Classical Music

Classical Music

Recorded in: Oslo Philharmonic Hall 11-13 August 1986 Producer(s) Brian Couzens Sound Engineer(s) Ralph Couzens Dag Kristofferson [Assistant]

Includes work(s) for piano by Franz Liszt. Soloist: Louis Lortie.

Recorded in: Stockholm Concert Hall 30-31 March1993 & 18 March 1994 Producer(s) Brian Couzens Sound Engineer(s) Ben Connellan Richard Smoker (Assistant)

The performer on this CD, concert organist Lionel Rogg of Geneva, is at home in the world's greatest concert halls. He began his worldwide career as a concert organist playing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose works for organ he would subsequently record in full three different times. Since then, he has been much in demand throughout the world as both organist and harpsichordist. As professor for organ in Geneva, Rogg teaches young organists from all over the world. More than forty of his students have been awarded the Prix de virtuosit�. Recently, Rogg has been devoting more time to composition. Following the devastating fire of 1984, as a member of a committee of experts, he decisively influenced the specification of the new van den Heuvel instrument in his native city's Victoria Hall. For Lionel Rogg it was particularly important that this concert-hall organ should be optimally configured for the specifics of it's surroundings, whether as an emancipated - orchestral - counterpart or as a solo instrument. The high tonal standard for the characteristic foundation stops (fonds) with wide mensuration and the powerful intonation of the reeds combined with the attention paid to the specification of the (low) mixtures, give the organ in Victoria Hall the desired symphonic, French character. The extensive battery of horizontal reeds and the pedal stops of 32' pitch (labial and lingual) make the four-manual instrument just as appropriate for the music of the founder of the symphonic organ music of France, C�sar Franck, as heard on this Organ-CD, as it is for the effective presentation of Liszt and Bizet transcriptions, with their virtuosically pianistic, even orchestral character. The booklet of this fifth CD of the Organ series contains liner notes in German, English, and French.

Recorded in: Orchestra Hall, Detroit 15-16 January 1994 Producer(s) Charles Greenwell Leslie B. Dunner Ralph Couzens Sound Engineer(s) Dan Dene Robert Shafer

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Already in the Renaissance the toccata (from the Italian toccare - to touch) was understood to be a free-form virtuoso piece for keyboard instruments. Today, as for centuries, the toccata is for keyboard a favourite model for improvisation, and the organ toccatas on this recording radiate the spontaneous sheen of an unacademic musical joy. Rosalinde Haas: organ. This production received the quarterly German Record Critics' Award.

Recorded in: Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, London 1 January 1982 & 1 January 1983 Producer(s) James Burnett Sound Engineer(s) Robert Auger

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Recorded in: New Broadcasting House, Manchester 12,13 October 1994 Producer(s) Ralph Couzens Brian Pidgeon Sound Engineer(s) Don Hartridge

Recorded in: Dvorák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague 23, 25 & 26 June 1992 Producer(s) Brian Couzens Sound Engineer(s) Ralph Couzens Ben Connellan (Assistant)

Recorded in: Blackheath Halls, London 25,26 September 1996 Producer(s) Gary Cole Sound Engineer(s) Ben Connellan Richard Smoker (Assistant)

Recorded in: New Broadcasting House, Manchester 9-10 February 1998 Producer(s) Brian Pidgeon (Executive) Brian Couzens Sound Engineer(s) Stephen Rinker

Classical Music

Classical Music

Producer(s) Brian Couzens Recorded in: All Saints' Church, Tooting, London 10-12, 14-15 July 1995 Sound Engineer(s) Ralph Couzens

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Recorded in: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea 13,14 February 1994 Producer(s) Mike George Ralph Couzens Sound Engineer(s) Ralph Couzens Richard Smoker (assistant)

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Classical Music

Classical Music

SCHUBERT: String Quartets Nos. 8-10

ARENSKY: Violin Concerto / GLAZUNOV: Concerto ballata / Pian

BERUHMTE ORGELWERKE

STREICHQUARTETTE NOS. 9 & 10

CLAUDINE VON VILLA BELL

OBERTO

GLI AMORI DI TEOLINDA