EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 / Lyric Suite / etc Helsinki Strings / Norwegian Radio Orchestra [ Apex / CD - released 26/Aug/2002 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
United Strings of Europe: In Motion United Strings of Europe, Amalia Hall (violin) / Julian Azkoul (director), Franck Fontcouberte (conductor) [ BIS / CD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] The streets of eighteenth-century Madrid; a contaminated test-bombing site in Australia and a song from El Salvador provide some of the subject matter for this album by the United Strings of Europe (USE). Formed in 2012 by students at London's... |
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. |
MOZART / HAYDN / FALLA / ANONYMOUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A concert for harpsichord and orchestra Igor Kipnis (harpsichord) / London Strings, Sir Neville Marriner, with Janet Craxton (oboe) [ CBS Masterworks Fineline / CD - released 1/Dec/1993 ] Original recordings from 1967, 1968 and 1976 |
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... |
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... |
CHRISTMAS WITH RONNIE ALDRITCH
Christmas with Ronnie Aldritch Ronnie Aldritch and his Two Pianos with the Strings of the London Festival Orchestra [ Dutton Vocalion / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] |
Nani Wolfgramm and the South Pacific Strings
Hawaiian Cocktail (LP) [ Viking Seven Seas LP / LP - released 14/Nov/2016 ] |
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... |
ARIANNA SAVALL
Peiwoh Arianna Savall (vocal, triple harp, gothic harp, celtic harp) Petter Johansen (vocal) Ferran Savall (vocal and theorb) JavierMas (12-strings guitar) [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "The sound is out of this world, literally, for AliaVox has captured something immediate and real which is like being in a 3D stone chamber, sometimes the bedroom of a castle, sometimes a dungeon." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
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. |
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... |
IGOR MARKEVITCH
Complete Orchestral Works Volume 6: La Taille de l’Homme (The Measure of Man) Lucy Shelton (soprano) / Strings of the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] "Until the British conductor Christopher Lyndon-Gee began to record Markevitch's music for Marco Polo in 1995, most of us knew this music only by hearsay. So it was thrilling to discover that it really is as good as all those amazed early... |
Parker Charlie With Strings
The Complete Master Takes [ Essential Jazz Classics / CD - released 3/Aug/2012 ] |
FRANZ IGNAZ BECK
Beck: Symphonies, Op. 2 Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra, Kevin Mallon [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 25/Jun/2015 ] Although small in scale, his Op. 2 set includes some of the most striking and harmonically daring works of their kind from the period. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
The Best Of Handel Johann Aratore (organ), Jozef Cejka (oboe), Miroslav Kejmar (trumpet) Cappella Istropolitana, Budapest Strings, Handel Festival Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 7/May/1997 ] Handel was successful in developing a new form, the English oratorio, which combined the musical felicities of the Italian operatic style with an increased role for the chorus, relative economy of production, and the satisfaction of an English text. |
Festival Strings Lucerne
Bach/Adams/Reich: Dialogue/Bar [ Oehms / CD - released 4/Jul/2005 ] |
ROBIN MILFORD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Milford: Fishing by Moonlight Guildhall Strings, with Julian Sperry (flute) Julian Milford (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 11/Aug/2004 ] 'This is music for an English summer evening, rewarding in its unpretentious, melodious, nicely crafted way; especially when played with sympathy and elegance by Robert Salter and the excellent Guildhall Strings' Gramophone |
ELGAR / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / MENDELSSOHN / SIBELIUS / SUK
Romantic Strings Helsinki Strings [ Warner Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Romances Midori GotÅ (violin) / Festival Strings Lucerne [ Warner Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] The violinist Midori has been a celebrated performer for more than 35 years, this recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, complemented by his two Romances for violin and orchestra, marks the composer's 250th birthday in December 2020. Midori plays... |