Index to All 118 Discs Reviewed for MAY 2004

HI-RES REVIEWS, PT. 1 (Jazz) – Calimari with Emil Richards; Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz; Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery; Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane; Cannonball Adderley Quintet in SF; Scott Hamilton with Strings; Wynton Kelly – Kelly Blue; Art Pepper + Eleven; Sonny Rollins Quartet – Tenor Madness; Kinda Jazz, Kinda Funky; Hiromi – Brain; Stan Getz Q. – Pure Getz; Eric Dolphy – Out There; Concord Jazz Super Audio CD Sampler

HI-RES REVIEWS PT. 2 (Classical) – GOULD: Sym. No. 2, HARBISON: Cello Con.; JENNIFER HIGDON: City Scape, Con. for Orch. – Spano; 3 Versions of LISZT: Annees de Pelerinage (Turtle/Cybele/Lyrinx); STRAVINSKY: Soldier’s Tale, Suites 1 & 2, etc.; SHOSHTAKOVICH: Piano Con. Nos. 1 & 2; VERDI:Requiem – Gergiev; FAURE: Requiem – Herreweghe; MOZART: Sonatas in C minor, E Flat major, Variations on a Theme of Gluck; MOZART: Violoin/Piano Sonatas; MOZART: Flute Con. Nos. 1 & 2, Con. for Flute & Harp; HAYDN: Symphonies 22, 44 & 64 – Boni; HAYDN English Sonatas & BEETHOVEN: Piano Con. 2 – Lazic; BACH: Complete Orchestral Suites – Martin Pearlman; RACHMANINOFF: Piano Con. Nos. 2 & 3 (DVD-A & SACD versions)

HI-RES REVIEWS PT. 3 (Classical cont., Soundtracks, Pop) – MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH: MAHLER: Sym. No. 1 – Utah/Abravanel; VIVALDI: L’Estro Armonico Vol. II – Accademia Bizantina; Blissfully Bach & Piano Trios by Haydn, Ives & Brahms; Arabesque – Isabelle Perrin, harp; BRAHMS: Sonata No. 1, Chaconne – Jude; SCHUBERT: Piano Trios 1 & 2; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sheherazade – Gergiev; Please Welcome Matt Haimovitz, cello; Walking the Wild Rhondda – Lawson & Heneghan Virtual Orchestra; KORNGOLD: The Adventures of Robin Hood orig. film score; MORRICONE: The Mission soundtrack; LUDGER BRUMMER Electronic works w/ videos; Andrew MadGregor, shakuhachi; Ian Whitcomb and The Bungalow Boys – Turned On Alley; Carole King – Tapestry

DVD VIDEO REVIEWS PT. 1 (All Music Videos) – Van Cliburn: Concert Pianist; WAGNER: Das Rheingold – Stuttgart State modern production; Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan; DELIBES: Coppelia Ballet; Jazzscapes: Rhythm & Waves; Jacques Demy’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Fiddlin’ Man – Bob Wills
DVD VIDEO REVIEWS PT. 2 (Feature films) – The Triplets of Belleville; Onibaba; Subway; Alfred Steiglitz – The Eloquent Eye; Three Women; Cheers – 2nd Season; Somethings Gotta Give; Timeline; School of Rock; God Is Great and I’m Not

CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS, PT. 1 – DANIELPOUR: In the Land of the Beloved & other works; ALLAN BUSH: Quartet, Sonata, Phantasy; SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata D.959, Arpeggione Sonata; SALLINEN: Sym. Nos. 1 & 7; Romantic Pieces by DVORAK, JANACEK & SMETANA; MONTEVERDI:Sacred Music Vol. 1; Bells for Stokowski – Works of SUSATO, VAUGHN WILLIAMS, DEL TREDICI, DAUGHERTY; BERLINSKI: Avodat Shabbat – Schwarz cond.

CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS, PT. 1 – SIBELIUS; Sym. Nos. 3 & 7 – Davis; Symphonies Concertantes by DANZI, RITTER, HOFFMEISTER, PLEYEL, ABEL, Etc.; DVORAK: Quartet No. 12, Terzetto, Bagatelles; RACHMANINOFF Transcriptions playedby Olga Kern; BACH; The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I – Fellner,p.; BACH: English Suites – Rousset, harpsichord; FRANCAIX: Concertino & other works – Fischer cond.; Organ Fireworks X – Christopher Herrick; Vivaldi’s Cello – Yo-Yo Ma

CLASSICAL REISSUE CDs PT. 2 – SCRIABIN: The Composer as Pianist (piano rolls); DVORAK: Piano Con. in G Minor – Aimard/Harnoncourt; SCHUMANN: The Four Symphonies – Barenboim; LAZAROF: Sym. 2 & other works – Gerard Schwarz; SCHUBERT: Sonatinas for piano and violin; Spanish Masterworks for Brass – Burning River Brass; ALBENIZ: Iberia Suite – (guitar) Trio Campanella; ALLA PAVLOVA: Sym. Nos. 1 & 3 – Russian Philharmonia; ARENSKY: Three Suites – Moscow Sym.

JAZZ CD REVIEWS, Pt. 1 – Hiromi, p. – Brain; Steve Kun with Strings – Promises Kept; Bill Cunliffe Q. – It’s About Love; Jack McDuff – The Prestige Years; Charles Lloyd & Billy Higgins – Which Way Is East; Wynton Marsalis Q. – The Magic Hour; Branford Marsalis – The Steep Anthology

JAZZ CD REVIEWS, Pt. 2 – James Carter, reeds – Live at Baker’s Keyboard Lounge; John Pizzarelli – Bossa Nova; Dom Minasi’s DDT+2 – Time Will Tell; Kerry Strayer Septet with Gary Foster – Mentor; Joe Utterback, p. – Night Train; Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer – Music for Two; Skip Heller – Fake Book

REISSUE CLASSICAL CDs, Pt. 1 – Klemperer conducts BEETHOVEN Ninth; ZWILICH: Sym. No. 2 & other works – Louisville Orch.; Ferenc Fricsay – A Life in Music (9 CD set); Giulini cond. DEBUSSY & RAVEL; Jascha Heifetz & Piatagorsky in BRAHMS: Violin Con. & Double Concerto; Tennstedt cond. DVORAK: Sym. No. 8, JANACEK: Sinfonietta; Christian Ferras & Paul Tortelier in TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Con. & BRAHMS: Double Concerto

REISSUE CLASSICAL CDs, Pt. 2 – Jean Martinon cond. PROKOFIEV: Sym. Nos. 5 & 7; Radu Lupu, p. plays SCHUBERT: Sonata D.850 & BEETHOVEN: Piano Con. No. 5; Charles Mackerras cond. VERDI Overtures; Charles Mackerras cond. WOLF-FERRARI, PONCHIELLI, VERDI; Anne-Sophie Mutter in MOZART: Violin Con. Nos. 1, 2 & 4 – Smetana Q. plays BEETHOVEN: Q. Op. 18 No. 1, MOZART: Q. in D K.499, SMETANA: From My Life; Stokowski cond. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Sym. No. 6, TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet Ov., MOZART: Sym. No. 35