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• SERGIU CELIBIDACHE • ROSALYN TURECK • JOSHUA BELL
 121 Your essential guide to the world's greatest classics on CD 121
Classic CD Bach anniversary special • Benny Goodman CCD/121/02/00

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Disc of the Month p. 6
I Faure Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120 - final movement, “Allegro vivo”
10 J S Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV1051
- Adagio ma non troppo ■ (4:55) ADD ■ English Chamber
Orchestra/Benjamin Britten ■ Decca 443 847-2
1 ■ (4:23) DDD ■ The Florestan Trio ■ Hyperion CD A 67114
J S BaCh Harpsichord Concerto in F minor, BWV1056 - Largo ■

Classic CD Choice p. 8
11 (2:49) ADD ■ Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord); The English Concert/Trevor
Pinnock ■ Archiv 447 709-2

2 Chopin Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4 ■ (4:42) DDD ■ Janusz

Olejniczak (piano) ■ Opus 111 OPS 2010 12 J S BaCh Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major, BWV1069 - overture
■ (10:06) DDD ■ Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra/Andrew Parrott ■

3 Haydn String Quartet in A major, Op. 9 No. 6 ■ (6:14) DDD ■

Quatuor Festetics ■ Arcana A911
EMI CDS 7 54655-2

Bach anniversary special • Benny Goodman (xo/m/ww

Building a Collection p. 36
4 J S Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 - Fugue No. 22 in B
flat minor, BWV891 ■ (6:19) ADD ■ Rosalyn Tureck (piano) ■ DG 463 305-2
13 Britton Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Nocturne ■ (3:22)
ADD ■ Peter Pears (tenor); Barry Tuckwell (horn); London Symphony

5 Khachaturian Spartacus - Variation of Aegina and Bacchanalia ■

(3:07) DDD ■ Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra/Loris Tjeknavorian ■
ASVCDDCA949
Orchestra/Benjamin Britten ■ Decca 436 395-2

Giants of Jazz p. 44
Great Musicians p. 20
fi RimSky-KOfSakOV Sheherazade - symphonic suite, Op. 35,
14 Phil Baxter I’m a Ding Dong Daddy ■ (2:39) ADD ■ Benny Goodman
Quartet ■ 09026 68764-2

U excerpt, Lento - Andantino ■ (5:07) DDD ■ Hans Kalafusz (violin); SWR

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Sergiu Celibidache ■ DG 445 141-2 World music p. 51
i ft VariOUS Gypsy Hora and Sirba ■ (4:16) ADD IZev Feldman and Andy
Composer Workshop p. 24 1 U Statman ■ Network 30.853

"J MaW Shahnama - A Palace at Night, excerpt ■ (4:16) DDD ■

f Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury ■ ASV CD DCA1070

0 Maw Violin Concerto - third movement, Romanza, extract ■ (2:31) Mastering Engineer: Adam Crute, Future Publishing
0 DDD ■ Joshua Bell (violin); London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Roger Norrington Disc Editor: Mark Funnell
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Dach Special, Part One p. 26
9J S BaCh Sinfonia, Cantata No. 29, BWV29 ■
(3:07) DDD ■ The Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman ■ Hyperion Dyad
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Rosalyn Tureck, Trevor Pinnock, Peter Pears) Benny Goodman, Joshua Bell, Florestan Trio

Hear 15 superb CDs, 10 of them new releases, and read about them in the magazine...
1 Disc of the
I, Month p. 6
4 Classic CD
. Choice p. 8
almost deified when he was
alive and now, as more
recordings are released - he
A star soloist in Joshua Bell
and brilliant playing from the
London Philharmonic under
proves his mettle as a top-
notch conductor as well as
composer with this, a work he
BRITTEN Serenade Peter
Pears and Barry Tuckwell are
masterful in this wonderful

FAURE Piano Trio The J S BACH Well-Tempered refused to record for audio - he Sir Roger Norrington should loved passionately ■ Decca paean to the English

Florestans enhance their Clavier Rosalyn Tureck is is set to become a cult ■ DG augur well. But the concerto countryside which incisively

Bach Special,
11.
growing reputation with this now being reappraised for her itself is the real triumph, sets the best pastoral poetry
already hailed as one of the to music ■ Decca
sensuous account of a French
chamber music glory
highly individual but distinctive
interpretations of Bach. Flere
Composer best ever pieces for the
Part One p. 26
J S BACH Harpsichord
■ Hyperion is her classic 1950s recording Workshop instrument ■ Sony Classical
Concerto in F minor Trevor Giants of Jazz
of the Well-Tempered Clavier
Classic CD - sweetly remastered ■ DG
p. 24 Pinnock plays the
p. 44
Bach Special,
«Choice p. 8
CHOPIN Mazurka in A Classic CD
MAW Shahnama Nicholas
Maw is the subject of this
month’s composer workshop
e. Part One p. 26
J S BACH Sinfonia,
harpsichord and directs his
English Concert orchestra in
almost definitive accounts of
PHIL BAXTER I’m a Ding
Dong Daddy Benny
Goodman and his quartet
these great works ■ Archiv
minor As part of its Chopin
survey Opus 111 bring us the
Choice p. 8 and such is his reputation that
record companies are falling
Cantata No. 29 This classic swing along with gay aplomb.
KHACHATURIAN recording from the Just listen to that fast and
best of the solo piano works
with Janusz Olejiniczak
excelling in this fiery mazurka
■ Opus 111
Spartacus The Armenian
Philharmonic continue its
acclaimed series of Russian
symphonic music with
over to have him in their
catalogues. We celebrate not
one but two recent releases.
This one, for small orchestra,
Brandenburg Consort
conducted by Roy Goodman
is reissued at bargain price as
part of a double disc set.
12. Bach Special,
Part One p. 26
J S BACH Orchestral Suite
furious soloing! ■ RCA

World Music
No. 4 Andrew Parrott and the
is evocatively entitled A
Khachaturian’s perennially Superb performances, p. 50
Classic CD popular ballet score ■ ASV
Palace at Night ■ ASV
irresistible value ■ Hyperion
Boston Early Music Festival
Orchestra give a polished VARIOUS Gypsy Hora and
. Choice p. 8
HAYDN String Quartet in A
major The Quatuor Festetics
6 Great
. Musicians p. 20
Q Composer
Workshop 10 Bach Special,
Part One p. 26
account of this stately overture
to round things off ■ EMI
Sirba A haunting number
from Zev Feldman and Andy
Statman. If you are unfamiliar

13.
with this Jewish folk musical
bring clarity, wit and sensitivity
to these seminal early Flaydn RIMSKY-KORSAKOV p. 24 J S BACH Brandenburg
Building a tradition here’s the place to
quartets ■ Arcana Sheherazade Celibidache was MAW Violin Concerto Concertos Benjamin Britten Collection p. 36 start ■ Network