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Philip Glass: Music in Twelve Parts
The Philip Glass Ensemble; Michael Riesman, musical director Nonesuch 79324-2; three CDs Philip Glass composed Music in…
Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi
Albert de Ruiter, bass voice; Western Wind Vocal Ensemble; Philip Glass Ensemble and additional instrumentalists; Michael Riesman,…
Philip Glass: Akhnaten
Paul Esswood, Milagro Vargas, Melinda Liebermann, Tero Hannula, Helmut Holzapfel, Cornelius Hauptmann; Stuttgart State Opera Chorus and…
Muzio Clementi: Piano Sonatas
Nikolai Demidenko, piano Hyperion CDA66808 Recorded at Snape Maltings, December 1994 68 minutes Anyone who knows Clementi…
Muzio Clementi: Piano Sonatas
Muzio Clementi: Piano Sonatas Vladimir Horowitz, piano RCA Victor Gold Seal GD87753 Recorded 1950, 1954, and 1979;…
Biber: Harmonia artificioso-ariosa
The Rare Fruits Council; Manfredo Kraemer, director Auvidis Astrée E 8572 Biber’s Harmonia artificioso-ariosa consists of seven…
Biber: Violin Sonatas
Romanesca: Andrew Manze, Baroque violin; Nigel North, lute and theorbo; John Toll, harpsichord and organ Harmonia Mundi…
Biber: The Mystery Sonatas
John Holloway, violin; Davitt Moroney, harpsichord and organ; Tragicomedia Virgin Classics VCD 7 90838-2 (2 CDs) Biber’s…
Albinoni & Vivaldi: Oboe Concertos
Paul Goodwin, oboe; The King’s Consort; Robert King, conductor Hyperion CDA66383; reissued as Helios CDH55349 Albinoni inevitably…
Albéniz: Iberia, Navarra and Suite española
Alicia de Larrocha, piano. Decca 417 887-2—2 CDs. Alicia de Larrocha returned to Albéniz’s Iberia throughout her…
Albéniz: Iberia and Other Piano Works
Alicia de Larrocha, piano. EMI Classics CMS 7 64504-2—2 CDs. Isaac Albéniz spent the final years of…
John Adams: Harmonielehre and Other Orchestral Works
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Jonathan Holland and Wesley Warren, trumpets; Simon Rattle, conductor. EMI Classics CDC…
John Adams: Shaker Loops / Phrygian Gates / Chamber Symphony
Ensemble Modern; Hermann Kretzschmar, piano; Sian Edwards, conductor. RCA Victor Red Seal/BMG Classics 09026 68674-2. This generously…
John Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer
James Maddalena, Janice Felty, Thomas Hammons, Thomas Young, Eugene Perry, Sanford Sylvan, Stephanie Friedman and Sheila Nadler;…
Tchaikovsky’s Final Symphonies: Four Russian Traditions
Mravinsky: The Essential Standard Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4–6 Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; Yevgeny Mravinsky Deutsche Grammophon 419 745-2…
Janet Baker’s Unforgettable Dido
Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Janet Baker, Raimund Herincx, Patricia Clark, Monica Sinclair and John Mitchinson St….
Monteverdi’s Vespers in Full Splendor
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610 Jill Gomez, Felicity Palmer, James Bowman, Robert Tear, Philip Langridge, John…
Ancient Rome in Living Sound
Chants de l’Église de Rome: Période byzantine Ensemble Organum; Marcel Pérès, director Harmonia Mundi HMC 901218 This…
Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: Three Essential Recordings
Piano Sonatas Nos. 1–9 — Barbara Nissman Newport NCD 60092, 60093 and 60094 Barbara Nissman’s complete cycle…
Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges
Complete Opera Gabriel Bacquier, Jean-Luc Viala, Hélène Perraguin, Vincent Le Texier, Georges Gautier, Didier Henry and Gregory…
Poulenc: Three Concertos
Piano Concerto; Concerto for Two Pianos; Organ Concerto Pascal Rogé and Sylviane Deferne, pianos; Peter Hurford, organ;…
Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
English Chamber Orchestra — Raymond Leppard Philips 426 465-2, 3 CDs Raymond Leppard approaches Handel’s twelve concerti…
Handel’s Water Music: Three Recordings
English Baroque Soloists — John Eliot Gardiner Philips 434 122-2 Gardiner’s Water Music has unusual vitality without…
Dowland Lute Songs: Alfred Deller
RECOMMENDED CD John Dowland: Lute Songs and Instrumental Music Alfred Deller, countertenor; Robert Spencer, lute; Consort of…
