This well-filled disc combines the first three symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich, all written before the composer had reached his twenty-third birthday. The First Symphony was in fact the graduation piece that completed his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory, but to quote Mark Wigglesworth’s own liner notes to this disc, ‘Shostakovich’s trade-mark musical gestures are all immediately obvious. Nervous tension and sarcastic wit, passion and intelligence, contemplation and action, nobility and banality – all expressed with an economy of means that is simultaneously subtle and direct.’ The work was an immediate success, and soon gained worldwide recognition through performances by Walter, Toscanini, and Klemperer. ‘The Soviet Union had discovered its first international star, and the authorities proclaimed him as an exaltation of the new at the expense of the old.’ The two symphonies that followed fared much less well, however, and are still rarely performed in concert. At least nominally, there is a political theme to both works - the Second Symphony was a commission from the State Publishing House to honour the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, and the Third, with its subtitle ‘The First of May’, was a celebration of the international Worker’s Day. Both works end with choral finales, to texts which proclaim mottos such as ‘Labour, joy and song’ and ‘Revolution, march with a million feet!’, but the scores themselves proved too experimental for the taste of the Soviet authorities, and did little to enhance the standing of their composer. This disc is the penultimate in what ‘could be the most important Shostakovich cycle of recent times’ according to the reviewer on MusicWeb-International. Wigglesworth and his players in the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra have received great acclaim for their performances of the mature symphonies such as the Eighth or Thirteenth, ‘Babi Yar’, and here offer us the beginnings, works which in Mark Wigglesworth’s words ‘encapsulate all the musical ideas that were to remain present throughout the composer’s life.

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2012-04-01
• Nośnik SACD

1. The Void2. A Sad Little Waltz3. Always a Stranger4. Sparks5. Ab6. A Trick of the Light7. Love Can Hide8. Don't Leave Me This Way9. Snow Man10. Und11. As One Thing Leads to Another12. Talking to the Dead13. Sunset14. The Wind15. Zu16. The Looser

• Wykonawca Ab Und Zu
• Data premiery 2002-01-01
• Nośnik CD

'The performance is powerful, the recording superb' (The New York Times)'A record collection of British orchestral music lacking anything by Havergal Brian would be significantly incomplete and this is the right record to fill that gap' (Music & Musicians) 'A good mid-price introduction to a fascinating composer' (The Independent).

• Wykonawca Friend Lionel
• Data premiery 2006-03-07
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. Children Go Where I Send Thee2. Christmas Can't Be Far Away3. Christmas at the Airport4. Old Toy Trains5. The North Pole Express6. Hooves On the Roof7. I Was Born in Bethlehem8. Just to Be With You (This Christmas)9. Rise Up Shepherd10. Silent Night11. A Dollar Short of Happy12. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

• Wykonawca Nick Lowe
• Data premiery 2013-10-28
• Nośnik CD / Album

Tracklista: 1. A Voice From Catland2. Steven And I In The Field Of Stars3. The Teeth Of The Winds Of The Sea4. Moonlight, You Will Say5. Into The Bloody Hole I Go6. The Darkly Splendid World7. The Cloud of Unknowing8. Let Us Go To The Rose9. All the World Makes Great Blood10. The Great, Bloody And Bruised Veil Of The World11. Into The Menstrual Night I Go12. Dormition And Domninion13. So. This Empire Is Nothing14. This Shining Shining World

• Wykonawca Current 93
• Data premiery 2007-12-03
• Nośnik CD

GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE ; DIAPASON D'OR 'There are few discs I expect to enjoy half as much in this year's listening. Very enjoyable, unpretentious music; a disc very well worth trying' (Gramophone) 'One of the most unexpected delights I've had for a long time' (BBC Record Review) 'This charming ode shows [Linley] sharing with Mozart something of that barely definable but unmistakable gift of melodic genius. The music is as beautiful as the text is absurd, full of shapely tunes that once heard linger hauntingly in the memory' (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide)

• Wykonawca Gooding Julia
• Data premiery 2005-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. The Nut Dance2. Highland Mary3. The Quaker4. The Pace-Egging Song5. The Happy Wanderer6. While Sheperds Were Watching Their Flocks By The Night7. By The Birght Silvery Light Of The Moon/Highland Fling8. Double Set Back9. So Now We've Gained Our Victory/The Quaker10. Dublin Fair/The Boys Of Wexford/Garryowen11. The Girl I Left Behind12. Live Performance13. Jockey to the Fair14. The Wassail Song15. The Furry Dance16. While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks By Night17. God Bless The Master Of This House18. Where Does Father Christmas Go To?19. Bobbing Around20. Joe The Boat Is Tipping Over21. The Waysailing Bowl22. The Great Little Army March23. Live Performance24. Cock O' the North25. The Garland Dance No 326. The Sash

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 1999-10-01
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: 1. Boxcutter2. The Hereafter3. Hospital Handshakes4. Royal5. White-knuckles6. Rumi7. A New Son8. Sawdust & Shavings9. So Unexpected10. This Is My Work11. The Finish Line

• Wykonawca Votolato Rocky
• Data premiery 2015-04-27
• Nośnik CD

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio Torino in this performance of Verdi's tragic opera.

• Data premiery 2016-01-13
• Nośnik DVD

While most of us might regard Pierre de La Rue as a composer of ‘early’ music, for Dr Page and his Gothic Voices this is bordering on the avant garde: this recording represents a leap forward a century from the group’s more accustomed repertoire, and the results are impressive to say the least. La Rue was remarkably prolific; at least twenty-nine Masses can be ascribed to him with confidence, and the Missa De Feria and Missa Sancta Dei genitrix are among the finest. His music is full of imitation, a sense of choreography, and is coloured by a fondness for particularly low registers. In addition to the two Masses, this disc includes the large-scale Pater de celis Deus, arguably the grandest of La Rue’s motets and a work full of counterpoint in its three-part, six-voice canon, and three other motets performed as lute intabulations in editions specially prepared for this recording by Christopher Wilson.

• Wykonawca Gothic Voices , Wilson Christopher , Rumsey Shirley
• Data premiery 2011-03-01
• Nośnik CD