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Sergei Rachmaninoff

@24 Preludes - Alexeev ps gram

@Piano concertos – Ashkenazy gram G

@Piano concertos 1-4 Horenstein GGG

@Piano Works – Morning, Op. 4, Melody, Op 21 – Volodos GG

@Symphony 2 – Pletnev GG

@Symphony 3 – Jansons GG

+The Bells - Andre Previn GG

+Complete recordings (Rachmaninoff on piano) Vol 7, 8, 9, 10

+Complete songs. Vol 1 & 3 – Leiferkus

+The “elegiac” piano trios – Beaux Arts

+Etudes-Tableaux and Preludes - Olympia OCD334/7 - p Richter - gram GG

+Etudes-Tableaux - Berezovsky

+Hommage a Rachmaninov – Pletnev

+Piano Concerto 1 and 3 - Argerich (live) GGG

+Piano Concerto 3 – Ashkenazy, Haitink

+Piano concerto No 4 in G min - Michelangeli - peng** (brilliant)

+Piano Sonata 1, Preludes, Op. 32 - Rodriguez

+Piano Sonata 2, Chopin Variations, Morceaux de fantaise – Rodriguez

+Piano sonata no. 2 Preludes Etudes – Kocsis GG

+Piano Works – The Russian Recital – Richter

+Sonata for Cello and Piano – Harrell, Ashkenazy

+Symphony no. 1 – Ashkenazy GG

+Symphony 2 – Previn GG

+Symphony 3 – Previn GG

+Vespers - (-) Chernuchenko - peng** jim says +Shaw

Le chevalier avare – Tchistiakov

Concerto 2- Rubinstain, Dorati  Minneapolis Mercury (peng**)bill gram p ash

Isle of the dead – Ashkenazy

Music for two pianos - Ashken / Previn live? (at B/LB)

GET @Piano concerto 2 – Richter (cc!)

Piano concerto 2 – Cecile Licad, Abbado

Piano concerto 2 – Ortiz G

@Piano concerto 2 – Rubinstein, Reiner

Piano concerto 2 – composer –

Piano Music complete - Shelley - gram G p and peng (qualified)

Piano sonata no. 1; Thirteen preludes – Rodriguez

Piano Works - Piano Sonata C sharp - Beate Berthold EMI gram ps

Russia cast adrift songs by Rach & Sviridov – Hvorostovsky

Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano - Ma / Ax – jims

Symphony no. 3; Youth symphony – Ashkenazy GG

Symphony 3 & 4 – Anissimov G

Variations on a theme of Chopin Piano sonata – Berezovsky

Vespers – Best G

Jean-Philippe Rameau

ORDER @Harpsichord Works - Rousset - harpsi - p - gram ** NET

@Les Indes galantes - suite - Bruggen GG

ORDER @Ouvertures – Les fetes de Polymnie, etc – Rousset GGG

ORDER @Pieces de clavecin – Meyer GGG

@Platee – Minkowski GG

+The bird concert

+Les Boreades Dardanus (Suites) – (Suites) Bruggen

+Cantates profanes – Poulenard, Ensemble baroque Les Dominos

+Castor Et Pollux - Christie - p

+Dardanus – Raymond Leppard

+Les Fetes de’Hebe – Christie GGG

+La Guirlande Zephyre - Christie

+Les Indes glantes – Christie

+Grand motets - Christie GGG

+Hippolyte et Aricie – Christie

+Keyboard Suites – Angela Hewitt

+Nais Suite.  Le temple de la gloire GG – McGegan 

+Ouvertures – Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques

+La Naissance d’Osiris; Abaris ou les Boreades – Terey-Smith

+Les Paladins – Leonhardt GG (partial to Track 18) (worth GETting)

+Pieces de clavecin en concerts - (-)Dreyfus  - p gram have Rampal/Stern/Ritter

+Pieces de clavecin – Christie

+Zoroastre tragedie lyrique – Kuijken

Ture Rangstrom

+Poems by Bo Bergman – Wings in the night – von Otter GG (modern)

Raulin de Vaux

@Saves pour quoy suy sy gay – Alla Francesca GGG

Einojuhani Rautavaara

@Vigilia – Nuoranne GG

@@Water under snow is weary – Pohjola (not reviewed)

+Dances with the Winds (Concerto for Flute and Orchestra) – Alanko, Vanska +A Requiem in Our Time – Lintu

+Symphony No 7 – Segerstam G

+Works for Mixed Chorus - Departure.  The bride.  – Soderstrom G (modern)

