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Best Music Of:
2007
, 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2002

 

Artist Vs. Critic: A lively debate over how modern performers can best approach early music.

 

The mono maven explains why even fervent audiophiles should be grabbing up pre-stereo records

The Mono Maven Considers More Great Westminster LPs

The Mono Maven Surveying RCA Mono LPs

The Mono Maven considers the first recording of Benjamin Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw, and compares it with a stereo LP, a recent CD, and two DVDs, no less.

The mono maven considers an alternative to an audiophile stereo favorite.

The Mono Maven highlights more gems from the Decca - London catalog

The Mono Maven Recommends More Decca-London Mono Treasures

The mono maven strides boldly into the stereo era, showcasing fine-sounding and affordable London Stereo Treasury LPs.

The Mono Maven Completes His Survey Of London Stereo Treasury Reissues On LP.

The Mono Maven Part 2 Of His Survey Of London Stereo Treasury Reissues On LP.

The Mono Maven Listens To Mercury Living Presence Vinyl LP Releases, Volume 1.

Late-Mono Gems From Lesser-Known Conductors

The Mono Maven begins a survey of Columbia sans Sony. Part 1

The Mono Maven: Mercury Living Presence, Vol. 2 Howard Hanson

The Mono Maven returns to explicate some fine stereo recordings from Central Europe.

The Mono (and Stereo too) Maven Describes More Excellent Recordings from the Hungaraton Label

The Mono Maven has returned to Enjoy the Music.com with the first of three surveys of Big Band LPs.

 

 

African Heritage Symphonic Series

American orchestral pieces

An American Requiem by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra

American Works for Organ and Orchestra

Martha Argerich Debut Recital

Assorted DVD-Audio Reviews

Assorted SACD Music Reviews

Dominick Argento Casa Guidi; Capriccio for Clarinet and Orchestra; In Praise of Music: Seven Songs for Orchestra

Johann Sebastian Bach Harpsichord Concertos

Johann Sebastian Bach The French Suites

Three Approaches To Bach's Problematic Art Of Fugue

Bach B-Minor Mass

Exciting period instrument performances of choral masterpieces by Bach

Bach Harpsichord Recital from Richard Egarr

Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Two Approaches To Bach's English Suites

Baroque Music for Brass and Organ

Baroque Roundup: Harpsichordist David Cates Surveys A Handful Of Recent And Not-So-Recent Recordings Really Worth Your Attention.

Bartok Piano Concertos

Bartok and Lutoslawski

From Arkiv Music, a valuable Bartok reissue featuring Riccardo Chailly conducting the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven - Nine Symphonies plus Coriolan, Egmont, and Prometheus Overtures

Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 "Choral"

Shallow Beethoven concertos in poor sound from virtuoso idol Lang Lang

Beethoven Sonatas in excellent sound from Angela Hewitt

Beethoven Allegretto From Symphony No. 7 Theme and Variations

Ludwig Van Beethoven Egmont Overture, op. 84

Beethoven Sonata Set

Orchestra performances of four Beethoven symphonies

Complete Beethoven concertos showcasing a brilliant new Australian piano

Beethoven from Arrau and Klemperer

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonatas And Opus 106 Hammerklavier

Ludwig van Beethoven Bruno Walter's Eroica Classic records Reissued

Tab Benoit The Sea Saint Sessions

Hector Berloiz Symphonie Fantastique Munch

Hector Berlioz (Various)

Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 La Mort de Cleopatre - Scene Lyrique

Leonard Bernstein's first and last ballet

Vermeer Quartet Plays Bliss

Cello Suites and Folk Pieces by Ernest Bloch

Brahms, Serkin And More!

