01 - 04 The Sea. Suite [20'41]
05 Summer. Tone Poem [9'37]
06 Cherry Ripe [3'23]
07 Enter Spring. Rhapsody [21'22]
08 Lament [4'27]
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves
EMI CDM5658552 [recorded July 1975; CD issued 1989]
[CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]
Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK
Recording engineer: John Kurlander; Producer: John Willan
Many of the recordings in my occasional posts were ripped in the late nineties or early noughties but I then had no means of scanning the artwork. Now it seems increasingly possible to download good artwork from the internet making posting of the recordings a possibility. The above recording and the next are cases in point. I am indebted to friend Danse de Puck for allowing me to use her artwork scans that appeared in a post on a private blog for the next recording.
01 - 09 Job. A Masque for Dancing * [42'11]
10 - 16 The Pilgrim's Progress. A Suite ^ [26'08]
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley *; Delyth Jones- soprano, Elsa Kendal- contralto, Robin Leggate- tenor, BBC Northern Singers, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves ^
BBC Radio Classics 15656 91662 [recorded October 1976* and October 1975^; CD issued 1996]
[CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet based on scans kindly provided by friend Danse de Puck.
Recording venues: Free Trade Hall, Manchester* and BBC Manchester Studios, UK
Recording engineers: not stated; Producers: David Ellis* and Paul Reding^
CD1:
01 - 04 Symphony No.1 in D major, D82 [30'00]
05 Overture 'In the Italian Style' in D major, D485 [8'14]
06 - 09 Symphony No.5 in B-flat major, D485 [30'30]
10 Overture 'Des Teufels Lustschloss', D84 [8'10]
IMP Classics PCD944 [recorded October 1990; CD issued 1991]
[digital-download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans - booklet pages kindly provided by Dutch Publisher]
01 - 04 Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, D125 [38'07]
05 - 08 Symphony No. 6 in C major, D589 [33'14]
09 Overture 'Die Zwillingsbruder', D647 [4'16]
IMP Classics PCD968 [recorded March 1991; CD issued 1991]
[digital-download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet sourced from internet]
01 - 04 Symphony No. 3 in D major, D200 [25'17]
05 Overture 'Der häusliche Krieg', D787 [7'30]
06 Overture 'Der Teufel als Hydraulicus', D4 [3'47]
07 - 10 Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D417 'Tragic' [32'38]
11 Overture in C major, D.591 'In the Italian Style' [7'33]
IMP Classics PCD967 [recorded March 1991; CD issued 1991]
[digital-download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet sourced from internet]
01 - 02 Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished' [25'34]
03 - 08 Rosamunde. Incidental Music, D797 [42'52]
IMP Classics PCD951 [recorded October 1990; CD issued 1991]
[CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet for alternative release] This recording and scans were originally posted on a private blog by friend Ludovicus and are posted here with his kind permission.
01 - 04 Symphony No. 9 in C major 'The Great', D944 [61'55]
IMP Classics PCD943 [recorded June 1990; CD issued 1990]
[CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet for alternative release sourced from internet]
CD1 - CD5: English Sinfonia conduced by Charles Groves
Recording venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London
Recording engineers: Michael Sheady (CD 2 & 3) and Simon Rhodes (CD 1, 4 & 5); Producer: John Boyden.
