Featured Reviews
	COMPOSER	ALBUM/WORK TITLE	PERFORMER	LABEL	POSTING DATE
	Contemporary works for brass ensemble; also works by Ives (From the Steeples to the Mountains) and Gabrieli (Canzona XXV)	METALOFONICO	Metalofonico Jon Nelson	8bells	7/6/2008
	GUSTAV HOLST GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS PERCY GRAINGER	Suites Nos. 1 & 2 for Band Royal Fireworks Music Folksong Suite Lincolnshire Posy	Cleveland Symphonic Winds Frederick Fennell	Telarc	7/6/2008
	LUCIANO BERIO ROBERT CRAWFORD PETR EBEN STEVE MARTLAND IANNIS XENAKIS	HAMMERED BRASS Call Hammered Brass Quintet Full Fathom Five Khal Perr	Wallace Collection	Linn	7/6/2008
	Works by Persichetti, Stravinsky, Copland, Verdi, Grainger, Weinberger, & Walton	MONUMENTAL WORKS FOR WINDS	"The President's Own" United States Marine Band Lt. Col. Michael J. Colburn	Naxos	7/6/2008
	Works for wind ensemble by Tielman Susato, Ralph Vaughan Williams, David del Tredici, & Michael Daugherty	BELLS FOR STOKOWSKI	University of Texas Wind Ensemble Jerry Junkin	Reference Recordings	7/6/2008
	CLAUDE DEBUSSY	COMPLETE WORKS FOR PIANO, VOL. 3 Suite bergamasque; Deux arabesques; Children’s Corner; Various short works	Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)	Chandos	7/5/2008
	DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH	24 Preludes & Fugues Op. 87	David Jalbert (piano)	Atma	7/5/2008
	Various works by Mozart, Strauss, Falla, Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, Mahler, Bach, others	MARILYN HORNE--THE COMPLETE DECCA RECITALS	Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano); Martin Katz (piano) Various orchestras & conductors	Decca	7/5/2008
	W.A. MOZART	Flute Quartets K. 285; 285a; 285b; 298	Michala Petri (recorder); Carolin Widmann (violin); Ula Ulijona (viola); Marta Sudraba (cello)	OUR Recordings	7/5/2008
	WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART	Violin Concertos in G K. 216; D K. 218; & A K. 219	Marianne Thorsen (violin) Trondheim Solistene Oyvind Gimse	2L	7/5/2008
		WITH A SONG IN MY HEART--THE GREAT SONGS OF RICHARD RODGERS	Maureen McGovern New York Pops Skitch Henderson	Centaur	7/4/2008
	AARON COPLAND	COPLAND: THE MUSIC OF AMERICA Fanfare for the Common Man; Rodeo; Appalachian Spring; Quiet City; Billy the Kid	Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Erich Kunzel	Musical Heritage Society	7/4/2008
	GEORGE GERSHWIN	Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto in F; An American in Paris; Variation on "I Got Rhythm"; Cuban Overture	Earl Wild (piano) Boston Pops Orchestra Arthur Fiedler	RCA	7/4/2008
	MAURICE RAVEL	RAVEL’S GREATEST HIT--The Ultimate Bolero Bolero (various arrangements)	Benny Goodman (clarinet); Morton Gould (piano); Evelyn Glennie (percussion); Isao Tomita (synthesizer) Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Pops Dallas Symphony Orchestra Charles Munch Arthur Fiedler Eduardo Mata	RCA	7/4/2008
	Orchestral transcriptions of works by Albeniz, Bach, Boccherini, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Mussorgsky, & Rachmaninov	THE FANTASTIC STOKOWSKI	Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Erich Kunzel	Telarc	7/4/2008
	DIMITRI TIOMKIN	Lost Horizon (Suite); The Guns of Navarone (Prelude); The Big Sky (Prelude, Forest at Night, & The Wide Missouri); The Fourposter (Overture); Friendly Persuasion (Love Scene); Search for Paradise (Choral Finale)	The John Alldis Choir National Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Gerhardt	RCA	7/2/2008
	JAMES COHN	Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7; Variations on "The Wayfaring Stranger;" Waltz in D	Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Vakhtang Jordania Kirk Trevor	Naxos	7/2/2008
