Symphony of the Air

Chopin: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 / Arthur Rubinstein, piano

1 CD / RCA Records Import / 2012-02-21

Conductors: Wallenstein, Alfred; Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw
Ensemble: New Symphony Orchestra of London; Symphony of the Air

BBC Music Magazine
These recordings contain some fine playing, even if they don't always show pianist Arthur Rubinstein at his sparkling best.
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The Essential Arthur Rubinstein

2 CD / RCA Records / 2009-10-13

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Fantasy-Impromptu for piano in C sharp minor, Op. 66, CT. 46; Waltz for piano no 9 in A flat major ("L'adieu") Op. 69/1, CT. 215; Concerto for Piano no 1 in E minor, B 53/O...
Performers: Fournier, Pierre; Rubinstein, Artur [Piano]; Szeryng, Henryk
Conductors: Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw; Wallenstein, Alfred
Ensemble: New Symphony Orchestra of London; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

One of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, Arthur Rubistein received international acclaim, especially for his performances of Chopin. Born in Poland in 1887...continue...

Villa-Lobos: Bachiana brasileiras (excerpts), Chôros no 1 & 5, etc / de los Angeles, Sayao, Villa-Lobos, Mariner, et al

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-10-28

Works: Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachiana brasileira no 5 for Soprano and 8 Cellos; Chôro no 1 for Guitar; Bachianas Brasileiras no 4, for piano & orchestra, A. 424; Bachiana brasileira no 2 for Orchestra; C...
Performers: Barrueco, Manuel; de los Angeles, Victoria; Ghiglia, Oscar; Harle, John; Osorio, Jorge Federico; Sayao, Bidu [Soprano Vocals]; Tagliaferro, Magda
Conductors: Villa-Lobos, Heitor; Bátiz, Enrique; Marriner, Sir Neville
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; French National Radio Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

The Essential Van Cliburn

2 CD / RCA Records / 2007-07-10

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23; Sergey Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Concerto for Piano no 3 in D minor, Op. 30; Etudes-tableaux...
Performers: Cliburn, Van
Conductors: Kondrashin, Kirill; Reiner, Fritz
Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; RCA Symphony Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

Saint-Saëns, Liszt, Franck / Wallenstein, Rubinstein, et al

1 Super Audio CD / RCA Records / 2007-06-26

Works: Camille Saint-Saëns: Concerto for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 22; César Franck: Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra, M 46; Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E flat major, S 124
Performers: Rubinstein, Artur [Piano]
Conductors: Wallenstein, Alfred
Ensemble: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

With unique style and grace, the legendary pianist Arthur Rubenstein reawakens the fire and glamour in a trio of sophisticated Romantic works for piano....continue...

In Memory of Arturo Toscanini / Munch, Walter, Monteux

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-06-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Recorded Sound: Applause; Claude Debussy: La mer; Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, O...
Conductors: Walter, Bruno; Munch, Charles; Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: Symphony of the Air

Chopin: Piano Concertos no 1 & 2 / Rubinstein, et al

1 Super Audio CD / RCA Records / 2005-07-26

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E minor, B 53/Op. 11; Concerto for Piano no 2 in F minor, B 43/Op. 21
Performers: Rubinstein, Artur [Piano]
Conductors: Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw; Wallenstein, Alfred
Ensemble: New Symphony Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

"Arthur Rubinstein shouldn't be the only Chopin pianist in your collection, but he should probably be the first... Rubenstein's performances here are full of gently...continue...

Rhapsodies - Liszt, Enesco, Smetana, et al / Stokowski

1 Super Audio CD / RCA Records / 2005-07-26

Works: Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano, S 244; George Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody no 1 in A major, Op. 11 no 1; Bedrich Smetana: Má vlast; Bartered Bride, B 143/T 93; Richard Wagner: Tri...
Performers: Froelich, Ralph; Garnick, Arthur; Schuman, Henry; Shapiro, Harvey [Cello]; Wright, Marilyn
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

The flash and fire of Liszt, the emotional surges of Smetana, the guts and glory of Wagner - all the colors in Stokowski's rhapsodic repertoire...continue...

