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Reissues of classic recordings
of the past: Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 with Wolfgang Sawallisch/Concertgebouw recorded in 1960, a collection called "First
Chair,"
and Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 7" as reconstructed by Bogatyrev, the latter two with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia
Orchestra, recorded in 1952/62 (SOUND DYNAMICS ASSOCIATES)
Sir William Walton conducts
his own Belshazzar's Feast (with choruses and the BBC Symphony) and Symphony No. 1 (with the Royal Philharmonic) in
live performances from the BBC, and the complete ballet The Quest (and
other works) with the
English Northern Sinfonia conducted by David Lloyd-Jones (BBC LEGENDS/NAXOS)
America the
Beautiful, great voices in
patriotic songs, recorded 1905-1950, including Caruso, Ponselle, Eames, Alda, McCormack, Schumann-Heink, Farrar, Tibbett, Melchior,
Lehmann and Warren (ROMOPHONE)
Orchestral works of Spanish
composer Joaquim Serra (1907-1957) played by El Vallès Symphony Orch/Salvador Brotons, with pianist Emili Brugalla
(NAXOS)
The Mystic Trumpeter, Flivver Ten
Million and Endymion's Narrative by Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871-1940) with the Buffalo Philharmonic/JoAnne Falletta
(NAXOS)
Finnish soprano SOILE ISOKOSKI
singing music of Richard Strauss including Four Last Songs with Marek Janowski conducting
(ONDINE)
Four twin-CD sets of early
recordings by SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY (Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Harris), NICOLAI MALKO
(Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Dvorak), ERICH KLEIBER (Schubert, Beethoven, Mozart, Dvorak) and FRITZ BUSCH (Beethoven,
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Haydn, Strauss) (EMI)