Disc Reviews Index
Reviews published on Audiophile Audition since April 21, 2012:SACD & Other Hi-Res Reviews
- JÖRG HERCHET: Das Geistliche Jahr: Four Cantatas – Meißner Kantorei 1961/ Ensemble vocal modern/ Christfried Brödel – querstand (SACD + CD)
- SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; RODION SHCHEDRIN: Piano Con. No. 5 – Denis Matsuev, p./ Mariinsky Orchestra/ Valery Gergiev – Mariinsky
- LASSE THORESEN: Himmelkvad (Vocal Sextet, Op. 42 and Helligkvad, Op. 19) – Berit Opheim Versto, vocalist/ Nordic Voices – 2L (Blu-ray + CD)
- ARVO PÄRT: Creator Spiritus – Theatre of Voices/ Ars Nova Copenhagen/ Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ/ NYYD Quartet/ Paul Hillier – Harmonia mundi
- * STRAVINSKY: Rite of Spring; Firebird Suite; Scherzo; Tango – Budapest Festival Orch./ Ivan Fischer – Channel Classics
- ZOLTAN KODALY: Hary Janos Suite; Dances of Galanta; 2 Arias from Hary Janos – London Sym. Orch./ Istvan Kertesz/ Olga Szonyi, sop. – Decca/HDTT 96/24 DVD
- “Alte Meister” = Works of MUFFAT, WALTHER, BUXTEHUDE, J.S. BACH, PACHELBEL, STRUNGK & KERIL in arr. by Karl Straube [TrackList follows] – MD&G Scene
- WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera) – Soloists/Rundfunk Sym., Berlin/ Marek Janowski – PentaTone (4 discs)
- STRAVINSKY: The Firebird (complete ballet); Greeting Prelude; Arrangements of TCHAIKOVSKY: Pas-de-deux; SIBELIUS: Canzonetta; CHOPIN: Nocturne in A-flat; Grande Valse Brilliante – Bergen Philharmonic Orch./ Andrew Litton – BIS
- The Sound of Jazz – Soundtrack from 1957 CBS-TV Special – [TrackList follows] Columbia/ Pure Pleasure Records vinyl
- Thad Jones/Mel Lewis – Consummation – Blue Note/ Pure Pleasure Records – vinyl
- B.B. King – Singin’ The Blues – Crown Records (1957)/ Pure Pleasure Records vinyl
- ANTON BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4, “Romantic” – London Sym. Orch./ Bernard Haitink – LSO Live
- RACHMANINOFF: Symphonic Dances; STRAVINSKY: Symphony in Three Movements – London Sym. Orch./ Valery Gergiev – LSO Live
- Northern Lights = Choral Works by OLA GJEILO – Phoenix Chorale/ Harrington String Quartet/ Emmanuel Lopez, cello/ Ola Gjeilo, piano/ Alison Chaney, sop./ Ted Belledin, tenor sax/ Charles Bruffy – Chandos
- Peggy Lee – The Man I Love – Capitol (1957)/ Pure Pleasure Records – vinyl
- FÖRSTER: Three String Quartets – Authentic Quartet – Hungaroton
- BACH: Overtures: Complete Orchestra Suites – Freiburg Baroque Orch./ Petra Müllejans & Gottfried von der Golta – Harmonia mundi (2 CDs)
- “A Lindberg Extravaganza” = [TrackList follows] Christian Lindberg, trombone/Swedish Wind Ensemble/ Hans Ek – Bis
- FRANÇOIS DEVIENNE Clarinet Sonatas – Wonkak Kim – Naxos The Complete Works for Clarinet of LOUIS CAHUZAC – Philippe Cuper and Philippe Olivier Devaux – Clarinet Classics
- “Diablo Verde” = FALLA: Suite populaire Espagnole; PIAZZOLLA: Jeanne y Paul; El Pnenultimo; Milonga sin Palabras; Milonga en Re; GASPAR CASSADÓ: Requiebros; Danse du Diable vert – Duo AcCello – Pilfink “Tango and Snow” – Folias Flute and Guitar Duo – Blue Griffin
- ‘Seven Steps’ = BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 14; BROOKLYN RIDER: Seven Steps; CHRISTOPHER TIGNOR: Together Into This Unknowable Night – Brooklyn Rider – In a Circle Records
- A Story of The City: Constantinople, Istanbul – Schola Cantorum/ Ensemble Trinitas/ The New England Drums & Winds Mehterhane/ DÜNYA Ensembles – Dünya Inc. (2 CDs)
- ‘The Eleanor Hovda Collection’ = ELEANOR HOVDA: Ariadne Music; Coastal Traces; Sound Around the Sound; Excavations – var. performers – Innova (4 CDs)
