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Budget reissues
of all of JOSEF LHEVINNE's commercial recordings (including those with ROSINA
LHEVINNE), SOLOMON's recordings of Beethoven Concerto No. 3 (1944) and Piano
Concerto of Bliss (1943), and WILLIAM KAPELL's Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2
(1950) and Paganini Rhapsody
(1951) (NAXOS)
A survey of more
than two-dozen recordings of Strauss' Salome from early acoustics to the present, plus recordings of the final scene....
and some previously unpublished photos of Ljuba Welitsch, considered by many to
be the definitive interpreter of the role.
Malipiero's
opera Capricci di Callot performed by soloists with the Kiel Philharmonic Orch/Peter Marscik, cond.
(cpo)
A twin-CD set of
complete Odeon 1916-1917 recordings of soprano MARIA IVOGÜN, a leading coloratura soprano of the turn of the century and teacher of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
(PREISER)
Spectacular reissue of Antal
Dorati's Minnesota Orchestra mono recording from the early '50s of Respighi's Roman Festivals and
Church Windows, the latter
with its incredible gong - the delight of audiophiles for decades (SOUND DYNAMICS)
Reissue of Janacek's
Moravian Dances, Suite No. 3, Schluck & Jau and Danube, with the Slovak PO/Libor Pesek
(NAXOS)
Inexpensive
recoupling of sonic spectaculars: works of Elgar, Walton and The Fenlands by Arthur Wills, with organist Wills
(who also plays his transcription of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition)
and The Cambridge
Co-Operative Band conducted by David Read (HELIOS)
Reissues of early mono
recordings of Tchaikovsky's Fifth & Sixth symphonies, Dvorak's Symphony No. 9,
Kodály's Galanta and Marozzék
Dances and Háry János Suite, plus Caucasian Sketches by Ippolitov-Ivanov, with Artur Rodzinski and the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra (WESTMINSTER)
Jerry Goldsmith's
Christus Apollo, Music for Orchestra and Fireworks with the composer conducting the London Symphony Orch
(TELARC)
Bruno Walter's
early Mahler recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic (Das Lied von der Erde
with Kirsten Thorborg and Charles Kullman, 1936; Symphony No. 9, 1938) in superb
new budget-priced transfers (NAXOS)