Summary of New Classical CD Reviews - November 2003 part 1- (last two days): MusicWeb: Len Mullenger

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TODAY'S CD REVIEWS

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The MusicWeb 2003 Christmas Prize Quiz

398 completed for November

[Part 2 A-B] [Part 3 C-L]
[Part 4 M-R] [Part 5 S-Z]
[Part 6 Misc A-L] [Part 7 Misc M-Z]

MusicWeb can now supply from the catalogue of the Polish labels ARCODIVA and CDACCORD at only £9 post-free World-wide

Back in stock from CDACCORD:
ACD071-2 KARLOWICZ Violin Concerto A major Op. 8 "Eternal Songs" symphonic poem Op.10
ACD080-2 CHOPIN CONCERTOS Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 RUBINSTEIN, ARGERICH, ROWICKI, NOWAK
ACD091 ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) Le Quattro Stagioni TELEMANN Don Quixote - Suite

BOOK REVIEWS

Suzanne Rhodes DRAYER A Singer’s Guide to the Songs of JOAQUÍN RODRIGO

Luca Marenzio The Career of a Musician between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation by Marco Bizzarini ~~£49.50~~ MusicWeb price £42.50

OPERETTA by Richard TRAUBNER

THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO COMPACT DISCS & DVDs 2003/4 Edition

Rudolf Serkin: A Life By Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber

NEW BOOK DETAILS

Sing, Ariel: Essays and Thoughts for Alexander Goehr's Seventieth Birthday edited by Alison Latham

Prokofiev’s Ballets for Diaghilev Stephen 0. Press

Celebratory concerts for Arnold Bax and Arthur Butterworth

22 October 18.30 saw the world premiere of Symphony 5 at BBC Manchester.
This premiere performance will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on the 18 December 2003 at 2.00pm.
Arthur Butterworth website Photograph at 80

New ARTICLES for this month

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPHONY David Wright

FERDINAND RIES by Dr David C F Wright

Hugo Wolf by David Wright

Orchestral Concerts: Disasters-in-Waiting by Arthur Butterworth

WILLIAM BUSCH: 1901-1945 by Julia Cornaby Busch

WILLIAM BUSCH by Sinclair Logan

A Conversation with the composer/writer Richard Stoker about Cecil Armstrong Gibbs by
John France

more articles this month here

Elsewhere on MusicWeb

Gerard Hoffnung Christmas cards

Should out-of-copyright recordings be freely available for re-release by
anybody? Chris Howell gives his view.

Richard Adams has given the Arnold Bax website a complete makeover.

Scott Mortensen has been hard at work on new material for his Charles Ives site

Sorabji: Legendary Works for Piano 3CDs for the price of 2

In one sense a Bruckner Symphony is rather like a bad case of the flu says Paul Shoemaker

Roremania: Bernard Jacobson attends a birthday celebration

COUNT BASIE and His Orchestra The Columbia Years

Bartok, Ligeti, Beethoven Little/Rattle in New York

Delius, Warlock, Vaughan Williams, Bax: at Wigmore Hall: Melanie is not overimpressed
but Colin found Handel's Alexander’s Feast more memorable

Books on Music for sale - a continually growing list

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Music Business Journal

Directory of Distributors and Record Labels

Friends of Radio 3 (FoR3) Keeping Roger Wright on his toes

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A Last Encore Now on CD $22 post free world-wide
BBC recordings of Speech Day, Oxford Union, December 1958 "Life begins at 38" with the famous Bricklayer story and the hotelier offering French widows in every bedroom.