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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique & Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et Aricie
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique Op. 14
RAMEAU: Hippolyte et Aricie: Orchestral Suite
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902244 (CD)

Emily Pailthorpe: Better Angels
BARBER: Canzonetta for oboe and strings; Summer Music Op. 31
BLACKFORD: The Better Angels of Our Nature
JANACEK: Mladi (Youth), for wind sextet
STRAUSS, R: Oboe Concerto in D
Emily Pailthorpe (oboe), 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra, 大象传媒SO Soloists, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
CHAMPS HILL RECORDS CHRCD116 (CD)

Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer who composed in a recognisably post-Wagnerian style, while at the same time forging a musical language distinctively his own. Mainly known for his Lyric Symphony he was also the composer of chamber music, songs and several operas

Zemlinsky: Symphonies in D minor & B flat major
ZEMLINSKY: Symphony No. 1 in D minor; Symphony No. 2 in B flat major
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67985 (CD)

Bruckner & Zemlinksy: String Quintets
BRUCKNER: String Quintet in F major; Intermezzo for String Quintet in D minor
ZEMLINSKY: String Quintet in D minor
Bartholdy Quintet
AVI MUSIC AVI8553348 (CD)

Zemlinsky - Chamber Music for Strings
ZEMLINSKY: String Quartet No. 1 in A major Op. 4; Mailblumen bluhten uberall (Dehmel); String Quartet No. 2 Op. 15; String Quartet No. 3 Op. 19; Two Movements for String Quartet; String Quartet No. 4 (Suite) Op. 25
Susan Narucki (soprano), Schoenberg Quartet
CHANDOS CHAN9772 (2CD mid-price)

Mahler & Zemlinsky: Songs
MAHLER: Erinnerung (Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit); Ich ging mit Lust (Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit); Scheiden und Meiden (Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit); Ablosung im Sommer (Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit)
MAHLER, A: Die stille Stadt; Bei dir ist es traut; In meines Vaters Garten; Erntelied (text: Gustav Falke); Ich wandle unter Blumen (text: Heinrich Heine); Waldseligkeit (text: Richard Dehmel); Hymne an die Nacht
ZEMLINSKY: Noch Spur ich ihren Atem auf den Wangen; Hortest du den nicht hinein; Die beiden; Harmonie des Abends; Irmelin Rose and other songs Op. 7
Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Gerold Huber (piano)
CAPRICCIO C5119 (CD)

Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid) & Sinfonietta
ZEMLINSKY: Die Seejungfrau; Sinfonietta Op. 23
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgards (conductor)
ONDINE ODE12375 (Hybrid SACD)

Vladimir Jurowski conducts Zemlinsky
ZEMLINSKY: Eine Florentinische Tragodie Op. 16; Songs (6) to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck Op. 13
Heike Wessels (mezzo soprano), Sergey Skorokhodov (tenor), Albert Dohmen (baritone), Petra Lang (mezzo soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
LPO LPO0078 (CD mid-price)

ZEMLINSKY: Der Kreidekreis
Renate Behle, Roland Hermann, Reiner Goldberg, Siegfried Lorenz, Celina Lindsley, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz (conductor)
CAPRICCIO C5190 (2CD budget)

Zemlinsky - The Mermaid
ZEMLINSKY: Sinfonietta Op. 23; Die Seejungfrau
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd (conductor)
NAXOS 8570240 (CD budget)

Zemlinsky: String Quartets, Volume 1
ZEMLINSKY: String Quartet No. 3 Op. 19; String Quartet No. 4 (Suite) Op. 25; Zwei Satze
Escher String Quartet
NAXOS 8572813 (CD budget)

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 5
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 1 in G minor Op. 13 'Winter Daydreams'; Symphony No. 2 in C minor Op. 17 'Little Russian'; Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. 64
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
ONYX ONYX4150 (2CD mid-price)

Abrahamsen: Works for Wind Quintet
ABRAHAMSEN: Landskaber; Walden (4)
RAVEL arr. Abrahamsen: Le Tombeau de Couperin
SCHUMANN arr. Abrahamsen: Kinderszenen Op. 15
Ensemble MidtVest
DACAPO 8226090 (CD)

Schumann, Bartok & Larcher: For children
BARTOK: For Children, Sz42 (selections)
LARCHER: Poems (12 Pieces for Pianists and Other Children)
SCHUMANN: Album for the Young Op. 68 - excerpts
Lars Vogt (piano)
AVI MUSIC AVI8553310 (CD)

STRAUSS, R: Eine Alpensinfonie Op. 64
Goteborgs Symfoniker, Kent Nagano (conductor)
FARAO B108091 (CD)

Andrew talks to Caroline Gill about recent reissues of recordings of Handel oratorios.

Handel: The Great Oratorios
HANDEL: La Resurrezione, HWV47; Acis and Galatea; Esther; Athalia; Alexander's Feast; Saul; Israel in Egypt, HWV54; Messiah; Samson; Semele; Hercules; Belshazzar; Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63; Solomon; Theodora, HWV 68; Jephtha
Emma Kirkby (Angelo), Patrizia Kwella (Maddalena), Carolyn Watkinson (Cleofe), Ian Partridge (San Giovanni), David Thomas (Lucifero), The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor), Norma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus), Paul Elliot (Corydon), The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor), Patrizia Kwella (Esther), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Ahasuerus), Ian Partridge (Mordecai), David Thomas (Haman), Emma Kirkby (Israelite woman), Paul Elliott (1st Israelite), Andrew King (2nd Israelite/Habdonah/Officer), Drew Minter (Priest), Westminster Cathedral Boys鈥� Choir, Joan Sutherland (Athalia), Emma Kirkby (Josabeth), Aled Jones (Joas), James Bowman (Joad), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Mathan), David Thomas (Abner), Choir of New College Oxford, Donna Brown (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Nigel Robson (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir, Alastair Miles (Saul), Derek Lee Ragin (David), John Mark Ainsley (Jonathan), Lynne Dawson (Michal), Donna Brown (Merab), Philip Slane (Abner/Amalekite), Neil Mackie (High Priest), Simon Oberst (Doeg), Philip Salmon (Witch of Endor), Ruth Holton (soprano), Arleen Auger (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Michael Chance (countertenor), Howard Crook (tenor), John Tomlinson (bass), The English Concert Choir, Trevor Pinnock (conductor), Thomas Randle (Samson), Lynda Russell (Dalila), Catherine Wyn Rogers (Micah), Lynne Dawson (Israelite woman/Philistine woman/Virgin), Matthew Vine (Messenger), Michael George (Manoa), Jonathan Best (Harapha), The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers (conductor), Kathleen Battle (Semele), Marilyn Horne (Juno/Ino), Samuel Ramey (Cadmus/Somnus), John Aler (Jupiter), Michael Chance (Athamas), Neil Mackie (Apollo), Sylvia McNair (Iris), Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson (conductor), Gidon Saks (Hercules), Anne Sofie von Otter (Dejanira), Richard Croft (Hyllus), Lynne Dawson (Iole), David Daniels (Lichas), Marcos Pujol (Priest), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor), Arleen Auger, Julia Gooding, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Nicolas Robertson, Nigel Short, Catherine Robbin, Richard Wistreich, David Wilson-Johnson, Ryland Davies, Felicity Palmer, Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk, Christopher Keyte, Paul Esswood, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano), Alison Hagley (soprano), Susan Bickley (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Gabrieli Consort, Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor), Susan Gritton (Theodora), Susan Bickley (Irene), Robin Blaze (Didymus), Paul Agnew (Septimius), Neal Davies (Valens)
DECCA 4830142 (41CD budget)

Handel: Oratorios
HANDEL: Messiah; Alexander's Feast; Brockes Passion HWV 48; Solomon; Israel in Egypt, HWV54; L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Antonia Bourv茅, Nele Gram脽, Simone Kermes, Julia Doyle, Carolyn Sampson, Dominique Labelle, Johanna Winkel, Claron McFadden, Cornelia Winter, Maria Keohana (sopranos); Elvira Bill (mezzo-soprano); Tim Mead, Michael Hofmeister, Jan Thomer, Terry Wey, Daniel Taylor (altos); Benjamin Hulett, Markus Brutscher, James Oxley, Jan Kobow, Michael Slattery, Virgil Hartinger (tenors); Markus Flaig, Roderick Williams, Konstantin Wolff, Peter Harvey, Andreas Wolf, Michael Dahmen (basses); Collegium Cartusianum, Kolner Kammerchor, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Winchester Cathedral Choir, FestspielOrchester Gottingen, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Vocalensemble Rastatt, Peter Neumann, Frieder Bernius, Holger Speck, Nicholas McGegan (conductors)
CARUS CARUS83040 (13CD budget)

Polish Violin Concertos
BACEWICZ: Violin Concerto No. 1
PANUFNIK, A: Violin Concerto
SPISAK: Andante and Allegro for violin and string orchestra
TANSMAN: Cinq Pieces pour Violon avec accompagnement de Piano ou de petit orchestre
Piotr Plawner (violin), Kammersymphonie Berlin, Jurgen Bruns
NAXOS 8573496 (CD mid-price)

Dancer on a Tightrope
BACEWICZ: Sonata No. 2 for Violin Solo
CAGE: Six Melodies
GUBAIDULINA: Der Seiltanzer (Dancer on a Tightrope), for violin & piano
HINDEMITH: Sonata for Solo Violin Op. 31 No. 2 'Es ist so schones Wetter draussen...'
PROKOFIEV: Sonata in D major for solo violin Op. 115
SCHNITTKE: Fugue for solo violin
Bartosz Woroch (violin), Mei Yi Foo (piano / keyboard)
CHAMPS HILL RECORDS CHRCD114 (CD mid-price)

Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2
BACEWICZ: String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 5
Lutoslawski Quartet
NAXOS 8572807 (CD mid-price)

Bacewicz: String Quartets
BACEWICZ: String Quartet No. 1; String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 3; String Quartet No. 4; String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet No. 6; String Quartet No. 7
Silesian Quartet
CHANDOS CHAN10904(2) (2CD budget)