ROBERT SIMPSON (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) the greatest symphony cycle since Shostakovich, from the late English composer, 11 symphonies on 7 discs, now in one slimline box set from Hyperion

BRUNO MADERNA (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) all three of Maderna's oboe concertos, composed in 1962, 1967 and 1973, recorded in the mid-'90s by Fabian Menzel with the Saarbrucken Radio-Symphony Orchestra -- from Col Legno

KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) a reissue in EMI's GEMINI series, (2-discs-for-the-price-of-one), of a set originally released in 2001, a collection of early (1959-1974) Penderecki, with the composer conducting the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, and Symphony No. 1 with the LSO

ERKKI-SVEN TUUR (3 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) "Magma" is Tuur's Symphony No. 4 (31 minutes), with Evelyn Glennie on percussion -- Paavo Jarvi conducts the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra -- also included are two works for choir and orchestra, and a piece for strings dedicated to Arvo Part

BELA BARTOK/PAUL HINDEMITH (5 STARS) the Zehetmair Quartett with another great pair of 20th century quartets -- in 2001 they ECM released their disc with Bartok's 4th and Hartmann's 1st quartets

HUGHES DUFOURT An orchestral work and a large viola concerto from the French composer. (Timpani)

GERARD GRISEY (5 STARS) one of Grisey's last compositions, 40 minutes long, for a quintet of violin, viola, cello, flute & clarinet

LEOS JANACEK/KAROL SZYMANOWSKI (5 STARS) the Schoenberg Quartet presents String Quartets 1 & 2 from both the Czech and Polish composers, four in all

TRISTAN MURAIL (4 STARS) five chamber works from the French spectralist composer now teaching in NYC

ALLAN PETTERSSON (5 STARS) a new recording of Pettersson's Violin Concerto No. 2 performed by the fantastic Isabelle van Keulen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, on CPO

BOX 15 -- 5 CDs Orchesterstucke (Orchestral Works)

ROBIN de RAAFF) three orchestral works, one a piano concerto, with Peter Eotvos, George Benjamin and Ed Spanjaard conducting and the RCOA on two pieces (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam)

LOU HARRISON) four compositions by the California composer dating from 1939 to 1987, from New World Records

GUSTAV MAHLER) new live recording from Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the first on their own label, CSO-Resound, following the LSO and SFSO's lead

BOHUSLAV MARTINU) reissue of one of the finest performances of one of the finest string quartet cycles of the early 20th century, right up there after Bartok and Shostakovich

ALLAN PETTERSSON) all of the Swedish composer's symphonies now in one set from the German CPO label

FAUSTO ROMITELLI) four orchestral and electronic works by a young Italian composer who died in 2004 at age 42, from the Italian label Stradivarius

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG) a 2006 production

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH) new recordings of the often-recorded DSCH violin concertos by the latest young Russian violin virtuoso with the National Orchestra of France on the French Naive label

JOAN TOWER) Grammy-winner in nearly every Classical category