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Now playing, CD 31: Motets of the 17th Century — Austria • Bohemia • Bavaria — Niederaltaich Scholars – Konrad Ruhland (Vivarte / Sony Classical)

Now playing, CD 14: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Quartet for Strings No.22 in B flat major K589 ('Prussian' Quartet No.2) – Quartet for Strings No.23 in F major K590 ('Prussian' Quartet No.3) Paolo Borciani (violin), Elisa Pegreffi (violin), Piero Farulli (viola), Franco Rossi (cello) – Quartetto Italiano (Philips / Decca Music)

Now playing, CD 18: Gian Carlo Menotti – Concerto for Violin in A minor — Tossy Spivakovsky (violin) Arthur Honegger – Symphony No.2 for Trumpet and Strings — Boston Symphony Orchestra – Charles Munch (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Classics)

Franz Schubert – Quintet for Piano and Strings in A major D.667 Op.114 "Trout" — Evgeni Kissin (piano), Mikhail Milman (cello), Grigory Kovalenko (viola), Ivan Suluga (double bass), Vladimir Spivakov (violin) Franz Liszt – Rhapsodie espagnole for Piano S.254 Johannes Brahms – 7 Fantasies for Piano Op.116/6 Intermezzo in E major — Evgeni Kissin (piano) (Brilliant Classics – Legendary Russian Soloists)

Now playing, CD 9: Richard Strauss – Ein Heldenleben Op.40 (A Hero's Life) Tone Poem for Large Orchestra Emmanuel Chabrier – Le Roi malgre lui: Fête Polonaise — San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – Pierre Monteux (RCA Victor / Sony Classical)

Now playing, CD 12: Richard Strauss – Don Quixote Op.35 — Desmond Bradley (violin), Jacqueline Du Pré (cello), Herbert Downes (viola) – New Philharmonia Orchestra – Sir Adrian Boult Edouard Lalo – Concerto for Cello in D minor — Jacqueline Du Pré (cello) – Cleveland Orchestra – Daniel Barenboim (EMI Classics)

Now playing, CD 11: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade Op.35 — San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – Pierre Monteux (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Classical)

Now playing, CD 23: Gustav Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) — Dame Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), James King (tenor) – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Bernard Haitink (Philips)

Now playing, CD 40: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto for 2 Pianos in E flat major K 365 (316a) – Concerto for 3 Pianos in F major K 242 "Lodron" (arr. for 2 pianos by W.A.Mozart) – Fantasia for Mechanical Organ in F minor K 608 "Organ Piece for a Clock" (arr. for 2 pianos by Feruccio Busoni / Perahia / Lupu) – Andante and Five Variations for Piano 4 hands in G major K 501 — Murray Perahia (piano), Radu Lupu (piano) – English Chamber Orchestra – Murray Perahia (Sony Classical / Sony Classics)

Now playing:, CD 30: John Williams (guitar, transcriptions) – Echoes of Spain — Albéniz (CBS Masterworks / Sony Classical) Isaac Albéniz – Suite española Op.47/1 Granada (Serenade) – Cantos de España Op.232/1 Preludio [Asturias Op.47/5 (Leyenda)] – Suite española Op.47/3 Sevilla (Sevillanas) [Serenata española Op.181] – Barcarola for Piano Op.202 "Mallorca" – Cantos de España Op.232/4 Córdoba – 12 Piezas características Op.92/12 Torre bermeja – Suite española Op.47/4 Cádiz (Canción) – 12 Piezas características Op.92/7 Zambra granadina – Hojas de album (6) Op.165 "España": No.2 Tango

Now playing, Vol.4, CD 5: Hector Berlioz – Roméo et Juliette Op.17: Excerpt(s) — Carlo Maria Giulini Tadeusz Baird – Variations without a Theme — Hans Vonk Witold Lutoslawski – Paroles tissées — Peter Pears (tenor) – Witold Lutoslawski Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO Live)

Antonín Dvorák – Quartet for Strings No.1 in A major Op.2 B.8 – Andante appasionato for String Quartet in A minor Bretislav Novotny (violin), Karel Pribyl (violin), Lubomir Maly (viola), Jan Sirc (cello) – Prager Streichquartett (Prague String Quartet) (Deutsche Grammophon) I found Volume One (of three) with three CDs in a thrift shop for $2 last weekend.

Now playing, CD 18: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.5 in E minor Op.64 Modest Mussorgsky – Khovanshchina: Act 1 Prelude "Dawn on the Moscow River" (orch. Shostakovich) – A Night on the Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) – Sorochintsy fair: Gopak (orch. Anatoly Lyadov) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Valery Gergiev (Philips)

Ludwig van Beethoven – Quartet for Strings No.14 in C sharp minor Op.131 — Sandy Wilson (cello), Paul Yarbrough (viola), Frederick Lifsitz (violin), Ge-Fang Yang (violin) – Alexander String Quartet (Arte Nova—Sony Music GmbH)

Now playing: Joseph Haydn – Divertimenti – Baryton Trios Nos.50, 52, 57, 59, 67, 107 — John Hsu, baryton, David Miller, viola, Loretta O'Sullivan, 'cello – The Haydn Baryton Trio (Dorian Recordings)

