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put onto CD (see review).
This time we offer the complete organ works of J.S.Bach
played by Kevin Bowyer on 8CDs containing 320 kbps mp3
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Reviews by
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Same Price: Complete Haydn Symphonies on mp3 CDs review
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The
Fourth ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL from Friday 28th May to Bank Holiday
Monday 31st May, 2010.
World premiere performance of York Bowen's First Symphony
and rare performance of Montague Phillips First Piano
Concerto, with David Owen Norris as soloist, at this years
Festival - see Announcements page.
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The
effects of the Iceland volcano have reached Musicweb, stranding
one of our team in foreign parts. This makes it impossible to produce
the usual ten record reviews per days, but we will continue at
a reduced number until his return.
Hakon
BØRRESEN (1876-1954) Symphonies
1-3, Violin Concerto Rebecca Hirsch (violin) Aalborg
SO/Owain Arwel Hughes
rec. 1996/7 DACAPO
[RB]
Jules
MASSENET (1842-1912) Thaïs Renée
Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Jesus
López-Cobos
rec. live 2008 DECCA [RMay]
RECORDING
OF THE MONTH Lionel
SAINSBURY (b.1958) Violin
Concerto Haydn WOOD (1882-1959) Violin
Concerto, Adagio Lorraine McAslan (violin) BBC Concert
O/Barry Wordsworth, Gavin Sutherland rec. 2009 DUTTON EPOCH
[RB]
Mátyás
SEIBER (1905-1960) Chamber
Works and Songs Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano) Andrea
Mélath (mezzo) David Frühwirth (violin) Péter
Szabó (cello) László Ernyei (accordion)
Zsusza Kollár (piano) rec. 2004 HUNGAROTON [RB]
BARGAIN
OF THE MONTH Giuseppe
VERDI (1813-1901) Un
ballo in Maschera Carlo Bergonzi, Leontyne Price, RCA
Italiana Opera Ch & O/Erich Leinsdorf rec. 1966 SONY OPERA
HOUSE [RJF]
Richard
WAGNER (1813
- 1883) Das
Rheingold, Die Walküre & Siegfried Bayreuth
Festival Ch & O/Clemens Krauss rec. live, 1953 PRISTINE
AUDIO [RMo]
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Jon
LORD (b.
1941) To
Notice Such Things - a six-movement suite Jon
Lord (piano); Cormac Henry (flute); Jeremy Irons (narrator)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Clark Rundell rec.
2009 AVIE
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Bard Music Festival "Berg and his World" - August
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