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Naxos:
Mendelssohn's 2nd symphony;
Vol 1 of Buxtehude organ music;
more Liszt transcriptions of Schubert songs;
Vol 1 of Busoni piano music including Fantasia Contrappuntistica;
three violin concertos by Saint-Georges;
Vaughan Williams' two string quartets and that fabulous Phantasy
Quintet;
more Tchaikovsky songs;
Finnish orchestral favourites by Sibelius, Jarnefelt, Sallinen and
Rautavaara;
two that were originally on Marco Polo: Bantock's Hebridean Symphony,
Old English Suite and Russian Scenes; and Wagner's Marches and Overtures
which contains some truly dreadful music and, as the American Centennial
March shows, the old villain could turn his hand to writing something
for a buck (quite a few, IIRC) as trashily as the next man - it's worth
owning as a conversation piece.
Naxos American Classics:
Schuman's wonderful Violin Concerto with his New England Triptych and
Variations on America.
Marco Polo:
A J Potter's Sinfonia De Profundis, Finnegans Wake and Variations on a
Popular Tune. No, I've never heard of him either, but it's a safe bet he's
Irish. Naxos has an apostrophe in "Finnegans", but there shouldn't be one.
Malcolm Arnold's scores for David Copperfield and The Roots of Heaven,
released to celebrate his 80th birthday (21 October).
Richard Pennycuick
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