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We meet Joanna as record producer and music editor; review the start of the Athene Minerva label for modern instruments and present a complete Artistes’ Discography with reviewer comments and audio tracks. Listen to the complete recording of the Pickard Piano Concerto – first performance in Dresden 2000 played by Andreas Boyde.
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Andreas Boyde:
“In works that were new to me, or even some works that I had performed for years, I realised something quite amazing: your musical advice was extraordinary. I think it is something that you might call intuition or a certain form of instinct, inspiration.”
Martino Tirimo:
“After an initial Piano Encores recording, the opportunity arose to work on Debussy’s complete works. This was a project which was close to my heart, but it was also close to Jo’s heart for she played quite a number of these works and thus knew them intimately. This cannot be said for too many producers! Her deep knowledge meant that we could have detailed discussions, even during the sessions, and this was most stimulating for me. Throughout these recordings, sessions and post-production, her expertise and wonderfully positive attitude much contributed to the final result and the consequent success of this project. It was a happy collaboration that I treasure greatly.”
Bernard d’Ascoli:
“No, it was wonderful working with you. I certainly got more than I expected. It was always understood from within, because you just know the music more than anybody else – and Chopin in particular. It was something – we just didn’t have to say – you understood what I preferred; why I preferred it and you understood why it was important to edit before the change of pedal or just after; it was great.”
Joanna and her partner Dave Turner set up D&J Recording in 1987. Their first major client in the late ’80s was Martino Tirimo who recorded Piano Encores, and a 4-set CD of the complete Debussy piano works. Gramophone: “This may yet prove to be one of the finest Debussy cycles on record.” Penguin Guide: “…probably the first choice for those wanting a modern digital recording offering the complete set.”
Prior to the founding of the Athene label in 1991, this acclaimed Debussy set was originally released on Pickwick. These discs, the first produced by Joanna, are to be found in the catalogue of Alto CD – ALC4002. The last three CDs in the series were the first edited by Joanna on the SoundMaestro digital editor.
Joanna (talking to Andreas Boyde): “We found Mike with his wonderful digital editing machine. [The first wave-form display and SCSI disc control system]. We bought his system and it changed our lives completely because it gave us the possibility of providing full in-house digital editing facilities to professional clients, such as yourself. It was wonderful; we had so much interesting work.”
The development of digital editing systems transformed possibilities and enhanced the editor’s role. Rather than having to find a suitable pause in the audio for a tape splice edit, no area was barred. You rarely get in one take, exactly what the artist is seeking to express. We tended to do three takes and Jo would listen carefully and document what she was doing. She had an audio picture in her mind of what the artist was seeking to express and being a accomplished pianist herself, she could visualise it as a flowing whole and build up the piece using the best takes.
The Athene Minerva label was set up for modern instruments and was instigated in 1995 after meeting a young Andreas Boyde in 1993. Five of Andreas Boyde’s recordings were released during the ’90s: three CDs in our Outstanding Concert Performance series and two Athene studio piano recordings. The first Minerva release was of his acclaimed WDR broadcast recording of the Schumann Recital (23008). This CD is of a live concert, broadcast by WDF, from the Schumann Saal, Düsseldorf 13th June 1995. Athene’s recordings with German pianist Andreas Boyde have been exceptionally well received by critics.
Outstanding Concert Performance
the first Athene Minerva release
Schumann: Carnaval, Waldszenen & Album für die Jugend
Play sample track:
Papillons, Valse allemande – Paganini
BBC Music
Michelangeli challenges aural perception with his speed in Papillons, but Boyde is lighter and makes Paganini wilder and more dangerous… Boyde’s interpretation… is a stroke of genius hardly to be exceeded… wonderful performances.”
MusicWeb International
“…it is brilliantly played and excellently recorded.” – David Wright
Mike Beville
“Some musicians cannot abide Carnaval. I remember Eleanor Bailie saying how, until she heard Andreas play it at the Wigmore Hall in 2000, she had never liked it; but that she had been converted by his illuminating performance.”
