GEORGE ANTHEIL : Symphony №. 3 'American' · Symphony №. 6 'After Delacroix' · Spectre Of The Rose Waltz · Archipelago · Hot-Time Dance (BBC Philharmonic · John Storgårds) (2019) Tree Version | WAV + FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

The fortunes of American composer George Antheil declined after his daring Ballet Mécanique, an accompaniment to a Dada film by Fernand Léger. He wrote film music, which shows up as an influence in the music on this release by the BBC Philharmonic and Finnish conductor John Storgårds. And he flirted with jazz and with major classical styles of the day, never quite finding a fully original voice again but always maintaining an appealing level of ambition. Storgårds is the latest of a diverse group of conductors (including Eugene Goossens) to champion Antheil's orchestral music, and he's not as unlikely a champion as he might seem. Finns have always been enthusiastic programmers of Russian music, and Antheil's models here are Russian: Shostakovich, principally, and to a lesser extent Prokofiev. This is true even in the case of the Symphony No. 3, subtitled "American," whose sound collages suggest that Antheil was familiar with the music of Ives by this time, but whose finale is pure Prokofiev. The Symphony No. 6 ("Delacroix," referring to programmatic inspiration by that painter's Liberty Leading the People) brings several Shostakovich symphonies to mind, which is hardly surprising: Shostakovich appeared on the cover of Time during the war and was an extraordinarily popular figure in the U.S. Probably the strongest pieces are the short ones. The opening Archipelago is in the vein of Milhaud's Brazilian pieces but is lush, with harp glissandos and a bit of everything else, where Milhaud is concise and brisk. The little Hot-Time Dance (the reference is not to Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight but to an old election-night custom) offers a Shostakovich-like clarinet theme, but here Antheil is economical and treats the little tune in a bewitching way. The BBC Philharmonic keeps up with detailed, difficult parts and what was likely unfamiliar music. This album can be recommended to anyone with an interest in American symphonic music. James Manheim
GEORGE ANTHEIL (1900-1959)
1.    Archipelago    (6:01)
2-5.    Symphony No. 3 'American'    (24:47)
6.    Hot-Time Dance (American Dance Suite No. 1; Election Dance)    (4:33)
7-9.    Symphony No. 6 'After Delacroix'    (26:12)
10.    Spectre Of The Rose Waltz    (4:53)
Credits : 
Conductor – John Storgårds
Orchestra – BBC Philharmonic

YORK BOWEN : Phantasy Quintet · Piano Trios · Clarinet Sonata (Robert Plane · Gould Piano Trio) (2014) Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

YORK BOWEN (1884-1961)
1-3.  Clarinet Sonata In F Minor, Op. 109    (15:31)
4.    Rhapsody Trio In A Minor, Op. 80    13:32
5.    Piano Trio In D Minor    11:06
6.    Phantasy Quintet For Bass Clarinet And String Quartet In D Minor, Op. 93    14:11
7-9.    Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 118    (24:07
Credits : 
Bass Clarinet – Robert Plane (tracks: 6)
Cello – Alice Neary (tracks: 6)
Clarinet – Robert Plane (tracks: 1 to 3)
Ensemble – Gould Piano Trio
Piano – Benjamin Frith (tracks: 1 to 3)
Viola – David Adams (9) (tracks: 6)
Violin – Lucy Gould (tracks: 6), Mia Cooper (tracks: 6)
Recorded at the Champs Hill Music Room, West Sussex; 11 January 2013 (Phantasy Quintet), 29 April 2013 

FRANCK : The Piano Trios Vol. 2 (The Bekova Sisters) (1999) Two Version | APE (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

CÉSAR FRANCK (1822-1890)
1-4.    Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 1 No. 2 (Trio De Salon) In B Flat Major    (24:04)
5.    Piano Trio No. 4, Op. 2 In B Minor    (18:55)
6-8.    Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 1 No. 3 In B Minor    (28:54)
Credits : 
Cello – Alfia Bekova
Piano – Eleonora Bekova
Violin – Elvira Bekova 

CÉSAR FRANCK : Organ Works (Piet Kee) (1991) Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

CÉSAR FRANCK (1822-1890)
1.    Choral III    13:50
2.    Cantabile    6:29
3.    Pièce Héroïque    9:01
4.    Andantino In E Major    4:50
5.    Choral II    15:40
6.    Prélude, Fugue Et Variation Op. 18    11:25
Organ – Piet Kee
Recorded in the Basilica de Santa Maria del Coro, San Sebastian, Spain on 13-14 March 1990.
Total Time: 61:43 

KORNGOLD : Symphony in Fis-Dur · Abschiedslieder (Linda Finnie · BBC Philharmonic Orchestra · Edward Downes) (1993) APE (image+.cue), lossless

The two substantial selections on this Chandos release represent the early and late phases of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's impressive career and show the wide stylistic range and versatility of his work. The lush post-Romanticism of the Lieder des Abschieds, Op. 14, is typical of the youthful Korngold's music from the early '20s, and this haunting work is contemporary with his operatic masterpiece Die tote Stadt. These four orchestral songs partake of the musical language of Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, particularly in their poignant harmonies, richly colored orchestration, and overwhelmingly melancholy moods. In contrast, the Symphony in F sharp major is a rough-hewn and problematic work that reflects the tensions of tonal modernism in the years following WWII, as well as the difficulties the composer faced in using the expanded Romantic symphonic form for the first and only time. The 1992 performance of the songs by contralto Linda Finnie and the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Edward Downes, does justice to Korngold's tenderly lyrical side, while the same orchestra and conductor give the symphony a muscular reading that is striking in its vehemence and power. Chandos delivers excellent reproduction in both offerings, though the sound is somewhat crisper and more concentrated in the recording of the symphony. Blair Sanderson    Tracklist & Credits :

JOHN FIELD : The Complete Nocturnes (Míċeál O'Rourke) 2CD (1988) FLAC (image+.cue) lossless

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NINO ROTA : Harp, Bassoon & Trombone Concertos (I Virtuosi Italiani · Marzio Conti) (2002) FLAC (image+.cue) lossless

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ALBAN BERG : Complete Chamber Music (Schoenberg Quartet) (2002) FLAC (image+.cue) lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 1 (BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2001) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 2 (BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2002) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 3 (Howard Shelley · BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2004) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 4 (BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2004) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 5 (BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2004) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 6 (BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2005) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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KABALEVSKY : Violin and Cello Concertos (Mordkovitch, Wallfisch) (2002) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Dmitry Kabalevsky

1-3    Violin Concerto, Op. 48 (1948) [16:08]
Conductor – Neeme Järvi
Leader [SNO] – Edwin Paling
Orchestra – Scottish National Orchestra
Violin – Lydia Mordkovitch

4-6    Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 77 (1964) [29:49]
Cello – Raphael Wallfisch
Conductor – Bryden Thomson
Leader [LPO] – David Nolan
Orchestra – London Philharmonic Orchestra

KABALEVSKY : Piano Concertos Nr. 2 & 3 • Colas Breugnon Overture • The Comedians (Stott, Sinaisky) (2003) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

1    Overture to "Colas Breugnon", Op. 24 [4:40]
2-4    Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 23 (1935/36, revised version 1973) [23:49]
Piano – Kathryn Stott
5-14    The Commedians, Op. 26, (Suite for Small Orchestra) [14:59]    
15-17    Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 50 [18:07]
Piano – Kathryn Stott

Orchestra - BBC Philharmonic
Yuri Torchinsky - Leader
Conductor – Vassily Sinaisky

KABALEVSKY : Piano Concerto Nr. 1 & 4 • Symphony Nr. 2 (Neeme Järvi, Kathryn Stott) (1996) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

The big news here isn't that Kathryn Stott has turned in another impressive recording of Kabalevsky's piano concertos. The virtuosic English pianist had already done that with her previous recording of his second and third concertos in 2005. The big news here is that Neeme Järvi, once the most recorded conductor in the world, has turned in his third recording for the Chandos label since the two bitterly and publicly parted company more than a decade ago. A talented conductor with a prodigious ability to learn scores, Järvi benefited greatly from the increased popularity of classical music with the introduction of digital technology. By the early '90s, Järvi had recorded enormous amounts of music outside the mainstream -- the complete symphonies of Berwald, Schmidt, and Kalinnikov, for example -- and he came to believe Chandos ought to give him a shot at more standard repertoire. After the artistic and financial disappointment of his Brahms cycle, however, Chandos declined to expand Järvi's territory. Breaking the unofficial code of silence, Järvi took his complaints to the media -- and Chandos let his contract expire.

But following two discs of Busoni's orchestral music, this 2006 Kabalevsky disc reaffirms Järvi's primacy in second-rank repertoire. In the Concerto, pianist Stott tears into the bravura and almost Romantic First with gusto and brio and the brilliant and not quite Modernist Fourth with zest and strength while Järvi supports her with a colorful, characterful, and powerful accompaniment. But in the disc's central C minor Second Symphony, Järvi leads the superb BBC Philharmonic in a performance that makes the "social realist" work sound as much as possible like first-rate music for as long as it's playing. And after it's over, if its themes seem too heroic, its forms seem too dramatic, its rhythms seem too driven, its colors seem too bright, and its gestures seem too familiar to be believed, these doubts do not exist while Järvi is pushing its tempos, inflating its rhetoric, and enhancing its climaxes. With only a handful of other recordings of the Second available -- the antique 1949 recording with Jacques Rachmilovich leading the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the classic 1973 recording with David Measham leading the New Philharmonia, the strident 1977 recording with Erwin Acél leading the Szeged Philharmonic, and the vigorous 1998 recording with Loris Tjeknavorian leading the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra -- Järvi and the BBC's rises right to the top of the list. Chandos' sound is appropriately loud and direct. by James Leonard  

Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987)

1-9    First Concerto For Piano And Orchestra, Op. 9*    (31:13)
10-12    Symphony No. 2, Op. 19    (24:11)
13-16    Fourth Concerto For Piano And Orchestra, op. 99 'Prague'*    (11:57)

Piano - Kathryn Stott*
Orchestra - BBC Philharmonic
Yuri Torchinsky - Leader
Conducted - Neeme Järvi

TCHAIKOVSKY : Piano Concerto No. 2 • KHACHATURIAN : Piano Concerto (Xiayin Wang, Peter Oundjian) (2016) 24bits-96hz / FLAC (tracks), lossless

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Concerto No. 2 In G Major For Piano And Orchestra, Op. 44 (Original Version) (42:03)

Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Concerto In D Flat Major For Piano With Orchestra, Op. 38 (33:35)

Conductor – Peter Oundjian
Leader – Maya Iwabuchi
Orchestra – Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Piano – Xiayin Wang

KHACHATURIAN : Piano Concerto • Gayaneh • Masquerade (Oberlian-Järvi) (1987) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Aram Khatchaturian (1903-1978)

1-3 Concerto For Piano & Orchestra* (33:13)
4-8 Masquerade-Suite (16:17)
9-12 Gayaneh - 4 Movements From The Ballet (12:21)

Conductor – Neeme Järvi
Orchestra – Scottish National Orchestra
Piano – Constantine Orbelian* 

WEINBERG : Соncertos (Thord Svedlund) (2008) SACD / FLAC (tracks), lossless

Fantasia For Cello And Orchestra, Op.52 (18:51)
Cello – Claes Gunnarsson

Concerto No.2 For Flute And Orchestra, Op.148 (19:31)
Flute – Anders Jonhäll

Concerto No.1 For Flute And Orchestra, Op.75 (14:43)
Flute – Anders Jonhäll

Concerto For Clarinet And String Orchestra, Op.104 (25:49)
Clarinet – Urban Claesson

Concertmaster – Christer Thorvaldsson
Conductor – Thord Svedlund
Orchestra – Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra