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ID: SIGCD084
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Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Organ
Since the Royal Albert Hall organ was inaugurated by W.T.Best, the most famous performer of his day, in the presence of Queen Victoria on the 29th March 1871, it seems appropriate to begin this programme with one of Best’s own organ transcriptions: the Overture to Mendelssohn’s Oratorio St. Paul. Mendelssohn’s own performances of Bach on the organ in St. Paul’s Cathedral and elsewhere during the 1830s had been wildly acclaimed by the crowds who came to hear him and Best took full advantage of the enormous surge in interest in performances of music arranged for the organ. After the Mendelssohn Overture it is but a short step to the symphonic nature of Schumann’s Six Fugues on the name B-A-C-H, to which the wide dynamic range and sonic possibilities of the Albert Hall organ are ideally matched.
In the Bolcom Fantasia, the composer fuses a modern compositional idiom with two Southern Spirituals, breathing new life into both forms with shattering effect; in a way the same thing has happened to the Albert Hall organ, and with modern blowers for the bellows taking the place of the original steam engines of 1871, it certainly has enough wind now to cope with most contingencies - as you will hear.
In America the traditions of theatre organ playing are still kept very much alive. As a child I remember playing two very old records over and over again on a wind-up portable gramophone - the sort that had wooden needles which you had to keep sharpening.
The first was George Thalben-Ball playing The Ride of the Valkyries on the Alexandra Palace organ, and the other - equally favourite - was Quentin MacLean playing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the organ in the Odeon Marble Arch. At the age of five I could not work out how Quentin MacLean did the opening glissando in Rhapsody in Blue; apparently he used the Siren stop - useful for Cops and Robbers chases in the silent movies - switched the organ on and, when the wind went into the bellows, it produced this very smooth glissando up to the top E flat!
Joseph Jongen and Siegfrid Karg-Elert were near contemporaries, and although generally regarded as organ composers, both were prolific in other forms: symphonic music, choral and chamber music and even opera. Jongen’s music is most fastidiously composed and the architectural shape and grandeur of the Sonata Eroďca is in wonderful contrast to the quite unexpected delicacy of Karg-Elert’s Valse Mignonne; here the extremely discerning listener may pick up some unexpected sounds of the gentler percussion stops on the enclosed Solo division of the Albert Hall organ.
Simon Preston, 2006 |
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ID: SIGCD140
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
The New release from one of Armenia’s leading and most popular music groups.
Following their prior success this year with their first release of Expressia - Armenian Fantasy, Cadence Ensemble expand their recording ventures to Expressia - Tangos and Fantasies.
This new release explores the Tango at its best including works from some of the great Tango writers including Astor Piazzolla and fellow Armenian Narine Zarifian. With innovative arrangements of works by Carlos Gardel, Hector Stampioni and the Fantasy on Themes of Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin. |
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ID: SIGCD187
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Pop
All tracks are arranged by Jim Clements
Recorded at Bill Hare Productions, Milpitas, California, November 2009
The international award-winning octet VOCES8 has established itself as the foremost young British a cappella group. Performing a repertoire ranging from Renaissance polyphony to unique Jazz and Pop arrangements, the group has been praised for stunning performance, exquisite singing and creating a sound that spans the entire range of vocal colour.
