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Alexander
BORODIN (1833-1887)
Symphony No.1, Symphony No.2 The Heroic
- U.S.S.R Symphony Orchestra/Evgeni Svetlanov
rec. 1966 ( No.2) and 1983 (No.1) - MELODIYA
[JW]
Claude
DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Etudes Camille
SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921) Etude
"Les cloches de Las Palmas" ,
Etude "En forme de valse" - Margit
Rahkonen (piano) rec. 1993, FINLANDIA
[CH]
RECORDING
OF THE MONTH
Hans
GÁL
(1890-1987) The Complete
String Quartets String Quartets
- The Edinburgh Quartet: rec. 2004 MERIDIAN
[MC]
George
Frideric HANDEL
(1685-1729)
Concerti Grossi Organ Concerto Movement
in D minor, - The Brandenburg Consort/Roy
Goodman rec.1992. .- HYPERION HELIOS
[BW]
Louis
MARCHAND
(1669-1732)
Livre de pièces de clavecin, 1754
[Livre
de Suittes pour le clavecin, 1754] - Mario
Martinoli (harpsichord) rec. 2005,- OLIVE
MUSIC [JV]
Charles
Hubert Hastings PARRY (1848-1918)
Songs of farewell (1916-1918):Charles
Villiers STANFORD (1852-1924) Three
motets, Op. 38 (1905): - Choir of Trinity
College Cambridge/Richard Marlow. 
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ARKIV CD [MG]
Johann
STRAUSS II (1825–1899)
19 Waltzes see
review for details - Wiener Johann Strauss-Orchester/Willi
Boskovsky rec. 1982-85 - EMI CLASSICS
[GF]
Richard
WAGNER (1813–1883)
Lohengrin
(1850) - Orquestra Simfònica
del Gran Teatre del Liceu/Sebastian Weigle
rec. live, 2006 - EUROARTS 2056008
[GF]
Medieval
Dances for Flute and Harp
George
Frederik MCKAY (1899-1970) Joseph
JONGEN (1873-1953) Henry
COWELL (1897-1965) Désiré-Emile
INGELBRECHT (1880-1965) Joseph
LAUBER (1864-1952) Nino
ROTA (1911-1979) - Laurel
Zucker (flute); Susan Jolles (harp) rec.
2007, - CANTILENA RECORDS [MS]
Victor
Pikaizen (violin)
BACH, PAGANINI,
MOSTRAS, KHACHATURIAN, LEVITIN, WEINBERG
- Victor Pikaizen (violin) Rec.
Moscow 1958-82 - MELODIYA [JW]
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