Monday, March 25, 2013

Easter 2013

Easter 2013

ENRIQUE GRANADOS:Danzas espanolas, Op.37, No.2, Oriental Born in the ancient Russian village of Murom in 1920, pianist Oleg Boshniakovich began his musical training with his aunt, Anna Klekova, a celebrated teacher in Murom. In 1934, Boshniakovich moved to Moscow and entered the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory, and then into the Conservatory itself - studying with Professor Konstantin Igumnov. Following a brief interruption brought upon by the Second World War, Boshniakoich resumed his studies with the legendary pianist Heinrich Neuhause.

The Easter Tales, Here comes Peter Cotton Tail, Easter Party Music

Penderecki, Krzysztof, 1933- Utrenja. The entombment of Christ. RCA Red Seal [1971] Stefania Woytowicz, soprano; Kerstin Meyer, mezzo-soprano; Seth McCoy tenor; Bernard Ladysz, Peter Lagger, basses; Temple University Choirs; Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor; sung in Old Slavonic.
VALERI KIKTA:Easter Chants of Old Russia, Resurrect, O the Lord Valeri Kikta (October 22, 1941, in Vladmirovka, a village near Donetsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian classical composer. He was educated at the Moscow Choral College, then at the Moscow Conservatoire under Semyon Bogatyryov and Tikhon Khrennikov. On the recommendation of Shostakovich he moved on to post-graduate study. Kikta's compositions include ballets, symphonic, organ and choral works. These include Beyond the Verge of Darkness for tenor and orchestra, and Frescos of the St. Sofia Cathedral of Kiev for harp and orchestra. He was recorded extensively by the USSR state recording company, Melodiya in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Easter Tales, The Bunny Hop, Easter Party Music
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Oster-Oratorium. Easter oratorio, BWV 249. Angel [1966] Teresa Zylis-Gara, soprano; Patricia Johnson, alto; Theo Altmeyer, tenor; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; South German Madrigal Choir: Southwest German Chamber Orchestra; Wolfgang Gönnenwein, conductor.
ANATOLY KISSELEV:Stichera of the Easter Stichera of the Easter Work Large Choir of Belorussian Radio and TV Chorus/Choir, V. Rovdo Conductor Anatoly Kisselev was born in Moscow in 1948, and received his training at the Moscow State Choral School (1955-65), studying with Alexander Sveshnikov, Nikolay Demyanov, Victor Rovdo, and Alexander Flyarkovsky; as well as at the Moscow Conservatory (1965-70), studying orchestration and composition with Alfred Schnittke - who recommended Kisselev to the Soviet Union of Composers.
The Easter Tales, The Easter Parade, Easter Party Music
ALEXEY LARIN:Russian Passion, oratorio for soloists, choir, organ and percussion (1994), 14.Easter 15. Alleluia Kapella Moscow Kremlin Chorus/Choir Gennady Dmitryak, Conductor
The Easter Tales – Eggbert The Easter Egg, Easter Party Music
SERGEY LIAPUNOV:4 Songs, Op.14, 4.Vostochnïy romans (Eastern Romance)Vladimir Miller, Bass S. Uryvaev, Piano
The Easter Tales – My Choc'late Rabbit, Easter Party Music
SERGEY RACHMANINOV:Suite No.1 for 2 Pianos, Op.5, 4.Easter Turkina Duo Julia and Galina Turkina formed perhaps the most celebrated piano duo in Russia, with an active performance career spanning from 1937 to Galina's death in 1999. Both studied piano at the Central Music School in Moscow, where their principal teachers were Vasily Argamakov, Konstantin Igumnov, Ilia Kliachko, and Alexander Goldenveiser. During their illustrious careers they worked closely with a number of important composers - including Dmitri Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian, often collaborating in preparation of a new work. Among the composers who have written works expressly for the Duo include Sergei Evseev, Vasily Argamakov, Nikolai Peiko, and American composer Jon Appleton.
The Easter Tales – The Funny Little Bunny With The Powder Puff Tail, Easter Party Music
NIKOLOAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV:4 Songs, Op.2, 2.Vostochnïy romans: Plenivshis' rozoy, solovey (Eastern Song: Enslaved by the Rose, the Nightingale) Margarita Mamsirova A multi-faceted talent,with professional skills, a rare tone of voice - coloratura mezzo soprano, artistry and bright appearance allowed MB Mamsirovoy to gain true recognition and the opportunity to act in the best opera houses in Russia and Europe. MB Mamsirova is the recipient of many awards and the student of opera singers. In 1999 she received the Russian theater award "Magic rocker" (Moscow) as "Best Actress" for his performance as Laura in the opera "The Stone Guest" by Dargomyzhsky. The repertoire of the MB Mamsirovoy includes a large number of complicated opera roles of Russian and foreign composers, including highlights of Carmen ("Carmen" by Bizet), Rosina ("Barber of Seville" by Rossini), Cinderella ("Cinderella" by Rossini), Delilah (" Samson and Delilah "Camille Saint-Saens), Olga (" Eugene Onegin "by Tchaikovsky), Laura (" Iolanthe "Tchaikovsky), Amneris (" Aida "by Verdi), Lyubasha (" The Tsar's Bride "by N. Rimsky-Korsakov), Eboli ("Don Carlos" G. Verdi), Marina Mnishek ("Boris Godunov" by Modest Mussorgsky) and many others. MB Mamsirova leads an active concert and touring schedule. Included in The repertoire of Mamsirovoy, along with the world of classical vocal literature, are Circassian folk songs,which the singer who performs with special awe and affection. In 2001 M. Mamsirova took part in a gala concert dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Adygea with a brilliant solo concert at the State Philharmonic of the Republic of Adygea. In 2002 she performed in the city of Maikop, a joint solo soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia Roman Muravitsky tenor, and in 2006 took part in the concert in which artists celebrated the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Adygea, as well as performing a solo concert, which is dedicated to her native land. For her great contribution to the development of musical culture of the Republic of Adygea Mamsirovoy was awarded the honorary title "Honored Artist of the Republic of Adygea."
King's College Choir, Cambridge – Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn), 100 Best Hymns
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Overture, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ken Moss
Swedish Chamber Orchestra – Oratorium Festo Paschali: Kommt, eilet und laufet (Easter Oratorio), BWV 249: Oratorium Festo Paschali: Kommt, eilet und laufet (Easter Oratorio), BWV 249: II. Adagio Johann Sebastian Bach – Bach: Oboe Concertos
PAVEL TSCHESNOKOV:Easter Prayer, Academy of Choral Arts, Moscow Chorus/Choir, V. Ladjuk Voice, Viktor Popov Conductor
Iraida Yusupova, Composer From Faust's Fragments Easter Angel's Choir (text by Boris Pasternak) Yusupova, Iraida, Piano Ave Maria Chamber Ensemble Goodkov, V. Voice (Taped), Dmitry Cheglakov, Cello

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Palm Sunday 2013

Palm Sunday

1.The Schola Cantorum of St. Peter the Apostle – The Litany of the Saints  Lord, By Your Cross & Resurrection (disc 1): Passion (Palm) Sunday-Good Friday
D1. Anonymous (Early Music) Composer Bats mez Ter (Hymn for Palm Sunday) Ghazaryan, Lusine  and Papayan, Anahit, Sopranos
2. Choralschola – Gloria, laus, et honor (Processional Hymn for Palm Sunday) - Voice  – NPR Milestones of the Millennium: CHANT - Hymns and Sequences - Gloria in excelsis Deo
3. Nancy Sinatra – Here In The Palm Of Your Hand  – Sheet Music.
4. Alfred Newman conducts his great film music New York : Angel, 1973. The robe: Palm Sunday In part with the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra.
5. Maurice Duruflé – Prelude, Recitatif Et Variations, Op. 3 – Summer Travels: Chamber Music Palm Beach
6. Édouard Lalo Chamber Music Palm Beach – Suite, Op. 21: I. Adagio Espressivo   II. Allegro Grazioso  III. Andante Espressivo Chamber Music Palm Beach: Buried Treasure
7. Plainchant – Plainchant: Antiphon for Vespers, Saturday before Palm Sunday (reprise) Nicholas Gombert (c.1495-c.1560) – Nicolas Gombert: Magnificats 1-4
8. Bob Hope – January 1943 - From Palm Springs, California Bob Hope – The Ultimate Collection
9. The Schola Cantorum of St. Peter the Apostle – Hail Our Saviour's Glorious Body – Create a Clean Heart in me  – The Lord's Right Hand has Shown its Power– Lord, By Your Cross & Resurrection (disc 1): Passion (Palm) Sunday-Good Friday
10. Dean Martin – It's 1200 Miles From Palm Springs To Texas - 1996 Digital Remaster  – The Capitol Years
11.  Bo Hansson – Nu loser solen sitt blonda har (The Sun is Now Letting Down Her Blond Hair)
 – Andetag
Henze, Hans Werner, 1926-
Ode an den Westwind. Musik für Violoncello und Orchester nach Percy Bysshe Shelley. Konzert für Violine und grosses Orchester. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft [1969]
Siegfried Palm, violoncello; Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin; Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; the composer conducting.