Andreas Boyde and Joanna talk about how they met, their friendship, playing the square pianos and the Minerva CD releases:
Discography – Artistes recorded on Athene Minerva
“Pictures & Reflections”
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Ravel: Miroirs
Music on the Web
Mussorgsky: “From the very first notes of the Mussorgsky I knew that this was going to be an exceptional performance. I was proved to be right. The clarity of the playing was crisp and well articulated and, what was so refreshing and welcome, was the pianist’s excellent judgement of tempi… The skill and technique is undeniable and, although I have known this inspiring work for 40 years the detail that Boyde reveals is quite astonishing as are the superlative nuances he achieves.”
Ravel: “Any artiste that can convey that level of communication coupled with such consummate skill and breathtaking ability is destined to become famous and rightly so. He is already a brilliant star. His command of the piano is staggering!”
Play sample tracks:
Mussorgsky: Baba Yaga
“Schumann & Brahms: Variations”
Schumann: Impromptus and Variations
Brahms: Schumann Variations
Music on the Web
“This is an important disc as it includes the world première recording of Robert Schumann’s Variations on a theme of Schubert reconstructed from manuscripts by the pianist on this recording, Andreas Boyde.
Boyde is a fine player. We have heard his virtuosic power in the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 2 and Ravel’s Miroirs but he has a remarkable gift for sensitivity as well, as shown in this disc. He has a tremendous insight and the Brahms performance gives a rare satisfaction.”
Leipziger Volkszeitung
“…one of the most impressive recordings of the piano music by Robert Schumann.”
Play sample tracks:
Schumann: “Beethoven Variations” (excerpt)
Outstanding Concert Performance series
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.2
Shostakovitch: Symphony No.9
MusicWeb International
“Boyde makes detail come to life; he has an amazing capacity to build up long piano solos thereby making them full of interest. His cadenzas are breathtaking and the clarity of his finger work is stunning. And, thankfully, he is not a barnstorming, glamorous, athletic performer, although he generates tremendous excitement. He has enviable lyrical gifts and I have to say that, bearing in mind that this is a public performance (where one does not get a ‘second chance’), it is very impressive indeed. The orchestra and conductor must also be congratulated”.
Fanfare
“…one of the best interpretations I have heard. It is a fabulous performance” – Martin Anderson
Play sample track:
Tchaikovsky: 1st Movement (Cadenza)
Freiburg Symphony Orchestra – Joannes Fritzsche
Outstanding Concert Performance series
Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor
Schoenfield: “Four Parables”
BBC Music Magazine
Picked on release as the Reader Offer disc.
Time Out Magazine
“Seasonal Selection” – December 1999
Music on the Web
“Andreas Boyde’s performance is both very exciting and gloriously effective. His technique is unquestionable and now we have evidence of a true lyricism. He is a pianist with steel fingers and a warm heart.. Every bit a complete musician… As for the piano playing, one can only exclaim astonishment and admiration. It is a sensational success. The recording is exemplary.”
Hi-Fi News & Record Review
Dvořák Piano Concerto: “…a most moving performance.”
Four Parables: ”Boyde’s interpretation is breathtaking.”
Play sample tracks:
Dvořák: 3rd Movement (finale)
Andreas Boyde In Concert
Joanna Leach Memorial Concert
Honiton, 29th September 2012
Audience Comments:
“Amazing musicianship, superb technique and every note profoundly felt”
“Absolutely breathtaking, a superlative player and such a nice person”
“Completely transported…. the Mussorgsky hit me between the eyes”
“Every note lived, moved and breathed”
“Wonderful, and delightful programme notes”
“I was captivated, taken to another dimension”
“Oblivious to his surroundings, every note, every rest, inflection and nuance had significance and meaning.”
“A breathtaking piano too, I had forgotten just how much difference a superb instrument makes!”
At this concert Andreas played:
Mussorgsky: “Pictures at an Exhibition”
and Ravel: “Miroirs”
see CD 23017 “Pictures & Reflections” above.
Andreas Boyde In Concert
Commission sponsored by Joanna
In 1999 Joanna commissioned John Pickard to write a concerto for Andreas Boyde, to be performed in a Millenium 2000 concert. It was given its first performance in the Dresden Kulturpalast to a packed audience and broadcast nationwide across Germany and beyond.
Although enthusiastically received at its first performance, the piano part was at times overwhelmed in the concert hall. However the broadcast balance was able to compensate and bring out the piano part with spot microphones.
