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ABC Classics
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, 85. The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 Wang; Tucker; Paasikivi; Wilson-Johnson; Sydney Philharmonia Ch; TSO Chor; Sydney SO/Ashkenazy 476 4297 (two CDs)
Aeon
Jaffrennou ‘Propos’: Chronorythmie. Du ciel et de la terre. For Three. Propos Nouvel Ensemble Moderne; Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain/Kawka; Vaillancourt AECD1112
Alia Vox
Various composers ‘Montserrat Figueras – La Voix de l’Emotion’: A tribute to the great soprano from her husband, Jordi Savall, gathering highlights from her 35 year career Figueras, M.; Savall, J. AVSA9889 (two Hybrid SACDs)
Aliud Records
Bonporti. Corelli. Handel ‘Music at the Court of Jülich-Berg’: Invenzione in E minor, Op. 10 No. 8. Concerti grossi, Op. 6 – No. 1 in D; No. 2 in F; No. 4 in D. Sonata in A, Op. 1 No. 4 La Barca Leyden ACDBH0552 (Hybrid SACD)
De Croes Clarinet Concerto. Partias Weverbergh; Südwestdeutsche Kammerorchester Pforzheim/Tewinkel ACDBH0482 (Hybrid SACD)
Alpha
Carissimi. Mazzocchi. Rossi, L. ‘Il Tormento e’Lestasi’: Jephte. Pentito si rivolge a Dio. Il Peccator pentito Los Musicos de Su Alteza ALPHA183
Alto
Arnold. Berkeley, L. Cimarosa. Giuliani. Ravel. Roussel ‘Julian Bream in Concerto’ Bream et al ALC-1174
Bach, J. S. Couperin. Falla. Haydn. Rubinstein. Schumann et al ‘Pablo Casals – Song of the Birds/More Cello Encores’ Casals et al ALC-1193
Beethoven. Mozart. Verdi. Wagner ‘Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Sings Opera’ Fischer-Dieskau et al ALC-1168
Britten Piano Concerto in D, Op. 13. Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 15 Servadei; LPO/Giunta; Azizian; Copenhagen PO/Vänskä ALC-1152
Dvorák. Humperdinck. Mozart. Schubert. Strauss. Zeller et al ‘The Best of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’ Schwarzkopf et al ALC-1163
Handel. Haydn. Mozart. Puccini. Strauss. Thomas ‘Fritz Wunderlich – Arias’ Wunderlich et al ALC-1162
Holst Symphony in F, H47, ‘The Cotswolds’. Suite for Military Band No. 2 in F, H106 (arr. Gordon Jacob as ‘A Hampshire Suite’). The Perfect Fool, H150 – Ballet Music. Scherzo, H192 Münchner Symphoniker/
Bostock ALC-1170
Monteverdi ‘Madrigale erotici e spirituale’ Kirkby; Tubb; Nichols et al; Consort of Musicke/
Rooley ALC-1160
Sibelius Symphonies – No. 2 in D, Op. 43; No. 5 in E flat, Op. 82 RPO/Mackerras; Schmidt ALC-1189
Ameson
Liszt Après une lecture du Dante, S161 No. 7. Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns), S555. Totentanz, S525. Funérailles, S173 No. 7, etc. Moulin ASCP1121
Andromeda
Bruckner Symphonies – No. 4 in E flat, ‘Romantic’; No. 6 in A; No. 7 in E WDR Sinfonieorch Köln; Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam; Berliner Philharmoniker/Klemperer (1954; 1961; 1958) ANDRCD9105 (three CDs)
Aparté
Fauré Thème et Variations in C sharp minor, Op. 73. Treize Barcarolles Biddau AP026
Gluck. Haydn. Hummel. Neruda ‘Trumpet Concertos’: Mélodie d’Orphée. Trumpet Concerto in E flat, Hob. VIIIe/1 (with additonal cadenzas by Stockhausen and Penderecki). Trumpet Concerto in E flat. Trumpet Concerto in E flat Leleu; Baltic Chamber Orch/Leducq-Barôme AP025 (two CDs)
Archipel
Bruckner ‘Wilhelm Furtwängler in Cairo’: Symphony No. 7 in E Berliner Philharmoniker/
Furtwängler (1951) ARPCD0479
Chopin ‘Alfred Cortot in Munich, 1955/1956’: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35. 24 Préludes, Op. 28 Cortot ARPCD0477
Verdi La forza del destino Tucker; Taddei; Cavalli; Dominguez; Coro y Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón/Previtali (Buenos Aires, 1961) ARPCD0531 (two CDs)
Archiv Produktion
Haydn Violin Concertos – No. 1 in C, Hob. VIIa/1; No. 3 in A, Hob. VIIa/3; No. 4 in G, Hob. VIIa/4 Carmignola; Orch des Champs-Elysées/Moccia 477 8774
Armide
Charpentier. Lully. Rameau ‘Rencontres Musicales à Versailles’: Médée. Un automne musical à Versailles. Te Deum. Psaumes de Ténèbres. La Petite Musique de Marie-Antoinette. Versailles Opéra de Lully à Rameau Rousset; Pluhar; Savall, J.; Niquet; Biondi et al ARM013 (five DVD-Vs)
Ars Harmonica
Fontbona La Nit Dels Orígens Fontbona AH221
Ars Produktion
Avni. Liszt. Mahler. Mendelsshn. Wagner ‘Historical Moment in Bayreuth’, inc. Mahler’s ‘Rückert-Lieder’, Mendelssohn’s ‘Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, ‘Italian’’ and Wagner’s ‘Siegfried-Idyll’ Henschel; Israel Chamber Orch/Paternostro ARS38100
Bach, J. S. Chopin. Clarke. Handel. Schubert. Vieuxtemps ‘Music for Viola and Piano’, inc. Clarke’s ‘Sonata for Viola and Piano’, Schubert’s ‘Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen, D343’ and Vieuxtemps’s ‘Élégie in F minor, Op. 30’ Peijun Xu; Rivinius ARS38110
Caix d’Hervelois. Couperin, F. Heudelinne. Marais. Rameau ‘Avec Privilege du Roy – French Chamber Music for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord’ Faust-Peters; Lill, I. ARS38516
Carulli. Diabelli. Giuliani ‘Music for Traverso and Guitar’, inc. Carulli’s ‘Duo, Op. 104 No. 3’, Diabelli’s ‘Grande Serenata, Op. 67’ and Giuliani’s ‘Gran Duetto Concertante, Op. 85’ and ‘Serenade, Op. 127’ Ensemble Consolazione ARS38515
Arthaus Musik
Adam Giselle (choreography: Patrice Bart/Eugène Polyakov) Pujol; Le Riche; Gillot; Romoli et al; Premiers Danseurs, Corps de Ballet et Orch de l’Opéra National de Paris/Connelly (Paris, 2006) 107 321 (DVD-V); 108 049 (Blu-ray disc)
Downes, B. Gould, M. Hamilton, J. Rosenstock, M. ‘Dance Theatre of Harlem’: Troy Game (choreography: Robert North); Fall River Legend (choreography: Agnes de Mille); The Beloved (choreography: Lester Horton); John Henry (choreography: Arthur Mitchell) Dance Theatre of Harlem; Danish Radio SO; Danish Radio Concert Orch/Lethinen; LaMarche 100 175 (DVD-V)
Giordano Andrea Chénier (stage direction: Giancarlo Del Monaco) Cura; Guleghina; Guelfi; Nicotra et al; Coro e Orch del Teatro Comunale di Bologna/Rizzi (Bologna, 2006) 107 287 (DVD-V)
Kálmán Die Zirkusprinzessin (stage direction: Manfred R. Köhler) Hallstein; Schock; Orén; Karner; Tilden; Frankenfeld et al; Wiener Operetten-Chor; Symphonie Orch ‘Kurt Graunke’ München/Schmidt-Bölcke (1969) 101 596 (DVD-V)
Lehár Paganini (stage direction: Eugen York) Theba; Stratas; Heesters; Koller; Kraus; Tillmann et al; Symphonieorch ‘Kurt Graunke’ München/Ebert (1973) 101 592 (DVD-V)
Puccini Tosca (stage direction: Renzo Giacchieri) Dessì; Armiliato; Sgura et al; Coro e Orch del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova/Marco Boemi (Genoa, 2010) 101 594 (DVD-V); 108 038 (Blu-ray disc)
Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia (stage direction: Coline Serreau) DiDonato; Saccà; Jenis; Chausson; Sigmundsson et al; Choeurs et Orch de l’Opéra National de Paris (Paris, 2002) 107 281 (DVD-V)
Strauss, R. Salome, Op. 54 (stage direction: Nikolaus Lehnhoff) Denoke; Begley; Soffel; Held; Reijens et al; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Soltesz (Baden-Baden, 2011) 101 593 (DVD-V); 108 037 (Blu-ray disc)
Various composers ‘Carlos Kleiber – Traces to Nowhere’: A film by Eric Schulz Kleiber, C. et al 108 041 (Blu-ray disc)
Verdi Aida (stage direction: Ferzan Ozpetek) Tagliavini; D’Intino; Hui He; Berti; Prestia; Maestri et al; Coro e Orch del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Mehta (Florence, 2011) 101 598 (DVD-V); 108 040 (Blu-ray disc)
Verdi Simon Boccanegra (stage direction: Federico Tiezzi) Domingo; Harteros; Furlanetto; Sartori et al; Coro e Orch del Teatro alla Scala di Milano/Barenboim (Milan, 2010) 101 595 (DVD-V); 108 039 (Blu-ray disc)
Attacca Records
Andriessen Anaïs Nin Zavalloni; Nieuw Amsterdams Peil ATT2011.127 (DVD-V)
Zuidam Suster Bertha Baerts; Claessens; Dugan; Benedict; ASKO/Schönberg/de Leeuw ATT2011.126
Audite Musikproduktion
Debussy. Duparc. Ravel. Schubert. Schumann. Wolf ‘Barry McDaniel’, inc. Debussy’s ‘Le Promenoir des deux Amants’, Duparc’s ‘Chanson triste’, Ravel’s ‘Chansons Madécasses’ and Schumann’s ‘Sechs Gedichte und Requiem, Op. 90’ McDaniel; Zoeller; Finke; Klust; Reimann aud23.426 (two CDs)
Avie Records
Bach, J. S. Johannes-Passion, BWV245 Daniels; Cappella Romana; Portland Baroque Orch/Huggett AV2236 (two CDs)
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, ‘Choral’ von Lipinski; Grevelius; Wedd; Williams; Manchester Camerata/Boyd AV2245
Azur Classical
Goué ‘Piano Works, Vol. 1’: Prélude, Choral et Fugue, Op. 37. Ambiances, Suite No. 1, Op. 11. Préhistoires, Op. 40. Petite Suite facile No. 1, Op. 18, etc. Ternoy AZC082
Goué ‘Piano Works, Vol. 2’: Sonate pour piano, Op. 13. Prelude, Aria et Final, Op. 45. Deux Impromptus, Op. 44. Thème et Variations, Op. 47. Penombres, Op. 3, etc. Ternoy AZC083
Barbirolli Society
Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden. On Hearin ght e First cuckoo in Spring. Appalachia. Idyll. Irmelin Prelude. Fennimore and Gerda – Intermezzo. A Song of Summer. Two Aquarelles. A Song Before Sunrise Hallé Orch; New SO; BBCSO; Boston SO; Wiener Phiharmoniker; New York PO/Barbirolli SJB105960 (two CDs)
BelAir Classiques