	SERGEI RACHMANINOV	The Isle of the Dead; Youth Symphony; Symphony No. 1	BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda	Chandos	7/2/2008
	FELIX WEINGARTNER	STRING QUARTETS, VOL. 1 String Quartet No. 1 in D minor Op. 24; String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 34	Sarastro Quartett	CPO	6/30/2008
	HECTOR BERLIOZ JACQUES IBERT CLAUDE-JOSEPH DE LISLE	Symphonie fantastique Escales "La marseillaise" (arr. Berlioz)	The Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Ormandy	RCA	6/30/2008
	23 works, including Belle of the Ball, The Waltzing Cat, Blue Tango, The Typewriter, Sleigh Ride, Serenata, Fiddle-Faddle, Jazz Legato, Jazz Pizzicato, Horse & Buggy, and Summer Skies	FREDERICK FENNELL CONDUCTS LEROY ANDERSON	Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra Unnamed orchestra Frederick Fennell	Mercury Living Presence	6/29/2008
	LEROY ANDERSON	ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, VOL. 1 Piano Concerto; Bugler's Holiday; Blue Tango; The First Day of Spring; Belle of the Ball; Clarinet Candy; The Classical Jukebox; Fiddle-Faddle; China Doll; The Golden Years; Balladette; Arietta; The Captain and the Kings; Chicken Reel; Governor Bradford March	Jeffrey Biegel (piano) BBC Concert Orchestra Leonard Slatkin	Naxos	6/29/2008
	LEROY ANDERSON	Piano Concerto; Others (see review)	Simon Tedeschi (piano) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Paul Mann	ABC Classics	6/29/2008
	LEROY ANDERSON	The Waltzing Cat, The Syncopated Clock; Blue Tango; others	U.S. Air Force Band Leroy Anderson	Walking Frog	6/29/2008
	Sleigh Ride; A Christmas Festival; 3 Christmas Carol suites	A LEROY ANDERSON CHRISTMAS	Boston Pops (Sleigh Ride) Leroy Anderson & His Orchestra Arthur Fiedler Leroy Anderson	Decca	6/29/2008
	ALFRED NEWMAN	CLASSIC FILM SCORES Captain from Castile; Wuthering Heights; The Song of Bernadette; Anastasia; others	National Philharmonic Charles Gerhardt	RCA	6/28/2008
	ARNOLD SCHOENBERG JEAN SIBELIUS	Violin Concerto Violin Concerto	Hilary Hahn (violin) Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen	Deutsche Grammophon	6/28/2008
	MAX STEINER	Gone with the Wind	National Philharmonic Charles Gerhardt	RCA	6/28/2008
	VINCENT D'INDY	Jour d'été à la montagne; Souvenirs; La foret enchantée	Iceland Symphony Orchestra Rumon Gamba	Chandos	6/28/2008
	Works by Grieg, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Debussy, others	LEGENDARY PIANO RECORDINGS: THE COMPLETE GRIEG, SAINT-SAËNS, PUGNO, AND DIÉMER	Edvard Grieg (piano); Camille Saint-Saëns (piano); Jules Massenet (piano); Claude Debussy (piano); Raoul Pugno (piano); Louis Diémer (piano); Gabriel Willaume (violin); Meyriane Héglon (soprano); Georgette Leblanc (soprano); Mary Garden (soprano); Maria Gay (mezzo-soprano)	Marston	6/28/2008
	LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN	Symphony No. 7; Egmont Overture; Leonore Overture No. 3	Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Joseph Keilberth	Teldec	6/26/2008
	Marches by Saint-Saëns, Grainger, R. Strauss, Prokofiev, Weber, Mendelssohn, Barber, Ives, Grieg, Harlvorson, Hanssen, Bull	OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY	Kristiansand Blaseensemble Bjorn Sagstad	2L	6/26/2008
	MODEST MUSSORGSKY PETER TCHAIKOVSKY	Pictures at an Exhibition Music from Sleeping Beauty (arr. Pletnev)	Mikhail Pletnev (piano)	Virgin Classics	6/26/2008
	WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART	Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 18	Christian Zacharias (piano) Lausanne Chamber Orchestra Christian Zacharias	MDG	6/24/2008
	CLAUDE DEBUSSY BELA BARTÓK PAUL DUKAS MANUEL DE FALLA FLORENT SCHMITT	Ballade; Mazurka; Nocturne; Valse romantique; Préludes Book I Improvisation No. 7 La plainte au loin du faune Homenaje Et Pan, au fond des blés lunaires, s'accouda	Bennett Lerner (piano)	Bridge	6/23/2008
	ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; The Prince and the Pauper; Another Dawn; The Sea Wolf; Anthony Adverse; Of Human Bondage; Deception (Cello Concerto);	National Philiharmonic Charles Gerhardt	RCA	6/23/2008
	FELIX MENDELSSOHN MAX BRUCH	Violin Concerto in E minor Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor	Midori (violin) Berlin Philharmonic Mariss Jansons	Sony Classical	6/22/2008
	FRANCIS POULENC CLAUDE DEBUSSY CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS	Violin Sonata Violin Sonata Violin Sonata No. 1	Midori (violin); Robert McDonald (piano)	Sony Classical	6/22/2008
	LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN	Piano Sonatas Nos. 17 ("Tempest"), 18, 21 ("Waldstein"), & 22	Solomon (piano)	Testament	6/22/2008
	MAURICE RAVEL JOHAN HALVORSEN ZOLTAN KODÁLY J.S. BACH	Sonata for Violin & Cello Passacaglia and Sarabande with Variations in G minor after Handel Duo for Violin & Cello Op. 7 Two-Part Invention No. 6 in E major BWV 777	Lynn Harrell (cello); Kennedy (violin)	EMI	6/22/2008
	Various works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Liszt, others	GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY VOL. 92: SOLOMON	Solomon (piano)	Philips	6/22/2008
	ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD	The Sea Hawk (complete); Deception	Moscow Symphony Orchestra & Chorus William Stromberg	Naxos	6/21/2008
	HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS	Choros Nos. 1, 4, 6, 8, & 9	Fabio Zanon (guitar) São Paulo Symphony Orchestra John Neschling	BIS	6/21/2008
	JAN LADISLAV DUSSEK	Piano Sonatas Op. 77 (“L'invocation”); Op. 9 Nos. 1, 2, & 3	Markus Becker (piano)	CPO	6/21/2008
	PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY	Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"; Dumka	Christoph Eschenbach (piano) Philadelphia Orchestra Christoph Eschenbach	Ondine	6/21/2008
	VELJO TORMIS	Works for Men's Voices (Includes: An Aboriginal Song; Double Dedication; Our Shadows; Forging the Sampo; Crosswind; The Bishop and the Pagan; Incantation for a Stormy Sea; Men's Songs; Curse upon Iron)	Svanholm Singers Sofia Söderberg Eberhard	Toccata Classics	6/21/2008
	EDGARD VARÈSE	Amériques; Ecuatorial; Nocturnal; Dance for Burgess; Tuning Up; Hyperprism; Un grand sommeil noir; Density 21.5; Ionisation	Elizabeth Watts (soprano); Maria Grochowska (flute) Camerata Silesia Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Christopher Lyndon-Gee	Naxos	6/20/2008
	CLAUDE DEBUSSY	Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; La Mer; Jeux; Children's Corner	Orchestre National de Lyon Jun Märkl	Naxos	6/18/2008
	LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN SERGEI RACHMANINOV JOHANNES BRAHMS	Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 Piano Trio in G minor “Élégiaque” Piano Trio in C minor Op. 101	Trio Cracovia	Dux	6/18/2008
	RICHARD STRAUSS	An Alpine Symphony; Don Juan	San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt	Decca	6/18/2008
	BOHUSLAV MARTINU	Jeux I & II; Quatre movements; Film en miniature; Spring; Le Train hanté; The Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon; La Revue de cuisine; Memories	Karel Kosárek (piano)	Supraphon	6/17/2008
	DOMENICO SCARLATTI	COMPLETE KEYBOARD SONATAS, VOL. 9 Sonatas K. 52, 77, 79, 111, 139, 170, 176, 277, 340, 344, 388, 398, & 456	Francesco Nicolosi (piano)	Naxos	6/17/2008
