Gyorgy Ligeti - String Quartets and Duos

 

Gyorgy Ligeti

String Quartets and Duos (Ligeti Edition Vol 1)

Arditti String Quartet

Schumann - Piano Quintet, Op.44; Piano Quartet, Op. 47

 

Robert  Schumann: 

Piano Quintet, Op.44; Piano Quartet, Op. 47

Emerson String Quartet and Menahem Pressler (Piano)

The Piazzolla Project / Artemis Quartet with Jacques Ammon

Astor  PIAZZOLLA

The Piazzolla Project

Artemis String Quartet
 Jacques Ammon (Piano)

Grazyna Bacewicz - Violin Concertos 1, 3 and 7

Grazyna Bacewicz 

Violin Concertos Nos 1, 3 and 7.

Joanna Kurkowicz violin

Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Lukasz Borowicz conductor

Hans Pfitzner - Complete Piano Works; Violin Sonata

Hans Pfitzner  (1869-1949)

Complete Piano Works, Violin Sonata

Ulf Wallin and Roland Pontinen

Bacewicz and Enescu - Works for Violin And Piano

Grazyna Becewicz

Sonata da Camera; Violin Sonata No. 3; Partita ; 

George Enescu

Violin Sonata No.2 - Enescu;

Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Ian Fountain (piano)

Lutoslawski - Symphonies 1 and 2; Symphonic Variations; Musique funèbre

Witold Lutoslawski: 

Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, Funeral Music 

Witold Lutoslawski, Warsaw Polish Radio/Tv So

Korngold and Dvarionas - Violin Concertos

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD (1897-1957)

Concerto in D major, for violin and orchestra, Op.35

Balys DVARONIAS (1904-1972)

Pezzo Elegiaco (By the Lake) (1946-47)

Concerto in B minor for violin and orchestra (1948)

Vadim Gluzman (Violin)

Residente Orkest Den Haag

Neeme Järvi 

English Music for Viola and Piano - Works by Bainton; Holland; Bowen and Bantock

English Music for Viola and Piano

Edgar Bainton (1880–1956) • Theodore Holland (1878–1947) • York Bowen (1884–1961) • Granville Bantock (1868–1946)

Sarah-Jane Bradley (Viola); Christian Wilson (Piano)

Sofia Gubaidulina - Concordanza; Meditation, Sieben Worte

Sofia Gubaidulina: 

Concordanza; Meditation; Sieben Worte

Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie (Orchestra), Karine Georgian (Cello), Elsbeth Moser (Bajan)

Astor Piazzolla - Sinfonia Buenos Aires; Bandoneon Concerto "Aconcagua", Las 4 Estaciones Porteñas

Astor Piazzolla

Sinfonia Buenos Aires
Concierto para Bandoneón y orquesta "Aconcagua"
 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires

(Binelli, Tianwa Yang, Nashville Symphony, Guerrero)

Bax - Symphony No.4; Nympholept

Arnold Bax (1883-1953)

Overture to a Picaresque Comedy • Nympholept • Symphony No. 4 in E flat major

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

David Lloyd-Jones

Astor Piazzolla - Concierto para Bandoneon; Tres Tangos

Astor Piazzolla (Composer, Bandoneon) (1921-1992)

Orchestra of St. Luke's, Lalo Schifrin (Conductor),

Concerto for Bandoneon and Orchestra

Tres Tangos for Bandoneon and Orchestra

Krzysztof Penderecki - Symphony No.7 "Seven Gates of Jerusalem"

Krzysztof Penderecki

Symphony No.7 "Seven Gates of Jerusalem"

    Olga Pasichnyk, Aga Mikolaj, sopranos
    Ewa Marciniec, alto
    Wieslaw Ochman, tenor
    Romuald Tesarowicz, bass
    Boris Carmeli, narrator

Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra/Antoni Wit

Sofia Gubaidulina - Canticle of the Sun; Music for Flute, Strings and Percussion

Sofia Gubaidulina

The Canticle of the Sun

Music for Flute, Strings, and Percussion

Mstislav Rostropovich, cello and percussion

Emmanuel Pahud

London Voices

London Symphony Orchestra/Mstislav Rostropovich

London Symphony Orchestra/Ryusake Numajiri

A Rose of Swych Virtu - Reverence from the Renaissance and the Middle Ages

A Rose of Swych Virtu

A Rose of Swych Virtu - Reverence from the Renaissance and the Middle Ages

Música Antigua de Albuquerque

Colleen Sheinberg

William Grant Still - Symphony No.1 "Afro-American"/ Duke Ellington - Suite from "The River

 William Grant Still

 Symphony No. 1 'Afro-American'

 Duke Ellington

 Suite from 'The River', orchestrated Collier

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Neeme Jarvi

Gian-Carlo Menotti - Violin Concerto; The Death of Orpheus

Gian Carlo Menotti (b. 1911)

Concerto for violin and orchestra; The Death of Orpheus; Muero porque no muero

Julia Melinek soprano

  Jamie MacDougall tenor

  Stephen Roberts baritone

  Jennifer Koh violin

 

Spoleto Festival Choir

  Spoleto Festival Orchestra

  Richard Hickox

 

Schnittke - Symphony No.8; Suite from "The Census List"

Alfred SCHNITTKE (1934-98)

Symphony No.8; Suite from The Census List.

Lev Butenin (reciter); Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Valeri Polyansky.

Recorded in Mosfilm New Studio in

Schnittke - Symphony No.4; Three Sacred Hymns

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

Three Sacred Hymns; Symphony No.4

 

  Dmitri Pianov tenor

  Elena Adamovich harpsichord

  Evgeniya Khlynova celesta

  Yaroslav Zdorov counter-tenor

  Igor Khudolei piano

 

  Russian State Symphonic Cappella

  Russian State Symphony Orchestra

  Valeri Polyansky

 

Schnittke - Requiem; Piano Concerto

Alfred Schnittke: 

Requiem; Piano Concerto

Ludmila Kuznetsova, Vsevolod Grivnov, Anaida Agadzhanian, Olga Sizova, Olga Tal , Tatiana Sharova, 

Valeri Polyansky (Conductor), Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Chorus, 

Igor Khudolei (Piano) 

William Grant Still - Symphony No.2 (Song of a New Race) /William Levi Dawson - Negro Folk Symphony

William Grant Still

Symphony No. 2 in G minor, "Song of a New Race"

William Levi Dawson

 Negro Folk Symphony         

Edward "Duke" Ellington

Harlem

Detroit Symphon Orchestra

Neeme Jarvi

The Music of Eliott Carter Vol.5 - Nine Compositions (1994-2002)

Elliott Carter

Nine Compositions (1994-2002)

Steep Steps* (2001) Virgil Blackwell, bass clarinet; 

Two Diversions (1999) Charles Rosen, piano; 

Oboe Quartet* (2001) Speculum Musicae; 

Figment No. 2 "Remembering Mr. Ives"* (2001) Fred Sherry, cello; 

Au Quai* (2002) Maureen Gallagher, viola, Peter Kolkay, bassoon; 

Of Challenge and of Love (1994) Tony Arnold, soprano; Jacob Greenberg, piano; 

Figment No. 1 (1994) Fred Sherry, cello; 

Retrouvailles (2000) Charles Rosen, piano; 

Hiyoku* (2001) Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima, clarinets

*Premiere recordings

Sofia Gubaidulina - The Deceitful Face of Hope and Despair; Sieben Worte

Sofia GUBAIDULINA (b.1931)

The Deceitful Face of Hope and of Despair. Concerto for flute and large orchestra 

(Dedicated to Sharon Bezaly) 

Seven Words (Sieben Worte) for cello, bayan (accordion) and strings

  

  Sharon Bezaly, flute

Torleif Thedéen, cello

Mie Miki, accordion

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Mario Venzago, conductor

Sofia Gubaidulina - The Complete Piano Music

Sofia Gubaidulina (b.1931)

The Complete Piano Music

Vladimir Kozhukhar (Conductor), Kiev Chamber Players, Beatrice Rauchs (Piano)