Marco Polo ? The Label of Discovery - Naxos

Marco Polo – The Label of Discovery 

Since its launch in 1982, the Marco Polo label has for twenty years sought to draw attention to unexplored 

repertoire.␣ Its main goals have been to record the best music of unknown composers and the rarely heard 

works of well-known composers.␣ At the same time it aspired, like Marco Polo himself, to bring something of 

the East to the West and of the West to the East. 

For many years Marco Polo was the only label dedicated to recording rare repertoire.␣ Most of its releases 

were world première recordings of works by Romantic, Late Romantic and Early Twentieth Century 

composers, and of light classical music. 

One early field of exploration lay in the work of later Romantic composers, whose turn has now come 

again, particularly those whose careers were affected by political events and composers who refused to 

follow contemporary fashions.␣ Of particular interest are the operas by Richard Wagner’s son Siegfried, who 

ran the Bayreuth Festival for so many years, yet wrote music more akin to that of his teacher Humperdinck. 

To Der Bärenhäuter (The Man in the Bear’s Skin), Banadietrich, Schwarzschwanenreich (The Kingdom of 

the Black Swan), and Bruder Lustig, which further explores the mysterious medieval world of German 

legend.␣ Other German operas included in the catalogue are works by Franz Schreker and Hans Pfitzner. 

Earlier Romantic opera is represented by Weber’s Peter Schmoll, and by Silvana, the latter notable in that the 

heroine of the title remains dumb throughout most of the action. Marschner’s Hans Heiling is also listed.␣ A 

more modern idiom is heard in the Italian composer Azio Corghi’s setting of a German libretto by the Nobel 

prize-winner José Saramago, Divara – Wasser und Blut (Divara – Water and Blood), based on the 16th 

century Anabaptist seizure of Münster and its consequences.␣ Other rarities in the catalogue include the 

Basque opera Amaya by Jesús Guridi, sung in Basque, and, to complement Adolphe Adam’s ballet La jolie 

fille de Gand, the same composer’s La filleule des fées, both, like Giselle, vehicles for the dancer Carlotta 

Grisi. 

The list of film-scores, expertly reconstructed from surviving sources, grows ever longer.␣ Auric’s score for 

Cocteau’s Orphée (Orpheus) and for La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast), the English composer Philip 

Sainton’s Moby Dick and Erik Nordgren’s music for films by Ingmar Bergman, are joined by Deutsch’s score 

for The Maltese Falcon.␣ ␣ In addition to music by Hollywood composers,␣ from Poland comes film music by 

the prolific Wojciech Kilar, with his scores for Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Roman Polanski’s Death and the 

Maiden, and from Russia the music written by Shostakovich for The Fall of Berlin. 

North America is increasingly left to Marco Polo’s loyal companion, Naxos, but Latin America is represented 

in particular by recordings of the complete piano music of the Argentine composer Luis Gianneo. In addition 

to earlier releases of music by Spanish and Catalan composers, come recordings of works by Josep Soler and 

Joaquim Homs. 

Marco Polo has always shown significant attention to lighter music.␣ Evidence of this is to be heard in the 

incredible series of recordings that offers the complete instrumental works of Johann Strauss the Younger, 

now followed by those of his almost equally prolific brother Josef (on 26 CDs).␣ To these may be added the 

growing series devoted to the work of the Danish Strauss, Hans Christian Lumbye, to the overtures and 

instrumental works of Suppé, and to the dance music of the Viennese Carl Ziehrer.␣ The listings of British 

Light Music also continue to expand, with new additions to the catalogue 

It is only right that Marco Polo should find itself in modern China with a series of recordings for more 

general release.␣ These include some compositions for Chinese instruments or for a collaboration of East and 

West in music that lay at the whole origin of the Marco Polo label. 

All this is in addition to the original core of Marco Polo exploration in region after region.␣ The Russian 

romanticism of Liadov, the music of Ukraine, the achievement of Enescu in Romania, of Szymanowski in 

Poland, of Bruneau, Rabaud, Ibert, and the Boulanger sisters in France, with Fanelli’s rare tribute to Théophile 

Gautier, of Flemish composers, of Braga Santos in Portugal and of Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Respighi, Malipiero, 

Pizzetti and, rarer still, Garofalo in Italy, all combine into a catalogue of amazing richness.␣ Marco Polo leads 

the way.␣ It is for eager listeners to follow. 

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ADAM, Adolphe (1803 – 1856) 

The son of the founder of the French school of piano playing, 

Louis Adam, Adolphe Adam established a reputation for himself 

in Paris as a composer for the theatre, for vaudeville, opera and 

ballet. His name is widely known for the popular ballet Giselle 

of 1841, which was immediately followed by La Jolie fille de 

Gand (The Beauty of Ghent) and in 1849 by La Filleule des fées 

(The Fairies’ God-Daughter), all successful vehicles for the 

dancer Carlotta Grisi. 

La Filleule des Fées [2 CD’s] 

Queensland Symphony Orchestra / 

Andrew Mogrelia ............................................................. 8.223734-35 

La jolie fille de Gand 


Andrew Mogrelia ............................................................. 8.223772-73 

ADDINSELL, Richard (1904 – 1977) 

Remembered in Britain as composer of the Warsaw Concerto 

for the film Dangerous Moonlight and as accompanist to Joyce 

Grenfell, Richard Addinsell studied music in Berlin and Vienna 

and later enjoyed a career as a composer chiefly for the theatre 

and the cinema. 

Goodbye, Mr. Chips • Tom Brown’s Schooldays 

A Tale of Two Cities • Prince and the Showgirl 

The Smoky Mountains Suite • Others 

BBC Concert Orchestra / Kenneth Alwyn ............................ 8.223732 

AKPABOT, Samuel (b. 1940) 

Born in Eastern Nigeria, Samuel Akpabot studied organ, trumpet 

and composition in London, returning home to study the 

indigenous music of Nigeria at the University of Ife, with further 

work at the University of Chicago and Michigan State University. 

He is regarded as a major scholar in the subject. 

Three Nigerian Dances (AFRICAN SONGS) 

National Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir of the 

South African Broadcasting Corporation / Richard Cock ..... 8.223832 

ALKAN, Charles–Valentin (1813 – 1888) 

Alkan was a virtuoso pianist of astonishing gifts, although he 

retired early from normal concert life, becoming something of 

a recluse. As a composer he has been largely underestimated, 

but wrote a large amount of piano music, much of which makes 

extreme demands on the technique of a performer, expanding 

the possibilities of the instrument in a remarkable series of 

studies. 

25 Préludes, Op. 31 

Laurent Martin, Piano .......................................................... 8.223284 

Esquisses, Op. 63 


Seven Etudes from Op. 39 

Bernard Ringeissen, Piano .................................................. 8.223285 

Grand Duo concertant, Op. 21 

Sonata de concert, Op. 47 • Trio in G minor, Op. 30 

Trio Alkan ............................................................................ 8.223383 

Trois Etudes de Bravoure, Op. 12 

Trois Grandes Etudes, Op. 76 


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ARENSKY, Anton Stepanovich (1861 – 1906) 

A pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov in St Petersburg, Arensky joined 

the teaching staff of the Moscow Conservatory, where his 

pupils included Glière, Scriabin and Rachmaninov. He 

succeeded Rimsky-Korsakov as director of the Imperial Chapel 

in St Petersburg in 1894 and after his resignation in 1901 

turned his principal attention to composition. The best known 

of his works is the D minor Piano Trio and many of his shorter 

compositions for piano remain familiar. He was a gifted pianist 

himself and a conductor. His compositions include three 

operas, two symphonies and concertos for both piano and 

violin, as well as a set of orchestral variations on a theme of 

Tchaikovsky, a friend who exercised some influence over his 

work. 

Egyptian Nights, Op. 50 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky .............. 8.225028 

Piano Suites Nos. 1 - 5 

Daniel Blumenthal / Robert Groslot ..................................... 8.223497 

String Quartets, Opp. 11 and 35 

Piano Quintet, Op. 51 

Ilona Prunyi, Piano / Lajtha Quartet ..................................... 8.223811 

ARNOLD, Malcolm (b. 1921) 

Among the most gifted and versatile of English composers, 

Malcolm Arnold enjoyed an earlier career as a trumpet-player, 

before turning in 1948 to a career as a composer. As well as 

his symphonies, other orchestral works and chamber music, 

he found a ready outlet for his abilities in the writing of film 

music. His eighty or so film scores include the music for The 

Bridge on the River Kwai and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. 

His scores for David Copperfield and for The Roots of Heaven 

are characteristic examples of the kind of work for which he 

was, at one stage in his career, very much in demand, until he 

decided that his talents needed to be concentrated on concert 

music. 

David Copperfield • The Roots of Heaven 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / William Stromberg ............ 8.225167 

ATTERBERG, Kurt (1887 – 1974) 

The Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg was employed in the 

Stockholm patent office. He took a leading part, however, in 

Swedish musical life as conductor, critic, administrator and 

composer. He wrote interesting orchestral music, including 

nine symphonies, and attractive chamber music, all in 

approachable style. 

Piano Quintet, Op. 31 • Suite No. 1 “Orientale” 

Sonata for Horn and Piano, Op. 27 

Ilona Prunyi, Piano / György Kertész, Cello / 

Imre Magyari, Horn / New Budapest Quartet ...................... 8.223405 

Violin Sonata • Trio Concertante • Höstballader 

Valse Monotone • Rondeau Rétrospectif 

Eszter Perényi and András Kiss, Violins / 

Ilona Prunyi and Sándor Falvay, Pianos / 

György Kertész, Cello / Deborah Sipkay, Harp ................... 8.223404 

AUBERT, Louis François Marie (1877 – 1968) 

The French pianist and composer Louis Aubert studied 

composition under Fauré and was briefly an organ pupil of 

Widor. As a boy chorister he sang at the Madeleine in Paris and

after the turn of the century devoted himself increasingly to 

composition rather than performance as a concert-pianist. His 

colourful symphonic poem Habanera won immediate success 

at its first performance in 1919. 

Offrande • Cinéma • Dryade • Feuille d’Images 

Tombeau de Chateaubriand 

Rheinland-Pfalz Philharmonic / Leif Segerstam .................. 8.223531 

AURIC, Georges (1899 – 1983) 

A member of Les Six in post-war Paris, Georges Auric wrote for 

Dyagilev music with the characteristic clarity of his French 

contemporaries, moving, in a prolific career, to music of greater 

complexity, while continuing to write with a certain lightness of 

touch. His compositions include a quantity of dramatic music, 

with film scores and a varied range of chamber, orchestral and 

vocal music. La Belle et la Bête and Orphée represent 

collaborations in the cinema with Cocteau, and Les Mariés de 

la Tour Eiffel, with music by Auric and his colleagues from Les 

Six, explores a surreal concept by the same writer. 

La Belle et la Bête (Complete Film Score) 

Axios Chorus / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Adriano ..... 8.223765 

Lola Montez (Suite) • Notre-Dame de Paris (Suite) 

Farandole (Suite) • Esmeralda • Little Dance Suite 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Adriano ............................. 8.225070 

Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel 

Ensemble Erwartung / Bernard Desgraupes ....................... 8.223788 

Orphée • Ruy Blas • Thomas l’Imposteur 

Les Parents Terribles 


La Symphonie Pastorale • Macao, I’enfer du jeu 

Du rififi chez les hommes • Le salaire de la peur 

Valse et Tango 

Slovak RSO / Adriano .......................................................... 8.225136 

AUVRAY, Georges (? – 1931) 

Georges Auvray’s Escapade – Mazurka is a characteristic 

example of French ball-room music of his period. 

Escapade-Mazurka (LES SUCCES DE LA DANSE) 

Slovak RSO / Jerome Cohen .............................................. 8.223801 

AVSHALOMOFF, Aaron (1895 – 1964) 

Born in the Siberian city of Nikolayevsk in 1895, Aaron 

Avshalomoff became familiar with the sounds of China there, 

before making his escape east in 1917. He spent much of his 

life thereafter in China, working to provide a synthesis between 

Western and Chinese music. In 1947 he moved to the United 

States to join his musician son. His own music combines 

Chinese influences with Western techniques. 

Orchestral Music Vol. 1 

Symphony No. 1 • Flute Concerto 

Nadine Asin, Flute / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / 

Jacob Avshalomov / David Avshalomov .............................. 8.225033 


Violin Concerto • Soul of the Ch’in 

The Hutungs of Peking 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Jacob Avshalomov ........... 8.225034 



Piano Concerto • Symphony No. 2 

Elegy for Strings (David Avshalomov) 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Jacob Avshalomov ........... 8.225035 

BABADJANIAN, Arno (1921 – 1983) 

Born in the Armenian city of Erevan, Arno Babadjanian studied 

in Moscow, later returning to teach at the Erevan Conservatory. 

He is relatively conservative in musical language, with elements 

suggesting Khachaturian, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, by 

turns, but identifiably Armenian in his musical terms of reference. 

Violin Sonata in B flat minor 

Piano Trio in F sharp minor • Impromptu 

Ani Kavafian, Violin / Suren Bagratuni, Cello / 

Avo Kuyumjian, Piano ......................................................... 8.225030 

BALAKIREV, Mili Alexeyevich (1837 – 1910) 

Balakirev, a self-appointed leader of the Russian Mighty Handful, 

the group of five Russian nationalist composers, has been 

overshadowed by his colleagues Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin 

and Mussorgsky, if not by César Cui. He was a prolific and 

more than competent composer in various genres. Best known 

of his works is the virtuoso piano piece Islamey, one of a 

number of compositions for the keyboard, including a set of 

Mazurkas and three Scherzi, suggesting a debt to Chopin 

overtly acknowledged in his orchestral Chopin Suite. 

Chopin Suite • In Bohemia • King Lear 

Overture on a Spanish March Theme 

Singapore SO / Choo Hoey ................................................. 8.220324 

Scherzi and Mazurkas (Complete) 

Joseph Banowetz, Piano ..................................................... 8.220447 

BANTER, Harald (b. 1930) 

Harald Banter has won a reputation in Germany as a producer 

and broadcaster, as a pioneer in German jazz and as a 

composer, writing music of avowedly serious intent in which he 

explores deeper veins of musical experience. This last is 

particularly evident in his Phädra, inspired by the cellist Maria 

Kliegel and depicting the tragedy of the legendary Phaedra of 

the title. 

Phädra • Rhapsodic Intermezzo • Märchenbilder 

Prolog 2000 • Tod des Aktaeon 

Maria Kliegel, Cello / Beate Berthold, Piano 

North West German Philharmonic Orchestra 

Michail Jurowski .................................................................. 8.223860 

BARGIEL, Woldemar (1828 – 1897) 

Woldemar Bargiel was the son of Marianne Tromlitz, first wife 

of Friedrich Wieck and mother of Clara Schumann, and was 

taught by Moscheles and Niels W. Gade in Leipzig, before 

returning to his native Berlin, where he was later appointed 

professor of composition at the invitation of Joachim. His music 

is influenced by Schumann, who regarded him as one of the 

leading composers of the younger generation. 

Three Character Pieces, Op. 8 

Fantasies, Opp. 5 and 12 • Suite, Op. 31 

Daniel Blumenthal, Piano .................................................... 8.223606

BARRIOS, Ángel (1882 – 1964) 

Composer, guitarist and violinist, Ángel Barrios was the son of 

the famous flamenco guitarist Antonio Barrios. He studied in 

Granada, Madrid and Paris and in Granada once more won a 

reputation as a performer with his Trio Iberia of guitar, lute and 

bandurria, providing his friend Manuel de Falla with a link to the 

world of flamenco. His compositions belong essentially to the 

music of Granada. 

Piano Music (+ INFANTE) 

Angelita-Tango • Juanele-Garrotín • Danza de la 

cautiva • Suite Seguidilla Gitana • La Ronda 

Alcaicería-Farruca • En las cuevas del Darro- 

Seguidilla • Guajiras 

Eugenia Gabrieluk, Piano ................................................... 8.225164 

BARRY, Gerald (b.1952) 

The Irish composer Gerald Barry offers a considerable challenge 

to audiences in the musical idiom he has made his own, 

composing works with a wide frame of reference, as, for 

example, in his Chevaux-de-frise, based on thematic material 

derived from the ships of the Spanish Armada, wrecked on the 

coast of Ireland. 

Of Queen’s Gardens • Chevaux-De-Frise • Flamboys 

Sur Les Pointes • Hard D • Diner 

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland / 

Robert Houlihan ................................................................... 8.225006 

BARTÓK, Béla (1881 – 1945) 

Bartók remains one of the most important composers of the 

twentieth century, with an individual musical language that 

absorbed and transformed material from his researches with 

his friend Kodály into the folk-music of Hungary and surrounding 

regions. Distinguished also as a pianist, Bartók made a 

number of interesting transcriptions of earlier music for the 

keyboard, a reflection of another aspect of his genius. 

Piano Transcriptions 

(Italian Keyboard Music of the 17th and 18th 

centuries) 

Ilona Prunyi, Piano .............................................................. 8.223663 

BAX, Arnold (1883 – 1953) 

Much influenced by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats, Arnold Bax 

identified strongly with the Celtic, expressed in his work as a 

composer in an easily assimilable musical language. Bax 

wrote a considerable amount of orchestral music and scores 

for the theatre and cinema, including music for the 1948 film of 

Dickens’s Oliver Twist. His Celtic preoccupations appear in a 

number of tone poems, including Tintagel and The Garden of 

Fand, and in many of his songs. 

Oh Dear! What can the Matter Be? (arr. BAX) 

(A SHEAF OF SONGS FROM IRELAND) 

Bernadette Greevy, Mezzo-soprano / 

Hugh Tinney, Piano ............................................................. 8.225098 

Sinfonietta • Overture, Elegy and Rondo 

Slovak Philharmonic / Barry Wordsworth ............................ 8.223102 


BELL, William Henry (1873 – 1946) 

In earlier years a professor of harmony and counterpoint at the 

Royal Academy of Music in London, W. H. Bell moved in 1912 

to South Africa as Principal of the South African College of 

Music in Cape Town and later as Professor of Music and Dean 

of the Music Faculty of the University of Cape Town. He 

exercised a strong influence on music in South Africa. 

A South African Symphony 

(SOUTH AFRICAN ORCHESTRAL WORKS) 


South African Broadcasting Corporation / 

Richard Cock ....................................................................... 8.223833 

BELLA, Ján Levoslav (1843 – 1936) 

The Slovak composer Ján Levoslav Bella, ordained priest in 

1866, was associated with the Cecilian movement in his native 

country, later leaving the priesthood to become director of 

music in Hermannstadt, now Sibiu in modern Romania, with its 

then considerable German population. In the next forty years 

he established a reputation as a conductor and composer, 

respected by his contemporaries Brahms, Hans von Bülow, 

Joachim, Dohnányi and others and writing music that at times 

echoes Liszt or Schumann and at times is overtly Slovak. 

Sonata • Piece for Piano • Sonatina 

Four Little Pieces • Variations, Opp. 9 and 21 

Daniela Ruso, Piano ............................................................ 8.223644 

String Quartet, Op. 25 • String Quintet in D minor 

Moyzes Quartet / Frantisˇek Magyar, 2nd Viola ................... 8.223658 

String Quartet in E minor • String Quartet in B flat 

major • Notturno for String Quartet 

Moyzes Quartet ................................................................... 8.223839 

BENJAMIN, Arthur (1893 – 1960) 

Born in Australia, Arthur Benjamin made his career largely in 

England, where he studied and later taught. He won some 

fame as a composer of light music, notably for pieces of 

Caribbean or Latin American inspiration, but coupled this with 

work of much more serious intent. While generally cheerful in 

musical temperament, his Symphony reflects a more sombre 

side to his work. 

Symphony No. 1 • Ballade for String Orchestra 


Christopher Lyndon-Gee ..................................................... 8.223764 

BENNETT, William Sterndale (1816 – 1875) 

William Sterndale Bennett enjoyed the friendship and 

encouragement of Mendelssohn and Schumann, but devoted 

much of his career to teaching and administration as professor 

of music at Cambridge and later as principal of the Royal 

Academy of Music in London. A gifted pianist, he composed a 

variety of pieces for the piano, in addition to his four piano 

concertos. 

Piano Works Volume 1 

4 Pieces • Allegro grazioso • Geneviève 

Rondo piacevole • Scherzo • 3 Musical Sketches 

The Maid of Orleans 

Ilona Prunyi, Piano .............................................................. 8.223512


Suite de pièces Op. 24 • Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 13 



Capriccio • 3 Romances • 3 Impromptus 

30 Preludes and Lessons 


Sextet, Op. 8 • Duo Sonata, Op. 32 

Ilona Prunyi and Kálmán Dráfi, Pianos / 

András Kiss and Ferenc Balogh, Violins / 

László Bársony, Viola / Péter Kubina, Bass / 

Károly Botvay and György Kertész, Cellos .......................... 8.223304 

BENOIT, Peter (1834 – 1901) 

The Belgian composer Peter Benoit was a pupil of Fétis at the 

Brussels Conservatory, winning the Belgian Prix de Rome in 

1857 and subsequently moving to Paris as conductor at the 

Bouffes-Parisiens. Returning to Belgium, he founded in Antwerp 

the Flemish Music School, later the Royal Flemish Conservatory 

of Music. As a composer he aimed to create a school of Flemish 

music comparable to the national achievements of Liszt, Berlioz 

and Wagner. 

In the Fields 

(+ MEULEMANS / MORTELMANS / VAN HOOF) 

(FLEMISH ROMANTIC MUSIC II) 

Joost Gils, Oboe / VRT Philharmonic Orchestra / 

Silveer Van den Broeck ....................................................... 8.225101 

Piano Concerto • Flute Concerto 

Overture: Le roi des aulnes 

Luc Devos, Piano / Gaby Van Riet, Flute / 

Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra / 

Frédéric Devreese ............................................................... 8.223827 

BERNERS, Lord (1883 – 1950) 

Largely self-taught as a composer, Lord Berners was a figure 

of marked eccentricity and notable for his wide, if dilettante, 

cultural interests and abilities as a writer, painter and composer. 

His compositions, often satirical in intention, include a ballet for 

Dyagilev and ballets for Sadler’s Wells, with songs and orchestral 

and piano pieces that often demonstrate the same sharply 

perceptive if whimsical humour. 

Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement • Fanfare • Caprice 

Peruvien 

Soloists / Royal Ballet Sinfonia / RTE Sinfonietta / BBC Scottish 

Symphony Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland / David Lloyd–Jones / 

Nicholas Cleobury ............................................................... 8.225155 

Les Sirènes (Complete Ballet) • Caprice Péruvien 

Cupid and Psyche (Ballet Suite) 

Miriam Blennerhassett, Contralto / RTE Sinfonietta / 

David Lloyd-Jones ............................................................... 8.223780 

Songs and Piano Music 

Ian Partridge, Tenor / Len Vorster, Piano ........................... 8.225159 

The Triumph of Neptune • L’Uomo dai Baffi 

Valses Bourgeoises • Polka 

English Northern Philharmonic / Royal Ballet Sinfonia / 


Wedding Bouquet • Luna Park • March 

RTE Sinfonietta and Chamber Choir / Kenneth Alwyn ........ 8.223716 


BERWALD, Franz (1796 – 1868) 

The violinist and composer Franz Berwald has some claim to 

pre-eminence among Swedish composers, with three of his 

four mature symphonies written in the 1840s, at the height of 

his career. He turned his attention to chamber music in the 

decade from 1849, with compositions that include four attractive 

piano trios. 

Piano Trios Volume 2 

C major • E flat major (Fragment) 

C major (Fragment) • C major 

Kalman Drafi, Piano / Jozsef Modrian, Violin / 

György Kertész, Cello .......................................................... 8.223430 

BINGE, Ronald (1910 – 1979) 

Born in Derby in 1910, Ronald Binge’s career was chiefly as a 

composer and arranger of light music, initially for silent films 

and then for Mantovani, with whom he worked from 1935, with 

a break of five years for war service, later resigning in order to 

devote himself to composition. 

Elizabethan Serenade • The Watermill 

A Scottish Rhapsody • The Whispering Valley Trade 

Winds • Concerto for Alto Saxophone 

Slovak RSO / Ernest Tomlinson .......................................... 8.223515 

BLISS, Arthur (1891 – 1975) 

After early experiment, the English composer Arthur Bliss 

developed a more conventional Romantic musical idiom that 

won him a contemporary audience, with a number of film 

scores, incidental music for the theatre and ballet music. As 

Master of the Queen’s Musick he duly provided the music 

necessary for ceremonial occasions. 

Christopher Columbus • Seven Waves Away 

Baraza • Men of Two Worlds 


BLOCH, Ernest (1880 – 1959) 

Born in Switzerland, Ernest Bloch later became an American 

citizen, while retaining always a strong Jewish identity that led 

to a number of compositions of overtly Jewish inspiration. A 

series of orchestral compositions followed his First Symphony, 

completed in 1902 , including, in 1916, the well known Schelomo 

for cello and orchestra. His piano music covers a period from 

1914 to his last decade, with pieces of wit, invention and of 

weightier content. 

Four Episodes 

(+ SCHOENBERG / WOLF-FERRARI) 

MiNensemblet ...................................................................... 8.223868 

Piano Works (Complete) Volume 1 

Poems of the Sea • Nirvana • In the Night 

Five Sketches in Sepia • Enfantines 

Four Circus Pieces 

István Kassai, Piano ............................................................ 8.223288 


Ex-voto • Sonata • Danse sacrée 

Visions and Prophecies 


Symphony in C sharp minor 

Slovak Philharmonic / Stephen Gunzenhauser ................... 8.223103

BLOCKX, Jan (1851 – 1912) 

The Flemish Dances of Jan Blockx are a characteristic reflection 

of the music of Belgium. A pupil of Peter Benoit and, in Leipzig, 

a friend of Grieg and of Sinding, he is an important composer 

of Flemish opera, here and elsewhere drawing on the traditions 

of Flemish folk-music in which he had been trained. 

Flemish Dances (FLEMISH ROMANTIC MUSIC) 

BRT Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels / 

Alexander Rhabari ............................................................... 8.223418 

BLUMENFELD, Felix (1863 – 1931) 

A Ukrainian of Polish extraction, Felix Blumenfeld was a pupil 

of Rimsky-Korsakov and himself taught piano at the St 

Petersburg Conservatory, where his pupils included Horowitz. 

As a pianist he followed the tradition of Anton Rubinstein, an 

influence apparent in his own compositions for the piano. 

Etudes 

Daniel Blumenthal, Piano .................................................... 8.223656 

BODLEY, Seóirse (b. 1933) 

Seóirse Bodley was born in Dublin in 1933 and studied at the 

Royal Irish Academy of Music and at University College, 

Dublin, spending the years from 1957 to 1959 in Stuttgart, 

where he studied with Johann Nepomuk David. He returned 

to Dublin to take up a position at University College. Active as 

a conductor and accompanist, he has coupled an interest in 

contemporary trends in music with a study of Irish folk-music 

and of traditional Gaelic singing. Bodley’s Symphony No.4 

includes Irish elements in a modern context, while Symphony 

No.5 was written to mark the Limerick Treaty and the preceding 

historical sieges and conflicts. 

Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 “The Limerick Symphony” 


Colman Pearce .................................................................... 8.225157 

BOECK, August de (1865 – 1937) 

Influenced by Rimsky-Korsakov and the Russian ‘Five’, the 

Belgian composer August de Boeck was taught by Paul Gilson, 

with whom he is credited with the introduction of musical 

impressionism into Belgium. He was among the most 

distinguished Belgian composers of his generation, contributing 

notably to music for the stage, choral and chamber music. 

Fantasy on Two Flemish Folksongs 

(FLEMISH ROMANTIC MUSIC) 


Alexander Rhabari ............................................................... 8.223418 

Symphony in G • Violin Concerto 

Dahomeyan Rhapsody 

Guido De Neve, Violin / Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra / 


BOËLLMANN, Léon (1862 – 1897) 

The best known music by the French organist Boëllmann is the 

organ Toccata from his Suite Gothique, an obligatory and 

apparent tour de force for any performer on the instrument. He 

wrote music in other genres, however, including, in the 1890s, 

a piano quartet and piano trio. 


Piano Quartet, Op. 10 • Piano Trio, Op. 19 

Ilona Prunyi, Piano / Béla Bánfalvi, Violin / 

János Fejérvári, Viola / Károly Botvay, Cello ....................... 8.223524 

BORODIN, Alexander Porfir’yevich (1833 – 1887) 

The illegitimate son of a Georgian prince, Borodin enjoyed a 

public career as a professor of chemistry, to which his activity 

as a composer took second place. He was one of the group 

of Russian nationalist composers known as the Five or the 

Mighty Handful and is best known for his unfinished opera 

Prince Igor, the second of his string quartets and his two 

completed symphonies, with the musical picture In the Steppes 

of Central Asia. His completed chamber music includes an 

attractive piano quintet, two string quartets and a cello sonata. 

Piano Quintet • String Quintet • Cello Sonata 

Ottó Kertész Jr., Cello / Ilona Prunyi, Piano / 

New Budapest Quartet ........................................................ 8.223172 

BOULANGER, Lili (1893 – 1918) 

Younger sister of Nadia Boulanger, Lili Boulanger, in her short 

life, left her own mark on French music. She was the first 

woman to win the Grand Prix de Rome and left music that was 

evocative and very much reflected the art of the Impressionists 

in its beauty. 

Thème et variations • D’un matin de printemps 

Nocturne • Cortège • Clairières dans le ciel 

D’un vieux jardin • D’un jardin clair 

Dans l’immense tristesse • Le Retour 

Pie Jesu (+ NADIA BOULANGER) 

Olivier Charlier, Violin / Doris Reinhardt, Mezzo-Soprano / 

Isabelle Sabrié, Soprano / Sylvie Robert, Soprano / 

Roland Pidoux, Cello / Catherine Marchese, Bassoon / 

Emile Naoumoff, Piano ........................................................ 8.223636 

BOULANGER, Nadia (1887 – 1979) 

Nadia Boulanger composed principally between 1906 and 

1922, thereafter establishing a position as the leading teacher 

of composition to a whole generation of composers, in particular 

a series of young American composers from Aaron Copland 

onwards. Her effect on twentieth century music and taste has 

been very considerable. 

