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Complete Suites and Other Music for Keyboard Cristian Sandrin (piano) SOMM Recordings SOMMCD0702 61:09 mins In the first complete recording of Purcell’s eight keyboard suites on the modern piano, Roma

Symphony No. 5; Swanwhite Suite etc Christian Tetzlaff (violin); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon Ondine ODE 1468-2 77:16 mins One of the features of Finland’s impressive music educati

Opera: The Queen of Spades/L’elisir d’amore Garsington ...

Works by Brahms, Schubert, Wolf et al Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano) Alpha Classics ALPHA1131 79 mins Many listeners for whom the German lied is forever associated with Dietrich Fisc

Marc-André Hamelin (piano) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Mark Elder Hyperion CDA67143 The practical requirements of Busoni’s Piano Concerto – a chorus and enormous orchestra – on top of the f

Lorna Anderson (soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor) et al; Sacconi Quartet; Malcolm Martineau (piano) Signum Classics SIGCD870 133:12 mins (2CD) With sets devoted to the complete songs of Duparc, Fauré and