	RICHARD WAGNER	Der Ring des Nibelungen	Hans Hotter (bass-baritone); Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor); Birgit Nilsson (soprano); Otakar Kraus (baritone); Ramon Vinay (tenor); Sylvia Fisher (soprano); Georgine von Milinkovic (mezzo-soprano); Kurt Böhme (bass); Erich White (tenor); Peter Klein (tenor); Hermann Uhde (bass-baritone); Joan Sutherland (soprano); Maria Von Ilosvay (contralto); others Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Rudolf Kempe	Testament	6/17/2008
	CHARLES IVES	Three Orchestral Sets (incl. Three Places in New England)	Malmö Symphony Orchestra & Chorus James Sinclair	Naxos	6/16/2008
	GUSTAV MAHLER	Symphony No. 10 (Cooke Edition)	Vienna Philharmonic Daniel Harding	Deutsche Grammophon	6/16/2008
	LEONARD BERNSTEIN	West Side Story	Vittorio Grigolo; Hayley Westenra; Connie Fisher; Will Martin; Melanie Marshall Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Nick Ingman	Decca	6/16/2008
	EDVARD GRIEG ROBERT SCHUMANN	Piano Concerto Piano Concerto	Claudio Arrau (piano) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi	Eloquence	6/15/2008
	EDVARD GRIEG	Holberg Suite; Two Elegiac Melodies; Two Melodies Op. 53; Two Nordic Melodies Op. 63; Two Lyric Pieces Op. 68	Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Ole Kristian Ruud	BIS	6/15/2008
	EDVARD GRIEG	Lyric Pieces (selections)	Hideyo Harada (piano)	Audite	6/15/2008
	EDVARD GRIEG	Partsongs for Male Voices	Die Singphoniker	CPO	6/15/2008
	EDVARD GRIEG	Peer Gynt (complete)	Svein Sturla Hungnes (speaker); Marita Solberg (soprano); Hakan Hagegard (baritone) KorVest (Bergen Vocal Ensemble) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Ole Kristian Ruud	BIS	6/15/2008
	BOHUSLAV MARTINU	Violin Concerto No. 2; Serenade No. 2; Toccata e due canzoni	Isabelle Faust (violin); Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Prague Philharmonia Jirí Belohlávek	Harmonia Mundi	6/14/2008
	English madrigals and anthems by Weelkes, Morley, Vautor, Gibbons, Wilbye Byrd, Tomkins, Vautor, Bennet, Ramsey, & Farnaby	ENGLISH MADRIGALS	The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips	Gimell	6/14/2008
	HILDEGARD VON BINGEN	CELESTIAL HARMONIES--Responsories & Antiphons	Oxford Camerata Jeremy Summerly	Naxos	6/14/2008
	LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN	Piano Sonatas No. 5 in C minor Op. 10 No. 1; No. 6 in F major Op. 10 No. 2; No. 7 in D major Op. 10 No. 3; No. 15 in D major Op. 28 (“Pastorale”); No. 19 in G minor Op. 49 No. 1; No. 20 in G major Op. 49 No. 2; No. 26 in E-flat major Op. 81a (“Les Adieux”); No. 30 in E major Op. 109; No. 31 in A-flat major Op. 110; No. 32 in C minor Op. 111	Paul Lewis (piano)	Harmonia Mundi	6/14/2008
	RICHARD STRAUSS	Also sprach Zarathustra; Death and Transfiguration; Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks	San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Herbert Blomstedt	Decca	6/14/2008
	CHRISTOPH GLUCK	Alceste	Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano); Robert Tear (tenor); John Shirley-Quirk, Jonathan Summers (baritone); others Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Charles Mackerras	Royal Opera House	6/13/2008
	BOHUSLAV MARTINU	Symphonies Nos. 1-6	Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Válek	Supraphon	6/12/2008
	LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN	Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat Op. 26 “Funeral March”; No. 15 in D Op. 28 “Pastorale”; & No. 27 in E minor Op. 90	Garrick Ohlsson (piano)	Bridge	6/12/2008
