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Bernhard Sekles: Violin Sonata; Cello Sonata; Chaconne, Op. 38; Capriccio / Solomia Soroka, violin, viola; Noreen Silver, cello; Philip Silver, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2013-02-26

Works: Bernhard Sekles: Chaconne on an Eight-Bar March-Theme, for viola & piano, Op. 38; Sonata for cello & piano in D minor, Op. 28; Capriccio in 4 movements, for violin, cello & piano; Sonata for violin &...
Performers: Silver, Noreen [Cello]; Silver, Phillip; Soroka, Solomia

Sekles (1872 - 1933) was a leading figure in German music in the first decades of the20th century. In 1928, as director of the Hoch...continue...
Recording information: Blue Griffin Recording Studio, Lansing, MI (2012-05-28_2012-05-29&2012-)....continue...

Algernon Ashton: Music for Cello and Piano, Vol. 1 / Evva Mizerska, cello; Emma Abbate, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2012-11-13

Works: Algernon Ashton: Arioso, for cello & piano, Op. 43; Sonata no 1 for cello & piano in F major, Op. 6; Phantasiestücke (3), for cello & piano, Op. 12; Sonata for cello & piano no 2 in G major, Op....
Performers: Abbate, Emma; Mizerska, Evva

Ashton (b. 1859, Durham), is a best-kept secret of British music. He has a generous output of piano music, chamber works and songs. Ashton's writing...continue...
Recording information: Challow Park, Wantage, Oxfordshire, England (12/06/2011-12/08/2011)....continue...

Brahms by Arrangement, Vol.1 - arrangements of the Piano Quintet Op. 34 and Clarinet Quintet Op. 115 for strings / Zebra String Trio & friends

1 CD / Toccata / 2012-10-30

Works: Johannes Brahms: Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor, Op. 34; Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op.115
Performers: Boyd, James; Lester, Richard [Cello]; Osostowicz, Krysia; Zebra String Trio
Conductors:
Ensemble: Zebra String Trio

Brahms originally wrote the Piano Quintet, Op. 34, for string quintet before recasting the work as a two-piano sonata. However, the sheet music has not...continue...
Recording information: The Music Room, Champs Hill, Coldwaltham, Pulborough, W (10/01/2011-10/02/2011)....continue...

Nikolai Korndorf: Complete Music for Cello - concerto capriccioso; Triptych; Passacaglia / Alexander Ivashkin, cello; Anya Alexeyev, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2012-10-30

Works: Nikolai Korndorf: Concerto capriccioso, for cello, strings & percussion; Triptych, for cello & piano; Passacaglia for cello solo
Performers: Alexeyev, Anya; Ivashkin, Alexander
Conductors: Krimets, Konstantin
Ensemble: Russian Philharmonic Orchestra of Moscow

Russian composer Korndorf (1947 - 2001) was a larger-than-life character and wrote music that was similarly expansive and urgent. His 3 works for solo cello...continue...

Percy Sherwood: Complete Works for Cello & Piano - Sonatas nos 1 & 2; 3 Pieces, Op. 14 / Joseph Spooner, cello; David Owen Norris, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2012-10-30

Works: Percy Sherwood: Sonata for Cello no 1, Op. 10; Drei Stücke, for cello & piano, Op. 14; Sonata for Cello no 2, Op. 15; 5 kleine Stücke for cello & pianoforte
Performers: Norris, David Owen; Spooner, Joseph

Anglo-German composer Sherwood (b.1866) has slipped through the cracks of history - his impressive output of orchestral, chamber, choral and instrumental music is only now...continue...
Recording information: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton (01/06/2012-01/08/2012)....continue...

The Unknown Enescu, Vol. 1: Music for Violin / Sherban Lupu, violin; Enescu Ensemble

1 CD / Toccata / 2012-10-30

Works: George Enescu: Aubade, for violin, viola & cello in C major; Pastorale, Menuet Triste et Nocturne, for violin & piano, 4 hands; Sarabande, for violin; Sérénade lointaine, for violin, cello ...
Performers: Cazacu, Marin; Dumitrescu, Ilinca; Golescu, Samir; Hobson, Ian [Piano]; Kouzov, Dmitry; Lupu, Sherban; Rostad, Masumi Per
Conductors: ; Lupu, Sherban
Ensemble: ; Enescu Ensemble; Enescu Ensemble of the University of Illinois

Enescu is one of the great composers, although the world has yet to realise the extent of his achievement. His small published uvre of 33...continue...
Recording information: The "Mihail Jora" Concert Hall, Radio Broadcasting Hous (04/10/2011-04/11/2011); The Kranert Center for the Performing Arts, University (04/10/2011-04/11/2011); The "Mihail Jora...continue...

David Braid: Chamber and Instrumental Music / Grace Davidson, Yuri Kalnits, Peter Cigleris, Jelena Lakovic

1 CD / Toccata / 2012-10-30

Works: David Braid: Morning (Neruda), for voice & string quartet, Op. 3; Pieces (3) for solo piano, Op. 8; Invention for violin & piano, Op. 11; Sonata for Quartet, Op. 13; Infinite Reminiscence for 2 piano...
Performers: Cigleris, Peter [Clarinet]; Davidson, Grace; Ekins, John-Paul [Piano]; Hori, Mikako [Piano]; Kalnits, Yuri; Lakovic, Jelena [Piano]; Morneweg, Julia [Cello]; Podobedov, Sergei; Stoycheva, Rossitza [P...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Erato Piano Trio; Tippett Quartet

British composer Braid (b. 1970), studied in London, Oxford and Kraków. His music shows something of that double inheritance, bringing together the lyricism of such...continue...

John Pickard: Chamber Music / Rupert Marshall-Luck, violin & viola; Sophie Harris, cello; Ian Mitchell, bass clarinet; Mattew Rickard, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2012-10-30

Works: John Pickard: Piano Trio; Insomnia, for violin & piano; Chaconne for viola; Valedictions, for cello & piano; Sonata for Violin; Snowbound, for bass clarinet, cello & piano
Performers: Harris, Sophie; Marshall-Luck, Rupert; Mitchell, Ian; Rickard, Matthew

Reviews of music by the English composer Pickard (b. 1963) have stated that 'he has the technique and the temperament to emerge as one of...continue...
Recording information: St George's, Bristol, England (01/09/2012-01/10/2012)....continue...

Hans Gál: Cello Sonatas Opp. 109a & 89; Solo Cello Suite, Op. 109b / Alfia Nakipbekova, cello; Jakob Fichert, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2012-07-10

Works: Hans Gál: Sonata for Violoncello solo, Op. 109a; Suite for Violoncello solo, Op. 109b; Sonata for violoncello and pianoforte, Op. 89
Performers: Fichert, Jakob; Nakipbekova, Alfia

Vienna-born Hans Gál (1890 - 1987) settled in Edinburgh after fleeing from the Nazis in 1938, and became a much-loved figure in his adoptive town....continue...

Shostakovich: Songs for the Front / Arrangements of 27 Songs

1 CD / Toccata / 2012-01-10

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Romances and Songs (27) for voice and piano (arr. of others songs for wartime use)
Performers: Masterov, Valery; Pavlova, Natalia; Tanabe, Ayako
Conductors: Khondzinsky, Nikolay
Ensemble: Soloists of the Russian Conservatory Chamber Capel

During the Siege of Leningrad, which lasted from 1941 to 1944, Shostakovich was famously photographed in a fireman's outfit on the burning rooftops. But he...continue...
Recording information: St Tikhon's Orthodox University, Moscow (2010-01-04&2010-02-24&2010-)....continue...

Leone Sinigaglia: Violin Sonata; Cello Sonata; Cavatina; Romanze

1 CD / Toccata / 2011-03-08

Works: Leone Sinigaglia: Sonata for Violin in G major, Op. 44; Romanze for cello & piano in D major, Op. 16/1; Cavatina for violin & piano in G major, Op. 13/1; Sonata for Cello in C major, Op. 41
Performers: Silver, Noreen [Cello]; Silver, Phillip; Soroka, Solomia

Sinigaglia, born in Turin in 1868, was a friend of Brahms in Vienna and a student of Dvo?r? in Prague, applying their classical techniques to...continue...

Krzysztof Meyer: Complete Works for Cello and Piano / Mizerska, Abbate, Glensk

1 CD / Toccata / 2009-07-14

Works: Krysztof Meyer: Sonata for cello & piano no 1, Op. 62; Canzona for cello & piano, Op. 56; Sonata for cello & piano no 2, Op. 99
Performers: Abbate, Emma; Glensk, Katarzyna; Mizerska, Evva

Krzysztof Meyer, a student of Penderecki, Lutoslawski, and Nadia Boulanger, is one of the leading Polish composers of the day. His music marries a powerful...continue...

B. Tchaikovsky: Song-Cycles and Chamber Music / Filonova, Nikolayeva, et al

1 CD / Toccata / 2009-05-12

Works: Boris Tchaikovsky: Poems (4) by Josef Brodsky, for soprano & piano; From Kipling, for soprano & piano; Trio for violin, viola & cello; Poems (2) by Mikhail Lermontov, for soprano & piano; Pieces (2),...
Performers: Archakova, Marina; Ershov, Kirill; Filonova, Olga; Khutoriansky, Alexey; Nikolayeva, Svetlana; Serov, Lev; Solovieva, Olga

Boris Tchaikovsky (1925–1996), no relation to his better-known namesake, was one of the leading Russian composers of the 20th century. His music has recently been...continue...

Julius Burger: Cello Concerto, etc / Beiser, Young, et al

1 CD / Toccata / 2007-03-23

Works: Julius Burger: Stille der Nacht, for baritone & orchestra; Scherzo, for Strings; Concerto for Cello; Variations on a Theme of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; Legende, for baritone & orchestra
Performers: Beiser, Maya; Kraus, Michael [Tenor/Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Young, Simone
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

"Performances and sonics are all that could be wished. Everything here is a pleasure, the two vocal works and the cello concerto in particular marvelous...continue...

Tovey: Cello Concerto, Air, Elegiac Variations / Neary, Vass

1 CD / Toccata / 2007-01-09

Works: Donald Francis Tovey: Concerto for cello & orchestra in C major, Op. 40; Air (Andante cantabile) for strings; Elegiac Variations, Op 25
Performers: Dowdeswell, Gretel; Neary, Alice
Conductors: Vass, George
Ensemble: Ulster Orchestra

After the runaway success of the first release of Tovey's 'Symphony in D' (TOC 33), this second CD brings three more works - one a...continue...

Georg von Bertouch: Trio Sonatas / Bergen Barokk

1 CD / Toccata / 2007-01-09

Works: Georg von Bertouch: Trio Sonata for 2 violins & continuo no 8 in G Major; March, for viola da gamba, recorder & continuo, no 106 (Music-Book of Jacob Mestmacher); Aria, for viola da gamba, recorder &...
Performers: Eike, Bjarte [Violin]; Luolajan-Mikkola, Markku; Spissky, Peter
Conductors:
Ensemble: Bergen Barokk

Bertouch's trios - never before recorded - are interspersed with dances from an eighteenth-century Bergen manuscript used in domestic music making. The musicians of Bergen...continue...

Mozart: Cello Sonatas / Kniazev, Oganessian

1 CD / Toccata / 2006-11-14

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for violin & piano no 27 in G major, K. 379 (K. 373a); Divertimento for Oboe, 2 Horns and Strings no 11 in D major, K 251; Sonata for Violin and Piano in F major, K 37...
Performers: Kniazev, Alexander; Oganessian, Edouard

"I have been completely taken by Russian cellist Alexander Kniazev's reworking of three of Mozart's sonatas for violin and piano. Mozart has not only been...continue...