Sadly, the composer withheld permission for the recording to be released on the Athene Minerva label because of a minor mishap in the percussion section at the end of the work.
There is much to be said for the excitement and spontaneity of that immense first public performance; which would not have happened but for Joanna’s generous commission and the support of Andreas, who spent several months preparing for this performance.
Play the complete Premiére performance::
Pickard: Piano Concerto
(i. Toccatta) & (ii. Passacaglia)
Music on the Web
“This is very impressive music with a power, poetry and swing which should guarantee it a great deal of attention. The music is warmly rewarding to the attentive listener. Congratulations to Athene for securing the recording.” – Rob Barnett
BBC Music
“…dedication and virtuosic flair …First-rate recording: an excellent disc.” – Calum MacDonald
Gramophone
“I rather wish I hadn’t heard the Illuminations, grateful though I am to have encountered the two noble Preludes and Fugues. Formidable performances (even of the Double Fugue, which ideally needs at least three hands), and well recorded.” – Michael Olivier
Play sample track:
Brian: Prelude – John Dowland’s Fancy
William Mathias: Sonatas No 1 & 2
John Pickard: Sonata & “A Starlit Dome”
Tempo
“It is seriousness of purpose that informs both of his [John Pickard’s] piano pieces included in Raymond Clarke’s latest CD for Athene … Clarke – the Sonata’s dedicatee – plays both magnificently, as he does the two fine sonatas […]” – Guy Rickards
Fanfare
“This CD is almost unthinkable without [Clarke’s] expertise and persistence; the rhythms have to be acutely etched to keep the high-strung tensions tight and rewarding. Clarke is the man here.” – Stephen Ellis
Classic CD
“brilliantly played by Raymond Clarke, a pianist who combines an emotional commitment to the music with a prodigious technique. The whole disc is enthralling… music-making of the first order … Intelligent and passionate music performed with great insight.” – Roderick Swanston
Play sample track:
Pickard: “A Starlit Dome”
Shostakovitch:
Sonatas 1 & 2
Prelude & Fugue in D minor
24 Preludes
Music on the Web
“I have heard Shostakovich played by a myriad of pianists, including the ‘famous names’, but, after hearing Raymond Clarke’s performances, they can all be relegated into the second division.
The recording sound is brilliant, close, vibrant and it has a very exciting attack. The performances are legendary and superlative. I do not want to hear anyone else play these pieces again. These are the definitive versions.
I hesitate to say any more since I am limited as to what adjectives I can use to describe that which is of the highest quality.
I cannot evince the quality of this disc. All I can do is quote the Swiss composer Frank Martin when he said, ‘Some music and performances are far beyond what words can ever convey’.” – David Wright
Music & Musicians
“Tremendous panache… a marathon all Shostakovitch recital… Raymond Clarke is a pianistic force to be reckoned with, possessing an appetite for big projects and carrying them through with great musicality, fluid technique, and an attention to detail and delicacy not always associated with artists who think big.” – John Amis
Play sample track:
Shostakovitch: Preludes 5 & 6
Szymanovsky:
Sonatas 1, 2, and 3
Prelude & Fugue in C sharp minor
Mike Beville recalls:
“The launch of the Szymonovski CD was coupled with the publication of a book about the composer. It was held at the Polish Cultural Centre. We planned to play the 3rd Sonata from the CD. But the sound system was so poor that I felt obliged to announce that it was not doing justice to the recording.”
At this point, a frustrated Raymond sitting at the back of the room, leaped to his feet and with his head swaddled in bandages [as a result of his accident], this mummified looking figure marched to the front, sat at the piano and promptly played an incredible rendering of this technically very difficult work, to great applause! It was quite extraordinary to witness, and Raymond’s bravura literally saved the day.
