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Stop Fleecing Me Naxos!

The Best of the Set

Villa-Lobos and the Guitar

The End of Bachianas Brasileiras

Schmidt for Wittegenstein

Volume Three from Prague

Three Modes of Villa-Lobos

Where should Classical Music lovers live?

Bach and Brazil

Meet and Greet

Thank You for the Warmth

Ending with the First

How do you like your Snare?

Going Backwards

Mahler from DF-D

Rossini for Male Voices

The Sweet Choral Music of Rossini

The Villa-Lobos Sound World

Cooke I, Take Two

Mahler 10 from Deryck Cooke

An Exciting Mixture

Song of the Stars

Still a good Mahler 9

Let's hear it for the Winds

A Mess of Engineering

Drippingly Italianate

Happy Birthday!

Mugshot and Fingerprints please...

When is a Reconstruction Not a Reconstruction?

If it walks like an opera, and talks like an opera...

When Seiji Ozawa Ate a Sun-Kebab off of a Baton

Less please...

More please...

Lord of the Rings... in Symphony Form... Again

Taking 'Discoveries' too literally

Building The Oozy Channel Keep with Mahler

Tenor Horn Love

Orchestration 101