CATALOGUE NR: SACDA67425
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: £ 12.95 including VAT, or £ 11.02 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 03-Nov-2003

COMPOSER: Dmitri Shostakovich  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Piano Concertos
TRACKS: Concerto for Piano Trumpet and String Orchestra in C minor op.35 (Shostakovich). Piano Concerto No.2 in F op.102 (Shostakovich). Piano Concerto No.2 (Shchedrin).
ORCHESTRA: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Andrew Litton
ARTISTS: Marc-Andre Hamelin   Mark O'Keefe    

- Jan-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Hamelin's famed technical prowess is not the only game at this fun-filled party.'

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CATALOGUE NR: SK87740
RECORD LABEL: Sony
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.95 including VAT, or £ 11.02 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 22-Sep-2003

COMPOSER: Felix Mendelssohn  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Concerto in E minor for Violin and Orchestra op.64 (Mendelssohn). Concerto No.1 in G minor for Violin and Orchestra op.26 (Bruch).
ORCHESTRA: Berlin Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Mariss Jansons
ARTISTS: Midori      

- Jan-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Recordings of this coupling are legion but Midori and Jansons have a real winner here.' - Penguin Guide 3 star 'it is a tribute to Midori that she can tackle this traditional, much-duplicated coupling with such individuality, particularly when in live recordings her inspired partners are the Berlin Philharmonic under Mariss Jansons'

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CATALOGUE NR: 8573876302
RECORD LABEL: Teldec
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 8.50 including VAT, or £ 7.23 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 27-Mar-2006

COMPOSER: Antonin Dvorak
TRACKS: Concerto in G minor for Piano and Orchestra op.33. The Golden Spinning Wheel op.109.
ORCHESTRA: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
ARTISTS: Pierre-Laurent Aimard      

- Jan-2004 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jan-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'The Concerto finally sounds like better music than it is - superb coupling, too.'

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CATALOGUE NR: 8557146
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 05-Jan-2004

COMPOSER: Arthur Bliss
TRACKS: Piano Concerto. Concerto for Two Pianos. Piano Sonata.
ORCHESTRA: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: David Lloyd-Jones
ARTISTS: Peter Donohoe   Martin Roscoe    

- Mar-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Feb-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Eager and polished performances that do Bliss absolutely proud'

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CATALOGUE NR: V4959
RECORD LABEL: Naive
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Dec-2003

COMPOSER: Jean Sibelius  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Violin Concerto in D minor op.47 (Sibelius). Violin Concerto in D minor (Khachaturian).
ORCHESTRA: Sinfonia Varsovia
CONDUCTOR: Emmanuel Krivine
ARTISTS: Sergei Khachatryan      

- Feb-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jan-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A brilliant Debut artist graduates to 'full-price' and rocks the pedastals of the greats.' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: PTC5186022
RECORD LABEL: Pentatone
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 15-Sep-2003

COMPOSER: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
TRACKS: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D op.35. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in B flat minor op.23.
ORCHESTRA: Russian National Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Kent Nagano
ARTISTS: Christian Tetzlaff   Nikolai Lugansky    

- Jan-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Feb-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Notable virtuoso skills rouse these warhorses for a lively canter'

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CATALOGUE NR: 8559100
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 05-Jan-2004

COMPOSER: Leonard Bernstein
TRACKS: Symphony No.1 'Jeremiah'. Concerto for Orchestra 'Jubilee Games'.
ORCHESTRA: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: James Judd

- Mar-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Feb-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Calmer than the composer’s own versions, this coupling is a true Bernstein bargain'

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CATALOGUE NR: LSO0043
RECORD LABEL: LSO Live
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 12-Jan-2004

COMPOSER: Johannes Brahms
TRACKS: Symphony No.2 in D op.73. Concerto for Violin Cello and Orchestra in A minor op.102.
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Bernard Haitink
ARTISTS: Timothy Hugh   Gordan Nikolitch    

- Mar-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Haitink revisits Brahms in these imposing and beautifully shaded new accounts' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: CDLX7133
RECORD LABEL: Dutton
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 8.99 including VAT, or £ 7.65 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 03-Nov-2003

COMPOSER: John McCabe
TRACKS: Piano Concerto No.2 - Sinfonia Concertante. Concertante Variations on a Theme of Nicholas Maw. Six Minute Symphony. Sonata on a Motet.
ORCHESTRA: St Christopher Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Donatas Katkus
ARTISTS: Tamami Honma      