Penderecki, Krzysztof, 1933- Penderecki conducts Penderecki. Angel [1973] Fonogrammi, for flutes and chamber orchestra. Cello concerto. Siegfried Palm, violoncello Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Wanda Wilkomirska, violin, and Felicja Blumental, piano; conducted by the composer.


Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Italian St. Patrick

From high atop beautiful Lake Patrick in lovely West Palm Beach Florida, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. It's the Italian St. Patrick's Day Show.
 Donato Di Stefano – La serva padrona: Intermezzo II: Recitative: Ah! quanto mi sa male di tal risoluzione (Uberto, Serpina) Tommaso Mariani – Pergolesi: Livietta e Tracollo - La Serva padrona
Claudio Scimone – Albinoni / Arr Giazotto : Adagio in G minor Various Artists – 40 Most Beautiful Adagios
Torelli, Giuseppe – Torelli: 1. Allegro - 1. Allegro Various Artists – Pachelbel: Canon - Baroque Music by Bach, Handel, Purcell, Vivaldi
Ottorino Respighi – Roman Festivals-  Circenses– Respighi Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Ciao Italia ! – Insieme 1992 Ciao Italia ! – The Very Best Of Italian Pop Songs
Franco Corelli – Tosca, Act 3: E lucevan le stelle
Fergie – Be Italian Various Artists – Nine
Il Giardino Armonico – Uccellini : Sonata XVIII – The Collected Recordings of Il Giardino Armonico
Giacinto Scelsi – Trio For Strings Various Artists – Roots Of Drone
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736. Stabat Mater. London [1965] Judith Raskin, soprano; Maureen Lehane, contralto; Orchestra Rossini di Napoli; Franco Caracciolo, conductor. Revision and 
organ part by M. Zanon.
Albinoni, Tomaso 1671-1750.  Sonata in G minor for strings and continuo, op. 2, no. 6 Epic [1960]    Evart van Tright, oboe; Roberto Michelucci, violin; I Musici. Torelli, Giuseppe, 1658-1709. Concerti grossi.Selection from op. 8 Rev. by M. Abbado. Epic [1956] No. 2 for 2 violins, string orchestra, and continuo;. No. 2, A minor. Roberto Michelucci, Anna Maria Cotogni, violins; Mario Centurione, violoncello; I Musici.
Respighi, Ottorino, 1879-1936. Fontane di Roma. The fountains of Rome. 
The pines of Rome. Columbia [1971?] Philadelphia orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor. 
Italian Restaurant Music of Italy – Italian Tarantella  – Italian Dinner Music, Italian Restaurant Music, Background Music
Four Italian sonatas. Capitol [1959] La follia, op. 5, no.12, by Correlli Nathan Milstein, violin; Leon Pommers, piano. 
Yolanda Be Cool – We No Speak Americano Various Artists – Italian retro dance
Sven Schwannberger, Thomas Leininger, Florian Wieninger – Marco Uccellini: Sonata Quarta  – Arcadia 
Virtuosi di Roma Decca, 1951. Concerto no. 6 [i.e., no. 3] in F major for strings, by A. Scarlatti. Virtuosi di Roma, with Luigi Ferro, violin, and Massimo Anfitertrof,  violoncello; Renato Fasano, conductor.


 

Sunday, March 03, 2013

It's Florida, man!

Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Florida suite. Rev. & edited [by] Beecham. 
Capitol [1960] Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor. 
Davka (Musical group)Lavy's dream Tzadik 2001. 
Dream of Rabbi Lavy Davka (Daniel Hoffman, violin; Moses Sedler, violoncello; 
Adam Levenson, doumbek, tar, and zarb)
The Monkees, Going Down
Young, Victor,1900-1956. 
Around the world in eighty days music from the sound track music composed and 
conducted by Victor Young. Decca  Prairie sail car For orchestra ; 
the composer conducting. 
Berlin, Irving 1888-1989  Annie get your gun  Decca, [1949] 
Ethel Merman; Ray Middleton; and other members of the original New York cast;
with orchestra and chorus under the direction of Jay Blackton. 
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix,1809-1847. A midsummer night's dream:
incidental music. London, [1969]  Contains the Overture, op. 21, 
and excerpts from op. 61 no. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 12) 
Jennifer Vyvyan, Marion Lowe, sopranos; female chorus of the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden; London Symphony Orchestra; Peter Maag, conductor. 
Pet Shop Boys, I Want a Dog,Introspective
KO KO, Float 
Will Smith, Miami
 

Thursday, February 14, 2013

New Pope in the Pizza Show

From high atop beautiful Lake Johanna in lovely Pope County, Minnesota, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. It's the New Pope in the Pizza Show.
Pius X Choir, Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; Mother Josephine Morgan, director; Mother Catherine Carroll, organ acc.Gregorian chants: Mass XII (Pater cuncta); Mass XVII (Sundays of Advent and Lent) Toledo, Ohio : Gregorian Institute
 Ron Pope – A Drop In The Ocean  – The Bedroom Demos
Cassadee Pope – Secondhand, eponymous
The Lovely Feathers – Pope John Paul  – Hind Hind Legs
 Pius X Choir, Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; Mother Josephine Morgan, director; Mother Catherine Carroll, organ acc.Gregorian chants:  Mass V (Magnae Deus potentiae); Mass [XVIII] (Weekdays of Advent and Lent) Toledo, Ohio : Gregorian Institute
Oxford Camerata – Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass): Kyrie Johann Sebastian Bach – Classical Music Start-Up Kit, Volume 1 (1500-1825)
Popular Computer – Next Level Pope - Refresh Version  – First Level 2004 - 2007
Andrew Pope – My Kinda Crazy  – Here We Go
Music in the Vatican Pavilion, New York World's Fair, 1964 -1965  Purchase, N.Y.  Pius X School of Liturgical Music, Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, [1964?]  Pius X School of Liturgical Music :  Angelus ad viginem -- Ave Maria / Bruchner -- Jubilate Deo / Gabrielle -- The Prince of Denmark's march : (known as Purcell's Trumpet tune and air) / Clarke -- Cibavit nos / Bassano -- Locus iste : motet / Hunter -- A prayer of St. Francis -- Recordare, Virgo Mater ; Spiritus Domini ; Alleluia. Veni, Sarcte Spiritus / Gregorian chant -- Create in me, o God, a pure heart ; How lovely is Thy dwelling place / Brahms -- Requiem. Sanctus ; Pie Jesu ; In paradisum / Fauré. Students of Pius X School, Manhattanville Glee Club ; Renaissance Brass Ensemble ; Bruce Prince-Joseph, Edgar Hilliar, Mother Catherine Carroll, organists ; Ralph Hunter, Dom Joseph Gajard, conductors.
Frank Black and the Catholics, New House of the Pope
Frank Zappa, Rejected Mexican Pope Leaves the Stage

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Valentine's Day

From high atop beautiful Loveland Colorado, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. It's the Valentine's Day Show. Klezmer Conservatory Band (Judy Bressler, Ilene Stahl, Miriam Rabson, Robin Miller, Gary Bohan, Mark Hamilton, Hankus Netsky, Javier Perez Saco, Jeff Warchauer, James Guttmann, Grant Smith ; Hankus Netsky, director).Bukhareste Bulgar (Bulgar from Bucharest) Dance me to the end of love. Rounder Records, 2000.
Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor.Liszt, F. (arr. V. Herbert) Dream of love.--Beethoven, L. van. (arr. W. Smith) Für Elise.--Tchaikovsky, P. I. (arr. A. Harris) None but the lonely heart.--Debussy, C. (arr. L. Caillet) Clair de lune.--Wagner, R. Love-death from Tristan und Isolde.- Dream of love. Columbia, [1970]
 Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor. Barcarolle from The tales of Hoffmann.--Rimsky-Korsakov, N. The young prince and the young princess, from Scheherazade.--Tchaikovsky, P. I. Theme from Romeo and Juliet.--Schubert, F. P. (arr. A. Harris) Serenade.Dream of love. Columbia, [1970] Klezmer Conservatory Band The In laws are Coming/Dance of a Freylekh Dance me to the end of love. Rounder Records, 2000.
Miklos Rozsa - A Time To Love and A Time To Die - Main Title and Foreword
 I know my love. Capitol [1961] "Folk songs of love, portraying the joys and sorrows of the heart," sung by Salli Terri, with guitar, lute, recorders, piano, or accordion.
Mario Lanza, Mattinata, Love Songs, RCA Victor
Opera's great love duets. Angel [1973] Donizetti. Lucia di Lammermoor: Sulla tomba; Qui di sposa eterna fede.--Verdi. Aida: Fuggiam gli ardori inospiti. La forza del destino: S'ei non venisse? Oh, per sempre; Pronti i destrieri. La traviata: Un dì felice. Otello: Già nella notte densa.--Mascagni. L'amico Fritz: Il padron tra poco; Suzel, buon di; Han della porpora viva il colore (Cherry duet)--Puccini. Madama Butterfly: Vogliatemi bene; Un po'di vero c'è; Oh! quanti occhi fisi.
The love for three oranges. Suite. Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953. Odyssey, [1969]St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Edouard van Remoortel, conductor.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Suppe Sunday

From high atop beautiful Lake Superior, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Franz von Suppé
Overtures by Suppé and Strauss. Angel  [1975]   Suppé, F. von. Light cavalry. Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna: Willi Boskovsky, conductor.
Beethoven's Wig – Stuck In The Saddle Again (Light Cavalry March, Suppe)  Beethoven's Wig 2: More Sing Along Symphonies
Felix Kubin – There is a Garden  – Suppe Für Die Nacht
Poet and peasant.  Morning, noon and night in Vienna  Boccaccio Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna: Willi Boskovsky, conductor.

