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Articles by Fanfare Contributor Alan Swanson

  A HISTORY OF OPERA By Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker. New York: Norton, 2012. xix +

  EVENING HYMN (Deanna Joseph)

  A KINGDOM NOT OF THIS WORLD: Wagner, The Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna By Kevin C. Karnes. New York: Oxford, 2013. x +

  EVENING HYMN (Deanna Joseph)

  AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: How Debussy Created a New Music for the Modern World By Harvey Lee Snyder. Milwaukee, WI: Amadeus, 2015. viii +

  EXULTATE DEO, MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE PSALMS OF... (Colm Carey)

  BACH’S CHANGING WORLD: Voices in the Community Edited by Carol K. Baron. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006.

  FAURÉ, GABRIEL: La bonne chanson. Poème d’un jour.... (Gérard Souzay)

  BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH AND SEVENTH SYMPHONIES: A Closer Look By David Hurwitz. New York: Continuum, 2008.

  GALUPPI, BALDASSARE: Keyboard Sonatas (Annalisa Martella)

  BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONIES: A Guided Tour By John Bell Young. New York: Amadeus Press, 2008. xx + 132pp. Paper. Includes CD.

  GEMINIANI, F.: Violin Sonatas Op 4 (Liana Mosca)

  BENJAMIN BRITTEN: A LIFE FOR MUSIC By Neil Powell. New York: Holt, 2013. xvii+

  GINASTERA, ALBERTO; SCHNITTKE (Kent Tritle)

  CHALLENGES: A Memoir of My Life in Opera By Sarah Caldwell, with Rebecca Matlock. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. xiv &

  GIRO D’ITALIA (Musica Alta Ripa)

  CHORAL MASTERWORKS: A Listener’s Guide By Michael Steinberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiii+

  GJEILO: Choral Music (Charles Bruffy)

  CHORAL MUSIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY By Nick Strimple. New York: Amadeus Press, 2008.

  GLORIOUS VOICES, SACRED SPACES (Simon Carrington)

  COMPOSERS ON COMPOSING FOR BAND, VOLUME 4: Young and Emerging Composers Ed. by Mark Camphouse. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2009.

  GOEHR, WALTER: Malpopita (Jin Wang)

  COMPOSITION IN THE DIGITAL WORLD: Conversations with 21st Century American Composers By Robert Raines. New York: Oxford UP, 2015. Illus.

  GREAT BRITISH CHORAL WORKS (Harry Christophers)

  COMRADES IN ART: The Correspondence of Ronald Stevenson and Percy Grainger 1957–61, with Interviews, Essays and Other Writings on Grainger by Ronald Stevenson Ed by Teresa B. Balough. Rochester, NY: Toccata Press, 2010.

  GRIEG, EDVARD: Album for Male Voices, op. 30... (Carl Høgset)

  CONDUCTING THE BRAHMS SYMPHONIES: From Brahms to Boult By Christopher Dyment. Woodbridge, SUF: Boydell, 2016. xvii +

  GROENEWEGEN: 24 Preludes (Andrew Clark)

  DO YOU DREAM IN COLOR? INSIGHTS FROM A GIRL WITHOUT SIGHT By Laurie Rubin. New York. Seven Stories Pr, 2012. 356 +

  HAGLUND: Hymnen an die Nacht... (Elizabeth Pitcairn)

  DO YOU DREAM IN COLOR?: INSIGHTS FROM A GIRL WITHOUT SIGHT By Laurie Rubin. New York: Seven Stories Pr, 2012.

  HAGLUND: Hymnen an die Nacht... (Elizabeth Pitcairn)

  EL LENGUAJE DE LA MUSICA, AL DESCUBIERTO: Un Método Tan Fácil Que Cualquier Persona Es Capaz De Aprender A Leer Y Escribir Música By Barry Araújo Kolman. Trans. by Maria Eugenia Melerio. Editorial Seleer, 2013,

  HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Alessandro (Michael Form)

  ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF: From Flower Maiden to Marschallin By Kirsten Liese. New York: Amadeus Press, 2008.

  HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Messiah (arr. Mozart) (John Scott)

  ERIK SATIE: A Parisian Composer and His World By Caroline Potter. Woodbridge: Boydell. 2016. xxxiv +

  HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: “Dettingen” Te Deum... (Stephen Layton)

  EXPERIENCING LEONARD BERNSTEIN: A Listener’s Companion By Kenneth LaFave. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015.

  HARTKE, STEPHEN: The Greater Good or The Passion... (Stewart Robertson)

  EXPERIENCING TCHAIKOVSKY: A Listener’s Companion By David Schroeder. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xxii +

  HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEPH; SCHUBERT; WIDMANN, JÖRG (Ragazze Qrt)

  GEORGE GERSHWIN: An Intimate Portrait By Walter Rimler. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

  HOWELLS, HERBERT; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (David Willcocks)

  GREAT WAGNER CONDUCTORS: A LISTENER’S COMPANION By Jonathan Brown. Canberra: Parrot Pr., 2012. Illus. xviii +

  HOWELLS, HERBERT; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (Matthew Best)

  GYÖRGY KURTÁG: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages Edited by Bálint András Varga. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2009. xiii +

  ICELANDIC FOLKSONGS (Ingólfsdóttir)

  HAVERGAL BRIAN ON MUSIC—Volume II: European and American Music in His Time By Havergal Brian. Ed. by Malcolm MacDonald. London: Toccata Press, 2009.

  ICELANDIC FOLKSONGS (Thorgerdur Ingólfsdóttir)

  HOW EQUAL TEMPERAMENT RUINED HARMONY (and Why You Should Care) By Ross W. Duffin. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007.

  IL SETTECENTO NAPOLETANO (Beasley)

  IANNIS XENAKIS: Un père bouleversant By Mâkhi Xenakis. Arles/Paris: Actes Sud, 2015.

  IN THE SOUTH (Brodsky Qrt)

  INSIDE CONDUCTING By Christopher Seaman. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013.

  INGELGEM, K. VAN; INGELGEM, M. VAN (Marc Michael De Smet)

  INTIMATE VOICES: THE 20TH-CENTURY STRING QUARTET 2 vols. Ed. by Evan Jones. Rochester, NY: Univ. Rochester Pr., 2009. xxi + 295/

  INTO THE LIGHT (Harry Christophers)

  IRONY AND SOUND: The Music of Maurice Ravel By Stephen Zank. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2009. ix +

  ITALIAN JOURNEY (Qrt di Cremona)

  IRONY AND SOUND By Stephen Zank. Rochester, NY: U Rochester Press, 2009. 449pp

  JAKUBĖNAS: The Song of the Exiles and the... (Vaclovas Augustinas)

  IVOR GURNEY AND MARION SCOTT: Song of Pain and Beauty By Pamela Blevins. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2008. xviii +

  JONAS KAUFMANN (Jonas Kaufmann)

  JEAN CRAS, POLYMATH OF MUSIC AND LETTERS By Paul-André Bempéchat. Farnham, Surrey, UK/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. xxviii +

  JONGEN, JOSEPH; FRANCK, CÉSAR; PEETERS, FLOR (Philip Scriven)

  JEAN CRAS, POLYMATH OF MUSIC AND LETTERS By Paul-André Bempéchat. Farnham, Surrey, UK/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. xxviii +

  JONGEN, JOSEPH; PEETERS, FLOR (David Hill)

  JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Life and Work By Martin Geck. Translated by John Hargraves. New York: Harcourt, 2006.

  JUBILEE: A Celebration of Royal Music (Various)

  JOHN STAINER: A Life in Music By Jeremy Dibble. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007.

  KATARZYNA DONDALSKA—POLISH SONGS (Katarzyna Dondalska)

  LEON KIRCHNER: Composer, Performer, and Teacher By Robert Riggs. Rochester: U Rochester Press, 2010. xv +

  KOPPEL, THOMAS; GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN, PELLE; RASMUSSEN, SUNLEIF (Michala Petri)

  LINA AND SERGE: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev By Simon Morrison. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

  KRAUS, JOSEPH MARTIN: Symphonies, in C, VB 139; in c♯,... (Nicholas McGegan)

  LIVING OPERA By Joshua Jampol. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Illus. xiv +

  KYLLÖNEN: Symphony No. 1. Accordion Concerto... (Alexander Tchernushenko)

  LUDVIG IRGENS-JENSEN: The Life and Music of a Norwegian Composer By Arvid O. Vollsnes. Transl. by Beryl Foster. London: Toccata Press, 2014.

  LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY—LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS (Roger Norrington)

  MACDOWELL By E. Douglas Bomberger. New York: Oxford UP, 2013.

  LEIGHTON, KENNETH: Sequence for All Saints... (Matthew Owens)

  MAD MUSIC: Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel By Stephen Budiansky. New Haven, CT: ForeEdge, UP New England, 2014.

  LEONCAVALLO, RUGGERO: La bohème (Jan Latham-Koenig)

  MAKING MUSICIANS: A Personal History of the Britten-Pears School By Moira Bennett. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Bittern Press, 2012. Illus.

  LEONTYNE PRICE—THE PRIMA DONNA COLLECTION (Leontyne Price)

  MALEVOLENT MUSE: The Life of Alma Mahler By Oliver Hilmes. Transl. Donald Arthur. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2015.

  LISZT: Missa Choralis (Elizabeth C. Patterson)

  MELODY, HARMONY, TONALITY: A BOOK FOR CONNOISSEURS AND AMATEURS By E. Eugene Helm. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Pr, 2013. x +

  LIVE FROM LORETTO CHAPEL (Linda Mack)

  MOZART, HAYDN AND EARLY BEETHOVEN, 1781–1802 By Daniel Heartz. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2009.

  LUNDBY-JÆGER: Offertorium... (Danish C Players)

  MOZART: THE WONDER CHILD—A Puppet Play in Three Acts By Diane Stanley. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2009.

  LUX AURUMQUE (Dale Warland)

  MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF THE MUSE By Leni Bogat. Amazon Kindle, 2012.

  LUX AURUMQUE (Warland)

  MUSIC AND THE BRITISH MILITARY IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY By Trevor Herbert and Helen Barlow. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. xi +

  MALINCONIA (Malinconia Ens)

  MUSIC AND ULTRA-MODERNISM IN FRANCE: A Fragile Consensus 1913–1939 By Barbara L. Kelly. Woodbridge, SUF: Boydell, 2013. xi +

  MASSENET, JULES: Thaïs (Gianandrea Noseda)

  MUSIC IN ART Edited by Alberto Ausoni. Translated by Stephen Sartarelli. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009.

  MATHIAS, WILLIAM: Choral Music... (Matthew Owens)

  MUSORGSKY AND HIS CIRCLE. A Russian Musical Adventure By Stephen Walsh. New York: Knopf, 2013. xiv+

  MENDELSSOHN, FELIX: 6 Anthems, op. 79... (Richard Marlow)

  NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER Ed.by Shirley Thompson. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. xxviii +

  MENDELSSOHN, FELIX: Herr, sei gnädig... (Frieder Bernius)

  NICOLAS NABOKOV: A Life in Freedom and Music By Vincent Giroud. New York: Oxford UP, 2015. Illus.

  MENDELSSOHN, FELIX: Nach Süden... (Dörthe Maria Sandmann)

  O CLAP YOUR HANDS: A Musical Tour of Sacred Choral Music By Gordon Giles. Orleans, MA: Paraclete Press, 2008. xxv+

  MENDELSSOHN, FELIX: Sacred Choral Music (David Hill)

  ON RUSSIAN MUSIC By Richard Taruskin. Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 2008

  MENDELSSOHN, FELIX: Songs with and without Words (Thomas Michael Allen)

  ON RUSSIAN MUSIC By Richard Taruskin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

  MENDELSSOHN, FELIX: Three Sacred Choruses, op. 23... (David Hill)

  OPERA AT THE BANDSTAND By George W. Martin. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2014. xx+

  MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL, FANNY: Lieder. Piano works (Sandmann)

  OUR SCHUBERT: His Enduring Legacy By David Schroeder. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

  MISSA BREVIS (Mark Opstad)

  OUTSIDER: John Rockwell on the Arts By John Rockwell. Pompton Plains, NJ: Limelight Editions, 2006.

  MOZART: Betulia liberata, K 118/74c (Michi Gaigg)

  PIANO LESSONS: A Memoir By Anna Goldsworthy. New York: St. Martin’s, 2009.

  MOZART: Così fan tutte (Charles Mackerras)

  REFLECTIONS: The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel By Paul Roberts. Milwaukee: Amadeus Pr, 2012. xvii +

  MOZART: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Sir Thomas Beecham)

  RETHINKING BRITTEN Ed. Philip Rupprecht. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. xxxi +

  MOZART: Die Zauberflöte. Symphony No. 41 (Otto Klemperer)

  ROSTROPOVICH: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher and Legend By Elizabeth Wilson. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008.

  MOZART: Piano Trios (André Previn)

  SCHUBERT IN THE EUROPEAN IMAGINATION. Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras By Scott Messing. Rochester, NY: Univ. of Rochester Press, 2006.

  MOZART: The Magic Flute (James Levine)

  SEEKING THE INFINITE: The Musical Life of Stanisław Skrowaczewski By Frederick Edward Harris Jr. independently published via CreateSpace, 2011. xii +

  MUSIC FROM MAGDALEN (Harry Christophers)

  SIR GEORG SOLTI: His Life and Music By Paul E. Robinson. Lincoln, NB: iUniverse, 2006.

  MUSIQUE AU TEMPS DE LOUISBOURG (La Tour Baroque Duo)

  SOUNDS FROM MY LIFE: Reminiscences of a Musician By Xaver Scharwenka. Translation, William E. Petig. Introduction, Robert S. Feigelson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.

  MUSORGSKY AND HIS CIRCLE. A Russian Musical Adventure (Walsh)

  STAR TURNS AND CAMEO APPEARANCES: Memoirs of a Life among Musicians By Bernard Jacobson. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2015.

  MY SPIRIT SANG ALL DAY (Terence Maskill)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: A Listener’s Guide By Daniel Felsenfeld. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2006.

  MY TRUE LOVE HATH MY HEART: English Songs (Sarah Connolly)

  TENOR: History of a Voice By John Potter. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xi +

  NEVILLE MARRINER: The First Recordings (Sir Neville Marriner)

  TERRY RILEY’S In C By Robert Carl. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii +

  NEW YEAR’S CONCERT 2007 FROM THE TEATRO LA FENICE (Kazushi Ono)

  THE AESTHETIC LIFE OF CYRIL SCOTT By Sarah Collins. Woodbridge, SUF: Boydell, 2013. xxxi +

  NIELSEN, CARL: Piano Trio in G... (Tr Ondine)

  THE ARTS OF THE PRIMA DONNA IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY Ed. by Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xlvi +

  NORDIC SOUND. Tribute to Axel Borup-Jørgensen (Petri)

  THE COMPOSER IS DEAD By Lemony Snicket. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

  NORDIC SOUND: Tribute to Axel Borup-Jørgensen (Clemens Schuldt)

  THE DANGER OF MUSIC AND OTHER ANTI-UTOPIAN ESSAYS By Richard Taruskin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

  O'CONNOR, MARK: Folk Mass. Let Us Move (Elizabeth C. Patterson)

  THE EMPTY VOICE: Acting Opera By Leon Major, with Michael Laing. Milwaukee, WI: Amadeus Press, 2011. Illus. xvii +

  ONE THING I HAVE DESIRED (Alastair Reid)

  THE FARTHEST PLACE: The Music of John Luther Adams Bernd Herzogenrath, ed. Boston: Northeastern U Pr, 2012. iv +

  ONSLOW, GEORGE: Piano Trios (Tr Cascades)

  THE GROVE BOOK OF OPERA SINGERS Edited by Laura Macy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

  OPERA AT THE BANDSTAND (Martin)

  THE GROVE BOOK OF OPERAS Edited by Stanley Sadie, 2nd. ed. by Laura Macy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

  OPERA WITHOUT WORDS (Barry Wordsworth)

  THE INFINITE VARIETY OF MUSIC By Leonard Bernstein. New York: Amadeus Press, 2007.

  PACIUS: Choral Works (Henrik Wikström)

  THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC REVEALED: A Real Easy Way for Anyone to Learn to Read and Write Music By Barry Araújo Kolman. Boca Raton: Universal Publishers, 2012.

  PASSIONATE BAROQUE ARIAS (Gemma Bertagnolli)

  THE MUSICAL LIFE OF JOSEPH MARTIN KRAUS: Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Swedish Composer Ed. and transl. by Bertil van Boer. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2014. Illus.

  PETER WARLOCK—SOME LITTLE JOY (Tony Britten)

  THE NEW GROVE GUIDE TO MOZART AND HIS OPERAS By Julian Rushton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

  PONCHIELLI, AMILCARE: La gioconda (Donato Renzetti)

  THE NEW GROVE GUIDE TO VERDI AND HIS OPERAS By Roger Parker. New York: Oxford UP, 2007.

  PORTRAIT OF THE SOUL (Jo-Michael Scheibe)

  THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: From Bernstein to Maazel By John Canarina. New York: Amadeus Press, 2010.

  POULENC, FRANCIS: Gloria... (Stephen Layton)

  THE NINTH: Beethoven and the World in 1824 By Harvey Sachs. New York: Random House, 2010.

  PRINCELY SPLENDOUR: Choral Works from 18th-Century... (Peter Leech)

  THE ORCHESTRA. A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION By D. Kern Holoman. New York. Oxford, 2012.

  PUCCINI II, GIACOMO: Madama Butterfly (Lorin Maazel)

  THE ORCHESTRA: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION By D. Kern Holoman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

  PUCCINI II, GIACOMO: Suor Angelica (Tullio Serafin)

  THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO THE 1,000 FINEST CLASSICAL RECORDINGS: The Must-Have CDs and DVDs Ed. by Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, and Paul Czajkowski. London: Penguin, 2011.

  PURCELL, HENRY: Sacred music (Scott)

  THE REVISION PROCESS IN RACHMANINOFF’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN F-SHARP MINOR, OPUS 1 By Morley Grossman. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. xii +

  PURCELL, HENRY: Sacred Music... (John Scott)

  THE SORCERER OF BAYREUTH: RICHARD WAGNER, HIS WORK AND HIS WORLD By Barry Millington. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

  PURCELL, HENRY; MACMILLAN, JAMES (Harry Christophers)

  THE WORLDS OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Edited by Raymond Erickson. New York: Amadeus Press, 2009. xvii+

  PURCELL/BRITTEN: Songs (Ruby Hughes)

  THERESE MALTEN: Wagner’s Devoted Kundry By Michael Letchford. Takeley: Goar Lodge, 2010.

  RACHMANINOFF: Vespers (John Scott)

  THOMAS BEECHAM: An Obsession with Music By John Lucas. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2008. xi +

  RAVEL; DEBUSSY; FAURÉ, GABRIEL (Tr Shaham Erez Wallfisch)

  THOMAS WILSON INTROIT: TOWARDS THE LIGHT By Margaret Wilson and David Griffith. Glasgow: Queensgate Music, 2011.

  RAVISHINGLY RUSSIAN (Robert Simpson)

  THOMSON: Music Chronicles 1940–1954 By Virgil Thomson. Ed. Tim Page. New York: Library of America, 2014.

  RAVISH’D WITH SACRED EXTASIES (Elin Manahan Thomas)

  VERDI’S IL TROVATORE: THE QUINTESSENTIAL ITALIAN MELODRAMA By Martin Chusid. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012. ix+

  RAVISH’D WITH SACRED EXTASIES: Devotional Songs (Thomas)

  VIRTUOSI ABROAD: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition During the Early Cold War, 1945–1958 By Kiril Tomoff. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2015. xi +

  REFLECTIONS FOR THE HEART (Giovanni De Chiaro)

  VIVALDI: Red Priest of Venice By Susan Adams. Oxford: Lion, 2010. Illus.

  RESONANSER (Alin)

  WHAT MAKES IT GREAT?: Short Masterpieces, Great Composers By Rob Kapilow. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2011.

  RESONANSER: SWEDISH CHORAL MUSIC—NEW PERSPECTIVES (Cecilia Rydinger Alin)

  WHY MAHLER?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World By Norman Lebrecht. New York: Anchor, 2010-11. xiv +

  RIES, FERDINAND: Der Sieg des Glaubens (Hermann Max)

  WOMEN OF NOTE: THE RISE OF AUSTRALIAN WOMEN COMPOSERS By Rosalind Appleby. Freemantle, Aus: Freemantle Press, 2012.

  ROSENGART: Veni sancte spiritus. Tristes erant... (Jürgen Essl)

  WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC: A Memoir By Philip Glass. New York: Liveright/Norton, 2015.

  ROSETTI, FRANCESCO ANTONIO: Partitas (Amphion Wind Ens)

  14 TENORS CONCERT (Anton Guadagno)

  ROSETTI, FRANCESCO ANTONIO: Partitas (Amphion Wind Ens)

  A COMPANY OF VOICES: CONSPIRARE IN CONCERT (Craig Hella Johnson)

  ROSSINI: L’italiana in Algeri (James Levine)

  A FEAST FOR THE SENSES (Tenet Vocal Artists)

  ROSSINI: Petite messe solonelle (Ottavio Dantone)

  A SAVIOR FROM ON HIGH (Martha Shaw)

  ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES: Le devin du village (René Clemencic)

  A SOUND CAME FROM HEAVEN (Terence Maskill)

  SCARLATTI, DOMENICO: Sonatas (Ares)

  A TREASURY OF ENGLISH SONG (Peter Pears)

  SCARLATTI, DOMENICO; MOZART (Clara Haskil)

  ALBINONI: Sinfonie a 5, op. 2 (Chiara Banchini)

  SCHIFF, DAVID: Gimpel the Fool (Kenneth Kiesler)

  ALMEIDA, LAURINDO: La Spinalba (Marcos Magalhães)

  SCHUBERT: Die schöne Müllerin (Goerne)

  AMERICAN VOICES (John Scott)

  SCHUBERT: Die schöne Müllerin (Jonas Kaufmann)

  AN ADVENT FESTIVAL OF LESSONS AND CAROLS (Bruce J. Barber II)

  SCHUBERT: Die schöne Müllerin (Matthias Goerne)

  ANGEL VOICES/LIBERA IN CONCERT (Robert Prizeman)

  SCHUBERT: Die Winterreise (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)

  ARENA DI VERONA COLLECTION (Various)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonatas, D 784, 958-960 (Lewis)

  BACH AND THE STILE ANTICO (Tom Wilkinson)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Trio in B♭, D 898... (Susanne Stanzeleit)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: 30 Preludes and Fugues (Rinaldo Alessandrini)

  SCHUBERT: Songs and Partsongs (Various)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6... (Lars Vogt)

  SCHUBERT: Winterreise (Christian Hilz)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012 (Wen-Sin Yang)

  SCHUBERT: Winterreise (Mark Padmore)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012 (Wen-Sin Yang)

  SCHUBERT: Winterreise (Werner Güra)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Concertos... (Dorothea Seel)

  SCHUBERT; MAHLER, GUSTAV (Christoph Sökler)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Fantasies (Andrea Padova)

  SCHUBERT; MAHLER, GUSTAV; STRAUSS, RICHARD (Margaret Price)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: French Ouverture, BWV 831. Partita... (Fabrizio Chiovetta)

  SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe, op. 48. Liederkreis,... (Suzanne Danco)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: French Overture, BWV 831... (Fabrizio Chiovetta)

  SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe. 3 Gedichte, op. 30.... (Daniel Johannsen)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Goldberg Variations (Baremboim)

  SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe. Frauenliebe und -leben (Lotte Lehmann)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Goldberg Variations (Leopold Str Tr)

  SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe... (Aksel Schiøtz)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Goldberg Variations (Zhu Xiao-Mei)

  SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12... (Annika Treutler)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Goldberg Variations... (Daniel Barenboim)

  SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana, op. 16... (Dora Deliyska)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Inventions and Sinfonias (Zhu Xiao-Mei)

  SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana. Kinderszenen. Études... (Deliyska)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801 (Thomas Ragossnig)

  SCHUMANN: Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm... (Christian Hilz)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Mass in a, BWV 234... (Philippe Pierlot)

  SCHUMANN: Liederkreis, op. 24... (Florian Boesch)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Mass in b (Biller)

  SCHUMANN: Liederkreis, op. 39... (Marie-Nicole Lemieux)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Mass in b (Georg Christoph Biller)

  SCHUMANN: Waldszenen... (Evgeni Koroliov)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Missa brevis in a. Prelude and... (Philippe Pierlot)

  SCHUMANN; BACH, CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL; SCHUBERT (Danae Dörken)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Orchestral Suite No. 4. Harpsichord... (Pablo Valetti)

  SCHUMANN; BRAHMS, JOHANNES (Simon Keenlyside)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: St. Matthew Passion (René Jacobs)

  SCHUMANN; BRITTEN; SHOSTAKOVICH (Krzysztof Chorzelski)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Christophe Rousset)

  SCHUMANN; SCHUMANN, CLARA (Maximilian Schmitt)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Trauer-Music, BWV 244a (Andrew Parrott)

  SCHUMANN; SHOSTAKOVICH; PIAZZOLLA, ASTOR (Tr Pirandello)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN; BUXTEHUDE; WECKMANN (Bronda)

  SERENADE (Timothy Seelig)

  BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN; STOELZEL (Daniel-Ben Pienaar)

  SIMPLE GIFTS (Doug Fullington)

  BAIRSTOW: Jesu, the very thought of Thee.... (David Hill)

  SING ALLELUIA (Scott Farrell)

  BARBER, SAMUEL: There’s nae lark. The Beggar’s... (Gerald Finley)

  SIR NEVILLE MARRINER, ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN... (Sir Neville Marriner)

  BAROQUE CHAMBER WORKS (Fantasticus)

  SKULTE: The Heiress of Vilkači (Andrejs Jansons)

  BEDNALL: Choral Music... (Matthew Owens)

  SMETANA: The Bartered Bride (Zdeněk Chalabala)

  BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Piano Sonatas (Arthur Rubinstein)

  SOBECK: Wind Quintets (Albert-Schweitzer-Qnt)

  BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Piano Trios (Beethoven Project Tr)

  SOFT BLINK OF AMBER LIGHT (Robert Simpson)

  BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Piano Trios... (Tr Ex Aequo)

  SOMETHING CHOICE AND EXCELLENT (La Tour Baroque Duo)

  BELLA NAPOLI (Baccano)

  STEINBERG, MAXIMILIAN: Passion Week (Steven Fox)

  BELLINI, VINCENZO: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Luciano Acocella)

  STEINER: Treasure of Sierra Madre... (Barry Araújo Kolman)

  BELLINI, VINCENZO: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Riccardo Muti)

  STRAUSS, RICHARD; SCHUBERT (Waltraud Meier)

  BELLINI, VINCENZO: Norma (Friedrich Haider)

  SUK; BRITTEN (Jiří Bělohlávek)

  BENJAMIN BRITTEN—Peace and Conflict (John Hurt)

  SZYMANOWSKI; MARTINŮ; BARTÓK (Koh)

  BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique (Sergiu Celibidache)

  TELEMANN, GEORG PHILIPP: Cantatas... (Stefano Veggetti)

  BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH—SONGS AND ARIAS (Christoph Prégardien)

  TELEMANN, GEORG PHILIPP: Musical Exercises... (Passacaglia)

  BINGHAM, JUDITH: Gleams of a Remoter World. The... (David Hill)

  TEN YEARS GRADUALE NOBILI (Jón Stephánsson)

  BINGHAM, JUDITH: Gleams of a Remoter World. The... (Hill)

  THE BUSINESS OF ANGELS: English Recorder Music... (Alison Melville)

  BLISS, ARTHUR; DELIUS; PURCELL, HENRY... (Barbirolli Qrt)

  THE DECCA PREMIERES (Peter Pears)

  BOCCHERINI, LUIGI: Cello Concertos (Federico Ferri)

  THE DEVELOPING SONATA: Sonate italiane (Tripla Concordia)

  BRAHMS, JOHANNES; SCHUMANN; SCHUMANN, CLARA (Jennifer Pike)

  THE FEAST OF THE ASCENSION AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY (James O’Donnell)

  BRIDGE, FRANK: Phantasy Piano Quartet in f♯. Cello... (Nash Ens)

  THE GENTLEMAN’S FLUTE: Handel arias in 18th-Century... (Stefan Temmingh)

  BRITTEN RARITIES (Various)

  THE KING’S SINGERS—LIVE AT THE BBC PROMS (King’s Singers)

  BRITTEN: 5 Flower Songs... (Louis Halsey)

  THE KING’S SINGERS—LIVE AT THE BBC PROMS (King’s Singers)

  BRITTEN: A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28... (Stephen Layton)

