La Discoteca Clásica: 2011

12/30/2011

Albeniz - Iberia, Suite Española

Isaac ALBENIZ (1860-1909)

Iberia

Navarra

Suite Española

Alicia de Larrocha (Piano)

Vaughan Williams - Phantasy Quintet-String Quartets 1 & 2

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Phantasy Quintet

Sringas Quartets Nos 1 & 2

Maggini Quartet

Laurence Jackson, violin I

David Angel, violin II

Martin Outram, viola

Michal Kaznowski, cello

Garfield Jackson, viola

John Ireland - String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / The Holy Boy

Gaetano Donizetti - String Quartets Nos. 16-18

Gaetano DONIZETTI

String Quartetes 16-18

The Revolutionary Drawing Room

La Guitarra Española

by Edgar Moffatt

Canarios - Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710)

Estudio in mi menor - Fernando Sor (1778-1839)

Sonata in re - Mateo Albéniz (1755-1831)

Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909)

Capricho arabe - Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909)

Lágrima - Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) |

Asturias - (Leyenda nr.5 de la Suite Espanola) - Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

Torre bermeja (Serenada nr.12 de Pieza Caracteristicas) - Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

Sevilla (Sevillanas nr.3 de la Suite Espanola) - Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

Danza Espanola nr. 5 - Enrique Granados (1867-1916) | Romance Anonimo

Alexander Glazunov - 5 Novelettes; String Quintet in A major

Alexander GLAZUNOV (1865-1936)

5 Novelettes, Op. 15
String Quintet in A major, Op. 39

Fine Arts Quartet

Ralph Evans - violin
Efim Boico - violin
Wolfgang Laufer - cello
Yuri Gandelsman - viola

Nathaniel Rosen - Cello

Sergey Taneyev - String Quartets Vol. 1 - Nos. 1, 3

Sergey TANEYEV (1856-1915)

Complete String Quartets Vol.1

String Quartet No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 4

String Quartet No. 3 in D minor, Op. 7

Carpe Diem String Quartet

John Ward: Consort Music for five and six Viols

The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 48; Julius Benedict & Walter Macfarren

Ferdinand Ries - Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas, Vol. 1

York Bowen - Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto No.1

York BOWEN

Violin Concerto in E minor op.33 (1913)

Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat op.11 (1903)

Michael Dussek (piano)

Lorraine McAslan (violin)

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Vernon Handley

Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford

5–6 December 2005

Brahms - The Piano Concertos

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Concertos for Piano Nos. 1 & 2,

Fantasia Op. 116

Emil Gilels (Piano)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Eugen Jochum

Richard Strauss - Eine Alpensinfonie; Vier Letzte Lieder / Harteros-Fabio Luisi

Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

Four Last Songs

Anja Harteros (soprano)

Staatskapelle Dresden,

Fabio Luisi

Maurice Emmanuel - Symphonies 1 & 2; Le Pòeme du Rhone

Maurice EMMANUEL (1862-1934)

Symphonies Nos 1 and 2; Le Poeme du Rhone

Rhenish Phiharmonic Orchestra

James Lockhart. Gilles Nopre

York Bowen: Quintet in C minor for Horn and String Quartet , Rhapsody Trio . Trio in Three Movements

York BOWEN

Quintet in C minor for Horn & String Quartet op.85 (1927)

Rhapsody Trio (1926)

Trio in Three Movements op.118 (1945)

ENDYMION ENSEMBLE:

Krysia Osostowicz (violin)

Fiona McCapra (violin)

Jane Salmon (cello)

Catherine Manson (viola)

Stephen Stirling (horn)

Michael Dussek (piano)

Recorded at All Saints Church, East Finchley, London

24-26 April 2001

Johannes Brahms - The Three String Quartets & Piano Quintet

Johannes BRHAMS (1833-1897)

The Three String Quartets; Piano Quintet

New Budapest String Quartet

Piers Lane (Piano)

Cecil Coles - Music from Behind the Lines

Cecil COLES (1888-1918)

Music from Behind the Lines

1 Overture 'The Comedy of Errors'
2 Fra Giacomo
Paul Whelan (baritone)
3 Scherzo in A minor

Four Verlaine Songs
4 No 1: Fantastic in appearance
Sarah Fox (soprano)
5 No 2: A slumber vast and black
Sarah Fox (soprano)
6 No 3: Pastoral 'The sky above the roof'
Sarah Fox (soprano)
7 No 4: Let's dance the gig
Sarah Fox (soprano)

From the Scottish Highlands
8 Movement 1: Prelude. Presto scherzoso – Allegro maestoso
9 Movement 2: Idyll 'Love scene'. Larghetto
10 Movement 3: Lament. Adagio non troppo e ben marcato

Behind the lines
11 Movement 1: Estaminet de Carrefour
Behind the lines arr. Martyn Brabbins (b1959)
12 Movement 3: Cortège

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

Granados: Doce Danzas Españolas; Danza Lenta; Allegro de Concierto

The Edwardian Gentelman's Songbook- Ballads & Glees

"The Edwardian Gentleman’s Songbook"

HENRY BISHOP: My Pretty Jane.
HATTON: Come Gentle Zephyr.
G SMART: The Squirrel.
STANFORD: Lullaby; A Japanese Lullaby; The Unknown Sea; Fairy Lives; The City Child.
PEARSALL: Waters of Elle.
FREDERICK BRIDGE: Two Snails; The Goslings.
SULLIVAN: Once Again; How Many Hired Servants (from The Prodigal Son)
DIBDIN: Tom Bowling.
B COOKE: Epitaph on a Dormouse.
F H COWEN: The Children’s Garden.
TRAD (arr. various): The Last Rose of Summer; The Snowy Breasted Pearl; Ye Banks and Braes.
James Griffett (tenor)

Pro Cantione Antiqua, directed by Mark Brown
Rec 1980s

The first point to make about this very desirable release is that the Edwardian gentleman of the title must have had old-fashioned tastes. Apart perhaps from the five Stanford songs and maybe Frederick Bridge’s two parody partsongs, the repertoire here is more Victorian (or indeed earlier) than Edwardian. Particularly is this so of the "glees" by Hatton, Smart, Paxton, Pearsall and Cooke, sung with delicious balance and accomplishment by the nine voice Pro Cantione Antiqua. They include such names as Ian Partridge, Timothy Penrose, Charles Brett and Christopher Keyte.

James Griffett, who also belongs to PCA, sings the rest of the tracks. We know him to be a fine interpreter of Stanford on record and these five examples, all new to me, are sung intelligently and with beguiling smoothness and lyricism. Many of his other contributions are songs which were popular in Victorian times and these go well, too.

Cowen’s The Children’s Garden sounds rather like his once-hackneyed The Better Land and is at least as good. The two Sullivan items show Mr Griffett as a devotee of that composer; the excerpt from The Prodigal Son makes one wish for a recording of the complete work. All the items, bar one, perhaps two, are British. The Stephen Foster, again one of his lesser-known songs, and the tangy setting of Ye Banks and Braes, by Maurice Ravel, no less are the exceptions.

The recording is excellent and all in all this is, I repeat, highly recommendable; the insert does not include the words of the song (Mr Griffett’s clear diction makes this less important than it otherwise might be) nor the name of the sympathetic piano accompanist.

Philip L Scowcro