Andante con... Tormento! (symphonic sketches) - Schumann_Wagner_Dukas_Holst_Mahler_Korngold

a collection of symphonic pieces that could better express the human torment...

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

 track01: (1845-46) Symphony No 2 in C, Op.61 - Andante espressivo (9.20)

Berliner Philarmoniker_Rafael Kubelik - DG 1965

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

track02: (ca. 1860) Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and liebstud (16.23)

London Symphony Orchestra_Antal Dorati – Mercury Living Presence 1959

Paul Dukas (1865-1935)

track03: (1895–96) Symphonie en ut majeur – Andante espressivo e sostenuto (14.38)

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande_Armin Jordan – Erato 2003

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

track04: (1899-00) Symphony in F (the Cotswolds) – Elegy (in memoriam William Morris) (9.57) – Munich Symphony Orchestra_Douglas Bostock - Scandinavian Classics 2002

Gustav Mahler (1850 -1911)

track05: (1901-02) Symphony No.5 in cis_Moll - Adagietto (sehr langsam) (11.21)

London Philarmonic Orchestra_ Klaus Tennstedt_Live 1988 - EMI 1989

Erich Korngold (1897-1957)

track06: (1947-52) Symphony in Fis_Dur, Op.40 – Andante (16.30)

BBC Philarmonic_Sir Edward Downes – Chandos 1993

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Neglected Masterworks vol.02 - Italian Violin Concertos - Respighi_Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

Concerto Gregoriano per Violino ed Orchestra, P.135 (1921)

01) Andante Tranquillo

02) Andante Espressivo e Sostenuto

03) Finale (Alleluja), Allegro Energico

violino: Andrea Cappelletti

The Philarmonia

diretta da: Matthias Bamert

Koch Schwann 1994

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

Concerto per Violino ed Orchestra No.2, Op.66, "I Profeti" (the Prophets) (1933)

04) Isaiah: Grave e Meditativo - Allegro Appassionato

05) Jeremiah: Espressivo e Dolente

06) Elijah: Fiero ed impetuoso

violino: Itzhak Perlman

Israel Philarmonic Orchestra

diretta da: Zubin Metha

EMI 1992

bonus tracks:

Enrico Toselli (1883-1926)

07) Serenata (arr. Tunick)

violino: Itzhak Perlman

tenore: Placido Domingo

New York Studio Orchestra

diretta da: Jonathan Tunick

Paolo Tosti (1846 -1916)

08) Ideale (arr. Tunick)

violino: Itzhak Perlman

tenore: Placido Domingo

New York Studio Orchestra

diretta da: Jonathan Tunick

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Neglected Masterworks vol.01 - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - Bax _ Korngold _ Strauss

in works for left hand, the most popular is undoubtedly the Ravel's concerto, but these three pieces have nothing to envy of their more famous colleague ... it would be heard especially Korngold's concerto: a true sonic trip!

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

01) Parergon to the Sinfonia Domestica, Op.73

piano: Roland Pontinen

Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich 

conductor: David Zinman

Arte Nova 2003

Arnold Bax (1883-1953)

Concertante for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra, Op.378

02) Allegro Moderato

03) Moderato Tranquillo

04) Rondò. Allegro Moderato

piano: Margaret Fingerhut

BBC Philarmonic

conductor: Vernon Handley

Chandos 1999

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)

05) Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Op.17

piano: Steven de Groote

Nordwestdeutsche Philarmonie

conductor: Werner Andreas Albert

CPO 1991

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