Mulligan, Simon

Paul Moravec: Useful Knowledge; Vita Brevis / Amy Burton, soprano

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-12-13

Works: Paul Moravec: Vita Brevis, for voice & piano; Characteristics, for piano; Useful Knowledge
Performers: Brauer, Cecilia; Burton, Amy; Mulligan, Simon; Scarlata, Randall
Conductors:
Ensemble: La Fenice (New York); Trio Solisti

This program of musical portraits by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec encompasses a song cycle, a cantata and a solo piano work. Vita Brevis is a...continue...
Recording information: Performing Arts Center at SUNY, Purchase, NY....continue...

A Different World

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2011-03-01

Works: James MacMillan: Kiss on Wood, for violin (or cello) & piano; After the Tryst, for violin & piano; A Different World, for violin & piano; Fourteen Little Pictures, for piano trio; Walfrid, on His Arr...
Performers: Harrington, Gregory; Mulligan, Simon; Stinson, Caroline

Recording information: BiCoastal Music, Ossining, NY (08/03/2009/08/06/2009)....continue...

José Serebrier conducts Ned Rorem

5 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-10-26

Works: Ned Rorem: The Waking, for voice & piano; Root Cellar, for voice & piano (from "Three Poems of Theodore Roethke"); My Papa's Waltz, for voice & piano; I Strolled Across an Open Field, for voice & pia...
Performers: Farley, Carole; Khaner, Jeffrey; Mulligan, Simon; Quint, Philippe; Rorem, Ned; Yang, Wen-Sinn
Conductors: Serebrier, José

"This stuff is simply gorgeous. Ned Rorem's symphonies are shot through with long, lyrical melodies that some observers might relate to his gifts as a...continue...

Band of Brothers

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2010-03-02

Works: Michael Kamen: Band of Brothers, television score; Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings in C sharp minor, Op. 131
Performers: Anderson, John; Andrews, Julie; Barclay, John; Carney, John; Dale, Caroline; Heath, Sally; Lee, Dave [Horn]; Manning, Peter; Mulligan, Simon; Rakowski, Maciej; Rees, Jonathan; Snowden, Jonathan
Conductors: Kamen, Michael

Recording information: Abbey Road; Air Lyndhurst; Sony Music Studios & Watford.

Michael Kamen's score for the television miniseries reflects the overall tone of the project. Band of Brothers is...continue...

American Classics - Rorem: Piano Concerto no 2, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-09-25

Works: Ned Rorem: Concerto for Piano no 2; Concerto for Cello
Performers: Mulligan, Simon; Yang, Wen-Sinn
Conductors: Serebrier, José

When Leonard Bernstein gave the premiere of Ned Rorem's Third Symphony with the New York Philharmonic in 1959, it signaled a significant triumph for his...continue...
Recording information: Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, Scotland (08/30/2006-08/31/2006)....continue...

The Essential Joshua Bell

2 CD / Sony Classical / 2007-04-03

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin in D minor; Song Without Words for piano no 30 in A major ("Frühlingslied"), Op. 62/6; Frédéric Chopin:...
Performers: Bell, Joshua; Bush, Sam; Chiu, Frederic [Piano]; Fleck, Bela; Marshall, Mike [Guitar/Mandolin]; Mulligan, Simon; Williams, John [Film Composer]
Conductors: Thomas, Michael Tilson; Norrington, Roger; Leon, Craig; Salonen, Esa-Pekka; Stern, Michael; Williams, John; Hess, Nigel; Zinman, David
Ensemble: ; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Camerata Salzburg; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Orchestra of St. Luke's; Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Joshua Bell has captured the public's imagination like no other classical violinist of his time. His virtuosity in the most demanding concerto repertoire is second...continue...
Existing fans of violinist Joshua Bell are already well-acquainted with the broad scope of repertoire and performance abilities ranging deftly from the classical concerto repertoire to his well-known ...continue...

Arvo Pärt - A Portrait

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-06-21

Works: Arvo Pärt: Für Alina, for piano; Symphony no 1 ("Polyphonic"), Op. 9; Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, for string orchestra & bell; Passio, for tenor, bass, vocal quartet, chorus, oboe...
Performers: Bowyer, Kevin; Davis, Peter R.; Eisrich, Antal; Falvay, Sandor; Hatfield, Lesley; Helmerson, Frans; Hirsch, Rebecca; Hope, Daniel [Violin]; Kovacs, Miklos; Lubimov, Alexei [Piano]; Mulligan, Simon; P...
Conductors: Järvi, Neeme; Benedek, Tamás; Pitts, Antony; Edison, Noel; Yuasa, Takuo; Cox, Neil
Ensemble: ; Choir of Lancing College; Elora Festival Orchestra; Elora Festival Singers; Strings of the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra (St; Tonus Peregrinus; Ulster Orchestra

This absorbing, two-CD anthology combines quality performances . . . Certainly, there is no more contextual way of getting to know the composer than this...continue...

The Piano Music of Alexis Weissenberg / Simon Mulligan

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2001-10-02

Works: Alexis Weissenberg: Sonate en état de jazz; Le regret; Improvisations (4) on songs from "La Fugue"
Performers: Mulligan, Simon; Walden, Frank

Elgar, Walton: Sonatas for Violin and Piano; Finzi: Elegy

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2001-03-06

Works: Edward Elgar: Sonata for violin & piano in E minor, Op. 82; Gerald Finzi: Elegy for violin & piano in F major, Op 22; William Walton: Sonata for Violin & Piano
Performers: Hope, Daniel [Violin]; Mulligan, Simon

"...Hope delivers this piece [Elgar's Sonata] with a clear yet rich tone--nothing is allowed to be immersed in an indulgent excess of bloom--and, helped by...continue...

Shostakovich, Penderecki, Pärt, Schnittke / Daniel Hope

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-02-15

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 134; Krzysztof Penderecki: Cadenza, for viola solo; Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel; Alfred Schnittke: Sonata for violin & piano no 3; Silent ...
Performers: Hope, Daniel [Violin]; Mulligan, Simon

"In terms of mood, the young violinist Dianel Hope's debut disc as a chamber musician begins darkly and grows steadily darker. There are momentary flickers...continue...

Schnittke, Takemitsu, Weill / Hope, Boughton, English SO

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-02-23

Works: Alfred Schnittke: Sonata for violin & chamber orchestra; Concerto Grosso no 6 for piano, violin & string orchestra; Kurt Weill: Concerto for Violin & wind orchestra, Op. 12; Toru Takemitsu: Nostalghi...
Performers: Hall, Ian; Hall, Judith; Hope, Daniel [Violin]; Lenton, Simon; Marjoram, Keith; Mulligan, Simon; Roberts, Stephen; Robson, Barnaby; Rubach, Keith; Taylor, Paul Arden
Conductors: Boughton, William
Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra

"The remarkable new talent of British violinist Daniel Hope has been launched skyward with this debut recording." -BBC Music Magazine "Hope's playing here is of...continue...