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JAZZ

Jazz Warriors
Afropeans

Courtney Pine, Nathaniel Facey (saxophone), Omar Puente (violin), Chris Storr, Byron Wallen, Jay Phelps (trumpet), Harry Brown (trombone), Alex Wilson (piano), Darren Taylor (bass), Samuel Dubois (steel drums)

Destin-E Records 777 25 3 1807 50:56 mins

DVD

Donizetti

La fille du régiment Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli, Donald Maxwell, Dawn French; Chorus & Orchestra, Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden/Bruno Campanella; dir. Laurent Pelly (London, 2007)

Virgin 519 0029 (NTSC system; dts 5.1; 16:9 picture format) 132 mins

INSTRUMENTAL

JS Bach

Partitas Nos 2-4 Murray Perahia (piano)

Sony 88697282662 70:69 mins

CHAMBER

Schubert

String Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden); Quartettsatz in C minor Jerusalem Quartet

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901990 51:55 mins

CHORAL AND SONG

Scattered Rhymes

Chorals works by O’Regan, Machaut, Bryers and Dufay
The Orlando Consort; Estonian Philharmonic
Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier

Harmonia Mundi HMU 807469 61:38 mins

OPERA

Sémélé

Shannon Mercer, Bénédicte Tauran,
Jaël Azzaretti, Hjördis Thébault, Anders J Dahlin, Thomas Dolié, Lisandro Abadie, Marc Labonnette;
Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet

Glossa GCD 921614 137:26 mins (2 discs)

ORCHESTRAL

L’Arlésienne – incidental music; orchestral suites Nos 1 & 2; Carmen – Prélude & Entractes

Choeur de l’Opéra de Lyon; Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble/Marc Minkowski

Naïve V 5130 59:08 mins

DISC OF THE MONTH

JS Bach
Masses BWV 233-235; Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191; Magnificat, BWV 243; Sanctus, BWV 232

Johannette Zomer, Lisa Larsson, Deborah
York, Caroline Stam, Elisabeth von Magnus (soprano), Bogna Bartosz (alto), Jörg Dürmüller, Paul Agnew, Gerd Türk (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass); Amsterdam
Baroque Choir & Orchestra/Ton Koopman

Challenge CC 72188 149:57 mins (2 discs)