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STRAVINSKY:
Ballad; Chanson Russe (from Mavra); Dance
Russe (from Petroushka); Divertimento; Duo Concertant;
Pastorale; Suite Italienne (Pulcinella)
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; Julian Milford, piano
Chandos CHAN 9756 [70:44] [LF] |
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Scottish Quintet |
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TOVEY Piano
Concerto Op 15; MACKENZIE
Scottish Concerto Op
55
Steven Osborne; BBC Scottish S O, cond Martyn
Brabbins
HYPERION CDA67023 [61'40"] [PGW] |
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Alexander
MACKENZIE (1847-1935)
Violin Concerto, Pibroch Suite
for violin and orchestra.
Malcolm Stewart (violin) Royal Scottish National
Orchestra conductor: Vernon Handley (Concerto);
David Davies (Pibroch).
HYPERION CDA66975 [VB] |
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William
WALLACE (1860 - 1940)
Sir William Wallace, Villon, The Passing
of Beatrice, Sister Helen
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins.
HYPERION CDA66848 [72.16] [IL
& VB] |
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William
WALLACE (1860 - 1940)
Creation Symphony, Pelléas and Mélisande,
Prelude to The Eumenides
BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins.
HYPERION CDA66987 [73.60] [IL] |
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Collection: The
Land of Mountain and Flood
- Scottish Orchestral Music
Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by John Wilson
ASV CDE WHL 2123 [70:46] [IL] |
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Johannes
TINCTORIS Masses
L'homme arm and Sine nomine.
The Clerks' Group, director Edward Wickham
Cypres CYP 3608 68'36" [PGW] |
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Unknown Public Naked (Music
stripped down; solo improvisations and compositions).
up10 70'06" [PGW] |
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WEELKES
Madrigals & Anthems
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley (director
and lute)
ASV CD GAU 195 [61' 47"]
[PGW] |
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WIENAWSKI:
Polonaise brillante no. 1 in D major Op.
4, CHAUSSON:
Poeme Op. 25. YSAYE:
Sonata No. 2 for violin solo.
DEBUSSY:
Sonata for Violin and Piano. SIBELIUS:
Concerto in D minor Op 47.
Nikolai Znajder: Violin, Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra of Flanders Marc Soustrot, Sophie
Rachlin: Piano.
Cypres Records CYP9608 74m DDD. [GF] |
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RALPH VAUGHAN
WILLIAMS: 'Job'
- A Masque for Dancing, Prelude on an Old
Carol Tune, Variations for Orchestra.
Munich Symphony Orchestra Douglas Bostock.
ClassicO CLASSCD244 64m DDD. [GF, RB, DW] |
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IAN VENABLES
The Songs of Ian Venables - 16 songs
Kevin Mclean-Mair (tenor) Graham Lloyd (piano)
Emerald String Quartet
recorded July 1997 and 1998 ENIGMA DIGITAL
ED10045 [70.22] [RB] |
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ARCO BALENO -
Conversations - music for chamber
ensemble
Arco Baleno
PKP PRODUCTIES PKP014 [71.47] [RB] |
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ARIETTA Arias,
Ariettas and Songs by Handel, Monteverdi, Gluck,
Bononcini, Giordani, Durante, Lotti, Paisiello,
Pergolesi, Sarti, Ciampi, Caccini, Martini
Arrangements by C Hazell, D Golightly, N Ingman,
G Brinums, R Parfrey
INESSA GALANTE (soprano) London Musici/Mark
Stephenson
rec Aug/Sept 1999, St Silas, London CAMPION
RRCD1345 [64.57] [RB] |
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MOZART,
GLUCK and HANDEL
- Italian operatic arias
David Daniels (countertenor) with Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Harry
Bicket.
Virgin Classics Veritas 7243 5 45365 2 6.
[61'10"] [PW] |
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SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
ENGLISH LYRICS
Martin Hindmarsh (tenor) Alan Cuckston (piano)
FEW 116CD [DW] |
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HANDEL'S RIVALS Operatic Hits
by London's Favourite Italian composers
Marie Vassiliou (sop) Alasdair Elliott
(ten) James Eastaway (oboe) John Trusler and
Andrew Roberts (violins) Nicholas Roberts (cello)
Jane Clark (harpsichord)
rec 28 May 1999 St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead
JANICULUM JAN D203 [59.23] [RB] |
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TRITTICO:
Vaclav
NELHYBEL Trittico,
Isaac ALBENIZ
Feast Day in Seville, Norman
Dello JOIO Variants On A Mediaeval
Tune, EDVARD
GRIEG Funeral March for Rikard
Nordraak, Vittorio
GIANNINI Symphony No. 3
Dallas Wind Symphony/Frederick Fennell
REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR-52CD [62.25]
[RB] |
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ORGAN MUSIC
Played on the Father Smith organ at St
Peter's Chapel, Auckland, County Durham by Alan
Cuckston.
