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Mozart: Opera Arias and Overtures

MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro, K492: Overture; Deh vieni, non tardar (from Le nozze di Figaro); Idomeneo, K366: Overture; Quando avran fine omai ... Padre, germani, addio! (from Idomeneo); Don Giovanni, K527: Overture; Batti, batti, o bel Masetto (from Don Giovanni); Vedrai, carino (from Don Giovanni); La clemenza di Tito, K621: Overture; S'altro che lacrime (from La clemenza di Tito); La finta giardiniera, K196: Overture; Appena mi vedon (from La finta giardiniera); Cosi fan tutte, K588: Overture; Ei parte...Per pieta (from Cosi fan tutte)

Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Christian Baldini

LINN CKD460 (Hybrid SACD)

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Cecile Chaminade Piano Works

CHAMINADE: Sonate op.21; Etudes symphonique op.28; Etudes de concert op.35; Etude melodique op.118; Etude pthetique op.124; Etude romantique op.132; Etude humristique op.138; Etude scolastique op.139; Souvenir d’enfance

Johann Blanchard (piano)

MDG 904 1871-6 (Hybrid SACD)

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Christopher Simpson: Ayres & Graces

SIMPSON, C: 20 Ayres for Two Trebles and Two Basses; Four Divisions for two viols and b.c.

Chelys Consort of Viols, Dan Tidhar (chamber organ / harpsichord), James Akers (theorbo / baroque guitar),

BIS BIS2153 (Hybrid SACD)

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Handel: The Musick for the Royal Fireworks

HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351; Concerto a due cori in F major, HWV 334; Concerto a due cori No. 1 in B flat major HWV 332; Concerto a due cori in F major, HWV 333

Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini (conductor)

ARCANA A386 (CD)

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Erica Jeal compares recordings of Britten’s Les Illuminations and makes a personal recommendation.

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ÌýBritten: Les Illuminations

BRITTEN: Les illuminations Op. 18; Prelude & Fugue for 18 strings Op. 29; Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Op. 10; Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, for tenor, horn and strings

Karina Gauvin (soprano), Les Violons du Roy, Jean-Marie Zeitouni

ATMA ACD22601 (CD)

Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 4

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major Op. 12; String Quartet in E flat major Op. ‘0’; String Quartet No. 4 in E minor Op. 44 No. 2

Escher String Quartet

BIS BIS1960 (Hybrid SACD)

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Mendelssohn & Bach: Trios

BACH, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV659 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'; Chorale Prelude BWV639 'Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49; Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66

Trio Dali

ZIGZAG ZZT364 (CD)

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Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49; Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66

Sitkovetsky Trio

BIS BIS2109 (Hybrid SACD)

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Mendelssohn, Grieg & Hough: Cello Sonatas

GRIEG: Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36

HOUGH: ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Sonata for cello and piano left hand 'Les adieux'

MENDELSSOHN: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major Op. 58

Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (piano)

HYPERION CDA68079 (CD)

Gillian Moore joins Andrew live in the studio to listen to a wide-ranging selection of recent releases of 20th- and early 21st-century music including Judith Weir, Helmut Lachenmann, Harry Partch and Harrison Birtwistle.

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Judith Weir: Storm

WEIR: All the Ends of the Earth; Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (2011); Missa del Cid; The Song Sung True; Storm

´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers, Choristers of Temple Church, Endymion, David Hill (conductor)

SIGNUM SIGCD421 (CD)

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Lachenmann: Schreiben Double (Grido II)

LACHENMANN: Schreiben; Double (Grido II)

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Lucerne Festival Acedemy Ensemble, Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble, Sylvain Cambreling (conductor), Matthias Hermann

KAIROS KAI0013342 (CD)

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Masterworks of the 20th Century

BERIO: serenata (1957)

BOULEZ: Le Marteau sans maitre; Livre pour cordes; Sonatine for flute and piano

CRUMB, G: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale); Night of the Four Moons (1969)

HAUBENSTOCK-RAMATI: Interpolation

IVES, C: Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 19 'Concord, Mass., 1840-1860'

MADERNA: Oboe Concerto No. 1

NONO: Music for Flute and String Orchestra: Y su sangre ya viene cantando

PARTCH: Daphne of the Dunes; Castor and Pollux

SCHULLER, GUNTHER: 7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee

STRAVINSKY: Agon ‘Ballet for Twelve Dancers’

TAKEMITSU: Requiem for string orchestra; Green; The Dorian Horizon

SONY 88875061902 (10CD budget)

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RIHM: Et Lux

Huelgas Ensemble, Minguet Quartett, Paul van Nevel (conductor)

ECM 4811585 (CD)

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Birtwistle: Angel Fighter

BIRTWISTLE: Angel Fighter; In Broken Images; Virelai (Sus une fontayne)

Andrew Watts (Angel), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Jacob), ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers, London Sinfonietta, David Atherton (conductor)

NMC NMCD211 (CD)

SCHOENBERG: Gurrelieder

Barbara Haveman (soprano), Claudia Mahnke (mezzo), Brandon Jovanovich (tenor), Gerhard Siegel (tenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone), Johannes Martin Kranzle (speaker), Gurzenich-Orchester Koln, Domkantorei Koln, Mannerstimmen des Kolner Domchores, Vokalensemble Kolner Dom, Chor des Bach-Vereins Koln, Kartauserkantorei Koln, Markus Stenz (conductor)

HYPERION CDA68081/2 (2CD mid-price)

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