Summary of New Classical CD Reviews - April 2004 part 1- (last two days): MusicWeb: Len Mullenger

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MusicWeb can now supply World-wide from the catalogue of the American Label Gasparo at £10, £8 and £6 including postage (restrictions apply on mid-price and budget titles)

New from Gasparo
Phyllis TATE Sonata for clarinet and cello, Air and Variations for violin, clarinet and piano, Three pieces for solo clarinet Karel HUSA Évocations de Slovaquie for clarinet, viola and cello Ingolf DAHL Concerto a Tré for clarinet, violin and cello

MusicWeb can now supply from the catalogue of the Polish labels ARCODIVA and CDACCORD at only £9 post-free World-wide

New from CDACCORD: use this link to purchase

ACD 133-2 K. Penderecki - Ubu Rex Special Edition £25
ACD 131-2 K. Szymanowski - Król Roger Special, Edition £21
ACD130 KILAR Lament, September Symphony Review
ACD078 Les Chemins d'Amour F. Poulenc, C. Debussy, H. Duparc Review
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BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1-9, Egmont, Leonora 3 overtures.The Warsaw Philharmonic - Kazimierz Kord - 5CD boxed set £20 postage paid. A saving of £25
Back in stock from CDACCORD:
ACD071-2 KARLOWICZ Violin Concerto A major Op. 8 "Eternal Songs" symphonic poem Op.10
ACD080-2 CHOPIN CONCERTOS Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 RUBINSTEIN, ARGERICH, ROWICKI, NOWAK
ACD091 ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) Le Quattro Stagioni TELEMANN Don Quixote - Suite

AND
ACD 073 Strauss Alpine Symphony Warsaw Philharmonic Kazimierz Kord Read this review Buy disc

New from Arcodiva
Dvorak Slavonic Dances for two Pianos Kristina Krkavcova, Martin Kasik UP 0067-2 131 (CD) New release April 2004
Sylvie Bodorova Juda Maccabeus Gabriella Benackova (sop), Ales Briscein (ten), Ivan Kusnjer (bar) Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Valek live recording Prague Spring Festival 2002 UP 0065-2 231 (CD) New release Februaury 2004 Review
BENDA Ariadne auf Naxos Jitka Molavcova - Ariadne Alfred Strejcek - Theseus Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchesrta Conductor Jaraslov Krcek UP 0066-2 231 (CD) New Release Jan 2004 Review

New from Redcliffe
RRO20 British String Quartets Vol 3 Frank Bridge: String Quartet No 4; Alan Bush Suite of Six op.81; Henry Purcell Chacony in G minor Bochmann String Quartet

New ARTICLES for this month

more articles this month here

Elsewhere on MusicWeb

SACD, DSD, DTS, AC3, DVD-Audio, SuperAudio confused? Let Paul Shoemaker put you right

EMI Great Recordings of the Century

Quote of the week: Her flamboyant self-assurance and assertive gestures rendered Kreizberg�s baton redundant � here was a leader whose interpretative conviction held us all by the reins. Aline Nassif on Janine Jansen

Quote of the Week2: British premières of works by Dvořák do not come along every day Dvorak Vanda

Quote of the week 3:If the Franck Sonata was a turkey its neck would have been well and truly wrung after the first ten bars. Jon Woolf

Repin does not hack it in the Mendelssohn

Recording of the premiere of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 5 Prokofiev/Furtwangler Berlin 31/10/32

Monteverdi, Madrigals of Love and War Barbican reviewed by Melanie Eskenazi

Christoph Eschenbach in interview with Bernard Jacobson

Books on Music for sale - a continually growing list

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New Toscanini website

Pronouncing dictionary of music and musicians

World Wide Words - did you ever wonder what Big Girl's Blouse meant?

Look who's been dumped Norman Lebrecht and Dave Hurwitz's reposte

Music Business Journal

Opera Italiano

Directory of Distributors and Record Labels

Friends of Radio 3 (FoR3) Keeping Roger Wright on his toes

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