Olga Kern tackles Brahms's demanding solo piano sets of Variations

Brahms First

Brahms Symphony Number 1 in C Minor, Op. 68

Johannes Brahms piano concertos

Bernard Haitink's Brahms On LSO Live

Arthur Rubinstein's Brahms Solo Piano Music

Vermeer Quartet Plays Britten

Benjamin Britten Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Britannia SACD

Bruckner Conductors Goodall and Sanderling

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 In E Major

Historic Bruckner from Rafael Kubelik

Carlo Maria Guilini's Special Way with Bruckner

Buju Banton 'Till Shiloh

Capitol FDS Recordings Volume 1

Capitol Recordings Volume 2

Carmen Suite; Concerto for Orchestra No. 1 Naughty Limericks; Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 The Chimes

George W. Chadwick Orchestral Works from an Early Master

Chicago Pro Musica The Medinah Sessions

Classical CD Reissue Music (15 Reviews)

Chopin Sontat No. 3 Op. 58 In B Minor

Frederic Chopin Solo Piano Works

Three Different Approaches To Chopin

Rubinstein's Chopin Scherzos

Rubenstein's Definitive Chopin Sonatas In Brilliant Sound

The enterprising Cedille label presents chamber music fron five active composers.

Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra performs Coplan Fanfare for the Common Man, Appalachian Spring Suite

Aaron Copland Symphony No. 3  Billy the Kid (Suite)

Copland Via Harmonia Mundi Release

François Couperin Keyboard Music (volume 2)

Interpretations of Francois Couperin

Tenor Ian Bostridge and Friends Explore the Songs of Noel Coward

Max Westler examines Claude Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun on EMI and Philips

Declarations: Music Between the Wars

Dervish Decade and Midsummer's Night

Die Röhre - The Tube Glowing Baroque

Ernst von Dohnamyi Variations on a Nursery Tune

Dracula

Brilliant Martinu and Engaging Dvorak Symphonies from Telarc

Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World; Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88.

Orchestral Favorites From Dvorak And Smetana, Arranged For Piano Duet

DVD-Audio Reviews (Thirteen Total)

Antonin Dvorak Cello Concerto In B minor, Op. 104

Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70; Paul Hindemith: Concert Music for String Orchestra and Brass, op. 50

Dvorak Quartet Death And The Maiden And Also American

Judith Edelman Drama Queen

Eduardo Eguez The Lute Music of J.S. Bach

Engaging Contemporary Chamber Music from Chicago

Conductor Eugene Ormandy Humor

Fiddlers 4 Bruce Molsky, Michael Doucet, Darol Anger...

First Impressions Music: Jazz at the Pawnshop, Hush! The Angels are Singing, and Patricia Barber Companion

Ethan Frome: A Lyric Opera In Three Acts

Cesar Franck And Johannes Brahms

George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra; Prelude No. 2 for Piano

American pianist Simone Dinnerstein delivers a beautifully conceived and played piano version of Bach's Goldbergs.

Grimaud and Zinman give us cultivated Gershwin and Ravel concertos

EMI Celebrates the Great '70s collaboration of Carlo Maria Giulini and the Chicago Symphony-and at Bargain Price

Giulini And The Philharmonia Orchestra In Treasurable Concert Performances

Giulini Video

Giulini does Brahams and Mozart

Reinhold Gliere Symphony No. 3, Op. 42 "Ilya Murometz"

Reinhold Gliere: The Many Manifestations Of Ilya Mourometz

Jerry Goldsmith Christus Apollo, Music for Orchestra and Fireworks

Interview with Bobby Gordon

Got Swing! Erich Kunzel & The Cincinnati Pops

Getting A Handle On Handel

John Harbison And Stephen Hartke

Heifetz Playing the Rozsa Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Heifetz Playing the Bruch Concerto in G Minor

Jennifer Higdonrom Orchestral Showpieces

High Resolution Multi-Channel Digital Audio Music Reviews (26 total)

From Cedille, a fine collection of Paul Hindemith's chamber music for clarinet

Various Ho Ho Ho Spice

Vladimir Horowitz Rediscovered: Carnegie Hall Recital November 16, 1975

Hush! The Angels are Singing

The Film Music of Gerry Goldsmith

Ofra Haza Greatest Hits

Gustav Holst's The Planets

Heifetz Playing Bruch's Scottish Fantasy

Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Shostakovich from fast-rising conductor Vladimir Jurowski

