Robertson, David

Music Painters [5 CDs]

7 CD / Naïve / 2012-01-31

Works: Maurice Ravel: Une barque sur l'océan, for orchestra; Rêves, song for voice & piano; Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 1; Deux mélodies hébraïques (Two Hebraic Melodies); Conc...
Performers: Armstrong, Louis; Ashkenazy, Vovka; Barreaux, Gerard; Berezovsky, Boris [Piano]; Blumenthal, Daniel; Bon, Maarten; Bostridge, Ian; Bruns, Peter; Cabasso, Laurent; Casals, Pablo; Cassard, Philippe; Ch...
Conductors: Krivine, Emmanuel; Robertson, David; Equilbey, Laurence; ; Grindenko, Anatoly; Yablonsky, Dmitry; Mihaylov, Zdravko; Von der Goltz, Gottfried; Spering, Christoph; Jean, Kenneth; Halász, Michael;...
Ensemble: ; Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars; Duo Campion-Vachon; Ensemble Kasbek; Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five; Rare Fruits Council; Tempo Jazz Men; Végh Quartet

Horizon 4

2 CD / RCO Live / 2012-01-10

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 5; Geert van Keulen: Fünf tragische Lieder, for voice & orchestra; Detlev Glanert: Fluss ohne Ufer, for orchestra; Willem Jeths: Scale 'le tombeau de Mahler', for orch...
Performers: Mijnders, Marijn; Naselow, Monica; Ogrintchouk, Alexei; Roth, Detlef; Van Rijen, Jorgen
Conductors: Zagrosek, Lothar; Stenz, Markus; Spanjaard, Ed; Robertson, David; Mälkki, Susanna

This fourth release in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's 'Horizon' Series brings together two forms of homage. CD 1 represents a tribute to Gustav Mahler, the...continue...
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Unsuk Chin: Fantaisie mécanique; Xi; Double Concerto / Ensemble Intercontemporain

1 CD / Kairos Music Production / 2011-05-10

Works: Unsuk Chin: Fantaisie mécanique, for 5 instruments; Xi, for ensemble & electronics; Akrostichon-Wortspiel, 7 scenes from fairy tales for soprano & orchestra; Concerto for Piano and Percussion ...
Performers: Favre, Samuel; Komsi, Piia; Vassilakis, Dimitri
Conductors: Davin, Patrick; Robertson, David; Ono, Kazushi; Asbury, Stefan
Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

Like "Xi" and "Fantaisie mécanique," the Double Concerto for prepared piano, percussion, and ensemble (2002) was written for the Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain. Its central compositiona...continue...

Les Musiques de Claude Monet: Ravel, Debussy, Fauré & Saint-Saëns

1 CD / Naïve / 2010-11-16

Works: Maurice Ravel: Miroirs; Rêves, song for voice & piano; Claude Debussy: Suite Bergamasque; Danse sacrée et danse profane; Préludes; Estampes; Images; Petite Suite pour piano à quat...
Performers: Blumenthal, Daniel; Cassard, Philippe; Desjardins, Dominique; Fontaine, Bruno; Gaillard, Ophelie; Gastinel, Anne; Immerseel, Jos van; Kruysen, Bernard; Lee, Noel [Piano]; Manoff, Susan; Moragues, Mic...
Conductors: Krivine, Emmanuel; Robertson, David; Equilbey, Laurence

Horizon, Vol. 3

1 Super Audio CD / RCO Live / 2010-10-12

Works: Michel van der Aa: Spaces of Blank, for voice & orchestra; Otto Ketting: Trajecten in four movements, for orchestra; Tristan Keuris: Antologia for orchestra; Sofia Gubaidulina: Der Reiter auf dem wei...
Performers: Stotijn, Christianne
Conductors: Spanjaard, Ed; Stenz, Markus; Robertson, David

With this third release in the Horizon series, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra once again underlines the importance of contemporary music in its concert programming. The...continue...
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Tristan Keuris: Complete Works

