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Prokofiev's
music for violin and piano played by Gil and Orli Shaham (CANARY CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Verdi's Aida from La Scala with Roberto Alagna, Herbert
von Karajan La Scala film productions of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and
Mascagni's
Cavalleria Rusticana, and violinist Gidon Kremer performing Vivaldi's The
Four Seasons (DECCA / DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)
DVD
videos of the 2007 New Year's Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted
by Georges Pretre, a compilation of highlights from New Year's Concerts
with nine conductors, and Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic
in the Brahms symphonies (DECCA / DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)
DVD videos
of Metropolitan Opera productions of Verdi operas with Luciano Pavarotti: Ernani (with Sherrill Milnes, Ruggiero Raimondi and Leona Mitchell), Il
trovatore (with
Sherrill
Milnes, Dolora Zajick and Eva Marton), and two performances of Un ballo
in maschera, one with Katia Ricciarelli and Louis Quilico, the other with Aprile
Millo and Leo Nucci (DECCA / DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)
DVD videos
of Herbert von Karajan conducting a film of his Salzburg production of Das
Rheingold, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and three works of Bruckner: Symphony
No. 8, Symphony No. 9, and the Te Deum (DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)
Music
of Kenneth Fuchs: United Artists, Quiet in the Land, Fire, Ice, and
Summer Bronze, Autumn Rhythm, and Canticle to the Sun performed by Timothy Jones,
French horn, and the London Symphony conducted by JoAnn Falletta (NAXOS)
SACD issues of
Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with David Zinman and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra,
Mahler's Symphony No. 6 with Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony, and Mahler's
Symphony No. 6 with the Chicago Symphony conducted by Bernard Haitink (RCA
/ LSO LIVE / CSO RESOUND)
SACD issues of
violin concertos of Glazunov and Tchaikovsky played by Vadim Gluzman with Andrew
Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 with Andrew
Manze and the Helsingborg Symphony, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and music
of Weber, Rossini and Wilms with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
(BIS / HARMONIA MUNDI / CHANNEL CLASSICS)
SACD
issues of Handel's Organ Concertos, Op. 4 with Richard Egarr and the Academy
of Ancient
Music, three violin sonatas of Mozart played by Rachel Poger and fortepianist
Gary Cooper, and a group of Penetential Psalms by Melchior Franck performed
gby Weser-Renaissance (HARMONIA MUNDI / CHANNEL CLASSICS / CPO)
SACD issues
of Sir Colin Davis conducting the Boston Symphony in music of Sibelius: En
Saga, and symphonies 5 and 7; Philippe Herreweghe conducting the Royal Flemish
Philharmonic in Beethoven's symphonies 1 and 3, and Christoph Eschenbach
conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 (PENTATONE
/ ONDINE)
SACD issues
of Bantock's Omar Khayyám with Vernon Handley conducting, Schmidt's Das
Buch Mit Sieben Siegeln with Kristjan Järvi conducting, and Hausegger's Nature
Symphony with Ari Rasilainen conducting (CHANDOS / CPO)
DVD
videos of Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in The
Planets by Holst and Debussy's La Mer, Leonard Bernstein conducting Schubert's
Symphony No. 9 and Schumann's Manfred Overture, and a 1977 New Year's Eve
performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Herbert von Karajan and
the Berlin Philharmonic (EUROARTS)
DVD
videos of Dvorák's Biblical Songs, Te Deum and Violin Concerto performed
by violinist
Ivan Zenaty, vocal soloists and the Prague Philharmonic Choir and Prague Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Jiri Belohlávek, Verdi's Luisa Miller in a Teatro La
Fenice production, and Strauss's An Alpine Symphony performed by the Dresden
State Orchestra conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli (ARTHAUS MUSIK / NAXOS / EUROARTS)
DVD