JVC XRCD Revisited for the First Time

New JVC XRCD Music Reviews (6 total)

Hyperion Knight Plays The NYC Primedia Show 2002

Italian Baroque violin sonatas

Paavo Järvi And Explore Stravinsky's More Intimate Side On PentaTone Classics

Leon Kirchner (Various)

Yolanda Kondonassis The Romantic Harp

Lagwagon Double Plaidinum

Lindberg Violin Concertos

Liszt Piano Sonata In B Minor

Living Presence 20th-Century Music

LP Reviews (Assorted)

JVC XRCD's Fritz Reiner and Chicago Symphony and Reference Recording's Eiji Oue and Minesota Orchestra by Gigi Krop

Magnolia - Music From The Motion Picture

Mahler's First And Sixth Symphonies

Gustave Mahler Symphony No. 2 Resurrection

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 Resurrection

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4 In G Major

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 In D Minor

Winning Mahler From Daniel Harding And Jonathan Knott

Mahler Second Symphony

Mahler Cycle

The best Mahler Second of the digital era.

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E minor, San Francisco Symphony

Telarc offers classic and modern Hollywood scores from seafaring films.

The Complete Baroque Musician, Part 1

The Complete Baroque Musician, Part 2

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4

Mega Movies  Warning -  Mega Sound Effects

Mendelssohn Concerto for Piano No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25

American Music For Piano Duo

French Songs by Soprano Patrice Michael

Milstein's Dvorak & Glazunov

Modeste Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Various Operas From Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem, K. 626

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Piano Concertos

Testament Presents The Young Amadeus Quartet Playing Mozart

Mozart and Witt Vinyl Goodies From Cisco Music

A definitive set of Carl Nielsen's symphonies

A Well Chosen Program Of Late Eighteenth-Century Opera Arias

Andreas Staier Plays Mozart On The Fortepiano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail, The Abduction from the Seraglio

Charles Munch Conducting The Boston Symphony: RCA Living Stereos On XRCD2

Munch Video

Russian Audiophile Favorites From The '70s, Reissued In SACD

Ocean Au pied, la mer

Opera Orgy in Eastern Europe

French Late-Romantic Composer Gabriel Pierné

Engaging, offbeat chamber music from Cedille

The First Symphony of obscure Russian composer Gavriil Popov, and Brahmsian juvenilia from Shostakovich

Portraits: Jennifer Koh (violin) with Carlos Kalmar conducting the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra Review By Joe Milicia

André Previn and His Pals West Side Story

Prokofieff Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

From Telarc, good-sounding prokofieff disc of Russian symphonic warhorses.

Prokofiev Symphonic Suite of Waltzes

Prokofiev Cinderella

Prokofiev Peter And The Wolf

Russian Ballet Suites by Prokofiev, Khachaturian and Shostakovich

Pro Piano Records

Guilty Pleasures From Astor Piazzola

Giacomo Puccini Tosca

Purcell's Masterwork Dido and Aeneas

Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2; Scherzo; Dances from Aleko

Lang Lang Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3

Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Vocalise and Etudes-Tableaux

Tharaud Plays Ravel's Complete Piano Music

Grimaud and Zinman give us cultivated Gershwin and Ravel concertos.