Suppé overtures.Capitol. Pique dame.-- Jolly Fellows. --Jolly robbers  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Peter Kreuder, Leo Borchard, Erich Kleiber, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, conductors. 
William Control – The Raven  
Regina Hexaphone – The Forty-niner  – Into Your Sleeping Heart
Overtures. Mercury, [1960]  The beautiful Galatea. Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Paul Paray, conductor. 
Die Schöne Galatea. The beautiful Galatea; operetta in 1 act. Vox, [195-?]   Elisabeth Roon, soprano; Waldemar Kmentt, Kurt Preger, tenors; Otto Wiener, bass; Vienna State Philharmonia; Hans Hagen, conductor; sung in German.
Highlights from An evening at the pops.  RCA Victor [1965]. Amparito roca, by Texidor.--  Selections from Fiddler on the roof, by Bock.--And I love her. A hard day's night, by McCartney.--Theme from The man from U.N.C.L.E., Big beat baroque, Theme from The munsters.--Farandole by Bizet.   Boston Pops Orchestra; Arthur Fiedler, conductor.




Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Prince Albert in a Can

From high atop beautiful downtown Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composers with Albert in their names.
Dead From The Neck Up. The only known footage of Scott Henderson & Stephen Dafoe in the studio from 1994.
Weird Al Yankovic, Phony Calls
Roussel, Albert Charles Paul,1869-1937.Bacchus et Ariane, op. 43: Suite no. 2. Angel, [1965] Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire, Paris.André Cluytens, conductor. 
Albert, Eugen d',1864-1932.Scherzo in F-sharp, op. 16, no. 2. RCA Red Seal,[1969]Earl Wild, piano. 
Roussel, Albert,1869-1937. Sinfonietta : op. 52, for string orchestra Philips,[1968?] I Musici. 
Roussel, Albert Charles Paul,1869-1937. Symphony no. 3, in G minor, op. 42. Symphony no. 4, in A major, op. 53. Epic [1966] Lamoreux Orchestra; Charles Munch, conductor.
Albert, Eugen d', 1864-1932. Tiefland; Opernquerschnitt. Text [von] Guimera [und] Lothar. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, [1965] Starring Inge Borkh, soprano and Hans Hopf, tenor, with supporting soloists; Chor der Deutschen Oper, Berlin; Bamberger Symphoniker; Hans Löwlein, conductor. 
Ham, Albert W. Music from Bill Sargent's Harlow, original sound track. Music by Al Ham and Nelson Riddle. Warner Bros. Records, [1965] Principally for orchestra ; Nelson Riddle, conductor.
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951. Pierrot Lunaire Melodrama, op. 21; three times seven poems from Albert Guiraud's Pierrot Lunaire. German translation by Otto Erich Hartleben] For narrator, piano, flute (and piccolo) clarinet (and bass clarinet) violin (and viola) and violoncello. Alice Howland, narrator, with instrumental ensemble; Herbert Zipper, conductor. 
Hague, Albert, 1920- Redhead. RCA Victor, [1959] An "original cast" recording, starring Gwen Verdon, with chorus and orchestra; Jay Blackton, conductor.
Albert, Eugen d'. Klavierstücke, op. 16. Scherzo. RCA Red Seal, [1969] Earl Wild, piano.
 

 

 

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Martin Luther King

From high atop beautiful downtown King Salmon, Alaska, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Frank Martin. Frank Martin (15 September 1890 – 21 November 1974) was a Swiss >composer , who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands Born into a Huguenot family in the Eaux-Vives quarter of Geneva, the youngest of the ten children of a Calvinist pastor named Charles Martin, Frank Martin was improvising at the piano even before he started school. At the age of nine, despite having received no musical instruction, he wrote some complete songs. He attended a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion when he was 12 and was deeply affected. Respecting his parents' wishes, he studied mathematics and physics for two years at Geneva University, but all the time he was also working at his composition and studying the piano, composition and harmony with his first music teacher Joseph Lauber (1864 - 1953), a Geneva composer and by that time a leading light of the city's musical scene. In the 1920s, Martin worked closely for a time with Émile Jaques-Dalcroze from whom he learned much about rhythm and musical theory. Between 1918 and 1926 Martin lived successively in Zurich, Rome and Paris. Compositions of the period show him searching for an authentic musical voice of his own. The Petite Symphonie Concertante of 1944/45 made Martin's international reputation and is the best known of his orchestral works. Capitol, 1960.Gloria Agostini, harp; Alberg Fuller, harpsichord; Mitchell Andrews, piano; with symphony orchestra; Leopold Stokowski, conductor.
Five Ariel Songs, per coro a cappella, text of William Shakespeare from "The Tempest" (1950) RIAS-Kammerchor directed by Daniel Reuss. The RIAS Kammerchor is a professional chamber choir based in Berlin, Germany, and supported by the Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin ("Berlin Radio Orchestra and Choirs"), a limited-liability company owned by the public broadcasters Deutschlandradio (40%) and RBB (5%), the German Federal Republic (35%), and the State of Berlin (20%). Originally known as the Rundfunkchor des RIAS, the choir was founded in 1948 by the US-run German-language radio station Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor ("Broadcasting in the American Sector") – hence its name, which it has retained even though RIAS itself was wound up in 1993, following German reunification.
 Le vin herbé;[oratorio in three acts, based on three chapters of the novel Le roman de Tristan et Iseult by Joseph Bédier] Music Guild[1969] Starring Nata Tuscher, soprano, as Isolde; and Eric Tappy, tenor, as Tristan, with supporting soloists; first desk men of the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra; Victor Desarzens, conductor; the composer at the piano.
The Sixteen and Harry Christophers – Mass For Double Choir: Gloria  Credo The Sixteen and Harry Christophers – Frank Martin
Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov, 1861-1935.  Deux rapsodies.  Mercury [1961]   Robert Sprenckle, oboe; Francis Tursi, viola; Armand Basile, piano.  Recorded in the Eastman Theatre, Rochester, May, 1958. Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov, 1861-1935.  A pagan poem; after Virgil. Op. 14. Capitol [1953?]   For orchestra, with piano, English horn, and 3 trumpets obbligati.   Paris Philharmonic Orchestra; Manuel Rosenthal, conductor.
Martin, Frank, 1890-1974. 6 [i. e. Sechs] Monologe aus Jedermann; Text von H. v. Hofmannsthal. 3. Fragmente aus der Oper Der Sturm; Text: Shakespeare/Schlegel. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft [1963] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Berliner Philharmoniker; the composer conducting.

Friday, January 11, 2013

John the Baptist

From high atop beautiful downtown Firenze, Italy, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, ( 28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in 1661.
Isis (opera), LWV54 Le Jardin Secret Ensemble, Elizabeth Dobbin ,Soprano Assez de Pleurs Musique pour Mazarin! Le Jardin Secret Coro 2008 Te Deum Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet Salomé was originally released as a motion picture in 1922, based on the play by Oscar Wilde. The orchestral score is composed and conducted by Marc-Olivier Dupin
The London Baroque Ensemble conducted by Karl Haas. Decca, Marche pour le Régiment du Roi. Armide (1686). Musical Heritage Society,[1968] With the composer's Isis. Overture.--Duet of Armide and Hidraot.--Renaud's slumber.-Armide's monologue.--Passacaille. Nadine Sautereau and Jocelyne Chamonin, sopranos; André Mallabrera, tenor; Roger Soyer, bass; Philippe Caillard Chorus; Jean François Paillard Orchestra; Jean François Paillard, conductor.
Salome's last dance screenplay by Ken Russell ; producer, Penny Corke ; director, Ken Russell. Incorporates Oscar Wilde's play Salome translated by Vivian Russell. 1987. Director of photography, Harvey Harrison ; editor, Timothy Gee. Glenda Jackson, Startford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Imogen Millais Scott.

Friday, January 04, 2013

Epiphany

From high atop beautiful downtown Three Points, Arizona, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Gian Carlo  Menotti . Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them: The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). He founded the noted Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977. In 1986 he commenced a Melbourne Spoleto Festival in Australia, but he withdrew after three years.
Amahl and the night visitors RCA Victor [1964] Cast of the NBC Opera Company,
December 1963 television production, with Kurt Yaghjian, boy soprano, as Amahl; Herbert Grossman, conductor.
It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Epiphany– Night Castle
Arturo Toscanini – Roman Festivals: Epiphany Ottorino  Respighi – Italian Orchestral Music
Tallis Scholars – Plainchant: Antiphon for First Vespers, Epiphany Nicholas Gombert (c.1495-c.1560) – Nicolas Gombert: Magnificats 5-8
For my true love. Capitol [1958] songs by Falla, Fauré, Dowland, Mignone, Ovalle, J. P. Martini, A. Scarlatti, and J. S. Bach, principally with guitar acc., and lute selections from works by Dowland, R. de Visée, V. Galilei, and J. S. Bach. Salli Terri, mezzo-soprano; Laurindo Almeida, guitar; Martin Ruderman, flute.
Liebermann, Rolf, 1910- Concerto for jazz band and symphony orchestra. RCA Victor[1955] Sauter-Finegan Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor.

Friday, December 21, 2012

Janacek

Janacek – Sinfoniettas for Orchestra - Nos.1,2,3 Various Artists – 150 Classical Masterpieces
Leos Janacek – On An Overgrown Path Ivan Klansky, piano
Leos Janacek – In the Mist  by Leos Janacek – Janáček: Piano Music, Charles Owen, piano
Glagolitic Mass (Mša glagolskaja), for soloists, double chorus, orchestra, and organ, JW 3/9 Work
Rafael Kubelik Conductor Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestra Deutsche Grammophon
Rel. July 16, 2002

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Devious Delius

From high atop beautiful downtown Delhi New York, it's time once gain for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Frederick Delius.
Fritz Theodor Albert Delius was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, on 29 January 1862 to parents who had come to England from Bielefeld, Germany. Julius, his father, was a prosperous businessman in one of Yorkshire's great Victorian industries, wool. The home was a musically cultured one, and, as a boy, Fritz learned to play both violin and piano proficiently before he reached his teens. After attending Bradford Grammar School (1874-8), he spent two years studying at the International College near London, and then some apprentice years in his father's business.
These were characterized by a growing frustration with business life, and in March 1884, Fritz persuaded his father to let him try his hand at cultivating oranges in Florida, USA. His plantation, Solano Grove, was some hours upstream from Jacksonville on the banks of the St. John's River. Once there, he quickly secured a piano and found a local source for theory lessons, a Jacksonville organist named Thomas Ward, an important early influence. He also absorbed the sounds of the singing of negro workers, which were to be documented in his Florida Suite of 1886-7. Delius stayed there for a year and a half, before moving on to Danville, Virginia, with sufficient confidence to teach music in his own right.
Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934.  Florida suite; Dance rhapsody no. 2 ; 
Over the hills and far away Rev. & edited by Beecham. Seraphim, 1973? 
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor. 
Delius's high musical summer, which was to last from 1901, when he completed 
his operatic masterpiece, A Village Romeo and Juliet, to almost the end of the 
first World War. Appalachia dates from 1902, Sea Drift from 1903/4 
Sea drift (text by Walt Whitman).  A song of the high hills. Angel [1974] 
John Noble, baritone (1st work); Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus; 
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves, conductor.  
North country sketches. Life's dance.  A song of summer. Angel 1975. 
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves, conductor.  
Delius suffered severe health problems by 1910 – manifestations of the 
syphilitic infection he contracted in Florida which culminated in 
blindness and complete paralysis, although his speech and his mind 
remained unimpaired. In 1928 Delius, who had continued to compose, met a
young man who thought he could assist the stricken composer. Eric 
Fenby, a Yorkshire-born composer who greatly admired Delius' music, 
moved into the Delius home and spent the next six years taking the elder
composer's dictation. After several vain attempts at cures, Delius died
 in 1934

Sunday, December 02, 2012

Debussy for December

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. String quartet in G minor,op. 10. RCA Victor,[1960]
 Juillard String Quartet. 
Chansons de Bilitis :Poems by Pierre Louÿs Columbia, [1964] For 2 flutes, 
2 harps, and celesta, with narration.  Debussy work: The composer's celesta part
(lost) supplied  by Pierre Boulez.  The music is incidental to poems no. 2,
 12, 18, 22, 37, 56, 98, 105, 114, 136, and 142 in the work of the same title
 by Pierre Louÿs.  Vera Zorina, narrator ; Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Robert 
 Craft, conductor. 
La mer.Odyssey[1973] Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, conductor. 
Afternoon of a faun (L ' áprès-midi d'un faune). Columbia[1965] 
New York Philarmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor. 
Weissenberg plays Debussy. RCA Red Seal [1969] Children's corner suite.
--La fille aux cheveux de lin.--L'isle joyeuse   Alexis Weissenberg, piano. 

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

November Nocturnes

November Nocturnes
Chopin, Fryderyk Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9, No. 2
Georges Bizet - Carmen Suite No. 2 - 3. Nocturne Philharmonia Cassovia
Philharmonia Cassovia :A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 Notturno Mendelssohn, Felix;
Ingrid Fliter, Chopin, Fryderyk Nocturne No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 27, No. 2
Vladimir Ashkenazy :  Chopin,   Nocturne, op. 62, no. 1  London,  1965. 
YoYo Ma Cello, Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra, conducted by Ennio Morricone,Nocturne from The Lady Caliph
Yo Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone, SONY 2009
Cristina Ortiz; piano  Miguez, Leopoldo, 1850-1902. Nocturne Angel, 1975
Alexander Borodin, Notturno String Quarter no. 2 Haydn Quarter, Budapest, Naxos, 1993
Masters of Old Time Country Autoharp, Kilby Snow, May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister?
Smithsonian Folkways
A French program RCA Victor,[1964] Nocturne in A-flat, op. 33, no. 3, by Fauré Artur Rubinstein, piano. 
Paul Seaforth, Tonight's a Night for Love, When Did You Leave Heaven? Rhombus Records
Mozart, J. C. W. A.  Eine kleine Nachtmusik.   Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert von Karajan, 
conductor. 
Secret Garden, Nocturne
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson, 1884-1920.Notturno, for orchestra Nocturne, for orchestra. 
Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage,1959] 
Music in America: Instrumental music of the 19th and 20th   centuries 
 
 

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Ludolf Nielsen

Danish Philharmonic Orchestra (South Jutland Symphony Orchestra) cond. Frank Cramer Ludolf  Nielsen - Symphony No. 1 in B Minor Op. 3 (1902)( + From the Mountains) NAXOS 8.554953 (2007)
(original CD release: DACAPO 8.224047) (1997)

Duo La Valse Ludolf Nielsen – For Vinden danser, fra Foraar, op.15:3 – Duo La Valse with popular classical music
Ludolf Nielsen – Ved Solnedgang, Op.47:1 – Duo La Valse with popular classical music
Ludolf Nielsen – 3 Klaverstykker, op.21– Duo La Valse with popular classical music
Ludolf Nielsen – Stemninger, Op.23– Duo La Valse with popular classical music
Ludolf Nielsen – 4 Klaverstykker, op. 17– Duo La Valse with popular classical music
Frank Cramer/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra  Ludolf  Nielsen - Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op, 22 (1913)( + Hjortholm) DACAPO 8.224098 (1999) I. Andante con moto - Poco piu moto II. Allegretti Agenole - III. Andante Lento - Pastorale - IV. Andante Lento - Allegro Maestoso 

Monday, October 29, 2012

Nielsen, Carl

 Nielsen, Carl, 1865-1931. Lille suite, op. 1, for string orchestra    Chicago :Philips,[1968?]
I Musici.
Nielsen, Carl Nielsen, L.C., lyricist(s) Kantate ved Landsudstillingen i Arhus (Cantata for the National Exhibition in Arhus), FS 54 Albinus, Jens, reciter Andersen, Ditte, soprano Hedegaard, Mathias, tenor Knudsen, Palle, baritone Aarhus Cathedral Choir Danish National Opera Choir Vox Aros Aarhus Symphony Orchestra Holten, Bo, Conductor Part I: Vaartid, Vaeksttid, Loftelses Tid! (Chorus, Soprano, Reciter)
Symphonies, no. 1, op. 7 G minor.(1892)  Saul and David:  Prelude to act 2.
    RCA Victor[1967]      London Symphony Orchestra; André Previn, conductor.
Brigitte Nielsen, Maybe
Maskarade. Overture. Symphony no. 4, op. 29(The  inextinguishable [sic]). Decca[1966]   Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Max Rudolf, conductor.
Symphonies, no. 6.(Sinfonia semplice) Prelude to act 2 [and]  overture to Masquerade.
Columbia, [1966]     Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor.
Nielsen, Carl Seedorff, Hans Hartvig, lyricist(s)
Hyldest til Holberg (Homage to Holberg), FS 102
Andersen, Ditte, soprano Hedegaard, Mathias, tenor Knudsen, Palle, baritone
Aarhus Cathedral Choir Danish National Opera Choir
Vox Aros Aarhus Symphony Orchestra Holten, Bo, Conductor
Symphonies, no. 3, op. 27.  Columbia[1965]
Royal Danish Orchestra, with Ruth Guldbaek, soprano, and Niels Moller, tenor; Leonard Bernstein, conductor. Kongelige Kapel, Copenhagen.
Symphony no. 5, op. 50.   Columbia[1963] New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor.



Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Orff

Orff, Carl,1895-1982 Carmina burana cantiones profane. Angel 1975. 
Sheila Armstrong, soprano; Gerald English, tenor; Thomas Allen, baritone; St. Clement Danes Grammar School Boys' 
Choir; London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; André Previn, conductor. 
 
Trionfo di Afrodite; concerto scenico. Decca [1956]  Annelies Kupper,
Elisabeth Lindermeier, Elisabeth Wiese-Lange, sopranos; Richard Holm, 
Ratko Delorko, tenors; Kurt Böhme, bass; Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Chorus;
Eugen Jochum, conductor. 

