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SVIATOSLAV RICHTER IN THE 1950’S, VOLUME 1
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891 – 1953): 5 Piano Transcriptions from “Cinderella” (Quarrel, Op. 102, No. 3; Gavotte, Op. 95, No. 2; Autumn Fairy, Op. 97, No. 3; Orientalia, Op. 97, No. 6; Waltz, Cinderella and the Prince, Op. 102, No. 1); 10 Visions fugitives, Op. 22, No. 3-6, 8-9, 11, 14-15, 18; Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat, Op. 83
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 – 1856): Toccata in C, Op. 7
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862 – 1918): Images, Book 2: No. 1, Cloches a travers les feuilles; No. 1, Cloches a travers les feuilles (2nd recording)
FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810 – 1849): Etude in E, Op. 10 No. 3; Etude in C, Op. 10 No. 1; Etude in E, Op. 10 No. 3 (2nd recording)
SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873 – 1943): Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5; Prelude in G sharp minor, Op. 32 No. 12; Prelude in F sharp minor, Op. 23 No. 1; Prelude in A, Op. 32 No. 9; Prelude in B minor, Op. 32 No. 10; Prelude in G sharp minor, Op. 32 No. 12; Prelude in a flat, Op. 23 No. 8; Prelude in F, Op. 32 No. 7; Prelude in C, Op. 32 No. 1; Prelude in B flat minor, Op. 32 No. 2; Prelude in b flat, Op. 23 No. 2; Prelude in d, Op. 23 No. 4; Prelude in C minor, Op. 23 No. 7
PIOTR II’ICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1850 – 1893): Grand Sonata in G, Op. 37; FRANZ LISZT (1811 – 1886): Valse oubliee No. 1

Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Recorded in Moscow, December 1954
(2 CDs)

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SVIATOSLAV RICHTER IN THE 1950’S, VOLUME 2
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 – 1856): Variations on A-B-E-G-G, Op. 1; 3 Fantasiestucke from Op. 12: No. 2, Sufschwung, No. 3, Warum?, No. 7, Nicht Schnell; Humoreske in B flat, Op. 20
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN (1872 – 1915): Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19; 12 Preludes, Op. 11 (Recorded in Moscow, June 1955); Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62
MODESTE MUSSORGSKY (1839 – 1881): Pictures at and Exhibition (Recorded in Moscow, October 1952)
PIOTR IL’ICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1850 – 1893): Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor for Piano and Orchestra (with U.S.S.R. State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nathan Rachlin)(Recorded in Moscow, 1957)

Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Recordings: Moscow, 1952 - 1957
(2 CDs)

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SVAITOSLAV RICHTER IN THE 1950S, VOLUME 3
FRANZ LISZT (1811 – 1886): from Annes de Pelerinage (Valle d’Obermann; Au bord d’un source; La sposalizio; Aux cypress de la Villa d’este); Sonnetto 123 del Petrarca; Venezia e Napoli (II, Suppl. 1-3)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 – 1827): Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathetique” (Recorded in Moscow, April 1958)
CARL MARIA VON WEBER (1786 – 1826): Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 49
MAURICE RAVEL (1875 – 1937): Pavane pour une infante defunte; Gaspard de la Nuit, No. 2: Le Gibet; Jeux d’eau; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Miroirs, No. 4: Alborado del gracioso
SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873 – 1943): Etude tableau in E flat, Op. 33 No. 6; Prelude in C minor, Op. 23 No. 7; Prelude in B flat minor, Op. 32 No. 2
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891 – 1953): Gavotte from “Cinderella”, Op. 95 No. 2 (Recorded in Moscow, December 1954)

Svaitoslav Richter, piano
(2 CDs)

Label: PARNASSUS 96007
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String Quartets - No. 1 in c, Op. 51/1; No. 2 in a, Op. 51/2.
The Colorado String Quartet.