- HARTY: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Piano Quintet – Goldner String Quartet/ Piers Lane, p. – Hyperion
- BEETHOVEN: The Late String Quartets – Cypress String Quartet – Cypress Performing Arts (3 CDs)
- RAFFAELE BELLAFRONTE: ‘Arakathalama’ = Nights in Broadway; Midnight plays; Desaccòrd; Blue; Passi; Cristalli di sale; Oasi alle mente; Arakathalama – var. performers – Stradivarius
- BACH: St. John Passion (1725 version) – Soloists/ La Furia Ensemble/ Concerto d’Amsterdam/ Nico van der Meel – Quintone 08001 (2 CDs)
- CHISHOLM: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 – Danny Driver, p./ BBC Scottish Sym. Orch./Rory MacDonald – Hyperion
- “Air—The BACH Album”: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068; Violin Concerto No. 1 in a; Violin Concerto No. 2 in E; Largo from Concerto for Harpsichord in f; Concerto for Two Violins in d; Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) – Anne Akiko Meyers, violin/ English Ch. Orch./ Steven Mercurio – E1 Music
- GRIEG: 20 Lyric Pieces – David Rubinstein, piano – Musicus
- ‘ARTIFACTS’ = Works by BRIGHT SHENG, JOEL PUCKETT, MICHAEL DAUGHERTY, WM. BOLCOM – U. of Mich. Sym. Band – Equilibrium Records
- YORK BOWEN: Violin Suite; Cello Sonata; Violin Sonata in e; Viola Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Phantasy – Endymion Ensemble/ James Boyd, viola/ Bengt Forsberg, p. – Dutton Epoch (2 CDs)
- RICHARD BLACKFORD: Not in Our Time (Oratorio) – Paul Nilon, ten./ Stephan Gadd, bar./ Bournemouth Sym. Orch., Chorus, and Youth Chorus/ Gavin Carr – Nimbus Alliance
- BACH: Concerto in d, BWV 1052; Prelude, BWV 846; Concerto in E, BWV 1042; Sonata in g, BWV 1001; Concerto in a, BWV 1041; Air on the G String – Xuefei Yang, guitar/ Elias String Q. – EMI
- ROBIN GIBB, RJ GIBB: Titanic Requiem – Rsvp Voices/ Royal Philharmonic Orch./ Cliff Masterson – Redbreast Records
- Mordecai Shehori: The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 6 = Works of CZERNY, BRAHMS, DEBUSSY, RAVEL, HOROWITZ, BACH = Cembal d’amour
- “Le Bestiaire” = Vocal works of SAUGUIET, SEVERAC, CAPLET, IBERT & Others about animals – Celine Ricci, sop./ens. – Sono Luminus
- MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 1; Piano Trio No. 2 – Wu Han, piano /Philip Setzer, violin/ David Finckel, cello – Artist Led
- ‘The White Barn Duets’ = Gil Selinger, cello/ Evan Mazunik, piano – White Barn
- “BEETHOVEN’S BEETHOVEN” = Symphony No. 2 arr. for piano trio by Beethoven; Quintet for Piano and Winds arr. for p. quartet by Beethoven – Van Swieten Society – Quintone
- JOHANN CHRISTIAN SCHIEFERDECKER: Musicalische Concerte (excerpts) – Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg – Challenge Classics
- Music of CHINARY UNG: Vol. 3 = Spiral XI : Mother and Child; Spiral IX : Maha Sathukar – Soloists – Bridge
- Viktoria Mullova – The Peasant Girl – Viktoria Mullova, violin/ The Matthew Barley Ensemble – Onyx
- Jascha Heifetz in works of BACH, VIEUXTEMPS & GRUENBERG – Dutton
- SAINT-SAENS: Complete Symphonies = Orch. de l’ORTF/ Jean Martinon – Brilliant Classics (2)
- MAHLER: Symphony No. 9 – New York Philharmonic/ Dimitri Mitropoulos – Archipel
- Piero Coppola = SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 “Spring”; Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish”; WAGNER: Parsifal: Instr. Excerpts R. STRAUSS: Salome: Instr. Excerpts – Pristine Audio
- Harry Blech and the London Mozart Players: The Complete HMV Stereo Recordings, Vol. 2 = MOZART: Symphony No. 36; Piano Concerto No. 24; 12 Minuets – Louis Kentner, piano – First Hand Records
