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SCHUBERT Complete chamber music for piano and strings Vol. 1: Trout Quintet D.667; Notturno D. 667& Piano Quartet D. 487 Nathalie Juchors-Paoletti (piano) David Lefèvre (violin) Christopher Gaugué (viola) Guillaume Paoletti (cello) & Eckhard Rudolph (Bass). ZigZag zzt 991201 63' 48" [PW]

Schubert, Schumann & Brahms lieder;
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) and Jessye Norman (soprano).
DG CD-pluscore 445 188-2 62'24" [PW]

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
The Orchestral Works conducted by NIKOLAI GOLOVANOV
Mono recordings reissued from Melodiya LPs dating from 1946-1952

BOHEME - Russian Classical Collection on four CDs [RB]


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SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture, Piano Concerto 2, Symphony 5
Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Litton (piano)
DELOS DE 3246 [73' 59"] [CA]

Shostakovich & Schnittke. The Piano Trios
Vienna Piano Trio
Nimbus NI 5572 69'. 00" [PW]

SHOSTAKOVICH: Complete String Quartets
Emerson String Quartet
DG 463 284-2, 5 discs (75'26, 76'58, 77'56, 68'33 & 60'38) Full Price [MB]

SHOSTAKOVICH: Overture Op. 23,
TISCHENKO: Cello Concerto (orch. Shostakovich),
SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto (orch Shostakovich),
SHOSTAKOVICH: Two Preludes (orch. Alfred Schnittke).
Russian State Symphony Orchestra Valery Polyansky.
Chandos CHAN9792 60m DDD. [GF]

SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 Op 43, Finlandia Op. 26, En Saga Op. 9. Pelleas et Melisande Suite Op. 46, Romance in C Op. 42, Andante festivo, Valse Triste, Suite champetre, Suite mignonne Op. 98, Rakastava Op. 14.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/English String Orchestra William Boughton
Nimbus NI7716/7 137m DDD. [GF]

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SOLER Sonatas Vol. 6
Gilbert Rowland (harpsichord)
Naxos 8.554565 75'07" [PW]

Winners of the First International Composers' Competition.
PATRIC STANDFORD The Prayer of Saint Francis interrupted by bells
PETER KNELL The Sun's Blinking Eye
ROBERT GULYA Piano Concerto
Budapest SO and Hungarian Radio and TV Chorus/Tamas Vasary.
HUNGAROTON BR 0156 CD available from: Kodaly Foundation, Budapest [GH]		 This is our third consecutive review of this disc

Richard STRAUSS: Elektra
Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Marta Szirmay (Klytamnestra), Gwyneth Jones (Chrysothemis), Donald McIntyre (Orestes) & Charles Craig (Aegisthus).Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Carlos Kleiber
rec London, 1977. 2 discs (stereo), Mid-price on Golden Melodram GM 6.0001.
+ Coupled with Alban Berg: Wozzeck Suite, Wendy Fine (sop), Symphony-Orchestra of Radio Cologne, Carlos Kleiber (1972) [MB]

TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini (1876)
Great SO of All-Union Radio and Central TV rec 1949
KALINNIKOV Symphony No. 1 (1895)
USSR State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra rec 1945 conducted by Nikolai Golovanov (1891-1953)
Historical Golovanov series - mono recordings BOHEME Russian Classical Collection CDBMR GOLO2 [61.36] [RB]

PETER TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Symphony No. 6 Pathétique (1893) 48.10
1812 Overture (1880) 14.47
Great SO of All-Union Radio and Central TV/Nikolai Golovanov
both rec 1948 Historical Golovanov series - mono recordings BOHEME Russian Classical Collection CDBMR GOLO1 [63.04] [RB]

PETER TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Complete Songs, Volume Two. Children's Songs, Op. 54. Six Romances, Op. 73.
Lyuba Kazarnovskaya (soprano); Ljuba Orfenova (piano).
Naxos 8.554358 [DDD] [64'09]. [CC]

PERCY TURNBULL Piano Music (Character Sketches; Miniatures; Pasticcio on a Theme of Mozart; Sonatina; Dances; Fantasy Suite; Preludes; Three Winter Pieces.)
Peter Jacobs, piano.
Somm SOMMCD 015 CD 69:35 [LF]		 rating not supplied

GUISEPPI VERDI (1813 - 1901) I vespri siciliani: Overture 8.50 Messa de Requiem 85.42 Amy Shuard (sop); Anna Reynolds (mez); Richard Lewis (ten); David Ward (bass); Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus. FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 -1828) Mass in E Flat Major. D 950 56.33 Anne Pashley (sop); Sybil Michelow (cont); David Hughes (ten 1); Duncan Robertson (ten 2); William McCue (bass). Scottish Festival Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra. Carlo Maria Giulini   Recorded: Royal Albert Hall:- Aug 7 1963 (I vespri siciliani); Royal Albert Hall:- Aug 5 1963 (Requiem) Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Aug 31 1968 (Schubert) BBC BBCL 4029-2 CD1 75.06 CD2 77.31 [HD]

VERDI: Complete Overtures, Preludes and Ballet Music.
BBC Philharmonic Sir Edward Downes.
CHANDOS CHAN9510, CHAN9594, CHAN9696, CHAN9788. 4 discs aas CHAN9787/4. 76m, 71m, 56m, 64m.[GF]

WILLIAM WALTON Violin Concerto Cello Concerto Dong Suk Kang (violin) Tim Hugh (cello) ENPO/Paul Daniel NAXOS 8.554325 [59.57] [RB]

William WALTON (1902 - 1983)
String Quartet in A Minor 28'49"
Piano Quartet in D Minor * 28'37"
Maggini Quartet Peter Donohoe (pno)*
Recorded Potton Hall, Suffolk,UK. May 30 - June 1 1999 DDD Naxos 8.554646 [57'38"] [HD]

RICHARD WILSON Symphony No. 1 (1984) New Zealand SO/James Sedares Gnomics (1981) Randy Bowman (fl) Laura Ahlbeck (ob) Laura Flax (cl) Tribulations - song cycle (1988) Mary Ann Hart (mezzo) composer (piano) Viola Sonata (1989) Misha Amory (viola) Blanca Uribe (piano) KOCH INTERNATIONAL CLASSICS 3-7483-2 [63.15] [RB]

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