CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Le Chasseur maudit, Psyche & Les Eolides Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2020 ] César Franck was a childhood prodigy who gained later renown as an organist and teacher. His compositions received scant attention until the success of Le Chasseur maudit, a symphonic morality tale that vividly portrays the 'accursed huntsman' from... |
SHOSTAKOVICH / TCHAIKOVSKY / PROKOFIEV / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / RACHMANINOV / etc
Great Russian Symphonies [10 CD set] Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Vasily Petrenko / National Symphony of the Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar / Russian Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky, etc [ Naxos / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2015 ] The first attempts at a Russian Nationalist symphony were made in the late nineteenth-century by Balakirev and his acolytes, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov as well as by Tchaikovsky, whose symphonies have a distinctly Russian flavour. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Alexander Lazarev (conductor) [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Apr/2005 ] "This well mastered disc assumes a worthy position in the RSNO/Shostakovich at tradition, confirming the orchestra's standards and international credentials" (MusicWeb Juen 2005) |
WILLIAM GRANT STILL
Still: Summerland / Violin Suite / Pastorela / American Suite Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Avlana Eisenberg, with Zina Schiff (violin) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] William Grant Still, the "Dean of Afro-American Composers," was part of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote nearly 200 works including nine operas and five symphonies. |
GEIRR TVEITT
A Hundred Hardanger Tunes Suites 2 & 5 Royal Scottish National orchestra / Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / CD - released 14/May/2002 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (July 2002) |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 - Orchestrated Piano Pieces Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Apr/2007 ] "This delightful collection, dazzlingly performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the young Norwegian conductor Bjarte Engeset, brings together some of the composer's most attractive folk-based pieces." Three Stars Penguin Guide |
MARTINU
Symphonies Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] 'Conductor Bryden Thomson and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra perform with passion and purpose in this, the find of the year.' "Time, 'The Best Music of 1992'" |
CARL NIELSEN
Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bryden Thomson [ Chandos Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] |
RACHMANINOV
Symphonies Vol 1: Symphony No 2 in E minor Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes [ BIS / CD - released 17/May/2002 ] the first in a cycle of Rachmaninov symphonies. |
RACHMANINOV
The Three Symphonies (3 discs for the price of 2) Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes [ BIS / 3 CD - released 15/Jul/2002 ] ‘Hughes is the first conductor to convince me that the First Symphony is on a par with its two successors.’ (International Record Review) |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Complete Symphonies / Orchestral Works Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / 7 CD Box Set - released 27/Jan/2023 ] "The playing of the Scottish Orchestra is clear and refined, helped by the transparency of the recording, clarifying often thick textures." Penguin Guide |
ARTHUR BLISS
Checkmate (complete ballet) Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] "I recommend this CD without reservation. I’m sure it will be on my shortlist of Recordings of the Year." (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphony No. 3 / The Happy Forest Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] He dedicated the work, described by the viola-player Bernard Shore as 'as thrilling to playas to listen to,' to Sir Henry Wood, a champion of his music, who conducted the first performance of the symphony in March 1930. |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphony No 4 / Overture to a Picaresque Comedy / Nympholept Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2002 ] Editor's Choice (Gramophone Magazine) May 2002 |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring & other orchestral works Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Feb/2004 ] "Lloyd-Jones has the measure of Delius's elusive idiom in both rarities and favourites" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (March 2004) |
ARNOLD BAX
Symphonic Poems (Incls Tintagel & The Happy Forest ) Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Aug/2005 ] "Lloyd-Jones' magisterial accounts of the composer's symphonies have made their mark in a small but hotly contested arena, each CD topped up with one of the composer's symphonic poems. Five of these works have now been reissued on a separate disc."... |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphony No. 6 / Into the Twilight / Summer Music Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 19/May/2003 ] "This latest release, played with immense character and bags of colour by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, arguably presents the most powerful and profound reading of the Sixth Symphony yet recorded." - Music Week, March 29, 2003 |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor / The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Feb/2002 ] "Part of an excellent cycle of Bax symphonies. Start with this disc and I'll bet you'll want the rest." - Sterophile (Sam Tellig) June 2001 |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 00 / Finale to Symphony No. 4 Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Georg Tintner, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Jan/2005 ] "The pattern of the later symphonies is set here, emotional slow movement, galumphing scherzo and all. But there are moments of almost Sullivanesque sparkle. Tintner's account is wonderfully cohesive and fresh." - The Sunday Times (Paul Driver), May... |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 1 in C minor Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Georg Tintner, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] "Tintner is a very understanding conductor of Bruckner, and he secures committed performances from the Scottish orchestra for these seldom-heard pieces." (State) |