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British Recorder Music / Ross Winters

1 CD / Meridian / 2012-05-08

Works: Alan Bush: Sonatina for 3 recorders & piano, Op. 82; Lennox Berkeley: Concertino, for flute (or recorder), violin, cello & harpsichord (or piano), Op. 49; Sonatina for recorder (or flute) & piano, Op...
Performers: Burroughs, Jessica; Dopadlik, Adam [Recorder]; Jacobson, Julian; Keen, Michael [Recorder]; Matsumoto, Yuka; Winters, Ross [Recorder]

A CD of rare recordings of British recorder music expertly performed by Ross Winters alongside a first-class ensemble including world-renowned pianist Julian Jacobson....continue...
Recording information: St. Edward the Confessor Church, London, England (05/18/2011-05/20/2011)....continue...

Rubbra: Violin Sonata No. 2; Berkeley: Sonatina for Violin & Piano

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2010-10-12

Works: Edmund Rubbra: Sonata for violin & piano, no 2, Op.31; Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina for violin & piano, Op. 17; Theme and Variations for violin solo, Op. 33/1; Franz Reizenstein: Prologue, Variations an...
Performers: Berkeley, Lennox; Grinke, Frederick; Reizenstein, Franz; Rostal, Max; Rubbra, Edmund

Thanks to high quality originals, these unmissable mono composer-recordings are being reissued by Dutton in its Epoch series. Frederick Grinke plays Rubbra's eloquent second Violin...continue...
Recording information: Decca's West Hampstead Studios, Broadhurst Gardens, NW6....continue...

Horn Trios / Zbigniew Zuk, Jan Stanienda, Piotr Folkert

1 CD / Zuk Records (Germany) / 2010-07-13

Works: Johannes Brahms: Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano in E flat major, Op. 40; Lennox Berkeley: Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, Op. 44; Don Banks: Trio for horn, violin & piano
Performers: Piotr Folkert; Stanienda, Jan; Zuk, Zbigniew

This recording from 1997 features the Polish horn player, Zbigniew Zuk, who has been principal horn in the City of Bremerhaven Orchestra since 1982....continue...

Lennox Berkeley: Chamber Music

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-04-27

Works: Lennox Berkeley: Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, Op. 44; Sonatina for recorder (or flute) & piano, Op. 13; Sonata for viola & piano in D minor, Op. 22; Quintet for piano and winds, Op. 90
Performers: Goff, Morgan; Stanzeleit, Susanne; Stirling, Stephen; Terroni, Raphael; Williams, Patrick [Flute]
Conductors:
Ensemble: New London Chamber Ensemble

Lennox Berkeley amassed over 100 works and contributed to almost every genre. Since he had the opportunity to write for some of the leading performers...continue...
Recording information: 05/06/2009-05/08/2009....continue...

Yehudi Menuhin - The Great EMI Recordings

51 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-04-21

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 2 in F major, BWV 1047; Brandenburg Concerto no 3 in G major, BWV 1048; Brandenburg Concerto no 5 in D major, BWV 1050; Concerto for 2 Violins in D mino...
Performers: Aronowitz, Cecil; Balsam, Artur; Barshai, Rudolf; Bennett, William; Cassadó, Gaspar; Cassad?, Gaspar; Civil, Alan; Cocker, Paul; Curzon, Clifford; de los Angeles, Victoria; Debost, Michel; Don...
Conductors: Menuhin, Yehudi; Enescu, George; Monteux, Pierre; Dorati, Antal; Boulez, Pierre; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Pritchard, John; Silvestri, Constantin; Kletzki, Paul; Boult, Adrian; Panufnik, Andrzej; Da...
Ensemble: ; Alan Clare Trio; Bath Festival Ensemble; Instrumental Ensemble

This 50-CD set features Sir Yehudi Menuhin's most celebrated EMI recordings, made during his extraordinary 70-year exclusive recording relationship with the company. Includes works by...continue...
Includes work(s) by Manuel de Falla....continue...

Icon - Dennis Brain - The Horn Player Performs Mozart, Strauss, Beethoven, et al

4 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-09-02

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Horn no 4 in E flat major, K. 495; Concerto for Horn no 2 in E flat major, K. 417; Concerto for Horn no 1 in D major, K. 412/514 (K. 386b); Concerto for Horn no ...
Performers: Brain, Dennis [French Horn]; Brain, Leonard; Chapman, Edmund; Cursue, Alfred; Horsley, Colin; James, Cecil; Malcolm, George; Matthews, Denis; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Morris, Gareth; Parikian, Manoug; ...
Conductors: Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Turner, Lawrence; Susskind, Walter; Galliera, Alceo; Kletzki, Paul; Karajan, Herbert von; ; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Hindemith, Paul; Cantelli, Guido; Haas, Karl; Westrup, Sir Jac...
Ensemble: ; Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble; Hallé Orchestra; London Baroque Instrumental Ensemble; Philharmonia Orchestra

The four discs in the Dennis Brain set comprise all the recordings he made for EMI in the 14 short years he was active in...continue...

Chamber Music - Rawsthorne, Berkeley, Bush / Brymer, The Music Group of London, et al

1 CD / Lyrita / 2008-05-13

Works: Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina for violin & piano, Op. 17; Sextet for clarinet, horn & string quartet, Op. 47; Alan Bush: Concert Studies (3) for piano, violin & cello, Op. 31; Ballads (2) of the Sea, for...
Performers: Bean, Hugh; Brymer, Jack [Clarinet]; Bush, Alan; Civil, Alan; Humphreys, Sydney; King, Thea; Major, Margaret; Parkhouse, David; Routh, Frances; Simpson, Derek; Wellington, Christopher
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Ensemble: London Music Group

Late Recordings - Britten, Berkeley, Bach / Dennis Brain

1 CD / Opus KURA / 2008-01-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31; Sir Lennox Berkeley: Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, Op. 44; Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 1 in F major, BWV 1046
Performers: Brain, Dennis; Horsley, Colin; Parikian, Manoug; Pears, Peter, Sir
Conductors: Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Neel, Boyd
Ensemble: Boyd Neel Orchestra; New Symphony Orchestra Strings

"The performances on this album are a pure pleasure. Dennis Brain is certainly one of the greatest horn players ever recorded, and one of only...continue...

Horn Trios - Banks, Brahms, et al / McDonald, Harding, Munro

1 CD / Tall Poppies / 2007-10-01

Works: Sir Lennox Berkeley: Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, Op. 44; Don Banks: Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano; Johannes Brahms: Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano in E flat major, Op. 40
Performers: Harding, John [Violin]; McDonald, Hector; Munro, Ian

By his early 20s, the Australian hornist Hector McDonald was playing in the Berlin Philharmonic under Von Karajan and, since 1989, has been solo Horn...continue...

Berkeley: Six Preludes for Piano, etc / Schirmer Ensemble

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-06-21

Works: Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina for violin & piano, Op. 17; Short Pieces (5) for piano, Op. 4; Andantino, for cello & piano, Op. 21/2a; Pieces (3) for clarinet; Mazurka for Piano, Op. 101 no 2; Duo for Cel...
Performers: Berlin, David; Graaff, Deborah de; Sellars, Elizabeth; Vorster, Len
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Ensemble: Schirmer Ensemble

Lennox Berkeley is another of the legendary pupils of Nadia Boulanger. His output includes a wealth of fine chamber and instrumental music, full of wit,...continue...