Disc Reviews Index

Reviews published on Audiophile Audition since April 20, 2013:

SACD & Other Hi-Res Reviews

• MAHLER: Das Klagende Lied (1899 version); Blumine; Adagio from Sym. No. 10 – Manuela Uhl, sop./ Lioba Braun, alto/ Werner Güra, tenor/ Czech Philharmonic Chorus Brno/ Beethoven Orch. Bonn/ Stefan Blunier – MD+G
• “Escapades” = JOHN WILLIAMS: Escapades for Sax & Orch.; MICHAEL NYMAN: Where the Bee dances for Soprano Sax & Orch.; ANDREI ESHPAI: Konzert for Sax & Orch.; BOB MINTZER: Rhythm of the Americas – Jan Schulte-Bunert, sax/ Neue Philharmonie Westfalen/ Heiko Mathias Förster/ with clair-obscur sax quartet – Solo Musica (vinyls)
• Ben Webster and “Sweets” Edison – Columbia CS 8691 (1962)/ Original Recordings Group (45 rpm vinyls)
• Von Freeman – The Great Divide – Premonition Records – vinyl
• Jan Gunnar Hoff, piano – Living – [TrackList follows] – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD
• Otis Rush – Right Place, Wrong Time – Bullfrog Records / Pure Pleasure Records (vinyl)
• Aaron Neville – Warm Your Heart – A & M Records (1991)/ Original Recordings Group – (45rpm double album)
• “Fiddler’s Spring” = HOLST: St. Paul’s Suite Op. 29 No, 2; RAUTAVAARA: The Fiddlers’ Op. 1; LARSSON: Folk Song Night; RANGSTRÖM: ‘Fiddlers’ Spring’; NORDGEN: Pictures of the Rural Past; WEINER: Divertimento No. 1 Op. 20; TOBIAS: Night Pieces – Ostrobothnian Chamber Orch./ Juha Kangas – Alba
• Frank Sinatra – No One Cares – Capitol Records (1959)/ Mobile Fidelity
• LUTOSLAWSKI: “Orchestral Works Vol. 4” = Symphony No. 1; Partita for Violin and Orchestra; Chain 2 (Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra); Preludia tanczne – Elizabeth Burley, piano/ Michael Collins, clarinet/Tasmin Little, violin /BBC Symphony Orch./ Edward Gardner – Chandos
• YEVSTIGNEY FOMIN: Orfeo ed Euridice – Alexey Ivashchenko (Orfeo)/ Maria Shorstovo (Euridice)/ Pratum Integrum Orch./ Horn Orch. of Russia/ Pavel Serbin – Caro Mitis
• Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender – Columbia/ Sony / Mobile Fidelity
• “Spain Through Strings” = ARRIAGA: String Quartet No. 3 in E flat Major; TURINA: The Toreador’s Prayer; TOLDRA: Sea Views; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Quintet for guitar and string quartet – Zemlinsky Q./Miriam Rodriguez Brüllová, guitar – Praga Digitals
• WEINGARTNER: Symphony No. 7 – Maya Boog, sop./Franziska Gottwald, alto/ Rolf Romei, tenor/ Christopher Bolduc, baritone/ Babette Mondry, organ/ Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno/ Basel Sym. Orch./ Marko Letonja – CPO
• CARL PHILIPP STAMITZ: Clarinet Quartets Nos. 1 – 4 – Audite
• “American Anthem” — BARBER: String Quartet; Serenade for String Quartet; Dover Beach; HOWARD HANSON: String Quartet da Camera Op. 7; RANDALL THOMPSON: Alleluia – Ying Quartet with Adam Neiman, p. & Randall Scarlata, baritone – Sono Luminus audio-only Blu-ray + CD
• Miles Davis – In a Silent Way (1969) – Columbia/Mobile Fidelity
  Miles Davis – Four & More – Recorded Live in Concert – Columbia/Mobile Fidelity
• MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concertos in E minor & D minor; Violin Sonata in F minor – Tianwa Yang, violin/ Sinfonia Finlandia/ Patrick Gallois/ Romain Descharmes, piano – Naxos audio-only Blu-ray
• KAIJA SAARIAHO: La Passion de Simeon – Dawn Upshaw, sop./ Tapiola Chamber Choir/ Finnish Radio Sym. Orch./ Esa-Pekka Salonen – Ondine
• JEAN SIBELIUS: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 – Minnesota Orch./ Osmo Vänskä – BIS
• HAYDN: String Quartet in G Major; ARNE NORDHEIM: Duplex for violin and viola; BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 5 – Engegård Quartet – 2L
• ROBERT SCHUMANN: Pieces for Oboe and Piano — Fantasietücke for Clarinet and Piano; Adagio and Allegro in A-flat Major for Horn and Piano; Drei Romanzen for Oboe and Piano; Sonata No. 1 in A Minor for Violin and Piano –Alexei Utkin, oboe/ Igor Tchetuev, p. – Caro Mitis
• Zoot Sims – Down Home – Bethlehem Records/ Pure Pleasure Records

