'Ottava a 1 Clav.
26 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 25 a 2 Clav.
27 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 26 a 2 Clav.
28 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 27. Canone alla Nona
29 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 28 a 2 Clav.
30 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 29 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
31 Goldberg-Variationen Var. 30. Quodlibet a 1 Clav.
32 Goldberg-Variationen Aria da capo
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Ponchielli: LA GIOCONDA - Callas Cetra 1952

May 27, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886)
LA GIOCONDA

Maria Callas, Gianni Poggi, Fedora Barbieri
Paolo Silvieri, Giulio Neri, Maria Amadini

Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Torino della Rai
dir : Antonino Votto

Fonit Cetra CDC-9 - three mono CDs [P] 1986 (long out-of-print)
Recorded 1952
FLAC image files, cuesheets, logs, scans, booklet with libretto

According to Dr Robert Seletsky, a Cornell-trained independent musicology scholar and a most erudite expert on Callas' recorded legacy, this pressing of the recording is the best and most faithful, including the Warner hi-res remastering issued in 2014.  

https://www.divinarecords.com/articles/callas_update.html
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Music Written for the Sistine Chapel - Tallis Scholars - Hi-Res

June 21, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Music Written for the Sistine Chapel

Allegri: Miserere
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli 
Palestrina: Stabat mater
Palestrina: Tu es Petrus

The Tallis Scholars
directed by Peter Phillips



Gimell GIMBD 641 Ultra Quality Stereo LPCM 24/96kHz [P] 2013
Recorded in Merton College Chapel, Oxford, March/April 2005

Individual FLAC files, scans, booklet
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Dg and Decca Concerts Part 4

June 23, 2020, 4:00 pm
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P. I. Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet
Richard Strauss
Don Quixote
Jian Wang cello
Anxiang Zhang viola
China Philharmonic Orchestra
Long Yu








John Adams
Slonimsky´s Earbox
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah"
Kelley O´Connor mezzosoprano
Los Angeles Philharmonic








John Adams
City Noir
Los Angeles Phiharmonic








Bela Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic











Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique
Comment by Steven Stucky
Los Angeles Philharmonic








Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4
Los Angeles Philharmonic










Claude Debussy
La Mer
Igor SDtravinsky
The Firebird /complete ballet)
Los Angeles Philharmonic







Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1
Los Angeles Philharmonic









As an extra, I have included some discs conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, some of them live.




John Adams
The Gospel According to the Other Mary
Kelley O´Connor
Tamara Munford
Russell Thomas
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Los Angeles Philharmonic








Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 9
Los Angeles Philharmonic



Modest Mussorgsky (Orchestation M. Ravel)
Pictures at an Exhibition
Night on Bald Mountain
P. I. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Waltz
Wiener Philharmoniker








Richard Strauss
Also Sparch Zarathustra
Don Juan
Till Eulenpiegel Lusitige Striche
Berliner Philharmoniker









Richard Wagner
Selections from
Das Ring des Nibelungen and Tristan und Isolde
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela










Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 4 The Inextinguishable
Symphony No. 5
Gothenburg SO






Walzer, Overtures and Polkas by
Johann Strauss I and II, Eduard Strauss, Josef Strauss
Franz Lehar,  Emile Waldteufel, C. M. Ziehrer
Otto Nicolai and Franz von Suppé
Wiener Philharmoniker
Sony 2017






You can also hear Dudamel conducting Revueltas and Stravinsky here
and John Adams here
Digital download, covers and booklets
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MEGA-POST: The Eduardo Mata Sessions (Complete DORIAN RECORDINGS [16 CD's] and 12 CD's from other labels); extra 6 CD's from another conductors

June 24, 2020, 4:00 pm
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EDUARDO MATA (5/IX/1942 † 4/I/1995)
On January 4, 1995, 52-year old mexican conductor Eduardo Mata was killed when the plane he was flying went down near Cuernavaca Airport, outside his home of Xochitepec, México. He was accompanied by dear friend and companion Marina Anaya who was also killed in the crash. Maestro Mata was a consummate musician, hailed internationally as a conductor of the first rank, and was deeply respected by colleagues, contemporaries and friends as a man of great elegance, warmth and generosity.

As a music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 1993, Eduardo Mata is credited as the driving force which led the orchestra to new standards of excellence, and world recognition. He was actively involved in the acoustic development of the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, which opened in 1989 and is regarded as one of the finest concert venues in North America. At the time of his death, Eduardo Mata held the title of Conductor Emeritus for Life of the Dallas Symphony, principal Guest Conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, principal Guest Conductor and artistic advisor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar of Venezuela (Caracas), and the Artistic Director of Solistas de México.

He also maintained close and actived artistic relationships with the Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Rome Radio Orchestra, Canada's National Arts Center Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. An equally important and increasingly recognized aspect of Eduardo Mata's artistic life was his work as a tireless champion of Latin American Concert Music. Mtro. Mata leaves behind him a distinguished discography for such labels as BMG/RCA, Angel/EMI, ProArte, Telarc and Vox Cum Laude.


Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)
"Scythian" Suite Op. 20 (1915)

Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)
"Le Sacre du Printemps" ballet (1913; 1947 rev.)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90156
Recorded in February 1991

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 7 in C major "Leningrad" Op. 60 (1941)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90161
Recorded in May 1991

Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)
Cantata "Alexander Nevsky" Op. 78 (1939)

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major Op. 70 (1945)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90169
Recorded in January and April 1992

Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918-1990)
Symphonic Suite from "On the Waterfront" (1954)

Roy HARRIS (1898-1979)
Symphony No. 3 (1939)

Aaron COPLAND (1900-1990)
"Billy the Kid" ballet (1938)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90170
Recorded in January and April 1992

Ernest CHAUSSON (1855-1899)
Symphony in B-flat major Op. 20 (1890)

Jacques IBERT (1890-1962)
Escales (1920/22)
Divertissement (1930)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90181
Recorded in January 1993




Ottorino RESPIGHI (1879-1936)
Symphonic Poem "Roman Festivals" P. 157 (1926)
"Brazilian Impressions" P. 153 (1928)
Symphonic Poem "The Pines of Rome" P. 141 (1924)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90182
Recorded in May 1993

Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor Op. 54 (1841/45)

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D minor Op. 15 (1858)

Ivan Moravec, Piano
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90172
Recorded in April 1992 & January 1993



Joseph JONGEN (1873-1953)
Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra Op. 81 (1926)

Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)
Symphony No. 3 in C minor "Organ"Op. 78

Jean Guillou, Organ
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90200
Recorded in January 1994



Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)
Bolero (1928)
"La Valse" Poème chorégraphique (1919/20)
Rapsodie espagnole (1907/08)
"Le tombeau de Couperin" suite (1914/17; 1919 orchestration)
Miroirs No. 4: Alborada del Gracioso (1905; 1918 orchestration)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: BMG/RCA 74321 68015 2
Recorded in 1980, 1982, 1983




Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Cossack Dance from opera "Mazeppa" (1883)
Festival Coronation March for Tsar Alexander III (1883)
"Romeo & Juliet" Fantasy-Overture (1869; 1880 rev.)
Marche Slave Op. 31 (1876)
Overture Solemn "1812" Op. 49 (1880)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: ProArte CDD 409
Recorded in May 1988





Gustav HOLST (1874-1934)
"The Planets" Orchestral Suite Op. 32 (1914/16)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: SION 18190
Recorded in 1991

Ludwig van
BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
"The Consecration of the House" Op. 124 (1822)

Gustav
MAHLER (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
(1888/94; 1903 rev.)



Dallas Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Sylvia McNair, Soprano
Jard van Nes, Alto
Eduardo Mata, Conductor



Label: ProArte CDD 479
Recorded in September 14-16 & 26, 1989









Aaron COPLAND (1900-1990)
Symphony No. 3 (1944/46)
Danzón Cubano (1942; 1946 orchestration)
El Salón México (1932/36)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Angel/EMI CDC-547606
Recorded in May 1986

Antonio ESTÉVEZ (1916-1988)
La Cantata Criolla: Florentino, el que cantó con el Diablo (1954)


Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)
Chôros No. 10 "Rasga o Coração" (1926)
Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela
Schola Cantorum de Caracas
Orfeón Universitario Simón Bolívar
Idwer Álvarez, Tenor
William Alvarado, Barítono
Eduardo Mata, Conductor
Label: Dorian Recordings DIS-80101
Recorded in February and June 1990
Silvestre REVUELTAS (1899-1940)
"Redes" (1935; Suite by Erich Kleiber 1943)
"Sensemayá" poema sinfónico (1937; 1938 rev.)

