New Classical CDs (2008-01-28)

Beverly Sills and friends [sound recording]. (B0007330-02) (Deutsche Grammophon)

Beverly Sills, soprano ; with various supporting vocalists, instrumentalists, orchestras, and conductors.
Recorded between 1959 and 1973.
Sung in Italian, German, French, and English.

SUBJECTS 1) Operas -- Excerpts.
2) Songs (High voice)


The four seasons [sound recording] / Vivaldi. (0946 3 94431 2 3) (EMI Classics)

Sarah Chang, violin ; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

SUBJECTS 1) Concertos (Violin with string orchestra)

New Classical CDs (2008-01-23)

Symphony no. 1 [sound recording] : Triumphlied / Johannes Brahms. (8.554119) (Naxos)

Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Kohn, piano.

• Piano music (4 hands), Arranged.
• Symphonies (Piano, 4 hands), Arranged.

Piano concerto no. 2 [sound recording] / Prokofiev. Piano concerto in G major / Ravel. (B0010175-02) (Deutsche Grammophon)

Yundi Li, piano ; Berliner Philharmoniker ; Seiji Ozawa, conductor.

• Concertos (Piano)

Quartet no. 3 in F major op. 73 [sound recording] / Shostakovich. Quartet no. 2 in C major op. 36 / Britten. (77471 81371 2 8) (Marquis)

Jupiter String Quartet.

• String quartets.
  

New Classical CDs (2008-01-14)

Lute songs [sound recording] / Dowland. (8.553381) (Naxos)

Steven Rickards, counter-tenor; Dorothy Linell, lute.

Songs (High voice) with lute. Lute music.
Recorded at Fordham Town Hall, New York City, on 1st March and from 26th to 30th October, 1995.

Contents:

• Come again: sweet love doth now invite (2:12) --
• Flow my tears (3:59) --
• Lady, if you so spite me (1:55) --
• In darkness let me dwell (3:32) --
• Melancholy Galliard (lute solo) (3:00) --
• Say Love if ever thou did'st find (2:05) --
• His golden locks (3:55) --
• Greensleeves divisions / attr. Francis Cutting (lute solo) (2:06) --
• If my complaints could passions move (3:16) --
• Time stands still (4:04) --
• Can she excuse my wrong? (2:52) --
• Fortune my foe (lute solo) (2:20) --
• I saw my lady weep (5:20) --
• Wilt thou unkind thus reave me? (3:42) --
• Stay time awhile thy flying (3:34) --
• Bonny sweet Robin / Anon. (lute solo) (2:34) --
• Me, me, and none but me (2:59) --
• Sorrow, stay (3:16) --
• Fine knacks for ladies (2:25) --
• Kemp's jig / Anon. (lute solo) (0:45) --
• Callino / Anon. (lute solo) (0:58) --
• When Phoebus first did Daphne love (1:14) --
• Think'st thou then by thy feigning? (2:08) --
• Galliards by Mary, Queen of Scots (lute solo) (1:11) --
• Now, o now I needs must part (3:53) --
• Come, heavy sleep (4:14).

Piano works including 'Raindrop' prelude & 'minute' waltz [sound recording] / Chopin. (436 389-2 (436 390-2--436 391-2)) (London)

Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano.

Piano music. Sonatas (Piano)
Recorded between 1967 and 1983.

Contents:

CD 1.

• Polonaise in A major, op. 40 no. 1 (5:09) --
• Prelude in D-flat major, op. 28 no. 15 (5:16) --
• Ballade no. 3 in A-flat major, op. 47 (7:29) --
• Nocturne in D-flat major, op. 27 no. 2 (5:47) --
• Etude in C minor, op. 10 no. 12 (2:43) --
• Waltz in C# minor, op. 64 no. 2 (3:25) --
• Berceuse in D-flat major, op. 57 (4:58) --
• Etude in G-flat major, op. 10 no. 5 (1:40) --
• Nocturne in F minor, op. 55 no. 1 (4:52) --
• Mazurka in B-flat major, op. 7 no. 1 (1:48) --
• Scherzo no. 2 in B-flat minor, op. 31 (9:32) --
• Waltz in A minor, op. 34 no. 2 (4:32) --
• Polonaise in A-flat major, op. 53 (6:31) --

CD 2.

• Waltz in E-flat major, op. 18 (4:48) --
• Fantaisie-impromptu (4:47) --
• Barcarolle in F# major, op. 60 (8:45) --
• Etude in E major, op. 10 no. 3 (4:21) --
• Mazurka in D major, op. 33 no. 2 (2:04) --
• Nocturne in B major, op. 32 no. 1 (5:04) --
• Waltz in A-flat major, op. 69 no. 1 (3:57) --
• Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9 no. 2 (3:59) --
• Waltz in G-flat major, op. 70 no. 1 (2:05) --
• Piano sonata no. 2 in B-flat minor, op. 35 (23:40).

Symphony no. 3 [sound recording] / Gustav Mahler. (88697 12918 2) (RCA Red Seal)

Birgit Remmert, contralto ; Schweizer Kammerchor ; Zurcher Sangerknaben ; Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich ; David Zinman, conductor.

Symphonies. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Musical settings.
Recorded Feb. 27-Mar. 1, 2006, Tonhalle Zurich, Switzerland.

Piano [sound recording] / Dexter Romweber. (001) (Orange Sound)

Composed and performed by Dexter Romweber, piano.

Piano music.

Contents:

• Turbulent --
• Nocturne in A minor --
• Midnight falling through the sky --
• Prelude in A minor (for Erica Kozak) --
• Skull seen through armor --
• While you sleep --
• Chapel Hill concerto without orchestra --
• Carrboro march --
• Trap door --
• Evolutionary etude --
• Russian winter --
• To think we made it this far --
• Reprise --
• Excerpt from the film "Two-headed cow".

Piano concerto no. 1 [sound recording] ; Piano quintet ; Concertino for two pianos / Shostakovich. (50999 5 04504 2 8) (EMI Classics)

Martha Argerich, Lilya Zilberstein (2nd work), pianos ; Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet (1st work) ; Renaud Capucon, Alissa Margulis, violins (3rd work) ; Lida Chen, viola (3rd work) ; Mischa Maisky, cello (3rd work) ; Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Alexander Vedernikov, conductor (1st and 2nd works).

Concertos (Piano) Piano music (Pianos (2)) Piano quintets.
Live recordings: 17.VI.2006, Palazzo dei Congressi, Lugano; 21 & 25.VI.2006, Auditorio Stella Molo, Lugano.

Contents:

• Concerto no. 1 for piano, trumpet and strings, op. 35 (21:40) --
• Concertino for two pianos in A minor, op. 94 (10:01) --
• Quintet for piano and string quartet in G minor, op. 57 (34:28).

New Classical CDs (2008-01-07)

Viola concertos [sound recording] / [William Walton ; Edmund Rubbra. (CDA67587) (Hyperion)

Lawrence Power, viola ; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra ; Ilan Volkov, conductor.

• Viola concerto : original version / Sir William Walton (24:51) --
• Meditations on a Byzantine hymn : op. 117, for solo viola (11:15) / Edmund Rubbra ;
• Viola concerto in A major, op. 75 (25:05) / Edmund Rubbra.

Polish spirit [sound recording]. (0946 3 79934 2 2) (EMI)

Nigel Kennedy, violin ; Polish Chamber Orchestra ; Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor.

• Violin concerto no. 2 in D, op. 6 / Emil Mlynarski --
• Violin concerto in A, op. 8 / Mieczyslaw Karlowicz --
• Nocturne op. 9, no. 1. Larghetto / Chopin (arr. Krzesimir Debski) ;
  
• Nocturne op. 9, no. 2. Andante / Chopin (arr. Krzesimir Debski).