videos of Puccini's Turandot from the Vienna State Opera with Eva Marton
and José Carreras, Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina in a production from Gran
Teatre del Liceu, and Rossini's La Cambiale di matrimonio in a performance
from Pesaro conducted by Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (TDK / OPUS ARTE
/ NAXOS)
Piano
music of Frederich Rzewski played by Ralph van Raat, Antheil's two piano
concertos and solo piano music played by Markus Becker with Eiji Oui conducting,
piano music of Debussy played by Simon Trpceski, three Bach partitas
played
by Murray
Perahia, and piano music of Alwyn played by Ashley Wass (NAXOS / EMI CLASSICS
/ SONY CLASSICAL / cpo)
Branco's
Symphony No. 2 in B-flat minor and Violin Concerto in E by Fernandes played
by violinist Alexandre da Costa with Jesús Amigo conducting Orchestre symphonique
d'Extremadura (ATMA)
Thomas
Dunhill's Symphony in A minor, Op. 48 and Arnell's symphonic portrait
of Lord Byron played
by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates (DUTTON)
Rochberg's
Symphony No. 1 played by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted
by Christopher Lyndon-Gee (NAXOS)
Concert
performances of a group of Spanish Love Songs sung by mezzo-soprano Lorraine
Hunt Lieberson, with tenor Joseph Kaiser, and pianists Steven Blier and
Michael Barrett (BRIDGE)
"Original
Jacket Collections" - 10-CD budget-priced sets of recordings by violinists
Jascha Heifetz and Itzhak Perlman including many
of the artists' finest recordings, all packaged with original covers.
(RCA RED SEAL)
Reissues
of Birgit Nilsson and Hans Hotter singing Wagner, operatic arias sung by
Lawrence Tibbett, arias and songs sung by Leonard Warren, and
arias sung by soprano Natalie Dessay with a bonus
DVD
of her Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor taped at the Met in September 2007
(EMI CLASSICS / NIMBUS / VIRGIN CLASSICS)
Mahler's
Symphony No. 8 conducted by Pierre Boulez recorded in Berlin, Sir Simon
Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Mussorgsky and Borodin, Corigliano's
"Red Violin"
concerto played by Joshua Bell with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony,
and Hans Vonk conducting Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie with the Saint
Louis Symphony (DGG / EMI CLASSICS / SONY CLASSICAL / PENTATONE)
A
1959 La Scala performance of Tristan und Isolde with Birgit Nilsson and
Herbert von Karajan conducting, arias of Bellini, Rossini and Donizetti
sung by Juan Diego Flórez, early recordings by Austrian tenor Waldemar
Kmentt, and recordings by American tenor James Melton (GOLDEN MELODRAM
/ DECCA / PREISER)
DVD
videos of Massenet's Manon with Natalie Dessay and Rlando Villazón, Ballade
for Edvard Grieg with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, and McCartney's Ecce
Cor Meum with soprano Kate Royal, choruses and the Academy of St.
Martin in the Fields conducted by Gavin Greenaway (VIRGIN CLASSICS / EMI
CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Leopold Stokowski recorded in 1967 conducting Nielsen's Symphony
No. 2, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Semyon Bychkov conducting plus "visualisation"
by Johannes Deutsch, and Glazunov's Raymonda performed by the Kirov Ballet
(VIDEO ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL / ARTHAUS MUSIC)
Donald
Runnicles conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Sinfonia
da Requiem, Britannia by Macmillan, Three Screaming Popes by Turnage, Davies'
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, and two Pomp and Circumstance Marches
by Elgar (TELARC)
Bloch's
Violin Concerto, Baal Shem and Suite Hébraïque performed by violinist
Zina Schiff with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by José
Serebrier
(NAXOS)
Mid-price
reissues of Strauss's Elektra with Eva Marton and Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting,
Puccini's Turandot with Montserrat Caballé and Alain Lombard conducting,
Britten's Peter Grimes with Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Bernard Haitink conducting,
and Gounod's Faust with Placido Domingo and Mirella Freni, with Georges
Pretre conducting (EMI CLASSICS).
