Hugo Alfven - Symphony No.5; Andante Religioso

Hugo ALFVÉN (1872-1960)

Symphony No. 5 in A minor, Op. 54 (1943-1958)

Andante religioso from Revelation Cantata, Op. 31 (1913)*

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

Niklas Willén

Recorded at: De Geer Hall, Norrköping, Sweden, 15-17 June 2004; 23-27 May, 2005*

William Alwyn - Chamber Works Vol. 2

William ALWYN (1905-1985)

Chamber Works Volume 2

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Divertimento for Solo flute

Crepuscule for Solo Harp

Sonata for Oboe and Piano

Sonata for Flute and Piano

Sonata Impromptu for Violin and Viola

The Haffner Wind Ensemble of London with Guests

Nicholas Daniel 

Kate Hill - flute

Joy Farrall - clarinet

Leland Chen - violin

Clare McFarlane - viola

Ieuan Jones - harp

Julius Drake - piano

Recorded August 19-23, 1992 at The  Faculty Of Music Concert Hall, West Road, Cambridge

Painting: Bird of Paradise Flowers by William Alwyn

Anna Clyne - Mythologies (Orchestral Works)

Anna CLYNE (b.1980)

Mythologies

1-Masquerade (2013) 

2-This Midnight Hour (2015) 

3-The Seamstress, for viol, voice and orchestra (2014) 

4-Night Ferry (2012) 

5-<<rewind<< (2005, rev. 2006) 

Jennifer Koh (violin)

Irene Buckley (voice)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Marin Alsop 1 

Sakari Oramo 2-3

Andrew Litton 4 

André de Ridder 6

rec. live 7 September 2013, Royal Albert Hall (Masquerade), 7 May 2011, Barbican Hall (<<rewind<<), 11 January 2013, Barbican Hall (Night Ferry), 15 January 2016, Barbican Hall (The Seamstress) & 21 March 2018, Barbican Hall (This Midnight Hour)

Nonetto - Works by Nino Rota, Hans Eisler and Bohuslav Martinu

Nonetto

Nino ROTA (1911-1979) 

Nonetto (1959-1974)

For violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn

Hans EISLER (1898-1962)

Nonet No. 2 (1941)

for 3 violins, double bass, flute, clarinet, bassoon, tumpet, percussion

Bohuslav MARTINU (1890-1959) 

Nonet No. 2 H.374 (1959)

for violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn

Oxalys

Recording: Dec. 2020, Studio 1, Flagey, Brussels

Hugo Alfven - Symphony No.4 "From the Outermost Skerries"; Festival Overture

Hugo ALFVÉN (1872-1960)

Symphony No. 4 "From the Outermost Skerries" Op. 39 (1919)

Festival Overture Op. 52 (1944)

Arndis Halla, (soprano vocalise) 

Johann Valdimarsson, (tenor vocalise)

Sigrun Edvaldsdottir (violin) 

Richard Talkowsky (cello) 

Kristjan Th. Stephensen (cor anglais)

Iceland Symphony Orchestra

Niklas Willén.

Recordded at, 10–13 June 2003 at Haskolabo University Cinema Auditorium, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

Ernst Krenek - Orchestral Works

Ernst KRENEK (1900-1991)

Potpourri, Op.54 (1927) 

Seven Orchestra Pieces, Op.31 (1924) 

‘Pallas Athene’ Symphony, Op.137 (1954) 

Tricks and Trifles, Op.101 (1945)

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Karl-Heinz Steffens

Recorded 2019, Ludwigshafen, Philharmonie

Bernard Herrmann - Symphony No.1; Concerto Macabro; For the Fallen; The Devil and Daniel Webster (Suite)

Bernard HERRMANN (1911-1975)

Symphony No. 1 (1941) *

Concerto Macabre 

For the Fallen

The Devil and Daniel Webster (film suite)

Sara Davis Buechner (Piano)

Phoenix Symphony Orchestra *

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

James Sedares

British Tone Poems Vol.2 (Bliss, Foulds, Fogg, Goossens, Vaughan Williams, Howell, Cowen, Hadley)

British Tone Poems - Volume 2

John FOULDS (1880-1939)

April-England, Op.48 No.1 (1926, orchestrated 1932)

Eric FOGG (1903-1939)

Merok (1929) 

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)

By the Tarn, Op.15 No.1 (1916) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Harnham Down (ed. James Francis Brown) (1904-07)

Dorothy HOWELL (1898-1982)

Lamia (1918) 

Frederic Hymen COWEN (1852-1935)

Rêverie (1903) 

Patrick HADLEY (1899-1973)

Kinder Scout (1923) 

Arthur BLISS (1891-1975)

Mêlée fantasque (1921, revised 1937) 

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba

Recorded: 2019, MediaCity UK, Salford

British Tone Poems Vol.1 (Austin, Alwyn, Bantock, Gurney, Balfour Gardiner, Vaughan Williams)

British Tone Poems - Volume 1

Frederic AUSTIN (1872-1952)

Spring. Symphonic Rhapsody (1902-07) 

William ALWYN (1905-1985)

Blackdown. A Tone Poem from the Surrey Hills (1926) 

Granville BANTOCK (1868-1946)

The Witch of Atlas. Tone Poem No 5 for Orchestra (1902) 

Ivor GURNEY (1890-1937)

A Gloucestershire Rhapsody for Orchestra (1919-21), ed. Philip Lancaster and Ian Venables 

Henry BALFOUR GARDINER (1877-1950)

A Berkshire Idyll for Small Orchestra (1913) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Solent. Impression for Orchestra (1902-03) ed. James Francis Brown 

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba

Recccorded:  14-16 September 2016, BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

Frederic Cowen - Symphony No.3 "Scandinavian"; Indian Rhapsody

Frederic Hymen COWEN (1852-1935)

The Butterfly's Ball, overture

Indian Rhapsody

Symphony No. 3 in C Minor "Scandinavian"

Czechoslovakian State Philharmonic Orchetsra, Kosice

Adrian Leaper

Rec. House of Arts, Kosice, Czech Republic, 1989

 

Jules Massenet - Songs with Orchestra

Jules MASSENET (1842-1912)

Songs with Orchestra

Nicole Car (soprano) 2

Jodie Devos (soprano) 3

Cyrille Dubois (tenor) 1

Étienne Dupuis (baritone)6

Véronique Gens (soprano) 4

Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano)5

Orchestre de Chambre de Paris

Hervé Niquet

01.) Pensée de printemps 1

02.) Le Poète et le fantôme 4

03.) Hymne d’amour 6

04.) Amoureuse 2

05.) Si tu veux, Mignonne 3

06.) Chant provençal 5

07.) Rêverie de Colombine (from Le Roman d’Arlequin) instrumental

08.) Souvenez-vous, Vierge Marie! – Prière de Saint Bernard 4

09.) Les Enfants 3

10.) Pensée d’automne 1

11.) Baiser-Impromptu 5

12.) Je t’aime 2

13.) À Colombine 6

14.) Scène religieuse (from Les Érinnyes) instrumental

15.) Sœur d’élection 4

16.) Crépuscule (from Poème pastoral) 3

17.) Aurore (from Poème pastoral) 5

18.) Pitchounette 1

19.) L’improvisatore – Rimembranza di Trastevere 2

20.) Les Fleurs 2 & 6

21.) Menuet d’amour (from Thérèse) instrumental

22.) Marquise 5

23.) On dit! 4

24.) Musette (from Poème pastoral) 3

25.) La Chanson de Musette (from La Vie de Bohème) 1

All tracks except 02, 07, 14 and 21 are first recordings.

rec. 2020, Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique, Philharmonie de Paris

Hugo Alfven - Symphony No. 3; Legend of the Skerries

Hugo ALFVÉN (1872-1960) 

Symphony No. 3 (1905) 

Legend of the Skerries (1904)

Dalecarlian Rhapsody (1931) 

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Niklas Willén.   

