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❦Strauss: Waltzes /Boskovsky, Vienna PO

❦Rachmaninov: Vespers / Nikolai Korniev

Artists: Willi Boskovsky/
Vienna PO. (1 CD)
DEC 2894674132 $8.98
“...There is a certain special authenticity to these
Viennese recordings.
There are small liberties
that only the Viennese
would take: stronger
hesitations, odder rhythmic quirks... The Vienna
Philharmonic under their concertmaster of the time
produced close-to-definitive recordings, and Decca’s Eloquence series costs next to nothing, so
anyone with any sense would find this a wonderful
bargain and run out and get it.” -Vroon, ARG

Artists: Nikolai Korniev/St.
Petersburg Chamber Choir
(1 CD) (Decca)
DEC B002260702 $8.98
“Russian singers are a big
help in this work, and as
a performance this ranks
high among available
versions.” -BBC Music
“The choir itself is excellent, with particularly fine
sopranos who can chant high above the others in
beautifully pitched thirds; while there is, as ever
in Russian church choirs, a splendid bass section
that can underpin the textures with effortlessly rich
low Cs.”

Ravel & de Falla / Alicia de Larrocha

❦Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Carlos Bonell

Works: de Falla: Nights
in the gardens of Spain;
Ravel: Piano Concerto
in G major; Concerto for
Piano left hand. Artists:
Rafael Frühbeck de
Burgos/London PO. Alicia
De Larrocha (Pno). (1 CD)
. DEC B002050502 $8.98

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Works: Vaughan Williams: ‘Tallis’ Fantasia;
Fantasia on Greensleeves; Symphony no 5; The
lark ascending Artists: Roger Norrington; Neville
Marriner/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Iona
Brown (Vln) (1 CD)
DEC B001912602 $8.98
“The Tallis Fantasia is one of the finest
performances that this much-recorded work has
ever received.” - Gramophone

❦Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 et al. / Karajan

Works: Sibelius: Finlandia;
Lemminkäinen Suite;
Kuolema; Symphony no 2
Artists: Karajan/Berlin PO
DGG B001702202 $8.98
“The performance of
Finlandia Is, I think,
probably the most exciting
on record the orchestral
playing is altogether superlative.” -Gramophone

❦Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Works: Borodin: Prince Igor; Khachaturian: Gayaneh; Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Night on the
Bare Mountain; Pictures at an exhibition. Artists:
Rozhdestvensky; Maazel; Knussen; N. Järvi; Giulini
DGG B001702102 $8.98
“[In Pictures] Giulini draws superlative playing from
the Chicago orchestra.” -Gramophone

❦Albinoni, Marcello, Vivaldi: Oboe Concertos

Works: Artists: I Musici. Heinz Holliger (Oboe);
Maria Teresa Garatti (Hpsi); Maurice Bourgue
(Oboe). (1 CD)
DEC B001742302 $8.98
“Holliger brings a wonderful sense of poetry and
lyricism to the music...” -Gramophone

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Works: de Falla: Danza
del molinero; Rodrigo:
Concierto de Aranjuez;
Fantasía para un gentilhombre Artists: Charles
Dutoit/Montreal SO. Carlos
Bonell (Gtr). (1 CD)
DEC B001707202 $8.98
This recording is justly
famous for “Bonell’s imaginative account of the
solo part” and “an exceptionally clear, atmospheric
recording.” -Gramophone

Chopin: 4 Ballades; 4 Scherzi / Claudio Arrau

Artists: Claudio Arrau (Pno). (1 CD)
DEC B001912402 $8.98

❦Mozart & Weber Clarinet Quintets / Brunner

Works: Mozart: Clarinet
Quintet, K.581; Weber:
Clarinet Quintet, Op. 34 Artists: Hagen Quartett. Eduard Brunner (Clnt) (1 CD)
DGG B002046102 $8.98
“In Mozart [Brunner] plays
with a warm, intense tone
and with firm rhythm. Weber’s Quintet suits him no less well.” -Gramophone

❦Verdi: Overtures & Preludes / Abbado, Berlin PO

Works: Highlights from Aida, Don Carlos, La forza
del destino, La traviata, Les Vêpres Siciliennes,
Luisa Miller Artists: Claudio Abbado/Berlin PO. (1
CD) (DG)
DGG B001875202 $8.98
“This is music-making of the keenest vitality and
suppleness of movement, finely attuned to the
characters in question.” -BBC Music Magazine

❦Mozart: Requiem / Marriner - ASMF

Artists: Peter Schreier, Neville Marriner/Academy
of Saint Martin in the Fields. Sylvia McNair, Caroly
Watkinson, Francisco Araiza; Robert Lloyd (1 CD)
(Decca)
DEC B001707002 $8.98
“I have heard virtually all the recordings in the catalogue and feel pretty confident in saying that the new
one under Sir Neville Marriner is among the noblest
and most powerful of them all.” -Gramophone

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❦Barber & Sibelius: The Violin Concertos / Bell

Works: Ravel: Boléro; La
Valse; Pavane pour une
infante défunte; Daphnis et
Chloé, suite Artists: Daniel
Barenboim/Orchestre de
Paris. Michel Debost (Flt);
Myron Bloom (Horn)
DGG B001875302 $8.98
“... La Valse and the Daphnis second suite are given sumptuous reading and
sumptuous sound to match.” -Gramophone

Artists: Joshua Bell,
violin; Boris Belkin, violin.
David Zinman/Baltimore
SO; Vladimir Ashkenazy/
Philharmonia Orch. (1 CD)
(Decca)
DEC B002386602 $8.98
“Bell gives us an
impressively ardent
reading... in the central slow movement the long,
opening oboe solo leads to a magically hushed
first entry for the violin, rapt and intense...”
-Gramophone

Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture et al. / Ashkenazy

❦Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 ‘Spring’ & 4

❦Orchestral music of Ravel / Barenboim

Works: Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture; Capriccio Italien;
Romeo & Juliet Artists: Ashkenazy/Royal PO; St
Petersburg PO. (1 CD)
DEC B001707402 $8.98

❦Khachaturian: Ballet suites / London SO

Works: Aram Khachaturian: Gayaneh; Masquerade; Spartacus suites nos 1 & 2 Artists: Stanley
Black/London SO. (1 CD)
DEC 4170622 $8.98

❦Brahms & Schumann Chamber Works

Works: Brahms:
Piano Quartet, Op.
25; Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 88 Artists:
Argerich, Kremer, Bashmet, Maisky (1 CD) (DG)
DGG B001696802 $8.98
“The sense of expressive
give-and-take within
the quartet seems almost subliminal ... playing
crammed with vivid invention.” -The Guardian

Piano music of Erik Satie / Reinbert de Leeuw

Works: Erik Satie: Gnossiennes; Gymnopédies;
Petite ouverture à danser; Pièces froides;
Sonneries de la Rose + Croix. Artists: Reinbert de
Leeuw (Pno). (1 CD)
DEC B001707302 $8.98

Brahms: A German Requiem, Op. 45 / Sinopoli

Artists: Giuseppe Sinopoli/Czech PO. Lucia Popp;
Wolfgang Br