Sunday, October 07, 2012

Offenbach

Offenbach in America

 

Boston Pops, Fiedler
1. La Belle Helene: Overture
2. The Tales of Hoffmann: Intermezzo
3. Genevieve de Brabant: Galop
4. La Perichole: Medley
5. The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein: Overture
6. Les Belles Americaines: Waltz
7. Musette:j Air de Ballet
8. Orpheus in Hades: Overture
9. Divertissement: Introduction
10. Divertissement: Cortege
11. Divertissement: Nocturne
12. Divertissement: Valse
13. Divertissement: Parade
14. Divertissement: Finale 
The Happiest Girl in the World (1961 Original Broadway Cast) [Cast Recording] Cyril Ritchard, J. Offenbach, E. Y. Harburg | 1. Overture/The Glory That is Greece 2. The Happiest Girl In The World 3. The Greek Marine 4. Shaw We Say Farewell? 5. Never Be-Devil The Devil 6. Whatever That May Be 7. Eureka 8. The Oath 9. Vive La Virtue! 10. Finale, Act I 11. Adrift On A Star 12. That'll Be The Day 13. How Soon, Oh Moon? 14. Love-Sick Serenade 15. Five Minutes Of Spring 16. Never Trust A Virgin 17. Entrance Of The Courtesans 18. Vive La Virtue!
Piovani "Buongiorno principessa"
Offenbach "Barcarola"
Piano solo version by Giuseppe Maggiolo Novella
Live in Cagliari - Palazzo Siotto 2008

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)

Sullivan, Arthur,Sir,1842-1900 Gilbert & Sullivan overtures. Angel,[1959?]The Mikado.--The gondoliers.--The yeoman of the guard.--The pirates of Penzance.--H.M.S. Pinafore.-- Iolanthe. Pro Arte Orchestra; Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor. From high atop beautiful Gilbert, New York in beautiful Seneca county, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. Known in his own time for his serious music as well as for the comic operas that have survived until our own day, English composer Arthur Seymour Sullivan was born in Lambeth, South London; the son of a bandmaster, he was encouraged to pursue his musical talent from an early age. He learned the wind instruments of his father's band and joined the choir of the Chapel Royal. At 14, he won the Mendelssohn Scholarship at the Royal Academy, and in 1858 he went to study in Leipzig, where his teachers included Ignaz Moscheles and Julius Rietz. In 1861, Sullivan began to make an impact on the London music scene. His music to Shakespeare's The Tempest was performed at the Crystal Palace winter concerts in 1862; the following year he published six Shakespeare songs. In 1864, Sullivan became the organist at Covent Garden, where his ballet L'île enchantée had its premiere. In 1867, he collaborated with F.C. Burnand on two operettas, Cox and Box and The Contrabandista. Five years later, he worked for the first time with W.S. Gilbert when they jointly created the light opera Thespis for the Gaiety Theatre. The piece was moderately successful, but not enough for its creators to continue working together immediately. In 1875, however, the theater manager Richard D'Oyly Carte reunited the to compose an afterpiece for a production of Offenbach's La Périchole. The result was Trial By Jury, a brief satire of the judicial process, featuring Sullivan's brother, Fred, in the lead. The afterpiece proved so successful that this time the partnership continued. In 1877, their full-length opera The Sorcerer premiered under Carte's auspices at the Opera Comique, followed by H.M.S. Pinafore in 1878. Pinafore proved wildly popular, solidifying a three-way partnership of Sullivan, Gilbert, and Carte that resulted in eight more operettas before a quarrel broke up the team. After a reconciliation, Gilbert and Sullivan wrote two more operas, Utopia Ltd. (1893) and The Grand Duke (1896), but these failed to catch on and the partnership ended permanently. During the run of Patience (1881), Carte moved his company from the Opera Comique to the Savoy; from then on, Gilbert and Sullivan's operas became collectively known as Savoy Operas. In these operas, Sullivan's unerring sense of musical parody, with targets ranging from Handel to Verdi, perfectly matched Gilbert's witty social satire. While Sullivan is known today for his partnership with Gilbert, he was active in other compositional forms throughout his career. One of his best known compositions in his day was The Lost Chord (1877), a song to a text by Adelaide Proctor written at the time of Fred Sullivan's untimely death. Sullivan was acclaimed for his oratorios, including The Prodigal Son (1869), and hymns, of which "Onward, Christian Soldiers" (1871) was and remains particularly popular. An "Irish" Symphony in E minor is sometimes still performed. Sullivan also composed operettas with librettists other than Gilbert; these include Haddon Hall (1892) with Sydney Grundy and The Rose of Persia (1900) with Basil Hood. In 1883, Queen Victoria rewarded Sullivan for his contributions to English music with a knighthood. Sullivan's dearest ambition was to compose grand opera. Carte, wishing to establish an English opera tradition, built the English Opera House, and here Sullivan's opera Ivanhoe, to a libretto by Julian Sturgis, premiered in 1891. The opera failed and remained Sullivan's only attempt at grand opera. Sullivan never married, but in the 1860s or 1870s he met Mary Frances (Fanny) Ronalds, an American-born woman separated from her husband who eventually settled in London. Mrs. Ronalds, who mixed in the same aristocratic and artistic circles as Sullivan, never divorced her husband but carried on a discreet relationship with Sullivan until his death in London on November 22, 1900.
Sullivan, Arthur,Sir,1842-1900 Gilbert & Sullivan overtures. Angel,[1959?]The Mikado.--The gondoliers.--The yeoman of the guard.--The pirates of Penzance.--H.M.S. Pinafore.-- Iolanthe. Pro Arte Orchestra; Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor. 
Gilbert O' Sullivan, Alone Again Naturally
Mylo Hatzen buhler, A Loan Again, Naturally
The music to Shakespeare's Tempest ; Incidental music to Shakespeare's Henry VIII A. Sullivan. Unicorn Records Patricia Brinton Vienna Orchestral Society ; Charles Adler, conductor.
Trial by jury.[by] Gilbert and Sullivan. Angel 1961 Pro Arte Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor. Glyndebourne Festival Chorus; Peter Gellhorn, Chorus master.
The pirates of Penzance[by] Gilbert & Sullivan. Angel Records[1961]
Starring Elsie Morison, soprano, and Richard Lewis, tenor,with supporting soloists; Glyndebourne Festival Chorus;Pro Arte Orchestra; Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor. The Mikado Gilbert-Sullivan.RCA Victor Red Seal D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ; Isidore Godfrey, conductor.


Saturday, September 22, 2012

Stravinsky

From high atop Seranak near the beautiful Stockbridge Bowl and Tanglewood, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music.
Our featured composer is Igor Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky : his story and his music. Sine Qua Non, 1974. Meet the classics Stravinsky: his finest music. Sine Qua Non, 1974 Circus polka. Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Petrouchka. Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande- The rite of spring. Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Firebird (Suite).Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Symphony of Psalms. CBC Symphony Orchestra Stravinsky, cond. The soldier's tale (L'histoire du soldat). Fritz Weaver, reader, John Harkins, the soldier, Frederic Warriner, the devil, Emmanual Vardi Ensemble Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky choral music. Columbia 1972 The Star-Spangled Banner.--Four Russian songs.--Four Russian peasant songs (1954 version).--Renard (The Fox) (1962 version).--Zvezdoliki (Le roi des étoiles).--Babel.- -Ave Maria.--Credo (1964 version).--Pater noster.--Chorale variations on the German Christmas carol Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her. Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky. Columbia 1973 Jeu de cartes (A card game)--Tchaikovsky, P.I. Bluebird; pas de deux: arr. for small orchestra by Stravinsky.-- Scènes de ballet. Cleveland Orchestra; Columbia Symphony; CBC Symphony Orchestra.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Lalo Schifrin

From high atop Shelving Rock Fall near beautiful Lake George New York, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music.
Lalo Schifrin - Carlos Saura's TANGO (1998) - Tango del Atardecer (Main Titles)
Enter the Dragon Theme
Dirty Harry Theme
Scorpio’s View from Dirty Harry
Planet of the Apes - Ape Shuffle
Lalo Schifrin – Concierto Caribeno: I. Allegro II.Andantino III. Allegro molto vivace
Gerald M. Shapiro – Schifrin / Schuller / Shapiro: Piano Trios Eaken Piano Trio – Hommage A Ravel
Lalo Schifrin – Mission: Impossible Theme – The Best of Mission: Impossible (Then and Now)
Lalo Schifrin – Sampans  – Enter The Dragon
Lalo Schifrin – Main Title - Record Version  – Bullitt
Angel Romero – Concerto de Lalo Schifrin pour guitare et orchestre: Adagio Allegretto Angel Romero plays Lalo Schifrin Live in the Festival
Angel Romero – Celedonio Romero, Suite Andalouse: Soleares,  Alegrias, Tango  Angel Romero plays Lalo Schifrin Live in the Festival
Lalo Schifrin – Tropicos: I.II III IV Schifrin, L.: Concierto Caribeno / Guitar Concerto / Tropicos

