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COMPOSER ALBUM/WORK TITLE PERFORMER LABEL POSTING DATE

CARL NIELSEN
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 "Sinfonia semplice" London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
LSO 1/27/2012

FRANCIS POULENC
Mass in G major (1937); Sept Chansons (1936); Un Soir de Neige (1944); Figure Humaine (1943) Swedish Radio Choir
Peter Dijkstra
Channel Classics 1/27/2012

JEAN SIBELIUS
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä
BIS 1/23/2012

ANTONIN DVORÁK
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Violin Concerto
An American in Paris
Liza Ferschtman (violin)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam
Mario Venzago
Challenge Classics 1/20/2012

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
MICHAEL HAYDN
Duos for Violin & Viola K. 423/4; Menuetto K. 487
Duos for Violin & Viola P127/8 (MH 335/6)
Rachel Podger (violin); Jane Rogers (viola)

Channel Classics 1/19/2012

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Brandenburg Concertos BWV 1046-1051 Fabio Biondi (violin); Marc Hantai (transverse flute); Pierre Hantai (harpsichord); Lorenz Duftschmid (viola da gamba); Jordi Savall (basso di viola)
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall
Alia Vox 1/18/2012

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 15 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
RCO 1/3/2012

GUSTAV MAHLER
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
THE MAHLER ALBUM
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5; Adagio (arr. Stadlmair) from Symphony No. 10
String Quartet No. 11 "Quartetto Serioso" (arr. Mahler)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Candida Thompson
Channel Classics 12/26/2011

Christmas hymns, carols, and arrangements by Rutter, Mathias, Darke, Poston, Warlock, Joubert, Bennett, Vaughan Williams, Willcocks, Leighton, Gruber, others
ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT
John Challenger (organ)
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
Andrew Nethsingha
Chandos 12/24/2011

Works by Nepomuceno; Levy; Villa-Lobos; Mignone; Fernández; Guarnieri; Krieger; Jobim; Pereira/Guerra-Peixe
DANÇAS BRASILEIRAS
Săo Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Roberto Minczuk
BIS 12/17/2011

FLORENT SCHMITT
La Tragédie de Salomé; Le Palais hanté; Psaume 47 Susan Bullock (soprano)
Săo Paulo Symphony Orchestra & Choir
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Chandos 12/8/2011

MAX BRUCH
JOHANNES BRAHMS
AUTUMN
Eight Pieces for clarinet, cello, & piano Op. 83
Trio for clarinet, cello, & piano Op. 114
B3 Classic Trio

Non Profit Music 12/7/2011

BÉLA BARTÓK
Bluebeard's Castle Laszló Polgár (baritone); Ildikó Komlósi (mezzo-soprano)
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer
Channel Classics 12/5/2011

ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Trittico; Arabeschi; Divertimento; Suite Veneziana Munich Radio Orchestra
Ulf Schirmer
CPO 11/29/2011

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
FENNELL CONDUCTS SOUSA
Marches: Sound Off!; The Liberty Bell; Sable and Spurs; New Mexico; others
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Frederick Fennell
Mercury Living Presence 11/6/2011

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2, & 4 Anna Malikova (piano)
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Thomas Sanderling
Audite 10/9/2011

AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
Fantasy on Motifs from the Opera La traviata for Trumpet & Orchestra Op. 146; Concerto in E-flat major for Euphonium & Orchestra Op. 155; Concerto in E-flat major for Trumpet & Orchestra Op. 198; Gran Capriccio in F minor for Oboe & Orchestra Op. 80; Concerto in F major for Trumpet & Orchestra Op. 123 Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet); Roland Fröscher (euphonium); Simone Sommerhalder (oboe)
Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin
Matthias Foremny
MDG 9/23/2011

ANTONIN DVORÁK
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Zdenek Mácal
Exton 9/21/2011

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 25 Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)
Die Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens
BIS 9/19/2011

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
PAUL PATTERSON
GARRETT BYRNES
ISANG YUN
TORU TAKEMITSU
Suite Op. 83
Spiders; Bugs
Visions in Twilight
In Balance
Stanza II for harp & tape
Lavinia Meijer (harp)

Channel Classics 9/18/2011

FRANCIS POULENC
PIERRE PETIT
SAMUEL BARBER
Concerto for Organ, Strings, & Timpani
Concertino for Organ, Strings, & Percussion
Toccata Festiva
Gillian Weir (organ)
English Chamber Orchestra
David Hill
Raymond Leppard
Linn 9/18/2011

J.S. BACH
Violin Concertos in A minor BWV 1041; in E major BWV 1042; in G minor (after BWV 1056); in A major (after BWV 1055) Rachel Podger (violin)
Brecon Baroque

Channel Classics 9/18/2011

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
COMPLETE WORKS FOR SOLO PIANO, VOL. 1
Piano Sonatas No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ("Pathétique"); No. 9 in E Op. 14 No. 1; No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2; No. 11 in B-flat Op. 22
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)

BIS 9/18/2011

SAMUEL BARBER
JENNIFER HIGDON
JOHN CORIGLIANO
JOHN ADAMS
TRANSMIGRATION
Adagio for Strings; Agnus Dei
Dooryard Bloom
Elegy
On the Transmigration of Souls
Nmon Ford (baritone)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Robert Spano
Telarc 9/18/2011

RICHARD STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben; Four Last Songs Dorothea Röschmann (soprano)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
BIS 9/13/2011

PAUL HINDEMITH
Mathis der Maler (Symphony); Nobilissima Visione; Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber Săo Paulo Symphony Orchestra
John Neschling
BIS 9/6/2011

SERGEI RACHMANINOV
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Op. 31 Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava
Ondine 9/6/2011

J.S. BACH
St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 Gerd Türk (Evangelist); Peter Harvey (Christ); Amaryllis Dieltiens, Siri Karoline Thornhill (soprano); Tim Mead, Matthew White (alto); Julian Podger, Charles Daniels (tenor); Sebastian Noack (bass)
Netherlands Bach Society
Jos van Veldhoven
Channel Classics 9/5/2011

CHARLES IVES
AARON COPLAND
A Concord Symphony (orch. Henry Brant)
Organ Symphony
Paul Jacobs (organ)
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas
San Francisco Symphony 9/4/2011

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas (complete) Peter Takács (piano); Janice Weber (piano)

Cambria 8/22/2011

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