Julián ORBÓN (1925-1991)
Concerto Grosso para Cuarteto de Cuerdas y Orquesta (1958)

Alberto GINASTERA (1916-1983)
"Pampeana No. 3" pastoral sinfónica Op. 21 (1954; 1967 rev.)

Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90178
Recorded in November 1992
Julián ORBÓN (1925-1991)
Tres Versiones Sinfónicas (1953)

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2 (1930/31)

Antonio ESTÉVEZ (1916-1988)
"Mediodía en el Llano" poema sinfónico (1942)

Carlos CHÁVEZ (1899-1978)
Sinfonía No. 2 "India" (1935)

Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela
Eduardo Mata, Conductor


Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90179
Recorded in November 1992 and July 1993


Manuel de FALLA (1876-1946)
"La Vida Breve"ópera en dos actos (1904/05; 1909/12 rev.)
Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela, Schola Cantorum de Caracas, Coro Alberto Grau, Coro Polifónico R. Suárez; Martha, Senn & Cecilia Angell, Mezzo-Sopranos; Fernando de la Mora, Tenor
Eduardo Mata, Conductor
Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90192
Recorded in July 1993


Manuel de FALLA (1876-1946)
"El Amor Brujo" ballet (1914/15; 1916/20 rev.)
Siete Canciones Populares Españolas (1914; -
-orquestación de L. Berio 1978)
"Homenajes" suite orquestal (1939/41)
"El Sombrero de Tres Picos" ballet suite No. 2 (1917/19; 1921)

Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela
Marta Senn, Mezzo-Soprano
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90210
Recorded in July 1994

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)
"Uirapurú" ballet (1917; 1934 rev.)

Carlos CHÁVEZ (1899-1978)
"HP: Caballos de Vapor" ballet suite (1926/32; 1954 rev.)

Alberto GINASTERA (1918-1983)
"Estancia" ballet suite Op. 8a (1941)

Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90211
Recorded in July 1994


Carlos CHÁVEZ (1899-1978)
"HP: Caballos de Vapor" ballet suite (1926/32; 1954 rev.)*
Concierto para Piano y Orquesta (1938/40; 1969 rev.)**

London Symphony Orchestra
New Philharmonia Orchestra of London
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: BMG/RCA[MX] 1991, re-edition
Recorded in 1976 (**) and 1980 (*)
Carlos CHÁVEZ (1899-1978)
Sinfonía No. 1 "Antígona" (1932/33)
Sinfonía No. 2 "India" (1935)
Sinfonía No. 3 (1951/54)
Sinfonía No. 4 "Romántica" (1953)
Sinfonía No. 5 para orquesta de cuerdas (1953)
Sinfonía No. 6 (1961/62)

London Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, Conductor


Label: Vox Cum Laude CDX 5061
Recorded in 1981

Carlos CHÁVEZ (1899-1978)
"Xochipilli" una música azteca imaginaria (1940)
Suite de "La Hija de Cólquide" para Doble-Cuarteto (1943/46)
"Tambuco" para seis percusionistas (1964)
"Energía" para nueve instrumentos (1925)
Toccata para instrumentos de percusión (1942)
Pan American Chamber Players (Camerata de las Américas)
Tambuco, cuarteto de percusiones de México
Eduardo Mata, Conductor


Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90215
Recorded in October 1994

Manuel de FALLA (1876-1946)
"El Retablo de Maese Pedro"ópera para títeres (1919/22)
"Psyché" para Soprano, Flauta, Trío de cuerdas y Arpa (1924)
Concerto para Clavecín y cinco instrumentos (1923/26)

Julián ORBÓN (1925-1991)
"Himnus ad Galli Cantum" para Soprano y Ensamble (1955)
Tres Cantigas del Rey para Soprano, Clavecín y cuerdas (1960)
Solistas de México
Julianne Baird, Soprano
Rafael Puyana, Harpsichord
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90214
Recorded in October 1994




Rodolfo HALFFTER (1900-1987)
Tres Piezas para orquesta de cuerdas Op. 23 (1954)
Tres Sonatas de Fray Antonio Soler (1951)
"Pregón para una Pascua pobre" para Coro y Metales Op. 32 (1968)

Gerhart MUENCH (1907-1988)
"Asociaciones" para Soprano y Ensamble (1969)

Blas GALINDO (1910-1992)
Sinfonía No. 1 "Breve" para orquesta de cuerdas (1952)
José Pablo MONCAYO (1912-1958)
Sinfonietta (1945)

Eduardo MATA (1942-1995)
Improvisaciones No. 2 (1965)
Sinfonía No. 3 para orquesta de alientos (1966)

Orquesta Sinfónica de la UNAM
Eduardo Mata, Conductor

Label: BMG/RCA 74321 30987-2
Recorded in 1969 and 1970

Silvestre REVUELTAS (1899-1940)
"Sensemayá" poema sinfónico (1937; 1938 rev.)
"Redes" (1935; Suite by Erich Kleiber 1943)
"Itinerarios" para orquesta (1938/39)
"Caminos" poema sinfónico (1934; 1936 rev.)
Homenaje a F. García Lorca para Ensamble (1936)
Danza Geométrica (1934)
"Cuauhnáhuac" poema sinfónico (1931; 1932 rev.)
"Sensemayá" poema sinfónico (1937; 1938 rev.)
"Janitzio" poema sinfónico (1933; 1936 rev.)
"Alcancías" para orquesta (1932)
                              "El Renacuajo paseador" ballet (1933; 1936 rev.)
Ocho x Radio para Ensamble (1933)
Toccata sin Fuga para Violín y Ensamble (1933)
Planos (1934)
"La Noche de los Mayas" (1939; Suite by J. Y. Limantour 1960)
Cinco Canciones infantiles y Dos Canciones profanas (1938/39)

Eduardo Mata & New Philharmonia Orchestra of London
David Atherton & London Sinfonietta
Luis Herrera de la Fuente & Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa
              Leopold Stokowski and His Orchestra

Label: BMG/RCA 09026 6354B-2
Recorded in 1947, 1975, 1979 and 1980

Silvestre REVUELTAS (1899-1940)
"Troka" Pantomima infantil bailable (1933)
"Cuauhánuac" poema sinfónico (1931)
Cinco Canciones para Solistas y Ensamble (1932/37)
Escenas infantiles para Ensamble (1938)
Cuatro Pequeños Trozos para Trío de cuerdas (1929)
"El Afilador" para Septeto de alientos (1924; 1927)
"Parián" para Coro y Orquesta (1934)
"Sensemayá" poema sinfónico (1937)
Camerata de las Américas
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Octeto Vocal Juan D. Tercero
Lourdez Ambriz, Soprano
Jesús Suaste, Barítono
Enrique Arturo Diemecke, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90244
Recorded in September 1996



Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)
Sinfonia No. 4 "A Vitória" para orquestra e banda (1919)
Concerto No. 2 para Violoncello e orquestra (1953)
"Amazonas" ballet (1917)

Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela
Andrés Díaz, Violoncello
Enrique Arturo Diemecke, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90228
Recorded in July and August 1995
Camargo GUÀRNIERI (1907-1994)
Tres Dansas para orquestra (1928/46)
"Encantamiento" para orquestra (1941)

Alberto GINASTERA (1916-1983)
Obertura para el Fausto Criollo Op. 9 (1943)

Silvestre REVUELTAS (1899-1940)
"El Renacuajo paseador" ballet (1933; 1936 rev.)

Inocente CARREÑO (1919-2016)
"Margariteña" glosa sinfónica (1954)           

Juan BAUTISTA PLAZA (1898-1965)
Fuga romántica venezolana para orquesta de cuerdas (1950)

José Pablo MONCAYO (1912-1958)
Huapango para orquesta (1941)

Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela
Maximiano Valdés, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90227
Recorded in July 1995

Arturo MÁRQUEZ (n.1950)
Danzón No. 2 para orquesta (1994)

Javier ÁLVAREZ (n.1956)
Metro chabacano para orquesta de cuerdas (1987/91)

Marlos NOBRE (n.1939)
Convergências para orquestra Op. 28 (1968)

Dietrich BUXTEHUDE (1637-1707)
Chacona en Mi menor (orquestación de C. Chávez 1937)

Silvestre REVUELTAS (1899-1940)
"Janitzio" poema sinfónico (1933; 1936 rev.)

