May 2011 - EOS Music

Issue # 31
May 2011
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Greetings and welcome! Each month we will present new releases and reviews.
Brand New Guild Light Music Releases
The Composer Conducts - Vol. 1
When composers conduct their own music one assumes that it is being performed exactly as they intended.
Therefore such recordings are particularly valuable, and this collection (and the companion Volume 2 on
GLCD5178) includes examples of occasions when composers willingly picked up the baton. Lighter works
tend to predominate in this volume, starting with the landmark recording that helped to launch Ron Goodwin’s illustrious career. He would soon gain recognition internationally, alongside other big names such as
Percy Faith, David Rose, Morton Gould, Leroy Anderson and Charles Williams. Lesser known composers, among the 26 talented musicians who make enjoyable contributions to this collection, include
Gerard Calvi, Roger Roger and André Popp (all from France), alongside Cedric Dumont (known as
‘Mr Music Man’ in Switzerland) and Holland’s foremost light music supremo, Dolf van der Linden.
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Jet Journey (Ron Goodwin) Ron Goodwin & his Concert Orch.
GLCD5177
Courses d Toros (Bull Fights) (Gérard Calvi) Gérard Calvi & his
$15.00 rrp
Orch. / Fun In The Sun (Angela Morley, as Wally Stott) Telecast
Orch. / Les Parfums De Paris (Cedric Dumont) New Concert Orch. Cedric
Dumont / Parisian Mode (Woolf Phillips) Woolf Phillips & his concert orchestra
Sagittarius (Hal Mooney) Hal Mooney & his orchestra / The Phantom Regiment
(Leroy Anderson) Leroy Anderson & his orchestra / City Of Veils (Les Baxter)
Les Baxter & his orchestra / Puppets On Parade (Rudolf Friml) 101 STRINGS
Conducted by Rudolf Friml / Subway Polka (Harold Geller) Harold Geller & his
orchestra / Bad Timing (from “Billion Dollar Baby”) (Morton Gould) Morton Gould, his piano & Orch.
Along The Avenue (Roger Roger) Roger Roger & his Champs Elysees Orch. / Montana Round-Up
(Kermit Leslie & Walter Leslie) Kermit Leslie & his orchestra / Huckleberry Duck (Raymond Scott, real
name Harry Warnow) Raymond Scott & his orchestra / Neiani (Axel Stordahl; Oliver) Axel Stordahl &
his orchestra / Pam Pam (David Rose) David Rose & his orchestra / La Bardinetta (André Popp) André
Popp & his orchestra / Fiddle Derby (Percy Faith) Percy Faith & his orchestra / Without Your Love
(Guy Luypaerts) Guy Luypaerts & his orchestra / Fandango (Frank Perkins) Frank Perkins & his ‘pop’
orchestra / Sports Arena (Wilfred Burns, real name Bernard Wilfred Harris) Harmonic Orch. Conducted
by Wilfred Burns / Trolley Bus (Charles Williams, real name Isaac Cozerbreit) Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra Cond. by Charles Williams / Boulevardier (Frederic Curzon) New Concert Orch. Conducted by
Frederic Curzon / Jack The Dancer (Dolf van der Linden) Dolf van der Linden & his Metropole Orch.
Blende Auf (Werner Müller) RIAS Dance Orch. Conducted by Werner Müller / Symphony In Jazz (First
Movement) (Otto Cesana) Otto Cesana & his orchestra.
The Composer Conducts - Vol. 2
GLCD5178
March from “Things To Come” (Music from the film) (Arthur
$15.00 rrp
Bliss) London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Arthur Bliss
“Pinky” Music from the film (Alfred Newman) Alfred Newman & his orchestra
Scherzofrenia (from Symphony No. 5 ½ ) (Don Gillis) New Symphony Orchestra
of London Cond. by Don Gillis / State Occasion (Robert Farnon) Queen’s Hall
Light Orchestra Conducted by Robert Farnon / Dawn Fantasy (Peter Yorke) Peter
Yorke & his orchestra / “The League Of Gentlemen” - Golden Fleece Theme
League Of Gentlemen March (P. Green) Pinewood Studio Orch. Conducted by P.
Green / Salute The Soldier (Eric Coates) London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Eric Coates
Les Jeux (Playing) (George Melachrino) The Melachrino Strings / Amethyst March (soundtrack .rec.
from the film “Yangtse Incident”) (L. Lucas) L. Lucas & his orchestra / Strings In The Mood (Walter
Collins) London Promenade Orch. Conducted by Walter Collins / Naval Occasion (Hubert Clifford)
Melodi Light Orchestra Conducted by Hubert Clifford / “The Dancing Years” - Three Ballet Tunes (Ivor
Novello) The Drury Lane Theatre Orch. Conducted by Ivor Novello / International Sports March
(Sidney Torch) Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra Conducted by Sidney Torch / Rendezvous With Curzon
(Frederic Curzon) New Concert Orch. Conducted by Frederic Curzon / Selection of Radio Novelty Tunes
(Montague Ewing) Montague Ewing, Piano, with Novelty Band / Three Dale Dances (Arthur Wood) Arthur Wood & his orchestra / Wedgewood Blue (Albert William Ketèlbey) Albert William Ketèlbey,
Piano, and his Concert Orch / Thrills (Charles Ancliffe) Charles Ancliffe & his orchestra
Cornish Rhapsody (Hubert Bath) London Symphony Orchestra Cond. Hubert Bath, H. Cohen, piano.
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Portrait Of My Love
GLCD5179
Portrait Of My Love (Cyril Ornadel) Cyril Ornadel and the Star Light Symphony / Impression Of A
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Princess (Eric Coates) Danish State Radio Orch. Conducted by Robert Farnon / I Love You Samantha
(Cole Porter) Victor Silvester & his Silver Strings / April Love (from the film “April Love”) (S. Fain: P. F. Webster)
Mantovani & his orch. / The Prince and Princess Waltz (Dimitri Tiomkin; Ned Washington) David Carroll & his
Orch. / Wedding Day (Douglas Brownsmith) New Concert Orchestra / One Night Of Love (Victor Schertzinger, arr.
Robert Farnon) Robert Farnon & his Orch. / You Are Too Beautiful (R.Rodgers; Lorenz Hart, arr. Glenn Osser)
Glenn Osser & his Orch / Two Hearts In Three-Quarter Time (Robert Stolz) Andre Kostelanetz & his Orch
Like Someone In Love (J.Burke; J. Van Heusen, arr. Paul Weston) Paul Weston& his Orch
Beguine For Lovers (Joseph Kuhn) Dolores Ventura, piano and the Carnival Orch. / Can’t Help Loving That Man (from “Show Boat”)
(Jerome Kern) Mantovani & his orch / Take Me In Your Arms (Alfred Markus; Fritz Rotter; Mitchell Parish) Leroy Holmes & his orch
If I Should Fall In Love Again (Jack Popplewell, arr. Peter Yorke) Peter Yorke & his orch / Tenderly (Walter Gross; Jack Lawrence) David
Rose & his orchestra / Dancing in The Starlight (Trevor Duncan) The Symphonia Orchestra / Deep In My Heart, Dear (Sigmund Romberg,
arr. W. H. Bowen) The Melachrino Orch. / You’re My Thrill (Jay Gorney; Sidney Clare) J. Gleason & his Orch. featuring B. Hackett, trumpet / Star Eyes (Don Raye; Gene De Paul) C. Stapelton & his Orch. / If She Should Come To You (A. Alguero; G. Moreu; Alec Wilder)
Frank de Vol & his Rainbow Strings / For Those Who Love (Frank Cordell) Frank Cordell & his orch / “Sons And Lovers” - Theme From
The Film (Mario Nascimbene) The Cascading Strings Conducted by Johnny Gregory / To A Young Lady (Robert Farnon) Leslie Jones & his
Orchestra of London / You Are Beautiful; Love Look Away (R.Rodgers, arr. Brian Fahey) Cyril Ornadel and the Star Light Symphony
Amor (from film “Broadway Rhythm”) (G. Ruiz, arr. P. Faith) Percy Faith & his Orch. / The Wedding Dance (Paul Lincke) London Promenade Orch. Conducted by Eric Rogers / The Wedding Song (Horan, real name Geoff Love) Manuel and the Music of the Mountains.
In Memory of Arturo Toscanini issued by Walter Toscanini for his friends
CD1 - Bach (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F major - BWV 1047
Passacaglia & Fuge in C minor for Organ - BWV 582 11:51
Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op.3 No.11 RV.565 (L’estro armonico)
GHCD236465
Rossini (1792-1868): Sonata a quattro (String Symphony) No.3 in C major
2CD 15.00 rrp
CD2 - Rehearsal Excerpts All commentary by Marcia Devenport
Rehearsal - Mozart: The Magic Flute - Overture / Rehearsal - Beethoven: Symphony No.9 - Finale 6:00 / Symphony
No.9 - Finale 6:09 - Verdi: La Traviata - Act I & Act II 3:07 / La Traviata - Act I & Act II 1:43 / La Traviata - Act I
& Act II 5:06 / La Traviata - Act I & Act II 1:54 / La Traviata - Act I & Act II
This double album is one of the most interesting releases of the great Arturo Toscanini, for it comprises two CDs. The first is devoted to preBeethoven 18th-century and early 19th-century music by JS Bach, Vivaldi and Rossini composers but rarely encountered in Toscanini’s repertoire and discography, played by ‘his’ NBC Symphony Orchestra, performances that will come as a welcome surprise to many music-lovers
and Toscanini admirers. The second CD is even rarer: excerpts from fascinating rehearsals by the great man in outstanding examples from his
core repertoire - Mozart (The Magic Flute), Beethoven (the Ninth Symphony) and Verdi (La Traviata). The rehearsal excerpts are introduced
by Marcia Davenport (daughter of the great Alma Gluck, who sang with the maestro)...this is a unique and immensely valuable release.
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - Conte di Almaviva Paul Schöffler / Contessa di Almaviva Sena JuriGHCD23735
nac / Susanna Rita Streich / Figaro Walter Berry / Cherubino Christa Ludwig / Marcellina Ira
(3CD)$30.00 rrp
Malaniuk / Basilio Erich Makjut / Curzio Murray Dickie / Bartolo Oskar Czerwenka / Antonio
Karl Dönich / Barbarina Rosl Schwaiger / Karl Pilss - harpsichord - Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Symphoniker, Karl Böhm | Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne - Bastienne Ilse Holweg / Bastien Waldemar Kmentt / Colas Walter Berry / Wiener Symphoniker, John Pritchard
This valuable three CD set couples two of the most admired complete recordings of Mozart operas from the 1950s
which have long since been unavailable. Karl Böhm was one of the greatest Mozart conductors of his generation, and
on this complete Viennese recording of Le nozze di Figaro he directs a cast which at the time could not have been bettered, featuring some of
the finest post-war Mozart singers. Sir John Pritchard completes the set with a sparking performance of Mozart’s very early one-act opera
Bastien und Bastienne, a delightful opera which is very rarely heard today. The recorded sound is of excellent vintage.
