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Leroy
ANDERSON (1908-1975) Orchestral
Music - Volume 3 
BBC Concert Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin rec. 2007
NAXOS 8.559357 [61:49][IL] 
Leroy
Anderson hits in uninhibited performances full of joie de vivre ...
see Full Review
Johann
Christian BACH (1735-1782) Symphonies
etc. The Academy
of Ancient Music/Simon Standage rec. 1993
CHANDOS mp3 
CHAN0540 LOSSLESS CHAN0540W
Reissued with all details as above: CHANDOS CD CHAN0713X
mp3
CHAN0713 LOSSLESS
CHAN0713W [65:10][BW] 
Stylish
performances of music by the greatest immediate predecessor of Mozart
... see Full Review
Johann
Christoph BACH (1642-1703) Fürchte dich nicht see
JS
BACH
Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Oboe d’Amore Concertos
see TELEMANN
Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Fugues from
the “Well-Tempered Clavier” (arr. Emanuel Aloys Förster and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Emerson String Quartet rec. 2007
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4777458 [57:17][DC] 
Gorgeous
playing, wonderful music, but more of a supplement than a Bach staple
... see Full Review
Johann Sebastian BACH
(1685-1750) Cantatas
BWV 62, 45, 192 & 140
Publick Musick Orchestra and Choir/Thomas Folan
rec. 2005
MUSICA OMNIA MO0204 [79:43][JV]
Despite
the good potential these performances have
too many loose ends and lack consistency ...
See Full
Review
Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Violin
Concertos 1 & 2,
Concerto for Two Violins Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) Violin
Concerto 5 Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Los Angeles PO/Alfred Wallenstein
rec. 1946-53 NAXOS 8.111288 [70:50] [JW]
Heifetz
admirers will welcome their reappearance in good transfers ...
see Full Review
Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Goldberg
Variations Sergey
Schepkin (piano) rec. 1995 ONGAKU
024-107 [71:53] [DC]
A
very enjoyable journey ... see Full
Review
BARGAIN
OF THE MONTH Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Cantatas
with Violoncello Piccolo Chœur
de Chambre Accentus/Laurence Equilbey & Ensemble Baroque
de Limoges/Christophe Coin rec. 1995 NAÏVE
VOIX BAROQUE E8918 [62:20][BW] 
Not
Bach’s best-known music but strongly recommended ... see Full
Review
Gold
Berg/Mine Variations Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Goldberg Variations Jukka
TIENSUU (b. 1948) Erz Denis
Patković (accordion) rec. 2007 HÄNSSLER
CLASSIC CD98.527 [74:47] [DC]
Enhanced
Goldberg: maybe not for everyone, but surprisingly good ... see Full
Review
Johann
Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) The
Bach Cantata Pilgrimage Volume 25: Cantatas for the Fifth Sunday after
Easter (Rogate); Cantatas for the Sunday after Ascension Day (Exaudi)
Johann Christoph BACH (1642-1703)
Fürchte dich nicht
The Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
rec. 2000 SOLI DEO GLORIA
SDG144 [55:10 + 52:40][JQ]
Another
impressive issue in this important series
... see Full
Review
Johann
Sebastian BACH
(1685-1750) Sonatas and
Partitas for solo violin (ca. 1720)
Christian Tetzlaff (violin) rec. St. George’s,
Brandon Hill, Bristol, March, November 1993
VIRGIN CLASSICS 5 22034 2 [62:04 + 66:33]
[DC]
Like
having a fine painting on your wall to inspire
and refresh your soul. ... see Full
Review
Wilhelm Friedemann BACH (1710-1784)
Keyboard
Works - 2
Julia Brown (harpsichord) rec. 2007
NAXOS 8.570530 [74:07][JV]
WF
Bach's unmistakable qualities are to the fore in these fine interpretations
... see Full Review
Judith
BAILEY (b.
1941) Instrumental music
Davey Chamber
Ensemble rec. 2007
METIER MSVCD92101 [77:24][DC]
A
well-performed programme of some highly intriguing music ... see Full
Review
Sir Granville BANTOCK
(1868-1946) Overture
to a Greek Tragedy: Oedipus at Colonus (1911) [15:40] * Josef
HOLBROOKE (1878-1958) The Birds of Rhiannon Op. 87
(1923) [15:50] Cyril ROOTHAM (1875-1938)
Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1932) [30:57]
* Philharmonia Orchestra/Nicholas Braithwaite; London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vernon
Handley rec. January 1979, Kingsway Hall (Holbrooke); September 1976,
Henry Wood Hall (Rootham, Bantock). ADD
LYRITA
SRCD.269 [62.30]
[BW]
I
dismissed this recording thirty years ago;
don’t make the same mistake ... ... see Full
Review
Samuel
BARBER (1910-1981) Adagio;
Knoxville - Summer of 1915; Violin
Concerto; Overture to the School
for Scandal; Essay for Orchestra
No. 1; Medea's Dance of Vengeance Various
artists rec. 1986-94 EMI CLASSICS AMERICAN
CLASSICS 2066252 [79:43][BBr]
A
good and interesting anthology ... see Full
Review
Sir
Arnold BAX (1883-1953) Symphonies
Nos. 1 & 6
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bryden Thomson rec. 1987
CHANDOS mp3 CHAN8906
[76:39][BW]
Recommendable,
but not in preference to Lloyd Jones (Naxos)
or Handley’s rival Chandos versions ... see
Full
Review
Arnold
BAX
(1883-1953) CD
1 [59:55] Folk-Tale (1918) [9:20]
Sonata for cello and piano (1923) [34:25]
Sonatina for cello and piano (1933)
[16:04] CD 2 [45:44] Arnold
BAX (1883-1953) Legend-Sonata
for cello and piano (1943) [25:53] Gordon
JACOB (1895-1984) Divertimento
for solo cello (1955) [12:04] Elegy
for cello and piano (1959) [7:41]
Florence Hooton (cello); Wilfred Parry (piano)
rec.1958/59 ADD. Mono.
LYRITA REAM.2104 [59:55 + 45:44][JF]
There
is a magic about these recordings ... see
Full Review
Luke
BEDFORD (b. 1978) Or Voit Tout En Aventure
see COLE
Ludwig
van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Piano
Sonatas Nos. 9, 23 & 32
Vassily Primakov (piano) rec. 2006
BRIDGE 9251 [64:47][TH]
On
the whole an enjoyable Beethoven recital ...
see Full
Review
Ludwig
van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
The Piano Sonatas: Vol.VI Piano Sonatas Nos. 22-26
András Schiff (piano) rec. 2006
ECM NEW SERIES 1947 [76:46][DC]
The
best for a long time to come ... see Full
Review
Ludwig
van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Streichquartette op. 135
(transcr. string orchestra) see
SCHUBERT
Lennox BERKELEY
(1903-1989) Piano
Concerto in B flat, op. 29 (1947) [26:13]
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, op.
30 (1948) [32:17]
David Wilde (piano, op. 29) New Philharmonia
Orchestra/Nicholas Braithwaite (op. 29) Garth
Beckett and Boyd McDonald (pianos, op. 30)
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Norman Del Mar
(op. 30)
LYRITA SRCD.250 [58:33]
[BB]
The
gentler French influences combined with sweep
and drama ... see
Full Review
Anna
BON DI VENEZIA (c.1740-1767?) Six
Sonatas for Harpsichord
Barbara Harbach (harpsichord) rec. 1998
MSR CLASSICS MS1241 [64:45][GPu]
Inventive
music, played with assurance and imagination in good sound ... see Full
Review
RECORDING
OF THE MONTH York BOWEN (1884–1961) Music
for Viola Lawrence
Power (viola); Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano) rec. 2007 HYPERION
CDA67651/2 [61:39 + 60:55][MC]
Power
goes from strength to strength in this collection of Bowen’s
viola music ... see Full Review
Johannes
BRAHMS (1833-1897) Violin Concerto
Joseph JOACHIM (1831-1907)
Violin Concerto No. 2
Christian Tetzlaff (violin); Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Thomas
Dausgaard rec. 2006-7
VIRGIN CLASSICS 5021092 [78:25][JW]
My
choice goes to Tetzlaff despite some reservations ... see Full
Review
Johannes
BRAHMS (1833-1897) Violin
Concerto Wolfgang Amadeus
MOZART (1756-1791) Violin Concerto 3 Leonid
Kogan (violin) Boston SO/Pierre Monteux (Brahms) New York PO/Dimitri
Mitropoulos (Mozart)
rec. live 1958 DOREMI DHR7900 [63:48] [JW]
Kogan
admirers should hear the Brahms for its collaborative excellence
... see Full Review
Johannes
BRAHMS (1833-1897) Early
Piano Works Volume 1 Sonata 2,
Schumann Variationen, Ballades Hardy
Rittner (fortepiano) rec. 2007 MUSIKPRODUKTION
DABRINGHAUS
UND GRIMM MDG904 1494-6 
[66:53] [DC]
Close
your eyes, and imagine yourself in 1854 ... see Full
Review
Benjamin
Britten (1913-1976) Britten
Abroad Susan
Gritton (soprano); Mark Padmore (tenor); Iain Burnside (piano) rec.
2006 SIGNUM CLASSICS
SIGCD122 [73:50][JF]
The
singing and the playing are superb … a fine production ... see Full
Review
Benjamin
BRITTEN (1913-1976) Songs Include Winter
Words, Four Burns Songs, Who are these Children? Daniel
Norman (tenor) Christopher Gould (piano) rec. 2005 BIS
BIS-CD-1510 [68:11] [JF]
The
Burns Songs are masterly and Ca’ the Yowes brings the house down
... see Full Review
Frantisek Xaver BRIXI
(1732–1771)
Missa di Gloria, Organ Concerto 1 Christoph
Hammer (organ); Concerto Vocale München; Monteverdi-Orchester München/Wolfgang
Kelber rec. 1993 HÄNSSLER
PROFIL PH06029 [60.32]
[RH]
No
masterpieces but a fascinating glimpse into the mid-18th century
Czech world ... see Full Review
Mikhail
BRONNER (b. 1952) The Seasons see PIAZZOLLA
Anton
BRUCKNER (1824-1896) Symphony
5 Netherlands
RPO/Jaap van Zweden rec. 2007 EXTON
OVCL00305 [41:12
+ 37:52] [TH]
You
will find more convincing versions elsewhere ... see Full
Review
Dietrich
BUXTEHUDE (c.1637-1707) Suites
and Variations
Colin Booth (harpsichord) rec. Westbury Sub Mendip, May 2007
SOUNDBOARD SBCD207 [77:39] [GPu]
Good
playing of striking music – shame that Buxtehude’s masterpiece is abridged
… see Full Review
Dietrich
BUXTEHUDE (1637-1707) Solo
Cantatas Barbara
Christina Steude (soprano) Lautten Compagney/Wolfgang Katschner
rec. 2006 CARUS
83.192 [66:09]
Dietrich BUXTEHUDE (1637-1707) Choral & Dialogue Cantatas Capella
Angelica Lautten Compagney/Wolfgang Katschner rec. 2007 CARUS
83.193 [75:01]
A
most rewarding journey for the listener ... see Full
Review
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