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NAXOS The ideal Christmas present
The
Instruments of the Orchestra Written
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BRITISH COMPOSERS
A Britten
Collection (8CDs)
The
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra op.34. Canadian Carnival op.19.
An American Overture op27. Suite on English Folk Tunes 'A time there
was..' op.90. Sinfonia da Requiem op.20. The Little Sweep Festival Cantata
op.30. Rejoice in the Lamb - A Children's Opera in 3 scenes op.45. Serenade
for tenor horn & strings op.31. Our Hunting Fathers op.8 - Folksong
arrangements. A Ceremony of Carols op.28. Saint Nicholas op.42. Seven
Sonets of Michelango. On this Island. Winter Words. Canticle No.1 -
My beloved is mine. Canticle No.2 - Abraham and Isaac. Canticle No.3
- Still falls the rain. Folk Song Arrangements. Violin Concerto. A Spring
Symphony op.44. 4 Sea Interludes op.33a.
ORCHESTRA: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Simon Rattle and Philip Ledger
ARTISTS: King's College Cambridge Choir Osian Ellis Robert Tear James
Bowman
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An Elgar
Orchestral Collection (7CDs)
Froissart
Overture op.19. Overture Cockaigne op.40. In The South op.50. Falstaff
op.68. Cello Concerto In E Minor op.85. Enigma Variations op.36. Pomp
and Circumstance Marches 1-5 Overtures: Cockaigne. Froissart. Symphony
No.1 in A flat. Cockaigne In London Town - Concert Overture op.40. Symphony
No.2 in E flat op.63. Sospiri op.70. Chanson de matin op.15/2. Beau
Brummel - incidental music to B. Matthews's play Minuet. The Starlight
Express - incidental music to Blackwood's play op.78 - O children open
your arms to me / My Old Tunes. The Wand of Youth - Suite No.1 op.1a
- Sun Dance. Dream children - two pieces for small orchestra op.43.
Salut d'amour 'Liebesgruss' - small orchestra op.12. Minuet - orchestra
op.21. May Song. Rosemary. Romance - bassoon & orchestra op.62.
Sevillana - orchestra op.7. Serenade lyrique - small orchestra. Mazurka
- small orchestra op.10/1. Serenade mauresque op.10/2. Contrasts op.10/3.
Carissima - small orchestra. Mina - small orchestra.
ORCHESTRA: Philharmonia Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: John Barbirolli and Jeffrey Tate
ARTISTS: Beatrice Harrison
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An Elgar
Choral Collection
(13CD)
The Kingdom. Coronation Ode. The Dream of Gerontius.
Ave verum corpus - choir op.2/1. Ave Maria - choir op.2/2. Ave maris
stella - choir op.2/3. 11 Vesper Voluntaries op.14 - Introduction /
Andante. Angelus op.56. Give unto the Lord - anthem op.74. O hearken
thou op.64. Te Deum and Benedictus op.34. Sonata for Organ No.1 in G
op.28. Caractacus. The Banner of St. George op.33. The Apostles op.49.
The Music Makers op.69. Sea Pictures op.37. The Light of Life - Lux
Christi op.29. The Spirit of England op.80. Give unto the Lord. O Hearken
Thou. The Snow. Land of Hope and Glory.
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic and Northern Sinfonia
CONDUCTOR: Adrian Boult and Richard Hickox
ARTISTS: Herbert Sumsion Felicity Palmer John Shirley-Quirk Helen Watts
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A
Vaughan Williams Collection (9CDs)
Dona nobis
pacem. Fantasia on the Old 104th. Magnificat. Toward the Unknown Region.
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. The Lark Ascending. Concerto grosso.