	AULIS SALLINEN	Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 "Washington Mosaics"	Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz Ari Rasilainen	CPO	6/11/2008
	GEORGE GERSHWIN	Rhapsody in Blue; Second Rhapsody; Variations on "I Got Rhythm"; Concerto in F	Anne-Marie McDermott (piano) Dallas Symphony Orchestra Justin Brown	Bridge	6/11/2008
	J.S. BACH FRANZ LISZT	Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 462 (arr. Liszt); Chaconne in D minor (arr. Busoni) Valse de l’opéra Faust; Sonata in B minor	Polina Leschenko (piano)	Avanti	6/10/2008
	FRIEDRICH GULDA ALEXIS WEISSENBERG NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN GEORGE ANTHEIL	IN A STATE OF JAZZ Play Piano Play: Exercises 1, 4, & 5; Prelude and Fugue (1965) Sonate en état de jazz; Six arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 54 Jazz Sonata (1923)	Marc-André Hamelin (piano)	Hyperion	6/9/2008
	GIACOMO PUCCINI	La bohème	Anna Netrebko, Nicole Cabell (soprano); Rolando Villazón (tenor); Boaz Daniel, Stephane Degout (baritone); Vitalij Kowaljow (bass); others Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Bertrand de Billy	Deutsche Grammophon	6/9/2008
	JORDI SAVALL	LACHRIMAE CARAVAGGIO Statio I-VII	Ferran Savall (voice); Riccardo Minasi (violin); Andrew Lawrence-King (harp); Jordi Savall (soprano & bass viola da gamba); Xavier Puertas (violin) Le Concert des Nations Hesperion XXI Jordi Savall	Alia Vox	6/9/2008
	JOSEPH HAYDN	Violin Concertos in C major; A major; & G major	Augustin Hadelich (violin) Cologne Chamber Orchestra Helmut Müller-Brühl	Naxos	6/9/2008
	ANTONÍN DVORÁK	Quartet in E-flat for Piano & Strings; Romantic Pieces for Violin & Piano; Sonatina in G for Violin & Piano	Emanuel Ax (piano); Isaac Stern (violin); Jaime Laredo (viola); Yo-Yo Ma (cello); Robert McDonald (piano)	Sony Classical	6/8/2008
	FRANZ LISZT	Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat; Piano Concerto No. 2 in A; Sonata in B minor	Emanuel Ax (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra Esa-Pekka Salonen	Sony Classical	6/8/2008
	JOSEPH HAYDN	Piano Sonatas Nos. 29 (Hob. 45), 31 (Hob. 46), 34 (Hob. 33), 35 (Hob. 43), & 49 (Hob. 36)	Emanuel Ax (piano)	Sony Classical	6/8/2008
	RICHARD STRAUSS	Enoch Arden Op. 38; Five Piano Pieces Op. 3 Nos. 3 & 4	Emanuel Ax (piano); Patrick Stewart (speaker)	Sony Classical	6/8/2008
	SERGEI RACHMANINOV	Symphonic Dances for 2 Pianos; Suites 1 & 2 for 2 Pianos	Emanuel Ax (piano); Yefim Bronfman (piano)	Sony Classical	6/8/2008
	FRANK MARTIN	Concerto for Cello & Orchestra; Ballade for Cello & Piano; Eight Preludes for Piano	Christian Poltéra (cello); Kathryn Stott (piano) Malmö Symphony Orchestra Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen	BIS	6/7/2008
	GAETANO DONIZETTI	La fille du regiment	Natalie Dessay (soprano); Juan Diego Florez (tenor); Alessandro Corbelli, Donald Maxwell (bass-baritone); Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano) Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Bruno Campanella	Virgin Classics	6/7/2008
	KAROL SZYMANOWSKI	Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 "Song of the Night"	Ryszard Minkiewicz (tenor) Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra Antoni Wit	Naxos	6/7/2008
	LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN	Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3	Ronald Brautigam (piano) Norrköping Symphony Orchestra Andrew Parrott	BIS	6/7/2008
	Lute and consort songs & instrumental works by John Dowland, John Ward, Robert Johnson, William Byrd, others	CRYSTAL TEARS--JOHN DOWLAND & HIS CONTEMPORARIES	Andreas Scholl (countertenor); Julian Behr (lute) Concerto di Viole	Harmonia Mundi	6/7/2008