Alejandro GARCÍA CATURLA (1906-1940)
Tres Danzas para orquesta (1925/27)

Carlos CHÁVEZ (1899-1978)
"Chapultepec" Obertura republicana (1935)

                    Oscar Lorenzo FERNÁNDEZ (1897-1948)
                                      "Reisado do Pastoreio" Op. 65 No. 3: Batuque" (1930)

Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela
Kery-Lynn Wilson, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings xCD-90254
Recorded in August 1997

William SCHUMANN (1910-1992)
"New England Triptych" after William Billings (1956)

Charles Tomlinson GRIFFES (1884-1920)
"The White Peacock" Op. 7 No. 1 (1915; 1919 orch.)

Charles IVES (1874-1954)
First Orchestral set: "Three Places in New England" (1914)

Alan HOVHANESS (1911-2000)
Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain" Op. 132 (1955)

Walter PISTON (1894-1976)
"The Incredible Flutist" ballet suite (1938)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Andre Litton, Conductor

Label: Dorian Recordings DOR-90224
Recorded in May 1995

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All CD's in FLAC files (EAC), Cue+Log & Covers

my other post
Charles & Charles Nicholas Bochsa: Notturni & Pot-pourri
Borodin: The Two String Quartets (St. Peterburg String Quartet
Musik für Harfe mit anderen Instrumente (5 CD's)
Musik für Bläser (17 CD's) [Mi Colección Vol. 1]
Musik für Bläser (8 CD's) [Mi Colección Vol. 2]

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Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos, Paganini Rhapsody & Piano Sonata No.2 - John Lill & Tadaaki Otaka

June 25, 2020, 4:00 pm
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Nimbus NI 1720
Sergei Rachmaninov:

01. - 03. Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, op.18 [36'03]
04. - 06. Piano Concerto No.1 in F-sharp minor, op.1 [28'24]
07. - 09. Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, op.36 (original version)* [27'15]
10. - 12. Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30 [44'38]
13. - 15. Piano Concerto No.4 in G minor, op.40 [27'31]
16. Variations on a Theme of Corelli, op.42* [19'40]
17. Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, op.43 [23'44]

John Lill, BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Tadaaki Otaka

Nimbus NI 1720  (recorded 1993 - 1996; this CD/download compilation 2011)

(digital download; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans)

Recording venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea & Wyastone Leas, Monmouth*
Recording engineers & Producers: not stated

Given the numerous ways that Rachmaninov's surname can be transliterated from the cyrillic, Nimbus' choice of Rakhmaninov seems the most eccentric. Nimbus recorded the concertos and rhapsody in ambisonic surround-sound and some may be troubled by the reverberation of the deep sound-stage, even in this two-channel issue, but I didn't find it intrusive.

Others may find these performances just too sober. John Lill (co-winner of the 1970 International Tchaikovsky Competition with Vladimir Krainev) provides a big-boned interpretation of all the works although he can be a bit literal and 'safe' at times. He is certainly no real match for Earl Wild (still my favourite set), Vladimir Ashkenazy (in either of his sets) or Stephen Hough. However, this is preferable in my view to the so many flashy and neurotic performances by big-name virtuosi.

Lill is ably abetted in the concerted works by Tadaaki Otaka and the orchestra. A little earlier, they made an excellent, if little mentioned, set of recordings of the Rachmaninov symphonies, the orchestra then being known as the BBC Welsh Symphony. Only the second concerto is a bit too drawn out for my taste. In the third concerto, Lill plays the big cadenza.

The performance of the second sonata, curiously sandwiched between the fourth concerto and the Paganini rhapsody, is majestic and quite fine. Although the booklet notes for the second sonata infer that Lill plays the 1931 revised version, he actually plays the larger original.

PS. At around the time of the last of these recordings, John Lill was rumoured to have made recordings of Edmund Rubbra's Piano Concerto and Sinfonia concertante with Tod Handley for Conifer Classics, not long before they ceased trading. I have never seen any evidence of them having been issued but if anybody knows anything different, please let me know. It would be great to have these issued along with Tasmin Little's recording of the Violin Concerto, also with Handley for Conifer. That recording was actually made and briefly appeared on CD, but nothing since.

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