Since you are interested in The Fairy's Kiss / Scenes de ballet, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
ROSLAVETS
Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Alina Ibragimova (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] 'Both concertos are beautifully played by Alina Ibragimova, whose slightly wiry, deceptively fragile sound seems ideal for this music's ambiguities, with Volkov and his orchestra providing the perfect foil' (The Guardian) |
JONATHAN HARVEY
Timepieces / Towards a Pure Land / Body Mandala / etc Anu Komsi (soprano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov & Stefan Solom [ NMC / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2008 - Contemporary - "Jonathan Harvey's music juxtaposes moments of disarming simplicity, of naivety almost, with others of considerable sophistication and intricacy." (Gramophone) |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] "...it's not often you hear cries of "encore" after a Bruckner symphony, but I would gladly have heard this one repeated in full' (The Guardian) |
ROSLAVETS
Chamber Symphony / In the hours of the New Moon BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 23/Nov/2006 ] "A major new discovery from a much-maligned Soviet composer. Often spoken of as a fast-rising young star, Ilan Volkov will win many friends here for the Russian composer Nikolay Roslavets, a figure whose early success was countered when he later fell... |
STRAVINSKY
Jeu de cartes, Agon & Orpheus BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "With such purposeful, sensitive conducting and such assured playing, this can be very warmly recommended' (International Record Review) |
LISZT
Three Funeral Odes / from the Cradle to the Grave / etc BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] As part of Liszt's anniversary year Hyperion turns to some of the composer's most underrecorded and underperformed works. Liszt's piano music is so much in the foreground that his works for orchestra have been almost forgotten. Here we present a... |
WALTON / RUBBRA
Viola Concertos Lawrence Power (viola) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - Concerto - "This is a highly satisfying release, both for the excellent playing of all concerned, Hyperion's gorgeous recording and for the programme." (MusicWeb June 2007) |
ARENSKY
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 54 (with Taneyev-Suite de concert, Op 28) lya Gringolts (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 7 / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] This disc juxtaposes two significant Russian works for violin and orchestra, each written by a composer with a close relationship to Tchaikovsky, and each dedicated to the great violinist and pedagogue Leopold Auer. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The complete works for piano and orchestra (Incls Piano Concerto in D major) Steven Osborne (piano) with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] Gramophone Award WINNER 2009: Concerto - 'Steven Osborne yields nothing to the great Sviatoslav Richter in the punchiness and fine-tuned filigree of his playing. No skating over the surface here, with Ilan Volkov and the BBC SSO adept at teasing out... |