Discography J-O - New York City Ballet

Discography J-O

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Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements) 
Choreography by Peter Martins, Photo © Paul Kolnik

Jazz (Six Syncopated Movements)
Music by Wynton Marsalis
No recording available

Jeu De Cartes 
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Jeu de Cartes
Abbado, London Symphony Orchestra
Deutsche Grammophon 423889-2 GGA: CD
Salonen, The Philharmonia Orchestra (with Firebird)
CBS MK-44917: CD

Jewels 
"Emeralds"
Music by Gabriel Fauré
Pelléas et Mélisande (excerpts), Shylock (excerpts)
Irving, The New York City Ballet Orchestra
(This album, titled A Balanchine Album, includes the music for the ballets Serenade, Agon, and The Four Temperaments)
Elektra/Nonesuch: 79135-2: 2 CDs

"Rubies"
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
Crossley, Salonen, The London Sinfonietta (with Movements for Piano and Orchestra)
Sony Classical SK 45797: CD
Magaloff, Stravinsky, Berlin Philharmonic
Arkadia CDHP 595.1: CD

"Diamonds"
Music by Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky
Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29, "The Polish" (last three movements)
Abbado, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sony Classical SK 45939: CD
Jansons, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Chandos CHAN-8463: CD
Chandos ABTD-1179: Cassette
Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic (with Serenade)
Deutsche Grammophon 431 605-2 GCE: CD
Masur, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Teldec 2292-46322-2: CD
Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
RCA (Red Seal) 60433-2: CD

Kammermusik No. 2
Music by Paul Hindemith
Boriskin, Bartos, Bronx Arts Ensemble
Newport Classic NCD 60087 (CD); NCC 60087 (cassette)
Gorini, Celibidache, Naples Alessandro Scarlatti RAI Orchestra
Originals ORI 864
Mauser, Albert, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
CPO 999 138

La Sonnambula
Music by Vittorio Rieti
No recording available

La Source 
Music by Leo Delibes
Lenárd, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Naxos 8.550080
This is not a recording of the ballet score per se, but it appears to contains much of the music Balanchine used.

La Stravaganza
Music by Robert Normandeau
La Stravaganza, Op. 4, Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri Dominum by Antonio Vivaldi
La Stravaganza: Excerpts from Concerti, Op. 4:
Manze
Denon/PCM Digital: CD DEN 75598
Dixit Dominus in D for Two Choruses
Guest, St. John's College Choir, Cambridge, Cleobury, King's College Choir, Cambridge
London CD:2 443455-2
Laudate pueri Dominum
Dawson, King, King's Consort
Meridian CD CDE 84129
Source of Uncertainty by Evelyn Ficarra
No recording available
Eclats de Voix by Robert Normandeau
No recording available
Naives by Serge Morand
No recording available
Laureats by Ake Parmerud
No recording available

La Valse 
Music by Maurice Ravel
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales and La Valse
Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
London 414046-2 LH: CD
Ashkenazy, Cleveland Orchestra
London 430413-2 LH: CD (includes the music for Mother Goose)

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Music by Richard Strauss
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Concert Suite)
Gee, Australian Chamber Orchestra
Omega OCD-1011:CD
Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
RCA (Gold Seal) 60930-2:CD

Les Gentilhommes 
Music by George Frideric Handel
Concerti Grossi Op. 6, Nos. 2 and 9:
Brown, Academy of St. Martin-in-the Field
Phillips 410048-2: 3 CDs
Harnoncourt, Vienna Concentus Musicus
Teldec 35603 ZB: 3 CDs
Rolla, Liszt Ference Chamber Orchestra, Budapest (No. 9)
White Label HRC-133: CD
Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (No. 2)
Erato ECD-75357: CD, Cassette

Les Noces 
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Deutsche Grammophon ("20th Century Classics" series) 423251-2
Ades ADE 202512
Koch Schwann 314 021

Les Petits Riens
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Les Petits Riens (KV 299B)
Rolla, The Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Fidelio 3373: LP

Le Tombeau de Couperin 
Music by Maurice Ravel
Abbado, London Symphony Orchestra (includes Concerto in G for Piano and Orchestra)
Deutsche Grammophon 423665-2 GH: CD
Martinon, Orchestre de Paris (includes the music for Pavane and Mother Goose)
Angel (Studio) CDM-69567: CD

Liebeslieder Walzer 
Music by Johannes Brahms
Liebeslieder, Op. 52 (1869) and Neue Liebeslieder, Op. 65 (1874)
Mathis, Fassbaender, Schreier, Fischer-Dieskau, Engel and Sawallisch
Deutsche Grammophon 423133-2 GH:CD
Guzelimian, Herrera, Los Angeles Vocal Arts Ensemble
Elektra/Nonesuch 79008-2:CD

Liturgy
Music by Arvo Pärt
Fratres for Violin, String Orchestra and Percussion
Werthen, I Fiamminghi (The Orchestra of Flanders)
TELARC 80387: CD

Mercurial Manoeuvres 
Music by Dimitri Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35
Previn, Vacchiano, Bernstein, New York Philharmonic
Sony Classical: 47618
Ogdon, Wisbraham, Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Field
The Classic Sound: 448577

Mercury 
Music by Franz Joseph Haydn
Excerpts from Symphonies Nos. 59 in A major, "Fire"; 49 in F minor, "La Passione"; and 43 in E-flat major, "Mercury"
Recordings of the full symphonies are available in all formats

Minkus Pas de Trois
Music by Léon Minkus
Paquita (1881)
No recording available of the music for just the pas de trois. A recording of the complete ballet Paquita is available:
Zhemchusin, Original Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Pilz 6-441002-2: 6 CDs

Monumentum pro Gesualdo 
Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Monumentum pro Gesualdo
No recording available;
Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Salonen, Crossley, The London Sinfonietta (with Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra)
Sony Classical SK 45797: CD
Sony Classical ST 45797: Cassette

Morgen  
Music by Richard Strauss
Songs for high voice and orchestra

  1. Waldseligkeit, Op. 49, No.1 (1901)
  2. Zueignung, Op. 10, No. 1 (1885)
  3. Ruhe, Meine Seele!, Op. 27, No. 1 (1894)
  4. Wiegenlied, Op. 41, No. 1 (1897)
  5. Das Rosenband, Op. 36, No. 1 (1897)
  6. Freundliche Vision, Op. 48, No. 1 (1900)
  7. Befreit, Op 27, No. 2 (1894)
  8. Cäcilie, Op. 27, No. 2 (1894)
  9. Winterweihe, Op. 48, No. 4 (1900)
  10. Morgen!, Op. 27, No. 4 (1894)
Those wishing to assemble the complete score on CD can do so most efficiently by purchasing Felicity Lott’s 2-volume set of Strauss’s complete orchestral songs; or by combining Schwarzkopf’s discs with Fleming or with Lott’s Vol. 1.

Eschenbach, Houston Symphony Orchestra
RCA (Red Seal) 68539
Includes: Nos. 1, 4, 7, 8
Järvi, Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos CHAN 9054 ("Orchestral Songs, Vol. 1")
Includes: Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10
Järvi, Scottish National Orchestra
Chandos CHAN 9159 ("Orchestral Songs, Vol. 2")
Includes: 2, 5, 9
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Szell, London Symphony Orchestra
EMI CDU 66960
Includes: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10

Morphoses
Music by György Ligeti
String Quartet No. 1 (Métamorphoses Nocturnes)
Arditti Quartet
Wergo CD WER60079-50
Hagen Quartet
Deutsche Grammophon CD 431686-2 GH [DDD]

Mother Goose 
Music by Maurice Ravel
Ma Mère L'Oye
Mata, Dallas Symphony Orchestra (includes Valses Nobles et Sentimentales and La Valse)
RCA RCD1-4815: CD
Saraste. Scottish Chamber Orchestra (includes Symphony in C, by Bizet)
Virgin Classics VC 7 90744-2: CD

Mozartiana 
Music by Peter llyitch Tschaikovsky
Marriner, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Capriccio 10200, with Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
Serebrier, Scottish Chamber Orchestra
ASV CD DCA 719, with Serenade and excerpts from The Sleeping Beauty
Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR Symphony Orchestra
Melodiya 17100-2, with Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3

Mozart Piano Concerto 
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453
Goode, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Elektra/Nonesuch 79042-2: CD
Perahia, English Chamber Orchestra
CBS MK-36686: CD
Serkin, Schneider, English Chamber Orchestra
RCA (Silver Seal) 60790-2-RV: CD
RCA (Silver Seal) 60790-4-RV: Cassette
Uchida, Tate, English Chamber Orchestra
Philips 422592-2 PH: CD

Mozart Serenade 
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 4 in D, K189b (203)
Marriner, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Philips 42021-2 PH: CD
Serenade No. 5 in D, K213a (204)
Schroeder, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra
Smithsonian Collection N-031: LP and Cassette

Musagète
Music by Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky
Allegro con fuoco from Symphony No. 4 in F Minor and selected pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach
Georgian Percussion Music
No recording currently available

Open Strings
Music by John King
Commissioned score by John King
No recording available

Operetta Affezionata 
Music by Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No. 1 in F minor, Op. 73
Boeykens, Conlon, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Erato 2292-45459-2-2K: CD
Brunner, Caetani, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Orfeo S 067831: CD

Opus 19/The Dreamer 
Music by Serge Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 1, in D major:
Chung, Previn, London Symphony Orchestra (with Stravinsky Violin Concerto)
London (Jubilee) 425003-2 LM: CD
Perlman, Rozhdestvensky, BBC Symphony
Angel CDC-47025: CD
Angel 4DS-37800: Cassette
Stern, Mehta, New York Philharmonic
CBS MK-42439: CD
CBS 4DS-37800: Cassette

Organon 
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach (in order of performance):

  1. Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor (1708-17)
  2. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (1708)
  3. Trio Sonata No. II in C Minor (Largo) (1728)
  4. Pedalexercitium in G Minor (date unknown)
  5. Wenn wir in hochsten Noten sein (1713)
  6. Alla Breve in D Major (date unknown)
  7. Fantasia in G Major (before 1708)
Organ Works on Silbermann Organs, Vol. 7
Otto and Kobler, organ
Berlin Classics 9367

Organ Works on Silbermann Organs, Vol. 8
Otto and Kobler, organ
Berlin Classics 9368

The Bach Family: Organ Works
Krumbach
Teldec 92176

Orpheus 
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Orpheus (1947)
Järvi, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (with Jeu de Cartes)
Chandos CHAN 9014:CD

Other Dances 
Music by Frederic Chopin
Mazurka Op. 17, No.4; Mazurka Op. 41, No. 3; Waltz Op. 64, No. 3; Mazurak Op. 63, No. 2; Mazurka Op. 33, No. 2
No single-disc recording contains all of the pieces used in the ballet.
Mazurkas, complete
Ashkenazy
London 417584-2 (2 CDs)
Rubinstein
RCA Red Seal 5614-2-RC (2 CDs)
Wasowski
Concord Concerto CCD 42036 (2 CDs)
Waltzes, complete
Arrau
Philips 400025-2
Ashkenazy
London 414600-2
Rubinstein
RCA Red Seal RCD1-5492