Index to All 142 Discs Reviewed

for May 2005

HI-RES REVIEWS, PT 1 (Classical) - BACH: Partitas - Florin Paul, v.; BACH: Brandenburg Concertos - Stuttgart Ch. Orch.; What About This, Mr. Paganini? - Saschko Gawriloff, v.; TCHAIKOVSKY: Sym. N. 4 - Ivan Fisher cond.; TCHAIKOVSKY: Sym. No. 4 - Gergiev cond. Vienna Philharmonic; KREISLER Works - Salvatore Accardo, v.; Homage to KREISLER - Daniel Gaede, v.; TELEMANN: Telemann in Minor - Pretum Integrum Orch./Serbin; MOZART: Flute & Harp Concerto, Flute Concertos 1 & 2 - Patgrick Galliois & Swedish Ch. Orch.; SIBELIUS: Sym. Nos. 3 & 7 - LSO/Colin Davis; BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances for piano 4 hands - Kolacnys; Surround Yourself With Paco Peña - Misa Flamenca; James Boyk piano recital - BACH, CHOPIN, DEBUSSY, MOZART; CHOPIN Scherzi & Impromptus - Yundi Li, p.; Pletnev plays SCHUMANN: Etudes sym., Fantasie in C, Album blatter; R. STRAUSS: The Bourgeois Gentleman, Duet-Concertino, Sextet from Capriccio - soloists/German Ch. Orch./Paavo Järvi

HI-RES REVIEWS, PT. 2 (Classical conl.) - Multichannel Disc of the Month: LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Mass - Kent Nagano cond.; DAVID CHESKY: Con. for Violin, Concerto for Flute, The Girl from Guatemala - Area 31/Aibel; SCHOENBERG: Transfirgure Night, Ch. Symphony - Bavarian State Orch./Zubin Mehta; BRUCKNER: Sym. No. 7 - Seiji Ozawa; Fiddler Tam - Music of Thomas Ersine KELLIE; DVORAK: New World Sym., SMETANA: Bartered Bride Ov., WEINBERGER: Polka & Fugue - Chicago Sym./Reiner; Extensions 2 - works of MIROGLIO, LOUVIER & APERGHIS for Les Percussions de Strasbourg; ROZSA: Three Choral Suites - Cinncinnati Pops & Chorus/Kunzel; ST.-SAENS: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 - Malikova, p./WDR Sym.; DEBUSSY: Afternoon of a Faun, La Mer, Noctures, Berceuse heroique - Cincinnati Sym./Järvi; ELGAR: Violin Concerto; VW: Lark Ascending - Hilary Hahn, v./LSO/Colin Davis; HOLST: Planets - LA Phil./Mehta; Ruggiero Ricci, v. in SARASATE & ST.- SAENS; ROSSINI Overtures - LSO/Pierino Gamba; RESPIGHI: Pines & Fountains for Rome - Chicago Sym./Reiner; BRAHMS: V. Concerto - Szeryng, v./LSO/Monteux

HI-RES REVIEWS, PT. 3 (Jazz/Pop/Rock) - 4 + Four - Turtle Island String Q. + Ving Q.; Buzz Bros. Band - Castle in the Air; Poncho Sanchez - Out of Sight; Paquito D'Rivera - Portraits of Cuba; Yellowjackets - Altered States; Oscar Peterson, p. - Exclusively for My Friends Volumes 1, 2, 3; Shania Twain - Up!; Allman Bros. Band - At Fillmore East; Byther Smith, Addressing the Nation with the Blues; Loewll Fulson - Think Twice Before You Speak; Poor Boy - Songs of Nick Drake; The Kinks - A Soap Opera`

VINYL REVIEWS (In Features Section) - Miles Davis 10" - Young Man with a Horn; SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C, Etudes Sym., Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Scenes from Childhood - John Lill, p.; Ray Charles & guests - Genius Loves Company; Karrin Allyson - In Blue; Bill Berry - Shortcake; Art Pepper - So In Love; Sonny Clark, p. - Cool Struttin'; Mingusx5 - Mingus Ensemble; Oliver Nelson Sextet - The Blues and the Abstract Trutch; Jimmy Giuffre 3 - The Easy Way

DUALDISC REVIEWS - MAHLER: Sym. No. 5 - Utah Sym./Abravanel; MAHLER: Sym. No. 6 - Utah Sym./Abravanel; BEETHOVEN: Sym. No. 5, Leonora Ov. - Phil. Promenade of London/Boult; Is It Rolling Bob? - Dylan Reggae Tribute; Tesla - Standing Room Only; Slaughter - Then and Now; Gene Simmons - ***Hole

