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Roger's Top 20 Favorite Recordings

Recording

Composer/Artist

Length

CTI 6022

Arr. Sebetsky: Amazing Grace/Hubert Laws, flute, et al

7

Sony 35888

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra/New York Philharmonic/ Zubin Mehta, cond.

31:24

EMI 47348

Khachaturian: Adagio from Spartacus, Royal Philharmonic/Yuri Temirkanov, cond.

10:20

DG 413 683

Shostakovich: Romance from Ovod, Violin Ens of the Bolshoi/Juli Reyentovich, cond. (Theme for PBS "Riley, Ace of Spies)

2:52

London 466 375

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto #2 in C Op 18/ Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano/Moscow Philharmonic/ Kirill Kondrashin, cond.

34

Naxos 8.550390

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet K. 581/Josel Balogh, clarinet/Danubius Quartet

32

Bridge 2501

Bach: Come Sweet Death/Virgil Fox, Wannamaker Organ

9

London 410 004

Canteloube: “Songs of the Auvergne” Bailero; Brezairola/Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano/ English Chamber Orchestra/ Jeffrey Tate, cond.

11

Sony 53974

Beethoven: Symphony #6/La Scala Philharmonic/ Carlo Maria Giulini, cond.

46:54

Next four pieces are a composite to represent Classically Black programs produced by Roger.

Sony 42430

CB: William Warfield-My Life and My Music/Kern: Ol’ Man River from “Showboat”/William Warfield: bs-bar/ Original cast recording

4:18

Cambria 1083

CB: William Grant Still/Still: Miniatures/Sierra Winds

11

RCA 7911

CB: Miss Marian Anderson/ Verdi: Re dell’abisso affrettati from “Un Ballo”/Marian Anderson: contralto/Metropolitan Opera Orchestra/Dimitri Mitropoulos, cond.

7

Tirc 80112

CB: The Creole Romantics/ Gottschalk/Kay: Grand Tarentelle/Tritt/CincyPops/Kunzel, cond.

7

Lon 417 553

Holst: The Planets 1-4/Montreal Symphony/ Charles Dutoit, cond.

22

Polo 8.223350

Gang/He: Butterfly Lover's Concerto/Nishizaki, violin/CSSR Symphony Orchestra/Jean, cond.

26

DG 437 534

Respighi: Pines of Rome/ New York Philharmonic/ Giuseppi Sinopoli, cond.

23

Telarc 80387

Part: Fratres (Brothers)/I Fiamminghi/ Rudolf Werthen, cond.

10

Argo 440 116

Vaughan-Williams: Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus/New Queen’s Hall Orchestra/ Barry Wordsworth, cond.

13

Arabesque 6702

Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise, Garrick Ohlsson, piano/ Warsaw/ Kazamierz Kord, cond.

14

Memories 4275/26

Wagner: Liebestod from "Tristan," Birgit Nilsson/Bayreuth Festival Orchestra/Karl Boehm, cond.

6:10

London 452 298

Bellini: Casta Diva from "Norma," Joan Sutherland, soprano/Covent Garden Orchestra & Chorus/Molinari-Pradelli, cond.

9

RCA 57016

Verdi: Ritorna Vincitor from "Aida," Leontyne Price/Rome Opera House Orchestra/Oliviero Fabritiis, cond.

6:47

RCA 61236

Charpentier: Depuis La Jour from "Louise," Leontyne Price/RCA Italiana Orchestra/Molinari-Pradelli, cond.

4:44

 

 

 

 

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