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Classical Editor: Rob Barnett, Spoken Word Editor :Gerald Fenech, Reviewers: Rob Barnett, Ian Lace, Len Mullenger, and:  Richard Adams, Arthur Butterworth, Paul Conway, Andy Daly, Tony Duggan, Jane Erb, Gerald Fenech, David Frieze,  Ian Marchant, Gairt Mauerhoff, Humphrey Smith, Colin Scott Sutherland, Andrew Seivewright, Richard Whitehouse, Reg Williamson, Peter Grahame Woolf, David Wright.

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A Survey of the Mahler Symphonies

Tony Duggan continues his  series of comparative reviews of recordings of the Mahler symphonies:
Symphony No. 2    
No.1

A Survey of the recordings of Vaughan Williams Ninth Symphony
by Richard R. Adams

KURT ATTERBERG (1887-1974) Piano Concerto (1927-35) [34.12] Violin Concerto (1913-14) [37.06]   Don Franklin Smith (piano) Christian Bergkvist (violin) Gävle SO/B Tommy Andersson rec May 1999 and June 1999 respectively at Gävle Concert Hall, Sweden STERLING CDS-1034-2 [71.28]

J S BACH: The Works for Organ Volume 11. Preludes and Fugues, Toccatas, Chorale Preludes  Kevin Bowyer at the Marcussen organ of Sct. Hans Kirke Odense, Denmark. Nimbus NI5606/7 113m DDD.

LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918-1990) Candide - Overture, Candide Suite (arr Charlie Harmon), Three Meditations from Mass (Anthony Ross - cello), Five Songs (Beth Clayton), Divertimento for Orchestra  Minnesota Orchestra/Eiji Oue rec 17-18 Feb 1999, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR-87CD [65:03]


DVORÁK. Cello Concerto. ELGAR. Cello Concerto.    Maria Kliegel, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Halász. Naxos 8.550503 [DDD] [73' 11"].

Baldassare GALUPPI (1706-1785): Complete Piano Sonatas Volume 1.    Peter Seivewright the divine art 2-5006 [58:13]



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ANDREI ESHPAI (1925-) Vol. 1.Symphonic Dances on Mari Themes (1952) * Violin Concerto No. 4 (1993) ** Symphony No. 2 Praise To Light (1962) ***  * All Union Radio and TV SO/Leonid Nikolaeyev - rec Moscow 1980, ** Jennifer Koh (violin)/St Petersburg Cappella SO/Vladislav Chernushenko - rec Moscow 20/4/1994 MONO, *** USSR Large SO/Konstantin Ivanov - rec Moscow 1964 ALBANY RECORDS TROY 286 [54.56]

ROY HARRIS (1898-1979) Symphony No. 8 San Francisco Symphony (1962) * [26.19] Symphony No. 9 (1962) [28.14] Memories of a Child's Sunday (1945) [11.58]   * Alan Feinberg (piano) Albany SO/David Alan Miller rec April/Nov 1998, New York ALBANY RECORDS TROY 350 [66.34]

HOLST Cotswolds Symphony; Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool; A Hampshire Suite; Walt Whitman Overture, Scherzo for Orchestra.   Munich Symphony Orchestra/Douglas Bostock ClassicO CLASSCD 284 65:00 min

THE SONGS OF JOHN IRELAND   Lisa Milne, John Mark Ainsley, Christopher Maltman. Graham Johnson: Piano Hyperion CDA67261/2 154m DDD.

LANGGAARD Symphonies Nos 4 Leaf-fall (1916); No 6 The Heaven-storming (1920); The Music of the Spheres (1918)   Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra cond. John Frandsen, with singers Danacord 340-341, 83 mins (Distributor: Discovery)

GYÖRGY LIGETI Six Bagatelles JACQUES IBERT Trois Pièces Brèves FRANZ DANZI Quintett in B minor op. 56 No. 1 DARIUS MILHAUD La Cheminée de Roi René ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN Wind Quintet Op. 107 BEETHOVEN’s Fifth Bossa Nova BILLY STRAYHORN Take the A Train Domus Quintett DIGITAL AUTOMATIC MUSIC - RESONANCE RES-CD 001 -003 available on sale from www.mp3.com [35.16]

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