Romance for harmonica. Partita. Five Tudor Portraits. Benedicite. Five
Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'. Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Hodie
Christmas cantata. Songs of Travel - orchestral version. On Wenlock
Edge - orchestral version. Mass in G minor (Vaughan-Williams). Lo, the
full, final Sacrifice op.26. God is gone up op.27 No.2. Magnificat op.36
(Finzi). Mater ora filium. I sing of a maiden that is makeless. This
Worldes Joie (Bax). An Oxford Elegy. Flos campi. Whitsunday Hymn. Sancta
Civitas. Five Tudor Portraits. Benedicite. Five Variants of 'Dives and
Lazarus'.
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: David Willcocks and Simon Rattle
ARTISTS: Elizabeth Bainbridge John Carol Case Heather Harper Janet Baker
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A Walton Collection (8CDs)
Belshazzar's
Feast. Portsmouth Point - Overture. Scapino. Improvisations on an Impromtu
of Britten. Film Music: Henry V. The Battle of Britain. Troilus and
Cressida-Interlude - ActII. As you Like it. Gloria. Facade Suites. Scenes
from Henry V. Richard III Suite. Henry V Suite. Spitfire. Prelude &
Fugue. Symphony No.1. Belshazzar's Feast. The Bear. Facade. The Wise
Virgins. Violin Concerto. Viola Concerto. Partita.
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic and English Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Andre Previn and James Lockhart
ARTISTS: John Shirley-Quirk Yehudi Menuhin
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A Barbirolli Collection (13CDs)
Brigg Fair,
Summer Garden, Appalachia, Cuckoo, Song before Sunrise, La Calinda,
Late Swallows, Paradis garden, Song od Summer.(Delius). Dream of Gerontius
Enigma Variations. Falstaff. Pomp and Circumstance. Symphony No.1. Symphony
No.2 Sospiri, Elegy (Elgar). Violin Concerto (original version) (Britten).
Symphony No.5 in B flat. Symphony No.4 (Rubbra). Threnody for a Soldier
killed in action (Hemming). Sinfonia Antartica. London Symphony. Symphony
No.5 Oboe Concerto, tuba Concerto, Dives, Wasps, greensleeves (Vaughan
Williams). London Overture (Ireland) Tintagel (Bax) Cockaigne, Intro
and Allegro, serenade (Elgar)
CONDUCTOR: John Barbirolli
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Best of British Collection (13CDs)
English
Dances Set I / Set II. Sinfonietta No.1. Sinfonietta No.2. Sinfonietta
No.3. Serenade for small orchestra. Four Cornish Dances (Arnold). Orchestral
Works (Delius). Dance in the Twilight (Eric Coates). Impression of a
Princess. Wood Dance In The Twilight - Springtime Suite No.3 (Eric Coates).
Punchinello-Miniature Overture (Frederic Curzon). Little Serenade (Ronald
Binge). Miss Melanie (Ronald Binge). Waltz For Strings. Elizabethan
Masque. Portuguese Party. Siciliano (Harry Dexter). Concert Waltz 'Joyousness'
- Moods Suite (Haydn Wood). Elizabethan Serenade (Ronald Binge). Monmartre-March
- Paris Suite (Haydn Wood). Lullaby For Penelope (Leslie Osborne). Portrait
Of A Flirt - In Town Tonight. Rouge Et Noire (Fred Hartley). March From
'A Little Suite'. Boulevardier - Characteristic Intermezzo. Watermill.
Tabarinage (Robert Docker. Jaunting Car - The Ring Of Kerry No.11. Impression
Of A Princess Artist. Wood Nymphs Artist (Eric Coates). Dambusters March
(Eric Coates). Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Britten). Enigma
Variations. Pomp and Circunmstance (Elgar). Dies Natalis (Finzi). Choral
Fantasia (Holst). Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams). The Planets.
Egdon Heath. The Perfect Fool (Holst). Serenade to Music. The Lark Ascending
(Vaughan Williams). Tallis Fantasia. Dives & Lazarus. In Windsor
Forest. Toward the Unknown Region (Vaughan Williams). Scenes from Henry
V (Walton). Symphony No.1. Belshazzar's Feast (Walton).
ORCHESTRA: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and English Bach Festival
Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Charles Groves and David Willcocks
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Classics for Pleasure
BEETHOVEN
Complete Symphonies
Symphony No.1 in C major op.21. Symphony No.3 in E flat major op.55
'Eroica'. Symphony No.2 in D major op.36. Symphony No.4 in B flat major
op.60. Symphony No.5 in C minor op.67. Symphony No.6 in F major op.68
'Pastorale'. Symphony No.7 in A major op.92. Symphony No.8 in F major
op.93. Symphony No.9 in D minor op.125. Joan Rodgers, Della Jones, Bryn
Terfel, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Charles Mackerras [5CDs]
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Beethoven
Piano concertos + Choral Fantasia
Piano Concerto No.1 in C op.15. Choral Fantasia op.80. Piano Concerto
No.2. In B flat op.19. Piano Concerto No.4 op.58. Piano Concerto No.3
in C minor op.37. Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat op.73 'Emperor'. Scottish
National Orchestra John Lill [3CDs]
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Brahms Symphonies, violin concerto etc Loughran [4CDs]
Symphony No.1 in C minor op.68. Symphony No.2 in D op.73. Symphony No.3
in F op.90. Symphony No.4 in E minor op.98. Violin Concerto in D op.77.
Variations on a Theme by Haydn op.56a. Alto Rhapsody. Tragic Overture.
Academic Festival Overture. Hungarian Dances 1,3 & 19. Halle Orchestra
James Loughran
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Tchaikovsky Nutcracker, Sleeping beauty, Swan lake Philharmonia
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BARGAIN OF THE MONTH Vaughan
Williams Symphonies
The Nine
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Symphony No.8 in D minor. Symphony No.3 'Pastoral Symphony'. Symphony
No.4 in F minor. Symphony No.5. Symphony No.6. Symphony No.9. Job -
A Masque for Dancing. English Folksong Suite. Flos Campi. Oboe Concerto
in A minor. Fantasia on Greensleeves. Serenade to Music (choral version).
Partita for Double String Orchestra. Fantasis on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.
Five Variants od Dives and Lazarus. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Vernon
Handley
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VIRGIN
BACH St
John Passion, Mass in B minor, Easter Oratorio, Ascension Oratorio Parrott
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HAYDN
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EMI
BERLIN
PHILHARMONIC in recordings with their music directors [6CD]
Arthur Nikisch Music Director 1895-1922: Symphony No.5 (Beethoven).
Wilhelm Furtwangler Music Director 1922-1945 & 1952-1954: Symphony
No.6 'Pathetique' (Tchaikovsky). Symphony No.3 (Brahms). Herbert von
Karajan Music Director 1954-1989: The Hebrides Overture (Mendelssohn).
Symphony No.29 (Mozart). Lohengrin Prelude to Act III / Tristan und
Isolde Prelude (Wagner). Symphony No.2 (Sibelius). Claudio Abbado Music
Director 1989-2000: Kammermusik No.1. Kammermusik No.5 (Hindemith).
Clarinet Concerto (Mozart). Requiem: Dies irae - Tuba mirum - Sanctus
(Verdi). Simon Rattle Music Director 2002 -: Symphony No.10 (Mahler).
Candide Overture (Bernstein). Gymnopedie No.1 (Satie / Debussy). Hungarian
Dance No.3 in F (Brahms). Slavonic Dance op.46 No.1 in C. Slavonic Dance
op.46 No.3 in A flat (Dvorak). Ma mere l'Oye - Finale (Ravel). Pictures
at an Exhibition - The Great Gate of Kiev (Mussorgsky / Ravel). Pomp
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RACHMANINOV [6CD]
Symphony
No.1 in D minor op.27. Symphony No.2 in E minor op.27. Symphony No.3
in A minor op.44. Isle of the Dead op.29. Scherzo in D minor. Vocalise
op.34. Symphonic Dances op.45. Piano Concerto No.1 in F sharp minor
op.1. Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor op.18. Piano Concerto No.3 in D
minor op.30. Piano Concerto No.4 in G minor op.40. Paganini Rhapsody
op.43 (Rachmaninov). Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor op.23 (Tchaikovsky).
Mikhail Rudy, Mariss Jansons
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BRAHMS [7CD]
Symphony
No.1 in C minor op.68. Symphony No.2 in D op.73. Symphony No.3 in F
op.90. Symphony No.4 in E minor op.98. Academic Festival Overture op.80.
Tragic Overture op.81. Variations of the St Antoni Chorale. Schicksalslied.
Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor op.15. Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat
op.83. Lieder op.91. Lieder op.105. Violin Concerto in D op.77. Double
Concerto. Horn Trio (Brahms). Violin Concerto No.3 (Mozart).
Stephen Kovacevich Frank Peter Zimmermann Heinrich Schiff Marie-Luise
Neunecker Wolfgang Sawallisch
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MOZART [9CD]
Three da
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TRACKS: Le nozze di Figaro / Don Giovanni / Cosi fan tutte.
CONDUCTOR: Riccardo Muti
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HANDEL [8CD]
12 Concerti
Grossi op.6. Water Music. Fireworks Music. 15 Organ Concertos. 6 Violin
Sonatas. Violin Concerto in B flat. 3 Marches.
ARTISTS: Yehudi Menuhin Simon Preston
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DEBUSSY RAVEL [8CD]
La Mer.
Nocturnes. Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune. Marche ecossaise. Berceuse
heroique. Images. Musiques pour le Roi Lear. Printemps. Petite Suite.
Children's Corner. Danse sacree et danse profane. La Boite a joujoux.
La plus que lente. Khamma. Danse. Premiere rapsodie. Fantaisie (Debussy).
Bolero. Ma Mere l'Oye. Alborada del gracioso. Rapsodie espagnole. Le
tombeau de Couperin. La Valse. Pavane pour une infante defunte. Valse
nobles et sentimentales. Meneut antique. Une barque sur l'ocean. Ouverture
de feerie. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G. Concerto for Left
Hand Piano and Orchestra. Tzigane. Daphnis et Chloe (Ravel).Aldo Ciccolini
Itzhak Perlman Jean Martinon
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Maria
Callas Live Recordings
Vincenzo
Bellini La Sonnambula -
complete
Maria Callas Giuseppe Modesti Cesare Valletti Eugenia Ratti Milan La
Scala Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein
recorded Teatro alla Scala 5-Mar-1955
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Luigi
Cherubini Medea
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Maria Callas Fedora Barbieri Gino Penno Giuseppe Modesti Milan La Scala
Orchestra Leonard Bernstein
recorded Teatro alla Scala 10-Dec-1953
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Giuseppe
Giordani Andrea Chenier - complete
Maria Callas Mario del Monaco Aldo Protti Milan La Scala Orchestra
Antonino Votto
recorded Teatro alla Scala 8-Jan-1955
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Giuseppe
Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
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Maria Callas Giuseppe di Stefano Ettore Bastianini Giulietta Simionato
Milan La Scala Orchestra Gianandrea Gavazzeni
recorded Teatro alla Scala 7-Dec-1957
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UNIVERSAL
Collectors series
Bach Orchestral and Chamber Music: [8CDs]
Brandenburg concertos, Tiple Concerto , Orchestral suites, Sonatas for
violin and harpsichord , Sonatas Violin and Basso continuo, Sonatas
Viola da gamba and harpsichord, Sonatas Violin and basso continuo, Sonatas
Flute and basso continuo, Sonatas Flute and harpsichord, Partita solo
flute : Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel
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Brahms Complete Symphonies [3CDs]
Symphony No.1 in C minor op.68. Variations on a Theme of Haydn op.56a.
Symphony No.2 in D op.73. Rhapsody for Alto Chorus and orchestra op.53.
