MORTON FELDMAN
Feldman: Coptic Light; String Quartet and Orchestra ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Boder, Emilio Pomarico [ Capriccio / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Meditative sound magic from New York City: Together with colleagues and friends such as John Cage, Christian Wolff and Earle Brown, Morton Feldman formed a circle of pre-eminent individualists within the 20th-century American avant-garde movement.... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Egmont Op. 84 [Complete incidental music] / Leonora Overture No 3 Miriam Gauci (soprano) Dirk Schortemeier (speaker) / Belgium Radio & Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari [ Discover / CD - released 10/Feb/2013 ] "His performance of the complete Egmont music is what one would expect from a Swarowsky pupil: complete command over his forces, a sweeping style and good attention to detail." |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gershwin/Ravel: Piano Concertos Pascal Roge (piano) / Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Bertrand de Billy conductor [ Oehms Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/May/2005 ] "I had many apartments, but I was at home at the piano," George Gershwin once revealed. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms - Piano Concerto no. 1 / Ballades op. 10 Paul Lewis (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Jun/2016 ] "Lewis brings all the requisite power to the 'sturm and drang' octaves and trills, but maintains flow and a wonderful feeling for inner voicing in the chorale theme…memorable" (BBC Music Five Stars) |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Bacewicz: Concertos for 1 & 2 Pianos / Overture / Music for Strings, Trumpets & Percussion Peter Jablonski and Elisabeth Brauß (piano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] "Bacewicz's music certainly thrives on its high metabolic rate, its impatience, even, for which this brilliantly executed new album makes no apology." Editor's Choice Gramophone July 2023 |
SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto in A Minor (arranged from the Cello Concerto) / Violin Sonata No. 2 Philippe Graffin (violin) / Deutsche Radio Philharmonie / Christoph Poppen [ Onyx / CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "Most of [the transcription] works well enough...and there are even one or two gains...Graffin makes a very appealing case for it" BBC Music Magazine, November 2010 **** |
YVES PRIN
Prin: Dioscures / Ephemeres / Le souffle d'Iris Pierre-Yves Artaud (flute) / Philippe Graffin (violin) / Pascal Post (clarinet) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France [ Naxos 21st Century Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] French contemporary music from Naxos |
Piotr Becz
Slavic Opera Arias Piotr Beczala, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Lukasz Borowicz [ ORFEO / CD - released 30/Jun/2010 ] |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 [(ncls Symphony No. 2] The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Piotr Paleczny (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "An excellent disc at bargain price.": BBC Music |
JOHANN STRAUSS II
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (Highlights) Placido Domingo, Eva Lind, Lucia Popp, Peter Seifert / Munich Radio Orchestra, Placido Domingo [ EMI Redline / CD - released 18/Feb/2001 ] 76 minutes of this wonderful Opera with a top-notch cast |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Leaper [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1992 ] "excellent playing from the Polish orchestra enhanced by vivid recording, fresh and clear with plenty of body" Penguin Guide |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works Vol 3: Symphony No. 3 / Paganini Variations Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor, with Bernd Glemser, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] "a series that is setting high standards in budget-price contemporary music....Wit conjures a fantastic range of tone colour from his well-drilled Polish orchestra ...the third symphony has never sounded more convincing" - Classic CD |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Szymanowski: Concert Overture / Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 Wieslaw Ochman (tenor) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jacek Kasprzyk & Jerzy Semkow [ EMI Classics Matrix / CD - released 10/Jul/1994 ] "The Third Symphony Song of the Night...It is a passionate performance of an intense and beautiful work - the tenor, Wieslaw Ochman, is deeply convincing, and the orchestra and chorus are committed to a highly charged performance." MusicWeb |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Overtures (Incl. Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52 & Manfred, Op. 115) Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Johannes Wildner, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2004 ] "Has anyone ever put these pieces together before? It's a good idea, sparing one the need of picking them up as fillers which can be expensive." - Fanfare |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (Threnody, De Natura Sonoris, Symphony No. 3, Flourescences) Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice) / Antoni Wit, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2003 ] "The performances are remarkably fine, the three earlier pieces at least as eloquent as the symphony; the recording is both clear and ample." - International Record Review |
JOHANN STRAUSS II
The very best of Strauss: Excerpts from various orchestral and vocal works Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice / Hungarian Operetta Orchestra / Austrian Radio Symphony [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Johann Strauss, the most prolific composer in 19th Century Vienna, wrote hundreds of uplifting Waltzes, Marches and Polkas which are still enjoyed to this day. |
Radio Birdman
Radios Appear [ 1972 / CD - released 17/Jun/2013 ] |
Radio Citizen
Marbecks Rare: Hope & Despair [ Ubquity / CD - released 7/Feb/2011 ] |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Antheil: Symphony No. 3 'American' / 'Tom Sawyer' Overture / etc Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Hugh Wolff [ CPO / CD - released 25/Jul/2005 ] "George Antheil is doing well on disc and he is lucky here to have a conductor of the calibre of Hugh Wolff taking up his cause and reviving a Frankfurt connection going back to the premiere of Transatlantic, the opera acclaimed there in 1930" Gramop |
BRUNO MANTOVANI / PASCAL DUSAPIN / WOLFGANG RIHM
Renaud Capuçon plays Three Modern Concertos Renaud Capucon (violin) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung, Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris, Philippe Jordan [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2016 ] "All three of these violin concertos were composed expressly for Renaud Capuçon, and all take his fiercely impassioned lyrical playing as their starting point." Guardian |