GMCD7358
Debussy: Sonata for violin & piano in G minor L 140 / Elgar: Sonata for violin and piano
$22.00 rrp
E minor Op. 82 / Sibelius: Piano arrangements by Karl Ekman Six Humoresques for
violin and piano (World Premiere recording) - Efi Christodoulou (violin), Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
The year’s 1917/18 proved to be an interesting period for three great composers active at the early part of the20th
century. Up until this time each was known primarily for his orchestral music but in 1917/18 the three composers
decided to write for smaller combinations involving the violin. This CD allows a comparison of their respective
compositional styles in, perhaps, an unfamiliar context. Debussy was to die soon after completing his Violin
Sonata; Elgar wrote three valedictory chamber works beginning with the Violin Sonata within this period before entering virtual creative silence apart from the final masterpiece, the Cello Concerto. Sibelius was to continue his quest
for symphonic unity with the final version of his Fifth Symphony before ending his career with the last three big orchestral works, symphonies
Six and Severn and finally Tapiola in 1926. These four works place him at the pinnacle of 20th century music.
The Piano Tuner - Piano trios from Scotland
Beamish: The Seafarer Trio, Alexander McCall Smith (narrator)
Osborne:The Piano Tuner / Weir: Piano Trio Two
DCD34084
$25.00 rrp
On this second recording for Delphian, the Fidelio Trio bring together works by three of Scotland’s leading composers. Alexander McCall Smith narrates Sally Beamish’s The Seafarer Trio with a mingled intimacy and plangency, lending his inimitable lustre to this collection of world première recordings.
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Classical Music From The Movies - Original Recordings made by Denon
METRTCD826
(3CD) $22.00 rrp
Trading Places -’The Marriage Of Figaro’ Overture – Mozart | Ordinary People
- Canon – Pachelbel | Four Weddings and a Funeral -The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba – Handel | Platoon Adagio For Strings – Barber | Dangerous Liaisons - (Xerxes): Largo – Handel | Out of Africa - Clarinet Concerto:
Adagio - Mozart Death in Venice: Symphony No 5: Adagietto – Mahler | Immortal Beloved - Symphony No 5 Mvt 1 – Beethoven | Annie Hall - Planets: Jupiter – Holst | Gallipoli - Adagio in G Minor – Albinoni | Rosemary’s
Baby - Fur Elise –Beethoven | The Lady Killers - String Quartet in E Major: Minuet – Boccherini Castaway - Clair
De Lune - Debussy | The French’s Leutenant Woman - Piano Sonata No 1Movt 2 – Mozart | Un Coeur en Hiver Piano Trio Mvt 3 – Ravel | The English Patient - Goldberg Variations: Aria – Bach | Escape from New York - La
Cathedrale Engloutie – Debussy| My Dinner with André – Gymnopedie No 1 - Satie (Orch Debussy) | Misery - Moonlight Sonata - Adagio
– Beethoven | Sophie’s Choice - Träumerei – Schumann | Green Card - Flute Concerto No 1 Adagio Non Troppo – Mozart | Rollerball Toccata & Fugue in D Minor – Bach | Brief Encounter - Piano Concerto No.2 Movt2 – Rachmaninov Fantasia - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice –
Dukas | Babe - Symphony No 3’ Organ’ Finale - Saint-Saens | Misery - Piano Concerto No 1 Mvt 1 – Tchaikovsky | Natural Born Killers Night on a Bald Mountain – Mussorgsky
Original Denon Recordings including performances by Paul Meyer, Maria-João Pires, Michel Beroff, Helmuth Rilling, Orchestra of St.
John Smith Square, I Solisti Italiani, I Solisti Veneti, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Orchestra National des Lyons.