Music & Musicians
“Raymond Clarke’s account of Szymanowski’s Third Piano Sonata is a tour de force. It is music of enormous complexity, clarified in this performance by the pianist’s complete assimilation of its difficulties; four linked movements unfolding in a clear coherent structure and bringing a notable recital to a triumphant conclusion,” – Peter Graham Wolf
Play sample track:
Szymanovsky: Finale Piano Sonata No.3
Gramophone:
EDITOR’S CHOICE MARCH 2006
“This ranks among the most remarkable of Chopin Nocturne recordings… performances of a living, breathing presence. The recordings are vivid and immediate. A revelatory, probing disc… d’Ascoli announces himself as a top-flight pianist” – Bryce Morrison
BBC Music
“…deeply probing, exploratory, performances… bold… persuasive… compelling. His rubato… makes his Chopin alive and self-renewing.” – Tim Parry
Piano Magazine
“This superb double CD presents Chopin by a pianist of astonishing skill and musicianship … Bernard d’Ascoli’s interpretation of the Nocturnes is full of feeling, drama and serenity, demonstrating his genuine love for the music.”
Play sample track:
Chopin: Nocturne in C sharp minor
American Record Guide
“Impressive sound, fine technique, and unfailing musical values.” – Alan Becker
International Record Review
”D’Ascoli has a sound that is clear, liquescent and very appropriate to Chopin. He is a pianist who sounds at one with the instrument, and conveys the feeling that this really is his music. This release is of considerable interest… whose totality upholds the distinction of its individual parts.”
Musical Opinion
“…a fascinating and stimulating experience…assured and brilliant technique and a natural sense of poetry and sound. A joy to hear.”
Play sample track:
Chopin: Impromptu No 1 in A flat
Bernard d’Ascoli In Concert
Joanna Leach Memorial Concert
Axminster, 3rd November 2012
Audience comments
“A superb evening, the quality of his playing was quite lovely.”
“Exquisite, such sensitivity and so expressive!”
“A wonderful player. His technique and musicality serves the music; putting the composer first, it is Debussy played by Bernard d’Ascoli, not d’Ascoli plays Debussy!”
and
“A quite extraordinary, very moving evening and very very special.”
“I found myself needing to close my eyes to listen with no distractions, sharing his world of darkness. Because of his lack of vision, sound and touch are his world.”
Schumann: Dichterliebe & Four Songs
Franz: Six Songs
Brahms: Three Songs & Five Songs
Musical Opinion
“Exceptional performances, excellent recordings.. beautifully presented account of Dichterliebe… Robert Franz settings…each an individual vocal jewel.” – Denby Richards
American Record Guide
“[Loges’ singing quality] is very beautiful… Alexander Schmalcz is a very fine accompanist. This is a great release all round.”
International Record Review
“A consistent, thought-through interpretation … Loges and his admirable partner are beautifully recorded … [a] stimulating recital.” – Piers Burton-Page
MusicWeb
“Loges is a sensitive interpreter, beautifully recorded with a warm toned piano behind him – his hushed singing of the second stanza of [the Brahms Lullaby] showing him at his finest.” – Christopher Howell
Play sample tracks:
Schumann: Ein Jungling liebt machen
Stephan Loges In Concert
with Alexander Schmalzc
Joanna Leach Memorial Concert
Honiton, 3rd March 2012
“It has been said that the finest musical instrument is the human voice. Stephan went a long way towards proving this in a recital of lieder by Brahms and Schumann. However good the singer, he is reliant upon a sympathetic piano accompaniment. This was ably provided by Alexander Schmalcz. I dislike the term ‘accompanied by’ as it implies a subsidiary role for the pianist whereas what we heard here was a partnership of musicians of equal ability who together brought out the deep emotion in these songs.
Once again another evening of first rate music in this series of concerts and we look forward eagerly to the next one.” – Trevor Bolshaw
Stephan & Alexander relaxing at Champs Hill
Liszt:
Sonata in B minor
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
Brahms:
Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel
MusicWeb International
*****
This superlative performance of the Sonata is class.
The Brahms is also faithfully played and with a rugged grandeur and infectious swagger. There is a smart and enviable elegance in another committed performance of insight which enhances this very fine work.
The Sonetto 123 is another performance of distinction and, as often with this pianist, it was a thought-provoking performance in its extraordinary and fascinating unfolding.” – David Wright
Classic CD
“…the demonic rage of Katin’s astonishing interpretation… something to hear and wonder at.”
