Building a Library: Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death

The Spanish humour for viol solo      

Performers:     Concerto Caledonia, David McGuinness      

Composers:    Tobias Hume (c1569 - 1645) 

Album Title:     Captain Tobias Hume – A Scottish Soldier, DELPHIAN : DCD-34140        

Symphony no. 2 in E flat major Op.63          

Performers:     Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim        

Composers:    Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)  

Album Title:     DECCA : 4786677     

Adolescentulus sum ego for 6 voices            

Performers:     Magnificat, Philip Cave          

Composers:    William Mundy (c1529 - 1591)          

Album Title:     The Tudors at Prayer, Linn : CKD-447          

Hodie puer nascitur/Homo mortalis firmiter - motet for 4 voices [Early 15th-C Cypriot; MS. Torino Bibl. Nazionale J.11.9]            

Performers:     Huelgas Ensemble, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins    

Composers:    Anonymous Orch. MacMillan

Nicholas Baragwanath compares recordings of Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death and makes recommendations:

MUSSORGSKY: Songs and Dances of Death, Sunless and four songs

Eugene Nesterenko (bass), Vladimir Krainev (piano)

MELODIYA MELCD1001401 (CD)

MUSSORGSKY: Songs and Dances of Death

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Gorki State Philharmonic Orchestra / Mstislav Rostropovitch (conductor)

MELODIYA 74321532372 (currently unavailable)

Symphony no. 1 in B flat major Op.38 (Spring)        

Performers:     Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle           

Composers:    Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)       

Album Title:     BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER RECORDINGS : BPHR-140011     

Symphony no. 1 in B flat major Op.38 (Spring)        

Performers:     Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nezet-Seguin       

Composers:    Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)       

Album Title:     DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 479-2437  

Symphony no. 2 in C major Op.61    

Performers:     Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle           

Composers:    Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)       

Album Title:     BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER RECORDINGS : BPHR-140011     

Symphony no. 2 in C major Op.61    

Performers:     Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nezet-Seguin       

Composers:    Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)       

Album Title:     DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 479-2437  

Symphony no. 3 in E flat major Op.97 (Rhenish)     

Performers:     Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle           

Composers:    Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)       

Album Title:     BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER RECORDINGS : BPHR-140011     

Symphony no. 4 in D minor Op.120 vers. original [1841]     

Performers:     Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle           

Composers:    Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)       

Album Title:     BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER RECORDINGS : BPHR-140011     

Symphony no. 4 in D minor Op.120 vers. standard [1851]   

Performers:     Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nezet-Seguin       

Composers:    Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)       

Album Title:     DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 479-2437  

Symphony no. 4 in D minor Op.120 vers. original [1841]     

Performers:     Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle           

Composers:    Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)       

Album Title:     BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER RECORDINGS : BPHR-140011     

William Mival talks to Andrew live in the studio about recently released recordings of Richard Strauss

Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss

STRAUSS: Various works

Various artists, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

For full details see: www.pristineclassical.com/pasc411.html

PRISTINE PASC411 (download)

Furtwangler conducts Four Last Songs

STRAUSS: Four Last Songs (and other works)

For full details see: www.pristineclassical.com/pasc407.html

PRISTINE PASC407 (download)

Richard Strauss: Four Complete Opera Recordings

STRAUSS, R: Der Rosenkavalier, Die Schweigsame Frau, Arabella, Capriccio

Staatskapelle Dresden, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Bohm (conductor)

DOCUMENTS 600130 (10CD budget)

STRAUSS, R: Don Juan Op. 20; Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28; Four Last Songs; Tod und Verklarung Op. 24

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Otto Ackermann (conductor), Wilhelm Furtwangler (conductor)

PRAGA DSD350100 (Hybrid SACD)

STRAUSS, R: Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 13; Cacilie Op. 27 No. 2; Die Nacht Op. 10 No. 3; Morgen Op. 27 No. 4; Zueignung Op. 10 No. 1; Heimliche Aufforderung Op. 27 No. 3; Allerseelen Op. 10 No. 8

MAHLER: Erinnerung (Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit); Wo die schonen Trompeten blasen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn); Piano Quartet (in one movement) in A minor

Simone Kermes (soprano), Faure Quartet

SONY 88843023672 (CD)

Strauss conducts Strauss

Various works

Various artists, Richard Strauss (conductor)

For full details see: www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4792703

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4792703 (7CD budget)

Symphony no. 13 in B flat minor Op.113 (Babi Yar) for bass solo, choir and orchestra      

Performers:     Vitaly Gromadsky (bass), RSFSR Academic Choir, Yurlov State Choir, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin   

Composers:    Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)    

Album Title:     PRAGA : 350-089      

Symphony no. 15 in A major Op.141            

Performers:     Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth    

Composers:    Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)    

Album Title:     BIS : 1643