A belated thank you for your support, Antonio.

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Various Composers - This Be Her Verse (Golda Schultz; Jonathan Ware)


Information

  1. Clara Schumann - Lieder, Op. 12: Liebst du um Schönheit
  2. Clara Schumann - Lieder, Op. 12: Warum willst du andre fragen?
  3. Clara Schumann - Lieder, Op. 12: Am Strande
  4. Clara Schumann - Lieder, Op. 12: Lorelei
  5. Emilie Mayer - Erlkönig
  6. Emilie Mayer - 3 Lieder, Op. 7: Du bist wie eine Blume
  7. Emilie Mayer - 3 Lieder, Op. 7: Abendstern
  8. Rebecca Clarke - Down by the Salley Gardens
  9. Rebecca Clarke - The Tiger
  10. Rebecca Clarke - Cradle Song
  11. Rebecca Clarke - The Seal Man
  12. Nadia Boulanger - La mer est plus belle
  13. Nadia Boulanger - Prière
  14. Nadia Boulanger - Élégie
  15. Nadia Boulanger - Cantique
  16. Kathleen Tagg - After Philip Larkin
  17. Kathleen Tagg - Wedding
  18. Kathleen Tagg - Single Bed

Golda Schultz, soprano
Jonathan Ware, piano

Date: 2022
Label: Alpha Classics

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Various Composers - Opus 1 feminin (Kathrin Schmidlin)


Information

  • Alicia Terzian - Danza Criolla, Op. 1
  • Hilda Kocher-Klein - Kobolde, Neun kleine Stücke, Op. 1
  • Cécile Chaminade - Étude printanière, Op. 1
  • Mathilde Berendsen Nathan - Tre Etuder for Piano, Op. 1
  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau - Fantasie-Stück, Lied & Melodie, Op. 1, Nos. 1-3
  • Clara Schumann - Quatre Polonaises, Op. 1
  • Maria Parczewska-Mackiewicz - Trois Morceaux, Op. 1, No. 3
  • Vítězslava Kaprálová - Pět klavírních skladeb, Op. 1

Kathrin Schmidlin, piano
Date: 2022
Label: Claves Records

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Various Composers - Frauenstimmen (Anna Fortova; Kathrin Schmidlin)


Information

  • Vítězslava Kaprálová - Ritornell for Cello and Piano, Op. 25
  • Nadia Boulanger - 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano
  • Lili Boulanger - 3 Morceaux for Piano
  • Henriette Bosmans - Sonata for Cello and Piano
  • Fanny Mendelssohn - Das Jahr (selection)
  • Stephanie Haensler - „Ni dónde, ni cómo“ for Cello and Piano

Anna Fortova, cello
Kathrin Schmidlin, piano

Date: 2021
Label: Claves

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Sunday, March 24, 2024

Various Composers - Boyle, Vaughan Williams, Moeran & Ireland (Piatti Quartet)


Information

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams - Household Music
  • Ina Boyle - String Quartet in E minor
  • John Ireland - The Holy Boy
  • Ernest John Moeran - String Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major

Piatti Quartet
Michael Trainor & Zahra Benyounes, violins
Tetsuumi Nagata, viola
Jessie Ann Richardson, cello

Date: 2023
Label: Rubicon

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Saturday, March 23, 2024

Various Composers - British Piano Concertos, Vol. 2 (Simon Callaghan)


Information

  • Gordon Jacob - Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major
  • John Addison - Variations for Piano & Orchestra
  • Edmund Rubbra - Piano Concerto, Op. 30

Simon Callaghan, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Stephen Bell & George Vass, conductors

Date: 2023
Label: Lyrita

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Friday, March 22, 2024

Various Composers - British Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 (Simon Callaghan)


Information

  • John Addison - Wellington Suite
  • Arthur Benjamin - Concertino for Piano & Orchestra
  • Elizabeth Maconchy - Concertino No. 2 for Piano & String Orchestra
  • Humphrey Searle - Concertante for Piano, Percussion & Strings, Op. 24
  • Edmund Rubbra - Nature's Song (Reconstr. S. Callaghan)
  • Geoffrey Bush - A Little Concerto on Themes of Thomas Arne