Symphony No.3 in F op.90. Symphony No.4 in E minor op.98.Vienna Philharmonic
Karl Bohm
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Liszt Années de Pèlerinage complete recording,
Lazar Berman [3CDs]
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Mozart: The Symphonies The English Consort Trevor Pinnock [11CDs]
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Christmas CDs
Hodie. An English Christmas Collection. William
WALTON (1902-1983) Make
we joy now in this fest Kenneth LEIGHTON (1929-1988)
Coventry Carol Peter Racine FRICKER (1929-1990)
A babe is born Edmund RUBBRA (1901-1986)
The Virgin’s Cradle Song Benjamin BRITTEN
(1913-1976) A Hymn to the Virgin A Ceremony of Carols John
TAVERNER (b 1944) The Lamb Herbert
HOWELLS (1892-1983) Sing lullaby A spotless rose Peter
HAYWARD (b 1955) Lute book lullaby Peter
WARLOCK (1894-1930) Corpus Christi Bululalow John
GARDNER (b 1917) Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
The Sixteen/Harry Christophers Recorded St Michael’s Church, Highgate,
London January 1990 and September 1992
CORO 16004 [59’22] [JW]
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BIS
Carl
NIELSEN
(1865-1931)
The Six Symphonies and the Concertos Symphony
No. 1 (1889-1894) FS16 [33.55] Symphony No. 2 The Four Temperaments
(1901-1902) FS29 [34.11] Symphony No. 3 Sinfonia Espansiva (1910-1911)
FS60 [37.30] Symphony No. 4 The Inextinguishable (1914-1916)
FS76 [33.56] Symphony No. 5 (1920-1922) FS97 [33.05] Symphony No. 6
Sinfonia Semplice (1924-1925) FS116 [32.20] Violin Concerto (1911)
[34.25] Flute Concerto (1926) [18.07] Clarinet Concerto (1928) [24.50]
Pia Raanoja (sop) Knut Skram (bar) Dong-Suk Kang (violin) Patrick Gallois
(flute) Olle Schill (clarinet) Gothenburg SO/Myung-Whun Chung (not 4
and 6) Neeme Järvi (4 and 6) rec Gothenburg Concert Hall, 4-4 Mar
1983 (2), 13-16 Dec 1985 (cl, 3), 15-18 May 1987 (Vn, 5), 14-16 June
1989 (Fl, 1), 8-9 Sept 1990 (4), 9 Mar 1992 (6) DDD BIS-CD-614/616
[4CDs: 68.42+71.37+67.04+78.30] [RB]
Wilhelm
STENHAMMAR (1871-1927)
The Orchestral Music Symphony
No. 1 in F major (1902-3) [52.56] Symphony No. 2 in G minor (1901-1902)
[42.37] Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor (original version) (1893)
[45.50] Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor (1904-1907) [28.43] Serenade
(including Reverenza movement) (1907) [43.30] Lodolezzi Sings
suite (1919) [17.50] Midwinter (1907) [12.25] Florez och
Blanzeflor - ballad for baritone and orchestra (1891) [8.19] Two
Sentimental Romances for violin and orchestra (1910) [12.42] Excelsior!
concert overture (1897) [12.10] Snöfrid (1897) [21.29]
Peter Mattei (bar) (Florez) Ulf Wallin (violin) (Romances)
Love Derwinger (piano) (No. 1) Cristina Ortiz (piano) (No. 2) Ulrika
Åhlén (sop), Gunvor Nilsson (mz), Gösta Zackrisson
(ten), Per Enoksson (violin) Gothenburg Concert Hall Choir/Ove Gotting
(Snöfrid) Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi Malmö SO/Paavo
Järvi () rec Gothenburg Concert Hall, live 24 Sept 1982 (Sym 1),
live, 16 Sept 1983 (Sym 2), studio: 19-20 May 1989 (Piano Concerto 2),
1 Sept 1983 (Excelsior!), 26 August 1985 (Serenade); 11/17
June 1992, Malmö Concert Hall (Florez, Romances,
Piano Concerto 1), DDD/AAD
BIS-CD-714/716 [4CDs: 76.52+78.12+75.34+77.48] [RB]