+Works for Piano – Mikkola

Scandinavian contemporary a cappella – Parkman

Oreste Ravenello

@Theme and Variations in B minor – Keith John (org) GGG

Maurice Ravel

@Alborada del gracioso.  Rapsodie espagnole. Reiner GG

@Daphnis et Chloe – Munch GG

@Daphnis et Chloe – von Karajan GG

@Daphnis et Chloe - Dutoit ps gram GG and peng** (ballet) but Nagano GGG ****

@Gaspard de la nuit – Pogorelich GG ****

HOLD July 15, 2001 @Debut album - Jeux d’eau – Argerich GGG

@La Valse – Argerich, Rabinovitch GG

@Ma mere l’oye, Bolero, La valse – Monteux GGG

@Ma mere l’oye – Pavane de la Belle; Les entretiens – Martha Argerich, Freire GGG

@Piano Concertos – Zimerman, Boulez (ed choice 1999)

IN June 14, 2001 @Introduction and allegro for harp flute clarinet and quartet - Melos Ens - Decca peng** @Miroirs – Lipatti GGG

+Alborada del gracioso; Asie; L’Indifference; Valse – Abbado, Price (Sheherazade) +Bolero - Dutoit - gram**

+Bolero; Daphnis et Chloe; La Mer; Prelude – von Karajan gram GG

+Complete Piano Works - Thibaudet - Decca ps - gram *

+Daphnis et Chloe Rapsodie espagnole; Pavane – Monteux GGG

+L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges - Maazel - gram **

+French sonatas – Little, Lane

+The girl with orange lips – Upshaw

+L'Heure Espangnole - Maazel - p - gram *

+Ma mere l’oye. Le tombeau de Couperin. Pavane pour.– Nagano GG

+Orchestral Works - Pavane - Tombeau - Charles Dutoit - Decca - p - gram **

+Piano Concerto – Argerich, Abbado G

+Piano Concerto – Michelangeli GGG 

+Piano Music - Roge GG (two discs)

+Piano trio – Beaux Arts

+Songs – Les chemins de l’amour – Norman

+Songs of Maurice Ravel – Ensemble interconemporain, Norman, Boulez (2)

+String Quartet in F - Hagen

+Trois poems Mallarme, Sheherazade, Cinq melodies – Ameling

+Tzigane – Mutter

+Valses nobles – Pogorelich GGG

+Violin sonates (3); Habanera; Berceuse – Juillet, Roge GG

+Violin Sonata in G – Oistrakh GGG

+Vocal and Orchestral Works - Sherazade - Miroirs - Ma mere l'oye - Simon Rattle EMI - p - gram **

+Works for violin and piano – Lin and Crossley

Alborada del gracioso - Dutoit, Montreal - London - bill **

Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faure. Tzigane – Dumay, Pires G

Daphnis et Chloe – Boulez gram G

Fanfare pour “L’eventail de Jeanne” Sheherazade, Miroirs, etc. Rattle

Gaspard de la nuit; Pavane; Valses – Ashkenazy

Introduction et allegro; Pavane; Sonate violon et violoncelle – Ensemble Wien-Berlin

Introduction et allegro – Felix Slatkin GG (mono)

L’enfant et les sortileges. Bour G (mono)

Music for Two Pianos - Lortie, Mercier - Chan - & Coombs - Gamut - p – gram

Piano Concertos and Orchestral Works - Roge – Dutoit G

Les deux concertos pour piano – Collard, Maazel

Piano duet - Entre clochews; Intro and allegro; Rapsodie espagnol Coombs, Scott - peng**

Piano trio in G (plus Faure; Ravel trios) - Solomon Trio – peng

Piano works vol 1 & 2 – Perlemuter

Piano music complete – Fergus-Thompson

Salut d’amour – Zukerman, violin, Neikrug, piano

Sheherazade – Ameling, de Waart

Sheherazade – Baker, Previn

Song Cycles - Norman - Boulez – jim

String Quartet in F - ps - Britten Q - EMI - gram ** - Also V Williams Q

String Quartet – Quartetto Italiano G

Tzigane (for violin and orchestra) Perlman / Martinon – peng

La Valse; Rapsodie espagnole; Tombeau – Karajan

Violin Sonata - Nash Ensemble/Friend p gram or Noel Lee (GET)

Violin sonata – Oistrakh

Violin sonata – Vadim Repin, Berezovsky

Jean Rebel

@Les elemens - Minkowski - Erato ps gram GG

+Les elemens – Hogwood (2)

Joao Rebelo

+Rebelo & Melgas sacred choral music from 17^th century Protugal – Christophers

Lamentations - Nevel - Sony peng

Maximilian Reger

@Four Symphonic Poems after Arnold Bocklin - Jarvi GG

@Piano Concerto – Oppitz (pf), Stein GG

+Organ masterworks – Fantasy for Organ, Sonata in D min, Symphonic Fantasy

+Organ music – Graham Barber

+Suite im alten Stil op. 93; Serenade – Stein

+Variations and fugue on a theme by Mozart - Davis - Ph. peng** GG

Drei geistliche Gesange – Parkman G

Hiller Variations. Eine Ballettsuite – Davis G

Introduction, passacaglia and fugue - Grham Barber - peng Hyp

@Organ works - Intermizzo ; Passacaglia - Piet Kee – peng

Selma Jurz, soprano

Serenades. Three Suites for Viola – Noakes, Wilde, Robertson G

Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven. Ballettsuite – Segerstam G

