Cummings, Douglas

Tchaikovsky: Ballet Highlights - Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker / André Previn

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-08-28

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20; Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66; The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Performers: Brown, John; Cummings, Douglas; Haendel, Ida
Conductors: Previn, Andre
Ensemble: ; London Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky's great ballet scores are symphonic tone paintings full of drama and emotional power. André Previn's time as head of the London Symphony Orchestra was...continue...

Tchaikovsky: Ballet Highlights / André Previn

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-01-24

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20; Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66; The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Performers: Brown, John; Cummings, Douglas; Haendel, Ida
Conductors: Previn, Andre
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Music for Piano & Orchestra / Lowenthal, Comissiona, London SO

2 CD / Bridge / 2009-07-14

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23; Concert Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra in G major, Op. 56; Concerto for Piano no 2 in G major, Op. 44; Concerto for Piano...
Performers: Cummings, Douglas; Davis, Michael [Violin]; Lowenthal, Jerome
Conductors: Comissiona, Sergiu
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

This marvelous two disc set brings back into the catalog Jerome Lowenthal's superb readings of all four of the works that Tchaikovsky wrote for piano...continue...

Downey: Concerto for double-bass; Discourse

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: John Downey: Declamations; Discourse for oboe, harpsichord & Str; Jingalodeon; Concerto for double-bass & orchestra
Performers: Cummings, Douglas; de Vries, Han; Downey, John; Karr, Gary; Murphy, Maurice; Percy, Neil; Rodwell, Nicholas; Sappenfield, James
Conductors: Simon, Geoffrey

Schubert: Late String Quartets, etc / Lindsay Quartet

4 CD / ASV / 2004-08-24

Works: Franz Schubert: Quintet for Strings in C major, Op. 163/D 956; Quartet for Strings no 14 in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden"; Quartet for Strings no 12 in C minor, D 703/Op. posth "Quartettsatz"...
Performers: Cummings, Douglas

The British Cello Phenomenon / du Pré, Marriner, Isserlis

2 CD / Cello Classics / 2004-06-15

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell; Il barbiere di Siviglia; Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord no 1 in G major, BWV 1027; Suite for Cello solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1008;...
Performers: Baillie, Alexander; Barbirolli, John, Sir; Bartlett, Ethel; Benson, Clifford; Brown, Ian [Classical]; Byfield, Jack; Carr, Colin; Clark, Raymond; Cohen, Robert; Constable, John; Cummings, Douglas; Da...
Conductors: Cameron, Douglas; Fenby, Eric; Lambert, Constant; Marriner, Sir Neville; Finzi, Christopher; Gardelli, Lamberto; Litton, Andrew; Davis, Carl; Watkins, Paul
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; National Symphony Orchestra; Newbury String Players; Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Opera House ...

The British Cello Phenomenon: A Survey of 29 Great Performers

2 CD / The Classics Label / 2004-03-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell; Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord no 1 in G major, BWV 1027; Suite for Cello solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1008; Benjamin Godard: Jocelyn...
Performers: Baillie, Alexander; Barbirolli, John, Sir [Conductor]; Bartlett, Ethel; Benson, Clifford; Brown, Ian [Piano]; Byfield, Jack; Cameron, Douglas; Carr, Colin; Clark, Raymond; Cohen, Robert [Cello]; Cons...
Conductors: Fenby, Eric; Lambert, Constant; Finzi, Christopher; Gardelli, Lamberto; Marriner, Sir Neville; Litton, Andrew; Davis, Carl; Davies, Andrew
Ensemble: ; Newbury String Players

Schubert: String Quintet, String Quartets / The Lindsays

2 CD / ASV / 2001-02-27

Works: Franz Schubert: Quartet for Strings no 14 in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden"; Quartet for Strings no 12 in C minor, D 703/Op. posth "Quartettsatz"; Quintet for Strings in C major, Op. 163/D 956
Performers: Cummings, Douglas
Conductors:
Ensemble: The Lindsays

"These performances come from the mid-80s and cannot be praised too highly. Few groups respond better to the vein of intimate sadness that runs through...continue...

Tchaikovsky: The Ballets / Previn, London Symphony Orchestra

6 CD / EMI Classics / 1999-11-16

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a; Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Performers: Brown, John; Cummings, Douglas; Haendel, Ida
Conductors: Previn, Andre
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Vaughan-Williams, Elgar / Christopher Warren-Green

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 1994-08-20

Works: Edward Elgar: Introduction and Allegro, for string quartet & string orchestra in G major, Op. 47; Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20; Ralph Vaughan Williams: The lark ascending; Fantasia on Gree...
Performers: Balanescu, Alexander; Chase, Roger; Cummings, Douglas; Kanga, Skaila [Harp]; Warren-Green, Christopher [Violin/Conductor]; Warren-Green, Nigel

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Kremer, Abbado, London SO

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1991-03-12

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"
Performers: Cummings, Douglas; Kremer, Gidon; Pearson, Leslie [Keyboard]
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra