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GINASTERA: Estancia - dance suite Op. 8a; Ollantay Op. 17; Pampeana No. 3 for orchestra Op. 24

Lucas Somoza Osterc (baritone), ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)

CHANDOS CHAN10884 (CD)

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Prokofiev: Symphonies 4, 6 & 7 & Piano Concertos 4 & 5

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 4 in C major Op. 112 (revised version); Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor Op. 111; Symphony No. 7 in C sharp minor Op. 131; Piano Concerto No. 4 in B flat major Op. 53; Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major Op. 55

Alexei Volodin – Piano Concerto 4 (piano), Sergei Babyan – Piano Concerto 5 (piano), Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

MARIINSKY MAR0577 (2Hybrid SACD mid-price)

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Brahms: recaptured by pupils and colleagues

Works by Brahms, Chopin, Schubert, Strauss, Schumann, Beethoven, Bartok, and Bach

Carl Friedberg (piano), Edith Heymann (piano), Marie Baumayer (piano), Ilona Eibenschutz (piano), Etelka Freund (piano), Johannes Brahms (piano); Trio of New York: Carl Friedberg (piano), Danil Karpilovsky (violin), Felix Salmond (cello)

ARBITER 163 (2 CDs)

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Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Volume 3

BRAHMS: Klavierstucke (8) Op. 76; Waltzes (16) Op. 39; Klavierstucke (6) Op. 118; Variations on a Hungarian Song in D major Op. 21 No. 2

Jonathan Plowright (piano)

BIS BIS2127 (Hybrid SACD)

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Saint-Saens, Moussa & Saariaho: Orchestral Works

MOUSSA: A Globe Itself Infolding for organ and orchestra

SAARIAHO: Maan varjot for organ and orchestra

SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78 'Organ Symphony'

Oliver Latry (organ), Jean-Willy Kunz (organ), Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Kent Nagano (conductor)

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Dutilleux: Centenary Edition

DUTILLEUX: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 2 'Le Double'; Le Loup; Metaboles; Timbres, espace, mouvement - La nuit etoilee; Mystere de l'instant; The Shadows of Time; Le Loup – fragments symphoniques; Tout un monde lointain (Concerto for cello and orchestra); Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher; L'Arbre des songes (Concerto for violin and orchestra); Sur le meme accord (nocturne); Sonnets (2) by Jean Cassou; San Francisco Night; Correspondances for Soprano and Orchestra; Le Temps l’horloge; Piano Sonata; Preludes (3); Figures de resonances; Tous les chemins ... menent a Rome; Bergerie; Blackbird; Resonances; Au gre des ondes; String Quartet ‘Ainsi la nuit'; Sonatine for flute & piano; Oboe Sonata; Sarabande et Cortege; Choral, Cadence et Fugato for trombone & piano; Les Citations

Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Jarvi (conductor), Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Charles Munch (conductor), Orchestre du Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paul Bonneau, Orchestre National de France, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor), Collegium Musicum Zurich, Paul Sacher, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor), Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Pretre (conductor), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Serge Baudo (conductor), Truls Mork (cello), Renaud Capucon (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Henri Dutilleux (piano), Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Jerome Ducros (piano), Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Renee Fleming (soprano), Genevieve Joy (piano), Anne Queffelec (piano), Quatuor sine nomine, Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Eric Le Sage (piano), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Julius Drake (piano), Marc Trenel (bassoon), Pascal Godart (piano), Daniel Breszynski (trombone), Maurice Bourgue, Hughette Dreyfus, Bernard Cazauran, Bernard Balet

ERATO 2564604798 (7CD Budget)

A giant of modern music, French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez died earlier this week. Someone who knew him well and worked with him was Roger Wright, Chief Executive of Aldeburgh Music and former Radio 3 controller and Director of the Proms, who discusses his memories of Boulez and the composer’s recorded legacy.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

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Works featured:

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Ravel: Scheherazade, with Heather Harper (soprano) and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez

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Debussy: La Mer, with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez

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Ligeti: Piano Concerto, with Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) and Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez

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Boulez: Sur Incises, with Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez

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Pierre Boulez: The Complete Columbia Album Collection

Pierre Boulez (conductor)

SONY 88843013332 (67CD Budget)

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Pierre Boulez: Complete 20th-Century Recordings

Pierre Boulez (conductor)

DG 4794261 (44CD Budget)

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Leonid Sabaneyev: Piano Music

SABANEEV: Preludes (4) Op. 1; Preludes (4) Op. 2; Preludes (2) Op. 3; Morceaux (2) Op. 5; Morceaux (2) Op. 6; Morceaux (3) Op. 7; Morceaux (4) Op. 9; Morceaux (4) Op. 9; Preludes (8) Op. 10; Sonata Op. 15, ‘In Memory of Skryiabin’

Jonathan Powell (piano)

TOCCATA CLASSICS TOCC0308 (CD)

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Bruno Fontaine plays Erik Satie

SATIE: Trois Gymnopedies; Pieces froides (6); Douze petits chorals; Avant Dernieres Pensees (Idylle, Aubade, Meditation); Nocturnes (5); Gnossienne No. 1; Gnossienne No. 2; Gnossienne No. 3; Gnossienne No. 4; Gnossienne No. 5; Gnossienne No. 6; Gnossienne No. 7; Sonatine Bureaucratique

Bruno Fontaine (piano)

APARTE AP116 (CD)

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DEBUSSY: Preludes - Books 1 & 2 (24, complete)

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

NAIVE V5415 (CD)

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Michel Dalberto plays Claude Debussy

DEBUSSY: Children's Corner; Images pour piano - Book 2; Preludes - Book 2 (12, complete)

Michel Dalberto (piano)

APARTE AP111 (CD)

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Debussy: Preludes Book 2 & Suite Bergamasque

DEBUSSY: Preludes - Book 2 (12, complete); Suite Bergamasque

Marita Viitasalo (piano)

ONDINE ODE12692 (CD)

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto & Stravinsky: Les Noces<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

STRAVINSKY: Les Noces

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 35

Nadine Koutcher (soprano), Natalya Buklaga, Vasiliy Korostelev, Stanislav Leontieff, MusicAeterna and Chorus, Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Teodor Currentzis (conductor)

SONY 88875165122 (CD)