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Adam's ballet La Jolie Fille du Gand receives its
first complete recording with Andrew Mogrelia and the Queensland Symphony Orch
(MARCO POLO)
Larsen's
Deep Summer Music, Solo Symphony and Marimba Concerto with the Colorado
Symphony Orch/Marin Alsop, cond. (KOCH INTERNATIONAL)
Jascha
Heifetz's early recordings of violin concertos of Tchaikovsky, Wieniawski and
Sibelius (NAXOS)
Jascha Heifetz 1941
recording of Walton's Violin Concerto and 1949 recording of Elgar's Violin
Concerto (Naxos)
Jascha
Heifetz's 1947 recording of Prokoviev's Concerto No. 2 and 1945 recording of
Gruenberg's Concerto (NAXOS)
Jascha
Heifetz's early recordings of two concertos by Vieuxtemps plus shorter works of
Saint-Sans, Sarasate and Waxman (NAXOS)
A
private issue of Eduard van Beinum's London Philharmonic recording of
Beethoven's ballet The Creatures of Prometheus (SOUND
DYNAMICS)
Suites
from two operas and other orchestral music of Rimsky-Korsakov with the Moscow
Symphony Orch/Golovchin (NAXOS)
Constant
Lambert's ballets Pomona and Romeo & Juliet with the Victoria
State Orch/Lanchberry (CHANDOS)
Reissue
of Lord Berners' Triumph of Neptune and other works with the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orch/Barry Wordsworth (OLYMPIA)
Sir
Arthur Sullivan's Irish Symphony, The Tempest and In Memoriam
Overture with the BBC Phil/Hickox (CHANDOS)
ALFRED CORTOT's recordings of Franck's Symphonic
Variations, Saint-Sans' Piano Concerto No. 4 and Ravel's Left Hand
Concerto (NAXOS)
Massenet's
Werther recorded in 1931 with GEORGES THILL & NINON VALLIN, Eli
Cohen, cond. (NAXOS)
German soprano BARBARA KEMP's 1915-1928 recordings (PREISER)
SIR
JOHN BARBIROLLI conducts the LSO in Strauss' Ein Heldenleben and Mozart's
Symphony No. 36 rec. live in 1969 (BBC LEGENDS)
American soprano EILEEN
FARRELL's recordings of operatic arias, songs and "pop" songs
(TESTAMENT/SONY/REFERENCE REC)
Soprano NATALIE DESSAY sings Mozart concert arias (VIRGIN CLASSICS)
Creston's
Symphonies 1, 2 and 3 with Ukraine Orch/Kuchar)(NAXOS)
Soprano KARITA MATTILA live concert of arias and songs (ONDINE)
Four CD sets of soprano LOTTE LEHMANN including earliest acoustic recordings (PREISER/
ROMOPHONE/PEARL)
Swedish soprano G
TA LJUNGBERG recordings, 1926-1931 (PEARL)
Australian soprano MARJORIE LAWRENCE 1933-34 recordings featuring Wagner and Strauss
sung in French (PREISER)
Bell Telephone Hour 1968 telecast including JOAN SUTHERLAND, TITO GOBBI, NICOLAI GEDDA,
JEROME HINES & PHYLLIS CURTIN (VAI)
Volume II in a series of rare Maria Callas recordings (DIVINA)
"Rarest Recordings" of dramatic Wagnerian soprano FRIDA LEIDER
(PREISER)
Pianist SIMON BARERE's complete 1934-1936 HMV recordings (APR)
Music for films by Russian composer EDISON DENISOV with
Serguei Skripka conducting (LE CHANT DU MONDE)
Andre Eshpai's ballet
A Circle -- Apocalypse has its first recording with Emin
Khachaturian conducting a Russian studio orchestra (ALBANY TROY)
Mikhail Nosyrev's
ballet The Song of Triumphant Love has its premiere recording with Vladimir Verbitsky
conducting (OLYMPIA)
JUSSI BJOERLING Rarities, recorded from 1937-1953 including five previously unissued performances (VAI AUDIO)
GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO 1950 broadcasts, with Renata Tebaldi, Bidu Sayao and Lily Pons
(URANIA)
A superb live 1969 performance of Britten's War Requiem with Carlo Maria Giulini conducting
(BBC LEGENDS)
Guido Cantelli's NBC SO recordings of symphonies of
Haydn's Symphony No. 93, Franck's Symphony, Mathis der Maler of Hindemith and Mussorgsky's
Pictures at an Exhibition (TESTAMENT)
Oswald Kabasta's 1943/44 recordings of Beethoven's Eroica, Bruckner's Symphony No. 4
and Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 with the Munich PO (M&A)
Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 "Age of Anxiety"
and Bolcom's Piano Concerto played by Marc-Andr Hamlin/Ulster Orch/Dmitry
Sitkovetsky (HYPERION)
Heldentenor JACQUES URLUS recordings of Wagner and operatic arias made 1907-1912 and 1924
(PREISER)
Igor Markevitch/London Symphony 1962 BBC concert: Stravinsky:
Rite of Spring Tchaikovsky: Francesca
da Rimini Mussorgsky: Six Songs (Galina Vishkevskaya) (BBC LEGENDS)
Living Stereo reissues of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (Chicago SO/Reiner) and Khachaturian's
Violin Concerto (Kogan/Boston SO/Monteux) (RCA)
Ives' Symphony No. 2 and Robert Browning Overture (Nashville SO/Schermerhorn)
(NAXOS)
Suites from Khachaturian's Spartacus & Gayaneh ballets with the
