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Music for Ballet Lovers

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2011-10-25

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty; The Nutcracker; Swan Lake; Ottorino Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque; Sergey Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Manuel de Fa...
Conductors: Jackson, Don; Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw; Kunzel, Erich; Van Remoortel, Edouard; Kakhidze, Djansug

A celebration of elegant dance with great classics from the world of ballet. Includes musical highlights from Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, La Boutique Fantasque, Sleeping...continue...

Ring a Ring O'Roses

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2011-04-26

Works: John Playford: Work(s); Division for trebles; English Traditional: Ring around the Rosie, children's song (a.k.a. "Ring a ring o' roses"); All in a garden green, folk song; The Duke of York; Golden S...
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Ensemble: Musica Donum Dei

This album brings together familiar nursery rhymes and folk tunes that we learn as children. It is a telling tribute to the durability of these...continue...

Jane Austen Piano Favorites / Souter

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2011-01-25

Works: Niccolò Piccinni: La Buona Figliuola; Franz Joseph Haydn: Sonata for Keyboard no 9 in D major, H 16 no 4; Sonata for Keyboard no 10 in C major, H 16 no 1; Ignace Joseph Pleyel: Sonatina for keyb...
Performers: Souter, Martin

Recording information: Finchcocks, Goudhurst, Kent, England....continue...

Music For Bedtime

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2011-01-25

Works: Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50; Dolly, Op. 56; Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne for piano in E minor, KK IV/b; Anonymous: Quiet harp song; The gentle lute; Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet fo...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Gregory, James; Piha, Sam; Souter, Martin; Spring, Matthew; Vishnik, Martin
Conductors: Jackson, Don;
Ensemble: ; The Amber Quartet

Great Organ Classics / Souter

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2011-01-25

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D minor, BWV 565; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; George Frederick Handel: Royal Fireworks Music; Edward Elgar: Coronation Ode, Op. 44; Enigma ...
Performers: Souter, Martin

Recording information: Winchester Cathedral, London, England....continue...

Egyptian Splendour

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2008-01-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Johann Strauss II: Ägyptischer (Egyptian March), march for orchestra, Op. 335 (RV 335); Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite no 2, Op. 55; Claude Debussy: Préludes, ...
Performers: Brendel, Alfred; Gregory, James; Perez, Juan; Souter, Martin
Conductors: Munih, Marko; Rainer, Christian; Pesek, Libor; Froment, Louis de; Gmür, Hanspeter

The mystery of Egypt in classical music. An exotic collection of classical music which evokes the mysterious world of classical Egypt. These major works bring...continue...

Music For Book Lovers

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2008-01-01

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Symphony no 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 "Lobgesang"; Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt; Hector Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17; La damnation de Faust, Op. ...
Performers: Bulva, Josef; Souter, Martin
Conductors: Jackson, Don; Titov, Alexander; Yorke, Peter; Kakgidze, Vakhtang; Torch, Sidney; Coates, Eric [Composer]

Gentle classics for reading. Gentle music makes a perfect accompaniment to reading. This selection has been chosen with the reader in mind. Many of the...continue...

Night Owl

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2006-08-01

Works: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27/2 "Moonlight"; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Carnival of the animals...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Bennett, Elinor; Bohle, Walter; Flachot, Reine; Gregory, James; Hill, Sarah; Ricci, Ruggiero; Souter, Martin
Conductors: Rezucha, Bystrik; Tenant-Flowers, Sarah; Kuntsch, Matthias; Chang, Yun-Sung

Late night classics. At the end of a long day, and on into the night, this lovely album of relaxing music will help banish those...continue...

Gentle Classics for an Indulgent Moment

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2006-08-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Edvard Grieg: Elegiac Melodies (2) for Strings, Op. 34; Franz Schubert: Symphony no 5 in B flat major, D 485; Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite,...
Performers: Campbell, James [Clarinet]; Chase, Stephanie; Pendrill, Christine
Conductors: Simon, Geoffrey; Goodman, Roy

Calm, elegant music to help you while away an afternoon or evening, come rain or shine; so put the kettle on, open a large box...continue...

Bandstand - A Musical Walk in the Park

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2005-02-01

Works: Lionel Monckton: Soldiers in the Park, march; Percy Grainger: Country Gardens; Irish Traditional: Londonderry Air (Danny Boy), folk song; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Franz Schubert: Marc...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Corps of Royal Engineers Fanfare Trumpeters

A musical walk in the park. Strolling along on a Sunday afternoon, we can hear the band in the bandstand, playing favourite melodies and musical...continue...

Beautiful Dreamer

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2005-02-01

Works: John Philip Sousa: Peaches & Cream, foxtrot for band; Désirée, operetta; Washington Post; Victor Herbert: Auditorium Festival March (Festival March), for orchestra; Edward MacDowell: To a W...
Performers: Souter, Martin; Stowe, Sara
Conductors: Kunzel, Erich

Music from America's brilliant period, from the end of the Civil War to the second decade of the 1900s, reflected in an album of piano...continue...
Personnel: Martin Souter (piano)....continue...

Ring A Ring O'Roses / Musica Donum Dei

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-08-01

Works: English Traditional: Lillibulero / Parsons Farewell / Chirping of the Lark / Cuckolds All Awry / Picking of the Sticks /; Ring around the Rosie, children's song (a.k.a. "Ring a ring o' roses"); All i...
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Ensemble: Musica Donum Dei

Songs and dances for children. Traditional songs and dances for children to complement our very successful nursery rhyme album, 'Jack and Jill and all their...continue...

Music for a Goddess - Great Opera & Orchestral Classics for an Indulgent Moment

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-01-01

Works: Jules Massenet: Thaïs, opera in 3 acts; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Christoph W. Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte; Giacomo Puccini: Madama...
Performers: Morozova, Elena; Ricci, Ruggiero; Souter, Martin; Tachmanov, Alexander
Conductors: Shipway, Frank; Jackson, Don; Kakhidze, Djansug; Kuntsch, Matthias; Bubelnikov, Pavel

Soothing and uplifting music for a goddess (domestic or otherwise). An album of music to help get away from it all, bathed in orchestral bliss...continue...

Renoir - Romantic Dance Classics from the Age of Impressionism

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-01-01

Works: Jacques Offenbach: La belle Hélène; Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14; Maurice Ravel: La valse; Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 2; Concerto for Piano in G major; Ottorino R...
Performers: Lee, Mi-Joo; Ricci, Ruggiero
Conductors: Walther, Hans-Jürgen; Sporri, Andreas; Kakhidze, Djansug; Jackson, Don; Peters, Reinhard; Chang, Yun-Sung; Kakgidze, Vakhtang; Munih, Marko

The magic of the dance in music, with an emphasis on Paris towards the end of the nineteenth century. Orchestral works by Ravel ('La Valse'),...continue...

Gainsborough: Portraits in Music

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-01-01

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 104 in D major, H 1 no 104 "London"; Quartet for Strings in C major, Op. 76 no 3/H 3 no 77 "Emperor"; Franz Schubert: Rosamunde Incidental Music, Op. 26; Symphony no 4...
Performers: Gabuniya, Nodar
Conductors: Titov, Alexander; Jackson, Don; Kakhidze, Djansug; Scholz, Alfred

Great musical portraits of people and places mainly from the time of Gainsborough. Schubert's 'Rosamunde' and Beethoven's 'Emperor' rub shoulders with Haydn's London and Mendelssohn's...continue...

Classical Harp / Sarah Hill

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2002-09-01

Works: Jules Massenet: Thaïs; Jacques Offenbach: Venise, barcarolle for chorus; Félix Godefroid: Bois solitaire, romance without words for harp (Pensées musicales, Book 4, no 4); Jeremiah Cla...
Performers: Hill, Sarah

Gentle, classical tunes played by that most seductive of instruments, the concert harp. Superb new arrangements of masterworks of the past include Pachelbel's 'Canon', Massenet's...continue...

Music for a Church Wedding

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2002-03-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Tannhäuser; Jeremiah Clarke: Prince of Denmark's March; George Frederick Handel: Solomon; The Water Music; Largo; Der Messias; Handel - Bourée; Giulio Cesare, H...

Use this lovely collection of organ music for church weddings to make your own personal choices for your own celebration - and listen to it...continue...

Great Ballet Classics

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2002-03-01

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a; Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Hector Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24; Frédéric Chopin: Les sylphid...
Conductors: Vonk, Hans; Kórodi, András; Fischer, Adam; Fricke, Heinz; Wohlert, Peter; Sándor, János; Hinchev, Boris

A celebration of dance and ballet in a memorable programme of musical highlights from the world of theatre, performed by some of the world's great...continue...

Victorian Vision

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2001-06-01

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Song Without Words for piano no 30 in A major ("Frühlingslied"), Op. 62/6; Songs (6), Op. 57; Elias Parish Alvars: Serena...
Performers: Bennett, Elinor; Bottone, Bonaventura; Butteriss, Simon; Giles, Ian; Gregory, James; Souter, Martin; Spiers, John; Wickham, Henry
Conductors: Rainer, Christian; Jones, John Price; Edwards, John O.

Music for home and garden; Includes Mendelssohn and Gilbert and Sullivan...continue...