Sunday of Blind Composers

Johann Sebastian Bach became increasingly blind towards the end of his life. Apparently, whilst suffering from seriously impaired vision, he dictated the scores of his final works and revisions to one of his colleagues to write for him.
Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit, BWV668a Egon Petri Piano Deutsche Grammophon  November 15, 2011
 Johann Sebastian Bach: Präludium und Fuge G-Dur BWV 541 (Eisenbarth-Orgel St. Leonhard Asenham)

Maria Theresa von Paradis, 1759-1824, had an accident causing total blindness when she was just four years old. Born in Vienna, she was a friend of Mozart. She sang opera at an early age, and composed a number of operas, and classical works, working entirely from memory and faultlessly dictating the scores, without the need for revisions.
Morgenlied Eines Armen Mannes Patrice Michaels Soprano David Schrader Piano Cedille January 1, 2000

George Frideric Handel (German: Georg Friedrich Händel;   (23 February 1685, Halle – 14 April 1759, London) In August 1750, on a journey back from Germany to London, Handel was seriously injured in a carriage accident between The Hague and Haarlem in the Netherlands In 1751 one eye started to fail. The cause was a cataract which was operated on by the great charlatan Chevalier Taylor. This did not improve his eyesight, but possibly made it worse^. He died eight years later in 1759 at home in Brook Street, at age 74. The last performance he attended was of Messiah. Handel was buried in Westminster Abbey.  More than three thousand mourners attended his funeral, which was given full state honors.

Messiah, HWV56 (standard version), Part 1 - 11.Aria (Bass): The people that walked in darkness

Robert Lloyd, Bass, Sir Neville Marriner Conductor Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chorus

Jean Langlais was born in La Fontenelle (Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany), a small village near Mont Saint-Michel, France. Langlais became blind due to glaucoma when he was only two years old, and was sent to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for Blind Children) in Paris, where he began to study the organ, with André Marchal. From there, he progressed to the Paris Conservatoire, obtaining prizes in organ, which he studied with Marcel Dupré, composition, which he studied with Paul Dukas. He also studied improvisation with Charles Tournemire

Jean Langlais: Incantation pour un jour Saint (Mathis-Orgel St. Josef Marktredwitz). 

Jacob van Eyck (ca. 1590 – 26 March 1657) was a Dutch nobleman and musician. He was one of the best-known musicians in The Netherlands in the seventeenth century as a carillon player, expert in bell casting and tuning, organist, recorder virtuoso, and composer. Van Eyck was born blind into a noble family in the small town of Heusden. In 1625 he left home and became carillon player of the Dom Tower of Utrecht, in 1628 he became the Director of the Carillons of Utrecht. René Descartes, Isaac Beeckman and other scientists praised his knowledge of acoustics, bell casting and tuning and bell players came to Utrecht to study with him. He died in Utrecht.

Erik Bosgraaf , recorder, plays Jacob van Eyck's “Comagain”

Pablo Bruna (1611-1679) was born in Daroca, Aragón, and permanently blinded by illness at the age of five. He served for more than forty years at the church of Santa María la Mayor in his home town: as organist from 1631 and as maestro de capilla from 1669. His Tiento de dos tiples exploits the divided keyboard of the 17th-century Spanish organ: the two upper parts act as solo voices, accompanied by quieter registration in the two lower parts. Characteristics of the organ tiento include abundant use of melodic and harmonic sequences, and the exploration of varied rhythms.

José Suárez, organist, in January 1998 at the convent of San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya.

Miguel de Fuenllana (c.1500–1579) Little is known of his life. It is assumed from his name that his roots lie in the municipality of Fuenllana, in the province of Ciudad Real, although he was born in Navalcarnero, Madrid. Blind from birth, he composed a Libro de música para vihuela intitulado Orphenica Lyra (Seville, 1554), dedicated to Philip II of Spain. At the arrival of Isabel de Valois, third wife of Philip II, she brought with her a group of French instrumental musicians who wished to stay in the Spanish court; Fuenllana alternated with this group and his musical works were performed together with those of foreign artists. At the death of the queen in 1568 he continued serving in the Spanish court. He died in Valladolid. This Fantasia (Orphenica Lyra, Fo. CV) is one of many polyphonic masterworks of this great renaissance composer. Lawrence Johnson, guitarist

Jaroslav Ježek  (September 25, 1906 – January 1, 1942) was a Czech composer, pianist and conductor, author of jazz, classical, incidental and film music. Ježek was born in the Prague quarter of Žižkov to the family of a tailor. He was almost blind from a young age. He studied composition at the Prague Conservatory as a pupil of Karel Boleslav Jirák (1924–1927), at the master school of composition with Josef Suk (1927–1930), and shortly also with Alois Hába (1927–1928). Ježek met the playwrights/comedians Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec (aka George Voskovec), leaders of the Osvobozené divadlo (Prague Liberated Theatre) in Prague, and took up the post of main composer and conductor for the theatre. During the next decade (from 1928 to 1939), he composed incidental music, songs, dances, and ballets for the comic and satirical plays of Voskovec and Werich. In 1934 he became a member of Czech Group of Surrealists. Forced to leave Czechoslovakia following the Nazi occupation, Ježek, Voskovec and Werich went into exile in New York City. He worked as a piano teacher and choirmaster there, and continued to work with Voskovec and Werich. In 1942, the long-ill Ježek died of chronic kidney disease in New York. On December 29, 1941, two days before his death, Ježek married Frances Bečáková.
He collaborated with many avant-garde artists of pre-war Czechoslovakia, such as Vítězslav Nezval and E. F. Burian.

Jaroslav Ježek (arranged by Charley Gerard) You Don't know What Are the Dark Ages (Vy nevíte, co je středověk)Charley Gerard, alto saxophone, James King, bass, Lenny Robinson, drums, Carl Banner, piano, Jared Dubin, trombone, Jackie Coleman, trumpet.

Turlough O'Carolan,(1670 – 25 March 1738) was a blind early Irish harper, composer and singer whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition. He was the last great Irish harper-composer and is considered by many to be Ireland's national composer.
Jeff Carter, guitar - O'Carolan: Si Bhig Si Mhor

 

Sunday of Women Composers

Women composers : the lost tradition found. Leonarda, 1988. Kyrie / Hildegard of Bingen Sopranos and altos of the Schola Cantorum, University of Arkansas; Jack Groh, conductor
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1170) (Germany), a unique and extraordinary woman by any century's measure, wrote books on natural science, theology and medicine and the first morality play set to music. She composed a large collection of religious music, Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum (Symphony of the harmony of celestial revelation). Noble by birth, her resources probably helped her to found her own Order in Germany, and she earned the respect of kings, emperors and churchmen. The title of her collection, "Symphonia," refers, in addition to its more general musical meaning, to the medieval style hurdy-gurdy called a symphonia, used in this performance of 0 Jerusalem. The songs in this collection are in Latin, and, as common with plainsong, were written as a single line of music. This performance includes echoes and drones inspired by Hildegard's melodies and poetry. It is not known how this music may have been performed in Hildegard's time.
Selections from the opera La liberazione di Ruggiero / Francesca Caccini Mertine Johns, mezzo-soprano; Michael May, harpsichord; Yvonne Cable, cello; Vieuxtemps String Quartet members Masako Yanagita, Marnie Hall, Margaret Middleton Chi desia di saper Carol Plantamura, soprano; Jürgen Hübscher, baroque guitar; Beverly Lauridsen, viola da gamba
Francesca Caccini (1587-between 1628 and 1640): Francesca Caccini's father Giulio, along with Peri, is credited with writing the first opera. Francesca sang and played lute, guitar and harpsichord, all very well, according to Monteverdi. She began composing major entertainments during her late teens. Although Francesca spent most of her life in Florence, she traveled widely, and made her singing debut at the wedding of Maria de Medici to Henri IV, King of France, in 1600. She became a musician for the Medici Court in 1607 and by 1613 was one of the highest paid musicians in Florence. In 1615 she published her first book of monodies, and with it gained respect as a composer. She then began to write large-scale operas, one of which was the first Italian opera to be produced outside Italy when it was performed in Warsaw in 1682. Caccini also wrote madrigals, canzonettas, musical settings for sonnets, variations and sacred works. Her music is very dramatic and uses unprepared dissonance, precisely indicated ornaments and word painting. As a singing teacher Caccini produced a whole school of disciples.
 Tradimento! / Barbara Strozzi Carol Plantamura, soprano; Jürgen Hübscher, lute; Beverly Lauridsen, viola da gamba
Barbara Strozzi (b.1619. Last published in 1664) composed some of the most extraordinary music of the 17th century and was considered the best singer and lute player in Venice. She was probably the illegitimate daughter of the poet Giulio Strozzi, who adopted her when she was nine. He saw to it that she received the best musical education and encouraged her to compose, publish and perform. The Strozzi home was the meeting place for groups of highly educated men who met to discuss the arts and sciences, which greatly influenced Barbara's development. One group in which she was particularly interested was the Accademia degli Unisoni, or the "group of similar thinkers" founded in 1637. Their meetings were devoted to musical performances as well as to academic discourse, and Barbara played an important role as singer, lutenist, composer and collaborator. She commissioned poetry from members of the academy, set it to music, and performed and published it. At the time, there was no consensus that women had souls or belonged to the human race, and because of the role she played in a "man's world," she and the Accademia degli Unisoni gained much notoriety. Strozzi's music is similar to, but more lyrical than that of Cavalli, her teacher, and displays the wide variety of musical forms used in her day: full and partial da capo arias, strophic arias, strophic variations, and multi-sectioned cantatas using both free recitative and arias. Strozzi wrote arias, dramatic cantatas, madrigals and duets. She published eight volumes of works, including more cantatas than any other 17th-century composer.
Kyrie from the First mass, op. 18 / Isabella Leonarda University of Arkansas Chorus, violins, cello, organ, Jack Groh, conductor.
Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) (Novara, Italy) joined the Collegio Sant'Orsola (the Order later called Ursulines) at the age of 16. Her father was a member of the minor nobility and a Doctor of Law. Two of her brothers were canons of the Novara cathedral, and at least two sisters also were members of the Collegio Sant'Orsola .Her oldest brother inherited the family title and was a civic official in Novara. His descendants still live in the city and the family archives include much information about Isabella, including a representation of her on a family tree shown in the accompanying CD booklet. When she was 20, Leonarda's first published music appeared in a collection by the Maestro de Capella at the Novara cathedral, Gasparo Casati, who may have been her teacher. Leonarda published 20 volumes of music during her life, of which two have been lost. The surviving volumes contain more than 200 pieces of music. One is entirely instrumental ­11 trio sonatas and a sonata for solo violin and organ continuo. The vocal works include psalms, magnificats, responsories, litanies, four masses, and many works with non-biblical texts (including four in Italian) which are usually labeled motets. The choral music is for soprano (canto), alto, tenor, and bass. All of the music, including the instrumental sonatas, would have been appropriate for liturgical use, but no records survive to tell us for what occasions her music was written or used, or even where it was performed. Leonarda's works are found in widely scattered locations, however, often with parts missing, indicating that they had been used. In Italy, her music is found in Bergamo, Siena, Bologna, Como, and Pistoia. Her music is also in Benedictine libraries in Einsiedein (Switzerland), Bueron, and Ottbeuren (Germany). Other works are located in national museums in England and the United States, in Munich, and at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. Brossard owned several of her works, which he esteemed highly and which are now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. [Brossard's collection of manuscripts was acquired by Louis XV in 1724, and became the nucleus of the music collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale.] No manuscripts survive, only published music. Perhaps works were composed and published in quick succession, but it is more likely that Leonarda selected music for her published volumes from among her manuscripts.
 Prelude from the cantata Samson / Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre Tempête from the cantata Le Sommeil d'Ulisse
March for the regiment "Graf Lottum" from Four regimental marches / Anna Amalia, Princess of Prussia Masako Yanagita, Marnie Hall, Margaret Middleton, Yvonne Cable, Thomas Thies (string quartet and double bass)
Selections from Erwin and Elmire, a Singspiel / Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar Berenice Bramson, soprano; Vieuxtemps String Quartet; Thomas Thies, double bass
Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (1739-1807), the niece of Frederick the Great and daughter of Charles I, married at 16 and was the mother of two sons. She assumed the duties of regent for her underage son upon the early death of her husband. Apparently she ruled the duchy well and still had time to cultivate the arts and study composition and piano. She founded the German theatre in Weimar and is considered the founder of the Weimar museums. A very talented and cultured person, she surrounded herself with musicians and writers. Between 1788 and 1790 she traveled to Italy to study music and the visual arts. While there she met Paisiello who impressed her, as did the Italian vocal style.
Sicilienne / Maria Theresia von Paradis Evalyn Steinbock, cello; Roger Rundle, piano
Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824): Paradis' father was the Imperial Court Secretary in Vienna, the cultural and political center of the Hapsburg empire. Maria Theresia was named after the Empress, who subsequently paid for her education. She went blind as a child, but because of her talent, had the best music teachers in Vienna, including Salieri for composition and singing. A keyboard virtuoso who was idolized by the public, both Salieri and Mozart wrote concertos for her. In the 1790s, Paradis stopped giving concerts, preferring to devote her time to composing and teaching. She spent the remainder of her life in Vienna where, in 1808, she founded an institution for music education for the handicapped. Since most of her music was not published, very little of it remains. This song was published in a collection of twelve songs from her European tour of 1784-1786.
 Hier Liegt ein Spielmann / Louise Reichart Grayson Hirst, tenor; Michel Yuspeh, piano
Nachwanderer ; Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass Morgenständchen / Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
John Ostendorf, bass-baritone; Rudolph Palmer, piano (1) Grayson Hirst, tenor;
Michel Yuspeh, piano (2,3)
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847) was a major talent, a better pianist than her brother Felix according to him, and the person to whom he took all of his compositions for criticism. Her father and brother discouraged her from having a professional career or publishing, but she was the musical director of one of the most important musical salons in Berlin in the 1830's and participated as a conductor, pianist and composer . In 1846 a small number of her works were published and she was planning more when she became ill and died. She composed songs, cantatas, oratorios and operas.
Der Winter ; Frühzeitiger Frühling ; Wie glänzt so hell dein Auge / Josephine Lang

