More By Artist: The National
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JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Visions / Brumaire, Phèdre / Espada / Les Érinnyes Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2020 ] Jules Massenet is famous for his series of 27 operas that include Manon and Werther, but he also wrote a significant portfolio of orchestral music which include ballets, orchestral suites and incidental music. The works presented here show his... |
DOUGIE MACLEAN
Till Tomorrow Royal Scottish National Orchestra, John Logan [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] Dougie MacLean needs no introduction; as a singer, song-writer, composer and instrumentalist, no artist captures the soul of Scotland with more authenticity or emotion. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The Golden Age Op. 22 (Complete ballet) Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Jose Serebrier (Conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "This is a breathtaking recording in many ways. It's also complete and uncut and the notes are good. Don't hesitate - this is one that needs to be listened to, even in this crowded year of Shostakovich revelations" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
ADAM / AUBER / CIMAROSA / FLOTOW / HEROLD / WOLF-FERRARI / etc
Great Comedy Overtures BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Lance Friedel [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] The flourishing genre of the comic opera had its roots in eighteenth-century Italian opera buffa, whose irrepressible brio was soon taken up outside the country's borders. In France it produced opéra comique and operetta, and in German-speaking... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / PROKOFIEV / SHOSTAKOVICH / GLAZUNOV / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Russian Masterpieces (Incls 'Sabre Dance', 'Procession of the Nobles' & 'The Flight of the Bumble Bee') Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/1990 ] All the best Russian classics from the large Chandos catalogue. |
JOLY BRAGA SANTOS
Alfama Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2012 ] 'Don't miss this one!' wrote ClassicsToday of Álvaro Cassuto's recording of the Second Symphony on Marco Polo |
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FERNANDO LOPES-GRACA
Fernando Lopes-Graça: Symphony for Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] |
SAMUEL BARBER
Capricorn Concerto / A Hand of Bridge / Canzonetta / Intermezzo Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Marin Alsop (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 5/Jan/2005 ] "This fine series ends with a rival to the Adagio, and the opera is a charmer" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine January 2005 |
SAMUEL BARBER
Cello Concerto / Medea (Orchestral Works Vol 2) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2001 ] Volume Two of Barber's orchestral music on Naxos |
RUTLAND BOUGHTON
A Summer Night / Love and Spring / Troilus & Cressida (plus works by Edgar Bainton) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "There's much to relish in the offerings by Bainton, all three of which have literary origins...Red-blooded performances, captured with striking amplitude and impact by the Dutton recording team." (Gramophone) |
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JOHN JOUBERT / CARLO MARTELLI
Symphonies (with Alwyn - Prelude and Derrybeg Fair) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] |
STANLEY BATE
Symphony No. 3 (with music by Arnell & Chisholm) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "Martin Yates and the RSNO seem understandably swept away with the gripping music, and excellent sound helps makes this very much one of the most impressive Dutton discs to have come my way" Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, April 2010 |
STANLEY BATE
Symphony no.4 (with Arnell - Symphony no.7 ‘Mandela’) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] The third volume of Dutton's Stanley Bate series. We now reach the powerful Fourth Symphony, dating from the mid-1950s, and possibly the most rewarding Bate discovery thus far. |
RICHARD ARNELL
Symphony no.3 op.40 / etc Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Martin Yates (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 25/Apr/2006 ] "These two works promise and deliver much. I am quite sure there are yet more discoveries aplenty to be made in the Arnell catalogue" (Recording of the Month MusicWeb April 2006) |
RICHARD ARNELL
Symphony no.1 op.31 / Symphony no.6 ËœThe Anvil op.171 / etc Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Martin Yates (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "The triumphant final instalment in this adventurous project. There's no doubt that conductor Martin Yates believes in Richard Arnell's brilliance and his enthusiasm appears to be infectious, spreading to the orchestra who clearly give these works... |
RICHARD ARNELL
Symphony Nos 4 & 5 Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Martin Yates (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 10/Sep/2007 ] "The recording quality is excellent with especially good stereo spread rather than separation - that tangible sense of a wide-span soundstage. Two fine symphonies embracing the extremes of emotion and one devastatingly likeable and radiantly... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
The Complete Bruckner Symphonies Royal Scottish National Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Georg Tintner, conductor [ Naxos / 12 CD Box Set - released 22/Dec/2015 ] "The pattern of the later symphonies is set here, emotional slow movement, galumphing scherzo and all. But there are moments of almost Sullivanesque sparkle. Tintner's account is wonderfully cohesive and fresh." - The Sunday Times (Paul Driver), May |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Complete Symphonic Poems (Incls 'The Golden Spinning Wheel' & 'The Wood Dove') Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/1999 ] "excitingly played and conducted" (ClassicsToday) |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / The Miraculous Mandarin, (suite) / The Wooden Prince Suite / etc Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2014 ] This '2for1' reissue brings together the best performances by Neeme Järvi of the music by Bartók, taken from his extraordinarily prolific recording career with Chandos Records. |
WAGNER
Parsifal (an orchestral quest) Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2010 ] "The Tannhauser excerpt...really begins to boil in the infamous ballet music, giving the sonorous RSNO brass something they can finally tuck into with relish" BBC Music Magazine, August 2010 ** |
