Grainger Archive
Nikolai Sokoloff and the Cleveland Orchestra: Complete Recordings, 1924-28 – The Cleveland Orchestra. Nikolai Sokoloff – Pristine Audio
Recording and audio restoration engineer Mark Obert-Thorn has a coup in the form of the complete recordings (for the Brunswick label) of Russian-born conductor Nikolai Sokoloff (1886-1965), the first leader of the Cleveland Orchestra. Nikolai Sokoloff and the Cleveland Orchestra: Complete Recordings, 1924-28 = BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor; BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 5 […]
“Above and Beyond” – Music for Wind Band – CRESTON, SCHWARZ, GRAINGER, COPLAND, RANDS & BARBER – ‘The President’s Own’ U.S. Marine Band/ Gerard Schwarz – Naxos
A salute to the wind band.
“RAVEL: Intimate Masterpieces” = Introduction et Allegro; String Quartet in F Major; Chansons madécasses; Cinq mélodies populaires grecques – Yolanda Kondonassis, harp & others – Oberlin Music “Quintopia” = RAVEL: Ma mère l’oye; PERCY GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry; Lisbon; Walking Tune; LYLE CHAN: Passage; Calcium Light Night; NIELSEN: Wind Quintet – New Sydney Wind Quintet
Two CDs offer intimate Ravel portraits. The disc from the New Sydney Wind Quintet is the perfect calling card for these fine musicians from Down Under.
“RAVEL: Intimate Masterpieces” = Introduction et Allegro; String Quartet in F Major; Chansons madécasses; Cinq mélodies populaires grecques – Yolanda Kondonassis, harp & others – Oberlin Music “Quintopia” = RAVEL: Ma mère l’oye; PERCY GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry; Lisbon; Walking Tune; LYLE CHAN: Passage; Calcium Light Night; NIELSEN: Wind Quintet – New Sydney Wind Quintet
Two CDs offer intimate Ravel portraits. The disc from the New Sydney Wind Quintet is the perfect calling card for these fine musicians from Down Under.
“Piers Lane Goes to Town” = Short piano pieces of DOHENY, IRELAND, BACH, DELIBES, RACHMANINOV, CONFREY, POULENC, TEMPLETON, BENJAMIN, MOORE, GRAINGER & Others – Hyperion
Piers Lane shares a collection of Twentieth Century encores that offer grace, wit, and exquisite charm, each played by a brilliant technician who has the poet’s touch.
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“PERCY GRAINGER: Works for Large Chorus and Orchestra” [TrackList follows] = Melbourne Sym./ Andrew Davis – Chandos
Here, for your delectation, are the works of Percy Grainger the litterateur and student of folk culture. Grainger the musical experimenter is far less in evidence.
TCHAIKOVSKY: Rare Transcriptions and Paraphrases, Vol. 2 = PABST: Concert Paraphrase on The Sleeping Beauty; SILOTI: The Sleeping Beauty, Act III; GRAINGER: Paraphrase on Waltz of the Flowers; KASHKIN: Swan Lake: Pas de trios – Anthony Goldstone, p. – Divine Art
In Volume 2 of his series of Tchaikovsky transcriptions, Anthony Goldstone brings a consummate keyboard mastery to the fore, performing balletic arrangements by Tchaikovsky acolytes.
GIBBS: Concerto for Oboe and Orch.; SCOTT: Concerto for Oboe and Strings; WRIGHT: Concerto for Oboe and Strings; PEHKONEN: Amor Vincit Omnia, for Oboe d’amore and Strings – Jonathan Small, oboe – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orch./Martin Yates – Dutton
A disc of pastoral English oboe concertos that spans two centuries.
CYRIL SCOTT: Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 59; No. 3; Sonata Melodica – Clare Howick, violin/ Sophia Rahman, piano – Naxos
Not stereotypically “British,” Scott’s life and music is closer to Scriabin.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
