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American
Choral Music Works by Persichetti, Schuman, Bolcom, Fine
& Foss 
University of Texas Chamber Singers/James Morrow rec. 2007
NAXOS 8.559358 [73:15] 
[WH]
A
superb recital of twentieth-century American choral music.
Barbirolli
in New York Works
by Elgar, Brahms, Mahler, Holst & Vaughan Williams
New York P-SO/Sir John Barbirolli rec. 1959
WEST HILL RADIO ARCHIVES WHRA6033 [4 CDs: 311:44] 
[JQ]
A
souvenir of a great conductor reunited with a great orchestra, which
will delight collectors.
Antonii
Baryshevskyi (piano) Laureate Series - Works by Scarlatti,
Rachmaninov, Ravel, Debussy, Mateos & Stravinsky
rec. 2009
NAXOS 8.572573 [78.42]
[GH]
A
fine and musically well-balanced recital acting as a superb calling-card.
Bassoon
concertos by
Mozart, Rossini, Kreutzer & Crusell
Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda rec. 2010
CHANDOS
CHAN 10613 [63:43] 
[JS]
Much
to enjoy here … listen to this and marvel at playing of such eloquence.
The
Brazilian Cello Camargo
GUARNIERI (1907-1993) Sonatas 1-3, Cantilenas 1 &
2, Ponteio and Dança Alberto NEPOMUCENO
(1864-1920) Romance, Tarantella Francisco
MIGNONE (1897-1986) Modinha João
OCTAVIANO (1892-1962) Canto Elegiaco Luiz
Henrique LEVY (1861-1935) Romance sans Paroles Henrique
OSWALD (1852-1931) Berceuse Ségio
de VASCONCELLOS-CORRÊA (b.1934) Seresta
Tânia Lisboa (cello); Cristina Capparelli (piano)
MERIDIAN RECORDS CDE84572 [78:30]
[NB]
A
disc full of music that at its best is very fine indeed and richly deserving
to be more widely known.
Live
in Buenos Aires Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Keyboard concerto Igor
STRAVINSKY (1882-1971) Concerto John
DOWLAND (1563-1626) Forlorn Hope Fancy; Mr Dowland’s Midnight;
Can She Excuse Egberto GISMONTI (b.1947)
Forrobodó; Frevo Osvaldo GOLIJOV (b.1960)
Last Round Astor PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992)
Milonga del ángel; Libertango
Joanna MacGregor (piano), Jacqueline Shave (violin), Markus Van Horn
and Roger Linley (bass duo), Britten Sinfonia/Jacqueline Shave rec.
2007
WARNER CLASSICS 2564 68475-9 [67:57]
[JW]
Enjoyable
and sassy.
Bezaly
and Brautigam:
Masterworks for flute and piano II by
Poulenc, Martin, Reinecke, Martinu & Messiaen
Sharon Bezaly (flute) Ronald Brautigam (piano) rec.2008
BIS-SACD-1729 
[59:23]
[DM]
Another
imaginative, well-executed offering from BIS.
Contemporary
British Organ Music - Volume 1 Music by Gabriel
Jackson & Laurence Crane
Mark O’Keefe (trumpet), Michael Bonaventure (organ) rec. 2010
SFZ MUSIC SFZM0410 [72:51]
[BBr]
Two
very exciting British composers who have made their mark on the UK’s
music in very different ways.
Bound
For Glory - Songs and Piano Music on a Railway Theme
Gordon Pullin (tenor) John Gough (piano)
STEWART ORR SOUND SERVICES SOSSCD369 [70:14] [JF]
A
great CD introducing a wide variety of British song … unusual and challenging.
Convergence
Music for Piano and Percussion
Strike rec. 2009
LUMINESCENCE RECORDS LUM002 [65:49] 
[NB]
Not
the comfy-chair school of mogadon-music but serious and significant
music all composed and performed with exceptional skill and musicality
and no little wit.
Diva
Danielle
de Niese (soprano) O Age of Enlightenment/Sir Charles Mackerras rec.
2007-10
DECCA 478 2417 DH [56.06]
[RF]
This
poor value disc is a marketing ploy that tells us nothing of Miss de
Niese’s development
BARGAIN
OF THE MONTH English
Lute Songs
Robin Blaze (counter-tenor); Elizabeth Kenny (lute) rec. 1999
HYPERION HELIOS CDH55249 [70:34]
[EM]
A
superb disc of excellent programme and performance.
English
Recorder Music Works by Lane,
Arnold, Pitfield, Gregson, Lyon, Parrott & Bullard
John Turner, Royal Ballet Sinf/Gavin Sutherland, Edward Gregson rec.
1999
NAXOS 8.572503 [73:37]
[NB]
A
very warm welcome back to this disc – a gently life-enhancing potter
through less demanding pathways.
Firebirds
of Paris
rec. 1927-1949
MARSTON 510082 [79:18]
[JW]
This
important cultural phenomenon has been nicely compiled and collated,
and beautifully presented.
French
Sacred Music for Choir and Organ
David Goode (organ) Eton College Chapel Choir/Ralph Allwood rec. 2009
SIGNUM
CLASSICS SIGCD206 [69:04]
[RH]
Well
worth investigating.
Art
of Ivry Gitlis
Violin Concertos
Ivry
Gitlis (violin) Vienna SO/Jascha Horenstein, Hans Swarowsky rec. 1953-62
BRILLIANT
CLASSICS 9145 [3 CDs: 79:42 + 79:27 + 70:12]
[JW]
Fascinating,
provoking and often brilliant.
The
Golden Age of Light Music - Strings in Rhythm
rec. 1953-59
GUILD GLCD 5167 [77:59]
[BBr]
A
lack of direction and purpose in this issue.
Gregorian
and Ambrosian Chant
Schola
Cantorum Coloniensis/Gabriel Maria Steinschulte rec. live 1983/94
VIRGIN CLASSICS 6285142 [74:50 + 73:06]
[BW]
A
welcome and inexpensive means of escape to a more spiritual world.
Bernard
Hermann A Concert of English Music
George Frederick HANDEL Water Music
Suite (arr. Harty) Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Oboe Concerto Edward ELGAR Falstaff
Mitchell
"Mitch" Miller (oboe) Columbia Broadcasting SO/Bernard Herrmann rec.
1945
PRISTINE AUDIO PASC202 [75:50]
A Concert of American Music Charles IVES
Symphony 2 Robert RUSSELL BENNETT Violin
Concerto Bernard HERRMANN Welles
Raises Kane
Louis Kaufman (violin) London SO, Columbia Broadcasting SO/Bernard Herrmann
rec. 1949/56
PRISTINE AUDIO PASC232 [76:44]
[RB]
Mono
Herrmann recordings open up a lost world. The English collection is
to be preferred. The sound of the American one can be testing though
the Bennett concerto will have you forgiving everything else.
Hommage
à Chopin
Jonathan Plowright (piano) rec. 2009
HYPERION CDA67803 [79:40]
[CC]
The
combination of top-flight artist, superb recording quality and truly
imaginative, attractive programming seems quintessentially Hyperion.
Yet another winner.
BARGAIN
OF THE MONTH Byron Janis Edition
- The Legendary Concerto Recordings
Moscow PO/Kirill Kondrashin, Moscow Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky,
Minneapolis SO/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, London SO/Herbert Menges, Antal
Dorati, rec. 1960-63
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 9182 [4 CDs: 261:56]
[RB]
Classic
readings without a hint of autopilot. Demands your attention and will
reward it with generosity.
RECORDING
OF THE MONTH Jonas
Kaufmann – Verismo Arias
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Eva-Maria Westbroek (sop) Rosa Feola (soprano)
Cristina Reale (mezzo) O dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Roma/Antonio
Pappano
DECCA 478 2258 [61 :52]
[RMo]
Kaufmann
just gets better and better.
Légende
Works for saxophone & orchestra by Debussy, Schmitt, Tomasi, D'Indy
& Maurice
Theodore Kerkezos (saxophone) London SO/Yuri Simonov rec. 2010
ONYX 4065 [66.56]
[RB]
A
lovely disc, well documented and crying out with discoveries.
Love
Songs by Heise, Weyse & Lange-Müller
Mathias Hedegaard (tenor) Tove Lønskov (piano) rec. 2009
DACAPO 8.226141 [68:47]
[GF]
A
fair picture of the best of Danish song writing from the period before
Nielsen
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