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Background: There can be few, if any, musicians, whilst practicing works written earlier than the 20th century, who have not wondered how the composer himself might have performed their music. There are reports, some of which are most skilful in their description, how the likes of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven may have played or improvised; furthermore there are lines of teacher/pupil relationships which can trace their lineage back to the pianistic greats such as Liszt, but still we have to imagine the sound since we cannot actually hear it.

Some composers have left us an extensive catalogue of recorded performances, most notably Edward Elgar, Igor Stravinsky and Benjamin Britten. Others like Olivier Messiaen, Heitor Villa-Lobos and William Walton have left us significant, although limited, editions. All too many, however, have merely left us a mere fraction of their output and it was to bring these recordings to the record-buying public that the EMI Classics series COMPOSERS IN PERSON was planned and researched by Ken Jagger (1945-2007).

Most composers are found as either conductors or pianists (so sometimes both) although some appear on other instruments - Hindemith as violist as well as conductor and Messiaen, Widor, Vierne and Dupré as organist.

CATALOGUE NR: 2175752
RECORD LABEL: EMI
FORMAT: 22 CD Set
PRICE: £ 48.88 including VAT, or £ 42.51 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 06-Oct-2008

COMPOSER: Bela Bartok  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Composers In Person
TRACKS: Bela Bartok / Joseph Szigeti - 14 Bagatelles op.6 / Sz38 / BB50 : No.2 Allegro giocoso. 10 Easy Pieces Sz39 / BB51 : No.5 Este a szekelyeknel - Evening in Transylvania / No.10 Medvetanc - Bear Dance. 2 Romanian Dances op.8a / Sz43 / BB56 : No.1 Allegro vivace. 3 Burlesques op.8c / Sz47 / BB55 : No.2 Kicsit azottan… - A bit drunk…. Allegro barbaro Sz49 / BB63. Suite op.14 / Sz62 / BB70. Mikrokosmos Sz107 / BB105 : Staccato - Allegretto mosso volume 5 No.124 / Ostinato - Vivacissimo volume 6 No.146. 5 Hungarian Folk Songs from Sz33 / BB97 : No.1 Elindultam szep hazambol / No.2 Altal mennek en a Tiszan ladikon / No.3 A gyulai kert alatt / No.4 Nem messze van ide kis Margitta / No.5 Vgigmentem a tarkanyi. 8 Hungarian Folk Songs Sz64 / BB47 : No.1 Fekete fod / No.2 Istenem istenem / No.3 Aszszonyok aszszonyok / No.5 Ha kimegyek arr' a magos tetore / No.6 Toltik a nagy erdo utjat / No.7 Eddig valo dolgom / No.8 Olvad a ho. 7 Hungarian Folk Tunes (transcribed 1926 by Joseph Szigeti from 7 pieces from For Children for piano Sz42). 6 Romanian Folk Dances (transcribed 1925 by Zoltan Szekely from 6 Romanian Folk Dances for piano Sz56 (Bela Bartok). Erno Dohnanyi / London Symphony Orchestra / Lawrence Collingwood - Variations on a Nursery Song op.25 (Erno Dohnanyi). Paul Hindemith - Sonata for solo viola op.25 No.1 (Paul Hindemith). Paul Hindemith / Emanuel Feuermann - Scherzo for viola and cello (Paul Hindemith). Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Hindemith - Nobilissima visione - Suite from the dance legend in six scenes : Einleitung und Rondo / Marsch und Pastoral / Passacaglia (Paul Hindemith). Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Hindemith - Symphonia serena (Paul Hindemith). Szymon Goldberg / Paul Hindemith / Emmanuel Feuermann - String Trio No.2 (Hindemith). Louis Cahuzac / Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Hindemith - Clarinet Concerto (Hindemith). Dennis Brain / Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Hindemith - Horn Concerto (Hindemith). Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Hindemith - Concert music for brass and strings op.50 (Hindemith). Aram Khachaturian - Masquerade : Suite. David Oistrakh / Philharmonia Orchestra / Aram Khachaturian - Violin Concerto in D minor. Gayaneh - Orchestral Suite (Khachaturian). Arthur Honegger - Pastorale d'ete (Honegger). Maurice Marechal / Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire / Arthur Honneger - Cello Concerto (Honneger). Francis Poulenc - Trois Mouvements perpetuels (Poulenc). Roger Lamorlette / Gustav Dherin / Francis Poulenc - Trio pour piano hautbois et basson (Poulenc). Francis Poulenc - Deux Novelettes : No.1 in C / No.2 in B flat minor. Nocturnes : No.1 in C / No.2 in A - Bal des jeunes filles / No.4 in C minor - Bal fantome. Improvisations : No.2 in A flat / No.5 in A minor / No.9 in D / No.10 in F Eloge des gammes (Poulenc). Francis Poulenc / Walther Straram Concerts Orchestra / Walther Straram - Aubade Concerto pour piano et 18 instruments 'Concerto choregraphique' (Francis Poulenc). Charles-Marie Widor - Symphony No.5 in F minor op.42/1 : Toccata Allegro. Symphonie gothique in C minor op.70 (Charles-Marie Widor). Louis Vierne - Trois Improvisations : Marche episcopale. Pieces de Fantasie Suite No.1 op.51 : Andantino / Cortege (Louis Vierne). Marcel Dupre : Suite bretonne op.21 : Berceuse (Marcel Dupre). Trois Preludes et Fugues op.7 : No.3 in G minor (Marcel Dupre). Olivier Messiaen - Le Banquet celeste. L'Ascension : Majeste du Christ demandant sa gloire a son Pere / Alleluias sereins d'une ame qui desire le ciel / Transports de joie d'une ame devant la gloire du Christ quie est la sienne / Priere du Christ montant vers son Pere (Olivier Messiaen). Yehudi Menuhin / London Symphony Orchestra / Edward Elgar - Violin Concerto in B minor op.61 (Edward Elgar). (Beatrice Harrison / New Symphony Orchestra / Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor op.85 (Elgar). Olivier Messiaen - Apparition de l'Eglise eternelle / La Nativite du Seigneur (Olivier Messiaen). Sergei Prokofiev / London Symphony Orchestra / Piero Coppola - Piano Concerto No.3 in C op.26 (Sergei Prokofiev). Suggestion diabolique No.4 from 4 Pieces op.4. Visions fugitives op.22 : No.3 Allegretto / No.5 Molto giocoso / No.6 Con eleganza / No.9 Allegretto tranquillo / No.10 Ridicolosamente / No.11 Con vivacita / No.16 Dolente / No.17 Poetico / No.18 Con una dolce lentezza. Gavotte op.25 - transcribed for piano from Symphony No.1 in D 'Classical' movement III. Sonata No.4 op.29 : Andante assai. Gavotte No.3 from 4 Pieces op.32 (Prokofiev). Alexander Glazunov - The Seasons - ballet in 1 Act op.67 : Winter Introduction / Scene 1 Variation 1 - The Frost / Variation 2 - The Ice / Variation 3 - The Hail / Variation 4 - The Snow / Scene - Spring / Scene 3 / Summer / Waltz of the Cornflowers and Poppies / Barcarolle-Variation-Coda / Scene 4 Autumn: Bacchanale / Petit Adagio / Finale (Alexander Glazunov). Victoria de los Angeles / Fernand Benedetti / Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas brasileiras No.2 : Toccata - Un poco moderato 'O Trenzinho do Caipira'. Bachianas brasileiras No.5 : Aria Cantilena - Adagio / Danca Martelo - Allegretto (Villa Lobos). Frederick Fuller / Heitor Villa-Lobos - Miniaturas : No.2 Viola. Modhinas e Cancyes volume 1 : No.3 Cantilena (Villa-Lobos). Magda Tagliaferro / Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise / Heitor Villa-Lobos - Momoprecoce - Fantasy for piano & orchestra. Bachianas brasilerias No.4 : Preludio - Introducao Lento / Coral Canto do Sertao Largo / Aria Cantiga Moderato / Danca Miudinho Muito animado. Choros No.10 ‘Rasga o Coracao' (Villa-Lobos). Max Strub / Ludwig Hoelscher / Orchester der Staatsoper Berlin / Hans Pfitzner - Das Christelflein op.20 : Overture. Palestrina : Prelude Act I / Prelude Act II / Prelude Act III. Duo for violin cello and small orchestra op.43 (Pfitzner). Gerhard Husch / Hans Pfitzner - Hast du von den Fischerkindern op.7 No.1. Der Gartner op.9 No.1. Die Einsame op.9 No.2. Zum Abschied meiner Tochter op.10 No.3. Michaelskirchplatz op.19 No.2. In Danzig op.22 No.1. Nachts op.26 No.2. Abbitte op.29 No.1. Hussens Kerker op.32 No.1. Saerspruch op.32 No.2. Leuchtende Tage op.40 No.1. Herbstgefuhl op.40 No.4 (Pfitzner). Darius Milhaud - La Creation du monde op.81 (Milhaud). Marcelle Meyer / Darius Milhaud - Scaramouche op.165b (Milhaud). Concert Arts Orchestra / Darius Milhaud - Saudades do Brasil op.67. Suite provencale op.152b (Milhaud). Orchestre du Theatre des Champs-Elysees / Darius Milhaud - Le Boeuf sur le toit op.58 (Milhaud). Francis Poulenc - Le Bestiaire Apollinaire / Le dromadaire / La chevre du Tibet / La sauterelle / Le dauphin / L'ecrevisse / La carpe. Pierre Bernac / Francis Poulenc - Chansons gaillardes / Invocation aux Parques / La belle jeunesse / Tel jour telle nuit / Bonne journee / Une ruine coquille vide / Le front comme un drapeau perdu / Une roulette couverte en tuiles / A toutes brides / Une herbe pauvre / Je n'ai envie que de t'aimer / Figure de force brulante et farouche / Nous avons fait la nuit. Deux poemes de Guillaume Apollinaire : Dans le jardin d'Anna. Metamorphoses. Deux poemes de Louis Aragon. Montparnaste Deux melodies de Guillaume Apollinaire (Poulenc). Peter Pears / Benjamin Britten - Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo op.22 (Britten). Ludovic Vaillant / Dmitri Shostakovich - Concerto for piano trumpet and strings in C minor op.35 (Shostakovich). Dmitri Shostakovich / Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise / Andre Cluytens - Piano Concerto No.2 in F op.102 (Dmitri Shostakovich). Three Fantastic Dances op.5. Dmitri Shostakovich - Preludes and Fugues op.87 : No.1 Moderato in C / No.4 Andante - Adagio in E minor / No.5 Allegretto in D major / No.23 Adagio Moderato con moto / No.24 Andante Moderato in D minor (Shostakovich). IKate Winter / Linda Seymour / Parry Jones / Roy Henderson / Percussion ensemble / Igor Stravinsky - Les Noces - sung in the English version (Stravinsky). Marcel Moyse / Emile Godeau / Gustave Dherin / Marus Piard / Eugene Foveau / Pierre Vignol / Andre Lafosse / Raphael Delbos / Igor Stravinsky - Octet for wind instruments (Stravinsky). Igor Stravinsky / Walther Straram Concert Orchestra / Ernest Ansermet - Capriccio for piano and orchestra (Stravinsky). Alexis Vlassov Choir / Walther Straram Concerts Orchestra / Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms (Stravinsky). Samuel Dushkin / Louis Gromer / George Durand / Andre Vacellier / Gabriel Grandmaison / Igor Stravinsky - Pastorale (Stravinsky transcribed for violin and wind quartet). Samuel Dushkin / Igor Stravinsky - L'Oiseau de feu (Stravinsky transcribed for violin and piano). Petrushka (Stravinsky transcribed for violin and piano). Danse russe. Le chant du rossignol (Stravinsky transcribed for violin and piano). Aladar Racz / Roland Charmy / Henri Volant / Etienne Ginot / Louis Juste / Lucien Lavaillotte / Emile Godeau / Eugene Foveau / Jean Devemy / Roger Tudesq / Jean Morel / Igor Stravinsky - Ragtime for 11 instruments (Stravinsky). Igor Stravinsky - Piano-rag-music (Stravinsky). Samuel Dushkin / Igor Stravinsky - Suite italienne (Stravinsky transcribed for violin and piano from Pulcinella). Igor Stravinsky - Serenade in A (Stravinsky). Samuel Dushkin / Igor Stravinsky - Duo concertante for violin and piano (Stravinsky). Soulima Stravinsky / Igor Stravinsky - Concerto for two solo pianos (Stravinsky). Bayerische Staatskapelle / Richard Strauss - Ein Alpensinfonie op.64 (Strauss). London Tivoli Theatre Orchestra / Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier - film music (Strauss orchestral transcriptions from the opera with a March in D (Strauss). Enrique Granados - Danzas espanolas op.31 : No.7 Valenciana Calasera / No.10 Danza triste. Goyescas : Improvisation on No.7 El pelele (Granados). Manuel de Falla - Maria Barrientos / Manuel de Falla - Siete canciones populares espanolas. El amor brujo : Cancion del fuego fatuo / Soneto a Cordoba (de Falla). Manuel de Falla / Marcel Moyse / George Bonneau / Emile Godeau / Marcel Darrieux / Auguste Cruque - Harpsichord Concerto (de Falla). Federico Mompou - Jeunes filles au jardin - Scenes d'enfants No.5. El carrer el guitarrisra i el vell cavall - Suburis No.1. Cancion y danza - Canco i dansa No.5. La fuente y la capana - Paiajes No.1. Cancion y danza - Canco i dansa No.6. Cancion y danza - Canco i dansa No.8 (Mompou). Ninon Vallin / Joaquin Nin - Cantos populares espanoles : No.3 Tonada de la nina perdida / No.4 Montanesa / No.6 Malaguena / No.7 Granadina / No.19 Canto Andaluz / No.20 Polo (Nin). Royal Albert Hall Orchestra / Edward Elgar - Variations on an original theme (Enigma' op.36 (Elgar). London Symphony Orchestra / Gustav Holst - The Planets op.32 (Holst). Esther Rethy / Wiener Philharmoniker / Wiener Symphoniker / Franz Lehar - Die lustige Witwe : Overture. Zigeunerliebe : Hor' ich Cymbalklange. Maria Reining - Eva : Vorspiel / Im heimlichen Dammer. Esther Rethy - Paganini : Ich kann es nicht fassen…Liebe du Himmel auf Erden. Esther Rethy - Der Zarewitsch : Einer wird kommen. Maria Reining - Friederike : Warum hast du mich wachgekusst? (Lehar). Vera Schwarz / Richard Tauber / Staatskapelle Berlin / Franz Lehar - Das Land des Lachelns : Ich trete ins Zimmer…Immer nur lacheln / Mein lieber Prinz…Bei einem Tee en deux / Von Apfelbluten einen Kranz / Wer hat die Liebe in Herz gesenkt? / Dein ist mein ganzes Herz! / Alles vorbei!...Ich mocht' wieder einmal / Ihr Gotter sagt…Kann es moglich sein? (Lehar). Esther Rethy / Wiener Symphoniker / Franz Lehar - Schon ist die Welt : Ich bin verliebt (Lehar). Jarmila Novotna / Richard Tauber / Wiener Philharmonica / Franz Lehar - Giuditta : Freunde das Leben ist lebenswert! / Schon wie die blaue Sommernacht / Welch tiefes Ratsel ist die Liebe…Du bist meine Sonne! / Ich weiss es selber nicht…Meine Lippen sie kussen so heiss / So wie um den Sonnenball / Schonste der Frau'n begann das Lied (Lehar). Benno Moiseiwitsch / Nicolas Medtner - Russian Round Dance - A Tale op.58 No.1. Shto ty klonish nad vodami - The Willow op.24 No.2. Shopot robkoye dykhan'ye - Down in the garden op.24 No.7. Oda Slobodskaya / Nikolai Medtner - Serenade op.28 No.2 (Nikolai Medtner). Nikolai Medtner - Tales op.47 : No.1 Allegro con espressione in B flat minor / No.2 ‘Campanella' in B minor (Medtner). Elisabeth Schwartzkopf / Nicolas Medtner - The Muse op.29 No.1. The Rose op.29 No.6. The Waltz op.32 No.5. When roses fade op.36 No.3 (Medtner). Nikolai Medtner -Tales op.51 : No.1 Allegro molto vivace in D minor (Medtner). Oda Slobodskaya / Tatiana Makushina / Nikolai Medtner - Zimniy vecher - Winter Evening op.13 No.1. Mechtatelyu - To a Dreamer op.32 No.6. Telega zhini - The Wagon of Life op.45 No.2. Vorony - The Raven op.52 No.2 (Medtner). Nicolas Medtner - Tales op.51 : No.2 Allegretto cantabile ed espressivo in A minor (Medtner). Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Nikolai Medtner - Goethe-Lieder : Elfenliedchen - Elves' ditty op.6 No.3 / Im Vorubergehen - In passing op.6 No.4 / Selbstbetrug - Self-deception op.15 No.3 / Aus ‘Lila' - So tanzet From ‘Lila' op.15 No.5 / Meeresstille - Calm at sea op.15 No.7 / Gluckliche Fahrt - Prosperous voyage op.15 No.8 / Einsamkeit - Solitude op.18 No.3 (Medtner). Nikolai Medtner - Tales op.51 : No.3: Allegretto tranquillo e grazioso - Allegro non troppo in A (Medtner). Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Nicolas Medtner - Lieder op.46 : No.1 Praeludium - Prelude / No.5 Winternacht - Winter night / No.6 Die Quelle - The Stream (Medtner). Nikolai Medtner - Forgotten Melodies op.38 : No.3 Danza festiva - Presto (Medtner). Albert Roussel - Le Festin de l'araignee op.17. Fragments symphoniques (Albert Roussel). Claire Croiza / Albert Roussel - Cinq Melodies : Le Jardin mouille op.3 No.3 / Invocation op.8 No.3 / Amoureux separes op.12 No.2 / Light op.19 No.1 / Sarabande op.20 No.2 (Roussel). Quatuor Calvet / Florent Schmitt - Piano Quintet in B minor op.51 (Schmitt). Walther Straram Concerts Orchestra / Florent Schmitt - La Tragedie de Salome op.50. Poeme symphonique. Les Enchantements sur la mer. Danse des eclairs. Danse de l'effroi (Schmitt).

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