JOHN BURGE
Burge: Sinfonia Antiqua / Forgotten Dreams / One Sail / Upper Canadian Fiddle Suite Joanna G'froerer, Rachel Mercer, Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra Kevin Mallon [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Aug/2022 ] John Burge is a JUNO Award-winning composer and a passionate advocate for Canadian music who has a strong affinity with writing for string instruments. All of the works in this recording were commissioned and premiered by the Thirteen Strings Chamber... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Metamorphosen / Symphony For Wind Instruments Aldeburgh Strings & Winds [ Linn / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] Two super groups - the strings led by violinist Markus Däunert (leader of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra), and the winds led by oboeist Nicholas Daniel (whose distinguished career began with him being named BBC Young Musician of the Year) - combine in... |
GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Letters to Friends Andrea Cortesi, Georgian Strings [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Giya Kancheli is a Georgian composer whose intensely personal style is closely related to Minimalism and New Spiritualism. Kancheli's "Letters to Friends" is an anthology of themes from his film music, rewritten and collected in a cycle for violin... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concertos 3, 4 & 5 Arabella Steinbacher (violin) / Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Mar/2015 ] "Performances that exude sheer joy, from a soloist who sounds completely at ease in these works." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Concerto) |
Billy Strings
Me / And / Dad (LP) [ Concord / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] Recorded with his father Terry, Me / and / Dad finds Billy exploring the songs that inspired him to become the breakout musician he is today, including songs popularized by Mac Weisman and Doc Watson. The record was produced by Billy and Gary... |
J. S. BACH
The Best of Bach Volume 1 Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Takako Nishizaki (violin), Capella Istropolitana, Budapest Strings, Wolfgang Rubsam (organ), Hungarian State Symphony Orch. [ Naxos Best Of / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] Popular classics from the giant Bach catalogue, including excerpts from the Mass in B minor, and, St Matthew Passion, along with the famous Organ Toccata, and, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. |
NIELSEN / GRIEG
Suites for String Orchestra Copenhagen Young Strings / Morten Ryelung Sorensen [ Scandinavian Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] Streicherklänge aus dem hohen Norden - präsentiert vom dänischen Ensemble Copenhagen Young Strings; die Leitung hat Morten Ryelund Sørensen. |
DOPPLER / HUMMEL / HAYDN / de BORNE / von WEBER / etc
Flute Fantasies and Flute Trios Eckart Haupt (flute), Janos Balint (flute) & Gotz Teutsch (cello) / Budapest Strings [ Capriccio / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] The flute fantasies include Fernand de Borne's Carmen Fantasy and Albert Fanz Doppler and Karl Doppler's Fantasie et variations sur des motifs de l'opera Rigoletto. The trios are by Haydn, Hummel, Gyrowetz and Weber. This is a new package available... |
Eight Strings
Kodaly/Cirri/Halvorsen/Gliere: [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] |
Eight Strings
Various: Present [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Famous Baroque Concertos Emilia Csanky (oboe) Bela Sztankovitz, Zoltan Tokos (guitars) Bela Banfalvi (violin) / Budapest Strings [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] The first half of the eighteenth century brought the final flowering of music in a style that later became known as the Baroque, a term borrowed from art history and originally pejorative in its suggestion of roughness and irregularity. The music of... |
Festival Strings Lucerne
Bach/Adams/Reich: Dialogue/Bar [ Oehms / CD - released 4/Jul/2005 ] |
Festival Strings Lucerne
Britten: Works For String Orch [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 18/May/2009 ] |
Festival Strings Lucerne
Mendelssohn: Complete String S [ Oehms Classics / 3 CD - released 21/Jun/2010 ] |
Festival Strings Lucerne
Tchaikovsky/Dvorak: Serenades [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 27/Nov/2012 ] |
SCHUBERT / WEBERN
Dialogue festival Strings Lucerne, Achim Fiedler [ Oehms / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] |
Festival Strings/Fiedler
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto 1 [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2006 ] |
PAOLO UGOLETTI
Ugoletti: Three Concertos Gianni Alberti (sax), Jozsef Ormeny (pno) Marko Komonko (violin) Serhiy Katsaval (tromb) / Strings of the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Ferdinando Nazz [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] Prominent Italian composer Paolo Ugoletti (born in 1956) describes his music as follows: "It consists of a theatre of sound, narration, fables and slashes of the imagination. It has something in common with the folly of the Baroque universe, the... |
ELGAR / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / MENDELSSOHN / SIBELIUS / SUK
Romantic Strings Helsinki Strings [ Warner Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] |
EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 / Lyric Suite / etc Helsinki Strings / Norwegian Radio Orchestra [ Apex / CD - released 26/Aug/2002 ] |