Steve Reich

+Tchillim (Psalms) – Manahan G

Different trains; Electric counterpoint – Kronos, Metheny

Drumming. Six Pianos. Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ – Reich

Four Organs. – Piano Circus G

The Four Sections. – Thomas GG

Proverb. Nagoya marimbas. City life – Lubman G

Ottorino Respighi

@Pines of Rome – Reiner GG

+Belkis, Queen of Sheba; theme and variations – Simon G

+Church Windows. Brazilian Impressions – Lopez-Cobos ps gram*

+Concerto gregoriano – Dutoit

+Deita silvane Nebbie; La sensitiva – Hickox

+La fiamma – Gardelli

+Gli uccelli.  Antiche danze - Orpheus Chamber Orch GGG

+Piano Concerto in A minor, Concerto in modo misolidio – Geoffrey Tozler, Edward Downes

+Pines of Rome Fountains of Rome - Dutoit - ps B gram GG

+Semirama opera – Gardelli

+Songs, complete for voice and piano Vol 1 – Lisi, tenor, Mees, piano

+3 Botticelli pictures; the birds – Vasary

+Violin Sonata – Chung, Zimerman ps gram

Ancient airs and dances; The Birds - Gee - Omega peng**

3 Botticelli pictures - Hickox - Collins - peng**

Pini di Roma Fontane di Roma – Maazel

Rossini, Bellini, Verdi, Donizetti, Respighi – Evans, soprano, Pollock

Sinfonia drammatica – Downes G

Il Tramonto (cantata, after Shelly) - Vasary / Chandos – jims

Julius Reubke

+Reubkee Sonata on the 94th Psalm in C minor – Preston

Piano Sonata in B flat minor – Fellner G

Herman Reutter

Funf antike Oden – Zimmermann, Holl G

Silvestre Revueltas

+La coronela world premier recording – Ben –Dor

+Night of the Mayas – Mata

+Sensemayα the unknown Revueltas – Diemecke

Wolfgang Rihm

@@Gesungene Zeit. Mutter, Levine GG (see Berg) (cc)

Terry Riley

(no) In C – Terry Riley, leader and saxophone

In C – Piano Circus

Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov

@Scherherazade – Reiner GG

ORDER @The Tale of Tsar Saltan – Volodos (pf) GG

+Kastchey the Immortal:  Opera in 3 Tableaux – Tchistiakov

+Piano Concerto in C sharp minor - David Lloyd-Jones. Hyp GG

+Scherherazade - Mackerras - ps - gram (-)

+Symphonies - 1, 2 (not 3 cc) - Jarvi GG

+The Tsar’s Bride – Gergiev

Christmas eve: suite; Flight of the bumble - Tjeknavorian – peng

Christmas eve; Le Coq d'or; etc. Chandos 8327/9 Jarvi peng  Le Coq good

Orchestral Suites – Snow Maiden; May night Jarvi G

Orchestral Suites – Golden Cockerel – Tjeknavorian G

Piano Quintet in B flat – Capricorn G

Quintets - lyric (at B/LB) string? if so rare

Russian Easter Overture - Dorati or Slatkin - Bill (Jarvi peng and gram)

(no) Sadko - Gergiev (Phillips) opera peng & gram CD (didn’t record)

Scherherazade – Markevitch, Kondrashin

Scherherazade – Chailly G

Scherherazade – Jansons G

Scherherazade – Beecham GG 

Joaquin Rodrigo

@Tres Piezas espanolas - guitar music - RCA 74321 17903-2 Bream - peng** (BB)

+Complete guitar works, vol 1 – Scott Tennant

+Concerto in modo glante, Concierto de estio, Concierto como un divertimento – Max Bragado-Darman

+Concierto Andaluz for 4 guitars Romeros - Marriner peng B&New

+Concierto de Aranjuez - Parkening - Litton gram p B / peng** Dutoit

+Concierto para una fiesta – Pepe Romero, Marriner G

+Fantasia para un gentilhombre - Bream GG

+Invocacion y Danza. En los trigales – John Williams, Daniels G 

+Music for guitar & harpsichord – Kraft - GG

+Music for piano - Gregory Alen with Anton Nel - peng**

+Noches de Espana romantic guitar classics – Pepe Romero

+Songs with Guitar (also Fantasia and Concierto de Aranjuez) – Marrueco, Domingo

Cipriano Rore

Rore - Missa Praeter rerum eriem. Desprez. Praeter rerum seriem - Tallis G Gram winner

