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Brahms & Bartok: Violin Concertos
BARTOK: Violin Concerto No. 1, BB48a, Sz 36
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D major Op. 77
London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Janine Jansen (violin), Antonio Pappano (conductor)
DECCA 4788412 (CD)

Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 16
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 23
Beatrice Rana (piano), Orchestra dell鈥橝ccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS 2564600909 (CD mid-price)

Schumann: Works for piano and orchestra
SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54; Introduction & Allegro appassionato in G major Op. 92; Introduction and Allegro Op. 134; Kinderszenen Op. 15: Traumerei
Jan Lisiecki (piano), Orchestra dell鈥橝ccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano (conductor)
DG 4795327 (CD)

The first instalment of Summer Record Review's weekly look at a Proms Composer explores recordings of music by Galina Ustvolskaya, a favourite pupil of Shostakovich who forged in Soviet Russia a concentrated, deeply personal path for her music.

Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartets
SHOSTAKOVICH: Quartets Nos. 1-15; Two Pieces for String Octet Op. 11; Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57
Borodin Quartet, Prokofiev Quartet, Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
MELODIYA MEL CD 10 01077(6CDs)

Galina Ustvolskaya: Trio, Sonata, Duet
USTVOLSKAYA: Sonata for Violin & Piano; Trio for Violin, Clarinet & Piano; Duet for violin and piano
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Markus Hinterhauser (piano), Reto Bieri (clarinet)
ECM 4810883 (CD mid-price)

Eastern European Piano Music
GORECKI: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings Op. 40
GUBAIDULINA: Introitus - Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
PELECIS: Concertino Bianco
USTVOLSKAYA: Piano Concerto
Alexei Lubimov, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Heinrich Schiff (conductor)
APEX 2564604912 (CD budget)

Ustvolskaya: Complete Piano Music
USTVOLSKAYA: Piano Sonata No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 4; Piano Sonata No. 5; Piano Sonata No. 6; 12 Preludes
Ivan Sokolov (piano)
PIANO CLASSICS PCL0050 (2CD budget)

PART: Spiegel im Spiegel
SILVESTROV: Post Scriptum; Misterioso
USTVOLSKAYA: Trio for Violin, Clarinet & Piano; Sonata for Violin & Piano
Alexei Lubimov (piano), Alexander Trostiansky (violin), Kirill Rybakov (clarinet)
ECM 4763108 (CD mid-price)

USTVOLSKAYA: Piano Concerto, Symphony No. 1
Boris Pinkhasovitch & Pavel Semagin (trebles), Oleg Malov (piano), Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Liss (conductor)
MEGADISC MDC 7856 (CD)

Ustvolskaya: Compositions 1-3
USTVOLSKAYA: Composition No. 1; Composition No. 2 'dies irae'; Composition No. 3
Schonberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)
PHILIPS 4425322 (CD)

USTVOLSKAYA: Symphonies Nos. 2-5
Elena Popova (contralto), Vassili Kan (trumpet), Valery Javnerchik (tam-tam), Oleg Malov (piano), Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Liss (conductor)
MEGADISC MDC 7854 (CD)

Galina Ustvolskaya: Composition No. 2, Sonata No. 6 & Grand Duet
USTVOLSKAYA: Composition No. 2 'dies irae'; Piano Sonata No. 6; Grand Duet for Cello & Piano
Laura Mancini (wooden cube), Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Marino Formenti (pianos), Rohan de Saram (cello), Ludus Gravis Contrabass Ensemble, Stefano Scodanibbio
WERGO WER67392 (CD mid-price)

Rob Cowan joins Andrew to pick some highlights from a 17-disc box set of recordings by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Founded in the late 1940s and with many former members of the German Philharmonic of Prague among its ranks, the Bamberg SO enjoyed a close association with many leading conductors of the post-war period including Joseph Keilberth, Istvan Kertesz, Horst Stein and Kurt Sanderling.

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra: The First 70 Years
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C major Op. 21; Symphony No. 6 in F major Op. 68 'Pastoral'
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
DVORAK: Symphony No. 8 in G major Op. 88
GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46
MAHLER: Symphony No. 4; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (4 songs, complete); Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Titan'
MOZART: Serenade No. 7 in D major, K250 'Haffner'; Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491; Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K412 (K386b); Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550; Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, K477; Symphony No. 38 in D major, K504 'Prague'
PFITZNER: Palestrina: Prelude to Act 1
SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major Op. 38 'Spring'; Symphony No. 4 in D minor Op. 120
SMETANA: Ma Vlast: Vltava; Ma Vlast: Z ceskych luhu a haju; The Bartered Bride (extracts)
STRAUSS, J, II: Fruhlingsstimmen Walzer Op. 410; Kunstlerleben Op. 316
STRAUSS, R: Waltz Sequence No. 1 (from Der Rosenkavalier); Metamorphosen; Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64; Vier letzte Lieder; Don Juan Op. 20
STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture
WAGNER: Rienzi Overture; Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
DG 4795805 (17CD budget)

Andrew looks at some of this year's releases of choral music including Palestrina from the King's Singers and Jonathan Harvey from the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge.

Gabrieli in Venice
GABRIELI, G: In ecclesiis a 14; Canzon Seconda a 6; Suscipe, clementissime Deus a 12; Hodie completi sunt dies pentecostes; Jubilate Deo 10vv; Canzon Terza a 6; Quem vidistis pastores a 14; Sonata XXI con tre violini; Exsutavit cor meum in Domino a 6; Surrexit Christus a 11; Canzone prima a 5; Litaniae Beatissimae Mariae Virginis; Magnificat a14
His Majesty's Sackbutts, Cornetts, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
KINGS COLLEGE KGS0012 (2SACD + Blu-Ray audio mid-price)

Hymns from King's
Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
KINGS COLLEGE KGS0014 (CD mid-price)

Jonathan Harvey: Deo
HARVEY, J: I love the Lord; 聽Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis; 聽聽Toccata for Organ and Tape; Come, Holy Ghost; 聽Praise ye the Lord; Missa Brevis; The royal banners forward go; Laus Deo; The Annunciation
Edward Picton-Turbervill (organ), St John's College Choir Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)
SIGNUM SIGCD456 (CD mid-price)

How Fair Thou Art
PALESTRINA: Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui; Pulchrae sunt genae tuae; Tota pulchra es, amica mea; Nigra sum sed formosa; Regina coeli; Trahe me post te; Veni, dilecte mi; Surge, propera amica mea (from Canticum canticorum); Descendi in hortum meum; Ave Regina caelorum a 8; Sicut lilium inter spinas (from Canticum canticorum, Motets Book IV); Osculetur me osculo oris sui; Ecce tu pulcher es; Sicut lilium inter spinas (from Motets Book I); Salve regina; Antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater
The King's Singers
SIGNUM SIGCD450 (CD)

Ola Gjeilo: Voices Piano Strings
GJEILO: Ubi caritas; The Spheres; The Ground; Sanctus: London; The Crossing; Northern Lights; The Lake Isle; Serenity; Tundra; Reflections; Sacred Heart
Ola Gjeilo (piano), Voces 8, Tenebrae, Chamber Orchestra of London, Ola Gjeilo (piano). Thomas Gould (violin), Ciaran McCabe (violin), Jon Thorne (viola), Matthew Sharp(cello), Ben Hancox (violin), Hannah Dawson (violin), Simone van der Giessen (viola), MatthewSharp (cello)
DECCA 4788689 (CD)