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Great Britain Triumphant! / Schiller, True, Zadori, Megyesi & Spencer

1 CD / Centaur / 2012-02-11

Works: Thomas Shaw: Overture to the Island of St. Marguerite, for orchestra; Thomas Attwood: Reflections of Marie Antoinette, for voice & orchestra; Stephen Storace: Lamentation of Marie Antoinette, for voi...
Performers: Megyesi, Zoltán; Schiller, Caroline; Spencer, Reid; True, Stefanie; Zádori, Mária [Soprano vocals]
Conductors: Terey-Smith, Mary
Ensemble: Capella Savaria

American Record Guide, November/December 2012
The music itself, though enjoyable and very well performed, is chiefly of historical interest. The sound is good, and the notes...continue...
Recording information: Don Bosco Concert Room of the Salesian Institute, Szomb....continue...

Wagner

1 CD / Centaur / 2011-10-03

Works: Richard Wagner: Parsifal; Siegfried; Die Götterdammerung; Die Walküre; Tannhäuser; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde
Performers: Deaton, Marc
Conductors: Cortese, Glen

Thomas A. Arne: Overtures and Cantatas

1 CD / Centaur / 2011-05-06

Works: Thomas Arne: King Arthur; The Spring, cantata; Judith; Chaucer's Recantation, cantata; Love and Resentment, cantata; Eliza; Reffley Spring, cantata; The Fairy Prince
Performers: Megyesi, Zoltan; True, Stefanie
Conductors: Terey-Smith, Mary
Ensemble: Capella Savaria

Recording information: Don Bosco Concert Room, Salesian Institute, Szombathely (07/03/2009-07/05/2009)....continue...

Jean Philippe Rameau: Pygmalion, acte de ballet (1748)

1 CD / Centaur / 2010-09-06

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pygmalion; La Dauphine, for harpsichord in G minor; L' Impatience, cantata for countertenor, viol & continuo
Performers: Richman, James; Vidal, Mathias; Wissick, Brent
Conductors: Richman, James

The story is based on the myth of Pygmalion as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Rameau and de Sovot's version, the sculptor Pigmalion creates a...continue...
Recording information: St. George's Episcopal Church, New York, NY (09/22/2007-09/25/2007)....continue...

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts

1 CD / Centaur / 2010-04-02

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts; La Cupis, for harpsichord, violin & viol (Pièces de clavecin en concerts); La Marais, for harpsichord, violin & viol (Pièces de ...
Performers: Kelley, Frank
Conductors:
Ensemble: Boston Museum Trio

Frank Kelley has sung major opera roles in the US and Europe, and has been filmed in the Peter Sellars’ productions of Mozart’s Cosi fan...continue...
Recording information: Slosberg Auditorium, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA....continue...

Hungarian Folk Songs by Bartók and Kodaly / Thomas Bogdan, Yoshiko Sato

1 CD / Centaur / 2009-07-03

Works: Béla Bartók: Hungarian Folksongs (10), for voice & piano Vol. 1 Sz 33; Hungarian Folksongs (8), for voice & piano, Sz. 64; Hungarian Folksongs (20), for voice & piano in 4 volumes, Sz. ...
Performers: Bogdan, Thomas; Sato, Yoshiko

Thomas Bodgan is a singer of great emotional intensity and has received critical acclaim for performances in opera, oratorio, concert, recital and cabaret. His eclectic...continue...

Janis Mercer: Voices, Mass for Friends, Air, Piece

1 CD / Centaur / 2009-06-01

Works: Janis Mercer: Air; Mass for Friends, for 2 voices, violin, cello & piano; Piece; Voices
Performers: Granger, Lawrence; Hall, Karen; McCarroll, Hadley; Mercer, Janis; Myer, Will; Robair, Gino; Santos, Philip
Conductors: Dole, Sanford; Stoddard, Martha
Ensemble: ; Schwungvoll Ensemble

Janis Mercer is an American pianist/composer living in San Francisco. She was the founder and former artistic director of schwungvoll, a new music chamber ensemble,...continue...

Suber: Starlit, etc / Baumgartner, Kalousek, et al

1 CD / Centaur / 2009-04-16

Works: Stephen Suber: Cumulus over Tangipahoa, tone poem for orchestra; Soleil (Hymn to the Sun), for chorus; Dithyramb, for orchestra; Concerto for Piano ("Enchantments"); Starlit, for chamber orchestra; U...
Performers: Deaton, Marc; Evenson, David
Conductors: Baumgartner, Andreas Hérm; Kalousek, Dan
Ensemble: ; Ars Brunensis Chorus

Women of Firsts - Kaprálová, Bacewicz, Beach, Boulanger / Daniel Weeks, Naomi Oliphant

1 CD / Centaur / 2009-04-16

Works: Vitezslava Kaprálová: Forever, Op. 12; Grazyna Bacewicz: Songs (3) for Tenor; Amy Beach: Robert Browning Songs (3) for voice & piano, Op. 44; Lili Boulanger: Clairières dans le ciel (1...
Performers: Oliphant, Naomi J.; Weeks, Daniel

Leo Kraft: Five Sonnets, Seven Hebrew Songs, Transformations, etc

1 CD / Centaur / 2009-02-06

Works: Leo Kraft: Sonnets (5) of William Shakespeare, for voice & piano; Inventions (3), for 2 alto flutes; Piano Fantasy; Fantasy no 1 for flute & piano; Transformations, for 8 instruments; Hebrew Songs (7...
Performers: Baron, Carol; Baron, Samuel; Bleeke, Mark; Finckel, Chris; Gosling, Stephen; Jolley, David; Kopperud, Jean; Levine, Elliot Z.; Lipsey, Michael; Macomber, Curtis; Martin, Lois; Oldfather, Christopher ...
Conductors: Suben, Joel Eric

Born in Brooklyn in 1922, Leo Kraft has filled his life and the lives of others with music through his prodigious career as composer, educator,...continue...

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / Stepner, Kelley, Monahan, Aston Magna, et al

2 CD / Centaur / 2008-05-01

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Performers: Anderson, Roberta; Baker, Sharon; Collver, Michael; Gall, Jeffrey; Hite, William; Honeysucker, Robert; Kelley, Frank; Monahan, Laurie [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Rentz-Moore, Deborah; Ripley, David [Bass...
Conductors: Stepner, Daniel
Ensemble: Aston Magna

Daniel Stepner, has distinguished himself as a violinist of great versatility, having performed and recorded contemporary music with the Boston Musica Viva; the sonatas of...continue...

Constantinides: Choral Works / Baird, Louisiana Sinfonietta

1 CD / Centaur / 2008-02-02

Works: Dinos Constantinides: Marcha de Galvez, for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra, LRC 44; I never saw a Moor; Rights of Freedom
Performers: Bostic, Tiffany; Brown, Terrence; Rhodes, Jami; Yap, Jin Hin
Conductors: Baird, Sara Lynn
Ensemble: Louisiana Sinfonietta; Louisiana State University Schola cantorum

Songs of Charles Ives / Andrew Childs, Wei-Han Su

1 CD / Centaur / 2006-11-01

Works: Charles Ives: Slow March; The Greatest Man; The Cage; The Circus Band; Memories; Feldeisamkeit; Songs my mother taught me; The Old Mother; Remembrance; A Scotch Lullaby, song for voice & piano, S. 34...
Performers: Childs, Andrew; Su, Wei-Han

Charles Ives relied heavily on recurring themes in his music. This recording presents a collection of songs in terms of a thematic unity - childhood...continue...

Arne: Solo Cantatas / Térey-Smith, Zádori, Bentch, et al

1 CD / Centaur / 2006-11-01

Works: Thomas Arne: Six English Cantatas, collection for solo voice, instruments & continuo; Advice to Chloe, solo cantata for voice, violins & continuo
Performers: Bentch, Timothy; Kallo, Zsolt; Zadori, Maria [Soprano vocals]
Conductors: Terey-Smith, Mary
Ensemble: Capella Savaria

"Surely this release will greatly interest collectors, since it seems to be the only available recording of Arne's Six English Cantatas... These are indeed pleasing...continue...

This is thy hour O Soul/Taylor, Jobe, Taylor Festival Choir

1 CD / Centaur / 2006-11-01

Works: Brian Galante: On Meditation, for voice, choir & organ; A Clear Midnight, for choir & organ; Ave Maria, for choir & organ; Trevor Weston: Magnificat, for choir & organ; Nunc dimittis, for choir & org...
Performers: Galante, Kristi; Jobe, Richard; McConnell, Eric; Reigle, Kristina; Spaulding, Stephen; Ward, Robert
Conductors: Taylor, Robert
Ensemble: Taylor Festival Choir

The Taylor Festival Choir is a twenty-four voice professional festival ensemble whose membership is drawn from over ten states. Founded and conducted by Robert Taylor,...continue...

Melbinger: Fleeting Visions

1 CD / Centaur / 2004-03-06

Works: Timothy Melbinger: Fleeting Visions; Divertimentrio; Some Things are Dark; Insect Politics; Six Madrigals
Performers: Childs, Andrew; Gall, Susan Hampton; Kirkley, William; Melbinger, Timothy; Thornblade, Sarah; Underhill, Janet; Weigt, Steven

The Year in Yiddish Song / The Golden Keyt Singers

1 CD / Centaur / 2003-04-05

Works: Mark Zuckerman: Mir zaynen do tsu zingen; Morris Rosenfeld: O, ir kleyne likhtelekh; Mayn rue-platz; Vladimir Heifetz: Fayer, fayer; Mikhl Gelbart: Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl; Urim-burim; Sholom Secund...
Performers: Callahan, Mary Ellen; Chang, Hsi-Ling; Meglioranza, Thomas; Steinberger, Michael
Conductors:
Ensemble: Goldene Keyt Singers

Pilkington: Music Dear Solace to my Thoughts / Fithian

1 CD / Centaur / 2003-04-05

Works: Francis Pilkington: Music dear solace to my thoughts; Beauty sat bathing; Now peep, Bo Peep; Mrs. Elizabeth Murcots delight; Whither so fast; You that pine in long desire; Pavane for Lute; Diaphenia,...
Performers: Fithian, Bruce; Henriksen, Olav Chris

"There is hardly a genre more intimate, subtle, or delicate than the English lute song of the 16th or early 17th Centuries. Francis Pilkington published...continue...

