Tracks Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1; Scottish Fantasia
- 4. Finale (Allegro guerriero)
- 3. Finale (Allegro energico)
- 3. Andante sostenuto
- Introduction - Grave - Adagio cantabile
- 2. Allegro
- 1. Vorspiel (Allegro moderato)
- 2. Adagio
Release date: 1998-04-20
Run time: 52 min.
Creator: Kyung-Wha Chung
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.69
Review Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1; Scottish Fantasia / Universal Classics:
Tracks Holst: The Planets
- 5. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
- 7. Neptune, the Mystic - Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, RIAS Kammerchor, Uwe Gronostay
- 2. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
- 4. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
- 1. Mars, the Bringer of War
- 3. Mercury, the Winged Messenger
- 6. Uranus, the Magician
Release date: 1993-04-05
Run time: 52 min.
Creator: Gustav Holst
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.04
Review Holst: The Planets / Herbert von Karajan:
Tracks Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos 5 & 9
- Symphony No. 9 In E Minor: Scherzo: Allegro pesante
- Symphony No. 9 In E Minor: Andante sostenuto
- Symphony No. 9 In E Minor: Moderato maestoso
- Symphony No. 9 In E Minor: Andante tranquillo
- Symphony No. 5 in D major: Scherzo: Presto misterioso
- Symphony No. 5 in D major: Passacaglia: Moderato
- Symphony No. 5 in D major: Preludio: Moderato - Allegro - Tempo I
- Symphony No. 5 in D major: Romanza: Lento
Release date: 1998-11-30
Run time: 68 min.
Creator: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.83
Review Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos 5 & 9 / Naxos:
Tracks Rachmaninov & Ravel - Piano Concertos
- II: Largo
- I: Allegramente
- III: Allegro Vivace
- II: Adagio Assai
- III: Presto
- I: Allegro Vivace
Release date: 2000-02-07
Creator: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.22
Review Rachmaninov & Ravel - Piano Concertos / EMI Classics:
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Tracks The Very Best of Cleo Laine [BOX SET]
- Dreamsville
- Gonna Get Through
- Time For Farewell
- You Must Believe In Spring
- Send In The Clowns
- Born On A Friday
- I Remember
- Bess You Is My Woman Now
- Music
- Woman Talk
- It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
- I Don't Know Why
- He Was Beautiful
- If
- Wish You Were Here (I Do Miss You)
- My Man's Gone Now
- Solitude
- Sophisticated Lady
- Play It Again Sam
- Streets Of London
- No One Is Alone
- Lies Of Handsome Men
- Skylark
- Turkish Delight
- Won't You Tell Me Why
- What'll I Do
- I'm Beginning To See The Light
- Thieving Boy
- Creole Love Call
- I Loves You Porgy
- Bill
- Birdsong
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
- Just A Sittin' And A Rockin'
Release date: 1997-05-03
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.15
Review The Very Best of Cleo Laine [BOX SET] / Cleo Laine:Blessed with both a natural jazz instinct and an extraordinary range covering several octaves, Cleo Laine is one of the outstanding singers of our times. Her husky low notes and astonishing forays in the upper registers make her voice uniquely identifiable. She makes the most intelligent use of an eclectic span of material and her recordings are always filled with delightful surprises. The sweep of music in this remarkable collection reflects all that and her lyrics here have been composed by some of the best writers of the times, starting with one W. Shakespeare, who has three of his best numbers-"O Mistress Mine", "It Was A Lover And His Lass" and "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day"-treated with imagination and grace. Standards by Arlen and Alec Wilder rub shoulders with compositions by Laine's husband John Dankworth. The latter's "Dunsinane Blues" is a swinging and delightful exercise in Shakespearean gore and ghosts and his setting of an Auden poem is written with taste and purpose. Guests include guitarist John Williams-a most delicate partnership with Laine on three tracks-and pianist Dudley Moore. -Steve Voce.