Royal Philharmonic O/Temirkanov (EMI)
Igor Markevitch's two commercial recordings of Stravinsky's
Rite of Spring, with the
Philharmonia Orch recorded 1951 (mono) and 1959 (stereo) (TESTAMENT)
Ernest Ansermet's 1946 Stravinsky recordings (Petrouchka,
Firebird Suite/ Symphony of Psalms) with the London Philharmonic
O (DUTTON)
William Kapell's 1946 recordings of Beethoven's Concerto No. 2
(Golschmann) and Khachaturian's Concerto (Koussevitsky) at budget price (DUTTON)
Kurt Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper
with soloists/chorus/Ensemble Modern/HK Gruber,
cond. (RCA)
Baritone NELSON EDDY recordings of operatic arias and concert songs (PEARL)
Tenor RAMON VARGAS in songs of Mexico recorded in concert (RCA)
Reissues of Constantin Silvestri conducting the Czech Philharmonic in music of Ravel,
Lalo and Enescu (SUPRAPHON)
Antonio de Almeida leads the Czech Philharmonic in music of Paul Dukas:
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, La Pri and Polyeuchte
Overture (SUPRAPHON)
Wagner's Tristan and Isolde in a 1936 Covent Garden live performance with Flagstad
& Melchior, Fritz Reiner, cond. (NAXOS)
A compilation of all of Lauritz Melchior's 1946/47 MGM recordings
(ROMOPHONE)
Birgit Nilsson's early EMI recordings (1957/58), mostly Wagner, some released for the first time in stereo,
some with Hans Hotter (TESTAMENT)
Alfred Cortot's 1934/35 recordings of Schumann's Piano Concerto and Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2
(NAXOS)
Suites from Khachaturian's Gayaneh and Spartacus ballets with the Bolshoi Theatre
Orch/Svetlanov (LE CHANT DU MONDE)
Gates of Gold, Awakening and other music of Joseph Curiale with the composer conducting
(BLACK BOX)
Reissue of Lorin Maazel's Roman Festivals & Pines of Rome by Respighi, with Rimsky-Korsakov's
Le Coq d'Or Suite (DECCA)
Donizetti's La Favorite with Karasova/Vargas, Viotti cond. (RCA)
Beethoven's Symphonies 2 and 4 rec. 1928/29 by the Berlin State Opera O/Pfitzner & Kleiber, cond.
(NAXOS)
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Berlin State Opera O/Oscar Fried, rec. in 1929
(NAXOS)
Early recordings of Italian songs with tenor GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO (Preiser)
Live recordings (1935/1939/1948) of Brahms piano concertos with
Horowitz/Lucerne, NYP and NBC Orchs/Toscanini (APPIAN)
Live operatic recordings including final scene from Strauss's Salome, sung by American soprano PHYLLIS CURTIN (VAI AUDIO)
Puccini's La Boheme with Bocelli and Frittoli/Israel PO/Zubin Mehta (LONDON)
Massenet's Manon with Gheorghiu and Alagna/Pappagno cond. (EMI CLASSICS)
Budget issue of Symphony No. 7 (Antartica) and 8 of Vaughan Williams, with the Bournemouth SO/Bakels, cond.
(NAXOS)
Guitarist Christopher Parkening playing concerted works by Elmer Bernstein, Albeniz and Marshall (EMI CLASSICS)
Szymanowski's two violin concertos and Concert Overture played by Kaja Danczowski with
the Warsaw NPO/Kord (ACCORD)
Bach's four cantatas for the Feast of the Purification of Mary (Soloists/Ens/John Eliot Gardiner
(DGG ARCHIV)
Rangstrom's Four Symphonies and other orchestral works with Norrkopong SO/Jurowski)
(CPO)
Verdi's Le Trouvere (Il trovatore) in French recorded in 1913 (MARSTON)
An 11-CD set of live performances by EDUARD VAN BEINUM and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw
Orchestra, covering three decades
of broadcasts which includes a DVD of Beethoven's Eroica. (Q DISC)
VAN BEINUM/CONCERTGEBOUW Bruckner symphonies: (No. 5 live), No. 7 (Decca recording)
and Nos. 8 & 9 (Philips recordings) at super-budget price (PHILIPS)
Fritz Reiner's 1958 Chicago Symphony Mahler Fourth with soprano Lisa Della Casa
reissued in Living Stereo (RCA)
Peter Maag's Mendelssohn (Symphony No. 3/Midsummer Night's Dream) with
the London Symphony Orchestra reissued (DECCA)
Symphony No. 10 "Amerindia" of Villa-Lobos, with soloists, chorus & orch (Gisele
Ben-Dor) (KOCH
INTERNATIONAL)
Arias of Puccini, Cilea, Leoncavallo, Massenet, Verdi, Catalani and others sung by
soprano RENE FLEMING (DECCA)
Beethoven's Symphonies 1 and 6 recorded 1928/1931, with Berlin Orchs/Hans Pfitzner (NAXOS)
Beethoven's Symphonies 5 and 7 recorded in the late '20s, with the Berlin State Opera Orch/Richard Strauss
(NAXOS)
BERLIOZ: Six Overtures with the Royal Philharmonic/Sir Alexander Gibson (INTERSOUND)
CHOPIN's two piano concertos played & conducted by KRYSTIAN ZIMERMANN (DGG)
CHAUSSON & SAINT SAENS piano quartets played by the Touchwood Piano Quartet (ASV)