12 CD / Quattro Records / 2010-09-14

Works: Tristan Keuris: Quartet for orchestra; Play for clarinet & piano; Choral Music 1, for orchestra; Concerto for saxophone quartet & orchestra; Piano Sonata; Alto Saxophone Concerto; Concertante Music, ...
Performers: Beekman, Marcel; Benoist, Agnes; Berkhemer, Joan; Bornkamp, Arno; Brackman, Bernd; Braune, Herman; Bruins, Theo; Dekkers, Miny; Doeselaar, Leo Van; Eckhardt, René; Geerlings, Ingrid; Gruithuyz...
Conductors: Hupperts, Paul; Schaefer, Henrik; ; Leenders, Hans; Porcelijn, David; De Waart, Edo; Vis, Lucas; Dufallo, Richard; Ketting, Otto; Haitink, Bernard; Zielhorst, Frank; Howarth, Elgar; Tausk, Otto; Hame...
Ensemble: ; Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet; Aurelia Saxophone Quartet; Brass of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Brass); Ensemble M; Ensemble of the Royal Conservatory of the Hague; Gaudeamus Quartet; Neth...

All of the official works of Tristan Keuris (1946 - 1996) in one box - fifty compositions from a life that was granted only that...continue...

American Clarinet

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-01-26

Works: Elliott Carter: Concerto for Clarinet; Gra; Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint; Howard Sandroff: Tephillah, for clarinet and electronics; John Adams: Gnarly Buttons
Performers: Damiens, Alain; Rossi, Franck; Trouttet, Andre
Conductors: Robertson, David
Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

Holnd Fstvl - A Dutch Miracle - Fifty Years - 1947-1997

7 CD / Globe / 2009-09-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Ernani; Falstaff; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492...
Performers: Alva, Luigi; Ameling, Elly; Andreolli, Florindo; Andriessen, Louis; Arnaud, Claudine; Barbieri, Fedora; Barick, David; Barwahser, Hubert; Beekman, Marcel; Benschop, Yvonne; Berberian, Cathy; Beretty,...
Conductors: Giulini, Carlo Maria; Molinari-Pradelli, F.; Rescigno, Nicola; Abbado, Claudio; Maderna, Bruno; De Waart, Edo; Berio, Luciano; Britten, Benjamin; Alldis, John; Duffalo, Richard; Friesen, Heinz; Leeuw...
Ensemble: American Wind Orchestra; ASKO Ensemble; Bologna Teatro Comunale Chorus; Danzi Woodwind Quintet; English Opera Group; Ensemble InterContemporain; Ensemble Modern; Hague Residentie Orchestra; Instrumen...

Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony, Guide to Strange Places / St. Louis SO

1 CD / Nonesuch / 2009-07-28

Works: John Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony; Guide to Strange Places
Performers: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Conductors: Robertson, David
Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

"...the distillation of the score [of the Doctor Atomic Symphony]...creates its own unique impact...this powerful score creates its own dramatic imagery...the real find is the...continue...

Manoury: Fragments pour un portrait, Partita no 1 / Mälkki, Desjardins, et al

1 CD / Kairos Music Production / 2009-05-12

Works: Philippe Manoury: Fragments pour un portrait, for viola & ensemble; Partita 1, for voice & electronics
Performers: Desjardins, Christophe; Schwarz, Diemo
Conductors: Mälkki, Susanna; Robertson, David
Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

An original idea in line with the programs led by Grame, founded in 1982 by Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou and James Giroudon and centered on computer-assisted scientific...continue...

Bolcom: Cabaret Songs; Schoenberg, etc / Brüggergosman

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2007-10-09

Works: William Bolcom: Cabaret Songs (12), Vol 1 and 2; Arnold Schoenberg: Brettl-Lieder; Erik Satie: La diva de l'Empire, song for voice & piano; Tendrement, valse chantée for voice & piano; L' Omnibu...
Performers: Bolcom, William [Composer]; Brueggergosman, Measha
Conductors: Robertson, David
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

"[Brueggergosman's] lusty reading of Bolcom's little vignettes of everyday life is far superior to the arch treatments they are sometimes given. She may even find...continue...

Mélancolie

2 CD / Naïve / 2006-02-21

Works: Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei; Gabriel Fauré: Elégie for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 24; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Concerto for Piano no 21 in C major...
Performers: Aimard, Pierre-Laurent; Anorga, Solange; Bavouzet, Jean-Efflam; Bayo, Maria; Cabasso, Laurent; Chiama, Jean-Francois; Christie, Nan; Eloir, Cecile; Gastinel, Anne; Greacen, Timothy; Hill, Martyn; Kaz...
Conductors: Equilbey, Laurence; Krivine, Emmanuel; Von der Goltz, Gottfried; Gardiner, John Eliot; Antonini, Giovanni; Alessandrini, Rinaldo; Griffiths, Howard; Spering, Christoph; Robertson, David; Sempe, Skip;...
Ensemble: ; Accentus Chamber Choir; Chorus Musicus; Concerto Italiano; Das Neue Orchester; English Baroque Soloists; Il Giardino Armonico; Les talens lyriques; Lyon National Orchestra; Orlando Gibbons Viol Ens...

The Secret of Dvorák's Cello Concerto / Vogler, et al

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2005-11-15

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Leave me alone (Lasst mich allein), song for voice & piano, B. 157/1 (Op. 82/1); Concerto for Cello in B minor, Op. 104/B 191; Zigeunermelodien (7), Op. 55; Stephen Foster: Jeann...
Performers: Deutsch, Helmut; Kirchschlager, Angelika [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]
Conductors: Bernstein, Leonard; Robertson, David
Ensemble: ; New York Philharmonic

Here is a surprising and fresh interpretation of Dvoraks Cello Concerto featuring acclaimed German cellist Jan Vogler. To enhance this epic work, and to offer...continue...

The Jessye Norman Collection - A Christmas Collection

2 CD / Philips / 2005-11-08

Works: Christmas Traditional: O come, o come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, Emmanuel), carol; Unto Us Is Born A Son (Puer nobis nascitur; Piae Cantiones, 1582); Good Christian Men, Rejoice (a.k.a. "All Christians N...
Performers: Cutler, Sara; Hancock, Gerre; Huff, Harry; Norman, Jessye; Smith, Timothy Edward
Conductors: DeCormier, Robert; Robertson, David
Ensemble: ; Empire Chamber Ensemble

20/21 Chin: Akrostichon-Wortspiel, etc / Intercontemporain

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2005-03-08

Works: Unsuk Chin: Akrostichon-Wortspiel, 7 scenes from fairy tales for soprano & orchestra; Fantaisie mécanique, for 5 instrumentalists; Xi, for electronic ensemble; Concerto for Piano and Percussion ...
Performers: Chin, Unsuk; Favre, Samuel; Komsi, Piia; Seelig, Thomas; Vassilakis, Dimitri
Conductors: Ono, Kazushi; Davin, Patrick; Robertson, David; Asbury, Stefan
Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

Bartók: Le Mandarin Merveilleux / Robertson, Lyon National

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2002-09-01

Works: Béla Bartók: Dance Suite for Orchestra, Sz 77; Pieces (4) for Orchestra, Op. 12/Sz 51; Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19/Sz 73
Conductors: Robertson, David; Tetu, Bernard
Ensemble: ; Lyon National Orchestra

A story of desire and death, "The Miraculous Mandarin" is one of Bartok's most Expressionist works. Its subject provoked scandal and censorship when it was...continue...

Musique Française Vol 2 - Ferroud, Lalo, Schmitt, Vieuxtemps

5 CD / Naïve / 2001-10-16

Works: Edouard Lalo: Namouna, ballet in 2 acts; Florent Schmitt: Symphonie Concertante, for orchestra & piano, Op. 82; Rêves, for orchestra, Op. 65; Soirs, 8 pieces for small orchestra, Op. 5; Pierre O...
Performers: Ponet, Luc; Poulet, Gerard; Sermet, Huseyin
Conductors: Robertson, David; Bartholomée, Pierre

Milhaud: Le carnaval d'Aix, etc / Robertson, Nagano, et al

2 CD / Teldec (USA) Import / 1999-06-08

Works: Darius Milhaud: Le carnaval d'Aix (11), fantasy for piano & orchestra, Op. 83b; Concerto, for piano & orchestra (or 3 or 2 pianos) no 1, Op. 127; Études (5), for piano and orchestra, Op. 63; Con...
Performers: Cambreling, Frederique; Heiffer, Claude
Conductors: Robertson, David; Nagano, Kent
Ensemble: Lyon Opera Orchestra; ORTF National Orchestra

Roger Reynolds - The Paris Pieces

2 CD / Neuma / 1996-08-01

Works: Roger Reynolds: Odyssey, an opera in the mind, for soloists, ensemble & computer processed sound; Summer Island, for oboe & computer generated sound; Archipelago, for 32 instruments & computer genera...
Performers: Dunn, Scott; Kobayashi, Marie; Larson, Philip
Conductors: Robertson, David; Eötvös, Peter
Ensemble: ; Ensemble InterContemporain