Music of the Renaissance - Josquin, Isaac, etc / Sex Chordae

1 CD / Centaur / 2002-04-01

Works: Josquin Des Préz: Allégez moy, doulce plaisant brunette; Douleur me bat; Petite camusette; Regretz sans fin; Ave Maria à 6; Scaramella va alla guerra; Incessament livré suis a mar...
Performers: Morris, Susan Rode; Whitaker, Scott
Conductors: Dornenburg, John
Ensemble: Sex Chorde Consort of Viols

Scarmolin: The Caliph / Harpner, Kerschbaum, Gallop, et al

1 CD / Centaur / 2001-10-07

Works: Anthony Louis Scarmolin: The Caliph
Performers: Brown, Bruce [baritone]; Gallop, Steven; Harpner, Maria; Jungen, Margarete; Kerschbaum, Dietmar
Conductors: Suben, Joel Eric
Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava

Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth / Stepner, Aston Magna

2 CD / Centaur / 1999-06-06

Works: George Frederick Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71
Performers: Baker, Sharon; Gall, Jeffrey; Hite, William; Labelle, Dominique
Conductors:
Ensemble: Music from Aston Magna

Handel's oratorio, "The Triumph of Truth and Time" has elements of several theatrical forms: the allegorical characters of the medieval morality play; the wooing of...continue...

Russia! / Paul Hill Chorale, Washington Balalaika Society

1 CD / Centaur / 1995-02-12

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: I, a blessed one, choose, for chorus or chorus & piano (no 4 of "6 Church Songs"); Grigor F. Lvovsky: Lord, have mercy; Russian Traditional: Solovyom zalyotnym (The Nightin...
Performers: Ford, Michael; Tucker, Gene; Waite, Shelly

News of Great Joy / Anne Heider, His Majestie's Clerkes

1 CD / Centaur / 1993-10-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sussex carol; Francisco Guerrero: Canite tuba in Sion; Johann Eccard: Übers Gebirg Maria geht; Anonymous: I Sing of a Maiden; Nova radist' stala; Crestot: Tous les bourge...
Performers: Grober, James; McLean, Paul; Nicholson Weber, Anne; Nodine, Thomas; Reese, Eric; Reese, Martha; Sullivan, Terry; Wright, Kimberly
Conductors: Heider, Anne
Ensemble: His Majesties Clerkes

Millenium - Russian Choral Music / J Reilly Lewis

1 CD / Centaur / 1993-09-01

Works: Russian Orthodox Chant: O Lord, Save Thy People (Common Chant, Tone 1); As Many as Have Been Baptized; Anonymous, English: Vivat, vivat!; Baldassare Galuppi: In the Flesh Thou Didst Fall Asleep; Alex...
Performers: Busching, Marianna; Tucker, Gene
Conductors: Lewis, J. Reilly
Ensemble: National Cathedral Choral Society Washington, D.C.

Ferruccio Tagliavini - The Early Operatic Recordings 1940-43

1 CD / Centaur / 1993-08-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Falstaff; I lombardi; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Pietro Mascagni: L'amico Fritz; L'Amico Fritz; Francesco Cil&eg...
Performers: Huder, Maria; Mascherini, Enzo; Olivero, Magda; Tagliavini, Ferruccio; Tassinari, Pia
Conductors: Tansini, Ugo
Ensemble: EIAR Symphony Orchestra Turin

Beethoven/Mahler: Symphony no 9 / Samuel, Cincinnati PO

1 CD / Centaur / 1992-06-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
Performers: Cook, Catherine; Hagiwara, Rie; Pool, Walter; Zeller, Richard
Conductors: Samuel, Gerhard
Ensemble: Cincinnati College-Conservatory Chamber Choir; Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra

Mozart: Vesperae de Dominica, etc / Mardirosian, et al

1 CD / Centaur / 1990-09-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vesperae de Dominica, K 321; Missa brevis in D major, K 194 (186h); Tantum ergo sacramentum, K 197
Performers: Busching, Marianna; Fay, Peter; Smith, Carolyn Dill; Tucker, Gene
Conductors: Mardirosian, Haig
Ensemble: Cathedral of St. Thomas More Choir; Cathedral of St. Thomas More Orchestra