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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Hoddinott - Horn Concerto
Barry Tuckwell (horn) Norman Del Mar “…a fascinating anthology comprising four vintage Argo / Decca offerings made between 1970 and 1974. Adventurous collectors will require no further prompting…” Gramophone Magazine, 2008 Awards Issue | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Beecham Collection Volume 22
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham These recordings were recorded in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, August 1956 and The Royal Festival Hall, London, November, 1954 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Alan Civil (horn) Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner Remastered Quadro Recording (RQR) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Strauss - Horn Concerto & Eine Alpensinfonie
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe Kempe had not conducted the Alpine Symphony before and a Royal Festival Hall performance (in April 1966) preceded the recording which, after prodigious booking efforts to secure the extra number of brass players needed, was made in a very short time (and in normal working hours) at London’s Kingsway Hall. The sessions are particularly well remembered by conductor Elgar Howarth who had recently, and rather reluctantly, become the RPO’s first trumpet (“it meant that I would have to practice!”) – and was immediately faced with “one of the real frighteners in the repertoire, with high, loud and difficult solos, especially that chromatically slippy passage in On the glacier”. However, the only real problem that Howarth recalls in the sessions for the Alpine Symphony was keeping the organ in tune. The horn player Alan Civil (1929-89) was famously cynical about many conductors. On his stand he would keep a complete pocket score of the work he was rehearsing – and was known to make musical points from it to conductors he felt were lacking in talent or detail. Rudolf Kempe, however, was one of the conductors (along with Beecham, Karajan and Klemperer) that Civil especially admired. Indeed, when Kempe moved in 1975 from the RPO to the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Civil thought it would be the start of a golden age for the orchestra, an important antidote to the modern, what he sometimes called ‘contemptible’ music which the orchestra regularly programmed in the Glock era. When Kempe died in early 1976 Civil was immensely disappointed. Civil had been one of the two most famous pupils of the legendary Royal Academy of Music horn professor Aubrey Brain, father of the equally legendary Dennis Brain, alongside whom he played in wartime military bands, and the early days of Beecham’s RPO and the Philharmonia. By universal approval, Civil moved up from third horn to inherit Dennis Brain’s principal chair at the Philharmonia’s recording sessions for Strauss’s Capriccio after Brain was tragically killed on 1 September 1957. “I don’t use the word great very often,” says horn player, conductor and professor Michael Thompson, “but Alan Civil was a great horn player.” Excerpt from the note, © Mike Ashman, 2008 | 
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| |  | Arnold: Wind Concertos
Richard Adeney, Alan Civil, Janet Hilton, Gordon Hunt, John Wallace & Ronald Thomas Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Norman Del Mar | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Classic Mozart
Mozart: | Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550 - Molto Allegro Le nozze di Figaro, K492 - Non piu andrai, farfallone amoroso Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488 - Adagio Sleigh Ride (Three German Dances) Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K211 - Rondo Soave sia il vento (from Così fan tutte) Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K331 'Alla Turca' - Rondo Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K412 (K386b) - Allegro Ein musikalischer Spass K522 Der Hölle Rache - Queen of the Night's Aria (from Die Zauberflöte) Serenade No. 13 in G major, K525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' - Romance (Andante) Don Giovanni, K527 Overture Oh, wie will ich triumphieren (The Abduction from the Harem) Symphony No. 38 in D major, K504 'Prague' - Finale Mass in C minor, K427 'Great' - (Kyrie) |
Agnes Baltsa, Sir Adrian Boult, Rudolf Buchbinder, Guido Cantelli, Alan Civil, José van Dam, Sir Colin Davis, Claudio Desderi, Annie Fischer, Gottlob Frick, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Edita Gruberova, Bernard Haitink, Rudolf Kempe, Josef Krips, Sir Neville Marriner, Margaret Marshall, Edith Mathis, Yehudi Menuhin, Riccardo Muti & Jeffrey Tate | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Poulenc: Chamber Music