- Marguerite Long plays RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3; D’INDY: Symphony on a French Mountain Air – Marguerite Long, p./ Orch. cond. Pedro de Freitas Branco (Ravel)/ Paris Conservatory Orch./ Felix Weingartner (Beethoven)/ Colonne Sym. Orch. / Paul Paray (D’Indy) – Dutton
- MOZART: Requiem in D Minor; SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5 – soloists/ BBC Chorus/ Royal Philharmonic Orch./ Sir Thomas Beecham – Pristine
- DUKAS: Orchestral Music = Fanfare; La Peri; Symphony in C Major; L’Apprenti Sorcier, Scherzo – Radio Philharmonic Orch./ Jean Fournet – Regis
- STEPHEN ALBERT: In Concordium; TreeStone – Ilkka Talvi, violin/Lucy Shelton, sop./David Gordon, tenor/ Seattle Sym./New York Ch. Sym./ Gerard Schwarz – Naxos
- Cyprien Katsaris: Piano Rarities, Vol. 2: French Composers [TrackList follows] – Piano 21
- MOZART: Missa brevis in C Major, K. 220; Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504 “Prague”; HAYDN: Nine German Dances -Soloists/RAI Orch./Lovro von Matacic – Archipel
- Koczalski plays CHOPIN = (incl. Piano Con. No. 2) – Music & Arts (2 CDs)
- Eduard van Beinum Conducts HAYDN: Sym. No. 96; BRAHMS: Sym. No. 3; RAVEL: Rapsodie Espagnole; TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante cantabile – Concertgebouw Orch. of Amsterdam/ London Philharmonic Orch. (Brahms)/ Eduard van Beinum – Dutton
- Clemens Krauss conducts RICHARD STRAUSS = Till Eulenspiegel; Tod und Verklaerung; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme – Orch. del Teatro alla Scala/ London Philharmonic Orch./ Vienna Philharmonic Orch./ Clemens Krauss – Dutton
- The Byron Janis Chopin Collection = CHOPIN: 6 Mazurkas; 6 Nocturnes; 4 Waltzes; Impromptu No. 1; Etude in C-sharp Minor – EMI Classics
- VERDI: Messa Da Requiem – Soloists/NDR Orch./Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt – Archipel
- Styx: Grand Illusion/Pieces of Eight – Live, Blu-ray (2011)
- The Grey, Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Copy (2012)
- Into The Abyss, Blu-ray (2011/12)
- Red Tails (2012)
- In Search of Haydn (2012)
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2012)
- MONTEVERDI: L’incoronatione di Poppea, Blu-ray (2011)
- The Red House, Blu-ray + DVD 2-disc pack (1947/2012)
- FÖRSTER: Three String Quartets – Authentic Quartet – Hungaroton
- Mercury Living Presence: The Collector’s Edition (Ltd. Edition) – 51-CD boxed set
- Jascha Heifetz in works of BACH, VIEUXTEMPS & GRUENBERG – Dutton
- Styx: Grand Illusion/Pieces of Eight – Live, Blu-ray (2011)
- BACH: Overtures: Complete Orchestra Suites – Freiburg Baroque Orch./ Petra Müllejans & Gottfried von der Golta – Harmonia mundi (2 CDs)
- SAINT-SAENS: Complete Symphonies = Orch. de l’ORTF/ Jean Martinon – Brilliant Classics (2)
- “A Lindberg Extravaganza” = [TrackList follows] Christian Lindberg, trombone/Swedish Wind Ensemble/ Hans Ek – Bis
- FRANÇOIS DEVIENNE Clarinet Sonatas – Wonkak Kim – Naxos The Complete Works for Clarinet of LOUIS CAHUZAC – Philippe Cuper and Philippe Olivier Devaux – Clarinet Classics
- “Diablo Verde” = FALLA: Suite populaire Espagnole; PIAZZOLLA: Jeanne y Paul; El Pnenultimo; Milonga sin Palabras; Milonga en Re; GASPAR CASSADÓ: Requiebros; Danse du Diable vert – Duo AcCello – Pilfink “Tango and Snow” – Folias Flute and Guitar Duo – Blue Griffin
- Audio News for May 18, 2012
- MAHLER: Symphony No. 9 – New York Philharmonic/ Dimitri Mitropoulos – Archipel
- Tommy Igoe and the Birdland Big Band – Eleven – Self-produced
- SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; RODION SHCHEDRIN: Piano Con. No. 5 – Denis Matsuev, p./ Mariinsky Orchestra/ Valery Gergiev – Mariinsky
