Instrumental Ensemble

Classical Beatles

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-11-03

Works: John Lennon: Yesterday; She's Leaving Home; A Hard Day's Night; Penny Lane; All You Need Is Love; Hey Jude; Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da; Let It Be; Girl; Ticket to Ride; Paperback Writer; Honey Pie; Maxwell's...
Performers: Barrueco, Manuel; Garrett, Lesley [Soprano Vocals]; Garrett, Lesley [Soprano Vocal]; Harvey, Jonathan [Oboe]; Mather, Zoe; Tanenbaum, David [Guitar]; Yang, Xue Fei
Conductors: Edlinger, Richard; ; Ellis, Philip; Lubbock, Jeremy; Nemcová, Miriam; Goodwin, Ron; Wilkinson, Arthur; Martin, George
Ensemble: ; Instrumental Ensemble; Kindred Spirits; Rostal & Schaefer Piano Duo

The Beatles were and remain the most influential pop group of all time and their songs have been covered not only by many other groups...continue...

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...

Yehudi Menuhin - The Great EMI Recordings

51 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-04-21

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 2 in F major, BWV 1047; Brandenburg Concerto no 3 in G major, BWV 1048; Brandenburg Concerto no 5 in D major, BWV 1050; Concerto for 2 Violins in D mino...
Performers: Aronowitz, Cecil; Balsam, Artur; Barshai, Rudolf; Bennett, William; Cassadó, Gaspar; Cassad?, Gaspar; Civil, Alan; Cocker, Paul; Curzon, Clifford; de los Angeles, Victoria; Debost, Michel; Don...
Conductors: Menuhin, Yehudi; Enescu, George; Monteux, Pierre; Dorati, Antal; Boulez, Pierre; Furtwängler, Wilhelm; Pritchard, John; Silvestri, Constantin; Kletzki, Paul; Boult, Adrian; Panufnik, Andrzej; Da...
Ensemble: ; Alan Clare Trio; Bath Festival Ensemble; Instrumental Ensemble

This 50-CD set features Sir Yehudi Menuhin's most celebrated EMI recordings, made during his extraordinary 70-year exclusive recording relationship with the company. Includes works by...continue...
Includes work(s) by Manuel de Falla....continue...

Classical Kids - A Classical Kids Christmas

1 CD / Children's Group / 2007-10-09

Works: Susan Hammond: A Classical Kids Christmas, holiday pageant with Christmas carols, seasonal poetry & narration
Performers: Bella, Mary; Borys, Roman; Cambre, Esteban; Chaplin, Catherine; Colvin, Michael; Elliot, Kirk; Hammond, Susan; Hathaway, Victoria; Hopkins, Jamie; Patipatanakoon, Annalee; Shulman, Suzanne; Wiens, Ed
Conductors: Gay, Errol;
Ensemble: High Park Choirs of Toronto; Instrumental Ensemble

Celebrate Christmas with award-winning Classical Kids producer Susan Hammond (Beethoven Lives Upstairs, Mozart's Magic Fantasy) in this holiday collection the whole family will enjoy. Featuring...continue...
Personnel: Edith Wiens, Edward Wiens (vocals); Kirk Elliott (guitar, harp, percussion); Annalee Patipatanakoon (violin); Roman Borys (cello); Suzanne Shulmann (flute, piccolo); Susan Hammond (piano)....continue...

Best Baroque 100

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2006-08-29

Works: George Frederick Handel: Coronation Anthems (4); Solomon, HWV 67; Messiah, HWV 56; Water Music Suite no 2 in D major, HWV 349; Dixit Dominus, HWV 232; Giulio Cesare, HWV 17; Alcina, HWV 34; Jeremiah ...
Performers: André, Maurice [trumpet]; Andre, Maurice; Argenta, Nancy; Asperen, Bob van; Augér, Arleen; Auger, Arleen; Banchini, Chiara; Beckett, Rachel; Bennett, Mark; Bennett, Mark [Trumpet]; Blyt...
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen; Hickox, Richard; ; Parrott, Andrew; Haïm, Emmanuelle; Haïm, Emmanuelle; Leonhardt, Gustav; Norrington, Roger; Nelson, John; Rooley, Anthony; Rees, Jonathan; McCreesh, Pau...
Ensemble: ; Academy of Ancient Music; Academy of Ancient Music (UK); Academy of London; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Boston Early Music Festival Choir; Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra; Capella Ag...

Charpentier: Médée highlights; Monteverdi / Boulanger

1 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2006-07-06

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée, H 491
Performers: Conrad, Doda; Derenne, Paul; Kolassi, Irma; Sautereau, Nadine; Wend, Flora
Conductors: Boulanger, Nadia
Ensemble: Instrumental Ensemble; Vocal Ensemble

Fanfare
The transfers seem to have been effectively managed...with the Monteverdi, which always boasted surprisingly good sonics, still sounding like a much later recording...the disc is...continue...

Best Baroque 100

6 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2006-06-26

Performers: André, Maurice [trumpet]; Argenta, Nancy; Asperen, Bob van; Augér, Arleen; Banchini, Chiara; Beckett, Rachel; Bennett, Mark; Blythe, Stephanie; Boothby, Richard; Bowman, James; Brosse, ...
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen; Hickox, Richard; ; Parrott, Andrew; Haïm, Emmanuelle; Leonhardt, Gustav; Norrington, Roger; Nelson, John; Rooley, Anthony; Rees, Jonathan; McCreesh, Paul; Kraemer, Nicholas; S...
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music; Academy of London; Boston Early Music Festival Choir; Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra; Capella Agostino Steffani; Choir of the Age of Enlightenment; City of London Bar...

EMI's collection 100 Best Baroque includes a generous 460 minutes of some of the most familiar works or movements from works written during the Baroque era. There is a good mix of genres, including wo...continue...

A Tribute to Hughes Cuenod

2 CD / Cascavelle / 2006-03-01

Works: François Couperin: Leçons de tenébres; Qu'on ne me dise plus; Il faut aimer des qu'on scait plaire "La pastorelle"; Dans l'isle de Cythère "Les solitaires"; Audite omnes et expa...
Performers: Braquemond, Marthe; Brenner, Engelbert; Brink, Robert; Brooks, Paige; Cuenod, Hugues; Derenne, Paul; Giraudeau, Jean [tenor]; Joachim, H.; Lacour, Marcelle de; Pinkham, Daniel; Prior, Ferdinand; Salo...
Conductors: Pinkham, Daniel; Stravinsky, Igor; Meyer, Joseph-Victor; Evrard, Jane; Jaubert, Maurice
Ensemble: ; Concert Chorale of New York; Instrumental Ensemble; Mullhouse Oratorio Choir; Orchestra; Paris Women's Orchestra; ProMusica Chamber Orchestra; Vocal Ensemble

Here is an historic album that is more than the sum of its parts. The classic 1950 performance contained on CD1 of Couperin's Lamentations inspired...continue...

Rostropovich - The Russian Years - Knipper, Vainberg, et al

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2000-10-17

Works: Fernando Lopes-Graça: Concerto da càmera; Lev Konstantinovich Knipper: Concerto Monologue for cello, 7 brass instruments and 2 kettledrums; Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Concerto for Cello, Op. 43; ...
Performers: Amintayeva, Aza; Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Kondrashin, Kirill; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Blazhkov, Igor; Toyama, Yuzo
Ensemble: Instrumental Ensemble; Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra; Moscow Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra; USSR State Symphony Orchestra

A Thousand Ages - A Celebration of Hope / St. Olaf Cantorei

1 CD / GIA Publications / 2000-05-16

Works: Sir William McKie: We wait for Thy loving kindness; Alexander Gondo: Come, all you people; Anonymous: Lobe den herren, der alles so herrlich regieret; All creatures of our God and King; O come, O com...
Performers: Cross, Travis; Evers, Timothy; Ferguson, John; Gray, Charles; Kambs, Benjamin; Sasanfar, Justine
Conductors: Sorkin, David; Ferguson, John; Ogren, Jayce; Spencer, Kylee; Branton, Sarah
Ensemble: Instrumental Ensemble; Saint Olaf Cantorei

HERITAGE Lotte Lenya sings Weill - American Theater Songs

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1999-06-29

Works: Kurt Weill: Knickerbocker Holiday; Lady in the Dark; One Touch of Venus; Firebrand of Florence; Street Scene; Love life; Lost in the Stars; The Eternal Road; Die Dreigroschenoper; Paul Dessau: Mutter...
Performers: Gilford, Jack; Lenya, Lotte; Murphy, Turk
Conductors: Levine, Maurice; ; Hastings, Harold
Ensemble: Chorus; Instrumental Ensemble; Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars; Orchestra

"...Miss Lenya once again proves how great is the power of sheer artistry...Those who love Mr. Weill's Broadway songs and admire artistry in any field...continue...

