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MAHLER
Symphony No. 3.

Nathalie Stuzmann (contralto) Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Texas Boys Choir cond.Andrew Litton
Delos DE 3248 1hr.40min. [PW]



MAHLER:
Symphony No.3
Mignon Dunn (Mezzo soprano), Columbia/Barnard Chorus, Riverside Women's Choir, Manhattan School of Music Children's Chorus, Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Conducted by Glen Cortese (Live performance) Titanic Records Ti-252  (Two CDs)

MAHLER:
Symphony No.6
Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Glen Cortese (Live performance)
Titanic Records Ti-257  (One CD) [TD]

Sixth Symphony: Performance
Recording

Third Symphony: Performance
Recording

MAHLER: Symphony No.9
SCHUBERT:
Symphony No.8 "Unfinished"
 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
 Deutsche Grammophon "Originals" 463 609-2 [TD]

Mahler:

Schubert:

Claus-Steffen MAHNKOPF
Instrumental music for flute, oboes, clarinets, violin, guitar and piano.

Baldreit-Edition Baden-Baden (SWF) 79'15". [PW]

Martinu
The Greek Passion

Soloists of Welsh National Opera/Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra/Czech Philharmonic Chorus/Sir Charles Mackerras
Supraphon 10 3611-2 [114' 55"] [PW]

MOZART
String Quartet in D minor
, K421; String Quintet in D, K593.
Lindsay Quartet with Louise Williams (viola - in K593)
ASV CD DCA 1018 [65' 28"] [CA]

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756 - 1791)
Le Nozze di Figaro Opera in Four Acts.
Figaro Sesto Bruscantini  Susanna Graziella Sciutti  Bartolo Ian Wallace
Marcellina Monica Sinclair  Cherubino Risë Stevens  Il Conte Franco Calabrese  Contessa Sena Jurinac
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Cond Vittorio Gui
Recorded July 1956, Abbey Road, London. ADD EMI Classics (double fforte)
CZS5 73845 2
CDI 79'09 CD2 78'47" [HD]

Myaskovsky/Carter/Poulenc
Cello Sonatas

Lowri Blake (cello) with Iwan Llewelyn-Jones (piano)
Lowri Records Lowri 2002 65'17" [PW]

OCKEGHEM
Masses L'Homme Armé; Sine nomine a3
The Clerks' Group/Edward Wickham
ASV Gaudeamus GAU 204 57'37" [PW]

Maurice OHANA
Études d'interprétation
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) Florent Jodelet (percussion)
Harmonia Mundi H/CD 9354 69 mins. [PW]

Maurice OHANA
Concerto for piano
(Jean-Claude Pennetier)
Concerto for cello (Sonia Wieder-Atherton)
T'Haran-Ngo.
Orchestre Philharmonique, Luxembourg/Arturo Tamayo.
timpani 1C1039 66 mins [PW]

PENDERECKI (b. 1933)
Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5.

National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice)/Antoni Wit.
Naxos 8.554567 [68'06] [CC]

Wilhelm PETERSON-BERGER
Symphony No. 3 - Lapland
Earina Suite for Orchestra
Chorale and Fugue from The Doomseday Prophets

 Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra - Michail Jurowski
recorded May 3-7. 1999 in the De Geer Hall, Norrkoping.
 CPO 999 632-2 DDD Stereo, 70 55 [JP]

Zbigniew PREISNER
10 Easy Pieces for Piano
Leszek Mozdzer
EMI Classics CDC5 56971 2 7 [53:33] [GD]

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Op. 100,
STRAVINSKY
: The Rite of Spring
(1977 recording)
Berlin Philharmonic   Herbert von Karajan            
DG The Originals 463-613-2 78m ADD. [GF]

Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891 - 1953)
Cinderella* Suite from the Ballet 39'13"
Pytor Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY
(1840 - 1893)
Sleeping Beauty**
Suite from the Ballet
30'32"
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine* Cond. Theodore Kuchar*
Brian Cant (Narrator) Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra** Cond. Andrew Mogrelia **
Naxos 8.554610  DDD [69'53"] [HD]

Daniel PURCELL
Brotherly Love Suite: Virtue in Danger. Cantata: By Silver Thames' Flow'ry Side. Sonata for Violin and Continuo. Symphonie Songs: Is Innocence so void of cares? When Daphne first her Shepherd saw. Cantata: the Beauteous Daphne. Morpheus Thou gentle God.  
Sprezzatura, with Evelyn Tubb (soprano)
Etcetera KTC 1232 [73'22"] [PW]

Sergey RACHMANINOV (1873-1943)
Symphony No. 3 in A minor
Spring
Three Unaccompanied Choruses

Tigram Martyrosyan (bass) Russian State Symphonic Cappella Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valeri Polyansky
CHANDOS CHAN 9802 [73:33]
Crotchet
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Sergey RACHMANINOV (1873-1943)
Vespers (or All-Night-Vigils)
St Petersburg Academic Cappella (Glinka State Choir)
Saison Russe (harmonia mundi) LCD288050 [61:51]
(1992 recording, also released 1997) [IL]

RAMEAU
Dardanus

Choeur et Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski
DG Archiv 463 476-2 78'49" & 76'54" [PW]

REGER
String Quartet Op 109 & Clarinet Quintet Op 146a
Vogler String Quartet/Karl Leister (clarinet)
Nimbus NI5644 [PW]

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