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Accentus

ACC10238 Mahler sy2 review
ACC20101 Tchaikvosky sy6 Abbado

Acoustica

ACCD-1013 Carlstedt str qts v1
ACCD-1015 Carlstedt str qts v2 review
ACCD-1019 Swedish colours review

ACT

94572 Lundgren Magnum mysterium
94782 A deux review
95082 Opera review
97582 Kuhn Wollny review

Actes Sud Musicales

ASM05 Matalon Les Siecles review

Adam Levin Records

ALR001 In the beginning review

Aeolus

AE10084 Bach French suites review
AE10106 Locke consort of fower parts

Aficondo

A034401 Mozart & well beyond - bassoon

Afontibus

ATB-CD 06-08 Bach organ wks

AIX Records

AIX85052 Shostakovich pno qnt

AK Coburg

DR0004 Draeseke chmbr wks
DR0010 Draeseke Krug chmbr wks review

Albion Records (Vaughan Williams Society)

ALB001 Songs from operas (Sky shall be)
ALB002 Early songs (Kissing her hair)
ALB006 Songs for mixed chorus (Hope is shining)
ALB009 Music in the heart
ALB010 Folk songs

Alia Vox

AVSA9846 Mozart serenades
AVSA9865 Celtic viol review

Aliud

ACDHN0332 Catoire chbr wks
ACDHN0342 Contrasts review
ACDHJ0402 O muse - Dutch songs review

Alla Pavlova

122095 Pavlova sy1

Allegri Films

9D511 Mahler & Berio review
9D512 Conducting Mahler

Allegro Films

A05CND Sibelius films review review
A06CND Nathan Milstein portrait review review review
A07CND Jacqueline du Pre
A08CND Itzhak Perlman review
A09CND Vladimir Ashkenazy review
A10CND Tchaikovsky films review
A12CND Paganini's daemon review
CN0903D Schubert Trout, Great sorrow review

Alma Nova

5631 Debut

Almaviva

DS0143 Guerrero Canciones

Alpha

061 Hume Passion of musick
175 Durosoir Le Balcon review
176 Rameau Les surprises review
178 Mozart requiem review
179 Jauchzet dem herren review

Altara

ALT1014 Chopin PCs
ALT1021 Chopin Brahms PC2s Rubinstein review
ALT1023 Rach PC4 Michelangeli review
ALT1033 R Strauss lieder review
ALT1035 Dark pastoral review review

Altamira

ABI230105 Gibbs pno trios

Altarus

AIRCD9015 Cooman pno wks review
AIRCD9023 MacDowall pno sons review
AIRCD9034 Feinberg pno sons review
AIRCD9035 Christophe Sirodeau
AIRCD9038 Feinberg songs review
AIRCD9064 Sorabji sy5 review

Altfiol i Väst

AIVCD001 Souvenirs from Gothenberg
AIVCD002 Souvenirs from West Sweden review
AIVDVD002 Souvenirs from West Sweden review
AIVCD003 Souvenirs from 1974 concerts review
AIVCD004 Parikian in Sweden review

Altri Suoni

AS-37 Koukl musica vocale

Amadeo

4763089 Brahms Botender

Ambiances Magnetiques

AM199 Ceccarelli Breviaire

Ambitus

AMB96899 Paganini gtr qts v2 review
AMB96941 Division vln pt1 review
AMB97977 Paganini gtr chmbr wks v1

Ambronay

AMY022 Purcell Dido review
AMY024 Handel Judas Maccabeus
AMY026 Falvetti Il diluvio review
AMY027 Ferveur et Extase review
AMY028 Venezia review
AMY029 Vivaldi vespers review

American Masterworks

AMCD1594 Measure for measure

Ame Son

ASCP0517 Schubert Mahler songs review
ASCP0711 Dalbavie orch wks review
ASCP0814 Amel chante

AMF

02 Nyman Yamamoto

Amiata

ARCD1002 Music ancient Rome v2
ARNR1396 Music ancient Rome v1

Amon Ra

CDSAR5 Haydn pno sons review
CDSAR8 Clementi pno son review
CDSAR21 Weber flute sons review
CDSAR24 La Rue des Pres masses review
CDAAR33 Concord of sweet sounds review
CDSAR46 Elizabethan Christmas anthems review review
CDSAR61 Strozzi La Virtuosissima cantatrice

Ancalagon

ANC134 Vivaldi Piazzolla 4 seasons review

Andante

AN3060 Berg Wozzeck review
AN3070 Zemlinsky Konig Kandaules review

Anemos

C33001 Guerrero chbr wks review

Angelok

CD7701 Latvian music v1 review
CD7702 Latvian music v2 review
CD7710-11 Ukraine cpsrs v1 review review
CD7751 Nationalist trends review review
CD7752 Liszt great romantic review
CD7753 Music of France
CD7770 Georgian cpsrs review
CD9915 Shostakovich sy7 review
CD9918-19 Ukraine cpsrs v2 review
CD9920-21 Tchaikovsky sys 4 & 6 review
CD9922-23 Ukraine cpsrs v3 review
CD9932 Shostakovich sy8 review

Animato

ACD6048 Tchaikovsky Onegin review
ACD6061 Hildegard Lilium
ACD6123 Handel Oreste review

Anothertimbre

AT03 Denyer shakuhachi review

Anthology of Australian Music

CSM38 Hart orch wks

Aparte

AP001 Dreams

Apollon

RKAP10201 Hear the voice

Appian

APR5666 Tchaikovsky PC2

Arabesque Recordings

Z67942 Copland chbr wks review
Z6803 Gerber orch wks

Arbitrium

no number 20th cent. flute concs review
AR1110 Bruderhans flute wks review
AR1111 Unaccompanied Czech flute review
AR1116 At North terrace
AR1118 Martinu Feld flute chmbr wks review

Arcadia

007 Wong sy

Arcana

A360 Pandolfi vln sons
A363 Orlando furioso review

Archiphon

ARC136-8 Mahler Beethoven Szenkar

Ariadne

5000 Bach mass Ferrier

Ar-Re-Se

AR20024 Rachmaninov pno sons review
AR20047 Ohana str qts review
AR20048 Verdi songs review
AR20060 Lekeu Magnard vln sons review
AR20062 Dvorak chmbr wks
AR20071 Bacri str qts review review
AR20063 Koechlin str qts review
AR20101 Miaskovsky str qts review

Ars Harmonica

AH140 Mozart Schubert fantasias

Arsis

405 Bach org wks
4240 Rebay Kleine Rosengarten review

Arsis Classics

AS00A640012C Haydn Pleasing pain

Ars Musici

AM12592 Scriabin pno wks review
AM13662 Hassler masses review
AM13682 Martini kybd sons review
232154 Rheinberger chor wks
232371 Shchedrin chbr wks review

Ars Produktion

38076 Baroque in Hanover review
38080 Schreker Ferne Klang review
38086 Late-romantic Christmas eve review
38090 Bruch cello & orch review
38091 Reicha bassoon chbr wks review
38093 Schubert pno wks review
38394 Schubert Schwanengesang review
38436 Brahms pno wks review
38444 Stravinsky pno wks
38497 Brahms Die Schöne Magelone review

Artesmon

AS7262 Horn trios

Art Historical

0011930 Wagner Tristan Toscanini

Artisie

41006 Svoboda PCs

Artistled

108022 Schubert pno trios review review
4711946281304 Dvorak CC

ASC

ACSCD11 Fast forward review
ACSCD45 Manchester accents review
ASCCD86 Into the light - community orchestras

Aspidistra

no number Happy frog

Ateliers Et Presses De Taize

T567 Songs of Taize review
T568 Taize community

Athene

ATHCD2 Haydn kybd wks review
ATHCD16 Tchaikovsky PC2 review review
ATHCD22 Haydn kybd wks review
23025 Scarlatti kybd sons review
23026 Century of domestic kybds review
23201 Chopin nocturnes
23202 Schumann Dichterliebe review

Atoll

ACD208 Farrell v1 review
ACD241 Excellent art of voluntary review
ACD307 Liszt Rebuke org wks
ACD309 Deconstruction review
ACD509 Bach in the Italian style review

Audioguy

AGCD0022 Vivaldi concs

Audiomax

70316822 Dvorak pno trios

Aulia

AA69001 Fampas gtr wks

Aulos (Koch)

66092 Fontyn orch wks v1
66150 Fontyn pno wks
66157 Fontyn orch wks v2

Aureole

101 Barber songs

Avanticlassic

10232 French vln sons
10242 Klezmer karma review

Award Audio

AA05001 Dallier pno trio

Azica

ACD71250 Bach lute wks v1

 

 



 

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