KAREL ANCERL/CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA live performances of Haydn (Symphony 92), Franck
(D Minor), Dvorak (Symphony 8) and Prokofiev (Classical) (TAHRA)
World premiere of Strauss's Four Last Songs with Flagstad/Furtwangler, plus other music
of Strauss & Wagner (GEBHARDT)
Reissues of SIMON BARERE's live Carnegie Hall concerts of 1946/47 (APR)
Reissue at mid-price of music by Benjamin Britten with
the City of Birmingham Orch/Sir Simon rattle (EMI CLASSICS)
Morton Gould's American Salute, Foster Gallery and American Ballads, with the National
Symphony Orch/Theodore Kuchar (NAXOS)
Reissue of baritone LEONARD WARREN recordings of opera and song (VAI)
Mahler's Symphony No. 10 (Cooke II) recorded live with Sir Simon Rattle/Berlin Philharmonic (EMI)
Willem Mengelberg's 1941 recording of Dvorak's New World Symphony and 1944 Paris Dvorak Cello Concerto
broadcast (Gendron) (ARKADIA)
Barber's two symphonies, First Essay and School for Scandal Overture
(RSNO/Alsop)(NAXOS)
Heino Eller's Violin Concerto and symphonic poems (Estonian RSO/Lilje &
Pahn) (ANTES)
VATE: A Peacock Southeast Flew/Western Front/Harp Concerto/Nemo Suite (Orch/Chorus/Mikula/Shimada)
(VMM)
"South American Getaway" with The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic (EMI CLASSICS)
Dvorak's Stabat Mater, Robert Shaw's final recording, with the Atlanta Symphony Orch & Chorus
and soloists (TELARC)
Historic early electric recordings of arias from Strauss operas sung by famous
singers of the time (PREISER)
CARLO BERGONZI 1991 Song Recital from Zurich (RELIEF)
Cellist Emanuel Feuermann's 1918/29 recordings of cello concertos of Dvorak and Haydn
(NAXOS)
Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3, Spring & Choruses conducted by Valery Polyanski
(CHANDOS)
Sibelius' Four Legends, Op. 22 and En Saga with the Swedish RSO/Mikko Franck, cond.
(ONDINE)
Stokowski's EMI Debussy reissued (Nocturnes, Faun, Clair de Lune,
Iberia) (EMI CLASSICS)
George Tintner/Royal Scottish National Orch. recording of original version of Bruckner's First Symphony
(NAXOS)
Elgar's Symphony No. 3 in Anthony Payne's reconstruction, with Paul Daniel conducting
(NAXOS)
Diamond's Quartet for Piano & Strings, Piano and String Trios, with the Notre Dame Trio
(NAXOS)
Sibelius' Pelleas & Melisande, suites and other works played by the Tapiola Sinfonietta/Ollila
(ONDINE)
Walton's Piano Quartet in D Minor and String Quartet in A Minor, played by the Maggini
Quartet (NAXOS)
A new concerto by Shchedrin plus music for violin and orchestra by Stravinsky &
Tchaikovsky, played by Vengerov/LSO/Rostropovich (EMI CLASSICS)
Verdi's Il trovatore in German with Helge Rosvaenge, rec.1936 (PREISER)
Italian baritone PAOLO SILVERI arias recorded 1946/1949 (PREISER)
Strauss's Symphonia domestica and Don Juan with the Czech
Philharmonic conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy
(ONDINE)
Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, with Sir Charles Mackerras conducting
(TELARC)
Copland's Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid & Rodeo with Michael Tilson Thomas/San Francisco SO (RCA)
"Orchestral Fireworks" including Ravel, Kabalevsky, Liszt, Klemperer and
Chabrier with Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (REFERENCE)
Soprano ALESSANDRA MARC operatic recital with the Dallas SO conducted by
Andrew /Litton (DELOS)
Reissues of Van Beinum/Concertgebouw Orchestra recordings of Berlioz, Brahms and Schubert,
and Brahms' Alto Rhapsody with Kathleen Ferrier/Krauss (DUTTON)
Atterberg's Symphonies 1 and 4 (Frankfurt RSO/Rasilainen) and Peterson-Berger's Symphony No. 3
and other orchestral works (Norrkopping SO/Jurowski) (CPO)
Tavener's Fall and Resurrection with Patricia Rosario and other soloists, BBC Singers &
Orch/Richard Hickox, cond. (CHANDOS)
Liszt transcriptions of music of Beethoven, Berlioz, Schubert & Weber played by Louis Lortie with the Residency
Orch/Pehlivanian (CHANDOS)
A Choral Pilgrimage, music of Byrd, Tavener, Tallis and others performed by The Sixteen/
Christophers (LINN)
Handel's Solomon with Schall, Dam-Jensen, Hagley and others/ Gabrieli Consort/McCreesh (ARCHIVE)
Violin and cello concertos/Theme & Variations by Miklos Rzsa played by
Robert McDuffie and Lynn Harrell//Atlanta SO/Levi (TELARC)
A budget-priced issue of the 1974 Salzburg Strauss Die Frau ohne Schattan with an all-star cast
conducted by Karl Bhm (OPERA D'ORO)
Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov in a 1948 Bolshoi recording featuring Mark Reizen
with Nikolay Golovanov conducting (ARKADIA)
