Bliss: Checkmate - Suite

This page lists all recordings of Checkmate - Suite, by Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) on CD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock.

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Bliss conducts Bliss 1

Bliss conducts Bliss 1


Bliss:

Checkmate - Suite

Miracle in the Gorbals - Suite

Things to Come - Suite

Theme and Cadenza for violin

Welcome the Queen


The first release in a composer-conductor series from Heritage focuses on the film and ballet music of Sir Arthur Bliss. These definitive recordings are a ‘must buy’ for lovers of British music.

Heritage composer-conductor series - HTGCD220

(CD)

$11.00

Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days.

British Ballet Music

British Ballet Music


Bliss:

Checkmate - Suite

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Elgar:

Enigma Variations, Op. 36

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Holst:

The Perfect Fool, Op. 39/H 150: Ballet Music

London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

Sullivan, A:

Pineapple Poll

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Tyrwhitt-Wilson:

A Wedding Bouquet: Tango & Waltz

Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Robert Irving/

Walton:

Façade Orchestral Suite No. 1

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Frémaux

Façade Orchestral Suite No. 2

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Frémaux


This collection of music from 20th-century ballets features such master conductors of British repertoire as Boult, Previn, Handley and Mackerras – who also, drawing on the works of Sir Arthur Sullivan, wrote Pineapple Poll for John Cranko. Dame Ninette de Valois choreographed the chessboard machinations of Bliss’s Checkmate, here complemented by Elgar’s much-loved Enigma Variations, Walton’s witty Façade, elemental dances from Holst’s opera The Perfect Fool, and colourful pieces by Berners, Lambert and Gordon.

“Some sparkling playing here, especially Pineapple Poll under its arranger Charles Mackerras” BBC Music Magazine, September 2011 ***

EMI Ballet Edition - 9498192

(CD - 2 discs)

$11.50

Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days.

Rubbra, Bliss, Tippett: Orchestral Music

Rubbra, Bliss, Tippett: Orchestral Music


Bliss:

Checkmate - Suite

Rubbra:

Symphony No. 5, Op. 63

Tippett:

Little Music for String Orchestra


Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Soloists of Australia, Hans-Hubert Schonzeler, Ronald Thomas

Chandos Collect - CHAN6576

Download only from $11.00

Available now to download.

Bliss: Checkmate - Suite, etc.

Bliss:

Checkmate - Suite

Clarinet Quintet

Hymn to Apollo

Music for Strings

Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks'


Chandos 241 - CHAN241-1

(CD - 2 discs)

$17.50

(also available to download from $21.75)

Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.)

Arthur Bliss

Arthur Bliss


includes:

Bliss:

A Colour Symphony

Recorded in No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 27 & 28 September 1976

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves

Things to Come - Music from the film

Recorded in No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 27 & 28 September 1976

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves

Cello Concerto

Guildhall, Southampton, 14 & 15 June 1976

Arto Noras (cello)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund

Adam Zero - Suite

Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 19 & 20 December 1978

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Discourse for Orchestra

Great Hall, University of Birmingham, 28 & 29 August 1979

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Concerto for Two Pianos

arr. three hands by Clifford Phillips. De Montfort Hall, Leicester, 18 & 19 June 1970

Cyril Smith & Phyllis Sellick (pianos)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Arnold

Christopher Columbus: Suite

arr. Dods. Birmingham Town Hall, 3 & 4 September 1979

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Marcus Dods

Checkmate - Suite

Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 19 & 20 December 1978

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Conversation No. 1: The Committee Meeting

No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, in the presence of the composer, 10 April 1958

Melos Ensemble: Richard Adeney (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe), Eli Goren (violin), Cecil Aronowitz (viola) & Terence Weil (cello)

Oboe Quintet, Op. 21

No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, in the presence of the composer, 1 & 2 February 1963

Peter Graeme (oboe)

Melos Ensemble

Clarinet Quintet

No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, in the presence of the composer, 1 & 2 February 1963

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)

Melos Ensemble

Conversation No. 5: In the Tube at Oxford Circus

No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, in the presence of the composer, 10 April 1958

Melos Ensemble: Richard Adeney (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe), Eli Goren (violin), Cecil Aronowitz (viola) & Terence Weil (cello)


This enthralling five-CD conspectus opens with the symphony that established Bliss’s name in 1922 and goes on to survey his ballet, film, chamber and vocal music in authoritative recordings, many of them attended and endorsed by the composer. The final disc shows Bliss as unmatched conductor of his own music, from the occasional prelude for the 900th anniversary of Westminster Abbey to a real rarity: Dame Joan Sutherland’s first studio recording, the Song of Welcome for the young Queen Elizabeth II.

EMI British Composers - 0290182

(CD - 5 discs)

$27.25

In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day.

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