Mid-price
reissues of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov with Martti Talvela, Saint-Saëns Samson and Delilah with Placido Domingo and Waltraud Meier, Bellini's I
Puritani with Montserrat Caballé and Alfredo Kraus, and an
EMI set of all of Luciano Pavarotti's recordings for the label including
Mascagni's L'amico Fritz, Verdi's Requiem, and Don
Carlo (the latter also on DVD) (EMI CLASSICS)
Strauss's
Enoch Arden and 2 of his 5 Piano Pieces, Op. 30 with narrator Patrick Stewart
and pianist Emanuel Ax (SONY CLASSICAL)
Stephan's
opera Die ersten Menschen performed by soloists with the French
National Orchestra conducted by Mikko Franck (NAÏVE)
A
live
performance of Verdi's Otello with Ramon Vinay and Sir Thomas
Beecham conducting, Bizet's Carmen from RAI with Franco Corelli
and Belén Amparan, Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bleue with Leon
Botstein conducting, and "The Essential Montserrat Caballé." (GOLDEN MELODRAM
/ GREAT OPERA / RCA RED SEAL / TELARC)
Reissues
of Carlo Zecchi's Concertgebouw recordings of Brahms and Schumann, broadcasts
of the New York Philharmonic conducted by John Barbirolli, Karl Böhm conducting
the Dresden State Orchestra in Strauss, and a CD/DVD release of Karajan
- The Music, The Legend (BEARAC / GUILD / PROFIL / DGG)
Collections
of recordings by Leon Fleisher and Andras Schiff, Monique Haas playing Debussy
and Ravel,
Paul Badura-Skoda's early recording of Chopin's concertos, Artur Rubinstein
playing concertos of Brahms and Chopin live in Warsaw in 1960, and music of
Poulenc: Les Animaux modèles, and the Concert champetre played on the piano
by Stefano Bollani (SONY CLASSICAL / WARNER CLASSICS / MUSIC & ARTS / ALTARA
/ AVIE)
Fleishman's opera Rothschild's
Violin completed by Shostakovich, and The Gamblers by Shostakovich
performed by soloists with the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko (AVIE)
SACD
releases of Sir Colin Davis conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Symphonie
fantastique of Berlioz, Paavo Järvi leading the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie in Beethoven's
Symphonies 4 and 7, and a collection of baroque/classical works featuring trumpeter
Jens Lindemann (PENTATONE / RCA RED SEAL / MARQUIS)
Quincy
Porter's String Quartets 1-4 played by the Ives Quartet (NAXOS)
Edgar
Bainton's Symphony No. 3 and Rudland Boughton's Symphony No. l "Oliver
Cromwell," performed by baritone Roderick Williams with the BBC Concert
Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley (DUTTON)
Five
new SACD recordings of cutting edge contemporary music: works of Ospald,
Kubík, Moe, Haddad, Rihm, Estrada, Haas, Widmann and Spahlinger produced
in association with the Bavarian Radio (NEOS)
SACD
recordings of Marek Janowski conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony in Symphonies
2 and 3 of Brahms, and the Suisse Romande Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony
No. 9, and Yo-Yo Ma playing film music of Morricone with the composer conducting
(PENTATONE / SONY CLASSICAL)
SACD
issues of Gandolfi's The Garden of Cosmic Speculation with Robert Spano
and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, music of Rathgeber and Telonius performed
by Cappella Murensis and Ensemble Arcimboldo, and music for brass and organ
by Guilmant, Vierne, Lefébure-Wély and Boëllmann performed by International
Brass and organist Elmar Lehnen (AUDITE / TELARC)
SACD
issues of Bernard Haitink conducting the Chicago Symphony in Bruckner's
Symphony No 7, Wagner's Götterdämmerung from Australia conducted by Asher
Fisch, and Paavo Järvi conducting the Cincinnati Symphony in Prokofiev's
Symphony No. 5 and Lt. Kijé Suite. (CSO-RESOUND / MELBA / TELARC)
Volume
III of piano music of Martinu including Fantaisie et toccata, Piano Sonata
