A real mixture this week, from the Decca and Philips catalogues: ranging from Ute Lemper singing Nick Cave and Kurt Weill to vintage recordings of Beethoven piano concertos from Alfred Brendel and Stephen Kovacevich and two terrific Berlioz Symphonies Fantastiques from Colin Davis and Valery Gergiev.
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Berlioz interpreter par excellence Sir Colin Davis conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra on this 1974 recording.
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Mstislav Rostropovich is partnered by Benjamin Britten in this 1968 recital of works by Debussy, Schubert and Schumann.
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Stephen Kovacevich is joined by the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis for the Emperor Concerto; the Piano Sonata Op. 109 is an attractive bonus.
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Valery Gergiev conducts his Kirov forces in Stravinsky's Firebird and Scriabin's Prometheus; Alexander Toradze is the soloist in the latter.
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Argenta Ataulfo conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in works by Chabrier, Debussy, Granados, Moszkowski and Rimsky Korsakov.
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Alfred Brendel is the soloist in these 1999 performances, with Simon Rattle conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker.
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Fleming in her prime in a varied programme which includes Dvorak's Song to the Moon, Mozart, bel canto, Puccini, Strauss and Gershwin.
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The German chanteuse sings music by Kurt Weill, Joby Talbot, Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Elvis Costello.
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Viktoria Mullova directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment from the violin on this recording, a Gramophone Editor's Choice in 2002.
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Alfred Brendel plays the Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 9 and 15, plus the Fantasia K397.
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Gergiev conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker, with Olga Borodina joining for Cleopatra's great death-scene.
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Vintage Bartók from Sir Georg Solti and the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 1965.
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Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra on this 1998 recording.
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Charles Dutoit conducts the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in Chausson Symphony & two Poèmes; Chantal Juillet is the violinist in Op. 25, François Le Roux the baritone in Op. 19.
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The world-renowned Grimethorpe brass perform music by Elgar Howarth, Sousa, Holst, Elgar, Ron Goodwin and Stephen Foster.
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Wilhelm Kempff in the great Second Sonata and a selection of impromptus and other short works.
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Pierre Henry & Michel Colombie's music for Béjart's 1967 ballet Messe pour un Temps Présent.
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