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Glenn Gould Hereafter
Rameau – In Convertendo (Christie)
Wagner – The Ring Cycle (Audi)

• CDs

  Staffan Mårtensson & Trio TribukaitPetterssonBerg

• Bartok Camilleri & Stravinsky (pianos & percussion)
  Women at the piano, Vol. 2 (Naxos historical)
  Shostakovich/Prokofiev concertos (Harrell)
  

• Rossini Petit Messe Solennelle (King's Consort)
  Simpson Symphony No 3 & Clarinet Quintet
  

• Elena Kats-Chernin (Chamber music & Piano Music)
  Brahms Piano Works - Wilhelm Backhaus
  Glazunov Solo Piano Music (Stephen Coombs)
  Birgusson Portraits for piano
  Bainbridge (Continuum/Ancora)
  

• GOTHIC VOICES with Emma Kirkby
  Stuart MacRae (Violin Concerto etc)
  Borut Krzisnik A Life in Suitcases
  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 4/HOLST The Planets (composers conducting)
  Schoenberg Moses & Aaron (Stuttgart Opera)
  BARTOK: Mikrokosmos
  Shostakovich: Symphonies 1 & 15 (Caetani)
  Beethoven & Maxwell Davies Piano trios (Grieg Trio)
  Per Nørgård & Bent Sorensen (Andersen bicentenary commissions)
  Uday Bhawalkar (dhrupad singer)
  Langgaard: Antichrist (Da Capo)
  Bhawalkar & Munde Pakhawaj; Misras & Sahai
  Dvorák, Janácek, Martinu & Grieg (Prochazka/Schlosser)
  Mâche, Zavaro and Hersant (DENSITE 21)
  Monteverdi 6th Book of Madrigals (Concerto Italiano)
  Gombert Missa Media Vita [ECM, Hilliard Ensemble]
  TURNAGE GRUBER EÖTVÖS

• JULY 2006
• DVDs
  
  Rubinstein (Grieg, Chopin & Saint-Saens Piano Concertos)
• Britten Gloriana on film
• Sallinen The Palace
• Mussorgsky Boris Godunov (original version, Barcelona)
• Giordano Andrea Chenier (TDK, Cura etc)
• CDs
• Vassily Savenko (Russian Images)
• WOMEN AT THE PIANO (Naxos) AN ANTHOLOGY OF HISTORIC PERFORMANCES Vols 1 & 2
• Anita Chen plays Grieg piano concerto and Conus violin concerto
• Barry Guy and
  Rolf Livesland
• Edward Beckett (French flute music)
• Kinga Prada (new Swedish flute music)
• Listening to Gloriana (MacKerras/Barstow CD)
• Hans-Ola Ericsson The Four Beasts Amen
• Hultqvist/Adolphson Time passes in the trees; a requiem & Give me the love
• Royal Academy of Music Song Circle
• Henze Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
• Dvorak Symphonies 7 & 8 (Czech PO/Talich)
• J.S.Bach Flute Sonatas
• Re-invented (Unknown Public 17)
• Latvian Piano Music
• Swedish Piano Music
• Shostakovich THE EXECUTION OF STEPAN RAZIN
• Ramey - Piano Music
• Primrose Piano Quartet (English piano quartets)
• June 2006 CDs & DVDs
• The links in this listing became corrupted during June. They have, so far as possible, now been restored to facilitate access.
  
• June
  DVDs
  Navras Raga Interactive Guide
• Rossini THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Zedda/Fo)
• CDs
• Alexina Louie
• Dag Wiren String Quartets
• Avner Dorman
• Ries Piano concertos
• Estonian vocal music Loomiselaul The Creation
• Ana Sokolovic
• FERNEYHOUGH Shadowtime
• Berio Sequenzas I-XIV
• Knut Sönstevold Fagotto con forza
• Gubaidulina The Deceitful Face of Hope and Despair & Seven Words
• Clementi & Locke (Helios)
• BACH: Gamba Sonatas ( Manson/Pinnock)
• Davies MacRae Fujikura etc
• Mozart Trios (Florestan Trio)
• Alkan OrganMusic
• RUBBRA VIOLIN CONCERTO
• GuriEgge soprano
• Schubert Winterreise (Mertens & Mathot)
• Elisabeth Schumann
• Ives (Longobardi)
• URQUHART
• Rzewski De profundis & North American Ballads
• Rebstein (left-hand piano recital)
• Ogdon Brahms Concerto No 2 Beethoven Sonata Op 111
• Kabalevsky Piano Concertos
• Rubbra Violin Concerto
  The Beggar's Opera
• MAY 2006
  DVDs

MAY 2006

DVDs

Verdi Aida (Robert Wilson - Brussels)

Rossini La Gazzetta

Operavox (animated Barber, Carmen, Magic Flute, Rhinegold, Rigoletto and Turandot)

Wagner Meistersinger (Bayreuth 1984)

Mozart Piano Concertos/Mitsuko Uchida

Mahler/ Schönberg/Stravinsky/Berio : Frank Scheffer documentary films

Verdi La Traviata (Teatro Real, Madrid)