Now playing, CD 28: Julian Bream & John Williams Live John Johnson – Pavan and Galliard (transc. Bream) Georg Philipp Telemann – Polish Partita (transc. Bream & Williams) Fernando Sor – Fantasy for 2 Guitars Op.54a Johannes Brahms – Theme and variations for piano in D minor (after sextet for strings Op.18) (transc. Williams) Gabriel Fauré – Dolly Op.56 (transc. Bream) Claude Debussy – Rêverie (transc. Peter Batchelor) Claude Debussy – Children's Corner: No.6 Golliwogg's Cake-walk (transc. Bream) Claude Debussy – Suite bergamasque: 3rd movement Clair de Lune (transc. Bream & Williams) Isaac Albéniz – Suite española Op.47/3 Sevilla (transc. Miguel Llobet) Enrique Granados – 12 Danzas españolas for Piano Op.37/2 Oriental (transc. Bream & Williams) Julian Bream & John Williams (guitars) (Columbia / Sony Classical) Recorded in Symphony Hall, Boston & Avery Fisher Hall, NYC in Oct. 1978 and issued as a 2-LP set in 1979.

Now playing, CD 8: George Frideric Handel – Water Music HWV 348-350 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro K 492: Overture Robert Schumann – Genoveva Op.81: Overture — Boston Symphony Orchestra – Charles Munch (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Classics)

Now playing, CD 10: Franz Joseph Haydn – Symphony No.24 in D major Hob.I/24 – Symphony No.30 in C major Hob.I/30 "Alleluia" – Symphony No.31 in D major Hob.I/31 "Hornsignal" The first Symphonies written for Prince Esterhazy - CD 6 Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra – Dennis Russell Davies (Sony Classical)

Now playing, CD 27: Manuel Ponce – Variations and Fugue on 'La Folia' – Preludio, Balletto – 3 Canciones populares mexicanas (The Bird Seller, For you my heart, La Valentina) – Marchita el Alma (Faded the soul) – Hace Ocho Meses (Eight Months Ago) – Yo Adoro a Mi Madre (I love my mother) — John Williams (guitar) (CBS Masterworks / Sony Classical)

Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No.4 in A major Op.90 "Italian" – A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture in E major Op.21 – A Midsummer Night's Dream Schauspielmusik Op.61/1 Scherzo - Allegro vivace – A Midsummer Night's Dream Schauspielmusik Op.61/2 L'istesso tempo: 'He Geist! Wo geht die R – A Midsummer Night's Dream Schauspielmusik Op.61: Elfenmarsch - Allegro vivace - 'Schlimm treffen – A Midsummer Night's Dream Schauspielmusik Op.61/3 Lied mit Chor - Allegro ma non troppo - 'K – A Midsummer Night's Dream Schauspielmusik Op.61/4 Andante: 'Was du wirst erwachend sehn' – A Midsummer Night's Dream Schauspielmusik Op.61/5 Intermezzo - Allegro appassionato - 'Stets – A Midsummer Night's Dream Schauspielmusik Op.61/7 Notturno - Con moto tranquillo – A Midsummer Night's Dream Schauspielmusik Op.61/8 Andante: 'Nun da der Knabe mein ist' – A Midsummer Night's Dream Schauspielmusik Op.61/9 Hochzeitsmarsch - Allegro vivace - 'Jetzt – A Midsummer Night's Dream Schauspielmusik Op.61: Finale - Allegro di molto - 'Bei des Feuers matt –– Barbara Sukowa, speaker; Sylvia McNair, soprano (Fairy 1); Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzosoprano (Fairy 2) – Women of The Ernst Senff Chorus Berliner Philharmoniker – Claudio Abbado (Sony Classical)

Daniel James Brown - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Pretty amazing story that centers on the story of one of the men, Joe Rantz, a working-class teenager growing up during the Great Depression who essentially loses his family several times but...well, you can imagine the rest.

Jean de Sainte-Colombe – Pièces pour viole de gambe — Hille Perl (deutsche harmonia mundi / Sony Music) My copy uses the image on the right.

Now playing, CD 6: Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No.1 in C major Op.21 Franz Joseph Haydn – Symphony No.103 in E flat major H 1 No.103 "Drum Roll" — Boston Symphony Orchestra – Charles Munch (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Classics)

Now playing, CD 37: Robert Schumann – Concerto for Piano in A minor Op.54 Edvard Grieg – Concerto for Piano in A minor Op.16 — Murray Perahia (piano) – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Sir Colin Davis (CBS Records Masterworks – Sony Classics)

Now playing, CD 15: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Divertimento for String Quartet in D major K136 (125a) – Divertimento for String Quartet in B flat major K137 (125b) – Divertimento for String Quartet in F major K138 (125c) – Adagio and Fugue for Strings in C minor K546 Paolo Borciani (violin), Elisa Pegreffi (violin), Piero Farulli (viola), Franco Rossi (cello) – Quartetto Italiano (Philips / Decca Music) First international CD release.