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Discovering Music
 BBC Radio
3 and BBC Music Magazine
Vol 8 No 8 April
2000 £3.99 in the retailers [LM] |
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| A PORTRAIT OF AARON
ROSAND |
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AARON ROSAND in Romantic violin
concertos
JOSEPH JOACHIM
Violin Concerto
Hungarian
JENO HUBAY Violin
Concerto
GEORGES ENESCO
Prelude for solo violin
HEINRICH ERNST
Violin Concerto
BENJAMIN GODARD
Concerto Romantique
EUGENE YSAYE
Chant d'Hiver
FRANZ LEHAR
Hungarian Fantasy
JENO HUBAY
Hejre Kati
HENRYK WIENIAWSKI Concert
Polonaise
Aaron Rosand (violin)
Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg/Louis de Froment
VOXBOX CDX5102 CD1 65.51
CD2 68.03 [RB] |
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AARON ROSAND plays the great and lesser known violin
concertos
ARENSKY violin
concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY
violin concerto
MENDELSSOHN
violin concerto
Rosand (violin) Orchestra
of Radio Luxembourg/Louis de Froment
rec 1973, Stuttgart VOX
DA CAPO 7211 [76.01] [RB] |
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BEETHOVEN
Violin
Concerto
BRAHMS Violin
Concerto
Aaron Rosand (violin)
Monte Carlo PO/Derrick Inouye
Monte Carlo, May 1998 VOX
CLASSICS VXP 7902 [77.46] [RB] |
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(Beethoven) |
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AARON ROSAND
CD1 70.58
SIBELIUS
Six Humoresques
TCHAIKOVSKY Sérénade
mélancolique
BERLIOZ Reverie et Caprice
SAINT-SAENS Introduction and Rondo
Capriccioso
CHAUSSON Poème
RAVEL Tzigane
CD2 70.41
SAINT-SAENS
Violin Concerto No. 3
SAINT-SAENS Havanaise
LALO Symphonie Espagnole
Aaron Rosand (violin)
South-West German Radio Orchestra/Tibor Szöke VOXBOX CDX 5116
CD1 [70.58] CD2 [70.41] [RB] |
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British Light Music
Classics Vol 3
New London
Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp
Hyperion CDA67148 [78:45]
[IL] |
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Celebrating the centenary of John
Ruskin The King of the Golden
River Music for Tenor and String
Quartet
Sarah RODGERS (b.1953) The King of the Golden River
*
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958) On Wenlock
Edge†
Edmund RUBBRA (1901-1986) Amoretti - Five
sonnets by Edmund Spencer Ave Maria Gratia Piena -
Two Medieval Songs*
Sir Arnold BAX (1883-1953) O Mistress Mine*; My Eyes
for Beauty Pine* (*premier recordings)
Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor),
Coull Quartet, James Lisney † (piano)
SOMM SOMMCD 222 [74:54]
[IL] |
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English String Miniatures
(Music by John Rutter, C W Orr, George
Melachrino, Peter Dodd, Armstrong Gibbs, Frank Cordell, David Lyon, Roy
Douglas and
Philip
Lane.)
Royal Ballet Sinfonia cond David Lloyd Jones
Naxos 8.554186 [IL] [CSS] |
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FAIREST ISLE: A New National
Songbook.
Various works by Clarke, Handel, Purcell, Dibdin,
Arne etc.
Catherine Bott: soprano. Joseph
Cornwell: tenor. The Parley of Instruments, Psalmody, Peter Holman.
Hyperion CDA67115 63m
DDD. [GF] |
rating not supplied |
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Various Festa Teatrale - Carnival
in Venice and Florence
Thomas Hengelbrock directing
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und-Ensemble
DHM 05472 77520 2
[61:56] [GD] |
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FRENCH MINIATURES
(French Solo Piano Music) FLORENT
SCHMITT (1870-1958) Soirs: Ten Preludes (1890-96)
DARIUS MILHAUD (1892-1974)
Suite (1914) CHARLES
KOECHLIN (1867-1961) Nouvelles Sonatines Op. 87 No.
