Cataloging the Collection - April 29, 2010

From time to time people have expressed interest in recordings I have added to my collection, so I will occasionally post a list of recent catalogued items.  I don't catalogue an item until I've listened to it.  Sometimes I don't listen to something until weeks, months, or even years after it was acquired, so this is not necessarily a list of the very most recent releases, but it does document the order in which I've listened.  Recent additions to the Art Leonard record catalogue:

Telemann - Twelve Fantasies for Solo Violin, played by Augustin Hadelich (Naxos)

Brahms - Symphony No. 3 & Beethoven - Symphony No. 7.  Broadcast performance of March 8, 1956, by Otto Klemperer and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Orfeo)

Mangled Masterworks - 2-CD set from rediscovery.us collecting pop-oriented arrangements of classical standards released on LPs during the period 1950-1970.

Mendelssohn - Symphonies 3 & 5, performed by Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic (BIS)

Francois Couperin - Tenebres du Premier Jour, performed by Emmanuel Mandrin and Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr (Ambronay)

Salon Buenos Aires - Music of Miguel del Aguila, performed by Camerata San Antonio (Bridge)

Britten Orchestral works - 1953 recordings conducted by Eugene Goossens, Eduard van Beinum, and Benjamin Britten (Simple Sympony, Peter Grimes Interludes & Passacaglia, Sinfonia da Requiem, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra without narration) (Decca Eloquence - Australian budget label)

Joseph Haydn Violin Concertos - Augustin Hadelich, with Helmut Muller-Bruhl conducting the Cologne Chamber Orchestra (Naxos)

Manuel Blasco de Nebra - Keyboard Sonatas (Vol. 3), performed by Pedro Casals (Naxos)

Palestrina Masses: Te Deum Laudamus and Tu Es Petrus (with the motets from which they derived their names) - Martin Baker conducting Westminster Cathedral Choir (Hyperion)

Albeniz - Iberia (orch. Arbos), Navarra (orch. Arbos) and Villa-Lobos Piano Concerto No. 1 (Ellen Ballon, piano soloist), performed by Ernest Ansermet conducting L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Decca Eloquence)

John Ireland 70th Birthday Concert, recorded September 10, 1949, by Sir Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic, with piano soloist Eileen Joyce in the Piano Concerto in Eb Major (LPO recordings)

O Praise the Lord: Restoration Music from Westminster Abbey - James O'Donnell conducting the Choir of Westminster Abbey with organ solos and accompaniment by Robert Quinney (Hyperion)

Choral Music by Einojuhani Rautavaara, performed by James Burton and Schola Cantorum of Oxford (Hyperion)

Dmitri Shostakovich - Complete score for the film "Odna", as reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from manuscript, piano score, and the surviving orchestral suite, with Fitz-Gerald leading vocal soloists and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (Naxos Film Music Classics series)

Jacaras! - 18th Century Spanish Baroque Guitar Music by Santiago de Murcia, performed by Paul O'Dette (baroque guitar) with Andrew Lawrence-King, Pedro Estevan, Pat O'Brien, and Steve Player (Harmonia Mundi)

Carl Rutti - Requiem - conducted by David Hill with the Bach Choir and Southern Sinfonia (Naxos)

Julius Roentgen Cello Concertos, performed by Arturo Muruzabal, with Dutch radio orchestras conducted by Paul Watkins and Henrik Schaefer (Etcetera)