DVD VIDEO REVIEWS PT. 1 (Music Videos) - Chopin Piano Music - Perl/Kempt/Hewitt; BERLIOZ: Les Troyens (complete opera) - John Eliot Gardiner; Barbiolli cond. BSO in DELIUS, WALTON, BRAHMS; Theater Music of Brecht & Weill - Lotte Lenya & Gisela May; Great Conductors of the Third Reich - Art in the Service of Evil; Astor Piazzolla in Portrait; Dianne Reeves: Live in Montreal; Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes; The Frank Sinatra Show with guest Ella Fitzgerald

DVD VIDEO REVIEWS PT.2 - Hotel Rwanda; The Middle of the World; Incident at Loch Ness (Herzog); Porco Rosso (Miyasaki); Suspect Zero; House of Flying Daggers - (Yimou); Buddy; Beaches - Midler & Hershey; I Love Lucy: 4th Season; Arakimentari - Doc. on photographer Araki

CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS PT. 1 - MOZART: Complete Piano Works for Four Hands - Dichters; ORFF: Carmina Burana - Berlin Phil./Rattle; BRAHMS: Violin Sonatas 1 & 2, Viola Sonatas 1 & 2 - Schlomo Mintz; Opera Arias - Yu Qiang Dai, tenor; Ukraine Composers Series Set 1; FRANCAIX: Le rou nu, Les demoiselles de la nuit - Ulster Orch./Thierry Fischer; CATOIRE: Piano Trio, Piano Quartet - Room-Music; SOR: 14 Guitar Works - Starobin; BARBER: Capricorn Concerto & other shorter works - Royal Scottish Nat. Orch./Alsop; HENRY COWELL: A Continuum Portrait

CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS PT. 2 - Mischa Maisky & Martha Argerich - STRAVINSKY, PROKOFIEV, SHOSTAKOVICH; BRAHMS: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Klavierstucke - Anton Kuertik, p.; Diane Walsh, piano = BARBER, MARTIN, PROKOFIEV, BARTOK; PENDERECKI: St. Luke Passion - Soloists/Warsaw Nat.l Philharmonic/Wit; Composers of the Holocaust - Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano/conductor; KILAR: September Sym., Lament - Philarharmonic Sym. of Narodowej/Wojnarowski; RACHMANINOFF: Vespers - Estonian Ch. Choir/Paul Hillier

CD REISSUES, PT. 1 - Barbirolli cond. BRUCKNER: Sym. No. 3, WAGNER: Tannhauser Ov. & Venusberg Music; Krsten Flagstad WAGNER recital; Heifetz in BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 9, BRAHMS: Sonata No. 3, FRANCK: Sonata in A Major; John Williams - The Ultimate Guitar Collection; London Sym. Orch. Centennial Set - BEETHOVEN, BERLIOZ, SCHUBERG, DVORAK, TCHAIKOVSKY, STRAVINSKY, BERG, ELGAR, DEBUSSY; Peter Maag cond. J. STRAUSS JR.; Maurice Andre, trumpet - HAYDN, ALBINONI, HANDEL, TELEMANN, HERTEL, HUMMEL; PERSICHETTI: Serenade No. 5, Sym. for Strings, Sym. No. 8 - Louisville Orch.; Henry Szeryng, v. - BEETHOVEN: Sonatas Nos. 1, 3 & 9 "Kreutzer"

NEW JAZZ! (5/19), PT. 1 - Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up; Keith Jarrett, solo piano - Radiance; Dave Brubeck Quartet - London Flat/London Sharp; The Randy Sandke Quartet with Bill Charlap & Parthenia - Trumpet After Dark; Keith Barry, viola - Blew Year's Proposition; Ton Monaco Trio - Fiery Blues; Joey DeFrancesco with Jimmy Smith, B3s - Legacy; John Stowell, guitar - Resonance; Madeleine Peyroux - Carless Love; Mel Brown Quartet - Girl Talk; Duo Campion-Vachon - Duke Ellington

NEW JAZZ! (5/19), PT. 2 - Wynton Marsalis & Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - Duke Ellington Assorted Works; Symphonic Jobim - Orq. Sinfonica de Estado de Sao Paulo/Robert Minczuk; One More - Music of Thad Jones; Willem Breuker - Music for Theater Pieces of Brecht

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