Since you are interested in Her Song, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / LUCAS / PROCTER-GREGG / CARMICHAEL
English Clarinet Concertos Ian Scott (clarinet) Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Barry Wordsworth [ Dutton / CD - released 20/Nov/2005 ] "Ian Scott plays beautifully throughout; and all concerned seem to enjoy themselves enormously. I cannot but recommend this attractive collection of unfamiliar, but rewarding works that all deserve much more than the occasional hearing" (MusicWeb... |
MENDELSSOHN / STRAVINSKY/ SZYMANOWSKI / etc
Ida Haendel plays Mendelssohn & Stravinsky (rec 1941-47) Ida Haendel (violin) with Ivor Newton (piano) Adela Kotowska (piano) National Symphony Orchestra [ Dutton Historic Classics / CD - released 20/Jul/2007 ] Malcolm Sargent conducting the National Symphony Orchestra accompanies Haendel in a performance of Mendelssohn's Concerto in E minor for Violin and Orchestra, while in contrast Stravinsky's La Baiser de la Fée |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concertos (with Ustvolskaya - Concerto for piano, timpani & strings) Ingrid Jacoby (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Dutton Vocalion SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "Miss Jacoby has the chops for Shostakovich's neurotic, hyperactive, sometimes eccentric mood changes. Maestro Mackerras, with his dual affinities for Mozart and Janaček finds a perfect mating of both in Shostakovich's orchestration. The music-making... |
FRANK BRIDGE
Songs and Chamber Music Ivan Ludlow (baritone) / London Bridge Ensemble [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] The London Bridge Ensemble's delightfully varied Frank Bridge programme presents - between the frames of the two early chamber music masterpieces the Phantasie Piano Quartet (1910) and the Phantasie Piano Trio |
ALAN RAWSTHORNE
The complete piano music (with Lambert - Trois Pieces Negres) John McCabe (piano) with Tamami Honma (piano) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 15/Jun/2006 ] Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, London 22-23 October 2005 |
YORK BOWEN
Music for one and two pianos John Reid and Michael Dussek (pianos) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "Michael Dussek plays with his customary excellence, and is partnered by an equally talented John Reid who was one of Dussek's pupils. Michael Dutton's recording is excellent and truthful, and the booklet notes by Lewis Foreman a model of their kind.... |
HOPE / BECK / GÂL / PARROTT / DUBERY / etc
British Recorder Concertos John Turner (recorder) Camerata Ensemble / Philip McKenzie [ Dutton / CD - released 20/Nov/2005 ] "I do not hesitate to recommend this well-planned, varied and superbly played selection; pure joy from first to last." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Over the Water-Music for Recorder and String Orchestra John Turner (recorder) / Manchester Camerata Ensemble / Philip Mackenzie [ Dutton / CD - released 28/Jul/2007 ] "John Turner and the Manchester Camerata play magnificently throughout. The whole is nicely recorded and the production is well up to Dutton's best standards. Do not expect imperishable masterpieces here but you will find a most attractive selection... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The World of Josef Locke - Today Josef Locke [ Dutton Vocalion / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] THE WORLD OF JOSEF LOCKE - TODAY |
CYRIL SCOTT
The complete piano music Vol 4: To 1910 / After 1910 Leslie De'Ath (piano) [ Dutton Epoch / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2007 ] Here De'Ath concentrates in the main on the music written between 1907 and 1918, together with some earlier pieces Scott wrote whilst he was a student, and popular pieces from the 1920s. |
BILLY MAYERL
A Micellany for Solo Piano Vol. 2 (Incls 'Bats in the Belfry' & 'Shy Ballerina') Leslie De'Ath (piano) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] "The Canadian pianist Leslie De'Ath follows the success of his first Billy Mayerl anthology for Dutton Epoch, which was an 'Editor's Choice' in Gramophone magazine, with a second volume of this delightfully tuneful, syncopated music." - Presto Classical |
CYRIL SCOTT
The complete piano music Vol 3: the Two-Piano Works Leslie De'Ath (piano) Anya Alexeyev (piano) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 15/Jun/2006 ] Recorded in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario 13-14, 29-30 December 2005 |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Quatre Chansons francaises / Les Illuminations (with songs by Delius & Finzi) Susan Gritton (soprano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner [ Chandos / CD - released 10/Apr/2010 ] "Susan Gritton, too, sings with heartfelt empathy, radiance and intelligence, and her alliance with Gardner certainly distills the necessary tingle-factor." (Gramophone) |