01 - 04 Alun Hoddinot: Four Welsh Dances. Set No.1, op.15 (1958) * [7'29]
05 Alun Hoddinot: Overture 'Jack Straw', op.35 (1964-1980) ^ [5'02]
06 - 11 Alun Hoddinot: Concerto Grosso No.2, op.46 (1966) [12'54]
12 - 14 Alun Hoddinot: Investiture Dances, op.66 (1966) ' [7'46]
15 - 18 Alun Hoddinot: Welsh Dances, Set No.2, op.64 (1969) ' [9'03]
19 - 22 William Mathias: Celtic Dances, op.60 (1972) ' [9'03]
23 Daniel Jones: Dance Fantasy (1976) " [7'42]
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves *; Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves ^; National Youth Orchestra of Wales conducted by Arthur Davison '; BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bryden Thomson "
Lyrita SRCD334 [recorded: 1972 *, November 1980 ^, 1974 & 1975 ', 1979 " for EMI, Unicorn & BBC Records; CD issued 2009
[CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]
Recording venues: Afan Lido, Port Talbot, Wales *; Brent Town Hall, Wembley, UK ^; BBC Studios '"
Recording engineers: Stuart Eltham *; Bob Auger ^ "; not given '
Producers: Brian Culverhouse *; Antony Hodgson ^; Moelfryn Harries '; Bob Auger "
01 - 05 Symphony No. 5 (1972) * [38'53]
06 - 07 Symphony No. 6 (1977) ^ [33'12]
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis *; London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves
Lyrita SRCD389 [BBC Broadcasts May 1973* and April 1980^; this issue 2021]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: Royal Festival Hall, London (world premieres)
Recording engineers and Producers: not stated
The Perfect Fool. Opera in One Act, op.39 H.150 [62'24]
Richard Golding & David Read- basses, Pamela Bowden- contralto, Alison Hargan, Barbara Platt, Lesley Rooke & Margaret Neville- sopranos, John Mitchinson- tenor, Walter Plinge and Ronald Harvi- speakers, George Hagan- narrator; BBC Northern Singers, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves
Lyrita REAM1143 [BBC broadcast May 1967; this issue 2021]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: BBC Studios, Manchester, UK
Recording engineer: not stated; Producer: Lionel Salter.
01 Richard Eilenberg: Die Mühle im Schwarzwalk, op.52
02 Franz Schubert: Marche Militaire in D major, D733 no.1
03 Leroy Anderson: Bugler's Holiday
04 Louis Hérold: Overture to 'Zampa'
05 Emile Waldteufel: Die Schlittschuhläufer. Waltz, Op.183
06 - 08 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Drei Deutsche Tänze, K.605
09 Henri Pierné: Marche des petits soldats de plomb, op.14 no.6
10 Leroy Anderson: Plink, Plank, Plunk! *
11 Jean Gabriel-Marie II: La Cinquantaine
12 Ludwig van Beethoven: Marcia alla Turca from 'Die Ruinen von Athen', op.113
13 Emile Waldteufel: Estudiantina. Waltz, op.191
14 Eduard Poldini: La Poupée Valsante
15 Leon Jessel: Parade der Zinsoldaten
16 Jacques Offenbach: Barcarolle from 'Les Contes d'Hoffmann'
17 Leroy Anderson: The Walzing Cat *
18 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov: Procession of the Sirdar, op.10
19 Hermann Necke: Csikos Post
20 Leroy Anderson: A Trumpeter's Lullaby
21 Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance from 'Gayane' *
Total time: 72'50.
Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves
Denon CO-73674 [recorded August and November * 1988; CD issued 1989, digital download 2009]
[digital download; flacs, cover and (poor) inlay scans - no booklet]
Recording venues: Henry Wood Hall and EMI Abbey Road Studios *, London
Recording engineers: Michael Sheady and Mark Vigars *;
Producers: Shigakazu Tanaka and Roy Emerson *
Sir Charles' Precious Music Box I (Denon CO-73534), with music by Elgar, Kabalevsky, Saint-Saens and Vaughan Williams, was also issued on CD in 1989 but never seems to have made it to digital download. I have never seen the CD but if anybody should have it and could make a download available, I would be most grateful.
01 Santiago de Espada. Overture for Orchestra (1957) [6'33]
02 - 04 Symphony No. 1 'Elevamini' (1957) [29'49]
05 - 07 Sinfonia Concertante for three trumpets, piano and strings (1958/61) ^ [18'46]
08 - 10 Piano Sonata No. 2 (1957 rev. 1970) * [17'28]
Malcolm Williamson- piano*; Martin Jones- piano^, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves
Lyrita SRCD281 [recorded September 1971* for Lyrita and June 1976 for EMI; CD issued 2007
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK and Kingsway Hall, London*
Recording engineers: Christopher Parker and Stanley Goodall*; Producers: Christopher Bishop and James Burnett*
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