ACES HIGH is an album that flows like a fine cocktail - delicious from start to finish! It evokes the story of a perfect night out, transporting you to the glamorous world of high society, passion and daring intrigue. |
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ID: SMCCD0212-221
CDs: 10
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
SMCCD 0212
VOLUME 1
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124
1. Allegro 5:34
2. Quasi adagio 4:09
3. Allegretto vivace 2:18
4. Allegro animato 1:42
5. Allegro marziale animato 4:05
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125
6. Adagio sostenuto assai 4:49
7. Allegro agitato assai 1:58
8. Allegro moderato 4:51
9. Allegro deciso 2:50
10. Marziale, un poco meno allegro 3:44
11. Allegro animato 1:46
Rhapsodie espagnole (Folies d'Espagne et Jota aragonese), S. 254,
arranged by Ferruccio Busoni
12. Lento 1:14
13. I. Folies d'Espagne. Andante moderato 3:44
14. II. Jota aragonese. Allegro 2:10
15. III. Cadenza. Un poco meno presto 5:02
16. Non troppo Allegro. Animato 1:20
17. St ä ndchen (F. Schubert), piano transcription, S. 560 No. 7 6:13
18. “La campanella” from Grandes é tudes de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 4:25
Grigory Ginzburg (1904 - 1961)
19. Fantasia on a theme of “Largo al factotum” from Rossini's “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” 4:14
The USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Nikolai Anosov ( 1-16 )
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
February 24, 1949
ADD TT: 66:03
SMCCD 0213
VOLUME 2
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Ann é es de p è lerinage. Ann é e 1. Suisse, S. 160:
1. No. 1. La chapelle de Guillaume Tell 5:28
2. No. 2. Au lac de Wallenstadt 3:19
3. No. 6. Vall é e d’Obermann 12:20
4. No. 7. Eglogue 3:58
5. No. 9. Les cloches de Gen è ve 5:15
Ann é es de p è lerinage. Ann é e 2. Italie, S. 161:
6. No. 6. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca 5:57
Ann é es de p è lerinage. Venezia e Napoli, S. 162:
7. No. 3. Tarantella 8:10
Piano transcriptions of Schubert’s Songs:
8. Wohin?, S. 565 No. 5 3:06
9. Aufenthalt, S. 560 No. 3 3:30
10. Das Wandern, S. 565 No. 1 1:46
11. Das Erlk ö nig, S. 558 No. 4 4:36
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
October 23, 1952
ADD TT: 57.19
SMC CD 0214
VOLUME 3
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Grandes É tudes de Paganini, S. 141:
1. No. 1 in G minor 4:38
2. No. 4 in E major 2:12
3. No. 5 in E major 2:48
4. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor, S. 244 No. 2 8:23
5. “Un Sospiro” from É tudes de concert in D flat major, S. 144 No. 3 4:57
6. “La Campanella” from Grandes É tudes de Paganini in G sharp minor, S.141 No. 3 4:33
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Fantasia in C minor, KV 475
7. Adagio. Allegro. Andantino. Pi ú allegro 11:53
Sonata for Piano No. 11 in A major, KV 331
8. Andante grazioso. Adagio. Allegro 10:55
9. Menuetto 3:57
10. Alla Turca. Allegretto 3:02
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
Sonatine in F sharp minor (1903 - 1905)
11. Mod é r é 3:58
12. Mouvement de menuet 2:33
13. Anim é 3:34
Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894)
14. Mazurka from “Album de P é terhof”, op. 75 No. 10 2:46
15. Serenade in D minor from “Miscellanees”, op. 93, Vol. 9, No. 5 2:00
16. Polka (Bohemia) from “Album of Popular Dances of the Different Nations”, op. 82 No. 7 3:47
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
October 23, 1952 ( 1-6 ); December 13, 1954 (7-16 )
ADD TT: 75:46
SMC CD 0215
VOLUME 4
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Carnaval, op. 9
1. Pr é ambule 2:03
2. Pierrot 0:53
3. Arlequin 0:39
4. Valse noble 1:52
5. Eusebius 1:24
6. Florestan 0:56
7. Coquette 0:57
8. R é plique. Sphinxes 1:25
9. Papillons 0:42
10. A. S. C. H. - S. C. H. A. Lettres dansantes 0:47
11. Chiarina 0:48
12. Chopin 1:00
13. Estrella 0:23
14. Reconnaissance 1:43
15. Pantalon et Colombine 0:42
16. Valse allemande. Paganini (Intermezzo) 2:03
17. Aveu 1:13
18. Promenade 1:43
19. Pause 0:17
20. Marche des Davidsbuendlers contre les Philistines 3:23
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
21. Contredanse in C major, WoO 14 No. 1 (arr. I. Seiss) 2:23
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Les cloches de Gen è ve from “Ann é es de p è lerinage.
22. Ann é e 1. Suisse, S. 160 No. 9 5:32
Grigory Ginzburg (1904 - 1961)
23. Fantasia on a theme of “Largo al factotum” from Rossini's “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” 4:13
Fr é d é ric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
24. Impromtu in A flat major, op. 29 No. 1 4:07
25. Impromtu in F sharp major, op. 36 No. 2 5:16
26. Impromtu in G flat major, op. 51 No. 3 6:04
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35
27. Grave. Doppio movimento 5:23
28. Scherzo 5:31
29. Marche fun è bre. Lento 7:19
30. Finale. Presto 1:27
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
31. Etude in E major from Grandes É tudes de Paganini, S. 141 No. 5 2:55
32. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 in E major, S. 244 No. 10 4:43
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
December 13, 1954 (1 - 23 )
Live at Grand Hall of the Kiev Philharmonic Society
January 4, 1959 (24 - 32)
ADD TT: 79:34
SMC CD 0216
VOLUME 5
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
1. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (transcr. by F. Busoni) 9:40
2. Prelude “Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” in F minor, BWV 639 from “Orgel-B ü chlein” (transcr. by F. Busoni) 3:37
3. Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for Violin solo in D minor, BWV 1004 (transcr. by F. Busoni) 14:53
4. Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 12:45
5. Siciliano from Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Clavier in E flat major, BWV 1031 (transcr. by G. Galston) 4:52
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
December 25, 1957
A D D TT: 45:43
SMC CD 0217
VOLUME 6
Sergey Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)
1. Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, op. 28 7:00
Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915)
From 12 Etudes, op. 8:
1. No. 1 in C sharp minor 1:25
2. No. 7 in B flat minor 2:00
3. No. 11 in B flat minor 4:30
4. No. 12 in D sharp minor 2:02
George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
Three Preludes for Piano (1926)
5. No. 1 in B flat major 1:42
6. No. 2 in C sharp minor 3:21
7. No. 3 in E flat minor 1:45
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
8. R é miniscences de “Don Juan”, S. 418 16:28
Fr é d é ric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
9. Mazurka No. 13 in A minor, op. 17 No. 4 3:32
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
December 25, 1957
ADD TT: 43:39
SMC CD 0218
VOLUME 7
Wolfgang Аmadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, KV 310
1. Allegro maestoso 5:41
2. Andante cantabile con espressione 7:23
3. Presto 3:18
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, op. 10 No. 3
4. Presto 6:57
5. Largo e mesto 9:43
6. Menuetto. Allegro 2:48
7. Rondo. Allegro 4:12
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, op. 57
8. Allegro assai 9:28
9. Andante con moto 5:52
10. Allegro ma non troppo. Presto 4:52
Six Variations in D major, ор. 76
11. Thema. Allegro risoluto 0:43
12. Variation I 0:37
13. Variation II 0:40
14. Variation III 1:06
15. Variation IV 0:47
16. Variation V 0:47
17. Variation VI 2:04
Studio recordings of the 1950s
ADD TT: 66:49
SMC CD 0219
VOLUME 8
Robert Schumann (1819 - 1856)
Faschingsschwank aus Wien, op. 26
1. Allegro 9:20
2. Romanze 1:56
3. Scherzino 2:10
4. Intermezzo 2:19
5. Finale 6:10
6. Toccata in C major, ор. 7 5:15
7. ABEGG Variations in F major, op. 1 8:26
From 6 Etudes after Paganini Caprices, op. 3
8. No. 2 in E major 2:54
9. No. 4 in B flat major 2:24
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Grand Sonata in G major, op. 37
10. Moderato e risoluto 15:09
11. Andante non troppo quasi moderato 10:05
12. Scherzo. Allegro giocoso 3:00
13. Finale. Allegro vivace 7:44
Studio recordings of the 1950s
ADD TT: 76:45
SMC CD 0220
VOLUME 9
Fr é d é ric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
1. Polonaise in A major, op. 40 No. 1 5:04
2. Polonaise in A flat major, op. 53 No. 6 6:42
3. Polonaise in B flat major, op. 71 No. 2 7:04
4. Waltz No. 2 in A flat major, op. 34 No. 1 4:53
