Archive for October, 2009
[FLAC, M3U, LOG, COVERS]
Label: Ricercar
Year: 2002
Performers:
Joris Verdin – harmonium
Jos van Immerseel – piano
LINKS
http://uploading.com/files/52afb4b9/FranckCompWorksForHarmoniumDisc1.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/6da33em8/FranckCompWorksForHarmoniumDisc2.rar/
[FLAC, CUE, LOG, COVERS, BOOKLET]
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Label: Chandos
These performances transport us from the work that marked Frank Bridge’s arrival as an orchestral composer.
Orchestral Works, Volume 1
Enter Spring
Isabella
Two Poems for Orchestra
Mid of the Night (premiere recording)
Orchestral Works: Volume 2
Dance Rhapsody (1908) [19.20]
Five Entr’actes from Emile Cammaerts’s play The Two Hunchbacks (1910) [12.08]
Dance Poem (1913) [14.01]
Norse Legend (1905/1938) [4.50]
The Sea – suite (1908) [22.10]
Orchestral Works: Volume 3
Coronation March (1911) [6.46]
Summer (1914) [10.42]
Phantasm (1931) [24.21]
There is a Willow Grows Aslant A Brook (1927) [11.18]
Vignettes de Danse (1938) [11.20]
Sir Roger de Coverley (A Christmas Dance) (1922) [4.41]
Orchestral Works, Volume 4
Rebus – Overture for Orchestra (1940) [10:44] (premiere recording on CD)
Oration (Concerto elegiaco) for solo cello and orchestra (1930)* [29:16]
Allegro moderato – Fragment of a symphony for string orchestra (1940-41) [13:24] (edited by Anthony Pople)
Lament for string orchestra (Catherine, aged 9, ‘Lusitania’ 1915) (1915) [5:21]
A Prayer for chorus and orchestra (1916-18) [17:55]
Orchestral Works, Volume 5
Suite for Strings (1909-10)
The Hag (1902) *
Two Songs of Robert Bridges (1905-06) *
Two Intermezzi from Threads (1921/38) *
Two Old English Songs (1916)
Two Entractes (1906/36)
Valse Intermezzo à cordes (1902)
Todessehnsucht (1932/36)
Sir Roger de Coverley (A Christmas dance) (1922/39)
Orchestral Works, Volume 6
1. Blow out, you bugles 5:39
2. Adoration 2:58
3. Where she lies asleep 3:04
4. Love went a-riding 1:42
5. They hand in mine 2:12
6. Berceuse 5:09
7. Mantle of blue 2:49
8. 3 Songs: No. 1. Day after day 4:55
9. 3 Songs: No. 2. Speak to me, my love! 6:00
10. Berceuse 3:26
11. 3 Orchestral Pieces: 3:45
12. Serenade 2:53
13. The Pageant of London Suite: I. Solemn March: Richard III leaving London 4:41
14. The Pageant of London Suite: II. First Discoveries: No. 1. Introduction 2:00
15. The Pageant of London Suite: II. First Discoveries: No. 2. Pavane 1:49
16. The Pageant of London Suite: II. First Discoveries: No. 3. La Romanesca [a Galliard] 1:04
17. The Pageant Of London Suite: III. March: Henry VIII Entering London 5:34
18. A Royal Night of Variety
LINKS
http://uploading.com/files/1ced6m18/BridgeCompOrchWorksDisc1.part1.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/86c4a5ce/BridgeCompOrchWorksDisc1.part2.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/e87241f1/BridgeCompOrchWorksDisc2.part1.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/mm146d6m/BridgeCompOrchWorksDisc2.part2.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/1m5f71e9/BridgeCompOrchWorksDisc3.part1.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/993b75a3/BridgeCompOrchWorksDisc3.part2.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/6d43d431/BridgeCompOrchWorksDisc4.part1.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/18dm27m5/BridgeCompOrchWorksDisc4.part2.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/727239e5/BridgeCompOrchWorksDisc5.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/7ffea8m6/BridgeCompOrchWorksDisc6.rar/
[APE, CUE, LOG, COVERS, BOOKLET]
Credits:
An opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists.
Music by Philip Glass.
Libretto by Philip Glass in association with Shalom Goldman, Robert Israel and Richard Riddell.
Vocal text drawn from original sources by Shalom Goldman.
Performed by The Stuttgart State Opera, Orchestra & Chorus.
