Grieg, Edvard > English Chamber Orchestra

For Your Life - For a Rainy Day

1 CD / Decca / 2001-10-02

Works: Erik Satie: Gymnopédies (3), for piano (also orchestrated by Debussy); Claude Debussy: Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque); Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; The lark ascending; Fr...
Performers: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The; Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Bell, Joshua; Bernard Herrmann & His Orchestra; Brown, Iona; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; Gavazzeni, Gianandre...
Conductors: Herrmann, Bernard; Marriner, Sir Neville; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Leppard, Raymond; Solti, Sir Georg
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; National Philharmonic Orchestra

Personnel: Carmel Kaine, Joshua Bell, Iona Brown (violin); Tess Miller (oboe); Vladimir Ashkenazy, Pascal Rogé (piano); Raymond Leppard (harpsichord)....continue...

Artists of the Century - Michala Petri - Ultimate Collection

2 CD / RCA Records / 1999-06-15

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Concerto for Flute in D major, Op. 10 no 3/RV 428 "Il gardellino"; Concerto for Flute in G minor, Op. 10 no 2/RV 439 "L...
Performers: Hannibal, Lars; Jarrett, Keith; Malcolm, George; Petri, David; Petri, Hanne; Petri, Michala; Ross, Alastair; Selin, Elizabeth
Conductors: Kamu, , Okko; Neary, Martin; Spivakov, Vladimir; Langford, Gordon
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra members; Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra; Westminster Abbey Choir

The Best of Grieg

2 CD / Philips / 1993-10-12

Works: Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt; Peer Gynt Suite no 2, Op. 55; Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16; Lyric Suite for Orchestra, Op. 54; From Holberg's Time, Op. 40; Lyric Pieces (8) for piano, Book 1, Op. 1...
Performers: Ballardie, Quintin; Garcia, Jose-Luis; Kocsis, Zoltan; Kovacevich, Stephen
Conductors: Leppard, Raymond; Davis, Colin
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra

Stephen Kovacevich's performance of Griegs piano concerto reaches beyond the technically immaculate to a degree of spontaneity and poetry rarely matched in other recordings, and...continue...