- JÖRG HERCHET: Das Geistliche Jahr: Four Cantatas – Meißner Kantorei 1961/ Ensemble vocal modern/ Christfried Brödel – querstand (SACD + CD)
- LASSE THORESEN: Himmelkvad (Vocal Sextet, Op. 42 and Helligkvad, Op. 19) – Berit Opheim Versto, vocalist/ Nordic Voices – 2L (Blu-ray + CD)
- ‘Seven Steps’ = BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 14; BROOKLYN RIDER: Seven Steps; CHRISTOPHER TIGNOR: Together Into This Unknowable Night – Brooklyn Rider – In a Circle Records
- ARVO PÄRT: Creator Spiritus – Theatre of Voices/ Ars Nova Copenhagen/ Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ/ NYYD Quartet/ Paul Hillier – Harmonia mundi
- A Story of The City: Constantinople, Istanbul – Schola Cantorum/ Ensemble Trinitas/ The New England Drums & Winds Mehterhane/ DÜNYA Ensembles – Dünya Inc. (2 CDs)
- AudioControl Maestro M4 – Audiophile 7.1 AV Preamp SRP: $6000
- Audio News for May 15, 2012
- Larry Willis, piano – This Time The Dream’s On Me – HighNote
- ‘The Eleanor Hovda Collection’ = ELEANOR HOVDA: Ariadne Music; Coastal Traces; Sound Around the Sound; Excavations – var. performers – Innova (4 CDs)
- HARTY: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Piano Quintet – Goldner String Quartet/ Piers Lane, p. – Hyperion
- Marzette Watts – Marzette Watts & Company – ESP-Disk
- Sevda – Sevda: Exclusive Collector’s Edition – Caprice (2 CDs + 1 DVD)
- Piero Coppola = SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1 “Spring”; Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish”; WAGNER: Parsifal: Instr. Excerpts R. STRAUSS: Salome: Instr. Excerpts – Pristine Audio
- Melissa Stylianou – Silent Movie – Anzic Records
- BEETHOVEN: The Late String Quartets – Cypress String Quartet – Cypress Performing Arts (3 CDs)
- RAFFAELE BELLAFRONTE: ‘Arakathalama’ = Nights in Broadway; Midnight plays; Desaccòrd; Blue; Passi; Cristalli di sale; Oasi alle mente; Arakathalama – var. performers – Stradivarius
- Audio News for May 11, 2012
- Harry Blech and the London Mozart Players: The Complete HMV Stereo Recordings, Vol. 2 = MOZART: Symphony No. 36; Piano Concerto No. 24; 12 Minuets – Louis Kentner, piano – First Hand Records
- BACH: St. John Passion (1725 version) – Soloists/ La Furia Ensemble/ Concerto d’Amsterdam/ Nico van der Meel – Quintone 08001 (2 CDs)
- CHISHOLM: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 – Danny Driver, p./ BBC Scottish Sym. Orch./Rory MacDonald – Hyperion
- Marguerite Long plays RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3; D’INDY: Symphony on a French Mountain Air – Marguerite Long, p./ Orch. cond. Pedro de Freitas Branco (Ravel)/ Paris Conservatory Orch./ Felix Weingartner (Beethoven)/ Colonne Sym. Orch. / Paul Paray (D’Indy) – Dutton
- “Air—The BACH Album”: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068; Violin Concerto No. 1 in a; Violin Concerto No. 2 in E; Largo from Concerto for Harpsichord in f; Concerto for Two Violins in d; Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) – Anne Akiko Meyers, violin/ English Ch. Orch./ Steven Mercurio – E1 Music
- Bill Evans – Live at Art D’Lugoff’s Top of the Gate (1968) – Resonance Records (2 CDs)
- Tom Harrell – Number Five – High Note
- Audio News for May 8, 2010
- * STRAVINSKY: Rite of Spring; Firebird Suite; Scherzo; Tango – Budapest Festival Orch./ Ivan Fischer – Channel Classics
- GRIEG: 20 Lyric Pieces – David Rubinstein, piano – Musicus
- Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas – Columbia/Sony Music
- The Grey, Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Copy (2012)
- MOZART: Requiem in D Minor; SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5 – soloists/ BBC Chorus/ Royal Philharmonic Orch./ Sir Thomas Beecham – Pristine