Ned Rorem

@As Adam early in the morning.  Hampson GGG

Johann Rosenmuller

@@Vespro della beata Vergine. – Concerto Palatino, Junghanel GG

Sacri Concerti - Colln / Junghanel - p gram (strongly rec) G

Luigi Rossi

+Oratorio per la Settimana Santa; Un peccator pentito – Christie

+Orfeo - Christie - Harmonia Mundi - gram p (first rate)

Gioacchino Rossini

ORDER @Il barbiere di Siviglia - Domingo Bat no peng /Callas EMI (Naxos - Humburg GG!)

@La boutique fantasque (ballet arr Respighi) Davis - peng**

@La Cenerentola – Haider GG

@Introduction, theme and variations - Johnson / Groves - peng**  GG

@Overtures, complete – Marriner GG

@Peches de Vieillesse, Book 5, Un regret, Prelude pretentieux – Meyer (pf) GGG

@A portrait favorite mezzo soprano arias – Kasarova

@Semiramide - Cheryl Studer / Martin

ORDER @Semiramide – Sutherland, Bonynge GG

@Stabat Mater - Chung GG

+Il barbiere di Siviglia – Sills, Levine

+La Donna Del Lago - Pollini gram (further) peng also

+Heroines – Cecila Bartoli / Ion Marin

+Il Viaggio A Reims - Prague - Abbado – GGG DG - ps - gram **

+La Cenerentola - Bartoli, Chailly (heard)

+Le Comte Ory - Gardiner - peng ** gram also

+L'Italiana in Algeri - DG - Abbado - peng **

+Matilde di Shabran – Riccardo Frizza (live)

+Overturen – Orpheus Chamber GG

+7 overtures, vol 1 – Chailly gram G

+Overtures, vol 2 – Chailly

+La Pietra del Paragone – Jenkins

+Potpourii dai “Peches de Vieillesse” – Swann (piano)

+Tancredi - Zedda Naxos (2 discs) G

+Il Turco in Italia - Chailly - gram GG

+24 petis riens – Swann, piano G

The age of bel canto – Sutherland; Horne; Bonynge

Armida - Scimone gram (further)

Il barbiere di Siviglia – Marriner

La Cenerentola – Abbado G

Ciro in Babilonia – Rizzi (too noisy)

Coloratura arias – Cheryl Studer

La Gazza Ladra - Gelmetti - gram (further)

Giovanna d’Arco; Songs – Bartoli, Spencer

NEW ORDER Guillaume Tell - Gardelli, 72 - gram (original French) (No Eng trans) peng2

Mose in Egitto - Scimone - peng - gram (further) also

Otello - Lopez Cobos peng

Overtures – Reiner GGG  (1958)

Rossini & Donizetti arias – Lavender, Williams, cond.

The Rossini tenor – Blake

Rossini rarities – Caballe

Les scala di seta - Viotti – peng

ORDER @La scala di seta; Il Signor Bruschino – Norrington G

ORDER @Il Signor Bruschino - (Battle) Ion Marin - p gram

-Stabat Mater - Davies - Hickox - Chandos - jim (gram* ps) (returned)

Wind Quartet No. 6 - Aulos Quintet G

Zelmira, Scimone (bad press for this opera) peng

Albert Roussel

@Bacchus et Ariane - get Tortelier GG

+Symphony No. 3 – Bernstein

Bacchus et Ariana (ballet) - Pretre EMI - jims and peng

Padmavati – Plasson

Joseph Royer

@Pieces de clavecin - Rousset - p gram and peng** GG

Miklos Rozsa

Theme, Variations and Finale – Sedares

Cello Concerto – Rejto, Williams

Violin Concerto – Heifetz GGG

Edmund Rubbra

@Violin Concerto. – Little, Handley GG

+Symphony No. 1, Sinfonia concertante – Hickox

+Symphony no. 3, 4 – Norman Del Mar

+Symphony no. 5, no. 8, Ode to the Queen – Hickox

(no) The morning watch – Hickox “Sinfonia sacra” G

Paul Ruders

+Guitar concertante – Starobin (not for tune-loving)

+Violin concerto no 2 – Hirsch, Ruder

Solar Trilogy – Gong. Segerstam G (modern)

Violin Concerto No. 1, Etude, The Bells – Ruder G

Violin concerto no 1, Clarinet concerto – Veto

William Russell

+Voluntary in F major – Bate (org)

John Rutter

Five Traditional Songs – Rutter G

Requiem. Hymn to the Creator of Light - Layton

Jakub Ryba

Czech Christmas Mass - Fidelio - Smetacek – jims