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Classical Editor: Rob Barnett, Spoken Word Editor :Gerald Fenech, Reviewers: Rob Barnett, Ian Lace, Len Mullenger, and:  Richard Adams, Arthur Butterworth, Paul Conway, Andy Daly, Tony Duggan, Jane Erb, Gerald Fenech, David Frieze,  Ian Marchant, Gairt Mauerhoff, Humphrey Smith, Colin Scott Sutherland, Andrew Seivewright, Richard Whitehouse, Reg Williamson, Peter Grahame Woolf, David Wright.


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AVET TERTERYAN (1929-1994) Symphony No. 3 (1975) * Symphony No. 6 (1983) **   * Armenian SSR State SO/David Khandjan (Duduk: Djanibek Gasparyan; Zurna: Gegam Grigoryan) ** Bolshoi Theatre Orch Soloists Ensemble/Alexander Lazarev BMG MELODIYA 74321 56265 2 [68.05]

JOHN DAVID THROWER Requiem for a Princess   Pop Vocals: Dennis Dubbin Classical Vocals: Raymond Sepe (tenor) Dana McKay (soprano) Sandra Graham (mezzo-soprano) DIGITAL AUTOMATIC MUSIC - RESONANCE RES-CD 002
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CAMPOLI CLASSICS from BEULAH

ELGAR Violin Concerto
LPO/BoultMonorec 28/29 Oct 1954 Kingsway Hall
MENDELSSOHN  Violin Concerto
LPO/Boult Stereo rec 6/8 May 1958 Kingsway Hall 
BEULAH 1PD10
[73 minutes]

BLISS Violin Concerto BLISS Theme and Cadenza.  
LPO/Bliss  
TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto
LSO/Ataulfo Argenta.
BEULAH 3PD10
[77.54]

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto  
LSO/Josef Krips rec 2/4 Jan 1952 Kingsway Hall, London
BRUCH Scottish Fantasy
LPO/Boult. Stereo rec 6/8 May 1958 Kingsway Hall, London
BEULAH 2PD10
69 minutes


CARUSO The early recordings [74 mins] With Prima Voce sampler [78 mins]  NIMBUS NI 7900

THE NOBLE BASS VIOL......Works by: Purcell, Bocchi, Handel, Finger, Conti, etc.  Mark Caudle: Bass Viol. The Parley of Instruments Peter Holman. Hyperion CDA67088 78m DDD

WORLD MUSIC

SPIRIT OF THE BORDER: Northumbrian Traditional Music.   Various instrumentalists. Nimbus NI5615 61m DDD.

'Dream of the Cherry Blossoms'  contemporary marimba music from Japan Daniella Ganeva CALA CACD 77002

THE RAGA GUIDE A survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas   Book (196 pages) with 4 CDs Nimbus NI 5536-39

RAGA JAIJAIVANTI  Asad Ali Khan, rudra vina, with Mohan Shyam Sharma, pakhavaj Nimbus NI 5601 (76 mins)
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HERBERT VON KARAJAN: A Life in Music by Richard Osborne  Chatto & Windus 851 pp GBP £30.00. ISBN: 185619 763 8

Gerald Fenech

WILLIAM WALTON. Behind the Facade. Susana Walton. OUP (1989). ISBN 0-19-282635-2. Paperback.

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