December 1998

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	Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD Die Kathrin Op. 28 (1937) Three Acts (Nine Scenes) Kathrin Melanie Diener (sop) Francois David Rendall (ten) Malignac Robert Hayward (bass-bar) Chou-Chou Lillian Watson (sop) Monique Della Jones (mezzo) BBC Singers BBC Concert Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins	&
	TREVOR BARNARD (piano) plays Bach transcriptions and modern Australian piano music  BACH arr BUSONI Chaconne (Partita no 2 in D minor for violin solo BWV1004); Prelude and Fugue (in D for organ BWV532); BACH arr HESS Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; BACH arr SUTHERLAND Chorale Prelude ‘Herzliebster Jesus’; Chorale Prelude ‘Jesu, Mein Freude’. Margaret SUTHERLAND First Suite (1937); Second Suite (1937); Felix WERDER Three Pieces After Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ (1985); Nigel BUTTERLEY Comment on a Popular Song (1960).
	PIERRE-OCTAVE FERROUD (1900-1936) Sonnerie pour le Hérault (1935),Symphony in A Major(1930), Sarabande (1920), March (L’Eventail de Jean) (1927), Serenade (1927), Chirurgie (suite for orchestra) (1930), Andante Cordial (1919, 1926) Württemberg PO/Patrick Davin
	ZDENEK FIBICH (1850-1900) orchestral music Symphony No 1 in F major Op 17 (1883) At Twilight - Idyll (1893) The Romance of Spring Op. 23 (1880) Czech PO/Karel Sejna ZDENEK FIBICH (1850-1900) Symphony No 2 in E flat major Op. 38 (1893) rec 1951 36:44 Symphony No 3 in E minor Op. 58 (1898) rec 1961 36:43 Czech PO/Karel Sejna	(Symphony No 1) (Symphony 2/3)
	RUED LANGGAARD 1893-1952 Solo piano music Rosalind Bevan (piano)
	EDUARD LALO (1823-1892) Namouna - ballet - 16 dances (1881)    Orchestra Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo/David Robertson
	ERIK CHISHOLM Piano Music Murray McLachlan Piano.
	ALFRED SCHNITTKE (1934-1998) film music (1970-1985) USSR Cinematography Symphony Orchestra/Emin Khachaturyan
	JOHN McLEOD Piano Music. Twelve Preludes/Hebridean Dances/Four Impromptus/Piano Sonatas 1/3    Murray McLachlan, piano.	rating not applied
	JOHN McLEOD *The Gokstad Ship; *+The Whispered Name; ºA Dramatic Landscape; *ºLieder der Jugend.   *Polish Radio and TV Orchestra of Krakow, McLeod; *+Jane Manning (soprano), Malgorzata Skocze -Staniszewska (harp); ºAndrew Wilson (clarinet) RNCM Wind Orchestra, Clark Rundell; *ºRaimund Gilvan (tenor).
	Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.8   Joyce Barker, Beryl Hatt, Agnes Giebel, Kerstin Meyer, Helen Watts, Kenneth Neate, Alfred Orda, Arnold Van Mill, BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, Goldsmiths Choral Union, Hampstead Choral Society, Emanuel School Boys Choir, Orpington Junior Singers, London Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by Jascha Horenstein
	JOHN JEFFREYS Who is at my window? 24 tenor songs.   Ian and Jennifer Partridge	rating not applied
	JOHN JEFFREYS Violin Concerto (Lawrence Jackson with Orchestra da Camera, conductor Kenneth Page); Serenade for Strings; Bickleigh Idyll; Elegy for John Fry (all Orchestra da Camera/Kenneth Page) The Fox (Song cycle - Barry Duane Hill)    Martin Renshaw (tenor)	rating not applied
	CALLUM KENMUIR Piano Concerto; Rhapsody on themes of Grieg Piano Concerto.   Murray McLachlan (piano) Kelvin Ensemble/Julian Clayton.	rating not applied
	JOHN IRELAND songs Rachel Ann Morgan (mezzo soprano), Tan Crone (piano)	rating not applied
	C.V. STANFORD Trottin’ to the Fair and other songs    James Griffett (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)	rating not applied
	ROY AGNEW Piano Music.     Larry Sitsky.	rating not applied
	PIANO PICTURES   Oliver Williams (piano)	rating not applied
	Gian Carlo MENOTTI Help, Help The Globolinks (Space-Age Comic Opera)
	George GERSHWIN The Ultimate GERSHWIN	(Historical)
	FRENCH ORCHESTRAL MINIATURES (1850-1950) Vol. 1: Delibes; Lalo; Franck; Chabrier; Bizet; Saint-Saens 62:22 Vol. 2: Fauré, d’Indy; Pierné; Ropartz; Satie; Debussy 64:03 Vol. 3: Auric; Ibert; Roussel; Ravel; Poulenc; Milhaud; Koechlin 59:47 Dum Hubny, Pardubice, Czech Republic. Chamber Philharmonic of Bohemia/Douglas Bostock Classic	rating not applied
	Piano Music of Scotland F G SCOTT, RONALD CENTER, RONALD STEVENSON. Murray McLachlan. (piano)	rating not applied
	ALISTAIR HINTON Variations and Fugue on a theme of Grieg KAIKHOSRU SORABJI Variazione maliziosa e perversa sopra ‘La Morte d’Ase’ da Grieg RONALD STEVENSON Den Bergtekne (after Grieg): Norse Elegy for Ella Nygard: Beltane Bonfire. Donna Amato, Piano.	rating not applied
	Charles Tomlinson GRIFFES (1884-1920) Goddess of the Moon: Exotic Chamber Music based on Japanese, Druid and Indian Themes: The Kairn of Koridwen; Three Japanese Melodies; Three Sketches on Indian Themes; Sonata for Piano Perspectives Ensemble
	FINZI Clarinet Concerto Five Bagatelles/Three Soliloquies from "Love's Labour Lost"/Severn Rhapsody Romance/Introit.  Robert Plane (clarinet) Northern Sinfonia conducted by Howard Griffiths
	ESSENTIALLY SCOTTISH Piano Music from Scotland. Cramer; Kiallmark; Mackenzie; Bantock; Chisholm; Stevenson.     Ronald Brautigam (piano).	No rating applied