Recorded Glasgow, February 1 and 1 1996

Arthur Benjamin - Violin Sonatina & Viola Sonata

Arthur BENJAMIN (1893-1960)

Violin Sonatina

Viola Sonata

Violin Sonatina (1924)

Three Pieces For Violin And Piano (1924)

A Tune And Variations For Little People (1937)

Le Tombeau de Ravel (Valses-Caprices) (1957)

Viola Sonata (1942)

From San Domingo - Allegro Ma Non Troppo (1945)

Jamaican Rumba (1937)Arranged by William Primrose

Lawrence Power (Violin/Viola)

Simon Crawford-Phillips (Piano)

Released june 2014

Schreker; Korngold & Krenek - Orchestral Works

Franz SCHREKER (1878-1934)

Die Gezeichneten – Overture (shortened version) (1913-15)

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD (1897-1957)

Sinfonietta Op.5 (1912)

Ernst KRENEK (1900-1991)

Potpourri Op.54 (1927)

Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire

Sascha Goetzel

rec. 2024, Centre de Congrès, Angers, France

Hugo Alfven - Symphony No. 2; The Prodigal Son Suite

Hugo ALFVÉN (1872-1960) 

Suite from the ballet "The Prodigal Son" 

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 11

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

Niklas Willén

Recorded from 29th to 31st May 2000 in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland.

Hugo Alfven - Symphony No.1; Festival Overture; The Mountain King

Hugo ALFVEN  (1872-1960)

Festspel, Op. 25 (Festival Overture)

Suite From Bergakungen (The Mountain King)

Uppsalarapsodi, Op. 24 (Svensk Rapsodi Nr. 2) (Uppsala Rhapsody - Swedish Rhapsody No. 2)

Symphony No. 1 In F Minor, Op. 7

Scottish National Orchestra

Niklas Willn

Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, on 21st and 22nd May, 1996

Arnold Schoenberg - Chorus Music; A Survivor from Warsaw

Arnold SCHONBERG (1874 -1971)

Chorus Music with "A Survivor From Warsaw"

Friede auf Erden, Op.13

Kol Nidre, Op.39

Drei Volkslieder,Op.49

Zwei Kanons nach Goethe

Drei deutsche Volkslieder

Vier Stucke, Op.27

Drei Satiren, Op.28

Sechs Stucke, Op.35

Dremial tousend Jahre, Op.50A

Psalm 130, Op.50B

Modern Psalm No.1, Op.50C

A Survivor from Warsaw, Op.46 

John Shirley-Quirk (Narrator) 

Günther Reich (Narrator)

BBC Singers  

BBC Chorus & Symphony Orchestra 

Pierre Boulez

Tracks 1-1, 2-1 to 2-7, 2-14 and 2-15 recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios, 8 September 1982.

Tracks 1-2, 2-8 to 2-13 and 2-16 recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios, 19 February 1984.

Tracks 1-3 to 1-10 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 26 October 1986.

Track 2-17 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 23 September 1976.

Arthur Benjamin - Symphony No.1; Ballade for String Orchestra

Arthur BENJAMIN (1893-1960)

Symphony No. 1 (1944-45)

Ballade For String Orchestra (1947)

Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Christopher Lyndon-Gee

Recorded February, 1995 at the ABC Music Centre, Ferry Road, Brisbane, Australia.

Co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Edward MacDowell - Orchestral Works Vol. 1

Edward MACDOWELL (1860-1908)

Orchestral Works Volume 1

Lancelot und Elaine, Op.25 (1886)

Piano Concerto No.1 in A minor, Op.15 (1882)

Two Fragments after The Song of Roland, Op.30 (1886-1890)

To a Wild Rose, Op.51 No.1 (1895)

Lamia, Op.29 (1887-1888)

Xiayin Wang (piano), 

BBC Philharmonic

John Wilson

rec. 2023/24, Media City, Salford, UK

Joseph Haydn - String Quartets, Op.20, Nos.1-3

Joseph HAYDN (1732-1809)

String Quartets Op.20 Nos.1-3 ‘Sun’ (1772)

No.1 in E flat major 

No.2 in C major 

No.3 in G minor 

Chiaroscuro Quartet 

Alina Ibragimova (violin)

Pablo Hernán Benedí (violin)

Emilie Hörnlund (viola) 

Claire Thirion (cello)

rec. Sendesaal, Bremen, February 2015