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SOLO VIOLIN SONATAS AND PARTITAS
Sonata No.1 in G Minor, BWV1001; Sonata No.2 in A Minor, BWV1003; Partita No.2 in D Minor, BWV1004; Partita No.1 in B Minor, BWV1002; Sonata No.3 in C Major, BWV 1005; Partita No.3 in E Major, BWV1006.
Eugene Drucker, violin
A fine set of these masterpieces for solo violin performed by the leader of the famed Emerson String Quartet. (2 CDs)

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SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY
OTTO LUENING
The Soundless Song (1923): chamber work for soprano, string quartet, flute, clarinet & piano
Suite for Soprano & Flute (1936-37)
9 Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson (selections)(1938-51)
Selected songs, 1917 – 1984, texts by Blake, Byron, Hesse, others
ROBERT STARER
Images of Man (1994) cycle of eight songs, based on William Blake’s The Four Zoas for soprano, flute, cello & piano
Letter to a Composer (1995) for soprano, string quartet, flute & clarinet
The Ideal Self (1981), song for soprano, flute & piano.
Danielle Woerner, soprano
Robert Starer & Sylvia Buccelli, pianists
Patricia Spencer & Marcia Gates, flutiests
Jean Kopperud, clarinetists; susan Seligman, cellist
The Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Quartet

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SVIATOSLAV RICHTER IN THE 1950S, VOLUME 4
SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Sonata No. 9 in C, Op. 103;
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: 8 Preludes and Fugues, from Op. 87 (Prelude & Fugue No. 4 in E minor; Prelude & Fugue No. 3 in G; Prelude & Fugue No. 6 in B minor; Prelude & Fugue No. 7 in A; Prelude & Fugue No. 2 in A minor; Prelude & Fugue No. 18 in F minor; Prelude & Fugue No. 23 in F; Prelude & Fugue No. 15 in D flat);
SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Gavotte from “Cinderella”, Op. 95 No. 2 (Recorded in Moscow, September 1956);
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN: Vals la flame, Op. 72; Poeme Op. 32 No. 1 (Recorded in Moscow, June 1955);
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 (with U.S.S.R. State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hermann Abendroth, recorded in Moscow, October 1954);
BELA BARTOK: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs;
SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Sonata No. 6, Op. 82 (Recorded in Moscow, October 1956). (2 CDs)

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GREGORIAN CHANTS-EARLY INTERPRETERS 1928-1936: Choir of Benedictine College of Sant'Anselmo; White Fathers of St. Irmenin; Franciscan Fathers of Venray; Monks of St. Lawrence Abbey; Schola Cantorum of Paris; Berlin State Academy Choir; Nuns of St. Ehrentraud abbey; Choir of Pius X School of Music; Escolinia monks of Montserrat abbey; Monks of St. Martin abbey, et. al. 2 CD set.

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FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 – 1828): Piano Sonata in B flat D 960; CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862 – 1918): Prelude No. 11 “La Danse de Puck”; KAROL SZYMANOWSKI (1882 – 1937): Piano Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 21; WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1791): Piano Sonata in A minor KV 310; FRANZ LISZT (1811 – 1886): Harmonies Religieuses et Poetiques: No. 4; Poloniase No. 2; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 17; Consolation No. 6; Scherzo & March; ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 – 1858): 4 Fugues, Op. 72

Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Recordings: Moscow, 1957 – 1958. (2 CDs)

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NIGHT SKIES - ORCHESTRA MUSIC OF KATHERINE HOOVER
Two Sketches
Eleni: A Greek Tragedy
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Joel Eric Suben
Double Concerto
David Perry & Suzanne Beia, violins
The Wisconsin Philomusica/Vartan Manoogian
Night Skies
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Joel Eric Suben
Katherine Hoover, born in West Virginia in 1937, is a successful flutist and composer. More than a dozen of her compositions have been recorded, several more than once (and her Kokopeli for solo flute at least four times). However. there has never been an entire LP or CD devoted entirely to her music until now. Intellectually stimulating yet accessible, Hoover's music has been very popular with audiences outside "new music" circles.
Night Skies includes four orchestral works of Hoover's, all first performed since 1987. Three of them -Two Sketches, Eleni: A Greek Tragedy, and the title work--are performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony orchestra under the direction of American conductor Joel Eric Suben. In Eleni the vocal soloist is mezzo-soprano Denisa Danielova. These recordings were supervised by the composer. The Double Concerto is played by a U.S. orchestra making its recording debut: the Wisconsin Philharmonia, conducted by Vartan Manoogian, with violin soloists David Perry and Suzanne Beia.
Night Skies was inspired by the famous Henri-Edmond Cross painting, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That painting, reproduced with the permission and assistance of the Museum, makes for most appropriate and impressive cover art. All of these compositions have been performed successfully in the U.S. to critical and audience acclaim.
Night Skies: "Hoover's music mixes elements of old and new, in a masterful blending of old and new into a cohesive whole." --Harrisburg Patriot-News
Two Sketches:"Hoover's Two Sketches scored with immediate accessibility and an impressive combination of depth, maturity, and power." --San Francisco Eraminer
Eleni:"The first standing ovation for a contemporary work in our orchestra's history." Carolann Martin, conductor, South East Kansas Symphony
Double Concerto: "It delighted our soloists, orchestra, and audience alike'' --Paul Mori, conductor. Baltimore Bach Ensemble