Play sample track:
Liszt: Sonata In B Minor (opening)
(recorded in 1983, University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Magill: Titanic
An atmospheric poem in Five Pictures for Solo Piano, composed and performed by RONAN MAGILL
MusicWeb International
“Magill wrote this piece, in five pictures, in 1988… The voices of Ravel, Debussy, Sorabji and Szymanowski are the nearest parallels I can come up with. The piano work is imaginative in its presentation of textures, echoes, rumblings and moods glimpsed rather than confronted.
Aficionados of Titanic culture should seek out this disc. Also anyone at all interested in contemporary piano literature would do well to track it down… Certainly if you enjoy the music of the composers I have mentioned then you will want this disc.” Rob Barnett
“As with all Athene CDs, the recording engineer Mike Beville has again produced superlative sound which has an amazing clarity and stunning range.” – David Wright
The composer writes
“The main impetus for the present work occurred many years later [after seeing the 1950s film, A Night to Remember] when as a student in Paris, a friend of mine died in a sailing accident off the Breton coast. I wrote Lamentation of the Sea Dead in her memory and this became the first movement or ‘picture’ of Titanic, the subject that had impressed me all those years before.”
Play sample tracks:
Magill: Lamentation for the Sea Dead
Bell: “The Violet Flame” Symphony
Bell: Variations & Musical Quotations:
“Come on Northern Ireland, Come On”
Performed by the Veratz Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir
Conductor: Valorie Vatcher
also on this CD:
Divertissement: Variations on a Tune (Paddy Malone)
Toccata Burlesque (1958)
Beinsa Duono: Four pieces, arr. Derek Bell
Classical Music on the Web
“There is much to enjoy here but the pleasures are low key. Nevertheless there is something about that symphony which intrigues me and I would very much like to hear more by Bell who is not afraid to write in an idiom which suits him rather than seeks after originality or the shock of yesterday’s avant-garde”. – Rob Barnett
Derek’s compositions reflect a Celtic mystical influence and his aspirations for a peaceful Ireland.
Derek wanted his CD to raise money for the orphans of Bulgaria, along with bringing the recording work to musicians and technicians living there. His busy schedule meant he could only visit in January with temperatures -15C outside; with broken windows and little heating in the concert hall. It was a challenge, that the artistes responded to with enthusiasm and commitment.
Play sample track:
Bell: “Come on Northern Ireland, Come On”
“Pictures and Reflections”
Andreas Boyde, piano
link to Divine Arts for more detailed information
Modest Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition – 1. Promenade (1:30)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 2. The Gnome (2:47)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 3. Promenade II (0:50)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 4. The Old Castle (4:49)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 5. Promenade III (0:26)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 6. Tuileries; Children quarrelling at Play (1:05)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 7. Bydlo (3:2)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 8. Promenade IV (0:53)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 9. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (1:07)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 10. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle (2:18)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 11. Promenade V (1:20)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 12. Limoges: The Market Square (1:23)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 13. Catacombs (2:12)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 14. Con mortuis in lingua mortua (1:52)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 15. The Hut on Hen’s Legs (Baba Yaga) (3:25)
Pictures at an Exhibition – 16. The Bogatyr Gate at Kiev (5:19)
Maurice Ravel:
Miroirs – 1. Noctuelles (5:08)
Miroirs – 2. Oiseaux tristes (4:22)
Miroirs – 3. Une barque sur l’ocean (8:5)
