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SACD
issues of Marek Janowski conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony in Strauss's An
Alpi9ne Symphony and Macbeth, Janowski conducting the Suisse
Romande Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No. 6, and pianist Sa Chen
playing Rachmaninoff Etude Tableaus and
music of Mussorgsky (PENTATONE )
SACD issues of choral works of
Rued Langgaard performed by Ars Nova Copenhagen, violin concertos by Gade,
Lange-Müller and Langgaard played by Christina Astrand with John Storegärde
conducting the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, and piano music of Friedrich
Nietzsche polayed by Michael Krücker (DA CAPO / NCA)
SACD
issues of music of Vierne and Chausson sung by tenor Steve Davislim with
the Queensland
Orchestra conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire, organ sonatas of Bach played
by Christopher Wrench, and Schoeck's Elegie sung by bass-baritone Klaus Mertens
with the Mutare Ensemble directed by Gerhaard Müller-Hornbach (MELBA / NCA) 
A
collection of operatic arias sung by soprano Kate Royal, and historic reissues
of recordings by Selma
Kurz, Rosanna Carteri, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Fritz Feinhals, Josip Gostic and
Dusan Georgevic (EMI CLASSICS / PREISER)
Renée Flemings latest disk, called
Verismo; historic reissues by Ester Mazzoleni, Eugenia Burzio, Viovanni Malipiero,
and Giuseppe Campora (DECCA / PREISER)
SACD
issues on a new label offers operatic music of Johann Philip Krieger
from the 17th Century, and contemporary works by Zapf, Feldmann, Heinrich,
Domhardt,
Jann, Voigtländler and Stier; and Bach's Organ Mass featuring Hansjöirg
Albrecht (NEW CLASSICAL ADVENTURE / OEHMS)
SACD issues of
David Zinman conducting the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony
No. 6, the Amsterdam String Quartet playing three quartets of Haydn, and piano
quartets of Saint-Saëns played by the Mozart Piano Quartet (RCA / CHANNEL CLASSICS/
MDG)
SACD
issues of Haydn's The Creation with the LSO conducted by Sir Colin
Davis, cellist Peter Wispelwey plays Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante and
solo cello works by Tcherepnin and Crumb, and bassoonist Matthew Wilkie
plays works for bassoon by Telemann,
J. S. Bach and C. P. E. Bach (LSO LIVE / CHANNEL CLASSICS / MELBA)
SACD issues of
organ music of Rued Langgaard played by Flemming Dreisig, music of Norgard
for soprano and instrumental ensemble sung by Bente Vist, and the Clemencic
Consort performing Carmina Burana (DA CAPO / OEHMNS)
SACD issues of
Handel's Organ Concertos, Op. 7 with Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient
Music, Beethoven's Sonata No. 15 and Variations Op. 34 and 35 played by Michael
Korstick, and a collection of vocal works by David Garner (HARMONIA MUNDI /
OEHMS / PENTATONE)
SACD
issues of Valery Gergiev conducting the Mariinsky Theatre in Shostakovich's
opera The
Nose, and the same composer's Symphonies 1 and 15; Michael Tilson Thomas
conducts soloists, choruses and the San Francisco Symphony in Mahler's Symphony
No. 8, and the Adagio from
Symphony No. 10 (MARIINSKY / SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY)
Two
large-scale reissues of historic interest: Volkmar Andreae conducts the
Vienna Symphony
in all of Bruckner's symphonies, all of the RIAS recordings from 1947-1954
with Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic; Sir Thomas
Beecham in live performances of music of Moeran, D'Indy and Berners, Wagner's
Parsifal conducted by Ferdinand Leitner in Paris in 1954, and
Spanish orchestral music conducted by Ataúlfo Argenta (MUSIC & ARTS / AUDITE
/
SOMM / PROFIL / MEDICI ARTS)
Major
historic reissues: Stokowski conducting Falla with mezzo-soprano Nan Merriman
and pianist William Kapell and the NYP; a live performance
of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Vladimir Horowitz and the NYP conducted
by Arturo Toscanini; Stokowski conducting live performances music of Hovhaness,
Milhaud, Copland and Serebrier, and three
symphonies of Shostakovich; and a NYP concert conducted by
Dimitri Mitropoulos with pianist Arthur Rubinstein in music of Borodin,
Saint-Saëns,
Franck
and Scriabin (PRISTINE AUDIO / MUSIC & ARTS / GUILD)
Reissues
on 18 CDs of Evgeny Svetlanov's recordings of orchestral works of Alexander
Glazunov, and a 4 CD set of Tanayev's Concert Suite, Symphony No. 4 and
Cantata "At the
Reading of a Psalm," and Kastalsky's Brotherly Prayer for the
Dead (SVETLANOV
EDITION)
Historic
live recordings by Leopold Stokowski (Tchaikovsky), Jascha Horenstein (Nielsen/Sibelius),
Sir Adrian Boult (Vaughan Williams/Bax/Hadley/Berg), and Constantine Silvestre
(Reznicek/Tchaikovsky/Elgar) (GUILD / BBC LEGENDS)
Yefim
Bronfman plays Salonen's Piano Concerto with the composer conducting, Vladimir
Horowitz live in Carnegie Hall playing Mussorgsky and Liszt, Bax's Symphonic
Variations and Concertino
for Piano (Left Hand) played by Ashley Wass with James Judd conducting,
and Earl Wild in concert perfrormances of Rachmaninoff, Weber and Liszt
(DGG / RCA / NAXOS / IVORY CLASSICS)
Evgeny
Kissin plays Prokofiev Concertos 2 and 3 with the Philharmonia Orchestra
directed by Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gyorgy Cziffra in a Chopin/Liszt recital
recorded in Tokyo, Prokofiev's piano concertos played by Boris Berman
and Horacio Gutiérrez with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra directed by
Neemi Järvi, Kabalevsky's piano sonatas played by Alexandre Dossin, and
a massive 24-CD set of Legendary Russian Pianists (EMI CLASSICS / MEDICI
ARTS / CHANDOS
/ NAXOS / BRILLIANT CLASSICS )
Historic recordings
of Emanuel Feuermann playing Bloch and Strauss, Guido Cantelli and the NBC
Symphony playing Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, Mozart's Piano Concerto No.
27 (Rudolf Serkin) and Symphony No. 29 with Toscanini conducting, Leopold Stokowski
conducting Tchaikovsky and Wagner, and Arthur Rubinstein playing Beethoven's
Concerto No. 4 with Sir Thomas Beecham (PRISTINE AUDIO)
Soprano Christine
Brewer sings operatic arias in English, and Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful
Songs; Martucci's Piano Concerto No. 1 played by Gesualdo Coggi and the same
composer's La canzone dei ricordi with mezzo-soprano Silvia Pasini,
historic recordings by soprano Virginia Zeani, and Wagner from Dresden 1944-1945
with
leading singers of the era (CHANDOS / TELARC / NAXOS / PREISER / PROFIL)
SACD issues of
Schubert's Trout Quintet featuring pianist Martin Helmchen, and Haydn's
piano trios played by the Beaux Arts Trio and the same composer's complete
songs sung by soprano Elly Ameling (PENTATONE)
SACD
issues of Schumann's Symphonies 3 and 4 with Lawrence Foster and the Czech
Philharmonic
Orchestra, Dvorák's Symphony No. 7 and Golden Spinning Wheel with the Netherlands
Philharmonic directed by Yakov Kreizberg, and the Storiani Trio playing two
piano trios by Brahms (PENTATONE)
SACD
issues of music of Haydn played by oboist Alexi Utkin, obscure Russian
piano music played
by Thomas Günther, and Mahler's Symphony No. 8 conducted by Valery Gergiev
(CARO MITIS / CYBELE / LSO LIVE)
SACD issues
of Weingartner's Symphony No. 6 and symphonic poem Frühling with the Basel
Symphony directed by Marko Letonja, organ musicof Dupré, Swayne, Jongen and
Bridge played by Tobias Frank, and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 played
by Michael Rische with Howard Griffiths including alternate cadenzas (cpo / PROFIL)
Magdalena
Kozená in a program of Czech music, Ewa Podles in recital with pianist Garrick
Ohlsson, early recordings of "songs and melodies" by Fritz Wunderlich, and
reissues of recordings by Boris Christoff and Rudolf Bockelmann (DGG / WIGMORE
HALL / PROFIL / PREISER)
Volume
V in the important Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -
Live - The Radio Recordings (RCOA LIVE)
Historic reissues:
Stokowski conducts Dvorák and Schubert, Kubelik conducts Mahler abnd Janácek,
live performances by Robert Casadesus of concertos of Mozart, Beethoven and
Ravel, Gliere's Ilya Mourometz conducted by Nathan Rakhlin, and Leonard Bernstein's
Columbia Mahler recordings (CALA / PROFIL / MEDICI ARTS / BEARAC / SONY CLASSICAL)
The
Bamberg Symphony conducted by Jonathan Nott plays Stravinsky, Mahler, Janácek
and Schubert;
Karl-Heinz Steffens is featured in clarinet quintets by Brahms and Mozart (TUDOR)
Violinist
David Grimal and pianist Georges Pludermacher play sonatas of Janácek and
Enescu, Bartók's First Rhapsody and Myths by Szymanowski (NAÏVE) 
DVD
video of the 1939 documentary The City with Aaron Copland's music re-recorded,
plus the original film (NAXOS)
Britten's
opera Billy Budd with a cast featuring Ian Bostridge, Nathan Gunn, Gidon
Saks and Neal Davies, with chorus and the London Symphony conducted by
Daniel Harding (VIRGIN CLASSICS)
Excerpts
from the famous LP edition The Record of Singing issued on CD
along with a new compilation covering 1953-2007, and the important Julius
Block Cylinders are released (EMI CLASSICS / MARSTON)
Les
Urnes de l'Opéra - 48 recordings made before 1907; compilations of recordings
by soprano Montserrat Caballé and tenor Franco Corelli (EMI CLASSICS)
Leon
Fleisher plays (and conducts) three Mozart concertos, and Hindemith's Klaviermusik (with Christoph Eschenbach conducting); Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto "No.
5" played by Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy with Theodore Kuchar conducting,
"West of the Sun" with pianist Joel Fan, piano music of York
Bowen played by Joop Celis, and historic recordings of Beethoven concertos
with Rudolf
Serkin (SONY CLASSICAL / ONDINE / BRILLIANT CLASSICS / REFERENCE RECORDINGS
/ CHANDOS / BEARAC)
DVD videos
of Torroba's Luisa Fernanda with Plácido Domingo, Zandonai's Francesca
da Rimini from the Sferisterio Opera, and Martha Argerich in Japan playing Mozart and
Beethoven (OPUS ARTE / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
DVD videos
of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra starring Cappucilli, Ricciarelli and Ghiaurov taped
in Japan, and two operas of Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia with Dimitra Theodossiou
from the Bergamo Festival, and Maria Stuarda from La Scala with Anna Caterina
Antonacci and Mariella Devia (NAXOS / ARTHAUS MUSIC / VAI VIDEO INTERNATIONAL)
DVD
videos of Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in music
of Borodin
and Mussorgsky, Christoph von Dohnányi conducting the Vienna Philharmonic
in Bartók, Strauss and Mendelssohn, and Lorin Maazel conducting soloists, chorus
and Symphonica Toscanini in Verdi's Requiem (MEDICI ARTS)
Puccini's
Madama Butterfly with Angela Gheorghiu and Jonas Kaufmann with Antonio
Pappano conducting, reissues of Das Rheingold conducted by Sir
Georg Solti and Der Rosenkavalier conducted by Erich Kleiber, Juan Diego
Flórez and
Bel Canto Spectacular, and An Italian Songbook with Cecilia Bartoli (EMI
CLASSICS / DECCA)
A
1999 Wigmore Hall recital by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson featuring music of
Brahms, Schumann, Handel and Debussy (WIGMORE HALL LIVE)
Music
for violin and piano by Bartók and Saygun played by Tim Vogler with pianist
Jascha Nemtsov (PROFIL)
SACD
issues of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos played by the Academy of Ancient
Music directed by Richgard Egarr, Leonard Bernstein's Mass conducted
by Kristjan Järvi, and Khachaturian's violin concerto played by Ara Malikian
(HARMONIA MUNDI / CHANDOS)
SACD
releases of violinist Lara St. John performing Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and
Piazzolla's
Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet
Quintet featuring Paul Dean, and tenor Steve Davislim performing Folksong
Arrangements by Benjamin Britten (ANCALAGON / MELBA)
SACD issues of
Mischa Dichter playing Concerto No. 1 of Brahms with the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur, Volume II of Russian Opera Highlights with
the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, and complete organ music of Franz Tunder and Nicolaus
Hasse played by Friedhelm Flamme (PENTATONE / cpo)
SACD
issues of music of Sir Eugene Goossens: Phantasy Concerto and Symphony
No. 1 with pianist
Howard Shelley and the Melbourne Symnphony conducted by Richard Hickox; Boston
Baroque directed by Martin Pearlman performing Vivaldi's Four Seasons,
and I Musici playing works of Bossi, Respighi, Rota and Puccini (CHANDOS /
TELARC / FONE)
SACD issues
of music of Derek Bermel: Dust Dances, Thracian Echoes, Elixir, and Voices,
with Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra; Holmgreen's Plateaux and
For Piano played by Juho Pohjonen and the Danish National Orchestra directed
by Ed Spanjaard, and Benjamin Zander conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra
in Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 (BMOP / DACAPO / TELARC)
Gustavo
Dudamel conducts the Simón Bolivár Youth Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's
Symphony No. 5 and Francesca da Rimini, Paul Van Kempen conducts the Concertgebouw
Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Capriccio italien and Overture
1812, and a 7 disk set of recordings by Bernard Haitink to commemorate
his 80th Birthday (DGG / DECCA / PHILIPS)
"La
Traverse Miraculeuse" - a collection of French-Canadian Sea Songs performed
by soprano Meredith Hall with Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer and La Nef directed
by Sylvain Bergeron (ATMA)
Rumon
Gamba conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music of Miklós Rózsa, Kirill Petrenko
leads the Berlin Comic Opera Orchestra in music of Josef Suk, Nikolai Znaider
is soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic
conducted by Valery Gergiev in violin concertos of Brahms and Korngold,
music of Benjamin Bilse conducted by Christian Simonis, and music for wind
band by Percy Grainger with Jerry Junkin and the Dallas Winds (CHANDOS
/ cpo /
RCA / REFERENCE REC)
A
four-disk set called "Americans in Rome" - music by Fellows of the American
Academy in Rome, including
many unusual works, performed by various artists (BRIDGE)
Music of two
Finnish composers: the Piano Concerto and Sinfonietta by Kimmo Hakola, and
orchestral works by Timo-Juhani Kyllönen; music of Mily Balakirev for piano
and orchestra featuring pianist Anastasia Seifetdinova, Tchaikovsky's Manfred and Voyevoda with Vasily Petrenko conducting, and a 5-disk set of Sir Simon
Rattle's recordings of music of Benjamin Britten (ONDINE / ALBA / NAXOS /
EMI CLASSICS)
Elliott
Carter's Mosaic, Scrivo in Vento, Gra and other works performed by soloists
with the New Music Concerts Ensemble directed by Robert Aitken (NAXOS)
Choral
works of Randall Thompson: The Peaceable Kingdom, Alleluia, The Last
Invocation, Mass
of the Holy Spirit and Fare Well performed by Schola Cantorum of Oxford directed
by James Burton (HYPERION)
Bloch's Schelomo and Prayer, Kaddish by
Diamond, Bruch's Kol
Nidrei and Schwarz's In Memoriam performed by cellist
Jonathan Aasgaard with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted
by Gerard Schwarz (AVIE)
Scott
Wheeler's The Construction of Boston performed by soloists, chorus and orchestra
of The Boston Cecilia conducted by Donald Teeters (NAXOS)
Early
recordings featuring Leonard Bernstein as composer, conductor, and pianist:
Copland's
Piano Sonata, Ravel's Concerto in G, Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, and
five of his 7 Anniversaries (SYMPOSIUM)
DVD
videos of two Zürich Opera productions with Franz Welser-Möst conducting: Strauss's Arabella with
Renée Fleming and Julie Kleiter and D'Albert's Tiefland featuring
Mathias Goerne,
and a
Vivaldi
concert
with Cecilia Bartolli and Il Giardino Armonico directed by Giovanni Antonini
(DECCA / EMI CLASSICS)
DVD video
of Kurt Weill's opera Der Kuhhandel performed by soloists, chorus and ordchestra
of the Vienna Volksoper directed by Christoph Eberle (PHOENIX)
SACD
issues of music for horn and orchestra played by Ben Jacks with Barry Tuckwell
conducting, and Schubert's Winterreise sung by tenor Steve Davislim
with pianist Anthony Romaniuk, and a DVD audio of the three Brahms string
quartets played by
the Auryn
Quartet (MELBA / TACET)
SACD
issues of music of James MacMillan: St. John Passion conducted
by Sir Colin Davis; Quicking and interludes from The Sacrifice conducted
by the composer;
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts Suk's Azrael Symphony (LSO LIVE /ONDINE)
SACD issues of
Beethoven's Symphonies 5 and 6 with the Polish Chamber Orchestra directed by
Wojciech Rajhska, A World Requiem by John Foulds with soloists, choruses and
the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein, and organ music of Medek
played by Martin Schmeding (TACET / CHANDOS / CYBELE)
DVD
videos of mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, soprano Pilar Lorengar in recital,
and Christopher Nupen's film Vladimir Ashkenazy - Master Musician (EMI CLASSICS
/ VAI VIDEO /ALLEGRO)
Music
of Kaija Saariaho: Notes on Light, Orion, and Mirage conducted
by Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic
in music of Berlioz, Thierry Fischer conducts orchestral music of Vincent
d'Indy, Leon Botstein conducts Bruno Walter's Symphony No. 1, and Frank
Beermann conducts Reznicek's Symphony No. 1 and Four Songs of Prayer
and Repentance (ONDINE / EMI CLASSICS / HYPERION / cpo)
Hans Pfitzner's Von
deutscher Seele performed by soloists with the Berlin Radio Chorus and Orchestra
conducted by Ingo Metzmacher (PHOENIX)
Five SACDs of music
by avant-guard composers including Clarence Barlow, Erich Itor Kahn, Rolf Riehm,
Jacqueline Fontyn, and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem for a Young Poet, performed
by dedicated artists (CYBELLE)
SACD issues
of Mahler's Symphony No. 5 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted
by Mariss Jansons, orchestral/choral works of Holst with the BBC
National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Richard Hickox, and the last two
symphonies
(15 and 16) and other music of Langgaard with chorus and the Danish National
Orchestra directed by Thomas Dausgaard (RCO LIVE / CHANDOS / DACAPO)
SACD
releases of piano music of Mendelssohn played by Ilse Von Alpenheim, Beethoven's
Sonatas
Op. 2 played by Mari Kodama, and another classical "sampler" from
Telarc (PENTATONE / TELARC)
SACD releases of
Strauss's Don Quixote, Romance for Cello and Orchestra, and Cello
Sonata featuring Jan Vogler with the Dresden State Orchestra directed by Fabio
Luisi, the Kronos
Quartet playing music they commissioned from Pelle Gudmunbsen-Holmgreen,
and another volume of Mozart violin sonatas played by Rachel Podger and Gary
Cooper (SONY
CLASSICAL
/ DA CAPO / CHANNEL CLASSICS)
Music
of Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Litany to the Virgin Mary, Demeter,
and Penthesilea performed
by soloists with the Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra conducted
by Antoni Wit (NAXOS)
Music
of Ernst Krenek: the chamber opera What Price Confidence, and
a group of songs performed by sopranos Ilana Davidson & Susan Narucki,
tenor Richard
Clement and baritone Christopheren Nomura with pianist Linda Hall (PHOENIX)
Volume
II of Stokowski transcriptions
conducted by José Serebrier, Elgar's Violin Concerto played by Gil Shaham
with David Zinman conducting, music of André Mathieu
featuring pianist Alain Lefévre with George Hanson and the Tucson
Symphony, and music of Joseph Marx: Eine Frühlingsmusik, Idylle and Fest
im Herbst with
the
Vienna
Radio
Orchestra conducted by Johannes Wildner, and a group of songs and choral
works with Christine Brewer, choruses and the BBC Symphony directed by
Jiri Belohlávek (NAXOS / CPO / CHANDOS / ANALEKTA)
Rudolf
Kempe's 1966 Royal Philharmonic recording of Strauss's An Alpine Symphony coupled
with his Horn Concerto No. 1 with Alan Civil, Dohnányi's Variations
on a Nursery Song and Piano Concerto No. 2 with the composer as soloist,
The First Night of the Proms from 1943, and an historic German broadcast
of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess (TESTAMENT / PRAGA DIGITAL/ SOMM / AUDITE)
René
Fleming sings Strauss's Four Last Songs and other works with the
Munich Philharmonic conducted by Christianb Thielemann, Joyce DiDonato
sings arias
of Handel, soprano Uping Zhang's first CD, and historic
reissues of recordings by tenor Richard Tauber and mezzo-soprano Giuseppina
Zinetti
(DECCA / VIRGIN CLASSICS / EMI CLASSICS / DUTTON / PREISER)
DVD
videos of a 1964 Moscow concert by Artur Rubinstein, performances by Vlado
Perlemuter, Yvonne Lefébure, Robert Casadesus, Hephzibah Menuhin
and Dino Ciani from the French TV archives, and Murray Perahia playing
the Beethoven
concertos with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the
Fields recorded in Royal Festival Hall in 1988 (MEDICI ARTS)
DVD
videos of Puccini's Tosca from Verona with Fiorenza Cedolins and Marcelo
Alvarez, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Daniel Barenboim and the West-East
Divan Orchestra, and a documentary and performances by pianist Fazil Say
(TDK / MEDICI ARTS / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
DVD
videos of Der junge Lord by Henze in a Berlin production conducted
by Christoph von
Dohnányi, and Bluy-Ray editions of Verd's Il trovatore from
the Royal Opera House directed by Bernard Haitink, and Tchaikovsky's Eugene
Onegin from the
Met with Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Valery Gergiev
conducting (MEDICI ARTS / OPUS ARTE / DECCA)
DVD
videos of Brian Eno's Music for Airports performed by Bang On
A Can coupled with Frank Scheffer's documentary In the Ocean;
excerpts from Verbier Festival 2007 with Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin
and many
others;
and Doctor
Atomic by John Adams in a production by the Netherlands Opera (MEDICI
ARTS / OPUS ARTE )
DVD
videos of a documentary about German heldentenor Max Lorenz that
includes first release of a live recording of excerpts from Siegfried recorded
in 1938; Karl Böhm rehearsing and conducting Beethoven's Symphony No. 7
and Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, and Verdi's La forza del destino from Fiorentino
conducted by Zubin Mehta (MEDICI ARTS / TDK)
Itzhak
Perlman plays Klezmer, with many supporting artists (EMI CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Last Night of the Proms from 1994, Verdi's Rigoletto from the
Zurich Opera House starring Leo Nucci, and Khachaturian's Spartacus Ballet
from the Australian Ballet (KULTUR / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
DVD
videos of the world premiere of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 2 played
by David Oistrakh, Verdi's Aida in a 1973 performance in Japan
with Carlo Bergonzi, and two performances Stravinsky's ballet The Rite
of Spring choreographed by Uwe Scholz presented
by the Leipzig Ballet (VAI / MEDICI ARTS)
York
Bowen's Piano Concertos 3 and 4 played by Danny Driver with Martyn Brabbins
conducting, Lydia Mordkovitch plays Tanayev's Concert Suite and Rimsky-Korsakov's Fantasy
on Russian Themes with
Neemi Jarvi conducting, Alina Ibragimova plays Roslavets' Violin Concertos
1
and 2 with Ilan Volkov conducting, and three historic London Philharmonic
premiers: music of McCabe and Arnold conducted by Solti and Haitink
(HYPERION / CHANDOS / LPO LIVE)
A 7-disk set of live performances
of Leonard Bernstein conducting music of Beethoven including the symphonies,
piano concertos, Missa Solemnis and other works, mostly with the Vienna Philharmonic,
and Schubert's Fierrabras and Schumann's Genoveva both from the Zurich Opera
(DGG / EMI CLASSICS / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
Historic
reissues of Stravinsky, Debussy, Enescu and Wagner conducted by Leopold
Stokowski, the first recording of A London Symphony by Vaughan Williams
with the London Symphony conducted by Sir Dan Godfrey, Fritz Busch's complete
Dresden recordings and a DVD documentary, and a 1994 performance of Sir
Colin Davis conducting the Berlioz Requiem (CALA / SYMPOSIUM / PROFIL)
Sir
Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Berlin Radio
Choir in Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, Symphony of Psalms,
and Symphony in C (EMI)
The
final three disks in the Naxos series of the complete songs of Charles
Ives performed by various artists
Antoni
Wit conducts soloists, chorus and the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra
in music of Penderecki: Symphony No. 8 "Lieder der Vergänglichkeir," Dies
irae, and Aus den Psalmen Davids (NAXOS)
Corigliano's
Mr. Tambourine Man: 7 Poems of Bob Dylan, and 3 Hallucinations from Altered
States, performed by soprano Hila Plitmann with JoAnn Falletta conducting
the Buffalo Philharmonic (NAXOS)
Music of
Tsontakis (Man of Sorrows/Sarabesque), Schoenberg (6 Kleine
Klavierstücke,
Op. 19), Berg (Piano Sonata No. 1) and Webern (Variations for Piano, Op. 27),
performed
by pianist Stephen Hough with Andrew Litton and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
(HYPERION).
SACD recordings
of music of Mussorgsky with the Russian National Philharmonic conducted by
Carlo Ponti, Beethoven's symphonies with the Hague Residency Orchestra conducted
by Jaap Van Sweden, and The Prairie by Lukas Foss with soloists, chorus and
orchestra conducted by Andrew Clark (PENTATONE / PHILIPS / BMOP SOUND)
SACD
issues of Tchaikovsky's complete music for Hamlet and the original
version of Romeo
and Juliet with the Russian National Orchestra directed by Vladimir
Jurowski, Sa Chen playing the two Chopin concertos with Lawrence Foster and
the Gulbenkian
Orchestra, and Heinz Holliger playing music of J.C. and C.P.E. Bach, and
Vivaldi (PENTATONE)
Vladimir
Horowitz's Hamburg concert, Marc-André Hamelin "In a State of Jazz," piano
music of Saygun played by Zeynep Üçbasaran, piano music of James Cohn played
by Miriam Conti, and Fazil Say playing his own music and improvisations (DGG
/ HYPERION / NAIVE / NAXOS / XLNT MUSIC)
DVD
videos of a film of Puccini's Tosca from Milan 1955 with Franco Corelli,
Montserrat Caballé in a 1983 Madrid recital, and a documentary The
Promise of Music about the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and conductor
Gustavo Dudamel (HARDY CLASSIC / VAI INTERNATIONAL / DGG)
DVD
videos of Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Schumann's
symphonies, and Tchaikovsky's Symphonies 4 and 5 and violin concerto (with
Boris Belkin) with the Boston and New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestras;
and a documentary about Luciano Pavarotti - A Life in Seven Arias (DGG
/ DECCA)
Saygun's
two piano concertos played by Güslin Onay with Howard Griffiths conducting,
Kabalevsky's four symphonies with Eiji Oue conducting, Karayev's Symphony
No. 3 and other works with Dmitri Yablonsky conducting, Bischoff's Symphony
No. 2 and Introduction and Rondo with Werner Andreas Albert conducting,
and a live performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 with Bernard Haitink
and the London Philharmonic (cpo / NAXOS / LPO)
Three
Orchestral Sets by Charles Ives performed by the Malmo Symphony Orchestra
and Chamber Chorus directed by James Sinclair (NAXOS)
DVD
videos of Khachaturian's Spartacus with the Bolshoi Ballet starring Carlos
Acosta, Bizet's Carmen from the Royal Opera House with Jonas Kaufman and
Anna Caterina Antonacci, and a concert by Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel
from Glyndebourne ( DECCA / OPUS ARTE )
DVD videos
of BBC television productions of Britten's Peter Grimes and Billy
Budd, and
Tony Palmer's film about the composer, "A Time There Was.." (DECCA / VOICEPRINT)
Blu-Ray DVD
videos of Bellini's I Puritani with Anna Netrebko and Eduardo Valdes
from the Metropolitan Opera, "The Opera Gala" from Baden-Baden, and "The
Berlin Concert" from Berlin (DGG BLUE RAY DVD)
DVD
videos of two films by Tony Palmer: Stravinsky - Once, At a Border,
and William Walton - At the Haunted End of the Day; and David Oistrakh
- Artist of the People? - a film by Bruno Monsaingeon (VOICEPRINT / MEDICI ARTS)
DVD videos
of a Japanese 1963 performance of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West featuring
Antionetta Stella, Birtwistle's The Minotaur with John Tomlinson from the Royal
Opera
House, and a Blu-Ray video of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and The
Miserly Knight by Rachmaninoff both conducted by Vladimir Jurowski (VIDEO ARTISTS INTL / OPUS
ARTE )
Evgeny
Svetlanof conducts major symphonic works of Glinka, Balakirev, Lyapunov
and Rachmaninoff
with the State Academic Sykmphony Orchestra (ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN SYMPHONIC
MUSIC
Soprano
Anna Netrebko and bass René Pape have new recital disks, soprano Angela
Gheorghiu is featured in CD and video reissues, and Strauss's Salome sung
in English with a cast headed by Susan Bullock (DGG / EMI CLASSICS / CHANDOS)
Music
of Charles Fussell: Wilde, Symphony for baritone and orchestra, and High
Bridge Prelude, performed by baritone Sanford Sylvan with the Boston Modern
Music Project directed by Gil Rose (BMOP SOUND)
SACD
releases of music by Morton Gould, Roy Harris, Cecil Effinger and Douglas
Moore performed by Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Ian Hobson, Orff's Carmina
Burana in a live performance conducted by Richard Hickox, and Timbrando,
a disk featuring Meredian Arts Ensemble (ALBANY/TROY / CHANDOS / CHANNEL
CLASSICS)
SACDs
of music of J. S. Bach, C. P. E. Bach, and Mozart featuring oboist Alexei
Utkin and the Hermitage Orchestra, and piano sonatas of Schnittke played
by Igor Tchetuev (CARO MITIS)
Lorraine
Hunt Lieberson performs excerpts from two Bach cantatas and Handel's Hercules recorded
in 1992 and 1999 in Emmanuel Church with Craig Smith conducting (ASV)
"Composers
In Person,"
a 22-CD set of major composers of the 20th Century performing their own works
including countless historic recordings, all issued at budget-price! (EMI CLASSICS)
Five
more reissues from RCA's Classic Film Scores series: The Spectacular
World of Classic Film Scores, and disks devoted to music of Max Steiner, Franz
Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, and music written for Bette Davis (RCA/ARKIVMUSIC)
Music
of Stanley Walden: Maquettes for Two Pianos, Sh'mah: Duo for Violin and
Piano, 5 Similes for Piano, and Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, performed
by Spectrum Concerts Berlin (NAXOS)
Music
of Kenneth Fuchs: United Artists; Quiet in the Land; Fire, Ice, and
Summer Bronze; Autumn Rhythm; and Canticle to the Sun, with JoAnn Falletta conducting
(NAXOS)
Important
historic reissues: budget-priced multi-CD sets featuring tenor Jussi Björling
and soprano Victoria De Los Angeles, Strauss's Elektra from Paris with
Birgit Nilsson and Leonie Rysanek, and recital disks by Robert Merrill
and Marta Fuchs (EMI CLASSICS / PREISER / GOLDEN MELODRAM)
José
Serebrier conducts music of Schwarz-Schilling: Introduction and Fugue,
Symphony in C, and Sinfonia diatonica (NAXOS)
Eric
Sawyer's opera Our American Cousin performed by soloists with
the Amherst College Choir and Boston Modern Orchestra conducted by Gil
Rose (BMOP)
Soprano Nadja
Michael is featured in three DVD productions: Salome from La Scala with Daniel
Harding conducting, the same opera from the Royal Opera House with Philippe
Jordan conducting, and Tosca from the Bregenz Fewtival withg Ulf Schirmer conducting
(TDK / OPUS ARTE / PHOENIX)
Two
DVD videos of Verdi's La traviata, one from La Scala featuring
Angela Gheorghiu with
Lorin Maazel conducting, the other from the St. Margarethen Festival with Kristiane
Kaiser and Ernst Marzendorfer conducting: and Cavalleria rusticana featuring
Ildiko Komlosi and the San Carlo Opera, from the Baia outdoor theater (ARTHAUS
MUSIK / MEDICI ARTS / TDK)
Historic
vocal reissues by bass-baritone Marko Rothmüller, tenor Nino Piccaluga,
coloratura soprano Antonina Nezhdenova, and contralto Cloe Elmo, and duets
sung by Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna (PREISER / EMI)
SACD
recordings of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 with the London Symphony conducted
by Valery Gergiev, three symphonies of Tansman with the Melbourne Symphony
conducted by Oleg Caetani, and a Mussorgsky collection with Paavo Järvi
and the Cincinnati Symphony (LSO LIVE / CHANDOS / TELARC)
SACD
issues of live recordings of music of Eggert, Matthews, Verbeij, and Glanert
with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra directed by Markus Stenz, Maris
Janssons conducting the same orchestra in Strauss's Don Juan and An
Alpine Symphony, and "Vintage Cinema" from Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops
(RCO LIVE / TELARC
SACD issues of
Marek Janowski conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony in Symphony No. 4 and Hungarian
Dances by Brahms, music of Sibelius for violin and orchestra played by Pekka
Kuusisto with the Tapiola Sinfonietta, and "The Floral Dance - songs made famous
by Peter Dawson sung by Greg Yurisich with David Lloyd-Jones conducting (PENTATONE
/ ONDINE / MELBA)
SACD issues
of Hélène and Nuit Persane by Saint-Saëns
featuring Rosamund Illing and Steve Davislim, Strauss songs
featuring Steve Davislim, and a collection
of works by Jakob Gade with Matthias Aeschbaecher conducting (MELBA / DA
CAPO)
SACD issues
of Spohr's symphonies 2 and 8 with the NDR Radio Orchestra directed by Howard
Griffiths, two Beethoven quartets recorded by Quartetto Italiano in 1972/73,
and the Mandelring Quartet playing Shostakovich's quartets Nos. 5, 7 and 9
(cpo/ PENTATONE / AUDITE)
SACD issues of
Mozart's Piano Concertos 13 and 24 played by Martin Helmchen with Gordon Nikolic
and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, pianist Sergey Koudriakov playing piano
music of Schubert, and Friedhelm Flamme playing organ music of Schildt and
Morhard (PENTATONE / AUDITE / cpo)
American
music for cello and orchestra by William Perry, William Schuman, and Virgil
Thomson played by Yehuda Hanani with the RTE National Orchestra conducted
by William Eddins (NAXOS)
Symphonies
1 and 2 by Sergio Rendine with Orquestra Nacional Clássica d'Andorra conducted
by Marzio Conti (NAXOS)
Mussorgsky's Pictures
at an Exhibition in various orchestrations played by the Nashville
Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin, Daugherty's
Philadelphia
Stories and UFO (with Evelyn Glennie) with Marin Alsop and
the Colorado Symphony, Thomas Quasthoff
and Hakan
Hagegard
singing
Mahler with Gary
Bertini conducting, Britten's complete music for piano and orchestra featuring
Steven Osbourne, and music for The Tempest by Sullivan and Sibelius with
the Kansas City Symphony directed by Michael Stern (NAXOS / PHOENIX / HYPERION
/ REFERENCE REC)
DVDs
of televised performances by pianists György Cziffra, Jorge Bolet and Benno
Moiseiwitsch, Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting the BBC Philharmonic in
music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff (with pianist Viktoria Postnikova)
and Shostakovich, and Zubin Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic
in
music of Mozart, Dvorák and Bartók (MEDICI ARTS)
DVD
Metropolitan Opera videos of Britten's Peter Grimes with Anthony
Dean Griffey and Patricia Racette with Donald Runnicles conducting, Dun's
The First Emperor featuring
Plácido
Domingo with the composer conducting, and Puccini's La Bohème with
Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargás with Nicola Luisotti conducting (EMI CLASSICS)
DVD
Metropolitan Opera videos of Verdi's Macbeth with Zeljko Lucic
and Maria Guleghina with James Levine conducting, Puccini's Manon Lescaut with
Karita Mattila and Marcello Giordani with James Levine conductingh, and
Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel with Christine Schäfer and Alice
Coote, Vladimir Jurowski conducting (EMI CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival
Orchestra, Pierre Boulez conducting music of Debussy, Schoenberg and Stravinsky,
and Dvorák's Stabat Mater from the 1993 Dvorák Festival with Libor Pesek
conducting (MEDICI ARTS / ARTHAUS MUSIC)
Sir Colin Davis conducts
soloists and the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra in Tippett's A Child
of Our Time (LSO LIVE)
Erich Kleiber conducts
Beethoven, Schubert and Berg, Pierre Fournier plays concertos by Elgar and
Dvorak, Otto Klemperer conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, and Bruno Walter
conducts Bruckner's Symphony NO. 9 (MEDICI ARTS / MUSIC & ARTS)
Leopold
Stokowski conducting music of Sibelius in Helinki in 1953, and Ravel, Franck
and Prokofiev in Holland in 1970, and two 4-CD sets of broadcast performances
by Dimitri Mitropoulos with the New York Philharmonic and NBC Symphony orchestras,
1941-1955 (GUILD / MUSIC & ARTS)
Five outstanding
piano recordings featuring Gloria Cheng in contemporary music, Marc-André Hamelin
playing Godowsky transcriptions, music of Boris Goltz played by Sergei Podobedov,
Arthur Rubinstein in a 1963 Netherlands concert, and music for two pianos played
by Martha Argerich and friends (TELARC / HYPERION / MUSIC & ARTS / MEDICI ARTS
/ EMI CLASSICS)
Naxos
continues their series of songs of Charles Ives, with varied performers
Music of Elliott
Carter: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Figment Nos. 1 & 2, Enchanted
Preludes, Scrivo in Vento, Gra. Con leggerezza pensosa, Fragments Nos. 1 & 2, and Elegy performed by the Johannes Martens Ensemble (TWO L)
Three
symphonic poems by Karlowicz with Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic,
three piano concertos by Wölfl with pianist Yorck Kronenberg and Johannes
Moesus conducting, two symphonies of Röntgen with David Porcelijn conducting,
and "Fiesta" with the Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra directed by Gustavo Dudamel
(DGG / cpo / NAXOS)
Weinberg's
Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra, flute concertos and clarinet concerto
played by cellist
Claes Gunnarsson, flutist Anders Jonhäll, and clarinetist Urban Claesson with
Thord Svedlund and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (CHANDOS)
Richard
Arnell's Symphonies 4 and 5 played by MusicaNova Orchestra conducted by
Warren Cohen
(CON BRIO)
Music of Charles
Ives performed by Marni Nixon, John McCabe, Henry Hereford and Ensemble Modern
directed by Ingo Metzmacher (EMI)
Schuller's
Variants for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra, Journey into Jazz, and Concertino
for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra performed by Boston Modern Orchestra Project
conducted by Gil Rose (BMOP)
SACD issues of
music of Telemann, Platti, Rebel and Richard Strauss played by two Russian
period instrument ensembles, including some world premiere recordings (CARO
MITIS)
SACD issues
of Puccini's La Bohème conducted by Robert Spano, Bruckner's
Symphony No. 9 conducted by Yannick Nézet-Ségun, and Jordi Savall's Estampies
& Danses Royales (TELARC / ATMA / ALIAVOX)
Huge multi-disk budget-priced
releases featuring compilations of recordings by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia
Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmic, and all of soprano
Montserrat Caballé's RCA recordings (SONY CLASSICAL)
SACD issues of
Mozart's Serenade in D, K. 250 played by the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
directed by Gordan Nikolic, Claudio Arrau's 1974 recording of Liszt's Transcendental
Etudes, and Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks played by
L'Arte dell'Arco conducted by Federico Guyglielmo (PENTATONE / cpo)
Weill's
Berliner Requiem, Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw,
and Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 performed by soloists, chorus and the
Luycerne Symphony
Orchestra conduycted by John Axelrod (NIMBUS)
Britten's
Owen Wingrave with a cast including Peter Coleman-Wright, Alan Opie, James
Gilchgrist, Pamela Helen Stephens and Janice Watson, with Richard Hickox
conducting (CHANDOS)
Lydia
Mordkovitch plays Enescu's Violin Sonata No. 2, and music of Bacewicz:
Sonata da camera, Violin Sonata No. 3, and Partita (CHANDOS)
DVDVideos
of Verdi's
Simon Boccanegra in a 1984 Metropolitan Opera production featuring
Sherrill Milnes, Prokofiev's Cinderella ballet with Les Ballets
de Monte-Carlo, and
Verdi's La traviata from Busetto with a cast of young singers conducted
by Plácido Domingo (DGG / TDK)
DVD
videos of Van Cliburn playing Rachmaninoff's second and third concertos
recorded in Moscow, Leonard Bernstein conducting the Boston Symphony in
two symphonies of Brahms, and a Tony Palmer film about the life of Georg
Frederic Handel (VAI VIDEO / MEDICI ARTS / TONY PALMER FILMS)
DVD
videos of music of Mozart, Schubert, Brahms and Rossini with the Vienna
Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado, a film by Georges Gachot about
pianist Martha Argerich, and music of Mozart and Cimarosa conducted by
Toon Koopman with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra (DGG / MEDICI ARTS)
Music
of Jón Leifs: Scherzo concreto, Quintet, Variazioni pastorale, and Elegies,
performed by mezzo soprano Thórunn Gudmundsdóttir, violinist Rut Ingólfsdóttir,
chorus and the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra conducted by Bernharthus Wilkinson
(SMEKKLEYAA)
Reissues
of Leon Fleisher's early solo recordings of music of Mozart, Brahms, Liszt,
Weber, Debussy, Ravel, Copland, Sessions, Kirchner and Rorem (SONY-BMG/ARKIVMUSIC)
SACD
releases of Colin Davis's famous 1969 recording of the Berlioz Requiem,
Schumann's Symphonies 1 and 2 with Lawrence Foster and the Czech Philharmonic,
and Fabio Luisi conducting the Dresden State Orchestra in Strauss's An
Alpine Symphony and Four Last Songs with soprano Anja Harteros
(PENTATONE / SONY CLASSICAL)
Szymanowski's
Symphony No. 2 and Symphony No. 3 performed by soloists with the Warsaw
Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra conducted by Antoni Wit (NAXOS)
Historic
reissues: a massive EMI 30-disk Elgar Collector's Edition, Sir Thomas Beecham
conducting Franck, Boccherini, Grétry, Liszt and Elgar, a live 1962 Vienna
State Opera Fidelio conducted by Herbert von Karajan with an all-star cast,
and a "live" 1957 La Gioconda from Rome with a dream
cast headed by Zinka Milanov (EMI CLASSICS / SOMM BEECHAM / DGG / G.O.P.)
Great
news for movie buffs! ArkivMusic has reissued RCA's Classic
Film Scores series with Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic.
Four of them are highlighted here (The Sea Hawk, Casablanca, Elizabeth
and Essex and Lost Horizon). This site also contains a
comprehensive overview of the entire series (FEATURE).
Mahler's
Symphony No. 5 with the London Philharmonic conducted by Jaap Van Zweden,
Antill's complete Corroboree ballet with
James Judd and the New Zealand Symphony, Branco's Symphony No. 1, Scherzo
Fantastique and Alentejana Suite with the RTÉ National Orchestra directed
by Álvaro Cassuto, and another William Alwyn disc from the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic and conductor David Lloyd-Jones (LPO LIVE / NAXOS)
Schmidt's
Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln performed by soloists, chorus and orchestra
conducted by Kristjsan Järvi (CHANDOS)
ArkivMusic reissues
of music of Antheil, Schuman and Banfield, Samson Françoise plays music
of Schumann, Liszt and Prokofiev, Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Rachmaninoff's
Piano Concertos 1 and 3 with Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting, and Herbert
von Karajan conducts scenes from Strauss operas (ARKIVMUSIC)
SACD
issues of Edo de Waart conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic in music of
Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov, Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Philadelphia
Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, and Daniuel Gaede is soloist
in Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Wojciech Rajski conducting (PENTATIONE /
ONDINE / TACET)
Music
of Jack Stamp, Kevin Krumenauer and David Maslanka performed by the Illinois
State University Wind Symphony with soprano Karyl Carlson conducted by
Stephen K. Steele (ALBANY)
American
orchestral songs by Thomson, Carpenter, Harris, Griffes and Parker performed
by baritone Patrick Mason with the Odense Symphony Orchestra conducted
by Paul Mann (BRIDGE)
DVD
videos of Emil Gilels in performances recorded in Moscow, recitals from
1978 and 1983, and two performances of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 from
1979 and 1983, and Concerto in E flat for Two Pianos (with his daughter,
Elena) (VIDEO ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL)
DVD
videos of Van Cliburn playing concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Grieg and
Tchaikovsky recorded in Moscow in 1972 with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted
by Kirill Kondrashin, and Bruno Monsaingeon's film Mademoiselle on the
life of Nadia Boulanger (VIDEO ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL / MEDICI ARTS)
Gianandrea
Noseda leads the BBC Philharmonic in Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 1 and
The Isle of the Dead, premiere recordings of Hovhaness' Fanfare
for the New Atlantis, Guitar Concerto NO. 2 and Symphony No. 63 with
Stewart Robertson conducting, music of Kabalevsky and Rimsky-Korsakov with
pianist Nsin-Ni
Liu and Dmitry Yablonsky conducting, and music of American composer James
Cohn (CHANDOS / NAXOS)
Karajan's
1964 Vienna State Opera Die Frau ohne Schatten is reissued, Sir
Thomas Beecham conducts Mozart and Grieg plus the premiere of Alwyn's Symphony
No. 3, and Igor Stravinsky conducts his own music with the Southwest German
Radio Orchestra (DGG / SOMM-BEECHAM / MUSIC & ARTS)
Orchestral
works of Svendsen with the Latvian National Orchestra conducted by
Terje Mikkelsen, orchestral works of Alwyn with David Lloyd-Jones
and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, orchestral works of Szeligowski with
Mariusz Smolij and the Poznan Philharmonic, and another Leroy Anderson
collection with Leonard Slatkin conducting (cpo / NAXOS)
Anne
Sofie Von Otter sings songs of Theresienstad, and music of Swedish
composers Hillborg, Boldemann and Gefors; historic reissues of recordings
by bass
Gottlob Frick, mezzo-soprano Nan Merriman, and soprano Elisabeth Grümmer
(DGG / PREISER )
John
Harbison's ballet Ulysses played by the Boston Modern Orchestra conducted
by Gil Rose (BMOP)
DVD
videos of Sviatoslav Richter playing Mozart and Chopin, Tatiana Nikolayeva
playing Shostakkovich, and Alexis Weissenberg performing Stravinsky, Prokofiev,
Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Bach and Brahms (MEDICI ARTS)
DVD
videos of José Serebrier conducting the JONDE Orchestra in music of Wagner,
Serebrier and Mussorgsky arranged by Stokowski; a Madrid production of
Bretón's La Verbena de la Ploma, and Robert Dornhelm's film about Karajan
(NAXOS / DECCA / DGG)
DVD
videos of Artur Rubinstein playing Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 and Brahms'
Concerto No. 1 with Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Karl
Böhm rehearsing and conducting Strauss's Don Juan with the Vienna Philharmonic,
and the Juilliard String Quartet playing three Beethoven quartets (DGG
/ EUROARTS / MEDICI ARTS)
DVD
videos of Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in Glinka,
Handel, Rimsky-Korsakov and Strauss; Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland
Orchestra playing Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, and Rafael Kubelik and the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performing Smetana's Ma vlast (MEDICI
ARTS)
DVD
videos of music of Corelli performed by I Solisti Veneti directed by Claudio
Scimone,
Mozart's "Haydn" quartets played by the Hagen Quartet, and Wolf-Ferrari's
comic opera La vedova scaltra in a Teatro La Fenice production (MEDICI ARTS
/ EUROARTS / NAXOS)
Budget
reissues of Mstislav Rostropovich conducting the London Philharmonic inTchaikovsky,
and a massive 30-disk set of Vaughan Williams; Arturo Toscanini in live
broadcasts of music of Brahms with the New York Philharmonic and pianist
Robert Casadesus, Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic in Debussy
and Ravel, and Evgeny Svetlanov conducting music of Arensky (EMI CLASSICS
/ GUILD / DGG / SVETLANOV EDITION)
SACD
issues of Kullervo by Sibelius with Leif Segerstam conducting, concerted
works for flute, cello and clarinet by Mieczyslaw Weinberg with Thord
Svedlund conducting, and a collection of music by Don Gillis with Ian Hobson
and Sinfonia Varsovia (ONDINE / CHANDOS / ALBANY TROY)
Hilary
Hahn plays violin concertos of Schoenberg and Sibelius, two violin concertos
of Dohnányi played by Michael Ludwig, Bottesini music for double bass featuring
Thomas Martin, Kenneth Leighton's Symphony for Strings Concerto for Strings,
and Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani, with Richard Hickox conducting,
and saxophonist Nobuya Sugana plays works
of Yoshimatsu,
Honda,
Ibert and
Larsson
(DGG
/ NAXOS
/ CHANDOS)
Blacher's Romeo
and Juliet performed by soloists with the Chesapeake Chamber Orchestra conducted
by Jeffrey Silberschlag (ALBANY TROY)
Riccardo Chailly
conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Mahler's version of Schumann's
symphonies, Stéphane Denève conducts Roussel (Symphony No. 2, Pour
une fête de printemps, Suite in F), Christoph Eschenbach conducts
the same composer's Symphony No. 3 and Festin de l'araignée,
music of Lee Actor: concertos for violin and timpani and Symphony No. 2 with
Kirk Trevor conducting, and Alceo
Galliera's early EMI recordings of Respighi (DECCA / NAXOS / ROUSSEL / ONDINE/
ALBANY / MEDICI ARTS)
SACD issues of
Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 with Simone Young and the Hamburg Philharmonic,
a program of music for organ and orchestra played by Ian Tracey with the BBC
Philharmonic directed by Rumon Gamba, and violinist Lara St. John playing Hindson's
Violin Concerto, a suite from Corigliano's The Red Violin, and a transcription
for violin and orchestra of Liszt's Totentanz (OEHMS / CHANDOS / ANCALAGON)
SACD issues
of The Ring, music of Wagner arranged by Henk de Vlieger with the
Royal Scottish Orchestra conducted by Neemi Järvi, Yakov Kreizverg conducting
Dvorák's
Symphony No. 6 and The Water Goblin, and Riisager's ballet
Benzin, and Archaeopteryx,and Til Apollon, Lysets
Guyd, with the Danish
National Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes (CHANDOS / PENTATONE
/ DA CAPO)
SACD issues
of Mariss Jansons conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Debussy's
La Mer, L'Arbre des songes of Dutilleux (with violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky),
and Ravel's La valse; Valery Gergiev conducting the London Symphony in Mahler's
Symphony No. 1, and Sir Colin Davis conducting Benvenuto Cellini by Berlioz
(RCO LIVE / LSO LIVE)