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BAROQUE CANTATAS & ARIAS recordings in Copenhagen 1969 and 1971
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Cantat Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Cantata Su le sponde del Tebro
Aria Pensieri, voi mi tormentate from Agrippina
Aria Destero dall’ empia Dite from Amadigi
Carole Bogard, soprano
with Armando Ghitalla, trumpet
with Raymond Duste, oboe
Erwin Jacobsen, oboe Baroque Cantatas and Arias restores to availability a selection of superb recordings by the soprano Carole Bogard. Originally issued on the Cambridge LP label, these recordings have never appeared on CD before. The new CD includes the contents of one entire LP and portions of two others for a generous program. Three of the items, two cantatas and one aria, also include the brilliant trumpet playing of trumpeter Armando Ghitalla, a long-time member of the Boston Symphony.
Carole Bogard, who began singing in the San Francisco area, was noted during her career as a specialist in Baroque music. She performed regularly at such venues as Aston Magna and the Smithsonian. However, her repertoire also extended throughout the range of opera from Mozart to Strauss, and also into contemporary music and a wide range of art songs.

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CAROLE BOGARD, SOPRANO
A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN SONGS
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
Two Poems by Siegfried Sassoon
Gitanjali (song offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore
John Moriarty, piano
JOHN DUKE
Songs to portions of From the Sea by Sara Teasdale
Six Poems by Emily Dickinson
Four Poems by e.e. cummings
John Duke, piano
RICHARD CUMMING
As Dew in April (anon. 14th c. English)
Two Poems by William Blake
Heart, we will forget him by Emily Dickinson
Three Poems by Philip Minor
Richard Cumming, piano
with Beth Orson, oboe
Theodore Mook, cello
AARON COPLAND
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
John Moriarty, piano
WILLIAM FLANAGAN
Cycle from Time's Long Ago! by Herman Melville
Three Poems by Howard Moss
Good-bye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
David Del Tredici, piano
with R. Sullivan, guitar
NED ROREM
Four Poems by Tennyson
John Moriatry, piano.
During her distinguished career, Carole Bogard specialized in singing two quite different types of music. On her previous Parnassus release (PACD 96020), we resurrected some of her best Baroque performances. Now, Parnassus is pleased to present a superb collection of American songs, half of them previously unpublished, and in two cases accompanied by the composers.
"Carole Bogard: A Collection of American Songs" includes major song cycles of John Alden Carpenter, Aaron Copland, and Ned Rorem, all accompanied by the distinguished pianist and conductor John Moriarty. Groups of songs by John Duke and Richard Cumming feature the composers as pianists. In a group of songs by the late William Flanagan, the pianist is the famous composer David del Tredici, here making a rare appearance as a performer.
This set, one of the most extensive collections of American art song on CD, presents many otherwise-unavailable songs (only those of Copland can be considered "standard repertory"). They are sung by one of the most distingushed interpreters this literature has ever had. Ned Rorem considers her, as quoted in the booklet, one of the "three American singers of importance to the agonizing art song."
The songs by Flanagan, Duke, and Cumming were previously released on now-scarce LPs by the Desto and Cambridge labels. The songs of Carpenter, Copland, and Rorem, from European broadcasts, are all previously unpublished.
The accompanying booklet includes extensive program notes and complete texts of all the songs. (2 CDs)

