SCHOENBERG
Pierrot Lunaire / Chamber Symphony No. 1 / 4 Orchestral Songs / Herzgewachse Anja Silja / Catherine Wyn-Rogers / Eileen Hulse / Philharmonia Orchestra / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Robert Craft [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Apr/2007 ] "Authoritative accounts of some of Schoenberg's greatest works, with Silja brilliant in Pierrot Lunaire, and the whole programme conducted with the deepest understanding by Craft, also author of the magnificent notes." Five Stars ***** BBC Music Mag... |
SOR / AGUADO / TARREGA
19th Century Guitar Favourites Norbert Craft (Guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Collection / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "A decade may have passed since the release of this disc, but in decades to come it will remain as a testament to superb guitar playing, refined interpretations and good taste. Definitely my desert island 'allowed one only' choice" -- MusicWeb |
ANTON WEBERN
The Complete Music of Anton Webern Robert Craft (conductor & musical director) with Marni Nixon, Grace-Lynne Martin, Richard Robinson, Charles Scharbach & others [ Sony Classical Masters / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2021 ] The most comprehensive collection of Anton Webern. All of the performers, as well as additional instrumentalists and choral singers, were selected from Hollywood film studios. |
Craft Spells
Idle Labor (CD) [ Captured Tracks / CD - released 31/Oct/2016 ] |
Craft
Void [ Carnal Records / CD - released 15/Aug/2011 ] |
Craft Spells
Idle Labor (LP) [ Captured Tracks / LP - released 31/Oct/2016 ] |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: 5 Orchestral Pieces / Cello Concerto / Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 (orch. Schoenberg) Fred Sherry (Cello) / London Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft (Conductor) [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] In 1933, Schoenberg transcribed for cello a harpsichord concerto by the baroque composer Matthias Monn (1717-50). He dedicated his arrangement to Pablo Casals, whom he had met in Vienna, but Casals considered it too demanding. |
SCHOENBERG
Concerto for String Quartet / The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15 Fred Sherry Quartet / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 2 / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "When you consider that this disc gives almost eighty minutes of music, including a rarely performed work in what Robert Craft describes as an unmatched performance, plus three other pieces and an interview, all for a super-budget price then it is... |
STRAVINSKY
The Rite of Spring / Violin Concerto / Symphonies of Wind Instruments Jennifer Frautschi (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 8 / CD - released 17/Jul/2007 ] This new recording of the 1967 edition of The Rite of Spring, a major landmark of twentieth century music, is released in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Stravinsky. |
SCHOENBERG
6 Orchestral Songs / Kol Nidre / Friede auf Erden Jennifer Welch-Babidge (soprano) / Simon Joly Chorale / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 7 / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] "This is a thoroughly recommendable disc, an essential purchase for any Schoenberg collector. Equally, in its demonstration of the composer's wide expressive range, it is of enormous value to anyone even remotely interested in this 20th-century... |
SCHOENBERG
6 A Cappella Mixed Choruses / String Quartet No. 2 / Suite in G major Jennifer Welch-Babidge (soprano) / Simon Joly Singers / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Fred Sherry Quartet / Robert Craft (conductor) [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 3 / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "A thoroughly enjoyable release which should convert many to Schoenberg's music." (MusicWeb Feb 2006) |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (complete opera recorded in 1993) John Cheek, Jon Garrison, Jeffrey Johnson, Shirley Love, Melvin Lowery, Jane West, Wendy White, Arthur Woodley / Robert Craft [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "That we have such a direct link to Stravinsky's living thoughts and intentions in Robert Craft and such a powerful performance makes this recording as much a 'must have' as the composer's own." (MusicWeb July 2009) |
STRAVINSKY
Oedipus Rex / Les Noces Joseph Cornwell (tenor) Andrew Greenan (bass) Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft, conductor [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 1 / CD - released 28/Dec/2004 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "An enormously enjoyable and indispensable addition to the Stravinsky discography." (MusicWeb March 2005) |
Kyle Craft
Dolls Of Highland [ Sub Pop / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] Dolls Of Highland is Sub Pop artist, Kyle Craft's solo debut record. Craft worked alongside Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel of fellow Sub Poppers, The Helio Sequence to refine the works and mix the album all while capturing the raw power of... |
Kyle Craft
Dolls Of Highland (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 29/Apr/2016 ] Dolls Of Highland is Sub Pop artist, Kyle Craft's solo debut record. Craft worked alongside Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel of fellow Sub Poppers, The Helio Sequence to refine the works and mix the album all while capturing the raw power of... |
Kyle Craft
Full Circle Nightmare [ Sub Pop / CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] Ever since his debut album Dolls of Highland was released on Sub Pop in 2016, Kyle Craft has been a critic's dream. Based in Portland, he serves up all the observational, storytelling talent with none of the attitude that so often comes with male... |
Kyle Craft
Showboat Honey [ Sub Pop / CD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] |
Kyle Craft
Showboat Honey (LP) [ Sub Pop / LP - released 12/Jul/2019 ] |
STRAVINSKY
Apollo / Agon / Orpheus (Complete ballets) London Symphony Orchestra / Robert Craft, conductor [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 4 / CD - released 1/Jul/2005 ] "It's probably Craft's generally fast tempos that mean all three ballets can be accommodated generously on this single disc. Things never get out of hand, but if you are used to more relaxed readings, be prepared." -- MusicWeb International, June 2005 |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Pulcinella / Le baiser de la fee (The Fairy's Kiss) Mark Beesley (bass) / Robin Leggate (tenor) / Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano / London Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 23/Mar/2006 ] "This CD attracts another unhesitating recommendation and collectors should add it to the Stravinsky/Craft section on their shelves. This is turning into an excellent set whose recordings have that modern technical advantage over those in the elderly... |
SCHOENBERG