Sunday, September 09, 2012

Domenico Scarlatti

Scarlatti, Domenico,1685-1757. Sonatas. Columbia [1965] Longo 424, 241, 188, 118, 349, 465 Vladimir Horowitz, piano.
Segovia and the guitar. Decca [1969]
Scarlatti, D. Sonata (Longo no. 352) Andrés Segovia, guitar.
Greatest harpsichord hits. Decca [1970] Sylvia Marlowe, harpsichord.
White, Ruth S., 1925- Angel [1970] Short Circuits Sonata in G, by Scarlatti.
"Arranged and realized on the Moog synthesizer and other electronics by Ruth White."
Ralph Kirkpatrick, Cembalo. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft [1966]
Sonate Nr. 13, B-dur, Nr 14, B-dur, und Nr. 19, D-dur, (L. Nr. 35 suppl. 39,109) von D. Scarlatti Kirkpatrick, Ralph.
Masters of the Italian baroque Odyssey,1966. Three sinfonias for flute, oboe, strings and harpsichord by D. Scarlatti Saar Chamber Orchestra; Karl Ristenpart, conductor.
Tommasini, Vincenzo,1878-1950. The good-humoured ladies; Scarlatti-Tommasini.
Columbia, 1972. Cleveland Orchestra; Louis Lane, conductor.
The Frivolous Harpsichord Jukka Tiensuu Harpsichord Ondine 1999
Domenico Scarlatti Composer Fandango in D- (private collection, Ténérife MS, poss. spurious)
Stephen Arnold, Cello Carus 1991
Domenico Scarlatti Composer Salve Regina, motet for soprano, alto, and organ in A-
Alfredo Kraus Tenor Nimbus Records January 1, 2012
Other performers: José Tordesillas Piano
Toglietemi la vita ancor, for tenor and piano
Te Deum, motet for double chorus and organ in C
Morten Schuldt-Jensen Conductor Immortal Bach Ensemble Chorus/Choir Naxos 2007

Sunday, September 02, 2012

Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921.
Concerto in A-minor, op.33 for cello and orchestra. ABC Records/Melodiya, 1973. Mstislav Rostropovich, violoncello; Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio; Gregory Stolarov, conductor.
Allegro Appassionato Allegro appassionato in C#-, Op.70 Ian Hobson, Piano Arabesque Recordings 2008
Yoshio Unno, violin Columbia, [1970] Introduction and rondo capriccioso, op. 28, by Saint Saëns. With the CBS Symphony Orchestra ; Tadashi Mori, conductor.
Samson and Delilah Highlights Libretto by Lemaire. Angel [1964]
Rita Gorr, mezzo-soprano; Jon Vickers, tenor; Ernest Blanc, baritone; Anton Diakov, bass; Chœurs René Duclos; Orchestre du Théâtre national de l'Opéra; Georges Prêtre, conductor.
Danse macabre, tone poem, Op.40 Daniel Barenboim, Conductor Chicago Symphony Orchestra Orchestra Deutsche Grammophon 2005 Luben Yordanoff Violin
Violin plus 1. Decca [1970] Fantasy, for violin and harp, op. 124Ruggiero Ricci, violin Gloria Agostini, harp, Symphony no. 3, in C minor, op. 78. Angel [1964] Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire; Maurice Duruflé, organ; Georges Prêtre, conductor.
Erick Friedman. RCA Victor [1964] Havanaise, op. 83, by Saint-Saëns. London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Thomas Arne

Thomas Arne(1710-1778) -- The Six Organ Concerti Roger Bevan Williams, Adrian Shepherd (Conductor), Cantelina
25 Love Songs from Many Lands ; musical settings by Arne Dørumsgaard. Monitor, [196-?] Orchestra conducted by Robert Cornman.
Neate, Ken -Lo Granatiello
Kolassi, Irma -The Jasmine
Lewis, Richard -My Dark Beauty
Retchitzka, Basia -Elenka
Arne Dørumsgaard -I'm going away
Francoise Ogeas -Se Amor Mai Da Vu Se Vede
Depraz, Xavier -Zvonili, zvony v'Novgorord
Retchitzka, Basia -Kdyz Te Vidim
Arne Dørumsgaard-Muss I den
Retchitzka, Basia - Beteg Az en Rozsam Nagyon
Kolassi, Irma -Lo Mestre
Frédéric Santalla -Chere debitin
Victor Balaguer -Los Habas Verdes
Kolassi, Irma -Multe Lacrami am Varsat
Steffner, Raymond -Du, Du Liegst Mir im herzen
Francoise Ogeas-Este Me Nemas
Frederic Santalla -Ainhara
Retchitzka, Basia -Chalupeczka
Depraz, Xavier - Vspopmni, vspomni, moya Khoroshaya
Retchitzka, Basia -Erinnerung an's schatzle
Arne Dørumsgaard -De aquel cerro verde
Francoise Ogeas -Od Krakowa czarny las
Lewis, Richard -I Will Give My Love an Apple
Francoise Ogeas -Izt Hab' I Mein Treuheit
Neate, Ken -Michelemma
Arne. Overture no. 4 in F major (arr. Carse, Fiske)- Music in London, 1670-1770, English Chamber Orchestra, Hurwitz, Emanuel
Rule, Britannia! Alfred, King of England (masque, includes 'Rule Britannia'), Act 3: Ode: When Britain First At Heav'n's Command
Nicholas McGegan Conductor Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 2012
Christine Brandes Vocals, David Daniels Vocals, Jamie MacDougall Vocals, Jennifer Smith Vocals, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus Chorus/Choir
God Save the King God save the Queen Performed by: Coldstream Guards Band
Neil Young and Crazy Horse,"God Save the Queen," Americana
The Two Ronnies - A Hunting We Will Go A-Hunting We Will Go.

Thursday, August 09, 2012

Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888)

From high atop the Montmartre Cemetery in beautiful downtown Paris France, Sadko's World of Music finishes the letter A for the month of August with the works of Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) with some additional music that makes fun of his last name
Alleluia in F, Op.25 Laurent Martin, Piano Marco-Polo 1994 3:30
Ham, Albert W. Harlow.Music from Bill Sargent's Harlow,original sound track. Music by Al Ham and Nelson Riddle. Warner Bros. Records, [1965]
Cello Sonata ('Sonate de concert') in E, Op.47 1.Allegro molto 9:40
Hague, Albert,1920-2001
Redhead. RCA Victor, [1959] An "original cast" recording, starring Gwen Verdon, with chorus and orchestra; Jay Blackton, conductor.
2.Allegrettino 7:05
Hague, Albert,1920-2001
Plain and fancy. Book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman; lyrics by Arnold B. Horwitt. Orchestrations by Philip J. Lang; vocal arrangements by Crane Calder
Capitol,[1955?] "Original Broadway cast," starring Richard Derr and Shirl Conway; with orchestra and chorus; Franz Allers, conductor.
3.Adagio 8:23
Bulgaria Columbia,compiled and edited by Alan Lomax Performed by various Bulgarian musicians.Recordings made in Bulgaria during October and November 1954.
4.Finale alla saltarella. Prestissimo
Alkan Trio Ensemble Naxos,2001
Lane, Burton,1912-1997 On a Clear day you Can see forever. Music by Burton Lane ;
book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. RCA Victor,1965.
"The original Broadway cast recording" starring Barbara Harris and John Collum.
Alkan: Organ Music Kevin Bowyer(organ)
Treize prières, Opus 64:
I Andantino 2:49
Sondheim, Stephen. Anyone can whistle. Book: Arthur Laurents; music & lyrics Stephen Sondheim. Columbia, |c[1964]
Original Broadway cast, starring Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, and Harry Guardino.
II Moderato 2:24
Rome, Harold Jacob,1908-1993 I can get it for you wholesale.
Book and lyrics by Harold Rome. Columbia, [1962]
Selections from the musical comedy performed by the "original Broadway cast".
III Poco Adagio 4:33
Porter, Cole,d1891-1964. Can-can.Capitol Original Broadway cast, with orchestra; Milton Rosenstock,conductor.
IV Moderatamente 2:50
V Adagio 5:06
VI Moderato 4:20
VII Maestoso 6:52
VIII Tempo Giusto 2:32
IX Doucement 3:37
X. Assez lentement 4:38
XI Andantino 4:32
XII Allegretto 3:41
XIII Largement Et Majestueusement 4:22
Petits préludes sur les huit gammes de plainchant:
I Moderato 0:31
II Andantino 1:16
III Tempo giusto 1:23
IV Vivace 0:29
V Andante quasi allegretto 0:36
VI Poco lento 1:18
VII Andantino 0:37
VIII Moderato 1:21
Impromptu on Luther's "Un fort rempart est notre Dieu" Opus 69 14:01

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Adolphe Adam, 1803-1856.

Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles; Werner Janssen, conductor. Adam and Eve, Alexander Tansman. The Genesis suite [by] Arnold Schoenberg [and others]. Capitol [1951]
Adam Sandler, "Joining the Cult" What the Hell Happened to Me?
Jim's Big Ego, In My Cult
London Symphony Orchestra; Anatole Fistoulari, conductor. Giselle. Mercury, [1961]
Helge Roswaenge, Adam. Le postillon de Longjumeau: Freunde, vernehmet die Geschichte Great tenors of the century. Seraphim, [197-?]
Cantique de Noel Adam Sandler, "The Chanukah Song" What the Hell Happened to Me?
London Symphony Orchestra ; Alfred Scholz, conductor. Adolphe Adam, Wenn ich König wär = If I were King Classical highlights, vol. 1 Gounod; Smetana; Dvořák; Adam.Pilz Media Group, 1988.
Sumi Jo – Best Of Sumi Jo Adam, Adolphe Charles [Composer] – Adam: Les pantins de Violette - Le Chanson du canari Battu, Leon [Author] Decca 2007
Adam, Adolphe Charles [Composer] – Adam: Si j'étais roi - De vos nobles aïeux
Adam, Adolphe Charles [Composer] – Adam: Le Toréador - Opéra bouffon in 2 Acts / Act 1 - Ah! vous dirai-je, maman

Sunday, August 05, 2012

Albinoni

Albinoni, T. Concerto in D minor for oboe, strings, and continuo, op. 9, no. 2 (Evert van Tright, oboe)I Musici: a decade of eloquence. Philips [1964] Squirrel Nut Zippers - Pallin' with Al. Concerto no. 4 in A major -- Concerto no. 10 in F major -- Sonata in G minor. Monumenta italicae musicae I Musici Roberto Michelucci, violin Paul Simon, Call Me Al from Graceland Sarah Brightman, Anytime, Anywhere based on Albinoni's Adagio in G minor. Al Green, Let's Stay Together Cambridge Society for Early Music; Erwin Bodky, director; Ruth Posselt, Richard Burgin, violins.Trio sonata in A major, op. 1, no. 3 for 2 violins and continuo. Italian music for strings of the baroque period. Unicorn, [195-?]

Monday, July 09, 2012

Humor of Hoffnung Part 2

Our theme today is another dose of the humor of Gerard Hoffnung.
German artist and musician, best known for his humorous works, born 22 March 1925 in Berlin, Germany and died 28 September 1959 in London, England, UK. The second of three, possibly four shows on this same topic. Today we feature the Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival of 1958.
Introductory Music Played In The Foyer
Two Excerpts From A Hoffnung Festival Overture
Metamorphasis On A Bed Time Theme
Sugar Plums
The Famous Tay Whale
A Movement From Concerto For Conductor And Orchestra
Punkt Contrapunkt
Excerpts From The United Nations
Waltz For Restricted Orchestra
Let's Fake An Opera
Giuseppe Verdi – Hamletto, or Prosciuttino - Voice of Anna Russell – Anna Russell - Encore (?)
Jarmila Mazourová and Michal Šilar playing "A Funny Waltz" by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Brian Eno and the Portsmouth Sinfonia Blue Danube
Vienna Philharmonic Blue Danube
A Hymn to the United Nations, words W.H. Auden, music Pablo Casals, Symphonic Orchestra and Chorus of the National Academic Bolshoj Opera Theatre of Belarus Conductor: Vyachaslau Bartnouski Choirmaster: Nina Lamanovich
Ophir Ilzetzki Point counter Point (2005_6), Still Life with Riots
Clemens Gadenstätter, Polyskopie Für kleines Orchester Peter Eötvös, conductor
Judy Collins - Farewell to Tarwathie, Whales & Nightingales (1970)

Saturday, July 07, 2012

Hoffnung's Humor

From high atop the beautiful Minihaha Harbor on the Sugar River in Green County, Wisc., in beautiful Sweet Minihaha Campground we present Sadko's World of Music. Our theme today is the humor of Gerard Hoffnung.

Gerard Hoffnung:

German artist and musician, best known for his humorous works, born 22 March 1925 in Berlin, Germany and died 28 September 1959 in London, England, UK.
The first of three, possibly four shows on this same topic.
Hoffnung, Gerard. The best of Hoffnung. Angel, 1974. Musical lampoons. Second Work in each case.
Arnold, Malcolm. Tam O'Shanter,overture, op. 51. Beckus the dandipratt, overture. Epic[1958] Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: John Hollingsworth and the composer (2d) conductors.
A Grand Grand Overture Op. 57 Hoffnung (alias Morley College) Symphony Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Arnold Simon Gale conducts the Symphonic Rock Orchestra in classical highlights Pilz, 1988 Tchaikowsky, Nutcracker Suite (Trepak, The sugar-plum fary, The Reded Flutes)
Sugar Plums Dometsch Ensemble/Elizabeth Poston/Felix Aprahamian/Lionel Salter/Eric Thompson/Peter Hemmings/Robert Ponsonby
Leopold Mozart, Final Movement Concerto pour Cor des Alpes, Ensemble Orchestral du Val d'Oise-Direction: Paul Ferraris Soliste: Guy Vourey
Concerto for Hose-pipe and Strings : III. Allegro Dennis Brain/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra – Symphonic Metamorphosis After Themes By Carl Maria Von Weber: Marsch,Allegro,Turandot: Scherzo, Andantino Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963.
Metamorphosis on a Bed-time Theme (Allegro commerciale in modo televisione) April Cantelo/Ian Wallace/Lionel Salter/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Joseph Horovitz
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Lenore no. 1, op. 138. Leonore overture no. 3,op. 72a. and no. 2 The four overtures for Fidelio.Angel[1964] Philharmonia Orchestra; Otto Klemperer, conductor.
The Happy Wanderers, a band of buskers who performed in London's West End.Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music  • Lionel Salter (organ) • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar.
Here we find off-stage trumpeters positioned in the auditorium in numbers never imagined in the preceding three versions of the work. Here, too, Beethoven invents the waltz and the interaction between conductor and orchestra as well as the intrusion of a street band leaves much to be desired.
Haydn, Joseph,1732-1809. Symphony no. 94 in G (Surprise) RCA Victor LM2394 ,[1960] Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Pierre Monteux, conductor.
Symphony No.94 in G major 'Surprise': II. Andante Members of the BBC Music Division/Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra/Lawrence Leonard
Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. The Barber of Seville: Highlights. Angel Records [1961] Starring Maria Callas, with supporting soloists; Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra; Alceo Galliera, conductor.
Duet from the comic opera The Barber of Darmstadt (Bruno Heinz Jaja)
Random realisation from the original graph by Humphrey Searle, translation from the German libretto by William Mann)
Herr Knochen: Owen Brannigan (bass) • Der Redpartner: John Amis (tenor) • Hoffnung Festival Choral Society • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by Humphrey Searle
Donizetti -- La donna è mobile from Rigoletto (Pavarotti)All-star tenors salute the world Sony Music Entertainment, 1994.
Mobile for Seven Orchestras (Lawrence Leonard) Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music • Lionel Salter (organ) • Hoffnung Choral Society • Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer

Monday, July 02, 2012

Classical Music on TV: a Quiz

Gounod – Funeral March of a Marionette, Classical For The New Age.
Strauss, Richard,1864-1949. Ein Heldenleben. A hero's life. Op. 40. RCA Victor [1954] Chicago Symphony Orchestra; John Weicher, violin; Fritz Reiner, conductor. Recorded in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Mar. 5, 1954.
Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States. Comments from the actual reporter open and close each show but the permanent narrator drives the plot line and a featured actor dramatizes the reporter's role.
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra – Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): Ouverture
Captain Video and His Video Rangers is an American science fiction television series. It was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network, and was the first series of its kind on American television. It aired between June 27, 1949 and April 1, 1955.
London Symphony Orchestra – Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": II. Molto Vivace
Final 'Huntley-Brinkley Report' on NBC / July 31, 1970
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Carmina Burana: O Fortuna
Pringles Fiery Commercial
2011-2012 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)
2011 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)
2009 Dancing with the Stars (TV series)
2009 Glee (TV series)
2009 The Simpsons (TV series)
2006 The Office (TV series)
2003 The King of Queens (TV series)
1999 Friends (TV series)
1999 That '70s Show (TV series)
Dvorak – Humoresque Classical For The New Age
Guy Lombardo & His Orchestra – Humoresque
Oscar Peterson – Humoresque
Yo-Yo Ma;Seiji Ozawa;Itzhak Perlman;Boston Symphony Orchestra – Humoresque No. 7 in G-flat Major, Op. 101

Art Tatum – Humoresque Get Happy The Best Of Art Tatum
Skippy and Slappy's Cue on Animaniacs

