July-August 2008 Compact Discs

Media Newsletter: July-August 2008

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New Compact discs:

AMERICAN JOURNEYS
CDS1063
London Symphony Orchestra ; Gisèle Ben-Dor, conductor ; Christine Michelle Smith, flute ; Frederick Moyer, piano.
The Black Gondola (9:59) / Franz Liszt ; arranged by John Adams -- Berceuse élégiaque (8:15) / Ferruccio Busoni ; arranged by John Adams -- Concerto for alto flute and strings (1989) (19:26) ; Piano concerto no. 2 (1994) (29:44) / David Ott.
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, April 3, 1996.
1 compact disc, 67 min., 1998

THE CAEDMON POETRY COLLECTION
CDS1079
"A century of poets reading their works"--Container.
CD 1. The song of the old mother ; The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- In memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden -- A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London ; Fern Hill ; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- The dead shall be raised incorruptible / Galway Kinnell -- Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell -- The speed of darkness / Muriel Rukeyser -- The DNA molecule / May Swenson -- Poem to my son / Robert Graves -- Eighth Air Force / Randall Jarrell -- To my God in His sickness / Philip Levine -- Epistle to be left in the earth / Archibald MacLeish -- The last one / W.S. Merwin -- Divorce, thy name is woman ; Little girl, my string bean, my lovely woman / Anne Sexton -- The Windy City ; Fog / Carl Sandburg -- CD 2. The seafarer / William Carlos Williams -- darling! because my blood can sing ; if everything that happens can't be done / E.E. Cummings -- Nature morte / Joseph Brodsky -- The road not taken ; After apple-picking / Robert Frost -- Omeros, book 1, chapter 1 / Derek Walcott -- What are years / Marianne Moore -- Seascape / Stephen Spender -- Skunk hour / Robert Lowell -- Tetélestai / Conrad Aiken -- If I told him : a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein -- Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur -- The thin people / Sylvia Plath -- Sirocco ; American portrait : old style / Robert Penn Warren -- CD 3. Arte poetica / Pablo Neruda -- Old lovers at the ballet / May Sarton -- The groundhog / Richard Eberhart -- Litany for dictatorships / Stephen Vincent Benet -- White mane / James Agee -- Moeurs contemporaines / Ezra Pound -- The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- The animals in that country / Margaret Atwood -- The wasteland / T.S. Eliot.
3 compact discs, 210 min., 2000

Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981
CAPRICORN CONCERTO
CDS1072
Lesley Craigie, soprano ; Louise Winter, mezzo-soprano ; Simon Wall, tenor ; Roderick Williams, bass (2nd work) ; Karen Jones, flute ; John Gracie, trumpet (1st work) ; Stéphane Rancourt, oboe (1st, 5th works) ; Royal Scottish National Orchestra ; Marin Alsop, conductor.
Capricorn concerto (14:08) -- A hand of bridge (9:44) -- Mutations from Bach (5:43) -- Intermezzo from Vanessa (4:26) -- Canzonetta for oboe and strings (8:46) -- Fadograph of a yestern scene (9:40).
Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, May 12, 2000 (6th work), Oct. 27, 2002 (4th-5th works), and Feb. 9, 2003 (1st-3rd works).
1 compact disc, 2004

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
CELLO SUITES 1-3
CDS1080
Truls Mørk, violoncello.
No. 1 op. 72, in G major (26:00) -- No. 2 op. 80, in D major (24:00) -- No. 3 op. 87 (24:00).
Recorded Oct. 11-16, 1998 and June 6, 2000, Ris Church, Oslo.
1 compact disc, 73 min., 2000

Gould, Glenn.
THE COMPLETE ORIGINAL JACKET COLLECTION
CDS1086
Previously released recordings (1956-1997).
Glenn Gould, piano, harpsichord (disc 43), speaker ; with, variously: Symphonia Quartet ; Juilliard String Quartet ; Philadelphia Brass Ensemble ; Columbia Symphony Orchestra ; New York Philharmonic ; CBC Symphony ; American Symphony Orchestra ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Marlboro Festival Orchestra ; Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Golschmann, Robert Craft, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, Pablo Casals, conductor ; Claude Rains, John Horton, speaker ; Ellen Faull, Roxolana Roslak, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Elizabeth Benson-Guy, soprano ; Helen Vanni, Anita Darian, mezzo-soprano ; Charles Bressler, tenor ; Cornelius Opthof, Donald Gramm, baritone ; Marilyn Mason, Lionel Rogg, organ ; John McClure, Tim Page, interviewer ; Leonard Rose, violoncello ; Israel Baker, Jaime Laredo, violin ; additional assisting musicians.
Recorded June 10, 1955-Sept. 8, 1982.
80 compact discs in 71 numbered containers, 2007

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
COMPLETE TRIOS
CDS1082
Beaux Arts Trio (1st and 3rd-5th works) ; Gyorgy Sebok, piano ; Arthur Grumiaux, violin ; Francis Orval, horn (2nd work) ; George Pieterson, clarinet (5th work).
Piano trio in B, op. 8 (29:36) -- Trio in E flat, op. 40, for piano, violin and horn (28:25) -- Piano trio in C, op. 87 (25:43) -- Piano trio in C minor, op. 101 (19:17) -- Trio in A minor, op. 114, for piano, clarinet and cello (25:24).
Recorded - Aufnahmen - Enregistrements: Amsterdam, 2/1976 (Op. 40); Switzerland, 5/1979 (Op. 114), p1967, 1976, 1980.
2 compact discs, 1993

Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981
CONCERTOS
CDS1076
Kyoko Takezawa, violin (1st work) ; Steven Isserlis, violoncello (2nd work) ; John Browning, piano (3rd work) ; Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ; Leonard Slatkin, conductor.
Concerto for violin and orchestra, op. 14 (23:35) -- Concerto for cello and orchestra, op. 22 (26:09) -- Concerto for piano and orchestra, op. 38 (29:00).
Recorded Apr. 24 and Dec. 2, 1994 (1st-2nd works) and Oct. 6-7, 1990 (3rd work), Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis.
1 compact disc, 2005

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
DEATH IN VENICE
CDS1075
Opera in two acts.
Sung in English.
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the short story by Thomas Mann.
Philip Langridge, tenor ; Alan Opie, baritone ; Michael Chance, counter-tenor ; BBC Singers ; City of London Sinfonia ; Richard Hickox, conductor.
Recorded July 21-24, 2004, Blackheath Halls, London.
2 compact discs, 152 min., 2005

Alkan, Charles-Valentin, 1813-1888
ESQUISSES: op. 63
CDS1071
Laurent Martin, piano.
Recorded Dec. 1990 at Tonstudio van Geest, Heidelberg.
Originally issued in 1992 as Marco Polo: 8.223352.
1 compact disc, 75 min., 2002

KRONOS QUARTET PERFORMS PHILIP GLASS
CDS1069
Kronos Quartet (David Harrington, John Sherba, violins ; Hank Dutt, viola ; Joan Jeanrenaud, violoncello).
String quartet no. 5 (21:53) -- String quartet no. 4 : (Buczak) (23:01) -- String quartet no. 2 : (Company) (7:24) -- String quartet no. 3 : (Mishima). 1957 : Award montage ; November 25 : Ichiyaga ; 1934 : Grandmother and Kimitake ; 1962 : Body building ; Blood oath ; Mishima/closing (15:30).
Recorded Aug., 1993 at Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California.
1 compact disc, 1995

Ligeti, György, 1923-2006
THE LIGETI PROJECT. IV
CDS1081
Caroline Stein, soprano ; Margriet van Reisen, mezzo-soprano ; Jacques Zoon, flute ; Heinz Holliger, oboe ; Marie Luise Neunecker, horn ; London Voices ; Asko Ensemble (1st-3rd works) ; Schönberg Ensemble (2nd-3rd works) ; Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor (1st-3rd works) ; Berliner Philharmoniker, Jonathan Nott, conductor (4th work).
Hamburg concerto = Hamburgische Konzert : for solo horn and chamber orchestra with 4 obligato natural horns (15:00) -- Double concerto : for flute, oboe and orchestra (17:00) -- Ramifications : for 12 solo strings (8:00) -- Requiem for soprano and mezzo soprano solo, mixed chorus and orchestra (27:00).
Recorded at Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Sept. 16, 2001 (3rd work), Oct. 2, 2002 (2nd work), and Oct. 3, 2002 (1st work); and live, at Philharmonie Berlin, Nov. 8-11, 2002 (4th work).
1 compact disc, 2003

Scelsi, Giacinto, 1905-1988
NATURA RENOVATUR
CDS1083
Frances-Marie Uitti, violoncello (2nd, 4th, 6th, works) ; Münchener Kammerorchester ; Christoph Poppen, conductor.
Ohoi : for 16 strings : I principi creativi (8:33) -- Ave Maria : for violoncello solo : from Three Latin prayers for solo voice (3:44) -- Anâgâmin : for 11 strings : colui che scelse di ritornare o no (7:08) -- Ygghur : for violoncello solo : from Trilogy : the three ages of man (15:39) -- Natura renovatur : for 11 strings (12:30) -- Alleluja : for violoncello solo : from Three Latin prayers for solo voice.
Recorded June 2005, Himmelfahrtskirche, München.
1 compact disc, 2006

Scelsi, Giacinto, 1905-1988
THE ORCHESTRAL WORKS. 2
CDS1074
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Concentus Vocalis ; Wiener Kammerchor ; Peter Rundel, Johannes Kalitzke, conductors.
Quattro pezzi (su una nota sola) (16:54) -- Uaxuctum : the legend of the Mayan city which they themselves destroyed for religious reasons (21:14) -- La nascita del Verbo (31:58).
Recorded in performance Nov. 4, 2005 (1st-2nd works) and Nov. 25, 2005 (3rd work), at the Festival Wien Modern, Konzerthaus Vienna.
1 compact disc, 2006

PERSÉPOLIS
CDS1064
Music composed and directed by Olivier Bernet.
Various performers.
Persépolis theme (2:51) -- Téhéran disco (1:32) -- Tout ce qui est à vous m'appartient (1:37) -- Manifestations (2:05) -- La bonne leçon (1:35) -- L'épopée d'Anouche (2:20) -- Le prolétariat (2:09) -- Va-t'en! (0:41) -- La guerre (2:08) -- Master of the monsters (50 toumans) (1:51) -- Dans la vie, tu rencontreras beaucoup de cons (2:29) -- Marche persane / Johann Strauss (2:15) -- Balèze (1:26) -- Rosen aus dem Süden (Hormones) / Johann Strauss (0:43) -- Musique de merde (0:47) -- Frenchie (0:53) -- Flower power (1:34) -- Love and hate (2:20) -- Sachertorte (2:41) -- The eye of the tiger (3:26) -- Téhéran (2:41) -- Absurde (1:51) -- Clair de lune (1:52) -- Adieu (2:39).
Recorded May 2007, Amanita Studio, Anglet.
1 compact disc, 2007

SAMUEL BARBER/THOMAS SCHIPPERS
CDS1077
Martina Arroyo, soprano (5th work) ; New York Philharmonic (1st-5th works) ; Columbia Symphony Orchestra (6th-9th works) ; Thomas Schippers, conductor.
Medea's dance of vengeance : op. 23a (12:33) ; Adagio for strings, from String quartet in B minor op. 11 (9:03) ; Second essay for orchestra, op. 17 (10:43) ; Overture to the School for scandal : op. 5 (7:33) ; Andromache's farewell : op. 39 (12:13) ; Intermezzo from Vanessa (act II) : op. 32 (4:04) / Samuel Barber -- Overture to Amelia al ballo / Gian Carlo Menotti (4:15) -- Interlude from Wozzeck (act III) / Alban Berg (3:44) -- Introduction to Fervaal : op. 40 / Vincent d'Indy (6:32).
Recorded 1960-1965 in New York, N.Y.
1 compact disc, 1996

SENKU: PIANO MUSIC BY COMPOSERS 0F AFRICAN DESCENT
CDS1065
William Chapman Nyaho, piano.
Talking drums / Joshua Uzoigwe -- Three Jamaican dances / Oswald Russell -- Scherzo / Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson -- Deep river : 24 Negro melodies : op. 59 : no. 10 / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor -- Troubled water / Margaret Bonds -- Variations on an Egyptian folksong / Gamal Abdel-Rahim -- "In the bottoms" suite / Robert Nathaniel Dett -- Earthbeats : op. 22 : from Six dialects in African pianism / Gyimah Labi.
1 compact disc, 74 min., 200-?

Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981
THE SONGS
CDS1078
Cheryl Studer, soprano ; Thomas Hampson, baritone ; John Browning, piano ; Emerson String Quartet.
Recorded at St. Konrad Church, Abersee, Austria, Aug. 1991, at Brahms-Saal, Musikverein, Vienna, Sept. 1992, at Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase, Dec. 6, 1992, and at American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Dec. 8, 1992.
2 compact discs, 110 min., 2003

Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987
TRIADIC MEMORIES
CDS1085
Marilyn Nonken, piano.
Recorded at the Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 29, 2003.
2 compact discs, 94 min., 2004

Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981
VANESSA
CDS1073
Opera in 4 acts.
Sung in English.
Eleanor Steber, soprano ; Rosalind Elias and Regina Resnik, mezzo-sopranos ; Nicolai Gedda, tenor ; George Cehanovsky, baritone ; Giorgio Tozzi, bass ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Dmitri Mitropoulos, conductor.
Recorded February and April 1958 in Manhattan Center, New York City.
2 compact discs, 114 min., 1989

VIOLIN CONCERTOS OF JOHN ADAMS & PHILIP GLASS
CDS1084
Robert McDuffie, violin ; Houston Symphony ; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor.
Recorded in Jones Hall, Houston, Tex., Sept. 28-29, 1998.
1 compact disc, 1999