SCHOENBERG
Moses und Aron Polish Radio Choir / Stuttgart State Opera Children's Chorus / Stuttgart State Opera Chorus / Stuttgart State Orchestra / Roland Kluttig (Conductor) [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] His most comprehensive score, it represents the climax of his association with the dodecaphonic method of composition, described by Schoenberg himself as 'a method of composition with twelve notes related only to each other'. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8, 'Symphony of a Thousand' Polish Radio Choir, Warsaw Boys Choir, Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit (Conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/May/2006 ] "Exceptional value … serious Mahlerians really should hear it" (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Oct 2006) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 8, 'Symphony of a Thousand' BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Polish Radio Choir, Warsaw Boys Choir, Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit (Conductor) [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound", was how Mahler himself described the impact of the closing pages of the Symphony. |
SZYMANOWSKI
Symphonies Nos 2-4 / Harnasie Polish Radio Chorus of Krakow / Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra / Jacek Kaspszyk / Jerzy Semkow / Antoni Wit [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 21/Oct/2007 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Excellent value. There's a touch of edge, a hint of congestion to the orchestral sound occasionally, but the playing throughout is first-class. Both conductors are perfectly at... |
LUTOSLAWSKI
Orchestra Works (Incls Symphonies 1 & 2 & Concerto for Orchestra) Polish Radio National Symphony orchestra / Witold Lutoslawski [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] 'It's my guess that posterity will judge Witold Lutowslaski among the supreme twentieth century musical colourists. All in all, this must surely count as the introduction to Lutoslawski's symphonic world.' Gramophone reviewing the original release |
ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK
Symphonic Works Volume 1 [Incls 'Nocturne for Orchestra'] Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukas Borowicz [ CPO / CD - released 26/Apr/2010 ] "Katyn Epitaph makes a profound impression...the Tragic Overture shows what Panufnik absorbed from his pre-war visit to Vienna and his analysis of the music of Webern...Nothing of its rigour is lost on the impressive young conductor, Lukas Borowicz |
Porridge Radio
Every Bad (Deluxe Edition LP) [ Secretly Canadian / 2 LP - released 18/Dec/2020 ] Porridge Radio grew out of Dana Margolin's bedroom, where she started making music in private. Living in the seaside town of Brighton, she recorded songs and slowly started playing them at open mic nights to rooms of old men who stared at her quietly... |
Porridge Radio
Every Bad (Limited Edition Blue Vinyl LP) [ Secretly Canadian / LP - released 13/Mar/2020 ] Porridge Radio grew out of Dana Margolin's bedroom, where she started making music in private. Living in the seaside town of Brighton, she recorded songs and slowly started playing them at open mic nights to rooms of old men who stared at her quietly... |
HEISE
Drot Og Marsk (Complete Opera) Poul Elming / Bent Norup / Eva Johansson / Kurt Westi / Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra And Choir / Michael Schonwandt [ Chandos / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2008 ] 'I have rarely heard the Danish Radio Orchestra and Chorus perform at such a level of passion, precision and conviction. Under Michael Schonwandt's fiery baton they are primed to made the best possible case…' Fanfare |
NATIONAL ANTHEMS
National Anthems of Member States of the European Union Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra / Jan Kucera [ Supraphon / CD - released 15/Mar/2010 ] Since 2004 alone, some 12 new member states have joined the European Union within the enlargement process. Along with the new territory, the EU has also integrated the history, culture and tradition of each of these countries. A national anthem often... |
JANACEK
Janáček: Sinfonietta & Taras Bulba Prague Radio Symphony/Netopil [ Supraphon / CD - released 22/Apr/2013 ] The first new Czech recording of Janacek's Sinfonietta and symphonic poems in many years. Janácek did not write a great quantity of symphonic works. Besides the Lachian Dances and an outline of the symphony Danube, they merely number the four... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Complete Masses Vol 3 Carolina Ullrich (soprano) lvira Bill (alto) Dominik Köninger (bass) / WDR Radio Choir, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] The third volume of Mozart's Masses focuses on works written in Salzburg when the composer was in his late teens and early twenties. The Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis, a bright celebratory work, is the only Mass setting without soloists. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Chill With Rachmaninov Vytautas Sondeckis (cello) Bernd Glemser (piano) / Ireland National Symphony Orchestra / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninov was born at Semyonovo, Russia in 1873, the son of aristocratic parents. However, his father's extravagant lifestyle depleted the family's fortunes to the extent that they were forced to sell off most of their estate and... |
RACHMANINOV
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43 / Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Peter RAsel (Piano) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Kurt Sanderling [ Berlin Classics Basics / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] These performances are highlights from Peter Rosel's highly acclaimed cycle of the complete works for piano and orchestra by Rachmaninov. |
GIOVANNI BENEDETTO PLATTI
Platti: Sonate à tre Radio Antiqua [ Ramee / CD - released 22/Mar/2019 ] Giovanni Benedetto Platti was born in northern Italy and spent some of his youth in Venice, where his father was a violetta player at St Mark's, before he received his court appointment as an oboist and violinist at the court chapel of Würzburg in... |
Radio Birdman
Ritualism [ Citadel / CD - released 28/Mar/2011 ] A timely re-issue of this great live album by Australia's legendary and greatest '70s punk-era band, Radio Birdman recorded in Melbourne, January 1996 after an 18 year hiatus. |
Radio Citizen
Berlin Serengeti [ Ubiquity Records / CD ] Strains of film noir-worthy dark jazz, chunky tropical dub, and snake-charming soul permeate 'Berlin Serengeti'. "Encompassing future funk, old soul & dreamy dub into their well-rounded sound… the lovechild of Morcheeba & Portishead.” |
Radio Citizen
Berlin Serengeti (Double Vinyl) [ Ubiquity Records / 2 LP ] |