Feb 2025 – Alto CD

The Gems of Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c1525?-94)

amuletts — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:03:11 +0000

“This is one of Pro Cantione Antiqua’s most carefully researched and best-sounding performances … It is also something of a market leader among Palestrina recordings, since it almost certainly comes closer than any other to re-creating the sound of this music as the composer himself knew it.” (Gramophone) … “Pride of place to my mind goes to Pro Cantione Antiqua’s evocative performance of Missa Papae Marcelli … complemented by the famous Stabat mater ” (Penguin Guide 3*)

Missa Papae Marcelli [36:58]

1. Kyrie 5:02

2. Gloria 6:21

3. Credo 9:46

4. Sanctus 3:59

5. Benedictus 3:24

6. Agnus Dei I & II 8:23

7. Stabat Mater 11:41

8. Super Flumina Babylonis (Motet) 3:57

9. Sicut Servus (Motet) 5:45

Missa Brevis [19:40]

10. Kyrie 2:36

11. Gloria 2:54

12. Credo 5:17

13. Sanctus 1:41

14. Benedictus 2:06

15. Agnus Dei 5:04

Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov (1904-72) Symphonies Nos.2 ‘Motherland’ & No.5

amuletts — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:02:00 +0000

“Then came a Second Symphony, simpler in mood and written with deep patriotism in the middle of the war. It is also excellently composed, and genuinely symphonic despite its fashioning from film music … so much passion and conviction in this performance, by a conductor who has clearly taken great trouble to convey his belief in it.” (Gramophone) “Shostakovich admired his music which is finely paced, expertly constructed and brilliantly scored” (Penguin Guide)

Symphony No.2 ‘Motherland’, Op.39 [35:06]

[1] I. Andante con moto e molto espressivo 7:39

[2] II. Presto giocoso 7:12

[3] III. Largo 13:13

[4] IV. Presto 7:01

USSR Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Gennady Provotarov

Sound Engineer – D. Gaklin Recorded Moscow, May 1961

Symphony No.5 ‘Pastoral’, Op.77 [44:21]

[5] I. Pastorale – II. Storm 17:30

[6] III. Struggle – IV. Hopes – V. Pastorale 26:50

USSR State Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Gurgen Karapetyan

Sound Engineer –Severin Pazukhin

Recorded in Moscow 1963

Dances for Orchestra

amuletts — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:01:34 +0000

‘Ninette de Valois, famous ballet impressario, described Arnold as ‘the best ballet composer since Tchaikovsky’ (Penguin Guide) ‘Brilliant, playful and infectiously melodious, Arnold’s suites of national dances (his own tunes) are probably his best-loved concert works’ ‘one after another these little jewels grab and delight the ear with their brilliant pastiche of folk melodies – a box of delights’ (Gramophone)

Malcolm Arnold: English Dances, Op.27 & 33 [17:10] [L.P.O/BOULT]

Set 1 Op.27: [1] Andantino 2:42 [2] Vivace 1:45 [3] Mesto 2:16

[4] Allegro risoluto 1:33 Set 2 Op.33: [5] Allegro non troppo 2:47

[6] Con brio 1:31 [7] Grazioso 2:18 [8] Giubiloso 2:15

Arnold: Scottish Dances, Op.59 [8:43] [S.N.O/GIBSON]

[9] Pesante 1:57 [10] Vivace 1:53 [11] Allegretto 3:34 [12] Con brio 1:18

Arnold: Cornish Dances, Op.91 [9:23] [L.P.O/ARNOLD]

[13] Vivace 1:33 [14] Andantino 3:04 [15] Con moto e sempre senza parodia 2:18

[16] Allegro ma non troppo 2:26

Arnold: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet, Op.4 [7:08] [LONDON WIND QTT]

[17] Allegro con brio 2:27 [18] Allegro semplice 2:08 [19] Allegro vivace 2:33

Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite [10:53] [R.P.O/BARLOW]

[20] Basse-Danse 1:53 [21] Pavane 2:44 [22] Tordion 1:03

[23] Bransles 1:59 [24] Pieds-en-l’air 2:08 [25] Mattachins 1:04

Edward Elgar: Three Bavarian Dances, Op.27a [11:49] [L.P.O/BOULT]

[26] The Dance 3:48 [27] Lullaby 3:17 [28] The Marksmen 4:43

Gustav Holst: from Morris Dance Tunes [4:07] [N.Z.C.O/BRAITHWAITE]

[29] Bean Setting 1:19 [30] Constant Billy 1:29 [31] Rigs O’Marlow 1:18

Iain Hamilton: Scottish Dances, Op.32 (excerpts) [7:45] [S.N.O/GIBSON]

[32] Allegro molto (Caller Herring) 2:34

[33] Vivace (Whistle and I’ll come tae ye, my lad/My love she’s but a lassie yet) 2:09

[34] Presto (Gin I were where Gaddie rins) 3:01