Norris, David Owen

Viola Sonatas, Idylls & Bacchanals - works by McEwen, Norris, Maconchy, Jacob, Rawsthorne et al. / Louise Williams: viola; David Owen Norris: piano

2 CD / EM Records / 2013-02-12

Works: John McEwen: Sonata for viola & piano in A minor; Improvisations Provençales, for violin & piano; Breath o' June, for viola & piano; Arnold Bax: Sonata for viola & piano; Elizabeth Maconchy: Son...
Performers: Norris, David Owen; Williams, Louise

A new CD from Louise Williams featuring Viola Sonatas, Idylls & Bacchanals....continue...
Recording information: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton....continue...

Art Song Collection - Anniversary Series / Beethoven, Britten, Gurney, Hawes, Poulenc, et al.

1 CD / Signum UK / 2012-11-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble, song for tenor, piano & string quartet (or tenor & orchestra); Ludwig van Beethoven: Sechs Gesänge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, O...
Performers: Ainsley, John Mark; Asti, Eugene; Bickley, Susan; Burnside, Iain [Piano]; Connolly, Sarah [Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)]; Crawford-Phillips, Simon; Evans, Rebecca; Filsell, Jeremy [Keyboard]; Glynn, Christo...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Dante Quartet

2012 marks the 15th anniversary of the first release from the leading independent classical label Signum Records. Beginning life as an early music specialist (with...continue...

Percy Sherwood: Complete Works for Cello & Piano - Sonatas nos 1 & 2; 3 Pieces, Op. 14 / Joseph Spooner, cello; David Owen Norris, piano

1 CD / Toccata / 2012-10-30

Works: Percy Sherwood: Sonata for Cello no 1, Op. 10; Drei Stücke, for cello & piano, Op. 14; Sonata for Cello no 2, Op. 15; 5 kleine Stücke for cello & pianoforte
Performers: Norris, David Owen; Spooner, Joseph

Anglo-German composer Sherwood (b.1866) has slipped through the cracks of history - his impressive output of orchestral, chamber, choral and instrumental music is only now...continue...
Recording information: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton (01/06/2012-01/08/2012)....continue...

Roger Quilter: Complete Piano Music / David Owen Norris, piano

1 CD / EM Records / 2012-02-14

Works: Roger Quilter: Studies (3) for piano, Op. 4; Pieces (3) for piano, Op. 16; Impressions (2) for piano, Op. 19; Country Pieces, for piano, Op. 27; Where the Rainbow Ends, suite from the incidental musi...
Performers: Norris, David Owen

Quilter's music is extraordinary in its metrical ingenuity, especially the solo piano music, which is particularly personal in its expression. Convention requires him to choose...continue...
Recording information: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, England (2004-02-14_2004-02-15&2004-)....continue...

Priez pour paix: Songs of the Great War / Philip Langridge, tenor; David Owen Norris, piano

1 CD / Prelude / 2011-10-25

Works: George Butterworth: On the Idle Hill of Summer, song for voice & piano; Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad"; Ivor Gurney: Everyone Sang, for voice & piano; In Flanders for voice & piano; Even Such is T...
Performers: Langridge, Jennifer; Langridge, Philip; Norris, David Owen

Prelude Records features here a collection of songs by English, German, French and American composers. This recording is a collection of 18 songs from the...continue...
Recording information: Bignor Park, W. Sussex....continue...

Entertaining Miss Austen / Amanda Pitt, John Lofthouse, David Owen Norris

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2011-09-13

Works: Mattias Holst: Fairy Dance, for piano; Franz Joseph Haydn: Original Canzonettas Book 2, H 26a; James Hook: One half o' the world, for voice & piano; The Whim of the Day, for voice & piano; English Tr...
Performers: Lofthouse, John; Norris, David Owen; Pitt, Amanda

This fascinating new Dutton recording features the first recordings of Jane Austen's three favorite songs - and a dozen more premières, including the first chance...continue...
Recording information: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)....continue...

