Samuel Barber:
01 Symphony No.1, op.9 [20'55]
02 First Essay for Orchestra, op.12 [8'42]
03 Second Essay for Orchestra, op.17 [11'49]
04 Night Flight, op.19a [9'08]
05 Music for a Scene from Shelley, op.7 * [10'20]
06 Knoxville. Summer of 1915, op.24 ^ [16'18]
Molly McGurk- soprano^, London Symphony Orchestra and West Australian Symphony Orchestra*^ conducted by David Measham
Alto ALC1463 [recorded September 1973 for Unicorn-Kanchana; August 1974^ and April 1976* by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); this release issued in 2022]
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Recording venues: St. Giles' Cripplegate, Barbican, London and ABC Studios, Perth, Western Australia.
Recording engineers: Bob Auger and not given*^; Producers: Robert Angles and not given*^.
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990):
The Transposed Heads. Opera in one act.
01 Scene 1: By the bank of the River Ganges [22'47]
02 Scene 2: By the Ganges, a few days later [8'55]
03 Scene 3: Sita’s village [7'27]
04 Scene 4: A clearing in the forest [24'32]
05 Scene 5: The ashram of Kamadamana high in the Himalayas [4'40]
06 Scene 6: In the mountains [9'10]
SHRIDAMAN: Gerald English- tenor, NANDA: Michael Leighton Jones- baritone, SITA: Genty Stevens- soprano, THE GODDESS KALI: Maggie King- speaking part, KAMADAMANA: Raymond Long- speaking part, VILLAGERS: Festival Chorus, West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham
ABC Classics 8.770021 [recorded September 1984; first CD issue in 1994]
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Recording venue: ABC Studio 620, Perth, Western Australia.
Recording engineer: Karl Akers; Producer: Ray Irving.
Edmund Rubbra and John Ireland:
01 - 03 Edmund Rubbra: Violin Concerto, op.103 (1959) * [27'10]
04 - 05 John Ireland: Piano Concerto in E-flat major (1930) ^ [24'11]
Carl Pini- violin*, Geoffrey Tozer- piano^, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham
Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9056 [recorded February^ and March* 1985; CD issued 1986]
[CD-rip; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]
Recording venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Mebourne, Australia.
Recording engineers: Robert Thorp* and Gerald McKecknie & Stephen Adam^
Producers: Judith Wilkie* and Peter Snelleman^
Wilfred Josephs (1927 - 1997):
1.01 - 1.04 Symphony No.5, op.75 'Pastoral' (1971) [35'16]
1.05 - 1.14 Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, op.68 (1969) [22'00]
2.01 - 2.10 Requiem, op.39 (1963) for bass, choir, string quintet and orchestra ^ [59'02]
Robert Dawe- bass-baritone, Adelaide String Quartet (Robert Cooper & Mary Pascoe- violins, Juris Ezergailis, viola, Waldemar de Almeida- cello with Pamela de Almeida- 2nd cello), Adelaide Chorus ^; Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham
Lyrita SRCD 2352 [recorded October 1982^ and March 1983 for Unicorn-Kanchana; first issued 1983 & 1984, this Lyrita release 2015]
[digital download; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]
Recording venue: ABC Studios, Adelaide, South Australia.
Recording engineer: Barry Wade; Producer: Kevin Roper.
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01 Symphony No.1, op.9 [20'55]
02 First Essay for Orchestra, op.12 [8'42]
03 Second Essay for Orchestra, op.17 [11'49]
04 Night Flight, op.19a [9'08]
05 Music for a Scene from Shelley, op.7 * [10'20]
06 Knoxville. Summer of 1915, op.24 ^ [16'18]
Molly McGurk- soprano^, London Symphony Orchestra and West Australian Symphony Orchestra*^ conducted by David Measham
Alto ALC1463 [recorded September 1973 for Unicorn-Kanchana; August 1974^ and April 1976* by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); this release issued in 2022]
[digital download; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]
Recording venues: St. Giles' Cripplegate, Barbican, London and ABC Studios, Perth, Western Australia.
Recording engineers: Bob Auger and not given*^; Producers: Robert Angles and not given*^.
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990):
The Transposed Heads. Opera in one act.
01 Scene 1: By the bank of the River Ganges [22'47]
02 Scene 2: By the Ganges, a few days later [8'55]
03 Scene 3: Sita’s village [7'27]
04 Scene 4: A clearing in the forest [24'32]
05 Scene 5: The ashram of Kamadamana high in the Himalayas [4'40]
06 Scene 6: In the mountains [9'10]
SHRIDAMAN: Gerald English- tenor, NANDA: Michael Leighton Jones- baritone, SITA: Genty Stevens- soprano, THE GODDESS KALI: Maggie King- speaking part, KAMADAMANA: Raymond Long- speaking part, VILLAGERS: Festival Chorus, West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham
ABC Classics 8.770021 [recorded September 1984; first CD issue in 1994]
[digital download; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]
Recording venue: ABC Studio 620, Perth, Western Australia.
Recording engineer: Karl Akers; Producer: Ray Irving.
Edmund Rubbra and John Ireland:
01 - 03 Edmund Rubbra: Violin Concerto, op.103 (1959) * [27'10]
04 - 05 John Ireland: Piano Concerto in E-flat major (1930) ^ [24'11]
Carl Pini- violin*, Geoffrey Tozer- piano^, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham
Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9056 [recorded February^ and March* 1985; CD issued 1986]
[CD-rip; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]
Recording venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Mebourne, Australia.
Recording engineers: Robert Thorp* and Gerald McKecknie & Stephen Adam^
Producers: Judith Wilkie* and Peter Snelleman^
Wilfred Josephs (1927 - 1997):
1.01 - 1.04 Symphony No.5, op.75 'Pastoral' (1971) [35'16]
1.05 - 1.14 Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, op.68 (1969) [22'00]
2.01 - 2.10 Requiem, op.39 (1963) for bass, choir, string quintet and orchestra ^ [59'02]
Robert Dawe- bass-baritone, Adelaide String Quartet (Robert Cooper & Mary Pascoe- violins, Juris Ezergailis, viola, Waldemar de Almeida- cello with Pamela de Almeida- 2nd cello), Adelaide Chorus ^; Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham
Lyrita SRCD 2352 [recorded October 1982^ and March 1983 for Unicorn-Kanchana; first issued 1983 & 1984, this Lyrita release 2015]
[digital download; flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans]
Recording venue: ABC Studios, Adelaide, South Australia.
Recording engineer: Barry Wade; Producer: Kevin Roper.
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