- Mar-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Another splendid Dutton McCabe issue, this one centered around a piano concerto'

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CATALOGUE NR: 8557143
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 02-Feb-2004

COMPOSER: Frederick Delius
TRACKS: Marche Caprice. Summer Evening. Winter Night - Sleigh Ride. Spring Morning. American Rhapsody. The Walk to the Paradise Garden from A Village Romeo and Juliet. On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring. Summer Night on the River. A Song before Sunrise. Fantastic Dance.
ORCHESTRA: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: David Lloyd-Jones

- Apr-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Mar-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Lloyd-Jones has the measure of Delius's elusive idiom in both rarities and favourites'

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CATALOGUE NR: SU37142
RECORD LABEL: Supraphon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 09-Feb-2004

COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.4 in G major op.58 (Beethoven). Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra (Franck). Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G major (Ravel).
ORCHESTRA: Prague Philharmonia
CONDUCTOR: Jiri Belohlavek
ARTISTS: Ivan Moravec      

- Mar-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A master is at work in a programme that works better on the ear than on paper' - Penguin Guide 3 star 'the result has an attractive consistency with each work illuminating the others'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4596432
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 09-Feb-2004

COMPOSER: Sergei Rachmaninov
TRACKS: Piano Concerto No.1 in F sharp minor op.1. Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor op.18.
ORCHESTRA: Boston Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Seiji Ozawa
ARTISTS: Krystian Zimmerman      

- Apr-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Apr-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Zimmerman returns with passion and poetry'

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CATALOGUE NR: 8559164
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Mar-2004

COMPOSER: Charles Griffes
TRACKS: The White Peacock. Three Poems of Fiona McLeod. Bacchanale. Clouds. Three Tone Poems. Poem for Flute and Orchestra. The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan.
ORCHESTRA: Buffalo Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: JoAnn Falletta
ARTISTS: Barbara Quintiliani   Carol Wincenc    

- May-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Apr-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A full and deserved celebration of a short-lived American post-Romantic' - Penguin Guide 3 star 'this invaluable disc gives a warm and colourful portrait of this late-romantic American composer, sadly short-lived'

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CATALOGUE NR: CHAN10171
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 09-Feb-2004

COMPOSER: Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
TRACKS: Bianca da Molena / Symphonic Prologue from Music for the White Dove op.6. Serenade for String Orchestra in C major op.2. Rebirth Symphony in E minor op.7.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Gianandrea Noseda

- May-2004 5 star BBC Music Mag. - May-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A young talent cut short early that deserves to be heard' - Penguin Guide 3 star 'those who feel at home in the musical world of Suk or Novak will respond to his musical language…under Gianandrea Noseda the BBC Philharmonic gives strong, persuasive performances, opulently recorded'

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CATALOGUE NR: 8559134
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 29-Mar-2004

COMPOSER: Samuel Barber
TRACKS: Knoxville : Summer of 1915 op.24. Second Essay for Orchestra op.17. Third Essay for Orchestra op.47. Toccata Festiva op.36.
ORCHESTRA: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Marin Alsop
ARTISTS: Karina Gauvin   Thomas Trotter    

- Mar-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A Knoxville performance to treasure as this essential Barber series reaches a new high point' - Penguin Guide 3 star 'this work is a great rarity on disc, here superbly played and recorded'

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CATALOGUE NR: LSO0051
RECORD LABEL: LSO Live
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 08-Mar-2004

COMPOSER: Jean Sibelius
TRACKS: Symphony No.3 in C op.52. Symphony No.7 in C op.105.
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Colin Davis

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded live at the Barbican Centre London - Jun-2004 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Davis's third Sibelius symphony cycle launches with a pairing to relish'

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CATALOGUE NR: CHAN10211
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 05-Apr-2004

COMPOSER: Cyril Scott
TRACKS: Symphony No.3 The Muses. Piano Concerto No.2. Neptune.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Martyn Brabbins
ARTISTS: Huddersfield Choral Society   Howard Shelley    

- Jul-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'The warmest of welcomes for a remarkable discovery in 20th-century British music'

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CATALOGUE NR: CD80619
RECORD LABEL: Telarc
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 24-May-2004