Various composers ‘Au Soleil Même La Nuit – Scènes d’accouchements’: A film about the rehearsing of Moliêre’s ‘Tartuffe’ in 1995 Darmon; Vilpoux; Mnouchkine; Théâtre du Soleil BAC069 (two DVD-Vs)
Berlin Classics
Albinoni. Gabrieli. Scheidt. Schütz et al ‘Berühmte Musik für Bläser – Famous Music for Brass’ Blechbläserensemble/Güttler 0300308BC
Beethoven Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43. Musik zu einem Ritterballet, WoO1 Staatskapelle Berlin/Herbig 0300307BC
BIS Records
Bach, J. S. ‘Cantatas, Vol. 50’: Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg, BWV149. Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen, BWV145. Ich liebe dem Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte, BWV174. Ich geh’ und zuche mit Verlangen, BWV49 BlaΩíková; Blaze; Türk; Kooij; Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki, M. SACD1941 (Hybrid SACD)
Beamish. Stucky. Yi ‘The Eight Sounds’: Chamber Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Strings. Music for Saxophones and Strings. Ba Yin (The Eight Sounds) for Saxophone Quartet and String Orchestra Raschèr Saxophone Quartet; Stuttgarter Kammerorch/Engelen CD1821
Chung. Lindberg ‘Trombone Fantasy’, inc. Yiu-Kwong Chung’s ‘Mongolian Fantasy’ and ‘Cursing General Cao Cao’ and Christian Lindberg’s ‘The Wild Rose for Narrator and Chinese Orchestra’ and ‘Kundraan’ Lindberg; Taipei Chinese Orch/En Shao CD1888
Nørgård Violin Concertos – No. 1, ‘Helle Nacht’; No. 2, ‘Borderlines’. Spaces of Time for Orchestra with Piano Herresthal; Stavanger SO/Gupta CD1872
Schumann Violin Sonatas – No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105; No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121; No. 3 in A minor, WoO2 Wallin; Pöntinen SACD1784 (Hybrid SACD)
Takano ‘LigAlien’: LigAlien I-IV. Jungibility. Full Moon for Violin and Electronics. Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra Sugihara; Maruta; Bezaly; Ikeda; Nabb; Nambara; Kimura; Yasuda; Choi; Swedish Chamber Orch/Manson CD1453
Bongiovanni
Bellini. Giordano. Leoncavallo. Ponchielli. Puccini. Verdi et al ‘Nicola Martinucci, Vol. 2’, inc. arias from ‘Norma’, ‘Fedora’, ‘Pagliacci’, ‘La Gioconda’, ‘Manon Lescaut’, ‘Il trovatore’, ‘Rigoletto’, ‘Simon Boccanegra’ and ‘Un ballo in maschera’ Martinucci et al GB1224-2
Mielczewski. Simbracky. Vecchi ‘Da Venezia a Varsavia – Polychoral music in Europe of the 16-17 centuries’, inc. Mielczewski’s ‘Beata Dei genitrix a 8’ and ‘Virgo prudentissima a 16’, Simbracky’s ‘Gaudent in coelis a 12’ and Orfeo Vecchi’s ‘In convertendo Dominus a 8’ Ensemble Dodecantus/Malavasi GB5172-2
Bottega Discantica, La
Respighi ‘Musica para Pianoforte a Quattro Mani’: Fontane di Roma, P115. Pini di Roma, P142. Antiche Danze ed arie per liuto – Set No. 1, P109; Set No. 3, P172 Moneta; Rota BDI016
Spohr ‘Sonate concertante per Arpa e Flauto’: Sonatas, Opp. 113-15 Degli Esposti; Giudetti BDI048
BR Klassik
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1 Gorlatch; Symphonieorch des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Tewinkel 900115
Brilliant Classics
Abel ‘Music for Flute and Strings’: Symphony in C, Op. 7 No. 1. Concertos for Flute and Strings – No. 2 in E minor; No. 5 in G. (Trio) Sonata in G, Op. 3 No. 1. Sei Sonate, Op. 6 – No. 1 in C; No. 3 in E minor Brown; Nordic Affect 94304
Bach, C. P. E. ‘Oden/Sacred Songs’: Der Unbeständige. Das Privilegium, H693. Die Küsse, H673. Belinde, H695, etc. Redlin; Boysen 94309
Bach, J. S. Johannes-Passion, BWV245 Ainsley; Richardson; Bott; Chance; Agnew; Varcoe; King’s College Ch, Cambridge; Brandenburg Consort/Cleobury 94316 (two CDs + DVD-V)
Bach, J. S. Oster-Oratorium, BWV249 Brenk; Greiling; Bossert; Pfeiffer; Trompetenensemble Pfeiffer; Motettenchor Pforzheim; Südwestdeutsche Kammerorch Pforzheim/Schweizer 94350
Buxtehude ‘Complete Harpsichord Music’ Stella 94312 (four CDs)
Falla. Poulenc. Rodrigo. Sauguet. Tansman. Turina. Villa-Lobos ‘Hommage à Debussy’, inc. Falla’s ‘Homenaje (Hommage à Debussy)’, Poulenc’s ‘Sarabande’, Sauguet’s ‘Soliloquie, in ricordo Manuel de Falla’ and Villa-Lobos’s ‘Etudes (à Andrés Segovia)’ Elias 9246
Handel Messiah, HWV56. Johannes-Passion, HWVdeest. Oratorio per la Resurrezione di Nostro Signor Gesù Cristo, HWV47 Dawson; Summers; Ainsley; Miles; King’s College Ch, Cambrige; Brandenburg Consort/
Cleobury; Zádori; Verebics; Németh, J.; Brett; Klietmann; Kállay; Gáti; Moldvay; Capella Savaria/Németh, P.; van Veldhoven; True; Gether; Beekman; Sandler; Contrasto Armonico/Vitale 94317 (five CDs)
Hassler, J. ‘Harpsichord Music’: Harpsichord Sonatas in D, A and D minor. Fantasias in C minor, A, D and C. Rondeau in C Benuzzi 94293
Haydn Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze, Hob. XX/2 Labitzke; Wunderer; Sans; Fischesser; Chamber Ch of Europe; Kurpfälzisches Kammerorch Mannheim/
Matt 94290
Mendelssohn ‘Complete Symphonies’: The Symphonies and String Symphonies Soloists; New Philharmonia Chor and Orch/
Sawallisch. Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Markiz 93777 (seven CDs)
Mendelssohn Elias, Op. 70. Paulus, Op. 36 Hens; Coku; Groop; Ahnsjö; Lika; Figuralchor Frankfurt; Frankfurter Singakademie. Frankfurter Opernhaus- und Museumsorch/
Cambreling. Kwon; Ardam; Blochwitz; Lika; EuropaChorAkademie; SWR Sinfonieorch/Daus 94319 (four CDs)
Paganini String Quartets, Op. 1 – No. 1 in D minor; No. 2 in E flat; No. 3 in A minor Amati Ensemble String Quartet 94287
Pasquini ‘Passion Cantatas’: Hor ch’il ciel fra densi horrori. Padre, Signor e Dio Rostorf-Zamir; Zanasi; Capella Tiberina/Caruso 94225
Rachmaninov Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 Russian State Symphonic Cappella/Polyansky 9253 (two CDs)
Rebay Quartet for Guitar, Violin, Viola and Cello in D minor. Variationen über das deutsche Volkslied ‘Leid und Lust’. Quartet for Guitar, Flute, Viola and Cello in A minor Noque; Fernandez-Cueva; Galindo; Torres; Villalba 9250
Respighi ‘Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 1’: Feste Romane, P157. Fontane di Roma, P106. Pini di Roma, P141. Gli Uccelli, P154. Suite for Strings, P041. Suite for Strings and Organ in G, P058 Palcich; Orch Sinfonica di Roma/La Vecchia 94392 (two CDs)
Saint-Saëns ‘Complete Violin Concertos’: Violin Concertos – No. 1 in A, Op. 20; No. 2 in C, Op. 58; No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61. La Muse et le poëte, Op. 132. Valse-caprice. Romance in C, Op. 48. Romance in D flat, Op. 37. Havanaise in E, Op. 83. Morceau de concert in G, Op. 62. Introduction et Rondo capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28. Caprice andalou in G, Op. 122. Prélude du ‘Déluge’ in D, Op. 45 Hoelscher; Kirschbaum; New Philharmonia Orch/
Deervaux 94308 (two CDs)
Strauss, R. ‘Richard Strauss Edition’: Complete orchestral and chamber works, selections from song sets, famous operas and rare choral works Various artists 9249 (35 CDs + CD-ROM)
Tchaikovsky ‘Complete Symphonies’: Symphnies Nos. 1-6. Manfred, Op. 58. 1812 Overture, Op. 49. Francesca da Rimini. Hamlet, Op. 67a. Marche slave, Op. 31. Capriccio italien, Op. 45. The Storm. Romeo and Juliet Tchaikovsky SO of Moscow Radio/Fedoseyev; LPO/Gibson; Philharmonia Orch/Simonov; LSO/Rozhdestvensky; Kirov Theatre Orch/Temirkanov 94307 (seven CDs)
Telemann Das selige Erwägen des bittern Leidens und Sterbens Jesu Christi, TVWV5:2 (Passions-Oratorium) Locker; Vandersteene; Dörr; Possemeyer; Schmidt; Freiburger Vokalensemble; L’Arpa Festante München/Schäfer 94318 (two CDs)
Various composers ‘The Martyred Virgins – Pro sinceritate corporali et spirituali: a Gregorian memorial to female victims of violence’ Schola Cantorum Karolus Magnus/Hollaardt 94314
Zuccari Cello Sonatas – No. 1 in D; No. 2 in B flat; No. 3 in G; No. 4 in A minor; No. 6 in C; No. 8 in D minor Criscuolo; Musica Perduta 94306
British Music Society
Bax. Bennett, R. R. Fiske. Hamilton. Wood, H. ‘The Thurston Connection – English Music for Clarinet and Piano’: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano. Duo concertante. Sonata for Clarinet and Piano. Three Nocturnes, Op. 6. Paraphrase on Bird of Paradise, Op. 26 Cox; Buckle BMS440CD
C Major Entertainment
Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384 (stage direction: Christof Loy) Damrau; Peretyatko; Strehl; Ernst; Selig et al; Orquestra Simfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu/Bolton (Barcelona, 2011) 709108 (two DVD-Vs); 709204 (Blu-ray disc)
Calliope
Beethoven Piano Sonatas – No. 30 in E, Op. 109; No. 31 in A flat, Op. 110; No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 Södergren CAL7648
Cascavelle
Bach, J. S. Brahms. Carissimi. Martin. Monteverdi. Scarlatti ‘Musiques Sacrées’, inc. Carissimi’s ‘Jephthé’, Martin’s ‘Mass for double choir’ and Scarlatti’s ‘Stabat mMater’ Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne/Corboz VEL3043 (four CDs)
Mozart Serenades – No. 3 in D, K185/K167a; No. 6 in D, K238, ‘Serenata notturna’; No. 7 in D, K250/K248b, ‘Haffner’; No. 9 in D, K320, ‘Posthorn’; No. 10 in B flat, K361/K370a, ‘Gran Partita’; No. 13 in G, K525, ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’ Orch de Chambre de Lausanne/
López-Cobos VEL3042 (four CDs)
