With A Twist

Release Date: June 2002
PRESS RELEASE
Described as a jazz musician who "lets you hear the harmony behind the notes," Richard Todd's debut recording with RCM is a seamless collection that demonstrates why he is a leader in the French horn's rise in popularity as a lead instrument. Featuring music by film score legends David Raksin, Johnny Mandel, Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, jazz giants Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk plus three Todd original compositions - along with collaboration from some of the best musicians around - "With A Twist" is chamber jazz of a very high order.

TRACK LISTING:
1. Night Walk -7:09
2. Discovery (Through the Eyes of a Child) -6:29
3. A Song After Sundown -2:42
4. Central Avenue Strut -5:39
5. Quiet Time -7:51
6. Emily -6:02
7. Days of Wine and Roses -3:18
8. Race -6:25
9. 'Round Midnight -3:38
10. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning -6:12

Horn Sonatas of Three Centuries
Release Date: 2002
PRESS RELEASE
Master hornist Richard Todd, known for his prowess in both classical and jazz performance from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl, here demonstrates the extraordinary range of his instrument and virtuosity with repertoire spanning three centuries.

TRACK LISTING:
-Ludwig van Beethoven (1700-1827)
Sonata in F for Horn & Piano, Op. 17 (1799)
1. Allegro moderato -8:24
2. Poco adagio, quasi andante -1:29
3. Rondo: Allegro moderato -5:04
-Gunther Schuller (b. 1925)
Sonata for Horn & Piano (1988)
4. Andante, with innermost expression -6:45
5. Allegro energico -2:55
6. Adagio mesto / Allegro giocoso -9:55
-Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901)
Sonata in E flat Major for Horn & Piano, Op. 178 (1894)
7. Con moto -11:29
8. Quasi adagio -6:33
9. Con fuoco -6:07




Rhapsody for Horn and Orchestra
Release Date: 2000
TRACK LISTING:
Rhapsody for Horn and Orchestra
1. Morning's Decisions -11:24
2. Dizzy Bird -6:39
3. Wistful Musin -12:53
4. Tito Machito -6:54
5. Flash -3:51
Middle Earth
6. Frodo Leaves the Shire -:51
7. Gimli, the Dwarf -1:11
8. Galadriel and Her Elvin Mirror -1:26
9. Gollum -:34
10. Gandalf: The White Rider -1:00
11. Shelob's Lair -1:39
12. Orcs and Ring Wraiths -1:18
13. Strider and the Crowning of Aragon -3:27
14. Frodo and Company Return -:55
Gate City
15. A Methoist Hymn -5:23
Three Concertos
Release Date: 1994

TRACK LISTING:
-Concerto No.1 for Horn & Orchestra*
1. I Andante -9:49
2. II Nocturne -6:15
3. III Scherzo-Finale -6:38
-Concerto for Piano & Orchestra
4. I Andante molto -9:07
5. II Scherzo -6:46
6. III Moderato, "Quasi Una Fantasia" -9:00
-Concerto for Basson & Orchestra
7. I Ballade -4:05
8. II Berceuse -4:27
9. III Burlesca -2:53
10. IV Blues -6:52
11. V Badinerie -2:57

*Richard Todd, French Horn
Rickter Scale
Release Date: 1990

TRACK LISTING:
1. Got a Match? -5:04
2. Cipriana -7:10
3. Rickter Scale -5:28
4. Our Waltz -3:00
5. Melancholia -8:31
6. Anthropology -5:23
7. In a Mellotone -5:38
8. A Time for Love -8:20

The 4th Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival
Release Date: 1997

TRACK LISTING:
-Bela Bartok: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (1938)
1. Verbunkos -5:33
2. Piheno -4:33
3. Sebes -7:21
-John Harbison: Twilight Music for Horn Trio (1984)*
4. Con moto flessibile -7:17
5. Antiphon: tempo giusto -4:11
6. Adagio, cantabile -4:35
-Ingolf Dahl: Concerto-A-Tre for Clarinet, Violin, and Cello (1947)
7. Allegretto comodo -9:02
8. Assai moderato, estando -5:55
9. Presto -3:04
-John Kimura Parker: Pan Dreams for Flute and Piano (1989)
10. -10:53

*Richard Todd, French Horn

French Chamber Music
Release Date: 1995

TRACK LISTING:
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
1-3. Sextuor -17:12*
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
4-8. La creation du monde: Suite de concert en re -15:05
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
9-12. Septet, Op. 65 -16:17

*Richard Todd, French Horn

What Headphones?
Release Date: 1993

TRACK LISTING:
1. What Headphones? -6:08
2. You Are My All -5:26
3. Take The A Train -4:50
4. Outside The Cafe -3:10
5. All Is Well -4:42
6. A Portrait Of Bert Williams -4:13
7. Warm Valley -5:29
8. Holy Spirit In Me -3:20
9. I'm Begining To See The Light -5:18
10. You're Gonna Hear From Me -4:19
11. You Never Gave Up On Me -4:32