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OCTOBER |
| BIS |
Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin |
Menahem Pressler (piano) |
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Mozart |
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Martin Fröst, Antoine Tamestit (viola), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Janine Jansen (violin) |
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 |
Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Lindberg |
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Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge |
Camerata Nordica, Terje Tønnesen |
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Britten: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 |
Emperor Quartet |
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De Profundis |
Orphei Drängar, Cecilia Rydinger Alin, Elin Rombo (soprano), Andrew Canning (organ) |
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Handel: Water Music |
Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss |
| BRIDGE |
Franz Liszt, Vol. 2; Mephisto Waltz, Funérailles and other works |
Garrick Ohlsson, piano |
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Mauro Giuliani, Vol. 2 |
David Starobin, guitar, with Inon Barnatan, piano, Amalia Hall, violin |
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Carl Maria Von Weber: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra |
Alex Fiterstein, clarinet; San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Martin West |
| CHANDOS |
Holst: First Choral Symphony, Op. 41, The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 18 |
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, Susan Gritton (soprano) |
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake |
Bergen Philharmonic, Neeme Järvi, James Ehnes (violin) |
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Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major; Copland: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Barber: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra |
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian, Xiayin Wang (piano) |
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D’Indy, Krenek, Schulhoff: Concertos in Concerto-grosso Style |
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, Karl-Heinz Schütz (flute), Christoph Koncz (violin), Roger Nagy (cello), Maria Prinz (piano) |
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York Bowen, Arnold Bax: British Cello Sonatas, Vol. 2 |
Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (piano) |
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Liszt: Opera Transcriptions |
Louis Lortie (piano) |
| CORO |
Bach: Lutheran Masses |
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers |
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Joy to the World |
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers |
| DECCA |
The Violin |
Nicola Benedetti (violin) |
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Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt |
Valentina Lisitsa (piano) |
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Brahms: Violin Concerto |
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, Leonidas Kavakos (violin) |
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Britten: The Performer. Complete Decca Recordings |
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Joseph Calleja: Amore |
BBC Concert Orchestra, Steven Mercurio |
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Pavarotti: 50 Greatest Tracks |
Luciano Pavarotti |
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra |
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Massimo Zanetti, Opolais, Calleja, Hampson, Colombara, Pisaroni |
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Brahms: The Symphonies |
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly |
| DEUTSCHE GRAMOPHONE |
Wagner: The Collector’s Edition |
Various artists |
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Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 |
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Vienna Philharmonc Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Hélène Grimaud (piano) |
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Chopin: Études |
Jan Lisiecki (piano) |
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3, Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 |
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel, Yuja Wang |
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The Wigmore Hall Recital |
Maria João Pires (piano), António Meneses (cello) |
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 7, 14, 22 |
Maurizio Pollini (piano) |
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Miloš Karadaglic: Spanish Romance |
Miloš Karadaglic (guitar) |
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Great Verdi Recordings from Caruso to Pavarotti: Grandioso |
Various artists |
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Anoushka Shankar: Traces of You |
Anoushka Shankar (sitar) |
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In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores |
Hilary Hahn (violin), Cory Smythe (piano |
| ERATO |
Songs from Vienna, Broadway and Hollywood (including a duet with Rolando Villazón): Diana Damrau—Forever |
Diana Damrau (soprano) |
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Saint-Saëns: Concertos, La Muse et le Poète |
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello) |
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Alexandre Tharaud: Autograph (encores) |
Alexandre Tharaud, (piano) |
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Natalie Dessay Sings Michel Legrand: Entre elle et lui |
Natalie Dessay (soprano) |
| HARMONIA MUNDI |
Eisler: Ernste Gesänge, Lieder |
Matthias Goerne, (baritone), Thomas Larcher (piano), Ensemble Resonanz |
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Bach: Matthäus—Passion (2 SACD + 1 DVD) |
Werner Güra, Johannes Weisser, Sunhae Im, Bernarda Fink, Topi Lehtipuu, Konstantin Wolff, Staats- und Domchor Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs |
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Mozart: Clarinet Quintet, String Quartet K.421 |
Arcanto Quartett, Jörg Widmann (clarinet) |
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Christmas! Noël ! Weihnachten! |
RIAS-Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann |
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Tragédie (DVD + CD bonus) |
Compagnie Olivier Dubois; Original music by François Caffenne |
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Ellington/Strayhorn/Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suites |
Harmonie Ensemble / New York, Steven Richman |
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Veni Emmanuel • Music for Advent |
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross |
| MUSIQUE D'ABORD |
Carols from the Old and New Worlds, Vol.1 |
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier |
| OPERA BAROQUE |
ITALY: Vecchi, Banchieri: Comédie madrigalesque & madrigaux florentins (1 CD); Monteverdi: L’Orfeo (1 DVD); Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea (3 CDs); Cavalli: La Calisto (3 CDs); Scarlatti: Griselda (3 CDs) |
Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs, et al. |
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FRANCE: Lully: Atys (3 CDs); Charpentier: Médée (3 CDs); Charpentier: Le Malade imaginaire (1 CD); Campra: Idoménée (3 CDs); Rameau: Les Indes galantes (3 CDs) |
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, et al. |
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ENGLAND: Blow: Venus And Adonis (1 CD); Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (1 CD); Handel: Rinaldo (3 CDs); Handel: Flavio (2 CDs); Handel: Giulio Cesare (2 DVDs) |
René Jacobs, Andreas Scholl, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, et al. |
| HYPERION |
GERMANY: Ouvertüren • Opera Overtures (1 CD); Keiser: Croesus (3 CDs); Telemann: Orpheus (2 CDs); Graun: Cleopatra e Cesare (3 CDs) |
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs, et al. |
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Dvorák: Cello Concerto |
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding, Steven Isserlis (cello) |
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Anton Arensky & Sergey Taneyev: Piano Quintets |
Piers Lane (piano), Goldner String Quartet |
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Frank Bridge: Phantasy Piano Quartet & Sonatas |
The Nash Ensemble |
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Franck: Symphonic Organ Works |
Simon Johnson (organ) |
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Machaut: Songs from Le Voir Dit |
The Orlando Consort |
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Poulenc: The Complete Songs |
Various soloists, Graham Johnson (piano) |
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Handel: Ottone |
The King’s Consort, Robert King (conductor) |
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Byrd: Consort Songs |
Robin Blaze (countertenor), Concordia |
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Korngold: String Sextet; Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht |
The Raphael Ensemble |
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Poulenc: Mass & Motets |
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O’Donnell |
| HOMOCHORD |
Walter Gieseking: The Complete Homocord Recordings and other rarities |
Walter Gieseking (piano) |
| NAXOS |
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 |
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko |
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4 (CD + BluRay audio) |
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop |
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Saint-Saëns, Piazzolla, Monteverdi, Shostakovich, Holst, Quilter, Rubinstein, Dvorák, Lloyd Webber, Schumann, Pergolesi, Hahn, Rachmaninov, Purcell, Nevin, Barnby, Pärt: A Tale of Two Cellos |
Julian Lloyd Webber, Jiaxin Lloyd Webber, John Lenehan, Catrin Finch, Guy Johnston, Laura van der Heijden |
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David Briggs, Jeremy Filsell: Choral Music |
Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse |
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Corigliano: Conjurer/Vocalise |
Evelyn Glennie, Hila Plitmann, Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Allen Miller |
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1; Rihm: Gesungene |
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Edo de Waart, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Zoltán Peskó, Jaap van Zweden (violin) |
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John Knowles Paine: Symphony No. 1 |
Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta |
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Sarasate: Music for Violin & Orch Vol. 4 |
Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, Tianwa Yang (violin) |
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Hindemith: Complete Piano Concertos |
Yale Symphony Orchestra, Toshiyuki Shimada, Idil Biret (piano) |
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Peteris Vasks: Flute Concerto |
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois, Michael Faust (flute), Sheila Arnold (piano) |
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Alfredo Casella: Triple Concerto. Giorgio Federico Ghedini: Concerto Dell’albatro |
Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Damian Iorio, Emanuela Piemonti (piano), Paolo Ghidoni (violin), Pietro Bosna (cello) |
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Franz Anton Hoffmeister: Flute Concertos Vol. 2 |
Prague Chamber Orchestra, Bruno Meier (flute) |
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Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 |
Kunsbacka Trio, Philip Dukes (piano) |
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Miklós Rósza: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 |
Tippett Quartet |
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Richard Danielpour: Darkness in The Ancient Valley |
Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero, Hila Plitmann, Angela Brown (soloists) |
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Pfitzner: Complete Lieder Vol. 1 |
Britta Stallmeister,(soprano) Klaus Simon (piano) |
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Scarlatti, Diabelli, Lennox Berkeley, Joaquín Malats, Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Jesús Manuel López |
Kyuhee Park (guitar) |
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Heinrich Scheidemann: Organ Works Vol. 7 |
Julia Brown (organ) |
| OPUS ARTE |
Britten: Michelangelo Sonnets. Liszt: Petrarch Sonnets |
Francesco Meli (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano) |
| SDG RECORDS |
Bach: Complete Cantatas |
The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists, Edward Gardner |
| SIGNUM CLASSICS |
Gabrieli Consort: Incarnation |
Trebles of Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir, Paul McCreesh |
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The King’s Singers: Great American Songbook |
The King’s Singers |
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The Complete Songs of Poulenc, Vol. 4 |
John Mark Ainsley, William Dazele, Sarah Fox, Magdalena Molendowska, Ann Murray, Thomas Oliemans, Malcolm Martineau |
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Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots |
Classical Opera Company, Ian Page |
| SONY CLASSICAL |
Mahler: Orchestral Songs |
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano, Christian Gerhaher (baritone) |
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Arabesque |
Olga Peretyatko (soprano) |
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Fritz Reiner: The Complete RCA Recordings |
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner |
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Joshua Bell: Musical Gifts |
Joshua Bell (violin), Chick Corea, Straight No Chaser, Alison Krauss, Placido Domingo, Gloria Estefan, Branford Marsalis |
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Julian Bream: The Complete Album Collection |
Julian Bream |
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Ave Maria |
Vittorio Grigolo (tenor) |
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Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 |
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Lang Lang (piano) |
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Il Progetto: Cello Concertos by Vivaldi, Fortunato Chelleri, Giovanni B. Platti, Andrea Teodoro Zani |
Cappella Gabetta, Sol Gabetta (cello) |
| WARNER CLASSICS |
Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. |
Tapei Symphony Orchestra, Wildner, Alexandre da Costa (violin) |
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Britten: War Requiem |
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano, Anna Netrebko (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone) |
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No.1, Prince Rostislav |
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko |