CATALOGUE NR: NMCD071
RECORD LABEL: NMC
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 10.99 including VAT, or £ 9.35 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 21-May-2001

COMPOSER: John Woolrich
TITLE: The Ghost in the Machine
TRACKS: The Barber's Timepiece. Oboe Concerto. The Ghost in the Machine. Viola Concerto.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Martyn Brabbins
ARTISTS: Nicholas Daniel   Lars Anders Tomter    

- Oct-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Sep-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A strong and individual voice in music of real substance. The fine soloists bring the two concertos vividly to life. Well worth exploring.'

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CATALOGUE NR: SK89245
RECORD LABEL: Sony
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.95 including VAT, or £ 11.02 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 12-Mar-2001

COMPOSER: Johann Sebastian Bach
TRACKS: Keyboard Concerto No.1 in D minor BWV1052. Keyboard Concerto No.2 in E major BWV1053. Keyboard Concerto No.4 in A major BWV1055.
ORCHESTRA: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
ARTISTS: Murray Perahia      

- Jun-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - May-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Dextrous subtly voiced solo work allied to first-rate orchestral playing and excellent sound. A recording to savour at leisure.' - Penguin Guide Rosette star 'this key recording gives this wonderfully life-enhancing music an ageless universality'

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CATALOGUE NR: ODE9902T
RECORD LABEL: Ondine
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 19.99 including VAT, or £ 17.01 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 21-May-2001

COMPOSER: Johannes Brahms
TITLE: The Four Symphonies
ORCHESTRA: Chamber Orchestra of Europe
CONDUCTOR: Paavo Berglund

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded Live in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden May-2000 - Sep-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Aug-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Brahms symphonies on a slightly smaller scale than is usual. Berglund directs with feeling for the music and the COE play with great style.'

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CATALOGUE NR: ODE9652
RECORD LABEL: Ondine
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 23-Nov-2000

COMPOSER: Bernhard Crusell
TITLE: Clarinet Concertos
TRACKS: Concerto for Clarinet in B flat major op.11. Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra in F minor op.5. Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra in E flat major op.1.
ORCHESTRA: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Sakari Oramo
ARTISTS: Kari Kriikku      

- Jan-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jan-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Outstanding performances of these engaging works, characterfully and sharply projected, in fine recorded sound.' - Penguin Guide 3 star 'Kari Kriiku gives dazzling performances, even more daring than his rivals on disc, regularly choosing speeds that stretch virtuosity to the limit'

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CATALOGUE NR: HMC901728
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 12-Mar-2001

COMPOSER: Igor Stravinsky
TRACKS: L'Oiseau de Feu / The Firebird (final version 1945). Jeu de cartes / The Card Game.
ORCHESTRA: Orquesta Ciudad de Granada
CONDUCTOR: Josep Pons

- May-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Excellent very subtle playing made possible by the size of the band perfect for this music'

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CATALOGUE NR: CKD151
RECORD LABEL: Linn
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.95 including VAT, or £ 11.02 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Antonio Vivaldi
TRACKS: Concerto for Cello and Strings in G RV413. Chamber Concerto in G minor RV107. Concerto for Oboe and Strings in D minor RV454. Double Concerto for 2 Horns and Strings in F RV539. Double Concerto for Viola d'amore Lute and Strings in D minor RV540. Concerto for Multiple Instruments in D minor RV566. 6 Concerti for Flute and Strings op.10 No.2 in G minor 'La notte' RV439. Concerto for Multiple Instruments 'Il Proteo o sia il mondo al rovescio' in F RV572.
ORCHESTRA: Age of Enlightenment Orchestra
ARTISTS: David Watkin   Anthony Robson   Andrew Clark   Roger Montgomery

- Apr-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A pleasing collection of Vivaldi concertos that allows the individual players of the OAE to take share of the limelight'

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CATALOGUE NR: CHAN9932
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 18-Jun-2001

COMPOSER: Johan Svendsen
TRACKS: Symphony No.1 in D major op.4. Symphony No.2 in B flat major op.15. Polonaise No.2 op.28.
ORCHESTRA: Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Dausgaard

- Oct-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Nov-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Music of great charm, full of colour and understated elegance. Dausgaard and his Danish orchestra clearly warm to these appealing scores.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CHAN9902
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 17-Apr-2001

COMPOSER: Ralph Vaughan Williams  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: A London Symphony
TRACKS: Symphony No.2 original 1913 version (Vaughan Williams). The Banks of Green Willow (Butterworth).
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Richard Hickox

- Jun-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jul-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A must for all VW admirers. And its hard to imagine it better done than by Hickox and the LSO.' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: CHAN9888
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 15-Jan-2001

COMPOSER: Gerald Finzi
TRACKS: Concerto for small orchestra and solo violin. Romance op.11. Prelude op.25. In Years Defaced. To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence. When I Set Out for Lyonnesse. In Years Defaced. Tall Nettles. At a Lunar Eclipse. Proud Songsters.
ORCHESTRA: London Sinfonia
CONDUCTOR: Richard Hickox
ARTISTS: Tasmin Little   John Mark Ainsley    

- Apr-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - May-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Little and Ainsley are at their best in this enterprising anthology for Finzi's centenary' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: CHAN9859
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 19-Oct-2000

COMPOSER: Arthur Sullivan
TRACKS: Symphony in E major 'Irish'. Suite from 'The Tempest' op.1. In memoriam.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Richard Hickox

- Mar-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Mar-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Sir Arthur Sullivan's youthful and engaging Irish Symphony recieves sparking advocacy from the Hickox / BBC PO partnership.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 5570152
RECORD LABEL: EMI
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 15-Jan-2001

COMPOSER: Antonio Vivaldi
TRACKS: The Four Seasons op.8 1-4.
ARTISTS: St Luke's Chamber Ensemble   Kyung Wha Chung    

- Mar-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Fresh and spontaneously joyful, this is a delightful version of what is probably the most over-duplicated work in the catalogue.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA673312
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 23.97 including VAT, or £ 20.40 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 03-Sep-2001

COMPOSER: Camille Saint-Saens
TITLE: Romantic Piano Concerto 27
TRACKS: Piano Concerto No.1. Piano Concerto No.2. Piano Concerto No.3. Piano Concerto No.4. Piano Concerto No.5. Valse Caprice 'Wedding Cake'. Rhapsodie d'Auvergne. Allegro appasionato. Africa.
ORCHESTRA: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Sakari Oramo
ARTISTS: Stephen Hough      

- Dec-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Nov-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Hough is completely at home in this virtuoso music, and the CBSO and Oramo are ideal partners.' - Gramophone 2002 Award Winner

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA67210
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 11.99 including VAT, or £ 10.20 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 02-Jul-2001

COMPOSER: Henry Charles Litolff
TITLE: Romantic Piano Concerto 26
TRACKS: Concerto Symphonique No.3. Concerto Symphonique No.5.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Andrew Litton
ARTISTS: Peter Donohoe      

- Oct-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Oct-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A treat for collectors of the Romantic Piano Concerto series. Donohoe is a near ideal soloist.'

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CATALOGUE NR: CDA67208
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 11.99 including VAT, or £ 10.20 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 06-Nov-2000

COMPOSER: Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
TITLE: Romantic Violin Concerto 2
TRACKS: Suite for Violin and Orchestra op.32. Violin Concerto in D major op.74.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Martyn Brabbins
ARTISTS: Anthony Marwood      

- Mar-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Feb-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'this masterful work speaks with a distinctively beautiful voice'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4509963002
RECORD LABEL: Teldec
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 20-Nov-2000

COMPOSER: Antonin Dvorak  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Violin Concerto in A minor op.53 (Dvorak). Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor op.82 (Elgar).
ORCHESTRA: New York Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Kurt Masur
ARTISTS: Maxim Vengerov   Revital Chachamov    

- Jan-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Vengerov's outstanding performances in this inspired coupling were a long time coming - but definitely worth the wait.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4646402
RECORD LABEL: Philips
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 30-Jul-2001

COMPOSER: Antonin Dvorak
TRACKS: Symphony No.8. Symphony No.9 'From the New World'.
ORCHESTRA: Budapest Festival Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Ivan Fischer

- Oct-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Superb playing from the Budapest orchestra in performances of tremendous freshness.' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4680352
RECORD LABEL: Philips
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 10-Sep-2001

COMPOSER: Igor Stravinsky  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky). The Poem of Ecstasy (Scriabin).
ORCHESTRA: Kirov Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Valery Gergiev

- Oct-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Nov-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A stunning interpretation of Stravinsky's great ballet, with playing at white heat'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4686002
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 15-Oct-2001

COMPOSER: Felix Mendelssohn
TRACKS: Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor op.25. Variations serieuses op.54. Rondo capriccioso op.14. Piano Concerto No.2 in D minor op.40.
ORCHESTRA: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
CONDUCTOR: Herbert Blomstedt
ARTISTS: Jean-Yves Thibaudet      

- Awards-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A lovely recording of Mendelssohn's two delightful piano concertos played with flair and accompanied by an orchestra with a long tradition in this music.' - Penguin Guide 2 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4695192
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 21-May-2001

COMPOSER: Richard Strauss
TRACKS: Eine Alpensinfonie. Rosenkavalier Suite.
ORCHESTRA: Vienna Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Christian Thielemann

- Jun-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Thielemann and the VPO are on top form in an electrifying and highly illuminating reading' - Penguin Guide 2 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4695272
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 16-Apr-2001

COMPOSER: Anton Bruckner
TRACKS: Symphony No.5.
ORCHESTRA: Staatskapelle Dresden
CONDUCTOR: Giuseppe Sinopoli

- May-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Bruckner's Fifth at its purest and most beautiful - superbly recorded too.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4695562
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 21-May-2001

COMPOSER: Oliver Knussen
TRACKS: Higglety Pigglety Pop op.21. Where the Wild Things Are op.20.
ORCHESTRA: London Sinfonietta
CONDUCTOR: Oliver Knussen
ARTISTS: Cynthia Buchan   Lisa Saffer    

- Jul-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jul-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Knussen's fun children's operas receive top treatment in these recordings. Beautifully packaged too'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4711972
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 15-Oct-2001

COMPOSER: Igor Stravinsky
TRACKS: Le Chant du Rossignol. Le Histoire du Soldat - Suite. Scherzo fantastique op.3. Le Roi des etoiles.
ORCHESTRA: Cleveland Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Pierre Boulez

- Dec-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Dec-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A superbly conceived and performed collection of Stravinsky's shorter masterpieces. Boulez knows these pieces like few other musicians - and it shows.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 74321753982
RECORD LABEL: RCA
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.95 including VAT, or £ 11.02 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 04-Jun-2001

COMPOSER: Richard Strauss
TITLE: Cello Works
TRACKS: Don Quixote op.35. Romance for cello and orchestra in F. Sonata for cello and piano in F op.6.
ORCHESTRA: Bavarian Radio Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Lorin Maazel
ARTISTS: Steven Isserlis   Stephen Hough    

- Sep-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Sep-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Strauss great tone poem – with two rare couplings – finds in Isserlis and Maazel powerful advocates.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 8552001
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 30-Jul-2001

COMPOSER: Malcolm Arnold
TRACKS: Symphony No.7. Symphony No.8.
ORCHESTRA: Ireland National Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Andrew Penny

- Sep-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Sep-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A worthy 80th birthday tribute to Sir Malcolm Arnold from one of a new generation of conductors championing his symphonic music.' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 8554763
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 06-Nov-2000

COMPOSER: Alan Rawsthorne
TRACKS: Symphonic Studies. Cello Concerto. Oboe Concerto.
ORCHESTRA: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: David Lloyd-Jones

- Feb-2001 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Feb-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'David Lloyd-Jones and Naxos come up trumps again. An exemplary Rawsthorne concert, featuring two world-premiere recordings.'

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