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MUSIClassical editor Alan Campbell says he has been playing Bert Lucarelli recordings for many years on his classical radio programs on WFLN, KHPR, KUAT and other syndicated stations. "Lucarelli´s oboe presents a contrast to the classical strings and symphonies and has a crisp and inviting sound". The New York Times says Lucarelli is America´s leading oboe recitalist¨. His treatment of these Bach works is outstanding. CD843: NEW TUNES FOR THE BIG BASSOON, Susan Nigro, contrabassoon. Barton Cummings, Concertino for Contrabassoon and Arioso; Timothy Grassel, Reminiscences; P. Kellaceh Waddle, Broken Icicle Twilight & Severe Thunderstorm Warning; Edward McKenna, Bagatelle; Ann Marie Kurrasch, Ponderings from the Pond; Graham Powning, Sonata. Sue Nigro with Mark Lindeblad, piano. Susan Nigro lives in Chicago and plays often with the Chicago Symphony. This is her third solo CD. Nigro is a veritable Paganini of the contrabassoon.î Fanfare; Her musicality glows. American Record Guide

CD121: PHILHARMONIC BRASS, Los Angeles Brass Society & Los Angeles Philharmonic Brass Ensemble, conducted by Lester Remsen. Rayner Brown, Five Pieces for Organ, Harp, Brass, and Percussion, with Ladd Thomas, organ, and Dorothy Remsen, harp; Rayner Brown, Fantasy-Fugue; Fisher Tull, Liturgical Symphony; Fisher Tull, Variations on an Advent Hymn, (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel); William Schmidt, Sequential Fanfares; Robert Henderson, Fanfare 1964; various composers: Fanfares 1969, Jeffrey Reynolds, Irving Bush, Frank Campo, Fred Dutton, William Kraft, William Schmidt, Leonard Rosenman. Lester Remsen is one of the most influential brass players and teachers of the 20th century. His Los Angeles Brass Society and Philharmonic Brass, with as many as 20 players each, were comprised of many of the best brass players in Los Angeles.

CD942: AMERICAN IMAGES:Verdehr Trio (The Making of a Medium vol. 12) (violin, clarinet, piano). Paul Chihara, Trio; David Diamond, Duo for Violin & Clarinet; Marc Satterwhite, Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones; Jonathan Kramer, Serbelloni Serenade; John Biggs, Medieval Dance Suite; Donald Erb, Sunlit Peaks and Dark Valleys.
This is volume 12 of the Making of a Medium series, in which the Verdehr Trio is recording many of the more than 130 compositions that the group has commissioned from some of the best composers in the world.

CD943: AMERICAN IMAGES 2. The Verdehr Trio (violin, clarinet, piano). Sebastian Currier, Verge; Joan Tower, Rain Waves; George Gershwin/William Brohn, I Got Variations; Dan Welcher, Phaedrus; John Biggs, Renaissance Bouquet; Charles Hoag, SweetMelancholy(lostyourdolly) SlowDrag Rag.
The Verdehr Trio Violin: Walter Verdehr, Clarinet: Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, Piano: Silvia Roederer, piano. This is volume 13 of the Making of a Medium series, in which the Verdehr Trio presents some of the 130 new works that it has commissioned from many of the worldís most prominent composers.
Sebastian Currier teaches at Columbia University in NYC, Joan Tower from NYC lives in Hartford Conn.; William David Brohn is a renowned orchestrator and arranger for Broadway shows in NYC; Dan Welcher teaches at University of Texas at Austin; John Biggs lives in Ventura, California; Charles Hoag is professor of music at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

CD314: LOVE LETTERS. David Shostac, Flute. Martin Scot Kosins, Love Letters, A Dialog for Flute and Piano; and Winter Moods, for Unaccompanied Flute; François Borne, Fantaisie Brillante (on themes from Bizetís Carmen); Claude Debussy, The Girl With the Flaxen Hair; Theobold Boehm, Variations Brillantes sur un Air Allemand; Grigoras Dinicu, Hora Staccato. with Anita Swearengin, piano.
David Shostac is principal flute, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and a prominent Hollywood film musician. Formerly he was principal of the St. Louis, Milwaukee, and New Orleans Symphony Orchestras, and the Aspen, Carmel Bach, Mostly Mozart, and Ojai festivals. Martin Scot Kosins' Love Letters is one of the most beautiful works ever written for flute. Kosins lives in the Detroit, Michigan area.

CD214: AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET. Victor Ewald, Quintet No. 3 in Db; William Lovelock, Suite for Brass Instruments; Gilbert Amy, Relais; Antonio Bertali, Two Sonatas; J.S. Bach, Contrapunctus VII from the Art of the Fugue.
The American Brass Quintet gave its first public performance in 1960, marking a career that includes performances throughout the world, more than 45 recordings, and premieres of more than 100 new works. The group has been in-residence at The Juilliard School in New York since 1987 and at the Aspen Festival since 1970. Newsweek Magazine called the quintet "the high priests of brass."

CD771: HORN IN TRIOS. Brahms Trio, op 40, for Violin, Horn, and Piano; Reinecke, Trio, op. 274, for Clarinet, Horn, and Piano; Duvernoy, Trio No. 1, for Clarinet, Horn, and Piano.
Jose Zarzo, Horn; Victor Parra, Violin; Radovan Cavallin, Clarinet; Juan Francisco Parra, Piano. All are members of Ensemble Isola, made up of principals of the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra, which has established a reputation of being Spainís premier symphony orchestra.

CD724: 20th CENTURY BRITISH MUSIC FOR OBOE & PIANO. William McMullen, Oboe; Catherine Herbener, Piano. Richard Rodney Bennett, After Syrinx I; Herbert Howells, Sonata; Gordon Jacob, Seven Bagatelles (for solo oboe); Lennox Berkeley, Sonatina; Edmund Rubbra, Sonata in C, op. 100
William McMullen is oboist with the Moran Woodwind Quintet and oboe professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He played for many years with the New York Philharmonic.

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