Geoffrey Bush discography

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The following is a list of recordings of the music of the English composer Geoffrey Bush. The list includes discs dedicated to works by Bush, and also general compilations which include one or more of Bush's works. The dates of release do not necessarily reflect the dates of the recordings, some of which were made many years earlier.

Label & catalogue [1] Release year [1] Album title [1] Works included [1] Artistes [1] Addl refs
Ismeron JMSCD31996Geoffrey Bush Piano WorksSuite: Epigrams; Novelette; Nocturne and Toccata; Sonatina No. 1; Sonatina No. 2; Whydah Variations; Matthew's Tunes; Rudi's Blues; Pieces (4) for piano, Set 2; Suite Champêtre Eric Parkin (piano) [2]
Lyrita SRCD252:1996Geoffrey Bush Orchestral WorksYorick Overture; Music for Orchestra; Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 2 (Guildford) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite
London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth
[3]
Saydisc CDSDL3522006A Christmas CantataA Christmas CantataCardiff Polyphonic Choir & Orchestra, Richard Elfyn Jones [4]
Chandos CHAN88301991A Little Love Music: songs by Geoffrey BushGreek Love Songs; The End of Love; Songs of Wonder; A Little Love Music; Three Songs of Ben Jonson Benjamin Luxon (bar.); Ian Partridge (tenor); Teresa Cahill (sop.); Geoffrey Bush (piano) [5]
Lyrita SRCD3412014Geoffrey Bush: Works for chamber orchestraConcerto for Light Orchestra; Natus est Immanuel; Locke: Psyche (arr. Bush); Sinfonietta concertante; 2 Miniatures; Finale for a Concert Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward
Lyrita SRCD3432014Geoffrey Bush SongsFour Songs; Seven Greek Love Songs; Five Spring Songs; Two Stevie Smith Songs; Three Songs of Ben Jonson; The End of Love; Merciless Beauty; Five Medieval Lyrics; O The Month of May Simon Wallfisch (baritone); Edward Rushton (piano)
Lyrita REAM11312017Geoffrey BushLord Arthur Savile’s Crime; Trumpet ConcertoSoloists; London Musicians Orchestra, Simon Joly; Patrick Addinall (trumpet); Hamish Milne (piano); BBC Philharmonic, Bryden Thomson
Priory PRCD60062007Music for an OccasionTrumpet March Christopher Dearnley (the grand organ of St. Paul's Cathedral)
Naxos 85550682001English String Miniatures, Vol. 2Consort Music English Northern Philharmonia, David Lloyd-Jones
Collect CHAN66532006Favourite English SongsSigh No More, Ladies from Eight Songs Felicity Lott (soprano); Graham Johnson (piano)
Lyrita SRCD23372009Celebrating 50 Years Devoted To British Music - Set 1 (4 CDs)Yorick Overture New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Two Pianists TP10390772011Shakespeare InspiredIt Was A Lover And His LassMichelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano)
Nina Schumann (piano)
Barbirolli Society SJB1045462011Evelyn Rothwell 1911-2008Oboe Concerto Evelyn Rothwell (oboe); Halle Orchestra, George Weldon Recorded 27 August 1956. [6]
Priory PRDVD82012The Grand Organ of Salisbury CathedralTrumpet MarchDavid Halls (organ)
OxRecs OXCD1302015More Archive Recordings (1960–76)Magnificat & Nunc dimittisThe Choir of Magdalen College, Bernard Rose
Atma ACD227012015Love Blows as the Wind BlowsFarewell, Earth's BlissÉtienne Dupuis (baritone)
Prima Facie PFCD0482016Panorama 1919 - 2013: A Century of British Keyboard MusicThree Dance VariationsPenelope Cave (harpsichord)
Naxos 85713782017Geoffrey Bush and Joseph Horovitz: SongsMirabile Misterium (voice and piano version); 3 Songs of Ben Jonson; Cuisine Provençale; Love for such a cherry lip; Archy at the Zoo; YesterdaySusanna Fairbairn (soprano); Matthew Schellhorn (piano)
Lyrita SRCD3602017Reizenstein, Bush & Ireland: Sonatas For Violin & PianoViolin SonataSteinberg Duo
MSR Classics MS15972019Portraits in Music - Music for Oboe, Bassoon and PianoTrioAndrew Parker (oboe); Benjamin Coelho (bassoon); Alan Huckleberry (piano)
Lyrita SRCD4072022British Piano ConcertosA Little Concerto on Themes of Thomas ArneSimon Callaghan (piano); BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Martyn Brabbins

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This is a discography of the recorded music of the British composer and pianist Alan Bush. The chief sources for the listing are (a) Lewis Foreman's discography published as an appendix in Nancy Bush's Alan Bush:Music Politics and Life, in which the earlier recordings appear, and (b) the Alan Bush Music Trust, founded in 1997 two years after the composer's death, which maintains and updates a list of recordings on its website.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Bush, G (composer), CD". Presto Classical. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  2. "JMSCD3 - Complete Piano Works by Geoffrey Bush". Ismeron. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  3. "Geoffrey Bush (1920–1998)". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  4. "Geoffrey Bush, A Christmas Cantata". Saydisc Records. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  5. "A Little Love Music: songs by Geoffrey Bush". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  6. Cook, Nicholas; Clarke, Eric; Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel; Rink, John (2009). The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-86582-1.