Miroirs – 4. Alborada del gracioso (6:22)
Miroirs – 5. La vallée des cloches (6:05)
“Schumann & Brahms: Variations”
Andreas Boyde, piano
link to Divine Arts for more detailed information
Robert Schumann:
Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck “Impromptus”, op. 5 (14:51)
Variations on a Theme by Beethoven (15:03)
Variations on a Theme of Schubert (“Sehnsuchtswalzervariationen”) (7:32)
Variations on an Original Theme (“Geistervariationen”) (10:40)
Johannes Brahms:
Variations on a Theme by Schumann, op. 23 (19:08)
“Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 2 & Shostakovich Symphony 9”
Andreas Boyde, piano
link to Divine Arts for more detailed information
Peter Il’ich Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44 – 1. Allegro brillante (21:28)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 45 – 2. Andante non troppo (15:10)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 46 – 3. Allegro con fuoco (8:30)
Dmitri Shostakovich:
Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70 – 1. Allegro (5:50)
Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 71 – 2. Moderato (8:41)
Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 72 – 3. Presto (3:06)
Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 73 – 4. Largo (3:26)
Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 74 – 5. Allegretto (7:22)
“Dvorak and Schoenfield Piano Concertos”
Andreas Boyde, piano
link to Divine Arts for more detailed information
Antonin Dvořák:
Piano Concerto in G minor – 1. Allegro agitato (19:49)
Piano Concerto in G minor – 2. Andante sostenuto (9:21)
Piano Concerto in G minor – 3. Allegro con fuoco (11:51)
Paul Schoenfield:
Piano Concerto “The Four Parables” – 1. Rambling till the Butcher cuts us Down (5:38)
Piano Concerto “The Four Parables” – 2. Senility’s Ride (7:38)
Piano Concerto “The Four Parables” – 3. Elegy (8:04)
Piano Concerto “The Four Parables” – 4. Dog’s Heaven (7:18)
Havergal Brian Complete Piano Music
Raymond Clarke, piano
link to Divine Arts for more detailed information
Havergal Brian:
Prelude – John Dowland’s Fancy (3:09)
Double Fugue in E flat (15:08)
Four Miniatures – No. 1 (2:33)
Four Miniatures – No. 2 (4:40)
Four Miniatures – No. 3 (1:48)
Four Miniatures – No. 4 (3:29)
Prelude and Fugue in C minor – 1. Prelude (4:48)
Prelude and Fugue in C minor – 2. Fugue (7:24)
The Land of Dreams (4:03)
The Birds (3:30)
The Defiled Sanctuary (2:06)
Prelude and Fugue in D minor/major – 1. Prelude (3:27)
Prelude and Fugue in D minor/major – 2. Fugue (6:12)
Three Illuminations – The Boys and the Pastille part 1 (0:57)
Three Illuminations – The Boys and the Pastille part 2 (1:20)
Three Illuminations – The Butterfly’s Waltz part 1 (0:47)
Three Illuminations – The butterfly’s Waltz part 2 (1:11)
Three Illuminations – Venus and a Bobby part 1 (2:13)
Three Illuminations – Venus and a Bobby part 2 (2:22)
Three Illuminations – No. 1 (1:21)
Three Illuminations – No. 2 (1:11)
Three Illuminations – No. 3 (2:23)
Mathias & Pickard:Piano Sonatas
Raymond Clarke, piano
link to Divine Arts for more detailed information
William Mathias:
Piano Sonata no. 1, op. 23 – 1. Allegro energico (6:04)
Piano Sonata no. 1, op. 23 – 2. Andante semplice (3:41)
Piano Sonata no. 1, op. 23 – 3. Vivace e ritmico (5:09)
Piano Sonata no. 2, op. 46 (14:32)
John Pickard:
A Starlit Dome (10:45)
Piano Sonata – 1. Part One (14:51)
Piano Sonata – 2. Part Two (9:57)
Shostakovich Preludes and Sonatas
Raymond Clarke, piano
link to Divine Arts for more detailed information
Dmitri Shostakovich:
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 1 in C major (1:11)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 2 in A minor (0:42)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 3 in G major (1:15)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 4 in E minor (1:30)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 5 in D major (0:25)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 6 in B minor (1:01)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 7 in A major (0:50)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 8 in F sharp minor (0:47)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 9 in E major (0:38)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 10 in C sharp minor (1:38)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 11 in B major (0:41)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 12 in G sharp minor (1:11)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 13 in F sharp major (0:44)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 14 in E flat minor (1:47)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 15 in D flat major (0:49)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 16 in B flat minor (1:03)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 17 in A flat major (1:46)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 18 in F minor (0:46)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 19 in E flat major (1:23)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 20 in C minor (0:33)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 21 in B flat major (0:43)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 22 in G minor (1:44)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 23 in F major (0:54)
24 Preludes, op. 34 – no. 24 in D minor (1:20)
Piano Sonata no. 1, op. 12 (10:22)
Piano Sonata no. 2 in B minor, op. 61 – 1. Allegretto (7:31)
Piano Sonata no. 2 in B minor, op. 61 – 2. Largo (7:02)
Piano Sonata no. 2 in B minor, op. 61 – 3. Moderato (14:03)
Prelude and Fugue in D minor, op. 87 no. 24 – 1. Prelude:Animato (3:15)
Prelude and Fugue in D minor, op. 87 no. 24 – 2. Fugue: Moderato (7:11)
Szymanowski Sonatas
Raymond Clarke, piano
link to Divine Arts for more detailed information
Karol Szymanowski:
Piano Sonata no, 1 in C minor, op. 8 – 1. Allegro moderato (6:58)
Piano Sonata no, 1 in C minor, op. 8 – 2. Adagio (5:32)
Piano Sonata no, 1 in C minor, op. 8 – 3. Tempo di minuetto (4:13)
Piano Sonata no, 1 in C minor, op. 8 – 4. Adagio – Allegro energico (9:55)
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor – 1. Prelude (2:42)
Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor – 2. Fugue in 4 Voices (3:32)
Piano Sonata no.2 in A major, op. 21 – 1. Allegro assai (7:41)
Piano Sonata no.2 in A major, op. 21 – 2. Theme with variations and fugue (16:03)
Piano Sonata no.3, op. 36 (15:50)
Chopin: Nocturnes
Bernard d’Ascoli, piano
link to Divine Arts for more detailed information
Fryderyk Chopin:
Nocturne no. 1 in C flat minor, op. 9 no. 1 (5:03)
Nocturne no. 2 in E flat major, op. 9 no. 2 (4:02)
Nocturne no. 3 in B major, op. 9 no. 3 (6:43)
Nocturne no. 4 in F major, op. 15 no. 1 (3:59)
Nocturne no. 5 in F sharp major, op. 15 no. 2 (3:36)
Nocturne no. 6 in G minor, op. 15 no. 3 (3:58)
Nocturne no. 7 in C sharp minor, op. 27 no. 1 (4:56)
Nocturne no. 8 in D flat major, op. 27 no. 2 (5:15)
Nocturne no. 9 in B major, op. 32 no. 1 (4:37)
Nocturne no. 10 in A flat major, op. 32 no. 2 (4:58)
Nocturne no. 11 in G minor, op. 37 no. 1 (6:35)
Nocturne no. 12 in G major, op. 37 no. 2 (5:10)
Nocturne no. 13 in C minor, op. 48 no. 1 (5:57)
Nocturne no. 14 in F sharp minor, op. 48 no. 2 (6:54)
Nocturne no. 15 in F minor, op. 55 no. 1 (4:39)
Nocturne no. 16 in E flat major, op. 55 no. 2 (5:04)
Nocturne no. 17 in B major, op. 62 no. 1 (6:41)
Nocturne no. 18 in E major, op. 62 no. 2 (5:55)
Nocturne no. 19 in E minor, op. posth. (3:48)
Nocturne no. 20 in C sharp minor, op. posth (3:59)
Nocturne no. 21 in C minor, op. posth. (2:34)
Chopin: complete Scherzi and Impromptus
Bernard d’Ascoli, piano
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Fryderyk Chopin:
Scherzo no. 1 in B minor, op. 20 (9:23)
Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 31 (10:14)
Scherzo no. 3 in C sharp minor, op. 39 (7:21)
Scherzo no. 4 in E major, op. 54 (7:25)
Impromptu no. 1 in A flat major, op. 29 (3:48)
Impromptu no. 2 in F sharp major, op. 36 (5:20)
Impromptu no. 3 in G flat major, op. 51 (5:16)
Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, op, 66 (4:45)
Schumann, Franz and Brahms Lieder
Stephan Loges, baritone
Alexander Schmalcz, piano
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Robert Schumann:
