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Complete Orchestral Works


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Momentous!

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Italian Cello Concertos and Sonatas
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Beethoven Symphonies
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Magic Moments of Opera
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9 Symphonies Chailly
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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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Vanguard

MC193 Folksongs Alfred Deller review
MC195 Deller v4 review
MC196 Deller v5 review
ATMCD1187 Cantaloube songs of the Auvergne review
ATMCD1191 Beethoven sy 3 & 5 Boult
ATMCD1551 Two hands Fleisher review

Varese Sarabande

VCL11041033 3 coins soundtrack
VSD5346 Korngold sy review

Velut Luna

CVLD169 Locatelli conc grossi
CVLD186 Sounds' falls review

Verso

VRS2007 Tarrega gtr wks review
VRS2017 Arbos chmbr wks review
VRS2028 Lanchares pno wks review
VRS2032 Marco orch wks review
VRS2039 Turina vln sons
VRS2089 Falla pno wks review
VRS2094 Blanco orch wks review
VRS2095 Aracil str qts review

VGo

VG1012 Grisha Alma Flamenca

ViolinJazz Recordings

JCCD104 Latigo San Francisco Qt

Virtuosa Records

VRC001 Rossi Battle of the Somme

Vista Vera

VVCD00027 Rimsky-K PC review
VVCD00075 Yudina legacy v7
VVCD00081 Yudina legacy v9 review
VVCD00087 Yudina legacy v11 review
VVCD00088 Yudina legacy v12 review
VVCD00109 Yudina legacy v14 review
VVCD00147 Tchaikovsky sy6 review
VVCD00150 Tchaikovsky Romeo Manfred review
VVCD00168 Scriabin sy3 review
VVCD00224 Sofronitsky at Scriabin museum v6 review
VVCD00225 Sofronitsky at Scriabin museum v7 review

Viva Voce

VVCCD101/2 Scott pno wks v1

Vivum

VR37603 Hewitt Jones Lady of the lake

VL Klassik

VLEA096 Puccini Tosca

VMS

106 Martinu Julietta review
116 Famous German conductors v1 review
138 Schulhoff str qts review review
156 Dittersdorf str qts review
158 Freitas Brancos VC review
180 Schulhoff str qts v2
202 Janacek Krasa Ullmann str qts review
203 Elephant and fly review
224 Duos for vln & cello review
607 Bottesini wks for dble bass review

Vox

CDX5061 Chavez sys review
CDX5109 Milhaud orch wks review
ACD8165 Purcell suites review

Vox Aeterna

VACD00101 Ginzburg live v1 review review
VACD00105 Ginzburg live v3-1 review review
VACD00106 Ginzburg live v3-2 review review

VSQ

2006 Homemade review

VVC

CD1012 Scott pno wks v1 review

Walhall

WLCD003 Schillings Mona Lisa review
WLCD005 Mozart Don Giovanni review
WLCD008 Gluck Orfeo review
WLCD0010 Marschner Hans Heiling review
WLCD0011 Wagner Lohengrin review
WLCD0024 Handel Giulio Cesare review
WLCD0029 Halevy Juive review
WLCD0036 Verdi Aida review
WLCD0048 Verdi Traviata review
WLCD0049 d'Albert Tiefland review
WLCD0051 Verdi Aida review
WLCD0064 Mozart Seraglio review
WLCD0074 Weber Euryanthe review
WLCD0076 Gluck Orfeo review

Warner Brothers

50524 98358328 Bullets & lullabies review

Warp Records

WARPCD144P Warp works review

Water Lily

WLAWS76 Mahler sy5 review

Weave

WVR002 Rocking horses review

Welspringe Productions

WEL0008 ings Quilico review

Wergo

WER66952 Picker pno wks review
WER67052 Vasks orch wks review
WER67122 Vasks org wks review
WER67342 Vasks Seasons review
WER67422 Hartmann Concerto funebre review
WER68042 Primeval sounds
WER68072 Mythical dances review

Westramedia

WM150707 Bach cantata arrangements

Wichita Falls

WFR344 Sprague VC

Wind Music

TCD5234 Wong Taiwan rhapsody

Winter & Winter

9101282 Kagel edition

Wong's Music & Culture

WCD002 Symphony review
WCD003 Postcards from China

World of Brass

WOB107 Second to none review
WOB109 That's what I call brass v3
WOB129 The golden period review
WOB138 Euro championships 2009 review

World Records

no number Schubert reflections

World Wind Music

WWM500090 Flemish band music v2 review
WWM500135 Pyrogravures

WRC8

7148 Poems for piano review
7667 Evocative piano

Wright Music

CD101 Songs discovered

XLNT Music

CD18012 Cohn pno wks

YMSO

no number Elgar CC Sea Pictures
no number Tchaikovsky sy6 review
no number A Viennese evening review

York Ambisonic

YORKCD201 I was glad

Zapp Music

ZM0019 Butterfly

Zentiva

UP00012131 Slovak songs Benackova review
UP00842131 Slovak & Hungarian songs

Zephyr

001B Piano qts Mahler Brahms Schnittke
Z11699 Moscheles PCs v1 review
Z12202 Paderewski PC review
Z1310401 Bloch concs review
Z13409 Chopin v3 review

Zimbel Records

ZR101 Gay Cooman orch wks review
ZR105 Johnson Territory of the heart review
ZR106 Blauvelt Monuments review
ZR107 Blauvelt Rituals
ZR113 Yu Illusions review
ZR114 Carbon Benjamin review
ZR117 Cooman chmbr wks review
ZR118 Read Night pageantry review
ZR120 Cooman mechanical pno review

Zuk Records

330 Hebraische Melodie
331 Smetana Janacek str qts review

ZZT

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