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Oleg Marshev in Recital
Franz LISZT (1811-1886)
Funérailles, Rhapsodie espagnole, Étude transcendante 10
Frédéric CHOPIN (1810-1849) 3 Waltzes, Ballade 4
Alexander SCRIABIN (1872-1915) Mazurkas, 2 Poèmes, 5 Preludes,
Vers la flamme 
Oleg Marshev
(piano) rec. 2008 DANACORD
DACOCD677 [79:21] [PL]
Mary
and Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey: ‘Sisters
in Hope of the Resurrection’
The Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O’Donnell rec.
2008
HYPERION CDA67704 [66:42][BW]
A
fine recording – a first-class introduction to Tudor music ... see Full
Review
The Art of Dmitri Mitropoulos
Broadcast Performances 1945-55 - Vol. 2
Gustav MAHLER (1864-1911)
Symphony 6 Johann Sebastian BACH
(1685-1750) Brandenburg Concerto 5 Serge
PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Piano Concerto 3 Edouard
LALO (1823-1892) Symphonie Espagnole Serge
PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Piano Concerto 2 Ralph
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958) Symphony 4 Arnold
SCHOENBERG (1874-1951) String Quartet 2 (orch. Schoenberg)
Erwartung Dorothy
Dow (soprano) Astrid Varnay (soprano) Pietro Scarpini (piano) Zino Francescatti
(violin) Mischa Mischakoff (violin); Carmine Coppola (flute) New York
P-SO, NBC SO/Dmitri Mitropoulos
MUSIC AND ARTS CD1214 [4 CDs: 74:07 + 76:46 + 64:35 + 57:34] [JW]
Reflects
Mitropoulos’s greatest strengths with considerable assurance ...
see Full Review
Charles Munch in Boston. The
Early Years
Boston Symphony Orchestra/Charles Munch rec. 1952-4
WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES WHRA6015 [7 CDs: 79:43 + 73:59 + 79:35
+ 74:02 + 78:49 + 79:12 + 77:46][JW]
A
splendid box in every way ... see Full
Review
Music
from Estonia by Rudolf
TOBIAS (1873-1918), Artur LEMBA
(1885-1963), Heino ELLER (1887-1970),
Kaljo RAID (1922-2005), Veljo
TORMIS (b. 1930) and Arvo
PART (b. 1935)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Järvi rec. 1986-8
CHANDOS CHAN241-26 [78:37 + 71:18][RB]
Enterprising
repertoire gloriously recorded and performed ... see Full
Review
Music
of the Tatra Mountains – Ginek Wilczek’s Bukowina
Band
rec. 1994 NIMBUS NI 5464 [71:48]
Music of the Tatra Mountains –The Trebunia Family Band rec. 1994
NIMBUS NI 5437 [72:07] [JW]
The
vibrancy and vitality of the Tatras ... see
Full Review
Neujahrskonzert:
New Year’s Concert, 2009
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim rec.
Golden Hall, Musikverein, Vienna, 1 January 2009. DDD.
DECCA 478 1133 [56:33 + 48:47]
A
very worthwhile souvenir of an enjoyable occasion ... see Full
Review
David
Oistrakh. 100th Birthday Edition - Violin Concertos and
Chamber Music – Historic
Russian Archives BRILLIANT
CLASSICS 9056 [20 CDs]
[JW]
What
are you waiting for? ... see Full Review
Old
Christmas Return'd - Christmas
music and song from past ages anon
(English, 13th C) 
Richard Wistreich (bass), Robin Jeffrey (lute, guitar, cittern, theorbo),
The York Waits rec. February 1992, Forde Abbey, Dorset UK. DDD
SAYDISC CD-SDL 398 [50:53]
[JV]
An
engaging and entertaining mixture of religious and traditional pieces
for the Christmas season ... see Full
Review
Opera Fanatic
A film directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre
ARTHAUS MUSIK 101813 
[93:00][JS]
A
splendid present for opera enthusiasts who thinks they have everything!
... see Full Review
Otto
– Little Pieces
Otto: Kirby Shelstad (vibraphone), Robbie Shankle (flute, clarinet and
sax), Austin Hoke (cello), Jim Hoke (pedal steel and autoharp)
DIVERSIONS DDV62401 [46:08][BBr]
Purely
for enjoyment ... see Full Review
Prague,
L’âge d’or baroque Josef Ferdinand Norbert SEGER (1716-82) Prelude and Fugue in C [5:19]
Fantasia and Fugue
in d minor [8:50] Johann Caspar Ferdinand FISCHER (1665-1746) Aria [12:59] Josef SEGER Prelude and Fugue in c minor [4:53] Johann Kaspar KERLL (1627-93) Canzona III in d minor [3:40]
Passacaglia in d
minor [7:00] Josef SEGER Toccata and Fugue in d minor [4:22] Fugue
in b minor [2:24] Toccata
and Fugue Pastorale [4:32] Gottlieb Theophil MUFFAT (1690-1770) Aria sub Elevatione [6:23]
Karel Blažej KOPřIVA (1756-85) Fugue in d minor supra cognomen DEBEFE [3:18]
Pavel Kohout (organ of Our Lady of Týn, Prague, Hans Heinrich
Mundt, 1673) rec.
Our Lady of Týn, Prague, Czech Republic, 19-21 September 2007. DDD.
Booklet with notes
in French, English and Czech, including complete organ specification
and registration for each work.
EDITIONS HORTUS 053
[63:47]
[BW]
The
organ music of Seger, well played and recorded here, is a real discovery
... see Full Review
RECORDING
OF THE MONTH Sanctum
est Verum Lumen -
Multi-part Music for Choir Gabriel
JACKSON (b. 1962) Sanctum est verum lumenRobert
WYLKYNSON (c.1450–c.1515) Jesus autem transiens/Credo
in Deum Francisco GUERRERO (1528-1599) Duo
Seraphim Josquin des PREZ (attrib.) (c.1450–1521) Qui
habitat Tomás Luis de VICTORIA (1548-1611) Magnificat
sexti toni Tarik O’REGAN (b.
1978) I sleep, but my heart wakethFelice
ANERIO (c.1560–1614) Stabat Mater Johannes
OCKEGHEM (attrib.) (c.1410–1497) Deo gratia a 36 Bo
HOLTEN (b. 1948) In nomine Thomas
TALLIS (1505–1585) Spem in alium National
Youth Choir of Great Britain/Mike Brewer
rec. 2006/7 DELPHIAN DCD34045 [70:21]
[JQ]
This
magnificent CD ravishes and stimulates the ear ... see Full
Review
Soirées
Internationales Heitor
VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959) Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 – Aria
(cantilena) (1941) - arranged William Primrose [6:04] Bachianas Brasileiras
No.2 – O Canto do capadócio (1930) [7:07] Bachianas Brasileiras No.2
– O Canto da Nossa Terra (1930) [5:26] Bachianas Brasileiras No.2 –
O Trenzinho do Capira (1930) [4:10] O Canto do Cisne Negro (1948) [3:01]
Mozart Camargo GUARNIERI (1907-1993)
Sonata No.1 for cello and piano (1931) [17:40] Nadia
BOULENGER (1887-1979) Trois pièces pour violoncelle et piano
[7:18] Bohuslav MARTINŮ (1890-1959)
Sonata No.3 for cello and piano H340 (1952) [19:09]
Antonio Menses (cello) Celina Szrvinsk (piano) rec. Pootton Hall, Suffolk,
March 2008 AVIE
AV2162 [70:38]
[JW]
This
Parisian journey can be warmly welcomed. ... see Full
Review
Sounds
of St. Asaph
Alan McGuinness (organ of St. Asaph Cathedral) rec.
2008 REGENT REGCD287
[71:03][JF]
A
good buy for organ enthusiasts ... see Full
Review
Ukraine
Composers Series - Set 2 Music by Boris
YAROVINSKY (b. 1922), Petro
GAIDAMAKA (1907-1981) and Valentin
PANOMARENKO (b. 1928)
Kharkov Philharmonic Orchestra/Vakhtang Jordania
ANGELOK1 CD-9918-19 [62:46 + 66:17] Ukraine Composers Series
- Set 3 Music by Volodomir ZOLOTUKHIN
(b.1936), Igor KOVACH (b. 1924),
Boris YAROVINSKY (b. 1922) and
Valentin BORISOV (b.1901)
Kharkov Philharmonic
Orchestra/Vakhtang Jordania
ANGELOK1 CD-9922-23 [73:25 + 67:13][RB]
Not
subtle but vivid stuff just the same ... see Full
Review
The Voice in the Garden:
Spanish Songs and Motets, 1480-1550
Gothic Voices/Christopher Page rec. 1993
HYPERION HELIOS CDH55298 [52:08][BW]
Pretty
well irresistible ... see Full Review
Wood's
Eroica Ludwig
van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Symphony No. 3
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Brandenburg Concerto No.
6 etc.
Various orchestras/Sir Henry Wood rec. 1926-35
BEULAH
2PD3 [71:54][JS]
Increasing
enjoyment and respect for Wood – a very desirable disc ... see Full
Review
BOOK
REVIEWS
Felix
Mendelssohn - His
Life and Music by Neil Wenborn (inc. 2 CDs) NAXOS
BOOKS ISBN
978-1-84379-232-1; £13 [RW]
An
ideal companion for a music student or audiophile ... see Full
Review
The
Rest is Noise...Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross.
Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2007. ISBN-10: 0-374-24939-3; ISBN-13:
978-0-374-24939-7. 543 pages plus preface, notes, acknowledgement, suggested
listening, index. 21 B/W photographs. 6-1/3 inches by 9-1/8 inches.
USD 30.00 CND 34.50. [PSh]
A
candy bar for musicologists ... see Full
Review
Sibelius
by Andrew Barnett. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 2007.
ISBN 978-0-300-11159-0. 445 pages including appendices, index, catalogue
of works, an appendix of musical examples mostly from relatively unknown
works, and 18 B&W photographs. RRP: USD40, GBP25. [PSh]
Exhaustively
complete, acutely perceptive, a real page turner ... see Full
Review
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