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Featured Titles on Cala Records - November 2009 12 albums
Cala Records features high-quality recorded sound in an array of newer releases alongside superb sound restoration on historical titles from Leopold Stokowski. Our featured titles are below, or view the entire Cala catalog, on sale now.

The sonorous warmth of twenty-four cellos with the angelic quality of the award winning Choir of Clare College lend themselves well to music of the Christmas season.
1.  A Cello Christmas /Geoffrey Simon, London Cello Sound, Et Al
Release Date: 10/11/2005   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 4115   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  Henry John Gauntlett,  Traditional,  William J. Kirkpatrick,  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky  ... 
Performer:  Rachel Gledhill,  Cameron Sinclair,  Daryl Runswick,  Fiona Hibbert  ... 
Conductor:  Geoffrey Simon
Orchestra/Ensemble:  London Philharmonic Cellos,  Clare College Choir,  London Cello Sound members
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Stereo recordings for the first time on CD! Leopold Stokowski leads his Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air, and the All-American and International Festival Youth Orchestras in exciting music by Bach, Gluck, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Ben-Haim.
2.  Beethoven: Symphony No 7; Bach, Mendelssohn, Gluck / Stokowski
Release Date: 11/10/2009   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 551   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  Ludwig van Beethoven,  Johann Sebastian Bach,  Felix Mendelssohn,  Christoph W. Gluck  ... 
Conductor:  Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Symphony of the Air,  International Festival Youth Orchestra,  All-American Youth Orchestra  ... 
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The sound is very detailed and richly colorful and the transfer is so vivid that it practically jumps out of your speakers at you.
3.  Stokowski, The Eternal Magician - Debussy, Stravinsky, Wagner, Enescu

Release Date: 12/09/2008   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 549   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  George Enescu,  Claude Debussy,  Igor Stravinsky,  Richard Wagner
Conductor:  Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Leopold Stokowski Orchestra,  All-American Youth Orchestra
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The Africa Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra I believe to be one of Saint-Saëns’s major works. It is, for all extents and purposes, a piano concerto by another name, and it contains some of the composer’s most impressive keyboard-writing.
4.  Saint-saëns: Africa, Jota Aragonese, Etc / Simon, Mok, Et Al

Release Date: 09/18/2007   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 4031   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  Camille Saint-Saëns,  Alexandre Luigini
Performer:  Gwendolyn Mok,  Susan Milan,  James Campbell,  Tina Gruenberg  ... 
Conductor:  Geoffrey Simon
Orchestra/Ensemble:  London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Rosemary Tuck plays piano music of William Wallace (1812 – 1865). These Celtic fantasies were lush pieces with a musical box quality. They were clearly composed for accomplished pianists with concert grands.
5.  Wallace: The Meeting Of The Waters / Rosemary Tuck

Release Date: 08/06/2002   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 88042   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  William Vincent Wallace
Performer:  Rosemary Tuck
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The excellent engineering will have you wishing for a subwoofer. The very first notes on this CD nearly blew me out of living room, and they definitely rattled my windowpanes.
6.  The London Double Bass Sound / Karr, Simon, Et Al

Release Date: 12/07/1999   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 110   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  Camille Saint-Saëns,  Niccolò Paganini,  Cole Porter,  Billy Strayhorn  ... 
Performer:  Gary Karr
Conductor:  Geoffrey Simon
Orchestra/Ensemble:  London Double Bass Sound
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In addition to Lawrence Leonard's arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition as a piano concerto, this album contains unusual Mussorgsky gems including shimmering orchestrations by Walter Goehr of marvelous piano pieces.
7.  Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition, Etc / Simon, Et Al
Release Date: 11/07/2000   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 1030   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  Modest Mussorgsky
Performer:  Tamas Ungar
Conductor:  Geoffrey Simon
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Orchestra
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Her playing is beautifully mellifluous, with a rich dark tone. The effortless playing shows off Telemann's lovely, free-flowing lyrical expression.
8.  Down A River Of Time - Oboe Concertos / Gullickson, Matos

Release Date: 01/30/2007   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 1037   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  Georg Philipp Telemann,  Joseph François Garnier,  Giuseppe Ferlendis,  Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari  ... 
Performer:  Andrea Gullickson
Conductor:  Lucia Matos
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
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Stokowski mavens will find it troublesome to resist so enjoyable a collection as this.
9.  Bizet: Symphony In C Major, Etc; Debussy: Children's Corner / Leopold Stokowski
Release Date: 10/14/2008   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 548   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  Georges Bizet,  Claude Debussy
Conductor:  Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Leopold Stokowski Orchestra
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Gramophone Magazine's Editor's Choice - World class award winning harpsichordist Virginia Black performs a program that marks the pinnacle of her career. The masterpieces of Scarlatti represented here with a selection from the 120 sonatas by Soler.
10.  Music From The Courts Of Europe - Madrid - Scarlatti & Soler

Release Date: 09/19/2008   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 88005   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  Domenico Scarlatti,  Antonio Soler
Performer:  Virginia Black
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The performance gains in momentum as it goes, culminating in a swiftly thrilling account of the finale with extraordinary top-to-bottom detail as Sibelius builds up the layers leading into the concluding apotheosis.
11.  Sibelius: Symphonies 1 & 2 / Stokowski, Nbc Symphony Orchestra

Release Date: 09/20/2005   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 541   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  Jean Sibelius
Conductor:  Leopold Stokowski
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Leopold Stokowski & His Symphony Orchestra,  NBC Symphony Orchestra
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There is a delightful clarity to the orchestral textures in these compositions and to their loving performance here. These are utterly delightful pieces, delicate and subtle, quite without exaggeration.
12.  Respighi: Ballad Of The Gnomes, Etc / Geoffrey Simon, Philharmonia Orchestra

Release Date: 12/05/2006   Label: Cala Records   Catalog: 4028   Number of Discs: 1 
Composer:  Ottorino Respighi
Performer:  Leslie Pearson,  Alexander Baillie
Conductor:  Geoffrey Simon
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Philharmonia Orchestra
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