Lux aeterna • Le Couteau • Vers la vie nouvelle 

Cello and Piano Works (+ LILI BOULANGER) 

Olivier Charlier, Violin / Doris Reinhardt, Mezzo-Soprano / 

Isabelle Sabrié, Soprano / Sylvie Robert, Soprano / 

Roland Pidoux, Cello / Catherine Marchese, Bassoon / 


BOURGAULT–DUCOUDRAY, Louis-Albert 

(1840 – 1910) 

Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray studied in Nantes and in 

1862 won the Prix de Rome. He was among the first musicians 

to introduce French audiences to the exotic, from both the 

popular and the classical domain. Rapsodie cambodgienne, 

written in 1882, with the subtitle Khnénh Préavossa (The Feast 

of Water), is a colourful oriental rhapsody, making use of 

themes from Cambodia, much as the Russian nationalists had 

turned to exotic musical material. 

Rapsodie cambodgienne (+FANELLI) 

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adriano ............. # 8.225234

BOYDELL, Brian (1917 – 2000) 

Born in Dublin and educated at Cambridge and Heidelberg, at 

the Royal College of Music in London and at the Dublin Royal 

Irish Academy, Brian Boydell played a leading part in the 

development of music in Ireland as a conductor, composer, 

teacher and adviser. His very varied works are generally tonal 

but by no means conventional in their terms of reference or 

musical treatment, exploring scale material of different kinds 

and modal writing that reflects the national Irish origin of his 

inspiration. 

In Memoriam Mahatma Gandhi 

Violin Concerto • Masai Mara, Op. 87 

Megalithic Ritual Dances for Large Orchestra 

Maighread McCrann, Violin / National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland / 

Colman Pearce .................................................................... 8.223887 

BRAGA SANTOS, Joly (1924 - 1988) 

A pupil of Freitas Branco, Joly Braga Santos, the leading 

Portuguese symphonist of his generation, developed his 

personal style from something akin to English composers of 

the 1930s to an idiom taking account of other musical 

development and of national elements. 

Concerto in D • Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, 

Strings and Harp • Variations Concertantes 

Sinfonietta 

Bradley Creswick, Violin / Alexander Somov, Cello / 

Northern Sinfonia / Alvaro Cassuto ..................................... 8.225186 

Symphony No. 1 • Symphony No. 5, 

‘Virtus Lusitaniae’ 

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra / Álvaro Cassuto ............ 8.223879 

Symphony No. 2 • Encruzilhada 

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / 

Álvaro Cassuto .................................................................... 8.225216 

Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 

Ana Ester Neves, Soprano / Chorus of the Teatro Nacional de São 

Carlos / João Paulo Santos, Director / Portuguese Symphony 

Orchestra / Álvaro Cassuto ................................................. 8.225087 

Symphony No. 4 • Symphonic Variations on a popular 

song from the Alentejo 


Álvaro Cassuto .................................................................... 8.225233 

BRETÓN, Tomás (1850 – 1923) 

A native of Salamanca, Tomás Bretón rose from relatively 

humble circumstances to become a leading figure in Spanish 

music, director of the Madrid Conservatory and an important 

conductor. His chamber music, unlike his orchestral works, is 

not obviously Spanish in inspiration but written in a much more 

international style, drawing inspiration from both Vienna and 

Paris. 

Piano Trio in E major • String Quartet in D major 

György Oravecz, Piano / New Budapest Quartet ................ 8.223745 

BRIAN, Havergal (1876 – 1972) 

The English composer Havergal Brian, in a long career, made 

little concession to the practical economies of performance in 

a series of orchestral compositions on a grand scale, including 

32 symphonies, many of which were for long denied 


professional performance. The massive Gothic Symphony, 

the first of these, was written between 1919 and 1927 and 

includes a setting of the Te Deum. The last symphony was 

written in 1968. Havergal Brian’s works are now at last winning 

a hearing, after earlier neglect. His musical language is 

complex but tonal and however eccentric he is never less than 

impressive. 

Jolly Miller Overture • Violin Concerto 

Symphony No. 18 

Marat Bisengaliev, Violin / BBC Scottish SO / 

Lionel Friend ........................................................................ 8.223479 

Symphony No. 2 • Festival Fanfare 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Tony Rowe ...................... 8.223790 

Symphonies Nos. 11 & 15 • For Valour 

Dr. Merryheart 


Adrian Leaper / Tony Rowe ................................................ 8.223588 

Symphonies Nos. 17 and 32 

In Memoriam • Festal Dance 

National SO of Ireland / Adrian Leaper ................................ 8.223481 


Fantastic Variations on an Old Rhyme 

National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine / 

Andrew Penny ..................................................................... 8.223731 

BRIDGE, Frank (1879 – 1941) 

Frank Bridge, the much respected teacher of Benjamin Britten, 

was a distinguished viola-player and, as a composer, initially in 

the romantic tradition, His Cello Sonata marks a period of 

transition towards a much more radical style, the result of his 

despair at the uselessness of war. 

Cello Sonata • Mélodie (+ TOVEY) 

Rebecca Rust, Cello / David Apter, Piano ........................... 8.223637 

BRUNEAU, Alfred (1857 – 1934) 

The name of Alfred Bruneau must be associated particularly 

with that of the novelist Zola, his collaborator in a number of 

successful operas, in a French version of the realism current in 

contemporary opera in Italy. Bruneau wrote a quantity of vocal 

music, in addition to his music for the theatre, with orchestral 

music that often demonstrates the influence of Wagner. 

Entr’acte pour IVe acte de Messidor 

La légende de l’or (Messidor) 

Prélude du Naïs Micoulin 

Suite tirée de l’Opéra L’attaque du moulin 

Rhenish PO / James Lockhart ............................................. 8.223498 

BUCKLEY, John (b. 1951) 

A pupil of James Wilson in Dublin and of Alun Hoddinott in 

Cardiff, John Buckley has won an established position as a 

composer in his native Ireland, writing music that ranges from 

exciting energy to the icy picture of winter that opens his First 

Symphony, a work that follows the progress of the seasons. 

Organ Concerto • Symphony No. 1 

Peter Sweeney, Organ / 


Colman Pearce .................................................................... 8.223876

Piano Music 

Three Preludes for Piano 

And Wake the Purple Year 

Three Lullabies for Deirdre • The Silver Apples of the 

Moon, The Golden Apples of the Sun 

Winter Music • Oileáin 

Anthony Byrne, Piano .......................................................... 8.223784 

BÜLOW, Hans von (1830 – 1894) 

Hans von Bülow, distinguished as a pianist and as a conductor, 

became a piano pupil of Liszt, whose daughter Cosima he 

married, and was encouraged as a conductor by Wagner, who 

married Cosima after her divorce from her first husband. Von 

Bülow’s compositions for piano are technically demanding, as 

befits one of Liszt’s most distinguished pupils. 

Iphigenie in Aulis • Rêverie Fantastique 

Tarantella • Valse Caractéristique 


CAPLET, André (1878 – 1925) 

An associate and trusted collaborator with Debussy, André 

Caplet won the Prix de Rome in 1901, establishing himself as a 

composer and later as a conductor of eminence. He was 

entrusted by Debussy with completing the orchestration of the 

former’s Le martyre de Saint-Sébastien and the direction of its 

first performance. 

Le Miroir de Jésus 

Brigitte Desnoues, Mezzo-soprano / Maîtrise de Radio France / 

Orchestre des Pays de Savoie / Mark Foster ...................... 8.225043 

Myrrha (Cantata) (+ DEBUSSY / RAVEL) 

Sharon Coste, Soprano / Marc Duguay, Tenor / 

Jean-François Lapointe, Baritone / 

Chœur et Orchestre de Paris-Sorbonne / 

Jacques Grimbert ................................................................ 8.223755 

Nihavend • Légende • Marche triomphale et 

pompière • (Debussy) Children’s Corner • Clair de 

Lune • Pagodes 


CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, Mario (1895 – 1968) 

Born in Florence, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, who was of Jewish 

origin, moved to the United States in 1939. He was one of the 

most prolific Italian composers of his generation and wrote a 

considerable quantity of music in an attractive idiom. Among 

his most successful compositions are his Shakespeare songs, 

written in the 1920s, and followed by settings of a number of 

Shakespeare sonnets in later years. 

Shakespeare Songs 

Anne Victoria Banks, Soprano / 

William Wellborn, Piano ....................................................... 8.223729 

CASTILLO, Ricardo (1894 – 1967) 

Ricardo Castillo studied music in Paris, with harmony lessons 

from Paul Vidal, returning to his native Guatemala after some 

sixteen years in France, to teach subsequently at the National 

Conservatory. His Sinfonietta is neo-classical in style, while in 

other orchestral compositions he came to explore the early 

legends of Guatemala. 


Guatemala 

Paál Kabá • Estelas de Tikal • Quiché Achi 

La Doncella Ixquic • Abstracción 

Instantáneas Plásticas 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Antonio de Almeida .......... 8.223719 

Piano Music Vol. 1 

Massimiliano Damerini, Piano ............................................ 8.225077 

Sinfonietta • Xibalbá • Guatemala I • Guatemala II 

(+ MARTINEZ-SOBRAL) 


CHOPIN, Fryderyk (1810 – 1849) 

The greater part of Chopin’s music is for his own instrument, 

the piano. His Variations on a Theme from Rossini’s La 

Cenerentola, originally for flute and piano, is more widely 

known in an arrangement for flute and harp. 

Variations on a Theme of Rossini 

(ROMANTIC MUSIC FOR FLUTE AND HARP) 

Marc Grauwels, Flute / Catherine Michel, Harp ................... 8.220441 

CIMAROSA, Domenico (1749 – 1801) 

Trained in Naples, where he was employed as a successful 

composer of comic opera and a member of the court chapel, 

Cimarosa also won a wider name for himself, serving at court 

in St Petersburg and later in Vienna, before returning to Naples. 

There he sided with Republicans and was briefly imprisoned 

when the monarchy was restored. He spent his last days in 

Venice. A near contemporary of Mozart, he wrote attractive 

and successful music for the theatre, exemplified in the overtures 

to his oepras. 

Overtures 

Volodimiro • La baronessa Stramba • Le stravaganze 

del conte • Il matrimonio segreto • L’infedeltà fedele 

Il ritorno di Don Calendrino • Il Falegname 

Cleopatra • Il convito • La vergine del sole 

Il credulo • L’impresario in angustie • La vergine del 

sole 

Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia / Alessandro Amoretti ............ 8.225181 

ČIURLIONIS, Mikolajus Konstantinas (1875 – 1911) 

The Lithuanian painter and composer Čiurlionis studied music 

in Warsaw and then in Leipzig, returning to Warsaw to study 

further as a painter. His colourful orchestral music includes 

evocative programme pieces, notably the symphonic poems 

The Sea and In the Forest. 


Mûza Rubackyté, Piano ....................................................... 8.223549 


Mûza Rubackyté, Piano ....................................................... 8.223550 

The Sea • In the Forest • Five Preludes 

Slovak Philharmonic / Juozas Domarkas ............................ 8.223323 

COATES, Eric (1886 – 1957) 

The English composer Eric Coates won a reputation chiefly for 

light music, of which his march Knightsbridge, from his London 

Suite, is among the best known examples. Particularly familiar 

is the March from the film The Dam Busters.

By the Sleepy Lagoon • Springtime Suite 

Saxo-Rhapsody Footlights Waltz • Four Ways Suite 

8th Army March • Lazy Night • Last Love 

High Flight March 

Slovak RSO / Andrew Penny ............................................... 8.223521 

Songs: Four Old English Songs 

The Mill o’Dreams • Princess of the Dawn 

and others 

Richard Edgar-Wilson, Tenor / Eugene Asti, Piano / 

Michael Ponder, Viola .......................................................... 8.223806 

The Merrymakers • London Suite • Cinderella 

The Selfish Giant • London Again Suite 

Calling All Workers • The Dam Busters 

Slovak RSO / Adrian Leaper ............................................... 8.223445 

COLERIDGE–TAYLOR, Samuel (1875 – 1912) 

Born in London, the son of a doctor from Sierra Leone and an 

English mother, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is best known for his 

settings of Longfellow’s poem Hiawatha and by his orchestral 

Petite suite de concert, which also appeared in a popular 

keyboard version. His style has been compared to that of 

Dvorˇák and he shared at least with that composer a source of 

inspiration in Longfellow. 

Hiawatha Overture • Petite Suite • Four Waltzes 

Gipsy Suite • Romance • Othello Suite 

RTE Concert Orchestra / Adrian Leaper ............................. 8.223516 

CONFREY, Zez (1895 – 1971) 

Best remembered for his Kitten on the Keys, a piano piece that 

breathes the spirit of the 1920s, Zez Confrey remains one of the 

most creative American composers of light piano music of his 

time. 

Piano Music 

African Suite • Wise Cracker Suite 

Kitten on the Keys 

Moods for a New Yorker and others 

Eteri Andjaparidze, Piano .................................................... 8.223826 

CORCORAN, Frank (b. 1944) 

The Irish composer Frank Corcoran studied in Dublin and in 

Rome, before working under Boris Blacher in Berlin. He has 

made his career largely in Germany, teaching composition in 

Hamburg and winning a European reputation for his idiosyncratic 

work. 

Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 & 4 


Colman Pearce ................................................................... 8.225107 

COWEN, Frederic Hymen (1852 – 1935) 

Well known in his time as a conductor, pianist and composer, 

Frederic Cowen was once known as ‘the English Schubert’ for 

his contribution to English song. He regarded himself as a 

symphonist, with six symphonies to his credit, but excelled in 

lighter music, exemplified in the concert overture The Butterfly’s 

Ball, inspired by a well known children’s poem. More exotic is 

his Indian Rhapsody, first performed at the Hereford Festival in 

1903. 

Symphony No. 3 “Scandinavian” 

The Butterfly’s Ball • Indian Rhapsody 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Adrian Leaper ......................... 8.223273 


CUI, César (1835 – 1918) 

A member of the Five, the Mighty Handful of Russian nationalist 

composers led by Balakirev, César Cui enjoyed a public career 

as a professor of military fortification. He was well known as a 

music critic, his harsh judgements as depressing to Tchaikovsky 

as they later were to Rachmaninov. As a composer he was 

happier in smaller forms, where he reached a level of 

achievement not equalled in his ambitious operas. Shorter 

orchestral works include four attractive suites. 

Suite Concertante Op. 25 • Suite Miniature Op. 20 

Suite Op. 43 “In Modo Populari” 

Takako Nishizaki, Violin / Hong Kong PO / 

Kenneth Schermerhorn ....................................................... 8.220308 

Suite No. 2, Op. 38 • The Buccaneer 

Suite No. 4 “A Argenteau”, Op. 40 

Slovak RSO / Robert Stankovsky ........................................ 8.223400 

CURZON, Frederic (1899 – 1973) 

Curzon spent his career in the composition and performance of 

light music, in the second capacity as an organist. His well 

known compositions, including the suites In Malaga and Robin 

Hood, show a thoroughly competent handling of English light 

musical idiom. 

The Boulevardier • Punchinello • In Malaga 

Dance of An Ostracised Imp • Spanish Caprice 

Robin Hood Suite 


DAVID, Félicien (1810 – 1876) 

Félicien David was closely associated with the Saint-Simonians, 

at first in France and then for a time in Egypt, where he was 

drawn to oriental and exotic subjects, evident in his piano 

pieces Les brises d’orient and Les minarets, and in much else 

that he wrote, in a career that eventually brought him official 

distinction in Paris. 

Les Brises d’Orient • Les Minarets 


Piano Trios Nos. 2 & 3 

Ilona Prunyi, Piano / Eszter Perényi, Violin / 

Tibor Párkányi, Cello ........................................................... 8.223492 

DAVID, Ferdinand (1810 – 1873) 

Ferdinand David is better remembered as a violinist than as 

composer. He worked with Mendelssohn as leader of the 

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, retraining the position until 

his death. Respected as a teacher and as editor, particularly 

of violin studies, he was also a prolific composer in a style 

typical of its period and place. 

Introduction and Variations on a theme by Schubert, 

Op. 8 (CLARINET AND ORCHESTRA) 

Dieter Klöcker, Clarinet / Slovak RSO / 

Gernot Schmalfuss .............................................................. 8.223431 

DE GREEF, Arthur (1862 – 1940) 

The Belgian pianist and composer Arthur De Greef enjoyed a 

very considerable reputation in the former capacity, as a pupil 

of Liszt and later of Saint-Saëns and a brilliant virtuoso performer. 

As a composer De Greef shows a generally romantic

temperament, with piano concertos as a vehicle for his own 

virtuosity and other compositions that reflect his background 

and character. His Piano Concerto No. 1 was dedicated to 

Saint-Saëns, who expressed great enthusiam about the work, 

while Piano Concerto No. 2 follows a programme of anguish, 

separation and renewed hope. 

Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 

André de Groote, Piano / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / 


DEANE, Raymond (b. 1953) 

The Irish composer Raymond Deane studied music in Dublin, 

going on to further study of composition under Gerald Bennett 

in Basle, Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne and the late Isang 

Yun in Berlin. His Violin Concerto is based on a story by 

E.T.A.Hoffmann, while his Oboe Concerto features the soloist 

as an exile from an often aggressive orchestra. 

Oboe Concerto • Krespel’s Concerto • Quarternion 

Anthony Byrne, Piano / Matthew Manning, Oboe / 

Alan Smale, Violin / National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland / 

Pierce Colman ..................................................................... 8.225106 

DEBUSSY, Claude (1862 – 1918) 

Claude Debussy occupies a position of central importance not 

only in the music of his native France but in the development 

of music in the twentieth century. While much of his piano 

music is very well known, less familiar are transcriptions for 

piano that he made largely as a student. These include, in 

particular, arrangements for Nadezhda von Meck, the patroness 

and confidante of Tchaikovsky, in whose family Debussy spent 

holiday periods as teacher of her younger children and housemusician. 

His Prix de Rome competition entry Le Printemps 

deserves attention as more than a curiosity, while The Girl with 

the Flaxen Hair, originally a piano piece, is popular in a variety 

of arrangements. 

Arrangements for 2 Pianos 

Daniel Blumenthal / Robert Groslot ..................................... 8.223378 

Le Printemps (Cantata) (+ CAPLET / RAVEL) 

Brigitte Desnoues, Soprano / Marc Duguay, Tenor / 




DELIUS, Frederick (1862 – 1934) 

Born in the northern English city of Bradford into a family of 

German origin, Delius seems a quintessentially English 

composer, in spite of his musical training in Leipzig and his 

subsequent long residence in France. Less well known than 

his rhapsodic celebrations of England are his American 

Rhapsody, recalling a period spent as an orange-grower in 

Florida, and Paa Vidderne, inspired by Ibsen, evidence of 

Delius’s friendship with Grieg. 

American Rhapsody • Norwegian Suite 

Paa Vidderne • Spring Morning 

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / John Hopkins .................. 8.220452 

DEMUS, Jörg (b. 1928) 

Distinguished as a pianist, Jörg Demus studied in Vienna, 

where he made his début in 1953. Well known both as a soloist 


and as a partner in song recitals and in chamber music, he has 

also made his own particular contribution to chamber music, 

not least in his music for cello and piano. 

Works for Cello and Piano 

Sonate poétique, Op. 8 • Amour, Op. 21 

Sonata “Il Tramonto”, Op. 35 • Nuit d’Etoiles, Op. 14 

Maria Kliegel, Cello / Jörg Demus, Piano ............................ 8.225036 

DESSAU, Paul (1894 – 1979) 

Paul Dessau enjoyed early distinction in Germany as a 

conductor, subsequently developing his gifts as a composer. 

Political circumstances led him to move to Paris in 1933 and in 

1939 to the United States of America, where he continued an 

earlier collaboration with Brecht and worked as a film composer 

in Hollywood. He returned to East Germany in 1948, and 

worked further with Brecht, as well as contributing notably to a 

variety of musical genres. 

House of Frankenstein 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / William T. Stromberg ........ 8.223748 

DEUTSCH, Adolph (1897 – 1980) 

Born in London and trained there at the Royal Academy of 

Music, Adolph Deutsch settled in the United States in 1910, by 

the 1920s working as a dance-band arranger. He found his true 

vocation in music for the cinema, working for Warner Bros and, 

from 1948, for M-G-M, followed by United Artists. His work for 

Warner Bros included scores for films such as The Maltese 

Falcon, High Sierra, The Mask of Dimitrios and Northern 

Pursuit, released in the early 1940s. 

The Maltese Falcon • George Washington Slept Here 

The Mask of Dimitrios • High Sierra • Northern 

Pursuit 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / 

William T. Stromberg ........................................................... 8.225169 

DEVREESE, Frédéric (b. 1929) 

The Belgian conductor and composer Frédéric Devreese had 

his musical training in Rome and Vienna, returning to make a 

career largely in Belgian Radio and Television. His piano 

concertos are in an eclectic but immediately comprehensible 

musical language. 

Benvenuta Suite • Un Soir, un Train 

L’Oeuvre au Noir Suite • Belle 

BRT Philharmonic, Brussels / Frédéric Devreese ............... 8.223681 

Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 3 & 4 

Daniel Blumenthal / BRT Philharmonic, Brussels / 


23 Pieces for Piano 

André de Groote, Piano ....................................................... 8.223651 

DEVREESE, Godfried (1893 – 1972) 

The Belgian violinist Godfried Devreese was a pupil of Ysaÿe 

and César Thomson. He led the Kurhaus Orchestra in The 

Hague and was a member of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 

Amsterdam, also working as a conductor in Antwerp and 

Brussels. He spent some 29 years as director of the Malines 

Conservatory, establishing the city as an important musical 

centre. The compositions of Devreese, romantic in general

style, include concertos, symphonies and a wide variety of 

works. His reputation as a composer has remained largely 

limited to his own country. 

Symphony No. 1 “The Gothic” • Poème Héroïque 

In Memoriam 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Frédéric Devreese ............ 8.223739 

Tombelène • Violin Concerto No. 1 

Cello Concertino 

Guido de Neve, Violin / Viviane Spanoghe, Cello / 


DIJK, Péter Louis Van (b. 1953) 

Peter Louis Van Dijk occupies an important position in the 

music of South Africa, known as a composer for his use of 

elements of indigenous African music in his work, not least in 

the San Gloria, which makes use of the Gloria in excelsis of 

Western Catholic tradition and of themes and rhythms drawn 

from the music of Bushmen. 

San Gloria • San Chronicle (for Chamber Orchestra) 

(AFRICAN SONGS) 



DOCKER, Robert (1919 – 1992) 

Born in London, Robert Docker enjoyed an early career as an 

arranger and accompanist, particularly in lighter music. His 

achievement as a composer, both in Britain and Australia, was 

considerable, including the familiar Legend, the classic light 

miniature Tabarinage and his tribute to Wales in the St David’s 

Day The Spirit of Cambria. 

Orchestral Music 

Tabarinage • Pastiche Variations • Legend 

Fairy Dance Reel 

William Davies, Piano / David Presley, Oboe / 

RTE Concert Orchestra / Barry Knight ................................ 8.223837 

DONIZETTI, Gaetano (1797 – 1848) 

Donizetti is well known as one of the leading composers of 

Italian opera, particularly in the period immediately before 

Verdi’s successful Nabucco in 1842, shortly before the staging 

of Donizetti’s final operas. Donizetti’s other works include a 

large number of songs and other vocal compositions, piano 

music and interesting early chamber music that is very much in 

the Italian style of the period. 

Instrumental Concertos 

Soloists / Camerata Budapest / László Kovács ................... 8.223701 

Sinfonias (D minor • A major • D major) 

Failoni Chamber Orchestra / Géza Oberfrank ..................... 8.223577 

Sonata (ROMANTIC MUSIC FOR FLUTE AND HARP) 


DROUET, Louis (1792 – 1873) 

The French flautist Louis Drouet enjoyed a long and generally 

successful career, visiting a number of countries and cities 

during his life. His Variations on ‘Believe me, if all those 

endearing young charms’ date from a period when he had set 

up business in London, after his first successful concerts there. 


Introduction and Variations on an English Theme 



DUBOIS, Pierre Max (1930 – 1995) 

A pupil of Darius Milhaud at the Paris Conservatoire, Pierre 

Max Dubois won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1955 and continued 

a career in Paris as a teacher and composer, with some twenty 

symphonies to his credit among a variety of other works. His 

masterly and attractive Saxophone Concerto for the saxophonist 

Daniel Gremelle was completed a few days before his death. 

Concerto No. 2 for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra 

(FRENCH SAXOPHONE CONCERTOS) 

(+ RIVIER / SCIORTINO) 

Daniel Gremelle, Saxophone / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra 

(Kosˇice) / Bystrík Rezˇucha .................................................. 8.225127 

DUNCAN, Trevor (b. 1924) 

Much of the music of Trevor Duncan must be well known to 

listeners, not least the March from his Little Suite, used as the 

signature-tune for the BBC series Dr. Finlay’s Casebook. For 

many years a sound-engineer with the BBC, Duncan, a selftaught 

composer, provided music for cinema news-reels and a 

stream of well-crafted light music, much of it now very familiar. 

Little Suite •␣ Children in the Park 

20th Century Express • Maestro Variations 

The Girl from Corsica • Meadow Mist 

Valse Mignonette • Wine Festival • Sixpenny Ride 

Enchanted April • St. Boniface Down • La Torrida 

The Visionaries Grand March •␣ Little Debbie 

High Heels 


DVORˇ ÁK, Antonín (1841 – 1904) 

The Czech composer Antonín Dvorˇák spent the earlier part of his 

life as a viola-player in the Prague Czech Theatre and during his 

later career wrote a number of Czech operas which are less often 

heard abroad than his very familiar symphonies, concertos and 

chamber music. An introduction to some of the music of the 

operas may be found in collections of Overtures and in orchestral 

excerpts from works by which the composer set very considerable 

store. 

Opera Overtures and Preludes 

CSSR State Philharmonic / Robert Stankovsky .................. 8.223272 

Rhapsody Op. 14 

Overtures (Vanda / Selma Sedlak / Dramatic) 

Slovak Philharmonic / Libor Pesˇek / 

Stephen Gunzenhauser ....................................................... 8.220420 

EINEM, Gottfried von (1918 – 1996) 

Gottfried von Einem was among the most distinguished Austrian 

composers, educated in Germany and in England and a pupil 

of Boris Blacher. His musical language is tonal, often with a 

tendency to the neo-classical. His Violin Concerto, completed 

in 1967, is a good introduction to his music. 

Violin Concerto, Op. 33 

Night on Bare Mountain • Kupelwieser-Walzer 

Christiane Edinger / NDR Symphony Orchestra / 

Alfred Walter ........................................................................ 8.223138

EMMANUEL, Maurice (1862 – 1938) 

Maurice Emmanuel was at first a pupil of Delibes at the Paris 

Conservatoire, but disagreement led instead to private lessons 

with Bizet’s friend Guiraud. He later taught history of music at the 

Conservatoire, showing a particular interest in folk-song and 

modal music, elements in his own style as a composer. His 

breadth of interest is shown in three stage-works, two based on 

Aeschylus and one on Plautus. His wide general interests and 

detailed knowledge of the history of Western music are reflected 

in his two symphonies and other orchestral works, with a second 

Breton symphony based on the legend of the submerged kingdom 

of le roi d’Ys. 

Songs of Burgundy 

Florence Katz, mezzo-soprano / Jean-Pierre Quenaudon, tenor / 

Laure Rivierre, piano / Choeur Régional de Bourgogne / 

Roger Toulet ........................................................................ 8.223891 

Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 • Le poème du Rhône 

Rhenish PO / James Lockhart / Gilles Nopre ...................... 8.223507 

ENESCU, George (1881 – 1955) 

Enescu enjoyed a double career as a violinist and as a 

composer. Although based for many years in Paris, he was 

nevertheless responsible for modern musical developments in 

his native Romania. His Romanian Rhapsodies remain in 

popular repertoire, but give little indication of a much wider 

range of compositions, including symphonies, orchestral suites 

and chamber music. 

Cello Sonata, Op. 26, No. 1 (+VILLA-LOBOS) 


Suites Nos. 1 & 2 • Concert Overture 

Romanian Radio & TV Orchestra / 

Iosif Conta / Constantin Silvestri .......................................... 8.223144 

Suite No. 3 “Village” • Suite Châtelaine 

Voix de la Nature 


Timiseara Banatul PO / Iosif Conta / Remus Georgescu .... 8.223145 

Symphony No. 1 • Sinfonia Concertante 

Valentin Arcu, Cello / George Enescu State PO / 


Mihai Brediceanu / Iosif Conta ............................................. 8.223141 

Symphony No. 2 • “Vox Maris” Symphonic Poem 

George Enescu State PO / 

Chorus & Orchestra of Iasy Moldova Philharmonic / 

Horia Andreescu / Ion Baciu ................................................ 8.223142 


Chamber Symphony for 12 Solo Instruments 

Cluj-Napoca PO & Chorus / Ion Baciu ................................. 8.223143 

ERKEL, Ferenc (1810 – 1893) 

Descended from a family resident for generations in the then 

Hungarian city of Pozsony (the modern Slovakian capital 

Bratislava), Ferenc Erkel was a leading figure in Hungarian 

music in a period of growing national fervour. This is evident 

in his piano music, much of it written in the 1840s, testimony to 

his own distinction as a pianist. 

Opera Transcriptions 



Piano Works • Chamber Music 

István Kassai, Piano / Ferenc Szecsódi, Violin / 

Péter Lukács, Viola .............................................................. 8.223317 

ESPLÁ, Óscar (1886 – 1976) 

The Spanish composer Oscar Esplá drew particular inspiration 

from his native Alicante, writing music that reflects his origin 

and making use of a synthetic scale of his own devising for this 

purpose. A man of wide cultural interests, he pursued parallel 

higher studies both in engineering and in the arts, and his music 

reflects this breadth of intellect. 

Complete Works for Piano Vol. I 

Sonata Española, Op. 53 

Levante - Melodias y Temas de Danza para Piano 

Tres Movimientos para Piano • Crepusculum 

Romanza Antigua • Cantos de Antaño 

Pedro Carboné, pianist ........................................................ 8.225045 

FAGAN, Gideon (1904 – 1980) 

A native of Somerset West in the Cape Province of South 

Africa, Gideon Fagan was trained in his own country and at the 

Royal College of Music in London, spending 27 years in 

England before returning home to take up the position of 

Manager of the Music Department of the South African 

Broadcasting Corporation. Well known as a conductor, he also 

enjoyed a reputation as a composer, making appropriate use 

in his work of material of African origin. 

Concert Overture in D • Ilala (Tone Poem) 

(SOUTH AFRICAN ORCHESTRAL WORKS) 

National Symphony Orchestra of the South African 

Broadcasting Corporation / Richard Cock / 

Peter Marchbank ................................................................. 8.223833 

Karoo Symphony 

(+ LISSANT–COLLINS / MOERANE) 

(SOUTH AFRICAN MUSIC) 

National Symphony Orchestra of S.A.B.C. / 


FANELLI, Ernest (1860 – 1917) 

Ernest Fanelli was expelled from the Paris Conservatoire, later 

returning to study with Delibes, until shortage of money finally 

compelled him to leave and support himself by work as a 

percussion-player or pianist. His compositions remained 

unknown until discovered by Pierné in 1912, 29 years after they 

were written. His work, prophetic of future music as an isolated 

forerunner of Debussy, fell into oblivion once more, now to be 

revived in the present recording of a surviving composition 

based on a novel by Théophile Gautier. 

Symphonic Pictures “The Romance of The Mummy” 

(+ BOURGAULT-DUCOUDRAY) 

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adriano ..................... 8.225234 

FARNON, Robert (b. 1917) 

Robert Farnon is well known for his contribution to light music. 

He was born in Canada and served in the Canadian army as 

conductor of the Canadian Band of the Allied Expeditionary 

Forces, later settling in England, where he established a 

reputation as a composer, conductor and arranger. Much of his 

music will prove very familiar to the listener.

Colditz March • State Occasion 

The Westminster Waltz • A Star is Born 

A la Claire Fontaine • Pictures in the Fire 

Lake in The Woods 


FÄSY, Albert (1837 – 1891) 

Born in Zurich in 1837, the son of a department store owner and 

city councillor, Albert Fäsy studied at Leipzig Conservatory and 

in Dresden, but won no great success in his lifetime. His 

ambitious orchestral works, too expensive perhaps for 

contemporary performance, include a remarkably dramatic 

picture of the voyage of Columbus and a celebration of the 

Swiss victory over Austria at Sempach in the 14 th century, a 

vindication of a composer long forgotten, and unheard even in 

his own time. 

Columbus • Der Triumph der Liebe • Sempach • 

Götz von Berlichingen 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Adriano ..................... # 8.225134 

FERNSTRÖM, John (1897 – 1961) 

The Swedish composer John Fernström spent his early years 

in China, where he was born, returning at the age of ten to 

develop his abilities as a musician and painter. A violinist and 

conductor, he held an important position in music in Sweden, 

not least as a teacher and director of the Lund Conservatory. 

His music remains tonal and immediately approachable, not 

least in his eight string quartets. 

String Quartets Nos. 3, 6 & 8 

Vlach Quartet Prague .......................................................... 8.225040 

FERROUD, Pierre-Octave (1900 – 1936) 

The death of the French composer and conductor Pierre- 

Octave Ferroud in a car accident in 1936 cut short a life of early 

achievement. His orchestral music shows a debt to Ravel, 

developing from early descriptive writing to a more abstract 

style, in a settled tonal musical language. 

Orchestral Works 

Symphony in A major • Serenade for Orchestra 

‘Chirugie’ Suite for Orchestra a.o. 

Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra / 

Patrick Davin ....................................................................... 8.225029 

FLEISCHMANN, Aloys (1910 – 1992) 

Born in Munich, where he also studied, Aloys Fleischmann 

made his home and career in Ireland, notably in Cork, where he 

had taken his first degree, and where he remained as conductor 

of the Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Music for the 

greater part of his life. His music is often overtly Irish in flavour, 

with Irish elements absorbed into a mature musical idiom that 

reflected his own background and generally traditional leanings. 

Piano Quintet (+ MAY) 

Hugh Tinney, Piano / Vanbrugh Quartet ............................. 8.223888 

FOOTE, Arthur (1853 – 1937) 

The American composer, pianist and organist Arthur Foote 

developed his musical gifts on American soil and in 1875 was 

awarded the first master’s degree in his subject at Harvard 


University. He was, therefore, a pioneer in American 

composition, at a time when others would study composition 

abroad. Among his varied compositions, his chamber music, 

in many ways typical of its period, is of particular interest. 

Piano Quartet 

String Quartet No. 1 

Da Vinci Quartet / James Barbagallo, Piano ....................... 8.223893 

Piano Quintet, Op. 38 

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 32 

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 70 

James Barbagallo, Piano / Da Vinci Quartet ....................... 8.223875 

Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 • Melody for Violin & Piano 

Ballade for Violin & Piano 

Arden Trio ............................................................................ 8.225117 

FRANCK, César (1822 – 1899) 

Highly esteemed by his pupils, César Franck eventually became 

a member of the teaching staff of the Paris Conservatoire, 

known for his skill in improvisation as an organist and, among 

his followers, as a composer of unusual genius. The recording 

of piano music by Franck includes one original work, followed 

by transcriptions of Franck’s organ music made by Harold 

Bauer and of the well known Violin Sonata arranged for piano 

by Alfred Cortot. 

Piano Transcriptions 

Violin Sonata • Pastorale • Prelude, Chorale and 

Fugue • Prelude, Fugue and Variation 

Alexander Paley, Piano ............................................... # 8.225044 

FRIEDHOFER, Hugo (1902 – 1981) 

The American composer Hugo Friedhofer at first earned his 

living as a cellist, before moving to Hollywood to join the Warner 

Brothers studio as an orchestrator. Here he collaborated with 

Korngold and Max Steiner, before providing his own scores for 

a series of important films. 

The Adventures of Marco Polo • The Lodger 

The Rains of Ranchipur • Seven Cities of Gold 


FUCHS, Robert (1847 – 1927) 

The name of Robert Fuchs appears often in the biographies of 

his distinguished pupils at the Vienna Conservatory, including 

Mahler, Sibelius, Hugo Wolf and Zemlinsky. He won his first 

success as a composer in Vienna in the 1870s and was held in 

high esteem by Brahms, who gave him practical encouragement. 

His chamber and piano music offers a useful introduction to an 

interesting composer much honoured in his own time. 

Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 

Phantasiestücke, Op. 78 

Mark Drobinsky, Cello / Daniel Blumenthal, Piano .............. 8.223423 

Clarinet Quintet, Op. 102 (+LACHNER) 

Ensemble Villa Musica ........................................................ 8.223282 

Piano Sonatas, Opp. 19 and 88 


Piano Sonata, Op. 109 • Jugendklänge 

12 Waltzes, Op. 110 

Daniel Blumenthal, Piano .................................................... 8.223474

FUMET, Raphaël (1898 – 1979) 

The son of the composer Dynam-Victor Fumet, the French 

composer Raphaël Fumet wrote much of his music for his son, 

the virtuoso flautist Gabriel Fumet. A man of independence 

and modesty, he avoided the fashions and cliques of the 

French musical establishment, largely employed in teaching in 

the provinces and making little attempt to promote his music, 

which is only now becoming better known. In style his 

compositions are tonal and approachable, while his use of one 

or more flutes in various forms of ensemble shows great 

originality. 

Music for Flute 

Cantate Biblique • Diptyque Baroque • Lacrymosa 

Ode Concertante • Interpolaire • Quatuor • Trio 

Gabriel Fumet, Flute / Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra / 

Gérard Jarry ........................................................................ 8.223890 

FURTWÄNGLER, Wilhelm (1886 – 1954) 

Furtwängler is better known as one of the greatest conductors 

of the twentieth century than as a composer. His decision to 

remain in Germany after 1933, when others from Germany 

took refuge abroad, led to subsequent controversy and 

accusations of complicity with the National Socialist régime 

that he had always in fact opposed. His three symphonies 

continue and extend the earlier Austro-German tradition of 

Brahms and Bruckner and were written largely during the Hitler 

period, when there were less demands on him as a conductor. 

Piano Concerto 

David Lively / Slovak State Philharmonic / Alfred Walter .... 8.223333 

Symphony in D major • Symphony in B minor 

Overture, Op. 3 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Alfred Walter ........................... 8.223645 




BBC Symphony Orchestra / Alfred Walter ........................... 8.223436 


RTBF Symphony / Alfred Walter ......................................... 8.223105 

Te Deum • Religiöser Hymnus 

Schwindet, ihr dunklen Wölbungen • Lieder 

Bernadette Degelin, Soprano / 

Christiane Röhr-Bach, Mezzo-soprano / 

Guido Pikal, Tenor / Wolfgang Klose, Bass / 

Frankfurt a. d. Oder Philharmonic Orchestra and Singakademie / 

Alfred Walter, Piano and Conductor .................................... 8.223546 

GABRIEL–MARIE (1852 – 1928) 

The French composer Gabriel-Marie provided a characteristic 

repertoire of popular music, well suited to the ball-room or to the 

salon. His Sous les frênes (Under the Ash-Trees) is a typical 

waltz from the 1880s. 

Frais minois, Polka • Sous les frênes, Valse 

(LES SUCCES DE LA DANSE) 



GARCÍA ABRIL, Antón (b. 1933) 

Winner of the 1993 Guerrero Foundation award, the Spanish 

composer Antón García Abril builds notably on earlier tradition, 

not least in his ballet score Danza y tronío, which draws on 

music by Boccherini and Soler. In general he was able to resist 

the dictates of contemporary musical fashion to form his own 

musical language, relying on national tradition, but always 

fresh and new in its inspiration, as in the large scale orchestral 

Hemeroscopium and the Piano Concerto, the latter one of the 

best Spanish examples of the form. 

Three Sonatas for Orchestra 

Hemeroscopium • Piano Concerto 

Guillermo González, Piano / Madrid Symphony Orchestra 

Enrique García Asensio ....................................................... 8.223849 

GERHARD, Roberto (1896 – 1970) 

Of Franco-Swiss descent, Roberto Gerhard was born and had 

his earlier musical training in Catalonia, seeking exile from 

Spain only after the republican defeat in the Spanish civil war. 

His later life was spent in England. As a pupil of Schoenberg, 

Gerhard derived his later technique from his studies in Vienna, 

nevertheless often reflecting in his music the Spanish influences 

that audiences expected from him. 

Complete Piano Music 

Dos apunts • Soirées de Barcelona 

Dances from Don Quixote 

Three Impromptus 

(Joaquim Homs: Piano Sonata No. 2) 

Jordi Masó, Piano ................................................................ 8.223867 

GERMAN, Edward (1862 – 1936) 

The popular reputation of Edward German in England has long 

rested on his comic operas Merrie England and Tom Jones, 

well known to amateur operatic societies. His work as a theatre 

musician led to the composition of incidental music for a 

number of Shakespeare plays, while his piano music reveals 

another side of his talent. 

Piano Works 

Concert Study • Elegy • Impromptu No. 1 

Mazurka a.o. 

Alan Cuckston, Piano .......................................................... 8.223370 

Richard III (Overture) 

Theme and Six Diversions • The Seasons 

RTE Concert Orchestra / Andrew Penny ............................. 8.223695 

Romeo and Juliet • Nell Gwyn • The Conqueror 

Three Dances from Henry VIII • Gipsy Suite 

Tom Jones Waltz 


Symphony No. 2 “Norwich” • Valse Gracieuse 

Welsh Rhapsody 


Andrew Penny ..................................................................... 8.223726 

GIANNEO, Luis (1897 – 1968) 

Widely regarded as the founder of the Argentine national 

school of music, Luis Gianneo won a reputation as a pianist and 

composer, as well as a conductor. In his music he came to use 

elements drawn from the various regions of his country, most 

notably from Tucumán, where he spent many fruitful years.

Piano Works Vol. 1 

Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 • Suite • Sonatina 

Six Bagatelles • Improvisations 

Dora De Marinis / Fernando Viani / 

Alejandro Cremaschi, Piano ................................................ 8.225205 


In the Altiplano • Three Argentinian Dances • Music 

for Children • Two Etudes • Five Little Pieces • Seven 

Pieces for Children • Christmas Carol • The Little 

Road to Bethlehem 

Dora De Marinis / Elena Dabul / Pervez Mody / 

Fernando Viani, Piano ......................................................... 8.225206 


Piano Sonata No. 1 • Three Preludes • Four 

Compositions • My Little Girl • Tarantella • 

Variations on a Theme by Handel • Intimate Album • 

Slow Waltz 

Dora De Marinis / Elena Dabul / Pervez Mody / 

Fernando Viani, Piano ......................................................... 8.225207 

GIBBS, Cecil Armstrong (1889 – 1960) 

The music of the English composer Cecil Armstrong Gibbs is 

well known to amateur choirs and to singers, his most significant 

achievement being in this second field, with settings of English 

verse, not least the poems of his friend Walter de la Mare. 

Songs 

A Ballad Maker • Songs from “Crossings” 

The Bells • The Bells of Summerwater • The Tiger 

Lily • The Splendour Falls a.o. 

Nik Hancock-Child, Baritone / 

Rosemary Hancock-Child, Piano ......................................... 8.223458 



Andrew Penny ..................................................................... 8.223553 

GILSON, Paul (1865 – 1942) 

Paul Gilson was at the heart of the Flemish late Romantic 

symphonic tradition. A contemporary of Debussy, he wrote 

much of his orchestral music during the first forty years of his 

life, with a set of Mélodies écossaises for large string orchestra 

to set beside the serenades of Tchaikovsky and Dvorˇák, a 

cyclic set of symphonic sketches, The Sea, ominous incidental 

music for the play Alvar and a dramatic series of Symphonic 

Overtures. 

Sailors’ Dances (FLEMISH ROMANTIC MUSIC) 


Alexander Rahbari ............................................................... 8.223418 

The Sea • Scottish Melodies • Alvar 

3rd Symphonic Overture 


GLASS, Louis (1864 – 1936) 

Recent years have brought an increased interest in the work of 

the Danish composer Louis Glass, a contemporary of Carl 

Nielsen, by whom his own achievement has been 

overshadowed. Glass wrote six symphonies, some with 

programmatic titles, in addition to a quantity of other orchestral 

works and chamber music. He was in earlier years a pianist 

of some distinction, until his career as a performer was brought 

to a close by illness. 


Sinfonia Svastika Op. 57 • Symphony No. 6, Op. 60 

National Symphony Orchestra of the S. A. B. C. / 


GLAZUNOV, Alexander Konstantinovich 

(1865 – 1936) 

A pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov showed astonishing 

precocity coupled with a phenomenal musical memory. In 

Russian music he represents a synthesis between the relatively 

amateur work of the Five and the “German” professionalism of 

the Conservatories. He became director of the St Petersburg 

Conservatory in 1905, retaining this position until 1930. In style 

he is a Russian romantic, prolific and versatile, his gifts as a 

composer and orchestrator evident in particular in his ballets 

Raymonda, The Seasons and Ruses d’amour and in a wide 

range of orchestral works. His compositions for piano offer 

another aspect of his talents. 

4 Preludes and Fugues • Idylle • Fantasy for 2 Pianos 

Tatjana Franová and Silvia Cápová, Pianos ....................... 8.223154 

Overture on Greek Themes No. 1 • Poème épique 

Finnish Sketches • Spring Op. 34 

Triumphal March Op. 40 • Cortège Solennel 

Hong Kong Philharmonic / Kenneth Schermerhorn ............. 8.220309 

Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 • Prelude and Fugue 

Tatjana Franová, Piano ....................................................... 8.223153 

Ruses d’amour, Op. 61 (Complete Ballet) 

Romanian State PO / Horia Andreescu ............................... 8.220485 

‘Sacha’ Suite • Two Pieces • ‘Sabela’ Waltzes 

Prelude and Two Mazurkas • Three Studies 

Petite Valse • Nocturne • Grande Valse de Concert 

Three Miniatures 


The Seasons • Scènes de Ballet 

Slovak RSO / Ondrej Lenárd ............................................... 8.223136 

Serenades • Carnaval • Idylle • Rêverie 

Scène dansante • Wedding March 

Cortège solennel 

Romanian State PO / Horia Andreescu ............................... 8.220487 

Song of Destiny • Overture Op. 6 • Salome 

Intermezzo Op. 69 

Hong Kong Philharmonic / Antonio de Almeida ................... 8.220445 

Valse de salon • Trois morceaux • 2 Impromptus 

Prelude and Fugue • Theme and Variations 

Deux Poèmes-improvisations 


GLIÈRE, Reyngol’d Moritsevich (1875 – 1956) 

A pupil at the Moscow Conservatory of Hrˇimaly and Taneyev, 

Arensky, Konyus and Ippolitov-Ivanov, Glière continued the 

romantic Russian tradition, winning immense popularity for his 

Soviet ballets The Red Poppy and The Bronze Horseman, 

where he is also able to demonstrate his interest in wider 

Slavonic musical traditions. 

Shak-Senem (Overture) • Gulsara (Overture) 

Bronze Horseman (Suite) • Heroic March 

St Petersburg State SO / Andre Anichanov ......................... 8.223675

GODARD, Benjamin (1849 – 1895) 

A pupil of Vieuxtemps, Benjamin Godard enjoyed a career as 

a violist, but won an even wider reputation as a composer of 

salon music. He is remembered for the Berceuse from his 

opera Jocelyn, one of seven such works, but was prolific 

enough as a composer of chamber, vocal and orchestral 

music, with two interesting concertos for violin and two for 

piano. His salon music is, naturally, less substantial in musical 

content. 

Etudes mélodiques • Etudes rythmiques 

Etudes de Concert 

Jean Martin, Piano ............................................................... 8.223802 

GODOWSKY, Leopold (1870 – 1938) 

Born in what was then Poland, Godowsky was one of the 

greatest virtuoso pianists of his time, taking American citizenship 

in 1891. As a composer, he wrote demanding music for the 

piano, with arrangements and studies that offer considerable 

technical challenge. His Waltz Masks and music for two 

pianists give a sample of his style. 

Miscellaneous Miniatures • Three Suites 

Ancient Dances • Modern Dances 

Joseph Banowetz and Alton Chan, Piano ........................... 8.223475 


Four Poems • Toccata, Op. 13 

Three Pieces, Opp. 12 and 14 

Airs of the Eighteenth Century • Two Waltz Poems 

Five Miniatures • Mélodie méditative capriccio 

Polonaise 

Konstantin Scherbakov, Piano ............................................ 8.223793 


Transcriptions of Violin Sonatas by J. S. Bach 



Baroque Transcriptions and Settings 



Triakontameron • Thirty Moods and Scenes in Triple 

Measure 



Sonata in E minor • Menuet No. 1 • Au Jardin des 

Fleurs • Twilight Thoughts No. 2 • Sérénade 


Schubert Transcriptions 

Die Forelle •␣ Gute Nacht • Heidenröslein •␣ 

Die junge Nonne • Litanei • Liebesbotschaft •␣ Am 

Meer •␣ An Mignon • Moment Musical, Op. 94, No. 3 

•␣ Morgengruss •␣ Passacaglia • Ballet Music from 

Rosamunde • Trockne Blumen • Ungeduld •␣ Das 

Wandern • Wiegenlied •␣ Wohin? 

Konstantin Scherbakov, Piano .................................... # 8.225187 

24 Waltz Masks 


GOLDMARK, Karl (1830 – 1915) 

Goldmark’s career largely centred on Vienna, where he won 

fame for his opera Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba) 

in 1875. Although a strong champion of Wagner, he shows too 

the influence of pre-Wagnerian German musical traditions. 


Symphony No. 2 • Penthesilea 

Rhenish PO / Michael Halász .............................................. 8.220417 

GOODWIN, Ron (b. 1925) 

Skilled as an arranger and music director, Ron Goodwin has 

reached equal distinction as a composer of light music and 

provider of music for films, ranging from the Margaret Rutherford 

Miss Marple films to Where Eagles Dare and Those Magnificent 

Men in Their Flying Machines. 

Theme from “633 Squadron” • Drake 400 Suite 

Puppet Serenade • New Zealand Suite 

Arabian Celebration • The Venus Waltz 

Prisoners of War March • Minuet in Blue 

Theme from “The Trap” • Girl with a Dream 

Theme from “Lancelot and Guinevere” 

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Ron Goodwin ............ 8.223518 

GOUNOD, Charles (1818 – 1893) 

From the middle of the 19 th century Gounod exercised a strong 

influence over French composers, particularly in the period 

between his great success with the opera Faust in 1859 and 

his departure for England on the outbreak of the Franco- 

Prussian War in 1870. He won further operatic success notably 

with Roméo et Juliette in 1867. He wrote a quantity of church 

music. Less familiar are his oratorios, which include Tobie 

(Tobias), written in 1865, and the patriotic Gallia, described as 

a lamentation, written in 1871, after the French defeat at 

Sedan. 

Tobie • Gallia 

Cécile Perrin / Delphine Haidan / Marc Duguay / Fernand Bernadi / 

Chorus & Orchestra of Paris-Sorbonne / 


GRECHANINOV, Alexandr Tikhonovich (1864 – 1956) 

A near contemporary of Rachmaninov as a student at the 

Moscow Conservatory, Grechaninov similarly left Russia, living 

first in Paris and then in the United States of America. He 

continues in his compositions the traditions of an earlier 

generation. The first two of his four symphonies were written 

before the Russian Revolution. 

String Quartets, Opp. 70 & 124 

Moyzes Quartet ................................................................... 8.223646 

GRIFFES, Charles Tomlinson (1884 – 1920) 

Originally intending a career as a pianist, the American composer 

Charles T. Griffes studied in Berlin, where his teachers included 

Humperdinck, and returned to America to pursue a career 

primarily as a teacher. As a composer he developed his 

musical language from that of late German romanticism to 

impressionism and an element of the oriental, influences 

deployed in a thoroughly original way. 


Sonata • Three Tone-Pictures, Op. 5 • De Profundis 

Roman Sketches • A Winter Landscape 

Rhapsody in B minor • Barcarolle from “Les Contes 

d’Hoffmann” • Legend • Prelude in B minor 

Michael Lewin, Piano ........................................................... 8.223850


The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla-Khan • Three Preludes 

Pieces • Dance in A minor • Three Fantasy Pieces 

Hansel and Gretel Overture • Symphonische 

Phantasie for two Pianos 

Michael Lewin / Janice Weber, Piano .................................. 8.225163 

GUARNIERI, Camargo (1907 – 1993) 

The son of a father from Sicily and a Brazilian mother, Camargo 

Guarnieri established himself as a musician of importance in 

São Paulo, before moving in 1938 to Paris for lessons with 

Koechlin. In style he belongs to a third generation of Brazilian 

composers, after Braga and then Villa-Lobos, with national 

traits now fully absorbed into a mature and often passionate 

musical language. His completely violinistic sonatas for violin 

and piano, Nos. 4-6, written in 1956, 1959 and 1965, are a 

fascinating addition to duo repertoire. 

Violin Sonatas Nos. 2, 3 & 7 • Canção sertaneja 

Lavard Skou Larsen, Violin / 

Alexander Müllenbach, Piano .............................................. 8.223885 

Violin Sonatas Nos. 4 - 6 

Lavard Skou Larsen, Violin / 

Alexander Müllenbach, Piano .............................................. 8.223703 

GUASTAVINO, Carlos (b. 1912) 

Carlos Guastavino holds an honoured position in the musical 

life of his native Argentina, writing attractive music often 

national in flavour, as in his piano music for two performers. 

Romance del Plata (Sonatina) • Tres Romances 

La Siesta • Las Presencias 

Duo Moreno-Capelli, Piano ................................................. 8.223462 

GURIDI, Jesús (1886 – 1961) 

The Basque composer Jesús Guridi studied at the Schola 

Cantorum in Paris with d’Indy and Grovlez, returning to serve 

as an organist and choral conductor in Bilbao. His first opera 

Mirentxu, with a Basque libretto, was followed by Amaya, 

based on a Navarrese legend of the shrine of San Miguel. The 

latter work won wider success after a staging in Buenos Aires. 

Guridi ended his career as director of Madrid Conservatory, 

after holding a similar position at Biscay Conservatory. 

Amaya (Complete Opera) [2CDs] 

Soloists / Bilbao Choral Society / Bilbao Symphony Orchestra / 

Theo Alcántara ............................................................... 8.225084-85 

HALFFTER, Cristóbal (b. 1930) 

A nephew of the composers Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter, 

Cristobál Halffter has held a distinguished position in Spanish 

music, following the course set by Manuel de Falla in his later 

works, before moving to a more avant-garde international 

idiom, while remaining firmly Spanish and drawing equal 

inspiration from the past, as from the present. 

Prelude for Madrid • Daliniana 

Fantasy on Handel’s works • Veni Creator Spiritus 

Santo Tomás de Aquino and Orfeón Donostiarra, Choir / 

Madrid Symphony Orchestra / Pedro Halffter-Caro ............. 8.225032 


HALLSTRÖM, Ivar (1826 – 1901) 

The Swedish pianist and composer Ivar Christian Hallström 

collaborated with Prince Gustaf on his first opera and later 

served as librarian to Prince Oscar, later King Oscar II. The 

greater part of his music is either vocal or for the piano, his 

writing generally influenced by Gounod and, to some extent, by 

Wagner. 

Duke Magnus and the Mermaid (Complete Opera) 

[2 CD’s] 

Lars Johansson / Mattias Ermedahl / Eva Marklund Nygren / 

Ingela Bohlin / Norrköping Symphony Orchestra / 

Niklas Willén ........................................................... # 8.225214-15 

HARDEBECK, Carl 

Carl Hardebeck is represented by versions of quintessentially 

Irish songs. 

The Song of Glen Dun • A Dandlin’ Song 




HARRIS, Clement (1871 – 1897) 

An Old Harrovian, Clement Harris studied with the great pianist 

Clara Schumann in Frankfurt and became an intimate friend of 

Siegfried Wagner, joining him in an attempt to escape the 

overwhelming influence of Richard Wagner. His symphonic 

poem on Milton’s Paradise Lost was planned during his voyage 

with Siegfried Wagner to the Far East in 1892 and owes much 

to Schumann and Brahms. He died in 1897 in Epirus, after 

joining the Greeks in their war against Turkey. 

Paradise Lost • Festival March 

(+ von SCHILLINGS / S. WAGNER) 

Thüringian SO / Konrad Bach .............................................. 8.223660 

HEDGES, Anthony (b. 1931) 

Anthony Hedges has enjoyed an active career in Scotland and 

in England as a teacher, for many years at Hull University. His 

lighter music has had wide appeal, but his compositions, in 

whatever genre, have always been marked by a sure technical 

command. 

Four Breton Sketches • Cantilena 

Overture: Heigham Sound • Four Miniature Dances 

Scenes from the Humber • Kingston Sketches 

RTE Sinfonietta / Anthony Hedges ...................................... 8.223886 

HELLER, Stephen (1813 – 1888) 

Born in Pest in 1813, the pianist and composer Stephen Heller 

made his career in Paris. His important technical piano studies 

remain familiar to ambitious young pianists. Less well known 

are the charming and varied piano compositions that he wrote, 

his later works giving a foretaste of changes to come in musical 

language. 

Nuits Blanches, Op. 82 

Préludes pour M’lle Lili, 32 Pièces pour piano, Op. 119 

Jean Martin, Piano ............................................................... 8.223435 

Préludes Opp. 81 & 150 

Jean Martin, Piano ............................................................... 8.223434

HELLMESBERGER, Joseph (1855 – 1907) 

The son of the distinguished Vienna violinist after whom he 

was named, Joseph Hellmesberger the younger followed a 

career as a violinist, conductor and composer. In the last 

capacity he wrote ballet-scores for the ballet of the Court 

Opera, of which he was music director, and a number of 

successful operettas particularly after leaving his position as 

conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, where he 

succeeded Mahler. 

Kleiner Anzeiger • Unter vier Augen • Auf Wiener Art 

Für die ganze Welt • Elfenreigen • Valse espagnole 

Valse lento • Leichtfüssig • Vielliebchen 

Danse diabolique • Gavotte • Gewitterszene 

Wiener Couplet Quadrille • Ballscene 

Göttinger Sinfonie Orchestra / Christian Simonis ................ 8.225021 

HERBERT, Victor (1859 – 1924) 

Irish by birth, Victor Herbert was trained as a musician in 

Germany, appearing there first as a cellist and as soloist in his 

own compositions. After settling in America in 1886, he 

established himself as a conductor and eventually as a composer 

and promoter of light music, writing a series of operettas that 

enjoyed great popularity. 


Babes in Toyland • The Red Mill 

Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra / Keith Brion ................. 8.223843 


Beloved Songs and Miniatures 

Virginia Croskery, Soprano / Slovak RSO / 

Keith Brion ........................................................................... 8.225108 


Columbus Suite • Irish Rhapsody • Auditorium 

Festival March • Selections from Natorna 

Slovak RSO / Keith Brion .................................................... 8.225109 

HERRMANN, Bernard (1911 – 1975) 

Bernard Herrmann enjoyed a successful career as a composer 

and conductor and was employed at the suggestion of Orson 

Welles to write the score for his film of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane 

Eyre. Some of the material was used later by Herrmann for his 

Brontë opera Wuthering Heights. The score for Jane Eyre is 

strongly romantic, in the very best of Hollywood’s musical 

traditions. 