Publisher: Avid Master Series
Release date: 2001-04-02
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Joseph Levine
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.75
Review Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals / Avid Master Series:
Tracks Vivaldi: Guitar Concertos
- Allegro - Angel Romero, Celedonio Romero, Celin Romero, Pepe Romero, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Alessandro
- 3. Allegro - Celin Romero, Pepe Romero, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Alessandro
- 2. Larghetto - Celedonio Romero, John Corigliano, Domenick Saltarelli, Margaret Bella
- 3. Allegro - Angel Romero, Celedonio Romero, Celin Romero, Pepe Romero
- Allegro - Angel Romero, Celedonio Romero, Celin Romero, Pepe Romero, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Alessandro
- 1. Allegro non molto - Celedonio Romero, John Corigliano, Domenick Saltarelli, Margaret Bella
- Larghetto - Angel Romero, Celedonio Romero, Celin Romero, Pepe Romero, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Alessandro
- Allegro - Angel Romero, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown
- Largo - Angel Romero, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown
- 2. Largo - Celedonio Romero, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Alessandro
- 2. Andante - Celin Romero, Pepe Romero, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Alessandro
- 2. Largo - Angel Romero, Celedonio Romero, Celin Romero, Pepe Romero
- Largo - Angel Romero, Celedonio Romero, Celin Romero, Pepe Romero, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Alessandro
- 1. Allegro - Celin Romero, Pepe Romero, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Alessandro
- Presto - Angel Romero, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown
- 3. (Allegro) - Celedonio Romero, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Alessandro
- 1. Allegro - Angel Romero, Celedonio Romero, Celin Romero, Pepe Romero
- 1. Allegro - Celedonio Romero, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Victor Alessandro
- 3. Allegro - Celedonio Romero, John Corigliano, Domenick Saltarelli, Margaret Bella
Release date: 2001-03-12
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.32
Review Vivaldi: Guitar Concertos / Universal Classics:
Tracks Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony
- Symphony no. 4 in F minor
- A pastoral symphony
- English folk song suite
Release date: 2002-05-06
Creator: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.35
Review Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony / Cfp:
Tracks The Original Four Seasons
- Autumn
- Summer
- Winter
- Spring
- Devil's Trill Sonata
- Reflections
Release date: 1998-11-09
Run time: 63 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.95
Review The Original Four Seasons / Vanessa-Mae:This recording achieves the Herculean task of rescuing Vivaldi's oft- performed concerti from the hackneyed oblivion of elevator music, and ingeniously resuscitating them in an arresting and enthralling manner. It as if the parched roots of these pieces have been watered with something rather bracing and slightly alcoholic, and suddenly shot into blooms of brilliant red and electric blue. Vanessa-Mae, her producer Pamela Nicholson, and the group of highly acclaimed soloists and professors which makes up the orchestra Laureate, have all contributed to these exciting arrangements. The starting premise was that Vivaldi would have expected his soloists to embellish and elaborate the solo parts for themselves: on this recording that has meant fleshing out the orchestral parts so that they stretch the techniques of everyone involved, and turning the solo part itself into a Paganini-esque jeu d'esprit. (Following Sir Thomas Beecham's advice, who said that a harpsichord sounds like "skeletons copulating on a galvanised tin roof", that instrument has judiciously been omitted!) And the wonderful thing is that the programmatic sense of the seasons- - birds twittering, teeth chattering, hay-gathering etc-is not mocked, but reinforced. -Warwick Thompson.
Tracks Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony (original version)
- The Banks Of Green Willow
- A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Release date: 2001-04-17
Run time: 68 min.
Creator: Richard Hickox
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.54
Review Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony (original version) / Chandos:Penned between 1911 and 1913 and first heard in May 1914, Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony was dedicated to the memory of George Butterworth (whose ravishing 1913 idyll The Banks of Green Willow opens proceedings here). It's this original version that Richard Hickox and the LSO champion so eloquently on this sumptuous-sounding Chandos issue-and a very different beast it is from VW's final revision of 1933. For starters, there's more than a quarter-of-an-hour of extra material, much of it genuinely inspired and brimful of wondrous poetry. VW's scoring, too, was never more colourful and it's surely not too fanciful to detect many a foreshadowing of Holst's The Planets in particular. More significantly, the work takes on a darker, tragic dimension (nowhere more potently perhaps than in the slow movement) and there's an astonishing passage in the expanded epilogue that even anticipates the opening movement of the 1921 Pastoral Symphony. In hindsight, VW made all the right decisions (the scherzo's second half, haunting though it is, pales next to the shuddering intensity of the revised coda) but no one should miss the opportunity to experience his original thoughts in all their epic sweep and tingling vitality. Utterly compulsive listening then and a "must buy" if ever there was one. -Andrew Achenbach.
Tracks Shostakovich: Symphony No.10
- 1. Moderato
- 3. Allegretto
- 2. Allegro
- 4. Andante - Allegro
Release date: 2006-03-13
Run time: 51 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.51
Review Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 / Berliner Philharmoniker Herbert Karajan:
Tracks F. Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 Opus 11 & No.2 Opus 21
- 1. Allegro maestoso
- 2. Larghetto
- 3. Allegro vivace
- 2. Romance (Larghetto)
- 1. Maestoso
- 3. Rondo (Vivace)
Release date: 1999-10-18
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Krystian Zimerman
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.54
Review F. Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 Opus 11 & No.2 Opus 21 / Universal Classics:
Tracks Grieg - Piano Concerto Op 16; Schumann - Piano Concerto Op54
- II: Adagio
- I: Allegro Molto Moderato
- I: Allegro Affettuoso
- III: Allegro Vivace
- III: Allegro Moderato E Marcato
- II: Intermezzo (Andantino Grazioso)
Release date: 2003-09-22
Run time: 59 min.
Creator: Leif Ove Andsnes
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.78
Review Grieg - Piano Concerto Op 16; Schumann - Piano Concerto Op54 / EMI Classics:
Tracks Sibelius - Finlandia; Karelia Suite
- Karelia Suite Op.11: III Alla Marcia
- Lemminkäinen Suite Op.22: The Swan Of Tuonela
- Karelia Suite Op.11: I Intermezzo
- Lemminkäinen Suite Op.22: Lemminkäinen In Tuonela
- Karelia Suite Op.11: II Ballade
- Finlandia, Op. 26
- Lemminkäinen Suite Op.22: Lemminkäinen's Return
- Lemminkäinen Suite Op.22: Lemminkäinen And The Maidens Of Saari
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Iceland Symphony Orchestra
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.10
Review Sibelius - Finlandia; Karelia Suite / Naxos:Opening this concert is Sibelius' overture Finlandia, composed for a gala in Helsinki to support the right of free speech at a time when the nation was under Russian domination. The work became a symbol of Finland's struggle for independence, and virtually the country's unofficial national anthem. Instantly recognisable, it is the most famous Finish music ever composed. Apart from his seven symphonies, Sibelius' major legacy is the series of tone poems he was inspired to write by Finish history and legend. The Karelia Suite is his revision of music originally written for a sequence of tableaux portraying the history of Karelia. Drawing on folk influences, this is melodic, celebratory and most attractive music. The major work on the album, though, is the Lemminkäinen Suite. Lemminkäinen was described by Sibelius as "the Don Juan of Finnish mythology". Here the philanderer undergoes a series of adventures, including a bleak sojourn in the underworld, before the mystical melancholy of the most famous movement, "The Swan of Tuonela", and the heroism of " Lemminkäinen's Return". This is an intelligently compiled programme, superbly played and recorded. [+]Petri Sakari and the Iceland SO have also recorded Sibelius' Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3, which are worthy of further exploration. -Gary S. Dalkin.
Tracks Lauridsen - Nocturnes
- La Rose Complete
- En Une Seule Fleur
- Mid-Winter Waking
- Lament For Pasiphae
- Sure On This Shining Night
- Intercession In Late October
- O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord
- She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep
- Like Snow
- I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
- Contre Qui, Rose
- Dirait-On
- De Ton Reve Trop Plein
- Soneto De La Noche
- Ave, Dulcissima Maria
- Sa Nuit D'ete
Release date: 2007-01-02
Run time: 65 min.
Creator: Polyphony
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.93
Review Lauridsen - Nocturnes / Hyperion:
Tracks Lang Lang - Live at Carnegie Hall
- 5. Ancient Burial
- 1. Allegro con fuoco ma non troppo
- 4. Allegro
- 3. Herdboy's Song
- Applause - Audience Applause
- 1. Missing Moon
- 6. Floating Clouds
- Abegg Variations, Op.1
- 7. Red Wilderness
- Liebestraum No.3 in A flat, S.541 No.3
- 2. Beans
- 3. Presto
- 2. Adagio
- 8. Sunrain
- 1. Allegro
- Nocturne No.8 in D flat, Op.27 No.2
- 3. Allegro molto
- 4. Blue Nun
- 7. Träumerei
- Horses (after pieces by Huang Hai Hwai, Chen Rao Xing and Shen Li Qun) - Arr. by Lang Lang and Lang Guo-ren - Lang Lang, Lang Guo-ren
- 2. Adagio
- Réminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418 (after Mozart)
Release date: 2004-06-07
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Guo-ren Lang
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.30
Review Lang Lang - Live at Carnegie Hall / Universal Classics:
Tracks Bach - Goldberg Variations
- Variation 22
- Variation 29
- Variation 11
- Variation 14
- Variation 7
- Variation 16
- Quodlibet
- Variation 10
- Variation 23
- Variation 20
- Variation 24
- Variation 26
- Variation 8
- Variation 4
- Aria da capo
- Variation 15
- Variation 9
- Variation 27
- Variation 1
- Variation 6
- Variation 18
- Variation 25
- Variation 21
- Variation 19
- Variation 3
- Variation 12
- Variation 2
- Variation 13
- Aria
- Variation 5
- Variation 17
- Variation 28
Release date: 2000-01-01
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Angela Hewitt
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.67
Review Bach - Goldberg Variations / Hyperion:The set of variations which Bach wrote for the young virtuoso Goldberg to play to their patron, the Russian ambassador, were intended to be heard either in groups or one at a time. Hewitt's sensitive and intelligent performance is particularly notable for its tact and sense of decorum. The use of piano instead of harpsichord brings a forensic clarity and a plangent sense of the music's emotional content without importing an inappropriate level of drama to the proceedings. She is particularly eloquent in some of the slower variations, such as the intense and private No. 25, but is also highly effective in the sprightlier dance movements, such as No. 19. -Roz Kaveney.
Tracks The Very Best of Mozart
- Allegro Assai
- Larghetto
- Vol Che Sapete
- Tempo Di Menuetto
- Menuetto
- Allegro
- Andante
- Overture
- Molto Allegro
- Andantino
- Allegro Con Brio
- Rondo Alla Turca
- Rondo-Allegro Vivace
- Molto Allegro
- Kyrie
- La Ci Darem La Mano
- Overture
- Adagio
- Andantino
- Minuetto
- Der Holle Rache
- Confutatis And Lacrymosa
- Sleigh Ride
- Soave Sia Il Vento
Release date: 2005-10-03
Run time: 138 min.
Creator: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.15
Review The Very Best of Mozart / Naxos:
Tracks Shostakovich: The Jazz Album
- Tahiti Trot
- 5. Little Polka
- 4. Allegro con brio - Ronald Brautigam, Peter Masseurs, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
- 1. Allegretto - Ronald Brautigam, Peter Masseurs, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
- 1. March
- 4. Waltz I
- 3. Dance I
- 2. Lyric Waltz
- 2. Lento - Ronald Brautigam, Peter Masseurs, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
- 7. Dance II
- 3. Moderato - Ronald Brautigam, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
- 2. Polka
- 6. Waltz II
- 3. Foxtrot
- 1. Waltz
- 8. Finale
Release date: 1995-03-14
Run time: 57 min.
Creator: Dmitry Shostakovich
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.67
Review Shostakovich: The Jazz Album / Decca:Riccardo Chailly has proved himself adept in the highways and byways of Shostakovich's output. You really feel he enjoys this music, conducting it with relish and not a hint of condescension. Admittedly the Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings has real pathos in its second movement to offset the brittle humour and high jinx elsewhere. Ronald Brautigam brings a Gershwin-like uninhibitedness to his performance, with Peter Masseurs incisive yet elegant in the trumpet part. The two jazz suites are peripheral Shostakovich, but great fun all the same. The Concertgebouw's resident jazzers would clearly give any professional combo a run for its money, especially in the lengthy Second Suite, assembled from film and theatre scores. Tahiti Trot is even more intriguing than it sounds: an orchestral transcription of the 1920s hit "Tea For Two", made in a matter of hours to win a bet. Its a far cry from Shostakovich as we tend to think of him, yet valuable for throwing light on the heady era out of which the mature composer forcibly emerged. -Richard Whitehouse.
Tracks Bach, J.S.: Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin
- 4. Allegro assai
- 3. Siciliana
- 2. Fuga
- 8. Double
- 3. Largo
- 1. Allemande
- 4. Presto
- 2. Fuga
- 3. Andante
- 1. Adagio
- 3. Gavotte en Rondeau
- 4. Menuet I-II
- 2. Loure
- 6. Gigue
- 4. Double (Presto)
- 5. Bourrée
- 1. Preludio
- 2. Corrente
- 2. Fuga (Allegro)
- 3. Sarabande
- 4. Allegro
- 6. Double
- 1. Allemanda
- 2. Double
- 3. Corrente
- 1. Grave
- 1. Adagio
- 4. Giga
- 5. Ciaccona
- 5. Sarabande
- 7. Tempo di Borea
Release date: 1993-11-09
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Arthur Grumiaux
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.75
Review Bach, J.S.: Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin / Universal Classics:
| Models & Brands:
Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1; Scottish Fantasia, Holst: The Planets, Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos 5 & 9, Rachmaninov & Ravel - Piano Concertos, The Very Best of Cleo Laine [BOX SET], Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals, Vivaldi: Guitar Concertos, Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony, The Original Four Seasons, Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony (original version), Shostakovich: Symphony No.10, F. Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 Opus 11 & No.2 Opus 21, Grieg - Piano Concerto Op 16; Schumann - Piano Concerto Op54, Sibelius - Finlandia; Karelia Suite, Lauridsen - Nocturnes, Lang Lang - Live at Carnegie Hall, Bach - Goldberg Variations, The Very Best of Mozart, Shostakovich: The Jazz Album, Bach, J.S.: Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin |
