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February Classical CD Reviews

We have 100 CDs for your consideration this month.

I am told the best way to attract visitors to a web site is to have sexy
content ...  so I offer you Unknown Public -NAKED and KINKH Jean Hasse -
is that what they meant? If that does not turn you on we have a lot of Bach
(but not 250 CDs) and also Barbireau, Byrd, Haydn, Jommelli, Tinctoris and
Weelkes.  We have a Scottish quintet of discs:  Tovey, Wallace, McKenzie,
MacCunn etc.  and the Britishers:  Bax (3rd symphony), Berkeley, German,
Vaughan William and Venables, an album of Handel's Rivals and of 16th and
17th Century English lyrics.  In the mainstream we have Brahms, Dvorak,
Franck, Mahler, Martinu, Mozart (and Salieri), Poulenc, Suk and Stravinsky.
For the totally obscure we offer Catoire, Chihara, Haas (as well as Hasse),
Ryelandt and a whole raft of Swedish composers.  This still leaves many
more that you will have to discover for yourself.

Our main essays this month are a survey of recordings of Mahler's 7th
symphony continuing Tony Duggan's series, and Rob Barnett looks at the
first 10 issues in the Naxos Glazunov series.  He also presents a survey
of all the Crystal recordings of Alan Hovhaness and to accompany this we
present the full listing of Hovhaness' works (a web-first we think).  Rob
has also discovered a complete Sibelius Symphonic cycle by Kurt Sanderling
recorded in the 70s.  Ian Lace has been listening to different versions of
Boheme.  The book of the month is 'Shostakovich Reconsidered' by Allan B Ho
and Dmitri Feofanov.

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Seen&Heard edited by Peter Grahame Woolf.

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