COMPOSER: Johann Sebastian Bach
TITLE: Complete Orchestral Suites
TRACKS: Orchestral Suite No.4 in D major BWV1069. Orchestral Suite No.1 in C major BWV1066. Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major BWV1068. Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor BWV1067.
CONDUCTOR: Martin Pearlman
ARTISTS: Boston Baroque      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: performed on period instruments - Jun-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A strong contender in a crowded field' - Penguin Guide 3 star ' this is a splendid new period-instrument recording from the excellent Boston Baroque under Martin Pearlman. A key recording'

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CATALOGUE NR: OP30377
RECORD LABEL: Naive
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 29-Mar-2004

COMPOSER: Antonio Vivaldi
TITLE: Concerti per archi
TRACKS: Concerto in la maggiore RV159. Concerto in sol minore RV153. Concerto in re maggiore RV121. Concerto in re minore RV129. Concerto in sol minore RV154. Concerto Ripieno in do maggiore RV115. Concerto in fa minore RV143. Concerto in fa maggiore RV141. Concerto in do minore RV120.
CONDUCTOR: Rinaldo Alessandrini
ARTISTS: Concerto Italiano      

- Jul-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Gloriously alert and full-bodied playing produces a disc that is just waiting to be enjoyed' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: AV0044
RECORD LABEL: Avie
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 22-Mar-2004

COMPOSER: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Violin Concerto in G minor op.80 (Coleridge Taylor). Violin Concerto in A minor op.53 (Dvorak).
ORCHESTRA: Johannesburg Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Michael Hankinson
ARTISTS: Philippe Graffin      

- Jun-2004 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jul-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'An irresistable discovery, winningly championed by a new orchestra' - Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: CD80601
RECORD LABEL: Telarc
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 22-Mar-2004

COMPOSER: Maurice Ravel
TRACKS: Suite No.2 from Daphnis et Chloe. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose. Cing Pieces Enfantines - 5 Nursery Songs.
ORCHESTRA: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Paavo Jarvi

- May-2004 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jul-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Minor quibbles aside, this makes a noteworthy Ravel collection'

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CATALOGUE NR: BISCD1336
RECORD LABEL: BIS
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Mar-2004

COMPOSER: Kalevi Aho
TRACKS: Symphonic Dances Hommage a Unno Klami. Symphony No.11 for six percussionists and orchestra.
ORCHESTRA: Lahti Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Osmo Vanska
ARTISTS: Kroumata Percussion Ensemble      

- May-2004 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jul-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A superb coupling of two strongly communicative contemporary works' - Penguin Guide 3 star 'a vital work, which will give pleasure to Aho's growing band of admirers'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4745082
RECORD LABEL: Archiv
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 05-Jul-2004

COMPOSER: Johann Wilhelm Wilms
TRACKS: Symphony No.6 in D minor op.58. Symphony No.7 in C minor.
CONDUCTOR: Reinhard Goebel
ARTISTS: Concerto Koln      

- Oct-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Sep-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'The influence of Beethoven and Haydn is clear but this unknown writes splendidly'

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CATALOGUE NR: CDLX7140
RECORD LABEL: Epoch
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 8.99 including VAT, or £ 7.65 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 12-Apr-2004

COMPOSER: Montague Phillips
TRACKS: Revelry Overture op.62. Moorland Idyll op.61. Dances from The Rebel Maid : Jig / Gavotte / Graceful Dance / Villages' Dance. Symphony in C minor. A Spring Rondo. A Summer Nocturne. A Surrey Suite op.59 : Richmond Park. The Shadowy Pines. Kingston Market. A Shakespearean Scherzo: Titania and her Elvish Court. Arabesque op.43 No.2. Sinfonietta in C op.70.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Concert Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Gavin Sutherland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios 19-20-Jan-2004 - Sep-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Filed under 'light' this may be, but this neglected music has true symphonic stature' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4706522
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: Hybrid 2 SACD Set
PRICE: £ 12.95 including VAT, or £ 11.02 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 10-May-2004

COMPOSER: Gustav Mahler
TRACKS: Symphony No.3 in D minor. Suite from Works by Bach.
ORCHESTRA: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Riccardo Chailly
ARTISTS: Petra Lang      

- Aug-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Aug-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'Chailly embraces the multitudes of this most expansive of symphonies, and in stunning sound too'

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