Search results for: “RODGERS: The Roaring Whirl”
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A Cello Galaxy of British Women Composers
In A Cello Galaxy of British Women Composers, Catherine Wilmers brings to light an extraordinary collection of works by British women presenting us with twelve premiere recordings. Drawing on diligent research, Wilmers unearths strikingly original compositions presenting us with premiere recordings by Amy Elsie Horrocks, Ethel Barns, Elizabeth Poston, Joan Trimble, Dora Bright, Susan Spain…
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Theatre Royal volumes 1-9 complete (18CD)
The best of Vintage radio drama – the complete set at special price and really inexpensive shipping of CDs. Digital downloads include the leaflet; currently there is a double discount on the CDs – fantastic value!!!! . Here you have nine volumes each with 2 CDs and four or five complete and unedited vintage dramas…
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The Jazz Age for Piano Duo
Above all other periods, the ‘roaring’ 1920s were possibly the years of greatest carefree feeling in British society; America too, to an extent despite the Prohibition and limitations on personal freedom. The new dance crazes, from the foxtrot to the Charleston, Black Bottom and tango, together with the ever increasing popularity of jazz and blues…
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Theatre Royal Vol. 1 – American Classics I (2CD)
Sir Laurence Olivier stars in four classic tales, first broadcast in the UK in 1952-3, and favorites with American radio listeners. HG Wells’ “The Country of the Blind” was first published in 1904 in the Strand magazine; Olivier plays the hapless and confused Nunez. “Bartleby” by Herman Melville first appeared in 1853; then we have…
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Frederick Paul Naftel: Orchestral, chamber and instrumental works
Frederick Paul Naftel’s new album showcases his eclectic compositional style through a diverse collection of works. 3 Premiere Recordings: Aphoristic Impressions, composed in 2023 for American pianist Haley Myles, captures the essence of various landscapes through five short piano pieces. These pieces evoke images of the underwater church at Dunwich, Suffolk, the eruption of an…
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“PROTÉGÉ” – Liszt and Reubke Piano Sonatas
Franz Liszt is of course the father of Romantic pianism and his Sonata in B minor is a tour-de-force of whirlwind phrasing and technical demands. Julius Reubke was one of his favoured pupils, whose Sonata in B flat minor is very much in the same mould, and a real challenge to any pianist. Here we…