Simon Callaghan, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Date: 2022
Label: Lyrita

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Various Composers - British Works for Flute (Adam Walker; Huw Watkins)


Information

  • York Bowen - Miniature Suite
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams - Suite de Ballet
  • Lennox Berkeley - Sonatina, Op. 13
  • William Alwyn - Sonata
  • Arnold Bax - Four Pieces
  • Howard Ferguson - Three Sketches
  • York Bowen - Sonata, Op. 120

Adam Walker, flute
Huw Watkins, piano

Date: 2023
Label: Chandos

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Various Composers - British Cello Works, Vol. 2 (Lionel Handy; Jennifer Walsh)


Information

  • Ethel Smyth - Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 5
  • Frederick Delius - Cello Sonata, RT VIII/7
  • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs - Cello Sonata in E minor, Op. 132
  • Benjamin Britten - Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 65

Lionel Handy, cello
Jennifer Walsh, piano

Date: 2023
Label: Lyrita

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Various Composers - A Shropshire Lad. English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams


Information

  1. John Ireland - Great Things
  2. John Ireland - Sea Fever
  3. Ina Boyle - The Joy of Earth
  4. William Denis Browne - To Gratiana Dancing and Singing
  5. George Butterworth - Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 1, Loveliest of trees
  6. George Butterworth - Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 2, When I was one-and-twenty
  7. George Butterworth - Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 3, Look not in mine eyes
  8. George Butterworth - Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 4, Think no more, lad
  9. George Butterworth - Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 5, The lads in their hundreds
  10. George Butterworth - Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 6, Is my team ploughing?
  11. Ruth Gipps - The Pulley
  12. Ralph Vaughan Williams - The House of Life: No. 1, Love-sight
  13. Ralph Vaughan Williams - The House of Life: No. 2, Silent noon
  14. Ralph Vaughan Williams - The House of Life: No. 3, Love’s minstrels
  15. Ralph Vaughan Williams - The House of Life: No. 4, Heart’s haven
  16. Ralph Vaughan Williams - The House of Life: No. 5, Death in love
  17. Ralph Vaughan Williams - The House of Life: No. 6, Love’s last gift
  18. Madeleine Dring - Take, O Take Those Lips Away
  19. James Burton - When I set out for Lyonesse
  20. Rebecca Clarke - The seal man
  21. Ernest Farrar - Silent noon

Roderick Williams, baritone & arranger
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder, conductor

Date: 2022
Label: Hallé Concerts Society

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Hubert Parry - Twelve Sets of English Lyrics, Vol. 3 (Various Artists)


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Composer: Hubert Parry
  1. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 1, My Heart Is like a Singing Bird
  2. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 4, The Blackbird
  3. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 6, If I Might Ride on Puissant Wing
  4. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 3, A Moment of Farewell
  5. English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 7, The Sound of Hidden Music
  6. English Lyrics, Set 3: No. 5, Through the Ivory Gate
  7. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 2, Nightfall in Winter
  8. English Lyrics, Set 7: No. 6, Sleep
  9. English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 1, When the Dew Is Falling
  10. English Lyrics, Set 4: No. 1, Thine Eyes Still Shined for Me
  11. English Lyrics, Set 4: No. 2, When Lovers Meet Again
  12. English Lyrics, Set 6: No. 4, A Lover's Garland
  13. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 5, The Faithful Lover
  14. English Lyrics, Set 5: No. 1, A Stray Nymph of Dian
  15. English Lyrics, Set 5: No. 6, A Girl to Her Glass
  16. English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 4, When the Sun's Great Orb
  17. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 1, One Golden Thread
  18. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 1, Whence
  19. English Lyrics, Set 6: No. 5, At the Hour the Long Day Ends
  20. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 5, Looking Backward
  21. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 8, She Is My Love Beyond All Thought
  22. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 5, From a City Window
  23. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 3, The Spirit of the Spring
  24. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 4, The Child and the Twilight
  25. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 6, Grapes

Sarah Fox, soprano
Roderick Williams, baritone
Andrew West, piano

Date: 2018
Label: SOMM Recordings

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