BALLET FAVOURITES
Ballet Favourites (excerpts from Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Sylvia, Romeo & Juliet, etc) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice / Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "Tough, tight playing... what an exhilarating performance by Mogrelia. Very fine recording and reproduction of what is a very difficult selection of music." - CLASSIC CD (on the Prokofiev) |
NATIONAL ANTHEMS
Various: National Anthems Of The World (2019 edition) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic, Kosice, Razumovsky Symphony orchestra, Peter Breiner [ Marco Polo / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2020 ] When I started arranging and recording national anthems some 18 years ago, nobody expected the project would become so big and popular. In the meantime, it has been an important part of two Summer Olympics and numerous other sporting events. |
JOSEF STRAUSS
Josef Strauss meets Offenbach Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra, Various conductors [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2015 ] "The Quadrille is a dance for four couples, initially facing each other in a square. By the mid-nineteenth century in Vienna it had been formalised into a series of six figures - Le Pantalon (a pair of trousers), L'été (summer), La Poule (the hen),... |
State Radio
Let It Go [ Nettwerk / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] |
State Radio
Let It Go [ Nettwerk Records / LP - released 9/May/2016 ] |
State Radio
Us Against The Crown [ Nettwerk / CD - released 4/Sep/2006 ] |
State Radio
Year Of The Crow [ Nettwerk / CD - released 25/Feb/2008 ] |
FRANZ LISZT
The Best of Liszt Volume 1 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jeno Jando (piano), CSR Symphony Orchestra, Baslasz Szokolay (piano), Hungarian State Orchestra, and others [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] The very best of Liszt taken from the vast naxos catalogue. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Brahms/Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Benjamin Frith, Jenő Jandó (piano) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice [ Naxos / CD ] Much of Mendelssohn's childhood was passed in Berlin, where his parents moved when he was three, to escape Napoleonic invasion. There he took lessons from Goethe's much admired Zelter, who introduced him to the old poet in Weimar. |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Complete Published Orchestral Works Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice; Polish National Radio Symphony; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; etc [ Naxos / 17 CD Box Set - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Dvořák was a composer steeped in the national and folk music of his Bohemian homeland, and his orchestral music combines a broad and soulful melodic sweep with the wit of sparkling orchestration. |
J. STRAUSS
J. Strauss II: Waltzes, Polkas, Marches And Overtures, Vol. 3 Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Martin Sieghart, Ondrej L [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Feb/1993 ] "... first-rate performances, ... there is elegance and effervescence aplenty, and no shortage of charm." - Which Compact Disk Magazine |
ORCHESTRAL SPECTACULAR
Orchestral Spectacular (Incls 'Bolero', 1812 Overture & 'Polovtsian Dances') Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / various conductors [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra provide their own Spanish magic" - Essex Chronicle |
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / TCHAIKOVSKY / MUSSORGSKY / ARENSKY
Russian Arias - From the Queen of Spades, May night, Eugene Onegin, etc) Vladimir Grishko (tenor) Ukraine State Radio Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Sirenko [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jun/2002 ] "Uwe Mund leads performances that pulse with intensity" - Courier Post |