Sept 2024 – Alto CD https://altocd.com Classical Music and Nostalgia CDs Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:24:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Bing Crosby – Best EVER 1CD Collection ! https://altocd.com/product/aln1990/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:05:16 +0000 https://altocd.com/?post_type=product&p=53105 Catalogue Number: ALN 1990 Number of Discs: 1 CD Date/Runtime: Time: 79:18 1937 / 1960 Barcode: 5055354419904]]> Over 60 mins original HITS PLUS 15 mins Christmas ‘GOLD’ tracks including also many famous accompanists from the Andrews Sisters to Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong, Bob Hope, Grace Kelly and more !

 

[1] Don’t Fence Me in (with Andrews Sisters) 3:03
[2] True Love (with Grace Kelly) 3:06
[3] People Will Say We’re in Love (with Rosemary Clooney) 2:57
[4] Galway Bay 3:01
[5] MacNamara’s Band 2:41
[6] I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen 2:51
[7] The Isle of Innisfree 3:01
[8] Ac-cen-tchu-ate the Positive (with Andrews Sisters) 2:41
[9] I’ll Be Seeing You 2:49
[10] Road to Morocco (with Bob Hope) 2:36
[11] It’s Been a Long Long Time (with Les Paul Trio) 2:56
[12] Anything You Can Do (with Andrews Sisters) 3:02
[13] Gone Fishin’ (with Louis Armstrong) 2:29
[14] Swingin’ on a Star (with Williams Brothers) 2:30
[15] Sweet Leilani (Hawaiian Lullaby) 2:02
[16] Pennies from Heaven 3:09
[17] Well Did You Evah (with Frank Sinatra) 3:49
[18] Some Enchanted Evening 3:03
[19] Whiffenpoof Song (with Fred Waring / Glee Club) 3:01
[20] Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra (The Irish Lullaby) 3:18
[21] Now is the Hour (Maori Farewell) 3:07
[22] Where the Blue of the Night… 3:10
XMAS GOLD
[23] I’ll Be Home for Christmas 2:55
[24] Silent Night 2:41
[25] Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiian Christmas) (with Andrews Sisters) 2:53
[26] Silver Bells (with Carol Richards) 3:03
[27] White Christmas 3:03
TOTAL TIME 79:18 Remastered for Alto by Paul Arden-Taylor
]]> String Quartets from Vienna: Korngold & Kreisler https://altocd.com/product/alc1499/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:04:39 +0000 https://altocd.com/?post_type=product&p=53104 Catalogue Number: ALC 1499 Number of Discs: 1 CD Date/Runtime: Time: 57:50 DDD, 1995 Barcode: 5055354414992]]> “Kreisler and Korngold … both shared the same Viennese musical roots and both fled Vienna for the USA to escape Nazi persecution. Also, both of the string quartets presented here possess a haunting Viennese nostalgia. Kreisler’s Quartet is a delightful discovery containing much memorable melodic material … many impressive moments … Korngold’s is a later work, of a Vienna gone for ever. As ever, his melodic gifts are prolific throughout. The Angeles Quartet are exceptionally fine and committed throughout… highly recommendable” (Gramophone)

 

Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Quartet in A minor (1921) [30:06]
1 Fantasia 8:20
2 Scherzo 6:56
3 Prelude & Romance 5:47
4 Finale 9:03
 
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Quartet No.3, Op.34 (1945) [27:38]
5 Allegro moderato 7:34
6 Scherzo: Allegro molto 4:28
7 Sostenuto: Like a Folk Tune 9:20
8 Finale: Allegro con fuoco 6:15
 
Recorded August 1993 at Whitman Auditorium, Steamboat Springs, CO; Produced/engineered 1995
for Koch International by Joanna Nickrenz & Marc Aubort, Elite Recordings Inc., NYC
]]> Tchaikovsky: Ballet Music https://altocd.com/product/alc1498/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:03:44 +0000 https://altocd.com/?post_type=product&p=53103 Melodiya Catalogue Number: ALC 1498 Number of Discs: 1 CD Date/Runtime: Time: 75:44 DDD 1982/87 Barcode: 5055354414985]]> “Summing up Svetlanov’s Tchaikovsky is fairly easy in that everything is played either from the gut or from the heart, brilliance is a given, subtle observation less consistent but the sum effect is compelling.”

“The playing of the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra is often quite brilliant, the characterisation imaginative … listening to the set made me realise just how much Svetlanov is missed. He certainly didn’t hold anything back” (Gramophone)

Tchaikovsky: Ballet Music
Swan Lake, Nutracker Suites, Polonaises (Sleeping Beauty, Cherevicki)
 
Suite from the ballet ‘Swan Lake’ Op.20a
1. Scene – 3:20
2. Waltz – 7:22
3. Dance of the Cygnets – 1:26
4. Scene – 7:33
5. Hungarian dance (czardas) – 3:11
6. panish dance – 2:26
7. Neapolitan dance – 1:54
8. Mazurka – 3:53
9. Scene – 4:13
Suite from the ballet ‘The Nutcracker’ Op.71a
10.Overture miniature – 3:08
Dances caracteristiques:
11. March – 2:22
12. Danse de le fee – dragee – 2:04
13. Trepak (danse Russe) – 1:01
14. Danse Arabe – 4:12
15. Danse des Chinoise – 1:12
16. Danse des mirlitons – 2:30
17.  Pas de Deux – 5:57
18.     Valse des fleurs – 6:47
19. Polonaise from the opera “Cherevichki” (Little Shoes) – 6:10
20. Polonaise from the ballet ‘Sleeping Beauty’ – 4:04
]]> South American Orchestral Gems Villa-Lobos – Ginastera – Chavez https://altocd.com/product/alc1497/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:02:49 +0000 https://altocd.com/?post_type=product&p=53102 Leopold Stokowski New York Stadium Orchestra Eugene Goossens London Symphony Orchestra Carlos Chavez New York Stadium Orchestra Catalogue Number: ALC 1497 Number of Discs: 1 CD Date/Runtime: Time 73:00 Hifi Stereo 1959/62 Barcode: 5055354414978]]> Villa-Lobos etc] “Good to have a recommendable version of his engaging tone picture … performance is excellent and recordings vivid” [Chavez] “Carries the authority of the composer’s direction … A valuable issue” (Penguin Guide 3*)

 

Heitor Villa-Lobos
[1] Uirapurú 14:07
[2] Modinha (Bachianas Brasileiras No.1) 8:02
[3] The Little Train of the Caipira (Bachianas Brasileiras No.2) 4:34
 
Alberto Ginastera – Suite from Estancia [11:50]
[4] The Land Workers 2:45
[5] Wheat Dance 3:40
[6] The Cattlemen 1:47
[7] Final Dance: Malambo 3:37
 
Alberto Ginastera – Suite from Panambi [12:32]
[8] Moonlight on the Parana 5:30
[9] Invocation of the Powerful Spirits 1:13
[10] Lament of the Maidens 2:28
[11] Rondo of the Maidens – Dance of the Warriors 3:20
 
Carlos Chávez – Symphony No.4 “Sinfonia Romantica” [21:27]
[12] Allegro 7:05
[13] Molto Lento 5:15
[14] Finale: Vivo non troppo mosso 9:07
 
1-2: Stadium Symphony Orchestra New York (NYPO) / Leopold Stokowski
3-11: London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Eugene Goossens
12-14: Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York / Carlos Chávez
]]> Amy (Mrs.H.H.A) Beach (1867-1944) Piano Favourites https://altocd.com/product/alc1481/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:01:25 +0000 https://altocd.com/?post_type=product&p=53101 Catalogue Number: ALC 1481 Number of Discs: 1 CD Date/Runtime: Time: 68:00 1994, DDD Barcode: 5055354414817]]> Even though Amy was born, bred and educated in New England, she believed more in a ‘universal style freely drawing on the musical tradition of all European countries.’ She explored virtually all forms of composition, from the largest (Mass), symphony, piano concerto, oratorio) through chamber music (piano quintet, trio, opera) to art-songs, character-pieces for violin and numerous works for piano. .. She was the first American woman to compose a symphony and the first performed by major orchestras” (Gramophone)

1. Ballad in D flat, Op.6 7.39
2. Valse Caprice, Op.4 4.54
3. Nocturne, Op.107 3:32
4. Prelude and Fugue, Op.81 9:00
 
Four Sketches, Op.15
5. In Autumn 2:16
6. Phantoms 2:07
7. Dreaming 3:27
8. Fireflies 2:48
 
9. Hermit Thrush at Eve, Op.92 No.1 4:15
10. Hermit Thrush at Morn, Op.92 No.2 3:47
 
Suite for Two Pianos on Irish Melodies, Op.104*
11. Prelude 6:53
12. Old-time Peasant Dance 4:35
13. Ancient Cabin 8:18
14. Finale 4:23
 
Recorded March 1994 at the Music Room, Cambridge, MA
Produced, engineered and mastered by Scott Kent
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