5. Waltz No. 3 in A minor, op. 34 No. 2 4:49
6. Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, op. 42 3:28
7. Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, op. 64 No. 2 3:15
8. Mazurka in G minor, op. 24 No. 1 2:39
9. Mazurka in A flat major, op. 24 No. 3 2:13
10. Mazurka in B flat minor, op. 24 No. 4 4:30
11. Mazurka in C major, op. 68 No. 1 1:36
12. Mazurka in C major (No. 57) 3:08
Etudes, ор. 25
13. No. 1 in A flat major 2:24
14. No. 2 in F minor 1:23
15. No. 3 in F major 1:38
16. No. 4 in A minor 1:33
17. No. 5 in E minor 3:24
18. No. 6 in G sharp minor 2:06
19. No. 7 in C sharp minor 5:35
20. No. 8 in D flat major 1:10
21. No. 9 in G flat major 1:02
22. No. 10 in B minor 4:05
23. No. 11 in A minor 3:31
24. No. 12 in C minor 2:32
Studio recordings of the 1950s
ADD TT: 79:29
SMC CD 0221
VOLUME 10
Piano Transcriptions
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) - Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
1. Fantaisie on a theme from “Die Ruinen von Athen” for Piano and Orchestra, S. 122 12:17
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) - Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894)
2. Turkish March from “Die Ruinen von Athen” 2:25
Jean Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764) - Leopold Godowsky (1870 - 1938)
3. Minuet in A minor 4:43
Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826) - Leopold Godowsky (1870 - 1938)
4. Randeau “Perpetuum Mobile” 4:53
Alexander Alyabyev (1787 - 1851) - Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
5. Nightingale, S. 250a 2:26
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) - Pavel Pabst (1854 - 1897)
6. Paraphrase on themes from the opera “Eugene Onegin” 12:03
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) - Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
7. Concert paraphrase on themes from the opera “Rigoletto”, S. 434 6:31
Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893) - Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
8. Waltz from the opera “Faust”, S. 407 10:33
Ludomir Rozycki (1885 - 1953) - Grigory Ginzburg (1904 - 1961)
9. Fantasy on waltz from the opera “Casanova” 4:15
Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899) - Karl Tausig (1841 - 1871)
10. Valse-caprice No. 2, op. 167 from “5 Nouvelles soir é es de Vienne” on theme from Waltz “Man lebt nur einmal” 7:37
Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899) - Andrey Schulz-Evler (1854 - 1905)
11. Concert arabesques on waltz “An der schonen Blauen Donau”, op. 314 8:36
USSR State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Alexander Gauk ( 1 )
Studio recordings of the 1950s
ADD TT: 76:16 |
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ID: TSK002
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Jazz
Subcollection: First world recording
This is the first jazz release of Tosky Records. Three great italian jazz musicians performing eleven piece of amazing music. The real sound of jazz, really "too marvellous for words".
About TOSKY Records
Tosky Records has been created with the aim to merge music with skill, passion and innovation. Tosky Records wants make the most of the music talent, by offering the synergy of a group of skilled professionals in different fields: discography, publishing, audio/video production and services for shows. Our major asset is to integrate and converge our skills in a sole organization, by creating an added value to be offered to our clients, starting from the point of view that their success is our success. Tosky Records works with important partners such as consolidated organizations, with an experience of more than 20 years in this field. Our mission is to offer valid discographic products not limited by brands; the product is developed since the beginning: from the idea of its realization up to its distribution and promotion. The collaboration with the client goes along the whole process. Quality, responsibility, proficiency and respect for the past and for the future are the foundations of our modus operandi. |
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