Schumann Das Paradise und die Peri, Op. 50 Soloists; Choeur de Chambre Romand; Choeur Pro Arte de Lausanne; Orch de la Suisse Romande/Jordan, A. VEL3110 (two CDs)
CDklassisk
Lemare ‘Edwin H. Lemare – Organ Works, Vol. 2’: Organ Symphony No. 2. Marche héroïque. Arcadian Idyll. Improvisation No. 1 over a Sailor’s Hornpipe, etc. Nørremark www.cdklassisk.dk
Chandos Chaconne
Buxtehude Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 Purcell Quartet CHAN0784
Chandos Records
Berio ‘Orchestral Realisations of Schubert, Brahms and Mahler’ Williams; Collins; Bergen PO/Gardner CHSA5101 (Hybrid SACD)
Debussy. Dvorák. Elgar. Falla. Godowsky. Khachaturian. Kreisler. Mendelssohn. Prokofiev. Ravel. Sarasate. Schumann. Shostakovich ‘Brodsky Quartet – Petits Fours’, inc. Debussy’s ‘Beau soir’, Elgar’s ‘Chanson de matin’, Kreisler’s ‘Caprice viennois, Op. 2’ and Sarasate’s ‘Zapateado’ Fisher; Smissen; Brodsky Quartet CHAN10708
Falla Noches en los jardines d’España. Homenajes. El Sombrero de Tres Picos Bavouzet; Lojendio; BBC Phil/Mena, J. CHAN10694
Gjeilo ‘Northern Lights – Choral Works’: The Ground. Serenity. Northern Lights. Ubi Caritas. Evening Prayer. Night of the Soul. The Spheres. Tota pulchra es. Phoenix. Unicornus captivatur, etc. Phoenix Chorale/Bruffy CHSA5100 (Hybrid SACD)
Korngold String Sextet in D, Op. 10. Piano Quintet in E, Op. 15 Stumm; LaFollette; Stott; Doric String Quartet CHAN10707
Channel Classics
Beethoven. Berio. Bourgeois. Eben. Fondse. von Grunelius. Henderickx. Luigini. Wilson. Zbinden ‘Wim Van Hasselt, Trumpet – On the Road’, inc. Bourgeois’s ‘Trio, Op. 285’, Fondse’s ‘Splitting Wood’, Henderickx’s ‘On the Road’ and Zbinden’s ‘Concertino, Op. 6’ Van Hasselt et al CCSSA31811 (Hybrid SACD)
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring. Firebird – Suite (1919). Scherzo à la russe. Tango, Op. 72 (orch. Guenther) Budapest Festival Orch/Fischer, I. CCSSA32112 (Hybrid SACD)
Vivaldi Laudate pueri, RV601. Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV630. Concerto for Strings and Continuo in D minor, RV129, ‘Madrigalesco’. Concerto for Violin, Cello, Strings and Continuo in B flat, RV547. Concerto for Flute, Strings and Continuo in E minor, RV431a, ‘Il gran Mogul’ Manahan Thomas; Florilegium CCSSA32311 (Hybrid SACD)
Christophorus
Bach, J. S. Baron. Charles-Durant. Daube. Falckenhagen. Kellner. Kleinknecht. Kohaut. Kropffgans. Kühnel. Lauffensteiner. Straube. Weiss ‘Deutsche Lautenmusik des 18. Jahrhunderts – German Lute Music of the 18th Century’ Crugnola CHR77355 (four CDs)
Claudio Records
Granados. Kodály. Rachmaninov. Rimsky-Korsakov ‘De Saram in Concert, Vol. 1’: Intermezzo (arr. Cassadó). Sonata for Cello, Op. 8. Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19. The Flight of the Bumble Bee De Saram, R.; De Saram, D. CB6004
Claves Records
Weiss ‘Lute Sonatas, Vol. 2’: Lute Sonatas in D and G minor Imamura CD50.2809
Cobra Records
Olthuis. Ravel ‘Voyage’ Trio Suleika Cobra 0034
col legno
Schumann Symphonies – No. 1 in B flat, Op. 38; No. 2 in C, Op. 61; No. 3 in E flat, Op. 97, ‘Rhenish’; No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 Haydn Orch di Bolzano e Trento/Kuhn WWE2CD60021 (two CDs)
Columna Música
Guinjoan ‘Obra Simfònica, Vol. 2’: Ab Origine. Trama. Concert per a piano i orquestra Ituarte; Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya/Pons; Colomer; Martínez-Izquierdo 1CM0278
Concerto Classics
Luchesi ‘Piano Sonatas and Rondos’ Plano CD2069
Platti ‘Integrale delle Sonate per clavicembalo – Sonatas for Harpsichord’ Ravizza CD2011 (four CDs)
Coro Recordings
Brumel. Josquin Desprez. Lassus ‘The Earth Resounds’, inc. Brumel’s ‘Missa ‘Et ecce terraemotus’ – Gloria and Sanctus’, Josquin’s ‘Praeter rerum seriem’ and ‘Huc me sydero’ and Lassus’s ‘Aurora lucis rutilat’ and ‘Magnificat VII toni super ‘Aurora lucis rutilat’’ The Sixteen/Christophers COR16097
Coviello Classics
Alamire. Appenzeller. Neusidler. Richafort. Senfl et al ‘Music for the Fugger Family’, inc. Alamire’s ‘Tandernac’, Neusidler’s ‘Gassenhauer’ and Senfl’s ‘Die Prünlein die da fliessen’ Weiss; bFIVE Recorder Consort COV21105
Amon. Fiorillo. Mettenleiter ‘Zwischen Kerker und Krone’: Quintets – No. 1 in F; No. 2 in E minor. Quintet in F. Quintet in F Compagnia di Punto COV21111
Vivaldi ‘The Four Seasons’: The concertos as found in the Manchester manuscript of 1726 Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/Sepec COV21112 (Hybrid SACD)
CPO
Böhm ‘Complete Organ Works’ Flamme (Creutburg organ of Propsteikirche St. Cyriakus, Duderstadt) 777 501-2 (two Hybrid SACDs)
Gouvy ‘Symphonies, Vol. 3’: Symphonies – No. 1 in E flat, Op. 9; No. 2 in F, Op. 12 Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern/Mercier 777 381-2
Herzogenberg Violin Sonatas – No. 1, Op. 37; No. 2, Op. 54; No. 3, Op. 78. Phantasie, Op. 15. Legenden, Op. 62 Altenburger; Triendl 777 428-2 (two CDs)
Josquin Desprez Missa ‘Ave maris stella’. Virgo prudentissima. Virgo salutiferi. Alma redemptoris mater. Illibata Dei virgo nutrix. Salve Regina Weser-Renaissance Bremen/Cordes 777 590-2
Korngold Die Stumme Serenade, Op. 36 Müller; Wegener; Radde; Buchwald; Klockow; Leone; Reich; Young Opera Co.; Holst-Sinfonietta/Simon 777 485-2 (two CDs)
Vanhal Symphonies in C and E minor. Cello Concerto in C Vardai; Camerata Schweiz/Griffiths 777 612-2
Cypress String Quartet
Beethoven ‘The Complete Late Quartets’: String Quartets Nos. 12-16. Grosse Fuge in B flat, Op. 133 Cypress String Quartet www.cypressquartet.com
Dacapo Records
Berg, G. ‘Chamber Music with Piano’: Tronqué. Tøbrud. ‘ … pour violon et piano’. ‘ … pour deux violoncelles et piano’ (Version 2). Prosthesis. Pièce Asmussen; Balk-Møller; Bye; Ehde; Gjerris; Kaltoft; Larsen; Madsen; Schou; Snekkestad; Ullner 8.226547
Nielsen, S. H. Dance and Detours. In der Abendstille. Om prinser og drømme. Arie og dans Slaatto; Randers Chamber Orch/Riddell 8.226565
Nørholm Tavola per Orfeo. Stilleliv. Blomster frå den danske poesis flora Torp; Pålsson; Friis-Hansen 8.226068
Siegel Terra. Bloopers. Rosewood Afternoon. Jericho 2.0 Dahl; Skovbjerg; Johansen; Siegel 8.226566
Danacord Records
Bach, C. P. E. Bentzon. Busoni. Heller. Helps. Pasternak. Wagner ‘Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss von Husum, 2010’ Hamelin; Neuberger; Fountain; Lifits; Bellucci; Nebolsin; Takenouchi; Froundjian; Lin DACOCD709
Delius ‘A Delius Collection of Rare Historic Recordings’: Recordings taken from 78s from between 1929 and 1955 Teyte; Nash; Pini; Mackay; Parry; Stuart; Watson; Baillie; Moore; Goossens; Lambert; Beer; Neel; Collins; Beecham; Barbirolli et al DACOCD717
Haydn ‘Mogens Wöldike – The Complete Danish Recordings, 1949-1956’: Cello Concerto in D, Hob. VIIb/2. Symphonies Nos. 43, 44, 48, 50, 61 and 91 Blöndal Bengtsson; Radio Chamber Orch/Wöldike DACOCD703-704 (two CDs)
Decca Classics
Bach, J. S. ‘Andreas Scholl – Cantatas’: Ich habe genung, BWV82. Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV169. Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV150 – Sinfonia. Komm du süsse Todesstunde, BWV161 – Der Schluss ist schon gemacht, etc. Scholl; Kammerorch Basel/Schröder 478 2733
Becker. von Herzogenberg. Klughardt. Schumann, R. Steinmetz. Weismann ‘Albrecht Mayer – Songs of the Reeds’, inc. von Herzogenberg’s ‘Trio for Oboe, Horn and Piano, Op. 61’, Klughardt’s ‘Schilflieder – Fünf Fantasiestücke nach Gedichten von Nikolaus Lenau’ and Schumann’s ‘Three Romances, Op. 94’ Mayer, A.; Zimmermann, T.; Becker, M.; Neunecker, M-L. 478 3564
Bellini. Donizetti. Moniuszko. Mozart. Puccini. Rossini. Strauss, J. II. Verdi. ‘Aleksandra Kurzak – Gioia!’, inc. arias from ‘I Puritani’, ‘L’elisir d’amore’, ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, ‘Straszny Dwor’, ‘Le nozze di Figaro’, ‘Gianni Schicchi’, ‘La bohème’, ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’, ‘Die Fledermaus’, ‘La traviata’ and ‘Rigoletto’ Kurzak; Orch de la Comunitat Valenciana/Wellber 478 2730
Giordano Andrea Chénier (stage direction: Nicolas Joel) Pavarotti; Guleghina; Pons; Garvin; Christin; Schaldenbrand; Sénéchal; Plishka et al; Chor and Orch of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Levine (1996) 074 3421 (DVD-V)
Delphian Records
Shaw ‘Songs – The Airmen’: Jack Overdue. Heffle Cuckoo Fair. Brookland Road. Full Fathom Five. The Merry Wanderer. Perilous Ways. Over the Sea with the Soldier. The Little Waves of Breffny. The Airmen, etc. Bevan; Kennedy; Williams; Burnside DCD34105
Destino Classics
Corkine ‘Each Lovely Grace’: The Second Booke of Ayres (1612) Cantar alla Viola NI6173
Deutsche Grammophon
Albéniz. Brandl. Chaminade. Couperin, L. Dvorák. de Falla. Glazunov. Gluck. Granados. Kreisler. Mendelssohn. Rimsky-Korsakov. Tartini. Tchaikovsky. Weber. Wieniawski ‘Homage to Fritz Kreisler’: Original compositions and transcriptions, inc. Kreisler’s own ‘Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice, Op. 6’, ‘Siciliano and Rigaudon in the style of Francoeur’ and ‘Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani’ Ferras; Heifetz; Kreisler; Kremer; Mintz; Mutter; Oistrakh, Ricci et al 477 9942 (two CDs)
