Composers Datebook®

Charles Martin Loeffler (1861 – 1935) String Quartet in a DaVinci Quartet Naxos 8.559077

Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652) Miserere The Tallis Scholars Gimell 454 990

Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) Clarinet Sonata Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Irma Vallecillo, piano BMG 60198 Joan Tower (b. 1938) Clarinet Concerto David Shifrin, clarinet; The Louisville Orchestra D'Note 1016

Florence Price (1887 – 1953) Symphony No. 3 The Women's Philharmonic; Apo Hsu, cond. Koch 7518

J.S .Bach (arr. Respighi) Passacaglia in c BBC Philharmonic; Leonard Slatkin, cond. Chandos 9835 Wolfgang Mozart (1756 – 1791) Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364/320d Midori, violin; Nobuko Imai, viola; NDR Symphony; Christoph Eschenbach, cond Sony 89488

George Frederic Handel (1685 – 1757) Belshazzar Vienna Concentus Musicus; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, cond. Teldec 97988 Charles Burney (1726 - 1814) Tell us, O Women Psalmody and The Parley of Instruments; Peter Holman, cond. Hyperion 67150

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Quintet in Eb for Piano and Winds, Op. 16

Johann Strauss II (1825 – 1899) Die Fledermaus Overture Vienna Symphony; Robert Stolz, cond. BMG 72916

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) Symphony No. 2 Russian National Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, cond. DG 449 967 Patty Hill Happy Birthday English Chamber Orchestra; Donald Fraser, cond. BMG 61488 Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) Greeting Prelude London Symphony: Michael Tilson Thomas, cond. BMG 68865

Offenbach (arr. Rosenthal) Cancan, from Gaite Parisienne Montréal Symphony; Charles Dutoit, cond. London 430 718 Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883) Act 3 Prelude, fr Lohengrin Berlin Philharmonic; Daniel Barenboim , cond. Teldec 81791 Kozaburo Hirai Sonata Kazue Frances Asawa, flute; Kazue Kudo, koto Crystal 316