Component Reviews

• Surround Master Processor

Special Features

Classical CD Reviews

• Nicola Benedetti: The Silver Violin = WILLIAMS: Schindler’s List Main Theme; KORNGOLD: Tanzlied des Pierrot from Die Tote Stadt; Violin Concerto in D; Marietta’s Lied from Die Tote Stadt; GARDEL: Por una cabeza; SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance; Andante; Prelude; HESS: Ladies in Lavender Main Theme; MARIANELLI: My Edward &I from Jane Eyre; SHORE: Concertino from Eastern Promises; MAHLER: Piano Quartet in A Minor – Nicola Benedetti, violin & ens. & orch. – Decca
• BEETHOVEN: Symphonies No. 4 in B-flat; No. 7 in A – Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/ Joshua Bell, concertmaster & cond. – Sony Classical
• BACH: The French Suites; Allemande and Menuet fr. Suite in E-flat; Menuet and Sarabande from Suite in a – Colin Tilney, clavichord – Music & Arts
• FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A Major; Melancolie; Prelude, Fugue and Variation in B Minor; R. STRAUSS: Violin Sonata in E-flat Major; Auf stillem Waldespfad – Augustin Dumay, v./ Louis Lortie, p. – Onyx
• DEBUSSY: Children’s Corner; Suite bergamasque; Danse; Deux Arabesques; Pour le piano; Masques; L’isle joyeuse; La plus que lente – Angela Hewitt, piano – Hyperion
  DEBUSSY: Préludes, Books 1 and 2 – Philippe Bianconi, p. – la dolce volta
  “Hommage à Claude Debussy” = DEBUSSY: Images, Books 1 & 2; Estampes; Arabesque No. 1; CARLO GRANTE: Debussy-Pastiche; ALFREDO CASELLA: A la manière de. . .Claude Debussy; DUKAS: La plainte, au loin, du faune; ROBERTO PIANA: Image d’un faune – Carlo Grante, p. – Music & Arts
• SCHOENBERG: Verklaerte Nacht; SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major – Janine Jansen & ens. – Decca
• “If You Love for Beauty” = ADAMS: Am I in Your light?; CHAUSSON: Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer; HANDEL: E vivo Ancora (Ariodante); Frondi tenere e belle (Xerxes); MAHLER: Rückert Lieder – Sasha Cooke, mezzo/ Colburn Orch./ Yuhuda Gilad – Yarlung Records
• GESUALDO: Responsories; Miserere; VICTORIA: Lamentations for Holy Saturday – Tenebrae/ Nigel Short – DGG Archiv
• BACH: The English Suites – Richard Egarr, harpsichord – Harmonia mundi
• PHILIP GLASS: Symphony No. 3; Suite fr. “The Hours” – Manitoba Ch. Orch./ Anne Manson/Michael Riesman, piano – Orange Mt. Music
• IVAN KARABITS: Concertos for Orchestra – No. 1, ‘Musical Gift to Kiev’; No. 2; No. 3, ‘Lamentations’; VALENTIN SILVESTROV: Two Elegies: Elegie; Abschiedsserenade – Bournemouth Sym. Orch. /Kiril Karabits – Naxos
• DVORAK: Violin Concerto; BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 – Julia Fischer, v./ Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich/ David Zinman – Decca
• PENDERECKI: Piano Concerto ‘Resurrection’; Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra – Barry Douglas, p./ Lukasz Dlugosz, flute/ Warsaw Philharmonic Orch./Antoni Wit – Naxos
• MOZART: Piano Concerto Nos. 17 in G & 27 in B-flat Major – Angela Hewitt, piano/ Orch. da Camera di Mantova/ Hannu Lintu – Hyperion
• THOMAS HAIGH: Six Concertos for Harpsichord – Barbara Harbach, harpsichord – MSR Classics
• BACH: The Six Partitas – David Korevaar, p. – MSR Classics (2 CDs)