Britten: Complete Scottish Songs / Mark Wilde, tenro; Lucy Wakeford, harp; David Norris, piano

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-08-30

Works: Benjamin Britten: A Birthday Hansel, song cycle for tenor & harp, Op. 92; Who are these Children?, song cycle for tenor & piano, Op. 84; Cradle Song; Beware!; Ca' the yowes, for voice & piano (Folk S...
Performers: Norris, David Owen; Wakeford, Lucy; Wilde, Mark

Steeped in an atmosphere of ancient Scottish musical tradition, Benjamin Britten's setting of texts by Robert Burns in A Birthday Hansel was his final song-cycle....continue...
Recording information: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton University (09/17/2009-09/19/2009)....continue...

Beethoven by Arrangement, Vol. 1

1 CD / Toccata / 2011-03-08

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for viola & piano in A major (fragment); Sonata for Horn and Piano in F major, Op. 17; Notturno for Viola and Piano in D major, Op. 42; Septet in E flat major, Op. 20
Performers: Norris, David Owen; Silverthorne, Paul

Although a violist himself, Beethoven left nothing for the viola except for the fragment of a sonata recorded here for the first time. So his...continue...
Recording information: Ferrandou, France (06/23/2009-06/26/2009)....continue...

Complete Tranquility

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2010-01-26

Works: Johann Christian Bach: Concerto in C minor for cello and orchestra; Count Unico-Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Concerto armonico no 3 in A major; Concerto armonico no 4 in F minor; Concerto armonico no 1 in ...
Performers: Aubut, Alain; Baskin, Theodore; Hall, Lucia; Hurtubise, Benoit; Hutchins, Timothy; Montreal, I Musici de; Norris, David Owen; Prevost, Christian [Violin]; Shaverdian, Gregory [Piano]; Shostakovich, D...
Conductors: Turovsky, Yuli; Shostakovich, Maxim
Ensemble: Ensemble Repercussion; I Musici de Montréal

With fine performances from I Musici de Montreal, 'Complete Tranquility' is a generous three-disc set packed full of music that will encourage you to slow...continue...

Songs & Piano Music by Edward Elgar / Pitt, et al

2 CD / Avie Records / 2009-04-01

Works: Edward Elgar: Like to the Damask Rose; Queen Mary's Song, for voice & piano; A Song of Autumn, song for voice & piano; The Poet's Life, song for voice & piano; The Shepherd's Song, Op. 16, no 1; Roun...
Performers: Bamping, Mark; Houghton, William; Norris, David Owen; Pitt, Amanda; Savidge, Peter; Whiffin, Edward; Wilde, Mark

To celebrate Sir Edward Elgar's 150th birthday, David Owen Norris and The Works perform Elgar's songs and piano solos on Elgar's own 1844 Broadwood piano,...continue...

Epoch - Hold: The Image Stays, etc / David Wilson-Johnson, Amanda Pitt, David Owen Norris

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2009-01-13

Works: Trevor Hold: The Image Stays, song cycle for voice & piano; River Songs, song cycle for 2 voices & piano; Voices from the Orchard, song cycle for voice & piano
Performers: Norris, David Owen; Pitt, Amanda; Wilson-Johnson, David

The celebrated baritone David Wilson-Johnson makes his debut on Dutton Epoch, with soprano Amanda Pitt and pianist David Owen Norris in a heartfelt group of...continue...

Epoch - Montague Phillips, Hely-Hutchinson: Piano Concertos / Sutherland, Norris, BBC Concert Orchestra

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2008-07-08

Works: Montague Phillips: Concerto for Piano no 1 in F sharp minor; Concerto for Piano no 2 in E major, Op. 32; Victor Hely-Hutchinson: Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra "The Young Idea"
Performers: Norris, David Owen
Conductors: Sutherland, Gavin
Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra

The first two volumes of Montague Phillips' tuneful orchestral music from Dutton Epoch were warmly received on their release. Now here is the third volume,...continue...

Songs from the Pleasure Garden - Boyce, Croft, Eccles, etc

1 CD / Signum UK / 2007-06-02

Works: Maurice Greene: Orpheus with his lute; Go, Rose, My Chloe's Bosom Grace, song; William Boyce: Orpheus and Euridice; The Pleasures of Spring Gardens, Vauxhall; The Non-Perreill, song; William Croft: H...
Performers: Gurney, Tristan; Langridge, Jennifer; Langridge, Philip; Layfield, Malcolm; Norris, David Owen

"The songs are excellently well chosen; Langridge is particularly attracted to those numbers that accentuate witty turns of phrase, such as Daniel Purcell's "Cupid Make...continue...

English Song Series 13 - Britten - Folksong Arrangements 2

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-07-19

Works: Benjamin Britten: Folksong Arrangements (8), for high voice & harp; The Holly and the Ivy, folksong arrangement for chorus; King Herod and the Cock, for unison chorus & piano; The Twelve Apostles, fo...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Ellis, Osian; Feaviour, Margaret; Harris, Judith; Kirk, Vernon; Langridge, Philip; Norris, David Owen; Titus, Graham
Conductors: Joly, Simon; Barnett, Christopher; Bedford, Steuart
Ensemble: ; Northern Sinfonia

Britten was throughout his life drawn to folk song, possessing a special gift for word-setting and vocal writing. This release, and the first volume (8.557220),...continue...

Elgar: Piano Concerto, etc / Lloyd-Jones, Norris, et al

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2005-05-10

Works: Edward Elgar: Piano Concerto, Op. 90 (fragment); The Shepherd's Song, Op. 16, no 1; Queen Mary's Song, for voice & piano; Like to the Damask Rose; Adieu, for piano; Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode; Span...
Performers: Norris, David Owen
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David
Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra

This program is full of rewarding surprises. Especially striking is the world premiere recording of Anthony Payne's strikingly idiomatic orchestration of 'So Many True Princesses',...continue...

The English Song Series 11 - Quilter: Folk-Song Arrangements

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-04-19

Works: Roger Quilter: The Arnold Book of Old Songs, for voice & piano; Little Moth, for voice & piano (from Love at the Inn); Love calls through the summer night, for 2 voices & piano (from Love at the Inn)...
Performers: Langridge, Philip; Norris, David Owen; Pitt, Amanda; Thomas, Joanne; Wilson-Johnson, David

Rooted in the sound of the Victorian drawing-room ballad, Roger Quilter's songs are elegant and refine. Quilter arranged a great variety of songs, a process...continue...

London Pride / Catherine Bott, David Owen Norris

1 CD / Hyperion / 2004-04-01

Works: Lionel Monckton: Chalk Farm to Camberwell Green, song; Madeleine Dring: Betjeman songs (5) for voice & piano; Sandy Wilson: The Boy Friend, musical; George Gershwin: A Foggy Day (in London Town), son...
Performers: Bott, Catherine [Soprano Vocals]; Norris, David Owen

'Sumptuous performances all.' (Sunday Times)

'Catherine Bott, totally unexpected in lighter twentieth century repertoire, divulges new facets of her talents ... Noel Coward's London Pride...continue...

English Choral Music - Britten: St. Nicolas, etc / Bedford

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-11-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Saint Nicholas, cantata for tenor, treble, choruses & orchestra, Op. 42; Christ's Nativity, Christmas suite for chorus; Psalm 150, for children's chorus & instruments, Op. 67
Performers: Cullen, Joseph [Choral Conductor/Organ]; Feaviour, Margaret; Harris, Judith; Hind, Rolf; Langridge, Philip; Norris, David Owen
Conductors: Bedford, Steuart
Ensemble: New London Children's Choir

"Performances here are simply glorious. Langridge is a most distinguished interpreter of Britten's music, fully identifying with the music and text." - Parsons, ARG...continue...

Somervell: Maud, A Shropshire Lad / Norris, Wilson-Johnson

1 CD / Hyperion / 2001-12-01

Works: Arthur Somervell: Maud, song cycle for voice & piano; The Shropshire Lad, song cycle
Performers: Norris, David Owen; Wilson-Johnson, David

'I cannot recommend this disc highly enough. To list the outstanding moments would take too long. Very highly recommended' (Classic CD)

'A very fine recital indeed'...continue...

Elgar - The Sketches for Symphony no 3 / Davis, et al

1 CD / NMC Classics / 1998-07-16

Works: Edward Elgar: Symphony no 3 in C minor
Performers: Gibbs, Robert; Norris, David Owen
Conductors: Davis, Andrew, Sir
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals; Mozart / Turovsky

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1993-11-01

Works: Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the animals; Wedding Cake for Piano and String Orchestra in A flat major, Op. 76; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento for 2 horns & strings in F major "A Music...
Performers: Norris, David Owen
Conductors: Turovsky, Yuli
Ensemble: I Musici de Montréal