Byron Janis
Liszt: Totentanz [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Apr/2013 ] |
Byron Wheatley Donald
Moondogs And Mad Dogs [ Maiden Voyage Recording Co. CD / CD - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Essentially a paean to his father, 'Big Don' Wheatley, Moondogs And Mad Dogs is unapologetically imbued with the spirit of Van Morrison, Dylan, The Band, Lennon et al; all musicians that have played a major part in both Donald's and his father's... |
MANOLIS KALOMIRIS
Symphony No. 3 in D minor / Triptych / etc Nikitas Tsakiroglou (narrator) / Athens State Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos Greek Classics / CD - released 30/Apr/2007 ] |
VASILY KALAFATI
Kalafati: Symphony in A Minor / Légende / Polonaise Choir of the Music Department of the University of Athens, Athens Philharmonia, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Greek by parentage, Vasily Kalafati settled permanently in St Petersburg where he counted Rimsky-Korsakov among his teachers, and later included Igor Stravinsky among a distinguished roll-call of his own students. |
MANOLIS KALOMIRIS
Complete Songs Julia Souglakou (soprano) / Eva Kotamanidou (narrator) / Russian State Symphonic Capella / Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra / Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos Greek Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] Manolis Kalomiris is honoured as the father of Greek national music. The inspired orchestration of Kalomiris's Piano Rhapsody No. 1 by Gabriel Pierné moved Byron Fidetzis to orchestrate the second of these, sub-titled Song of the Night. The versatile... |
GEORGIOS AXIOTIS
Axiotis: A Love Trilogy / Sunset / Prelude and Fugue / Remembrance from a Ball New Festival Opera, Symphony Sofia, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] Georgios Axiotis was a leading and historically significant Greek composer who was opposed to the 'Germanisation' of music education in Greece. |
MANOLIS KALOMIRIS
Symphony No. 3 / Triptychon / 3 Greek Dances Nikitas Tsakiroglou (narrator) / Athens State Orchestra / Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos Greek Classics / CD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] Manolis Kalomiris is today considered the father of modern Greek composition. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 1 (1925-1947) Walter Gieseking, Byron Janis, Alexander Kelberine, Wilheim Backhaus, Sergey Rachmaninov, Rae Robertson, Arthur Rubinstein, Olga Samaroff, etc [ Naxos Historial Great Pianists / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] "Naxos has produced here a most enjoyable record which can be fully recommended not only to piano specialists but also to the general music lover and to people who are only just beginning to enjoy Bach's music." MusicWeb |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Encores Byron Janis (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra & Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Mercury Living Presence / CD - released 11/Oct/1990 ] The original 35 mm Magnetic Film recording made on location in Moscow in 1961 & 1962 |
Nojo with Don Byron
You Are Here [ True North / CD ] |
Raymond Byron and the White Freighter
Little Death Shaker [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 3/Sep/2012 ] |
SPYRIDON SAMARAS
Samaras: Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (Complete opera) Angelo Simos, Tassis Christoyannis, Pavlos Maropoulos, Pantelis Kontos / Kaval Choir of Sofia, Pazardzhik Symphony, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] Remembered today for the Olympic Anthem, Spyridon Samaras was the most distinguished Greek composer of his day and the first to gain international recognition. |
NIKOS SKALKOTTAS
Skalkottas: Sinfonietta, Concerto and Suite Georgios Demertzis (violin), Vassilis Varvaresos (piano), Eleftherios Venizelos, Athens Philharmonia Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] A disc of previously unrecorded works by the great Greek modernist |
BACH / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / CHOPIN / LISZT / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Byron Janis I Byron Janis (piano) [ Philips / BMG / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "This is a fine installment of this important collection of 20th-century pianists." Arkivmusic |
PETROS PETRIDIS
Petridis: Saint Paul Soloists / Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / 2 CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Petros Petridis was one of the leading composers of the Greek National School. In Saint Paul he sought to combine the polyphonic approach of Byzantine music with the form of the oratorio. The libretto follows the Acts of the Apostles with fourteen... |
David Byron Band
Lost and Found [ Angel Air Records / 2 CD - released 2/Nov/2009 ] U.K. imported double disc set featuring previously unreleased 1980 & 1982 tracks from ex-Uriah Heep singer, the late David Byron and his band, featuring Robin George. |
NIKOS SKALKOTTAS
The Sea (Ballet Suite) / Four Images / Cretan Feast / etc Iceland Symphony Orchestra / Byron Fidetzis [ BIS / CD - released 26/Jan/2006 ] In accounts of Skalkottas's life, the point is often made that the young man who was so highly thought of by his teacher Schoenberg in cosmopolitan Berlin, by returning to Greece in 1933 closed the door on a brilliant international career as a... |
Don Byron
Bug Music [ Nonesuch / CD - released 15/Oct/1996 ] US import (official) |
Donald Byron Wheatley
Moondogs And Mad Dogs (LP) [ Maiden Voyage / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Donald Wheatley never intended to make an album and has never performed onstage. But he's been a showman all his life and comes from a family of showmen stretching back one hundred and fifty years. Moondogs And Mad Dogs is both a paean to that life... |