Gorecki's Miserere, Chorus! for 56 Strings and Totus Tuus in Polish
performances
conducted by Bader/Krakau (KOCH SCHWANN)
Reissues of Prokofiev's Cinderella and Glazunov's Seasons, both complete, with
Cleveland & Royal Philharmohic Orchs/Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting
(DECCA)
Hermann Scherchen's 1958 recording of Berlioz' Requiem finally issued in stereo
(REDISCOVERY)
Historic Brahms reissues: Violin Concerto (Ossy Renardy/ACO/Munch) and Symphony
No. 2 (LPO/Furtwngler) (DUTTON LABS)
Toscanini's 1950 NBC broadcast of Verdi's Falstaff reissued (RCA/BMG)
Twenty "Fanfares for the Common Man" by Copland, Hanson et al (London PO/Mester)
(KOCH INTERNATIONAL)
Night Rivers by Iannaconne, Redmann's Fiasko and Myers' Symphony 1969 (Polish
RSO/Junior)(VIENNA MODERN MASTERS)
Raid's powerful Symphony No. 1 plus orchestral works of Eller (Scottish NSO/Jarvi)
(CHANDOS)
Antheil's Symphonies 1 and 6, plus Archipelago, with Frankfort RSO, Hugh Wolff,
cond.(CPO)
Met 1945 broadcast of Verdi's Rigoletto with Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard
Warren & Bidu Sayao (NAXOS)
Korngold's Sursum Corda, Baby Suite & other orchestral works (Linz Bruckner
O/Richter)(CPO)
Two live recordings of Massenet's Werther, with Krauss/Crespin & Brecknock/Baker (GALA &
CHANDOS)
Orchestral works of Victor Herbert including Columbus Suite (Slovak RSO/Keith
Brion) (NAXOS)
Penderecki's Symphonies 2 and 4 with Antoni Wit/Polish NRSO (NAXOS)
Shostakovich's string quartets played by the Emerson Quartet (DGG)
Mahler's Song of the Earth with Domingo/Skovhus/LAPO conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen (SONY)
Premiere recordings of film music of ALAN RAWSTHORNE with the BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba
(CHANDOS)
A collection of recordings by baritone ROBERT MERRILL (PREISER)
A collection of
performances by chanteuse LIANE with the Boheme Bar Trio (VANGUARD)
Schubert's Wintereisse sung by baritone Roman Terkel beginning a new Naxos Schubert series
(NAXOS)
Lorin Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Stravinsky's Petrushka &
Song of the Nightingale; first issue of
Otto Klemperer's Petrushka and reissue of his Pulcinella (RCA/BMG & TESTAMENT)
Arthur De Greef's 1927 Grieg Concerto and solo performances; Benno Moiseiwitsch's
1952 Grieg and Schumann concertos (PEARL & TESTAMENT)
Reissue of Sir John Barbirolli conducting music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams
(EMI CLASSICS)
Concertos for organ, harp and flute by Andriessen, Badings and Flothius and a
Scherzo for Orchestra by Orthel (DONEMUS)
Piano concertos by
Sandstrom, Hammereth and Rautavaara, & Rautavaara's Autumn Gardens
(CAPRICE/ONDINE)
Reissue of tenor CARLO BERGONZI singing Italian songs (SONY CLASSICAL)
YURI TEMIRKANOV conducts Ravel, Tchaikovsky & Gade with the Danish Radio Orch. (CHANDOS)
VACLAV NEUMANN and the Czech Philharmonic in a program of Czech "Pearls" (SUPRAPHON)
Sir Charles Mackerras leads the Czech Philharmonic in Suk's Summer Tale and
Fantastic Scherzo
(DECCA)
Leopold Godowsky's studies on Chopin Etudes played by Marc-Andre Hamlin
((HYPERION)
Dukas' La Peri, Symphony and Sorcerer's Apprentice with Lopez-Coboz and the
Cincinnati
Symphony (TELARC)
Premiere recordings of Antheil's Symphony No. 6 and McKonkey's Ferry Overture, with
Theodore Kuchar conducting (NAXOS)
Music of Franz Schreker: Overtures, preludes and orchestral interludes with the BBC
Philharmonic/Sinaisky (CHANDOS)
Virgil Thomson's Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 with the New Zealand Orch/Sedares (NAXOS)
Elliott Carter's Symphonia and Clarinet Concerto with Collins/BBC Orch/Knussen
(DGG)
Santiago Rodriguez plays Second Piano Concertos of Rachmaninoff and Chopin
(ELAN)
Reissue of Wagner orchestral excerpts with ARTURO TOSCANINI and the NBC Symphony Orchestra
(RCA)
JANE EAGLEN sings Four Last Songs of Strauss and music of Wagner and Berg with the
LSO/Donald Runnicles (SONY CLASSICAL)
The complete recordings of British soprano EVA TURNER (PEARL)
A collection of early recordings by EUGENE ORMANDY mostly with the Minneapolis
Symphony, including many rare performances (BIDDULPH)
Soprano JULIA VARADY sings operatic works of Richard Strauss (ORFEO)
Penderecki's
Symphonies 2 and 4 with the Polish NRO/Wit (NAXOS)
Reissue
of mono recordings of ballets of Offenbach and Meyerbeer with Joseph Levine conducting
the Ballet Theatre Orchestra (EMI CLASSICS)
Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with Riccardo Chailly/Royal Concertgebouw (DECCA)
An overview of symphonies of SIR MALCOLM ARNOLD, and a selective discography (VARIOUS)
"The Essential Lutoslawski" - a 2 CD budget set including recordings conducted by the composer (PHILIPS)
Two recordings of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, one conducted by Valery Gergiev, and
an older concert performance conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini (PHILIPS/BBC LEGENDS)
Superb performances of Strauss's Zarathustra and songs of Szymanowski recorded live at the
Proms, with outstanding sonics (BBC MUSIC)
A 1965 Vienna production of Strauss's Salome with Anja Silja, but the real star is
Fritz Wunderlich (MYTO)
Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 and The Noon Witch with Nicholas Harnoncourt and the Concertgebouw
(TELDEC)
Sarah Chang plays violin concertos of Richard Strauss and Karl Goldmark with
conductors Wolfgang Sawallisch and James Conlon (EMI
CLASSICS)
Mitsuku Uchida plays Schubert's Piano Sonatas Nos. 9 and 16 (PHILLIPS)
D'Albert's opera Die Toten Augen recorded live in Dresden (CPO)
Dominick Argento's Valentino Dances and other works, with Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra (REFERENCE
REC)
Durufle's Requiem and other vocal works with soloists, chorus & orch. conducted by Michel
Plasson (EMI CLASSICS)
Reissue of a 1962 recording of Handel's SAMSON with Jan Peerce & Phyllis Curtin (VANGUARD CLASSICS)
Reissue of Alfred Deller's 1956 recording of Purcell's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (VANGUARD CLASSICS)
All of ROSA PONSELLE's commercial/private recordings in superb transfers (PEARL/ROMOPHONE)
Biber's Mystery Sonatas performed by Affetti Musicali (WINTER &
WINTER)
Manuel Rosenthal's third recording of Offenbach's Gaite Parisienne
(NAXOS)
Three sets of live recordings by KAREL ANCERL with the Czech Philharmonic and
Concertgebouw orchestras (TAHRA)
New budget recording of Britten's Violin Concerto and Symphony for Cello and
Orchestra (NAXOS)
Live Vienna State Opera recording of Strauss's Egyptian Helen from a
1970 performance with Gwyneth Jones conducted
by Josef Krips (RCA)
World premiere recordings of "British Light Music" conducted by Gavin Sutherland
(ASV)
Live 1972 recording of Strauss's Salome with Leonie Rysanek from the Vienna State
Opera (RCA)
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Two-CD Centennial Anthology of works by Silvestre
Revueltas (RCA/BMG)
A coupling of Grofe's Mississippi, Grand Canyon and
Niagara suites (NAXOS)
Recordings of Rachmaninoff's Concertos 1 and 4 in their
original versions (MUSICA CLASSIC/CHANDOS)
A superb comprehensive set of all of Mengelberg's
Telefunken Concertgebouw Beethoven symphony recordings (PEARL)
Yehudi Menuhin's early recordings of Elgar and Bruch
concertos issued at budget price (NAXOS)
Karl Muck's historic recordings of music from Wagner's
Parsifal (NAXOS)
Maurice Ravel's historic recordings of his own works
including Bolero (URANIA)
Teldec begins a new historic series with Beethoven
symphonies and Strauss symphonic poems (TELDEC)
Sergei Rachmaninoff's historic recordings of his four
concertos/Paganini Rhapsody (NAXOS)
Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town with Sir Simon
Rattle conducting (EMI CLASSICS)
The late Georg Tintner's interpretation of Bruckner's
Symphony No. 7 (NAXOS)
Premiere recording of one of the loudest pieces of music
ever written - HEKLA - by Leifs, with En Shao and the Iceland Symphony
Orchestra (BIS)
Reissue of Earl Wild/Jascha Horenstein/Royal Philharmonic
1965 recording of all of Rachmaninoff's works for piano and orchestra, at
mid-price (CHANDOS
Live recordings of Mahler's Symphonies 1-5, 7 and 9 and Songs, with Bernard
Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra (PHILIPS)
Pianist Arcady Volodos' 1998 Carnegie Hall concert (SONY)
All recordings by soprano JOHANNA GADSKI including Mapleson cylinders,
issued in two sets (MARSTON)
"Celebrating the Classics" Reissue of Charles Gerhardt recordings of
classic film scores plus an excerpt never before issued (THEMES &
VARIATIONS)
A Leonard Bernstein collection including Divertimento, a suite from Candide
and other works with Eije Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra (REFERENCE/REC)
Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg in Shostakovich's
Symphonies 1 and 6 plus Festive Overture (RCA/BMG)
Seven overtures of Berlioz with Sir Colin Davis conducting the Dresden
Stattskapelle (BMG/RCA)