Bryn Terfel - At His Very Best (2CD)
METRDCD651
Benedictus* / Liebesbotschaft / *Y Ddau Forwr (The Two Sailors) / Aros Mae’r Mynyddau Mawr (2CD) $20.00 rrp
(The Great Mountains Remain) / *Eli Jenkins’ Prayer / Pan Ddaw’r Nos (When Night Comes) /
Seren y Gogledd (The Northern Star) / Perhaps Love / Kriegers Ahnung / Ora Pro Nobis / Ffarwel i ti, Gymru Fad
(Farewell, Fair Wales) / *Y Darlun (The Picture) / Aufenthalt / Rhosyn yr Haf (Summer Rose) / Ffarwel y Bardd (The
Poet’s Farewell) / Brenin y Sêr (King Of The Stars) (with Fflur Wyn & Côr Rhuthun Choir) / *Salm 23 Die Taubenpost (Pigeon Post) / Gwynfyd (Paradise) / Y Cymro (The Welshman) / Yr Hwyr (Evening) / Standchen (Serenade)
*Y Ddau Wladgarwr (The Two Patriots) / Y Môr Enaid (The Soul Of The Sea) / Der Atlas (Atlas) / Cloch y Llan (The
Church Bell) / Abschied (Farewell) / Am Meer (By The Sea) / Atgof o’r Ser (The Memory Of Stars) (with Côr Rhuthun Choir) / Fruhlingssehnsucht (Spring Longing) / Das Fischermadchen (The Fisher Maiden) / Pan Fyddo’r Nos Yn Hir (When The Night Is
Long) (with Rhys Meirion *with Rhys Meirion
Here are 2CDs from the celebrated Welsh opera and concert singer Bryn Terfel. At His Very Best takes in recordings from his recent duet album Rhys Meirion, two of Bryn’s earlier albums and a recording of a newly commissioned work performed together with the Rhuthun choir.
Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen* (arr. Schoenberg)
Das Lied von der Erde (arr. Schoenberg/Riehn)
th
SOMMCD0109
$20.00 rrp
Following its release of the Erwin Stein chamber version of Mahler’s 4 Symphony,
(SOMMCD 245/Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis) SOMM has come up trumps again in this important Mahler
Anniversary year, with yet one more new CD release of chamber versions recorded recently with Contralto Emma
Curtis, Tenor Brennen Guillory and Baritone David Stout with the excellent *Orchestra of the Swan conducted
by Kenneth Woods. These are Mahler’s Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg) and Das Lied von
der Erde (arr. Schoenberg/Riehn).
At the end of the Great War, Vienna was a defeated city and Mahler’s disciple, Arnold Schoenberg created a Society for Private Musical Performance to revive musical life. The society did not have sufficient funds, so ensemble transcriptions of orchestral works were often made.
Schoenberg reduced Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer for a concert in 1920, restoring the intimacy of the original piano version, while preserving many colours found in its later orchestral score. He also began arranging The Song of the Earth for the society in 1921, but did not progress beyond the first song, The sketches lay untouched until 1983, when the conductor Rainer Riehn completed them. Because much of
Mahler’s score has the delicacy of chamber music, surprisingly little is lost in these skilled arrangements. On the contrary, both works benefit
from increased transparency, intimacy and emotional impact.
* “An excellent orchestra and conductor...” BBC Music Magazine “...a brilliant performance...” Daily Telegraph
Rory Boyle (b.1951): Solo Piano Music - Arrivals and Departures
DCD34098
$25.00 rrp
Pour Beatrice / Elegy on FS / Berceuse for Bertie / Flying / Reeling / Sonata / Toccatas,
Dances, and Interludes / Recitatives and Dreams / Games / Capriccio on the Anniversary of a Beloved
Master / Studies for the one in the middle / Rondo / Intermezzo / Toccata / Tatty’s Dance / *Phaethon’s Dancing Lesson (Piano Trio No. 2) - James Willshire, piano / *Bartholdy Trio, conductor Nicholas Cleobury, 'While
Boyle's Scottish roots are never far away, his music has a strong, mainstream European, Stravinsky-based rigour, with
his own brand of virile, challenging, but always comprehensible counterpoint, dissonance which is hard-fought yet
never gratuitous, an unsentimental lyricism and unerring sense of architecture.”
Matthias Pintscher: - en sourdine
KAI1316
sonic eclipse (2009-2010) for solo trumpet, solo horn and ensemble
$30.00 rrp
a twilight's song (1997) for soprano and seven instruments / she-cholat ahavah ani (shir hashirim V) (2008) for mixed chorus a cappella
Includes booklet with text by Marie Luise Maintz
Marisol Montalvo soprano / Gareth Flowers trumpet / David Byrd-Marrow horn / International Contemporary
Ensemble (ICE) / Matthias Pintscher / SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart / Marcus Creed
In the three-part ensemble cycle sonic eclipse (2009–10), another theme of the compositional process is auditory
masking as a step-by-step process of concealment. The solo instrument featured in the work’s first part, is the trumpet, with the horn taking up this role in the second Part. Part three interlinks the two solo instruments, which in turn proceed to integrate themselves fully with the rest of the ensemble. In search of a metaphor for this process, Pintscher hit upon the phenomenon of the eclipse—in
which celestial bodies overlap and cast their shadows upon one another at the moment of complete coverage.
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Dances from Terpsichore - Dances from the school of Gregorio Lambranzi (C.1640)
Arbeau: Orchesographie 1589 / Demantius: German and Polish Dances
Holborne: Short Airs, Grave and Light / Praetorius, M: Dances from Terpsichore
Praetorius Consort, Christopher Ball (director)
ALC1076
$10.00 rrp
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) was a German composer sitting in a unique historical position. He had
little musical training and was largely self-taught, however he pursued that course with keen enthusiasm, and ended up
producing the collections Terpsichore & Musæ Sionæ which are milestones in some ways. Terpsichore is like an encyclopedia of dance music, while Musæ Sionæ functions both as a summation of earlier Reformation psalm efforts as
well as looking ahead somewhat to more Italian influenced styles. However, it is still hard not to see Praetorius as a fundamentally conservative composer. “(original EMI issue) “foot-tapping & most appealing” (Music Week) “few will doubt it matches full-price rivals in every
way” (Edward Greenfield, The Guardian) “played with energy and accuracy…stylish embellishments….. considerable panache”
(Gramophone) “Recording crisp & clean, demonstration quality” (© Penguin Guide)
Gregorian Feast - Chants for Festive days
In Festo Sanctissimi / In Assumptione / In Nativitate / Andreae Apostoli / In Epiphania Domini
Commune Unius Martyr / Dies Irae / Hymnus: Aeterna Christi / Munera
ALC1117
$10.00 rrp
Pro Cantione Antiqua
“Mellifluous singing of the plainsong confirms PCA's fluent versatility” “Top marks for impeccable ensemble, manly
tone and value for money” BBC Music • “plainchant melodies...sung most beautifully with more than a hint of measured rhythm. For the chant alone this record would be worth buying.” Gramophone
Dylan Thomas & Richard Burton read Dylan Thomas
ALN1924
$15.00 rrp
Over Sir John’s Hill (rec.1951) / A Few Words Of A Kind (rec.1951) / Light
Breaks Where No Sun Shines (rec.1953) / The Hunchback In The Park
(rec.1951) / After The Funeral (rec.1953) / In Country Sleep (rec.1953) Selection written and read by Dylan Thomas
In my craft and sullen art / The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / A Winter’s Tale / The hand
that signed the paper / The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait / Fernhill / I see the boys of summer / Lament /
Lie still, sleep becalmed / Do not go gentle into that good night / Poem in October / And death shall have no dominion - Above selection read by Richard Burton (rec. 1954)
“Burton was greatly affected at the death of his favourite drinking companion, Dylan Thomas.....When Burton himself died in 1984 he was
buried with a copy of Dylan Thomas’ Collected Poems.” James Murray
Dylan Thomas tracks new - does not duplicate ALN 1912
Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950’s Vol.7
