Arnold Bax: The Piano Music of Arnold Bax Volume Two

On this CD:

1. Piano Sonata No. 3
Composed by Arnold (Sir) Bax
Performed by Eric Parkin

2. Water Music for piano
Composed by Arnold (Sir) Bax
Performed by Eric Parkin

3. Hill Tune, for piano
Composed by Arnold (Sir) Bax
Performed by Eric Parkin

4. In a Vodka Shop, for piano
Composed by Arnold (Sir) Bax
Performed by Eric Parkin

5. Piano Sonata No. 4
Composed by Arnold (Sir) Bax


Arnold Bax: The Piano Music of Arnold Bax Volume Two, Music, Arnold Bax, Eric Parkin, 20th/21st Century Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Keyboard, Keyboard Work with Descriptive or Unclassified Title
The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five - Nine Compositions (1994-2002)
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 The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five - Nine Compositions (1994-2002)

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ASIN: B00009OLTI
Release Date: 2002-06-01

Tracks:

  1. Steep Steps
  2. Two Diversions
  3. Two Diversions
  4. Oboe Quartet
  5. Figment No. 2 (Remembering Mr. Ives)
  6. Au Quai
  7. Of Challenge and of Love
  8. Of Challenge and of Love
  9. Of Challenge and of Love
  10. Of Challenge and of Love
  11. Of Challenge and of Love
  12. Figment No. 1
  13. Retrouvailles
  14. Hiyoku

Album Description

Steep Steps* (2001) Virgil Blackwell, bass clarinet; Two Diversions (1999) Charles Rosen, piano; Oboe Quartet* (2001) Speculum Musicae; Figment No. 2 "Remembering Mr. Ives"* (2001) Fred Sherry, cello; Au Quai* (2002) Maureen Gallagher, viola, Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Of Challenge and of Love (1994) Tony Arnold, soprano; Jacob Greenberg, piano; Figment No. 1 (1994) Fred Sherry, cello; Retrouvailles (2000) Charles Rosen, piano; Hiyoku* (2001) Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima, clarinets

*Premiere recording

Volume Five of Bridge's ongoing Elliott Carter series contains five premiere recordings, including Carter's bracing Oboe Quartet of 2001. Performed by many of the leading Carter advocates of our time, this recording is a must for those interested in keeping up with the undimmed imagination and constant creative impulse of this American master, now well into his tenth decade. Also featured on this CD is a new recording of Carter's song cycle Of Challenge and of Love, performed by the brilliant young American soprano Tony Arnold, the recent first prize winner of the Gaudeamus International competition for interpreters of contemporary music. Rounding out this CD are a series of instrumental miniatures played by dedicatees Virgil Blackwell, Charles Neidich, Ayako Oshima and Fred Sherry. In addition, the pianist Charles Rosen adds on to his earlier (almost) "Complete Piano Music of Carter" CD (BRIDGE 9090) with the Two Diversions, and Retrouvailles.

Volume one: BRIDGE 9014
Volume two: BRIDGE 9044
Volume three: BRIDGE 9090 (Grammy nomination)
Volume four: BRIDGE 9111 (Grammy nomination)

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Carter continues to impress.......2006-06-27

This disc, containing seven short works and two longer ones dating from Carter's late eighties and early nineties, continues Bridge's invaluable series of recordings of works by this modern American master. As with all Bridge's recordings, the performers are almost always musicians with a long history of performing Carter's music (here including the group Speculum Musicae, the cellist Fred Sherry and the pianist Charles Rosen), and this certainly helps to give the performances an authoritative air.

The disc starts with a bang--Carter's bass clarinet solo Steep Steps (so titled because of the importance of leaps of a twelfth in the composition). This is a vigorous and highly enjoyable work that provides an ideal disc opener. More dry are the Two Diversions, two pieces for the advanced piano student. These two works complement each other well; the first simpler, the second rhythmically complex.

The Oboe Quartet is one of Carter's more important recent scores. Written in a single multi-section movement, it alternates between tutti passages and duets for pairs of instruments, and demonstrates (as does much of Carter's recent music) that a strictly atonal style need not reduce a composer's capacity for lyricism. If I'm not sure that Speculum Musicae's performance here quite matches the intensity of Holliger and friends on ECM, this is still a fine reading of a significant work.