The Egyptian (with NEWMAN) 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Choir / 


Jane Eyre 


Prince of Players • Garden of Evil 


The Snows of Kilimanjaro • 5 Fingers 


HILL, Alfred (1870 – 1960) 

The Australian composer Alfred Hill studied in Leipzig in the 

late 1880s, continuing, as a composer, the traditions in which 

he had been trained, but later with an Australian flavour, with 

occasional use of aboriginal melodies. His ten numbered 


symphonies, the last written in 1958, suggest the work of a 

latter-day Australian Dvorˇák. 


Australian String Quartet ..................................................... 8.223746 

Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 • The Lost Hunter 

The Moon’s Gold Horn 

Queensland Symphony Orchestra / Wilfred Lehmann ........ 8.223537 

Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 • Sacred Mountain 

Melbourne Symphony / Wilfred Lehmann ........................... 8.220345 

Symphonies Nos. 5 “The Carnival” & 10 

As Night Falls • A Rêverie • Regrets 

Tribute to a Musician 

Queensland Symphony Orchestra / Wilfred Lehmann ........ 8.223538 

HINDEMITH, Paul (1895 – 1963) 

Distinguished as a viola-player and as the deviser of a new 

school of German composition, Hindemith developed his own 

musical idiom, often astringent or neo-Baroque in its 

counterpoint. His piano Interludes and Fugues in the Ludus 

Tonalis of 1942 are a characteristic example of this style. His 

views of the place of the composer in society as craftsman led 

to the composition of a wide variety of “music for use”. 


Hans Petermandl, Piano ...................................................... 8.223335 







HOLBROOKE, Joseph (1878 – 1958) 

Joseph Holbrooke, born in Croydon in 1878, was prolific as a 

composer, often ambitious in the scale of his orchestral works. 

Ulalume, The Bells and The Raven express his fascination with 

the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, while other preoccupations 

appear in his three operas based on the Welsh Mabinogion, the 

last of which, Bronwen, was first performed in 1929. Neglect 

of his work is now giving way to renewed interest in a composer 

of eccentric versatility. 

Chamber Music 

Sextet in D major, Op. 43 

Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 21 

Symphonic Quintet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 44 

Endre Hegedüs, Piano / New Haydn Quartet / 

Sándor Papp, 2nd Viola / János Devich, 2nd Cello ............. 8.223736 

The Children of Don • The Birds of Rhiannon 

Prelude to Dylan 


Andrew Penny ..................................................................... 8.223721 

Ulalume, Op. 35 • Bronwen, Op. 75 

The Bells, Op. 50 • The Raven, Op. 25 

Byron, Op. 39 

Slovak Philharmonic Choir / Slovak RSO / 

Adrian Leaper ...................................................................... 8.223446

HOLMÈS, Augusta (1847 – 1903) 

Augusta Holmès, a French composer of Irish descent, but 

reputedly the daughter of Alfred de Vigny, her godfather, was 

a pupil of César Franck. She occupied a leading position in 

artistic circles in Paris in her time, refusing an offer of marriage 

from Saint-Saëns and bearing three daughters to the poet 

Catulle Mendès. As a composer she wrote operas, vocal 

works and chamber music, with a series of dramatic symphonies 

that show the influence both of Franck and of Wagner. 

Andromède • Ouverture pour une comédie 

Irlande • La Nuit et l’Amour • Pologne 

Rheinland-Pfalz Philharmonic / 

Samuel Friedmann / Patrick Davin ...................................... 8.223449 

HOMS, Joaquim (b. 1906) 

A pupil of Roberto Gerhard, the Catalan composer Joaquim 

Homs developed a style that, after experiment with atonality, 

led to full use of serial techniques. His music, however, 

remains approachable and expressive. 

Piano Music 

Variations on a Popular Catalan Theme 

Seven Pieces • Seven Impromptus • Two Soliloquies 



Piano Sonata No. 1 • Three Inventions • Carousel 

Waltz • Between Two Lines • Three Evocations • 

Remembrances 


Second Piano Sonata (See GERHARD) 


HONEGGER, Arthur (1892 – 1955) 

Swiss by birth, Honegger is associated with the group of 

French composers in Paris known as Les Six. He retains an 

important position as a composer, with his dramatic psalm Le 

roi David and stage oratorio Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, a continuing 

part of modern repertoire. Less familiar are the scorés he wrote 

for early films, including Abel Gance’s Napoléon and the 1934 

film of Victor Hugo’s Les misérables, part of an extensive range 

of works for the cinema, theatre and radio. 

Crime et Châtiment • L’Idée • Farinet 

Le Déserteur • Le Grand Barrage 


Mayerling • Regain • Le Démon de l’Himalaya 


Six Poésies de Jean Cocteau 

(LES MARIES DE LA TOUR EIFFEL) 

Florence Katz, Mezzo-soprano / Ensemble Erwartung / 

Bernard Desgraupes ........................................................... 8.223788 

HUMMEL, Johann Nepomuk (1778 – 1837) 

Born in Pressburg, the modern Bratislava, as a boy Hummel 

was a pupil of Mozart, whose style of piano performance he 

continued. He served as Kapellmeister in Weimar for the last 

eighteen years of his life. In style he has something in common 

with his younger contemporary Weber. 


Adagio and Rondo (CLARINET AND ORCHESTRA) 



HUMPERDINCK, Engelbert (1854 – 1921) 

Celebrated as the composer of the fairy-tale opera Hänsel und 

Gretel, Humperdinck enjoyed a varied career, in earlier years 

as an assistant to Wagner at Bayreuth. Other operas in this 

vein include Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty) and Königskinder 

(Children of the King). Collaboration with the director Max 

Reinhardt in Berlin brought incidental music for a number of 

plays, including Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. 

Moorish Rhapsody • Sleeping Beauty 

The Merchant of Venice • The Canteen Woman 

Slovak RSO / Martin Fischer-Dieskau ................................. 8.223369 

HUSA, Karel (b. 1921) 

A native of Prague, Karel Husa studied also in Paris, notably 

with Honegger and Nadia Boulanger, later settling in the United 

States. His work as a composer was for some time limited by 

his distinguished career as a conductor. His musical language 

successfully combines contemporary harmonic idiom with a 

neo-classical attention to form and balance. His Music for 

Prague reflects his reaction to the suppression of newly 

developing freedom in Prague in 1968. 

Fresque • Symphony No. 2 

Music for Prague, 1968 

Slovak RSO / Barry Kolman ................................................ 8.223640 

IBERT, Jacques (1890 – 1962) 

Typically French in his command of light, translucent woodwind 

textures, Ibert spent much of his career as director of the Villa 

Medici in Rome, where winners of the Prix de Rome resided. 

Prolific and versatile, Ibert wrote music of elegant charm, with 

film scores for Pabst’s Don Quichotte, Golgotha and Orson 

Welles’s controversial film of Macbeth. 

La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading 

Trois Pièces de Ballet • Féerique 

Chant de Folie • Suite Elisabéthaine 


Diane de Poitiers • La Licorne 


Macbeth • Golgotha • Don Quichotte 


Petite Suite • Histoires • Les rencontres 

Hae-won Chang, Piano ....................................................... 8.223409 

INDY, Vincent d’ (1851 – 1931) 

A disciple of César Franck and founder of the influential and 

rigorous Schola Cantorum in Paris, a rival to the Conservatoire, 

Vincent d’Indy represented what became a conservative 

element in French music. His first two string quartets were 

written in the 1890s, with concert and incidental music ranging 

from the 1880s to the early years of the new century. 

L’Étranger • Tableaux de Voyage 

Phantaisie pour hautbois et orchestre 

Prélude de “Fervaal” • “Saugefleurie” Legende 

Württemberg Philharmonic / Gilles Nopre ........................... 8.223659

Médée • Karadec • Souvenirs 

Württemberg Philharmonic / Gilles Nopre ........................... 8.223654 

String Quartet, Op. 96 • Piano Quintet, Op. 81 

Ilona Prunyi, Piano / New Budapest Quartet ....................... 8.223691 

String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 

Kodály Quartet ..................................................................... 8.223140 

INDY, Wilfrid d’ (b. 1821) 

The principal early musical influence on Vincent d’Indy came 

from his uncle, Count Wilfrid d’Indy, an amateur composer and 

a pupil of César Franck, whose leading disciple his nephew 

became. 

Piano Trio in G major, Op. 15 


INFANTE, Manuel (1883 – 1958) 

Trained initially in Barcelona, the composer, conductor and 

pianist Manuel Infante settled in Paris in 1909 and over the 

years did much to make Spanish music known in France. His 

own music draws heavily on Spanish traditions, particularly 

those of southern Spain. 

Piano Music (+ BARRIOS) 

Gitanerías • Gracia • Danse andalouse • Sevillana 

Pochades andalouses 

Eugenia Gabrieluk, Piano .................................................... 8.225164 

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV, Mikhail (1859 – 1935) 

Trained at the St Petersburg Conservatory, Ippolitov-Ivanov 

spent some years as director of the Conservatory in Tbilisi, the 

capital of Georgia, before moving to Moscow Conservatory, 

where he taught from 1893 until his death in 1935. He 

continues the Russian tradition of Rimsky-Korsakov, with a 

particular interest in the more exotic elements found in remoter 

regions of the Soviet Union and neighbouring countries. Local 

colour is evident in his Caucasian Sketches, Iveria and the 

Turkish Fragments. 

Spring Overture, Op. 1 • Symphonic Scherzo, Op. 2 

Three Musical Tableaux from Ossian, Op. 56 

Jubilee March • Armenian Rhapsody, Op. 48 

An Episode from the Life of Schubert, Op. 61 

Slovak RSO / Donald Johanos ............................................ 8.223629 

Symphony No. 1 • Turkish Fragments and March 


IRELAND, John (1879 – 1962) 

John Ireland was a pupil of Stanford in London and later taught 

for many years at the London Royal College of Music. Of 

particular interest among his varied compositions are his 

second Violin Sonata and the Cello Sonata that he wrote for 

Beatrice Harrison, a work that matches perfectly the two 

instruments in music that has moments of rhetoric, of tranquillity 

and of vigorous energy. 

Cello Sonata in G minor (+ MOERAN / RUBBRA) 

Raphael Wallfisch, Cello / John York, Piano ....................... 8.223718 


IVANOVICI, Iosif (?1845 – 1902) 

The Romanian bandmaster Iosif Ivanovici was the composer of 

one of the most popular songs of Central Europe, the waltz The 

Waves of the Danube, written in 1880. 

Flots du Danube (with WALDTEUFEL) 



IVANOVS, Janis (1906 – 1983) 

Janis Ivanovs made his career in his native Latvia, teaching at 

the Riga Conservatory, where he had been a student, and 

concentrating, as a composer, on symphonic writing, notably in 

21 symphonies, among which the nineteen that survive show 

the importance to the composer of ancient Latvian musical 

traditions and Latvian folk-song melodies. 


Latvian National Symphony Orchestra / 

Dmitry Yablonsky ................................................................. 8.223331 


Riga Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky ................... 8.223332 

JOYCE, Archibald (1873 – 1963) 

Archibald Joyce enjoyed a high reputation as a dance-band 

pianist and leader, writing music for his own band and earning 

himself the title of ‘English waltz king’. 

Dreaming • Prince of Wales Grand March 

Songe d’Automne • Frou-frou • A Thousand Kisses 

Caravan • Dreams of You • Iris • Passing of Salomé 

Toto • Acushla • Bohemia • The Brighton Hike 

Song of the River 


KALINNIKOV, Vasily Sergeyevich (1866 – 1901) 

Kalinnikov had what musical education he could in Moscow 

and won the encouragement of Tchaikovsky, amongst other 

musicians of influence in Russia. He spent his last eight years 

in poverty and ill health in the Crimea, although enjoying a 

growing reputation as a composer. His graphic incidental 

music for Tsar Boris is effective, with a symphonic poem, The 

Nymphs, based on Turgenev, The Cedar and the Palm, based 

on a poem by Heine, and Epic Poem, a colourful orchestral 

composition. 

Tsar Boris • Epic Poem 

The Cedar and the Palm • The Nymphs 

Budapest SO / Antal Jancsovics ......................................... 8.223135 

KARAMANOV, Alemdar (b. 1934) 

An isolated figure in the musical world of the former Soviet 

Union, Alemdar Karamanov, born of partly Turkish parentage, 

is unusual in the Christian religious spirit that informs his later 

work and did much to exclude him from the central musical 

establishment of the country, together with the relative 

geographical distance of his native Crimea. 

Symphony No. 3 • Piano Concerto No. 3 “Ave Maria” 

Vladimir Viardo, Piano / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / 

Antonio de Almeida ............................................................. 8.223796

KEMPFF, Wilhelm (1895 – 1991) 

Famous as one of the most distinguished pianists of his time, 

Wilhelm Kempff was also a composer, although this aspect of 

his career is less well known. His Op. 47 Piano Sonata and 

Italian Suite serve as an introduction to his work, which also 

includes operas, ballets and two symphonies. 

Italian Suite, Op. 68 • Piano Sonata, Op. 47 

Transcriptions 

Idil Biret, Piano .................................................................... 8.223452 

KETÈLBEY, Albert (1875 – 1959) 

A versatile performer on a number of instruments, Ketèlbey is 

best known for his descriptive pieces In a Monastery Garden 

and In a Persian Market, both typical in their way of his 

command of popular light music idiom, in a sentimental style 

that continues to satisfy audiences. 

In a Monastery Garden • Chal Romano 

Suite Romantique • Cockney Suite 

Wedgwood Blue • In a Persian Market 

Slovak Philharmonic Male Chorus / 


Piano Music Volume 1 

In a Monastery Garden • A Song of Summer • Valse 

Caprice • A River Reverie • Daffodils a.o. 

Rosemary Tuck, Piano ........................................................ 8.223699 


A Dream Picture • A Romantic Melody • Swing Song 

Valse Lyrique • Pastorale a.o. 

Rosemary Tuck, Piano ........................................................ 8.223700 

KHACHATURIAN, Aram (1903 – 1978) 

A Soviet composer, of Armenian extraction, Khachaturian 

satisfied official requirements by his colourful music, often 

using material of regional origin. His ballet score for Spartacus 

won great popularity, outdone by the famous Sabre Dance. In 

common with other important composers, he also wrote music 

for the cinema, including a score for The Battle of Stalingrad 

and for a Russian version of Shakespeare’s Othello. 

The Battle of Stalingrad • Othello 


KHUMALO, Mzilikazi (b. 1932) 

Mzilikazi Khumalo is Professor of African Languages at the 

University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has composed 

and arranged many songs, evidence of his work as an adjuicator 

in music competitions and as a choral trainer. 

Five African Songs (AFRICAN SONGS) 



KIEL, Friedrich (1821 – 1885) 

Friedrich Kiel spent much of his career in Berlin, where he taught 

at the Musikhochschule. His choral works, a requiem, a Missa 

solennis and an oratorio Christus, once had currency abroad, 

but the two piano quintets are a fair representation of a composer 

of sound academic background and contemporary reputation. 


Piano Quintets Opp. 75 & 76 


KILAR, Wojciech (b. 1932) 

The Polish composer Wojciech Kilar has made a distinguished 

contribution to film music, wokring on over a hundred Polish 

films, before his first American commission for Francis Ford 

Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, followed by scores for 

Roman Polanski’s Death and the Maiden and The Ninth Gate, 

and Jane Campion’s Portrait of a Lady. He has shown himself 

particularly adept at discreetly enhancing the scenes for which 

he has written music, with more freedom reserved for moments 

of high drama where words and actions are not enough. 

Bram Stoker’s Dracula • König der letzten Tage 

Death and the Maiden • The Beads of One Rosary 

Pearl in the Crown 

Cracow Philharmonic Chorus / Polish National RSO / 

Antoni Wit .................................................................... # 8.225153 

KINSELLA, John (b. 1932) 

The Irish composer John Kinsella retired from his position as 

Head of Music for Radio Telefís Éireann in 1988, thereafter to 

devote more time to composition. His Third Symphony, 

completed in 1990, is an expression of the joy of life, while the 

Fourth provides musical sketches of four Irish provinces. 

Symphony No. 3: Joie de Vivre 

Symphony No. 4: The Four Provinces 


Proinnsías Ó Duinn ............................................................. 8.223766 

KIRCHNER, Theodor (1823 - 1903) 

Encouraged by Mendelssohn and admired as an organist by 

Wagner and Liszt, Theodor Kirchner held various positions, 

often moving to new places and eventually saved from destitution 

in Hamburg by friends of a more practical nature. Once a 

member of Schumann’s circle, he left a thousand or more 

compositions, many of them character-pieces for the piano. 

Piano Music 

Nachtbilder • Ideale • Legenden 

David Ianni, Piano ............................................................... 8.225062 

KLEBE, Giselher (b. 1925) 

A pupil of Josef Rufer and Boris Blacher, Giselher Klebe 

established himself as a composer in the years after the war, 

taking part in courses at Darmstadt and succeeding Wolfgang 

Fortner at the North West German Academy of Music in 

Detmold. A prolific composer, he has written a series of 

operas, beginning with a version of Schiller’s Die Räuber, and 

occupies a leading position among German composers of his 

generation. 

Piano Music: Glockentürme, Op. 103 

Wiegenlieder für Christinchen, Op. 13 

Feuersturz, Op. 91 • Sonata Op. 4 

Neun Klavierstücke für Sonja Op. 76 

Vier Inventionen, Op. 26 • Nachklang, Op. 111 

Silke-Thora Matthies / Christian Köhn, Piano ...................... 8.223712

KOECHLIN, Charles (1867 – 1950) 

Koechlin won distinction as a writer on music theory and as a 

teacher counted Poulenc among his pupils. His reputation as 

a composer was largely eclipsed by his younger contemporaries, 

although many of his works won immediate if brief acclaim. His 

symphonic poems based on Kipling’s Jungle Book reveal an 

aspect of that writer only now becoming understood. Les 

heures persanes, a set of piano pieces later orchestrated, 

explores the oriental world of Pierre Loti. 

Au loin • Sur les flots lointains 

Le buisson ardent 


Les Heures Persanes 


Le Livre de la Jungle 


KOMZÁK, Karel (1823 – 1893) 

Karel Komzák started his career as a village teacher and 

organist, later serving as a bandmaster and then as conductor 

of an orchestra of which Dvorˇák was a member and that 

became the orchestra of the Czech Provisional Theatre. As a 

composer his work consists largely of a quantity of dances and 

marches. 

Light Music 

The Girls of Baden • The Magic of May • New Life 

Phantome • Overture zu Edelweiss a.o. 

Razumovsky Sinfonia / Christian Pollack ............................ 8.225175 

KORNGOLD, Erich Wolfgang (1897 – 1957) 

Born in Brno, Korngold made his early reputation in Vienna as 

a composer, even in childhood. In 1934 he moved with Max 

Reinhardt to Hollywood turning his attention then to film scores 

of remarkable accomplishment. Most of his music in more 

traditional forms belongs to the European period of his work, 

including much of his piano and chamber music, some written 

for the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in 

the war of 1914-18. 

The Adventures of Robin Hood 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / William T. Stromberg # 8.225268 

Another Dawn • Escape Me Never 


Captain Blood (+ RÓZSA / STEINER / YOUNG) 

Brandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Potsdam / 

Richard Devreese ................................................................ 8.223607 

Devotion 


Piano Quintet Op. 15 • Violin Sonata Op. 6 

Ilona Prunyi, Piano / András Kiss, Violin / 

Danubius Quartet ................................................................ 8.223385 

Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 • Märchenbilder 

Viel Lärmen um Nichts 


KREUTZER, Conradin (1780 – 1849) 

Conradin Kreutzer enjoyed a varied career, serving as Court 

Kapellmeister in Stuttgart and subsequently finding employment 


in the theatres of Vienna. He was principally known as a 

composer of opera, but lost popularity as fashions changed. 

The style of his writing in orchestral and chamber music 

suggests that of his contemporary Weber. 

Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra 

(CLARINET AND ORCHESTRA) 

Dieter Klöcker, Clarinet / CSSR (Bratislava) / 


KUHLAU, Friedrich (1786 – 1832) 

The Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau, of German extraction, 

is principally known for his piano music, much of it well known 

to students of the instrument. He wrote extensively for the flute, 

although he did not play the instrument. His chamber music 

without flute includes three piano quartets, in the musical idiom 

of the period. 

Piano Quartets No. 1, Op. 32 & No. 2, Op. 50 


LACHNER, Franz (1803 – 1890) 

Franz Lachner was a close friend of Schubert in Vienna, but 

outlived his friend by more than sixty years, to be displaced as 

General Music Director in Munich by the arrival of Wagner 

there in 1864. Lachner was a thoroughly competent composer, 

using a musical language based on a solid classical technique. 

His orchestral works include eight symphonies, the first written 

in the year of Schubert’s death and the last in 1851. His seven 

orchestral suites span a period from 1861 to 1881. 

Octet in B flat major (+ SCHUBERT / WEBER) 

(ROMANTIC WIND MUSIC) 

German Wind Soloists ......................................................... 8.223356 

Septet in E flat major (+FUCHS) 

Ensemble Villa Musica ........................................................ 8.223282 

Suites Opp. 113 & 190 

Polish State PO / Stephen Gunzenhauser .......................... 8.223195 

Symphony No. 1 (+SPOHR) 


Symphony No. 5 “Passionata” 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Paul Robinson ........................ 8.223502 

Symphony No. 8 • Ball Suite, Op. 170 

Slovak State PO / Paul Robinson / Alfred Walter ................ 8.223594 

LAJTHA, László (1892 – 1963) 

László Lajtha occupied an important position in the musical life 

of Hungary, as conductor, composer and ethnomusicologist, 

an associate in this last capacity of Bartók and Kodály. In his 

music, however, he has a less pronounced Hungarian accent 

than either of his compatriots. His few piano pieces, spanning 

a period from 1913 to 1957, provide an introduction to an 

extended range of works of all kinds. 

Orchestral Works Vol. 1 

Symphony No. 7 • Suite No. 3 • Hortobágy, Op. 21 

Pécs Symphony Orchestra / Nicolás Pasquet ..................... 8.223667 


Capriccio (Suite de Ballet) 

Pécs Symphony Orchestra / Nicolás Pasquet ..................... 8.223668


Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 • Variations, Op. 44 



Suite pour orchestre • In Memoriam 




Suite du Ballet No. 2 • Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 



Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 • Lysistrata 





Des Écrits d’un musicien, Op. 1 • Contes, Op. 2 

Prélude • Six Piano Pieces • Three Berceuses 

Klára Körmendi, Piano ......................................................... 8.223473 

LANE, Philip (b. 1950) 

The English composer Philip Lane has always shown great 

versatility, returning to his own part of the country in his 

Chettenhaus in Prestbury Park. He has provided incidental 

music for radio plays and attractive commissioned pieces, and 

has also done much to keep alive the spirit of British light music. 

Divertissment • Cotswold Dances • London Salute 

Wassail Dances • Prestburg Park 

Maritime Overture • Three Christmas Pictures 

Diversions on a theme of Paganini 

3 Nautical Miniatures 

Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland ..................... # 8.225185 

LARCHET, John (1884 – 1967) 

The Irish composer John Larchet worked for 27 years as music 

director at the Abbey theatre in Dublin and, as Professor of 

Music at University College, Dublin. He may be regarded as 

the founder of national Irish music since independence. His 

music is strongly influenced by Irish folk-melodies, with the 

composer’s national aspirations reflected in the titles of his 

works. 

An Ardglass Boat Song • The Wee Boy in Bed 

Wee Hughie • Padraic the Fiddler 




LARSSON, Lars-Erik (1908 – 1986) 

The Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson studied in Stockholm 

and was a pupil of Berg in Leipzig, subsequently working in 

Stockholm and Uppsala. In style he is eclectic, at times 

romantic and at times more experimental. His God in Disguise 

was written in 1940 for radio, a choral work that includes a 

speaker. 

God in Disguise (+ ROSENBERG) 

Karin Ingebäck / Anders Larsson / Anna Larsson / John Erik Eleby / 

Frej Lindkvist / Amadei Chamber Choir / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / 

Petter Sundkvist ................................................................. 8.225123 


LAZZARI, Sylvio (1857 – 1944) 

Of Austrian and Italian parentage and Tyrolean birth, Sylvio 

Lazzari setted in Paris, where, as a student of César Franck, he 

continued the traditions of his teacher in symphonic writing, 

while extending his range in evocative programme music, 

notably in the Tableaux maritimes, a series of delicately nuanced 

sea-pictures. 

Symphony in E flat major • Maritime Pictures 


LE FLEM, Paul (1881 – 1984) 

The French composer Paul Le Flem was a pupil of Vincent 

d’Indy and Roussel at the Paris Schola Cantorum, where he 

later joined the teaching staff. He established a reputation as 

a choral conductor, composing a number of vocal works, in 

addition to symphonies, stage works and chamber music. His 

musical language was strongly influenced by his teachers and 

his choice of subject often reflected his native region of Brittany. 

Pour les morts • Sept pièces enfantines 

Le grand jardinier de France • Symphony No. 4 

Rhenish PO / James Lockhart / Gilles Nopre ...................... 8.223655 

LESCHETIZKY, Theodor (1830 – 1915) 

Leschetizky is remembered primarily as a legendary piano 

teacher. His career as a pianist, teacher and conductor took 

him to St Petersburg, where he taught at the Conservatory 

founded by his friend Anton Rubinstein, later moving to Vienna 

to teach privately, his pupils including many of the leading 

pianists of the new generation, including Schnabel, Mark 

Hambourg and Benno Moiseiwitsch. His compositions include 

a quantity of piano music, much of it calling for a high degree 

of virtuosity in performance. 

“A la campagne” Suite • Two Pieces Op. 35 

Three Pieces Op. 48 • Aria Op. 36, No. 1 

Intermezzo en octaves • Six Méditations 

Peter Ritzen, Piano .............................................................. 8.223525 

Piano Concerto, Op. 9 • Die Erste Falte (Overture) 

Suite “Contes de Jeunesse”, Op. 46 

Peter Ritzen / Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra / 

Cao Peng ............................................................................. 8.223803 

LIADOV, Anatol Konstantinovich (1855 – 1914) 

Liadov was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, associated first with 

the Mighty Handful and then with the rival, younger circle of 

composers assembled by Belyayev. His colourful orchestral 

works include works such as Baba Yaga, drawing inspiration 

from the Russian witch of legend, and other pieces of similar 

origin, such as Kikimora and The Enchanted Lake. His piano 

music includes a series of attractive shorte r pieces. 


Baba Yaga, Op. 56 • Ballade, Op. 21b •␣ The 

Enchanted Lake, Op. 62 •␣ Fragment from the 

Apocalypse, Op. 66 • Intermezzo, Op. 8 •␣ Kikimora, 

Op. 63 •␣ Mazurka, Op. 19 • Nenie, Op. 67 • Polonaise 

in C, Op. 49, "In Memory of A.S.Pushkin" • Polonaise 

in D, Op. 55, "for unveiling of statue of 

A.S.Rubinstein" 

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser .. 8.220348

Piano Miniatures 

(Biryulki • Mazurkas • Preludes • Kukolki 

Arabesque • Variations on a Popular Polish Song) 

Monique Duphil, Piano ........................................................ 8.220416 

LIAPUNOV, Sergei Michailovich (1859 – 1924) 

Liapunov had Tchaikovsky among his teachers at the Moscow 

Conservatory, later moving to St Petersburg, where he came 

under the direct influence of Balakirev, the dictatorial leader of 

the Russian nationalist Mighty Handful. He taught later at the 

Conservatory, but left Russia after the Revolution, teaching in 

Paris until his death in 1924. He wrote extensively for the piano, 

with an impressive set of Twelve Studies completed in 1905 

and a number of character pieces, in which his interest in 

Russian folksong is often apparent. 

12 Etudes, Op. 11 


Variations on a Georgian Theme 

Chant d’Automne • Sonata 

Rêverie du Soir • Toccata • Fugue 

Dorothy Elliott Schechter, Piano .......................................... 8.223468 

LINDBLAD, Adolf Fredrik (1801 – 1878) 

An enthusiastic admirer of Beethoven from his days in Hamburg, 

the Swedish composer Adolf Fredrik Lindblad took lessons in 

Berlin from Zelter and became a friend of Mendelssohn. He is 

noted for his contribution to Swedish song, while his symphonies 

demonstrate a bold command of instrumentation. 

Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 19 

Symphony No. 2 in D major 

Uppsala Chamber Orchestra / Gérard Korsten ................... 8.225105 

LISSANT-COLLINS, Henry (1880 – 1941) 

English by birth and training, Henry Lissant-Collins made his 

later career in South Africa, where he was able to pursue his 

interests in Zulu music. The so-called Fuquoi of the title of the 

work recorded is a transliteration of the Zulu name for Buller’s 

coucal, a shy bird found in dense bush country. 

Fuquoi in the Sugar Cane (+ FAGAN / MOERANE) 


National Symphony Orchestra of the S.A.B.C. / 


LORTZING, Albert (1801 – 1851) 

Lortzing was associated throughout his career with the theatre 

and is best remembered for his opera on Peter the Great, Zar 

und Zimmermann (Tsar and Carpenter). He continues to 

explore the vein of German Romantic opera opened by Weber’s 

Der Freischütz. The overtures to some of his operas provide 

an introduction to his compelling style of composition. 

Overtures 

(Regina • Hans Sachs • Undine • Der Wildschütz 

Der Pole und sein Kind • Der Waffenschmied 

Zar und Zimmermann) 

Berlin Radio SO / Leipzig Radio SO .................................... 8.220310 

LUMBYE, Hans Christian (1810 – 1874) 

Influenced by the music of Lanner and of Strauss, the Danish 

composer and conductor Hans Christian Lumbye became a 


well-known figure at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, where 

he conducted and led his own orchestra in a repertoire of light 

music to which he made a major contribution as a composer, 

as he did to the ballets devised by his friend August Bournonville. 

In the tradition of Vienna, he holds a worthy place by the side 

of the Strauss family. 

Complete Orchestral Works Vol. 1 

Salut to August Bournonville • Queen Louise Vals 

Vauxhall Polka • King Christian IX’s March-Past 

Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop 

A Summer Night at the Møn Cliffs • Caecilie Waltz 

Columbine Polka-Mazurka • Britta Polka 

Cannon Galop • Amélie Waltz • Dagmar Polka 

Deborah Polka-Mazurka • Artist Dreams 

Otto Allin’s Drum Polka • Champagne Galop 

The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra / Giordano Bellincampi ..... 8.223743 


A Little Ditty for the Party, Galop • Amanda Waltz 

Master Erik’s Polka 

Victoria Bundsen Polka-Mazurka 

King Carl XV’s March-Past • The Dream after the Ball 

Military Galop • Crinoline Polka-Mazurka 

Camilla Polka • Rosa and Rosita Waltz 

Victoria Galop • Minerva Polka 

Salute to Capri, Polka • Wally Polka 

Regatta Festival, Waltz • Goodnight Polka 



Tivoli Concert Salon Galop • Amager Polka, No. 2 

Festival Polonaise in A major • Tivoli Volière Galop 

Concert-Polka for two violins • Ornithobolaia Galop 

Carnival Joys. Pictures from a Masquerade 

New Year Greeting, March • Torchlight Dance 

Sounds from Kroll’s Dance Hall 

Finale-galop from “The Guardsmen of Amager” 



Happy New Year! Galop • Aldolphine Polka 

March in C major • Christian Polka • Dagmar Waltz 

Laura Polka • My Farewell to Berlin, Waltz 

Constitution Celebration Galop • Cora Polka-mazurka 

Alice Polka • The Battle at Idsted, Fantasy 

La Constance • Helga Polka-mazurka 

Congratulations Galop 

The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra / 

Giordano Bellincampi .......................................................... 8.225170 


Regards to the Ticket-Holders of Tivoli • In the Dusk, 

Fantasy • The Sleigh Ride, Galop • Salute March of 

King Frederik VII • Marie Elisabeth Polka • Caroline 

Polka Mazurka • Artist Carnival Locomotive Galop 

Hesperus • Telegraph Galop • Salute Galop 

Fountain Waltz • Jenny Polka • Memories from 

Vienna • The Night Before New Year’s Day 

The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra / Tamás Vetö .................... 8.225171 


5th of June, March • Little Prince Christian Carl’s 

Waltz • The Dream of the Warrior, Fantasy 

Regards to the Fredericianians • Harvest Flower, 

Polka • Sadness Waltz • Princess Thyra Polka • 

A Festive Night at Tivoli • Señora Ysabel Cuba’s Polka 

Pomona Waltz • Tivoli Gondola Galop • Pepita Polka 

Nordic Sworn Brother Galop 

The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra / Tamás Vetö ............ # 8.225223


Juliette Galop • Moller Polka-Mazurka •␣ Mac Mahon 

March • Mist Pictures, Fantasia •␣ Souvenir de 

Hambourg, Polka • Catharina Vals • Diana Galop • La 

Polonaise, Pas de deux • Souvenir de Jenny Lind, 

Vals •␣ Venetian Tattoo • Echo fra Balsalen, 

Karakterdans • Nordisk Union Galop 

The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra / David Riddell .......... # 8.225255 


Welcome March • Döbler’s Magic Galop •␣ Alhambra, 

Romantic Waltz • Tivoli Bazar Tsching-Tching Polka 

• Les Zouaves, Galop • King Geoge I’s March of 

Honour • Rosenborg Polka-mazurka • Ole Lukøje, 

Galop phantastique • Twoli Steam Carousel Galop • 

Agnes Polka • Alexandra Polka • The Little Trumpet, 

Galop • Alberta Waltz• Twoli Roller-Coaster Galop 

The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra / David Riddell .......... # 8.225263 

LYATOSHYNSKY, Boris (1895 – 1968) 

Boris Lyatoshynsky was a leading figure in the musical life of 

the Ukraine, although his career was seriously affected by the 

cultural policies of the Soviet Union. He wrote five symphonies, 

which form only a small part of his work, ranging from opera to 

chamber music, choral music and songs. His musical language 

is essentially derived from the music of his own country. 

Symphony No. 1 • Grazhyna (Symphonic Ballade) 

Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra / Theodore Kuchar .. 8.223542 



Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 “Slavonic” 


LYON, David (b. 1938) 

A versatile composer, David Lyon has also concerned himself 

with music theatre and activities for younger people. He writes 

in an approachable and attractive style and has been able to 

provide a significant repertoire for schools and youth orchestras, 

as well as music that makes greater demands on performers. 

Fantasia on a Nursery Song 

Farnham Suite for Strings • Country Lanes 

Concerto for Horn and Strings • Fairytale Suite 

Overture to a Comic Opera • Waltz for Strings 

Ballet for Orchestra 

Michael Thompson, French Horn / Royal Ballet Sinfonia / 


MA, Sicong (1912 – 1987) 

The Chinese composer Sicong Ma, often known in the West as 

Sitzon Ma, studied the violin in France in the 1920s, later 

returning to study composition. After holding various positions 

of importance after1949, he moved, in the 1960s, to the United 

States. His Second Symphony reflects the struggle of the Red 

Army and the evocative Song of the Mountain Forest makes 

use of traditional material. 

Symphony No. 2 • Song of Mountain Forest 

Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra / Cao Peng ............ # 8.223950 


MACDOWELL, Edward (1860 – 1908) 

Edward MacDowell occupied an important position in American 

music, principally as one of the first American composers to be 

recognised internationally. He studied in Paris and in Germany, 

where his teachers included Carl Heymann and Raff and 

where he had strong encouragement from Liszt, both as pianist 

and as composer. His compositions include two piano concertos 

and orchestral works of literary inspiration, with a much larger 

quantity of piano music and songs. 


First Modern Suite • Amourette 

In Lilting Rhythm • Six Idylls • Sonata No. 3 

James Barbagallo, Piano ..................................................... 8.223632 


Etude de Concert, Op. 36 

Second Modern Suite, Op. 14 • Serenata, Op. 16 

Two Pieces, Op. 17 • Twelve Etudes, Op. 39 

James Barbagallo, Piano ..................................................... 8.223634 

Complete Songs 

The Mignonette • Midsummer Lullaby • The Sea 

Thy Beaming Eyes and others 

Steven Tharp, Tenor / James Barbagallo, Piano ................. 8.223866 

MAES, Jef (b. 1905) 

Jef Maes was born and studied in Antwerp as a viola-player, a 

training that resulted notably in his Viola Concerto of 1943. His 

music is clear in style and he has described himself as a 

‘modern romantic’. 

Symphony No. 2 • Viola Concerto 

Ouverture Concertante 

Arabesque and Scherzo for Flute 

Leo De Neve, Viola / Frank Vanhove, Flute / 


Gerard Oskamp ................................................................... 8.223741 

MALIPIERO, Gian Francesco (1882 – 1973) 

The Italian composer and musicologist Gian Francesco 

Malipiero is well known for his editions of the music of Monteverdi 

and Vivaldi. Prolific enough as an original composer, he also 

provided arrangements of music by earlier composers, of 

which his Vivaldiana is one example. Two sets of Invenzioni 

(Inventions), the second with the appealing descriptive title La 

festa degli indolenti (The Feast of the Indolent) introduce music 

of his own, a sample of a vast range of orchestral and operatic 

compositions. 


Sinfonie del silenzio e de la morte 


Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 • Sinfonia del mare 


Symphonies Nos. 5, 6, 8 & 11 


Symphony No. 7 • Sinfonia in un tempo 

Sinfonia per Antigenida 


Symphonies Nos. 9 & 10 • Sinfonia dello Zodiaco 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Antonio de Almeida .......... 8.223697

Tre commedie goldoniane (Symphonic Fragments) 

Stradivario • La Cimarosiana • Gabrieliana 

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana / Christian Benda ............ 8.225118 

MARIE, Ernest 

The French composer Ernest Marie contributed to popular ballroom 

repertoire, not least in La Grande Dame, a schottische, 

a form for which he had a particular predilection. 

La grande dame, Schottische 



MARKEVITCH, Igor (1912 – 1983) 

Distinguished as one of the great conductors of the century, 

Igor Markevitch started his career as a composer, with Stravinsky 

one of Dyagilev’s two Igors. The symphonic poem Le Nouvel 

Âge recalls the music of his contemporary, Szymanowski. His 

Sinfonietta reflects the teaching of Nadia Boulanger, while 

Cinéma-Ouverture is derived from a score intended for a 

Massine ballet, The Blue Danube. The short Cantique d’Amour 

is colourful in orchestration, varying in mood from languour to 

passion. L’Envol d’Icare, with its strange mis-tuning of some 

instruments, was planned as a ballet with Serge Lifar, a 

symbolic treatment of the legend of Icarus, while the neoclassical 

Concerto Grosso makes daring use of the soprano 

saxophone. 

Complete Orchestral Music Vol. 1 

Le Nouvel Âge • Sinfonietta in F • Cinéma-Ouverture 

Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra / 



L’Envol d’Icare • Cantique d’Amour • Concerto 

Grosso 




Rébus • Hymnes 




Lorenzo il Magnifico • Psaume 

Lucy Shelton / Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra / 



La Taille de l’Homme 

Lucy Shelton, Soprano / Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra / 



Piano Concerto • Cantata 

Martijn van den Hoek, Piano / Nienke Oostenrijk, Soprano / 

Netherlands Concert Choir / Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra / 

Christopher Lyndon-Gee ............................................. # 8.225076 


Das Musikalische Opfer 

Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee 

........................................................................................... 8.225120* 

MARSCHNER, Heinrich August (1795 – 1861) 

Marschner retains a firm place in German operatic repertoire, 

while his horror opera Der Vampyr has recently made an 

unexpected appearance as a television serial. The best of his 


operas is perhaps Hans Heiling, which deals with the fatal love 

between an earth-spirit, Hans Heiling, and a mortal woman, a 

work very much in the tradition of Der Freischütz. The opera 

was first staged in Berlin in 1833. 

Hans Heiling (Complete Opera) [2 CD’s] 

Soloists / Slovak Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra / 

Ewald Körner .................................................................... 8.223306-7 

Overtures 

(Kaiser Adolph • Des Falkners Braut • Prinz 

Friedrich • Lukretia • Der Bäbu • Der Goldschmied 

Der Templer und die Jüdin 

Grande Ouverture solenne) 

Slovak State PO / Alfred Walter .......................................... 8.223342 

MARTIN, Philip (b. 1947) 

Born in Dublin, the Irish composer Philip Martin was a pupil of 

Franz Reizenstein and Louis Kentner in London. His subsequent 

career has centred on his native city, with important 

commissioned compositions and appearances as a solo pianist. 

His Piano Concerto No.2 casts the soloist in the rôle of a 

Dubliner, as he goes through a day in the city. Beato Angelico 

draws inspiration from the painter Fra Angelico, while his Harp 

Concerto mingles joy with sadness. 

Beato Angelico • Piano Concerto No. 2 

Harp Concerto 

Philip Martin, Piano / Andreja Malirˇ, Harp / 


Kasper de Roo ..................................................................... 8.223834 

MARTÍNEZ–SOBRAL, Manuel (1879 – 1946) 

Self-taught as a musician, the Guatemalan composer Manuel 

Martínez-Sobral worked for much of his career as a lawyer, 

virtually ceasing to compose after 1920. His Acuarelas 

Chapinas depict a Sunday in Guatemala City, morning, High 

Mass in the Cathedral at noon, cocktail hour and later 

observation of the scene from the window. 

Acuarelas chapinas (+ CASTILLO) 


Acuarelas chapinas • Five Characteristic Pieces and 

a Romance • Four Autobiographical Waltzes 

Suzanne Husson / Michael Bourdoncle, Piano ........... # 8.225188 

Piano Music 

Sonata for Piano • Hojas de Álbum 

Three Pieces for Piano • Evocaciones • Volapié 

Vals Brillante de Concierto 

Suzanne Husson, Piano ...................................................... 8.225104 

MASSENET, Jules (1842 – 1912) 

Massenet was the leading French opera composer of his 

generation, with his operas Manon and Werther retaining their 

popularity in current international repertoire. Less well known 

are his Cendrillon (Cinderella) and Esclarmonde, from which 

orchestral suites have been drawn. 

Suites (Esclarmonde • Cendrillon) 

Suite No. 1, Op. 13 

Hong Kong Philharmonic / Kenneth Jean ............................ 8.223354

MAY, Frederick (1911 – 1985) 

A native of Dublin, Frederick May studied in London with 

Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob and in Vienna with Egon 

Wellesz, before returning to take up the position of music 

director at the Abbey Theatre. His music is generally Irish in 

flavour, influenced by the techniques of later romanticism. 

String Quartet in C minor 

(+ FLEISCHMANN) 

Vanbrugh Quartet ................................................................ 8.223888 

MAYERL, Billy (1902 – 1959) 

Talented in childhood as a concert-pianist, Billy Mayerl made 

his later career in light music, broadcasting in the 1920s as 

pianist with the Savoy Havana Band and subsequently working 

with his own dance band. His compositions include a number 

of novelty pieces for piano, as well as music for the theatre. 

Aquarium Suite • Four Aces Suite • Marigold 

Pastoral Sketches • Bats in the Belfry 

From a Spanish Lattice • Autumn Crocus 

Slovak RSO / Gary Carpenter ............................................. 8.223514 

MEDTNER, Nikolai Karlovich (1880 – 1951) 

Medtner studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where he later 

taught the piano intermittently, before leaving Russia in 1921 

to settle first in Paris and then, in 1935, in England, where he 

remained until his death. Most of Medtner’s compositions are 

for the piano, apart from a large number of songs to Russian 

texts and a small number of chamber works. Particularly 

notable are his piano sonatas, some of which, like the Sonata- 

Skazka (Fairy Tale Sonata) and Sonata-Idylle have explanatory 

titles. In style his music may be generally compared with that 

of Rachmaninov, although he writes in a distinctive enough 

language that is recognizably his own. 

Sonata in F minor • Sonata-Triad Op. 11 

Ádám Fellegi, Piano ............................................................ 8.223268 

Sonata-Ballada • Sonata Reminiscenza 

Sonata Tragica • Sonata-Idylle 


Sonatas Op. 22 & Op. 25, No. 2 

Sonata-Skazka Op. 25, No. 1 


MERCADANTE, Saverio (1795 – 1870) 

Although his operas have largely disappeared from modern 

repertory, Mercadante was among the leading Italian composers 

of his time, a contemporary of Bellini, Donizetti and the rather 

younger Verdi. His sixty operas, written between 1819 and 

1866 offer a conspectus of Italian operatic practice, the context 

in which his better-known contemporaries worked. 

Elena da Feltre (Dramma tragico) [2 CDs] 

Soloists / Wexford Festival Opera Chorus / 


Maurizio Benini ............................................................... 8.225064-65 


MÉTRA, Olivier (1830 – 1889) 

Olivier Métra was a successful precursor of Waldteufel in the 

world of French dance music in the mid-nineteenth century. 

Espérance!, Valse • La Sérénade, Valse espagnole 



MEULEMANS, Arthur (1884 – 1966) 

A leading figure in Flemish music, Arthur Meulemans developed 

a musical language strongly influenced by French 

impressionism, shown particularly in his orchestral writing. His 

three operas are evidence of his national interest in the music 

of his native country, while his abstract Symphony No. 2, 

written in 1933, is in contrast to the evocative pictures of nature 

evoked in his romantic and programmatic Symphony No.3, the 

Fir Symphony and Swan Fen Symphony. 

Fir Symphony 




Pliny’s Fountain 

Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 • May Night 


Symphony No. 7 “Swan Fen” 

(+ BENOIT / MORTELMANS / VAN HOOF) 


VRT Philharmonic Orchestra / 


MEYERBEER, Giacomo (1791 – 1864) 

French grand opera owes much to the German-Jewish 

composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, who had his first success in 

Paris in 1826 with his tenth opera, Il crociato in Egitto (The 

Crusade in Egypt). From 1831 until his death in 1864 he 

provided Paris with four notably spectacular grand operas. 

L’étoile du nord is a work of another kind, a mixture of the comic 

and the serious and of song and speech,first staged at the Paris 

Opéra-Comique in 1854. It deals with a romantic episode in the 

life of Peter the Great, in disguise in Western Europe and in love 

with a determined canteen-girl, who later, after escape and 

transitory madness, is restored to her lover, now revealed as 

the Tsar. 

L’Étoile du Nord [3 CD’s] 

Elizabeth Futral / Vladimir Ognev / Christopher Maltman / 

Wexford Festival Opera Chorus / 


Wladimir Jurowski ........................................................... 8.223829-31 

MIASKOVSKY, Nikolai Yakovlevich (1881 – 1950) 

Miaskovsky was a friend and mentor of the young Prokofiev at 

the St Petersburg Conservatory, where he had been taught by 

Liadov and Rimsky-Korsakov, after private lessons with Glière. 

His 27 symphonies, spanning a period from 1908 to 1950, 

encompass and to some extent seek to express the varied 

fortunes of Russia and the Soviet Union. Another aspect of his 

work is heard in the nine piano sonatas, which span a similar 

period.

Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 4 

Endre Hegedüs, Piano ........................................................ 8.223469 

Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 3 & 5 


Piano Sonatas Nos. 6 - 9 



Slovak National Opera Choir / 


Symphony No. 12 • Silence 


MILHAUD, Darius (1892 – 1974) 

Among the most gifted and, arguably, the most prolific French 

composer of the twentieth century, Darius Milhaud was born in 

Aix-en-Provence, a region of France that continued to influence 

him, in spite of the disruption to his life of war-time exile in 

America. Milhaud was a member of Les Six and continued 

throughout his life to write music of wit and superlative 

craftsmanship, from his early setting of a farm-machine 

catalogue to his specifically Jewish compositions. 

Les Machines Agricoles 

(LES MARIES DE LA TOUR EIFFEL) 

Florence Katz, Mezzo-soprano / Ensemble Erwartung / 

Bernard Desgraupes ........................................................... 8.223788 

MOERAN, E. J. (1894 – 1950) 

Of Anglo-Irish origin, E. J. Moeran was a pupil of John Ireland 

in London and a close friend of Peter Warlock. Influenced by 

Delius, he also drew inspiration from Ireland. His marriage to 

the cellist Peers Coetmore gave rise to a Cello Concerto, and, 

among other compositions for the instrument, a dramatic and 

moving Cello Sonata. 

Cello Sonata in A minor (+ IRELAND / RUBBRA) 


MOERAN, Michael Mosoeu (1904 – 1980) 

Michael Moeran was the first black African to take a degree in 

music at a South African university. His symphonic poem My 

Country was written as part of his degree requirements and is 

based on adaptations of African songs. 

My Country (+ FAGAN / LISSANT–COLLINS) 


National Symphony Orchestra of South African Broadcasting 

Corporation / Peter Marchbank ........................................... 8.223709 

MONTSALVATGE, Xavier (1912 – 2002) 

The Catalan composer Xavier Montsalvatge is among the 

leading musicians of contemporary Spain, writing in a style that 

combines Catalan elements in a convincing synthesis, evident 

in his Concierto breve for piano and orchestra, written in 1953, 

and in his more recent remarkable and moving Sinfonía de 

réquiem. 

Sinfonía de réquiem • Concierto Breve (+ RODRIGO) 

Leonel Morales, Piano / Catalina Moncloa, Soprano / 

Madrid Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Ros Marbà ............... 8.223753 


MORTELMANS, Lodewijk (1868 – 1952) 

A pupil of Jan Blockx and Peter Benoit in his native Antwerp, 

Lodewijk Mortelmans spent his life there, serving as a conductor, 

composer and teacher. He was associated in particular with 

Flemish musical nationalism in Belgium. 

Morning Mood (FLEMISH ROMANTIC MUSIC) 



The Myth of Spring-Symphonic Poem 

(+ BENOIT / MORTELMANS / VAN HOOF) 


VRT Philharmonic Orchestra / 


MOSONYI, Mihály (1815 – 1870) 

Like Liszt, the Hungarian composer Mihály Mosonyi was born 

near the borders of Hungary into a German-speaking family 

and studied in Pozsony, the modern Bratislava. He spent the 

later part of his career, some thirty years, in Pest, where he 

taught the piano and composition, turning his own attention to 

the composition of truly Hungarian music, an aim in which he 

enjoyed considerable success. His many works include 

operas, sacred and secular vocal works, two symphonies and 

a quantity of piano music of Hungarian inspiration. 

Piano Concerto • Symphony No. 1 

Klára Körmendi, Piano / 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Slovak RSO / 

Robert Stankovsky .............................................................. 8.223539 


Hungarian Children’s World 

Studies for Development in the Performance of 

Hungarian Music 



Grand Duo • Festival Music 

Three Colours of Burning Love • Missa solemnis 

(Liszt) 

István Kassai and Klára Körmendi ...................................... 8.223558 


Three Piano Pieces • Two Pearls • Puszta Life 

Homage • Hungarian Musical Poem 

(+ LISZT: Works inspired by Mosonyi) 

István Kassai ....................................................................... 8.223559 


Hungarian Music • New Year Present 

Four Rhapsodies • Appeal • Marches 

István Kassai ....................................................................... 8.223560 


Szép Ilonka 

Franz DOPPLER: Benyovszky (trans. Mosonyi) 

István Kassai ....................................................................... 8.225022 

Piano Trio • Grand Nocture 

Kassai Trio ........................................................................... 8.225042 

MOTTA, Vianna da (1868 – 1948) 

The Portuguese pianist and composer José Vianna da Motta 

studied the piano and composition in Berlin and with Hans von 

Bülow in Frankfurt. He attended Liszt’s final classes in Weimar 

and his close association with the music of Liszt was to 

continue after the latter’s death in 1886. One of the leading

pianists of his time, he finally returned to Portugual in 1917, 

becoming director of the Lisbon Conservatory in 1919 and 

doing much to establish there a broader system of musical and 

cultural education. The influence of Liszt is apparent in his 

compositions for piano, where Portuguese elements have an 

increasing part to play. 

Sonata in D major • Cenas portuguesas Opp. 9 & 18 

Ballada • Barcarolas Op. 1, Nos. 1 & 2 • Adeus, 

mínha terra 

Sequeira Costa, Piano ......................................................... 8.225116 

MOYZES, Alexander (1906 – 1984) 

The career of the Slovak composer Alexander Moyzes centred 

on Bratislava, where he was distinguished as a teacher, while, 

as a composer, combining some modernist tendencies with 

Slovak traditions. His Gemer and Pohronie Dances and the 

tone poem Down the River Váh evoke the spirit of his own 

country. 

Gemer Dances • Down the River Váh 

Pohronie Dances 

Slovak RSO / Ondrej Lenárd ............................................... 8.223278 


Slovak RSO / Ladislav Slovák ............................................. 8.225088 





Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 “21.08.1968” 






MUCZYNSKI, Robert (b. 1929) 

Among the leading American composers today, Robert 

Muczynski has spent much of his career as a teacher of 

composition, while writing music that is effective and lyrical, 

qualities evident in his works for wind instruments, which 

provide a significant addition to wind repertoire. 

Complete Works for flute 

Alexandra Hawley & Jean-Pierre Rampal, Flutes / 

Robert Muczynski, Piano / Stanford Woodwind Quintet ...... 8.225041 

MULLER, Pierre (? – 1901) 

Pierre Muller is representative of French composers writing for 

the ball-rooms of the second half of the nineteenth century, with 

a series of polkas, waltzes and other dances to his credit, 

including works based on popular melodies of the time. 

Le roi malgré lui, Valse • L’Infanterie française, 

Polka militaire • Nuit étoilée, Valse 




NELSON, Havelock (1917 – 1996) 

Born in Cork, the Irish composer Havelock Nelson spent his 

career as a conductor and choral director largely in Northern 

Ireland, retiring in 1977 to live in Trinidad and Tobago. His 

many compositions include a number of characteristic songs. 

The Little Pets of Mochua • Dirty Work 




NEPOMUCENO, Alberto (1864 – 1920) 

Alberto Nepomuceno occupies an important position as a 

pioneer of Brazilian music, indebted to his teacher Fonseca, 

and active in his encouragement of the young Villa-Lobos. A 

period in Europe brought study in Berlin, lessons with the 

organist Guilmant in Paris, contact with Brahms and significantly 

with Grieg, one of whose pupils became his wife. Distinguished 

in his career in Brazil as a teacher, conductor and composer, 

he wrote in a musical language that owed much to contemporary 

European tradition. 

Suíte Antigo, Op. 11 • Nocturnes Nos. 1 and 2 

Improviso, Op. 27, No. 2 • Sonata Op. 9 

Nocturne, Op. 33 • Galhofeira, Op. 13 

Cinco pequenaspeças 

Maria Inês Guimarães, Piano .............................................. 8.223548 

NEWMAN, Alfred (1901 – 1970) 

Alfred Newman took lessons from Schoenberg, but made his 

career in musical comedy and then in the world of the cinema, 

providing scores for some 250 films, as head of the 20th 

Century-Fox music department in Hollywood. His scores 

range from City Lights to The Greatest Story Ever Told and 

Airport. 

All About Eve (Suite) • Beau Geste 

The Hunchback of Notre Dame 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / 

William Stromberg ............................................................... 8.223750 

The Egyptian (with Herrmann) 



NIN-CULMELL, Joaquín María (b. 1908) 

Brother of the writer Anaïs Nin and son of the Cuban composer 

and pianist Joaquín Nin, Joaquín Nin-Culmell was trained in 

Paris, where he was a pupil of Dukas, later taking lessons from 

Manuel de Falla. Although long resident in the United States, 

where he has held important academic positions, he has 

written music of a markedly Spanish flavour, including a 

fascinating series of piano pieces, Tonadas, that draw on 

Spanish material. 

Tonadas (Complete) 

Maria Luisa Cantos, Piano .................................................. 8.223534 

NORDGREN, Erik (1913 – 1992) 

For many years music director of Svensk Filmindustri, the 

Swedish composer Erik Nordgren is particularly noted for his 

collaborations with Ingmar Bergman in some seventeen films, 

classics of the cinema.

Women’s Waiting • Smiles of a Summer Night 

Wild Strawberries • The Face • The Garden of Eden 

Slovak RSO / Adriano .................................................. # 8.223682 

NOVÁK, Vitězslav (1870 – 1949) 

Vitězslav Novák was a fellow-student of Josef Suk in Dvorˇák’s 

composition master-class at the Prague Conservatory. 

Discouraged by other teachers in Prague, he found renewed 

inspiration in the folk-music of Moravia and Slovakia, which 

strongly influenced his music. His piano tone-poem Pan, later 

orchestrated, represents Novák at the height of his powers. 

Pan (Symphonic Poem) 

Slovak Philharmonic / Zdeněk Bílek .................................... 8.223325 

Serenades in F major and D major, Op. 36 

Ukrainian Chamber Orchestra / Andrew Mogrelia ............... 8.223649 

O’BRIEN, Vincent (1870 – 1948) 

The name of Vincent O’Brien is associated in particular with 

Irish and other Celtic verse settings and compositions. 

The Fairy Tree 




ORR, Buxton (1924 – 1997) 

A native of Glasgow and a pupil of Benjamin Frankel, Buxton 

Orr taught for a number of years at the London Guildhall School 

of Music, with an interest in jazz and a musical language, as a 

composer, that combines a tendency towards the tonal with 

occasional use of serial techniques. His compositions include 

dramatic works, as well as orchestral, vocal and instrumental 

compositions of considerable variety. 

Piano Trios Nos. 1 - 3 

York Piano Trio: Jeremy Williams, Violin / 

Christine Jackson, Cello / John York, Piano ........................ 8.223842 

OSWALD, Henrique (1852 – 1931) 

Swiss by descent and Brazilian by birth, Henrique Oswald 

spent many years in Italy, returning to spend the last twenty 

years of his life in Rio de Janeiro. His music is strongly 

influenced by French music of the turn of the century, his own 

well crafted idiom one of some refinement, particularly evident 

in his piano pieces and chamber music. 

Piano Music 

Feuilles d’Album, Op. 20 • Valse Lente 

Três Peças, Op. 23 • Nocturnes Nos. 1 & 2, Op. 6 

Il Neige • Seis Peças, Op. 14 

Maria Inês Guimarães, Piano .............................................. 8.223639 

PACINI, Giovanni (1796 – 1867) 

A rival of Bellini and Donizetti, Giovanni Pacini outlived both, 

achieving his greatest success in 1840 with Saffo, based on the 

life and suicide of the Greek poetess of Lesbos. Described by 

Rossini as the composer with the most genius in Italy, Pacini 

here breaks away from the pattern set by Rossini in a work 

suggesting the influence of Bellini’s Norma in its dramatic 

intensity. 


Saffo [2 CD’s] 

Francesca Pedaci / Carlo Ventre / Roberto de Candia / 

Mariana Pentcheva / Gemma Bertagnolli / Aled Hall / 

Davide Baronchelli / Wexford Festival Opera Chorus / 

(Chorus Master: Lubomir Matl) / 


Maurizio Benini ............................................................... 8.223883-84 

PFITZNER, Hans (1869 – 1949) 

Widely known for his opera Palestrina, Hans Pfitzner occupied 

an important position in German musical life, at least until 1934. 

His orchestral compositions include a piano concerto, while his 

1931 opera Das Herz and the Overture to Das Christ-Elflein, 

written in 1906, exemplify his work for the theatre. 

Das Herz (Complete Opera) [2 CD’s] 

Soloists / Thüringer Landestheater Rudolstadt / 

Rolf Reuter ..................................................................... 8.223627-28 

Piano Concerto Op. 31 • Das Herz (Liebesmelodie) 

Das Christ-Elflein (Overture) 

Wolf Harden / Slovak RSO / Heribert Beissel ...................... 8.223162 

PIERNÉ, Gabriel (1863 – 1937) 

A pupil of Massenet and Franck at the Conservatoire, Pierné 

enjoyed a career in Paris as a conductor and as a composer. 

His music shows a firm technical command, reflecting the 

eminence of his teachers. This is apparent in his chamber 

music and works for piano as in his orchestral compositions 

and works for the theatre. 

Fifteen Pieces • Sérénade à Colombine 

Sérénade à Izeyl • Scherzando de Concert 

Etude de Concert 

Hae-won Chang, Piano ....................................................... 8.223115 

Flute Sonata Op. 36 • Piano Trio Op. 45 

István Matuz, Flute / Norbert Szelecsényi, Piano 

Béla Bánfalvi, Violin / Katalin Vass, Cello ............................ 8.223189 

PILATI, Mario (1903 – 1938) 

The death of the Italian composer Mario Pilati at the age of 35 

has led to subsequent neglect of a musician of considerable 

promise and achievement. Encouraged by Pizzetti, he moved 

from Naples to Milan, but later returned south once more, 

drawing inspiration from his native region. His Concerto in C 

is based on the concept of the Baroque concerto grosso, while 

other works exemplify his original approach to the neo-classical 

tendencies of the earlier twentieth century. 

Concerto for Orchestra • Preludio, Aria e Tarantella 

Bagatelle 


PIZZETTI, Ildebrando (1880 – 1968) 

Ildebrando Pizzetti represents a relatively conservative tendency 

in the Italian music of the twentieth century, with an early lyrical 

style developing into a more dramatic language in later works, 

evident in his chamber music as in much of his other work. His 

compositions include operas and incidental music for the 

theatre, a quantity of vocal and orchestral music and a smaller 

quantity of chamber music. He was also distinguished as a 

conductor, teacher and writer on musical subjects.

Canti della stagione alta 

(Concerto for piano and orchestra) 

Prelude per Fedra • Sinfonia del fuoco 

Susanna Stefani, Piano / Boris Statsenko, Baritone 

Städtischer Opernchor, Chemnitz / 

Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie / Oleg Caetani ................. 8.225058 

Piano Trio in A • Violin Sonata in A • Tre Canti 

Leila Rásonyi, Violin / Lászlo Fenyó, Cello / 

Alpesian Ertüngealp, Piano ................................................. 8.223812 

String Quartets in A major and in D 

Lajtha Quartet ...................................................................... 8.223722 

PONCE, Manuel M. (1882 – 1948) 

A composer and pianist, Manuel Ponce had his early training 

in his native Mexico, before further study in Bologna and in 

Berlin. He started his career in Mexico, followed by a period in 

Paris, where he benefited from the assistance of Paul Dukas. 

He established himself once more in Mexico in 1933, writing 

music that had a wide general appeal and, in particular, 

providing Andres Segovia with a notable guitar concerto, the 

Concierto del sur, with other compositions for the instrument. 

His music in general reflects the traditions of Mexico. 

Piano Music 

Preludio and Fugue on a theme of Handel 

Full moon • Four Mexican Dances • Intermezzo 

Introduction, Prelude and Fugue on a theme 

of J.S. Bach • In Spite of Everything – Dance for the 

Left Hand Alone • Scherzino Mexicano • Prelude and 

Fugue for the Left Hand Alone • Two Concert Etudes 

Notturno • Mexican Ballade 

David Witten, Piano ............................................................. 8.223609 

POOT, Marcel (1901 – 1988) 

A student at the Brussels Conservatory and then at the Royal 

Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, Marcel Poot showed an 

early interest in music for the cinema. A pupil of Gilson and later 

of Dukas, he developed a musical idiom that allows ironic effect 

and is shown at its most cheerful in compositions like the 

popular Vrolijke ouverture. His varied works include the 

dramatic, the orchestral, vocal and chamber music. 

Cheerful Overture 




Moto Perpetuo: Tarentelle 

Symphonies Nos. 3, 5 & 7 


Symphony No. 6 • Pygmalion (Suite) 

Symphonic Allegro • Vrolijke Ouverture 


PORTUGAL, Marcos Antônio (1762 – 1830) 

Born in Lisbon, Marcos Antônio Portugal had his musical 

training and early career there, continuing to write operas from 

1792 to 1800 in Naples. He returned to Lisbon, eventually 

rejoining the exiled court in Rio de Janeiro, where he held a 

dominant position in musical life until his death. His comic 

opera Le donne cambiate, another work based on Coffey’s 

play The Devil to Pay, was first staged in Venice in 1797. 


Le donne cambiate 

(Musical farce in one act) 

Ana Paula Russo / Ana Ferraz / Jorge Vaz de Carvalho / 

Luís Rodrigues / Alberto Lobo da Silva / Nuno de Villalonga / 

City of London Sinfonia / Álvaro Cassuto ............................ 8.225154 

POTTER, Archibald James (1918 – 1980) 

Archie Potter was born in 1918, the son of a blind Belfast pianotuner. 

He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music 

where he studied with Vaughan Williams. A highly prolific and 

distinguished composer who won many awards, he wrote 

distinctive music that encompasses a wide variety of styles and 

techniques, always using whatever would best suit his purpose. 

The Sinfonia “de Profundis” was first performed in 1969. A 

powerful work, it won a Jacob’s Radio Award that year. Other 

music can be in a lighter vein, combining Irish wit and humour 

with evocative and poetic orchestration. 

Sinfonia “De Profundis” • Finnegan’s Wake 

Fantasia Gaelach No. 1 • Variations on a Popular 

Tune • Overture to a Kitchen Comedy 


Robert Houlihan ................................................................... 8.225158 

POULENC, Francis (1899 – 1963) 

Associated with Les Six in Paris in the early 1920s, Francis 

Poulenc enjoyed a career of great distinction, writing music that 

at first had an elegant if superficial attraction, before maturity 

brought greater profundity to his work. Les Mariés de la Tour 

Eiffel was an early collaborative effort with other composers of 

the group, under the influence of Cocteau. 



QUILTER, Roger (1877 – 1953) 

The English composer Roger Quilter was a fellow-student of 

Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott and Balfour Gardner at the Hoch 

Conservatory in Frankfurt. His reputation in England rests 

largely on his songs and on his light music for orchestra, such 

as his Children’s Overture, with its interwoven nursery rhyme 

tunes. 

A Children’s Overture • Where the Rainbow Ends 

As You Like It • Country Pieces • The Rake 

Three English Dances • Concert Waltz from Rosmé 


RABAUD, Henri (1873 – 1949) 

Born in Paris in 1873 into a family that included many 

distinguished professional musicians, Henri Rabaud studied 

composition at the Conservatoire with Massenet and Gédalge, 

later coming under the influence of César Franck and Wagner. 

Conservative by inclination, in 1922 he succeeded Fauré as 

director of the Conservatoire, retaining this position for nearly 

twenty years. His compositions include operas, film music and 

incidental music for the theatre as well as two symphonies and 

other orchestral works. 

Dances from “Mârouf” • Procession Nocturne 

Suites Anglaises Nos. 2 and 3 • Églogue 

Divertissement 

Rheinland-Pfalz Philharmonic / Leif Segerstam .................. 8.223503

RACHMANINOV, Sergey (1873 – 1943) 

Trained at the Moscow Conservatory as a pianist and composer, 

Rachmaninov had established himself in the second capacity 

before the Russian Revolution. Exile abroad led him to turn his 

attention to concert performance as a pianist and as a conductor, 

leaving much less time for composition. He was one of the 

most distinguished virtuoso pianists of his time. In addition to 

his well known orchestral and piano compositions Rachmaninov 

also made a number of piano transcriptions of his own music 

and that of others for his own concert use. Compelled to leave 

Russia after the revolution of 1917, Sergey Rachmaninov 

established himself abroad as a pianist of remarkable virtuosity, 

his busy career allowing less time than before for composition. 

His popular Vocalise, particularly effective in cello transcription, 

was written in 1912 and revised three years later. 

Transcriptions (Complete) 

Sequeira Costa, Piano ......................................................... 8.220093 

RAFF, Joachim (1822 – 1882) 

Remembered by an early generation primarily for his popular 

Cavatina, heard in many arrangements, Raff spent part of his 

earlier career as assistant to Liszt in Weimar, and ended his life 

as director of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. He wrote 

eleven symphonies, most of them with some programmatic 

content, all in the competent style of the period. 

Aus Thüringen • Italienische Suite 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Richard Edlinger ..................... 8.223194 


Overtures (Romeo and Juilet •␣ Macbeth) 

Slovak State PO / Urs Schneider ........................................ 8.223630 

Symphony No. 7 “In den Alpen” 

Concert Overture Op. 123 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Urs Schneider ......................... 8.223506 


Slovak State Philharmonic / Urs Schneider ......................... 8.223362 

RAVEL, Maurice (1875 – 1937) 

French, of paternal Swiss and maternal Basque descent, Ravel 

combined skill in orchestration with meticulous technical 

command of harmonic resources, writing in an attractive musical 

idiom that was entirely his own, in spite of contemporary 

comparisons with Debussy, a composer his senior by some 

twenty years. Ravel’s attempts at the prestigious Prix de Rome 

were uniformly unsuccessful, as he continually failed, finally, 

perhaps, deliberately, to satisfy the academic standards of the 

jury. His five Prix de Rome cantatas are recorded now for the 

first time. Maurice Ravel had a particular affinity with Spanish 

music, as exemplified in his popular Habanera, originally for 

two pianos, but subject to much transcription. 

L’aurore • Matinée de Provence • Tout est lumière 

Les bayadères • La nuit (+ CAPLET / DEBUSSY) 

Sharon Coste, Soprano / Brigitte Desnoues, Soprano / 

Gaële Le Roi, Soprano / Marc Duguay, Tenor / 





RESPIGHI, Ottorino (1879 – 1936) 

The colourful tone-poems by Respighi, The Fountains of 

Rome, The Pines of Rome and The Festivals of Rome are well 

known to concert audiences, brilliant evocations of the city 

where Respighi had settled in 1913. Respighi’s other works 

deserve a wider audience. These include the Concerto 

Gregoriano for violin and the Concerto in Modo Misolidio for 

piano, the Sinfonia Drammatica and works for voice and 

orchestra that include settings of Shelley, Aretusa, La sensitiva 

and Il tramonto. 

La bella dormente nel bosco (Sleeping Beauty) 

Richard Haan / Denisa Sˇ lepkovská / Jana Valásková / 

Guillermo Dominguez / Adriana Kohutková / Ivana Czaková / 

Dagmar Pecková / Henrieta Lednárová / Igor Pasek / 

Jan Durco / Slovak Philharmonic Chorus / 


Cantatas (Aretusa • La Sensitiva • Il Tramonto) 

Quattro Liriche 

Faridah Subrata, Mezzo-Soprano / 


Concerto in Modo Misolidio 

3 Gregorian Preludes 

Sonya Hanke / Sydney SO / Myer Fredman ....................... 8.220176 

Lucrezia 

Michela Remor / Stefania Kaluza / Richard Haan / 

Ludovit Ludha / Denisa Slepkovska / Adriana Kohutkova / 

Igor Pasek / Jan Durco / Rado Hanak / 


La Pentola Magica • Sèvres • Scherzo Veneziano 


Preludio, Corale e Fuga 

Variazioni Sinfoniche • Suite in E major 

Ouverture Carnevalesca • Burlesca 


La Primavera 

Quattro liriche su poesie popolari armene 

Richard Haan / Miroslav Dvorsky´ / Jana Valásková / 

Vladimís Kubovčík / Henrietta Lednárová / Beata Geriová / 

Denisa Sˇ lepkovská / Slovak Philharmonic Chorus / 


REYNOLDS, Alfred (1884 – 1969) 

A pupil of Humperdinck, Alfred Reynolds was, like many other 

British composers of light music, a man of the theatre. Apart 

from an orchestral intermezzo, a few dozen songs and a few 

instrumental miniatures, his considerable output was entirely 

associated with the stage in one way or another. Flourishing in 

the period from the Great War to the 1950s, he is less well 

remembered than many of his contemporaries, although highly 

regarded in his day. He collaborated with the actor-manager 

Nigel Playfair and was adept at musical shows, including a 

popular stage version of 1066 and All That. 

Alice through the Looking-Glass Suite • The Toy Cart 

Suite • Marriage à la Mode Suite • Three Pieces for 

Theatre • Festival March • The Taming of the Shrew 

• Suite of Five Dances from The Duenna • Overture 

for a Comedy • The Sirens of Southend • Swiss 

Lullaby and Ballet • Three Pieces for Theatre 

Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland ............................. 8.225184

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolay Andreyevich 

(1844 – 1908) 

One of the Russian nationalist Mighty Handful, Rimsky-Korsakov 

developed a sound command of orchestral technique, devoting 

himself entirely to music after service in the Russian navy. 

Compositions such as Sheherazade and Capriccio Espagnol 

are very well known to audiences. Less familiar is his Night on 

Mount Triglav, derived from his opera Mlada, and his suite from 

the opera Pan Voyevoda, colourful additions to general 

repertoire. 

Night on Mount Triglav • Pan Voyevoda 

Slovak Philharmonic / Bystrík Rezucha ............................... 8.220438 

RIVIER, Jean (1896 – 1987) 

Jean Rivier’s career and health were affected by the war of 

1914-18. In later years he taught composition at the Paris 

Conservatoire, alternating with and then replacing Darius 

Milhaud on the latter’s death. His compositions include a 

number of works that involve the saxophone. Of these the 

1955 Concerto for saxophone, trumpet and strings is a fine 

example. 

Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Trumpet and String 

Orchestra (FRENCH SAXOPHONE CONCERTOS) 

(+ DUBOIS / SCIORTINO) 

Daniel Gremelle, Saxophone / Antoine Curé, Trumpet / 

Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Kosˇice) / 

Bystrík Rezˇucha .................................................................. 8.225127 

RODRIGO, Joaquín (1901 – 1999) 

Blind since the age of three, Joaquín Rodrigo for years retained 

a position of the greatest prominence in Spanish music, with his 

guitar concertos, in particular, establishing his international 

reputation. His music combines Spanish elements with a 

strong sense of formal style. 

Zarabanda lejana y villancico (+ MONTSALVATGE) 

Madrid Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Ros Marbà ............... 8.223753 

ROGER-DUCASSE, Jean (1873 – 1954) 

A pupil of Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire, Roger-Ducasse 

developed his own musical idiom, disciplined by classical 

principles and predominantly lyrical, in a late romantic musical 

language of some complexity. 

Marche française • Nocturne de printemps 

Petite Suite • Le joli jeu de furet • Orphée 


Prélude d’un ballet • Suite française 

Au jardin de Marguerite • Epithalame 


ROPARTZ, Joseph–Guy (1864 – 1955) 

Turning to music after a legal training, Joseph-Guy Ropartz 

was a pupil of Dubois and Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire, 

later falling under the influence of César Franck. He was a 

prolific composer and a skilful administrator. He retired in 1929 

to his native Brittany, the influence of which on his music and 

thought remained strong. 


Missa Te Deum laudamus • Sub tuum præsidium 

Five Motets • Salve Regina 

Ensemble Vocal Michel Piquemal / Eric Lebrun, Organ / 

Michel Piquemal .................................................................. 8.225126 

ROSENBERG, Hilding (1892 – 1985) 

The Swedish composer and conductor Hilding Rosenberg held 

a leading position in the musical life of his country, writing a 

quantity of music that reflects contemporary influences. His 

choral works represent a significant element in Swedish music 

of the twentieth century. 

The Holy Night (+ LARSSON) 

Karin Ingebäck / Anders Larsson / Anna Larsson / John Erik Eleby / 

Frej Lindkvist / Amadei Chamber Choir / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / 

Petter Sundkvist .................................................................. 8.225123 

ROSENTHAL, Manuel (b. 1904) 

A pupil of Ravel, Manuel Rosenthal has enjoyed an active 

career as a conductor, while contributing significantly to the 

body of French music, neo-classical in character and diverse 

enough in genre, with operas and ballets, orchestral, choral 

and chamber music. 


Les Petits Métiers • Mélodies • Musique de table 

Catherine Dubosc, Soprano / 

Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy / 

Jérôme Kaltenbach .............................................................. 8.223768 

ROSSINI, Gioachino (1792 – 1868) 

Best known as a composer of opera, both comic and tragic, 

Rossini also turned his hand to instrumental music of various 

kinds, both as a young man and in his later years, after his early 

retirement from the opera-house. His work includes operatic 

sets of variations, including the 1820 Andante with Variations, 

originally for harp and viola, but here transcribed for harp and 

flute. 

Andante with Variations in F major 



RÓZSA, Miklós (1907 – 1995) 

Educated first in his native city of Budapest, the Hungarian 

composer Miklós Rózsa continued his studies in Leipzig, 

settling then in Paris. In 1935 he moved to London to work for 

the Korda brothers, whom he later joined in Hollywood. He 

enjoyed a successful career in America, writing music for the 

cinema and for the concert hall, with a Violin Concerto 

commissioned by Heifetz and a Piano Concerto derived from 

his score for the Hitchcock film Spellbound. 

The King’s Thief 

(+ KORNGOLD / STEINER / YOUNG) 



RUBBRA, Edmund (1901 – 1986) 

A pupil of Cyril Scott, the English composer Edmund Rubbra 

worked for the railways when he left school, but later won 

scholarships that allowed him to study music as a pupil of 

Gustav Holst. After earlier activity as a pianist in a distinguished

piano trio, for some twenty years he was a lecturer in music at 

Oxford. As a composer his individual voice is heard in his 

eleven symphonies, while his moving Cello Sonata echoes his 

interest in counterpoint and in the earlier traditions of vocal 

music. 

Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 60 

(+ IRELAND / MOERAN) 


RUBINSTEIN, Anton (1829 – 1894) 

One of the greatest pianists of his day, Anton Rubinstein came 

to occupy an important position in Russian music with his 

establishment in 1862 of the St Petersburg Conservatory, the 

first such institution in Russia. His relationship with the Russian 

nationalist composers led by Balakirev was hostile, leading him 

to categorize them as amateur, while they labelled him 

“German”, a reference to the sound technical training given to 

his students, who included the young Tchaikovsky. As a 

composer Rubinstein was technically gifted, avoiding the 

apparent crudity of the nationalists. He wrote a considerable 

amount of music, including piano concertos, symphonies, 

operas and compositions for piano, among the last the notorious 

Melody in F. 

Ballet Music (Demon • Feramors • Nero) 

Slovak Philharmonic / Michael Halász ................................. 8.220451 

The Demon (Complete Opera) [2 CD’s] 

Anatoly Lochak / Alison Browner / Marina Mescheriakova / 

Leonid Zimnenko / Valery Serkin / Richard Robson / 

Ludmilla Andrew / Wjacheslav Weinorowski / 

Wexford Festival Opera Chorus / 


Alexander Anissimov ...................................................... 8.223781-82 

Fantasy Op. 84 • Concert Piece Op. 113 

Joseph Banowetz / Slovak RSO / 

Oliver Dohnányi ................................................................... 8.223190 

Kamennïy-ostrov Volume 1 (24 Musical Portraits) 


Kamennïy-ostrov Volume 2 (24 Musical Portraits) 



Joseph Banowetz / Slovak State Philharmonic / 

Alfred Walter ........................................................................ 8.223456 


Joseph Banowetz / Slovak State Philharmonic / 


Piano Concerto No. 5 • Caprice Russe 

Joseph Banowetz / Slovak RSO / 



Album de Peterhof, Op. 75 



Soirées musicales, Op. 109 


Piano Works 

Six Etudes Op. 23 • Barcarolles Nos. 1 - 6 

Alexander Paley, Piano ............................................... # 8.223894 

Symphony No. 4 “Dramatic” 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Robert Stankovsky ................. 8.223319 


Symphony No. 5 • Faust • Dmitry Donskoy 

George Enescu State PO / Horia Andreescu ...................... 8.223320 


Philharmonia Hungarica / Gilbert Varga .............................. 8.220489 

Violin Concerto in G major Op. 46 • Don Quixote 

(Humoresque for Orchestra) Op. 87 

Takako Nishizaki, Violin / Slovak PO / Michael Halász ....... 8.220359 

RYABOV, Vladimir (b. 1950) 

A pupil of Khachaturian in Moscow, Vladimir Ryabov has been 

described as one of the most original of the younger generation 

of Russian composers, his command of compositional 

techniques demonstrated above all in his four symphonies. 

The last of these celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth 

of Brahms, whose shadow makes occasional appearances as 

the work proceeds. 

Symphony No. 4 • Concerto of Waltzes 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Ziva ..................... 8.223749 

RYELANDT, Joseph (1870 – 1965) 

Joseph Ryelandt displays his deep religious convictions in the 

remarkable oratorio Agnus Dei, an extended meditation on the 

mystery of Easter, and a companion-piece to his three other 

oratorios, firmly founded on Catholic traditions of mysticism 

and reflecting his own background as a member of an oldestablished 

Catholic Belgian aristocratic family. 

Agnus Dei: Oratorio in Five Parts [2 CD’s] 

Ingrid Kapelle, Soprano / 

Lucienne Van Deyck, Mezzo-soprano / Joseph Cornwell, Tenor / 

Huub Claessens • Stephan Macleod, Basses 

Audite Nova / Altra Voce / Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra / 

Grant Llewellyn ................................................................. 8.223785-6 

SAINTON, Philip (1891 – 1967) 

The grandson of a well enough known French violinist and 

conductor and his English singer wife, Philip Sainton had a 

career as a viola-player, while composition took second place, 

until an accident compelled a change of concentration. His 

most remarkable work is his collaboration, at John Huston’s 

request, on the film Moby Dick. 

Moby Dick 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / William Stromberg ........... 8.225050 

SALIERI, Antonio (1750 – 1825) 

Unfairly treated in the play Amadeus and similarly in the 

previous century by Pushkin, Salieri was, in his own time, a 

musician of the highest importance, serving for many years as 

Court Kapellmeister in Vienna. A protégé of Gassmann and 

then of Gluck, he won considerable success with his operas, 

particularly in Paris, and was instrumental in the training of 

many younger musicians, including Beethoven and Schubert. 

His many compositions include over forty operas, in addition to 

a large quantity of attractive music of all kinds, in the classical 

style of Vienna. 

Overtures 

Il Talismano • Axur • Les Danaides • Il Moro 

Armida • L’Angiolina • Don Chisciotte • Eraclito e 

Democrito 

Slovak RSO / Michael Dittrich ............................................. 8.223381

SALTER, Hans J. (1896 – 1994) 

Hans Salter was born in Vienna and had his early career in 

Austria and Germany, moving to the United States of America 

after the accession to power of Hitler. Under contract to 

Universal Studios, he spent many years composing and 

arranging music for films of all kinds, including two of the best 

known Frankenstein horror films, The Ghost of Frankenstein 

and The House of Frankenstein. 

The Ghost of Frankenstein • Son of Dracula 

Black Friday • Man Made Monster 

(+ SKINNER) 

Slovak RSO / William T. Stromberg .................................... 8.225124 

SALTER, J. Hans & DESSAU, Paul: 

House of Frankenstein (Complete Film Score) 


Music for Frankenstein 


SALTER, J. Hans & SKINNER, Frank: 

Son of Frankenstein • The Invisible Man Returns 

The Wolf Man 


SAUGUET, Henri (1901 – 1989) 

It was with the encouragement of Darius Milhaud that Henri 

Sauguet moved to Paris, where he met Koechlin and Satie, 

composers who had a strong influence on him. He made an 

early impression with his ballet music, a success equalled by 

his operas. His Symphonie Expiatoire explores a deeper vein, 

a lament for the victims of war. 

Symphony No. 1 “Expiatoire” 


Symphony No. 2 “The Seasons” (2 CDs) 

Geneviève Ruscica, Soprano / Moscow Capella 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Antonio de Almeida ..... 8.223464-65 

Symphony No. 3 “I.N.R.” & 

Symphony No. 4 “Du Troisième Age” 


SCARMOLIN, Anthony Louis (1890 – 1969) 

The Italian-born American composer Scarmolin worked for 

many years as a teacher, while securing a reputation in 

particular as a composer of lighter music. He continued to write 

in a more serious vein and among over a thousand works are 

operas, tone-poems and other works that have a serious claim 

on attention. 

Dance from “The Caliph” • Three Miniatures 

Three Preludes • The Sunlit Pool • Invocation 

Variations on a Folk Song • Arioso 

Concert Piece for Trumpet and Strings • Prelude 

Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra / 

Slovak RSO / Joel Eric Suben ............................................. 8.225031 

SCHILLINGS, Max von (1868 – 1933) 

Max von Schillings, well known as a conductor, was appointed 

Intendant of the Berlin Opera in 1918 and during the following 

seven years before his resignation was responsible for the first 

performances of important operas by Pfitzner, Schreker, Busoni 

and Richard Strauss, the last named an important influence on 

his career. Compositions by Max von Schillings include a 


brilliant violin concerto, a symphonic prologue to the Oedipus 

Rex of Sophocles and the opera Moloch, based on a fragment 

by Friedrich Hebbel. 

Two Melodramas on texts by Friedrich Schiller 

(+ HARRIS / S. WAGNER) 

Martin Neubauer, Speaker / Thüringian SO / 

Konrad Bach ........................................................................ 8.223660 

Violin Concerto • Moloch • King Oedipus 

Ernö Rózsa, Violin / Slovak State Philharmonic / 

Alfred Walter ........................................................................ 8.223324 

SCHMIDT, Franz (1874 – 1939) 

A cellist under Mahler at the Vienna Court Opera, Franz 

Schmidt had studied composition under Bruckner and Robert 

Fuchs and piano with Leschetizky. As a composer Schmidt 

distinguished himself with his four symphonies and in the 

opera-house with his first opera Notre Dame. His two clarinet 

quintets, one with a string quartet and clarinet and the other 

with a piano quartet and clarinet, make interesting additions to 

the repertoire of the wind instrument. 

Clarinet Quintet in A major 

Aládár Jánoska, Clarinet / Stanislav Mucha, Violin / 

Alexander Lakatosˇ, Viola / Ján Slávik, Cello / 


Clarinet Quintet in B flat • 3 Pieces 

Romance • Toccata 

Aládár Jánoska, Clarinet / Frantisˇek Török, Violin / 

Alexander Lakatosˇ, Viola / Ján Slávik, Cello / 


Symphony No. 1 • Music from “Notre Dame” 

Budapest SO / Michael Halász ............................................ 8.223119 

SCHMITT, Florent (1870 – 1958) 

The French composer Florent Schmitt occupied an important 

position in French musical life. Of particular interest among a 

variety of works is his La tragédie de Salomé, written in 1907 

as a ballet and treating a subject of particular sensual appeal 

at the time. Schmitt drew some inspiration from an earlier visit 

to Istanbul to produce a score of exotic instrumental colour. 

Danse d’Abisag • Habeyssée 

“Rêves” • Symphony No. 2 


La Tragédie de Salomé 

Marie-Paule Fayt, Voice / 

Rheinland-Pfalz Philharmonic / Patrick Davin ..................... 8.223448 

SCHOENBERG, Arnold (1874 – 1951) 

Schoenberg’s theories of composition, an extension of 

chromaticism to allow an element of equality between all 

twelve notes included in the scale, presented in a set order, 

have had a strong influence on composers in the twentieth 

century, from the work of his pupils Berg and Webern onwards. 

Born in Vienna, his own early work is post-Wagnerian, only 

gradually moving into a more astringent musical language. He 

spent some years in Berlin, before enforced emigration to the 

United States of America, where he died in 1951. His work 

includes original and unexpected arrangements of the music of 

other composers, including a 1925 re-instrumentation of the 

Emperor Waltz.

Kaiserwalzer (Johann Strauss II) 

(+ BLOCH / WOLF-FERRARI) 

MiNensemblet ...................................................................... 8.223868 

SCHREKER, Franz (1878 – 1934) 

The position of Franz Schreker in the music of the present 

century is now under re-assessment. He belongs to a 

generation of composers whose careers were stifled or ended 

by the political situation in Germany after 1933. Schreker’s 

opera Der ferne Klang (The Distant Sound), the subject of a 

number of recent revivals and a first staging in England, is a 

remarkable work in its blend of the mystical and reality. Die 

Gezeichneten (The Sealed Ones) explores similar territory, of 

which the early Die Flammen gives a foretaste. A fuller picture 

of Schreker’s achievement is given in his orchestral 

compositions. 

Flammen (Complete Opera) 

Soloists / Instrumental Ensemble and Chorus of 

the PPP Music Theatre (Munich) / Frank Strobel ................ 8.223422 

Die Gezeichneten (Complete Opera) [3 CD’s] 

Soloists / Chorus and Orchestra of Dutch Radio & T.V. / 

Edo de Waart .................................................................. 8.223328-30 

SCHUBERT, Franz (1797 – 1828) 

In his short life Schubert, a native of Vienna, wrote a considerable 

quantity of music of all kinds. His Wind Octet of 1813 survives 

only in fragmentary form but has been restored by modern 

scholars to make a viable work. Some of his many songs have 

been variously transcribed, including the well-known Serenade. 

Wind Octet in F major, D. 72 

(+ LACHNER / WEBER) 



SCHWEITZER, Anton (1735 – 1787) 

Alceste 

Sylvia Koke, Soprano / Ursula Targler, Soprano / 

Christian Voigt, Tenor / Christoph Johannes Wendel, Bass / 

Erfurt Theatre Opera Chorus / Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt / 

Stephan E. Wehr .................................................... # 8.225261-62 

SCIORTINO, Patrice (b. 1922) 

A man of some versatility, with interests that include literature 

and drama, Patrice Sciortino was trained at the Schola Cantorum 

in Paris, where he has subsequently served as professor of 

composition. His Sonances, first performed and recorded for 

Marco Polo, is a demanding work in which the solo instrument 

is contrasted with different sections of the orchestra until the 

final use of the full orchestra in a concluding summary. 

Sonances (FRENCH SAXOPHONE CONCERTOS) 

(+ DUBOIS / RIVIER) 

Daniel Gremelle, Saxophone / 


Bystrík Rezˇucha .................................................................. 8.225127 


SCOTT, Cyril (1879 – 1970) 

A member of the so-called Frankfurt gang of British composers, 

Cyril Scott was a contemporary at the Hoch Conservatory of 

Percy Grainger, Balfour Gardiner and Roger Quilter. His 

pervading interest in theosophy had an effect on his career as 

a composer, which became subject to the vagaries of occult 

control. Remembered popularly for Lotus Leaves, Cyril Scott 

produced much weightier music in his symphonies and 

concertos and, in later years, in his chamber music. He was 

also distinguished as a pianist, and impressed the public in 

both capacities in performances of his own 1915 piano concerto. 

Aubade • Neapolitan Rhapsody • Three Dances 

Suite Fantastique • Two Passacaglias on Irish 

Themes 



SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitry (1906 – 1975) 

In the course of a career that brought both success and conflict 

in Soviet Russia, Shostakovich provided a quantity of music for 

the theatre and the cinema. Among the latter is his score for 

The Gadfly, written in 1955 and represented by an ironic 

Tarantella, here arranged for cello. 

The Fall of Berlin • The Unforgettable Year 1919 

Ellena Alekseyeva, Piano / Moscow Capella & Youth Chorus / 

Moscow SO / Adriano .................................................. # 8.223897 

Hamlet (The Complete Film Music) 

Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky ........ 8.225270* 

SINDING, Christian (1856 – 1941) 

Best known for his salon piece The Rustle of Spring, the 

Norwegian composer Sinding was trained at Leipzig 

Conservatory and returned home to win a solid reputation in 

Norway as a composer in the late Romantic style of the period. 

This is exemplified in his attractive piano trios, written in 1893 

and 1902. 


Ilona Prunyi, Piano / András Kiss, Violin / 

Tamás Koó, Cello ................................................................ 8.223283 

SKINNER, Frank (1897 – 1968) 

Frank Skinner made his career in Hollywood, largely in the 

service of Universal Studios. In collaboration with Hans Salter 

he produced a notable and important series of film-scores, 

often under extreme pressure. His musical background had 

been in dance-music, as a musician and arranger, his gifts 

proving an admirable foil to the work of the formally educated 

refugee from Nazi Germany, Salter. 

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 

(+ SALTER) 


Son of Frankenstein 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / William T. Stromberg ........ 8.223747

SMETANA, Bedrˇich (1824 – 1884) 

The leading Czech nationalist composer of his generation, 

Smetana is best known abroad for his opera The Bartered 

Bride and for his cycle of symphonic poems Ma Vlast (My 

Country). His eight other Czech operas are less frequently 

heard outside his own country, but can be sampled in orchestral 

excerpts. His Festive Symphony is an interesting earlier 

orchestral work which has not always proved acceptable 

because of the political connotations of one of its principal 

themes. 

Festive Symphony 

ORF Symphony Orchestra / Lothar Zagrosek ..................... 8.223120 

Orchestral Highlights from Operas 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Robert Stankovsky ................. 8.223326 

Suite from Smetana’s Sketch Book 

Wedding Scenes • Other Short Orchestral Works 


SOLER, Josep (b. 1935) 

Josep Soler holds an important position in the musical life of his 

native Catalonia. He draws on wider European traditions as 

well as the music of his own country, notably in the five volumes 

of his Harmonices Mundi, where he has occasion to display his 

command of counterpoint. His Sonata No.3 is derived from his 

song-cycle based on poems from Sufic tradition. 

Nocturnes Nos. 1-12 • Nocturne Poem 

Jordi Masó, Piano ........................................................ # 8.225235 

Piano Music 

Piano Sonata No. 3 “The Song of God” • Partita 

Sonata Fragment 


SOUSA, John Philip (1854 – 1932) 

Known principally as a composer of military marches, John 

Philip Sousa also wrote a series of successful operettas and 

other stage works. In a career spent largely as a bandmaster, 

he was able to arrange elements of this repertoire for concert 

use. 

Orchestral Works Vol. 1 “On Stage” 

The Bride Effect • El Capitan • Our Flirtations 



“The Stars and Stripes Forever” 

Slovak RSO / Keith Brion .................................................... 8.223873 


“On Wings of Lightning” 


SOWERBY, Leo (1895 – 1968) 

Leo Sowerby holds an unrivalled position among American 

organists and composers for the organ, writing a quantity of 

works for the instrument, many of which remain an essential 

part of present repertoire. His Festival Musick and Classic 

Concerto were written for the distinguished organist E. Power 

Biggs and Pageant for Fernando Germani, organist at St 

Peter’s in Rome. 


Classic Concerto • Mediaeval Poem 

Pageant • Festival Musick 

David Craighead and David Mulbury, Organs / 

The Fairfield Orchestra / John Welsh .................................. 8.223725 

SPÄTH, Andreas (1790 – 1876) 

Andreas Späth began his career as a clarinettist in Coburg, 

where he served in the court musical establishment. He was 

later employed in Switzerland as a church organist, before his 

final return to Coburg as concert-master. His music largely 

reflects the age of Schubert into which he was born. 

Introduction and Variations for Clarinet and 

Orchestra (CLARINET AND ORCHESTRA) 



SPOHR, Louis (1784 – 1859) 

Violinist, conductor and composer, Spohr enjoyed an early 

career as a virtuoso, later settling as director of music in Kassel, 

a position that had once been offered to Beethoven and later 

to Weber. Spohr’s pedagogical works for the violin remain well 

known to students. Less familiar are his fine string quartets, of 

which he wrote some three dozen. His ten symphonies span 

a period from 1811 to 1857 and his fourteen violin concertos a 

similar length of time, from 1802 to 1844. These last include 

works well known to students of the violin, models of early 

nineteenth century concerto style. His instrumental works 

include virtuoso compositions for the clarinet, exemplified by 

the Variations on a Theme from the opera Alruna. For his wife, 

a distinguished harpist, he wrote concertos and duo sonatas, 

the latter for violin and harp, but apt for transcription, as here, 

for flute and harp. 

Songs (Early and Middle-Period) 

Marjorie Patterson, Soprano / Daniel Sarge, Piano ............. 8.223869 

String Quartets Vol. 1 (Op. 84, Nos. 1 & 2) 


String Quartets Vol. 2 (Op. 84, No. 3 & Op. 93) 


String Quartets Vol. 3 

(Op. 4, Nos. 1 and 2 & Op. 15, No. 2) 


String Quartets Vol. 4 

(Op. 11 • Op. 15, No. 1 • Op. 27) 






String Quartets Vol. 7 (Op. 43 & Op. 45, No. 1) 




Strings Quartets Vol. 9 (Op. 74, Nos. 1 & 2) 


String Quintets Vol. 1 

Op. 33 Nos. 1 & 2 

Danubius Quartet / Sándor Papp, 2nd Viola ....................... 8.223597


Opp. 106 & 129 

Haydn Quartet, Budapest / Sándor Papp, 2nd Viola ........... 8.223598 


Opp. 69 & 91 

New Haydn Quartet / Sándor Papp, 2nd Viola .................... 8.223599 


Op. 144 • Sextet Op. 140 • Potpourri Op. 22 

New Haydn Quartet / Attila Falvay, Violin / Sándor Papp, Viola / 

Tamás Varga, Cello ............................................................ 8.223600 



Symphony No. 2 (+LACHNER) 






Symphony No. 4 • Overtures (Faust • Jessonda) 

Budapest SO / Alfred Walter ............................................... 8.223122 



Theme and Variations on a theme from the opera 

Alruna 



Gernot Schmalfuss ............................................................. 8.223431 

Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 9 

Christiane Edinger, Violin / Slovak RSO / Frank Cramer .... 8.223510 

STADLER, Anton (1753 – 1812) 

The Stadler brothers were the first clarinettists to be employed, 

from 1787, in the Vienna Court Orchestra. It was for Anton 

Stadler and his newly devised basset-clarinet that Mozart 

wrote his Quintet and Concerto. Stadler’s music is chiefly for 

his own instrument or for various wind ensembles. 

Intermezzos Nos. 1 to 4 


Michael Heitzler, Clarinet / Slovak RSO / 


STANCHINSKY, Alexei Vladimirovieh (1888 – 1914) 

A pupil of Zhilayev and Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory, 

Stanchinsky, a schizophrenic, later destroyed many of his 

earlier compositions, while composing only intermittently during 

the final years of his short life. Influenced at first by Mussorgsky 

and then by Skryabin, he left a series of interesting and 

experimental piano compositions that promised much. 

Piano Sonatas • Three Sketches • Twelve Sketches 


STANFORD, Charles Villiers (1852 – 1924) 

Born in Dublin in 1852, Charles Villiers Stanford established 

himself in England as a leading figure in the musical life of the 

country, appointed professor of composition at the Royal 

College of Music in London at its foundation in 1883 and four 

years later elected to the chair of music at Cambridge. As a 

composer he was among the most influential in England in the 


second half of the nineteenth century, writing music in many 

genres, including a substantial body of organ music, reflecting 

in technique something of the formal training he had had as a 

student in Leipzig and Berlin. He also contributed considerably 

to the contemporary song repertoire, particularly in settings of 

poems from Ireland. 

Grandeur • Thief of the World • A Soft Day 

Little Peter Morrissey • The Bold Unbiddable Child 

Irish Skies • The Fairy Lough • An Irish Lullaby 




Organ Sonatas Nos. 2, 3 & 4 

Joseph Payne, Organ .......................................................... 8.223754 

STANKOVYTCH, Yevhen (b. 1942) 

Regarded by many as the most important modern Ukrainian 

composer since his teacher, Lyatoshynsky, Yevhen Stankovytch 

belongs to a group of Soviet composers of a more adventurous 

cast of mind than was always acceptable to the official musical 

establishment. His symphonies, with their descriptive titles, 

are, nevertheless, a part of wider Russian tradition, grandiose 

in conception and colourful in execution. 

Symphonies Nos. 1 “Sinfonia larga”, 2 “Heroic” & 

4 “Sinfonia lirica” 


Theodore Kuchar ................................................................. 8.223792 

STEINER, Max (1888 – 1971) 

God-son of Richard Strauss, Max Steiner worked on Broadway 

in 1914 and in 1929 settled in Hollywood, where he wrote some 

300 film scores, relying largely on the Viennese tradition in 

which he had been brought up. Here he provided apt dramatic 

music with great facility for a variety of films, whether ghoststories, 

like The Beast with Five Fingers, thrillers, Westerns or 

other tales of celluloid heroism. 

All This, and Heaven Too •␣ A Stolen Life 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra & Choir / 

William Stromberg ....................................................... # 8.225218 

King Kong 

The Complete 1933 Film Score 


The Lost Patrol • Virginia City 

The Beast with Five Fingers 


They Died with Their Boots On 



The Son of Kong • The Most Dangerous Game 



The Three Musketeers 

(+ KORNGOLD / RÓZSA / YOUNG) 



The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 


William T. Stromberg ........................................................... 8.225149

STERNEFELD, Daniel (1905 – 1986) 

Daniel Sternefeld’s music may often recall that of Mahler or of 

Richard Strauss in its expressive imagination and strength of 

feeling. His opera Mater Dolorosa is based on a story by Hans 

Andersen, dealing with a mother’s struggle with death for the 

life of her child, for whom death in the end proves preferable. 

His Symphony No. 1, written in hiding in war-time Belgium, 

echoes the troubles of the day, while his tribute to Rossini 

strikes a much lighter note. 

Mater dolorosa 

(Opera in four tableaux) 

Flemish Radio Choir / Zeffiretti Choir of Antwerp / 


Grant Lewllyn ................................................................. 8.225068-69 

Symphony No. 1 • Four Interludes and 

Finale from the opera “Mater Dolorosa” 

Rossiniazata 


STEVENS, Bernard (1916 – 1983) 

The English composer Bernard Stevens was a pupil of Dent at 

Cambridge and of R.O.Morris and Gordon Jacob in London 

before his own appointment in 1948 as professor of composition 

at the London Royal College of Music. His Marxist philosophy 

was instrumental in forming his style of composition, which is 

clear and approachable, but contributed to subsequent 

unjustified neglect of his music. 

Piano Concerto, Op. 26 • Dance Suite, Op. 28 

Variations, Op. 36 

Martin Roscoe, Piano / 

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland / Adrian Leaper ... 8.223480 

STEVENSON, Ronald (b. 1928) 

The Scottish composer, pianist and writer Ronald Stevenson 

was born in Blackburn in 1928 and studied at the Royal 

Manchester College of Music, later settling in Scotland, where 

he has devoted himself particularly to composition. His most 

remarkable work is the Passacaglia on DSCH, based on the 

notes representing the name of Shostakovich. The Passacaglia, 

which takes some eighty minutes to perform, demonstrates the 

breadth of his vision, his technical competence and the wide 

range of his musical imagination. 

Passacaglia on DSCH 

Raymond Clarke, Piano ....................................................... 8.223545 

STRAUS, Oscar (1870 – 1954) 

Born in Vienna in 1870, Oscar Straus studied with Max Bruch, 

but made his career in operetta and light music. Internationally 

he is known particularly for The Chocolate Soldier. He spent 

the war years abroad, returning to Germany in 1948, two years 

later providing music for the film La ronde, which won him even 

wider popularity. He wrote music for films, for ballet and above 

all for the light music theatre, with over forty operettas to his 

credit. 


His Most Popular Works 

Rund um die Liebe • Walzerträume • Alt-Wiener 

Reigen • Komm, komm, Held meiner Träume • Didi 

Valse lente • Menuett a la Cour • Tragant 

L’amour m’emporte • Der Reigen 

Veronika Kincses, Soprano / 

Budapest Strauss Symphony Orchestra / Alfred Walter ...... 8.223596 

STRAUSS, Isaac (1806 – 1888) 

Isaac Strauss contributed to the repertoire of French ball-room 

music in Paris. His quadrille on themes from Offenbach’s 

operetta Orpheus in the Underworld is topically characteristic 

of the period. 

Orphée aux enfers, Quadrille 



STRAUSS, Johann I (1804 – 1849) 

The older Johann Strauss, father of the later Viennese Waltz 

King, himself earned a similar title with his dance-orchestra that 

he set up in Vienna in 1825, the year of his oldest son’s birth. 

In a much shorter life than that of his son Johann, he wrote a 

large quantity of waltzes, cotillons, galops, quadrilles, marches 

and polkas, establishing and adding substantially to a form of 

music that seemed to epitomize Vienna in the years after 

Napoleon. 


Camerata Cassovia / Christian Pollack ....................... # 8.225213 


Camerata Cassovia / Christian Pollack ....................... # 8.225252 


Slovak Sinfonietta Zilina / Ernst Märzendorfer ............ # 8.225253 


Tausendapperment-Walzer • Erinnerung an Berlin 

Heimath • Klänge • Moldau Klänge • Fest-Lieder a.o. 

Slovak State PO / Mika Eichenholz ..................................... 8.223617 

STRAUSS, Johann II (1825 – 1899) 

The Waltz King of Vienna needs little introduction. The full 

variety of his work can be appreciated in the complete edition 

of his orchestral works available only in the Marco Polo 

complete recording. 

Complete Orchestral Works Volume 1 







Slovak State Philharmonic / Richard Edlinger ..................... 8.223204 


Slovak State Philharmonic / Oliver Dohnányi ...................... 8.223205 


Slovak State Philharmonic / Oliver Dohnányi ...................... 8.223206 


Polish State PO / Oliver Dohnányi ....................................... 8.223207 


Polish State PO / Oliver Dohnányi ....................................... 8.223208


Polish State PO / Johannes Wildner ................................... 8.223209 


Polish State PO / Johannes Wildner ................................... 8.223210 






Slovak State Philharmonic / Alfred Walter .......................... 8.223213 




Slovak RSO / Johannes Wildner ......................................... 8.223215 




Slovak RSO / Alfred Eschwé ............................................... 8.223217 








Slovak State Philharmonic / Johannes Wildner ................... 8.223221 










ORF Symphony Orchestra / Peter Guth .............................. 8.223226 


ORF Symphony Orchestra / Peter Guth .............................. 8.223227 


Slovak State Philharmonic / Johannes Wildner .................. 8.223228 


Slovak State Philharmonic / Alfred Walter .......................... 8.223229 










Slovak RSO / Michael Dittrich ............................................. 8.223234 


Slovak State PO / Johannes Wildner .................................. 8.223235 





Slovak State PO / Christian Pollack .................................... 8.223237 






Slovak RSO / Franz Bauer-Theussl .................................... 8.223240 












Peter La Garde (trumpet) / 

Members of the Slovak Philharmonic Chorus / 



Bratislava City Chorus / Slovak RSO / 

Johannes Wildner ................................................................ 8.223247 



Works for Male Chorus and Orchestra 

Wiener Männergesangverein / Slovak RSO / 

Johannes Wildner / Gerhard Track ...................................... 8.223250 







Potpourris, Vol. 1 

Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Christian Pollack ...................... 8.225074 

Potpourris, Vol. 2 


STRAUSS, Josef (1827 – 1870) 

Josef Strauss, the son of the first Johann Strauss and brother 

of the second composer of that name, was induced to join his 

elder brother in what had become an immensely successful 

family business, providing dance music for Vienna and much 

of the rest of Europe in what had become the family musical 

idiom. The complete project comprises 26 volumes. 


Budapest Strauss Symphony Orchestra / 

Alfred Walter ........................................................................ 8.223561 






Slovak Radio SO (Bratislava) / Michael Dittrich .................. 8.223564




Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / John Georgiadis ....................... 8.223566 


Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Mika Eichenholz ....................... 8.223567 


Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Mika Eichenholz ....................... 8.223568 






Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra / Alfred Eschwé .......... 8.223571 




Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Michael Dittrich ........................ 8.223573 




Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Arthur Kulling ........................... 8.223575 


Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Arthur Kulling ........................... 8.223618 


Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Ernst Märzendorfer .................. 8.223619 


Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Karl Albert Geyer ..................... 8.223620 


Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Walter Hilgers .......................... 8.223621 


Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Walter Hilgers .......................... 8.223622 




Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Karl Albert Geyer ..................... 8.223624 






Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Michael Dittrich ................ # 8.223664 


Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Christian Pollack .............. # 8.223679 

STRAUSS, Richard (1864 – 1949) 

Richard Strauss has an established position as a composer of 

symphonic poems such as Till Eulenspiegel and Also sprach 

Zarathustra and as a composer of operas. Less well known is 

his early Symphony in D minor, written in 1880, when he was 

sixteen, and before he had fallen under the influences of 

Wagner, and his 1884 Symphony in F minor. 

Symphony in D minor • Interludio 

Kampf und Sieg 

Hong Kong Philharmonic / Kenneth Schermerhorn ............. 8.220323 

Symphony in F minor, Op. 12 

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Michael Halász ................ 8.220358 


SUCHON, Eugen (1908 – 1993) 

Among the leading Slovak composers of his generation, Eugen 

Suchon enjoyed a successful career in Bratislava, holding a 

variety of important positions in academic and musical life. His 

Metamorphosis, variations on original themes, written in 1953, 

reflects some of the events in the history of the country, while 

the earlier Ballad Suite, completed in 1935, is influenced by the 

traditional music of Slovakia. 

Metamorphosis • Suite Balladesque 

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Zdenek Kosler ................. 8.223130 

SULLIVAN, Arthur (1842 – 1900) 

The fame of Sir Arthur Sullivan has largely depended on his 

collaboration with Gilbert in a series of operettas of continuing 

and institutionalised popularity. His reputation in his own time 

resulted rather from his eminence as a conductor, teacher and 

composer. An introduction to his orchestral music is provided 

by incidental music for the theatre and his ballet music. 

Ballet Music (L’Ile Enchantée • Thespis) 


Incidental Music 

(The Merchant of Venice • Henry VIII 

The Sapphire Necklace • Overture in C) 


Victoria and Merrie England (Complete Ballet Music) 

RTE Sinfonietta / Andrew Penny ......................................... 8.223677 

SUPPÉ, Franz von (1819 – 1895) 

Austrian, but Belgian by descent and born in Split, later to be 

a part of Yugoslavia, Franz von Suppé made his career 

principally in Vienna as a composer and conductor of operetta. 

Overtures to these are generally familiar, and include Poet and 

Peasant (Dichter und Bauer), Light Cavalry (Leichte Kavallerie), 

Fair Galatea (Die schöne Galatea) and Morning, Noon and 

Night in Vienna (Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und ein Abend in 

Wien). As a composer he also turned his attention to other 

musical forms, including symphonies, church music and string 

quartets, although this part of his work has been completely 

overshadowed by his lighter music for the theatre. 

Marches, Waltzes and Polkas 

Einzugsmarsch aus “Prinz Liliput” 

Herrjegerle-Polka • Coletta-Walzer 

In der Hinterbrühl, Marsch 

Tiroler Tanz und Frischka • Le Voyage en Afrique, 

Polka française • L’Orientale, Polka mazur 

Bellman-Marsch • Romankapitel, Polka française 

Glückswalzer aus “Die Jagd nach dem Glück” 

Erzherzog Wilhelm-Marsch • Danza delle Chiozzotte 

Liebeswalzer aus “Lohengelb oder Die Jungfrau v. 

Dragant” 


Christian Pollack ................................................................. 8.223864 

Overtures Volume 1 

(Poet and Peasant • Fortune’s Labyrinth 

Donna Juanita • Carnaval • Boccaccio 

The Mistress • Jolly Robbers 

The Goal of the Wanderer • Queen of Spades) 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Alfred Walter ........................... 8.223647


(The Beautiful Galatea • Isabella • The Model 

Tantalusqualen • Der Krämer und sein Kommis 

Paragraph 3 • Boccaccio • Fatinitza March 

Donna Juanita) 



(Light Cavalry • Tricoche and Cacolet 

Boccaccio March • Titania Waltz • Fatinitza 

Humoristische Variationen 

Die Heimkehr von der Hochzeit 

Herzenseintracht, Polka • Franz Schubert 

Triumph-Ouvertüre) 



(Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna 

Flotte Bursche • Über Berg, über Tal, March 

Summer Night’s Dream 

Overture on Mozart’s Themes 

Zehn Mädchen und kein Mann • Kindereien 

Afrikareise • Was kommt dort von der Höh’ 

Solemn Overture) 



(Wiener Jubelouvertüre • Herzblättchen • Cannebas 

Unter der Erde • Freigeister • Gervinus, der Narr 

vom Untersberg • Der Tannenhäuser • Sieg der 

österreichischen Volkshymne • Die Liebe zum Volke) 


Christian Pollack ................................................................. 8.223863 


Der Gascogner • Die Hammerschmiedin aus 

Steiermark oder Folgen einer Landpartie • Dolch und 

Rose oder Das Donaumädchen • Dame Valentin oder 

Frauenräuber und Wanderbursche • Reise durch die 

Märchenwelt • Die G’frettbrüderln • Kopf und Herz 

Unterthänig und Unabhängig • Zwei Pistolen 


Christian Pollack .................................................................. 8.223865 

TAILLEFERRE, Germaine (1892 – 1983) 

Germaine Tailleferre was associated with the young French 

composers of the 1920s known as Les Six, collaborating with 

them on the Cocteau-inspired Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel. 



TANEYEV, Alexander Sergeyevich (1850 – 1918) 

A high-ranking civil servant, Alexander Taneyev found leisure 

to compose, under the influence of the Russian nationalist 

group and with lessons from Rimsky-Korsakov. Taneyev 

wrote three symphonies and two orchestral suites. 

Symphony No. 2 • Suite No. 2 

Philharmonia Hungarica / Werner Andreas Albert ............... 8.223133 

TANEYEV, Sergei Ivanovich (1856 – 1915) 

The nephew of Alexander Taneyev, Sergei Taneyev was a 

pupil of Tchaikovsky at the Moscow Conservatory and was the 

soloist at the first Moscow performance of Tchaikovsky’s First 

Piano Concerto. He was distinguished as a teacher, his pupils 

including Rachmaninov and Scriabin. Taneyev had a precise 


mastery of compositional techniques, evident in his finely 

crafted symphonies. 


Polish State PO / Stephen Gunzenhauser .......................... 8.223196 

TANSMAN, Alexandre (1897 – 1986) 

Polish by birth, Alexandre Tansman settled in France, a major 

influence on his composition. He was a close associate of 

Stravinsky with whose work Tansman’s compositions have 

points in common, not least in their variety. 

Complete Guitar Music 

Marc Regnier ....................................................................... 8.223690 

Concerto for Orchestra • Etudes • Capriccio 


Symphony No. 5 • Four Movements for Orchestra 

Stèle in memoriam d’Igor Stravinsky 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Meir Minsky ............................ 8.223379 

TAVAN, Emile (1849 – 1929) 

Emile Tavan’s 1881 polka, Le Carnaval Viennois, remains 

characteristic of its period and genre. 

Le carnaval viennois, Polka 



TCHEREPNIN, Alexander (1899 – 1977) 

The son of a well known Russian musician, Alexander 

Tcherepnin, pianist, conductor and composer, settled in France 

after the Russian Revolution. His compositions were influenced 

by his visits to China and Japan. In 1950 he moved, with his 

Chinese wife, to the United States. Tcherepnin’s style is 

experimental, without being extravagantly so, its originality still 

based on his Russian heritage. This last is evident in his 

Russian Dances. 

Symphony No. 4 • Overture Op. 67 

Suite Op. 87 • Russian Dances 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Wing-Sie Yip ........................... 8.223380 

TCHEREPNIN, Nikolay (1873 – 1945) 

A pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov in St Petersburg, Nikolay Tcherepnin 

distinguished himself as composer, pianist and conductor, in 

the last capacity conducting for Dyagilev the first Ballets 

Russes season in Paris, where his own ballet Le Pavillon 

d’Armide won success in 1911. Settling in Paris, he wrote 

music for Pavlova and continued as a composer combining 

fundamentally Russian inspiration with the influences of France. 

Le Pavillon d’Armide 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Henry Shek ....................... 8.223779 

THALBERG, Sigismond (1812 – 1871) 

A virtuoso pianist of the highest order and rival of Liszt, 

Thalberg’s principal compositions are a series of operatic 

fantasias for piano, works that transform popular opera such as 

Don Giovanni or The Barber of Seville into piano works of 

incredible brilliance. 

Les Soirées de Pausilippe, Op. 75 

Francesco Nicolosi, Piano ................................................... 8.223807

Variations on Donizetti Operas 

Francesco Nicolosi, Piano ................................................... 8.223365 

Variations on Rossini Operas 

Francesco Nicolosi, Piano ................................................... 8.223366 

TIOMKIN, Dimitri (1894 – 1979) 

Red River 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / 

William Stromberg ....................................................... # 8.225217 

TOMASI, Henri (1901 – 1971) 

The French composer Henri Tomasi won particular distinction 

for his work in the theatre, including a series of ballet-scores 

and operas. He follows the tradition of Ravel in his colourful 

orchestration, displayed, in particular, in a series of concertos 

and in music that reflects his own Corsican descent. 

Requiem pour la Paix • Fanfares Liturgiques 

Être ou ne pas Être 

Various soloists / Choeur Régional PACA, Orchestre Philharmonique 

de Marseille / Michel Piquemal ............................................ 8.225067 

TOMLINSON, Ernest (b. 1924) 

Ernest Tomlinson, a man of Lancashire by birth and education, 

is a prolific composer of light music and conductor of his own 

light music orchestras. 

First Suite of English Folk-Dances • Light Music Suite 

Dances from Aladdin • Comedy Overture 

Georgian Miniature • Rhapsody and Rondo 


Silverthorn Suite • Little Serenade 

Cinderella Waltz • Nautical Interlude 

An English Overture • Kielder Water 

2nd Suite of English Folk-Dances 


TORCH, Sidney (1908 – 1990) 

Of Russian-Jewish origin, Sidney Torch established himself in 

England as a talented conductor of popular classics, notably 

with the BBC Concert Orchestra, and as a gifted composer and 

arranger, making imaginative and often novel use of the 

resources of the symphony orchestra. In Britain he will be 

remembered by many for his weekly broadcast Friday Night is 

Music Night. 

London Musical Transport Suite 

All Strings and Fancy Free • Barbecue 

Trapeze Waltz • Concerto Incognito 

On a Spring Note • Bicycle Belles • Comic Cuts 

Mexican Fiesta • Petite Valse • Samba Sud 

Shortcake-Walk • Slavonic Rhapsody 

BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth ....................... 8.223443 

TOURNEMIRE, Charles (1870 – 1939) 

The name of Charles Tournemire is well enough known to 

organists. Less familiar are his symphonies, which represent 

another facet of his gifts and are, in their way, equally remarkable 

in the body of work left by a musician who set out to achieve for 

Catholic France what Bach had achieved for Lutheran Germany. 


Symphonies Nos. 1 “Romantique” & 5 


Symphonies Nos. 2 “Ouessant” & 4 


Symphonies Nos. 3 “Moscow 1913” & 

8 “Le triomphe de la mort” 


Symphony No. 7 (Les Danses de la Vie) [2 CD’s] 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Antonio de Almeida ..... 8.223877-78 

TOVEY, Donald Francis (1875 – 1940) 

Sir Donald Tovey is remembered nowadays as a critic and 

teacher rather than as a composer, a strange neglect of a talent 

that at one time had seemed quite remarkable, from his days 

at Eton to Oxford, fruitful collaboration with Joachim and, in 

1914, a professorship in Edinburgh, where he occupied a 

dominant position until his death, although his activities now 

deflected his attention from composition. His Cello Sonata 

was completed in 1900 and the Elegiac Variations were written 

in memory of Robert Hausmann, cellist in the Joachim Quartet. 

Cello Sonata, Op. 4 • Elegiac Variations, Op. 25 

(+ BRIDGE) 


TRIMBLE, Joan (1915 – 2000) 

The daughter of musical parents, Joan Trimble studied in her 

native Ireland, before moving to London, where her sister 

Valerie was already a student. In her songs and other 

compositions Ireland is never far away. Her Phantasy Trio was 

entered in 1940, on the suggestion of Vaughan Williams, for the 

Cobbett Prize and was immediately followed by her Sonatina 

for two pianos. 

Songs and Chamber Music 

Patricia Bardon, Mezzo-Soprano / Joe Corbett, Baritone / 

Una Hunt & Roy Holmes, Pianos / 

Dublin Piano Trio ................................................................. 8.225059 

TRUSCOTT, Harold (1914 – 1992) 

Largely self-taught as a musician, Harold Truscott spent much 

of his life as a lecturer in music in Huddersfield. His compositions 

were largely neglected in his life-time, leading him to write very 

considerably for the piano and for chamber ensemble, where 

performance was more probable. He was, however, a natural 

orchestral composer, with a fine command of the resources of 

the orchestra, writing, as always, in an unfashionably 

approachable style, which can only now be appreciated. 

Chamber Music 

Trio for flute, violin & viola in A major 

Sonata No. 1 for clarinet & piano 

Violin Sonata • Meditation for solo cello 

Sonata for cello and piano 

Imre Kovács, Flute / Béla Nagy, Violin / 

László Bársony, Viola / István Varga, Clarinet / 

Melinda Lugossy, Piano / Violetta Eckhardt, Violin / 

Judit Kiss Domonkos, Cello ................................................. 8.223727 

Symphony in E • Suite in G • Elegy for Strings 

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland / Gary Brain ........ 8.223674

TVEITT, Geirr (1908 – 1981) 

The Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt was trained in Leipzig, 

Vienna and Paris, before establishing himself in Norway as an 

important figure in the musical establishment of the country. 

His music is rooted in Norwegian folk-traditions, from which is 

compositions are never far removed. It was unfortunate that 

many of his unpublished works were lost in a fire, before his 

death in 1981. 


Fifty Folk-Tunes from Hardanger, Op. 150, Nos. 1 - 

37 

Håvard Gimse, Piano .......................................................... 8.225055 


Fifty Folk-Tunes from Hardanger, Op. 150, 

Nos. 38 - 50 • Twelve Two-Part Inventions, Op. 2, 

Nos. 1 - 12 • Three-Part Invention, Op. 3, No. 5 

Four-Part Inventions, Op. 4 

Håvard Gimse, Piano .......................................................... 8.225056 

VAN HOOF, Jef (1886 – 1959) 

A pupil of Mortelmans and Gilson, the Belgian composer Jef 

Van Hoof was notably associated with Flemish nationalism in 

music. His compositions include six symphonies. 

Symphony No. 2 in A flat major 

(+ BENOIT / MEULEMANS / MORTELMANS) 


VRT Philharmonic Orchestra / Silveer Van den Broeck ...... 8.225101 

VASILENKO, Sergei (1872 – 1956) 

The Russian composer and conductor Sergei Vasilenko studied 

with Grechaninov and Konyus, and later with Taneyev and 

Ippolitov-Ivanov, becoming, like Rachmaninov, conductor for 

the Mamontov Opera in the years before 1914. His marked 

interest in the exotic is reflected in his musical exploration of 

Central Asia and in his Chinese and Hindu Suites, works 

marked by colourful Russian orchestration. 

Chinese Suite, Op. 60, No. 1 • Hindu Suite, Op. 42 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Henry Shek ....................... 8.223783 

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph (1872 – 1958) 

Vaughan Williams was the outstanding English composer of 

the generation between that of Edward Elgar and that of 

Benjamin Britten. Quintessentially English in inspiration and 

often drawing on English folk-music, he nevertheless developed, 

particularly in his later symphonies, a less restricted style in a 

very varied range of music. Like others of his generation, he 

contributed to the music of the cinema with a number of very 

notable scores. 

49th Parallel • Story of a Flemish Farm 

Coastal Command 

Three Portraits from the England of Elizabeth 


VELASQUEZ, Glauco (1884 – 1914) 

The parentage of the Brazilian composer Glauco Velasquez 

was carefully concealed during his life-time and in subsequent 

biographical notices. He was, it seems, the illegitimate son of 

a notable singer in Rio de Janeiro and a woman of good family, 


who took refuge in Naples for the birth of her son and later 

“adopted” him, when he was brought back to Brazil. His style 

of composition is French rather than South American, echoing 

contemporary styles of writing in Paris. 

Petite Suite • Folha d’album Nos. 1 and 2 

Minuetto e Gavotte Moderni • Prelúdios Nos. 1 and 2 

Valsa romântica • Others 

Clara Sverner, Piano ........................................................... 8.223556 

VICTORY, Gerard (1921 – 1995) 

Born and educated in Dublin, Gerard Victory held an important 

position in the musical life of the Irish capital, with a series of 

operas and orchestral and choral works, the last including his 

remarkable oratorio Ultima Rerum, a work that is powerful, 

moving and yet approachable, a contemporary Dream of 

Gerontius that combines texts from Blake, Flecker, Leopardi, 

Tennyson, Whitman, the Edda, the Koran and the Latin 

Requiem. 

An Old Woman of the Roads 




Ultima Rerum [2 CD’s] 

Virginia Kerr / Bernadette Greevy / Adrian Thompson / 

Alan Opie / RTE Philharmonic Choir / National Chamber Choir / 

Cór na nÓg, RTE / National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland / 

Colman Pearce ............................................................... 8.223532-33 

VILLA-LOBOS, Heitor (1887 – 1959) 

The leading composer of his native Brazil, Villa-Lobos became 

familiar with the varied music of his own country, from the 

streets of Rio de Janeiro to its remoter areas, the inspiration of 

much that he wrote. His Chôros, the name derived from the 

street-music of Rio, offer in various instrumental and vocal 

forms a conspectus of Brazilian music. His symphonic poems 

are less often heard abroad, as is his chamber music, including 

his seventeen string quartets. His suites Descobrimento do 

Brasil (Discovery of Brazil) give further lively examples of 

Brazilian tradition. 

Amazonas • Erosão • Gênesis 

Dawn in a Tropical Forest 

Slovak RSO / Roberto Duarte ............................................. 8.223357 

Dança frenética • Danças africanas 

Dança dos mosquitos • Rudepoema 


Discovery of Brazil 

Slovak Philharmonic Choir / Slovak RSO / 

Roberto Duarte .................................................................... 8.223551 

Divigaçao • O Canto da Nossa Terra 

O Canto do Capadocio • O Canto do Cisne Negro 

Sonhar • Berceuse (+ENESCU) 


Pequena Suite • Capriccio, Op. 49 

Prelúdio, Op. 20 • Elégie, Op. 87 

Bachianas brasileiras Nos. 2 and 6 • Assobio a jato 

Rebecca Rust, Cello / David Apter, Piano / 

Emmanuel Pahud, Flute / Friedrich Edelmann, Bassoon .... 8.223527 


Antonio Spiller, Violin / Monique Duphil, Piano / 

Jay Humeston, Cello ........................................................... 8.223182

Piano Trio No. 2 • Cello Sonata No. 2 

Antonio Nuñez, Violin / Monique Duphil, Piano / 

Jay Humeston, Cello ........................................................... 8.223164 



String Quartets Nos. 2 & 7 










Symphony No. 6: Sobre a linha das montanhas do 

Brasil 

Rudá: Dio D’amore 


VILLA–ROJO, Jesús (b. 1940) 

A student in Madrid and in Rome, the Spanish composer Jesús 

Villa-Rojo has been awarded a number of important international 

prizes during his career. The works recorded range from the 

virtuoso Cello Concerto of 1983 to the Passacaglia y cante, 

with its use of pre-recorded tape, a 1986 commemoration of 

Lorca in settings of his poems and the multi-cultural synthesis 

of Septet. 

Orchestral Music 

Concierto 2 • Passacaglia y Cante • Cantor con 

Federico • Septeto 

Asier Polo, Cello / Alicia Cecotti, Mezzo-Soprano / 

Orquesta de Córdoba / Gregorio Gutierréz ......................... 8.225135 

VI - TOLS, Ja - zeps (1863 – 1948) 

The prolific Latvian composer Ja - zeps Vi - tols, teacher of Prokofiev 

and Miaskovsky in Russia and later a leading figure in the 

musical life of his own country, was strongly influenced by his 

teacher Rimsky-Korsakov and by the folk-music of Latvia. 

Dramatic Overture, Op. 21 

Fantaisie sur des chants populaires lettons, Op. 42 

Spriditis, Op. 37 • Dargakmeni, Op. 66 

Rudens Dziesma 

Valdis Zarins, Violin / Latvian National Symphony Orchestra / 

Dmitry Yablonsky ................................................................. 8.223756 

WAGNER, Siegfried (1869 – 1930) 

The first son of Richard Wagner and grandson of Liszt, Siegfried 

Wagner, a pupil of Humperdinck after his father’s death, turned 

from a proposed career as an architect to music after a voyage 

to the Far East in 1892. For the greater part of his life he was 

involved in the Bayreuth Festival. His compositions, including 

a number of operas, are not Wagnerian in subject or treatment, 

although he acknowledged his technical debt to his father in 

some respects. A number of his operas explore German fairystory 

and legend, the world of the Brothers Grimm rather than 

that of the Nibelungen. 


Banadietrich [2 CD’s] 

André Wenhold / Beth Johanning / Volker Horn / 

Andreas Schmidt / Vivian Hanner / Adalbert Waller / 

Johannes Föttinger / Henry Kiichli / Dorothea Kares / 

Folke Paulsen / Katharina Kühnel /Rudolstadt Festival Chorus 

Thuringian Symphony Orchestra Saalfeld-Rudolstadt / 

Viesturs Gailis ................................................................. 8.223895-96 

Der Bärenhäuter [2 CD’s] 

Volker Horn / Beth Johanning / Henry Kiichli / André Wenhold / 

Adalbert Waller / Chorus of the Thuringian Landestheater / 

Thuringian SO / Konrad Bach ......................................... 8.223713-14 

Bruder Lustig [3 CD’s] 

Krzystof Klorek / Volker Thies / Dagmar Hess / Marilyn Bennet / 

Hagen Opera Chorus / Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra / 

Georg Fritzsch ................................................................ 8.225245-47 

Schwarzschwanenreich [2 CD’s] 

Beth Johanning / Walter Raffeiner / Kerstin Quandt / 

André Wenhold / Jutta Maria Schmitz / Roland Hartmann / 

Lucian Chioreanu / Ksenija Lukic / 

Chorus of the Thuringian Landestheater / 

Thuringian SO / Konrad Bach ......................................... 8.223777-78 

Sehnsucht (Symphonic Poem) 

(+ von SCHILLINGS / HARRIS) 

Thuringian SO / Konrad Bach .............................................. 8.223660 

Sternengebot (The Commandment of the Stars) 

[2 CDs] 

Bayerische Singakademie / Kurt Suttner / 

Bayerisches Landesjugendorchester / 

Werner Andreas Albert ................................................... 8.225150-51 

WALDTEUFEL, Emile (1837 – 1915) 

The French counterpart of Johann Strauss, Waldteufel wrote 

some three hundred dance pieces. Best known of all must be 

his Skaters’ Waltz (Les patineurs). 

The Best of Waldteufel Volume 1 



















Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Alfred Walter ............................ 8.223688 


Slovak State PO (Kosˇice) / Alfred Walter ............................ 8.223692 

Flots du Danube 


Slovak RSO (Bratislava) / Jerome Cohen ........................... 8.223801

WALLACE, William Vincent (1812 – 1865) 

Son of an Irish army bandmaster, Wallace enjoyed a career of 

great variety that took him to the Antipodes and to the Americans, 

at first as a pianist and violinist and then as composer. His 

greatest success came with the opera Maritana, first staged in 

London in 1845, which found a popular place in international 

repertoire. 

Maritana [2 CDs] 

Cullagh / Lee / Clarke / Caddy / Smith / Hayes / 

RTE Philharmonic Choir / RTE Concert Orchestra / 

Proinnsías Ó Duinn, Conductor ........................................ 8.223406-7 

WAXMAN, Franz (1906 – 1967) 

The German-born composer Franz Waxman settled in America, 

making his career in Hollywood with a series of film scores 

ranging from The Bride of Frankenstein, Captains Courageous 

and Peyton Place to music for Daphne du Maurier’s romantic 

novel Rebecca. 

Mr. Skeffington 


Objective Burma! 


WEBB, Roy (1888 – 1982) 

Roy Webb wrote scores for some three hundred pictures under 

contract to RKO, making his music more familiar to audiences 

than his name. For the Val Lewton thrillers he provided score 

after score, including The Body Snatcher, famously starring 

Boris Karloff, the horror film Cat People with Simone Simon and 

the devil-worship of The Seventh Victim, all of them above the 

normal run of chillers and admirably enhanced by the music 

Webb provided. 

Cat People • Bedlam • The Seventh Victim • The Body 

Snatcher • I Walked with a Zombie 


WEBER, Carl Maria von (1786 – 1826) 

One of the leading composers of German romanticism, Weber 

distinguished himself as a pianist, critic, conductor and 

composer. His best known work is the opera Der Freischütz, 

followed by the operas Euryanthe and Oberon, more generally 

known to modern audiences from their overtures. His early 

opera Peter Schmoll and His Neighbours was written in 1801- 

2 but failed in its first performance, in part through the ineptitude 

of Weber’s father, whose activities added much complication to 

the life of the family. The work of a fifteen-year-old, Peter 

Schmoll is interesting in its own right, as it is the precursor of the 

first of German romantic operas. The opera Silvana is unusual 

in that the girl of the title remains largely mute throughout. His 

1811 Adagio and Rondo for pairs of clarinets, French horns and 

bassoons, reflects his particular ability in idiomatic writing for 

wind instruments, exemplified in the same year in his clarinet 

concertos. 

Adagio and Rondo (+ LACHNER / SCHUBERT) 




Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn 

(Complete Opera) [2 CD’s] 

Soloists / Hagen PO / Gerhard Markson ........................ 8.223592-93 

Silvana [2 CD’s] 

Ruzzafante / Spemann / Adam / Thies / Haller / Fiehl / Gómez / 

Pfeffer / Dittebrand / Sturm / Isken / Hagen Opera Chorus / 

Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra / Gerhard Markson ....... 8.223844-45 

WELCHER, Dan (b. 1948) 

Dan Welcher became composer-in-residence with the Honolulu 

Symphony Orchestra in 1990. Haleakalā is a tone-poem, with 

narration by Richard Chamberlain, recounting an early 

Polynesian legend. Prairie Light derives inspiration from three 

watercolours by the American painter Georgia O’Keeffe, while 

Welcher’s Clarinet Concerto shows full awareness of the 

historical uses of the instrument, with its second movement 

Blues and acknowledgement of Benny Goodman. 

Haleakalā: How Maui Snared the Sun 

Prairie Light • Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra 

Honolulu Symphony Orchestra / Donald Johanos / 

Richard Chamberlain, Narrator / Bil Jackson, Clarinet ........ 8.223457 

WHITLOCK, Percy (1903 – 1946) 

Regarded as one of the outstanding English organist-composers 

of his generation, Percy Whitlock is remembered nowadays for 

his organ and church music and for his significant additions to 

the repertoire of English light music, particularly as Borough 

Organist in the seaside resort of Bournemouth, where he also 

wrote entertaining music for the Municipal Orchestra. 

Holiday Suite • Music for Orchestra • Wessex Suite 

The Feast of St Benedict • Ballet of the Wood 

Creatures • Come along, Marnie • Susan, The Doggie 

and Me • Balloon Ballet • Dignity and Impudence 

Malcolm Riley, Organ / RTE Concert Orchestra / 

Gavin Sutherland ................................................................. 8.225162 

WILSON, James (b. 1922) 

Born in London, James Wilson settled after the war in Ireland, 

where he has established himself as a composer of originality, 

finding an audience there, in particular, as well as in Denmark, 

for music in an approachable idiom. The viola concerto 

Menorah commemorates the child victims of the Holocaust, 

Pearl and Unicorn is in essence a viola concerto, while his 

Concertino features a solo violin and solo cello in a transparent 

texture. 

Menorah • Concertino • Pearl and Unicorn 

Alan Smale, Violin / Constantin Zanidache, Viola / 


Colman Pearce .................................................................... 8.225027 

WOLF-FERRARI, Ermanno (1876 – 1948) 

Born in Venice, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was divided in his 

genetic inheritance between his Italian mother and his painter 

father, the latter from a family of Bavarian origin. He studied in 

Rome and then in Munich and is widely remembered for his 

Italian comic operas of the first decade of the 20 th century. Das 

Himmelskleid (The Garment of Heaven) is a very different 

work, more akin to German fairy-tale opera than his earlier 

Italian operas based on Goldoni. Here a fairy-tale princess sets 

her prince an impossible task, to find the Garment of Heaven,

for which he searches the air, the Moon and the Sun. The true 

nature of his quest becomes apparent when he returns to 

rescue the princess from poverty and danger, brought on by 

her own wilfulness. Wolf-Ferrari’s Sinfonia da camera, for 

eleven instruments, written in 1901, belongs to the German 

tradition of Schumann and his successors. 

Das Himmelskleid (The Garment of Heaven) 

Angelina Ruzzafante / Sibrand Basa / Reinhard Leisenheimer / 

Hagen Opera / Gerhard Markson ................................... 8.223261-63 

Sinfonia da camera 

(+ BLOCH / SCHOENBERG ) 

MiNensemblet ...................................................................... 8.223868 

WOOD, Haydn (1882 – 1959) 

Remembered always for his Roses of Picardy, the English 

composer Haydn Wood wrote some two hundred songs, 

including favourites such as A Brown Bird Singing. His other 

works include a body of light instrumental music and music of 

a more substantial kind. 

Mayday Overture • Soliloquy 

Variations on a once popular, humorous song 

Paris Suite • Roses of Picardy • A Manx Rhapsody 

Movements Frescoe Suite • Evening Song 

Dance of the Whimsical • The Horse Guards 


Sketch of a Dandy • London Cameos 

The Seafarer • Serenade to Youth • Mannin Veen 

Joyousness • Rhapsody Mylecharane 

A Brown Bird Singing • Apollo Overture 


WORLAND, Bill (b. 1921) 

Bill Worland has had long experience in the field of British light 

music, continuing to contribute to a repertoire that at one time 

seemed to be denied public performance. The 1990s, however, 

brought a revival of interest, to which he has been able to add. 

Light Music 

Tres Senoritas • Shopping Spree • Brighton Belle 

It’s Spring Again a.o. 

RTE Concert Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland ........................ 8.225161 

XIAN, Xinghai (1909 – 1945) 

Born in Macau, the son of a fisherman, Xian Xinghai was taken 

by his widowed mother to Singapore, where he studied before 

entering the Beijing Arts School. He was later a pupil of Vincent 

d’Indy in Paris, returning to China in 1935 and joining the 

Communist Party four years later. He spent the war years in 

Moscow, where he died in 1945. His epic Song of the Yellow 

River has for long enjoyed a place in popular patriotic Chinese 

repertoire. 

Ode to the Yellow River 

Go to the Rear Area of the Enemy • Song at Midnight 

February • Lamentation to the Yellow River 

Song of Working Women’s Day 

Thorns of Wild Jujube Tree 

Xiong Zhao, Cello / You Dachun, Piano / Shui Bing, Violin / 

Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra / Cao Peng .................... 8.223984 


YOUNG, Victor (1900 – 1956) 

Born in Chicago and trained as a violinist in Warsaw, after his 

early concert tours in Europe Victor Young returned to America 

to pursue a successful career predominantly in light music, with 

a number of well-known film scores to his credit, often the 

source for other works. 

The Greatest Show on Earth • The Uninvited 

Gulliver’s Travels • Bright Leaf 



Scaramouche (+ KORNGOLD / RÓZSA / STEINER) 



ZHU, Jianer (b. 1922) 

In common with many Chinese composers, Zhu Jianer was 

initially self-taught. In 1949 he started work with the Shanghai 

Film Company and for the Beijing Film Company. After study 

in Moscow, he returned, working for the Shanghai Opera 

Company and Symphony Orchestra. He later joined the staff 

of the Shanghai Conservatory. His symphonic fantasia The 

Hero’s Monument is overtly patriotic in tone and is characteristic 

of his work. 

Symphony No. 1 • Festival Overture 


Symphonic Fantasia • Symphony No. 4 

Sketches in the Mountains of Guizhou 


ZIEHRER, Carl Michael (1843 – 1922) 

The Austrian bandmaster C.M.Ziehrer belongs to the age of 

the Strauss brothers in Vienna, where he won a similar reputation 

with his dance orchestra, in which musicians had preferred his 

direction to that offered by Eduard Strauss. Ziehrer offers a 

series of polkas, waltzes, quadrilles and marches, all redolent 

of Vienna in its 19th century heyday. 

Waltzes and Polkas Vol. 1 

Razumovsky Sinfonia / Alfred Walter .................................. 8.223814 


Razumovsky Sinfonia / Miichael Dittrich .............................. 8.223815 


Razumovsky Sinfonia / Christian Pollack ............................ 8.225172 


Selected Dances and Marches 

Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra / 

Christian Pollack .......................................................... # 8.223817

COLLECTIONS 

African Songs 

Khumalo / Dijk / Akpabot 


South African Broadcasting Corporation / 

Richard Cock ....................................................................... 8.223832 

The American Indianists 

Dario Müller, Piano .............................................................. 8.223715 

British Light Music Miniatures 

(Coronation Scot • Jamaican Rumba 

Beau Brummel • The Haunted Ballroom 

Starlight Roof Waltz • Beachcomber • Vanity Fair 

Polka Dots • Dusk • Carriage and Pair • Others) 

RTE Concert Orchestra / Ernest Tomlinson ........................ 8.223522 

Cantatas of the Prix de Rome 

(Caplet • Debussy • Ravel) 

Choir and Orchestra of Paris-Sorbonne / 


Chinese Orchestral Works 

In Memoriam • Xinjiang Dances 

Variations on a Chinese Folk Theme 

Variations on a Xinjiang Folk Tune 

and many others 


Clarinet and Orchestra 

(David • Stadler • Hummel • Spohr • Späth • 

Kreutzer) 

Dieter Klöcker / Michael Heitzler / 

Slovak RSO / Gernot Schmalfuss ....................................... 8.223431 

English Cello Sonatas 

(Rubbra • E. J. Moeran • Ireland) 


Flemish Romantic Music 

(de Boeck • Blockx • Gilson • Meulemans 

Mortelmans • Poot) 

BRT Philharmonic, Brussels / Alexander Rahbari ............... 8.223418 

Flemish Romantic Orchestral Music Vol. 2 

(Benoit • von Hoof • Meulemans • Mortelmans) 

Joost Gils, Oboe / VRT Philharmonic Orchestra / 


In Memoriam Lili Boulanger 


Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel 

Six poésies de Jean Cocteau • Les machines 

agricoles 

(Milhaud • Auric • Honegger • Poulenc • Tailleferre) 

Florence Katz, Mezzo-soprano / 

Jean-Pierre Aumont • Raymond Gérôme, Speakers 


Les Succès de la Danse 

French Ballroom Favourites 

(Muller • Tavan • Gabriel-Marie • Marie 

Ivanovici / Waldteufel • Auvray • I. Strauss • Métra) 

Ladislav Stresnák, Trumpet / Slovak RSO / 

Jerome Cohen ..................................................................... 8.223801 

National Anthems Vol. 1 (Acadia – Burundi) 

Slovak RSO / Peter Breiner ................................................. 8.223386 

National Anthems Vol. 2 (Cambodia – France) 


National Anthems Vol. 3 (Gabon – Kyrgyzstan) 



National Anthems Vol. 4 (Laos – Oman) 


National Anthems Vol. 5 (Pakistan – Syria) 


National Anthems Vol. 6 (Tajikistan – Zimbabwe) 


Railway Music Volume 1 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Mika Eichenholz ..................... 8.223470 

Railway Music Volume 2 

Slovak State Philharmonic / Mika Eichenholz ..................... 8.223471 

Romantic Music for Flute & Harp 

Chopin • Rossini • Drouet • Donizetti • Spohr 


Romantic Wind Music 

(Lachner • Schubert • Weber) 


A Sheaf of Songs from Ireland 

Larchet • Stanford • Bax • Nelson • O’Brien 

Hardebeck • Victory 



Siamese Classical Music Volume 2 

Fong Naam .......................................................................... 8.223198 


Fong Naam .......................................................................... 8.223199 


Fong Naam .......................................................................... 8.223200 


Fong Naam .......................................................................... 8.223493 


Fong Naam .......................................................................... 8.223494 

South African Music 

(Karoo Symphony • My Country 

Fuquoi in the Sugar Cane 

Four South African Folktunes) 



South African Orchestral Works 

Fagan / Bell 

National Symphony Orchestra of the South African 

Broadcasting Corporation / Richard Cock / 


Welsh Classical Favourites 

Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes 

A Gwent Suite • Folksong Suite and others 

Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Andrew Penny ................................. 8.225048

MARCO POLO FILM MUSIC CLASSICS 

ARNOLD, Malcolm 

David Copperfield • The Roots of Heaven 


AURIC, Georges 

La Belle et la Bête (Complete Film Score) 

Axios Chorus / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / 

Adriano ................................................................................ 8.223765 

Lola Montez (Suite) • Notre-Dame de Paris (Suite) 

Farandole (Suite) • Esmeralda • Little Dance Suite 


Orphée • Ruy Blas • Thomas l’Imposteur 

Les Parents Terribles 


La Symphonie Pastorale • Macao, I’enfer du jeu 

Du rififi chez les hommes • Le salaire de la peur 

Valse et Tango 


BLISS, Arthur 

Christopher Columbus • Seven Waves Away 

Baraza • Men of Two Worlds 


DEUTSCH , Adolph 

The Maltese Falcon • George Washington Slept Here 

The Mask of Dimitrios 


William T. Stromberg ................................................... # 8.225169 

DEVREESE, Frédéric 

Benvenuta Suite • Un Soir, un Train 

L’Oeuvre au Noir Suite • Belle 


HERRMANN, Bernard 

Jane Eyre 


Prince of Players • Garden of Evil 



The Egyptian 



The Snows of Kilimanjaro • 5 Fingers 



HISTORICAL ROMANCES 

The Charge of the Light Brigade 

Juarez • Gunga Din • Devotion 


Richard Kaufman ................................................................. 8.223608 

HONEGGER, Arthur 

Crime et Châtiment • L’Idée • Farinet 

Le Déserteur • Le Grand Barrage 


Mayerling • Regain • Le Démon de l’Himalaya 


IBERT, Jacques 

Macbeth • Golgotha • Don Quichotte 



KHACHATURIAN, Aram 

The Battle of Stalingrad • Othello 


KILAR, Wojciech 

Bram Stoker’s Dracula • The Beads of One Rosary 

Konig der letzten Tage • Death and the Maiden 

Pearl in the Crown 

Cracow Philharmonic Chorus / Polish National RSO / 

Antoni Wit .................................................................... # 8.225153 

KORNGOLD, Erich 

Another Dawn • Escape Me Never 


Captain Blood 



Devotion 


NEWMAN, Alfred 

All About Eve (Suite) • Beau Geste 

The Hunchback of Notre Dame 



The Egyptian 



NORDGREN, Erik 

The Bergman Suites 


RÓZSA, Miklós 

The King’s Thief 



SAINTON, Philip 

Moby Dick 


SALTER, Hans J. 

The Ghost of Frankenstein • Son of Dracula 

Black Friday • Man Made Monster 


Music for Frankenstein 


SALTER, Hans J. and DESSAU, Paul 

House of Frankenstein (Complete Film Score) 


SALTER, Hans J. and SKINNER, Frank 

Universal’s Classic Horror Scores: Monster Music 

Son of Frankenstein • The Invisible Man Returns 

The Wolf Man 


SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitry 

The Fall of Berlin • The Unforgettable Year 1919 

Ellena Alekseyeva, Piano / Moscow Capella & Youth Chorus / 

Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Adriano ..................... # 8.223897 

SKINNER, Frank 

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 


STEINER, Max 

All This, and Heaven Too • A Stolen Life 


William Stromber ......................................................... # 8.225218

King Kong 

The Complete 1933 Film Score 


The Lost Patrol • Virginia City 

The Beast with Five Fingers 


They Died with Their Boots On 


The Son of Kong • The Most Dangerous Game 



The Three Musketeers 



The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 



TIOMKIN, Dimitri 

Red River 


William T. Stromberg ................................................... # 8.225217 

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph 

49th Parallel • Story of a Flemish Farm 

Coastal Command 

Three Portraits from the England of Elizabeth 


WAXMAN, Franz 

Mr. Skeffington 


Objective Burma! 


WEBB, Roy 

Cat People • Bedlam • The Seventh Victim 

The Body Snatcher • I Walked with a Zombie 


YOUNG, Victor 

The Greatest Show on Earth • The Uninvited 

Gulliver’s Travels • Bright Leaf 



Scaramouche 




BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC 

ADDINSELL, Richard 

BBC Concert Orchestra / Kenneth Alwyn ............................ 8.223732 

BINGE, Ronald 


COATES, Eric (Volume 1) 


COATES, Eric (Volume 2) 

Kenneth Edge, Saxophone / Slovak RSO / 

Andrew Penny ..................................................................... 8.223521 

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Samuel 

RTE Concert Orchestra / Adrian Leaper ............................. 8.223516 

CURZON, Frederic 


DUNCAN, Trevor 


FARNON, Robert 


GERMAN, Edward 


GOODWIN, Ron 

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Ron Goodwin ............ 8.223518 

JOYCE, Archibald 


KETÈLBEY, Albert 

Slovak Philharmonic Male Chorus / 


LANE, Philip 

Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland ..................... # 8.225185 

LYON, David 

Michael Thompson, French Horn / Royal Ballet Sinfonia / 


MAYERL, Billy 

Slovak RSO / Gary Carpenter ............................................. 8.223514 

MINIATURES 

RTE Concert Orchestra / Ernest Tomlinson ........................ 8.223522 

QUILTER, Roger 


REYNOLDS, Alfred 

Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland ............................. 8.225184 

TOMLINSON, Ernest (Volume 1) 


TOMLINSON, Ernest (Volume 2) 


TORCH, Sidney 

BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth ....................... 8.223443 

WHITLOCK, Percy 

RTE Concert Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland ........................ 8.225162 

WOOD, Haydn 


WORLAND, Bill 

RTE Concert Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland ........................ 8.225161

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