Night Tracks

1 CD / Teldec / 1996-10-29

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 2 "London"; The lark ascending; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Johann Sebastian Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869; Suite for Cello solo no 6 in D majo...
Performers: Aldwell, Edward; Clarke, Mary; Katsaris, Cyprien; Lawler, Emmanuel; Leonskaja, Elisabeth; Little, Tasmin; Milman, Misha; Rautio, Erkki; Richter, Sviatoslav; Stacy, Tom; Watson, Ian
Conductors: Davis, Andrew, Sir; Masur, Kurt; Tchernushenko, Vladislav; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Foster, Lawrence; ; Wolff, Hugh; Rabinowitz, Harry; Simms, Philip
Ensemble: Anuna; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Borodin String Quartet; Camerata Tallinn; English Chamber Orchestra; Glinka State Academic Chorus Leningrad; Instrumental Ensemble; London Symphony Orchestra; Monte Car...

Portrait of Makoto Shinohara / Nishigata, Mitsuhashi, et al

1 CD / Camerata / 1994-12-01

Works: Makoto Shinohara: Nagare; Kyudo B; Tabiyuki; Birth of the Bass Koto; Cooperation
Performers: Eiso, Shigemitsu; Katsuta, Soichi; Kikuchi, Teiko; Kimura, Mari; Kitamura, Genzo; Komuro, Masahiro; Mitsuhashi, Kifu; Murata, Atsuo; Nakagawa, Masami; Nakakoji, Atsumi; Nishigata, Akiko; Ogawa, Akiko...
Conductors: Komatsu, Kazuhiko
Ensemble: ; Instrumental Ensemble

Ensemble Vocal Euterpe Lausanne en concert

1 CD / Gallo / 1994-06-01

Works: Anonymous: Reveillez vous, Piccars; Past three a clock; Clément Janequin: Si Dieu vouloit que je fuesse, M 232; Au verd boys je m'en iray, M 132; Claude Debussy: Chansons (3) de Charles d'Orl...
Performers: Amrein, Marianne; Delafontaine, Christian; Rechsteiner, Yves; Sartoretti, Christine
Conductors: Gesseney, Christophe
Ensemble: Euterpe Vocal Ensemble; Instrumental Ensemble

Rorem: Piano Concerto for Left Hand, etc / Graffman, Previn

1 CD / New World / 1994-04-01

Works: Ned Rorem: Concerto for Piano no 4, for left hand & orchestra; Eleven Studies for Eleven Players
Performers: Chang, Choong-Jin; Copes, Steven; Englichova, Katerina; Graffman, Gary; Lafargue, Anthony; Lastrapes, Jeffrey; Leveille, Ryan; Lord, Kathy; Ostling, Elizabeth; Raden, Gregory; Sutte, Jack; Uchida, Re...
Conductors: Previn, Andre; Milanov, Rossen
Ensemble: Curtis Institute Orchestra; Instrumental Ensemble

Candelight Carols / Jones, Choir of Trinity Church Boston

1 CD / Decca / 1990-10-16

Works: John Francis Wade: Adeste fideles; John Rutter: Candlelight Carol; Shepherd's Pipe Carol; Traditional: Carol of the Bells; The first nowell; What is this lovely fragrance?; King Jesus hath a garden; ...
Performers: DiPerna, Gary; Frederick Aldrich [French Horn]; Matthew Sonneborn; Michael Zion; Nomura, Christopher; Nomura, Christopheren; Oakes, Dana; Offenlock, Gary; Ranck, John; Raymond, Gloria; Ross Wood; Rut...
Conductors: Jones, Brian
Ensemble: Instrumental Ensemble; Trinity Church Choir, Boston

Candlelight Carols features the Trinity Church Choir performing a variety of holiday favorites. Featured performances include "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Candlelight Carol," "Carol of the Bells," and "...continue...

Karkoff: 7 Pezzi, 6 Chinese Impressions, / Westerberg, et al

1 CD / Swedish Society Discofil / 1988-03-16

Works: Maurice Karkoff: Pieces (7) for large orchestra, Op. 63; Chinese Impressions (6) for voice & ensemble, Op. 116; Vision, for orchestra, Op. 79; Serious Songs (6), for voice & orchestra, Op. 14; Sympho...
Performers: Dorow, Dorothy; Johansson, Roland; Lannerholm, Torleif; Meyer, Kerstin [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]
Conductors: Westerberg, Stig; Bell, Daniel [Violin]; Ehrling, Sixten
Ensemble: Instrumental Ensemble; Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra