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2L

2L

Amper; Grieg; Larsen ‘in folk style’: Abrégé – Folk Suite for Nyckelharpa and String Orchestra; Fra Holbergs Tid, Op. 40; Diplom – Folk Suite for Fiddle and String Orchestra TrondheimSolistene 2L-068-SABD (Hybrid SACD + Pure Audio Blu-ray Disc)

ABC Classics

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Op. 20 (choreography: Graeme Murphy) Eastoe; Curran; Rowe et al; Australian Ballet; Australian Opera and Ballet Orch (Sydney, 2008) ABC076 2770 (DVD-V)

Accent Records

Bach, J. S. ‘Cantatas for the Liturgical Year, Vol. 11’: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV12; Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV67; Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV85 Sämann; Noskaiová; Genz, C.; van der Crabben; La Petite Bande/Kuijken, S. ACC25311 (Hybrid SACD)

Bach, J. S. ‘Cantatas, Vol. 10’: Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV11, ‘Himmelfahrts-Oratorium’; Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV44; Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch, BWV86; Es ist euch gut, das ich hingehe, BWV108 Thornhill; Noskaiová; Genz, C.; van der Crabben; La Petite Bande/Kuijken, S. ACC25310 (Hybrid SACD)

Galuppi ‘Sonatas for Keyboard Instruments’ Guglielmi ACC24277

Acis Productions

Bach, J. S.; Prokofiev; Reger ‘the new and the old – l’ancien et le nouveau’: Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV532; Romeo and Juliet – Suite (arr. Demers); Introduction, Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, Op. 73 Demers (Markussen organ of the Chapel of Tonbridge School, Kent) www.acisproductions.com

ACT Music

Sendecki et al ‘Solo Piano’: Lily of the Valley; Mein Mädchen; Wiegenlied; A Kind of Song; Karpaten Blues; Obertas; Sledge Ride; Mutant, etc. Sendecki ACT9485-2

Vogt et al ‘Octagon’: Misura; Caritas abundat in omnia; Octagon Interludes 1-3; Por che llorax; Zirafkand; A chantar; Safi al-Din; La dolce vois; Si ay perdut mon sabre, etc. Rössler; Vogt; Kreidler; Goos; Lenz ACT9496-2

Acte Préalable

Chopin; Karπowicz; Moniuszko; Paderewski ‘Polish Songs’, inc. Paderewski’s ‘Four Songs, Op. 7’ Maroszek; Tyszecka AP0201

Luciuk Concertino for Piano and Orchestra; Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra Smendzianka; Kalinowski; Polish Radio and Television Orchestra, Warsaw; Polish Radio and Television Orch, Katowice/Pruszak; Kawalla AP0227

Twardowski ‘Complete Organ Works’: Fantazja; Theme and Variations; Canzona; Elegy; Chorale; Toccata and Chorale; Three Intermezzi; Musica festiva; Paschal Tryptych Pietkiewicz AP0175

Actes Sud, Musicales

Albéniz Iberia Heisser ASM01 (CD + Book)

Berg; Schoenberg; Webern Piano Sonata, Op. 1; Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11; Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19; Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 23; Suite für Klavier, Op. 25; Variationen für Klavier, Op. 27, etc. Steuerman ASM03 (CD + Book)

Aeolus Music

Agrell ‘orchestral works’: Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Flute in B minor, Op. 4 No. 2; Oboe Concerto in G flat; Violin Concerto in D; Sinfonias in A, D and E flat Kakinen-Pilch; Fred; Moisio; Helsinki Baroque Orch/Häkkinen AE10047 (Hybrid SACD)

Anonymous; Binchois; Brassar; Dufay; Dunstaple; Edlerawer; Landini; Liebert; Oswald von Wolkenstein; Roullet; Schweikl; Vaillant; Volkhardt von Häringen; Wilhelmi et al ‘codex st. emmeram’: Music from the 15th-century Mensural Codex of St Emmeram (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14274) Stimmwerck; Berben (Organ of St Andreas, Söst-Ostönnen) AE10023 (Hybrid SACD)

aeon

Chausson; Saint-Saëns; Ysaÿe Poème, Op. 25; Introduction et Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28; Poème élégiaque, Op. 12 Papavrami; Orch Philharmonnique de Liège Wallonie Bruxelles/Roth AECD1088

Harvey ‘Speakings’: Scena for Violin and Ensemble; Jubilus for Clarinet and Ensemble; Speakings for Large Orchestra and Electronics Layton; Dickinson; BBC Scottish SO/Volkov AECD1090

Huber ‘Complete Cello Works’: Ein hauch von Unzeit VIII; Transpositio ad infinitum; Lazarus; Rauhe Pinselspitze; … ruhe sanft … (in memoriam John Cage); Partita Descharmes; Vichard; Leclère AECD1089

Alia Vox

Corelli; Rameau; Telemann ‘Le Concert Spirituel at the Time of Louis XV’, inc. Corelli’s ‘Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 4’, excerpts from Rameau’s ‘Les Indes galantes’ and Telemann’s ‘Concerto for Flute and Viola da gamba in A minor, TWV52:a1’ Le Concert des Nations/Savall, J. AVSA9877 (Hybrid SACD)

Alpha

Bleyer; Borchgrevinck; Gistou; Hume; Lorenz; Maercker; Maynard; Pedersøn; Robinson; Scheidt; Schop; Simpson; Vierdanck ‘Konge af Danmark – L’Europe musicale à la cour de Christian V’, inc. Hume’s ‘The Duke of Holstone’s Delight and Almaine’, Pedersøns ‘Fader vor ud i Himmelreich’ and Scheidt’s ‘Alamanda (Brun Smedelyn)’ Les Witches ALPHA163

Fauré Barcarolles (complete) Bardin ALPHA162

Nadaud ‘La Bouche & L‘Oreille’: La Vie moderne; L’Aimable Voleur; La Femme du Pompier; Le Feu; Satan marié; Le Cigare; La Faculté; La Bouche et L’Oreille; L’Âme qui Chante; Les Ruines de Paris, etc. Marzorati; Isoir, D.; Paulet; Chabod; Carlioz ALPHA160

Analekta

Bach, J. S.; Biber; Graupner; Milandre; Petzold; Telemann ‘Viola d’amore’, inc. Biber’s ‘Partia VII in D minor for two Violas d’amore and Basso continuo’, Graupner’s ‘Trio in E flat for Viola d’amore, Bass Chalumeau and Basso continuo’ and Petzold’s ‘Partita in F for Viola d’amore’ Plouffe; Keesmaat; Larivière; Jacques; Laquerre; Chartier; Simons; Meyers; Helyard AN29959

Caccini, F. ‘O Viva Rosa’: Ch’Amor sia nudo; Dov’io credea le mie speranze vere; S’io men vò; Rendi alle mie speranze il verde; Io veggio i campi verdeggiar fecondi; Lasciatemi; Non sò se quel sorriso, etc. Mercer; Bergeron; Keesmaat; Beauséjour AN29966

Graupner; Handel ‘Handel à Darmstadt’: Partita in G, GWV145; Keyboard Suites – HWV427a in F; HWV434 in B flat; HWV440 in B flat; Chaconne in G, HWV435a Soly AN29121

Liszt Années de Pèlerinage – Première Année, ‘Suisse’, S160 Laplante AN29980

Various composers ‘Cantus Mariales’: Mediaeval chants to the Virgin Mary (Solesmes) Choeur des Moines de l’Abbaye bénédictine de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac/Saint-Cyr AN29769

Various composers ‘Jeunesses Musicales de Canada – Looking to the Future’: A compilation celebrating the 60 years of JMC Dubeau; Ensemble Caprice; Gryphon Trio et al AN29927 (two CDs)

Andromeda

Monteverdi L’Orfeo (ed. Hindemith) Sinimberghi; Graf; Brinton; Foster; Guthrie; Kmentt; Wiener Singakademie; Wiener Symphoniker/Hindemith (Vienna, 1954) ANDRCD9069 (two CDs)

Schmidt Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln Wunderlich; Güden; Malaniuk; Dermota; Berry et al; Wiener Philharmoniker/Mitropoulos (Salzburg, 1959) ANDRCD9067 (two CDs)

Wagner Tannhäuser Rysanek; Nilsson, B.; Lustig; Cordes; Frick et al; Coro e Orch del Teatro San Carlo di Napoli/Böhm (Naples, 1956) ANDRCD9065 (three CDs)

Wolf ‘Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – Lieder’ Schwarzkopf; Moore (Salzburg, 1958) ANDRCD9066

Animato

Eylar; Hurlstone; Lachner; Schreck; Spohr Sonata for Bassoon and Piano; Sonata for Bassoon and Piano in F; Notturno in F, Op. 83; Sonata for Bassoon and Piano, Op. 9; Adagio for Bassoon and Piano Forst; Sano ACD6116

Aparte

Arutiunian; Böhme; Brandt; Glazunov; Glinka; Goedicke; Hohne; Rachmaninov; Rimsky-Korsakov; Tchaikovsky ‘Slavonic Spirit’, inc. Arutiunian’s ‘Scherzo de concert’, Böhme’s ‘Trumpet Concerto, Op. 18’, Glazunov’s ‘Feuille d’album’ and Goedicke’s ‘Etude de concert, Op. 49’ Leleu; Le Pape AP004

Couperin, L. Harpsichord Suites in F, G minor, C, C minor and D minor, etc. Rousset (1658 Louis Denis harpsichord) AP006 (two CDs)

Debussy; Grieg; Rangström; Sibelius ‘Till Solveig … ’, inc. Debussy’s ‘Trois Chansons de Bilitis’, Grieg’s ‘I Rosentiden’, ‘En Svane’ and ‘Till Solveig’, Rangström’s ‘Pan’ and Sibelius’s ‘Svarta Rosor’ Vour’ch; Manoff AP002

Handel Publio Cornelio Scipione, HWV20 Ragin; Piau; Lallouette; Tabery; Flechter; Lamprechts et al; Les Talens Lyriques/Rousset AP005 (three CDs)

Apex

Berg; Weill Sinfonische Stücke aus das Oper ‘Lulu’; Die sieben Todsünden Réaux; Munday; Bleeke; Becker; Pauley; members of Hudson Shad; New York PO/Masur 2564 68162-5

Handel Six Concerti grossi, HWV312-17 (Op. 3) Les Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski 2564 68162-3

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (version with piano) Fassbaender; Moser; Katsaris 2564 68162-7

Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D minor Pecková; Damenchor des Rundfunkchors Berlin; Knabenchor Hannover; Deutsches Symphonie-Orch Berlin/Nagano 2564 68181-7 (two CDs)

Mozart Horn Concertos – No. 1 in D, K412+K514/K386b; No. 2 in E flat, K417; No. 3 in E flat, K447; No. 4 in E flat, K495; Horn Quintet in E flat, K407/K386c Pyatt; Sillito; Smissen; Tees; Orton; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner 2564 68161-9

AR Ré-Sé

Miaskovsky String Quartets – No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33; No. 13 in A minor, Op. 86 Renoir Quartet AR20101

Arcana

Caldara Sonate a Violoncello Solo col Basso continuo (1735) – excerpts Nasillo; Guglielmi; Bennici A356

Corelli Sonate a Violino e Violone o Cembalo, Opera Quinta Gatti, E.; Nasillo; Morini A423 (two CDs)

Corelli Sonate da Chiesa, Opera Terza; Sept Sonate postume Ensemble Aurora/Gatti, E. A402 (two CDs)

Archipel

Beethoven Missa solemnis in D, Op. 123 Schwarzkopf; Merriman; Simandy; Rehfuss; Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam; Concertgebouw Orch/Klemperer (1957) ARPCD0498

Beethoven Symphonies – No. 4 in B flat, Op. 60; No. 7 in A, Op. 92 Orch ‘Alessandro Scarlatti’ di Napoli della RAI; Orch Sinfonica di Torino della RAI/Kempe (1959) ARPCD0494

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, ‘Choral’ Schwarzkopf; Caveti; Häfliger; Edelmann; Lucerne Festival Chor; Philharmonia Orch/Furtwängler (1954) ARPCD0502

Beethoven; Prokofiev; Stravinsky Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, Op. 73, ‘Emperor’; Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat, Op. 83; Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments Pollini; Orch Sinfonica di Roma della RAI/Pradella; Orch Sinfonica di Torino della RAI/Scaglia (1958-59) ARPCD0493

Boccherini; Brahms; Haydn Cello Concerto No. 9 in B flat, G482; Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38; Cello Concerto No. 2 in D, Hob. VIIb/2 Janigro; Orch Sinfonica di Roma della RAI; Orch ‘Alessandro Scarlatti’ di Napoli della RAI/Kempe (1957-59) ARPCD0493

Janácek; Mahler Taras Bulba; Symphony No. 1 in D Orch Sinfonica di Torino della RAI/Kubelík (1954; 1959) ARPCD0495

Mahler; Mozart Symphony No. 4 in G; Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550 Schlehan; Orch Sinfonica di Roma della RAI/Walter (1952; 1950) ARPCD0496

Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2 in D, K314/K285d; Symphony No. 36 in C, K425, ‘Linz’; Serenade in G, K525, ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’ Gazzelloni; Orch Sinfonica di Torino della RAI; Orch ‘Alessandro Scarlatti’ di Napoli della RAI/Celibidache (1958-59) ARPCD0490

Mozart Piano Concertos – No. 20 in D minor, K466; No. 23 in A, K488; Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 Curzon; Solti; Orch National de l’O.R.T.F.; WDR Sinfonieorch Köln/Solti (1952; 1959) ARPCD0499

Arco Diva

Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor Moravian PO Olomouc/Vronsky UP0122-2

Ars Musici

Bartók; Janácek Concerto for Orchestra, Sz116; Lachian Dances Basler Sinfonie-Orch/Weller 232183

Böhm ‘Organ Works, Vol. 1’: Chorale Variations – Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend; Auf meinen lieben Gott; Chorale Partitas – Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig; Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, etc. Sluys (1722-30 Trost organ, Waltershausen) 232342

Donberger; Donizetti; Gordigiani; Haydn; Reger; Schmid; Schubert; Vogt; Ziani et al ‘Ave Maria – Marian Songs’, inc. Donberger’s ‘Regina coeli’, Gordigiani’s ‘O sanctissima vergine Maria’, Schmid’s ‘Es blühen drei Rosen’ and Vogt’s ‘Alma redemptoris mater’ Nishioka; Freiburger Domsingknaben/Hug 232324

Dvorák Mass in D, B175; Ave Maria, B68; Hymnus ad laudes in festo Sanctae Trinitatis, B82; Ave Maris Stella, B95; O Sanctissima dulcis Virgo Maria, B95a Röschmann; Danz; Elsner; Mannov; Frankfurter Kantorei; Krapp/Schäfer 232158

Gabrieli; Hassler; Palestrina; Praetorius; Schütz et al ‘Nun loben mein Seel den Herren’: Motets Augsburger Domsingknaben/Kammler 232430

Handel Messiah, HWV56 Addison; Oberlin; Lloyd; Warfield; Westminster Ch; New York PO/
Bernstein 232751 (two CDs)

Huber ‘Kammermusik/Chamber Music’: La Force du Vertige; Vor und zurück; Offenes Fragment; Mit Erinnerung; Don’t Fence Me In Ensemble Aventure 232267

Jacopo da Bologna ‘Italian Madrigals of the 14th Century’: Oseletto salvaco; Prima virtute; Posando sopra un’aqua; Nel mio parlar; Lo lume vostro; Lux purpurata radiis/Diligite justiciam; Non al so amante, etc. Ensemble PAN (Project Ars Nova) 232306

Kerll Delectus Sacrarum Cantionum (1669) Die Gruppe für Alte Musik München/Zöbeley 232227

Lassus Missa ‘Tous les regretz’; Media vita in morte sumus; Improperium exspectavit; Ubi est Abel; Recordare Jesu pie; Emendemus in melius; Pater noster, etc. Singer Pur 232282

Schulhoff; Wolpe Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon; Dada-Prolog zur ‘Bassnachtigall’; Bassnachtigall – Drei Vortragsstücke; Dada-Prolog zur ‘Wolkenpumpe’; Die Wolkenpumpe; Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Op. 31; An Anna Blume von Kurt Schwitters für Klavier und Musikal-Clown Ensemble Aventure 232155

Schumann ‘The Complete Works for Pianoforte and Violin’ Abel; Szidon 232147 (two CDs)

Shchedrin ‘Kammermusik/Chamber Music’: Menuhin-Sonata; Echo-Sonate; Sonata for Cello and Piano; Im Stile von Albéniz Sitkovetsky; Shchedrin; Grigorian; Lissovaja 232371

Arthaus Musik

Bellini; Rossini; Verdi et al ‘Waldbühne – Italian Night’ Gheorghiu; Larin; Terfel; Berliner Philharmoniker/Abbado (Berlin, 1996) 107154 (DVD-V)

Brahms; Dvorák; Enescu; Liszt; Smetana; Strauss, J. II; Strauss, R.; Suppé ‘Waldbühne – Night of Dances and Rhapsodies’ Rudy; Berliner Philharmoniker/Jansons (Berlin, 1994) 107155 (DVD-V)

Debussy; Tchaikovsky; Verdi; Wagner ‘Berliner Philharmoniker from Stockholm’ Swedish Radio Ch; Eric Ericson Chamber Ch; Berliner Philharmoniker/Abbado (Stockholm, 1998) 107159 (DVD-V)

Verdi Falstaff (stage direction: Hellmuth Matiasek) Edelmann; Höngen; Muszely; Sciutti; Grimm; von Vrooman et al; Wiener Symphoniker/
Santi (1963) 101507 (DVD-V)

Atma Classique

Arutiunian; Babadjanian; Ganatchian; Khachaturian; Kradjian ‘Armenian Chamber Music’, inc. Arutiunian’s ‘Suite for Clarinet, Violin and Piano’, Ganatchian’s ‘Oror’ and Kradjian’s ‘Elegy for Restive Souls’ Amici Chamber Ensemble ACD22609

Bassano; Hume; Sieur de Machy; Marais; Sieur de Sainte-Colombe; Virgiliano ‘Senza Continuo’, inc. Bassano’s ‘Ricercata Quarta ’, Sieur de Machy’s ‘Suite de Pièces pour Viole en Sol Majeur’ and Virgiliano’s ‘Ricercata per Viola Bastarda’ Little ACD22612

Berlioz; Donizetti; Gounod; Gougeon; Lachner; Reissiger; Schubert; Strauss, R. ‘Ophélie – Lieder et Mélodies’, inc. Berlioz’s ‘Le jeune pâtre breton, H65’, Gougeon’s ‘Ophélie’, Lachner’s ‘Waldwärts, Op. 28’ and Reissiger’s ‘Vier Gesänge, Op. 117’ Fiset; Marsolais; McMahon ACD22628

Cilea; Leoncavallo; Mascagni; Puccini; Verdi ‘Marc Hervieux – Tenor Arias’, inc. arias from ‘L’Arlesiana’, ‘Pagliacci’, ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’, ‘Turandot’, ‘Tosca’, ‘Manon Lescaut’, ‘La bohème’ and ‘La traviata’ Hervieux; Orch Métropolitain du Grand Montréal/Nézet-Séguin ACD22618

Daunais; Healey; Lang; Morlock; Raminsh; Ryan; Schafer; Sharman; Sled; Viver ‘into light’, inc. Daunais’s ‘Le Pont Mirabeau’, Lang’s ‘Agneau de Dieu’, Raminsh’s ‘Ave Verum Corpus’, Schafer’s ‘Three Hymns (from ‘The Fall Into Light’)’ and Vivier’s ‘Jesus erbarme dich’ musica intima ACD22613

Dubois Messe solennelle de Saint Rémi; Messe de la Déliverance Knapik; Boucher; Kunz; Les Chanteurs de Sainte-Thérèse; Choeur Tremblant; Choeur classique d’Ottawa; Choeur et Orch Philharmonique du Nouveau Monde/
Brousseau ACD22632

The Audio Concept

Bach, J. S.; Bernstein; Fauré; Jenkins; Mendelssohn; Morricone; Piazzolla; Purcell; Ravel; Satie ‘Tim Thorpe – Midsummer’, inc. Bernstein’s ‘Somewhere’, Fauré’s ‘Pavane’ and Purcell’s ‘When I am laid in earth’ Thorpe; Hatfield; Whiting; Drummond; Feaver; Wescott; Plane; Nicholson; Aldrich-Smith TAC002

Audiomax

Beethoven; Schumann String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135; Three String Quartets, Op. 41 – No. 1 in A minor; No. 2 in F BeethovenQuartett Audiomax 946 1623-8 (Hybrid SACD + DVD-V)

Audite Musikproduktion

Beethoven ‘Wilhelm Backhaus’: Piano Sonatas – No. 15 in D flat, Op. 28, ‘Pastoral’; No. 18 in E flat, Op. 31 No. 3; No. 21 in C, Op. 53, ‘Waldstein’; No. 30 in E, Op. 109 Backhaus (Berlin, 1969) 23.420 (two CDs)

Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44; Piano Quartet in E flat, Op. 47 Le Guay; Mandelring Quartett 92.574 (Hybrid SACD)

Australian Eloquence

Campra; Lully L’Europe galante; Pièces de symphonie English Chamber Orch/Leppard (1966; 1967) 480 2374

Charpentier; Grétry; Rameau Médée – Suite; Musique de Ballet; Le Temple de la Gloire – Suites Nos. 1 and 2 English Chamber Orch/Leppard (1966) 480 2373

Couperin Concert en forme d’apothéose de Lully; Les Nations English Chamber Orch/Leppard (1966); Jacobean Ensemble/Dart (1962) 480 2372

Holborne Pavans and Galliards (1599) Guildhall Waits; Consort of Musicke/Rooley; Jones (1980) 480 1802

Maynard et al The XII Wonders of the World; Character Songs by Campion, Hume, Parsons, Ravenscroft et al Consort of Musicke/Rooley (1975) 480 2145

Ward First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5 and 6 parts; Four Fantasias for Viols Consort of Musicke/Rooley (1980) 480 1816 (two CDs)

Avie Records

Bach, J. S. Harpsichord Concertos – No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052; No. 5 in F minor, BWV1056; Six Brandenburg Concertos, BWV1046-51; Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV1052 Apollo’s Fire/Sorrell AV2207 (two CDs)

Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550; Idomeneo, K367 – Ballet Music; Lucio Silla, K135 – In un istante … Parto, m’affretto; Six Contredanses, K462/K448b – No. 5 in B flat; No. 6 in F, etc. Forsythe; Apollo’s Fire/Sorrell AV2159

Schubert Four Impromptus, D899; Four Impromptus, D935 Lucchesini AV2179

Barbirolli Society

Albinoni; Cimarosa; Corelli; Handel; Marcello; Pergolesi ‘Oboe Concertos, Vol. 1’, inc. Albinoni’s ‘Oboe Concerto in B flat, Op. 7 No. 3’, Corelli’s ‘Oboe Concerto (arr. Barbirolli)’ and Marcello’s ‘Oboe Concerto in C minor (arr. Rothwell)’ Rothwell; Pro Arte Orch; Hallé Orch/Barbirolli (1957-59) SJB1009

Bach, C. P. E.; Corelli; Handel; Haydn; Loeillet; Marcello; Telemann et al ‘Oboe Concertos, Vol. 2’, inc. C. P. E. Bach’s ‘Oboe Sonata in G minor’, Corelli’s ‘Concerto for Oboe and Strings (arr. Barbirolli)’ and Loeillet’s ‘Sonata in C (arr. Rothwell)’ Rothwell; New York PO; Hallé Orch/Barbirolli (1951-73) SJB1016

Bach, J. S.; Balfe; Berlioz; Van Biene; Collins; Delius; Falla; Grieg; Lehár; Mascagni; Mozart; Puccini; Saint-Saëns; Strauss, J. II; Stravinsky; Verdi; Villa-Lobos; Weber; Weinberger ‘Glorious John’, inc. Balfe’s ‘Overture to ‘The Bohemian Girl’’, Van Biene’s ‘The Broken Melody’, Falla’s ‘Seguidilla murciana (arr. Halffter)’, Stravinsky’s ‘Concerto in D’ and an interview with Sir John Barbirolli and R. Kinloch Anderson Hallé Orch; New York SO; Wiener Philharmoniker/Barbirolli SJB1999 (two CDs)

BelAir Classiques (DVD)

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Op. 20 (choreography: Heinz Spoerli) Semionova; Jermakow; Corps de Ballet und Orch der Oper Zürich /Fedoseyev (Zürich, 2005) BAC055 (DVD-V); BAC455 (Blu-ray disc)

Berlin Classics

Schumann Papillons, Op. 2; Kinderszenen, Op. 15; Waldszenen, Op. 82; Theme with Variations in E flat, WoO 24, ‘Geistervariationen’; Ahnung (discovered in 2006) Kirschnereit 0016682BC

Berlin Classics Reference Gold

Fasch; Rathgeber; Sperger; Vivaldi; Zelenka ‘Konzerte für Corno da caccia’, inc. Fasch’s ‘Concerto in D’, Rathgeber’s ‘Concerto for Clarinet, Strings and Basso continuo, Op. 6 No. 19’ and Zelenka’s ‘Capriccio No. 5 in G, ZWV190’ Güttler; Virtuosi Saxoniae 0300041BC

Haydn; Mozart Keyboard Concerto with Violin in F, Hob. XVIII/6; Symphony No. 45 in F sharp minor, Hob. I/45, ‘Farewell’; Serenade in G, K525, ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’; Divertimento in D, K136/K125a Kammerorch Berlin/Scholz 0300031BC

Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129; Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op. 70; Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102; Phantasiestücke, Op. 73 Vogler; Canino; Münchener Kammerorch/Popper 0300033BC

Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch Oelze; Blochwitz; Jansen 0300032BC

BIS

Bach, J. S. ‘Cantatas, Vol. 46’: Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV102; Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV19; Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV17; Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist, BWV45 BlaΩíková; Blaze; Türk; Kooij; Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki, M. SACD1951 (Hybrid SACD)

Beethoven Piano Sonatas – No. 28 in A, Op. 101; No. 30 in E, Op. 109; No. 31 in A flat, Op. 110; No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 Brautigam SACD1613 (Hybrid SACD)

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E flat, ‘Romantic’ (1888 version) Minnesota Orch/Vänskä SACD1746 (Hybrid SACD)

Martin; Martinu; Messiaen; Poulenc; Reinecke ‘Masterworks for Flute and Piano’: Ballade; Flute Sonata, H306; Le Merle noir; Flute Sonata; Flute Sonata, Op. 167, ‘Undine’ Bezaly; Brautigam SACD1729 (Hybrid SACD)

Roman Drottningholmsmusiken Helsingborg SO/Manze BIS-CD-1602

Blue Griffin Recording

Gordon ‘A Horse with Wings – Ricky Ian Gordon Sings Ricky Ian Gordon’, inc. Finding Home; A Horse With Wings; Drivers Of Diaper Service Trucks Are Sad; The Light Comes On By Itself; If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way; Midnight Lake Gordon BGR209

BMC Records

Ambrosian Chant ‘Ambrosian Chant for Epiphany’: Chants for the Mass and Vespers for Epiphany Schola Hungarica/Szendrei; Dobszay BMCCD165

Boksay; Bubnó; Chesnokov; Christov; Glinka; Mussorgsky; Rachmaninov; Suceveanu; Tchaikovsky; Zombola et al ‘Byzantine Mosaics’, inc. Chesnokov’s ‘Lord, now lettest Thou thy servant depart’, Glinka’s ‘Cherubic Hymn’, Rachmaninov’s ‘Neither the tomb, nor death, could hold the Theotikos’ and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Trishagion’ Saint Ephraim Male Ch/Bubnó BMCCD172

Brana Records

Albéniz; Tavares Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 78, ‘Concierto fantástico’; Rapsodia española, Op. 70; Concerto in Brazilian Forms, Op. 105 No. 2 Blumental; Orch Sinfonica di Torino della RAI/Zedda; Filarmonica Triestina/Toffolo; LSO/Fistoulari BR0002

Angles; Cantallos; Carvalho; Jacinto; Perez de Albéniz; Seixas; Soler ‘Spanish and Portuguese Keyboard Music, Vol. 1’, inc. Carvalho’s ‘Toccata in G minor’, Jacinto’s ‘Toccata in D minor’ and Seixas’s ‘Sonata in A minor’ Blumental BR0021

Manfredini; Paisiello ‘The Italian Collection, Vol. 2’: Piano Concerto in B flat; Piano Concertos in F and C Blumental; Mozarteum Orch Salzburg/Inoue; Orch Sinfonica di Torino della RAI/Zedda; Württembergisches Kammerorch/Faerber BR0026

Bridge Records

Mozart ‘Piano Concertos, Vol. 1’: Piano Concertos – No. 24 in C minor, K491; No. 25 in C, K503; No. 26 in D, K537, ‘Coronation’; No. 27 in B flat, K595 Primakov; Odense SO/Yoo BRIDGE9328A/B (two CDs)

Piazzolla ‘Music for Flute and Guitar’: Libertango; Revirado; Introduction al Ángel; Tango-Etudes; Oblivion; Adiós Nonino; Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas Cavatina Duo BRIDGE9330

Zohn-Muldoon ‘Cantos – Music of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’: NiñoPolilla; Comala; Flores del Viento, etc. Arnold; Perkins; Hurd; Sánchez-Gutiérrez; Eastman BroadBand/Trigos BRIDGE9325

Brilliant Classics

Alkan; Chopin; Field; Glinka; Lefébure-Wély; Liszt; Schumann, C.; Weber et al ‘Chopin and His Contemporaries Played on Pleyel and Érard Fortepianos’, inc. Chopin’s ‘Nocturnes (completes)’, Field’s ‘Nocturnes (complete)’ and Weber’s ‘Piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor, J206’ van Oort; Mastroprimiano; Vermeulen; Oldenburg; Hoogland; de Groot 94048 (six CDs)

Bach, J. S. ‘J. S. Bach – Complete Edition’ Various artists 94050 (157 CDs + 2 DVD-Vs + DVD-ROM)

Bartók; Berg; Bruch; Hindemith; Mendelssohn; Sibelius; Stravinsky; Tchaikovsky ‘The Art of Ivry Gitlis – Violin Concertos’, inc. Berg’s ‘Violin Concerto’, Hindemith’s ‘Violin Concerto in D’ and Sibelius’s ‘Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47’ Gitlis; Orch des Concerts Colonne; Pro Musica Symphony; Wiener Symphoniker et al/Byrns; Hollreiser; Horenstein; Reichert; Strickland; Swarowsky 9145 (three CDs)

Bartók; Debussy; Schumann; Weber ‘The Genius of Dino Ciani’, inc. Debussy’s ‘Préludes’, Schumann’s ‘Novelettes, Op. 21’ and Weber’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, J98’ and ‘Piano Concerto No. 2 in E flat, J155’ Ciani et al 94069 (three CDs)

Cage ‘Piano Music’: Three Easy Pieces; Quest; Metamorphosis; Jazz Study; Tripled Paced (first version, 1943); Two Pieces; In a Landscape; Seven Haiku; Cello and Piano; Cheap Imitation, etc. Simonacci, G.; Simonacci, M. 9176 (three CDs)

Cage; Lutosπawski; Mayuzumi; Penderecki String Quartet in Four Parts; String Quartet; Prelude for String Quartet; Quartetto per archi Lasalle Quartet 9187

Handel; Hasse; Veracini; Vivaldi ‘Passionate Baroque Arias’, inc.. Handel’s ‘Tu del ciel ministro eletto’, Hasse’s ‘Sinfonia to ‘Astarto’’, Veracini’s ‘Quel cor che mi donasti’ and Vivaldi’s ‘La speranza verdeggiando’ Bertagnolli; Ensemble Cordia/
Veggetti 94071

Liszt; Mussorgsky; Prokofiev; Rachmaninov; Schumann; Tchaikovsky ‘Byron Janis – The Legendary Concerto Recordings’, inc. Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, Prokofiev’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 26’ and Rachmaninov’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30’ Janis et al/Dorati; Kondrashin; Menges;; Rozhdestvensky; Skrowaczewski 9182 (four CDs)

Purcell Hail, bright Cecilia, Z328; My beloved spake, Z28 Hemington Jones; Wilson; Le Brocq; Daniels; Podger, J.; Pott; Purves; Harvey; Gabrieli Consort and Players/McCreesh 94068

Rodrigo ‘Complete Vocal Music’ Martínez; Masino; Rial; López; Guinovart; Rodes; Fresco; Vives; Solé; Coll; McLeod; Hill; Soto; Orfeón Terra a Nosa; Orquestra Real Filharmonía de Galicia/Marbà et al 9172 (six CDs + CD-ROM)

Vitali Varie Sonate alla Francese e all’Italiana a 6, Op. XI Cozzolino; Semperconsort 93976

Vivaldi ‘Concerti con organo obbligato’: Concerto in D minor, RV541; Concerto in F, RV542; Sonata in C, RV779; Concerto in C minor, RV766; Concerto in F, RV767; Concerto in C, RV554 Loreggian; L’Arte dell’Arco/Guglielmo 94059

British Music Society

Busch; Holbrooke; Wordsworth ‘British Music for Cello and Piano’, inc. Busch’s ‘Suite’ and ‘Elegy’, Holbrooke’s ‘Fantasie-Sonate, Op. 19’ and Wordsworth’s ‘Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 66’, ‘Nocturne, Op. 29’ and ‘Sonata for Violoncello, Op. 70’ Wallfisch, R.; Terroni MBS436CD

BSO Classics

Bach, J. S.; Bruckner; Copland; Lotti; Martin ‘Tanglewood Festival Chorus – 40th Anniversary’, inc. Bach’s ‘Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225’, Bruckner’s ‘Virga Jesse floruit’, Copland’s ‘In the Beginning’, Lotti’s ‘Crucifixus’ and Martin’s ‘Mass’ Blythe; Tanglewood Festival Chor/Oliver www.bso.org

Carter ‘Celebrating Carter’s Century – Highlights from the 2008 Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood’, inc. Syringa; Reflexions; Mad Regales; Sound Fields Fellows of Tanglewood Music Center et al/
Asbury; Wigglesworth; Oliver www.bso.org

C Major Entertainment

Bartók; Ravel; Stravinsky ‘Salzburg Opening Concert 2008’: Piano Concerto No. 1 in A, Sz83; Valses nobles et sentimentales; L’Oiseau du Feu Barenboim; Wiener Philharmoniker/Boulez (Salzburg, 2008) 702508 (DVD-V)

Verdi Aida (stage production: Graham Vick) Tamar; Paterson; Serjan; Pellizzari; Martirossian; Camerata Silesia; Polish Radio Ch; Bregenz Festival Chor; Wiener Symphoniker/Rizzi (Bregenz Festival, 2009) 702404 (Blu-ray disc)

Calliope

Berlioz; Dupoux; Franck; Gounod; Guilmant; Lefébure-Wély; Offenbach ‘Les Voix Célestes – Musique de salon du Second Empire’, inc. Berlioz’s ‘Marche hongroise’, Franck’s ‘Prélude, fugue et variation’, Guilmant’s ‘Ce que dit le silence’ and Lefébure-Wély’s ‘Méditation sur l’adagio de la Sonate Clair de lune’ Dupoux; Rottier; Moreau; Massé; Grizard; Auffret CAL9752

Chopin Nocturnes (complete); Berceuse in D flat, Op. 57 Amoyel CAL3351.2 (two CDs)

Saint-Saëns ‘Oeuvres pour Orgue’: Marche héroïque in E flat, Op. 34; Trois Préludes et Fugues, Op. 99 – No. 2 in D; No. 3 in F; Berceuse in E, Op. 105; La déluge, Op. 45 – Prélude, etc. Freyburger (1928 Joseph Rinckenbach organ of Église Paroissiale Saint-Etienne, Cernay) CAL9753

Calliope Hommage

Bach, J. S. Trio in D minor, BWV583; Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV541; Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV544; Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV545; Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV547; Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV548, ‘Wedge’ Isoir, A. CAL5712

Beethoven Piano Sonatas – No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, ‘Pathétique’; No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2, ‘Moonlight’; No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2, ‘Tempest’; No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, ‘Appassionata’ Sodergren CAL5683

Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61; Romances – No. 1 in G, Op. 40; No. 2 in F, Op. 50 Pasquier; St Petersburg PO; Baltic CO/Leducq-Barome CAL5358

Debussy Suite bergamasque; Nocturne in D flat; Pour le piano; Les Estampes; Six Épigraphes antiques Paraskivesco; Rouvier CAL5833

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35; Sérénade mélancolique, Op. 26; Valse-scherzo in C, Op. 34 Pasquier; St Petersburg PO; Baltic CO/Leducq-Barome CAL5375

Vivaldi Concertos – RV93 in D; RV395 in D minor; RV441 in C minor; RV532 in G; RV537 in C; RV540 in D minor Ensemble La Follia/Poiget CAL5273

Capriccio

Bargiel; Joachim; Schumann, C.; Schumann, R. ‘The Circle of Robert Schumann’, inc. Bargiel’s ‘Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 10’, Clara Schumann’s ‘Drei Romanzen, Op. 22’ and Robert Schumann’s ‘Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121’ Schaumann; Hammer C5040 (two Hybrid SACDs)

Chopin ‘The Great Performers – The Warsaw Recordings’: Live performances from the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Argerich; Pogorelich; Bunin; Harasiewicz; Pollini; Ashkenazy; Luisada; Jablinski et al C7039 (five CDs)

Dallapiccola ‘Piano Rarities’: Piccolo Concerto per Pianoforte e Orchestra da Camera; Sonatina Canonica su Capricci di Niccolo Paganini; Tre Episodi dal Balleto ‘Marsia’; Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera, etc. Massa; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorch Berlin/Hirsch C5045

Mussorgsky; Rachmaninov; Rimsky-Korsakov; Tchaikovsky ‘Slavonic Souls’, inc. Mussorgsky’s ‘The Nursery’, Rachmaninov’s ‘In the silence of the secret night, Op. 4 No. 3’, Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘The clouds begin to scatter, Op. 42 No. 3’ and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Amid the din of the ball, Op. 38 No. 3’ Kushpler, Z.; Kushpler, O. C5029

Schubert ‘The Schubert Album’: Piano Sonata No. 18 in G, D894; Six Moments musicaux, D780; Four Impromptus, D899 Barto C5028 (two CDs)

Carleton Sound

Branscombe; Cardy; Fleming; Keefer; Landry; Manning; Piper; Weinzweig; Willan ‘To Music – Canadian Song Cycles’, inc. Branscombe’s ‘Love in a Life’, Cardy’s ‘Autumn’, Keefer’s ‘Divertimenti’, Landry’s ‘Amour comme un oiseau captif’ and Weinzweig’s ‘Of Time and the World’ Procyshyn; Keillor CSCD-1013

Carus-Verlag

Bach, J. S.; Brahms; Schumann, C.; Schumann, R. ‘Hausmusik – Zu Gast bei Robert und Clara Schumann’, inc. Bach’s ‘O Ewigkeit du Donnerwort’, Brahms’s ‘Waldesnacht’ and Robert Schumann’s ‘Schön ist das Fest des Lenzes’, ‘Schön-Rohtraut’ and ‘Vom verwundeten Knaben’ Calmus Ensemble; Bräunlich CV83.447

Jolivet Épithalame; Madrigal; Missa ‘Uxor tua’ SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart; Mitglieder des Radio-Sinfonieorch Stuttgart des SWR/Creed CV83.445

Rheinberger ‘Missa e Motetti’: Mass in A minor, Op. 197; Four Motets, Op. 133; Five Motets, Op. 163; Five Hymns, Op. 107 KammmerChor Saarbrücken; Oster/Grün CV83.410

Rheinberger ‘Musica Sacra X – Ave Maria’: Salve Regina; Memorare; Ave Regina; Quam admirabile; Inclina Domine; Ave maris stella; Regina coeli; Alma redemptoris mater; Prope est Dominus; Ave Maria, etc. Teuscher; Müller; Markert; Payer; Johanssen CV83.431

Sandström Messiah Johannsen; Constantinescu; Fallon; Nagy; Festivalensemble Stuttgart/Rilling CV83.453 (two CDs)

Schumann Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, Op. 112 Prégardien; Richter; Dahmen; Süddeutscher Kammerchor; Gees/Jenemann CV83.450

Various composers ‘Wiegenlieder, Vol. 2’: Lullabies Mields; Gerhaher; Banse; Erdmann; Scholl et al CV83.002

Zelenka Missa Votiva, ZWV18 Lunn; Taylor; Kaleschke; Bauer; Kammerchor Stuttgart; Barockorch Stuttgart/Bernius CV83.223

CAvi-music

Scriabin Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-10 Ugorski AVI8553195 (two CDs)

Centaur Records

Clementi Piano Sonatas – Op. 26 No. 2 in F sharp minor; Op. 33 No. 3 in C; Op. 36 No. 1 in A; Op. 47 No. 2 in B flat Sang Mi Chung CRC3035

Cloud; Fabregas; Harberg; Laitman; Larsen; Leon ‘In Habitation – Musical Settings of Margaret Atwood Poetry by American Women Composers’, inc. Cloud’s ‘Night Dreams’, Harberg’s ‘Midnight Songs’ and Laitman’s ‘Orange Afternoon Lover’ Strempel; Beaudette CRC3002

Glinka; Hoddinott; Lipp; Munn; Weait ‘Arbitrio – Music for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano’, inc. Hoddinott’s ‘Masks – Five Theatre Abstracts, Op. 109’, Lipp’s ‘Twelve by Three’ and Munn’s ‘Seven Short Rhapsodies’ Arbitrio CRC3013

Mendelssohn Piano Trios – No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49; No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66 Mendelssohn Piano Trio CRC2925

Vorísek Piano Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 20, ‘quasi una fantasia’; Six Impromptus, Op. 7; Fantaisie in C, Op. 12; March in C; Stammbuchblatt Gross CRC3022

Challenge Classics

Albéniz ‘Evocación’: Mallorca, Op. 202; Cantos de España, Op. 232 – No. 2, Oriental; No. 3, Bajo la palerma; No. 4, Córdoba; Suite española, Op. 47 – No. 1, Granada; No. 3, Sevilla; No. 4, Cádiz; No. 7, Castillas, etc. Lieske Spindler Guitars CC72374 (two CDs)

Beethoven Symphonies – No. 4 in B flat, Op. 60; No. 6 in F, Op. 68, ‘Pastoral’ Netherlands SO/de Vriend CC72361 (Hybrid SACD)

Hummel, B.; Kilmayer; Meyer, K.; Regner; Theodorakis ‘Music for My Cello’, inc. Hummel’s ‘Fantasia I in G, Op. 77d’ and ‘Fantasia II in memoriam Pablo Casals, Op. 97a’, Meyer’s ‘Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 109’ and Regner’s ‘Abendlieder’ Berger CC72376

Schnittke; Schoenberg; Webern String Trio; String Trio, Op. 45 (inc. spoken introduction for the broadcast of the work in May 1949); String Trio, Op. 20; Movement for String Trio, Op. posth. Goeyvaerts String Trio CC72375

Chandos

Boccherini; Lagrène; Piazzolla; Scott, A. ‘Aquarelle Guitar Quartet – Dances’, inc. Boccherini’s ‘Introduction and Fandango’, Piazzolla’s ‘La Muerte del Ángel’ and Scott’s ‘Seven Dances on ‘No Looking Back’’ Aquarelle Guitar Quartet CHAN10609

Dove Tobias and the Angel Ebrahim; Nicholls; Abrahams; Laing; West; Brathwaite; Lucas; Clarke; The Young Vic/Abell CHAN10606

Leighton Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 57, ‘Concerto estivo’; Symphony No. 1, Op. 42 Shelley; BBC National Orch of Wales/Brabbins CHAN10608

Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E minor Residentie Orkest/Järvi, N. CHSA5079 (Hybrid SACD)

Martinu Cello Sonatas – No. 1, H277; No. 2, H286; Variations on a Slovak Theme, H378; Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H290 Watkins, P.; Watkins, H. CHAN10602

Chandos Chaconne

Haydn ‘The Heart of Invention’: Keyboard Trios – Hob. XV/24 in D; Hob. XV/26 in F sharp minor; Hob. XV/27 in C; Hob. XV/28 in E Trio Goya CHAN0771

Channel Classics

Bach, J. S. Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 Soloists; Netherlands Bach Society/van Veldhoven CCSSA30809 (two Hybrid SACDs)

Bach, J. S. St John Passion, BWV245 Soloists; Netherlands Bach Society/van Veldhoven CCSSA31309 (two Hybrid SACDs)

Berio; Ernst; Kreisler; Milstein; Paganini; Schnittke; Tárrega ‘Ning Feng – Solo’, inc. Berio’s ‘Sequenza VIII’, Ernst’s ‘Caprice, Op. 26’, Kreisler’s ‘Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice’, Milstein’s ‘Paganiniana Variations’, Paganini’s ‘Duet for One Violin in C’, Schnittke’s ‘À Paganini’ and Tárrega’s ‘Recuerdos de la Alhambra (transcr. Ricci)’ Ning Feng CCSSA31210 (Hybrid SACD)

Dvorák Slavonic Dances, B83 and B147 Budapest Festival Orch/Fischer, I. CCSSA90210 (Hybrid SACD)

Koffler; Regamey ‘Polish Masterpieces’: String Trio, Op. 10; Die Liebe, Op. 14; Quintet for Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin, Cello and Piano Hannigan; Ebony Band CCS31010

Chopin, Frederick, Institute

Chopin ‘Chamber Music’: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65; Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C, Op. 3; Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8 Broja; Bauer; Jakowicz NIFCCD013

Christophorus

Czerny Symphonies – No. 1 in C minor, Op. 780; No. 5 in E flat Brandenburgisches Staatsorch Frankfurt/Athinäos CHE01522

de Bériot; Loewe Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 58; Grand Trio in G, Op. 12 Göbel-Trio Berlin CHE1542

Mangold Abraham Cachemaille; Frimmer; Türk; Konzertchor und Philharmonisches Orch Darmstadt/Seeliger CHR77326 (two CDs)

Niedhart von Reuntal ‘Of Courtly Ladies and Country Bumpkins – Minnelieder of the 13th and 14th centuries’, inc. Sing ein guldein hun; Mann hort nicht mer süssen schal; Wie schöne wir den anger ligen sahen; Do der liebe sumer ensemble für frühe musik augsburg CHE77237

Palestrina ‘Sacred Madrigals’: Missa ‘Ave Regina coelorum’; Madrigali spirituali ‘Le Vergini’ ensemble officium/Rombach CHE77334

Rheinberger ‘Symphonische Werke’: Wallenstein, Op. 10; Ouvertüre zu Shakespeares Zähmung der Widerspenstigen, Op. 18; Fantasie für Orchester, Op. 79; Akademische Ouvertüre, Op. 195; Ouvertüre zu Schillers Demetrius, Op. 110, etc. Brandenburgisches Staatsorch Frankfurt/Athinäos CHE01532 (two CDs)

Various composers ‘Camino de Santiago-Villasirga-Montserrat – Mediaeval Music from Spanish Pilgrimages’, inc. works found in such sources as the Llibre Vermell, Codex Calixtinus and Codex Pantiatichi Spielleyt Early Music Freiburg CHE77330

Various composers ‘La Roman de la Rose – Love Songs to the Romance of the Rose, France (13th-14th century)’: Ballades, rondeaux and virelais Lutzenberger; Miller; Romain; Rumsey CHR77325

Claves Records

Beethoven ‘The Cello Sonatas’: Cello Sonatas – No. 1 in F, Op. 5 No. 1; No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2; No. 3 in A, Op. 69; No. 4 in C, Op. 102 No. 1;
No. 5 in D, Op. 102 No. 2 Singer; Pantillon CD50-2914/15 (two CDs)

Beethoven Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C, Op. 56; Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43 – excerpts Berolina Trio; Musikkollegium Winterthur/Boyd CD50-1001

Darbellay ‘Portrait’: Oyama for Large Orchestra; Azur for Horn Quartet; Shadows for Five Percussionists; Sozusagen for Oboe, Viola and Bassoon; Chant d’adieux for Violin and Viola; a quattro for Horn Quartet and Orchestra; Requiem for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra Kaufmann, J.; Vermillion; Genz, C.; Marquardt; Hartmann; Sannemüller; Leipziger Hornquartett; Leipziger Schlagzeugensemble; Ensemble Sortisatio; MDR Rundfunkchor und Sinfonieorch/Luisi CD50-2702/03 (two CDs)

CMC/Centrediscs

Archer; Kuzmenko; Louie ‘3 Concerti’: Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra; Piano Concerto; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Petrowska Quilico; CBC Vancouver Orch/Gardiner; Toronto SO/Saraste; National Arts Centre Orch/Pauk CMCCD15610

Concerto

Bassani La Tromba della Divina Misericordia (1676); Sonata a tre, Op. 5 No. 8 Bessi; Carzaniga; Borgonovo; Buratto; Ensemble Vocale Magnificat; Ensemble StilModerno Concerto2044

Bellinati; Cacciola; Colonna; Domeniconi; Fabbri; Morel; Myers; Piazzolla; Signorile; Starcevic; Towner; Ugoletti; York ‘String Emotions’, inc. Bellinati’s ‘Jongo’, Colonna’s ‘Aria Mediterranea No. 1’, Domeniconi’s ‘Koyunbaba’, Myers’s ‘Cavatina’, Signorile’s ‘Ninna Nanna a Donegal’, Starcevic’s ‘Asiana III’ and York’s ‘Sunburst’ Tampalini Concerto2055

Bottesini ‘Works for Double Bass and Piano’: Fantasia sulla ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ di Donizetti; Fantasia sulla ‘Beatrice di Tenda’ di Bellini; Romanza drammatica (Elegia), Op. 20; Capriccio di bravura; Rêverie, etc. Siragusa; Paruzzo Concerto2004

Cervantes Danzas Cubanas (complete) Cabassi Concerto2054

Haydn Sonatas for Violin and Fortepiano – Hob. XV/31 in E flat minor; Hob. XV/32 in G; Hob. XVa/1-3 Bologni; Modugno (1815 Schantz fortepiano) Concerto2048

Pizzetti Trio in la; Tre Canti; Aria – a Mario Corti; Colloquio; Aria – Augurio nuziale; Arietta Trio di Parma Concerto 2056

Steffani Sonate da Camera Taccagni; Quartetto Erasmus Concerto2038 (two CDs)

CPO

Davidoff; Tchaikovsky Cello Concertos – No. 3 in D, Op. 18; No. 4 in E minor, Op. 31; Pezzo capriccioso in B minor, Op. 62; Andante cantabile; Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. 19 No. 4 Yang; Shanghai SO/Mikkelsen 777 432-2

Gounod La Nonne sanglante Vassalli; Bergorulko; Baek; Atmanchuk; Kotzian; Färber; Schneidereit; Chor und Herrenextrachor des Theaters Osnabrück; Osnabrücker Symphonieorch/Bäumer 777388-2 (two CDs)

Gouvy Iphigénie en Tauride, Op. 7 Maschler; Abele; Hulett; Haab; Kantorei Saarlouis; La Grande Société Philharmonique/Fontaine 777 504-2 (two CDs)

Langgaard; Nielsen At the funeral of Axel Gade; Wedding March; Harvest Prelude; 29 Short Preludes, FS136; Two Preludes, FS137; Commotio, FS155; Melody, etc. Flamme (organ of Stiftskirche zu Bad Gandersheim) 777 414-2 (Hybrid SACD)

Legrenzi; Leopold I; Schmelzer; Valentini et al ‘Works for Viola da gamba Consort’, inc. Legrenzi’s ‘Sonata in E minor’, Schmelzer’s ‘Del silentio notturno’ and Valentini’s ‘Sonata Enharmonica’ and ‘In te Domine speravi’ Mertens; Hamburger Ratsmusik/Eckert 777 451-2

Zeller Der Obersteiger Bürgi; Zink; Müller-Lorenz; Ellen; Berchtold et al; Chor und Orch des Musiktheaters Schönbrunn/Mogg 777 549-2 (two CDs)

Crystal Records

Reicha ‘Woodwind Quintets, Vol. 3’: Woodwind Quintets, Op. 88 Nos. 5 and 6 Westwood Wind Quintet CD263

CSO Resound

Strauss, R.; Webern Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40; Im Sommerwind Chicago SO/Haitink (Chicago, 2008; 2009) CSOR9011002 (CD); CSOR9011004 (Hybrid SACD)

Cypres

Berlioz; Debussy; Mozart; Mussorgsky; Offenbach; Rossini; Strauss, R.; Verdi; Wagner ‘José van Dam – 30 Years at La Monnaie/De Munt’, inc. arias from ‘La Damnation de Faust’, ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’, ‘Don Giovanni’, ‘Boris Godunov’, ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’, ‘Il Turco in Italia’, ‘Salome’, ‘Simon Boccanegra’ and ‘Parsifal’ van Dam; Choeur et Orch Symphonique de La Monnaie/
De Munt et al CYP8603 (two CDs)

Haydn ‘Für Marianne – Arianna a Naxos/Works for Keyboard (1789-1793)’: Arianna a Naxos, Hob. XXVIb/2; Keyboard Sonatas – No. 58 in C, Hob. XVI/48; No. 59 in E flat, Hob. XVI/49; Fantasia in C, Hob. XVII/4; Andante con variazioni in F minor, Hob. XVII/6 Devos; Blondeel CYP1660

Cypress String Quartet

Beethoven ‘Late Quartets, Vol. 2’: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Op. 130; Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op. 133 Cypress String Quartet www.cypressquartet.com

Dabringhaus und Grimm

Beethoven Piano Sonatas – No. 30 in E, Op. 109; No. 31 in A flat, Op. 110; No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 Leonskaja MDG943 1622-6 (Hybrid SACD)

Boccherini; Galuppi; Locatelli; Mancini; Vivaldi ‘Giro d’Italia’: Concertos and Chamber Music Musica Alta Ripa MDG309 1617-2

Bowdery; Furukawa; Ligeti; Stäbler ‘Player Piano 10 – Original Compositions and Transcriptions in the Tradition of Nancarrow, Vol. 2’ (Bosendorfer Grand Piano and Fischer Grand Piano with Ampico Player Piano Machanism) MDG645 1410-2

Glass, P. ‘How Now’: Music in Fifth; How Now; Music in Similar Motion Schleiermacher MDG613 1600-2

Graupner ‘Orchestral Works, Vol. 3’: Overture, GWV447; Canon, GWV218; Sonatas – GWV707; GWV711 Nova Stravaganza/Rampe MDG341 1628-2

Laitenberger ‘Organ Works’ Sieling; Talirz; Mariani MDG606 1630-2

Pachelbel ‘Clavier Music, Vol. 2’ Raml MDG614 1553-2

Schmidt Symphony No. 4; Intermezzo from ‘Notre Dame’ Beethovenorch Bonn/Blunier MDG937 1631-6 (Hybrid SACD)

Various composers ‘Organ Landscape’: Organs of Danzig and West Prussia Janca MDG319 0274-2

Dal Segno

Chopin; Henselt; Gottschalk; Liszt ‘Masters of the Piano Rolls – The Great Pianists, Vol. 12: Arthur Friedheim’, inc. Liszt’s ‘Harmonies du Soir, S139 No. 11’ and several Hungarian Rhapsodies Friedheim DSPRCD052

Elgar; Gurney; Howells ‘English Piano Music’: Nine Preludes; Two Nocturnes; Allegro, Op. 46; In Smyrna; Adieu; Three Pieces, Op. 14, etc. Gravill; Filsell DSPRCD059

Vivaldi ‘Four Seasons’: Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, Op. 8 – Nos. 1-4, ‘Quattro Stagione’; La Stravaganza, Op. 4 – No. 3 in G; No. 4 in A minor; No. 10 in C minor La Stravaganza Köln/Manze DSPRCD058

Danacord Records

Bruun; Frounberg; Gudmundsen-Holmgreen; Hadziselimovic; Hegaard; Nørgård; Nørholm; Sørensen, B. ‘Everyone Loves the Spring – New Danish Songs’, inc. Frounberg’s ‘Four Existential Songs’, Hegaard’s ‘Three Aspects of Darkness’ and B. Sørensen’s ‘Triptykon’ Lund; Lützhøft; Sørensen, M.; Leedo; Rastogi DACOCD684

Decca Classics

Bach, J. S. Six Partitas, BWV825-30 Ashkenazy 478 2163 (two CDs)

Beethoven Violin Sonatas – No. 9 in A, Op. 47, ‘Kreutzer’; No. 10 in G, Op. 96 Dusinberre; Korevaar 476 3898

Bizet Carmen Domashenko; Bocelli; Terfel; Mei et al; Orch Philharmonique de Radio France/Chung 475 7646 (two CDs)

Giordano Andrea Chénier Bocelli; Urmana; Gallo et al; Coro e Orch Sinfonica di Milano ‘Giuseppe Verdi’/Armiliato 478 2382 (two CDs)

Handel; Jenkins; Marcello, A.; Mozart ‘Danielle De Niese – Diva’, inc. Handel’s ‘O numi eterni, HWV145, ‘La Lucrezia’’ and arias from ‘Rinaldo’, ‘Giulio Cesare’ and ‘Semele’, Marcello’s ‘Pace non trovo’ and Mozart’s ‘Exsultate, jubilate, K165/K158a’ De Niese et al 478 2417

Mozart Piano Concertos – No. 24 in C minor, K491; No. 25 in C, K503; No. 26 in D, K537, ‘Coronation’; No. 27 in B flat, K595 de Larrocha; Chamber Orch of Europe; LPO/Solti (1985, 1977, 1985, 1977) 478 2420 (two CDs)

Mozart; Strauss, R. ‘Kiri te Kanawa Sings … ’, inc. arias from ‘Le nozze di Figaro’, ‘Zaïde’, ‘La Finta Giardiniera’, ‘Così fan tutte’, ‘Il re pastore’, ‘Lucio Silla’, ‘Idomeneo’, ‘Die Zauberflöte’, ‘Der Schauspieldirektor’, ‘Arabella’ and ‘Capriccio’ te Kanawa et al 478 2352 (two CDs)

Various composers ‘The Original Three Tenors – 20th Anniversary Special Edition’: The original concert held on July 7th 1990 at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy, on the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup final Carreras; Domingo; Pavarotti et al/Mehta (Rome, 1990) 273 8173

Déjà-vu, Recording Arts

Bizet; Donizetti; Leoncavallo; Mascagni; Massenet; Ponchielli; Puccini; Riese; Schubert; Verdi ‘Cantare Opera/How to Sing Opera – Il Tenore/
The Tenor’: The masterclass in opera for all karaoke fans! Antognetti; Orch dell’Opera di Milano/Zuppini DEJ5046 (four CDs + CD-ROM)

Delos Music

Albinoni; Fasch; Fiorillo; Garnier; Handel; Vivaldi ‘oboe celebrations – music to lift the SPIRITS and set the imagination DANCING’, inc. Fiorillo’s ‘Sinfonia concertante for Two Oboes in F’ and Garnier’s ‘Simphonie Concertante’ Gullickson; Weiger; Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orch/
Polivnik DE3400

Bach, J. S. Partita for Solo Flute in A minor, BWV1013; Sonatas for Flute and Keyboard – BWV1020 in G minor; BWV1030 in B minor; BWV1031 in E flat; BWV1032 in A Smith; Vinikour DE3402

Bach, J. S.; Gregoriadou; José; Kertsopoulos; Scarlatti, D. ‘Smaro Gregoriadou – reinventing guitar!’, inc. Bach’s ‘Lute Suite in G minor, BWV995’, Gregoriadou’s ‘Balkan Dances’, José’s ‘Sonata para guitarra’ and Kertsopoulos’s ‘Some Colour’s Rhythms’ Gregoriadou DE3398

Borodin; Cui; Dargomïzhsky; Glinka; Medtner; Rachmaninov; Rimsky-Korsakov; Sviridov; Tchaikovsky; Vlasov ‘Dmitri Hvorostovsky – Pushkin Romances’, inc. Cui’s ‘The Statue of Tsarkoye Selo, Op. 57 No. 17’, Medtner’s ‘Gone Are My Heart’s Desires, Op. 3 No. 2’, Sviridov’s ‘The Crimson Forest Sheds its Attire’ and Vlasov’s ‘To the Fountain of the Bakhchisarai Palace’ Hvorostovsky; Ilja DE3392

Gershwin; Iturralde; Piazzolla; Troilo Rhapsody in Blue; Rialto Ripples Rag; Suite Hellénique; Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas; Silfos y Ondina – Fugata; Contrabajeando Mazzoni; Zannini; Italian Saxophone Quartet DE3387

Shostakovich ‘Shostakovich Film Series, Vol. 1’: The Young Guard – Suite, Op. 75a; Zoya – Suite, Op. 64a Minsk Chamber Ch; Byelorussian Radio and TV SO/Mnatsakanov DRD2001

Shostakovich ‘Shostakovich Film Series, Vol. 2’: Alone, Op. 26 Byelorussian Radio and TV SO/Mnatsakanov DRD2002

Verdi ‘Sondra Radvanovsky – Verdi Arias’, inc. arias from ‘Il trovatore’, ‘Un ballo in maschera’, ‘Il Corsaro’, ‘La forza del destino’, ‘Ernani’, ‘Aida’ and ‘I Vespri Siciliani’ Radvanovsky; Philharmonia of Russia/
Orbelian DE3404

Delphian Records

Abell, J.; Burnett; McNab; Oswald; Roberts; Schetky; Thumoth et al ‘Concerto Caledonia – Late Night Sessions: Live at the Edinburgh International Festival’ Carthy; Marra; Roberts; Fuge; Concerto Caledonia/McGuinness DCD34093

Bartók; Farkas; Hudec; Sayers; Tucapsky ‘Bohemian Rhapsodies’, inc. Farkas’s ‘Scenes from Hungary’, Hudec’s ‘Rapsodia per Quattro’, Sayers’s ‘Raisins and Almonds’ and Tucapsky’s ‘A Little Afternoon Music’ Fell Clarinet Quartet DCD34083

Deutsche Grammophon

Beethoven; Brahms; Debussy; Ravel; Schumann; Tchaikovsky ‘Giulini in America: Los Angeles Philharmonic’ Los Angles PO/Giulini 477 8840 (six CDs)

Beethoven; Brahms; Mozart; Strauss, J. II; Strauss, R. et al ‘Carlos Kleiber – Complete Opera and Concert DVDs on Deutsche Grammophon’, inc. the New Year’s Concerts for 1989 and 1992, and complete performances of ‘Die Fledermaus’ from Munich and ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ from both Munich and Vienna (all three in productions by Otto Schenk) Kleiber et al 073 4605 (ten DVD-Vs)

Brahms Violin Sonatas – No.1 in G, Op. 78; No.2 in A, Op. 100; No 3 in D minor, Op. 108; Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 Mutter; Orkis 073 4317 (DVD-V)

Holst; Lanner; Liszt; Nicolai; Strauss, Josef; Williams et al ‘Summer Night Concert, Schönbrunn 2010 – Moon, Planets, Stars’, inc. Lanner’s ‘Abendsterne’, Liszt’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S125’, Josef Strauss’s ‘Sphärenklänge’ and John Williams’s music for ‘Star Wars’ Bronfman; Wiener Philharmoniker/Welser-Möst 476 3793 (CD); 076 2776 (DVD-V)

Mahler ‘Bernstein’s Mahler’: Excerpts from Symphonies Nos. 1-9 Baker; LSO/Bernstein; Ludwig; Moser; Blegen; Zeumer; Mayr; Baltsa; Riegel; Prey; van Dam; Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor; Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wien; Wiener Sängerknaben; Wiener Philharmoniker/Bernstein 073 4589 (two DVD-Vs)

Mahler ‘Recomposed by Matthew Herbert’: Symphony No. 10 in F sharp minor Herbert; Philharmonia Orch/Sinopoli 273 4438

Revueltas; Stravinsky La Noche de los Mayas; Le Sacre du Printemps Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela/Dudamel 477 8775

Wagner Wesendock-Lieder; Preludes and Overtures for ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’, ‘Rienzi’, ‘Das Liebesverbot’, ‘Lohengrin’, ‘Tristan und Isolde’ and ‘Die Walküre’ Brueggergosman; Cleveland Orch/Welser-Möst 477 8773

DG – Collectors’ Edition

Beethoven; Brahms; Schubert; Strauss, J. II; Verdi; Wagner; Weber ‘Carlos Kleiber – The Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon’, inc. complete recordings of Strauss’s ‘Die Fledermaus’, Verdi’s ‘La traviata’, Wagner’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’ and Weber’s ‘Der Freischütz’ Varady; Popp; Prey; Rebroff; Cotrubas; Domingo; Milnes; Price; Kollo; Fassbaender; Fischer-Dieskau; Janowitz; Mathis; Schreier; Adam; Rundfunkchor Leipzig; Staatskapelle Dresden; Bayerischer Staatsopernchor; Bayerisches Staatsorch; Wiener Philharmoniker/Kleiber 477 8826 (12 CDs)

Divine Art

Jeffreys ‘Idylls and Elegies – Music by John Jeffreys’: Serenade for Strings; Toby’s Dream and Elegy; Sweeney the Mad; A Lyke Wake Dirge; Elegy for John Fry; Poem for End; Elegy for a Conductor; Bickleigh Idyll Veira; Katz; Smith; Crowther; Orch Da Camera/Page; Philharmonia Orch/Bateman dda25082

Documents

Bach, J. S.; Beethoven; Debussy; Mozart; Ravel; Scarlatti, D.; Schubert; Schumann ‘Clara Haskil’, inc. Beethoven’s ‘Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111’, Mozart’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K459’, Ravel’s ‘Sonatine’, Schubert’s ‘Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat, D960’ and Schumann’s ‘Kinderszenen, Op. 15’ Haskil et al 232868 (ten CDs)

Beethoven; Mozart ‘Friedrich Gulda’: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, ‘Appassionata’; Piano Concertos – No. 25 in C, K503; No. 26 in D, K537 Gulda (1957); Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonieorch/Rossi (1957); New SO/Collins (1955) 232750 (two CDs)

Brahms ‘Johannes Brahms’: Symphonies; Concertos; Hungarian Dances; Chamber Works; Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 Various artists 233016 (ten CDs)

Debussy ‘Claude Debussy’: La mer; Nocturnes; Six épigraphes antiques (orch. Ansermet); Fantaisie; Le martyre de Saint Sébastien; Préludes; Pour le piano; Suite bergamasque; String Quartet in G minor; Ariettes oubliées; Trois chansons de Bilitis, etc. Various artists 232867 (ten CDs)

Monteverdi L’Orfeo Krebs; Mack-Cosack; Günter; Guilleaume; Deroubaix; Michaelis; Wunderlich et al; Chor der Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Hamburg; Orch der Sommerlichen Musiktagen Hitzacker/Wenzinger (1955) 232916 (two CDs)

Mozart; Offenbach; Puccini; Strauss, R.; Tchaikovsky; Verdi; Wagner et al ‘Solti – Der Operndirigent’ Solti et al 233013 (ten CDs)

Rachmaninov ‘Sergey Rachmaninov’: Orchestral Works; Piano Concertos; Piano Works; Aleko Various artists 233018 (ten CDs)

Ravel ‘Maurice Ravel’: Boléro; Rapsodie Espagnole; La valse; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Le Tombeau de Couperin; Gaspard de la nuit; String Quartet in F; Piano Trio in A minor; Histoires naturelles; L’Enfant et les sortilèges, etc. Various artists 233017 (ten CDs)

Shostakovich ‘Dmitry Shostakovich’: Symphonies; Concertos; Chamber Music; Piano Works, etc. Various artists 233019 (ten CDs)

Stravinsky ‘Igor Stravinsky’: Orchestral Works; Violin Concerto; Oedipus Rex; The Rake’s Progress, etc. Various artists 233020 (ten CDs)

Doremi

Bartók; Chopin; Khachaturian; Mendelssohn; Ravel; Smetana; Vladigerov ‘Emil Gilels Legacy, Vol. 8’, inc. Chopin’s ‘Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23’ and ‘Variations on ‘Là ci darem’ in B flat, Op. 2’, Khachaturian’s ‘Piano Sonata’ and Ravel’s ‘Valses nobles et sentimentales’ Gilels (1950-63) DHR-7920

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, ‘Choral’ Lorengar; Höffgen; Traxel; Wiener; Orch National de l’O.R.T.F./Horenstein (Paris, 1963) DHR-7960 (DVD-V)

Beethoven; Mozart ‘Johanna Martzy, Vol. 2’: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61; Violin Sonata in B flat, K454 Martzy; Antonietti (1954); Orch del Radio Svizzera-Italiana/Nussio (1955) DHR-7778

Offenbach; Saint-Saëns; Tchaikovsky ‘Ofra Harnoy’: Cello militaire in G; Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33; Variatons on a Rococo Theme in A, Op. 33 Harnoy DHR-6607

Shostakovich; Tchaikovsky ‘Tatiana Nikolayeva’: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87; Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Nikolayeva (1962); Gewandhausorch Leipzig/Masur (Leipzig, 1990) DHR-7991-3 (two CDs + DVD-V)

Dorian Recordings

Bernstein; Chausson; Copland; Harris; Ibert; Prokofiev; Respighi; Shostakovich; Stravinsky ‘Dallas Symphony Orchestra – The Eduardo Mata Years’, inc. Bernstein’s ‘On the Waterfront’, Copland’s ‘Billy the Kid’, Ibert’s ‘Divertissement’, Respighi’s ‘Impressioni brasiliane’ and Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’ Dallas SO/Mata (1991-93) DSL-92109 (six CDs)

McFarlane ‘One Morning’: Borderland; Man of Arms; A Day in November; Union Bridge; Dakota Days; On the Heath; Lullaby for Anne; One Morning, etc. McFarlane; Ayreheart DSL-92111

Dutton Vocalion

Bernstein; Bixio; de Curtis; Gastaldon; Lehár; Romberg et al ‘Mantovani and Mario Del Monaco – A Song for You’, inc. Bernstein’s ‘Tonight’, de Curtis’s ‘Voglio tanto bene’ and Lehár’s ‘The White Dove’ Del Monaco; Mantovani and His Orchestra CDLF8145

Coates, E.; Sullivan ‘Charles Mackerras Conducts … ’: The Merrymakers Overture; The Man from the Sea; Oxford Street; The Three Bears (A Phantasy); By the Sleepy Lagoon, etc.; Overtures for ‘The Mikado’, ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’, ‘Iolanthe’ and ‘Ruddigore’ LSO; Philharmonia Orch/Mackerras CDVS1964

Di Capua; Denza; Dinicu; Klein; Mancini; Strauss, J. II; Tchaikovsky et al ‘Mantovani Presents His Concert Successes’, inc. Di Capua’s ‘O Sole Mio’, Dinicu’s ‘Hora Staccato’, Krein’s ‘Gypsy Carnival’ and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Capriccio Italien, Op. 45’ Mantovani and His Orchestra CDLF8147

Dux

Baculewski ‘Works for Orchestra’: Ground; A Walking Shadow; Concerto for Orchestra; ‘Les Adieux’ for Alto Solo and String Orchestra with Harp Rappé; Symphony Orch of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic/Bywalec DUX0725

Beethoven; Haydn; Mozart String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in G, Hob. III/81 (Op. 77 No. 1); String Quartet in C, K465, ‘Dissonance’ Royal String Quartet DUX0345

Moniuszko ‘Songs’: excerpts from ‘Home Songbooks’ Rappé; Nosowska DUX0743

Ratusinska Concerto for Cello and Orchestra; Sinfonietta for String Orchestra; Gasherbrum for Small Symphony Orchestra; Divertimenti per archi; Symphony for Large Symphony Orchestra Strahl; Silesian Philharmonic SO/Bπaszczyk DUX0723

Zamusko Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra; Divertimento in memoriam W. A. M. for String Orchestra; Nasha Shkhapa; A European in Mexico for Flute Solo and String Orchestra; Concerto for Viola and Symphony Orchestra Pachlewski; Werecka; Wilczak-Pπaziuk; Igras-Sawicka; Silesian Philharmonic SO/Bπaszczyk DUX0724

Dynamic

Donizetti Linda di Chamounix Cullagh; Iuliano; Chialli; Altomare; Fratelli; Leoni; Del Savio et al; Coro e Orch del Bergamo Musica Festival ‘Gaetano Donizetti’/Vito CDS652/1-3 (three CDs)

Handel Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV72 (stage direction: Davide Livermore) Mingardo; Abete; Rosique; Orch Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchini/Florio (Turin, 2009) 33645

Monteverdi ‘Vespro e Missa della Beata Vergine (1610)’: Vesperae Beatae Mariae Virginis (in Festo Assumptionis); Missa in Illo Tempore (in Festo Sanctae Barbarae) Coro ‘Dei soli gloria’; Gruppo Vocale ‘Laurence Feininger’; Ensemble Concerto; Ensemble La Pifarescha; Concerto Palatino/Gini CDS656/1-3 (three CDs)

Eloquentia

Bach, J. S. Six Suites for Solo Cello, BWV1007-12 Piovano EL1021 (two CDs)

EMI Classics

Allegri; Barber; Eccard; Guerrero; Holst; Lassus; Palestrina; Pärt; Philips; Poulenc; Stanford; Tavener ‘A Year at King’s’: A tour of the ecclesiastical year from Advent through to Ascension, inc. Allegri’s ‘Miserere’, Barber’s ‘Agnus Dei’ and Tavener’s ‘Away in a Manger’ King’s College Ch, Cambridge/Cleobury 609 0042

Jenkins Gloria; Te Deum Westenra; National Youth Ch of Great Britain; LSO/Jenkins 6 46430-2

Mozart Piano Concertos – No. 20 in D minor, K466; No. 27 in B flat, K595 Kissin; Kremerata Baltica 6 26645-2

EMI Classics 20th Century Classics

Holst The Planets, H125; Egdon Heath, H172; The Perfect Fool, H150; Brook Green Suite, H190; St Paul’s Suite, H118; A Choral Fantasia, H177; Hymns from the ‘Rig Veda’, H97 Baker; Partridge, I. et al/Boult; Previn; Del Mar; Holst, I. 6 27898-2 (two CDs)

Khachaturian Piano Concerto in D flat; Violin Concerto in D minor; Gayaneh – Suite; Masquerade – Suite; Spartacus – Suite Ortiz; Oistrakh, D.; LPO/Boult; LSO/Khachaturian 6 27890-2 (two CDs)

Ligeti String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2; Lux Aeterna; Ramifications; Six Bagatelles; Choral Works Artemis Quartet; Groupe Vocal de France; Reibel et al 6 27905-2 (two CDs)

Schreker et al Chamber Symphony; Romantic Suite; Opera Preludes and Arias, etc. Hampson; Fischer-Dieskau; Münchner Rundfunkorch/Welser-Möst; Camerata Academica Salzburg/Luisi 6 27973-2 (two CDs)

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’; Flos Campi; The Wasps; Serenade to Music; Songs of Travel; Wenlock Edge Chang; Partridge, I.; Rolfe Johnson et al/Barbirolli; Boult; Haitink; Handley 6 27910-2 (two CDs)

EMI Classics Essentials

Handel ‘Essential Handel’ Various artists 6 27915-2 (two CDs)

Various composers ‘Essential Opera’ Various artists 6 27920-2 (two CDs)

Various composers ‘Essential Piano’ Various artists 6 27925-2 (two CDs)

Various composers ‘Essential Relaxing’ Various artists 6 27930-2 (two CDs)

Various composers ‘Essential Wedding’ Various artists 6 27937-2 (two CDs)

EPR-Classic

Bach, J. S. Goldberg Variations, BWV988 Steens EPRC007

Handel Sonatas for Flute and Basso continuo – HWV359b in E minor; HWV363b in G; HWV367b in B minor; HWV374 in A minor; HWV375 in E minor; HWV376 in D minor; Preludes for Keyboard – HWV561 in D minor; HWV570 in F sharp minor; HWV573 in G minor; HWV574 in G minor de Winne; Testori; Ghielmi EPRC006

Eroica Classical Recordings

Fauré; Goldmark; Kreisler; Wieniawski; Ysaÿe ‘Romantic and Virtuoso Works’, inc. Fauré’s ‘Violin Sonata No. 1 in A, Op. 13’, Kreisler’s ‘Recitativo and Scherzo, Op. 6’, Wieniawski’s ‘Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 15’ and Ysaÿe’s ‘Rêve d’Enfant, Op. 14’ Zynszajn; Pakhomov JDT3446

Et’Cetera

Escher; Pijper; Smit; Sweelinck ‘The Dutch Connection’ Hexagon Ensemble KTC1407

Schubert ‘Works for Fortepiano, Vol. VI’, inc. Piano Sonatas – No. 5 in A flat, D557; No. 17 in D, D850; Adagio in E, D612 Vermeulen (1826 Nannette Streicher fortepiano) KTC1335 (two CDs)

Wijdeveld ‘Lieder and Chamber Music’ Hartsuiker; Bronkhorst et aal KTC1417

EuroArts

Mahler; Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D; Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 26 Yuja Wang; Lucerne Festival Orch/Abbado (Lucerne, 2009) 2057698 (DVD-V)

Prokofiev; Ravel; Shostakovich ‘Nobel Prize Concert, 2009’: Romeo and Juliet – Suite No. 1, Op. 64bis; Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter; Piano Concerto in G; Festive Overture, Op. 96 Argerich; Royal Stockholm PO/Temirkanov (Stockholm, 2009) 2057898 (DVD-V)

Rachmaninov; Stravinsky; Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30; Le Sacre du Printemps; Nutcracker, Op. 71 Bronfman; Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle (Waldbühne Berlin, 2009) 2057754 (Blu-ray disc)

Ravel; Strauss, R. Piano Concerto in G; Metamorphosen, AV142; Der Bürger als Edelmann, Op. 60 Grimaud; Chamber Orch of Europe/Jurowski (Paris, 2009) 3078738 (DVD-V)

Various composers ‘Piotr Anderszewski – Unquiet Traveller’: A film by Bruno Monsaingeon Anderszewski 3077934 (Blu-ray disc)

Fab Four

Bach, J. S.; Beethoven; Berg; Schoenberg; Webern ‘Glenn Gould’, inc. Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations, BWV988’ and ‘Sinfonien, BWV 787-801’, Beethoven’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37’, Berg’s ‘Piano Sonata, Op. 1’, Schoenberg’s ‘Suite, Op. 25’ and Webern’s ‘Variations, Op. 27’ Gould; CBC SO/Beaudet 232845 (four CDs)

Bernstein; Brahms; Dvorák; Schumann; Stravinsky; Tchaikovsky ‘Leonard Bernstein’, inc. Brahms’s ‘Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98’, Dvorák’s ‘Symphony No. 9 in E minor, B178, ‘From the New World’’, Stravinsky’s ‘L’Histoire du Soldat’ and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, ‘Pathétique’’ New York Stadium SO; Boston SO/Bernstein 232847 (four CDs)

Farao Classics

Beethoven Missa solemnis in D, Op. 123 Bernhard; Vondung; Breslik; Speer; Kammerchor und Orch der KlangVerwaltung/zu Guttenberg B108053 (CD); A108054 (pure audio Blu-ray disc)

Fine Music

Kälberer ‘between the horizon’: apertura; between the horizon; taratibu; thassa; grünes licht; cruz; favola; klang farben muster; serenity; kleiner traum Kälberer FM148-2

Formations Musicales de RF

Bruckner Mass No. 2 in E minor; Locus iste; Os justi; Ave Maria; Christus factus est; Vexilla regis; Pange lingua; Virga Jesse Choeur et Orch Philharmonique de Radio France/Balatsch (Paris, 2000) FRF006

Forum

Oginski, M. K.; Oginski, X.; Ostaszewski, K.; Ostaszewski, W.; Zaπuska, A.; Zaπuski, I.; Zaπuski, K. B. ‘The World of Oginski – Music of the Oginski Dynasty’ Camerata Klaip∆da, Lithuania; Molodeczno Instrumental Octet, Belarus; Accordeon Trio of the Biaπystok Schools of Music, Poland FRC6140

Fuga Libera

Brahms; Schubert; Ysaÿe Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108; Violin Sonata in A, D574, ‘Grand Duo’; Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 27 No. 3, ‘Ballade’ Garnetz; Bercu FUG567

Mozart ‘Complete Works for String Trio’: Six Preludes and Fugues, K404a; Divertimento in E flat, K563 TrioFenix FUG569 (two CDs)

Mussorgsky ‘Complete Piano Works’: Impromptu passionné; Intermezzo in modo classico; Souvenirs d’enfance; La Capricieuse; Pictures at an Exhibition; Méditation; Une Larme; Au village, etc. Ader FUG566 (two CDs)

Wolf Mörike Lieder Henschel; Schwinghammer FUG568 (two CDs)

Gala Records

Handel Samson, HWV57 Vickers; Sutherland; Carlyle et al; Chor and Orch of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Leppard (London, 1959) GL100813

GB Records

Bryars ‘Madrigals, Vol. 1 – Al suon dell’acque scriva’: Second Book of Madrigals; Se ’l sasso, ‘Marconi’s Madrigal’; Fourth Book of Madrigals – A qualunque animale Vox Àltera Ensemble/Pascucci BCGBCD16

Genuin

Bartók; Beethoven; Britten; Chopin; Mozart ‘Klaviermusik’: Out of Doors, Sz81; Piano Sonata No. 28 in A, Op. 101; Night Piece (Notturno); Four Mazurkas, Op. 33; Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53; Fantasia in C minor, K475 Gorlatch GEN10174

Bartók; Haydn String Quartet No. 4, Sz91; String Quartets – Hob. III/57 in C (Op. 54 No. 2); Hob. III/81 in G (Op. 77 No. 1) Quartetto di Cremona GEN10172

Beethoven; Lutosπawski; Miaskovsky; Strauss, R. ‘Works for Cello and Piano’: Cello Sonata No. 5 in D, Op. 102 No. 2; Grave – Metamorphosis; Cello Sonata No. 1 in D, Op. 12; Cello Sonata in F, Op. 6 Duo Staemmler GEN10168

Gade; Pierné; Prokofiev ‘Grand Sonatas for Flute’: Flute Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 21; Flute Sonata, Op. 36; Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94 Heinzmann; Blumina GEN10173

Schumann, R. ‘Klavierstücke für die Jugend’: Album für die Jugend, Op. 68/
WoO16/WoO30; Drei Clavier-Sonaten für die Jugend, Op. 118; Andante and Variations in B flat, Op. 46, etc. Koch GEN10170 (two CDs)

Globe Records

Bach, W. F.; Benda; Pergolesi; Vivaldi ‘Smart had Moeders Hart Bevangen’: Sinfonia in D minor, F65; Concerto for Flute and Strings in E minor; Stabat mater; Sinfonia in B minor, RV169, ‘al Santo Sepolcro’ van Veldhoven, K.; Meijers; Root; De Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht/Leertouwer GLO5238

Glossa Music

Caldara Il pùo bel nome Espada; Andueza; Kielland; Blaze; Prunell-Friend; El Concierto Español/Moreno GCD920310 (two CDs)

Handel ‘Le Cantate Italiane, Vol. VII – Apollo e Dafne’: Apollo e Dafne, HWV122; Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV110; Cuopre tal volta il cielo, HWV98 Invernizzi; Bauer; Zanasi; La Risonanza/Bonizzoni GCD921527

Monteverdi L’Orfeo La Veneziana/Cavina GCD920913 (two CDs)

Gramola

Beethoven; Chopin; Prokofiev; Schumann, R. Piano Sonata No. 7 in D, Op. 10 No. 3; Ballade No. 3 in A flat, Op. 47; Kreisleriana, Op. 16; Waltz from the opera ‘War and Peace’, Op. 96 No. 1 Vavic GRAM98889

Mahler; Nono; Schoenberg; Webern ‘Far Did I Fly’, inc. Mahler’s ‘Rheinlegendchen’, Nono’s ‘Y su sangre ya viene cantando’, Schoenberg’s ‘Ein Stelldichein’ and Webern’s ‘Vier Lieder, Op. 12’ Raimondi, I.; Comas; Wölbern; Junge Philharmonie Wien/Lessky GRAM98891

Hänssler Classic

Abert; Beck; Hummel; Kelemen; Pachelbel ‘Stuttgart Compositions’, inc. Beck’s ‘Symphony in D minor, Op. 3 No. 5 (Callen 17)’, Kelemen’s ‘Stuttgart Imaginations’ and Pachelbel’s ‘Canon and Gigue in D’ Stuttgarter Kammerorch/Hofstetter CD98.610

Allison; Byrd; Cutting; Dowland; Holborne; Johnson; Lushier; Robinson; Rosseter ‘Merry Melancholy – English Lute Music of the 16th Century’ Held CD98.600

Bach, J. S. ‘Lob- und Dankkantaten’: Cantatas Nos. 10, 16, 17, 29, 33, 51, 69, 76, 79, 80, 84, 117, 119, 120, 129, 130, 137, 167 and 192 Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart; Bach-Collegium-Stuttgart/Rilling CD98.615 (six CDs)

Bax; Bridge; Britten ‘Cello Sonatas’: Legend-Sonata; Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 125; Cello Sonata in C, Op. 65 Moser; Rivinius CD93.257

Schumann ‘Sämtliche Werke für Violine und Orchester’: Phantasie in C, Op. 131; Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO23; Violin Concerto (after Cello Concerto) in A minor, Op. 129 Neudauer; Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern/González CD93.258

Schumann, R. ‘Schumann and the Sonata, Vol. 1’: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14 (revised version); Concert sans orchestre in F minor, Op. 14 (original version); Fantasie in C, Op. 17 Uhlig CD98.603

Schumann, R. Symphonies – No. 2 in C, Op. 61; No. 3 in E flat, Op. 97, ‘Rhenish’ SWR Sinfonieorch Baden-Baden und Freiburg/
Gielen CD93.259

Harmonia Mundi

Bach, J. S.; Schumann Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004 – Ciaccona (transcr. Schumann); Violin Sonatas – No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105; No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121; Sepec; Staier HMC902048

Bartók; Kurtág; Ligeti ‘Metamorphosis’: String Quartet No. 4, Sz91; 12 Mikroludien, Op. 13; String Quartet No. 1, ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ Cuarteto Casals HMC902062

Beethoven ‘Complete Piano Concertos’ Lewis; BBC SO/B∆lohlávek HMC902053/55 (three CDs)

Monteverdi Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, SV325 Prégardien; Fink; Högman; Hunt; Visse; Tucker; Thomas et al; Concerto Vocale/Jacobs HML5901427/29 (three CDs)

Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea, SV308 Borst; Laurens; Köhler; Larmore; Schopper; Lootens et al; Concerto Vocale/Jacobs HML5901330/32 (three CDs)

Monteverdi La favola d’Orfeo, SV318 Dale; Ben-Nun; Larmore; Gérimon; Peeters; Fink; Scholl; Rivenq et al; Concerto Vocale/Jacobs HML5901553/54 (two CDs)

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin, D795 Padmore; Lewis HMU907519

Harp and Company

Cramer; Fürstenau; Heyse; Hoffmeister; Rust ‘Flute and Harp, Vol. 1 – A German Recital’, inc. Cramer’s ‘Sonata No. 1 for Harp and Flute’, Fürstenau’s ‘Fantasie for Flute and Harp’ and Rust’s ‘Sonata for Harp and Flute’ Talitman; Fregnani-Martins CD5050-19

Herald Audio Visual

Bielby; Carter; Farrell; Leighton; Moore ‘40 Years at Wakefield’, inc. ‘Nunc dimittis’ from Carter’s ‘Wakefield Service’, Farrell’s ‘Strengthen for Service’ and Moore’s ‘It is a thing most wonderful’ Boys, Girls and Men of Wakefield Cathedral Ch/Bielby; Moore HAVPCD357

Britten; Glass; Guilmant; Howells; Kushnariov; Vierne ‘Benjamin Saunders at the Organ of Leeds Cathedral’, inc. Guilmant’s ‘Marche triomphale’, Kushnariov’s ‘Passacaglia and Fugue’, Pärt’s ‘Trivium’ and Vierne’s ‘Cathédrales’ Saunders (2010 Klais Grand Organ of Leeds Cathedral) HAVP358

Various composers ‘The Dedication of the Temple – Music from the Templars’ Jerusalem Breviary’: Crucifigat omnes; Jerusalem mirabilis, urbs beator aliis; Angularis fundamentum; In dedicatione templi; Te Deum laudamus, etc. Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge/White HAVP360

Hortus, Éditions

Various composers ‘Le Sommeil de l’Ange’: An introduction to Basque music played on the txistu Torices Roldán; Martín Moro HORTUS077

Hungaroton Classic

Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz106; Divertimento for Strings, Sz113; Hungarian Sketches, Sz97 Hungarian National PO/Kocsis HSACD32510 (Hybrid SACD)

Bizet; Borodin; Erkel; Leoncavallo; Mozart; Mussorgsky; Offenbach; Puccini; Verdi; Wagner ‘Opera 125 – Stars of the Hungarian Opera, Vol. 24’: An overview of the 125-year history of Hungarian Opera Szabó; Rösler; Losonczy; Kóréh; Fodor; Svéd; Osváth; Orosz; Rigó; Jámbor; Gyurkovics; Takács; Udvardy; Simándy; Szecsödi; Delly; Joviczky; Faragó; Tiszay; Radnai et al HCD32662

Brahms; Dvorák Piano Trio No. 1 in B, Op. 8; Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, B166, ‘Dumky’ Robilliard; Szabó; Vaysse-Knitter HCD32659

Chopin Songs, Op. 74 (inc. early versions of Nos. 1, 5, 11 and 16) Wegorzewska-Whiskerd; Szilasi (Pleyel grand pianos) HCD32474

Graun Der Tod Jesu (1755) Zádori; Fers; Klietmann; Mertens; Kammerchor Cantamus, Halle; Capella Savaria/Németh HCD32679

Pleyel Six Duos for Two Violins, Op. 23 Szabadi; Bánfalvi HCD32625

Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9; Kinderszenen, Op. 15; Fantasie in C, Op. 17; Romance in F sharp, Op. 28 No. 2 Vásáry HCD32547

Simon Quatuor en forme de Sonatine, Op. 23 No. 1; 22 Petits morceaux, Op. 26 Ewald Brass Ensemble HCD32602

Hyperion Dyad

Boyce 12 Sonatas for Two Violins with a Bass for the Violoncello or Harpsichord (1747) Parley of Instruments/
Holman CDD22063

Hyperion Helios

Blow; Boyce; Handel ‘Music for St Paul’s’: I was glad when they said unto me; Lord, thou hast been our refuge; Te Deum and Jubilate, HWV278-79, ‘for the Peace of Utrecht’ St Paul’s Cathedral Ch; Parley of Instruments/Scott CDH55359

Saint-Saëns Cello Sonatas – No. 1 in C minor, Op. 32; No. 2 in F, Op. 123; Le Cygne (arr. composer); Le Cygne (arr. Godowsky) Lidström; Forsberg CDH55342

Hyperion Records

Beethoven ‘Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3’: Piano Sonatas – No. 6 in F, Op. 10 No. 2; No. 12 in A flat, Op. 26; No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2, ‘Moonlight’; No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 Hewitt CDA67797

Mendelssohn ‘Songs and Duets, Vol. 5’, inc. Sechs schottische National-Lieder; Es rauscht der Wald, es springt der Quell; Lied zum Geburtstage meines guten Vaters; Charlotte to Werther; Weiter, rastlos, atemlos Broderick; Morrison; Grevelius; Bjarnason; Loges; Rutherford; Asti CDA67753

Immortal DVD

Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur Pobbe; Filacuridi; Badioli; Barbieri; Borgonovo et al; Coro e Orch Sinfonica di Milano della RAI/Simonetto (telecast, 1955) IMM960025 (DVD-V)

Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia Panerai; Pastori; Monti; Cortis et al; Coro e Orch della RAI/Giulini (1954) IMM960026 (DVD-V)

Indésens

Poulenc ‘Complete Chamber Music with Winds’ Désert; Strosser; Les Solistes de l’Orchestre de Paris INDE013 (two CDs)

Innova Recordings

Lasser; Lieberson; Rorem; Platt ‘Portraits and Elegies’: Vocalise; Berceuse Fantasque; Elegy; Day Music and Night Music – excerpts; Autumn Music Almond; Zeger innova763

Violette ‘Ultra Violette’: Pistis Sophias; Flute Sonata; Trio; Six Performances; Five Sonatinas; Amor Dammi Quel Fazzolettino; American Song Set; Two Spanish Arias; Death Be Not Proud; Fantasy; Fugamericana Farnum; Lauer; Violette; Mahony; Rojak; Weber; Martin; Zannoth; Ensemble-Pi innova757 (two CDs)

Intense Music, The

Bach, J. S. ‘Jacques Loussier – Play Bach’: Preludes and Fugues Loussier (1959) 232959

Brel ‘La Valse à Mille Temps’: Ne me quitte pas; Les Flamandes; Seul; La Dame Patronesse; Je t’aime; La Valse à Mille Temps; Isabelle; La Mort; La Tendresse; La Colombe; Barbara – Il Nous Fait Regarder; Sur La Place Brel (1959) 232958

Istituto Discografico Italiano

Beethoven ‘Rudolf Serkin Plays Beethoven, Vol. 1’: Piano Concertos – No. 1 in C, Op. 15; No. 4 in G, Op. 58 Serkin; Orch ‘Alessandro Scarlatti’ di Napoli della RAI/Caracciolo (1958); Orch Sinfonica di Roma della RAI/Scaglia (1958) IDIS6595

IT (In Illo Tempore)

Various composers ‘In Illo Tempore – Tempus Adventus: Music in Slovak Churches before 1600’: Sabbato ante dominicam primam Adventus ad vesperas; Dominicam prima Adventus ad missam Gregoriana/Tomastík; Klein IT001

JRI Recordings

Chopin Variations on ‘Là ci darem la mano’ in B flat, Op. 2; Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4; Ballade No. 1 in G, Op. 23; Nocturne in D flat, Op. 27 No. 2; Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat, Op. 6; Waltz in E flat, Op. 18, etc Moyer J113

Ries ‘Complete Works for Cello and Piano, Vol. 1’: Duo concertante on Russian Songs, Op. 72; Cello Sonatas – Op. 21 in A; Op. 125 in G minor; Romance in G,
Op. 86 No. 2 Green; Hierholzer J119

Strauss, R. Enoch Arden, Op. 38 Ripley; Bowles J127

Kairos

Cerha Spiegel; Monumentum; Momente SWR Sinfonieorch Baden-Baden und Freiburg/Cambreling; ORF Radio-Symphonieorch Wien/Davis; Cerha 0013002KAI (two CDs)

Dufourt L’Afrique d’après Tiepolo; L’Asie d’après Tiepolo ensemble recherche 0013142KAI

Gadenstätter; Gander; Lang; Mitterer; Schurig; Staud ‘Der Erste Bank Kompositionsauftrag 2002-2007’: A compilation of the six discs celebrating the Erste Bank Composition Award Klangforum Wien et al 0012852KAI (six CDs)

Lachenmann Salut für Caudwell; Les Consolations; Concertini Bruck; Ross; Schola Heidelberg/Nussbaum; Klangforum Wien; WDR Sinfonieorch Köln/Kalitzke 0012652KAI (two CDs)

López López Concierto para Piano y Orquesta; Concierto para Violin y Orquesta; Movimientos para Dos Piano y Orquesta Rosado; Kovacic; Garvayo; Deutsches Symphonie Orch Berlin/Kalitzke 0013022KAI

Koch Records

Daugherty; Webern ‘Letters from Lincoln’: Letters from Lincoln; Langsamer Satz; Im Sommerwind Hampson; Spokane Symphony/Preu KCH7725

Licanus

Dalza; del Encina; Gabriel; de Milán; Morales ‘Moresca – Romances y cantigas entre moros y cristianos’ Capella de Ministrers/Magraner CDM1028

Linn Records

Caix d’Hervelois; Couperin, F.; Dieupart; Philidor; de Visée ‘The Nightingale and the Butterfly’, inc. Caix d’Hervelois’s ‘Deuxième Suite in G’, Dieupart’s ‘Suite No. 6 in F minor ‘pour une flûte du quatre’’ and de Visée’s ‘Suite in D minor’ Thorby; Kenny CKD341 (Hybrid SACD)

Handel 12 Concerti grossi, HWV319-30 (Op. 6) Avison Ensemble/Beznosiuk, P. CKD3362 (three Hybrid SACDs)

LIR Classics

Graupner; Handel; Mattheson ‘Hamburg 1705’, inc. Graupner’s ‘Partita in A’, Handel’s ‘Keyboard Suite in D minor, HWV437’, ‘Chaconne in G minor, HWV453’ and ‘Prelude and Allegro in A minor, HWV576’ and Mattheson’s ‘Suite Troisième in D’ Benuzzi LIR021

Lyrita Recorded Edition

Hoddinott Variants for Orchestra, Op. 47; Night Music for Orchestra, Op. 48; Sinfoniettas – No. 1, Op. 56; No. 3, Op. 71; The Sun, Great Luminary of the Universe, Op. 76 LSO; New Philharmonia Orch/Atherton; Del Mar SRCD.333

Melodiya

Chopin ‘Arthur Rubinstein Plays … ’: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35; Barcarolle in F sharp, Op. 60; Impromptu No. 3 in G flat, Op. 51; Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53, ‘Héroïque’; Waltz in A flat, Op. 34 No. 1, ‘Valse brillante’, etc. Rubinstein (Moscow, 1964) MELCD1001684 (two CDs)

Prokofiev ‘Richter Plays … ’: Piano Sonatas – No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14; No. 9 in C, Op. 103; Three Pieces, Op. 96 – No. 1, Waltz from ‘War and Peace’; Visions fugitives, Op. 22 – No. 6, Con eleganza; No. 18, Con una dolce lentezza, etc. Richter (1961-79) MELCD1001677

Sibelius ‘The Symphonies’ Moscow Radio SO; All-Union RTV Large Symphonic Orch/
Rozhdestvensky MELCD1001669 (three CDs)

MEM Productions

Karatas Anatolian Symphonic Suite; Anatolian Guitar Concerto Bosphorus SO/Karatas www.memyay.com

Malay Istanbul Symphony; Bediüzzaman New Age Eliah; Örter; Bosphorus SO/Karatas www.memyay.com

Örter Seven Days in Istanbul Dinletir; Golden Horn SO/Karatas www.memyay.com

Membran

Beethoven; Brahms; Dostal; Handel; Haydn; Kálmán; Künneke; Lehár; Liszt; Millöcker; Mozart; Puccini; Rosenmüller; Schubert; Schumann; Stolz; Strauss, J. II; Triebel; Zeller et al ‘Fritz Wunderlich – Eine Stimme – Eine Legende’ Wunderlich et al 232807 (ten CDs)

Bellini; Bizet; Boito; Catalani; Cilea; Donizetti; Flotow; Giordano; Leoncavallo; Mascagni; Massenet; Meyerbeer; Ponchielli; Puccini; Saint-Saëns; Wagner; Zandonai et al ‘Mario Del Monaco – The Roman Hero’ Del Monaco et al 232784 (ten CDs)

Mitchell, Stuart, Music

Mitchell Seven Wonders Suite Kuhn Mixed Ch; Prague SO/Klemens DNAVAR1433

mode records

Xenakis ‘Charisma X’, presenting the visionary work and ideas of Greek composer and architect Iannis Xenakis, structured around musical performances, interviews and testimonies from Xenakis’s collaborators and others Aperghis; Mâche; Koumentakis; Xenakis, F.; Solomos; Kanach; Xenakis, M.; Gualda; Chojnacka; Sluchin; Uitti; Freedman; Roy; Sakkas et al mode218dvd (DVD-V)

Xenakis Eonta; Morsima-Amorsima; Akea; Paille in the Wind de Saram; Takahashi; JACK Quartet; Callithumpian Consort/Drury mode217 (CD); mode217dvd (DVD-V)

MSR Classics

Bach, J. S.; Biber; Prokofiev; Sung; Varga ‘Voices of Time – Music for Solo Violin and Solo Viola’, inc. Bach’s ‘Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004’, Biber’s ‘Passacaglia in G minor’, Prokofiev’s ‘Sonata for Solo Violin in D, Op. 115’, Sung’s ‘Voices of Time’ and Varga’s ‘Prelude and Four Caprices’ Braun MS1336 (two CDs)

Bassano; Costeley; de Castro; du Caurroy; Goudimel; Pevernage; Praetorius et al ‘Les Amours de Mai – Love Songs in the Age of Ronsard’, inc. Bassano’s ‘Divisions on ‘Susanne ung jour’’, de Castro’s ‘Ah! je meurs’, Goudimel’s ‘Errant par les champs de la grace’ and Praetorius’s ‘Ma belle si ton ame’ Baird; Mealey; Parthenia MS1304

Bolcom; Gould; Hause; Shulman; Starer ‘Spelunk – Premieres for Clarinet’, inc. Bolcom’s ‘Little Suite of Four Dances’, Gould’s ‘Recovery Music’, Hause’s ‘Spelunk’, Shulman’s ‘Rendezvous’ and Starer’s ‘Elegy’ Hurd; McMillen; González-Palmer; Macomber MS1314

Brahms; Strauss, R. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15; Burleske in D, AV85 Pierce; Slovak PO; Czech National SO/Freeman (Bratislava, 1993) MS1346

Brown; Chabrier; Conti; Handy; Offenbach; Shostakovich; Sparke; Turrin; Wagner ‘Music for Battle Creek’, inc. Brown’s ‘Joy Spring (arr. Schiermayer)’, Conti’s ‘Gonna Fly Now (arr. Chattaway)’, Sparke’s ‘Music for Battle Creek’ and Turrin’s ‘Hymn for Diana’ Brass Band of Battle Creek/Gould; Kitsopoulos; Evans; Ioannides MS1348

Faith ‘Rhapsody – Chamber Music of Richard Faith’: Fantasy Trio No. 1 for Violin, Clarinet and Piano; Movements for Horn and Piano; Rhapsody for Flute and Piano; Poems for Cello and Piano; Sonata No. 2 for Trumpet and Piano; Nocturne in G sharp minor for Piano Missouri Chamber Players MS1331

Frank, G. L.; Shostakovich ‘Voice of the People’: Sueños de Chambi – Snapshots for an Andean Album; Cuatro Canciones Andinas; Violin Sonata, Op. 134 Eyton-Jones; Guibbory; Rubinsky; Ketter; Kopelman MS1344

Mozart ‘Late Dates with Mozart – Three Late Sonatas for Piano and Violin’: Sonatas for Piano and Violin – No. 32 in B flat, K454; No. 33 in E flat, K481; No. 35 in A, K526 Sant’Ambrogio; Winn MS1305

Music and Arts

Bach, J. S. St John Passion, BWV245 Graf; Höffgen; Patzak; Souzay; Berry; Wiener Singakademie; Wiener Symphoniker/Lehmann (Vienna, 1955) CD-1238 (two CDs)

Mahler; Wagner ‘Bruno Walter with the NBC Symphony Orchestra – The Complete Concert, 8 April, 1939, New York’: Symphony No. 1 in D; Siegfried Idyll; Faust Overture NBC SO/Walter CD-1241

Monteverdi L’Orfeo (ed. Hindemith) Sinimberghi; Graf; Brinton; Foster; Guthrie; Kmentt; Wiener Singakademie; Wiener Symphoniker/Hindemith (Vienna, 1954) MA1237

Scarlatti, D. ‘Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. II’ Grante CD-1242

Music Fund

Burlas; DruΩecky; Lejava; Matej; Milakovic; Piacek; Rösler Plavha proti voci; Divertimento; Aria; 3m für W.A.M; The Inner Singers; Pustatina 1-8; Partita Lotz Trio SF0056-2

Musica Ficta

Campion; Cavendish; Dowland; Ford; Holborne; Johnson; Pilkington; Rosseter ‘Clear or Cloudy – Lute Songs’, inc. Cavendish’s ‘Wand’ring in this place’, Dowland’s ‘Can she excuse my wrongs?’ and ‘Wilt thou, unkind, thus reave me?’, Ford’s ‘Come, Phyllis’ and Pilkington’s ‘Rest sweet nymphs’ Mignaco; Marin MF8009

Various composers ‘Parodies spirituelles et spiritualité en parodies’: Surprise, ô Dieu, de vos lumières; Baisant, un soir, une mignarde; La Soeur Luce; Les Pèlerins de Saint-Jacques; François, mon séraphique père; La Fustemberg, etc. Scheen; Les Menus-Plaisirs du Roy/Impe MF8010

Musica Omnia

Beethoven ‘The Romantics, Vol. 10’: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36 (arr. composer); Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3; Allegretto in B flat (Piano Trio No. 9), WoO39 Atlantis Trio mo0210

Gawlick ‘Ralf Yusuf Gawlick – Solo and Chamber Works’: Mysterium doloris quintae, Op. 6; Glocken-Spiel, Op. 11; Sonata-Mazur (Aus der Ferne … ), Op. 8; Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, Op. 3 Chien; Bednarz; Farny; Popper-Keizer; Blyth; Nishikawa mo0309 (two CDs)

Mendelssohn ‘The Romantics, Vol. 7’: Piano Sextet in D, Op. 110; Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 Atlantis Trio and Ensemble mo0205

Schubert ‘The Romantics, Vol. 5’: Winterreise, D911 van Egmond; Crawford mo0108

Schubert; Schumann ‘The Romantics, Vol. 8’: Piano Quintet in A, D667, ‘Die Forelle’; Die Forelle, D550; Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44 van Egmond; Atlantis Ensemble mo0212

Myto Records

Marschner Der Templer und die Jüdin Sperlbauer; Heinrich; Oeggl; Equiluz; Dickl et al; Chor und Orch der RAVAG/Tenner (Vienna, 1951) MCD00249 (two CDs)

Puccini Manon Lescaut Tebaldi; Tucker; Guarrera; Corena et al; Chor and Orch of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Cleva (1959) MCD00250 (two CDs)

Rossini Moïse et Pharaon Rossi-Lemeni; Cerquetti; Taddei; Cartieri et al; Coro e Orch Sinfonica di Roma della RAI/Serafin (Rome,1956) MCD00251 (two CDs)

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin London; Dermota; Frick; Benningsen et al; Chor und Symphonieorch des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Kraus (Munich, 1954) MCD00248 (two CDs)

Verdi La forza del destino Washington; Tebaldi; Stefano et al; Coro e Orch del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Santini (Florence, 1956) MCD00114 (two CDs)

Verdi Nabucco Bastianini; Roberti; Pirazzini; Washington et al; Coro e Orch del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Bartoletti (Florence, 1959) MCD00245 (two CDs)

Naïve Classique

Boulanger, G.; Enescu; Monti; Ravel; de Sarasate ‘Sarah Nemtanu – Gypsic’, inc. Enescu’s ‘Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 25, ‘dans le caractère populaire roumain’’, Ravel’s ‘Tzigane’ and ‘Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré’ and de Sarasate’s ‘Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20’ Nemtanu; Gonzales; Descharmes et al V5235

Haydn 12 Symphonies, Hob. I/93-104, ‘London’ Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble/Minkowski V5176 (four CDs)

Naïve Classique – Baroque Voices

Bach, J. S. ‘arias’: Ach bleib’ bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV6 No. 3; Kreuz und Krone sind verbunden, BWV12 No. 4; Ach Herr! was ist ein Menschenkind?, BWV110 No. 4; Gott versorget alles Leben, BWV187 No. 5, etc. La Maîtrise de Colmar; Ensemble Amaryllis AM198

Badalla; Bembo; Isabella Leonarda; Jacquet de la Garre; Meda; Strozzi ‘Donne Barocche – Women Composers from the Baroque’ Invernizzi; Bizzarrie Armoniche OP30500

Bassani La Morte Delusa Galli; Del Monaco; Jaroussky; Piolino; Sarragosse; La Fenice/Tubéry OP30499

Bencini Vesperae Beatae Virginis A Sei Voci/Fabre-Garrus E8930

Caresana; Cottrau; Giaccio; Giramo; Grillo; Jommelli; Negri; Piccinni; Vinci ‘Festa Napoletana’, inc. Caresana’s ‘La Tarantella’, Giaccio’s ‘Ove n’andró dolente’, Grillo’s ‘La Matremmonio’, Negri’s ‘La Rosella’ and Vinci’s ‘Cecchimma fauza’ Cappella de’ Turchini/Florio OP30503

Couperin, F. Concert dans le goût théâtral (reconstr. Sempé) Capriccio Stravagante/Sempé E8929

Frescobaldi Primo Libro dei Madrigali Concerto Italiano/Alessandrini OP30497

Monteverdi Quarto Libro dei Madrigali Concerto Italiano/Alessandrini OP30502

Scarlatti Humanità e Lucifero Bertini; Crispi; Europa Galante/Biondi OP30498

Vivaldi ‘Motetti’: Longe mala, umbrae, terrores; O qui coeli terraeque serenitas; Vestro principi divino; Canta in prato, ride in monte; Invicti, bellae, etc. Herrmann; Polverelli; Academia Montis Regalis/de Marchi OP30501

Nascor

Brahms; Schubert Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101; Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat, D929 Fortuna Piano Trio NS05

Navona Records

Brahms; Mozart; Rachmaninov; Schroeter ‘The Pianistic Musings’, inc. Mozart’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 5 in D, K175’ and Schroeter’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, Op. 216, ‘Juvenile’’ Mácha; Abadi; Davidon; Levitzky; Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc/Micka NV5828

Cacioppo ‘Italia’: Impressioni Venexiane; Sulla Via dei Sette Ponti; Colomba Scarlatta della Libia Bengtson; Quartetti d’Archi di Venezia; Network for New Music, Philhadelphia NV5826

Del Tredici; Epstein; Ficklin; Hofmeyr; McConville; Mathews, N. ‘Rapport – Vocal Chamber Works’: New Year’s Eve; Three Sonnets; Context Songs; Ainsi qu’on oit le cerf bruire; La Pioggia nel Pineto; Rossetti Songs Manseau; Dykstra; Gilmore; River; Shine; Shields; Yeaton-Paris; Pearson; Hodes; Mitrano; Del Tredici NV5827

Naxos

Abe; Andonian; Devreese; Farr; Janssens; Jolivet; Király; Lysight; MacDonald; Mertens; Rosauro ‘Music for Flute and Percussion, Vol. 2’, inc. Abe’s ‘Mi-chi’, Devreese’s ‘Mobile’, Janssens’s ‘Elisar’, Király’s ‘Miniature’, MacDonald’s ‘Devil Dance’ and Rosauro’s ‘Farewell Song, Op. 39 No. 1’ Grauwels; Mouradoglou; Quesada; Drachmann; Coppens 8.572521

Arensky ‘Piano Music’: Quatre Études, Op. 41; Six Esquisses, Op. 52, ‘Près de la mer’; Six Pièces, Op. 53; Douze Études, Op. 74 Neiman 8.572233

Bossi Thème et Variations, Op. 115; Cinque Pezzi, Op. 132 – No. 4, Hora mystica; No. 5, Hora gaudiosa; Pièce héroïque, Op. 128; Tre momenti francescani, Op. 140 – No. 1, Fervore; No. 2, Colloquio colle rondini; Konzertstück in C minor, Op. 130a Peretti (1916 Furtwängler/Hammer organ on Verden Cathedral, Germany) 8.572177

Brian Symphonies Nos. 11 and 15; For Valour; Doctor Merryheart RTÉ National SO/Rowe; Leaper 8.572014

Butterworth ‘English Song Series, Vol. 20’: Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’; Folk Songs from Sussex; Bredon Hill and Other Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ Williams; Burnside 8.572426

Casella Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 12; A notte alta, Op. 30bis Sun Hee You; Orch Sinfonica di Roma/La Vecchia 8.572414

Cimarosa Requiem in G minor Kucerová; KruΩliaková; Ludha; Belácek; Lúcnica Chor; Gazdíková; Capella Istropolitana/Trevor 8.572371

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61 (complete incidental music with spoken text and melodramas in English) Wollerman; Becker; Varsity Voices; Nota Bene; New Zealand SO/Judd 8.570794

Pizzetti Piano Trio in A; Violin Sonata in A; Tre Canti for Violin and Piano Rásonyi; Fenyö; Ertüngealp 8.570875

Ries ‘Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas, Vol. 3’: Piano Sonata in C, Op. 9 No. 2; Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 26, ‘L’infortunée’; The Dream, Op. 49 Kagan 8.572204

Rubinstein ‘Piano Music (1852-1894)’: Sérénade russe in B minor; Deux Mélodies, Op. 3; Souvenir de Dresde, Op. 118; Romance et Impromptu, Op. 26; Akrostichon No. 1, Op. 37 Banowetz 8.570942

Schmidt Symphony No. 3 in A; Chaconne in D minor Malmö SO/Sinaisky 8.572119

Scott Violin Sonatas – No. 1, Op. 59; No. 3; Sonata Melodica Howick; Rahman 8.572290

Naxos American Classics

Aldridge; Copland Samba; Clarinet Concerto; Clarinet Concerto Singer; Shanghai Quartet; A Far Cry Orch 8.559667

Bolcom; Fine; Foss; Persichetti; Schuman ‘American Choral Music’: The Mask; The Hour-Glass; Psalms; Mass; Carols of Death Bigler; Gorina; University of Texas Chamber Singers/Morrow 8.559358

Lentini Orchestra Hall Suite; El Signo del Angel; Five Pieces for Cello and Piano; East Coast Groove; Scenes from Sedona; Montage Ganson; Applegate; Van Valkenburg; Chanteaux; Davis; Harris; Chang; Siok Lian Tan; Brown; Conway; Fogg; Flaherty; Thurmer 8.559626

Walker, G. ‘Chamber Music and Songs’: String Quartet No. 2; Poem; Lyric for Strings; Five Fancies; Modus; I Never Saw a Moor; Response; Mother Goose; (circa 2054); Take, o Take Those Lips Away; And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus Stasio; Green; Martin; Walker; Son Sonora String Quartet; Capitol Chamber Artists; Videmus Ensemble; Cygnus Ensemble 8.559659

Naxos Historical

Various composers ‘Legends of the Piano – Acoustic Recordings, 1901-1924’ Saint-Saëns; D’Indy; Chaminade; Grieg; Granados; Eibenschütz; Grünfeld; Baumayer; Janotha; Michalowski; von Koczalski; Sapellnikoff; Hambourg; De Greef; Lamond; Friedheim 8.112054

Naxos Musicals

Loesser Where’s Charley? Hans Christian Anderson – Songs from the 1952 film Wisdom; Hinton et al/Collins (original London cast, 1958); Kaye et al/Jenkins 8.120890

Naxos Spanish Classics

Rueda Sinfonía No. 3, ‘Luz’; Viaje imaginario; Francesco Guerrero in memoriam Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias/Valdés 8,572417

NEOS Music

Aperghis; Grisey; Sciarrino; Zimmermann ‘Works for Viola Solo’: Volte-Face; Prologue; Tre notturni brillanti; Ai limiti della notte; Sonate für Viola solo Spina NEOS10920

Hefti ‘ROTAS – Wunderhorn Music’: Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra; Wunderhorn-Musik; Sound Pictures for Violin and Ensemble Indemühle; Philharmonisches Orch der Stadt Augsburg/
Piehlmayer; Cunz; Ensemble TaG/van Steen NEOS11016

Höller Soheren; Der ewige Tag WDR Rundfunkchor und Sinfonieorch Köln/Bychkov NEOS11039

Höller Topic; Horizont; Mythos; Schwarze Halbinseln WDR Rundfunkchor und Sinfonieorch Köln/Masson; Gilles; Studio für Elektronische Musik des WDR/Müller NEOS10829

Lachenmann ‘String Quartets’: Gran Torso; Grido (String Quartet No. 2); Reigen seliger Geister (String Quartet No. 3) Stadler Quartett NEOS10806 (Hybrid SACD)

Schnebel ‘String Quartets’: Streichquartett, ‘Im Raum’; Stücke; Zweite Streichquartett mit Stimmen Rasinski; Hirsch; Quatuor Diotima NEOS11048 (Hybrid SACD)

Widmann ‘Works for Ensemble’: Freie Stücke; Sieben Abgesänge auf eine tote Linde; Oktett Pasichnyk; Collegium Novum Zürich/Widmann NEOS10923

Neuklang

Hölsky; Ludewig ‘Licht und Schatten’: Espressioni; Licht und Schatten; Hörfenster für Franz Liszt; Snow Birds (like a bird II); Klangwaben Morgan; Hölsky-Wiedemann NCD4043

Kiedaisch ‘Siebensachen’: en trance woody pecorino; ouagadougou; seven sisters; firle fanztanz; a bun-dance (a children song); interludium (open your bag please!); fische in der wüste; sieben zwerge; plougasnou; schaschlix; ex it Michael Kiedasch Trieau NCD4047

New Classical Adventure

Beethoven; Boccherini; Gluck; Haydn; Mozart; Vivaldi; Weber ‘‘The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer’: A musical adaptation for theatre by Michael Sturminger Malkovitch; Aikin; Zamojska; Orch Wiener Akademie/Haselböck 60223 (two CDs)

Mozart Six Preludes and Fugues, K404a; Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 Les Adieux 60211

New World Records

Adams; Amendola; Cline; Ochs ‘The Celestial Septet’: Trouble Ticket; Cesar Chávez; The Buried Quilt; Head Count; Whose to Know (for Albert Ayler) Rova Saxophone Quartet; Nels Cline Singers 80708

Foss ‘Curriculum Vitae’: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird; String Quartet No. 3; Music for Six; Curriculum Vitae Klucevsek; Freni, R.; Dick; Williams; Mikhashoff; Columbia String Quartet; University of Buffalo Percussion Ensemble et al 80703

Paccione, P. ‘Our Beauties are Not Ours – Works for Voices and Instruments’: Rhapsody; Stations – To Morton Feldman; Inscape: Three Choral Settings from Gerard Manley Hopkins; A Page for Will; Five Songs from Christina Rossetti, etc. Paccione, M.; Tilles; Chasteen; Western Illinois Singers 80706

Sims ‘Music and Reminiscence’: Sonatine; Sonata; AEDM in mem; If I Told Him; Musing and Reminiscence; Concert Piece II Moe; Mook; Ascher; von Erffa; Boston Musica Viva 80709

Newport Classic

Beethoven; Blind Boone; Blind Tom; Gabrilowitsch; Gottschalk; Kraemer; Schubert ‘Halley’s Comet – Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis’, inc. Beethoven’s ‘Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, ‘Pathétique’’, Blind Boone’s ‘Nearer, My God, To Thee’ and Gottschalk’s ‘The Banjo’ Davis NPD85690

Newton Classics

Bartók String Quartets – No. 1, Sz40; No. 2, Sz67; No. 3, Sz85; No. 4, Sz91; No. 5, Sz102; No. 6, Sz114 Hagen Quartett (1995-98) 8802011 (two CDs)

Brahms Piano Concertos – No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15; No. 2 in B flat, Op. 83; Vier Balladen, Op. 10; Scherzo in E flat minor, Op. 4; Acht Klavierstücke, Op. 76 Kovacevich; LSO/Davis, C. (1981)
8802010 (two CDs)

Chopin Piano Concertos – No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11; No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21; Ballades – No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23; No. 2 in F, Op. 38; No. 3 in
A flat, Op. 47; No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52; Barcarolle in F sharp, Op. 60; Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49 Bolet; Orch Symphonique de Montréal/Dutoit (1986-89) 8802008 (two CDs)

Falla El sombrero de tres picos – Suite; El amor brujo – Suite; Cuatro piezas españolas; Fantasía Baetica de Larrocha (1973) 8802009

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin, D795; Lieder Souzay; Baldwin 8802012 (two CDs)

Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps; Petrushka; L’Oiseau du feu; Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Le Chant du Rossignol; Dumbarton Oaks; Danses concertantes; Concerto in D; Apollon musagète; Scherzo fantastique; Feu d’artifice; Quatre Études Orch Symphonique de Montréal; Sinfonietta du Montréal/Dutoit 8802013 (four CDs)

Nimbus Records

Czerny ‘Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2’: Piano Sonatas – No. 1 in A flat, Op. 7; No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13; No. 7 in E minor, Op. 143; No. 11 in D flat, Op. 730; Sonatine in A, Op. 167, etc. Jones NI5863/4 (two CDs)

NMC Recordings

Matthews, D. ‘Winter Passions’: Terrible Beauty; Clarinet Quartet; String Trio; String Trio No. 2; Winter Passions Bickley; Loges; Nash Ensemble/Friend NMCD152

Nonesuch

Adams ‘I Am Love’: Adams’s score for the film, inc. ‘The Chairman Dances’, ‘Lollapalooza’ and excerpts from ‘Century Rolls’, ‘Shaker Loops’, ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’, ‘Fearful Symmetries’ and ‘Harmonielehre’ Sylvan; Ax; English Opera Chor/Cooke; San Francisco Symphony/de Waart; Cleveland Orch/von Dohnányi; Hallé Orch; Orch de l’Opéra de Lyon/Nagano; Orch of St Luke’s/
Adams 524842

Northern Flowers

Kochurov ‘Wartime Music, Vol. 11’: Macbeth Symphony; Suvorov Overture; Solemn March; Heroic Aria Petrova; St Petersburg State Academic SO/Titov NF/PMA9981

Shostakovich ‘Complete Works for Piano Duet’ Laul; Sandler NF/PMA9941

Taneyev ‘Complete Trios’ Taneyev Quartet NF/PMA9958-59 (two CDs)

Tischenko Piano Concerto; Harp Concerto Tischenko; Donskaya; Leningrad Philharmony NF/PMA9963

Nota Bene Productions

Albéniz; Bach, J. S.; Barrios Mangoré; Dowland; Dyens; Lauro; Logy; Myers; Tarrega ‘Nils Klöfver’, inc. Albéniz’s ‘Asturias’, Barrios Mangoré’s ‘Un Sueño en la Floresta’, Dyens’s ‘Tango en Skaï’, Lauro’s ‘Valse Criolla’, Logy’s ‘Guitar Suite in G’, Myers’s ‘Cavatina’ and Tarrega’s ‘Pavana’ Klöfver NB020

Anderson; Aulin; Elgar; Falla; Genzmer; Gershwin; Handel; Iannerelli; de Sarasate; Williams ‘Variety Lights’, inc. Anderson’s ‘Forgotten Dreams’, Elgar’s ‘Salut d’amour, Op. 12’, Genzmer’s ‘Fantasie-Sonate’, Iannerelli’s ‘Variety Lights’ and Williams’s ‘Theme from ‘Schlindler’s List’’ Kleiman Klöfver Duo NB021

Oehms Classics

Bach, J. S.; Reger ‘400 Jahre der Marianisch Männerkongretation – Festmusik in der Bürgersaalkirche, München’, inc. Bach’s ‘Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren’ and Reger’s ‘Ich sehe dich in tausend Bildern’ Stuber; Barna-Sabadus; Sellier; Appl; Wolf; Chor der Bürgersaalkirche München; Odeon Ensemble München/Hartmann OC773

Brahms ‘Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 4’: Klavierstücke, Op. 76; Zwei Rhapsodien, Op. 79; Phantasien, Op. 116 Boyde OC743

Brahms; Mendelssohn; Reger; Schubert; Silcher; Strauss, R. ‘Letztes Glück – Lieder der deutschen Romantik’ Singer Pur OC824

Czerny; Schubert; Schumann; Weber ‘Sehnsuchtswalzer’, inc. Czerny’s ‘Variationen über den beliebten Wiener Trauer-Walzer von Franz Schubert, Op. 12’, Schumann’s ‘Sehnsuchtswalzer Variationen’, and ‘Carnaval, Op. 9’ and Weber’s ‘Aufforderung zum Tanze, J260’ Schuch OC754 (two CDs)

Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G Oelze; Gürzenich-Orch Köln/Stenz OC649 (Hybrid SACD)

Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384 Beczala; Habermann; Ellen; Ringelhahn; Kalchmair; Pfeiffer et al; Chor des Landestheaters Linz; Bruckner Orch Linz/Sieghart OC115 (two CDs)

Schumann Kreisleriana, Op. 16; Arabeske, Op. 18; Carnaval, Op. 9 Korstick OC757

Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 Gürzenich-Orch Köln/Kitaienko OC665 (Hybrid SACD)

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, ‘Winter Daydreams’; Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern/Poppen OC760

Vivaldi Six Concertos (arr. Bach; Rost) Rost OC642 (Hybrid SACD)

Old Dominion University Music

Bach, J. S. Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV1080 Hall www.odu.edu/~jhall

Ondine

Bernstein; Gershwin Symphony No. 2, ‘The Age of Anxiety’; Piano Concerto in F Jacoby; Russian National Orch/Liss ODE1163-2

Onyx Classics

Schumann Violin Sonatas – No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105; No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121; No. 3 in A minor, WoO27 Gringolts; Laul ONYX4053

Schumann, C.; Schumann, R. Drei Romanzen, Op. 22; Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 129; Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121 Graffin; Désert; Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern/Poppen ONYX4062

Opus Arte

Wagner Siegfried Gould; Siegel; Dohmen; Shore; König; Mayer; Watson; Johannsen et al; Chor und Orch der Bayreuther Festspiele/
Thielemann (Bayreuth, 2008) OACD9003D (four CDs)

Orange Mountain Music

Harrison ‘Life Force’: Solos and duos for violin and cello Fain; Sutter OMM7005

Orchestral Concert CDs

Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58; Scherzo No. 4 in E, Op. 54; Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22; Nocturne in F sharp, Op. 15 No. 2; Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2, etc. Katin (Croydon, 1965) CD11/2010

Orfeo

Arensky; Borodin; Dvorák; Moniuszko; Nowowiewski; Rachmaninov; Rimsky-Korsakov; Smetana; Tchaikovsky; Zelenski ‘Piotr Beczala – Slavic Opera Arias’, inc. arias from ‘Raphael’, ‘Prince Igor’, ‘Rusalka’, ‘Halka’, ‘The Baltic Legend’, ‘Aleko’, ‘Sadko’, ‘The Bartered Bride’, ‘Eugene Onegin’ and ‘Janek’ Beczala; Polish Radio SO/Borowicz C814 101A

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 83; Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Lifschitz; Konzerthausorch Berlin/Fischer-Dieskau C810 102A (two CDs)

Mendelssohn ‘Works for Cello and Piano’: Cello Sonatas – No. 1 in B flat, Op. 45; No. 2 in D, Op. 58; Variations concertantes, Op. 17; Songs without Words, Op. 109; Assai tranquillo (Albumblatt für Julius Rietz), etc. Müller-Schott; Gilad C750 101A

Orfeo d’Or Bayerische Staatsoper Live

Schoenberg; Schubert; Strauss, R. ‘Lucia Popp’, inc. Schoenberg’s ‘Vier Lieder, Op. 2’, Schubert’s ‘Sechs Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich von Schlegel’ and Strauss’s ‘Drei Lieder der Ophelia aus Hamlet, Op. 67 Nos. 1-3’ Popp; Gage (1984) C7891 01B

Orfeo d’Or Wiener Staatsoper Live

Giordano; Puccini; Tchaikovsky; Verdi ‘Mirella Freni – Live Recordings, 1963-1995’, inc. excepts from ‘Fedora’, ‘La bohème’, ‘Manon Lescaut’, ‘Eugene Onegin’, ‘Pique Dame’, ‘Don Carlo’, ‘Otello’, ‘Simon Boccanegra’ and ‘Aida’ Freni et al C806102I (two CDs)

Gounod Faust Beczala; Isokoski; Youn; Eröd; Selinger; Kammerer; Kushpler et al; Chor und Orch der Wiener Staatsoper/de Billy (Vienna, 2009) C805 103D (three CDs)

Origin Classical

Barry, D. ‘Music of the Spheres’: Zen; The Kasbah Awakes; Quasar Dance; Bloodgutter Gossip; Angels and Devils; Penultimate Ladder; Sister Norbert’s Triumph; Smoke Rings; Sonic Graffiti, etc. Barry, D.; Dejoie; Allen; Contorer; Pascal OC33005

Berg; Bukvich; Castro; Kechley ‘Brian Chin – Universal Language’, inc. Jason Berg’s ‘Universal Language’, Daniel Bukvich’s ‘Sonata for Trumpet and Piano’, Edward Castro’s ‘Fractured Trance’ and Robert Kechley’s ‘Poesia’ Chin; Pontén; Johnson OC33010

Boone; Cavanagh; Ferguson; Miley; Nathan; Owen ‘Confronting Inertia’, inc. Boone’s ‘Progressing to the One State or the Other’, Cavanagh’s ’From the Barrage Comes Clarity’ and Ferguson’s ‘Confronting Inertia’ Adler, J.; Cowden OC33007

OxRecs Digital

Batten; Byrd; Gibbons; Tomkins; Weelkes ‘Tudor Church Music from Durham Cathedral’: The ‘Magnificat’ and ‘Nunc Dimittis’ from Batten’s ‘Fourth Evening Service’, Byrd’s ‘Great Service’, Gibbons’s ‘Second Evening Service’ and Weelkes’s ‘Evening Service for Trebles’, etc. Durham Cathedral Ch; Durham Cathedral Consort of Singers; Wright/Lancelot OXCD-106

Pan Classics

Cavalli L’Ormindo (original 1644 version) Piau; Léger; Révidat; Deshayes; Oro; Visse; Crook; Lombard; Bona; Arnould; Ensemble Les Paladins/Correas PC10196 (two CDs)

Passacaille

Bach, J. C. Six Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 5 – No. 2 in D; No. 3 in G; No. 5 in E; Six Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 17 – No. 2 in C minor; No. 6 in B flat de Figueiredo 1961

Haydn Cello Concertos – No. 1 in C, Hob. VIIb/1; No. 2 in D, Hob. VIIb/2; Symphony No. 16 in B flat, Hob. I/16 Istomin, S.; Apollo Ensemble/Rabinovich 1960

PentaTone Classics

Beethoven; Salieri; Schubert Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op. 112; Requiem in C minor; Intende voci, D963 Gulbenkian Chor and Orch/Foster PTC5186 359 (Hybrid SACD)

Mozart ‘Lenneke Ruiten – Arias’: Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio, K418; Ah, lo previdi, K272; Vado, ma dove? – oh Dei!, K583; Bella mia fiamma, K528; Se ardire e speranza, K82/K73o; Chi sà, chi sà qual sia, K582; Exsultate, jubilate, K165 Ruiten; Concertgebouw Chamber Orch/Spanjaard PTC5186 376 (Hybrid SACD)

Mozart Church Sonatas (complete); Andante in F, K616 Chorzempa; Deutsche Bachsolisten/Winschemann PTC5186 150 (Hybrid SACD)

Tartini Violin Concertos – D78 in G; D96 in A; D117 in B flat Accardo; I Musici PTC5186 137 (Hybrid SACD)

Phaedra

Deniere et al ‘In Flanders’ Fields, Vol. 63’: Lotus, Part 1 for Violin, Cello and Piano; Zear for Bass Clarinet; Mitä for Orchestra, etc. Ensemble Homages; Beethoven Academie/Caeyers 92063

Pneuma

Fray Hernando de Talavera Oficio de la Toma de Granada (the Liturgical Office composed to celebrate the Taking of Granada) Schola Antiqua PN-1190

Various composers ‘Los Hijos de Ziryab’: In the 9th century, Ziryab brought the lute to the West, and Cordoba became its home Various artists (10 Festival Internacional de Laud de Tetuan) PN-1210

Praga Digitals

Bartók; Weiner String Quartets – No. 3, Sz85; No. 4, Sz91; String Quartet No. 3, Op. 26 Párkányi Quartet DSD250228 (Hybrid SACD)

Bloch ‘From Jewish Life – Cello Works’: Nigun; Méditation hébraïque; Voice in the Wilderness; Visions and Prophecies; Suite No. 3 for Solo Cello Kanka; Borges Coelho DSD250271 (Hybrid SACD)

Kalabis String Quartets – No. 1, Op. 6; No. 2, Op. 19; No. 3, Op. 48; No. 4, Op. 62; No. 5, Op. 63; No. 6, Op. 68; No. 7, Op. 76 Kocian Quartet; Zemlinsky Quartet DSD250262 (two Hybrid SACDs)

Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57; String Quartets – No. 7 in F sharp minor, Op. 108; No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 Koroliov; PraΩák Quartet DSD250270 (Hybrid SACD)

Preiser Records

Loewe; Pfitzner; Strauss, R. ‘Dokumente einer Sängerkarriere – Ferdinand Frantz, Vol. II’, inc. Lieder and arias from Pfitzner’s ‘Palestrina’ and Strauss’s ‘Salome’ Frantz et al PR93472

Mussorgsky ‘Mussorgsky Dis-Covered’: A project by the violinist Tscho Thiessing fusing classical and jazz by using Mussorgsky’s material and his own imagination Thiessing; Kulman; Shilkloper; Skuta; Breinschmid PR90785

Verdi Aroldo Vitale; Campagnano; Panerai; Bertocci et al; Coro e Orch di Torino della RAI/Basile (1951) PR20058 (two CDs)

Preiser Records – Classic Selection

Schumann ‘Werke für Violoncello und Klavier’: Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 112; Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70; Phantasiestücke, Op. 73; Drei Romazen, Op. 94, etc. Hagen; Vladar PR90780

Preiser Records

Bellini; Boito; Cilea; Mascagni; Puccini; Verdi et al ‘Claudio Muzio (1889-1936)’, inc. arias from ‘Norma’, ‘Mefistofele’, ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’, ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’, ‘Il trovatore’, ‘La forza del destino’, ‘Otello’ and ‘La traviata’ Muzio et al PR89739

Prelude Records

Howells; Somervell; Sterndale Bennett Somervell’s ‘Tennyson’s ‘Maud’’ and songs by William Sterndale Bennett and Herbert Howells Roberts; Allbright; Woolf CDPR2552 (two CDs)

Profil Edition

Aguila; Arnold; Pasculli; Pierné; Ponchielli ‘Summer Song’, inc. Aguila’s ‘Summer Song’, Arnold’s ‘Oboe Sonatina, Op. 28’, Pasculli’s ‘Concerto’, Pierné’s ‘Sérénade’ and Ponchielli’s ‘Capriccio’ Watanabe; Johnson PH10001

Albéniz; Castelnuovo-Tedesco; Giuliani ‘19th Century Guitar – The Art of Romantic Guitar’, inc. Albéniz’s ‘Zambra granadina’, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s ‘Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 99’ and Giuliani’s ‘Rossiniana No. 1, Op. 119’ Wuttke PH07001

Liszt; Scriabin; Wagner ‘Ahronovitch Conducts … ’: Dante Symphony, S109; Symphony No. 4 in C, Op. 54, ‘Le Poème de l’extase’; Rienzi – Overture Figuralchor Frankfurt; Frankfurter Singakademie; Frankfurter Museumsorch; hr-Sinfonieorch/Ahronovitch PH10067

Tchaikovsky, B. Symphony No. 2; Five Pieces for Piano; Four Preludes for Piano; Prelude for Piano (1945); Étude for Piano (1935); Étude for Piano (1972) Tchaikovsky, B.; Moscow PO/Kondrashin PH10038

Prova Records

Anckaert ‘Strings Attached’: Passepied; August Blues; Musette de Chambre; Miniature; Zakoeski; Romeo et July, etc. Pierre Anckaert Quintet; Orch de Chambre de Bruxelles PR0110

Quartz Music

Abel; de Cabézon; Ferrabosco; Sieur de Machy; Ortíz; de Saint-Colombe; Telemann ‘eVIOLution’, inc. works from Abel’s ‘Pièces de Viole’, Ferrabosco’s ‘Lessons for Lyra-Viol’, Ortíz’s ‘Tratado de Glossas’ and Telemann’s ‘Der getreue Musick-Meister’ Marin QTZ2075

Janácek; MacDowell; Schumann ‘On an Overgrown Path’: On the Overgrown Path, Book 1; Woodland Sketches; Waldszenen, Op. 82 Saxel QTZ2076

Ramée

Mozart ‘Phantasia’: Trio in E flat for Clarinet, Viola and Fortepiano, K498, ‘Kegelstatt’; Fantasia in C minor, K475; Grande Sonate in A for Basset Clarinet and Fortepiano (arr. Anon. (1809), after Clarinet Quintet, K581) Veenhoff; van Bruggen; Rogers RAM1002

Raumklang Souvenir

Abel; Handel; Telemann ‘Viola da gamba Concertata’ Banse; Pank; Mitteldeutsche Barocksolisten RKs59806

Telemann ‘Motetten’ Magdeburger Kammerchor; Magdeburger Barockorch/Hennig RKs59803

Raumklang, Edition

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Cittadin (Merklin Organ of Offene Kirche St Elisabeth, Basel); Tarr, P.; Cossi; Tarr, E. H. RK2903

re:pi:n media

Reinvere Requiem; Interlude; Beneath the Burial Sky Jarvis; Talvik; Tohert; Vilu; Bledsoe; Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Ch/Üleoja www.repinmedia.ee

Reference Recordings

Britten ‘Britten’s Orchestra’: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from ‘Peter Grimes, Op. 33’; Sinfonia da requiem, Op. 20; The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 Kansas City Symphony/Stern RR-120 (Hybrid SACD)

Regent Records

Archer; Clarke; Cole; Dyson; Humphrey; Provost; Weelkes; Wesley, S. S. ‘The Winchester Tradition – Music by Composers Associated with Winchester College’, inc. Archer’s ‘Missa Omnes Sancti’, Dyson’s ‘Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C minor’ and Weelkes’s ‘Hosanna to the Son of David’ Winchester College Chapel Ch; Provost/
Archer REGCD331

Demessieux; Guillou; Jongen; Lemmens; Peeters; Weitz ‘The English Cathedral Series, Vol. XVI – Peter Wright Plays Organ Music from Southwark’, inc. Demessieux’s ‘Te Deum’, Guillou’s ‘Fantaisie’, Jongen’s ‘Sonata eroïca’, Lemmens’s ‘Fanfare’, Peeters’s ‘Chorale Prelude on ‘O Gott, du frommer Gott’’ and Weitz’s ‘De profunis clamavi’ Wright REGCD335

Poulenc; Respighi; Rheinberger ‘Concertos for Organ and Orchestra’: Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings and Timpani; Suite in G for Strings and Organ; Concerto No. 1 for Organ, Strings and Three Horns in F, Op. 137 King (organ of Bath Abbey); BBC National Orch of Wales/Roth REGCD257

Regis Records

Brahms; Dvorák Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77; Violin Concerto in A minor, B108 Oistrakh, D.; USSR Radio Large SO/Kondrashin RRC1349

Dering ‘Motets’: Eighteen Latin Motets Clare College Ch, Cambridge/Brown RRC1355

Duruflé; Howells ‘Voices from Heaven’: Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Op. 10; Requiem, Op. 9; Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense; Requiem St John’s College Ch, Cambridge; Farrington/Robinson RRC1341

Grieg ‘Piano Music’: excerpts from Lyric Pieces, Opp. 12, 38, 43, 47, 54, 57, 62, 68 and 71 Pletnev RRC1350

Kalinnikov; Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony No. 1 in G minor; Sinfonietta on Russian Themes in A minor, Op. 31; Overture on Russian Themes, Op. 28; Boyarina Vera Sheloga, Op. 54 – Overture USSR SO/Svetlanov RRC1351

Liszt; Schumann ‘Piano Music’: Après une lecture du Dante, S161 No. 7; Kreisleriana, Op. 16; Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 11 Grimaud RRC1340

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition; Songs and Dances of Death; The Capture of Kars; A Night on the Bare Mountain USSR SO/Svetlanov RRC1352

Rachmaninov Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44; The Rock, Op. 7; Scherzo in D minor; Aleko – excerpts USSR SO/Svetlanov RRC1353

Ravel ‘Music for Two Pianos’: Rapsodie espagnole; Introduction et Allegro; Shéhérazade; Frontispiece; La valse Coombs; Scott RRC1356

Tchaikovsky Romance in F minor, Op. 5; Valse-scherzo in A, Op. 7; Capriccio in G flat, Op. 8; Douze Morceaux (difficulté moyenne), Op. 40 Pletnev RRC1354

Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme in A, Op. 33; Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70; The Tempest, Op. 18 Rostropovich; Borodin String Quartet; Leningrad PO/
Rozhdestvensky; USSR SO/Svetlanov RRC1348

Telemann ‘Music for Oboe’: Suite in G minor for Oboe and Basso continuo (from ‘Der getreue Musik-Meister’); 12 Fantasias for Solo Oboe Holliger et al RRC1343

Retrospective Records

Various composers ‘The Golden Age of the Gramophone – The 42 Best-Loved Popular Classical Recordings, 1907-1945’ Caruso; Galli-Curci; Landowska; Lough; Toscanini; Melchior; Robeson; Gigli; Supervía; Cortot; Rachmaninov; Segovia; McCormack; Tibbett; Hess; Kreisler et al RTS4164 (two CDs)

Ricercar

Bach, J. S.; Bernhardt; Fortsch; Graupner; Selle ‘Aus der Tiefe’: Ich habe genung, BWV82; Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, BWV131, etc. de Reyghere; Bowman; de Mey; von Egmond; Ricercar Consort RIC295 (CD + Catalogue)

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe et al ‘Défense de la Basse de viole contre les entreprises du Violon et les prétentions du Violoncelle’, comprising ‘Le Tombeau de Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe’, ‘Défense de la Basse de viole’, ‘Les entreprises du Violon’ and ‘Les prétensions du Violoncelle’ Ricercar Consort/Pierlot (1993) RIC296 (three CDs)

Scheidt ‘Cantiones Sacrae’: Surrexit Christus hodie; Richte mit Gott; Sende dein Licht und deine Wahrheit; Ist nicht Ephraim mein teurer Sohn; Lobet im Himmel den Herrn; Vater unser im Himmelreich, etc. Vox Luminis/Meunier RIC301

River Productions

Arne; Boyce; Clarke; Handel; Purcell; Stanley ‘Baroque – Masterpieces of Georgian England’ Bott; Souter; Wallace; New College Ch, Oxford; The King’s Consort; English String Orch et al RRCD593-594 (two CDs)

Gilbert and Sullivan ‘The Best of … ’, inc. excerpts from ‘Trial by Jury’, ‘HMS Pinafore’, ‘The Pirates of Penzance’, ‘Patience’, ‘Iolanthe’, ‘Princess Ida’, ‘The Mikado’, ‘Ruddigore’, ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’ and ‘The Gondoliers’ Soloists et al; D’Oyly Carte Opera Company/Godfrey (1949-54) RRCD600-601 (two CDs)

Various composers ‘A Garden of Delights – Tudor and Baroque Music Inspired by Gardens’ Various artists RRCD156-157 (two CDs)

Riverrun Records

Stimpson ‘Journeymen’: String Quartet No. 1, ‘Robben Island’; A Walk Into War Agnew; Tong; Allegri String Quartet RVRCD76

Wilson, I. ‘Sullen Earth’: Limena for Piano and Muted Strings; The Capsizing Man and other stories for String Orchestra; Sullen Earth for Violin and Strings Tinney; Matijevic-Nedeljkovic; Belgrade Strings RVRCD80

RTÉ Lyric fm

Fleischmann ‘Orchestral Works’: Four Masters Overture; Sinfonia Votiva; An Cóitín Dearg; Clare’s Dragoons RTÉ National SO/Houlihan RTÉ lyric fm CD127

SFZ Music

Anderson, A.; Sutton-Anderson ‘Contemporary British Organ Music, Vol. 2’ Bonaventure (T. C. Lewis organ of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood) SFZM0610

Crane, L.; Jackson, G. ‘Contemporary British Organ Music, Vol. 1’, inc. Crane’s ‘The Swim’ and Jackson’s ‘Comeragh Litanies’ and ‘Asaph Toccata’ Bonaventure (T. C. Lewis organ of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood) SFZM0410

Signum Classics

Dupré; Langlais; Messiaen; Poulenc; Roger-Ducasse; de Séverac; Villette ‘French Sacred Music for Choir and Organ’, inc. Langlais’s ‘Messe solennelle’, Poulenc’s ‘Salve Regina’, de Séverac’s ‘Tantum ergo’ and Villette’s ‘O salutaris hostia, Op. 21’ Eton College Chapel Ch; Goode/Allwood SIGCD206

Liadov; Stravinsky Baba-yaga; The Enchanted Lake; Kikimora; Petrushka BBC National Orch of Wales/Fischer, T. SIGCD195

Sinus

Bach, J. S.; Pachelbel et al ‘Historical Organs of Switzerland, Vol. 6 – The five original organs of Klosterkirche Muri, Landesmuseum Zürich and Richard Wagner Museum, Lucerne’ Bolliger Sinus 6006

Solo Voce

Donizetti; Giordano; Gounod; Mozart; Puccini; Rossini; Tchaikovsky; Wagner ‘Lucio Gallo – From Mozart to Wagner’, inc. arias from ‘Don Pasquale’, ‘Andrea Chénier’, ‘Faust’, ‘Don Giovanni’, ‘Gianni Schicchi’, ‘Guglielmo Tell’, ‘Eugene Onegin’, ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Rigoletto’ Gallo; Münchner Rundfunkorch/Schirmer SV8553198

Solstice, Disques du

Liszt ‘Pièces d’Orgue’: Fantasy and Fugue on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’, S259; Prelude and Fugue on the Name BACH, S260; Variations on a Theme of Bach, S673; Funérailles (transcr. Demessieux) Labric (1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ of L’Église Abbatiale Saint-Ouen, Rouen) SOCD264

Somm Céleste

Dale; Hurstone Piano Sonata in D minor; Piano Sonata in F minor Bebbington SOMMCD097

Rachmaninov; Stravinsky Symphonic Dances, Op. 45; The Rite of Spring (for two pianos, four hands) Wilson; Martin SOMM098

Sony Classical

Arlen; Bernstein; Bizet; Donaldson; Duke; Ellington; Monk; Poulenc; Scotto; Strayhorn; Traditional; Weill ‘Jessye Norman – Roots: My Life, My Song’, inc. Bernstein’s ‘Somewhere’, Ellington’s ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’, Monk’s ‘Blue Monk’, Strayhorn’s ‘Take The ‘A’ Train’ and a selection of Negro Spirituals Norman et al (Berlin, 2009) 88697 64263-2 (two CDs)

Brahms Violin Sonatas – No. 1 in G, Op. 78; No. 2 in A, Op. 100; No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 Liebeck; Apekisheva 88697 62384-2

Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622; Sinfonia concertante in E flat, K297b (App 9)/K Anh. C14.01; Symphony No. 31 in D minor, K297/K300a, ‘Paris’ di Casola; Musikkollegium Winterthur/Boyd 88697 64672-2

Schumann Symphonies – No. 1 in B flat, Op. 38, ‘Spring’; No. 2 in C, Op. 61 Royal Stockholm PO/Oramo 88697 43707-2

Sony Classical Essential Masterworks

Allegri; Byrd; Palestrina; Tallis ‘Sacred Voices – Exquisite Choral Music’, inc. Allegri’s ‘Miserere’ and Tallis’s ‘Spem in alium’ The New Company/Bicket 88697 69108-2

Bach, J. S.; Boëllmann; Brahms; Elgar; Haydn; Karg-Elert; Lefébure-Wély; Vaughan Williams; Vierne; Widor ‘Great Organ Classics’, inc. Boëllmann’s ‘Suite gothique’, Lefébure-Wély’s ‘Sortie in E flat’ and Widor’s ‘Toccata’ McVicker 88697 70736-2

Beethoven; Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61; Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Bachmann; Royal Liverpool PO/Pesek 88697 69106-2

Borodin; Dvorák; Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in D; String Quartet No. 12 in F, B179, ‘American’; String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 Chilingirian Quartet 88697 69107-2

Chopin Piano Concertos – No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11; No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 MadΩar; Frankfurt Radio SO/Kitaenko 88697 69221-2

Copland Fanfare for the Common Man; Appalachian Spring; Billy the Kid Eos Orch/
Sheffer 88697 70732-2

Elgar; Delius; Vaughan Williams ‘English Fantasia – Favourite Works by … ’, inc Elgar’s ‘Elegy, Op. 58’, Delius’s ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’ and Vaughan Williams’s ‘The Lark Ascending’ and ‘Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis’ Lowbury; Britten Sinfonia/Cleobury 88697 70728-2

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto in F; Variations on ‘I Got Rhythm’; Second Rhapsody Boriskin; Eos Orch/
Sheffer 88697 70735-2

Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp in C, K299/K297c; Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191/K186e; Sinfonia concertante in E flat, K297b (App 9)/K Anh. C14.01 Hill; Wakeford; Daniel; Farrall; Andrews; Bell; Britten Sinfonia/Cleobury 88697 69109-2

Rossini ‘Overtures’, inc. overtures for ‘Guillaume Tell’, ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’, ‘La Cenerentola’ and ‘La scala di seta’ Sinfonia Varsovia/Menuhin 88697 70734-2

Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D667, ‘Die Forelle’; Adagio and Rondo concertante in F, D487; Notturno in E flat, D897 Berezovsky; soloists of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 88697 69105-2

Various composers ‘Spanish Guitar Favourites’ Dinnigan 88697 69111-2

Various composers ‘The Best of British Light Music’, inc. themes from ‘Desert Island Discs’, ‘The Archers’, ‘633 Squadron’ and ‘The Dambusters March’ BBC Concert Orch/Handley 88697 70737-2

Spektral

Bach, J. S.; Beethoven; Brahms; Hindemith; Mendelssohn; Schumann; Strauss, R. ‘Aus den Fugen geraten – All About Fugues’, inc. Beethoven’s ‘Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op. 133’, Brahms’s ‘Choral Prelude and Fugue on ‘O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid, WoO7’ and Strauss’s ‘Fuge zu vier Themen, AV71’ Deutsches Saxophon Ensemble SRL4-09065

Couperin, F.; Couperin, L.; Demachy; Forqeuray, A.; Forqueray, J-B.; d’Hervelois; Marais, M.; Marais, R.; Sainte Colombe; de Visée ‘L’Univers de Marin Marais’, inc. F. Couperin’s ‘Les Barricades mystérieuses’, d’Hervelois’s ‘Suite in C’ and Marin Marais’s ‘La Reveuse’ and ‘Le Tombeau pour Marais le Cadet’ Rattinger; Conte; Waldner SRL4-08026

Martin; Mendelssohn; Schubert; Schumann; Wagner; Wolf ‘Lieder eine Reise – Songs of Travel’, inc. Martin’s ‘Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann’, Schubert’s ‘Der Atlas’ and ‘Das Fischermädchen’, Schumann’s ‘Aus den hebräischen Gesängen’ and Wolf’s ‘Der Musikant’ and ‘Heimweh’ Grundheber; Veit SRL4-08022

Stradivarius

Bach, J. S.; Handel; Scarlatti, D. ‘1685’, inc. Bach’s ‘Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV904’ and ‘Canzona in D minor, BWV588’, Handel’s ‘Suite in F, HWV427’ and Scarlatti’s ‘Sonata in D, Kk287’ and ‘Sonata in G, Kk304’ Croci STR33836

Caccini et al ‘Giulio Caccini – Il Cantar d’Affetto’, inc. Mentre che fra doglie e pene; Queste Lagrim’amare; Alme luci beate; Belle rose purpurine; Se in questo scolorito; Tutto ’i di piango’ Ansermet, C.; Cherici STR33724

Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 11; Intermezzi, Op. 4; Phantasiestücke, Op. 111 Padova STR33846

Summit Records

Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115; Horn Trio in E flat, Op. 40 Chicago Chamber Musicians DCD-541

Colgrass; Mackey; Rindfleisch; Whitacre; Zdechlik ‘American Manuscripts’, inc. Colgrass’s ‘The Beethoven Machine’, Mackey’s ‘Strange Humors’, Rindfleisch’s ‘Mr Atlas’ and Whitacre’s ‘Lux Aurumque’ Georgia State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Ambrose DCD-528

Curtis-Smith et al ‘Games for Brass – New Music for Brass Quintet’, inc. Curtis-Smith’s ‘Games for Brass’ Western Brass Quintet DCD-536

Ferro Earth Games 2012 Ferro; Alessi; Tofanelli; Clark DCD-529

Supraphon

Dvorák ‘Dvorák in America’: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, B178, ‘From the New World’; Te Deum, B176; String Quartet No. 12 in F, B179, ‘American’; Sonatina for Violin and Piano in G, B183; Suite in A, B190; Cello Concerto No. 2 in B minor, B191, etc. Benacková; Soucek; Suk; Hála; Sádlo; Chuchro; Panocha Quartet; Smetana Quartet; Czech PO/Neumann; B∆lohlávek; Prague Philharmonia/Hrusa SU40252 (three CDs)

Dvorák; Smetana ‘Czech Opera Highlights’, inc. excerpts from ‘Rusalka’, ‘The Jacobin’, ‘The Bartered Bride’, ‘The Brandenburgers of Bohemia’, ‘The Two Widows’, ‘Libuse’, ‘The Kiss’ and ‘Dalibor’ Blachut; Benacková; Ochman; Novák; Dvorsky et al SU40262

Foerster String Quintet, Op. 3; String Quartets – No. 1 in E, Op. 15; No. 2 in D, Op. 39; No. 3 in C, Op. 61; No. 4 in F, Op. 182; No. 5 in G, sine Op., ‘The Vestec’; The Prayer; Erinnerung; Allegro giocoso Bousková; Hudec; Stamic Quartet SU4050-2 (two CDs)

Graham; Pärt; Smolka; Szymanski et al ‘Dialogues’, inc. Gregorian chant and mediaeval polyphony and Graham’s ‘Suite for Solo Cello’, Pärt’s ‘Fratres’, Smolka’s ‘In the Gorge’ and Szymanski’s ‘Miserere’ Bárta; Englichová; Vlasánková; Rehor; Schola Gregoriana Pragensis SU40092

Various composers ‘Out of Home’, inc. Birdsong; Five Steps; Out of Home; Glass Story; Star Track; Tango; L’Amour; Wild Goose; Get Me Water; A Field Aflame; What’s Up; To America Vitous; Dusilová; Epoque Quartet; Clarinet Factory SU40232

Supraphon Archiv

Beethoven; Sibelius ‘Ida Haendel’: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61; Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 Haendel; Czech PO/Ancerl SU40242

Svetlanov Archive

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Op. 49; Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, ‘Pathétique’ Russian State Academic SO/
Svetlanov (1967-92) SVET076 22-9

Tacet

Chopin; Czerny; Gluck; Godard; Liszt; Moszkowski; Rubinstein; Scriabin; 

de Schlözer; Schulz-Evler; Sgambati; Weber et al ‘The Welte Mignon Mystery, Vol. XVI – Joseph Lhévinne today playing all his 1906/1911 European interpretations’, inc. Chopin’s ‘Étude in B minor, Op. 25 No. 10’, Liszt’s ‘Réminiscences de ‘Robert le Diable’, S413’ and Rubinstein’s ‘Barcarolle in C minor, Op. 104 No. 4’ Lhévinne 0180-0 (two CDs)

Haydn ‘The Auryn Series XXVIII – Auryn’s Haydn: Op. 55 – String Quartets, Vol. 9’: String Quartets, Hob. III/60-62 Auryn Quartet 0184-0 CD

Tactus

Albergati La Beata Caterina da Bologna tentata di solitudine; Magnificat; Cantate Spirituali Fortuna Ensemble/Cascio TC660101

Bossi ‘Opera Omnia per Organo, Vol. 1’: Missa pro Sponso et Sponso, Op. 110; Scherzo, Op. 95; Fantaisie, Op. 64; Jeanne d’Arc; Epousailles-Sposalizio, Op. 134, etc. Macinanti TC862711

Brunetti Sei Quintetti per due violini, viola, fagotto e violoncello, Op. 2 Carlini; Quartetto Sandro Materassi TC742701

Porta ‘Madrigali, Motetti et Missa quatuor vocum’ Ensemble Les Nations; Ensemble Speculum Musicae/Baldassari TC524101

Testament Records

Bach, J. S.; Bruckner ‘Klaus Tennstedt’: Violin Concerto in E, BWV1042; Symphony No. 8 in C minor Brandis; Berliner Philharmoniker/Tennstedt (Berlin, 1981) SBT2 1447 (two CDs)

Beethoven; Bruckner ‘Klaus Tennstedt’: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 19; Symphony No. 4 in E flat, ‘Romantic’ Gelber; Berliner Philharmoniker/Tennstedt (Berlin, 1981) SBT2 1448 (two CDs)

Dvorák; Mozart; Pfitzner ‘Klaus Tennstedt’: Symphony No. 8 in G, B163; Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K488; Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, Op. 17 – Overture Hierholzer; Berliner Philharmoniker/
Tennstedt (Berlin, 1980) SBT 1446

Dvorák; Mussorgsky; Prokofiev ‘Klaus Tennstedt’: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, B178, ‘From the New World’; A Night on the Bare Mountain; Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 Gutierrez; Berliner Philharmoniker/Tennstedt (Berlin, 1984) SBT2 1450 (two CDs)

Dvorák; Schubert ‘Klaus Tennstedt’: Violin Concerto in A minor, B108; Symphony No. 9 in C, D944, ‘Great’ Zazofsky; Berliner Philharmoniker/Tennstedt (Berlin, 1983) SBT2 1449 (two CDs)

Mahler ‘Otto Klemperer’: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection’ (two different remasterings of the same performance) Steingruber; Rössl-Majdan; Akademie Kammerchor; Wiener Symphoniker/
Klemperer (Vienna, 1951) SBT2 1456 (two CDs)

Timpani

Cras ‘Les Mélodies avec Orchestre’: Élégies; Trois Mélodies; L’Offrande lyrique; Image; Fontaines; Trois Noëls Perruche; Do; Peintre; Orch de Bretagne/Schnitzler 1C1160

de Séverac Le Coeur du Moulin Bou; Marin-Degor; Pruvot; Keller; Revault d’Allonnes; Berry; Destraël; Bourreau; Sautejeau; Maîtrise et Cheours de l’Opéra de Tours; Orch Symphonique Région Centre-Tours/Ossonce 1C1176

Toccata Classics

Ashton ‘Algernon Ashton – Piano Music, Vol. 1’: Piano Sonatas – No. 4 in D minor, Op. 164; No. 8 in F, Op. 174; Nocturne and Menuet, Op. 39; Vier Bagatellen, Op. 79 Grimwood TOCC0063

Jadassohn ‘Salomon Jadassohn – Piano Trios’: Piano Trios – No. 1 in F, Op. 16; No. 2 in E, Op. 20; No. 3 in C minor, Op. 59 Syrius Trio TOCC0107

Transart

Albéniz; Bach, J. S.; Granados; Monti; Schubert; Sor ‘Filomena Moretti – Jeux interdits and other famous guitar encores’, inc. Albéniz’s ‘Mallorca, Op. 202 (transcr. Barrueco)’, Barrios Mangoré’s ‘La Catedral’, Monti’s ‘Czárdás (transcr. Moretti)’ and Sor’s ‘Jeux interdits (transcr. Yepes)’ Moretti TR168

Tzadik – Archival Series

Zorn ‘The Goddess – Music for the Ancient of Days’: Enchantress; Ishtar; Heptameron; White Magick; Drawing Down the Moon; Beyond the Infinite; Ode to Delphi Burger; Ribot; Wolleson; Emanuel; Dunn; Perowsky TZACD7383

VAI Music

Borodin Prince Igor (stage direction: Oleg Moralev) Nesterenko; Kurovskaya; Vedernikov; Sinyavskaya et al; Chor and Orch of the Bolshoi Theatre/Ermler (Moscow, 1981) VAIDVD4513 (DVD-V)

Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384 (stage direction: Giorgio Strehler) Hallstein; Grist; Alva; Corena; Unger; Heltau et al; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Wiener Philharmoniker/Mehta (Salzburg, 1967) VAIDVD4521 (DVD-V)

Mozart Die Zauberflöte, K620 (stage direction: Otto Schenk) Berry; Lorengar; Peters; Kmentt; Kreppel; Schöffler et al; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Wiener Philharmoniker/Kertész (Salzburg, 1964) VAIDVD4520 (DVD-V)

Mozart Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (stage direction: Gustav Rudolf Sellner) Fischer-Dieskau; Güden; Sciutti; Evans; Lear et al; Wiener Staatsopernchor; Wiener Philharmoniker/Maazel (Salzburg, 1963) VAIDVD4519 (DVD-V)

Stravinsky Petrushka (choreography: Mikhail Fokine); The Rite of Spring (choreography: Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilev) Mukhamedov; Semenyaka; Elagin et al; Corps de Ballet and Orch of the Bolshoi Theatre/Sorokin (Moscow, 1992); Galimullin; Tsoi; Timashova; Vanaev et al; Moscow Classical Ballet (Russian TV, 1990) VAIDVD4516 (DVD-V)

Verso

Greco ‘Jardines de la noche’: Mudas; Trouble; Celosías Gragera; Llamas; Mondriaan Quartet VRS2086

Virgin Classics

Handel Berenice, Regina d’Egitto, HWV38 Ek; Bohlin; Fagioli; Basso; Nesi; Priante; Zorzi; Giustiniani; Il Complesso Barocco/Curtis 628 5362 (three CDs)

Virgin Virgo

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, H48 London Classical Players/Norrington 6 28579-2

Humperdinck Fairy Music (Märchenmusiken) from ‘Dornröschen’, ‘Der blaue Vogel’ and ‘Hänsel und Gretel’ Bamberger Symphoniker/Rickenbacher 6 28584-2

Mozart Symphonies – No. 29 in A, K201/K186a; No. 40 in G minor, K550; Serenade in G, K525, ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’ Northern Sinfonia/Schiff, H. 6 28589-2

Schubert ‘Lieder’ Auger; Orkis 6 28598-2

Schubert Symphonies – No. 5 in B flat, D485; No. 8 in B minor, D759, ‘Unfinished’ (ed. Newbould); Rosamunde, D797 – Ballet Music in G Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/
Mackerras 6 28605-2

Vista Vera

Arensky; Blumenfeld; Borodin; Glazunov; Glinka; Lyadov ‘Legacy of Maria Grinberg, Vol. 4’, inc. Arensky’s ‘Fantasie on a Theme by I. Ryabinin in E minor, Op. 48’, Borodin’s ‘Quintet for Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Piano in C minor’ and Lyadov’s ‘Variations on a Polish Theme in A flat’ Grinberg; USSR Bolshoi Theatre Quartet; USSR State Radioinformation SO/Gorchakov VVCD-00120

Berg; Debussy; Hindemith; Honegger; Poulenc; Stravinsky ‘Virtuosity of Clarinet, Vol. 1’, inc. Berg’s ‘Four Pieces, Op. 5’, Hindemith’s ‘Sonata for Clarinet and Piano’ and Stravinsky’s ‘Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet’ Mikhailov; Yudina; Pikaizen VVCD-00063

Debussy; Mendelssohn; Schubert; Schumann ‘Rachmaninov Plays and Conducts, Vol. 8’, inc. Debussy’s ‘Dr Gradus ad Parnassum’, Mendelssohn’s ‘Spinning Song, Op. 67 No. 4’, Schubert’s ‘Sonata for Violin and Piano in A, D574’ and Schumann’s ‘Carnaval, Op. 9’ Rachmaninov et al VVCD-00039

Diabelli; Lanner; Zauer et al ‘Music of the Old Vienna’, inc. Diabelli’s ‘Military Rondo’, Lanner’s ‘Hymens Feier-Klange’, Schubert’s ‘Marche héroïque, D602 No. 3’ and Zauer’s ‘Echo of Vienna’ Golden Duet VVCD-00056

Vox Aeterna

Beethoven; Chopin; Mozart; Schumann; Tchaikovsky et al ‘Grigory Ginzburg (1904-1961) – Studio Recordings’, inc. Beethoven’s ‘Piano Sonata No. 7 in D, Op. 10 No. 3’ and ‘Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, ‘Appassionata’’, Mozart’s ‘Piano Sonata in A minor, K310/K300d’ and Schumann’s ‘Toccata in C, Op. 7’ Ginzburg VACD00108-111 (four CDs)

Walhall Eternity

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande de Los Angeles; Uppman; London; Tozzi; Resnik; Allen; Harvuot et al; Chor and Orch of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Morel (New York, 1960) WLCD0318 (two CDs)

Mozart Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Siepi; Connor; Guarrera; de Los Angeles; Miller; Corena; Warfield; de Paolis et al; Chor and Orch of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Rudolf (New York, 1956) WLCD0314 (three CDs)

Puccini Madama Butterfly Albanese; Elias; Chambers; Barioni; Brownlee; de Paolis; Cehanovsky; Hawkins et al; Chor and Orch of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Mitropoulos (New York, 1956) WLCD0312 (two CDs)

Strauss, R. Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59 Della Casa; Edelmann; Stevens; Herbert; Güden; Hayward et al; Chor and Orch of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Kempe (New York, 1956) WLCD0313 (three CDs)

Verdi La forza del destino Sgarro; Milanov; Warren; Tucker; Elias; Siepi; Corena; Votipka; de Paolis et al; Chor and Orch of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Stiedry (New York, 1956) WLCD0315 (two CDs)

Warner Classics

Beethoven ‘The Beethoven Experience’: excerpts from various works Various artists 2564 68168-0 (two CDs)

Beethoven Fidelio, Op. 72 Margiono; Seiffert; Leiferkus; Skovhus; Polgár; Bonney; Van der Walt et al; Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Chamber Orch of Europe/Harnoncourt 2564 69125-4 (two CDs)

Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi Larmore; Hong; Groves; Aceto; Lloyd et al; Scottish Chamber Chor and Orch/Runnicles 2564 68748-7 (two CDs)

Bizet Carmen Migenes; Domingo; Esham; Raimondi; Bogart; Le Roux et al; Choeurs et Maîtrise de Radio France; Orch National de France/Maazel 2564 68296-1 (two CDs)

Charpentier David et Jonathas, H490 Huttenlocher; Jacobs; Marinov; Alliot-Lugaz; Esswood; David et al; Enfants de La Cigale de Lyon et du Lycée musical; Maîtrise de l’Opéra de Lyon; Ensemble de Solistes; English Bach Festival Baroque Orch/Corboz 2564 68289-6 (two CDs)

Chausson Le Roi Arthus Zylis-Gara; Quilico; Winbergh; Massis, R.; Friedmann; Loup; Cachemaille et al; Choeurs et Nouvel Orch Philharmonique de Radio France/Jordan, A. 2564 68147-6 (three CDs)

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande Yakar; Tappy; Huttenlocher; Taillon; Alliot-Lugaz; Loup et al; Orch National de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo/Jordan, A. 2564 68800-1 (three CDs)

Donizetti L’Elisir d’amore Devia; Alagna; Spagnoli; Praticó; Provvisionato et al; Tallis Chamber Ch; English Chamber Orch/Viotti 2564 68147-8 (two CDs)

Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Gruberová; Shicoff; Agache; Miles; Lombardo et al; Ambrosian Singers; LSO/Bonynge 2564 68801-5 (two CDs)

Fauré Pénélope Norman; Vanzo; Taillon; van Dam; Huttenlocher et al; Ensemble Vocal Jean Laforge; Orch Philharmonique de Montréal/Dutoit 2564 68800-4 (two CDs)

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq30 Baker; Speiser; Gale et al; Glyndebourne Chor; LPO/Leppard 2564 68289-3 (two CDs)

Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel Larmore; Ziesak; Behrens; Weikl; Schwarz et al; Symphonieorch des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Runnicles 2564 68808-2 (two CDs)

Massenet Werther Hadley; von Otter; Upshaw; Théruel; Frémeau; Ragon; Caton; Marchand et al; Maîtrise de l’Opéra National de France/Nagano 2564 68289-1 (two CDs)

Méhul Stratonice Petibon; Beuron; Daymond et al; Capella Coloniensis; Corona Coloniensis/
Christie 2564 68749-1

Mozart Così fan tutte, K588 Margiono; Ziegler; Cachemaille; van der Walt; Steiger; Hampson et al; Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Harnoncourt 2564 68830-3 (three CDs)

Mozart Così fan tutte, K588 Te Kanawa; von Stade; Huttenlocher; Rendall; Stratas; Bastin et al; Choeur de l’Opéra du Rhin; Orch Philharmonique de Strasbourg/Lombard, A. 2564 68230-6 (three CDs)

Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384 Kenny; Watson; Schreier; Gamlich; Salminen et al; Chor und Mozart-Orch des Opernhauses Zürich/Harnoncourt 2564 69128-9 (two CDs)

Mozart Die Zauberflöte, K620 Gruberová; Bonney; Salminen; Blochwitz; Scharinger et al; Chor und Orch des Opernhauses Zürich/Harnoncourt 2564 69127-2 (two CDs)

Mozart Don Giovanni, K527 Hampson; Gruberová; Alexander; Bonney; Polgár; Blochwitz; Scharinger; Holl et al; Netherlands Opera Chor; Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Harnoncourt 2564 69125-9 (three CDs)

Mozart Idomeneo, rè di Creta, K366 Hollweg; Schmidt; Yakar; Palmer; Equiluz; Tear; Estes et al; Chor und Mozart-Orch des Opernhauses Zürich/Harnoncourt 2564 69126-7 (three CDs)

Mozart La Clemenza di Tito, K621 Langridge; Popp; Ziesak; Murray; Ziegler; Polgár et al; Chor und Orch der Oper Zürich/Harnoncourt 2564 68830-8 (two CDs)

Mozart Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Hampson; Margiono; Bonney; Scharinger; Lang; Murray; Moll; Langridge et al; Netherlands Opera Chor; Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Harnoncourt
2564 68829-8 (three CDs)

Mozart Lucio Silla, K135 Schreier; Gruberová; Bartoli; Upshaw; Kenny et al; Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Concentus Musicus Wien/Harnoncourt 2564 69126-4 (two CDs)

Prokofiev War and Peace, Op. 91 Vishnevskaya; Miller; Ochman; Gedda; Ghiuselev et al; Choeurs de Radio France; Orch National de France/Rostropovich 2564 68801-0 (four CDs)

Rossini Ermione Zimmermann; Gasdia; Palacio; Merritt et al; Prague Philharmonic Ch; Orch Philharmonique de Monte Carlo/Scimone 2564 68751-9 (two CDs)

Rossini L’Inganno felice Massis, A.; Giménez; Gilfry; Spagnoli; Regazzo et al; Le Concert des Tuileries/Minkowski 2564 68148-4

Rossini L’Italiane in Algeri Ramey; Battle; Foti; Zaccaria; Palacio; Horne; Trimarchi et al; Prague Philharmonic Ch; I Solisti Veneti/Scimone 2564 68335-9 (two CDs)

Schumann Genoveva, Op. 81 Ziesak; Lipovsek; Van der Walt; Widmer; Gilfry; Quasthoff et al; Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Chamber Orch of Europe/Harnoncourt 2564 69126-1 (two CDs)

Strauss, J. II Der Zigeunerbaron Coburn; Hamari; von Magnus; Lippert; Holzmair; Flimm et al; Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Wiener Symphoniker/Harnoncourt 2564 69125-0 (two CDs)

Strauss, J. II Die Fledermaus Gruberová; Bonney; Lipovsek; Hollweg; Protschka; Scharinger; Kmentt et al; Royal Concertgebouw Orch/
Harnoncourt 2564 69125-6 (two CDs)

Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress Lloyd; Upshaw; Hadley; Ramey; Collins; Bumbry; Cole; Earle et al; Choeur et Orch de l’Opéra de Lyon/Nagano 2564 68138-0 (two CDs)

Tchaikovsky Iolanta, Op. 69 Vishnevskaya; Gedda; Grönroos; Krause et al; Groupe Vocal de France; Orch de Paris/Rostropovich 2564 68734-1 (two CDs)

Verdi La traviata Gruberová; Shicoff; Zancanaro et al; Ambrosian Singers; LSO/Rizzi 2564 68827-8 (two CDs)

Verdi Rigoletto Agache; Vaduva; Leech; Larmore; Ramey et al; Chor and Orch of Welsh National Opera/Rizzi 2564 68801-3 (two CDs)

Wagner Parsifal Goldberg; Lloyd; Minton; Schöne et al; Prague Philharmonic Ch; Orch Philharmonique de Monte Carlo/Jordan, A. 2564 68752-5 (four CDs)

Weber Der Freischütz, J277 Orgonásová; Schäfer; Wottrich; Salminen; Cachemaille; Holzmair; Moll et al; Rundfunkchor Berlin; Berliner Philharmoniker/Harnoncourt 2564 69125-2 (two CDs)

Wergo

Andriessen, L.; Kagel; Smolka ‘Edition musikFabrik – vom himmel zur hölle’: Racconto dall’Inferno; Orchestrion-Straat; Rush (Hour in Celestial Street) Zavalloni; musikFabrik/Rundel; de Leeuw WER6853-2

Berio; Brown; Bussotti; Cage; Mayuzumi; Reynolds; Takahashi; Xenakis ‘Earle Brown – A Life in Music, Vol. 3’, comprising ‘The Voice of Cathy Berberian’, ‘Nirvana Symphony’ and ‘New Music for Piano(s)’ Berberian; Pierre; Drouet; de Vinogradov; Berio; Takahashi; Tokyo Choraliers; Nippon University Chor; NHK SO/Schüchter WER6934-2 (three CDs)

Bornhöft Naturell; Concent; Lack; Infrarot; Sepia; Aceton Bornhöft; GoGuitars; Helios Streichquartett; Ensemble Phorminx; Freiburger Schlagzeugensemble/Wulff WER6577-2

Cage Etudes Boreales for a Percussionist using a Piano; Harmonies XIII, XXII, XXVII for Cello and Piano (arr. Gauwerky); 26’1.1499” – 10’40.3” for a String Player (arr. Gauwerky); Etudes Boreales for Cello and Piano Solo Gauwerky; Knoop WER6718-2

Durand; Ferneyhough; Gervasoni; Jarrell ‘edition musikFabrik 4 – schattenspiele/shadow games’, inc. Durand’s ‘Ombre/Miroir’, Ferneyhough’s ‘Shadowtime VI’, Gervasoni’s ‘Far niente’ and Jarrell’s ‘prisme/incidences II’ musikFabrik/Masson; Siebens; Wood WER6854-2

Eggert; Hamel; Hechtle; Kalitzke; Mundry; Poppe; Schwartz; Seidl; Spahlinger; Widmann ‘Edition Zeitgenössische Musik – Compilation 75’: A sampler for the series Anzellotti; Heinen; Molinari; Seyfarth; Spohr; Whybrow; Collegium Vocale Köln et al WER6592-2

Koch, S-I. Die Überwindung des großen Klaffens; Ungleichzeitiges; Der Durchbohrte; Les asperges de la lune; Und. Weit. Flog. Halevi; Rothbrust; von Wienhardt; Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart; Ensemble Polyphonie T; musikFabrik; Radio-Sinfonieorch Stuttgart des SWR/Engel; Kalitzke; Schreier WER6573-2

Schüttler ‘Pelze & Restposten’: Entnahme 1-3; linked trips; Das Mitleid ist die Geissel der Menschheit, Sheriff; Augenbildermusik; ped & low-bit; Gier Berweck; Gloger; Michel-Dansac; Zöllner; musikFabrik; Suono Mobile; Taste/Löser; Wood WER6575-2

Schwartz Music for Orchestra; Music for Six Voices; Music for 12 Cellos; Music for Five Stringed Instruments Bauer; Kairos Quartett; Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart; HR-Sinfonieorch; Radio-Sinfonieorch Stuttgart des SWR/Masson; Nielsen WER6572-2

Seidl ‘Musik für übers Sofa’: Was mich angeht; The Art of Home Entertainment; Zimmerrauschen; Die Anderen – Jetzt Neu!; Leihgabe Berweck; Francke; Lindenbaum; Nabicht; Seidl; Composers Slide Quartet; Ensemble Intégrales WER6574-2

Shchedrin The Sealed Angel Romancane; Zilberte; Liepnieks; Krenberga; State Ch Latvija/
Sirmais WER6732-2

Vasks Gadalaiki (The Seasons) Shimkus WER6734-2

Wigmore Hall Live

Blow; Buxtehude; Handel; Purcell ‘Iestyn Davies and Ensemble Guadagni’, inc. Blow’s ‘As on his deathbed gasping Strephon lay’, Buxtehude’s ‘Jubilate Domino, omnis terra, BuxWV64’, Handel’s ‘Neun deutsche Arien, HWV202-10’ and Purcell’s ‘What a sad fate is mine, Z428’ Davies; Ensemble Guadagni WHLive0038

Winter and Winter

Bach, J. S Goldberg Variations, BWV988 Anzellotti 910170-2

Zig-Zag Territoires

Monnet ‘Imaginary Travel’: Bosse; crâne rasé; nez crochu; Imaginary Travel; Épaule cousue; bouche ouverte; coeur fendu Vassilakis; Dutroncy; Papavrami; Ensemble Court-Circuit/Valade ZZT100403


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