Directed by Dennis Russell Davies.
CD 1
1. Philip Glass – Act I: Prelude: Refrain, Verse 1, verse 2
2. Philip Glass – Act I: Prelude: Verse 3
3. Philip Glass – Act I: Scene 1: Funeral of Amenhotep III
4. Philip Glass – Act I: Scene 2: The Coronation of Akhnaten
5. Philip Glass – Act I: Scene 3: The Window of Appearances
6. Philip Glass – Act II: Scene 1: The Temple
7. Philip Glass – Act II: Scene 2: Akhnaten and Nefertiti
CD 2
1. Philip Glass – Act II – Years 5-15 (Thebes & Akhetaten), Scene 3: The City – Dance (Beginnin…
2. Philip Glass – Act II – Years 5-15 (Thebes & Akhetaten), Scene 3: The City – Dance (Conclusi…
3. Philip Glass – Act II – Years 5-15 (Thebes & Akhetaten), Scene 4: Hymn
4. Philip Glass – Act III – Year 17 & the Present (Akhetaten), Scene 1: The Family
5. Philip Glass – Act III – Year 17 & the Present (Akhetaten), Scene 2: Attack and Fall
6. Philip Glass – Act III – Year 17 & the Present (Akhetaten), Scene 3: The Ruins
7. Philip Glass – Act III – Year 17 & the Present (Akhetaten), Scene 4: Epilogue
LINKS
http://uploading.com/files/cca29234/GlassAkhnatenCD1.part1.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/86cd9542/GlassAkhnatenCD1.part2.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/6fcdb84b/GlassAkhnatenCD2.part1.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/147ed134/GlassAkhnatenCD2.part2.rar/
[FLAC, M3U, LOG, COVERS]
Ensemble: Collegium Instrumentale Brugense
Conductor: Patrick Peire
Year: 2006
Label: Brilliant Classics
Georg Philipp Telemann’s extensive oeuvre comprises amongst many other works no less than an astonishing 135 overtures or suites for orchestra. These were written for varying ensembles, from exclusively consisting of winds instruments to entirely stringed ensembles.
These suites were written for specific occasions but by his unstoppable inspiration and remarkable craftsmanship Telemann managed to uplift them to permanent gems in the repertoire.
The Belgian ensemble Collegium Instrumentale Brugense under its conductor Patrick Peire is recording the complete overtures. This first volume contains 12 works of a varied nature.
Tracklist:
CD 1
OVERTURE in D major TWV 55: D18 for 2 trumpets, timpani, strings & b.c.
01. Ouverture 5:09
02. Menuet 1 alternat. – Menuet 2 3:02
03. Gavotte (En rondeau) 1:35
04. Passacaille 3:38
05. Air (Lentement) 1:37
06. Les Postillons 2:01
07. Fanfare (Tres vite) 2:07
OVERTURE in G major ‘Burlesque de Quixotte’ TWV 55: G10 for strings & b.c.
08. Ouverture 4:20
09. Le Reveil de Quixotte 1:43
10. Son Attaque des Moulins a Vent (Tres vite) 1:47
11. Ses Soupirs amoureux apres la Princesse Dulcinee 2:11
12. Sanche Panse berne 1:41
13. Le Galope de Rosinante – Celui d’Ane de Sanche 2:25
14. Le Couche de Quixotte 1:09
OVERTURE in C minor TWV 55: c2 for 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
15. Ouverture 3:14
16. Air (Vivement) 1:16
17. Rondeaux 1:11
18. Fugue (Vivement) 2:11
19. Gavotte 1 alternat. – Gavotte 2 1:30
20. Menuet 1 alternat. – Menuet 2 2:15
21. Gig 2:06
OVERTURE in D major TWV 55: D4 for 2 oboes, recorder, 2 violins, strings & b.c.
22. Ouverture 5:37
23. Menuet 1 alternat. – Menuet 2 (Doucement) 4:20
24. Furies (Tres viste) 1:33
25. Entree 0:54
26. Passepied 1 alternat. – Passepied 2 1:27
27. Loure 1:13
28. Canaries 1:41
29. Chaconne 2:59
30. Air (Doucement) 4:03
Total: 72:09
CD 2
OVERTURE in F major “Alster Ouverture” TWV 55: F11 for 4 horns, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings & b.c.
