New Releases
Patrick Gowers
New into the shop this week is a CD of music by William Patrick Gowers
(born May 5, 1936, London, ) who is a British composer of church music and film scores.
A 20th century composer, inspired to write stage, TV & film music, he won a BAFTA award for his scores for
Smiley`s People, I remember Nelson & The Woman in White. He was commissioned to write
Holy, Holy in memory of a friend,
Viri Galilaei for Richard Harries` consecration as Bishop of Oxford in 1987 and the
Cantata & Advent Sequence for Southern Cathedrals Festival.
Cat. no: GCCD 4056 CD Price: £14.99
Anthony Gowing is the organist and the CD features the
Sheffield Cathedral Choir directed by Neil Taylor .
Sir Edward Elgar
A new CD of Elgar's music has been released by Hyperion. It is a selection of choral music sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey.
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Debussy & Colin Matthews
The new CD from the Hallé conducted by Mark Elder.
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Beethoven Violin Sonatas
The start of a complete cycle of Beethoven's violin sonatas played by Peter Cropper and Martin Roscoe.
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English Landscapes
The CD from the Hallé conducted by Mark Elder.
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Ivan Fischer - Mahler Symphony 2
Mahler’s Second Symphony, “Resurrection” (1894) is a gigantic work of enormous proportions, extreme contrasts, and a score that surpasses even his First Symphony from two years earlier. For more details on the new Ivan Fischer recording
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The Pavão Quartet
The new CD from the Pavão Quartet is entitled
Someone to watch over me and it is highly entertaining.
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Dutton's Epoch Series
I've had a new batch of recordings on this label and having sampled them (in the sense of listening to bits of them) I feel that more should be done to promote this series. I'll be discussing them below
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Box Sets at silly prices!
Tchaikovsky
Hot on the heels of Radio 3's Tchaikovsky Experience is a collection from Warner Classics of the six symphonies plus Manfred, the three piano concertos and, among other works, some of his famous waltzes. Catalogue number 2564 637 812. I'm pricing this at £36-99
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Vadim Repin
This violinist has been part of the Warner stable for a few years and this collection brings together some of his chamber recordings with concerto recordings.
Evgeny Svetlanov
These are 1995 recordings of the 3 Symphonies by Rachmaninov, together with
The Rock and
The Isle of the Dead
Nikolai Lugansky
Warner Classics have released a 3 CD set of the Rachmaninov Concertos with the CBSO and Sakari Oramo. On the 3rd CD, as well as the Paganini Rhapsody, there are also the Variationos on themes by Corelli and Chopin.
Did you see..?
Ensemble 360 - Their debut CD
We've been waiting a long time for it (so it seems) but at last we have a CD from the
Ensemble 360! The CD is an all Mozart programme and is now available priced at £15-99. I would say that it is a splendid way for them to open their recording account.
I chose this CD as my
Recording of the Month for December.
I hear that their future CDs will be devoted to the music of Spohr and Beethoven, with a Mendelssohn CD appearing from the Elias in February.
Check out the new mid price collection from Zig Zag Territoires : the
Zebra Collection!
Wagner's Ring from Vienna
Wiener Symphoniker / Staatsoperchor.
Yes, this is an old recording, the liner notes are non existent, but the quality of recording,
for its age, is surprisingly good. The performance is conducted by R. Moralt, who I understand was a nephew of Richard Strauss.
And the price?
£24-99
A complete Ring Cycle for under £25.00?
I believe so. I haven't listened to every note, so cannot comment if there were any cuts, but on 18CDs I don't believe there will be that many.
Brahms - Symphony No 2 in D
You may have heard this symphony previously and now wonder why we need another recording of it. That's what I thought, but here is a performance to put all others in the shade.
For more details please click on
this link
Channel Classics
Rachel Podger / Gary Cooper
Mozart Violin Sonatas vol 3
"The new full colour 128 page catalogue - including the new SACD release in the award winning series of Mozart Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, starring Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper - for a special price in a very attractive packaging. "
On sale at £7-99.
It appears that although there are no links to the John Foulds CD from the CBSO, the page is still getting a few visitors.
So here's the link again
John Foulds
Atterberg
I was recently browsing the
Sterling catalogue (on-line) and came across the recording of the Piano Concerto. I didn't know the work, but since it's on s and I know the type of stuff they release, I reasoned that this might be worth investigating. So I ordered it and it duly arrived.
Wow!For anyone interested in Romantic Piano Concertos, this is a must have.
I had a look on the
Gramophone reviews to see what they thought.
Horror of horrors! This is what I saw:
Atterberg - Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto » DELETED
Smith/Bergqvist/Gavle SO/Andersson.
CD Sterling CDS1034-2
Anyway, having checked the status of this recording, I can confirm that it is still available. (And well worth buying!)