Not Bad For A Composer Who Did Not Like The Form

Piano Trios

Victor Kissine Zerkalo

Tchaikovsky Trio for piano, violin and violoncello

Performers : Gidon Kremer violin, Giedre Dirvanauskaite cello, Khatia Buniatishvili piano.

Sophisticated Peasants

The Peasant Girl, Viktoria Mullove violin with the Matthew Barley Ensemble ( Matthew Barley cello, Julian Joseph piano, Paul Clarvis drums and percussion, Sam Walton marimba, vibraphone and percussion )

Arrangements of DuOud, Youssou N'Dour, Weather Report, John Lewis / Bratsch and Bartok, finished off with Kodaly's Duo For Violin And Cello.

Primal Screaming

Screamin' The Blues, Oliver Nelson

Oliver Nelson, tenor and alto saxophone. Richard Williams, trumpet. Eric Dolphy alto saxophone and bass clarinet. Richard Wyands piano. George Duvivier bass. Roy Haynes drums.

Straight ahead modernist blowing of the highest order with interjections from another planet by Dolphy.

Themes, Variations, Transcriptions

Recital : Francesco Piemontesi piano

Handel : Suite in B flat major
Brahms : Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel
Bach : Partita No 1 in B flat ; Fantasy and Fugue in G minor transcribed for piano by Liszt
Liszt : Vallee D'Obermann

He's Really Not Scary

Brahms orchestrated by Schoenberg : Piano Quartet No 1

Schoenberg : Accompanying Music to a Film Scene
Schoenberg : Chamber Symphony No 1, version for full orchestra.

Performers : Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle

No Umlauts On My Keyboard

Schubert : Die Schone Mullerin

Christopher Maltman baritone, Graham Johnson piano

Recorded live at Wigmore Hall.

Lisztomania

BBC Music magazine free cover disk and is is composer anniversary issue time again.

Franz Liszt Orchestral Works

Legend : St Francis of Assisi's Sermon To The Birds
Symphonic Poem No 6 : Mazeppa
Symphonic Poem No 11 : The Battle of the Huns

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda

Totentanz : Paraphrase on Dies Irae

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Leo Hussain, Martin Roscoe piano.

But Songs All The Same

Songs Without Words : Julius Drake, piano

Known more as an accompanist, this is an intelligently programmed solo recital of Schumann, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schubert arr Liszt, Grieg, Debussy, Poulenc, Janacek, Bartok and Britten.

Spring, Spring, Spring

English Spring

Bax : Spring Fire
Delius : Idylle de Printemps ; North Country Sketches : The March Of Spring
Bridge : Enter Spring

Performers : The Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder

Lesser Known Lieder

Carl Loewe Songs and Ballads.

Performers : Florian Boesch baritone, Roger Vignoles piano

From the same era as Schubert.