Monteverdi L'Orfeo (Barcelona/Savall)

Monteverdi L'Orfeo (Amsterdam/Audi)

CDs

New Norwegian Music for violin (Sigyn Fossnes)

Magne Hegdal Herbarium II

Knut Vaage Someone is going to come

Gloria Coates String Quartets

Dan Laurin 21st-century music for recorder

Roger Sessions Chamber Music

Melodies from La belle epoch (John Mark Ainsley and Graham Johnson)

Berio Sequenzas I-XIV for Solo Instruments (Naxos)

NED ROREM Flute Concerto & Violin Concerto

BRITTEN – Purcell Realizations (Felicity Lott; Susan Gritton; Sarah Walker; James Bowman; John Mark Ainsley; Ian Bostridge; Anthony Rolfe Johnson; Richard Jackson ; Simon Keenleyside and Graham Johnson)

KABALEVSKY – Piano Concertos

This World's Globe (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)

Historic Piano Performances, Vol. 1 (1926-1952, Naxos)

Beethoven and Smetana Quartets complete (Wihan Quartet)

Verdi: Don Carlos (French original - Opera Rara)

Contemporary Contemporary Swedish Music for Two Violins

STELLAN SAGVIK 10 Concertinos

Joyce DiDonato (Wigmore HallLive: A journey through Venice)

Dohnányi, Enescu & d'Albert (Romantic Cello Concertos)

English song by WW1 composers

Havergal Brian songs

PUCCINI – MANON LESCAUT (NAXOS HISTORICAL)

Frauenliebe und -Leben - a Liederspiel based on Adalbert von Chamisso

April 2006

DVDs

Ustad Vilyat Khan on DVD (Different Strokes & Bequest)

Macolm Bilson Knowing the Score

Cursive II - Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

Vilayat Khan & Kishan Maharaj on CD & DVD

Pierre Boulez - Eclat & Sur Incises

Gilbert & Sullivan – The Mikado

CDs

Medtner Dukas Decaux (Marc-André Hamelin)

Davies & MacRae; Hayes, Greenwood & Fujikura (London Sinfonietta)

Requiems by de la Rue & Brumel and Obrecht Missa Sub tuum praesidium

Poulenc Messiaen Villette (New College Choir)

Gloria Coates Symphonies

Henze Guitar Music & Schoenberg Serenade

Jacob van Eyck's Pleasure Garden (Dan Laurin, recorders)

Maw & Bennett at 70 (NMC Ancora)

String Quartet CDs received during the London String Quartet Competition
Beethoven; Kojenikov; Mendelssohn; Suk

20th Century Choral Music (Joby Talbot, Ib Norholm, Ruth Byrchmore, Francis Pott etc)

Bax Piano Music (Vols 2 & 3

Vilayat Khan & Kishan Maharaj

Tovey Symphony in D & Prelude The Bride of Dionysus

Liszt Sonata; Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H; Totentanz - Markus Groh (piano)

Jenkins Six-Part Consorts (Phantasm)

Rossini Gala

March 2006

DVDs

Rossini Cenerentola (Glyndebourne)

Puccini Turandot (Opera Australia Melbourne)

Mozart – Don Giovanni (Biexto)

Amelia (LaLaLaHumanSteps/Edouard Lock)

Bizet/Shchedrin Carmen (West Australian Ballet)

CDs

Mozart Unknown Arias for Soprano (Helen Donath)

Marshall & Moravec (North American Composers)

Kurtág Kafka-Fragmente

Bach/Rummell Piano Transcriptions

Janika Vandervelde, Rose Bolton, Micheline Roi, Jocelyn Morlock, Linda C. Smith and Rameau (Joseph Petric accordion)

Szymanowski Quartet (HAYDN BACEWICZ DVORAK)

Albinoni, Bertouch & Mozart

Enescu Piano Music

Saint-Saëns Piano Trios and Faure Piano Quintets (Florestan Trio & Domus)

Schubert's Piano Music (Goldstone, Schuchter, Staier and Tverskaya)

Hummel & Moscheles (Sonatas for Piano & Cello)

Pierre Villette choral music (Holst Singers)

Goldstone & Clemmow (Explorations & Resonances)

Roy Harris: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4

BBC (Bainton, Beethoven and Clifford - Locrian Ensemble)

Haydn Seven Last Words at Maulbrunn Monastery

Schubert's quintets (The Divine Art and Hyperion)

ROSSINI – IL TURCO IN ITALIA & STRAUSS – ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Naxos Historical)

February 2006

DVDs

Auber & Donizetti “Double Bill”

Michelangeli (Debussy, Chopin and Beethoven)

Vivier: Rêves D'Un Marco Polo

CDs

Schubert's Friends and Contemporaries

Contemporary English String Quartets

American Chamber Music (Schickele, Thomas, Berkey and Kritz)

Berwald chamber music

Robert Johnson lute solos and songs

Philip Rosseter songs and lute solos

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Chamber Music by Walter Rabl and Josef Labor

Fortepiano & Square Pianos (Crossland & Katin)

Mozart – “Exsultate Jubilate!”

Colin Booth (Harpsichord & Spinet)

Dawn Upshaw (Golijov & Berio)

British Song (Boughton, Salter, Mathias etc)

HAYDN Piano Variations

Gombert Magnificat etc

Enescu Oedipe (Monte Carlo)

Ravel songs revisited (Naxos)

Brahms & Schubert - Violin Sonatas

Feldman String Quartet

Elisabeth Söderström live

Lina Lalandi plays Bach on clavichord and harpsichord

Stefan Wolpe - Wolpe in Jerusalem

Chabrier Piano Music (Hewitt & Stott)

January 2006

DVDs

Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro X 2

Britten The Rape of Lucretia (ENO)

Handel Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Barcelona)

Massenet - Werther

Bellini – La Sonambula (Mei at Florence)

Three DVDs of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen

Wagner – Tristan und Isolde (Billy at Barcelona)

CDs

Enescu Oedipe (Vienna State Opera)

Edwin Roxburgh Clarinet Concerto & Saturn

Josef Hofmann (Fabiana Biasini)

Beethoven, Brahms & Zemlinsky - Viola Trios

New Queen’s Hall Orchestra/John Farrer

Vienna around 1900 (Denisova/Kornienko)

Ennemond and Denis Gaultier Livre de Perrine (Louis Pernot, lute)

Vivaldi Tito Manlio

Sarah Connolly live

Luis de Pablo @ 75

Wagner – Tristan und Isolde (Domingo/Pappano at ROH)

Charpentier at Rozay-en-Brie

Erich Zeisl Lieder

December 2005

DVDs

Mozart La Clemenza di Tito (l'Opéra National de Paris)

Bach Christmas Oratorio (Harnoncourt)

Beethoven Fidelio (Glyndebourne 1979)

Rameau – Les Paladins

Handel Guilio Cesare in Egitto (Barcelona)

CDs

Spectrum 4 (ABRSM Thalia Myers)

SOKOLOV Bach Beethoven Chopin Brahms

Frederic Rzewski (Eighth Blackbird)

Telemann, Franck, Bartok etc (Ulrich Herkenhoff, Pan Flute, with Matthias Keller, Organ)

S-D Sandström Freedom Mass

Johan Bridger (percussion recital)

RUBINSTEIN/RADULESCU Viola Sonatas etc (Mikhail Zemtsov)

English Music for Viola and Piano (The Bridge Duo)

Ponce Piano Music

Tallis Spem in alium (King's Singers)

Boyce Peleus & Thetis

Verdi – La Traviata (Salzburg 2005)

Childhood (Unknown Public 16)

Paul Dresher Cage Machine

Maconchy and LeFanu Chamber Music

November 2005

DVDs

Puccini Madama Butterfly (De Nederlandse Opera)

CDs

U
BOLCOM: Music for Two Pianos

Schumann Carnaval, Papillons, Fantasiestücke (Marc-André Hamelin)

HUMMEL: Chamber Music & Piano Fantasies

Bach and Duruflé on the new organ at Dresden Frauenkirche

Beethoven Diabelli Variations (Edmund Battersby, Fortepiano & Steinway)

Judith Weir Blond Eckbert

Vitiello and Tronzo Scratchy Monsters and Laughing Ghosts

Fauré Mélodies Hyperion
(Graham Johnson Intégrale Vol 4) and Janet Baker/Geoffrey Parsons

Weill Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

October 2005

DVDs

Handel's Water Music on the Thames

Britten/Sargent, Myra Hess, Dennis Brain in the '40s

CDs

Monteverdi – The Sacred Music – Hyperion Vol 4

Schubert symphonies 1, 3 & 7 (Unfinished)

Chicago a cappella (Forestier, Palestrina and Eclectric)

Giordano – Andrea Chenier

Strauss - Daphne

Madeleine Isaksson Chamber music

Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans (Naive)

Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans (Hyperion/King)

Schubert Schiller songs (Allen and Johnson)

Brahms by Nissman (Barbara Nissman, piano)

Matthew Barley (CDs for 1 - 9 cellos)

Barry The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant on CD and radio

Barry The Intelligence Park & The Triumph of Beauty & Deceit

Weill Symphonies

September 2005

DVDs

Monteverdi – The Final Operas

Verdi Don Carlo (Amsterdam)

CDs

Schubert: The Complete Songs (Hyperion)

Schubert – Schiller-Lieder (Holzmair)

Vivaldi The Complete Sacred Music (Hyperion)

SCHUBERT EPILOG & DIALOG (Berio, Henze etc)

Rolf Urs RINGGER Ballets

Kenins & Beckwith Portraits

Debussy & Mozart (Banse/Schiff)

Choral Songs on Shakespeare Texts (Chicago a cappella)

AUGUST 2005 DVDs

TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin (Bolshoi Theatre, 2000)

Andrés Segovia - In Portrait

Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen (Barcelona June 2004)

Schubert (Dances complete - Campisi)

Henze L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe

Glyndebourne – Don Giovanni & Macbeth (DVDs from the 1970's)

Schubert (Christopher Nupen films)

