Track:1 The Virgin’s Slumber Song (text: Martin Boelitz* / music: Max Reger)  2:40   Peter WarlockBethlehem Down 2 Bethlehem Down (text: Bruce Blunt / music: Peter Warlock**)  4:34   Michael HeadThe Little Road to Bethlehem 3 The Little Road to Bethlehem (text: Margaret Rose / music: Michael Head**)  2:22   Benjamin GodardSing Lullaby 4 Sing Lullaby (text: Sabine Baring-Gould* / music: Benjamin Godard*)  4:52   Roger QuilterI Sing of a Maiden 5 I Sing of a Maiden (text: 15th century / music: Roger Quilter**)  2:29   Peter WarlockBalulalow2 6 Balulalow – Version 1 (text: Martin Luther**** / music: Peter Warlock**)  3:09   Peter WarlockBalulalow27 Balulalow – Version 1 (text: Martin Luther**** / music: Peter Warlock**) 3:09   Peter CorneliusThe Shepherds 8 The Shepherds – Version 2 (text: Peter Cornelius* / music: Peter Cornelius*)  2:04   9 The Shepherds – Version 1 (text: Peter Cornelius* / music: Peter Cornelius*)  2:42   Peter WarlockThe First Mercy 10 The First Mercy (text: Bruce Blunt / music: Peter Warlock**)  4:40   Peter CorneliusThe Three Kings 11 The Three Kings (text: Peter Cornelius*** / music: Peter Cornelius*)  2:25   Wiliam Yates HurlstoneCradle Song 12 Cradle Song (text: traditional / music: Wiliam Yates Hurlstone**)  1:50   Max RegerGlory to God 13 Glory to God (text: Ludwig Hamann* / music: Max Reger*)  6:07   Frederick KeelWhen the Herds Were Watching 14 When the Herds Were Watching (text: Wiliam Canton / music: Frederick Keel*)  1:07   Peter WarlockBalulalow2 15 Balulalow – Version 2 (text: Martin Luther**** / music: Peter Warlock**)  2:37   Peter WarlockBalulalow216 Balulalow – Version 2 (text: Martin Luther**** / music: Peter Warlock**) 2:37   Peter CorneliusThe Christ Child 17 The Christ Child (text: Peter Cornelius* / music: Peter Cornelius*)  2:01   Peter WarlockAdam Lay Ybounden 18 Adam Lay Ybounden (text: Sloane manuscript / music: Peter Warlock**)  1:43   Cecil Armstrong GibbsThe Oxen 19 The Oxen (text: Thomas Hardy / music: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs**)  3:13   Stephen AdamsThe Star of Bethlehem 20 The Star of Bethlehem (text: Frederick Edward Weatherly / music: Stephen Adams*)  5:37   Peter CorneliusThe Christmas Tree 21 The Christmas Tree (text: Peter Cornelius*** / music: Peter Cornelius*)  1:54   Adolph AdamO Holy Night 22 O Holy Night (text: John Sullivan Dwight* / music: Adolphe Adam*)  5:08


  • Wykonawca Bajor Anna
  • Data premiery 2006-01-01
  • Nośnik CD
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Grażyna Brodzińska - primadonna Operetki Warszawskiej, znakomita wykonawczyni repertuaru operetkowego, operowego i musicalowego. Z ogromną swobodą i właściwym sobie wdziękiem wykonuje znane i lubiane utwory. Swoim śpiewem chce przekonać sceptyków, którzy przepowiadają od dawna upadek gatunku, który uprawia, że wspaniałego repertuaru nie brakuje.


  • Wykonawca Brodzińska Grażyna
  • Data premiery 2008-07-10
  • Nośnik CD
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Recital tematyczny znakomitego pianisty Stephena Hougha. Tematem jest noc. Noc według romantyków. Temat nocy inspirował romantycznych kompozytorów. Hough interpretuje jeden z najbardziej znanych utworów Schumanna In der Nacht, gra nokturny Chopina a także sięga po romantyczne w brzemieniu sonaty Beethovena.


  • Wykonawca Hough Stephen
  • Data premiery 2014-04-01
  • Nośnik CD
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Album został wydany przez wytwórnię Alto (ALC 1418). Tracklista: 1. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria & 30 Variations) 2. Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829 3. Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830 4. Fugue in F sharp minor, BWV 883 (Well-tempered Clavier Book II) 5. Fugue in E major BWV 878 (Well-tempered Clavier Book II)


  • Wykonawca Gould Glenn
  • Data premiery 2020-05-01
  • Nośnik CD
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  Bach’s direct source of inspiration for the cello suites was most probably the virtuoso cello playing of Christian Ferdinand Abel, also in the service of Prince Leopold of Köthen and a superb violinist and viola da gamba player as well. This must, however, remain guesswork, as the original manuscripts of the cello suites have been lost. It is primarily thanks to Anna Magdalena Bach, Bach’s second wife and a singer in service to Prince Leopold with the title of Cammer-Musicantin, that we owe the survival of these works. It was she who prepared many first copies of Bach’s works, including the earliest known copy of the cello suites. Quirine Viersen uses the most recent edition from Bärenreiter as the basis for her first recording of the Bach cello suites; this edition is an amalgamation of four manuscript copies, including the original copy by Anna Magdalena Bach. After in-depth study of the Bärenreiter edition and of the historical musicological works by Mattheson, Leopold Mozart and Quantz, the greatest musical theorists of the Baroque era and the forefathers of today’s historically informed performance movement, Quirine Viersen allowed herself to be guided by instinct rather than by intellect and finally decided to follow her own intuition. Having said this, she did study the Suites with her teacher Heinrich Schiff, played them in a masterclass with Yo-Yo Ma and took lessons with no one less than Nikolaus Harnoncourt. But most of all she took to heart the lessons she received from her own father Yke Viersen: principal Cellist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra for the last 30 years. Quirine Viersen about the Suites: “Even though the suites were not composed for ecclesiastical use, they do seem to deal with higher matters. This has nothing to do with ‘Amen’ or ‘Allah hu akbar’. I feel that we are people who attempt to come as close as possible to the heart of our existence. In many ways we have possibly become a little unworthy; we have torn ourselves loose and have completely forgotten that things can often have a deeper meaning, that these things can exist in a broader context. This was self-evident to Bach, for his life and his works were permeated with awe for higher things, for God. This was an integral part of the time in which he lived. Bach was not simply a man whose musical genius would never be equalled but was also an enthusiastic and inspired craftsman who set himself the highest demands.” “The German language draws a felicitous distinction between two different types of people: Kopfmensch and Bauchmensch. The first relies on his head, his intellect, whilst the second relies on his belly, his gut feelings. I am clearly a Bauchmensch. When I am on stage I am principally concerned with what I feel, with trying to express what I believe lies inside Bach’s music. What was Bach’s intention in composing his suites for cello? For me they are a landscape in which everything exists to be discovered afresh. Many musical narratives are possible and each landscape has its own perfumes and colours; each movement represents a particular state of mind. To traverse Bach’s music is to traverse infinity.”  


  • Wykonawca Viersen Quirine
  • Data premiery 2011-09-01
  • Nośnik SACD
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Musical history shows that the hurdy-gurdy and the bowed fiddle share the same origin. A common ancestor is probably to be found in the crwth of the Celtic bards. And since the Welsh crwth is a bowed version of the ancient plucked lyre, it may be considered as a link between the instrument of Apollo and the hurdy-gurdy. Thus, in his Dissertation historique sur la vielle (1741), Antoine Terrasson quite rightly states that the lyre of the Ancients gradually gave rise to the hurdy-gurdy – ‘la lyre des Ancients aura egalement produit par degrez la vielle (a roué)’. This may at first seem surprising, but it is baser on a serious analysis of the historical evolution of musical instruments.


  • Wykonawca Fromenteau Michele , Ens Instrumental de Grenoble
  • Data premiery 2011-07-01
  • Nośnik CD
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