01. Ouverture 5:08
02. Die Canonierende Pallas 2:18
03. Das Alster Echo 2:01
04. Die Hamburgischen Glockenspiele 2:10
05. Der Schwanen Gesang 2:47
06. Der Alster Schaffer Dorf Music 0:59
07. Die concertierenden Frosche und Krahen 2:01
08. Der ruhende Pan 3:54
09. Der Schaffer und Nymphen eilfertiger Abzug 2:31
OVERTURE in B flat major “Volker Ouverture” TWV 55: B5 for strings & b.c.
10. Ouverture 4:13
11. Menuet 1 alternat. – Menuet 2 (Doucement) 4:14
12. Les Turcs 2:25
13. Les Suisses (Grave-Viste) 1:37
14. Les Moscovites 0:45
15. Les Portugais (Grave-Viste) 2:21
16. Les Boiteux alternat. 1:26
17. Les Coureurs 2:21
OVERTURE in D minor TWV 55: d2 for oboe, strings & b.c.
18. Ouverture 3:59
19. Rondeau 1:04
20. Irlandoise 1:07
21. Rejouissance 1:21
22. Sarabande 1:52
23. Les Scaramouches 0:47
24. Menuet 1 1:33
25. Menuet 2 (Doucement) 1:17
26. Entree 1:44
OVERTURE in B flat major TWV 55: B7 for 2 oboes, bassoon, strings & b.c.
27. Ouverture 3:26
28. Rejouissance 1:42
29. Loure 1:44
30. Rondeau 1:01
31. Menuet en Trio 2:51
32. Gigue 1:43
Total: 71:02
CD 3
OVERTURE In A minor TWV 55: a4 for 2 recorders, 2 oboes, strings & b.c.
01. Ouverture 3:12
02. Passepied en Trio 2:37
03. Bourree 1:34
04. Menuet en Trio 3:19
05. Rondeau 1:22
06. Polonoise 1:27
07. Gigue 1:57
OVERTURE In A major TWV 55: A4 for violin solo, strings & b.c.
08. Ouverture 4:44
09. Divermento 1:53
10. Le lusinghe 3:50
11. Minuetta 1 – Min. 2 3:02
12. Passa tempo 4:13
13. Tempo di giga 2:07
OVERTURE In D major TWV 55: D23 for 2 flutes, bassoon, horn, strings & b.c.
14. Ouverture 3:37
15. Menuet 1 alternat. – Menuet 2 (Doux) 3:23
16. Plainte – Gaillarde, qui s’alterne avec la Plainte (Vite) 2:49
17. Plainte – Gaillarde, qui s’alterne avec la Plainte (Vite) 0:43
18. Plainte – Gaillarde, qui s’alterne avec la Plainte (Vite) 1:27
19. Sarabande 1:22
20. Passepeid 1 alternat. – Passepied 2 1:47
21. Passacaille 2:42
22. Fanfare 1:22
Ouverture des Nations anciens et modernes in G major TWV 55: G4 for strings & b.c.
23. Ouverture 3:15
24. Menuet 1 – Menuet 2 2:27
25. Les Allemands anciens 1:35
26. Les Allemands modernes (Viste) 1:13
27. Les Suedois anciens 2:01
28. Les Suedois modernes (Viste) 0:48
29. Les Danois anciens 1:39
30. Les Danois modernes (Viste) 0:46
31. Les vieilles femmes 1:32
Total: 70:16
LINKS
http://uploading.com/files/b96eb4d7/TelemannCompleteOverturesVol1-1.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/326e861c/TelemannCompleteOverturesVol1-2.rar
http://uploading.com/files/91a1fm99/TelemannCompleteOverturesVol1-3.rar
http://uploading.com/files/d65ac68d/TelemannCompleteOverturesCovers.rar
[WV, CUE, LOG, COVERS]
Performers:
Miah Persson, soprano
Malena Ernman, mezzo-soprano
Olle Persson, baritone
Ola Hakansson, cello
Mattias Wager, organ
Swedish Radio Choir
Fredrik Malmberg – conductor
BIS presents Requiems from Gabriel Faure and Maurice Durufle, two composers who wanted to express something different from other musical settings of the Mass for the Dead, something which Faure himself described as a ‘trust in eternal rest’. On this disc, the choir, directed by Fredrik Malmberg, is joined by three of Sweden’s foremost singers as well as organist Mattias Wager, who has also supplied the organ arrangement of Faure’s orchestral score.
