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Bruno Walter Early New York Recordings - Mahler: Symphonies nos 1 & 2 / Nadine Conner, Mona Paulee (rec. 1942)

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2012-08-28

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 1 in D major "Titan"; Symphony no 2 in C minor "Resurrection"; Recorded Sound: Applause; Silence
Conductors: Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: ; New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; Westminster Choir

The Philharmonic-Symphony of 1942 was going through a bit of a rough patch at the height of WWII, with numerous players called up for military...continue...
Recording information: Carnegie Hall (01/25/1942/10/25/1942)....continue...

Beethoven: Symphony no 9 / Kathleen Ferrier, Isobel Baillie, Heddle Nash, William Parsons / Bruno Walter, London SO (Nov. 13 1947)

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2012-08-10

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"; Recorded Sound: Applause
Conductors: Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra

When this performance was first released (on Bruno Walter Society LP No. BWS-742 in 1980) critic Mortimer H. Frank wrote in the USA journal Fanfare:...continue...
Recording information: Royal Albert Hall (11/13/1947)....continue...

Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Wagner: Faust Overture / Bruno Walter

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2012-07-10

Works: Richard Wagner: Faust Overture; Siegfried Idyll; Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 1 in D major "Titan"; Recorded Sound: Applause
Conductors: Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This recording is the complete concert of April 8, 1939 with Bruno Walter conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Digitally restored in 2010, this is the...continue...
Recording information: 04/08/1939....continue...

Impromptu: A Treasury of Extemporaneous Piano Compositions 1821-2008 / Margarita Glebov

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2012-02-14

Works: Jan Václav Vorísek: Impromptu for piano in B major, Op. 7/6; Franz Liszt: Impromptu for Piano in F sharp major, S 191 "Nocturne"; César Cui: Impromptu-Caprice for piano in E major; Mil...
Performers: Glebov, Margarita

A treasury of extemporaneous compositions written between 1821 and 2008 that includes several first recordings is offered by the Russian-American pianist Margarita Glebov....continue...
Recording information: University of Maryland, Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Claric (10/2009); University of Maryland, Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Claric (12/2008/05/2009)....continue...

Knappertsbusch Conducts Bruckner Symphonies nos 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9; Wagner

6 CD / Music & Arts / 2011-11-08

Works: Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 3 in D minor, WAB 103; Symphony no 4 in E flat major, WAB 104 "Romantic"; Symphony no 5 in B flat major, WAB 105; Symphony no 7 in E major, WAB 107; Symphony no 8 in C min...
Performers: Aldenhoff, Bernd; Cunitz, Maud; Rohr, Otto van
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans
Ensemble: ; Bavarian State Orchestra; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Munich Philharmonic Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

A newly restored collection of previously released (and no longer available) Knappertbusch best sellers from the Music and Arts catalog. Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 was...continue...
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Beethoven: Complete Symphonies / Klemperer

5 CD / Music & Arts / 2011-05-10

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 1 in C major, Op. 21; Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 36; Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92; Symphony no 4 in B flat maj...
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

These are all public performances from the Vienna Festival in May/June, 1960. This set was originally released on Music & Arts MA886/890 and is newly...continue...

Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 10 / Adler

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2011-02-08

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 10 in F sharp minor/major; Symphony no 3 in D minor; Recorded Sound: Applause
Conductors: Adler, F. Charles

British-born conductor Adler was a student of Mahler. His concert performance of the Adagio and Purgatorio, from the 10th Symphony, issued here for the first...continue...

Visions: Busoni, Bloch, Finnissy, Flynn / Grante

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2011-01-11

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Drei Albumblätter, for piano, KiV 289; Indian Diary; George Flynn: Glimpses of Our Inner Lives, for piano; Michael Finnissy: Bachsche Nachdichtungen (Bach-ian post-poesis), for...
Performers: Grante, Carlo

Carlo Grante is one of the most active and accomplished performing and recording artists of his generation. He was recently featured in the widely read...continue...

Verdi: Requiem, Te Deum / Toscanini, Nelli, Merriman, McGrath, Scott, NBC SO, et al

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2008-11-11

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Sacred Pieces (4), for chorus & orchestra; Requiem Mass; Recorded Sound: Applause
Performers: McGrath, William; Merriman, Nan; Nelli, Herva; Scott, Norman
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

This 1948 version is almost completely without mishap. Indeed, there is ample reason to consider it the finest of the Maestro's achievements with this monumental...continue...

In Memory of Arturo Toscanini / Munch, Walter, Monteux

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-06-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Recorded Sound: Applause; Claude Debussy: La mer; Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, O...
Conductors: Walter, Bruno; Munch, Charles; Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: Symphony of the Air

Recordings for German Radio - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-02-01

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, tragédie lyrique; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 208, "Was mir behagt," (Hunt Cantata), BWV 208 (BC G1, G3); Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Weisse ...
Performers: Greindl, Josef; Piltti, Lea; Pitti, Lea; Raucheisen, Michael; Scheck, Gustav; Schonecke, Herbert; Schultz, Rudolf; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Wolf, Deta

The recordings of songs presented here, ranging from a Bach cantata excerpt to folk songs, were all made during World War II for the Reichsrundfunk...continue...

Klemperer conducts Beethoven - Symphonies no 9, etc

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-12-01

Works: Recorded Sound: Applause; Ambiance; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"; Symphony no 8 in F major, Op. 93; Ah, Perfido!, Op. 65
Performers: Brouwenstijn, Gre; Vocals], Ernst Haefliger [Tenor; Wilbrink, Hans
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: Amsterdam Toonkunst Chorus; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

This Beethoven 9th was originally released by Music & Arts 1986 and was newly re-mastered in 2006; the 8th, taken from the same concert, has...continue...

Arturo Toscanini - Complete Concert of March 21, 1954

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-12-01

Works: Recorded Sound: Opening Announcements & Applause; Applause & Announcements; Applause & Closing Announcements; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Pathétique ...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Back in 1937 the London Times described the tone drawn by Toscanini from his orchestra, even in abrupt fortissimo, as "full, saturated and quite free...continue...

Levanta Poeira - Brazilian Guitar Treasury / Marcus Llerena

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-07-01

Works: Zequinha de Abreu: Poeira Levanta, for guitar; André Victor Corrêa: André de Sapato Novo; Nicanor Teixeira: Carioca no 2, for guitar; Carioca no 1, for guitar; Daudeth de Azevedo: Ch&#...
Performers: Llerena, Marcus

Marcus Llerena was born in 1955 and began his classical guitar studies at age 16 with Norberto Macedo in Brazil. In 1975 he moved to...continue...

Robert Casadesus Plays Mozart - Piano Concertos

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-05-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 21 in C major, K 467; Concerto for Piano no 23 in A major, K 488; Concerto for Piano no 24 in C minor, K 491; Concerto for Piano no 26 in D major, K 537...
Performers: Casadesus, Robert
Conductors: Matacic, Lovro von; Martinon, Jean; Monteux, Pierre; Zinman, David
Ensemble: French National Orchestra

Mozart's piano concertos played a prominent role throughout the career of Robert Casadesus. Over the course of thirty-two years he recorded thirteen of the twenty-seven...continue...

The Art of Nathan Milstein

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-07-01

Works: Max Bruch: Concerto for Violin no 1 in G minor, Op. 26; Recorded Sound: Applause; Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Violin in D minor, BWV 1052; Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op....
Performers: Milstein, Nathan
Conductors: Dorati, Antal; Kertész, István; Ormandy, Eugene; Cluytens, André
Ensemble: ; ORTF Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Beethoven: Symphony no 9 / Carl Schuricht, et al

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-06-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"; Recorded Sound: Applause
Performers: Kmentt, Waldemar; Rehfuss, Heinz; Stader, Maria
Conductors: Schuricht, Carl
Ensemble: Orchestre National

Inspired by Bach - Busoni, Troncon / Carlo Grante

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-04-01

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia after Johann Sebastian Bach for Piano, K 253; Prélude et Étude en Arpèges, K 297; Perpetuum mobile, K 293; Trills Etude; Paolo Troncon: Preludes and Fugues (...
Performers: Grante, Carlo

Homage to Piazzolla - Pujol, Crespo, et al / Nigro

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-03-01

Works: Máximo Diego Pujol: Suite del Plata for guitar no 1; Elegia por la Muerte de un Tanguero (Homage to Astor Piazolla); Julián Aguirre: Tristes (5), for piano; Enrique Crespo: Nortena; Adolfo ...
Performers: Nigro, Michael Anthony

Personnel: Michael Anthony Nigro (guitar).

Recording information: Little Theatre, Fullerton, CA (11/22/2003)....continue...

Michelangeli Plays Beethoven

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-03-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 5 "Emperor"; Sonata for Piano no 4 in E flat major, Op. 7; Recorded Sound: Applause
Performers: Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti
Conductors: Martinon, Jean
Ensemble: ORTF National Orchestra

David Del Tredici: Two Song Cycles / Del Tredici, et al

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-02-01

Works: David Del Tredici: Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter, for soprano & piano; Chana's Story, for mezzo-soprano & piano
Performers: Abramowitsch, Miriam; Del Tredici, David; Plitmann, Hila

Arturo Toscanini conducts Beethoven - Symphony no 9

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2004-12-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"; Recorded Sound: Applause
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Jarred, Mary; Jones, Parry; Williams, Harold
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

Walter conducts Beethoven

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2004-07-01

Works: Recorded Sound: Applause; Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Performers: Alvary, Lorenzo; Hain, William; Merriman, Nan; Steber, Eleanor
Conductors: Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: Westminster Choir

Bruckner: Symphony no 8 / Walter, Philharmonic SO

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2003-07-01

Works: Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 8 in C minor, WAB 108; Recorded Sound: Applause
Conductors: Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

Toscanini in Buenos Aires - Beethoven: Symphony no 9

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2003-04-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral"; Recorded Sound: Applause
Performers: Hellwig, Judith; Kipnis, Alexander; Maison, Rene
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: Buenos Aires Teatro Colón Orchestra

Polyutterances - Robert Cogan, Pozzi Escot / New England

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2001-04-24

Works: Pozzi Escot: Concerto for piano & orchestra (or chamber orchestra); Trio no 2 for soprano, clarinet & piano ("Your Kindled Valors Blend"); Trilogy for the six Million, for orchestra; Robert Cogan: Po...
Performers: Heller, Joan; Hodgkinson, Randall; Veeneman, Curt
Conductors: Brooks, Tamara
Ensemble: New England Conservatory Orchestra

Thow: Songs for the Earth

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2000-07-25

Works: John Thow: Songs for the Earth; Trilce; Breath of the Sun; Quartet for Clarinet, Piano, Violin and Cello; Remembering Opus 109
Performers: Brooks, Sharon Louise; Friedman, Stephanie; Gray, Gary [Clarinet]; McElrath, Katheryn; McHenry, Richard; Rosenak, Karen; Waller, Susan
Conductors: Mosko, Stephen L.;
Ensemble: Francesco Trio; San Francisco Contemporary Music Players; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Members; The Flute Exchange

Charles Wuorinen - Music of Two Decades Vol 1

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2000-05-23

Works: Charles Wuorinen: Trio for Strings; Arabia Felix; Variations for Piano; Variations I for Flute; Variations II for Flute solo; Bearbeitungen über das Glogauer Liederbuch; Speculum Speculi
Performers: Blackwell, Virgil; Blackwood, Easley; DesRoches, Raymond; Dunkel, Paul; Fitz, Richard; Graham, John; Hudson, Benjamin; MacCourt, Donald; Miller, Robert; Oppens, Ursula; Palma, Donald; Schulte, Rolf; ...
Conductors: Sherry, Fred;
Ensemble: Group for Contemporary Music; Speculum Musicae members

Fanfare
The disc is drawn primarily from Nonesuch originals recorded in 1971 and 1974. In addition to restoring some major Wuorinen back into circulation, they serve...continue...

Dance of the Seven Veils / New Band

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2000-03-01

Works: Harry Partch: Plectra and Percussion Dances; Alice Anne LeBaron: Southern Ephemera; Elizabeth Brown: Archipelago; Dean Drummond: Dance of the Seven Veils
Performers: Cassara, Frank; Cossin, David; Donato, Dominic; Drummond, Dean; Kellman, Nina; Lipsey, Michael; Mook, Theodore; Oldfather, Christopher; Rodgers, Elizabeth; Starin, Stefani; Whitfield, John [cello]
Conductors: Drummond, Dean
Ensemble: New Band

Merit - Carter, Wuorinen, Schuller / Bryn-Julson, Markham

1 CD / Music & Arts / 1999-10-01

Works: Charles Wuorinen: A Winter's Tale; Gunther Schuller: Early Songs (6); Elliott Carter: Three Poems of Robert Frost; Voyage; Warble for Lilac Time
Performers: Bryn-Julson, Phyllis; Markham, Mark

University of Iowa Center for New Music - 25th Anniversary

1 CD / Music & Arts / 1999-09-21

Works: Joan La Barbara: Awakenings; Richard Hervig: Off center; William Hibbard: Handwork; Eric Ziolek: Nocturnes; Robert Paredes: #16; Michael Eckert: Movement 5 Instruments
Performers: Geary, Michael; Greenhoe, David; Mead, Maurita Murphy; Ohlsson, Garrick; Wendt, Charles

Merit - Cum Jubilo - Certon, Wuorinen, Duruflé, et al

1 CD / Music & Arts / 1999-06-22

Works: Pierre Certon: Missa "Sus le pont d'Avignon"; Charles Wuorinen: Missa brevis; Maurice Duruflé: Mass "Cum jubilo", Op. 11; Thomas Tallis: Audivi vocem; John Dunstable: Sancta Maria; Tomás Lu...
Conductors: Chaney, Harold
Ensemble: St. Ignatius of Antioch Choir

Crawford, Britten, Chihara: Quartets / Sequoia Quartet

1 CD / Music & Arts / 1999-04-20

Works: Benjamin Britten: Quartet for Strings no 2 in C major, Op. 36; John Crawford: Quartet for Strings; Paul Chihara: Sequoia; Ellington Fantasy
Performers: Dunham, James; Martin, Robert [horn]; Matsuda, Yoko; Watanabe, Miwako
Conductors:
Ensemble: Sequoia String Quartet

Merit - American Cello I - Barber, et al / King, Jensen

1 CD / Music & Arts / 1999-01-19

Works: Samuel Barber: Sonata for Cello for cello & piano, Op. 6; Roy Harris: Duo for cello & piano; John Craig Cooper: Meditations (3) for cello and piano; Paul Reale: Sonata for cello & piano
Performers: Harris-Heggie, Johana; Jensen, John [Piano]; King, Terry

American Piano Music of Our Time Vol ll / Ursula Oppens

1 CD / Music & Arts / 1992-07-01

Works: John Harbison: Sonata for Piano no 1 "Roger Sessions in Memoriam"; Frederic Rzewski: Mayn Yingele; Conlon Nancarrow: Canons (2) for Ursula; Tobias Picker: Old and Lost Rivers; Anthony Davis: Middle P...
Performers: Oppens, Ursula