Poulenc: | Violin Sonata FP 119 Cello Sonata, Op. 143 Trio, Op. 43 Sextet for piano and wind quintet, Op. 100 Flute Sonata, Op. 164 Oboe Sonata, Op. 185 Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184 Elégie for horn and piano, Op. 168 Sonata for Two Clarinets, Op. 7 Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon, Op. 32 Sonata for Horn, Trumpet & Trombone, Op. 33 |
Amaury Wallez, Gerard Faisandier, Pierre Fournier, Maurice Gabai, Michel Portal, Maurice Bourge, Michel Debost, Alan Civil, Maurice Bourgue, Robert Casier, Jacques Fevrier, John Iveson, John Wilbraham, Yehudi Menuhin Paris Wind Quintet | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Alan Civil, Gerald Moore Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Very Best of English Song with Orchestra
Britten: | Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31 Robert Tear (tenor), Alan Civil (horn) Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner The Bonny Earl o' Moray Oliver Cromwell Neil Mackie (tenor) Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford Les illuminations, Op. 18 John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Britten Sinfonia, Nicholas Cleobury | Butterworth, G: | Love blows as the wind blows Robert Tear (tenor) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley | Delius: | Sea Drift John Noble (baritone) Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves | Elgar: | Sea Pictures, Op. 37 Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli Two Songs Op. 60 (The Torch; The River) Robert Tear (tenor) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley | Finzi: | Dies natalis, Op. 8 Wilfred Brown (tenor) English Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Finzi | Peel: | In summertime on Bredon Frederick Harvey (baritone) Philharmonia Orchestra, George Weldon | Sanderson: | Devonshire Cream and Cider Frederick Harvey (baritone) Philharmonia Orchestra, George Weldon | Stanford: | Songs of the Sea, Op. 91 Benjamin Luxon (baritone) Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Norman Del Mar | Vaughan Williams: | Songs of Travel Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle Five Mystical Songs John Shirley-Quirk (baritone) Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks On Wenlock Edge Ian Bostridge (tenor) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink |
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| |  | Mozart - Compact Complete Edition180 CDs in 17 boxes in cardboard sleeves with notes and full tracklistings
Mozart: | Symphonies (Complete) Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner Vol 2: Serenades, Dances & Marches (13 CDs) Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner Vol 3: Divertimenti & Serenades (11 CDs) Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble, Neville Marriner, Michael Laird Vol 4: The Piano Concertos (12 CDs) Ton Koopman, Katia & Marielle Labèque Amsterdam Baroque Soloists, Berliner Philharmoniker Vol 5: Violin & Wind Concertos (9 CDs) Henryk Szeryng (violin), Gérard Poulet (violin), Iona Brown (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Howard Shelley (piano), Stephen Orton (cello), Irena Grafenauer (flute), Maria Graf (harp), Karl Leister (clarinet), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), Peter Damm (horn), Aurèle Nicolet (flute), Heinz Holliger (oboe), Hermann Baumann (horn), Alan Civil (horn), Jack Brymer (clarinet), Michael Chapman (bassoon), Neil Black (oboe) Vol 6: Quintets, Quartets etc (8 CDs) Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble Vol 7: String Quartets, Quintets (11 CDs) Quartetto Italiano Vol 8: Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Duos etc (9 CDs) Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Ronald Brautigam (piano) Vol 9: Piano Music (12 CDs) Mitsuko Uchida Vol 10: Masses, Requiem etc (11 CDs) Mathis/Lang/Heilmann/Rootering Radio Chorus Leipzig, Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig Vol 11: Vespers, Oratorios etc (13 CDs) Radio Chorus Leipzig, Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig Vol 12: Arias, Lieder etc (10 CDs) Kaufman/Blochwitz/Lind/Burrows etc Vol 13: Early Italian Operas (13 CDs) Hendricks/Lorenz/Johnson/Murray etc Kammerorchester "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach" Vol 14: Middle Italian Operas (9 CDs) Hadley/Blasi/McNair/Vermillion/Ahnsjo Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner Vol 15: Late Italian Operas (11 CDs) Wixell/Norman/Freni/Ganzarolli/Minton BBC Chorus & Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis Vol 16: German Operas (11 CDs) Orieschnig/Nigl/Busch Wiener Symphoniker Vol 17: Theatre & Ballet Music (5 CDs) |
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