Haydn String Quartets - The Lindsays

CDs

Alexei Lubimov Elegies for Piano

Tigran Mansurian String Quartets

Mendelssohn string quartets (Paciifica Quartet)

Bach Hölszky Gubaidulina (Julius Berger, Stefan Hussong (accordion) & cellists)

IVES Songs (Gerald Finley & Julius Drake)

Nina Stemme (Wagner, Nystroem & de Boeck)

Trio Fibonacci: Gerald Barry, James Clarke & Michael Finnissy

Liszt, Chopin, Griffes, Bentzon, Ginastera (Tonya Lemoh, piano)

Beethoven Diabelli Variations revisited

including Uri Caine Arrangements and improvisations on
33 Variations in C on a Waltz by Diabelli

Biber, Castello, Bach & Barry Guy (Homburger/Guy)
Gyrowetz, Hoffmeister, Dittersdorf etc (Galeazzi Ensemble)

The Divine Liturgy (works from the Russian Orthodox tradition)

Stravinsky Shostakovich Prokofiev Scriabin ( Alexei Lubimov, Piano)

Ivan Fedele Quartets (Arditti String Quartet)

Parmerud, Strindberg & Melin (Swedish contemporary composers)

Antonín Rejcha FLUTE SONATAS

Gershwin works for Piano & Orchestra (Campisi)

Havergal Brian Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 18

Berwald Tone Poems

Vierne Symphonies 1 - 6

Geminiani (Alison McGillivray, baroque cello)

Dohnányi Martinů Schönberg String Trios

Lex van Delden Chamber Music

Beethoven Septet and Sextet

Elliott Carter Works for Cello

JULY 2005

DVDs

Rameau Les Indes Galantes

Jonas Forssell Thine is the Kingdom

Günter Wand (Bruckner Symphonies 5, 6, 8 & 9)

CDs

Steve Reich Triple Quartet and Different Trains

Swedish Music CDs

Lambert & Howells

Xenakis (Pedro Carneiro percussion)

JUNE 2005

DVDs

Puccini Gianni Schicchi (Glyndebourne 2004)

CDs

Ramon Lazkano

Sydney Chamber Choir Landscape's Creature

VERDI La forza del destino (Original version on CD & DVD)

Tristan Murail Piano Music

Castiglioni piano music

Chris Dench ik(s)land[s]

Fauré Mélodies vols 1-3 (Hyperion/Graham Johnson)

BOLCOM & ROREM SONGS (William Bolcom, Ned Rorem & Carole Farley)

Conlon NANCARROW (Continuum)

Gerard Grisey Four Chants for Crossing the Threshold [KAIROS]

Pehr Henrik Nordgren Music for String Orchestra

Robin Holloway Gilded Goldbergs (Micallef-Inanga Piano Duo)

Telemann Concertos for flutes, &
Bach to Mozart - following the path of the Trio Sonata

Beethoven - Eroica Symphony (Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Sir John Eliot Gardiner)

Mendelssohn Music for Two Pianists

Schumann by Nissman

London Baroque (17 C French trio sonatas)

Debussy L'enfant prodigue & Honegger Symphonie liturguique (Cluytens/Radio Turin)

Daniel Beliavsky (pianist)

Mendelssohn String Quartets, Walpurgis Night and Overtures

Bax Piano Music Vol 2 (Ashley Wass)

FINZI Williams/Burnside

Britten Piano Concerto etc (McGregor/Bedford)

Atli Ingólfsson (Arditti Quartet etc)

Francis Pott Christus (Passion Symphony for organ)

Finzi songs recital (James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook)

APRIL 2005

DVDs

Parsifal in Baden-Baden

Elgar's Enigma Variations

The Muti Affair

CDs

JOHN CASKEN on Metier & NMC

Maxwell Davies - Naxos Quartets Nos 3 and 4

Haflidi Hallgrímsson Passía; Carl Unander-Scharin Apostlagärning & Kjell Mørk Karlsen St John Passion

Iancu Dumitresco & Ana-Maria Avram (Romanian composers)

DONIZETTI Francesca di Foix

William Bolcom Songs of Innocence and of Experience

17C Italian songs etc (Nancy Long/Tragicomedia)

English virginals music (David Pollock, muselar)

Hakon Børresen - The Royal Guest

Haydn & Mozart Piano Concertos

Severnside Alliance Composers - Peter Jacobs (piano)

Machaut 23 Motets (Zig-Zag)

Handel Recorder Sonatas (Ensemble Fitzwilliam)
Johann Strauss Waltzes, Polkas & Overtures (Period Instrument Orchestra)

Mahler V (Bruno Walter/NYPSO)

Rued Langgaard: Works for Piano

Brahms Lieder - Complete Edition volume 8

MARCH 2005

DVDs

Mozart Mitridate Re di Ponto

RAYMONDA - The Bolshoi Ballet

CDs

ERIK CHISHOLM Music for piano Volume 2

Anthony Gilbert (violin concerto etc)

Swedish contemporary music
Unander-Scharin: Figures in a Landscape
Ivo Nilsson Trombone con forza
Hillborg Violin & Clarinet Concertos
Stockholm Electronic Arts
Sven-David Sandström Choral Music

Flavio Testi Saül

NEUE VOCALISTEN STUTTGART Alles Theater!

DANISH PIANO TRIOS

Jeremy Dale Roberts

COWELL and FOSS (Naxos American Classics)

BACH Cantatas Vols.1 & 8/John Eliot Gardiner

Scottish Ensemble
(Shostakovich Piano Concerto, Octet; and Quartets Shostakovich/Barshai, Ravel/Barshai)

Britten, Krenek, Doráti (Jahren & Westenholz)

UNANDER-SCHARIN The King of Fools

FEBRUARY 2005

DVDs

Handel: Julius Caesar (Australian Opera, 1994)

Britten - The Turn of the Screw (filmed at Fulbeck Hall 2004)

CDs

BRUNO MADERNA Don Perlimplin

LlSZT Heroïde funebre & Piano Concerto No.1 (Maag/Berman)

Britten (Scottish Ensemble/Toby Spence)

Artur Pizarro (Chopin favourites)

Salvatore Sciarrino Stories of Other Stories

Verdi Les Vêpres Sicilienne (Opera Rara)

Dukas Ariane (Aubin/Gala)

Britten Song Cycles (Langridge/Bedford)

Jack Liebeck & Katya Apekisheva (Prokofiev 2nd Sonata etc)

WEBERN Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble/Philharmonia Orchestra/Robert Craft

CALLAS in Lucia, Traviata & Norma (Naxos)

JANUARY 2005

DVDs

Daniel Barenboim - 50 Years On Stage

Mendelssohn/Lanchberry The Dream

Chopin Piano Music (Perl, Hewitt and Kempf)

CDs

Hot Mikado (Original cast recording)

Zemlinsky A Florentine Tragedy

Benjamin BRITTEN Northern Sinfonia, Collins/NaxosDennis Brain (1953-57)

Schnabel Beethoven Sonatas Nos 22 - 29

DECEMBER 2004

DVDs

Lee Jae Hwa - Geomgo Sanjo (Korean Classical Music)

Francis Schwartz The Headless Glory of André Cheniér

VERDI AIDA (St. Margarethen)

PETITGIRARD Joseph Merrick the Elephant Man

CDs

Murray McLachlan BUSONI RECITAL

Rachmaninoff Vespers (Tenebrae)

John Jenkins Fantazia

PETITGIRARD Joseph Merrick the Elephant Man

WILLIAMSON; SAXTON; McCABE; LUTYENS (Brunel Ensemble)

HUMPERDINCK: Hänsel and Gretel (Karajan/Schwarzkopf etc)

Songs, dances and consort music for Henry VIII's six queens

Peter Sculthorpe Orchestral music

Tippett - recordings from the 1940s

Luxembourg International Composition Prize 2004

Bruno Walter, Joseph Marx & Richard Strauss (Emma Bell)

DONIZETTI ELVIDA & BELLINI ERNANI

Saygun Symphonies

NOVEMBER 2004

DVDs

Adriana Lecouvreur and Cosi, with Daniela Dessi

Rossini La Donna del Lago

CDs

G Prokofiev String Quartet and Remixes

Feldman & Fox

Paganini and Paganinissimo

Harpsichords from early-music.com

CDs at Greenwich EMF (recorders, bagpipes, clavichord &c)

Hoffmeister - String Quartets Op 14 - Aviv Quartet

André Marchal, organ recordings 1936 - 1956

Busoni - Historic recordings

Szymanowski Complete Songs

Couperin Suites (Mitzi Meyerson)

Brigitte Fassbaender & Herman Prey (Lieder & Ballads)

OCTOBER 2004

DVDs and CD-extras

Ton Bruynèl [collected works with CD-rom]

Les Troyens X2

Verdi I Vespri Siciliani Muti/Milan

CDs

Sarah-Jane Bradley viola

Mahler Das Lied von de Erde & songs etc (Ferrier/Walter)

Mercadante Emma d'Anitochia

Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartets 1 & 2

Gordon McPHERSON Detours

BRITTEN: Orchestral Song-Cycles Vol 1

Horenstein Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Schubert Unfinished Symphony Wagner Faust Overture

Shostakovich Marginalia (Hypothetically Murdered, Hamlet, King Lear etc
(Elder & CBSO)

Weber Die Drei Pintos (completed by Mahler)

Jason Eckardt (Ensemble 21)

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2004

DVDs and CD-extras

Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty (Amsterdam)

Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (Pritchard/Hall Glyndebourne 1973)

Mozart Così fan Tutte (Muti/Hampe)

CDs

Ashley Wass (Bax)

Mark Bebbington, piano Ivor Gurney and Howard Ferguson

Franck, Chopin & Hindemith: Alicja Fiderkiewicz (piano)

MUSIC FOR ONDES MARTENOT Thomas Bloch

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Sacred Music

Simon Holt Chamber orchestral music

Hummel Missa Solemnis and Te Deum

Knussen Snapshots

Musics from Laos

Franz Schmidt Piano Concerto and Chaconne

FEDELE Chamber Music

EINO TAMBERG CYRANO DE BERGERAC

Rupert Bawden The Sailor's Tale

Robert Saxton Caritas

20th CENTURY ESTONIAN MUSIC:
Mati Kuulberg A musical portrait;
Eino Tamberg Orchestral Music;
Lepo Sumera Chamber music;
Ester Mägi - A Musical Portrait;
Peeter Vähi 2000 Years after the birth of Christ & Chamber music
Eespere Chamber Music

J S Bach cello suites (Julius Berger)

Lukas Ligeti Mystery System

Different Drums of Ireland

Clemens and Tallis - The Brabant Ensemble and Chapelle du Roi

Delius A Village Romeo and Juliet

Dvorak Complete Solo Piano Music

Bach, Vivaldi, Marcello: Concerti Italiani

JUNE/JULY 2004

DVDs and CD-extras

Wagner Götterdämmerung Stuttgart Opera

Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Jacqueline Du Pre (Christopher Nupen films)

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin WNO, BBC 4 film

Britten Owen Wingrave

Three Toscas (Muti, Pappano & Benini)

Pacini Maria, Regina d'Inghilterra

Pergolesi Lo frate 'nnamorata

Vecchi L'Amfiparnaso (I Fagiolini)

Puccini Il Fanciulla del West (Scala 1991)

Britten Billy Budd

Ravel/Kylian (L'Enfant et les Sortileges - Netherlands Dance Theater)

CDs

Leon Michener Imaginary Landscapes

Beethoven/Tschaikowsky (BPO/Schuricht)

Vivaldi Orlando finto pazzo

Tapestry: Songs from the Exotic

Charles Ives Four Violin Sonatas

Mahler Das Lied von de Erde (Walter & VSO, 1936)

Augusta Read Thomas Words of the Sea

The Nursery Sandra Lissenden/Katherine Durran & The Nursery Simon Woolf/Steuart Bedford

Stamitz: Viola d'amore Concertos

Armon Grigoryan (Douduk)

Bloch, Gubaidulina, Cage - Julius Berger (cello)

Skalkottas Piano Concerto No 3

C P E Bach & G P Telemann Concertos

Beethoven/Weingartner (Naxos Historical)

Beethoven Sonatas Vol 7 (Schnabel)

Japanese Solo Percussion Music (Mika Takehara)

Rossini Il Signor Bruschino

Ravel Operas (L'Enfant et les Sortileges & L'Heure Espagnol - Maag)

Josef Tal Symphonies Nos.4, 5 & 6

Georg Bohm Harpsichord Music (Mitzi Meyerson)

Franz Schmidt Notre Dame CD and study scores

Havergal Brian The Gothic Symphony

Dmitri Smirnov concertos

Barbara Nissman on Pierian Records

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BRASS ENSEMBLE 20th ANNIVERSARY REUNION CONCERT

Rochberg, Shapero, Berger & Hartke (New World Records)

Sallinen Kullervo

Aviv String Quartet - Shostakovich Quartets Nos. 8 & 9

Philomela and Marjukka Riihimäki

Organ & Trumpets (Colm Carey etc)

Music for Charles V (Chapelle du Roi)

MAY 2004

DVDs and CD-extras

Rameau: Les Boreades

Rossini Gugielmo Tell

Prokofiev - War and Peace (Kirov Opera/Gergiev)

CDs

Dillon Book of Elements Books ( Noriko Kawai - piano) & instrumental works (Music Projects London)

Roger Smalley recent chamber and solo piano works

ARRANGEMENTS FOR ACCORDION AND VIOLA (Imai/Miki)

Dowland Ayres with viols

Choral Music by James MacMillan

Prokofiev Piano Sonatas complete (Barbara Nissman)

A TRIBUTE TO VIC NEES

Sirinu X 3

Liapounov Symphony No 2

APRIL 2004

Dusapin - Piano studies and Piano Concerto (CDs+DVD)

Beethoven Piano Concertos (Duchable & Nelson, interactive DVDs)

CDs

MICHELANGELI in Lugano (1981)

ROCHBERG Symphony No. 5 etc

Spiritual Spanish music for Cello Octet

Handel Solomon from Maulbronn

Céleste Zewald (clarinet) debut CD

Beth Anderson Swales & Angels

Corrado Canonici (double-bass recital)

ROCHBERG Violin Concerto

Gesualdo - Tenebrae Responses

Charpentier David et Jonathas

MARCH 2004

DVDs

ALBENIZ Merlin

Wagner Meistersinger (Opera Australia)

CDs

Poul Rovsing Olsen: Belisa (Chamber opera in four scenes)

Aldo Ciccolini Chopin Nocturnes

Olga Tverskaya (fortepiano) Mozart, Haydn, Schubert (deleted Opus 111 CDs)

Erik Chisholm centenary CD

AVIV STRING QUARTET Shostakovich Quartets 8 and 9

ensembleQ MacMillan, Cashian, Duddell, Brady & Davies

Colin Matthews (orchestral music)

JOSEPH SZIGETI Prokofiev No 1; Bartok; Bloch (Beecham, Lambert, Munch)

Ari Ben-Shabetai

Israeli Piano Music Anthology

Debussy Mélodies (Dietschy & Piau)

FEBRUARY 2004

DVDs

CDs

Debussy Mélodies (Veronique Dietschy & Sandrine Piau)

Misato Mochizuki Music for Ensemble

JANUARY 2004

DVDs

Sokolov Live in Paris

CDs

Erik Chisholm (Murray McLachlan)

Brahms, Juon & Kahn Clarinet Trios

REGER/KOLISCH VIOLIN CONCERTO (Denisova)

DECEMBER 2003

DVDs

Die Zauberflöte (Ludwigsburger Festspiele)

CDs

BeethovenSymphonies (Norrington&Maag)

Lucille Chung plays Ligeti (2)

HANDEL Jephtha

Dvorak Piano Quintets (Klansky & Vlach Quartet)

Lamento di Tristano (Capella de Ministrers)

La Turbulente (17 C. Italian instrumental music)

The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble (Pugh & Schnyder)

Orpheus Quartet (Beethoven, Schubert & Veress)

MAYSEDER & BEETHOVEN

MORE MAAG (Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schumann)

Gluck Orfeo & Euridice (Maag)

Haydn/de Fossa Grand duos (baroque guitars)

Mäntyjärvi Choral works

Mäntyjärvi Salvat

Rihm Lieder

The Gaultier Cousins Music for Lute (Lislevand)

Portuguese contemporary music (Carneiro; RSA Brass & The Galliard Ensemble)

NOVEMBER 2003

DVDs

Mozart Entfuhrung (Stuttgart)

Verdi Otello (Muti/Domingo 2001)

MONTEVERDI VESPERS (Italian-Swiss performance)

Rossini Tancredi

Verdi: Jerusalem

CDs

Music from 17c. France (Gordon Ferries, Baroque guitars)

Couperin La Paix du Parnasse (2 harpsichords)

Sibelius Theatre Music

Choral Music for Christmas and all the Year (King's Singers Christmas; The Naxos Book of Carols; 48th Cork International Choral Festival; Charpentier Messe de Minuit; Honegger Christmas Cantata & Britten A Boy is Born)
Purcell The Fairy Queen

MOZART Nine Late Symphonies (Maag)

Luis de Pablo Zurezko Olerkia

LANGGAARD Works for Violin and Piano vol. 2

Elena Riu (Soler and Icons for the 21st Century)

Sadie Harrison Taking Flight & The Light Garden

Frederic Rzewski Piano Works (1975-99)

OCTOBER 2003

DVDs

Bellini Beatrice di Tenda

Hildegard von Bingen (Hidegard in Portrait)

Paul Lewis and Zoltan Kocsis recitals at La Roque d'Antheron

Gluck Alceste (Paris, with van Otter)

CDs

FEDELE Concertos

Frescobaldi - Colin Booth

RAVEL Songs

Dancing/Listening (Unknown Public)

Dallapiccola Ulisse

Rihm & Staebler piano music

Sadie HARRISON The Light Garden with traditional Afghan music

Rochberg Caprice Variations

Palladian Ensemble - Rebel & Marais

IVES Emerson Concerto and Symphony No.1

Beethoven Sonatas Pizarro & Schnabel

SEPTEMBER 2003

DANCE DVD

Glazounov/Petipa/Nureyev Raymonda

OPERAS (CDs & DVDs)

Puccini: Three Turandots

Puccini Le Villi & Edgar

Giacomo Meyerbeer Margherita d'Anjou

Richard Strauss - Capriccio (DVD)

CDs

The French Harpsichord David Pollock

Accentus Chamber Choir (Transcriptions)

Michael FINNISSY This Church

John Dowland: Lachrimae Pavans and songs

York Höller Works for one and two pianos

Ligeti & Levinas Piano Studies

Giacinto Scelsi Piano Music

Emmanuel Nunes Lichtung I & II

Francisco Guerrero Orchestral Music

JULY & AUGUST 2003

OPERA DVDs

Britten Peter Grimes (ENO/Alberry/Gavin/Atherton)

PUCCINI Turandot (completed by Berio)

Puccini Turandot at Beijing

Henze - Der Prinz von Homburg

CDs

Alexander TCHEREPNIN Piano Concertos etc

Sofia Gubaidulina instrumental works

Per Nørgård: Songs

Luxembourg Sinfonietta International Composition Prize 2002

BRITTEN & BERKELEY Auden Songs (Naxos)

John Hawkins Voices from the Sea

Beethoven Violin Sonatas (Lobanov & Kagan)

Haydn operas (Dorati) - Orlando Paladino, Armida etc.
with comments about presentation of re-issues

English Ballad Tunes - Nigel North (lute) - Linn

Harada After the Winter

MASSENET Werther Lille/Jean-Claude Casadesus Naxos

SCARLATTI- SIXTEEN LATE SONATAS Colin Tilney (harpsichord)

JUNE 2003

OPERA DVDs

PUCCINI La Boheme in Australia and London

Wagner Tristan & Isolde (Munich production)

CDs

VIVALDI & BOISMORTIER

Lou Harrison Drums Along the Pacific & Serenado

Contemporary Flute (Ruffer & Caroli) and Doina Rotaru's Magic Flutes

Hans Werner Henze – Requiem & documentary (DVD)

Helmut Rilling conducts Romantic Choral Music

Hillborg Violin Concerto; Clarinet Concerto (Peacock Tales); Liquid Marble

MAY 2003

OPERA DVDs

Wagner - LOHENGRIN DVD

Donizetti - Roberto Devereux (Musica Rara CDs)

Two Fledermice DVDs (London & Salzburg)

Two DVDs of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen

BRITTEN The Turn of the Screw DVD from Schwetzinger Festival

CDs

Schubert Lieder orchestrated (Van Otter/Quastoff/Abbado & COE)

Sibelius BIS & Naxos

Hind, Wood etc New Music Players

Guillaume de Machaut: Motets, Mass music & songs

W Zimmermann Beginner's Mind

Beethoven and Archduke Rudolf

IVES Celestial Country; Silence Accompanied

Beethoven Symphonies No.7 & 8 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Felix Weingartner

RUBBRA STRING QUARTETS Dante Quartet (CDs & live performances)

Milhaud String Quartets & Octet

CANADIAN COMPOSER PORTRAITS R Murray-Schafer & Jean Papineau-Couture

A Songbook for Isabella

AHO Symphonies & Violin Concertos

THEA MUSGRAVE Orchestral Music

Peter Warlock Songs

MAY 2003

Beethoven Explored (Beethoven's Op 96 and Archduke Rudolf)

APRIL 2003

Rawsthorne Piano Concertos

Naxos Evening - Rawsthorne, Rutter & Villa-Lobos

Ruders The Handmaid's Tale (da capo CDs)

Golden Age of the Piano (Philips DVD)

Goeyvaerts Aquarius (Opera CD)

BEFORE APRIL 2003

József Eötvös (The Art of Fugue & The Goldberg Variations on guitar)

The Mysteries on DVD and The Beggar's Opera at Wilton's Music Hall

Russian Gambling on DVD & CD

Tomkins (Dobra)

Ockeghem

Ring Disc (the whole Ring on one CD-ROM)

De Bondt

Albert Herring

Naxos albert herring

Pizarro's Beethoven and Schuchter Schubert & Mozart

Sempre Amor

Rorem Fibonacci

Jozsef Eotvos (guitars) Bach Art of Fugue & Goldberg Variations

Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Organ Music

Julia Usher Sacred Physic

MESSIAEN St Francois

OHANA Works for Harpsichord and a lost Trumpet Concertino

Chilean Piano Music (+ Taira & Terzian)

Argentinian Chamber Music

Concerto delle Donne Carissimi Cantatas and motets

Listening to Opera at ENO & on DVD (Khovanschina and The Capture of Troy)

Monteverdi operas live and on DVD

Silvestrov 5th Symphony and Exegi Monumentum

Rambert Dance Company & Dance on DVD

Ustvolskaya Symphonies (Megadisc)

Emperor Quartet CDs

ELISABETTA (Rossini, DVD) and LA WALLY (Catalani, live concert performance)

Carmen from Glyndebourne and Mats Ek's Carmen

ENESCU Piano Quintet & Piano Quartet No 2

Milhaud Chamber Music (Polytonality and the Infinity Series)

Per Norgard Sea Drift and Chamber Music

Recordings Received & shorter notices:

Stephen Chatman Chamber Music

Beethoven at Chetham's

VERDI: Songs (Dennis O'Neill)

Swedish Music CDs received from Swedish Music Information Centre

Severnside Composers' Alliance (Kings and Northam)

Giselher Klebe (violin music) & Georges Taconet (violin sonata and songs)

Fuidge Twins (piano four hands)

Christine Lauterburg ( Doppelbock/Echo)

O Mistris Myne David Pollock (muselar virginal)

Nancy Long with Tragicomedia

DELIUS/Beecham Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 (Naxos)

BBC Legends (Beecham, Rubinstein, Fournier etc)

Philomela (Finnish women's choir) Several fine CDs!

Barbara Nissmann (collections of Ginastera, Liszt, Beethoven piano music)

George Crumb complete piano music

Rameau Platee (Minkowski, Erato)

Two Bargain operas
Falla's La Vida Breve
M.A.Charpentier David & Jonathas

Choral Music for Christmas and all the Year (King's Singers Christmas; The Naxos Book of Carols; 48th Cork International Choral Festival; Charpentier Messe de Minuit; Honegger Christmas Cantata & Britten A Boy is Born)

MOZART flute quartets Claire Guimond with Ensemble Sonnerie

PIANISTS YOUNG, OLD AND HISTORIC

Motets of Eustache Du Caurroy - Choir of New College Oxford

José Evangelista Collection (Salabert Actuels)

SCHWARTZ'S "MAD LADY MACBETH"

Ernesto Halffter - Complete Music for Solo Piano

BRITTEN Piano Concerto etc (McGregor/Bedford)

Operas at Berlin 2002 - CHERUBINI Médée MOZART The Marriage of Figaro, Die Zauberflöte & Die Entführung aus dem Serail May/June 2002