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RAFF:
Symphonies Nos. 3 &
4.
Milton Keynes City Orchestra Hilary Davan Wetton
Hyperion Helios CDH55017
79m DDD. |
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Alan
RAWSTHORNE Chamber Music with Wind
Instruments
The Fibonacci Sequence
ASV CD DCA1061 |
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MAX REGER
(1873-1916) Violin Concerto
(1908)
Manfred
Scherzer (violin) Staatskapelle Dresden/Herbert Blomstedt
rec May 1981, Lukaskirche,
Dresden BERLIN CLASSICS 0091242BC [57.40] |
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MAX
REGER (1873-1916) Mozart Variations
(1914) [34.00] Beethoven Variations (1904)
[23.00]
Bamberg
SO/Horst Stein recorded
1991, Bamberg KOCH SCHWANN 3-1141-2 [57.00] |
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MAX REGER
(1873-1916) Hiller Variations (1907)
[45.50] Ballet Suite (1913)
[19.10]
Bamberg
SO/Horst Stein recorded
1990 and 1991, Bamberg KOCH SCHWANN 3-11150-2 H1 [66.00] |
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MAX REGER
(1873-1916) Comedy Overture (1911)
[8.14] Symphonic Rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1916) [23.08]
Suite for violin and orchestra [24.39] Scherzino for
horn and orchestra
[2.40].
Walter
Forchert (violin) Marie Luise Neunecker (horn) Bamberg SO/Horst Stein
recorded 1993 and 1995,
Bamberg KOCH SCHWANN 3-1498-2 H1 [59.32] |
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MAX
REGER (1873-1916) Suite in Olden
Style (1906) [23.00] Serenade (1906)
[42.08]
Bamberg
SO/Horst Stein recorded
1993, Bamberg KOCH SCHWANN 3-1566-2 H1 [66.08] |
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Nino ROTA
Il cappello di paglia di
Firenza (The Florentine Straw Hat)
A comic opera in 4 acts Daniella
Mazzuccato; Viorica Cortez; Ugo Benelli; Mario Basiola; Alfredo Mariotti.
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma directed by Nino Rota
BMG RICORDI 74321551092
2CDs [104:46] |
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JOLY BRAGA
SANTOS (1924-88) Symphony No. 4 in e minor
(1948)
'George
Enescu' Choir Roumanian Radiotelevision SO/Silva
Pereira Bucharest, November
1978 STRAUSS PORTUGALSOM SP4059 [47:31] |
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SHOSTAKOVICH.
Piano Sonata No 1, Op 12; Piano Sonata No 2, Op 61; Twenty-four Preludes,
Op 34; Prelude and Fugue in D minor, Op 87 No
24 . Raymond
Clarke (piano) Athene ATH
CD18 [DDD] [75' 44"] |
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Richard
STRAUSS (1864-1949) Guntram - Opera
in three
Acts
Alan
Woodrow; Elisabeth Wachutka Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana conducted by
Gustav Kuhn ARTE NOVA 74321
61339 2 [100:22] |
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Peteris VASKS
Violin Concerto, String
Symphony
Gidon Kremer TELDEC 3984
22660 Tala Gaisma [28:58] Stimmen: Stimmen der Stille [6:01]
Stimmen der Lebens [13:41] Stimmen der Gewissens [7:38] |
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RALPH VAUGHAN
WILLIAMS: Five Mystical Songs, Five Tudor
Portraits.
Sarah
Walker: Soprano, Henry Allen: Baritone. Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia
Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
Hyperion Helios CDH55004
66m DDD |
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MIKHAIL
PLETNEV. Homage to Rachmaninov.
RACHMANINOV. Variations on
a theme of Corelli, Op 42; Etudes Tableaux, Op 33 Nos 5,6,8
and 9. BEETHOVEN. Sonata in E flat,
Op 81 Les Adieux.
MENDELSSOHN. Andante Cantabile
and Presto agitato; Rondo Capriccioso, Op 14.
CHOPIN. Andante spianato
and Grand Polonaise, Op 22.
Mikhail Pletnev playing
Rachmaninov's Steinway.
DG 459 634-2
[DDD] [74' 35"]. |
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CELLO
SONATAS. GREIG,
Sonata in A minor, Op 36.
CHOPIN, Sonata in G minor, Op
65. SCHUMANN, Adagio and
Allegro, Op 70.
David Finckel (cello), Wu Han (piano)
. ArtistLed 19701-2
[64' 39"]. |
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CELLO SONATAS.
STRAUSS, Richard: Sonata in F, Op
6. FRANCK: Sonata in A (originally for
violin). FINCKEL, Edwin:
Variations 'Willow Weep For Me'.
David Finckel (cello), Wu Han (piano)
ArtistLed 19602-2 [59'
33"]. |
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THE KENNEDY
EXPERIENCE
Kennedy and associates: cello, guitar/dobro, guitar, flute, bass, oboe and
cello. SONY SK 61687
[55:12] |
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BBC PROMS 99
VERY few short complete works and (MOSTLY) movements from
works by: ELGAR, SARASATE, MOZART, PIAZZOLLA, IVES, RAVEL, BERNSTEIN, SIBELIUS,
BARBER, HAYDN, BEETHOVEN, STRAUSS, PERGOLESI, POULENC, MESSIAEN, NIELSEN,
RAMEAU, HOLST, BACH, FAURÉ,
SAINT-SAENS.
Artists
and Music from the BBC Proms 99
TELDEC 9548 3765912 2 CD
set [circa 140 mins] |
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The
music of George and Ira GERSHWIN, IRVING BERLIN; JEROME KERN and COLE PORTER
for:-
FRED ASTAIRE (1899-1987) - Let's face the Music and Dance -
A centenary celebration.
ASV CD AJA 5123 [77:52]
Original Historic Mono Recordings |
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GASTON
LEROUX: The Phantom of the
Opera.
Read
by Jeremy Nicholas with Peter Yapp. Music by Berlioz, Franck, Massenet and
Weber. Naxos Audiobooks
NA211812 159m DDD |
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MARY
SHELLEY:
Frankenstein
Read by: Daniel Philpott, Jonathan Oliver and Chris Larkin
. Naxos Audiobooks
NA200312 156m DDD. |
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Reviews |
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Havergal
Brian on Music - Volume I: British
Music
Edited by Malcolm MacDonald
Inglis GUNDRY Composers by the Grace of God
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