Bach, J. S. Beethoven. Chopin. Debussy. Liszt. Mozart. Stravinsky. Webern ‘The Art of Maurizio Pollini’, inc. Chopin’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11’, Mozart’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491’ and Webern’s ‘Piano Variations, Op. 27’ Pollini et al 477 9529 (three CDs)
Barber. Khachaturian ‘Mikhail Simonyan – Two Souls’: Violin Concerto, Op. 14. Violin Concerto in D minor Simonyan; LSO/Järvi, K. 477 9827
Various composers ‘Mercury Living Presence’: The complete recordings Various artists 478 3566 (51 CDs)
Dreyer Gaido
Gubaidulina ‘Gallow Songs’ Hofling; Moser DGCD21071
Dux
Bernstein. Denisov. Saint-Saëns. Schoeck. Weinberg ‘Clarinet Sonatas of the 20th Century’ Jarzynski; Chitadze DUX0799
Bolcom. Brubeck. Falla. Grainger. Lecuona. Lutosπawski. Milhaud. Vivaldi. Ziegler ‘Malagueña – Recital for Two Pianos’, inc. Brubeck’s ‘Blue Rondo à la Turk’, Grainger’s ‘Fantasy on George Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’’, Lutosπawski’s ‘Variations on a Theme of Paganini’ and Ziegler’s ‘Asfalto’ Duo Granat DUX0860
Hassler Missa Octava Octava Ensemble/
Magiera DUX0750
Moss, P. Symphonie concertante for Flute, Piano and Orchestra. Adagio III for Orchestra. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, ‘Portraits’ Gajewska; Halska; Madey; Polish Radio Televison Orch; Polish National Radio SO/Graca; Polish Radio SO/Bugaj DUX0839
Zelenski ‘Songs’: The complete cycle of 19 songs Kryger; Warsaw Soloists Concerto Avenna/Mysinski DUX0690
Dynamic
de Almeida. Avondano, P. A. Avondano, P. G. ‘1700 – The Century of the Portuguese’, inc. de Almeida‘s ‘A quel leggiadro volto’, Pedro António Avondano’s ‘Scena de Berenice’ and Pietro Giorgio Avondano’s ‘Sinfonias in D and F’ Bertagnolli; Divino Sospiro/Onofri CDS709
Mozart Piano Concertos – No. 11 in F, K413/K387a; No. 12 in A, K414/K385p; No. 13 in C, K415/K387b Bacchetti; Orch di Padova e del Veneto/Goldstein CDS713
Rossini La Gazza Ladra (stage direction: Damiano Michieletto) Bordogna; Papatheologou; Korchak; Cantarero; Esposito; Pertusi; Custer; Cifolelli et al; Prague Chamber Ch; Orch Haydn di Bolzano e Trento/Lü Jia (Pesaro, 2007) 55567 (Blu-ray disc)
Dynamic Delizie Musicali
Viotti Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Op. 4 Ayo; de Bernart DM8026
ECM New Series
Berg. Janácek. Liszt ‘Precipitando’: Piano Sonata, Op. 1. In the Mists, JW VIII/22. Piano Sonata in B minor, S178 Várjon 476 4585
Schubert Violin Sonata (Grand Duo) in A, D574. Rondo brillant in B minor, D895. Fantasie in C, D934 Widmann; Lonquich 476 4546
e-one Music
Bach, J. S. ‘Air’: Orchestral Suite in D, BWV1068 – Air. Violin Concertos – No. 1 in A minor, BWV1041; No. 2 in E, BWV1042. Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV1043, etc. Meyers; English Chamber Orch/Mercurio EOMCD7785
EPR-Classic
Bach, C. P. E. Bach, J. C. F. Bach, J. S. Bach, W. F. ‘Bach and Sons – Clavichord and Flute’ Steens; Bresch EPRC011
ERP
Seeger. Strauss, R. Wagner ‘Opera Choruses’, inc. Seeger’s ‘Pfälzishe Liedkantate’, Strauss’s ‘Traumlicht, Op. 123 No. 2’ and choruses from ‘Lohengrin’, ‘Tannhäuser’ and ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ Kotilainen; Estonian National Male Ch; Orch of Estonian Defence Forces/Saan; Soots ERP5211
Et’cetera
Loeillet, J-B., of Ghent. Loeillet, J-B., of London ‘The Submission – Chamber Music of the Loeillet Family’ Les Goûts-Authentiques/Devlieger KTC1434
Schumann ‘Choral Works’: Vier doppelchörige Gesänge, Op. 141. Vier Gesänge, Op. 59. Romanzen, Op. 69. Romanzen und Balladen, Op. 67 – excerpts Flemish Radio Ch/Holten KTC4033
EuroArts
Boccherini. Mozart Stabat mater. Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 Bertagnolli; Ensemble Aurora (Loreto, 2011; Florence, 2011) 2072558 (DVD-V)
Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia (stage direction: Christof Loy) Gruberová; Breslik; Vassallo; Coote et al; Chor und Extrachor der Bayerischen Staatsoper; Bayerischen Staatsorch/de Billy (Munich, 2007) 2072454 (DVD-V)
Fauré Requiem in D minor, Op. 48. Pavane in F sharp minor, Op. 50. Élégie in C minor, Op. 24. Super flumina Babylonis. Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Reiss; Goerne; Picard; Aïche; Choeur de l’Orch de Paris; Orch de Paris/Järvi, P. 2058878 (DVD-V)
Festivo
Guilmant ‘Pièces dans différents styles, Vol. 5’: Livraison No. 17, Op. 74. Livraison No. 18, Op, 75 van Vliet (Cavaillé-Coll organ of St Sernin, Toulouse) FES6962322
Fleur de Son Classics
Jongen. Lindberg, O. Nielson. Pardini. Sommerfeldt. Vehar. Wallin. Willis ‘From the Mountain Top’, inc. Jongen’s ‘Concertino’, Pardini’s ‘Toccata on ‘Amazing Grace’’, Sommerfeldt’s ‘Elegy for Trumpet and Organ’ and Vehar’s ‘From the Mountain Top’ Kuehn; Johnson; Mervine FDS57997
Fuga Libera
Bartók. Debussy. Dukas. Falla. Malipiero. Roussel. Stravinsky ‘Le Tombeau de Debussy’, inc. Debussy’s ‘Berceuse héroïque’ and ‘Études’, Dukas’s ‘La plainte, au loin, du faune … ’, Malipiero’s ‘Lento’ and an extract from Stravinsky’s ‘Symphonies pour instruments à vent (à la mémoire de C. A. Debussy)’ Michiels FUG590
Gala Records
Verdi La traviata Zeani; Raimondi; Savarese et al; Coro e Orch del Teatro San Carlo di Napoli/Questa (Naples, 1956) GL100816 (two CDs)
Genuin
Abad. Anonymous. Gorji. Heintz. Khajenouri. Koch-Raphael. Nesic. Prelevic. Sweelinck. ‘Miniatures – Renaissance Music and New Music’, inc. the anonymous 15th century ‘La Spagna’, Gorji’s ‘Circulus’, Koch-Raphael’s ‘Anflug’, Nesic’s ‘Sfumato in green’ and Sweelinck’s ‘Poolsche Dans’ and ‘Est-ce Mars’ Kern; Bäuml GEN11219
Liszt. Mahler. Pizzetti. Rihm ‘Weltgeheimnis’: Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, S270. Fünf Rückert-Lieder. Tre Sonetti del Petrarca. Vier späte Gedichte von Friedrich Rückert Pohl; Krampen GEN12233
Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 (settings for cello solo and string orchestra and for four cellos) Klöckner; Kippenberg; Sieber; Preuss; Deutsche Streichphilharmonie/Sanderling, M. GEN11215
Glossa Music
Benevoli. Corteccia. Striggio Laetatus sum. Miserere. Magnificat. Bonum est confiteri. Gloria Patri. Alleluia. Tu puer propheta Altissimi. Missa sopra ‘Ecco sì beato giorno’ Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet GCDSA921623 (Hybrid SACD)
Kellner ‘Phantasia – Auserlesene Lauten-Stücke, 1747’: Phantasias in C, A minor, D minor and F and miscellaneous pieces in A and D Moreno GCD920112
Gramola
Bozza. Desenclos. Ligeti. Nagao Andante et Scherzo. Quatuor. Sechs Bagatellen (from ‘Musica Ricercata’). Quatuor de Saxophones Mobilis Saxophone Quartet GRAM98937
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin, D795 Belakowitsch; Delaney GRAM98926
Schubert Piano Sonatas – No. 3 in D, D459; No. 6 in E minor, D566; No. 15 in C, D840, ‘Reliquie’; No. 18 in G, D894. Wanderer-Fantasie, D760 Farkas GRAM98929 (two CDs)
Various composers ‘Brasiliade -Traditional and New Brazilian Music’ Publig; Oser; Tadeau GRAM98936
Guild Historical
Berg. Berwald. Hindemith. Larsson. Mozart. Reger ‘Fritz Busch in Stockholm, 1938-1939’, inc. Berg’s ‘Violin Concerto’, Hindemith’s ‘Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber’ and Busch’s arrangement of Reger’s ‘Phantasie über den Choral ‘Wie schön leucht’t uns der Morgenstern’, Op.40 No.1’ Krasner; Konsertförenings Orkester Stockholm/Busch GHCD2372
Brahms. Elgar. Mendelssohn. Mozart. Rossini. Schubert. Wagner ‘Toscanini Conducts … , 1929-1952’, inc. Brahms’s ‘Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 56a, ‘St. Anthoni Chorale’’, Elgar’s ‘Enigma Variations, Op. 36’ and Schubert’s ‘Symphony No. 9 in C, D944, ‘Great’’ Philhadelphia Orch; BBC SO et al/Toscanini GHCD2384/85 (two CDs)
Guild Light Music
Baynes. Gershwin. Kern. Lecuona. Stillman et al ‘The Golden Age of Light Music, Vol. 88 – The Art of the Arranger, Vol. 1’ Cordell; Farnon; Kelly; Melachrino; Mooney; Weston et al GLCD5188
Bock. Farnon. Green. Mawer. Rabinowitz. Rose. Watters et al ‘The Golden Age of Light Music, Vol. 87 – Light and Easy’ Börschel; Campbell; Clegg; Jones; Morley; Osser; Torch; Wayne et al GLCD5187
Bratton. Durand. Hylin. Van der Linden. Noack. Pourcel. Samariter. Varel et al ‘The Golden Age of Light Music, Vol. 90 – Continental Flavour, Vol. 2’ Arlt; Deltour; Hippmann; Kjerrman; Noblot; Weber; Zacharias et al GLCD5190
Gershwin. Lerner. Madriguera. Martin. Rodgers. Rose. Thurlow. Wayne et al ‘The Golden Age of Light Music, Vol. 89 – Holidays for Strings’ Bosworth; Cordell; Fennell; Goodwin; Rose; Shaindlin; Williams et al GLCD5189
Guild Music
Andreae Symphony in C, Op. 31. Notturno and Scherzo, Op. 30. Music for Orchestra, Op. 35. Kleine Suite, Op. 27 Bournemouth SO/Andreae GMCD7377
Brahms. Bruckner. Franz. Lukaszewski. Praetorius. Rautavaara. Sandström. Stravinsky et al ‘Full of Grace – Songs to the Virgin Mary’, inc. Bruckner’s ’Ave Maria’, Praetorius’s ‘Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen’, Rautavaara’s ‘Canticum Mariae Virginis’ and Stravinsky’s ‘Ave Maria’ Fairhaven Singers/Woodward GMCD7380
Ewers ‘Squaring the Circle’: Geometric Designs. Kite (Version 2). … blue, indigo, violet. Quadrivium. Wonderlands. Squaring The Circle Gemini; The Wallace Collection GMCD7379
Huber. Kirchner. Liszt. Schumann ‘Poetry in Music’, inc. Huber’s ‘Stimmungen – Skizzen für Pianoforte, Op. 35’, Kirchner’s ‘Romanzen, Op. 22’, Liszt’s ‘Müller-Lieder von Franz Schubert, S565’ and Schumann’s ‘Papillon, Op. 2’ Wiesli GMCD7374
Marek Suite for Orchestra, Op. 25. Quatre Méditations, Op. 14. Sérénade Op. 24. Sinfonia, Op. 28. Capriccio, Op. 15. Sinfonietta in D, Op. 16 Turban; Philharmonia Orch/Brain GMCD7360/61 (two CDs)
Suter ‘Hommage à R.S.’: Suites for Piano Nos. 1 and 2. Deutsche Chansons für Singstimme und Klavier. unfassbar en Forme de Suite für Sing- und Sprechstimme und Klavier. Epilog – Wälzerchen – Reminiszenz Sutter; Leon GMCD7382
Hänssler Classic
Bach, J. S. Orchestral Suites, BWV1066-69 Oregon Festival Chamber Orch/Rilling CD04.605 (two CDs)
Bruckner Symphonies – No. 7 in E; No. 9 in D minor Radio-Sinfonieorch Stuttgart des SWR/Sanderling, K.; Giulini CD94.604 (two CDs)
Harmonia Mundi
Amner. Browne. Byrd. Campion. Croce. Dowland. Gibbons. Parsons. Ramsey. Tallis. Taverner. Tomkins ‘Tune thy Musicke to Thy Hart – Tudor and Jacobean music for private devotion’, inc. Amner’s ‘O ye little flock’, Croce’s ‘From the profound centre of my heart’, Ramsey’s ‘How are the mighty fall’n’ and Tomkins’s ‘When David heard’ Stile Antico; Fretwork HMU807554 (Hybrid SACD)
Bach, C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Berio. Britten. Carter ‘Cécile Moinet – Solo Oboe’: Sonata in A minor, Wq132 (H562). Partita in A minor, BWV1013. Sequenza VII. Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49. Inner Song Moinet HMC902118
Beethoven. Berg Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61. Violin Concerto, ‘to the memory of an angel’ Faust; Orch Mozart/Abbado, C. HMC902105
Schubert ‘Willkommen und Abschied’: Heidenröslein, D257. Ganymed, D544. Bei dir allein, D866. Der Winterabend, D938. Nachtstück, D672. Dass sie hier gewesen, D775. Der Schiffer, D536. Schlummerlied, D527. Wandrers Nachtlied, D224, etc. Güra; Berner (Rönisch fortepiano) HMC902112
Shostakovich Piano Concertos – No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 (Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings); No. 2 in F, Op. 102. Violin Sonata in F, Op. 134 Melnikov; Faust; Mahler Chamber Orch/Currentzis HMC902104
Ysaÿe Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27 Murray HMU907569
Herald Audio Visual
Alain. Byrd. Dove. Dyson. Hovland. Mozart. Stanford. Tallis. Weelkes et al ‘Choral Music from Coventry Cathedral’, inc. Alain‘s ‘Litanies, AWV100’, Dyson’s ‘Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D’, Stanford’s ‘How beauteous are their feet’ and Weelkes’s ‘Hosanna to the Son of David’ Boy Choristers, Girl Choristers and Choral Clerks of Coventry Cathedral; Reid/Beaumont HAVPCD369
Hungaroton Classic
Boccherini Three Quartets for Flute and Strings, Op. 5 Ittze; Abraham, et al HCD32695
Hyperion Helios
Kuhnau ‘Sacred Music’: Ihr Himmel jubiliert von oben. Weicht ihr Sorgen aus dem Hertzen. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern. Gott, sei mir gnädig nach deiner Güte. Tristis est anima mea. O heilige Zeit The King’s Consort/King CDH55394
Various composers ‘Blah blah blah and other trifles … ’: Blah blah blah. They all laughed. The Tale of the Oyster. Place Settings. Lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise. The Satisfied Lover. Song of a nightclub proprietress. Usherette’s Blues, etc. Walker; Vignoles CDH55422
Zelenka ‘Sacred Music’: Litaniae de Venerabili Sacramento. Regina caeli laetere. Salve Regina. Officium defunctorum The King’s Consort/King CDH55424
Hyperion Records
Britten Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 15. Double Concerto in B minor. Lachrymae, Op. 48a Marwood, A.; Power; BBC Scottish SO/Volkov CDA67801
Cherubini ‘Arias and Overtures from Florence to Paris’, inc. excerpts from ‘Il Giulio Sabino’, ‘Ifigenia in Aulide’, ‘Démophon’, ‘Armida abbandonata’ and ‘Mesenzio, re d’Etruria’ Schiavo; Auser Musici/Ipata CDA67893
Granados ‘Goyescas’: Goyescas, o Los majos enamorados. El pelele, ‘Escena goyesca’. Allegro de concierto Ohlsson CDA67846
Shostakovich ‘Music for Viola and Piano’: Seven Preludes (from Op. 24, arr. Strakhov). Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147. Five Pieces (from ‘The Gadfly’, arr. Borisovsky) Power; Crawford-Phillips CDA67865
Various composers ‘The Power of Love – An English Songbook’ Coote; Johnson CDA67888
IBA
Rachmaninov ‘Idil Biret Archive Edition, Vol. 12’: Six Moments musicaux, Op. 16. Variations sur un thème de Corelli, Op. 42. Préludes, Op. 32 – excerpts Biret 8.571289
ICA Classics Legacy
Beethoven ‘William Steinberg’: Missa solemnis in D, Op. 123 Harper; Hamari; Eliasson; Meven; Kölner Rundfunkchor und Sinfonie-Orch/Steinberg (Cologne, 1973) ICAC5054
Beethoven. Mozart. Tchaikovsky ‘Erich Leinsdorf’: Egmont, Op. 84 – Overture. Serenade in D, K320 – Minuet. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Boston SO/Leinsdorf (Boston, 1969; Harvard, 1963; Boston, 1969) ICAD5059 (DVD-V)
Beethoven. Schubert ‘Wilhelm Backhaus’: Piano Sonatas – No. 6 in F, Op. 10 No. 2; No. 29 in B flat, Op. 106. Impromptu in B flat, D935 No. 3 Backhaus (Bonn, 1959) ICAC5055
Britten. Holst ‘Gennadi Rozhdestvensky’: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, Op. 34, ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’. The Planets, H125 Ladies of the BBCSO Chor; BBCSO/Rozhdestvensky (Osaka, 1981; London, 1980) ICAC5053
Handel. Mozart ‘Charles Munch’: Suite from Handel’s ‘Water Music’ (arr. Harty). Symphonies – No. 36 in C, K425, ‘Linz’; No. 38 in D, K504, ‘Prague’ Boston SO/Munch (Harvard, 1960, 1958, 1959) ICAD5057 (DVD-V)
Haydn. Mozart ‘Amadeus Quartet’: String Quartet in C, Hob. III/77 (Op. 76 No. 3). String Quartet in C, K465 Amadeus Quartet (Newport, 1980; London, 1983) ICAD5056 (DVD-V)
Indésens Records
Wagner Tristan und Isolde (adapted by Jean-Pierre Arnaud and Vincent Figuri) Wilson; Schweitzer; Ensemble Carpe Diem/Arnaud INDE035
Intégral Classic
Dussek. Weber Piano Sonata in F sharp, Op. 61. Tableau, Op. 23, ‘Marie-Antoinette’. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C, J138. Les Adieux, JAnh. 105 Yui 221.182
Haydn Violin Concertos – No. 1 in C, Hob. VIIa/1; No. 3 in A, Hob. VIIa/3; No. 4 in G, Hob. VIIa/4 Colliard; Orch de Chambre de Toulouse 201.101
Various composers ‘Resonances’: An ‘instantaneous creation’ with texts based on the liturgy and poems by Emmanuel Jublin Var’s Musica 221.339
Istituto Discografico Italiano
Bach, J. S. Beethoven English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV810. Triple Concerto in A minor, BWV1044. An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 Schiøtz; Horszowski; Schneider; Wummer et al IDIS6629
Bach, J. S. Mozart ‘Vása Prìhodá plays … ’: Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV1043. Violin Concertos – No. 3 in G, K216; No. 4 in D, K218 Prìhodá; Novello; Orch Sinfonica di Tornio della RAI/Gerelli (1957) IDIS6628
Jade
Liszt Via Crucis, S53 BBC Northern Singers; Jackson/Thorne JADE6997402
Various composers ‘Marie, Reine des Anges’: Gregorian and Orthodox chant in celebration of the Blessed Virgin Choir of the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos; Choir of the Convent of Saint Elisabeth, Minsk et al JADE6997352
K617
Haydn, M. Mozart. Planyavsky. Schobert. Soler. Telemann. Vivaldi ‘a due cembali’ – caprices … ’, inc. Michael Haydn’s ‘Andante in E flat, MH468’, Planyavsky’s ‘Berceuse ‘Immer ein wenig träumerisch’’ and Schobert’s ‘Pastorale de la sonate pour clavecin avec l’accompagnement d’un violon et d’une basse, Op. 6’ Zylberajch; Gester K617233
Lawo Classics
Berg. Schoenberg. Valen. Webern ‘L’Altra Belta’, inc. Berg’s ‘Piano Sonata, Op. 1’, Schoenberg’s ‘Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19’, Valen’s ‘Four Piano Pieces, Op. 22’ and Webern’s ‘Variations, Op. 27’ Guaita LWC1024
Brahms. Schumann, C. ‘Organ Works’, inc. Brahms’s ‘Chorale Preludes, Op. 122’ and ‘Chorale Prelude and Fugue on ‘O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid’’ and Clara Schumann’s ‘Prelude and Fugue for Organ, Op. 16 No. 3’ Dahl LWC1023
Romberg, M. Valaquenta. Tableaux fantasques Pagin LWC1022
Lorelt
Trandafilovski ‘Chamber Music’: Strike-flow (in three phases). Six Pieces from Cekori. Crystal Threads. A-de-scent. Quartet. Violin Concerto Kreutzer Quartet; Lontano/de la Martinez LNT132
LSO Live
Nielsen Symphonies – No. 1 in G minor, FS16; No. 6, FS116, ‘Sinfonia semplice’ LSO/Davis, C. LSO0715 (Hybrid SACD)
Marco Polo
Spohr ‘String Quartets (Complete), Vol. 15’: String Quartets – No. 19 in A, Op. 68; No. 22 in D minor, Op. 74 No. 3 Concertino String Quartet; New Budapest Quartet 8.225981
Mariinsky Label
Shchedrin. Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 5. Piano Concertos – No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 (Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings); No. 2 in F, Op. 102 Matsuev; Mariinsky Orch/Gergiev MAR0509 (Hybrid SACD)
Marquis Classics
Achron. Pärt. Schnittke. Shostakovich ‘Sounds of Defiance’, inc. Achron’s ‘Hebrew Melody, Op. 33’, Pärt’s ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’, Schnittke’s ‘Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano’ and Shostakovich’s ‘Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 134’ Kutik; Bozarth MAR81429
Melba Recordings
Britten. Vaughan Williams ‘Arcadia Lost’: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20. Flos Campi. The Lark Ascending. On Wenlock Edge Davislim; Dauth; Benedict; Martin; Hamer Quartet; Cantillation; Sydney SO/Wigglesworth MR301131 (Hybrid SACD)
Melodiya
Shchedrin Dead Souls – Operatic Scenes after the Epic Poem by Nikolai Gogol in Three Acts Voroshilo; Piavko; Avdeyeva; Morozov; Soloists of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre; Moscow Chamber Ch; Soloists of the Academic Ch of Russian Song of the All-Union Radio and Television et al/Temirkanov MELCD1001837 (two CDs)
Meridian Records
Bach, C. P. E. Telemann ‘Godfather – Music for Flute, Harpsichord and Continuo’, inc. C. P. E. Bach’s ‘Sonata in G’ and ‘Variations on ‘La folia d’Espagne’’ and ‘Trio Sonata in B flat’ and ‘Concerto in B minor’ by Telemann La Fontegara; Diez-Canedo; Padilla; Cruz; Sánchez Guevara CDE84605
Chilcott. McCabe. Macmillan. McNeff. Navino. O’Regan. Pott. Rathbone. Whitbourn. Woolrich et al ‘The Spirit of Christmas Present’, inc. Chilcott’s ‘Remember, O thou Man’, Macmillan’s ‘Dominus Dabit Benignitatem’, Navino’s ‘Before the Paling of the Stars’ and Rathbone’s ‘Silent Night’ Elysian Singers/
Laughton CDE84601
Stephenson Concerto for Double Bass and Small Orchestra. Concerto for Cello and Full Orchestra. Burlesque for Double Bass and Small Orchestra. Bosch; Martens; Cape PO/Stephenson CDE84602
Mirare
Couperin, F. Rebel ‘Apothéose’: Le Parnasse ou L’Apothéose de Corelli. Grande Sonate en trio. Apothéose de M. de Lully. Tombeau de M. de Lully Ricercar Consort/Pierlot MIR150
Musica Rediviva
Various composers ‘Maria’: Mediaeval songs and Swedish traditional music Ek; Månsson; Landgren; Marming; Lindberg MRCD015
Musical Concepts
Tchaikovsky ‘Unknown Tchaikovsky’: Symphony No. 7 in E flat. Elegy in G in Memory of Samarin. Two Youth Overtures Moscow Cinematographic Orch/Skripka MC-116
Muso
Bartók. Beethoven. Elgar. Mendelssohn. Paganini. Shostakovich. Sibelius. Tchaikovsky ‘75 Years Violin – Ysaÿe and the Queen Elisabeth Competition’: The Queen Elisabeth Competition’s celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Eugène Ysaÿe Competition, drawing on an extensive archive of previously unreleased recordings of the great concertos Repin; Znaider; Kremer; Hirshhorn; Baráti; Fried; Ivanov; Kelemen et al MU002 (four CDs)
Myto Records
Wagner Die Walküre Crespin; Uhl; Frick; Varnay et al; Chor und Orch der Bayreuther Festspiele/Kempe (Bayreuth, 1961) MCD00293 (three CDs)
Wagner Parsifal Thomas; Dalis; Hotter; London et al; Chor und Orch der Bayreuther Festspiele/Knappertsbusch (Bayreuth, 1961) MCD00289 (four CDs)
Wagner Tannhäuser de Los Angeles; Greindl; Windgassen; Fischer-Dieskau et al; Chor und Orch der Bayreuther Festspiele/Sawallisch (Bayreuth, 1961) MCD00291 (three CDs)
Naïve Classique
Vivaldi Orlando furioso, RV728 (stage direction: Pierre Audi) Lemieux; Larmore; Cangemi; Jaroussky; Senn; Hammarström; Basso et al; Choeur du Théâtre des Champs Elysées; Ensemble Matheus/Spinosi CR2148 (DVD-V)
Navona Records
Ball, L. ‘Method Music’: Meher Baba Piece. Sitter 09. Sitter 10-16. Victoria. Galaxy 01 (for the late Syd Barrett). Galaxy 02 (for the late Hugh Hopper). Galaxy 03 (for the late György Ligeti) Ball; Townshend NV5860 (two CDs)
Naxos
Bach, J. S. ‘Guitar Transcriptions’, inc. transcriptions of ‘Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, BWV659’, ‘Suite for Solo Cello No. 4 in E flat, BWV1010’ and ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV147’ Devine 8.572740
Balada Caprichos – No. 1, ‘Homage to Federico García Lorca’; No. 5, ‘Homage to Isaac Albéniz’. A Little Night Music in Harlem. Reflejos Piétu; Mata; Franco; Iberian Chamber Orch/Temes 8.572625
Debussy ‘Complete Orchestral Works’ Orch National de Lyon/Märkl 8.509002 (nine CDs)
Delius. Ireland ‘Evening Songs – Delius and Ireland songs arranged for cello and piano’, inc. Delius’s ‘Love’s Philosophy’, ‘Slumber Song’ and ‘Through the Long, Long Years’ and Ireland’s ‘Sea Fever’, ‘In Summer Woods’ and ‘Spring Sorrow’ Lloyd Webber, J.; Cheng; Lenehan 8.572902
Dohnányi String Quartets – No. 1 in A, Op. 7; No. 3 in A minor, Op. 33 Aviv Quartet 8.572569
Grieg. Nordheim String Quartets – No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27; No. 2 in F (both arr. Årdal). Rendezvous Oslo Camerata/Barratt-Due 8.572441
Lipinski Three Capriccios, Op. 10. Three Capriccios, Op. 27 Chen Xi 8.572665
Penderecki Sinfoniettas Nos. 1 and 2. Three Pieces in Old Style. Serenade. Intermezzo for 24 Strings. Capriccio for Oboe and String Orchestra Pachlewski; Capezzali; Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orch/Wit 8.572212
Pott ‘In the Heart of Things – Choral Music’: Mass for Eight Parts. Mary’s Carol. A Hymn to the Virgin. I Sing of a Maiden. Ubi Caritas. Balulalow. Lament Davidson; Commotio/Berry 8.572739
Soler Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 16-27 Shimkus 8.572516
Tchaikovsky Dix-Huit Morceaux, Op. 72 Shamray 8.572225
Wallace ‘Celtic Fantasies’: Scots Wha Hae. The Lass o’ Gowrie. Thou Shining River. Bonnie Dundee. Desmond’s Song. The Blue Bells of Scotland. The Yellow Hair’d Laddie. The Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast. Maggie Lauder, etc. Tuck; Bonynge 8.572775
Weiss ‘Lute Sonatas, Vol. 11’: Sonatas – No. 30 in E flat; No. 39 in C, ‘Partita grande’; No. 96 in G Barto 8.572680
Naxos American Classics
Gershwin Concerto in F. Variations on ‘I Got Rhythm’. Second Rhapsody Weiss; Buffalo Phil/Falletta 8.559705 (CD); NBD0025 (Blu-ray audio disc)
Hanson Symphonies – No. 6; No. 7, ‘A Sea Symphony’. Lumen in Christo Seattle Symphony Chorale; Seattle Symphony/Schwarz 8.559704
Naxos Historical
Bach, J. S. ‘Great Singers – Kathleen Ferrier’: St Matthew Passion, BWV244. Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV67 Ferrier et al (1947-49) 8.111373-75 (three CDs)
Stravinsky ‘Stravinsky conducts … ’: The Rite of Spring. Petrushka – Suite. Firebird – Suite Stravinsky et al (1940-46) 8.112070
Naxos Musical Journeys
Grieg ‘A Musical Journey – Norway: A Musical Tour of Troldhaugen, Bergen and the Norwegian Landscape’ Various artists 2.110274 (DVD-V)
Mahler ‘A Musical Journey – Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy’ Various artists 2.110550 (DVD-V)
Mendelssohn ‘A Musical Journey – Italy: A Musical Tour of Tuscany, Umbria and Rome’ Various artists 2.110276 (DVD-V)
Naxos Spanish Classics
Marco Symphonies – No. 2, ‘Espacio cerrado’; No. 8, ‘Gaia’s Dance’; No. 9, ‘Thalassa’ Malaga Phil/Serebrier 8.572684
New Classical Adventure
Liszt Hunnenschlacht, S105. Hungaria, S103. Mazeppa, S100 Orch Wiener Akademie/
Haselböck 60250
New World Records
Brown, C. Iconicities – Three Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics Winant; William Winant Percussion Group; Brown 80723
Garland Waves Breaking on Rocks. Roque Dalton Songs Takahashi; Streisfeld; Duykers; Santa Fe New Music/Kennedy 80716
Newton Classics
Albinoni Trattenimenti da camera, Op. 6 Balestracci; Rambaldi 8802098 (two CDs)
Boccherini Six Trios, Op. 1. Six Sinfonias, Op. 35 Trio Arcophon; I Filarmonici di Bologna/Ephrikian 8802102 (three CDs)
Busoni Violin Sonatas – No. 1 in E minor, K234; No. 2 in E minor, K244 Fontanella; Salinaro 8802099
Gabrieli, A. Missa Dominicalis Turetta (organ of Basilica di San Marco di Venezia) 8802100
Giuliani Six Scottish National Airs. Six Irish National Airs. Rossiniana. Études Cartoni; Cásoli; Scattoli 8802101 (three CDs)
Nimbus Alliance
Bliss. Britten. Delius. Purcell String Quartet No. 2. String Quartet No. 2 in C, Op. 36. String Quartet No. 2, RTviii/8 – Late Swallows. Chacony, Z730 Barbirolli Quartet NI6165
Khachaturian. Khoury. Stankovych ‘Mirror of Eternity’: Flute Concerto. Mirror of Eternity. Chamber Symphony No. 3 Bousany; National SO of Ukraine/Sirenko NI6168
Schumann. Wagner Symphonies – No. 3 in E flat, Op. 97, ‘Rhenish’; No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120. Der fliegende Holländer – Overture LSO/Butt, Y. NI6163
Nimbus Records
Mendelssohn. Schumann Piano Trios – No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49; No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66. Clavierstücke in canonischer Form, Op. 56 Shaham, H.; Erez; Wallfisch, R. NI5875
Nonesuch
Martynov The Beatitudes. Schubert-Quintet (Unfinished). Der Abschied Jeanrenaud; Kronos Quartet 7559796279
Ondine
Rachmaninov ‘Romances’: 15 Songs, Op. 26 – No. 2, Everything I had; No. 3, We shall rest; No. 6, Christ is risen!; No. 9, Once again, I am alone; No. 12, Sad night; No. 13, Yesterday we met; No. 15, Everything passes, etc. Hvorostovsky; Ilja ODE1207-2
Strauss, R. ‘Lieder’: Die Georgine, Op. 10 No. 4. Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne, Op. 19 No. 4. Du meines Herzens Krönelein, Op. 21 No. 2. Morgen!, Op. 27 No. 4. Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4. Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss, Op. 67 No. 3, etc Isokoski; Viitasalo ODE1187-2
Vasks ‘Plainscapes’: The Tomtit’s Message. Silent Songs. Our Mother’s Names. The Sad Mother. Summer. Plainscapes. Small, Warm Holiday. Birth Latvian Radio Ch/Klava ODE1194-2
Onyx Classics
Bartók. Holst. Prokofiev. Ravel. Schulhoff ‘Music from the Machine Age’: The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz73 – Suite. The Perfect Fool, H150 – Ballet Music. Scythian Suite, Op. 20. La valse. Ogelala – excerpts Borusan Istanbul PO/Goetzel ONYX4086
Rachmaninov. Rubinstein Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30. Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 Moog; Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/
Milton ONYX4089
Opera Australia
Gilbert & Sullivan The Mikado (stage direction: Stuart Maunder) Alexander, R.; Breen; Fiebig; Butel; Fyfe; Dark et al; Opera Australia Chor; Orch Victoria/Castles-Onion (Melbourne, 2011) OPOZ56014DVD (DVD-V); OPOZ56015BD (Blu-ray disc)
Opus Arte
Verdi Macbeth (stage direction: Phyllida Lloyd) Keenlyside; Aceto; Monastryrska; Cliffe; Ebel; Meister; Pittas et al; Chor and Orch of the Royal Opera House, Covent Gaden/Pappano (London, 2011) OA1063D (DVD-V); OABD7095D (Blu-ray disc)
OxRecs Digital
Chilcott. Cook. Gardner. Gregson-Williams. Ireland. Lauridsen. Manz. Mendelssohn. Poston. Rutter. Sears. Sweelinck. Wade. Wilberg et al ‘Midwinter – A Christmas Celebration’, inc. Chilcott’s ‘Mid-winter’, Gregson-Williams’s ‘In the bleak mid-winter’, Manz’s ‘E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come’ and Sears’s ‘It came upon the midnight clear’ St Mary’s Cathedral Ch, Glasgow; Woollatt/Walker OXCD111
Pan Classics
Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe/Brown
PC10262 (Hybrid SACD)
Mendelssohn. Schubert Piano Trios – No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49; No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66. Piano Trios – No. 1 in B flat, D898; No. 2 in E flat, D929 Voces Intimae PC10263 (two CDs)
Passacaille
Barbarino. Brunelli. Guami. Josquin Desprez. Palestrina. Trabaci et al ‘La Bella Minuta – Florid Songs for Cornetto around 1600’ Dickey; Tamminga; Pasetto; Bortoletto; Rasi; Cleary PAS979
Graun. Tartini. Telemann. Vivaldi ‘Barbarian Beauty – Baroque Virtuoso Concertos for Viola da gamba and Orchestra’: Concerto for Viola da gamba, Strings and Continuo in D. Concerto for Viola da gamba, Strings and Continuo in A. Concerto for Recorder, Viola da gamba, Strings and Continuo in A minor. Concerto for Violoncello all’Inglese, Strings and Continuo in A Oberlinger; Hirasaki; Comendant; Il Suonar Parlante/Ghielmi, V. PAS972
PentaTone Classics
Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Dohmen; Henschel; Haller; Smith et al; Rundfunkchor Berlin; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorch Berlin/Janowski PTC5186 402 (four Hybrid SACDs)
Phaedra
de Boeck ‘In Flanders’ Fields, Vol. 71’: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Francesca – Suite. Théroigne de Méricourt – Prelude de Beenhouwer; Janácek PO Ostrava/Venkov PH92071
PHI
Brahms Schicksalslied, Op. 54. Alt-Rhapsodie, Op. 53. Begräbnisgesang, Op. 13. Gesang der Parzen, Op. 89. Warum ist das Licht gegeben, Op. 74 No. 1 Hallenberg; Collegium Vocale Gent; Orch des Champs-Élysées/
Herreweghe LPH003
Piano 21
Blet. Claoué. Damase. Laubry. Lefroid de Méreaux. Plé Caussade. Wiener et al ‘Piano Rarities, Vol. 2 – French Composers’, inc. Lefroid de Méreaux’s ‘Cinq Etudes’, Plé Caussade’s ‘Le chant du pâtre’ and Katsaris’s own ‘Improvisation libre sur des musiques de film et sur les ‘Feuilles mortes’’ Katsaris P21 037N
Praga Digitals
Borodin. Glazunov. Prokofiev. Rachmaninov. Rimsky-Korsakov. Schnittke. Shostakovich. Stravinsky. Tchaikovsky. Weinberg ‘Russian Season’: A collection from the Praga Digitals back catalogue Prague Piano Duo; Kinsky Trio Prague; PraΩák Quartet; Parkányi Quartet; Zemlinsky Quartet; Czech Nonet; Leningrad PO/Mravinsky PRD350055
Profil Edition
Beethoven. Czerny. Hummel. Wilms Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano in G, WoO37. Fantasia Concertante, Op. 256. Adagio, Variations and Rondo in A, Op. 78, ‘Schöne Minka’. Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano Trio Wiek PH10045
Bruckner ‘Edition Staatskapelle Dresden, Vol. 32’: Symphonies – No. 4 in E flat, ‘Romantic’; No. 5 in B flat Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden/Böhm PH09025
Korolenko Shloyme (arr. Timofeyev) Korolenko; The Timofeyev Ensemble PH12000
Quartz Music
Lyapunov. Medtner. Rachmaninov. Scriabin Études d’exécution transcendante, Op. 11. Piano Sonata in G minor, Op. 22. Six Moments Musicaux, Op. 16. Fantasie in B minor, Op. 28 Kusunoki QTZ2089
McCabe ‘Upon Entering a Painting’: Two Scenes from ‘Edward II’. Upon Entering a Painting. Sonata (Study No. 12). Gaudi (Study No. 3). Basse Danse Piano 4 Hands QTZ2088
Querstand
Alain. Bach, J. S. Buxtehude. Dandrieu. Holst. Karg-Elert. Liszt. Tunder ‘Die Orgeln der Marienkirche zu Lübeck’, inc. Jehan Alain’s ‘Variations sur l’hymne ‘Lucis Creator’’, Dandrieu’s ‘Magnificat’, Karg-Elert’s ‘Choralimprovisation über ‘Nearer, my God, to Thee’ and Tunder’s ‘Canzona in G’ Unger (Baroque, ‘Totentanz’ and Great organs of the Marienkirche) VKJK1122
Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D minor Leipzig Gewandhausorch/Blomstedt VKJK1017 (Hybrid SACD)
Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C minor Leipzig Gewandhausorch/Blomstedt VKJK0604 (two Hybrid SACDs)
Raumklang
Aguilera de Heredia. Biber. Cabezón. Kapsberger. Murcia. Piccinini. Sanz. ‘Tromba Hispanica – Battallas y Canciones’ Barocktrompeten Ensemble Berlin/Plietzsch RK2906
Regent Records
Bruckner. Byrd. Dove. Elgar. Gowers. Purcell. Rutter. Sheppard. Stanford. Sweeney. Tavener. Wood ‘A Year at Winchester’: A musical journey through the church’s year, inc. Bruckner’s ‘Ave Maria’, Gowers’s ‘Viri Galiliei’ and Sheppard’s ‘Libera nos, salva nos’ Winchester Cathedral Ch; Bell/Lumsden REGCD372
Cocker. Elgar. Festing. Fricker. Guilmant. Hollins. Mozart. Mushel. Reger. Wesley. Whitlock ‘Redcliffe Restored – the 1911 Harrison and Harrison Organ of St Mary Redcliffe’, inc. Elgar’s ‘Imperial March, Op. 32 (transcr. Martin)’, Guilmant’s ‘March on a Theme of Handel’ and Mushel’s ‘Toccata’ Kirk REGCD385
Ricercar
Frescobaldi. Kapsberger. Mazzocchi. Palestrina. Scatlatti, D. Waesich ‘Il Concerto delle Viole Barberini’, inc. excerpts from Frescobaldi’s ‘Fiori Musicali (1635)’ and ‘Libro Primo delle Canzoni (1634)’, Mazzocchi’s ‘Libro Primo dei Madrigali (1638)’ and Waesich’s ‘Canzoni a cinque (1634)’ Vox Luminis; Ensemble Mare Nostrum/De Carlo RIC320
Riverrun Records
Wilson ‘In Shadows’: String Quartets – No. 10, ‘Across a clear blue sky’; No. 11, ‘im Schatten’. Re:play for Tenor, Saxophone and Sextet Roche; Tinney; Robinson; RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet RVRCD82
Roméo Records
Various composers ‘Clara Rockmore, Theremin – Music In and On the Air’: The live radio concert from ‘The Listening Room’ on January 26, 1979 Rockmore; Reisenberg; Friedman; Mallow; Rogers; Rosenfeld; Chaplin; Cox; Feldman; Lo Monaco; Scholz 7286
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Graham Music inspired by 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith Hankinson; Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Wind Orch/Boddice NI6175
Royal Flemish Philharmonic
Henderickx Tejas – What does the sound of the universe look like?. Skriet. Variations. Le Visioni di paura Royal Flemish Philharmonic/
Brabbins RFP003
Maes. Meulemans. Rosseau ‘Concertos for Orchestra’: Overture concertante. Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 1 and 2. Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, Op. 37 – Scherzo Royal Flemish Philharmonic/Brabbins RFP002
Strauss, R. Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64 Royal Flemish Philharmonic/de Waart RFP001
RPO Records
Various composers ‘The Golden Age of Hollywood, Vol. 2’, inc. music for the films ‘Vertigo’, ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’, ‘Sunset Boulevard’, ‘Dial M for Murder’, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, ‘The Caine Mutiny’ and ‘North By Northwest’ Gould; RPO/Serebrier RPO022
RTÉ lyric fm
Balfe Falstaff Vanaud; Cullagh; McElroy et al; RTÉ Concert Orch/Zambelli CD119
Fleischmann ‘Orchestral Works’: The Four Masters Overture. Sinfonia Votiva. An Cóitin Dearg. Clare’s Dragoons RTÉ National SO/Houlihan CD127
Kinsella ‘Orchestral Works’: Symphonies – No. 6; No. 7. Prelude and Toccata for String Orchestra. Duel at the Ford RTÉ National SO/Ó Duinn; Maloney CD134
May, F. ‘Sunlight and Shadow’: Sunlight and Shadow. Scherzo. Spring Nocturne. Suite of Irish Airs. Songs from Prison RTÉ National SO/Houlihan CD135
Ó Riada ‘Orchestral Works’: Overture Olynthiac. The Banks of Sulán. Hercules Dux Ferrariae. Seoladh na nGamhan. Nomos No. 4. Mise Éire. Mná na hÉireann RTÉ National SO/Houlihan CD136
Wilson, I. ‘Winter Finding’: Man-o’-War. an angel serves a small breakfast. Winter finding. Licht/ung Hirsch; RTÉ National SO/
Markson; Porcelijn CD126
Sanctus Recordings
Beethoven. Chopin ‘Rites of Passage – Nelson Freire 1957’, inc. a live concert recording of his appearance at the Rio de Janeiro Piano Competition in 1957, and pieces he recorded immediately afterwards Freire; Orquestra Sinfônica do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro SCSH026
SFZ Music
Aldgasser. Eberlin. Mozart, L. ‘Sonatas from the Court of Salzburg – Leopold Mozart and his contemporaries’: Keyboard Sonatas Irving SFZM0311
Signum Classics
Brahms Symphonies – No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68; No. 2 in D, Op. 73; No. 3 in F, Op. 90; No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Philharmonia Orch/von Dohnányi SIGCD255 (four CDs)
Brahms. Bruckner. Byrd. Gibbons. Monteverdi. Palestrina. Reger. Rheinberger. Tavener. Tippett. Traditional. Victoria ‘Voces 8 – A Choral Tapestry’, inc. Bruckner’s ‘Os justi’, Gibbons’s ‘O clap your hands’, Palestrina‘s ‘Magnificat primi toni’ and Tippett’s ‘Go down, Moses’ Voces 8 SIGCD283
Sleeveless Records
Liszt ‘Depictions’: Trois Études de concert, S144. Gnomenreigen, S145 No. 2. Consolation, S173 No. 3. Hungarian Rhapsody in C sharp minor, S244 No. 2, etc. Mailley-Smith SLV1005
Smudged Discs
Sanabras ‘Clara Sanabras – The Emblem’: The Emblem. Ode to Jimmy Jo. The Owls. Truth be Told. Melancholy Spins. Dovetailing Love. Tokyo Cherry Blossom. Woman, Girl, Juxtaposed. Trace of an Accent. My Dress. The Flower of Magherally Sanabras SMU604
Solo Musica
Beethoven ‘Double Bass Goes Beethoven – Beethoven Cello Sonatas with Double Bass, Vol. 1’: Cello Sonatas – No. 1 in F, Op. 5 No. 1; No. 3 in A, Op. 69; No. 5 in D, Op. 102 No. 2 ParadΩik; Staemmler; Rademacher; Sofianska SM162
Liszt Années de pèlerinage – Première année, ‘Suisse’, S160; Deuxième année, ‘Italie’, S161 Krumpöck SM157
Solstice, Disques du
Cochereau, P. Deux Symphonies improvisées Cochereau (Organ of Notre Dame de Paris) SOCD275
Vierne ‘Les 6 Symphonies’: The six organ symphonies Labric (organ of Saint-Sernin de Toulouse) SOCD277-9 (three CDs)
Sono Luminus
Bolcom. Chopin. Gross. Pärt. Satie. Schubert ‘Still Sound’, inc. Bolcom’s ‘New York Lights’, Gross’s ‘Reflections on Air’, Pärt’s ‘Variations for the Healing of Arinushka’ and Satie’s ‘Gnossienne No. 2’ Levingston DSL-92148
Caplet. Grovlet. Herscher-Clément. Ibert. Sauguet. Severac ‘Le Bestiaire’, inc. Caplet’s ‘Trois Fables de la Fontaine’, Herscher-Clément’s ‘Le Bestiaire du Paradis’ and Sauguet’s ‘Les Animaux et leurs Hommes’ Ricci; Lockert DSL-92149
Stone Records
Delius ‘The Complete Delius Songbook, Vol. 2’: Songs set to texts in French, German, Swedish and Danish Stone; Barlow 5060192780109
Stradivarius
Piazzolla Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas. Oblivion. Rio Sena. Milonga de l ángel. Jeanne y Paul. Chiquilín de Bachín. Chau Paris. Tanti anni prima. El Penúltimo. Marrón y azul Trio Artelli STR33913
Supraphon Records
Bendl. Bor. Dvorák. Fibich. Foerster. Myslivecek. Nápravník. Novák. Ostrcil. Roskosny. Sebor. Skuhersky. Smetana. Zvonar ‘Czech Opera Rarities’: Baritone arias from lesser-known Czech operas Kusjner et al SU4074-2
Various composers ‘Adventus Domini’: A reconstruction of the Rorate Mass as it developed from the early middle ages to the second half of the 16th century Scola Gregoriana Pragensis/Eben SU4071-2
Syrius
Alain ‘Oeuvres pour Piano’: Deuxième Prélude profane. Étude de sonorité. Ecce ancilla Domini. Lumière qui tombe d’un vasistas. Suite monodique. Comme quoi les projets les plus belliqueux finissent souvent par un baillement ou une promenade en barque, etc. Dubé SYR141447
Alfvén. Bonis. Chopin. Delafosse. Elgar. Fauré. Heller. Liszt. Moeran. Ravel. Sibelius. Tchaikovsky ‘Barcarolles’, inc. Elgar’s ‘Canto Popolare (In Moonlight)’, Liszt’s ‘La Lugubre Gondola I, S200 No. 1’ and Moeran’s ‘The Lake Island’ Dubé SYR141443
Tacet
Haydn ‘The Auryn Series XXIII – Auryn’s Haydn, Vol. 8’: Three String Quartets, Hob. III/57-59 (Op. 54) Auryn Quartet TACET176DVD (DVD-A)
Tahra
Schubert et al ‘Scherchen – Unpublished Live Performances, 1945-1965’ Scherchen et al TAH729-730 (two CDs)
Tall Poppies
Haydn ‘Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 3’: Keyboard Sonatas – No. 40 in E flat, Hob. XVI/25; No. 47 in B minor, Hob. XVI/32; No. 54 in G, Hob. XVI/40; No. 59 in E flat, Hob. XVI/49, etc. Lancaster TP216
Teatro Real
Gades Bodas de Sangre; Suite flamenca (choreography: Cristina Hoyos (Soleápor Bulerías Tanguillos)) Camero; Gil; Vento; Mulero; Chico; Arauzo; Lara et al (Madrid, 2011) TR97009DVD (DVD-V); TR97008BD (Blu-ray disc)
Gades Fuenteovejuna (choreography and direction: Antonio Gades; artistic direction: Stella Arauzo) Carnero; Gil; Mulero; Ferrero et al (Madrid, 2011) TR97007DVD (DVD-V); TR97006BD (Blu-ray disc)
Gades/Saura Carmen (flamenco ballet; choreography: Antonio Gades and Carlos Saura; artistic direction: Stella Arauzo) Vento; Gil; Mulero; Rodríguez et al (Madrid, 2011) TR97005DVD (DVD-V); TR97004BD (Blu-ray disc)
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (stage direction: Emilio Sagi) Tézier; Frittoli; Pisaroni et al; Coro y Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real de Madrid/López-Cobos (Madrid, 2011) TR97002DVD (two DVD-Vs); TR97001BD (Blu-ray disc)
Telos Music Records
Various composers ‘Melodías de (in)dependencia – Canciones de México y Argentina’ Garciacano; Goloubitskaia TLS1011
Timpani
Cartan ‘La Musique de Chambre’: Quatuors Nos. 1 and 2. Introduction et Allegro. Sonatine pour flûte et clarinette Quatuor Stanislaus; Ensemble Stanislaus 1C1187
Debussy ‘Orchestral Works, Vol. 2’: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. Trois Nocturnes. Printemps. Deux Danses. Rhapsodie Dartevelle; Beynon; Chœur Accentus; Orch Philharmonique de Luxembourg/Krivine 1C1173
Ropartz Symphony No. 3 Philippe; Méchain; Laho; Teitgen; Ensemble vocal Erik Satie; Ensemble vocal Jacques Ibert; Ensemble vocal Opus 37; Orch Symphonique de Région Centre-Tours/Ossonce 1C1190
Transart
Bach, J. S. Chopin. Mozart. Schubert ‘Tribute to Dinu Lipatti’, inc. Bach’s ‘Partita No. 1 in B flat, BWV825’, Chopin’s ‘Ballade No. 3 in A flat, Op. 47’, Mozart’s ‘Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K310’ and Schubert’s ‘Impromptu in G flat, D899 No. 3’ Badura-Skoda TR170 (two CDs)
Universal Classics and Jazz
Allegri. Barber. Bruckner. Byrd. Górecki. Josquin Desprez. Lotti. Monteverdi. Palestrina. Poulenc. Sheppard. Tallis. Tavener. Tomkins ‘Renaissance – Music for Inner Peace’ The Sixteen/Christophers 476 4592 (two CDs)
Urania Historical Records
Dvorák Symphonies – No. 7 in D minor, B141; No. 8 in G, B163; No. 9 in E minor, B178, ‘From the New World’. Scherzo capriccioso, B131, etc. Hallé/Barbirolli WS121.135 (two CDs)
Mahler. Strauss, R. Symphony No. 1 in D. Don Juan, Op. 20. Till Eulenspiegel’s lustige Streiche, Op. 28. Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59 – Suite, etc. Pittburgh SO/Steinberg WS121.136 (two CDs)
Vivaldi Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione, Op. 8 – No. 1 in E, RV269, ‘La primavera’; No. 2 in G minor, RV315, ‘L’estate’; No. 3 in F, RV293, ‘L’autunno’; No. 4 in F minor, RV297, ‘L’inverno’; No. 5 in E flat, RV253, ‘La tempesta di mare’ Ayo; Garatti; I Musici WS121.134 (two CDs)
Vanguard Classics
Bach, J. S. Cantatas – Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV21. O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe, BWV34. Schauet doch und sehet, ob irgend ein Schmerz sei, BWV46. Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV56. Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV104 Cuénod; Wiener Symphoniker/Sternberg 699675124120 (two CDs)
Walhall Eternity
Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Guarrera; Sutherland; Tucker; Moscona; Votipka; Anthony; Nagy et al; Chor and Orch of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Varviso (New York, 1961) WLCD0350 (two CDs)
Strauss, R. Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59 Crespin; Böhme; Meyer; Rothenberger; Wunderlich; Friedrich et al; Coro y Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón/Wallberg (Buenos Aires, 1961) WLCD0341 (three CDs)
Wagner Tristan und Isolde Liebl; Hines; Nilsson; Dalis; Cassel; Marsh; Sgarro; Franke et al; Chor and Orch of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Rosenstock (New York, 1961) WLCD0344 (three CDs)
Wergo
Ferrari ‘‘Jetzt’, oder wahrscheinlich ist dies mein Alltag, in der Verwirrung der Orte und der Augenblicke’ Ferrari, L.; Ferrari, B.; Vivant Quartet de Narbonne WER2066-2 (three CDs)
Vogel ‘Peter Vogel – The Sound of Shadows’: a documentary by Jean Martin and Conall Gleeson Vogel et al MV0805-5 (DVD-V)
Weton Wesgram
Various composers ‘Luciano Pavarotti’ Pavarotti et al KBOX3572 (three CDs)
Wigmore Hall Live
Schubert Schwanengesang, D957 Maltman; Johnson WHLive0049
Winter & Winter
Vivaldi ‘The Four Seasons’: An interpretation of the ever-popular concertos, together with Bleckmann’s and Caine’s ‘The Four Seasons Sonnets’ Hevia; Bleckmann; Caine, U.; Forma Antiqva/Zapico 910185-2
Zig-Zag Territoires
Bonis. Fauré. Ravel Soir et Matin, Op. 76. Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120. Piano Trio in A minor Trio George Sand ZZT120101
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