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Neeme Jarvi - Highlights from a remarkable 30-year recording career

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2012-07-31

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Carnival Overture, Op. 92; Slavonic Dances (8) for Orchestra, Op. 72/B 147; Johan Halvorsen: La Mélancolie, for string orchestra (after Ole Bull's "Lament"); Entry March of ...
Performers: Berman, Boris; Finnie, Linda [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Kaptain, Laurence; Lott, Felicity [Soprano Vocal]; Madozzi, Melina; Mishura, Irina; Murphy, Suzanne
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

This year, we celebrate the thirty-year conducting career of Neeme Järvi with Chandos Records, as well as the conductor's own seventy-fifth birthday.

We mark the occasion

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Golden Age of Light Music: The Lost Transcriptions, Vol. 1

1 CD / Guild / 2011-05-10

Works: George Gershwin: Strike up the Band; Song of the Flame, song (for Song of the Flame, operetta by various composers); Jerome Kern: Swing Time; Ed Claypoole: Ragging the Scales, for pops orchestra; Dav...
Performers: Whiteson, Lou
Conductors: Torch, Sidney; Faith, Percy; Rose, David; van der Linden, Dolf; Spitalny, Phil; Stevens, Leith; Dragon, Carmen; Melachrino, George; Green, Philip; Bluestone, Harry; Williams, Lewis; Robinson, Eric; D...

Transcription Recordings refers to recordings of live performances made for use by broadcasting organizations before the advent of audio tape. During World War II transcriptions...continue...

Roots - My Life, My Song

2 CD / Sony Classical / 2010-06-15

Works: Traditional: African Drum Invocation; His eye is on the sparrow, song; Pretty Horses, song; God's Gonna Cut You Down, song; Anonymous: I Want Two Wings; Traditional Spiritual: I Couldn't Hear Nobody ...
Performers: Coleman, Ira; Johns, Steve [Drummer]; Lovatt, Mike; Markham, Mark; Martin Williams [Sax/Clarinet]; Norman, Jessye

Recording information: Philharmonie Berlin.

A sticker included on at least some versions of this Sony Classical release promises "music from Berlioz to Ellington," which would make it a pretty ...continue...

Revolutionary - Chopin, Bach, Liszt, Carpenter, Dupré, etc / Cameron Carpenter

1 CD / Telarc / 2008-09-23

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Etude for piano no 12 in C minor ("Revolutionary"), Op. 10/12, CT. 25; Etude for piano no 1 in C major, Op. 10/1, CT. 14; Cameron Carpenter: "Evolutionary" Toccata and Fugu...
Performers: Carpenter, Cameron

American Music - Adams, Gershwin, Bernstein, Ellington, Ives, Carter, etc / Sir Simon Rattle, London PO, et al

7 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-09-16

Works: John Adams: Harmonielehre; The Chairman Dances; Tromba Lontana, fanfare for orchestra; Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra; Charles Ives: New England Holidays Symphony; George Gershwi...
Performers: Allen, Geri; Atkinson, Lynton; Baker, Gregg; Barclay, John; Barnell, Andrew; Barrett, Brent; Barrington, Coleman; Blackwell, Harolyn [Soprano Vocals]; Braithwaite, Maureen; Carter, Regina [Violin]; C...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; London Sinfonietta

American classical composers often get unfairly overshadowed by their European counterparts, and a great deal of powerful, groundbreaking new music has passed under the radar...continue...

Bear Essentials - American Classcics

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-05-24

Works: Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the common man; Concerto for Clarinet; Old American Songs, Set 1; John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra; Duke Ellington: Do nothin' till you hear ...
Performers: Boer, Harmen de; Graham, Susan; Hilton, Janet; McNaught, Graeme; Shelley, Howard; White, Willard [Bass Vocals]
Conductors: Dufallo, Richard; Mosko, Stephen; Järvi, Neeme; Hickox, Richard; Turovsky, Yuli; Jeanes, Major E. W.; Tortelier, Yan Pascal; Stephens, D.S.; ; Slatkin, Leonard; Dausgaard, Thomas; Bamert, Matthi...
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemb; Blues & Royals Band; Center City Brass Quintet; Cranwell Royal Air Force College Band; Detroit Symphony Orchestra; I Musici de Montréal; N...

Favourite Encores / Järvi, Detroit Symphony Orchestra

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-08-28

Works: Emmanuel Chabrier: Le roi malgré lui, opéra-comique in 3 acts; Mikhail Glinka: Kamarinskaya (Russian scherzo), fantasy for orchestra, G. ii105; Valse-Fantaisie, for orchestra in B minor...
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

"The Detroit Symphony has never sounded better, and the engineering of the recording is outstanding." -Fanfare "An attractive collection of encores... an entertaining and tuneful...continue...

Ellington: Suite from The River, etc; Dawson / Järvi, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-05-22

Works: William Levi Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony, for orchestra; Duke Ellington: The River; Solitude; Harlem
Performers: Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Gould, Morton [Composer/Conductor]; Jarvi, Neeme; Lucas, William; White, Walter
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme

Recording information: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, Detroit, MI (01/12/1992-04/25/1993)....continue...

Vocal Gershwin and Ellington / Nabal, Vilaprinyó, et al

1 CD / La Ma De Guido / 1999-06-22

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Show is on; Strike up the Band; Lady, be Good; Duke Ellington: Black, Brown and Beige Suite; Solitude; Prelude to a Kiss
Performers: Nabal, Ruth; Vilaprinyó, Jordi
Conductors:
Ensemble: Barcelona Clarinet Quartet

Paul Robeson Sings Ol' Man River and Other Favorites

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 1987-01-01

Works: Jerome Kern: Show Boat; Fats Waller: Roll away, clouds; Nathaniel Shilkret: Lonesome road; Wiley: Got the South in My Soul; Clapham: Hush-a-Bye Lullaby; John Klenner: Round the bend of the road; Pepp...
Performers: Robeson, Paul