2 (1923-24) JACQUES IBERT
(1890-1962) Petite Suite en Quinze Images (1943)
JOHN CLEGG (piano)
rec Potton Hall, Suffolk,
England, 19-20 Feb 1998 PARADISUM PDS-CD11 [71.40] [RB] |
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FOUR ICELANDIC
ORCHESTRAL WORKS
JON NORDAL (b.1926) Cello
Concerto (1983) 22.03
LEIFUR THORARINSSON (b.1934)
Autumn Play 11.52 MAGNUS BL.
JOHANNSSON (b.1925) Adagio 6.13
HAFLIDI HALLGRIMSSON (b.1941) Poemi
19.05 Erling Blondal
Bengtsson (cello) Sigrun Edvaldsdottir (violin) Iceland SO/Petri Sakari
rec Reykjavik 1987
ICELAND MUSIC INFORMATION CENTRE ITM 6-02
[59.13] [RB] |
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A GARLAND
FOR LINDA
Commemoration of the Life of Linda McCartney - Choral music
A Garland for Linda by: John Tavener, Judith Bingham, John Rutter,
David Matthews, Sir Paul McCartney, Roxanna Panufnik, Michel Berkeley, Giles
Swayne, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
Vaughan Williams Silence and Music
The Joyful Company of Singers/Peter
Broadbent
rec November 1999 All Saints
Church, Tooting proceeds of sale go to The Garland Appeal EMI CLASSICS
CDC5 56961 2 [55.15] [RB] |
rating inappropriate |
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UTE LEMPER - Punishing Kiss
Songs by Nick Cave, Elvis
Costello, The Divine Comedy, Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, Kurt
Weill
DECCA 466
473-2 [59.63] [RB] |
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Magic of the Day
Ustad
Fateh Ali Khan (singer) with Ustad Alla Rakha Khan, (sarangi) tabla, harmonium
& tanpura OPUS 111
OPS 30-278 74' 22" [PW] |
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Various *
Naples: City of Celebrations from the 14th to the
19th *
Art Book and 2CD * Opus
III OPS 7006 / ISBN 2-913542-03-4 *
Book: 128 pages, hardback
5 ½" by 8", full colour illustrations throughout on high quality paper,
text in English and German * [Disc 1: 79:28 / Disc 2: 79:48] [GD] |
CDs
Book
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The Essential DAVID OISTRAKH -
Artists of the Century series.
MOZART Violin Concerto No.
1 21.16
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
38.52
BEETHOVEN Two Romances 7.11+8.57
SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No.
1 36.27
SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No.
2 29.34
rec 1967 BMG CLASSICS -
RCA RED SEAL 74321 72914 2 Disc 1 76.41 + Disc 2 66.35 [RB] |
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On Heather Hill Duo-Piano Discoveries
from the British Isles
Music by York Bowen, Mervyn Roberts, Alan
Richardson and Hamilton
Harty
Bruce Posner and Donald Garvelmann
(pianos)
Olympia OCD680
[CSS] |
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ROMANTIC DANISH CELLO
CONCERTOS EMIL HARTMANN
(1836-96) Cello Concerto
(1880) ASGER HAMERIK(1843-1923)
Romance (1898) FRANZ NERUDA
(1843-1915) Cello Concerto (1887)
SIEGFRIED SALOMON (1885- ) Cello
Concerto (1920) Morten
Zeuthen (cello) The Bohemian
Chamber Philharmonic/Douglas Bostock CLASSICO CLASSCD 315 [RB] |
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ROYAL MUSIC FOR A ROYAL INSTRUMENT.
The organ
of Norrfjärden Church, Sweden. Hans - Ola Ericsson (organ).
BISCD1103 [DDD] [62'
26"]. [DW] [GF] |
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RUSSIAN MUSIC
Modest MUSSORGSKY
(1839 - 1881) Pictures at an exhibition
(orch. Ravel) 32.02 A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch.
Rimsky- Korsakov) 11.00 Alexander BORODIN
(1833 - 1887) Overture from Prince Igor (orch. Glazunov)
10.43 Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor 13.35
Royal Liverpool Choir &
Orchestra Sir Charles Mackerras
Recorded Liverpool January 1990. Nicolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
(1844 - 1908) Scheherazade. Symphonic Suite. Op.
35* 45.59 Piotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (
1840 - 1893) The Tempest. Symphonic Fantasy. Op. 18 23.48
David Nolan (violin)* The
London Philharmonic Orchestra* Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Andrew Litton
Recorded St Augustine's, Kilburn,
London April 1988* Poole, Dorset. October 1989 (Tempest) Virgin Classics
7243 5 61751 2 9 CD1 67.44 CD2 70.05 [HD] |
CD 1.
CD 2.
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TWO CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN
ROMANCE - Only Masterpieces
22 Russian
Songs: GURILIOV A
small bell * VARLAMOV White lonely sail
GLINKA The doubt; The fires of
desire* DARGOMIZHKY I feel sad*;
The night's zephyr RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The
prophet* TCHAIKOVSKY Would like in one
word; Weak Candle's light*; When the day;
RACHMANINOV The destiny; The dream;
Not sing; As to me. MEDTNER
Winter's evening MUSSORGSKY
Trepak*; The song about the flea*; Where are you little
star SHOSTAKOVICH Good-bye
Grenada* SVIRIDOV The forest sheds its
red clothes GAVRILIN To your snow white
bosom* TCHEREPNIN The heavenly
wanderer*.
Sergei Ljadov (ten)
Igor Gavrilov (bass) * Irina Sharapova (piano)
RUVO CLASSIC RVC 101
73.25 |
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The Sport of Love
Songs of Love and the Hunt from the Renaissance and the Middle
Ages
Musica Antigua de Albuquerque
DORIAN DOR-93175 [63:30] [IL] |
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STRING
SERENADES: Piotr Ilyich
TCHAIKOVSKY (1840 - 1893) Serenade for
Strings. Op. 48. 28.05 Antonin DVORAK
(1841 - 1904) Serenade for Strings in E Major. Op.
22. 25.28 Edward ELGAR (1857 - 1934)
Introduction & Allego for strings. Op. 47. 12.53
Serenade for string orchestra. Op.20. 11.43
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872 - 1958)
The Lark Ascending. 15.05 Fantasia on
'Greensleeves'. 4.11 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
15.28 Josef SUK (1874 - 1935)
Serenade for String Orchestra. Op. 8. 26.20
London Chamber Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green.
Recorded All Saints Church, Petersham. June 1988 & Dec 1989. Virgin
Classics. 7243 5 61763 2 4 CD1 78.49 CD2 61.14 [HD] |
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German Violin Virtuosi of 17th
Century (Biber, Boddecker and
Walther) and harpsichord works by
Froberger and
Muffat
Thomas Pietsch
(baroque violin) Bob van Asperen (harpsichord & organ)
Christophorus CHR 77222. 63'20".
[PW] |
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WINDS THAT
WHISPER New Zealand Choral Music
The New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen
Grylls MORRISON MUSIC TRUST
MMT 2016 [58 mins] [RB] |
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Winners of the
First International Composers Competition
PATRIC STANDFORD
The Prayer of Saint Francis [22.01]
RÓBERT GULYA Piano
Concerto [21.50] PETER KNELL
The Sun's Blinking Eye [17.37]
László Sárán (piano) Hungarian Radio and Television
Chorus Budapest SO/János Kovács (Tamás Vásáry
for the Standford)
rec
1997 Foundation for the Kodály Institute BR 0156 (DDD) [61.25]
[DW] |
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Lute Music for Witches and
Alchemists
Lutz Kirchhof (Renaissance, Lute, Vihuela, Baroque Lute and Theorbolute)
SONY SK 60767 [72:42]
[IL] |
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CELIBIDACHE IN
RUSSIA
Mussorgsky orch Ravel: Pictures
at an Exhibition;
Prokofiev: Symphony No.5, Scythian Suite, Romeo & Juliet
(excerpts);
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade;
Stravinsky: The Firebird (1919 Suite),The Fairy's Kiss -
Divertimento
Stuttgart Radio Symphony
Orchestra/Sergiu Celibidache
Deutsche Grammophon 445
139-2 (3 CDs + bonus CD) [CA] |
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SERGIU
CELIBIDACHE
BEETHOVEN BRAHMS & SCHUMANN
Munich Philharmonic
Orchestra
EMI CDS 5 56837 2 (10
CDs) [CA] |
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| BOOK REVIEW |
Vivian Fine |
The Music of Vivian Fine
by Heidi von Gunden.
Scarecrow Press Inc. ISBN 0-8108-3617-3.
Publisher's Addresses:
American Address: 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706.
GB Address: 4 Pleydell Gardens, Folkstone, Kent, CT20 2DN. |
David
Wright |
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