• T. PATRICK CARRABRÉ: ”War of Angels” = Inuit Games; Symphony No. 1 “The War of Angels”; Symphony No.3; The Dragon’s Tail – Vocalists/ Winnipeg Sym. Orch./Andrey Boreyko & Bramwell Tovey, conductors – Centrediscs
• Martyrs for the Faith – American Saxophone Concertos by PAUL CRESTON; DAVID DEBOOR CANFIELD; JOHN CHETHAM; INGOLF DAHL – Kenneth Tse, alto sax/ U. of Iowa Symphony Band/ Richard Mark Heidel – MSR Classics
  “Saxophone Romance” – Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo, saxophone & his orchestra – Alba (SACD)
• BACH: St. John Passion – soloists/ Polyphony/ Orch. of the Age of Enlightenment/ Stephen Layton – Hyperion (2 CDs)
• POULENC: Organ Concerto in g; WIDOR: Organ Symphony No. 6 (Allegro); TOMASO VITALI: Chaconne; LILI BOULANGER: Pie Jesu; PAUL HALLEY: Winter’s Dream – William Neil, organ/ Heather LeDoux Green, violin/ Jane-Anne Tucker, sop./ Paul Winter, sax/ Eclipse Ch. Orch./ Sylvia Alimena – MSR Classics
• MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG: Symphony No. 8 – Soloists /Warsaw Philharmonic Orch. & Choir/ Antoni Wit – Naxos
• BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 14 “Moonlight”; SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3; TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1; MENDELSSOHN: Cello Sonata No. 2 – Pavel Kolesnikov, p./ Johannes Moser, cello/ Calgary Philharmonic Orch./ Roberto Minczuk – Honens (2 CDs)
• BEETHOVEN: Sonatas No. 31 in A-flat, Op. 110; No. 32 in c, Op. 111; C.P.E. BACH: Prelude, Variations, and Fugue in d; Fantasia and Rondo in A – Cameron Watson, piano – MSR Classics
• A Beethoven Odyssey, Vol. 1 = Piano Sonatas: No. 1 in f; No. 3 in C; No. 23 in f, “Appassionata” – James Brawn, p. – MSR Classics
• BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”; 5 Variations in D on “Rule, Britannia”; Andante favori in F Major; 7 Variations in C Major on “God Save the King”; 11 Bagatelles – Ingrid Jacoby, p./ Sinfonia Varsovia/ Jacek Kaspsyk – ICA Classics
• CHAVEZ: Piano Concerto; Meditacion; MONCAYO: Muros Verdes; ZYMAN: Variations on an Original Theme – Jorge Federico Osorio, piano/ Mexico Nat. Sym. Orch./ Miguel Prieto – Cedille
• GRIFFES: Piano Music = Three Tone-Pictures; Fantasy Pieces; Roman Sketches; Piano Sonata; De profundis; A Winter Landscape; Three Preludes – Garrick Ohlsson, p. – Hyperion
• ARVO PAART: Symphony No. 4 “Los Angeles” – Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen; Fragments from “Kanon pokajanen” – Estonian Philharmonic Ch. Choir/ Esa-Pekka Salonen – ECM
• PENDERECKI: String Quartet No. 1; String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 3 ‘Leaves of an unwritten diary’; LUTOSLAWSKI: String Quartet – Royal String Q. – Hyperion
• WEINBERG: Symphony No. 19 “Bright May,”; The Banners of Peace (Symphonic Poem) – St. Petersburg State Sym. Orch./ Vladimir Lande – Naxos
• Felix Hell Plays the Rieger-Kloss Organ – Works of BACH, BUXTEHUDE, GIGOUT, DUPRE, WIDOR, BOELLMANN & REGER – MSR Classics
• PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: Trumpet Concerto; Piccolo Concerto; Maxwell’s Reel, with Northern Lights; Five Klee Pictures – Stewart McIlwham, piccolo/ John Wallace, trumpet/ Royal Philharmonic Orch. /Royal Scottish Nat. Orch./ Philharmonia Orch./ Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos

Classical Reissue Reviews

• “Lorraine” = BACH: Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut; Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 – Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo/ Allan Vogel, oboe d’amore; Los Angeles Ch. Orch./ Jeffrey Kahane – Yarlung Records
• Classical Barbra – [TrackList follows] Barbra Streisand, soprano/ Columbia Sym. Orch./ Claus Ogerman, piano and cond. – Sony Masterworks
• PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf; BRITTEN: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra; DUKAS: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Ben Kingsley, narr./ London Sym. Orch./ Sir Charles Mackerras – Cala
• Gino Marinuzzi = ROSSINI: Il Barbiere di Siviglia Overture; La Gazza ladra Overture; L’Assedio di Corinto Overture; BELLINI: Norma Overture; VERDI: I Vespri sciliani Overture; PUCCINI: Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo, Act 3; MASCAGNI: Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo; Le Maschere Overture; GIORDANO: Siberia – La Pasqua; PIZZETTI: Fedra; WOLF-FERRARI: Il Campiello: Ritornello Act 3; MARINUZZI: Musiche per I trionfi Sforza & Savoia – Rito Nuziale – Orch. del Teatro alla Scala, Milano/ Gino Marinuzzi – Preiser Records
• Mordecai Shehori New York Concerts, Vol. 7 = CLEMENTI: Sonata in F-sharp Minor; TCHAIKOVSKY: “Grande Sonate” in G Major; KHACHATURIAN: Vocalise; LISZT: Polonaise from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”; BACH: Adagio; MOSZKOWSKI: Etude in F Major; CHOPIN: Mazurka in G Minor; Polonaise in A-flat Major “Heroic” – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d’amour
• CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor; Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante; 2 Polonaises; Polonaise-Fantasie in A-flat Major; 5 Mazurkas – Menahem Pressler, p./ Vienna State Opera Orch./ var. conductors – Doremi
• MOZART: Symphony No. 41 in C Major; BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7 – Vienna Philharmonic Orch./ Herbert von Karajan – ICA Classics (2 CDs)
• MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-flat Major; Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, p.// Sym. Orch. Stuttgart, SW German Radio/ Antoine de Bavier – ICA Classic
• Ossy Renardy: The Complete Columbia Recordings — Music of CORELLI, PLATTI, HANDEL, SCHUBERT, PAGANINI, BURMESTER, VECSEY & SARASATE – Ossy Renardy, violin/ Walter Robert and Leo Taubman, p. – Pristine Audio
• GRECHANINOV: Piano Trios — No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 38; No. 2 in G Major; Cello Sonata in E Minor – The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio – Helios

DVD & Blu-ray Reviews

• Pat Metheny Group – We Live Here – Live in Japan (1995/2013)
• Planet Ocean, Blu-ray (2012/2013)
• Pierre Etaix Films, Blu-ray (1961-71/2013)
• Naked Lunch, Blu-ray (1991/2013)
• The Banda Brothers – Primavera, Blu-ray (2013)
• Anna Karenina, Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (2013)
• Django Unchained, Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy+Ultraviolet (2012)
• MOZART: Selected Piano Concertos – various performers [TrackList follows] (2013) – 4 DVDs
• Jurassic Park 3D, Blu-ray+DVD+UV Digital Copy (1993-2013)
• Wings of Life, Blu-ray (2013)
• The Yardbirds: Making Tracks, On Tour (2010-2012)