Chamber Symphony No. 2 / Die gluckliche Hand / Wind Quintet Mark Beesley (bass) / Simon Joly Chorale / New York Woodwind Quintet / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 8 / CD - released 1/May/2008 ] The little-known Second Chamber Symphony ought to be the most popular of Schoenberg's later masterpieces. Neither "atonal" nor "twelve-tone", it contrasts a lush, melodious, dramatic first movement with a rapid and richly polyphonic second movement.... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes (The Card Game) / Danses concertantes / Capriccio Mark Wait (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / St. Luke's Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 9 / CD - released 4/Jan/2008 ] "This compilation of material previously issued on Koch International Classics...continues Robert Craft's highly regarded series of Stravinsky works for Naxos. If you didn't purchase these earlier at full price, now is the time to take advantage of... |
Martin Craft
Silver and Fire [ Inertia Music / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2007 ] This Australasian version of ‘Silver and Fire’ features newly designed artwork and a 9-track bonus disc, which features tracks from Craft’s debut EP plus B-sides to the UK singles. "...perfectly self-contained worlds that defy categorisation... |
STRAVINSKY
The Rite of Spring / The Nightingale Olga Trifonova (soprano) / Robert Tear (tenor) / Paul Whelan (bass-baritone) / London Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 3 / CD - released 9/Nov/2005 ] “Composing The Rite, I had only my ear to help me. I heard and I wrote what I heard.” — Igor Stravinsky |
SCHOENBERG
Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 / Erwartung, Op. 17 Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 9 / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Schoenberg's polyphonic tone poem Pelleas und Melisande is often compared to Debussy's opera based on the same text by Maurice Maeterlinck. According to the composer, "The first performance, 1905, in Vienna, under my own direction, provoked riots... |
STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky - Firebird (The) / Petrushka (Complete ballets) Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft, conductor [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 17/Apr/2005 ] "This is a fine performance, keeping a rhythmic forward motion while expressing the sensual textural richness of the orchestral writing." (MusicWeb Sept 2005) |
Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft, conductor
Stravinsky-The Firebird (complete original version) / Petrushka (1947 version) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2005 ] One of the many differences between the present recording and its predecessors is the restoration of two long, valveless trumpets on stage, each playing a single note. The clarion sonority of these instruments standing out above the entire orchestra,... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Mass / Cantata / Symphony of Psalms Gregg Smith Singers / Philharmonia Orchestra / St. Luke's Orchestra / Robert Craft (Conductor) [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 6 / CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] This disc of sacred choral music features the masterly Symphony of Psalms, which Stravinsky dedicated "to the glory of God". The composer himself wrote "It is not a symphony in which I have included Psalms to be sung ... it is the singing of Psalms... |
SCHOENBERG
A Survivor from Warsaw / Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / etc Rolf Schulte (violin) David Wilson-Johnson (narrator) Jeremy Denk (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 10 / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] This volume of Robert Craft's acclaimed Schoenberg series presents the composer's favourite of his own orchestral works, the Violin Concerto. |
STRAVINSKY
Histoire du Soldat Suite / Renard Rolf Schulte (violin) CharlesNeidich (clarinet) / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Philharmonia Orchestra / St. Luke's Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 7 / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] This is a unique collection of mostly short works that Stravinsky re-worked in different arrangements to suit the occasion. Pastorale, transcribed here for a quartet of oboe, clarinet, English horn, and bassoon, is one of Stravinsky's most popular... |
ANTON WEBERN
Webern: Vocal and Orchestral Works - 5 Pieces / 5 Sacred Songs / Variations / Bach-Musical Offering: Ricercar Tony Arnold / Claire Booth / David Wilson-Johnson / Simon Joly Chorale / Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Philharmonia Orchestra, Robert Craft [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "Many of the performances are by the Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, a group of veteran New York new-music players who could just as well call themselves the Robert Craft All-Stars…their interpretations reflect Mr. Craft's half century of... |
SCHOENBERG
Serenade / Variations for Orchestra / Bach Orchestrations Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft (Conductor) [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 4 / CD - released 9/May/2006 ] In an interview in Berlin, 6 October 1928, Schoenberg introduces his greatest orchestra piece, Variations, Op. 31, with a denigration of American sensibilities |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Symphony in C / Symphony in 3 Movements / Octet / Dumbarton Oaks Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Philharmonia Orchestra / St. Luke's Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 10 / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "Some fine performances ..if you want these four pieces on a single disc - perhaps as a taster - this is an obvious and rewarding choice. Even the normally erudite Craft liner-notes are more relaxed than usual, making this issue even more attractive... |
STRAVINSKY
Duo concertant / Sonata for Two Pianos / Requiem Canticles / Abraham & Isaac / Élégie per viola sola Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Robert Craft [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] "It's the performances of the two late serial works [the Requiem Canticles and Abraham and Isaac] that make this disc worthwhile. Craft brings real urgency to these masterpieces, and a dramatic clarity in particular to Abraham and Isaac." (The Guardian) |
SCHOENBERG
String Trio / 4 Pieces for Mixed Chorus / 3 Satires / Suite Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Simon Joly Chorale / London Sinfonietta / London Symphony Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "The performance has the right idea in not attempting to gloss over the discontinuities [of the String Trio]...[these players] give a good sense of the way angry expression dissolves into wistful lyricism at the end...Schoenberg's voice...is heard to... |
ANTON WEBERN
Webern: Symphony, Op. 21 / Six Pieces, Op. 6 / Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24 Various Artists including, Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble with Robert Craft, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] Anton von Webern was born in Vienna on 3rd December, 1883, and died at Mittersill on 15th September, 1945. He was Arnold Schoenberg's most devoted pupil from 1904, and the closest friend of his fellow pupil, Alban Berg. |