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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Cosi fan tutte Malin Hartelius, Martina Janková (soprano); Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano);
Javier Camarena (tenor) Ruben Drole (baritone); Oliver Widmer (bass-baritone)
Zurich Opera House Chorus
& Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst
Arthaus Musik 9/2/2010

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
20 Nocturnes Nelson Freire (piano)

Decca 9/1/2010

JAN DISMAS ZELENKA
Missa votiva Joanne Lunn (soprano); Daniel Taylor (alto); Johannes Kaleschke (tenor); Thomas Bauer (bass)
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Barockorchester Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius
Carus 9/1/2010

CHARLES IVES
Decoration Day; The Fourth of July; Thanksgiving; The General Slocum; Overture in G minor; Yale-Princeton Football Game; Postlude in F Malmö Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Chorus
James Sinclair
Naxos 8/31/2010

GEORGE GERSHWIN
"I Got Rhythm" Variations (original Gershwin orchestration); Rhapsody in Blue (jazz band version); Songs (arr. Grofé) Lincoln Mayorga (piano); Al Gallodoro (saxophone, clarinet)
Harmonie Ensemble
Steven Richman
Harmonia Mundi 8/31/2010

PIERRE MOULU
JOSQUIN DES PREZ
Missa Missus est Gabriel angelus; Missa Alma redemptoris mater; Mater floreat; In pace
Missus est Gabriel angelus
The Brabant Ensemble
Stephen Rice
Hyperion 8/31/2010

KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Violin Concerto No. 1; Horn Concerto "Winterreise" Radovan Vlatkovic (horn); Robert Kabara (violin)
Sinfonietta Cracovia
Krzysztof Penderecki
Channel Classics 8/30/2010

NICOLÒ PAGANINI
24 Caprices Op. 1 James Ehnes (violin)

Onyx 8/30/2010

WILLIAM MATHIAS
Let the people praise thee, O God Op. 87; Magnificat & Nunc dimittis Op. 53; A Babe is Born Op. 55; Missa brevis Op. 64; Ave verum corpus; In excelsis gloria; All wisdom is from the Lord Op. 88 No. 3; Lift up your heads, O ye gates Op. 44 No. 2; O nata lux Op. 83 No. 3; Festival Te Deum Op. 28; O be joyful in the Lord (Jubilate Deo) Op. 90 No. 2; Two organ works: Processional; Carillon Jonathan Vaughn (organ)
Wells Cathedral Choir
Matthew Owens
Hyperion 8/30/2010

GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Il barbiere di Siviglia Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano); Juan Diego Florez (tenor); Pietro Spagnoli (baritone); Alessandro Corbelli (bass-baritone); Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass); others
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Antonio Pappano
Virgin Classics 8/29/2010

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Motets BWV 225-230; Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn (BWV Anh. 159); O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht (BWV 118, second version) Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki
BIS 8/29/2010

UGIS PRAULINŠ
MAIJA EINFELDE
URMAS SISASK
VYTAUTAS MIŠKINIS
BALTIC EXCHANGE
Missa Rigensis (2002); Laudibus in sanctis (2008)
Cikls ar Frica Bardas dzeju (2003)
Benedictio (1991)
Angelis suis Deus (2006); Pater noster (1999)
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
Stephen Layton
Hyperion 8/28/2010

GIOACHINO ROSSINI
La Cenerentola Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano); Juan Diego Florez (tenor); David Menendez (baritone); Bruno de Simone, Simon Orfila (bass-baritone); others
Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu
Patrick Summers
Decca 8/27/2010

JOSEPH MARTIN KRAUS
Aeneas in Carthage (Overtures, Ballet Music, Marches) Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä
Patrick Gallois
Naxos 8/27/2010

Works by Iver Kleive, Vivaldi, Hassler, Simon & Garfunkel, others
ORGAN MUSIC from the film TROUBLED WATER (deUSYNLIGE)
Iver Kleive (organ)

2L 8/27/2010

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
UNKNOWN BRITTEN
Les Illuminations Op. 18 (plus 3 additional songs); Rondo concertante (1930); In memoriam Dennis Brain (1958); Untitled Fragment (1930); Variations (1965); Movements for a Clarinet Concerto (1942)
Sandrine Piau (soprano); Michael Collins (clarinet); Rolf Hind (piano)
Northern Sinfonia
Thomas Zehetmair
NMC 8/26/2010