The disc then returns to a couple of miniatures. Figment No 2 for solo cello is one of a series of works in which Carter pays homage to musical figures important to him when he was younger, and though there are no obvious stylistic references to Ives, the work does include fragmentary quotations and hints of hymnic writing. Au Quai, by contrast, is a tribute to a composer and conductor who has done so much for Carter's own music--Oliver Knussen, on his 50th birthday. Written for the unusual combination of viola and bassoon, this is a delightful, charming miniature with a wonderfully sense of timing.

Returning to major works, once again, Of Challenge and of Love is one of Carter's many recent song cycles (though the only mature work of his for voice and piano). A setting of five poems by John Hollander, this builds to an expressive climax in the lengthy fourth poem, Quatrains from Harp Lake, before the almost anticlimactic close, End of a Chapter. Having only heard this work though Lucy Shelton's premiere recording on Koch, I found much more warmth in it in this reading, with the fine Tony Arnold the soprano soloist, though I don't think it will ever rank amongst my favourite late Carter works.

The disc ends with three more miniatures. Figment No 1 for solo cello is one of Carter's finest short works, ranging over the whole expressive gamut despite being based entirely on one short idea. Retrouvailles is a brief and comparatively simple (for Carter, at least) study for piano, written for Pierre Boulez's 75th birthday, while Hiyoku, a duet for two clarinets, effectively explores the contrast between the two instruments playing similar and different material.

This is another impressive release in Bridge's Carter series. Lovers of the composer's music will not hesitate to snap it up.

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic from the first piece.......2006-01-22

Carter lets the bass clarinet show off every bit of its range in Steep Steps, from soulful low bass lines, through a smoky lower-midrange area, to an almost sax-like upper register.

All the cellos pieces are great, and the oboe quartet? The other reviewer nailed it; it's like the oboe is playing the lead violin line.

5 out of 5 stars Vive le Carter!.......2003-07-07

The fifth offering in Bridge's indispensible series of the music of Elliott Carter contains nine compositions written from 1994 to 2002, when the composer, incredibly, was between the ages of 85 and 93. There are the usual short gems for various instruments that Carter has made a specialty in recent years. The disk begins with the fascinating "Steep Steps" for solo bass clarinet, an instrument Carter has exploited to great effect in his Piano Concerto and Triple Duo. Fred Sherry delivers a haunting rendition of "Figment No. 2" for solo cello. Subtitled "Remembering Mr. Ives" (Carter first met Ives as a teenager), the piece conveys a nostalgia rare in Carter's work, with short phrases evoking, though not quoting, the kind of hymns Ives used in his music. The Two Diversions for Piano are more transparent than some of Carter's other piano pieces, and rightfully so, since they were written for the Millenium Piano Book for pianists of intermediate skills. Charles Rosen, a long-time Carter champion, provides tender and beautiful readings. Soprano Tony Arnold's rendition of the song cycle "Of Challenge and of Love" seems softer and less forced than Lucy Shelton's premiere recording, which is all to the good, but for me the highlight of the disk is the Oboe Quartet, a major 14-minute work that shows Carter at the top of his instrumental game. Despite its unrepentant modernist idiom, this composition has a classical elegance, a romantic sensuousness, and a Baroque richness of counterpoint that doesn't showcase the soloist as much as make him a first among equals. It is as though the composer had written a new string quartet with the oboe subbing for the first violin. I could not wish for a better performance.
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 Julian Bream Edition, Volume 1: The Golden Age of English Lute Music

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ASIN: B000003FFV
Release Date: 1993-08-10

Tracks:

  1. Two Almaines
  2. Fant
  3. Walsingham
  4. Mignarda
  5. Almaine
  6. Galliard
  7. Greensleeves
  8. Galliard Upon A Galliard Of Daniel Bachelar
  9. Pavan
  10. Carman's Whistle
  11. Pavan
  12. Monsieur's Almaine
  13. Pavan
  14. Batell Galliard
  15. Galliard
  16. Pavana Bray
  17. Galliard
  18. Pavan
  19. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home
  20. Captain Piper's Galliard
  21. Queen Elizabeth's Galliard
  22. Sir John Langton's Pavan
  23. Tarleton's Ressurection
  24. Lady Clifton's Spirit

Tracks:

