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RECORDING OF THE MONTH

Shostakovich Symphony 8
RCO, Nelsons

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HALLÉ WALKURE
4+1CDs £22 post free

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Complete Orchestral Works


EMI Complete Ferrier


Storyteller


Mahler Symphony 7
Bamberger Symphoniker
Jonathan Nott

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Simone Young

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Italia Nicola Benedetti


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Momentous!

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Italian Cello Concertos and Sonatas
3CDS £10.95


Brahms Symphonies Zinman
£26.85

 

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Beethoven Symphonies
Thielmann


Magic Moments of Opera
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Brilliant Classics 60CDs


9 Symphonies Chailly
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9 Symphonies C Davis
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Absolutely marvellous!
£5.99 post free


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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The Raga Guide
4CDs + 196 page book
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Lucerne Festival O/Claudio Abbado DG 4775082 review
Euroarts 2053469 review
Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet Cascavelle VEL3119 review
Eloquence 4800127 review
Newton 8802043
Cleveland O/Vladimir Ashkenazy Decca 4701232 review
Chicago SO/ Daniel Barenboim TDK DVMTKBA review
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia O/Leonard Bernstein DG 4775014 review
Kolner RSO/Gary Bertini Capriccio 71092 review
SWR Stuttgart RSO/Sergiu Celibidache DG 4531942 review
Munich PO/Sergiu Celibidache EMI 5567202 review
Seoul PO/Myung-Whun Chung DG 4764498 review
Halle O/Mark Elder Halle CDHLL7513 review
Ntl O Radiodiffusion Française/Louis Fourestier Forgotten Records FR479 review
Czech PO/Jean Fournet Supraphon SU34212 review
Sydney SO/Gianluigi Gelmetti ABC 4765957 review
World O Peace/Valéry Gergiev Philips 4756937 review
Philharmonia O/Carlo Maria Giulini EMI 2175002 review
EMI 5627462 review
Koln RSO/Carlo Maria Giulini Profil PH0610 review
Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink Decca 4781429 review
Philips 4646972 review
Ntl O l’ORTF/Jascha Horenstein Music & Arts CD1146 review
Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi Telarc SACD60617 review
Telarc CD80617 review
Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan DG 4691302 review
Boston SO/Serge Koussevitzky Pristine PASC018 review
Luxembourg PO/Emmanuel Krivine Timpani 1C1165 review
Lamoureux O/Igor Markevitch EMI 5751242 review
Lyon Ntl O/Jun Märkl Naxos 8.570759 review
Ntl O l’ORTF/Jean Martinon Brilliant 92765 review
EMI 3652352 review review
EMI 5755262 review
New York PO/Dimitri Mitropoulos EMI 5757412 review
Koln RSO/Dimitri Mitropoulos ICA Classics ICAC5021 review
London SO/Pierre Monteux Eloquence 4768472 review
Boston SO/Charles Munch ICA Classics ICAD5014 review
RCA 82876 594162 review
RCA 82876 613872 review review
West Hill WHRA6027 review
Symphony of the air/Charles Munch Music & Arts CD1201 review
Torino della RAI SO/Charles Munch Tahra TAH590 review
Grand Métropolitain O Montréal/Yannick Nézet-Séguin Atma SACD22549 review
Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy Sony 88697 572792 review
City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle EMI 5145652 review
Los Angeles PO/Esa-Pekka Salonen Arthaus 1003017 review
Singapore SO/Lan Shui BIS BISSACD1447 review
Philharmonia O/Geoffrey Simon Cala CACD1024 review
London SO/Leopold Stokowski Decca 4751452 review
France Ntl O/Evgeni Svetlanov Naive V4946 review
Naive V5118 review
State Academic SO/Evgeny Svetlanov Svetlanov Archive SVSEA005 review
WD RSO Koln/George Szell EMI 5759622 review
Estonian-Finnish SO/Anu Tali Finlandia 8573 89876 review
State Academic SO/Yuri Temirkanov Brilliant 8818 review
Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier Chandos CHAN2024 review
NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini Guild GHCD2271-2 review
(piano duet) Jean-Francois Heisser; Georges Pludemacher Warner Apex 2564 692098 review
(piano duo) Fiona York, John York Nimbus NI5866 review



 

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