Symphonies 1 and 4 of Alexander Glazunov with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Anissimov (NAXOS)
Symphonic works of Bantock including Sappho, Sapphic Poem and Cyprian
Goddess, with Vernon Handley and the Royal Philharmonic (HYPERION)
Concert recordings from 1943 and 1940 of violin concertos of Beethoven and
Bruch with Guila Bustabo, Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw (ARCHIVE
DOCUMENTS)
A group of motets by Nicholas Clerambault performed by Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr
(VIRGIN VERITAS)
Rachmaninoff's own recordings of his Concerto No. 4, Symphony No. 3 and Vocalise
and new recordings of the Symphony No. 1 and Isle of the Dead conducted by
Mariss Jansons (CLAREMONT/EMI CLASSICS)
A budget issue: a return to the recording studios by Peter Maag conducting
three Mozart symphonies (ARTS)
A reissue of Shura Cherkassky's 1952/56 recordings of Tchaikovsky's first two
piano concertos, with the Berlin Philharmonic (DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPOHON)
A reissue of Willem Mengelberg's 1941 recording of Ein Heldenleben by
Strauss, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra (LYS)
Volumes 5 and 6 in an on-going series of orchestral works of Witold Lutoslawski
orchestral works with Antoni Wit conducting (NAXOS)
Orchestral suites from operas of Janacek with the Czech State Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Jose Serebrier (REFERENCE RECORDINGS)
A budget-priced 2-CD set of Weber reissues focusing on the clarinet but also
containing three overtures with Dorati and the Concertgebouw (PHILIPS)
Reissues
of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius and The Music Makers with distinguished soloists, orchestra and chorus conducted by
Sir Adrian Boult (EMI CLASSICS)
Kernis (ARGO)
RCA Living Stereo reissues of Pierre Monteux recordings of Franck's
Symphony and Stravinsky's Petrushka with the Chicago and Boston Symphony
Orchestras (RCA/BMG)
Two recordings of Bruckner's Symphony No. 1, conducted by Abbado and
Skrowaczewski (DG & ARTE NOVA)
Sir Simon Rattle's and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's
Third Symphony(EMI)
Sir John Barbirolli in live performances of Elgar, Walton and Britten (BBC
CLASSICS)
A 4-CD set of symphonic works of Richard Strauss with the Bavarian Radio
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel (RCA/BMG)
A reissue of all 15 Shostakovich quartets played by the Fitzwilliam Quartet
(LONDON)
First CD issues of Artur Rubinstein's first recordings of Beethoven's Piano
Concerto No. 4 and Saint-Sans' Piano Concerto No. 2 (TESTAMENT)
A reissue of thirteen masses by Franz Joseph Haydn conducted by Guest, Willcocks
and Preston (LONDON)
Stanislav Skrowaczewski continues his Bruckner symphony cycle with the Symphony
No. 9 with the Minnesota Orchestra (REFERENCE RECORDINGS)
Sir Thomas Beecham's studio recordings of excerpts from Strauss's Ariadne auf
Naxos and Elektra (PREISER)
Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony continue their Sibelius cycle with a
collection of shorter works (RCA/BMG)
Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw in a twin-CD collection of the
complete music of Varse (LONDON)
George Tintner conducts Bruckner's Symphonies 0 and 8 with the New Symphony
Orchestra of Ireland (Naxos)
The Cadman Requiem by Bryars with the Hilliard Ensemble conducted by
David Smith (Point Music)
A Danish recording of Richard Strauss's Salome featuring soprano Inga
Nielsen (Chandos)
Luis Herrera de la Fuente conducts music of Revueltas, Chavez and Moncayo (Spartacus)
Music of Sibelius: Karelia (complete), plus Kuolema with Osmo Vnsk
conducting (Bis)
Mariss Jansons conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Kurt Weill's Symphony No. 2,
Violin Concerto and a suite from Mahagonny (EMI Classics)
Handel's Alexander's Feast recorded in 1964 with Alfred Deller conducting
(Vanguard Classics)
Reissue of 1962 recording of Faurs Requiem with Victoria de los Angeles and
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (EMI Classics)
Haydn's Paukenmesse and other choral works, with Richard Hickox
conducting (Chandos)
Mariss Jansons and the London Philharmonic perform music of Shostakovitch:
Symphony No. 15 and Piano Concerto No. 2 (EMI Classics)
A budget-priced recording of orchestral music of Alfredo Casella,
including La Giara (Naxos)
Film music of Shostakovich with Riccardo Chailly/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
(LONDON)
Antal Dorati's Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Ballet, at budget price.
(PHILIPS)
Definitive recording of Hanson's "Romantic" symphony conducted by the
late Charles Gerhardt (Chesky)
An outstanding collection of light classical favorites conducted by Charles
Gerhardt (Chesky)
A fine budget-priced recording of Rautawaara's "Bird Concerto" with a
fascinating Third Symphony as well (Naxos)
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Petrushka with
the Royal Philharmonic from a new budget series (Intersound)
Orchestral and choral works of Zemlinsky with James Conlon conducting (EMI
Classics)
"Lamenta" -- music of Ferrabosco, Tallis, Brumel, White and Palestrina
performed by The Tallis Scholars (GIMELL)
Sacred Choral Music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford with the Winchester
Cathedral Choir (HYPERION)
Reissues of earlier recordings by EARL WILD including a unique 1945 recording of
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (IVORY CLASSICS)
John Rutter's Requiem and other choral works with the Choir of King's College,
Cambridge cond. by Stephen Cleobury (EMI Classics)
Francesco Cavalli's Messa Concertata performed by Seicento directed by
Peter Holman (HYPERION)
A song recital by tenor RAMîN VARGAS (LASERLIGHT)
BRUCKNER's Symphony No. 8 with the Saarbrcken Radio SO conducted by Stanislav
Skrowaczewski (ARTE NOVA)
Volume I of complete orchestral works of LUMBYE with the Tivoli Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Giordano Bellincampi (MARCO POLO)
Works for two pianos by TAILLEFERRE, SNYDER and POULENC played by the Clinton-Narboni
duo (LAN RECORDINGS)
Orchestral works of BAX with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by
David Lloyd-Jones (NAXOS)
Orchestral works of CHADWICK played by the Czech State Philharmonic conducted by
Jos Serebrier (REFERENCE RECORDINGS)
Leopold Stokowski's magnificent 1958 recording of Shostakovich's Symphony
No. 11 with the Houston Symphony (EMI CLASSICS)
Orchestral works of KLAMI played by the Turku Philharmonic conducted by Jorma
Panula (NAXOS)
Live recording of Verdi's La forza del destino with Montserrat Caball
and Jos Carreras, La Scala, 1978 (MYTO)
Krsa: Verlobung im Traum/Symphonie -- two more entries in London's Entarte
Musik series (LONDON)
Historic early recordings of American music played by the Boston Symphony
conducted by Serge Koussevitzky (BIDDULPH)
James Galway plays three concertos by Liebermann, two for flute, one for piccolo
(RCA VICTOR)
Music of Argentinian composer Alberto Williams in a new budget-priced recording
(ARTE NOVA)
Beginning of a new budget-priced set of symphonies of Sibelius (NAXOS)
Bantock's Pagan Symphony and Fifine at the Fair with Vernon
Handley and the Royal Philharmonic (HYPERION)
Verdi's La Traviata, with Rosa Ponselle, from a 1935
Metropolitan Opera broadcast (NAXOS)
Tchaikovsky's complete Nutcracker ballet with the Kirov
Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev (PHILLIPS)
Puccini's TURANDOT recorded live in Beijing (RCA VICTOR)
The complete recordings of soprano ROSA RAISA (ROMOPHONE)
Met 1951 production of Mozart's Cos fan tutte, sung in English, with a
strong cast (SONY HERITAGE)
A relatively unknown Handel work, a "sacred drama," Joseph and His
Brethern, which has a convoluted plot and memorable music (HYPERION)
A fine collection of comic Renaissance madrigals in superb performances
(NAXOS)
The finest Pearl Fishers on disc, recorded live in June 1959, with Alan
Vanzo, Jeanine Micheau and Gabriel Bacquier (GALA)
Music by five of Bach's students: Goldberg, Kirnberger, Abel, Krebs and Mrthel
(GLOSSA)
Three Italian secular cantatas sung by mezzo-soprano Ann Murray (COLLINS)
Jascha Horenstein's legendary 1959 performance of Mahler's Symphony of a
Thousand issued in splendid sound (IMG/BBC)
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 Vladimir
Horowitz (live recordings, 1940/41) (Appian)
WAGNER Orchestral Music National Philharmonic Orch/Charles Gerhardt, cond. (Chesky)
STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben The historic 1928 recording with the NYPSO,
Willem Mengelberg, cond. (Pearl)
BEETHOVEN Symphonies 5 & 6 Zurich Tonhalle Orch/Zinman (Arte Nova)
BEVERLY SILLS Reissue of her first solo recital disc (Millenium Classics)
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 3 National Symphony Orch. of Ireland/Alexander
Anissimov, cond. (Naxos)
FRITZ WUNDERLICH Live recordings of songs, arias and duets (Orfeo D'Or)
SERGEI LEMESHEV Historic '40s recordings by the famous Russian tenor (Preiser)
Bartok/Hindemith/Kodaly/Schoenberg Chicago Symphony Orch/Antal Dorati &
Rafael Kubelik, cond. (Mercury)
Premiere recordings of orchestral works of Leo Sowerby conducted by Paul Freeman
(Cedille)
Antal Dorati's historic 1954 recording of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet
reissued (Mercury Living Presence)
Job -- A Masque for Dancing by Vaughan Williams, a
budget-priced recording (Naxos)
William Kapell's recorded legacy on nine CDs (RCA Victor)
"Earl Wild Goes to the Movies" Music of Rodgers, Steiner, Rzsa,
Liszt, Chopin and Mozart (Ivory Classics)
Three world premiere recordings of music by Morton Gould, including the
Pulitzer-prize winning StringMusic (Albany/Troy)
Bruckner's Symphony No. 6 in a budget recording with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
conducting (Arte Nova)
Sir Thomas Beecham's American recordings, 1942-1953 (Sony Heritage)
A recital of arias sung by Italian tenor GIUSEPPE GIACOMINI (Bongiovanni)
"ROSSINIANA" A live recording of a Rossini concert with Vivica Genaux,
Juan Diego Flrez and Nicola Ulivieri (Agor)
Verdi arias sung by tenor Roberto Alagna (EMI Classics)
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14/Lelio
San Francisco Symphony Orch/Michael Tilson Thomas, cond (RCA/BMG)
THE LAST RECORDINGS Bartok, Kodaly, Weiner
Budapest Festival Orch/Sir Georg Solti, cond. (London)
ERNESTINE SCHUMANN-HEINK Complete Acoustic Recordings (Vol. 1) (Romophone)
"ARNOLD FOR BAND" Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold Dallas Wind Symphony/
Jerry Junkin, cond. (Reference Recordings)
TOCH Symphony No.3 HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler MARTIN
Petite Symphonie Concertante Orch/Steinberg & Stokowski (EMI)
RITA STREICH sings Arias & Waltzes Rita Streich, sop. (D.G.)
MAHLER Symphonies 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 Various Orchestras conducted by
Dimitri Mitropoulos (Music & Arts)
LJUBA WELITSCH "The Complete Columbia Recordings" (Sony Heritage)
ARCADI VOLODOS Debut Recording (Sony Classical)
STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra Boston Symphony Orch/Serge
Koussevitzky, cond. (Biddulph)
WAGNER Orchestral Music from Tristan and Isolde Netherlands Radio
Philharmonic Orch/de Waart (RCA/BMG)
'PORTS OF CALL' Music of Chabrier, Sibelius, Ibert, Alfven, Tchaikovsky,
Smetana and Borodin Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue, cond. (Reference Recordings)
Tenor BRUCE FORD - Concert of arias sung in English (Chandos)
John Antill's aboriginal dance ballet Corroboree,
two ballets of Ginastera, Estancia and Panambi (Everest)
Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2, with Tchaikovsky's Manfred, Romeo & Juliet
and Marche slave, a best-buy in budget releases (EMI Classics)
Rautavaara's fascinating Cantus Arcticus, "Concerto for Birds
and Orchestra" (RCA/BMG)
"The Melody Shop" - a dazzling collection of concert band showpieces,
with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band (Chandos)
Norman Dello Joio's symphonic suite Air Power -- a superb
reissue of the famous 1957 recording with Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra
(Albany/Troy)
Tchaikovsky - All four orchestral suites in superb performances with
Antal Dorati/New Philharmonia Orchestra (Philips)
Tchaikovsky - Perhaps the definitive recording of the complete
Nutcracker Ballet, also a suite from Sleeping Beauty - all
at budget price Philips)
Mahler vocal works for singers and orchestra in superb performances
by the Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink, all at budget price
(Philips)
Sibelius/Mendelssohn violin concertos with Sarah Chang, the Berlin
Philharmonic and conductor Mariss Jansons (EMI Classics)
LEONTYNE PRICE at her best in live concert recordings from 1968/1973
(Gala)
Lorin Maazel leads the Vienna Philharmonic in Dvorak's symphonies 8 and 9
Deutsche Grammophon)
George Antheil's Capital of the World has its first complete
recording, along with other orchestral works (Centaur)
George Antheil's Capital of the World plus premiere
recordings of ballets of William Schuman and de Banfield with the Ballet Theatre
Orch.(EMI Classics)
All of Leopold Stokowski's Mussorgsky orchestral transcriptions, a sonic
spectacular with the BBC Philharmonic/Matthias Bamert (Chandos)
Leopold Stokowski's remarkable 1958 recordings of Villa-Lobos and Prokofiev
reissued (Everest)
Major orchestral works of Richard Strauss with the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink -- and at budget price! (Philips)
Major orchestral works of Claude Debussy with the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink (Philips)
A sonic blockbuster - George Antheil's Ballet Méchanique and Jazz
Symphony with Maurice Peress conducting (MusicMasters)
Twelve Spanish Dances of Granados, arranged for guitar and
orchestra, on a fine budget-priced CD (Naxos)
Janácek's Sinfonietta, Lachian Dances, and Taras Bulba, with the
Czech State Philharmonic/José Serebrier (REFERENCE REC)
All of Bruch's works for violin and orchestra with Salvatore Accardo, in
budget reissues (Philips)