- ‘ARTIFACTS’ = Works by BRIGHT SHENG, JOEL PUCKETT, MICHAEL DAUGHERTY, WM. BOLCOM – U. of Mich. Sym. Band – Equilibrium Records
- Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball – Columbia
- DUKAS: Orchestral Music = Fanfare; La Peri; Symphony in C Major; L’Apprenti Sorcier, Scherzo – Radio Philharmonic Orch./ Jean Fournet – Regis
- Jazz Soul Seven – Impressions Of Curtis Mayfield – Singular Recordings/ BFM Jazz
- Jazz Punks – Smashups – Foam @ The Mouth Records
- ZOLTAN KODALY: Hary Janos Suite; Dances of Galanta; 2 Arias from Hary Janos – London Sym. Orch./ Istvan Kertesz/ Olga Szonyi, sop. – Decca/HDTT 96/24 DVD
- YORK BOWEN: Violin Suite; Cello Sonata; Violin Sonata in e; Viola Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Phantasy – Endymion Ensemble/ James Boyd, viola/ Bengt Forsberg, p. – Dutton Epoch (2 CDs)
- RICHARD BLACKFORD: Not in Our Time (Oratorio) – Paul Nilon, ten./ Stephan Gadd, bar./ Bournemouth Sym. Orch., Chorus, and Youth Chorus/ Gavin Carr – Nimbus Alliance
- Audio News for May 4, 2012
- BACH: Concerto in d, BWV 1052; Prelude, BWV 846; Concerto in E, BWV 1042; Sonata in g, BWV 1001; Concerto in a, BWV 1041; Air on the G String – Xuefei Yang, guitar/ Elias String Q. – EMI
- ROBIN GIBB, RJ GIBB: Titanic Requiem – Rsvp Voices/ Royal Philharmonic Orch./ Cliff Masterson – Redbreast Records
- Mordecai Shehori: The Celebrated New York Concerts, Vol. 6 = Works of CZERNY, BRAHMS, DEBUSSY, RAVEL, HOROWITZ, BACH = Cembal d’amour
- The Bill Harris Quintet – Inside Out – Pensativa Music
- “Alte Meister” = Works of MUFFAT, WALTHER, BUXTEHUDE, J.S. BACH, PACHELBEL, STRUNGK & KERIL in arr. by Karl Straube [TrackList follows] – MD&G Scene
- Into The Abyss, Blu-ray (2011/12)
- Red Tails (2012)
- STEPHEN ALBERT: In Concordium; TreeStone – Ilkka Talvi, violin/Lucy Shelton, sop./David Gordon, tenor/ Seattle Sym./New York Ch. Sym./ Gerard Schwarz – Naxos
- In Search of Haydn (2012)
- “Le Bestiaire” = Vocal works of SAUGUIET, SEVERAC, CAPLET, IBERT & Others about animals – Celine Ricci, sop./ens. – Sono Luminus
- Cyprien Katsaris: Piano Rarities, Vol. 2: French Composers [TrackList follows] – Piano 21
- MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 1; Piano Trio No. 2 – Wu Han, piano /Philip Setzer, violin/ David Finckel, cello – Artist Led
- ‘The White Barn Duets’ = Gil Selinger, cello/ Evan Mazunik, piano – White Barn
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2012)
- Audio News for May 1, 2012
- Editorial for May 2012
- Home Page for May 2012
- MOZART: Missa brevis in C Major, K. 220; Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504 “Prague”; HAYDN: Nine German Dances -Soloists/RAI Orch./Lovro von Matacic – Archipel
- “BEETHOVEN’S BEETHOVEN” = Symphony No. 2 arr. for piano trio by Beethoven; Quintet for Piano and Winds arr. for p. quartet by Beethoven – Van Swieten Society – Quintone
- Philippe Baden Powell, solo piano – Piano Masters Series, Vol. 2 – Adventure Music
- JOHANN CHRISTIAN SCHIEFERDECKER: Musicalische Concerte (excerpts) – Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg – Challenge Classics
- Koczalski plays CHOPIN = (incl. Piano Con. No. 2) – Music & Arts (2 CDs)
- Mal Waldron Quintets – Soul Note/Black Saint Records box set (4 CDs)
- Orchestre National de Jazz – Shut Up and Dance – Bee Jazz Bee (2 CDs)
- ALLAN PETTERSSON: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 2 – Norrköping Sym. Orch./ Christian Lindberg – BIS (CD + DVD)
- Audio News for April 27, 2012
- WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera) – Soloists/Rundfunk Sym., Berlin/ Marek Janowski – PentaTone (4 discs)