There are so many recordings of the Requiems by Maurice Durufle and Gabriel Faure that seeing a new recording released seems excessive. But the reason this recording of these quietly spiritual works deserves attention is that it obeys the composers’ wishes for performances in the churches, without orchestra, and with only organ accompaniment for the chorus and soloists. The sound is different but to this listener (and with the forces assembled for this recording) the result is well worth the effort.
Fredrick Malmberg conducts the Swedish Radio Choir (Sveriges Radiokor), organist Mattias Wager, and soloists Malena Ernman, Olle Persson, Ola Hakansson, and Miah Persson in beautifully crafted, exquisitely sung and sensitively rendered devotional moods. The soloists are all outstanding, especially the women, and there are few performances of the Faure ‘Pie Jesu’ that can match the ethereal beauty of Miah Persson’s hauntingly beautiful rendering. The balance between the organ, the chorus and the soloists is perfect and the engineer who created this CD deserve awards for the quality of sound: the presence of hearing the works in a cathedral is captured as well as any recording on the market! Highly Recommended on every level.
Tracklist:
Maurice Durufle (1902 – 1986)
Requiem, Op.9 (1947)
01. I. Introit 3’31
02. II. Kyrie 3’36
03. III. Domine Jesu Christe 8’40
04. IV. Sanctus 3’21
05. V. Pie Jesus 3’45
06. VI. Agnus Dei 3’45
07. VII. Lux aeterna 3’43
08. VIII. Libera me 5’08
09. IX. In paradisum 3’08
Gabriel Faure (1845 – 1924)
Requiem, Op.48 (1887-91) (Version with organ by Mattias Wager)
10. I. Introit et Kyrie 6’22
11. II. Offertoire 8’11
12. III. Sanctus 3’02
13. IV. Pie Jesu 3’02
14. V. Agnus Dei 5’31
15. VI. Libera me 4’17
16. VII. In paradisum 3’15
Total Time: 73’54
LINK
http://uploading.com/files/715cedc2/Durufle%2526amp%253BFaureRequiems.rar
[APE, CUE, LOG, COVERS, BOOKLET]
Performers:
Janet Baker
Patricia Clark
Catherine Wilson
Monica Sinclair
Raimund Herincx
The St. Anthony Singers
English Chamber Orchestra
Anthony Lewis conductor
Tracklist:
1. Dido and Aeneas / Act 1 – Overture
2. Dido and Aeneas / Act 1 – “Shake the clouds from off your brow”
3. Dido and Aeneas / Act 1 – “Ah! Belinda, I am prest”
4. Dido and Aeneas / Act 1 – “Whence could so much virtue spring?”
5. Dido and Aeneas / Act 1 – “Fear no danger”
6. Dido and Aeneas / Act 1 – “See, your Royal Guest appears”
7. Dido and Aeneas / Act 2 – “Wayward sisters”
8. Dido and Aeneas / Act 2 – “Ruin’d ere the set of sun!”
9. Dido and Aeneas / Act 2 – Ritornelle – “Thanks to these lonesome vales”
10. Dido and Aeneas / Act 2 – “Oft she visits”
11. Dido and Aeneas / Act 2 – “Behold, upon my bending spear”
12. Dido and Aeneas / Act 2 – “Stay, Prince” – “Jove’s commands shall be obey’d”
13. Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 – Prelude – “Come away, fellow sailors”
14. Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 – “See the flags”
15. Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 – “Your counsel all is urged in vain”
16. Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 – “But Death alas!”..”When I am laid in earth”
17. Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 – “With drooping wings”
LINK
[WV, CUE, LOG, COVERS, BOOKLET]
Performers: Camerata Bern, Alexander van Wijnkoop
Label: Eloquence
Tracklist
1. Ouverture a 7 concertanti in F
2. Sinfonia a 8 concertanti in a – 1. (Allegro)
3. Sinfonia a 8 concertanti in a – 2. Andante
4. Sinfonia a 8 concertanti in a – 3. Capriccio: Tempo di Gavotta
5. Sinfonia a 8 concertanti in a – 4. Aria da Capriccio
6. Sinfonia a 8 concertanti in a – 5. Minuetto I-II-I
7. Hipocondrie a 7 concertanti in A
8. Concerto a 8 concertanti in G – 1. (Allegro)
9. Concerto a 8 concertanti in G – 2. Largo Cantabile
10. Concerto a 8 concertanti in G – 3. Allegro
11. Capriccio No. 2 in G – 1. (Allegro) – Aria – Canarie
12. Capriccio No. 2 in G – 2. Canarie
13. Capriccio No. 2 in G – 3. Gavotte
14. Capriccio No. 2 in G – 4. Rondeau
15. Capriccio No. 2 in G – 5. Minuetto – Trio – Minuetto
LINK
http://uploading.com/files/5e36c4a6/ZelenkaOrchesterwerke.rar/
[APE, CUE, LOG, COVERS, BOOKLET]
Performers: Charlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, Monteverdi Choir, William Kendall, Alastair Miles
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Label: Archiv
John Eliot Gardiner’s interpretation of the Missa Solemnis stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of his career and one of the most impressive achievements of the period-instrument movement. The concept is grand and powerful, lively though not unduly brisk. The execution is simply electrifying: Gardiner has the orchestra on the edge of their seats, the chorus going all-out, and sparks flying everywhere. Excellent singing from the soloists and a vivid recording complete the triumph, and it’s all on a single disc. –Ted Libbey
Tracklist:
1. Mass in D, Op.123 “Missa Solemnis” – Kyrie
2. Mass in D, Op.123 “Missa Solemnis” – Gloria
3. Mass in D, Op.123 “Missa Solemnis” – Credo
4. Mass in D, Op.123 “Missa Solemnis” – Sanctus
5. Mass in D, Op.123 “Missa Solemnis” – Agnus Dei
LINKS
http://uploading.com/files/67e4bdae/BeethovenMissaSolemnis.part1.rar/
http://uploading.com/files/6ea5e4bf/BeethovenMissaSolemnis.part2.rar/
[APE, CUE, LOG, COVERS, BOOKLET]
Performer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor: Otto Klemperer
This account of the German Requiem really is one of the great recordings of the century. Even today, Otto Klemperer’s monumental interpretation with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, recorded in 1961, remains unmatched among readings that emphasize the spirituality of the score. Sober and sustained, but not unduly slow, it places Brahms on the continuum of German sacred music going back through Beethoven to Handel, Bach, and Schütz. Drawing committed playing and singing from his forces, Klemperer opens the door to the beauties of the music without fuss or fanfare. Both soloists are exemplary: Schwarzkopf’s expressive portamento now sounds a bit dated in style, but her singing is characterful, while Fischer-Dieskau is a paragon of restrained expressiveness. The singing of the Philharmonia Chorus is especially beautiful. EMI has done a superior job of remastering the original recording. Balances and tone quality are quite fine, and the spacious Kingsway Hall ambience conveys with lifelike immediacy. Compared with previous CD incarnations, there is new depth to the image and better resolution of detail–the weight of the organ can really be felt, as can the timpani strokes in “Denn alles fleisch es ist wie gras,” and one finds greater presence and definition in the chorus and considerably more richness of tone in the orchestra. There is still some distortion in the climactic moments; for example, what sounds like tape saturation frizzes a couple of the big Beethovenian choral proclamations at the end of “Denn alles fleisch es ist wie gras.” Such things are but a small blemish on what is an absolutely ravishing restoration of one of the most valuable recordings of the stereo era. –Ted Libbey
Tracklist:
1. Ziemlich langsam – Selig sind, die da Leid tragen
2. Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras
3. Herr, lehre doch mich
4. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
5. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit
6. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt
7.Selig sind die Toten, die in dem Herren sterben
LINK
[FLAC, CUE, LOG, COVERS, BOOKLET]
Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Year: 1998
Label: Chandos
“…Written during the unsettled years of the First World War, this nearly-hour-long, three-movement work is anchored in a malign, hallucinatory scherzo, which is bordered by a sometimes brooding, sometimes eruptive first movement and a textless choral finale…The sound is outstanding…soaking us in the lavish colors, but also capturing the all-important subterranean tremors with the requisite subtlety. Urgently recommended.” -Rabinowitz, Fanfare
Tracklist:
Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 21
I. Moderato, un poco maestoso
II. Vivace, ma non troppo
III. Lento, ma non troppo
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11
LINK
http://uploading.com/files/d9bc1fef/EnescuSymphony3RomRhapsody1.rar
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