Historical - Barber: 2nd Essay, etc / Golschmann, et al

1 CD / Artemis / 2005-06-28

Works: Samuel Barber: Second Essay, for orchestra, Op. 17; Music for a Scene from Shelley, for orchestra, Op. 7; A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, for male chorus & 3 tympani, Op. 15; A Hand of Bridge, chamb...
Performers: Lewis, William; Maero, Philip; Neway, Patricia
Conductors: Golschmann, Vladimir
Ensemble: Robert DeCormier Singers; Symphony of the Air

The Millennium Collection - The Best of Andrés Segovia

1 CD / Hip-O / 2004-11-09

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for Cello; Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996; Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B minor, BWV 1002; Partita for Lute in C minor, BWV 997; Francisco Tárrega: Recuerdos ...
Performers: Segovia, Andres
Conductors: Jorda, Enrique
Ensemble: Symphony of the Air

Guitar - Greatest Hits

1 CD / Decca / 2003-11-04

Works: Isaac Albéniz: Suite española no 1, for piano, Op. 47, B. 7; España, 6 Feuilles d'album, Op. 165; Enriqué Granados: Danzas (12) españolas for Piano, Op. 37; Francisco T...
Performers: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The; Fernandez, Eduardo [Classical Guitar]; LaGoya, Alexandre; Pendrill, Christine; Romero, Celin; Romero, Pepe; Segovia, Andres; Sollscher, Goran; Symphony of th...
Conductors: Füri, Thomas; Brown, Iona; Marriner, Sir Neville; Jorda, Enrique
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Camerata Bern; Symphony of the Air

This selection contains both ADD and DDD recordings.

Personnel: Alexandre Lagoya, Eduardo Fernandez , Celina Romero, Pepe Romero, Andrés Segovia, Göran Söllscher, Narciso Yepes ...continue...

Bruno Walter - Beethoven: Eroica - Carnegie Hall, 1957

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2003-10-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Conductors: Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: Symphony of the Air

A Total Embrace: The Composer

3 CD / Sony Classical / 2003-09-09

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Symphony no 1 "Jeremiah"; Serenade for Violin and Orchestra "after Plato's Symposium"; Symphony no 2 "Age of Anxiety"; I Hate Music, cycle of "5 kid songs" for s...
Performers: Adrian, Max; Alexander, Cris [Broadway]; Bernstein, Leonard; Calin, Mickey; Chaplin, Sydney; Chorus; Comden, Betty; Cook, Barbara [pop vcl]; Cooper, Marilyn; Ensemble; Entremont, Philippe; Girls, Sha...
Conductors: Bernstein, Leonard
Ensemble: Chorus; Columbia Jazz Band; Columbia Wind Ensemble; Ensemble; New York City Ballet Orchestra; New York Philharmonic; Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

Personnel: Leonard Bernstein (piano); Nancy Williams (mezzo soprano); Isaac Stern (violin); Benny Goodman (clarinet); Philippe Entremont (piano).

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was not only a br...continue...

The Segovia Collection Vol 1 - Rodrigo, Boccherini, Ponce

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2003-07-01

Works: Joaquín Rodrigo: Fantasía para un gentilhombre; Manuel Ponce: Concierto del sur for guitar & orchestra; Luigi Boccherini: Concerto for Cello in D major, G. 479
Performers: Bergen, Eugene; Bernstein, Jascha; Galimir, Felix; Granick, Arthur; Segovia, Andrés
Conductors: Jorda, Enrique
Ensemble: Symphony of the Air

The Art of Segovia - Tarrega, Torroba, Sor / Andrés Segovia (original recording remastered)

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2002-10-08

Works: Francisco Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra; Capricho árabe; Mazurkas (4) for Guitar; Federico Moreno Torroba: Romanza de los Piños; Madroños; Burgalesa; Fernando Sor: Variation...
Performers: Jorda, Enrique; Segovia, Andrés; Symphony of the Air
Conductors: Jorda, Enrique
Ensemble: Symphony of the Air

In a follow-up to the critically acclaimed 4-CD boxed set, "The Segovia Collection," DG presents this new "2 for 1" CD set which contains nearly...continue...