and several shorter works played byt Giorgio Koukl (NAXOS)
DVD
videos of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos with Janowitz, Kollo and
Gruberova with Karl Böhm conducting, Verdi's Macbeth with Leo Nucci and
Shirley Verrett,
Riccardo
Chailly conducting, and Verdi's Ernani from the Met with Luciano Pavarotti
and James Levine conducting (DGG)
The
1991 Vienna New Year's Concert with Claudio Abbado conducting, an "Opera
Gala" featuring
Anna Netrebko, Elena Garanca, Ramón Vargas and Ludovic Tézier
with Marco Armiliato conducting, and a compilation called "The Eternal
Maria Callas"
(DGG / EMI CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Busoni's Doktor Faust with Thomas Hampson from the Zürich Opera,
Rossini's La piatra del paragone from Teatro Real conducted by Alberto Zedda,
and Nielsen's Maskarade from the Royal Danish Opera (ARTHAUS MUSIC / OPUS
ARTE / DA CAPO)
DVD
videos of Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus from Vienna conducted by Karl Böhm,
Kurt Weill's Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny from the Los Angeles
Opera conducted by James Conlon, and a Peter Lodynski film "Vienna in Music."
(DGG / VIDEO ARTS)
Five
twin-CD sets of recordings made by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra
from 1971-1979, more than 150 selections ranging from classic
to pop/movie music (DGG)
Otto
Klemperer conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in music of Brahms, Schubert
and Strauss, Charles Munch with the NBC Symphony in music of Debussy, Ravel
and Roussel, Wilhelm Furtwängler's final performance of Beethoven's Symphony
9, a Sibelius collection conducted by Paavo Berglund, and two unusual releases:
Orriel Smith with "Cluckoratura Arias," and "Actionable Offenses." (MUSIC
& ARTS / EMI CLASSICS / ARCHEOPHONE)
A
2-CD set of early commercial recordings by tenor Fritz Wunderlich, highlights
from Lehár's Wiener Frauen, Jabuka, an operetta by Johann Strauss II, and
a collection of zarzuelas by Arrieta, Bretón and Vives with Alfredo Kraus,
Plácido Domingo and Maria Bayo (PROFIL / cpo / NAXOS / NAÏVE)
Verdi's Rigoletto recorded in 1950 conducted by Ferenc Fricsay with Rudolf Schock, Rita Streich
and Josef Metternich, a 1962 Turandot with Franco Corelli, a quality issue
of the 1951 I Vespri Siciliani with Maria Callas and Erich Kleiber conducting,
a Munich Opera Gala, and disks featuring sopranos Gré Brouwenstijn and Anna
Tomowa-Sintow (AUDITE / GOLDEN MELODRAM / PREISER / BERLIN CLASSICS / TESTAMENT)
DVD
videos of Metropolitan Opera productions conducted by James Levine of Zandonai's
Francesca da Rimini (with Renata Scotto and Plácido Domingo) and Les
Troyens of Berlioz (with Jessye Norman, Tatiana Troyanos and Plácido
Domingo), and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites from La Scala with Riccardo
Muti conducting
(DGG / TDK)
Herman
Koppel's flute and cello concertos, and piano concerto No. 2 performed by
Rune Most, Michaela Fukacova and Ulrich Staerk with Paul Mann and the Odense
Symphony Orchestra (DA CAPO)
Marc-André Hamlin
plays Alkan's Concerto for solo piano and Troisième recueil de chants, Martha
Argerich and friends performing music of Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1,
Concertino for Two Pianos and Quintet in G minor, Benno Moiseiwitsch in live
performances of Delius and Rachmaninoff and one of his commercial recordings
of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, the complete EMI recordings of Jacqueline
Du Pré, and early recordings by cellist Janos Starker (HYPERION / EMI CLASSICS
/ GUILD / EMG CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of Valery Gergiev conducting two "New Year's Concerts" with soloists,