- STRAVINSKY: The Firebird (complete ballet); Greeting Prelude; Arrangements of TCHAIKOVSKY: Pas-de-deux; SIBELIUS: Canzonetta; CHOPIN: Nocturne in A-flat; Grande Valse Brilliante – Bergen Philharmonic Orch./ Andrew Litton – BIS
- Eduard van Beinum Conducts HAYDN: Sym. No. 96; BRAHMS: Sym. No. 3; RAVEL: Rapsodie Espagnole; TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante cantabile – Concertgebouw Orch. of Amsterdam/ London Philharmonic Orch. (Brahms)/ Eduard van Beinum – Dutton
- The Sound of Jazz – Soundtrack from 1957 CBS-TV Special – [TrackList follows] Columbia/ Pure Pleasure Records vinyl
- Thad Jones/Mel Lewis – Consummation – Blue Note/ Pure Pleasure Records – vinyl
- Music of CHINARY UNG: Vol. 3 = Spiral XI : Mother and Child; Spiral IX : Maha Sathukar – Soloists – Bridge
- B.B. King – Singin’ The Blues – Crown Records (1957)/ Pure Pleasure Records vinyl
- Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – Wasted – Tone Tide Records
- ANTON BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4, “Romantic” – London Sym. Orch./ Bernard Haitink – LSO Live
- Clemens Krauss conducts RICHARD STRAUSS = Till Eulenspiegel; Tod und Verklaerung; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme – Orch. del Teatro alla Scala/ London Philharmonic Orch./ Vienna Philharmonic Orch./ Clemens Krauss – Dutton
- Viktoria Mullova – The Peasant Girl – Viktoria Mullova, violin/ The Matthew Barley Ensemble – Onyx
- MONTEVERDI: L’incoronatione di Poppea, Blu-ray (2011)
- RACHMANINOFF: Symphonic Dances; STRAVINSKY: Symphony in Three Movements – London Sym. Orch./ Valery Gergiev – LSO Live
- Northern Lights = Choral Works by OLA GJEILO – Phoenix Chorale/ Harrington String Quartet/ Emmanuel Lopez, cello/ Ola Gjeilo, piano/ Alison Chaney, sop./ Ted Belledin, tenor sax/ Charles Bruffy – Chandos
- The Byron Janis Chopin Collection = CHOPIN: 6 Mazurkas; 6 Nocturnes; 4 Waltzes; Impromptu No. 1; Etude in C-sharp Minor – EMI Classics
- Peggy Lee – The Man I Love – Capitol (1957)/ Pure Pleasure Records – vinyl
- Audio News for April 24, 2012
- Cuddle Magic – Info Nympho – FYO 5
- Hendrik Meurkens and Gabriel Espinosa – Celebrando – Zoho
- VERDI: Messa Da Requiem – Soloists/NDR Orch./Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt – Archipel
- The Red House, Blu-ray + DVD 2-disc pack (1947/2012)
- Peter Gabriel – Live Blood – Eagle Records (2 CDs)
- Melissa Stylianou – Silent Movie – Anzic Records
- Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas – Columbia/Sony Music
- Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball – Columbia
- Orchestre National de Jazz – Shut Up and Dance – Bee Jazz Bee (2 CDs)
- Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – Wasted – Tone Tide Records
- Cuddle Magic – Info Nympho – FYO 5
- Peter Gabriel – Live Blood – Eagle Records (2 CDs)
- Tommy Igoe and the Birdland Big Band – Eleven – Self-produced
- Larry Willis, piano – This Time The Dream’s On Me – HighNote
- Marzette Watts – Marzette Watts & Company – ESP-Disk
- Bill Evans – Live at Art D’Lugoff’s Top of the Gate (1968) – Resonance Records (2 CDs)
- Tom Harrell – Number Five – High Note
- Jazz Soul Seven – Impressions Of Curtis Mayfield – Singular Recordings/ BFM Jazz
- Jazz Punks – Smashups – Foam @ The Mouth Records
- The Bill Harris Quintet – Inside Out – Pensativa Music
- Philippe Baden Powell, solo piano – Piano Masters Series, Vol. 2 – Adventure Music
- Mal Waldron Quintets – Soul Note/Black Saint Records box set (4 CDs)
- Hendrik Meurkens and Gabriel Espinosa – Celebrando – Zoho
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