Essential Guitar - 24 Guitar Masterpieces / Romero, Segovia

2 CD / Decca / 2002-08-13

Works: Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar; Fantasía para un gentilhombre; Isaac Albéniz: España, 6 Feuilles d'album, Op. 165; Suite española no 1, for piano, Op. 47...
Performers: Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Fernandez, Eduardo [Classical Guitar]; Hall, Nicola; LaGoya, Alexandre; Pena, Paco; Presti, Ida; Romero, Celin; Romero, Pepe; Romeros, Los; Segovia, Andres; Sollscher, Goran; ...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Malcolm, George; Sillito, Kenneth; Almeida, Antonio de; Jorda, Enrique; Wordsworth, Barry
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; English Chamber Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

Segovia Collection

4 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2002-06-11

Works: Joaquín Rodrigo: Fantasía para un gentilhombre; Piezas (3) españolas, for guitar; Manuel Ponce: Concierto del sur for guitar & orchestra; Sonata for guitar No 1 ("Mexicana"); Luigi Boc...
Performers: Bergen, Eugene; Bernstein, Jascha; Galimir, Felix; Granick, Arthur; Segovia, Andrés
Conductors: Jorda, Enrique
Ensemble: Symphony of the Air

Rubinstein Adagios - Romantic Reveries / Arthur Rubinstein

1 CD / RCA Records / 2002-02-05

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 21 in C major, K 467; Edvard Grieg: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23; S...
Performers: Rubinstein, Artur [Piano]
Conductors: Wallenstein, Alfred; Leinsdorf, Erich; Ormandy, Eugene; Reiner, Fritz; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw
Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; New Symphony Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

Rubinstein Collcetion Vol 69 - Chopin: Piano Concerto, etc

1 CD / RCA Records / 2001-08-07

Works: Frédéric Chopin: Concerto for Piano no 2 in F minor, B 43/Op. 21; Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra in A major on Polish Airs, Op 13; Andante spianato et Grand polonaise brillante in E flat ...
Performers: Rubinstein, Artur [Piano]
Conductors: Ormandy, Eugene; Wallenstein, Alfred
Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

"This is Rubinstein at his aristocratic best, a recording I wouldn't be without." ***** Classic CD...continue...

Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody; Falla, Chopin / Rubinstein, Reiner

1 CD / RCA Records / 1997-10-14

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Manuel de Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain; Frédéric Chopin: Andante spianato et Grand polonaise brillante in E flat major, Op. 22
Performers: Rubinstein, Artur [Piano]
Conductors: Reiner, Fritz; Jorda, Enrique; Wallenstein, Alfred
Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

Leopold Stokowski conducts Vaughan Williams, et al

1 CD / Bridge / 1997-05-20

Works: Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, for string orchestra (arr. from String Sextet, Op.4)
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: Symphony of the Air

Isaac Stern - A Life In Music - Bernstein, Dutilleux

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1995-07-25

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Serenade for Violin and Orchestra "after Plato's Symposium"; Henri Dutilleux: L'arbre des songes, concerto for violin & orchestra
Performers: Stern, Isaac
Conductors: Bernstein, Leonard; Maazel, Lorin
Ensemble: ORTF National Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

"...Stern seems a natural for this kind of music. His touch is light yet precise, energetic but never shrill. Maazel wrings a fine performance from...continue...

Isaac Stern Collection - The Early Concerto Recordings Vol 2

3 CD / Sony Classical / 1990-08-14

Works: Edouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, for violin & orchestra in D minor, Op. 21; Max Bruch: Concerto for Violin no 1 in G minor, Op. 26; Pablo de Sarasate: Ziegeunerweisen; Jean Sibelius: Concerto for V...
Performers: Bernstein, Leonard; Bruch, Max; Lalo, Edouard; Saint-Saens, Camille; Sibelius, Jean; Stern, Isaac; Wieniawski, Henryk
Conductors: Ormandy, Eugene; Waxman, Franz; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Bernstein, Leonard; Mitropoulos, Dimitri; Kurtz, Efrem
Ensemble: New York Philharmonic; Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Symphony of the Air

Personnel: Isaac Stern (violin)....continue...

Rachmaninov: Concerto no 3; Prokofiev / Van Cliburn

1 CD / RCA Records / 1987-06-16

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano no 3 in D minor, Op. 30; Sergey Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano no 3 in C major, Op. 26
Conductors: Kondrashin, Kirill; Hendl, Walter
Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Symphony of the Air