Summary of New Classical CD Reviews - November 2004 part 1- Today's Reviews: MusicWeb-International: Len Mullenger

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MusicWeb can now supply World-wide from the catalogue of the American Label Gasparo at £10, £8 and £6 including postage (restrictions apply on mid-price and budget titles)

New from Gasparo
Phyllis TATE Sonata for clarinet and cello, Air and Variations for violin, clarinet and piano, Three pieces for solo clarinet Karel HUSA Évocations de Slovaquie for clarinet, viola and cello Ingolf DAHL Concerto a Tré for clarinet, violin and cello

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

New from CDACCORD: use this link to purchase

ACD 133-2 K. Penderecki - Ubu Rex Special Edition £25
ACD 131-2 K. Szymanowski - Król Roger Special, Edition £21
ACD130 KILAR Lament, September Symphony Review
ACD078 Les Chemins d'Amour F. Poulenc, C. Debussy, H. Duparc Review
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BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1-9, Egmont, Leonora 3 overtures.The Warsaw Philharmonic - Kazimierz Kord - 5CD boxed set £20 postage paid. A saving of £25
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

AND
ACD 073 Strauss Alpine Symphony Warsaw Philharmonic Kazimierz Kord Read this review Buy disc

New from Arcodiva
Dvorak Slavonic Dances for two Pianos Kristina Krkavcova, Martin Kasik UP 0067-2 131 (CD) New release April 2004
Sylvie Bodorova Juda Maccabeus Gabriella Benackova (sop), Ales Briscein (ten), Ivan Kusnjer (bar) Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Valek live recording Prague Spring Festival 2002 UP 0065-2 231 (CD) New release Februaury 2004 Review
BENDA Ariadne auf Naxos Jitka Molavcova - Ariadne Alfred Strejcek - Theseus Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchesrta Conductor Jaraslov Krcek UP 0066-2 231 (CD) New Release Jan 2004 Review

New from Redcliffe
RRO20 British String Quartets Vol 3 Frank Bridge: String Quartet No 4; Alan Bush Suite of Six op.81; Henry Purcell Chacony in G minor Bochmann String Quartet

New ARTICLES for this month

JOHN BULLER - Obituary - Martin Anderson

HISTORY OF MUSIC 3. Approaching the Baroque era

HISTORY OF MUSIC 4. Early American Music (1620-1800)

HISTORY OF MUSIC AMERICAN MUSIC OF THE NINETEEN CENTURY Dr David C F Wright

ALGERNON ASHTON - THE CASE FOR REVIVAL by Harold Truscott

BRUCKNER’S EIGHTH SYMPHONY Personal reflections on a favourite work and some key recordings by Patrick C Waller

REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION - a matter of black and white?- by Arthur Butterworth

Elsewhere on MusicWeb

Milken Archive of American Jewish Music

View from The Audience an occasional series

On Seen and Heard this week, you can read reviews of Mahler’s Fifth in Philadelphia conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder in China with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Gérard Grisey’s Vortex Temporum from New York. There is also an interview with Adrianne Pieczonka and the first review of the uncut version of Ken Russell’s 1971 film The Devils, scored by Peter Maxwell Davies.

Bill Kenny ''Music and movement' was never like this when I was a mixed infant, that's for sure. ' Jonathan Dove: Tobias and the Angel

.... for at this time we suddenly had Neo-Romanticism, Post-Modernism, Feminist deconstructionism, Minimalism, Pan-Modalism, Post-Serialism, Aleatorism, and Anti-ism-ism. Where we are now is anybody’s guess, although I think Litigationism and Megamediaconglomeratism, a.k.a. you-can’t-play-that-until-you-pay-me-ism, might be applicable. says Paul Shoemaker

These are precisely and imaginatively calibrated miniatures – angular, full of forlorn spaces, cryptically repetitive; allusive and clever. Jon Woolf on Klebe

SACD, DSD, DTS, AC3, DVD-Audio, SuperAudio confused? Let Paul Shoemaker put you right

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