My CD collection Is Filled With So Many Interesting Works

  My CD collection is extremely eclectic and varied;not particularly large, but filled with so many interesting works which you would have little chance of hearing live. It ranges from composers such as Palestrina,Dufay, Josquin, Schutz, Gesualdo, and other early masters to music by living or recently deceased composers as Carter,Boulez,Messiaen, and Adams.

 It lacks many great standard masterpieces,not because I don't know and love them, but because there is so much interesting off-beat repertoire available,although I do have a fair amount of standard repertoire. I have a wide variety of symphonies,concertos and miscellaneous orchestral works,chamber music,piano works, choral works,operas and lieder etc.

  Among the operas are Roussel's Padmavati,Enescu'sOedipe, The Birds by Walter Braunfels,Jonny Spielt Auf by Krenek, Schreker's Der Ferne Klang, Franz Schmidt's Notre Dame, Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko, Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, Kashchei the Immortal, Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko, Smetana's Libuse, The Kiss ,and The Devil's Wall, Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr, Anton Rubinstein's The Demon, Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy, Dvorak's The Devil and Kate and Armida, Janacek's Fate and Excusrions of Mr. Broucek, Der Barbier Von Bagdad by Peter Cornelius, The Charlatan by Pavel Haas, Nielsen's Saul& David, Pfitzner's Palestrina, Flammen by Erwin Schulhoff, Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, Busoni's Arlecchino, Gwendoline by Chabrier, Faust by Louis Spohr,Dapne, Die Aegyptische Helena, Die Liebe Der Danae and Friedenstag by Richard Strauss, and Langaard's Antikrist.

  There are rarely heard symphonies by Myaskovsky, Zdenek Fibich, Carlos Chavez, Franz Berwald, Arnold Bax, Glazunov,Gliere, Hugo Alfven,Johan Svendsen, Vassily Kallinikov, Paul Creston, Arthur Bliss, Szymanowski, Max Bruch, Roussel, Franz Schmidt, Balakirev,Korngold,  Rimsky-Korsakov, Anton Rubinstein, Martinu, and others.

 Among the rarely heard concertos are ones for piano by Nikolai Medtner,Glazunov, Dvorak, and Roussel, cello concertos by Myaskovsky and Roussel, the Suite de Concert by Taneyev for violin, the Nielsen violin concerto, the oboe concerto of Martinu, etc.

  Among the major oratorios and other choral works are Pfitzner's Of the German Soul, Bruch's The Song of the Bell, Roussel's Evocations, Dvorak's The Spectre's Bride, The Storm, by Vitezslav Novak, Prokofiev's Cantata for the Anniversary of the Russian Revolution , The Book of the 7 Seals by Franz Schmidt,etc.

  Miscellaneous works include The Jungle Book by Charles Koechlin, Szymanowski's Harnasie ballet, the ballet score Legend of Joseph by Richard Strauss, Respighi's Sinfonia Drammatica, Gliere's The Don Cossacks, Glazunov's Stenka Razin, Suite From the Middle Ages and The Kremlin, Vaughan Williams' Job, Dvorak's Slavonic Rhapsodies,(not to be confused with the familiar Slavonic Dances),

  Miscellaneous works include The Jungle Book by Charles Koechlin, Hindemith's ballet The Demon, and much more of interest.  No one could ever accuse me of having an uninteresting CD collection !