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 1. Im wunderschonen Monat Mai (1:31)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 2. Aus meinen Tranen spriessen (0:57)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 3. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube (0:43)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 4. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh’ (1:56)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 5. Ich will meine Seele tauchen (0:58)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 6. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome (2:30)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 7. Ich grolle nicht (1:29)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 8. Und wussten’s dei Blumen (1:22)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 9. Das ist ein Floten und Geigen (1:30)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 10. Hor’ich das Liedchen klingen (2:14)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 11. Ein Jungling liebt ein Madchen (1:08)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen (2:41)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 13. Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet (2:35)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 14. Allnachtlich im Traume (1:28)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 15. Aus alten Marchen (2:45)
Dichterliebe, op. 48 – 16. Die alten, bosen Lieder (4:56)
Dein Angesicht, op. 127, no. 2 (2:36)
Lehn’ deine Wang’, op. 142, no. 2 (0:47)
Es leuchtet meine Liebe,op. 127, no. 3 (2:02)
Mien Wagen rollet langsam, op. 142, no. 4 (3:31)
Robert Franz:
Im wunderschonen Monat Mai, op. 25 no. 5 (1:38)
Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen, op. 11 no. 2 (1:47)
Und wussten’s die Blumen, op. 12 no. 6 (1:36)
Ich hab’ im Traume geweinet, op. 25 no. 3 (1:37)
Allnachtlich im Traume, op. 9 no. 4 (1:40)
Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome. Op. 18 no. 2 (1:57)
Johannes Brahms:
Meine Liebe ist grun, op. 63 no. 5 (1:45)
Wenn um den Hollunder, op. 63 no. 6 (2:50)
Versunken, op. 86 no. 5 (2:19)
Funf Lieder, op. 49 – no. 1 Am Sonntag Morgen (1:17)
Funf Lieder, op. 49 – no. 2 An ein Veilchen (3:03)
Funf Lieder, op. 49 – no.3 Sehnsucht (1:52)
Funf Lieder, op. 49 – no. 4 Wiegenlied (2:11)
Funf Lieder, op. 49 – no. 5 Abenddammerung (4:33)
Peter Katin in Recital
Peter Katin, piano
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Franz Liszt:
Piano Sonata in B minor (31:21)
Johannes Brahms:
Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, op. 24 (26:57)
Franz Liszt:
Annees de Pelerinage 2 – Sonetto 123 del Petrarca(9:16)
Titanic: 10-15 April 1912
Ronan Magill, piano
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Ronan Magill:
Titanic – 1. Picture One: Lamentation for the Sea Dead (6:56)
Titanic – 2. Picture Two: The Departure (2:15)
Titanic – 3. Picture Three: The Voyage (1:11)
Titanic – 4. Ship’s Vibration Walking about on deck (1:48)
Titanic – 5. The Wireless Room (2:13)
Titanic – 6. The Engine Room (2:17)
Titanic – 7. Back on Deck (0:28)
Titanic – 8. Talking on Deck (1:28)
Titanic – 9. The First Class Reception Room, D Deck (0:21)
Titanic – 10. Waltz (2:56)
Titanic – 11. Applause and vibration (0:47)
Titanic – 12. Two Young Girls in Third Class (1:36)
Titanic – 13. The Cold Starry Night (3:55)
Titanic – 14. Picture Four: The Iceberg (3:21)
Titanic – 15. Picture Five: Return to the Sea (5:48)
Titanic – 16. The Lass of Aughrin (2:59)
Titanic – 17. Nocturne (3:22)
Titanic – 18. Remembrance (after Archibald Joyce) (5:19)
Titanic – 19. Songe d’Automne (after Archibald Joyce) (5:45)
Titanic – 20. The Titanic Waltz (6:42)
Derek Bell: Symphony No. 2 and other works by him and Beinsa Duono
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Derek Bell:
Variations and Musical Quotations (14:04)
Divertissement Variations on a Tune (15:28)
Toccata Burlesca for oboe and piano (3:44)
Symphony no. 2 “The Violet Flame” – 1. Invocation of the Violet Flame and the Golden Ray (3:06)
Symphony no. 2 “The Violet Flame” – 2. Invocation of Pan, God of Nature (10:51)
Symphony no. 2 “The Violet Flame” – 3. Poeme d’Amour (7:33)
Symphony no. 2 “The Violet Flame” – 4. Waltz and Variations (4:39)
Symphony no. 2 “The Violet Flame” – 5. Procession towards Shambhalla (4:23)
Beinsa Duono:
Izgryava slunteseto (2:11)
Vehadi (2:13)
Kiamen Zenu (1:16)
Gospodi, kolko Te obicham (2:56)