  THE LAST TIME I CAME O’ER THE MOOR (La Tour Baroque Duo)

  BRITTEN: Billy Budd (Elder)

  THE OPERA GALA (Marco Armiliato)

  BRITTEN: Billy Budd (Mark Elder)

  THE SONGS WE SANG (Philip Brunelle)

  BRITTEN: Billy Budd (Mark Elder)

  THE TERTIS TRADITION (Chase)

  BRITTEN: Canticles, opp. 40, 51, 86, 89... (Daniel Norman)

  THE TERTIS TRADITION (Roger Chase)

  BRITTEN: Cello Symphony... (Zuill Bailey)

  THE WINCHESTER TRADITION: Music by Composers Associated... (Malcolm Archer)

  BRITTEN: Choral and Organ Music... (Christopher Gray)

  THE WORLD BELOVED (Philip Brunelle)

  BRITTEN: Complete Scottish Songs (Mark Wilde)

  THEODORAKIS: Zorba the Greek (Mikis Theodorakis)

  BRITTEN: Concerto for Violin and Viola (ed.... (Vladimir Jurowski)

  THOMSON: Music Chronicles 1940–1954 (Thomson)

  BRITTEN: Gloriana... (Edward Gardner)

  TIPPETT, MICHAEL: King Priam (Roger Norrington)

  BRITTEN: Holy Sonnets of John Donne... (Mark Padmore)

  TORMIS: 17th Canto of the Kalevala. Kullervo’s... (Ants Soots)

  BRITTEN: Les illuminations (some, orch.... (Thomas Zehetmair)

  TORMIS: 2 Songs after Ernst Enno. 3 Estonian... (Stephen Layton)

  BRITTEN: Les Illuminations, Op. 18... (Barbara Hannigan)

  TORMIS: St. John’s Day Songs. Helletused.... (Bruce Brown)

  BRITTEN: On This Island, op. 11. Cabaret... (Linda Mabbs)

  TORROBA: Luisa Fernanda (Jesus López-Cobos)

  BRITTEN: On This Island, op. 11... (Mabbs)

  TORROBA: Luisa Fernanda (López-Cobos)

  BRITTEN: On This Island. The Holy Sonnets... (James Gilchrist)

  TRANSCRIPTIONS (Laurence Equilbey)

  BRITTEN: Solo Cello Suites (Daniel Müller-Schott)

  TRANSIENT GLORY (Francisco J. Nuñez)

  BRITTEN: Songs, Volume 1 (Katherine Broderick)

  TRANSIENT GLORY II (Francisco J. Nuñez)

  BRITTEN: Songs, Volume 2 (Elizabeth Atherton)

  VASKS, PETERĪS: Pater noster. Dona nobis pacem.... (Sigvards Kļava)

  BRITTEN: String Quartet No. 2 in C, op.... (Emperor Qrt)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS; DOVE, JONATHAN; WARLOCK (Mark Padmore)

  BRITTEN: String Quartets (Emperor Qrt)

  VEALE; CRAWFORD, ROBERT (John Turner)

  BRITTEN: String Quartets Nos. 1–3 (Takács Qrt)

  VENABLES: Songs and Chamber Music (Andrew Kennedy)

  BRITTEN: String Quartets, Nos. 1–3... (Brodsky Qrt)

  VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Attila (Andrea Battistoni)

  BRITTEN: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra,... (Alban Gerhardt)

  VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Macbeth (Riccardo Chailly)

  BRITTEN: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra.... (Gerhardt)

  VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Nabucco (Anton Guadagno)

  BRITTEN: The Heart of the Matter, A Birthday... (Nicholas Phan)

  VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Nabucco (Ernst Märzendorfer)

  BRITTEN: The Rape of Lucretia (Oliver Knussen)

  VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Requiem (Lorin Maazel)

  BRITTEN: The Turn of the Screw (Hrůša)

  VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Rigoletto (Fausto Cleva)

  BRITTEN: The Turn of the Screw (Jakub Hrůša)

  VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Rigoletto (Francesco Molinari-Pradelli)

  BRITTEN: The Turn of the Screw (Richard Farnes)

  VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Un ballo in maschera (Giuseppe Patané)

  BRITTEN: The Turn of the Screw (Steuart Bedford)

  VIERNE: Poème de l’amour. Psyché. La Ballade... (Michael Bundy)

  BRITTEN: The Turn of the Screw (Łukasz Borowicz)

  VIVALDI AND BACH FOR RECORDER (Qrtto Icarus)

  BRITTEN: Variations on a Theme of Frank... (Ross Pople)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Bassoon Concertos (Sergio Azzolini)

  BRITTEN: Violin Concerto. Double Concerto... (Anthony Marwood)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Bassoon Concertos, Volume 2 (Roberto Giaccaglia)

  BRITTEN: Winter Words. 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo... (Nicholas Phan)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Concertos (Erik Bosgraaf)

  BRITTEN; BLISS, ARTHUR (Vermeer Qrt)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Concertos (Jennifer Stinton)

  BRITTEN; BRIDGE, FRANK (Thomas Kemp)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Concertos and Sinfonie for Strings... (L’Archicembalo)

  BRITTEN; FINZI (Mark Padmore)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Concertos for Various Instruments (Adrian Chandler)

  BRITTEN; FINZI (Vale Rideout)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Concertos for various instruments,... (Jeannette Sorrell)

  BRITTEN; FINZI (Vale Rideout)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Concertos with Obbligato Organ (Roberto Loreggian)

  BRITTEN; RUTTER (Jón Stefánsson)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Flute Concertos (Mario Folena)

  BRITTEN; WOLF, HUGO; SHOSTAKOVICH (John Tomlinson)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Flute Concertos (Rafaella Milanesi)

  CAGE, JOHN: Solo for Voice 58, “18 Microtonal... (Amelia Cuni)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Il Farnace, RV 711G (Federico Maria Sardelli)

  CARMINA CELTICA (Canty)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Laudate pueri, RV 600... (Johannette Zomer)

  CERVETTO: Trios, op. 1 (Gary Karr)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Le quattro stagione. Cessate omai... (Dmitry Sinkovsky)

  CHABRIER: Mélodies... (Erick Freulon)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Mandolin and Lute Concertos (Federico Guglielmo)

  CHARPENTIER, MARC-ANTOINE: La Troupe d’Orphée (Hernán Schwartzman)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Orlando 1714 (Federico Maria Sardelli)

  CHOIR MUSIC FROM POLAND AND BELGIUM (Herman Engels)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Recorder Concertos (Bosgraaf)

  CHRISTA LUDWIG: LIEDER RECITAL (Christa Ludwig)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Recorder Concertos... (Martin Feinstein)

  CHRISTOPH POHL: Lieder (Christoph Pohl)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Solo Concertos (Dorothea Seel)

  CHRISTOPH POHL: Lieder (Pohl)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Sonatas... (Ens Barocco Sans Souci)

  CIRCLE OF COMPASSION (Diane Loomer)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: String Concertos (Enrico Casazza)

  CLEMENT; BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN (Pine)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: String Concertos (Laurentius Dinca)

  COLONNA: Psalmi ad Vesperas (Robert Simpson)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Teuzzone (Jordi Savall)

  CONCERTI NAPOLETANI PER VIOLONCELLO (Gaetano Nasillo)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Trio Sonata for Recorder and Bassoon... (Ens Barocco Sans Souci)

  CONCERTO À LA CARTE (Sir Neville Marriner)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Vespro a San Marco (García Alarcón)

  COPLAND, AARON; BARBER, SAMUEL (Christopher Hogwood)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Vespro a San Marco (Leonardo García Alarcón)

  CORELLI, ARCANGELO: Recorder Concertos... (Laurence Cummings)

  VIVALDI, ANTONIO; PORPORA, NICOLA; SCARLATTI, ALESSANDRO (Raffaele Pé)

  DANIEL-LESUR; MESSIAEN; JOLIVET (Catherine Simonpietri)

  WALTER, BRUNO: Lieder (complete) (Christian Hilz)

  DANZI, FRANZ: Der Berggeist (Frieder Bernius)

  WESLEY, SAMUEL SEBASTIAN; WESLEY, SAMUEL (Andrew Nethsingha)

  DAVID, FÉLICIEN CÉSAR: Le désert (Guido Maria Guida)

  WHITE, NICHOLAS: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis. Two... (Nicholas White)

  DAVIES, PETER MAXWELL: Quartets (Maggini Qrt)

  WIDOR: Chansons de mer. La Nuit. Tristesse... (Michael Bundy)

  DEBUSSY: Préludes... (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

  WIEN NACH NOTEN (Willi Boskovsky)

  DIALOGS—MUSIC FOR TWO CELLOS (Suren Bagratuni)

  WOLF, HUGO: Italienisches Liederbuch (Catherine Robbin)

  DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY—RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS (Dmitri Hvorostovsky)

  WOLF, HUGO: Italienisches Liederbuch (Christoph Prégardien)

  DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale (Riccardo Muti)

  WONDROUS LOVE (Kent Tritle)

  DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale (Riccardo Muti)

  WORLD KEYS (Joel Fan)

  DUBOIS, THÉODORE: Messe solenelle de Saint Remi.... (Michel Brousseau)

  ZANDONAI: Francesca da Rimini (Franco Capuana)

  ELGAR: The Dream of Gerontius (Yevgeny Svetlanov)

  ZILCHER: Lieder, op. 12... (Konrad Jarnot)

  ENCHANTMENT: MUSIC FOR FLUTE AND PIANO (Kenneth Smith)

  ZUCKERMAN: Because. Laughing Song. Grow Old... (Goldene Keyt Singers)

  ERKEL: Choral Works (Tamás Lakner)

  Always the Same, Always Different: The Music of...

 

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