DualDisc Reviews

• Nicola Benedetti: The Silver Violin = WILLIAMS: Schindler’s List Main Theme; KORNGOLD: Tanzlied des Pierrot from Die Tote Stadt; Violin Concerto in D; Marietta’s Lied from Die Tote Stadt; GARDEL: Por una cabeza; SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance; Andante; Prelude; HESS: Ladies in Lavender Main Theme; MARIANELLI: My Edward &I from Jane Eyre; SHORE: Concertino from Eastern Promises; MAHLER: Piano Quartet in A Minor – Nicola Benedetti, violin & ens. & orch. – Decca
• MAHLER: Das Klagende Lied (1899 version); Blumine; Adagio from Sym. No. 10 – Manuela Uhl, sop./ Lioba Braun, alto/ Werner Güra, tenor/ Czech Philharmonic Chorus Brno/ Beethoven Orch. Bonn/ Stefan Blunier – MD+G
• “Lorraine” = BACH: Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut; Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 – Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo/ Allan Vogel, oboe d’amore; Los Angeles Ch. Orch./ Jeffrey Kahane – Yarlung Records
• BEETHOVEN: Symphonies No. 4 in B-flat; No. 7 in A – Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/ Joshua Bell, concertmaster & cond. – Sony Classical
• “Escapades” = JOHN WILLIAMS: Escapades for Sax & Orch.; MICHAEL NYMAN: Where the Bee dances for Soprano Sax & Orch.; ANDREI ESHPAI: Konzert for Sax & Orch.; BOB MINTZER: Rhythm of the Americas – Jan Schulte-Bunert, sax/ Neue Philharmonie Westfalen/ Heiko Mathias Förster/ with clair-obscur sax quartet – Solo Musica (vinyls)
• BACH: The French Suites; Allemande and Menuet fr. Suite in E-flat; Menuet and Sarabande from Suite in a – Colin Tilney, clavichord – Music & Arts
• FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A Major; Melancolie; Prelude, Fugue and Variation in B Minor; R. STRAUSS: Violin Sonata in E-flat Major; Auf stillem Waldespfad – Augustin Dumay, v./ Louis Lortie, p. – Onyx
• Audio News for May 17, 2013
• Swingadelic – Toussaintville – Zoho Music
• Ben Webster and “Sweets” Edison – Columbia CS 8691 (1962)/ Original Recordings Group (45 rpm vinyls)
• DEBUSSY: Children’s Corner; Suite bergamasque; Danse; Deux Arabesques; Pour le piano; Masques; L’isle joyeuse; La plus que lente – Angela Hewitt, piano – Hyperion
  DEBUSSY: Préludes, Books 1 and 2 – Philippe Bianconi, p. – la dolce volta
  “Hommage à Claude Debussy” = DEBUSSY: Images, Books 1 & 2; Estampes; Arabesque No. 1; CARLO GRANTE: Debussy-Pastiche; ALFREDO CASELLA: A la manière de. . .Claude Debussy; DUKAS: La plainte, au loin, du faune; ROBERTO PIANA: Image d’un faune – Carlo Grante, p. – Music & Arts
• Classical Barbra – [TrackList follows] Barbra Streisand, soprano/ Columbia Sym. Orch./ Claus Ogerman, piano and cond. – Sony Masterworks
• SCHOENBERG: Verklaerte Nacht; SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major – Janine Jansen & ens. – Decca
• Von Freeman – The Great Divide – Premonition Records – vinyl
• “If You Love for Beauty” = ADAMS: Am I in Your light?; CHAUSSON: Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer; HANDEL: E vivo Ancora (Ariodante); Frondi tenere e belle (Xerxes); MAHLER: Rückert Lieder – Sasha Cooke, mezzo/ Colburn Orch./ Yuhuda Gilad – Yarlung Records
• GESUALDO: Responsories; Miserere; VICTORIA: Lamentations for Holy Saturday – Tenebrae/ Nigel Short – DGG Archiv
• Jan Gunnar Hoff, piano – Living – [TrackList follows] – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD
• BACH: The English Suites – Richard Egarr, harpsichord – Harmonia mundi
• Oscar Pettiford – Lost Tapes – Germany 1958/59 – Jazz Haus, SWR Music
  Jutta Hipp – Lost Tapes – The German Recordings 1952-55 – Jazz Haus, SWR Music
• PHILIP GLASS: Symphony No. 3; Suite fr. “The Hours” – Manitoba Ch. Orch./ Anne Manson/Michael Riesman, piano – Orange Mt. Music
• IVAN KARABITS: Concertos for Orchestra – No. 1, ‘Musical Gift to Kiev’; No. 2; No. 3, ‘Lamentations’; VALENTIN SILVESTROV: Two Elegies: Elegie; Abschiedsserenade – Bournemouth Sym. Orch. /Kiril Karabits – Naxos
• DVORAK: Violin Concerto; BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 – Julia Fischer, v./ Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich/ David Zinman – Decca
• PENDERECKI: Piano Concerto ‘Resurrection’; Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra – Barry Douglas, p./ Lukasz Dlugosz, flute/ Warsaw Philharmonic Orch./Antoni Wit – Naxos
• Otis Rush – Right Place, Wrong Time – Bullfrog Records / Pure Pleasure Records (vinyl)
• Audio News for May 14, 2013
• MOZART: Piano Concerto Nos. 17 in G & 27 in B-flat Major – Angela Hewitt, piano/ Orch. da Camera di Mantova/ Hannu Lintu – Hyperion
• Pat Metheny Group – We Live Here – Live in Japan (1995/2013)
• THOMAS HAIGH: Six Concertos for Harpsichord – Barbara Harbach, harpsichord – MSR Classics
• BACH: The Six Partitas – David Korevaar, p. – MSR Classics (2 CDs)
• T. PATRICK CARRABRÉ: ”War of Angels” = Inuit Games; Symphony No. 1 “The War of Angels”; Symphony No.3; The Dragon’s Tail – Vocalists/ Winnipeg Sym. Orch./Andrey Boreyko & Bramwell Tovey, conductors – Centrediscs
• PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf; BRITTEN: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra; DUKAS: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Ben Kingsley, narr./ London Sym. Orch./ Sir Charles Mackerras – Cala
• Martyrs for the Faith – American Saxophone Concertos by PAUL CRESTON; DAVID DEBOOR CANFIELD; JOHN CHETHAM; INGOLF DAHL – Kenneth Tse, alto sax/ U. of Iowa Symphony Band/ Richard Mark Heidel – MSR Classics
  “Saxophone Romance” – Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo, saxophone & his orchestra – Alba (SACD)
• Audio News for May 10, 2013
• Aaron Neville – Warm Your Heart – A & M Records (1991)/ Original Recordings Group – (45rpm double album)
• “Fiddler’s Spring” = HOLST: St. Paul’s Suite Op. 29 No, 2; RAUTAVAARA: The Fiddlers’ Op. 1; LARSSON: Folk Song Night; RANGSTRÖM: ‘Fiddlers’ Spring’; NORDGEN: Pictures of the Rural Past; WEINER: Divertimento No. 1 Op. 20; TOBIAS: Night Pieces – Ostrobothnian Chamber Orch./ Juha Kangas – Alba
• Frank Sinatra – No One Cares – Capitol Records (1959)/ Mobile Fidelity
• BACH: St. John Passion – soloists/ Polyphony/ Orch. of the Age of Enlightenment/ Stephen Layton – Hyperion (2 CDs)
• Gino Marinuzzi = ROSSINI: Il Barbiere di Siviglia Overture; La Gazza ladra Overture; L’Assedio di Corinto Overture; BELLINI: Norma Overture; VERDI: I Vespri sciliani Overture; PUCCINI: Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo, Act 3; MASCAGNI: Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo; Le Maschere Overture; GIORDANO: Siberia – La Pasqua; PIZZETTI: Fedra; WOLF-FERRARI: Il Campiello: Ritornello Act 3; MARINUZZI: Musiche per I trionfi Sforza & Savoia – Rito Nuziale – Orch. del Teatro alla Scala, Milano/ Gino Marinuzzi – Preiser Records
• LUTOSLAWSKI: “Orchestral Works Vol. 4” = Symphony No. 1; Partita for Violin and Orchestra; Chain 2 (Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra); Preludia tanczne – Elizabeth Burley, piano/ Michael Collins, clarinet/Tasmin Little, violin /BBC Symphony Orch./ Edward Gardner – Chandos
• POULENC: Organ Concerto in g; WIDOR: Organ Symphony No. 6 (Allegro); TOMASO VITALI: Chaconne; LILI BOULANGER: Pie Jesu; PAUL HALLEY: Winter’s Dream – William Neil, organ/ Heather LeDoux Green, violin/ Jane-Anne Tucker, sop./ Paul Winter, sax/ Eclipse Ch. Orch./ Sylvia Alimena – MSR Classics
• Planet Ocean, Blu-ray (2012/2013)
• YEVSTIGNEY FOMIN: Orfeo ed Euridice – Alexey Ivashchenko (Orfeo)/ Maria Shorstovo (Euridice)/ Pratum Integrum Orch./ Horn Orch. of Russia/ Pavel Serbin – Caro Mitis
• Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender – Columbia/ Sony / Mobile Fidelity
• Audio News for May 7, 2013
• Surround Master Processor
• MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG: Symphony No. 8 – Soloists /Warsaw Philharmonic Orch. & Choir/ Antoni Wit – Naxos
• BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 14 “Moonlight”; SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3; TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1; MENDELSSOHN: Cello Sonata No. 2 – Pavel Kolesnikov, p./ Johannes Moser, cello/ Calgary Philharmonic Orch./ Roberto Minczuk – Honens (2 CDs)
• Michael Dease – Coming Home – D Clef Records
• Mordecai Shehori New York Concerts, Vol. 7 = CLEMENTI: Sonata in F-sharp Minor; TCHAIKOVSKY: “Grande Sonate” in G Major; KHACHATURIAN: Vocalise; LISZT: Polonaise from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin”; BACH: Adagio; MOSZKOWSKI: Etude in F Major; CHOPIN: Mazurka in G Minor; Polonaise in A-flat Major “Heroic” – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d’amour
• Guapo – History of the Visitation – Cuneiform Rune (CD + DVD)
• Pierre Etaix Films, Blu-ray (1961-71/2013)
• CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor; Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante; 2 Polonaises; Polonaise-Fantasie in A-flat Major; 5 Mazurkas – Menahem Pressler, p./ Vienna State Opera Orch./ var. conductors – Doremi
• Naked Lunch, Blu-ray (1991/2013)
• Oscar Brown Jr. & Maggie Brown – We’re Live (Concert recorded 2001) – ESP-Disc
• “Spain Through Strings” = ARRIAGA: String Quartet No. 3 in E flat Major; TURINA: The Toreador’s Prayer; TOLDRA: Sea Views; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Quintet for guitar and string quartet – Zemlinsky Q./Miriam Rodriguez Brüllová, guitar – Praga Digitals
• Audio News for May 3, 2013
• WEINGARTNER: Symphony No. 7 – Maya Boog, sop./Franziska Gottwald, alto/ Rolf Romei, tenor/ Christopher Bolduc, baritone/ Babette Mondry, organ/ Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno/ Basel Sym. Orch./ Marko Letonja – CPO
• Editorial for May 2013
• BEETHOVEN: Sonatas No. 31 in A-flat, Op. 110; No. 32 in c, Op. 111; C.P.E. BACH: Prelude, Variations, and Fugue in d; Fantasia and Rondo in A – Cameron Watson, piano – MSR Classics
• Home Page for May 2013
• A Beethoven Odyssey, Vol. 1 = Piano Sonatas: No. 1 in f; No. 3 in C; No. 23 in f, “Appassionata” – James Brawn, p. – MSR Classics
• CARL PHILIPP STAMITZ: Clarinet Quartets Nos. 1 – 4 – Audite
• “American Anthem” — BARBER: String Quartet; Serenade for String Quartet; Dover Beach; HOWARD HANSON: String Quartet da Camera Op. 7; RANDALL THOMPSON: Alleluia – Ying Quartet with Adam Neiman, p. & Randall Scarlata, baritone – Sono Luminus audio-only Blu-ray + CD
• BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”; 5 Variations in D on “Rule, Britannia”; Andante favori in F Major; 7 Variations in C Major on “God Save the King”; 11 Bagatelles – Ingrid Jacoby, p./ Sinfonia Varsovia/ Jacek Kaspsyk – ICA Classics
• Audio News for April 30, 2013
• The Banda Brothers – Primavera, Blu-ray (2013)
• Anna Karenina, Blu-ray + DVD + UV Digital Copy (2013)
• The Kandinsky Effect – Synesthesia – Cuneiform
• CHAVEZ: Piano Concerto; Meditacion; MONCAYO: Muros Verdes; ZYMAN: Variations on an Original Theme – Jorge Federico Osorio, piano/ Mexico Nat. Sym. Orch./ Miguel Prieto – Cedille
• Miles Davis – In a Silent Way (1969) – Columbia/Mobile Fidelity
  Miles Davis – Four & More – Recorded Live in Concert – Columbia/Mobile Fidelity
• Monica Ramey — Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio – Adair Music Group
• MOZART: Symphony No. 41 in C Major; BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7 – Vienna Philharmonic Orch./ Herbert von Karajan – ICA Classics (2 CDs)
• GRIFFES: Piano Music = Three Tone-Pictures; Fantasy Pieces; Roman Sketches; Piano Sonata; De profundis; A Winter Landscape; Three Preludes – Garrick Ohlsson, p. – Hyperion
• MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concertos in E minor & D minor; Violin Sonata in F minor – Tianwa Yang, violin/ Sinfonia Finlandia/ Patrick Gallois/ Romain Descharmes, piano – Naxos audio-only Blu-ray
• KAIJA SAARIAHO: La Passion de Simeon – Dawn Upshaw, sop./ Tapiola Chamber Choir/ Finnish Radio Sym. Orch./ Esa-Pekka Salonen – Ondine
• JEAN SIBELIUS: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 – Minnesota Orch./ Osmo Vänskä – BIS
• Audio News for April 26, 2013
• Davis Payne – Self-Produced – King Records
• Django Unchained, Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy+Ultraviolet (2012)
• MOZART: Selected Piano Concertos – various performers [TrackList follows] (2013) – 4 DVDs
• ARVO PAART: Symphony No. 4 “Los Angeles” – Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen; Fragments from “Kanon pokajanen” – Estonian Philharmonic Ch. Choir/ Esa-Pekka Salonen – ECM
• PENDERECKI: String Quartet No. 1; String Quartet No. 2; String Quartet No. 3 ‘Leaves of an unwritten diary’; LUTOSLAWSKI: String Quartet – Royal String Q. – Hyperion
• HAYDN: String Quartet in G Major; ARNE NORDHEIM: Duplex for violin and viola; BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 5 – Engegård Quartet – 2L
• MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-flat Major; Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, p.// Sym. Orch. Stuttgart, SW German Radio/ Antoine de Bavier – ICA Classic
• Rich Thompson – Less is More – Origin Records
• Audio News for April 23, 2013
• WEINBERG: Symphony No. 19 “Bright May,”; The Banners of Peace (Symphonic Poem) – St. Petersburg State Sym. Orch./ Vladimir Lande – Naxos
• Jurassic Park 3D, Blu-ray+DVD+UV Digital Copy (1993-2013)
• Wings of Life, Blu-ray (2013)
• Felix Hell Plays the Rieger-Kloss Organ – Works of BACH, BUXTEHUDE, GIGOUT, DUPRE, WIDOR, BOELLMANN & REGER – MSR Classics
• Joe Locke – Lay Down My Heart (Blues and Ballads – Vol. 1) – Motema
• Ossy Renardy: The Complete Columbia Recordings — Music of CORELLI, PLATTI, HANDEL, SCHUBERT, PAGANINI, BURMESTER, VECSEY & SARASATE – Ossy Renardy, violin/ Walter Robert and Leo Taubman, p. – Pristine Audio
• ROBERT SCHUMANN: Pieces for Oboe and Piano — Fantasietücke for Clarinet and Piano; Adagio and Allegro in A-flat Major for Horn and Piano; Drei Romanzen for Oboe and Piano; Sonata No. 1 in A Minor for Violin and Piano –Alexei Utkin, oboe/ Igor Tchetuev, p. – Caro Mitis
• The Yardbirds: Making Tracks, On Tour (2010-2012)
• PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: Trumpet Concerto; Piccolo Concerto; Maxwell’s Reel, with Northern Lights; Five Klee Pictures – Stewart McIlwham, piccolo/ John Wallace, trumpet/ Royal Philharmonic Orch. /Royal Scottish Nat. Orch./ Philharmonia Orch./ Peter Maxwell Davies – Naxos
• GRECHANINOV: Piano Trios — No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 38; No. 2 in G Major; Cello Sonata in E Minor – The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio – Helios
• Zoot Sims – Down Home – Bethlehem Records/ Pure Pleasure Records
• Laszlo Gardony, piano – Clarity – Sunnyside
  Gregg Kallor, piano – A Single Noon – Single Noon

Pop/Rock/World CD Reviews

Jazz CD Reviews

• Swingadelic – Toussaintville – Zoho Music
• Oscar Pettiford – Lost Tapes – Germany 1958/59 – Jazz Haus, SWR Music
  Jutta Hipp – Lost Tapes – The German Recordings 1952-55 – Jazz Haus, SWR Music
• Michael Dease – Coming Home – D Clef Records
• Oscar Brown Jr. & Maggie Brown – We’re Live (Concert recorded 2001) – ESP-Disc
• The Kandinsky Effect – Synesthesia – Cuneiform
• Monica Ramey — Monica Ramey and the Beegie Adair Trio – Adair Music Group
• Davis Payne – Self-Produced – King Records
• Rich Thompson – Less is More – Origin Records
• Joe Locke – Lay Down My Heart (Blues and Ballads – Vol. 1) – Motema
• Laszlo Gardony, piano – Clarity – Sunnyside
  Gregg Kallor, piano – A Single Noon – Single Noon

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