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Schubert complete symphonies
Bamberger Symphoniker
Jonathan Nott

Only complete set on the Market
35CDs £67

RECORDING OF THE MONTH

Momentous!

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Italian Cello Concertos and Sonatas
3CDS £10.95

Brahms Symphonies Zinman
£26.85

RECORDING OF THE MONTH

Beethoven Symphonies
Thielmann

Magic Moments of Opera
10 Operas Arthaus £95

Brilliant Classics 40CDs

Brilliant Classics 60CDs

9 Symphonies Chailly
£31.90

9 Symphonies C Davis
£18.70

BARGAIN OF THE MONTH

Absolutely marvellous!
£5.99 post free

Bruch VC1 Gluzman
Quite the finest performance of the Bruch concerto I have ever heard.

The best opera DVD of the year so far [ST]

Mahler Song Cycles
Katarina Karnéus

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The Raga Guide
4CDs + 196 page book
£33 post-free world-wide
15,000 copies sold

Thursday May 31st

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Two new complete books on-line
Cannons and Flowers the memoirs of Georges Cziffra
The Music goes Round and Around by Basil Tschaikov

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NEW and RECENT ARTICLES

Elgar Symphony 2 by Arthur Butterworth

Mahler Symphony No 6 - an update of Tony Duggan's survey of recordings

Some Random Jottings about Montague Phillips’ "Dance Revels." by John France

Robert Hugill’S Music Log – April 2007

Unusual instruments in the orchestra by Arthur Butterworth

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Arkivmusic has over 2000 ArkivCDs which are digital remakes of out-of-print CDs available nowhere else. New issues now contain full booklet notes link

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Pro Musica Camerata Catalogue available:£12.50 Post-free worldwide. Discs delivered direct from Poland.

Latest from Avie: Veniamin FLEISHMAN Rothschild's Violin: An opera in 1 act from the story by Anton Chekhov completed and orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH The Gamblers An unfinished Opera based on the play by Nikolai Gogol

Latest from Arcodiva:Zdenek LUKAS Concerto for viola and orchestra, Divertimento for violin and viola Jiri JAROCH Fantasy for viola and orchestra

Latest from Brilliant Classics: Rachmaninov Complete Songs Sergei Leiferkus, Alexandre Naoumenko, Maria Popescu, Joan Rodgers Howard Shelley 3CDs from £10.04
and Brilliant Classics 10 year Jubilee Editions

Latest from Lyrita -April releases including a NEW recording of Gordon Jacob
Symphonies 1& 2 LPO/Barry Wordsworth Price reduction - now from £12.30 post-paid

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Rosslyn Chapel and Music of the Cubes by Thomas J Mitchell. Published by Diversions Books 2006. 108pp. Softback [GH]

All in all I cannot recommend you spend time on this fudge. There is however a proviso. You may think, as with the ‘Da Vinci Code’ that 95% of it is rubbish. In which case it is the remaining 5% that should worry you. ... see Full Review

Antal Dorati and the joy of making music by Richard Chlupaty [Tony Flynn]

Handsomely done but unlikely to be of interest to anyone other than Dorati fanatics ... see Full Review

BAX - A Composer and his Times by Lewis Foreman 25 b/w illustrations 616 pages [CSS]

Antonio Pappano, Con Passione by Lucrèce Maeckelbergh Pub. Uitgeverij Snoeck, 2006. 224pp. Hardback. Includes a cover mounted CD of Pappano in performance.ISBN: 90-5349-527-4 (English edition) £29.90 [ED]

A solid introduction to a conductor who ultimately engages and sustains one’s interest by the strength of his personality. ... see Full Review

 

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MusicWeb reviewed 230 Recordings in May.
They may be found in the alphabetical index

[Part 1 New]   [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]
[Recommended recordings]