FEW 103CD. [DW] |
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POMP AND
PIPES! Powerful
Music for Organ, Winds, Brass and Percussion
Paul Riedo (organ) Dallas Wind Symphony/Frederick
Fennell
REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR-58CD [68.02]
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OPERATIC OVERTURES FROM THE ROYAL
THEATRE, STOCKHOLM
* St Petersburg Hermitage Orchestra/Mats Liljefors
Kungl Hovkappellet/Stig Westerberg
rec 1995 and 1985 STERLING CDS-1009-2
[61.10] [RB] |
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New York Philharmonic: An
American Celebration
Broadcast performances 1936-1999
NYP 9904 (10 Discs: TT 12 hours 58 seconds)
[PP] |
rating not applied
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Various
20th Century French Composers
* Poulenc, Koechlin,
Milhaud, Auric, Satie
Hexagon
Ensemble ARSIS
Classis 3980312 [57:57] [GD] |
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ILLUMINA Unaccompanied choral
works by W
H Harris, Rautavaara, Rachmaninov, Byrd, Hildegard
of Bingen, Tallis, Rutter, Charles Wood, Whyte,
Holst, Desprez, Grechaninov, Tchaikovsky, Palestrina,
Ligeti.
Choir of Clare College/Timothy Brown
COLLEGIUM RECORDS COLCD 125 [76.08] [HS] |
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LILACS IN THE RAIN,
the piano music of REGINALD
KING
Alan Cuckston (piano)
FEW 128CD [DW] |
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WENDY CARLOS Switched-On Box
Set
Wendy Carlos
ESD East Side Digital ESD81422 Collector's
deluxe edition [RB] |
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Collection: Music for Walt Disney's
FANTASIA 2000
edel 0105582DNY [IL] |
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BÉLA
BARTÓK (1881-1945)
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1926) *
Piano Concerto No. 2 (1931) **
Piano Concerto No. 3 (1945) ***
Theo Bruins (1881-1993) (piano) * Residentie
Orkest/Ernest Bour rec 1981 ** Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest/Pierre
Boulez rec 1965 ***Radio Filharmonisch Orkest/David
Atherton rec 1987
ARSIS CLASSICS 95005 [73.10] [RB] |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
(1873-1943) Historic Recordings of the Piano
Concertos
Sergei Rachmaninov (piano) The Philadelphia
Orchestraconducted by Leopold Stokowski/Eugene
Ormandy
NAXOS 8.110601 (Nos 2 and 3) [65.10] NAXOS
8.110602 (Nos 1 and 4 and Paganini Rhapsody)
[71.13] mono 2 CDs only available separately
[RB] |
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THE QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA:
Various works by: Farnon, Curzon, Williams etc.
The Queen's Hall Light Orchestra. Conducted
by: Charles Williams, Robert Farnon, Sidney
Torch.
Dutton Vocalion CDEA6021 77m ADD.
[GF] |
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Rags Jaijaivanti, Kalyan etc
Ustad Sultan Khan (sarangi) & Shaukat Hussain
Khan (tabla)
Live recordings at Royal College of Music,
London, October 1990 NAVRAS NRCD 0112/3;
[77'03"] & [73' 00"] [PW] |
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Buddhist Music
Tianjin Buddhist Music Ensemble
Nimbus NI 5416, [71'14"] [PW] |
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WORD |
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RICHARD FAWKES: The History
of Opera.
Read by: Robert Powell
Naxos NA417612/4 318m DDD. [GF] |
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| BOOK REVIEW |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI. By Conrad Wilson
London and San Francisco: Phaidon Press,
1997. 240 pp. 97 illustrations |
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SHOSTAKOVICH RECONSIDERED By Allan
B Ho and Dmitri Feofanov
Published 1998 by TOCCATA PRESS 787 page.
ISBN 0 907689 56 6 Price £45 $75.95
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