Ravel Ma Mere L'Oye

Ravel's Daphnis And Chloe Ballet

Excellent Mid-70s Ravel Reissued On SACD

More Fine Ravel Reissued On SACD

RCA Mono LPs

Steve Reich's Challenging Commentary in Words, Music and Video

Respighi Belkis, Queen of Sheba - Suite

Reiner - Chicago Symphony - Overtures and Dances

Reveries - Eiji Oue Conductor

JVC XRCD Richter-Munch Beethoven First Piano Concerto

Sviatoslav Richter's Legendary Pictures at an Exhibition

Howard Hanson Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, "Romantic" & Others by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

Ned Rorem Eleven Studies For Eleven Players

Rossini Famous Overtures

Albert Roussel

Colorful Concert Showpieces From Film Composer Miklós Rózsa

Charles Sawtelle Music from Rancho DeVille

Scary Music From Scary (Horror) Movies And Elsewhere

Bracing Schubert symphonies from conductor Jonathan Nott

Robert Schumann Das Paradies Und Die Peri, op. 50

Rosalyra Quartet Shostakovich String Quartets Nos. 2 And 8

Powerful Shostakovich Symphonies from Oleg Caetani

Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartets 1-13

Shostakovich Via Harmonia Mundi Release

Brilliant Shostakovich and Shchedrin Concertos from Marc-André Hamelin

Schubert Quartet

Schubert Ninth, Max Westler bids a not-so-fond farewell to the recordings of Sir Simon Rattle

Testament Presents The Young Amadeus Quartet Playing Schubert

Schubert Symphony Number Nine in C Major

Alexander Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy

Robert Schumann Symphonies and Genoveva Overture

Serkin, Brahms And More!

Short Music For Short People

Dmitri Shostakovitch On SACD and Naxos CD

Sibelius Symphonies

Sibelius and Lindberg Violin Concertos

Sibelius Symphony No. 2, Tubin Symphony No. 5 Jarvi

Sir Colin Davis Continues His LSO Live Sibelius Cycle

Serious Bass - An Interview with Mary Scully

Symphonic Star-Trek

Conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Showcases Composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

Mary Stopler Flute Music

Richard Strauss

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring SACD

Strong Poetic

Super Audio CD (SACD) Classical Music Reviews

Super Audio CD (SACD) Jazz Music Reviews

Super Bass 2

Symphony No. 2, 3, and 4

Daniele Gatti Conducts Two Tchaikowsky Warhorses

Tchaikovsky chamber music from an intriguing small label

Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"

The Ten Tenors Here's To The Heroes

Twilight Of The Romantics by the Orion Ensemble

The Mono Maven on Dorati's Definitive Swan Lake

The Mono Maven Surveys Complete Recordings Of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker And Sleeping Beauty Ballets

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Romeo and Juliet Overture

Great Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky from conductor Ferenc Fricsay

Tchaikovsky Concerto for Piano No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23

Taby Church Chamber Choir Hush! The Angels Are Singing

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Ballet Excerpts

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture DVD-Audio

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture SACD

Tchaikovsky

From Telarc, good-sounding Tchaikovsky disc of Russian symphonic warhorses.

Testament Reissues (Assorted)

Traditional worldwide music from the Chicago Symphony

Traversata Italian Music in America

Mark Twain Original Soundtrack Recording

Jesus Lopez-Cobos Music of Turina and Debussy

Various DVD-Audio And SACD Discs

Various XRCD CD Discs

Veni, Veni, Emmanuel

Viennafest

Violin Fantasies: a stimulating variety of works under the "fantasy" banner

Performing Vivaldi- Re-Creation And Desecration

JVC XRCD's Fritz Reiner and Chicago Symphony and Reference Recording's Eiji Oue and Minesota Orchestra

Sir Adrian & The Symphonies of Vaughan Williams

Exciting period instrument performances of choral masterpieces Vivaldi

Excellent CDs From Dorian And Testament Celebrate 15th, 16th And 17th-Century Music

A great-sounding recording of a symphony composed by legendary conductor Felix Weingartner

Benjamin Zander's Vibrant Mahler First Symphony & Songs of a Wayfarer

Laurel Zucker & Mark Shapiro The Dark Side of the Flute

Laurel Zucker & Sara Andon The Complete W.F. Bach Flute Duos

Laurel Zucker & Mark Shapiro Master Music for Flute & Piano

First Edition Reissues Music Of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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