  1. Landgrave Of Hesse: Pavan
  2. Saltarello
  3. Ballo Detto Il Conte Orlando
  4. Saltarello
  5. Fant
  6. Chromatic Pavan And Galliard: Pavan
  7. Chromatic Pavan And Galliard: Galliard
  8. Fant
  9. Queen Elizabeth's Galliard
  10. Fant
  11. Fant
  12. Finale
  13. Villanella No.1
  14. Villanella No.2
  15. Finale 2
  16. Pavan
  17. Mein Herz Hat Sich Mit Lieb' Verpflicht
  18. Hie' Folget Ein Welscher Tanz
  19. Ich Klag' Den Tag
  20. Der Juden Tanz
  21. Fant
  22. Air De Cour
  23. Branle
  24. Guillemette
  25. Volte
  26. Forlorn Hope Fancy
  27. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (For Two Lts)

Tracks:

  1. The Earl Of Essex Galliard
  2. Lachrimae Antiquae
  3. Galliard To Lachrimae
  4. My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
  5. Lord De L'Isle's Galliard
  6. The Frog Galliard
  7. Lachrimae Verae
  8. The Shoemaker's Wife
  9. Lady Rich, Her Galliard
  10. Unnamed Piece (Almaine)
  11. Sir John Smith's Almaine
  12. Melancholy Galliard
  13. Sir Henry Gifford's Almaine
  14. Dowland's First Galliard
  15. Mrs Vaux's Gigge
  16. The Earl Of Derby, His Galliard
  17. Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens
  18. Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
  19. My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard
  20. Mr Langton's Galliard
  21. Sir John Souche's Galliard
  22. Piper's Pavan
  23. Resolution

Tracks:

  1. The Woods So Wild
  2. Fant I in c
  3. Packington's Pound
  4. Fant II in F
  5. Walsingham
  6. Fant III in g
  7. The Fairy Round
  8. Heigh Ho Holiday
  9. Fant IV (La Campagna)
  10. Go From My Window
  11. Fant V in C
  12. Greensleeves
  13. Fant VI in F
  14. Bonny Sweet Robin
  15. Fant VII in F
  16. Heart's Ease
  17. Fant VIII in G
  18. Loth To Depart
  19. A Fancy
  20. A Fancy
  21. Farewell

Tracks:

  1. Con in D, RV 93: Allegro Giusto - Juliam Bream
  2. Con in D, RV 93: Largo - Juliam Bream
  3. Con in D, RV 93: Allegro - Juliam Bream
  4. Con in F: Allegro - Juliam Bream
  5. Con in F: Adagio - Juliam Bream
  6. Con in F: Tempo Di Menuetto - Juliam Bream
  7. Con in B flat, Op.4 No.6: Allegro - Juliam Bream
  8. Con in B flat, Op.4 No.6: Larghetto - Juliam Bream
  9. Con in B flat, Op.4 No.6: Allegro Moderato - Juliam Bream
  10. Con in G, RV 532: Allegro - Juliam Bream
  11. Con in G, RV 532: Andante - Juliam Bream
  12. Con in G, RV 532: Allegro - Juliam Bream
  13. Son in C, RV 82: Allegro Non Molto - Julian Bream/George Malcom
  14. Son in C, RV 82: Larghetto - Julian Bream/George Malcom
  15. Son in C, RV 82: Allegro - Julian Bream/George Malcom
  16. Son in g, RV 85: Andante Molto - Julian Bream/George Malcom
  17. Son in g, RV 85: Larghetto - Julian Bream/George Malcom
  18. Son in g, RV 85: Allegro - Julian Bream/George Malcom

Tracks:

  1. Monsieur's Almaine - The Julian Bream Consort
  2. Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
  3. My Lord Of Oxenford's Maske - The Julian Bream Consort
  4. The Flatt Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
  5. The Bachelar's Delight - The Julian Bream Consort
  6. Kemp's Jig - The Julian Bream Consort
  7. Phillips Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
  8. O Mistress Mine - The Julian Bream Consort
  9. Fant: La Rondinella - The Julian Bream Consort
  10. Joyne Hands - The Julian Bream Consort
  11. Lachrimae Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
  12. Fant - The Julian Bream Consort
  13. De La Tromba Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
  14. It Fell On A Summer's Day - The Julian Bream Consort
  15. Dowland's Adew - The Julian Bream Consort
  16. The Frog Galliard - The Julian Bream Consort
  17. La Rosignol - The Julian Bream Consort
  18. Tarleton's Resurrection - The Julian Bream Consort
  19. Galliard-Can She Excuse - The Julian Bream Consort
  20. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: March - The Julian Bream Consort
  21. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: Corante - The Julian Bream Consort
  22. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: Pavan - The Julian Bream Consort
  23. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: Morris Dance - The Julian Bream Consort
  24. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: Galliard - The Julian Bream Consort
  25. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: La Volta - The Julian Bream Consort
  26. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: March (Finale) - The Julian Bream Consort
  27. Con in D, RV 93: Allegro - The Julian Bream Consort
  28. Con in D, RV 93: Largo - The Julian Bream Consort
  29. Con in D, RV 93: Allegro - The Julian Bream Consort

Tracks:

  1. Joyne Hands - The Julian Bream Consort
  2. Phillips Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
  3. The Frog Galliard - The Julian Bream Consort
  4. The Jew's Dance - The Julian Bream Consort
  5. Fant - The Julian Bream Consort
  6. The Bachelar's Delight - The Julian Bream Consort
  7. The Sacred End Pavin And Galliard: Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
  8. The Sacred End Pavin And Galliard: Galliard - The Julian Bream Consort
  9. De La Tromba Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
  10. Thirsis And Milla - The Julian Bream Consort
  11. Alison's Knell - The Julian Bream Consort
  12. Grimstock - The Julian Bream Consort
  13. Go From My Window - The Julian Bream Consort
  14. Go Nightly Cares - The Julian Bream Consort
  15. Daniel's Almain - The Julian Bream Consort
  16. In Nomine Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
  17. Come Again - The Julian Bream Consort
  18. Lachrimae Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
  19. Can She Excuse - The Julian Bream Consort

Tracks:

  1. Chor No.1 - Juilian Bream
  2. Etude in e - Juilian Bream
  3. Etude in c# - Juilian Bream
  4. Prld in e - Juilian Bream
  5. Schottische-Choro (From Ste Popolar Brasileira) - Juilian Bream
  6. Madronos - Juilian Bream
  7. Homenaje, Pour Le Tombeau De Debussy - Juilian Bream J
  8. The Miller's Dance (From The Three-Cornered Hat) - Juilian Bream
  9. Fandanguillo - Juilian Bream J
  10. El Testament D'Amelia - Juilian Bream
  11. Canarios - Juilian Bream
  12. Son - Juilian Bream
  13. En Los Trigales - Juilian Bream
  14. Larghetto - Juilian Bream
  15. Allegro, K.Anh.229 - Juilian Bream
  16. Son in C, Op.15, Allegro - Juilian Bream
  17. Rossiniana No.1, Op.119 - Juilian Bream

Tracks:

  1. Pavanas
  2. Galliardas
  3. Passacalles
  4. Canarios
  5. Villano
  6. Canario
  7. Prld in d, BWV 999
  8. Fugue in a, BWV 1000
  9. Passacaille
  10. Fant
  11. Tombeau Sur La Mort De M. Comte De Logy
  12. Ste in d: Prld
  13. Ste in d: Allemande
  14. Ste in d: Courante
  15. Ste in d: Sarabande
  16. Ste in d: Gavotte
  17. Ste in d: Menuets I And II
  18. Ste in d: Bourree
  19. Ste in d: Gigue
  20. Aria Con Var Detta La Frescobalda
  21. Son in e, K.11
  22. Son in e, K.87
  23. Son in c#
  24. Son in A

Tracks:

  1. Grand Ov, Op.61
  2. Grand Solo, Op.14: Intro
  3. Grand Solo, Op.14: Allegro
  4. Son in A: Allegro Moderato
  5. Son in A: Andante Sostenuto
  6. Son in A: Menuet-Scherzo
  7. Son in A: Rondo (Allegretto)
  8. Rossiniana No.3, Op.121
  9. Son in C, Op.25: Andante Largo; Allegro Non Troppo
  10. Son in C, Op.25: Andantino Grazioso
  11. Son in C, Op.25: Minuetto & Trio/Allegro

Tracks:

  1. Grand Son in A: Allegro Risoluto
  2. Grand Son in A: Romanze
  3. Grand Son in A: Andantino Variato
  4. Son in G, Op.78, D.894, Menuetto
  5. Song Without Words, Op.19, No.6 ('Venetian Boating Song')
  6. Str Qt, Op.12: Conzanetta
  7. Homenaje, Pour Le Tombeau De Debussy
  8. Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte
  9. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Granada
  10. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Leyenda (Asturias)
  11. Lagrima (Prld)
  12. Three Mazurkas: Adelita
  13. Three Mazurkas: Mazurka in G
  14. Three Mazurkas: Marieta

Tracks:

  1. Sonatina, Op. 52, No.1: Allegretto
  2. Sonatina, Op. 52, No.1: Lento
  3. Sonatina, Op. 52, No.1: Rondo
  4. Segovia, Op.29
  5. El Polifemo De Oro (Four Fragments): Ben Adagio
  6. El Polifemo De Oro (Four Fragments): Allegretto
  7. El Polifemo De Oro (Four Fragments): Largo
  8. El Polifemo De Oro (Four Fragments): Ritmico E Vivo
  9. Quatre Pieces Breves: Prld
  10. Quatre Pieces Breves: Air
  11. Quatre Pieces Breves: Plainte
  12. Quatre Pieces Breves: Comme Une Gigue
  13. Drei Tentos (From 'Kammermusik'): 'Du Schones Bachlein' (Tranquilmente)
  14. Drei Tentos (From 'Kammermusik'): 'Es Findet Das Aug' Oft' (Allegro Rubato)
  15. Drei Tentos (From 'Kammermusik'): 'Sohn Laios' (Lento)
  16. Elegy
  17. Five Bagatelles: Allegro
  18. Five Bagatelles: Lento/Tempo Di Valse
  19. Five Bagatelles: Alla Cubana
  20. Five Bagatelles: Sempre Espressivo
  21. Five Bagatelles: Con Slancio
  22. Theme And Vars, Op.77

Tracks:

  1. Ste Compostellana: Prd
  2. Ste Compostellana: Coral
  3. Ste Compostellana: Cuna
  4. Ste Compostellana: Recitativo
  5. Ste Compostellana: Cancion
  6. Ste Compostellana: Muneira
  7. Tiento
  8. Son: Allegretto
  9. Son: Andante
  10. Son: Allegro
  11. Fant
  12. Ste Populaire Bresilienne: Mazurka-Choro
  13. Ste Populaire Bresilienne: Schottisch-Choro
  14. Ste Populaire Bresilienne: Valse-Choro
  15. Ste Populaire Bresilienne: Gavotte-Choro
  16. Etude No.5 in C
  17. Etude No.7 in E

Tracks:

  1. Five Impromptus: Recitative
  2. Five Impromptus: Agitato
  3. Five Impromptus: Elegiaco
  4. Five Impromptus: Con Fuoco
  5. Five Impromptus: Arioso
  6. Five Bagetelles: Allegro
  7. Five Bagetelles: Lento
  8. Five Bagetelles: Alla Cubana
  9. Five Bagetelles: Sempre Espressivo
  10. Five Bagetelles: Con Slancio
  11. Hill Runes
  12. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Gloucester (Majestically)
  13. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Romeo And Juliet (Singing Slowly, With Tenderness)
  14. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Ariel (Swiftly, Gently, Mysteriously)
  15. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Ophelia (Slowly)
  16. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Touchstone, Audrey And William (With Humor)
  17. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Oberon (Majestically)

Tracks:

  1. Gtr Con, Op.67: Allegro
  2. Gtr Con, Op.67: Lento
  3. Gtr Con, Op.67: Con Brio
  4. Con: Lento E Rubato/Vivo
  5. Con: Andante Lento
  6. Con: Con Brio
  7. Concierto De Aranjuez: Allegro Con Spirito
  8. Concierto De Aranjuez: Adagio
  9. Concierto De Aranjuez: Allegro Gentile

Tracks:

  1. Gtr Qnt in e, G.451: Allegro Moderato
  2. Gtr Qnt in e, G.451: Adagio
  3. Gtr Qnt in e, G.451: Menuetto
  4. Gtr Qnt in e, G.451: Allegretto
  5. Gtr Qnt in D, G.448: Intro And Fandango - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
  6. Qt in E, Op.2 No.2: Allegro
  7. Qt in E, Op.2 No.2: Adagio
  8. Qt in E, Op.2 No.2: Menuetteo E Trio
  9. Qt in E, Op.2 No.2: Finale: Presto
  10. Gtr Con in A, Op.30: Allegro Maestoso
  11. Gtr Con in A, Op.30: Andantino Siciliano
  12. Gtr Con in A, Op.30: Alla Polacca

Tracks:

  1. My Lady Hundson's Puffe - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  2. 'If Music And Sweey Poetry Agree' (Sonnet From The Passionate Pilgrim) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  3. The King Of Denmark's Galliard - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  4. Envoi To The Phoenix And The Turtle - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  5. Mignarda - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  6. 'The Courser And The Genet' (From Venus And Adonis) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  7. Queen Elizabeth's Galliard - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  8. Loth To Depart - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  9. 'She Looks Upon His Lips' (Death of Adaonis From Venus And Adonis) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  10. The Earl Of Derby's Galliard - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  11. 'Orpheous With His Lute' (From King Henry VIII, Act III, Scene 1) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  12. Lachrimae Pavin - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  13. 'Weary With Toil' (Sonnet No.27) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  14. 'Is It Thy Will?' (Sonnet No.61) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  15. 'O, Never Say That I Was False Of Heart' (Sonnet No.109) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  16. Tarleton's Resurrection - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  17. 'My Mother Had A Maid Call'd Barbara' (From Othello, Act IV, Scene 3) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  18. Tarleton's Resurrection - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  19. 'Come Away, Come Away, Death' (From Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 4) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  20. A Fancy - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  21. 'Two Loves I Have' (Sonnet No.144) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  22. 'The Expense Of Spirit' (Sonnet No.129) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  23. Melancholy Galliard - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  24. 'But She Hath Lost A Dearer Thing Than Life' (From The Rape Of Lucrece) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  25. 'Ev'n In This Thought' (From The Rape Of Lucrece) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  26. Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  27. 'What Potions Have I Drunk' (Sonnet No.119) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  28. 'When To The Sessions' (Sonnet No.30) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  29. Orlando Sleepeth - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
  30. 'Fear No More' (Dirge For Fidele From Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene 2) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream

Tracks:

  1. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: The Big Chariot - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  2. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: The Old Lute - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  3. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: The Autumn Wind - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  4. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: The Herd-Boy - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  5. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: Depression - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  6. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: Dance Song - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  7. Folk Song Arrangements: Master Kilby - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  8. Folk Song Arrangements: The Shooting Of His Dear - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  9. Folk Song Arrangements: Sailor-Boy - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  10. Folk Song Arrangements: I Will Give My Love An Apple - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  11. Folk Song Arrangements: The Soldier And The Sailor - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  12. Gloriana: The Second Lt Song Of The Earl Of Essex - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  13. Anon In Love: Fain Would I Change That Note - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  14. Anon In Love: O Stay, Sweet Love - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  15. Anon In Love: Lady, When I Behold The Roses - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  16. Anon In Love: My Love In Her Attire - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  17. Anon In Love: I Gave Her Cakes And I Gave Her Ale - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  18. Anon In Love: To Couple Is A Custom - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  19. Four French Folk Songs: Reveillez-Vous - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  20. Four French Folk Songs: J'Ai Descendu - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  21. Four French Folk Songs: Le Rossignol - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  22. Four French Folk Songs: Marguerite, Elle Est Malade - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  23. O Mistress Mine - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  24. Nocturnal, Op.70 - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears

Tracks:

  1. Absence - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  2. What Then Is Love? - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  3. I Saw My Lady Weep - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  4. If She Forsake Me - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  5. Dear, If You Change - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  6. Come, Phyllis - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  7. Stay, Time - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  8. It Was A Lover And His Lass - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  9. Weep You No More - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  10. When Laura Smiles - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  11. Fair, Sweet, Cruel - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  12. Shall I Sue? - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  13. Sweet, Stay Awhile - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  14. Who Is It? - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  15. Can She Excuse? - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  16. Come, Heavy Sleep - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  17. Wilt Thou Unkind, Thus Leave Me? - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  18. Sorrow, Stay - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  19. The Lowest Trees Have Tops - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  20. Time's Eldest Son, Old Age - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  21. In Darkness Let Me Dwell - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
  22. Say, Love, If Ever Thou Did'st Find - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears

Tracks:

  1. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Prld
  2. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Allemande
  3. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Courante
  4. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Sarabande
  5. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Bourree
  6. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Gigue
  7. Lt Ste No.2, BWV 997: Prld
  8. Lt Ste No.2, BWV 997: Fugue
  9. Lt Ste No.2, BWV 997: Sarabande
  10. Lt Ste No.2, BWV 997: Gigue
  11. Trio Son No.1 in E flat, BWV 525: Allegro Moderato - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
  12. Trio Son No.1 in E flat, BWV 525: Adagio - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
  13. Trio Son No.1 in E flat, BWV 525: Allegro - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
  14. Trio Son No.5 in C, BWV 529: Allegro - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
  15. Trio Son No.5 in C, BWV 529: Largo - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
  16. Trio Son No.5 in C, BWV 529: Allegro - Julian Bream/George Malcolm

Tracks:

  1. Con: Allegro Preciso
  2. Con: Andantino E Andante/Cadenza
  3. Con: Allegretto Non Troppo
  4. Five Prlds: No.1 in e: Andantino Espressivo
  5. Five Prlds: No.5 in E: Andantino
  6. Five Prlds:No.3 in a: Andante/Molto Adagio/Andante
  7. Five Prlds: No.4 in e: Lento/Animato/Moderato/Lento
  8. Five Prlds: No.2 in D: Poco Animato
  9. Twelve Etudes: No.1: Allegro Non Troppo/Lento
  10. Twelve Etudes: No.2: Allegro
  11. Twelve Etudes: No.3: Allegro Moderato
  12. Twelve Etudes: No.4: Poco Moderato/A Tempo/Grandioso
  13. Twelve Etudes: No.5: Andantino
  14. Twelve Etudes: No.6: Poco Allegro
  15. Twelve Etudes: No.7: Tres Anime/Piu Mosso
  16. Twelve Etudes: No.8: Moderato
  17. Twelve Etudes: No.9: Tres Peu Anime
  18. Twelve Etudes: No.10: Tres Anime/Vif/Un Peu Anime/Vif
  19. Twelve Etudes: No.11: Lent/Anime
  20. Twelve Etudes: No.12: Anime

Tracks:

  1. Concierto De Aranjuez: Allegro Con Spirito
  2. Concierto De Aranjuez: Adagio
  3. Concierto De Aranjuez: Allegro Gentile
  4. Gtr Con: Andantino; Allegretto
  5. Gtr Con: Lento
  6. Gtr Con: Allegro Con Brio
  7. Gtr Con No.3, Con Elegiaco: Tranquillo
  8. Gtr Con No.3, Con Elegiaco: Interlude
  9. Gtr Con No.3, Con Elegiaco: Finale: Toccata

Tracks:

  1. El Maestro: Pavana I
  2. El Maestro: Pavana V
  3. El Maestro: Pavana VI
  4. El Maestro: Fant XII
  5. El Maestro: Fant VIII
  6. El Maestro: Fant IX
  7. El Maestro: Tento I
  8. El Maestro: Pavana IV
  9. El Maestro: Fant XVI
  10. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book I: Fant V
  11. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book II: Fant V
  12. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book III: La Cancion Del Emperador
  13. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Fant VI
  14. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book V: Arde Coracon Arde
  15. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book V: Ya Se Asiente El Rey Ramiro
  16. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book IV: O Gloriosa Domina (Seys Diferencias)
  17. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book VI: Conde Claros
  18. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book VI: Guardame Las Vacas
  19. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book VI: Tres Diferencias Por Otra Parte
  20. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book VI: Baxa De Contrapunto
  21. Fant

Tracks:

  1. Fant, Op.30: Intro: Lentemente
  2. Fant, Op.30: Theme: Allegretto
  3. Fant, Op.30: Vars 1 To 5
  4. Fant, Op.7: Largo Non Tanto
  5. Fant, Op.7: Theme: Andante
  6. Fant, Op.7: Vars 1 To 7
  7. Vars On A Theme By Mozart, Op.9: Intro: Andante Largo
  8. Vars On A Theme By Mozart, Op.9: Theme: Andante Moderato
  9. Vars On A Theme By Mozart, Op.9: Vars 1 To 5
  10. Adagio, Op.2, No.1
  11. Polonaise, Op.2, No.2
  12. Intro And Rondo, Op.2, No.3: Andante/Allegro Moderato

Tracks:

  1. Cuentos Para La Juventud: Dedicatoria
  2. La Maja De Goya (Tonadilla)
  3. Danza Espanola No.4 (Villanesca)
  4. Valses Poeticos
  5. Danza Espanola No.5
  6. Mallorca, Op.202
  7. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Cataluna
  8. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Granada
  9. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Sevilla
  10. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Cadiz
  11. Cantos De Espana, Op.232 No.4: Cordoba

Tracks:

  1. Mazurka in G
  2. Etude in A
  3. Marieta
  4. Capricho Arabe
  5. Prld in a
  6. Recuerdos De La Alhambra
  7. Serenata
  8. Tango Espagnol
  9. Guajira
  10. Popular Catalan Songs: The Night Of Christmas
  11. Popular Catalan Songs: The Nightingale
  12. Popular Catalan Songs: The Master
  13. Popular Catalan Songs: The Girl At The Spinning Wheel
  14. Popular Catalan Songs: Amelia's Will
  15. Popular Catalan Songs: The Thief's Song
  16. Popular Catalan Songs: Lament
  17. Popular Catalan Songs: The Son Of The Virgin
  18. Popular Catalan Songs: Riera's Heir
  19. Fandanguillo, Op.36
  20. Sevillana, Op.29
  21. Homenaje A Tarrega, Op.69: Soleares
  22. Homenaje A Tarrega, Op.69: Garrotin

Tracks:

  1. Fant XIV
  2. Fant XXII
  3. La Cancion Del Emperador
  4. Conde Claros
  5. Fant X
  6. Prld And Allegro
  7. Gtr Qnt in D, G.448: Fandango
  8. Grand Solo, Op.14: Fernando Sor
  9. Rondo in a, Op.2 No.3

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Too beautiful for words.......2004-05-25

If Julian Bream's recordings were letters, his would all be hand written rather than typed.

5 out of 5 stars Guitar History.......2004-02-15

Julian Bream not only plays the guitar, and the lute
(although purists and I suspect Bream himself would say rather unconventionally), but most of all, Bream plays MUSIC. This is very, very important. There are many fine guitarists around today, but I doubt any could match Bream's sheer musicality when these recordings were made.
This 28 CD box set is a lesson in music making, regardless of what instrument is being played. The recordings are the complete RCA Bream catalogue from 1959 to 1989. If you can find the complete box set or even any of the individual volumes, I suggest you make the purchase. (Shame on RCA and BMG for not keeping this box set and "all" the individual volumes in print.)
Some of the higlights of Breams remarkable talent are his
interpretations of Britten's "Nocturnal", Walton's "Five Bagatelles", the instrumental and vocal works (with tenor Peter Pears) of Dowland, the "first" complete guitar works of Villa-Lobos, a thorough history of the guitar in Spain from the Renaissance to the Present on period instruments, plus all the works that have become classical guitar standards by Bach, Sor, Giuliani, Albeniz, Rodrigo, plus the "new" standards by Brouwer, Arnold, Berkeley, Britten, Walton, etc.
Music making of this caliber is rare indeed. Buy it if you can find it. Good Luck !

5 out of 5 stars Best deal there is!.......2002-05-06

If you can find this set buy it fast. There are not to many of these left out there. This has it all. Plus Julian Bream is the greatest guitarist of all time.

5 out of 5 stars Most excellent.......2001-08-18

This a an wonderful collection of Julian Bream. He is the master of master . I always admire his talent as a genius of this centure.

5 out of 5 stars Julian Bream, The Genius.......1999-01-09

Who don't want to have a wonderful classical guitar collection? Well, this pack consists in 28 CDs, more than 1.000 minutes of music, distribuited by different titles as Baroque Guitar, Spanish Guitar, etc. Some highlights are here, like Asturias, Fernando Sor variations on Mozart's Magic Flute, Paganini Grand Sonata, all Preludes and Etudes of Villa-Lobos, and, well, lots of really good things. Also, there are some cds Julian Bream plays Guitar with Orchestra, or with Harpsichords. Ah, he plays lute in some too. Unfortunately, there are 2 or 3 cds where a tenor sings and another which a woman says some poems, and those, in my opinion, are not very nice. So, it's a good collection, and if you can, buy it!!

Music Track:

  1. Ars Melancholiae - Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Music for Lute - José Miguel Moreno
  2. Ausgewählte Werke der Strauß-Dynstie und Josef Lanner
  3. Bach: Six Cello Suites, BWV1007-1012
  4. Bach: Viola da Gamba Sonatas
  5. Bach: Violin Sonatas BWV 1014-1019
  6. Bax: Symphony No. 2; Nympholept
  7. Bazzini: Works for violin and piano Vol. 2
  8. Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18 [Box set]
  9. Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56
  10. Biber: Sonatae à Violino solo of 1681

Music Track

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Recommended Music:

Voices [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]

DONALD ISLER Plays Piano Works of SCHNABEL and BEETHOVEN

Debussy: Children's Corner L. 113; Ravel: Jeux d'eau

Music: Friendly Voice of Smokey Greene

Into the Sun

Days of Horses

Flashes: Solo 7-String Guitar, Vol. 3

Chadwick: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

Bloom - Everything Is Everything - Volume I

Closer to the Source

By the Way

Continental [Live]

Boleros de Amor

The Strangest Day

Quango Space Jazz