SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24 / Toccata Festiva, Op 24 Karina Gauvin (soprano) Thomas Trotter (organ) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/May/2004 ] "A Knoxville performance to treasure as this essential Barber series reaches a new high point" Gramophone Magazine Recording of the Month (June 2004) |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Complete Orchestral Works [6 CD set] Karina Gauvin (soparno), Thomas Trotter (organ), Stéphane Rancourt (oboe), John Gracie (trumpet) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "The RSNO positively glows in this extremely welcome and romantically rewarding and alluringly-priced set. It hardly matters that this is in fact the only such collection." (MusicWeb Sept 2010) |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Clovis et Clotilde / Te Deum Katarina Jovanovic (soprano) / Philippe Do (tenor) / Mark Schnaible (bass) / Orchestre National de Lille / Jean-Claude Casadesus [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] "There are many moments to cherish, notably Clotilde's prayer, starting on an exquisitely delicate pianissimo." Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 |
LIEBERMANN
Flute Concertos (with works by Poulenc and Nielsen) Katherine Bryan (flute) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Paul Daniel [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "Bryan revels in the [Liebermann's] mix of long-breathed lyricism and devil-may-care acrobatics...She's also a delectably poised exponent of Poulenc's ravishing Sonata (heard in Lennox Berkeley's perfectly judged orchestration)." (Gramophone) |
ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Khachaturian: Piano Concerto and Orchestral Suites Constantine Orbelian (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos / CD - released 23/Jan/2006 ] Recorded ta the SNO Centre, Glasgow in August 1987 |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Complete Opera in English) Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Thomas Hampson (baritone) Neil Rosenshein (tenor) / Welsh National Opera [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2001 ] .A further addition to Chandos's Opera in English series |
RACHMANINOV / SCHUMANN / DEBUSSY / SCHUBERT / CHOPIN / LISZT
Romantic Piano Music by Rachmaninov, Schumann, Debussy, Schubert, Chopin and Liszt (Rec 2001 & 2003) Klara Wartz (piano) with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine. Vladimir Sirenko [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 16/Aug/2005 ] "On this Brilliant Classics set Klára Würtz gives fine performances and deserves to be better known. But the competition is very fierce in all the works particularly the Schumann and Rachmaninov concertos." (MusicWeb March 2004) |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: The Bartered Bride (Complete opera recorded in 1933) Jaroslav Gleich, Otta Horáková, Karel Hruška / Prague National Opera, Otakar OstrĨil [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 16/Jul/2001 ] "The orchestra of the Czech National Opera under Otakar Ostrcil produces a veritable tour de force. This 'Bartered Bride' is an early, rare opera-document, rendered by a one-hundred percent authentic Czech voice- and musical-culture." Pizzicato |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 (Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2) Konstanty Kulka (violin) Chee-Yun (violin) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice) / Antoni Wit, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2003 ] Krzystof Penderecki's orchestral recordings continues on Naxos |
Krzysztof Bakowski, Violin, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wit
Lutoslawski-Funeral Music for Strings, Chain II: Dialogue for Violin & Orch + [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2001 ] one of the greatest 20th-century Polish music artists |
PROKOFIEV
Eternal Prokofiev Kun Woo Paik, Bernd Glemser (pianos) Tedi Papavrami (violin) / Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] Prokofiev, himself a formidable pianist, completed nine piano sonatas out of a projected eleven. His music for piano also includes piano versions of music from the ballets Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 5 Kun Woo Pak (piano) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD ] "Kun Woo Paik's playing throughout these five concertos has exhilarating bravura...with vivid recording in the Concert Hall of Polish Radio, which has plenty of ambience, this set is enormously stimulating and a remarkable bargain" Penguin Guide |
VERDI
Macbeth (sung in English) Latonia Moore, Simon Keenlyside / English National Opera Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos Opera in English / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2014 ] This recording of Verdi's Macbeth marks the completion of the Peter Moores Foundation's remarkable Opera in English series. |
JOHAN SEVERIN SVENDSEN
Symphonic Works (3 CD set) Latvian National Symphony [ CPO / 3 CD - released 28/Jun/2008 ] This is a re-release of Norwegian composer Johan Svendsen's principle orchestral works. Spanning three CDs, you once again have the opportunity to experience his tone poems, rhapsodies, overtures and two symphonies. |
ARTURS MASKATS
Maskats: Accordion Concerto Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga (conductor), Ksenija Sidorova (accordion) [ Ondine / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] Latvian composer Arturs Maskats (b. 1957) has been at the center of Latvian cultural life for decades, especially in the field of theater and opera. Besides operas, incidental music and film music, his catalogue of works includes several orchestral... |
TALIVALDIS KENINS
Kenins: Symphony No. 1 / Concerto di camera No. 1 / Piano Concerto Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Guntis Kuzma, Andris Poga [ Ondine / CD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] "The composer's highly characteristic orchestration is evident throughout, with expressive emphasis placed on solo lines, and this is even more evident in the deeply moving slow movement" Records International |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Suite For Viola And Orchestra / Flos Campi (with McEwen - Viola Concerto) Lawrence Power (viola) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Nov/2011 ] Editor's Choice: Gramophone Magazine December 2011 |
VINCENT D'INDY
Orchestral Music (Incls 'Wallenstein' & 'Saugefleurie') Lawrence Power (viola) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Thierry Fischer [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2009 ] "These works make a good introduction to his post-Wagnerian art. The substantial triptych of overtures, Wallenstein, re-creates Schiller's historical drama of the same name." Sunday Times, 8th February 2009 *** |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: 'Enigma' Variations / Pomp and Circumstance Marches / Three Bavarian Dances / etc Leon Goossens (oboe) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Norman Del Mar, George Hurst / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/1999 ] "A great bargain and highly recommended." (MusicWeb) |