dancers and singers of the Mariinsky Theatre recorded 2006 and 2007, and
Polish Spirit, a concert of music of Karlowicz, Bach, Mlynarski and Monti
featuring violinist Nigel Kennedy with the Polish Chamber
Orchestra conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk (BEL AIR / EMI CLASSICS)
Havergal
Brian's Festival Fanfare and Symphony No. 2 played by the Moscow Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Tony Rowe (NAXOS)
Ned
Rorem's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Cello Concerto performed by Simon Mulligan
and Wen-Sinn Yang, Vernon Duke's Piano Concerto and Cello Concerto
played by Scott Dunn and Sam Magill, Hartke's opera The Greater Good in
a Glimmerglass Opera production, Miklos
Rózsa's Violin Concerto and Sinfonia Concertante played by Anastasia Khitruk
and Andrey Tchekmazov, and music of Gloria Coates: Cantata da Requiem,
Transitions and Symphony No. 15 (NAXOS)
Reissues
of Leonard Bernstein performing Tchaikovsky with the New York and Israel
Philharmonic Orchestras, Sir Georg Solti conducting Wagner with the Vienna
Philharmonic,
Leopold Stokowski in a collection of ballet music, Dimitri Mitropoulos
conducting Schoenberg and Scriabin with the New York Philharmonic, and
a 4-disk collection
of
Evgeny Svetlanov conducting his own music (DGG / DECCA / CALA / BRC / BOHEME)
Nigel
Kennedy plays violin concertos of Mlynarski and Karlowicz, piano concertos
and Fantasy on a Theme of John Field by Malcolm Arnold with pianists Phillip
Dyson and Kevin Sargent, Lisa Batiashvili plays violin concertos of Sibelius
and Lindberg, Antonio Pappano conducts Respighi symphonic poems, and Robert
Craft conducts Stravinsky including a new recording of The Rite of
Spring (EMI CLASSICS / NAXOS / SONY CLASSICAL)
Golijov's Oceana,
Tenebrae and Three Songs performed by soloists, chorus, the Kronos
Quartet and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Robert
Spano (DGG)
Toch's
Dance Suite and Cello Concerto performed by Spectrum Concerts Berlin conducted
by Thomas Carroll with cellist Christian Poltéra (NAXOS)
DVD videos
of documentaries on tenor Giuseppe di Stefano and Florence Foster Jenkins,
and a recital by pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk (HARDY CLASSICS / VIDEO ARTISTS
INTERNATIONAL)
DVD videos of Puccini's Tosca from the Netherlands Opera, Mascagni's Cavalleria
rusticana and Leoncavallo's
Pagliacci from Teatro Real, and Schumann's Piano Concerto played by Martha
Argerich with Riccardo Chailly conducting, plus a documentary (DECCA / OPUS
ARTS / EUROARTS)
DVD videos
of a concert by the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble conducted by Thomas Clamor, Daniel
Barenboim as pianist/conductor in Beethoven's piano concertos, and Symyon Bychkov
conducting Rachmaninoff's The Bells, Symphonic Dances and Symphony No. 2 with
the WDR Orchestra, with documentaries (EUROARTS / ARTHAUS MUSIK)
Simone Dinnerstein
plays Bach's Goldberg Variations (TELARC)
Music of
Richard Arnell: Piano Concerto, Op. 44 and Symphony No. 2 "Rufus" performed
by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates with pianist
David Owen Norris (DUTTON)
DVD
videos of Britten's Peter Grimes and Mozart's Don Giovanni from the Zürich
Opera with Franz Welser-Möst conducting, and Verdi's Oberto from Tutto Verdi
(EMI CLASSICS / OPUS ARTE)
New issues
of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Ravel's concerto played by Yundi
Li, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 and varied short works played by Shura
Cherkassky, music of Hummel for piano and orchestra played by Christopher
Hintenhuber, Robert Casadesus in live performances of music of Mozart and
Weber, and recent recordings by pianist Walter Hautzig (DGG / MEDICI ARTS
/ NAXOS / AMERICUS)
Tchaikovsky's
three string quartets and Souvenir de Florence performed by the Ying Quartet
with violist James Dunham and cellist Paul Katxz (TELARC)
Music
of José Sebrieier with the London Philharmonic conducted by the composer:
Symphony No. 2 (Partita), Fantasia for Strings, and Wintereisse, and the
Violin Sonata played by Gonzalo Acosta (NAXOS)
Thomas Quasthoff
and "The Jazz Album" (DGG)
DVD
videos of Donizetti's Don Pasquale from Zurich with Juan Diego Flórez, Wagner's
Tristan und Isolde from Bayreuth with Johanna Meier and René Kollo
and Daniel Barenboim conducting, and Verdi's Il trovatore in a production
from the Bregenz
Festival (OPUS ARTE / DECCA / DGG)
DVD videos
of concert performances by Jean-Pierre Rampal, piano music of Chopin and Ravel
played by Samson Françoise, piano music of Debussy, Chopin and Scarlatti played
by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Charles Munch with the ORTF Orchestra
in music of Brahms and Ravel (EMI CLASSICS)
DVD
videos of music of Tchaikovskiy played by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev: Symphonies 4 and 5, Piano Concerto No. 2
(with Mikhail Pletnev), and 1812 Overture; Pierre Boulez conducting the Berlin
Philharmonic in Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra (ARTHAUS MUSIK / EUROARTS)
DVD videos
of Strauss's Alpine Symphony conducted by Kent Nagano, Dvorak's Stabat
Mater with Vaclav Neumann conducting, and Wagner's Götterdämmerung from Bayreuth
in 1997 conducted by James Levine (ARTHAUS MUSIC / DGG)
DVD videos
of a Liszt recital played at La Scala by Daniel Barenboim, "Tango Argentina"
- a New Year's Concert in Buenos Aires conducted by Barenboim, and two Christopher
Nupen films about cellist Jacqueline Du Pré (EUROARTS / ALLEGRO)
DVD
videos of the 1965 BBC production The Golden Ring, a 4-disk collection
of Sir Georg
Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras in
music of Bruckner, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Beethoven and others, and
"Orchestra" - a guide to the modern symphony orchestra (DECCA)
DVD
videos of Leonard Bernstein conducting lieder of Mahler with baritone
Thomas Hammpson, a Carnegie Hall concert by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted
by Franz Welser-Möst with
soprano
Dorothea Röschmann and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, and cello concertos of Haydn,
Mozart and Schumann played by Mischa Maisky (EUROARTS / DGG)
SACD issues of
Mahler's Das Klagende Lied with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco
Symphony Orchestra, Bach's six sonatas and partitas for solo violin played
by Lara St. John, and Orfeo Fantasia featuring tenor Charles Daniels with Montréal
Baroque (SFSO / ANGALAGON / ATMA)
SACD issues
of music of Debussy, Britten and Mercure with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the
Grand Montréal Orchestra, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in a live recording with
Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw and soprano Christine Schäfer,
and a collection called Brazil with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (ATMA
/ RCOA LIVE / TELARC)
SACD issues
of music of Tchaikovsky with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted
by Paavo Järvi, music of Elgar, Davies, Turnage, MacMillan and Britten with
the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles, and a collection
of "music from seafaring film classics" played by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
conducted by Erich Kunzel (TELARC)
SACD
issues of "a musical banquet" performed by the Flanders Recorder Quartet,
Malipiero's six piano concertos
played by Sandro Ivo Bartoli with Michele Carulli conducting, and music from
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
(AEOLUS / cpo / TELARC)