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DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 Op. 95 ‘From the New World’ (third movement)
(c/w SCHUMANN: Konzertstuck for four horns and orchestra in F major Op. 86)
La Chambre Philharmonique, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor)
Naive V5132 (CD)

BACH: English Suite No. 4 in F major BWV 809 from disc Bach: The Complete English Suites 1-6
Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony 88697310502 (2 CDs, Mid Price)

HAYDN: Divertimento in A Hob.X.3
(c/w Symphony No. 22; Divertimento in B flat Op. 1 No. 1, Hob.III.1; Symphony No. 49)
Sinfonia Classica, Gernot Sussmuth (conductor)
Landor Records LAN282 (CD)

GOUNOD: Faust (‘Je voudrais bien savoir…Ah! Je ris…O Dieu, que de bijoux’); PUCCINI: La Boheme (‘Si. Mi chiamano Mimi’) from disc Soile Isokoski Scene d’Amore
(c/w TCHAIKOVSKY: Eugene Onegin – ‘Puskay pogibnu ya’; BIZET: Carmen – ‘Je dis, que rien ne m’epouvante’; PUCCINI: Turandot – ‘Tu che di gel sei cinta’; VERDI: Simon Boccanegra – ‘Come in quest’ ora bruna; Otello – ‘Emilia, te ne prego...Piangea cantando...Ave Maria’)
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikko Franck (conductor)
Ondine ODE1126-2 (CD)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No. 2 Op. 126
(c/w Cello Concerto No. 1 Op. 107)
Dimitri Maslennikov (cello), NDR Sinfonieorchester, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
Phoenix Edition 128 (CD)

MOZART: Così fan tutte; Le nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni (extracts from all three operas) from DVD Mozart – Da Ponte
Mozart: Così fan tutte:
Sally Matthews (Fiordiligi); Maite Beaumont (Dorabella); Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo); Norman Shankle (Ferrando);Danielle de Niese (Despina); Garry Magee (Don Alfonso)
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro:
Garry Magee (Il Conte di Almaviva); Cellia Costea (La Contessa di Almaviva); Danielle de Niese (Susanna); Luca Pisaroni (Figaro); Maite Beaumont (Cherubino); Charlotte Margiono (Marcellina); Mario Luperi (Bartolo)
Mozart: Don Giovanni:
Pietro Spagnoli (Don Giovanni); Mario Luperi (Il Commendatore); Myrto Papatanasiu (Donna Anna); Marcel Reijans (Don Ottavio); Charlotte Margiono (Donna Elvira); José Fardilha (Leporello); Roberto Accurso (Masetto); Cora Burggraaf (Zerlina)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Ingo Metzmacher (conductor)
Opus Arte OA3020B D (3 DVDs plus bonus DVD, Mid Price)

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 in B flat OP. 100 (first movement)
(c/w Ode to the End of the War, Op. 105)
Russian National Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
Pentatone PTC5186 083 (Hybrid SACD)

MOZART: Piano Sonata in B flat major K. 333
(c/w Fantasia in C minor K. 475; Fantasia in C minor K. 396/385f; JOHANN BAPTIST CRAMER: Hommage à Mozart; IGNAZ FRIEDMAN: Menuetto in D major; STEPHEN HOUGH: Three Mozart Transformations (after Poulenc); LISZT/BUSONI: Fantasia on two themes from Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’)
Stephen Hough (piano)
Hyperion CDA67598 (CD)

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