Since you are interested in Aucassin & Nicolette ballet music / Saxophone Concerto, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
WILLIAM ALWYN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Alwyn: Prelude / Blackdown / Peter Pan Suite / Ad Infinitum / etc (with music by Vaughan Williams, York Bowen & Hubert Parry) BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] "This is a wonderful collection of little-known, long-forgotten British music. But what approachable, melodic, evocative, dramatic works they are." (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Dec 2009) |
RICHARD ARNELL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arnell: Ballet Music: The Great Detective & The Angels BBC Concert Orchestra / Martin Yates (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "... there's no lack of energy and swagger here ... Yates and his musicians have the full measure of both works and Dutton provides a fine, spacious, and colorful audio environment for the record, too. Highly recommended." Fanfare |
ROBERT FARNON / SIDNEY TORCH / STANLEY BLACK / RON GOODWIN / etc
Showtime: 25 years of BBC Concert Orchestra favourites BBC Concert Orchestra / Roderick Dunk (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 12/Dec/2009 ] Recorded: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 29-30 September 2009 |
MONTAGUE PHILLIPS
Revelry Overture / Symphony in C minor / Sinfonietta in C minor / etc BBC Concert Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 23/Jun/2006 ] “Filed under ‘light’ this may be, but this neglected music has true symphonic stature...Now here really is something!...Phillips’s voice, so eloquently served here by fine performances and recording, deserves to be heard not just as light music but... |
EDWARD GERMAN
Symphony No. 2 in A minor (The ËœNorwich) / The ËœLeeds Suite / etc BBC Concert Orchestra / John Wilson [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 26/Apr/2008 ] Dutton Epoch's series of Edward German Symphonies is now completed by this disc...This is tuneful music of some stature, and the BBC Concert Orchestra and their conductor John Wilson make a terrific case for scores that were once popular favourites. |
EDWARD GERMAN
Symphony no.1 in E minor / Overture “ The Tempter / Hamlet “ Symphonic Poem / etc BBC Concert Orchestra / John Wilson [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Under the exceptionally talented and versatile young conductor John Wilson, the always-reliable BBC Concert Orchestra provides rich and resonant realizations of these lovely gems of Edwardian ethos - all premiere recordings - which one hopes will... |
ROBERT FARNON
Symphony No.2 / Captain Horatio Hornblower / etc BBC Concert Orchestra / John Wilson (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford 1-2 June 2006 |
ANTHONY COLLINS
Vanity Fair and other orchestral favourites BBC Concert Orchestra / John Wilson (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 25/Apr/2006 ] Rosette Recording - Penguin Stereo Guide |
FREDERICK CONVERSE
Song of the Seas / Festival of Pan / AmericanSketches BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] The American composer Frederick Shepherd Converse was a leading name in American music up to the Second World War. It was Converse who composed the first American opera, performed at the Met in New York. Yet despite being widely heard in his day,... |
JOHN FOULDS
Orchestral Music Vol 1: Keltic Suite / Suite Fantastique BBC Concert Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] "Outstanding? Abosolutely!" International Record Review pick of the month (Oct 2010) |
JOHN FOULDS
Orchestral Music Vol 2: Indian Suite / Suite Française / Henry VIII Suite / etc BBC Concert Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 8-10 March 2010; St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, 15 July 2010 |
DAVID MATTHEWS
Symphonies Nos 2 & 6 BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Jac Van Steen (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] BBC Music Award Winner 2011 - premiere recording of the year |
DAVID MATTHEWS
Symphonies Nos 1, 3 & 5 BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Martyn Brabbins [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Jul/2007 ] "Producer Michael Ponder and engineer Dexter Newman have achieved spectacular sonics. This is another CD not to miss!" (ClassicalCDReview) |
MONTAGUE PHILLIPS
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 David Owen Norris (piano) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 26/Apr/2008 ] In the 1960s the second of these was often heard on the BBC, but the first has not been heard for more than ninety years, the music found after a search of the family attic. Both are brilliantly played by pianist David Owen Norris, and will delight... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Piano Concerto (Completed Walker) / The Immortial Legions / Spanish Serenade op.23 / etc David Owen-Norris (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra (David Lloyd Jones) & the BBC Singers [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 18/Mar/2005 ] "Concerto: majestic, extremely impressive ... captured with craggy mastery. Enthusiastically recommended to Elgarians everywhere" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
GORDON JACOB
Complete Music for Viola and Orchestra Helen Callus (viola) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Bell [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] Dutton Epoch is delighted to present this ear-opening, pioneering traversal of Gordon Jacob's complete music for viola and orchestra - all world premiere recordings - that covers over fifty years of the composer's life. Here we have the two numbered... |
LIONEL SAINSBURY / HAYDN WOOD
Violin Concertos Lorraine McAslan (violin) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth & Gavin Sutherland [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] World premiere recordings |
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / etc Martin Roscoe (piano) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "The performances are far from unsympathetic, the recordings clear, warm-toned and well-balanced...Best by far is the ardent slow movement of the Second Concerto - less samey, more memorable than anything else here." BBC Music Magazine, January 2012 **** |
JULIUS HARRISON
Worcestershire Suite / Bredon Hill / Rhapsody for Violin & Orchestra (with Hurbert Clifford - Serenade for Strings) Matthew Trusler (violin) Andrew Knight (harp) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford 5-6 July 2006 |
MONTAGUE PHILLIPS
Festival Overture / In May Time / Phantasy for violin & orchestra / etc Matthew Trusler (violin) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland (conductor) [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 23/Jun/2006 ] Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 3-4 August 2005 |