Souter, Martin > Classical Period

Hush a Bye: Music for Children - gentle lullabies and quiet music

1 CD / Gift of Music / 2012-10-30

Works: English Traditional: Hush a Bye Baby; Traditional: Sleep My Baby; Mervyn Burtch: Sleep, my gentle child; Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne for piano no 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109; Anonymou...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Giles, Ian; Souter, Martin; Spring, Matthew; Stowe, Sara

Gentle lullabies and quiet music combine to form this special program of music to invite sleep. Unlike most calming programs, this release relies on real...continue...
Includes work(s) by Anonymous....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

Suites & Solos

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

Works: George Frederick Handel: Solomon; Suite for Harpsichord in E major, HWV 430; Water Music Suite no 1 in F major, HWV 348; Suite no 7 (as used in the film "Got Rot Tunbridge Wells"); Johann Franz Xaver...
Performers: Amherst, Gabriel; Souter, Martin; Thomas, Jenny [Flute]; Williams, Guy
Conductors: Goodman, Roy; Williams, Guy

Chamber music by Handel & Stanley played on instruments of the period. A collection of chamber music from Georgian England by the leading composers of...continue...

Piano Classics For Garden Lovers

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

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Song Without Words for piano no 30 in A major ("Frühlingslied"), Op. 62/6; Work(s); Songs (6), Op. 57; Robert Schumann: Blumenstück for piano in D flat major, Op. 19; Vog...
Performers: Gregory, James; Souter, Martin

Unwind in the garden - whether real or imaginary! - with classical piano music chosen with the garden in mind. This relaxing programme of classics...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...

Time & Tide - Calming Classics

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

Works: Claude Debussy: L'isle joyeuse; Nocturnes; La mer; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Piano no 15 in C major ("Sonata semplice") K. 545; Felix Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, i...
Performers: Souter, Martin
Conductors: Simon, Geoffrey; Springer, Alois

A day by the sea; but there's not a kiss-me-quick hat or stick of rock in sight! Instead, imagine sitting on the cliff top or...continue...

A Musical Moment

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

Works: Ludwig Senfl: Vita in ligno moritur; Peter Philips: Pavana Dolorosa; Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Violin solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Piano no 14 in C min...
Performers: Blumental, Felicja; Ioff, Ilia; Piha, Sam; Sayce, Lynda; Souter, Martin; Vishnik, Martin
Conductors: Nanut, Anton; Wagner, Richard

Quiet music crossing four centuries, from the calm lute of the sixteenth century to the rich harmonies of the nineteenth, in a programme of some...continue...

Music for a Great House

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2004-09-01

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Prelude to the Te Deum; George Frederick Handel: Solomon; Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op. 3 no 2; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 violins, cello, strings & continuo in ...
Performers: Souter, Martin
Conductors: Goodman, Roy; ; Popv, Papel
Ensemble: ; Camerata Instrumentale

The splendours of a great house, its vistas and grand entrances, are captured in this programme of music from the Baroque to the Romantic, from...continue...

Music for Mothers

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2003-02-01

Works: Claude Debussy: Arabesques (2) for Piano; Clair de lune; Serenade for the doll, for piano (Children's Corner no 3), L. 113/3; Luigi Boccherini: Menuett; Anton Rubinstein: Melodies (2) for Piano, Op 3...
Performers: Banks, Jon [Harp]; Hill, Sarah; Souter, Martin

A charming album which combines music evoking children and childish things with music for moments of repose for a tired mum! A perfect gift for...continue...

Constable: Great Music from the Age of English Landscape

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

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"; Ignace Joseph Pleyel: Sonatina for piano no 5 in G major; Sonatina for piano no 10 in B flat major; Sonata for flute & harpsichord i...
Performers: Souter, Martin
Conductors: Rezucha, Bystrik; Jackson, Don

Beautiful music evoking the lost idyll of Constable's pastoral landscapes. Music byBeethoven and Mozart rpovides the period feel alongside gentle flute and piano pieces by...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...

Reflections

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

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 21 in C major, K 467; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano no 8 in C minor, Op. 13...
Performers: Korner, Gunther; Lang, Peter [Piano]; Lester, Richard [Cello]; Ricci, Ruggiero; Souter, Martin
Conductors: Duvier, Eugen; Pitamic, Alexander von; ; Kuntsch, Matthias; Rezucha, Bystrik; Peters, Reinhard
Ensemble: ; Bamberg Piano Quintet

Adagios, Largos and Andante - composers of the past poured out their deepest thoughts in these slow movements of this orchestral, chamber and piano album....continue...

Impressions

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

Works: Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt; Peer Gynt Suite no 2, Op. 55; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the animals; Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15; Erik Satie: Gymn...
Performers: Bohle, Walter; Flachot, Reine; Sitzius, Bianca; Souter, Martin
Conductors: Pesek, Libor; Markevitch, Igor; Rajski, Wojciech

Musical pictures of nature form the inspiration for this relaxing album of piano and orchestral masterworks by Grieg, Chopin, Beethoven and others....continue...

Georgian Splendour

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

Works: George Frederick Handel: Solomon; Suite for Harpsichord in E major, HWV 430; Water Music Suite no 1 in F major, HWV 348; Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op. 3 no 2; John Stanley: Solo for flute or v...
Performers: Amherst, Gabriel; Cave, Philip; Coe, Jane; Hanson, Peter; Souter, Martin; Thomas, Jenny [Flute]; Williams, Guy
Conductors: Goodman, Roy

Music for elegant living; Includes Handel's Water Music...continue...