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Monday February 22nd

160 reviews completed this month

Tomaso ALBINONI (1671-1751) Complete oboe concertos Thomas Indermühle (oboe) I Solisti di Perugia/Paolo Franceschini rec. 2006/7 CAMERATA [J-PJ]

Franz BENDA (1709-1786) & Georg Anton BENDA (1722-1795) Concerti Il Gardellino rec. 2008 ACCENT [JV]

Michael DAUGHERTY (b.1954) Fire and Blood, MotorCity Triptych, Raise the Roof Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi rec. 2001/3 NAXOS [OL]

Ivor GURNEY (1890-1937) Songs Susan Bickley (mezzo) Iain Burnside (piano) rec. 2008 NAXOS [JW]

George Frideric HANDEL (1685 - 1759) Saul Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Julia Varady, Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt rec. 1985 DAS ALTE WERK [RH]

Franz LISZT (1811-1886) Piano Works Vol. 30 Gianluca Luisi (piano) rec. 2008 NAXOS [JS]

Giacomo MEYERBEER (1791-1864) Meyerbeer on Record 1899-1913 MARSTON [JW]

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) Piano Concerto 22 Frédéric CHOPIN (1810-1849) Piano Concerto 2 Mindru Katz (piano) BBC Welsh SO, BBC Scottish SO/Yuval Zaliouk rec. 1974/5 CEMBAL D’AMOUR [JW]

Richard WAGNER (1813-1883) Tristan und Isolde Robert Dean Smith, Iréne Theorin Bayreuther Festspiele Ch & O/Peter Schneider rec. live, 2009. OPUS ARTE [ST]

The Very Best of Cinema Classics NAXOS [CR]

 

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Quote of the Week - each Friday a new music-related quote (Quote archive)
This week: You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. Oscar Levant, American pianist and comedian, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket

Ian Venables: Looking Ahead through 2010... John France

February Download Roundup - Brian Wilson

The North Sea Ground A Song for Baritone and Piano by E. J. Moeran - Ian Maxwell

Montague F. Phillips: ‘Crab-Apple’ from Flowering Trees - John France

 

BOOK REVIEWS

The String Quartets of Beethoven A course of 24 lectures by Professor Robert Greenberg TEACHING COMPANY (no catalogue number) [approx. 18 hours] [KMc]

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