Label: PARNASSUS 96023
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THE COMPOSER CONDUCTS - Stravinsky: Divertimento from Le Baiser de la Fée
Orquesta Sinfonica de México, Igor Stravinsky, conductor (1941)
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Dumbarton Oaks Festival Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky, conductor (1941)
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Suite No. 2
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergei Prokofiev, conductor (1938)
Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev both made well-known recordings of their own music. But Parnassus has brought back two rare recordings of Stravinsky's conducting, and has made Prokofiev's only recording as a conductor more listenable than it's ever been before.
Even the most knowledgeable collectors of historical recordings may be surprised to learn that Igor Stravinsky made a recording in Mexico. In 1940, Stravinsky travelled to Mexico City at the invitation of Carlos Chávez, the well-known composer and conductor, to lead a program of his own music. A recording session proved unsatisfactory due to background noises, so the following year Stravinsky returned to Mexico City to re-record his Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss," his ingenious reworking of Tchaikovsky music.
This original 78 set is the rarest of all of Stravinsky's recordings, with only three surviving copies known. In our reissue it proves to have surprisingly fine sound and excellent playing from the Mexico City Symphony Orchestra.
Stravinsky's debut recording of the "Dumbarton Oaks" Concerto was made for the small Keynote company, and was reissued on an early LP by Mercury. It has not been previously available on CD.
Prokofiev, although he was a reluctant conductor who learned the art only to perform his own works, eventually became quite an adept leader of orchestras. It's a pity that we have only one recording of his conducting, but it's a significant one: the Second Suite from Romeo and Juliet. This recording was reissued several times on LPs, with most of these transfers taken from dubbed 78s which were incomplete. Two previous CD editions were horrors, in dreadfully distorted sound. Mark Obert-Thorn's restoration, taken from the original Russian 78s, offers the first opportunity in decades to hear this important performance as it was meant to sound.

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FRANZ SCHUBERT: Quartet in D minor, D 810 “Death and the Maiden”
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
The Colorado String Quartet
The Colorado String Quartet continues its recording career with a coupling of two of the most tragic and dramatic works in the chamber music repertoire. Schubert's Quartet in D Minor, D. 8lO, Death and the Maiden is among the most familiar of all string quartets. Mendelssohn's Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80, is a seldom-performed masterpiece. Both share the theme of death, Schubert's in its subject matter, Mendelssohn's in its circumstances and tone. It was the only major work Mendelssohn wrote between the sudden, shocking death of his beloved sister (and fellow-composer) Fanny and his own death half a year later.
The Colorado String Quartet's first CD for Parnassus, Brahms's two String Quartets, Op. 51 (PACD 96007) was a great critical success and has already gone through three printings. Martin Anderson wrote of it in Fanfare, "This is simply one of the best discs of chamber music to come my way in a long, long time....I have played it again and again since it arrived, and every time it sets my musical adrenaline coursing. Do yourself a favor and buy it." And David Patrick Stearns wrote in USA Today, "String quartet lovers will be baffled that this group isn't better known. It's not just their fine sense of ensemble; each member also projects an absorbing individuality that never taxes overall cohesion. Both quartets go well, but Op. 51 No. 1 is amazing, thanks to a rhythmic urgency that brings out the music's youthful energy and keeps melancholy moments from lapsing into tedious self pity."
Since releasing its first Parnassus CD, the Colorado String Quartet has widened its audience with appearances at the Mostly Mozart Festival (including concerts on three consecutive days), the Bard Music Festival, and many new venues. The ensemble maintains its yearly Soundfest every Summer in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where it performs and teaches younger groups.

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SVIATOSLAV RICHTER IN THE 1950S, VOLUME 6
ALEXANDER BORODIN (1833 – 1887): Petite Suite (excerpts): Au couvent, Mazurka in C major & Serenade
ANATOLY LIADOV (1855 – 1914): Etude and Canzonetta, Op. 48*; Musical Snuff Box, Op. 32*
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV (1865 – 1936): Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 37*
SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873 – 1943): Etude-tableau in C sharp minor, Op. 33 No. 9; Prelude in G sharp minor, Op. 32 No. 12
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891 – 1953): Rondo, Op. 52 No. 2; Visions fugitives, Op. 22 Nos. 3,4,5,6,8,9,11,14,15 & 18; Five Pieces from “Cinderella” (Gavotte, Op. 95 No. 2; Autumn Fairy, Op. 97 No. 3; Orientalia, Op. 97 No. 6; Great Waltz, Op. 102 No. 1; The Quarrel, Op. 102 No. 3)
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN (1872 – 1915): Mazurka in E minor, Op. 25 No. 3*; Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 42 No. 5
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 – 1828)/FRANZ LISZT (1811 – 1886): Erlkonig
FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810 – 1849): Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 45

Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Recordings: Moscow, April 4, 1952 (Op. 32 No. 12); December 8, 1949 (Schubert); January 10, 1952 (Op. 45)

*FIRST PUBLISHED RICHTER RECORDINGS!!!