Building a Library: Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death

The Spanish humour for viol solo

Performers: Concerto Caledonia, David McGuinness

Composers: Tobias Hume (c1569 - 1645)

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

Symphony no. 2 in E flat major Op.63

Performers: Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

Composers: Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)

Album Title: DECCA : 4786677

Adolescentulus sum ego for 6 voices

Performers: Magnificat, Philip Cave

Composers: William Mundy (c1529 - 1591)

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

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

Performers: Huelgas Ensemble, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins

Composers: Anonymous Orch. MacMillan

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

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

Eugene Nesterenko (bass), Vladimir Krainev (piano)

MELODIYA MELCD1001401 (CD)

MUSSORGSKY: Songs and Dances of Death

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

MELODIYA 74321532372 (currently unavailable)

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

Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle

Composers: Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Album Title: BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER RECORDINGS : BPHR-140011

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

Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nezet-Seguin

Composers: Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Album Title: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 479-2437

Symphony no. 2 in C major Op.61

Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle

Composers: Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Album Title: BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER RECORDINGS : BPHR-140011

Symphony no. 2 in C major Op.61

Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nezet-Seguin

Composers: Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Album Title: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 479-2437

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

Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle

Composers: Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Album Title: BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER RECORDINGS : BPHR-140011

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

Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle

Composers: Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Album Title: BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER RECORDINGS : BPHR-140011

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

Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nezet-Seguin

Composers: Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Album Title: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 479-2437

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

Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle

Composers: Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Album Title: BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER RECORDINGS : BPHR-140011

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

Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss

STRAUSS: Various works

Various artists, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

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

PRISTINE PASC411 (download)

Furtwangler conducts Four Last Songs

STRAUSS: Four Last Songs (and other works)

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

PRISTINE PASC407 (download)

Richard Strauss: Four Complete Opera Recordings

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

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

DOCUMENTS 600130 (10CD budget)

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

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

PRAGA DSD350100 (Hybrid SACD)

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

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

Simone Kermes (soprano), Faure Quartet

SONY 88843023672 (CD)

Strauss conducts Strauss

Various works

Various artists, Richard Strauss (conductor)

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

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4792703 (7CD budget)

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

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

Composers: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

Album Title: PRAGA : 350-089

Symphony no. 15 in A major Op.141

Performers: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth

Composers: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

Album Title: BIS : 1643