Professionally Edited Recordings from Redwood Symphony
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Mark Starr: The Johannes Brahms Rag
2015
Brahms’s powerful first symphony, and the world premiere recording of Starr’s piece inspired by Brahms.
Aaron Copland: El Salon Mexico
Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Miguel del Aguila: Conga-Line in Hell
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
2002
A world premiere recording of Miguel del Aguila’s incendiary piece, plus three other popular works recorded with superb sound quality.
Enesco: First Rumanian Rhapsody
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (also includes alternative ending)2000
Bartok’s crowning masterpiece, here offered for the first and only time with both of the composer’s written endings. No other recording has this!
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Milhaud: The Creation of the World
1998
Maestro K offers an idiosyncratic view of Mussorgsky’s masterpiece, including a number of tweaks to Ravel’s orchestration (doubled brass in Gate Gate of Kiev, contrabass clarinet, and more.)
Copland: Rodeo
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Gershwin: An American in Paris
1998
includes Copland’s Rodeo in the original full-length version, of which there are very few recordings and none with this rich sound.
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky: Les Noces (The Wedding)
1995
This is currently the only recording of Les Noces in English. Featured in Stereophile magazine 1997 Records to Die For.
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Stravinsky:The Soldier’s Tale
1992
Featuring Eric K’s unique combination of Stravinsky’s original 1911 version and the 1947 revision of Petrushka.
UHF Magazine says “Redwood Symphony plays this Stravinsky music with brio and a great feel for the instrumental textures that seemed so new at the time.”