Beethoven: 2 Rondos 0p.51 / Eroica Variations / Piano Sonata No.12 / Bagatelles / Piano Sonata No. 27 (1951) / 33 Diabelli Variations (Moscow 1951) / Variations
Original Theme Op.34 / Turkish March Variations / Latest in top-seller Series
Richter discoveries never before on CD (some tracks in east briefly on Yedang)
Sviatoslav Richter - The Legendary Leipzig Recital of 1963, In Improved Sound
Beethoven: Sonata No. 30, in E, Op. 109 / Sonata No. 31, in A Flat, Op. 110
Sonata No. 32, in C Minor, Op. 111 | Brahms: Ballade in G Minor, Op. 118, No. 3
Intermezzo in E Flat Minor, Op. 118, No. 6 / Intermezzo in C, Op. 119, No. 3
Chopin: Nocturne in F, Op. 15, No. 1 [5:09]
Recorded at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, November 28, 1963
Katherine Hoover: String Quartets 1, 2 / Trio - Colorado Quartet
PACD960467
2CD $30.00 rrp
PACD96032
$20.00 rrp
PACD96045
“Katherine Hoover is an extraordinary composer. She has a wide and fascinating vocabulary which she
$22.00 rrp
uses with enormous skill. Her music is fresh and individual. It is dazzlingly crafted, and will reach an
audience as it provides interest to the professional musician. I do not know why her works are not yet being played by
the major institutions of this country, but I am sure that she will attain the status she deserves in time. She is just too
good not to be recognized, and I predict that her time will come soon.” -John Corigliano
Parnassus Records presents with great pride its third CD release of music of Katherine Hoover. Her String Quartets are
recent works. The First Quartet was inspired by Native American music and includes a quote from a Hopi lullaby. The
Second Quartet, subtitled “The Knot,” deals with the untangling of musical knots. Both Quartets were written for, and
premiered by, what Hoover calls “the fabulous Colorado Quartet.” The Trio, composed in 1978, was dedicated to the memory of a friend. It
was recorded that year for the Leonarda label, and here receives its first CD issue.
Richard Rodney Bennett: Complete Works for Piano Duo and Duet
Kandinsky Variations / Four Piece Suite / Suite for Skip & Sadie, for piano 4 hands
Over the hills and far away / Fanfare on a 16th-century tune
Capriccio for Piano Duet (1968)
Martin Jones, Richard MacMahon (pianos)
“Martin Jones, on the third leg of his complete Bennett series for Metronome, is well matched by
Richard MacMahon in some dazzling interplay, clarified in the two-piano pieces by an exceptionally clear recording...both players are expert at creating a wide range of colours.”
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METCD1071
$22.00 rrp
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Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas 1-5
Antonio Janigro, cello / Jörg Demus, piano
ATMCD1218
2CD $22.00 rrp
“…performances of engaging spontaneity and warmth…But both Janigro and Demus are responsive musicians, and in
what could be called an eager way, the performances are enjoyable.”Gramophone
Handel: Messiah
Margaret Price/ Yvonne Minton / Alexander Young / Justino Diaz
English Chamber Orchestra / Johannes Somary
ATMCD1969
CD2 $22.00 rrp
“A scholarly performance, once on Vanguard LPs, observing period practice yet using modern instruments, and conducted by Johannes Somary, deserves reissue as an attractive middle-of-the-road account, faithful to Handel's vision in
virtually all respects...The young Margaret Price and Yvonne Minton, that impeccable Handel stylist Alexander Young
and Justino Diaz comprise a fine quartet of soloists.” Gramophone
Mendelssohn: Sonata in E major, Op. 6 / Variations in E flat, Op. 82 /
SOMMCD0104
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Songs Without Words - Op. 19 No. 3 in A / No. 5 in F# minor / Op. 53 No. 2 in Eb
Op. 62 No. 5 in A minor / Op. 67 No. 4 in C / Op. 38 no. 6 in A flat / Sonate Écossaise, Op. 28
Alasdair Beatson. His new disc features Piano Music by Mendelssohn, which now joins his warmly received début
disc of Op. 1 Schumann, Brahms and Berg (SOMMCD 086) released in 2009.
“...a major Scottish musical figure... extraordinary set of performances... pristine pianism... musicianship of the highest
order.” Michael Tumelty, Glasgow Herald, 26/1/10 ***** • Rising Star of BBC Music Magazine, July 2009
[the Berg Sonata] receives the most commanding performance...an entirely convincing reading to rank alongside the finest. Nicholas Salwey, International Record Review,
“...There's no question that Beatson is a gifted pianist... a deeply impressive debut disc.” Calum MacDonald, International Piano Magazine
Stylus Phantasticus - Vogelgesang | Bruhns: Präludium und Fuge in G | Sweelinck:
aud20012
Mein junges Leben hat ein End / More palatino | Buxtehude: Toccata d-moll BuxWV
$20.00 rrp
155 | Böhm: Jesu, du bist allzuschöne | Brunth: Praeludium con Fuga ex Gb | Bach: O Gott, du
frommer Gott BWV 767 / Toccata in C BWV 564
Gnann, Gerhard (organ)“...playing is characterised by sensitivity towards the world of Low German baroque organ
music: transparent, with clear musical gestures even within the free “stylus phantasticus” passages, and never slipping
into any exaggerated mannerisms.” (Musica sacra)
Edition Sergiu Celibidache | The complete RIAS recordings
aud21406
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue | Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole* |
3CD $45.00
Busoni: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 35a* | Cherubini: AnacréonOuverture* | Hindemith: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra* | Harald Genzmer (1909-2007): Concerto for Flute and
Chamber Orchestra* | Copland: Appalachian Spring (Ballet for Martha)* | Heinz Tiessen (1887-1971): Hamlet-Suite
Op. 30 / Salambo-Suite Op. 34a** | Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-1985): Symphony No. 2 Op. 17 “Stirb und
Werde” / Introduction and Fugue for String Orchestra**
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester / *Berliner Philharmoniker / **Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Gerhard
Puchelt, (piano) | , Siegfried Borries, (violin) | Gustav Scheck, (flute) / Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996) directed the Berlin Philharmonic for seven years after the war as vicegerent for Furtwängler who had been banned from conducting. They provide...a fascinating insight
into the early years of the conductor when he, a temperamental firecracker, enthused his audience. Equally interesting...the music of two eminent German composers, Heinz Tiessen and Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, who are unjustly forgotten today, and also contains Harald
Genzmer’s flute concerto (1944), the music of which was lost shortly after this RIAS recording.
Unsuk Chin: Xi - Piia Komsi soprano / Samuel Favre percussion / Dimitri Vassi-
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lakis piano / Ensemble intercontemporain / Patrick Davin / David Robertson / Kazushi Ono / Stefan
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Asbury conductors
Like Xi and Fantaisie mécanique, the Double Concerto for prepared piano, percussion and ensemble (2002) was written
for the Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain. Its central compositional idea is that of combining its two antagonists – soloists and ensemble – to create a single homogeneous body of sound. The sonorities and the complex rhythmic
layering of the piece are to some extent influenced by Balinese gamelan music. (Martin Demmler)
Includes booklet with text by CMartin Demmler
Liszt: ‘Visions’ - Étude d'exécution transcendante no. 11 “Harmonies du Soir” S 139
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Légende no. 1: St. François d'Assise. La prédication aux oiseaux / Légende no. 2: St. François de
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Paule marchant sur les flots / Ave Maria "Die Glocken von Rom" S 182 / Hungarian Rhapsody no.
12 S 244 / Sancta Dorothea S 187 / Étude d'exécution transcendante no. 7 Pater Noster from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses S 173 • Martin Berkofsky
“The 67-year-old pianist also happens to be a colossal Liszt player, whose colorful sonority and formidable dynamic range are made for Arts Music's full-bodied surround-sound engineering. Berkofsky's innate affinity for Liszt's long-lined rhetoric and boundless tonal shadings allow him to sustain unusually broad tempos and rhapsodic yet judiciously proportioned rubatos to mesmerizing effect. He's even more spacious than Arrau in
"Harmonies du Soir" and "Vision" from the Transcendental Etudes, and every bit as emotionally engaged.” April 2011 Jed Distler
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