Josephine Lang (1815-1880) came from Münich where her father was a court musician and her mother an opera singer. Lang was composing songs by age 13, and was only 15 when she wrote the song presented here. After meeting the young Lang in 1831, Mendelssohn wrote, "She has the gift of composing songs and singing them as I have never heard before. It is the most complete musical joy I have ever experienced." Lang responded to his enthusiasm by idolizing him. Robert Schumann wrote favorable reviews of her songs, including this one. Lang became a professional singer at the Münich court in 1836, but her career was cut short by marriage and a subsequent move to Tübingen in 1842. After her husband's death in 1856, Lang supported her family of six children by teaching voice and piano. Clara Schumann helped arrange for the publication of her Lieder. More than 150 were printed, establishing her as one of the most published women composers of the period. More than half of her songs date from the 1830s and 40s, and were influenced stylistically by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn.
Das ist ein Tag ; Warum willst du And're fragen ;Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen ; Liebst du um Schönheit / Clara Wieck Schumann
Das Vöglein ; Die Beschwörung / Pauline Viardot-Garcia
 Scherzo from Trio in e minor, op. 45 ; Adagio, allegro from Nonetto, op. 38 / Louise Farrenc
Serenade from Quartet, op. 11 / Louise Hériette-Viardot
La morena, op. 67 / Cécile Chaminade
Nocturne ; D'un matin de printemps / Lili Boulanger
Excerpt from Quartet for strings, op. 79 / Amy Beach
Allegro vigoroso from Trio / Rebecca Clarke
 Divertimento / Katherine Hoover
Schicksal and Elisabeth from the song cycle Einsame Nacht / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
String quartet (1962) / Ruth Schonthal
 Homage to Keith Jarrett and Gary Burton / Barbara Kolb
 Landscapes of the mind II / Marga Richter
 Nocturne La fin de siècle / Judith Lang Zaimont.

Sunday of the Paralyzed Composer

Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. The magnificent Mr. Handel. Columbia, 1970- E. Power Biggs, organ; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Charles Groves, conductor. Grande Entree~Grande Entree and Semele, oratorio, HWV 58 Where'er You Walk~Where'er You Walk Bryn Terfel sings Handel Arias I feel, I feel the Deity within - Arm, arm ye brave! E. Power Biggs Entrance of the Queen of Sheba Bryn Terfel Vouchsafe, O Lord E. Power Biggs Samson, oratorio, HWV 57 Bryn Terfel Honour and arms scorn such a foe Os Mutantes Ganja Man Fool Metal Jack Curtis Mayfield SuperFly Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934. Sea drift (text by Walt Whitman). A song of the high hills. Angel [1974] John Noble, baritone; Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Charles Groves, conductor. Teddy Pendergrass, Love TKO

Roll Back the Stone

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943. The rock, op.7; [fantasy for orchestra]. Melodiya/Angel[1975] 

 U.S.S.R. Symphony Orchestra

Klezmatics (Musical group) Brother Moses smote the water the Klezmatics with Joshua Nelson & Kathryn Farmer. Piranha Musik,2004. Elijah rock The Klezmatics: Lorin Sklamberg, lead vocals, accordion; Frank London, trumpet, keyboard, organ, vocals; Matt Darriau, alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, vocals; Lisa Gutkin, violin, vocals; Paul Morrissett, bass, tsimbl, vocals; David Licht, drums, vocals; with Joshua Nelson, Kathryn Farmer lead vocals, piano, organ. 

Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1896. Romeo and Juliet; the orchestral music. Angel[1970]Romeo at the tomb of the Capulets. Chicago Symphony Orchestra;

 Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor. 

The Best of Rock 'N' Roll Hits of the 50's 

 (CD - Excelsior Recordings #22062)

The Great Pretender Buck Ram The Platters 

Virgil Fox plays the Wanamaker grand court organ, Philadelphia. Command [1964] 

 Mulet, H. Thou art the rock, from Ten Byzantine sketches.

Ain't That a Shame Dave Bartholomew / Fats Domino Pat Boone
Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953. Skaz o kamennom ︠t︡svetke. The stone flower.  London [1965]
 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Silvio Varviso, conductor.

Earth Angel  Jesse Belvin The Crew Cuts
Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848. Highlights from Lucia di Lammermoor;
opera in 3 acts. Cetra Tomb scene Lina Pagliughi, Maria Vinciguerra,
soprano; Armando Giannotti, Giovanni Malipiero, tenor; Giuseppe Manacchini,
baritone; Luciano Neroni, bass; Orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana;
Ugo Tansini, conductor.

Tutti Frutti Dorothy LaBostrie / Joe Lubin / Little Richard Little Richard
The Temptations, Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Mylo Hatzenbuhler, Aloan Again Naturally
Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Rock of Ages

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine Paul Campbell / Herb Newman / Traditional Jimmie F. Rodgers
Brotherhood RCA Records, 1968. Somebody - Woman unkind -Pastel blue -
Close the door -Doin'the right thing (The Way) - Seasons (Smith-Volk-Levin). Love for free -
Lady Faire - Ice cream - Box  guitar - Forever (Smith-Volk-Levin). Jump out the window (Smith-Volk-Levin-Etheridge).

Thomas Sunday

Dylan Thomas – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Various Artists – 100 Great Poems - Classic Poets & Beatnik Freaks
Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science  – Retrospectacle - The Best Of Thomas Dolby
Gigli. RCA Victor [1962]  Thomas.  Mignon: Addio,  Mignon! fa core!-  Beniamino Gigli, tenor, with orchestra.
Irma Thomas, In the Middle of It All
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Fantasia on a theme by  Thomas Tallis Angel 1976.
Sir Adrian Boult conducts string music  of Vaughan Williams.  London Symphony Orchestra.
Patrick Doyle, Mass for St. Patrick  Introit  Trinity Chorale
Rufus Thomas, Walking the Dog.
Davies, Peter Maxwell,1934- Offenbarung und Untergang. Revelation and fall, for soprano and sixteen instrumentalists. based on a poem by Georg Trakl Angel [1969] Mary Thomas, soprano; Pierrot Players; the composer conducting.
B.J. Thomas – Hooked On A Feeling Various Artists – 60s Classics
Handel, George Frideric,1685-1759. Samson. an oratorio Archiv Produktion [1969]  Martina Arroyo, Helen Donath, Sheila Armstrong, sopranos; Norma Procter, contralto; Alexander Young, Jerry J. Jennings, tenors; Thomas Stewart, Ezio Flagello, basses; Münchener Bach-Chor; Münchener Bach-Orchester; Karl Richter, conductor
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Elijah: highlights. Angel [1965] Elizabeth Harwood, soprano; Marjorie Thomas, contralto; Richard Lewis, tenor; John Shirley-Quirk, bass; Royal Choral Society; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor. 
Mad scenes from Anna Bolena, Hamlet [and] Il pirata. Angel [1959] Thomas, A. Hamlet: A vos jeux; Partagez- vous mes fleurs; Et maintenant écoutez ma chanson (Mad scene) Maria Meneghini Callas, soprano; supporting soloists; Philharmonia Chorus; Philharmonia Orchestra; Nicola Rescigno, conductor. 
Ezio Pinza, bass. Odyssey, [1972] Thomas, A. Légères hirondelles, from Mignon (with Risë Stevens) Ezio Pinza, bass; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra; Emil Cooper and Fausto Cleva, conductors;

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

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.

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.


 

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

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

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.

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.

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.
 

 

 

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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. 

November Nocturnes

November Nocturnes
Chopin, Fryderyk Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 Vladimir Ashkenazy

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 
 

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 

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.

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. 

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.