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
ELLIOTT CARTER
AUGUSTA READ THOMAS
JOHN ZORN
RHAPSODIC MUSINGS--21st Century Works for Solo Violin
Lachen Verlernt (2002)
Four Lauds
Pulsar (2003)
Goetia (2002)
Jennifer Koh (violin)

Cedille 8/26/2010

JOHN SHEPPARD
Media vita; Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria; The Lord's Prayer; I give you a new commandment; Christ rising again; Haste thee, O God; Te Deum Stile Antico

Harmonia Mundi 8/26/2010

Songs, Carols, & Ballads for Christmas, from England, Ireland, & America
THE CHERRY TREE
Anonymous 4

Harmonia Mundi 8/25/2010

Arias by Antonio Sartorio, Alessandro Stradella, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Porpora, Benedetto Marcello, George Frederic Handel
ROSSO--Italian Baroque Arias
Patricia Petibon (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon
Deutsche Grammophon 8/24/2010

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Khamma; Jeux; La boîte à joujoux Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Chandos 8/22/2010

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Preludes Books 1 & 2 Steven Osborne (piano)

Hyperion 8/22/2010

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Various songs and sets, including Ariettes oubliées, Proses lyriques, & Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé Sandrine Piau (soprano); Jos van Immerseel (piano)

Naïve 8/22/2010

OTTORINO RESPIGHI
The Pines of Rome; The Fountains of Rome; Roman Festivals The U.S. Air Force Band
Col. Lowell E. Graham
Klavier 8/21/2010

ARAM KHACHATURIAN
JACQUES IBERT
Flute Concerto
Flute Concerto; Pièce for Solo Flute
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman
EMI 8/15/2010

LUKAS FOSS
Griffelkin Kendra Colton (soprano); Marion Dry (alto); David M. Cushing (bass); others
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose
Chandos 8/15/2010

LUKAS FOSS
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Elegy for Anne Frank Jon Nakamatsu (piano); Yakov Kasman (piano); Lukas Foss (piano); Eliza Foss (narrator)
Pacific Symphony Orchestra
Carl St. Clair
Harmonia Mundi 8/15/2010

PAUL TAFFANEL
DARIUS MILHAUD
JACQUES IBERT
JEAN FRANÇAIX
Wind Quintet in G minor
La Cheminée du roi René
Trio pièces brèves
Quintet
Afflatus Quintet

Supraphon 8/15/2010

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Die schöne Müllerin Mark Padmore (tenor); Paul Lewis (piano)

Harmonia Mundi 8/14/2010

GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL
WILLIAM CROFT
Te Deum HWV 278 (Music for the Peace of Utrecht, 1713); Jubilate HWV 279 (Music for the Peace of Utrecht)
Ode for the Peace of Utrecht ("With Noise of Cannon")
Nicki Kennedy (soprano); William Towers (alto); Wolfram Lattke, Julian Podger (tenor); Peter Harvey (bass)
The Netherlands Bach Society
Jos van Veldhoven
Channel Classics 8/14/2010

ARVO PÄRT
Triodion; Ode VII (Memento); I am the True Vine; Tribute to Caesar; Dopo la Vittoria; The Woman with the Alabaster Box; Nunc dimittis; Bogoróditse Djévo Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Naxos 8/8/2010

ERIC WHITACRE
Her Sacred Spirit Soars; A Boy and a Girl; Water Night; This Marriage; Lux aurumque (Light of Gold); little tree; When David Heard; Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine; i thank you God for most this amazing day; Sleep; Little Birds Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Naxos 8/8/2010

HEALEY WILLAN
Hymns, Anthems, & Motets (includes In the heavenly kingdom; O how glorious; Preserve us, O Lord; O King all glorious; Christ hath a garden; Hymn--St. Osmund; I looked, and behold a white cloud; Missa brevis No. XI "Missa Sancti Johannis Baptistae"; Rise up, my love, my fair one) Joseph Schnurr (tenor); Matthew Larkin (organ)
Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Naxos 8/8/2010

MORTEN LAURIDSEN
O magnum mysterium; O nata lux; Madrigali; Mid-Winter Songs; Les Chansons des Roses Leslie De'Ath (piano)
Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Naxos 8/8/2010

GUSTAV MAHLER
Symphony No. 4 Christiane Oelze (soprano)
Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne
Markus Stenz
Oehms Classics 8/7/2010
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