Since you are interested in MacDowell: Orchestral Suites Nos 1 & 2 / Hamlet and Orphelia Op 22, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: Piano Music, Vol. 3 - 6 Danzas espanolas / 6 Pequenos valses / 6 Mazurkas de salon Guillermo Gonzalez (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "This is a great CD that explores some impressive music that is technically superb in both the sound quality and the performance. González succeeds in making these pieces both moving and attractive." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
TOSHIRO MAYUZUMI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mayuzumi: Bugaku / Mandala Symphony / Rumba Rhapsody New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (conductor) [ Naxos Japanese Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2006 ] "Excellent performances from New Zealand and very fine recording throughout." (MusicWeb April 2006) |
BENJAMIN GODARD
Godard: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Concerto Romantique / Scenes Poetiques Chloe Hanslip (violin) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice / Kirk Trevor [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Feb/2008 ] "Praise for Chloë Hanslip's confident excursion into unfamiliar territory." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (April 2008) |
GORDON SHI-WEN CHIN
Chin: Double Concerto / Formosa Seasons Cho-Liang Lin (violin) / Felix Fan (cello) / Kansas City Symphony Orchestra / Michael Stern [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "Formosa Seasons" is based on a series of Haiku-like poems, and is dedicated to the celebrated Taiwanese-American violinist Cho-Liang Lin. |
NAZARETH / SCOTT / LAMB
Rags & Tangos Joshua Rifkin (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 12/Sep/2015 ] Joshua Rifkin is a musical polymath - a Bach scholar and a Ragtime specialist. His performances of Ragtime are gentle and inviting and in this wonderful recording of Rags and Tangos (made in 1990 for Decca) he treats us to a Scott Joplin-free... |
GERSHWIN / JOHNSON / RESER / SUESSE
Jazz Nocturne - American Concertos of the Jazz Age Tatiana Roitman / Gary Hammond / Dan Yappie / Peter Mintun / Michael Gurt / Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, Richard Rosenberg [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/May/2011 ] A fantastic selection of concertos from the American Jazz Age including Gershwin's immortal A Rhapsody in Blue, heard here in its complete original version for jazz band, orchestrated by Ferde Grofé. Grofé also orchestrated the Concerto in Three... |
RODOLPHE KREUTZER
Kreutzer: Violin Concertos Nos. 17, 18 & 19 Axel Strauss (violin) / San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra / Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "If you love the violin, or have enjoyed the string concertos of Mozart, Haydn, Viotti, or Pierre Rode, you will find yourself, like me, eagerly awaiting the rest of this promising series." Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Dec 2010 |
STOJOWSKI / WIENIAWSKI
Stojowski / Wieniawski: Violin Concertos Bartłomiej Nizioł (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 20 / CD - released 29/Jul/2016 ] The music of Zygmunt Stojowski has yet to benefit from the renaissance enjoyed by other Polish composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His violin concerto - enthusiastically received at its premiere - is here revivified... |
CARL von DITTERSDORF
Dittersdorf: Dittersdorf: Sinfonias On Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nos. 4 - 6 Failoni Orchestra, Budapest, Hanspeter Gmur [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] Six of the twelve Symphonies after the Metamorphoses of Ovid survive in their original form. These were written in 1783 and introduced to the public in Vienna three years later, when Dittersdorf had occasion to visit the city for the first... |
JOHN GAY
Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Complete Opera) Joan Sutherland, Kiri te Kanawa, Angela Lansbury, Warren Mitchell, Alfred Marks / National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 22/Sep/2015 ] Recording Location: Kingsway Hall, London, UK, March 1981 In 1981 Richard Bonynge, together with an illustrious cast of singers (Joan Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa, et. al.) and actors (Angela Lansbury, Warren Mitchell, Michael Hordern, et. al.) went... |
FRANZ KROMMER
Krommer: Partitas for Wind Ensemble Opp. 45, Nos 1 & 2 Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Oct/2001 ] Franz Krommer was born Frantisek Vincenc Kramár in Bohemia |
GEORGE FREDERICK McKAY
McKay: Harbor Narrative / Evocation Symphony National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, John McLaughlin Williams, Conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2002 ] "This Naxos release serves as an exceptional ear-opener in documenting just how substantial and individualistic was his achievement as a nationalist composer...The word "evocative" leaps to mind..." Fanfare |
ANDERS ELIASSON
4 X Anders Eliasson - Chamber Works Norbotten NEO [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Mar/2017 ] Born in a provincial Swedish town in 1947, Anders Eliasson started playing the trumpet at the age of 9 and soon after formed his own jazz band. In his teens he began to study classical music, however, and aged 19 he was accepted into the composition... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Jedermann / Earnest Melodies / etc Pia Pajala (soprano) Tuomas Katajala (tenor), Nicholas Soderland (bass) Mikaela Palmu (violin) / Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Rarely performed but recognized as a hidden masterpiece, Sibelius's score for Jedermann is unusual in that the music closely follows the words and action of this morality play, intensifying Everyman's hubris, penance, escape from the Devil's clutches... |
RAUTAVAARA
Modificata / Towards the Horizon / Incantations Truls Mørk (cello) Colin Currie (percussion) / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgards [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] "A late and lush harvest of works by octogenarian Einojuhani Rautavaara continues apace. Here we have eagerly awaited documentation of his two latest neo-Romantic concertos, in beautifully recorded and definitive performances by the soloists who are... |