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Alla Bayanova

Bayanova was born in Kishinev in the family of an opera singer, who moved to Paris in 1918 after Bessarabia decided to unite with Romania . She debuted on the stage as an assistant to her father in 1923, aged 9. By 1927, she was already performing solo A major step forward in her career was when she assisted Alexander Vertinsky in his famous show at the Hermitage Restaurant, Montmartre. Two years later, her family moved to Belgrade, while Bayanova went on touring in Germany Greece, Palestine, and Egypt. In 1931, she got acquainted with Pyotr Leshchenko, a foremost Russian singer of the time, who helped her to join the Pavilion Russe in Bucharest. She married a local aristocrat, George Ypsilanti, and made several recordings of tangos(e.g., Columbia, His Master's Voice). After her divorce from Ypsilanti, she signed a contract with the Polish recording company "Syrena-Electro".
In March 1941 Bayanova was arrested by the Romanian authorities and interned into a concentration camp for having performed in the Russian language. Although released in May 1942, she was kept under surveillance until the end of World War II.
In the 1960s and 1970s, while still living in Romania, Bayanova issued eight LPs. Nicolae Ceauşescu's government, however, pressed her into migrating to the USSR in 1988. Thereupon she settled in Moscow, making occasional appearances on the Russian television.
Bayanova was named People's Artist of Russian Federation and celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage career in 2003. In 2004 she sang in a concert to celebrate her 90th birthday. Her last work was in collaboration with Marc Almond on several duets.
She died on 30 August 2011, aged 97, of cancer. Upon learning of her death, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated: “Her life was dedicated to the high purpose of bringing people joy through interaction with true art. Ms Bayanova had a rare, beautiful voice, and her mastery and heartfelt performances of Russian songs gained her recognition around the world.”
Alla Bayanova Я ехала домой (While going home) is one of the most delicate romances written by Maria Poire.
Alla Bayanova "Black tresses" (...a silvery-white thread has plaited into my black tresses...) poem by Anna Akhmatova
Alla Bayanova White Acacia's Fragrant Clusters Old Russian Romance 
Alla Bayanova "Tango"/ Early recording and scratchy. This tango was written by husband of Alla Bayanova - Georgij Ipsilanti. She sings with the orchestra of Nikolay Chereshnya Romanian's branch of "His Master's Voice"
Alla Bayanova – Volga, Russian Light Songs, Vol. 4: Recordings 1930 - 1960
Alla Bayanova – Very Good [Ochenj horosho] Russian Light Songs, Vol. 6: Recordings 1930 - 1960
Alla Bayanova – "Iskorki pozhara" (Like little sparks of fire, we had clashed to each other and drifted apart for ever, the same way...) 
Alla Bayanova -  Longing for the Motherland  by George Ipsilanti
Alla Bayanova – "Снегопад" [Snowfall]
Martin Jones, Dmitri Shostakovich "Romance From "the Gadfly""
Alla Bayanova – Hey You, My Friend The Guitar old gypsy song
Marc Almond, Alla Bayanova ~ Oh, my soul

Monday, June 18, 2012

Tata and Hugo

Tata Giacobetti
Quartetto Cetra - Crapa Pelada
Hugo Distler Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, for chorus Eckhard Weyand Chorus/Choir Director Capella Vocalis (Boys)
Quartetto Cetra - Però mi vuole bene (Teatrino del Quartetto Cetra 15 dicembre 1964)
Hugo Distler 30 Spielstücke, for organ, Op.18, No.1 Zurückhaltende Viertel - Geschwinder - 1. Zeitmaß (Nr. 8) Annette Töpel Piano Musicaphon 2008
Quartetto Cetra - Baciami Piccina
Hugo Distler Sommerliches Liebeslied Neues Chorliederbuch, Op.16 Karin Freist-Wissing Conductor Vox Bona Choir Audite
Quartetto Cetra - Vecchia america (Music Land 1965)
Quartetto Cetra - Un bacio a mezzanotte
Hugo Distler 1908-1942. The Christmas story (Die Weihnachtsgeschichte) op. 10. Epic,[195-]Netherlands Madrigals and Motet Choir; Marinus Voorberg, conductor.
Peter Hurford – Distler: Spielstücke, Op.18, No.1 - 1. Schnell
Quartetto Cetra – Casetta in Canada
Peter Hurford – Distler: Spielstücke, Op.18, No.1 - 2. Schnell
Quartetto Cetra – Un romano a Copacabana
Peter Hurford – Distler: Spielstücke, Op.18, No.1 - 3. Gehend
Quartetto Cetra – Un po' di cielo
Peter Hurford – Distler: Spielstücke, Op.18, No.1 - 4. Flink
Quartetto Cetra – Ricordate Marcellino
Monteverdi Chor München, Konrad von Abel – Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied op. 12,1
Quartetto Cetra – I ricordi della sera
Armin Schoof – Hugo Distler: Ach, wie flüchtig
Monteverdi Chor München, Konrad von Abel – O Gott, in deiner Majestat op. 12,3 - I.
Monteverdi Chor München, Konrad von Abel – O Gott, in deiner Majestat op. 12,3 - II.




Thursday, June 14, 2012

Father and Son Composers

Franz and Richard Strauss

Overtures by Suppé and Strauss. Angel [1975] Strauss, J.JR A night in Venice. Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna: Willi Boskovsky, conductor.
Strauss family album Mercury, [1959] Lorelei-Rheinklänge / Johann, SR. Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra; Antal Dorati, conductor.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Parkening plays Bach. Angel [1971] Christopher Parkening, guitar.
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel, 1714-1788. Concerto in G major, for organ, strings, and continuo. Columbia[1970] Thomas Schippers, organ and conductor; The Vienna Baroque Ensemble.
Bach, Johann Christian. Symphony, op. 9, no. 2, E♭ major. Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann. Symphony, F. 65, D minor; Decca [1964] Kurt Redel, flute and conductor; Munich Pro Arte Orchestra.
Leopold Mozart, Toy Symphony
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Jupiter-symphony Overtures: The magic flute, The marriage of Figaro, The abduction from the Seraglio Pilz, 1988. London Philharmonic Orchestra ; Alfred Scholz, conductor.
Franz Strauss Horn Concerto Op. 8, 1st and 2nd Movements. Steve Park - Horn
Deborah Voigt: Obsessions (Wagner & Strauss: Arias and Scenes)Elektra Op. 58 (Ich kann nicht sitzen) (Chrysothemsis' scene) Deborah Voigt/Natascha Petrinsky/Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Sir Richard Armstrong
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Teresa Stich-Randall sings Richard Strauss Westminster, 1964. O bleib, geliebter Tag Teresa Stich-Randall, soprano; Vienna Radio Orchestra Laszlo Somogyi, conductor.
Alessandro Scarlatti Dame Janet Baker Mezzo-Soprano Sento nel core certo dolore, for soprano or alto and continuo (arranged by Simon Preston)Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra, Celia Nicklin Oboe, Graham Sheen Bassoon, James Tayler Lute, Nicholas Kraemer Harpsichord, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor
Scarlatti, Domenico, 1685-1757. Well known sonatas Pilz, 1988. D minor, L 366 -- G major L 349 -- F minor L 383 -- B flat major L 396 -- G major L 103 -- G major L 487 -- D minor L 413 -- C major L 104 -- C minor L 352 -- G major L 387 -- E major L 210 -- F minor L 118 -- A major L 391 Dubravka Tomšič, piano.
Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak Since 1967 she has taught piano at the Slovene Academy of music in Ljubljana, and since 1975 as a full professor. She has an astounding concert career and is often invited as a judge at the piano recitals including Van Cliburn, Leeds, L. v. Beethoven, Clara Haskil, etc. Dubravka Tomšič is a very much sought after performer, holding regular concerts all around Europe, Asia, North America, Mexico, Australia and Africa. She is credited with more than 3,500 performances and more than 20 record and 70 CD releases.
Virtuosi di Roma Decca, 1951. Concerto no. 6 [i.e., no. 3] in F major for strings, by A. Scarlatti. Virtuosi di Roma, with Luigi Ferro, violin, and Massimo Anfitertrof, violoncello; Renato Fasano, conductor.
Nicolaus Adam Strungk (1640-1700) Christ ist erstanden Tobias Naumann on the Steinmeyer organ at Apostelkirche in Kaiserslautern. April 2009
Delphin Strungk, 1601-1664 Lass mich dein sein und bleiben,Organist Bert Steenwinkel


Friday, June 08, 2012

The Tenth


Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (from On your toes) Richard Rodgers conducts the New York Philharmonic. Columbia.
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Symphony no. 10 in E minor, op. 93. Seraphim, 1975. BR Sinfonieorchester, Georg Solti, conductor.
Vivaldi, Antonio,1678-1741. Flute concertos, op. 10. Seraphim [1970] Contains no. 12-16 and 1. Michel Debost, flute; Toulouse Chamber Orchestra; Louis Auriacombe, conductor.
Hafdis Huld, Bium, Bium, bambalo, Vogguvisur
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix,1809-1847. String symphonies nos. 9, 10, 12 by Mendelssohn. London : Argo Records, 1966. The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Neville Marriner, conductor.
Cowell, Henry,1897-1965. Symphony no. 10. Unicorn [1957?] Vienna Orchestral Society; Charles Adler, conductor.
Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich,1872-1915. Sonatas 5, 6, 8 & 10. Melodiya / Angel, [1970?].The complete piano sonatas album 3. Sonata no.10, op.70. Igor Zhukov, piano.
Chopin, Frédéric,1810-1849. Études, op.10 Seraphim, [1968] Agustin Anievas, piano.
Xenakis, Iannis,1922-2001 Atrées, for 10 instruments. Angel [1969] Paris Instrumental Ensemble for Contemporary Music, Konstantin Simonovich, conductor
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Serenade no. 10, in B-flat major, K. 361, for 13 wind instruments. Decca, 1967? Musica Aeterna Wind Ensemble; Frederic Waldman, conductor.
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Symphony no. 10. Performing version by Deryck Cooke. Columbia [1966] Completed from the composer's sketches by Deryck Cooke. Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor.