Classic CD No. 81
January 1997
70:25
SPECIAL:  BANNED MUSIC – Music Censored by Political Repression: Schoenberg, Erwin Schulhoff, Goldschmidt, Lutoslawski, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Miaskovsky, Khachaturian … and posthumous censorship (6 pages & 5 CD tracks)
Diana Burrell Jane Atkins plays the opening of Diana Burrell’s Viola Concerto with the Northern Sinfonia under John Lubbock on ASV 4:20
Franz Josef Haydn Agnus Dei from Haydn’s Harmoniemesse – Kuijken conducts La Petite Bande plus soloists 6:05
Andrés Segovia Eliot Fisk plays Segovia’s Irlandesa & Escosesa from the Canciones populares de distintos paises 2:35
Paul Hindemith The BPO under Abbado play the final movement of Hindemith’s Kammermusik No. 5 2:55
Jacques Offenbach Felicity Lott sings Griserie, "Ah, quel dîner je viens de faire" from Offenbach’s Perichole 1:59
Anonymous Sibila Galaica (Madre de Deus; U verrá na carne) 2:56
Czeslaw Marek Gary Brain & The Philharmonia play the opening of Czeslaw Marek’s Sinfonia 4:22
Toru Takemitsu Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II played by Noriko Ogawa 4:11
Ernst Krenek Chantal Juillet & the Berlin RSO under Mauceri play Krenek’s Violin Concerto No. 1 – Presto,Larghetto 3:05
Alexander Vasil'yevich Mosolov The Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble play ‘A Dog is Missing’ & ‘Personally’ from Mosolov’s Four Newspaper Announcements 2:28
Pavel Haas Israel Yanon in Haas’s Symphonie (second movement, "Allegro vivace e risoluto energico", ending) 3:31
Hanns Eisler Uber ben Selbstmord from Eisler’s Das Hollywooder Liederbuch sung by Wolfgang Holzmair with Peter Stamm 1:47
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Bamert conducts the BBC PO in Korngold’s Symphonic Serenade ("Finale: Allegro con fuoco", opening) 2:25
Mischa Spoliansky Ute Lemper sings Wenn die beste Freundin by Spoliansky (When the special girlfriend) 2:40
Arnold Schoenberg Jill Gomez sings Schoenberg’s Der genugsame liebhaber, Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs), for voice & piano 2:57
Erik Satie Jill Gomez sings La Diva de L’Empire with John Constable 2:56
Bernard Herrmann Salonen conducts the Prelude from Herrmann’s Vertigo Suite (Prelude) 3:01
Franz Schubert Karajan conducts the BPO in Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor ("Unfinished"), D. 759 (first movement, "Allegro moderato", opening) 7:12
Richard Wagner Der Manner Sippe sas hier im Saal from Wagner’s Die Walkure with Karl Bohm conducting the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & soloists 5:20
Lord Benjamin Britten Hickox conducts the Agnus Dei from Britten’s War Requiem for soprano, tenor, baritone, boys' voices, chorus, chamber orchestra, orchestra & organ, Op. 66 3:40