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Johann Sebastian BACH
The Art of Fugue
Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt’s much-awaited recording of Bach’s ultimate masterpiece, The Art of Fugue, is destined to be the
crowning achievement of her Bach cycle for Hyperion; a revelatory recording and performing project which has
taken her all over the world and won her international acclaim and millions of dedicated fans.
CDA67980
£9.00 (2 CDs for 1)
Arvo PÄRT
Choral Music
Peace upon you; Jerusalem; Morning star; The woman with the alabaster box; The deer’s cry; Virgencita; Solfeggio;
Zwei Beter; Tribute to Caesar; Summa; Memento Ode VII from 'Kanon Pokajanen'; Alleluia-Tropus; Da pacem, Domine
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
Stephen Layton and Polyphony have a long and fruitful relationship with the music of Arvo Pärt. Their recording of Triodion and other choral
works (CDA67375) won a Gramophone Award and became a cult classic. The extraordinary purity of Polyphony’s singing is the perfect vehicle
for music of such clean, elemental simplicity.
CDA68056
£9.00
George Frideric HANDEL
20 Sonatas, Op. 1
Rachel Beckett, Lisa Beznosiuk, Paul Goodwin, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Richard Tunnicliffe, Paul Nicholson
The twenty sonatas on this recording show Handel writing for the professional musicians of his London opera
orchestra. Prominent bass parts give the sonatas a contrapuntal strength and vitality, and Handel keeps the
elements of antiphony in admirable balance in these works. For this reason, they are among the most attractive
Baroque solo sonatas and deserve their lasting popularity.
CDS44411/3
£10.59 (3 CDs)
(from CDA66921/3)
Max BRUCH
Violin Concerto No. 3; Scottish Fantasy
CDA68050
£9.00
Jack Liebeck,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Award-winning violinist Jack Liebeck brings his impassioned tones, fulsome emotional display and formidable
technique to the first of three albums of music by Max Bruch.
DURUFLÉ; WILLIAMS; RICE; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS; MOORE;
HOWELLS; TAVENER
Music for Remembrance
Westminster Abbey Choir, Britten Sinfonia, James O’Donnell
CDA68020
£9.00
This latest album from Westminster Abbey is a programme of memorial music composed in England and France
in the shadow of two World Wars.
Claude DEBUSSY
Songs, Vol. 3
Jennifer France, Malcolm Martineau, Jonathan McGovern
Includes: Musique; Romance; La romance d’Ariel; Regret; L’archet; Chanson triste; Les baisers d’amour; Les Elfes;
Aimons-nous et dormons; Souhait; Sérénade; Rêverie; La Belle au Bois dormant; Il dort encore; Les roses; Pierrot;
Les baisers; Dans le jardin and more.
Hyperion presents a third volume in its acclaimed Debussy songs series, accompanied and curated by Malcolm
Martineau, with booklet notes by French music expert par excellence Roger Nichols.
CDA68016
£9.00
The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 64
Henrique OSWALD: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 10
Alfredo NAPOLEÃO: Piano Concerto No. 2 in E flat minor
CDA67984
£9.00
Artur Pizarro
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins
Portuguese virtuoso Artur Pizarro makes a welcome return to the Romantic Piano Concerto series with the
outpourings of two brilliant pianist-composers.
Johannes BRAHMS
The Complete Trios
The Florestan Trio, Stephen Stirling,
Richard Hosford
J. S. BACH
CDD22082
£9.00 (2 CDs for 1)
The Six Motets
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
(from CDA67251/2)
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CDH55417
£3.53
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(from CDA66369)
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The Dream of Gerontius; Sea Pictures
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Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton, David Soar
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Chandos Records is delighted to present this new recording of Elgar’s choral masterpiece,
The Dream of Gerontius and the enduringly popular song cycle Sea Pictures. The BBC Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, a peerless Elgarian who this
year was awarded the prestigious Elgar Society Medal in recognition of his outstanding
contribution to the composer’s music.
CHSA 5140(2)
£18.00 (2 Hybrid SACDs)
Johannes BRAHMS
Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 3
Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 2; Intermezzi, Op. 119 Nos. 1 and 3; Intermezzo, Op. 116 No. 5;
Theme with Variations in D minor; Waltzes, Op. 39
Barry Douglas
Barry Douglas returns for the highly anticipated third volume in his series devoted to Brahms’s solo piano
music, the first two volumes having been met with widespread critical acclaim.
CHAN 10833
£9.00
The Symphonic Euphonium
Joseph HOROVITZ: Concerto for Euphonium
Philip WILBY: Concerto for Euphonium
Alun HODDINOTT: The Sunne Rising, The King Will Ride
Karl JENKINS: Concerto for Euphonium
David Childs
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bramwell Tovey
CHAN 10830
£9.00
David Childs leads the way as the world’s foremost euphonium soloist, making the case for this once neglected
instrument to growing audiences worldwide with his stunning virtuosity and extrovert musicality.
Franz Joseph HAYDN
String Quartets, Vol. 1
Doric String Quartet
The Doric String Quartet has been widely praised for its live performances of Haydn’s works. The Sunday
Telegraph wrote that ‘Haydn and the Doric are a perfect match… Unequivocally, these were performances of
terrific panache and perception, seeming to get right under the skin of Haydn’s creative genius’.
CHAN 10831(2)
£9.00 (2 CDs for 1)
Johan HALVORSEN
Orchestral Works, Vols. 1-4
Marianne Thorsen, Ragnhild Hemsing, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Neeme Järvi and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra have lifted the lid on one of Norway’s best-kept musical
secrets with their series devoted to the orchestral works of Johan Halvorsen. Now, in this four-disc box set,
these fresh and revealing recordings have been brought together for the first time.
CHAN 10834(4)
£27.00 (4 CDs for 3)
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Leoš JANÁCEK
Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Sinfonietta; Capriccio; Suite from the Cunning Little Vixen
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
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This release features three pieces that originate in Janácek’s late period, when his passionate feelings for
Kamila Stösslová, thirty-seven years his junior, inspired an extraordinary flowering of his creative genius.
OCTOBER 2014
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CHSA 5142
£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)
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Claudio MONTEVERDI
Vespers of 1610
COR16126
£13.50
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
‘Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 is quite simply one of the greatest works of sacred music ever written’ - Harry Christophers.
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
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October 2014 marks the 25 anniversary of the founding of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Twenty years after
their acclaimed Beethoven Symphonies recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the orchestra
continue to revisit this repertoire - this album follows the release of Symphonies 5 & 7 recorded live at Carnegie Hall.
SDG721
£9.00
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 6; Symphony No. 14
Tatiana Monogarova, Sergei Leiferkus
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Both works were recorded live in concert at Southbank Centre. The 2013 performance of Symphony No. 6 was part of
Southbank Centre’s festival 'The Rest Is Noise', a year-long exploration of twentieth-century music for which the LPO won
the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award in the ensemble category.
William WALTON
(1902-1983)
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra; Passacaglia for Cello Solo
LPO-0080
£5.56
Paul HINDEMITH
(1895-1963)
Cello Concerto; Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 25 No. 3
Christian Poltéra
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), Frank Shipway
As a contrast to the two concertos, Christian Poltéra also performs two solo works by Walton and Hindemith. He is supported
by the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), who with conductor Frank Shipway, were nominated for a 2014 BBC Music
Magazine Award for their recording of Richard Strauss’ Alpensymfonie.
BIS2077
£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
The Complete Piano Sonatas (and early unnumbered sonatas)
Ronald Brautigam
The complete piano sonatas recorded by Ronald Brautigam are now being released as a boxed set, along with a ninth disc
containing the early, unnumbered sonatas. Carefully selected instruments, built by Paul McNulty after originals from
1788-1819 are used for these performances.
BIS2000
£36.00
(9 Hybrid SACDs for 4)
Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Rosamunde Overture; Funeral March from 'Adrast'
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
On the final disc of a complete cycle, Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra offer us Schubert’s first two
symphonies. Written between 1813 and 1815, by a composer still in his teens, both works exemplify the influences of Haydn,
Mozart and Beethoven.
BIS1989
£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)
James MACMILLAN (b. 1959)
Clemency
A Chamber Opera for five singers and string orchestra - Libretto: Michael Symmons Roberts
David Kravitz, Michelle Trainor, Christine Abraham, Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra, David Angus
BIS2129
£9.00
Clemency is the third operatic collaboration between the composer James MacMillan and the poet Michael Symmons Roberts. It
explores a central but enigmatic episode in the Old Testament: when Abraham and Sarah are visited by three mysterious strangers…
Visions Fugitives – Music for Strings
PROKOFIEV: Visions Fugitives, Op. 22; HINDEMITH: Fünf Stücke für Striechorchester, Op. 44 No. 4;
WEBERN: Fünf Sätze, Op. 5; BARTÓK: Divertimento for String Orchestra
Camerata Nordica, Terje Tønnesen
The music on this disc spans from the years before World War I to a few days before the outbreak of World War II. Bartók,
Webern, Prokofiev and Hindemith were all central figures of their time, illustrating – and to an extent personifying –
different approaches to modernism in music.
BIS2126
£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)
Copenhagen Recital
GLINKA: Elegy; DARGOMYZHSKY: I am Sad; TCHAIKOVSKY: In the Din of the Ball; LEBEDEV: Concert Allegro; TELEMANN: Sonata in
F minor; SCHUMANN: Adagio and Allegro; SCHNYDER: Winter 1941; HYLDGAARD: Concerto Borealis; BORCH: The Sky Darkens
Stefan Schulz, Saori Tomidokoro
BIS2144
£9.00
Stefan Schulz, bass trombone player in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, is one of the foremost exponents of his
instrument, and as such travels extensively giving concerts around the world.
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OCTOBER 2014
Felix WEINGARTNER
Complete Symphonies
Sinfonieorchester Basel, Marko Letonja
König Lear, Op. 20; Der Sturm, Overture; Serenade for String Orchestra; Das Gefilde der Seligen, Op. 21;
Lustige Ouvertüre, Op. 53; Aus ernster Zeit, Overture, Op. 56; Frühling, Op. 80
Marko Letonja and the Basel Symphony Orchestra set out on this journey of discovery with devotion and
virtuosic skill. Felix Weingartner, an internationally acclaimed conductor and a highly influential figure in Basel’s
music world also bequeathed to posterity an extensive compositional oeuvre marked by timeless freshness.
777938-2
£36.75 (7 CDs)
Carl MILLÖCKER
Gasparone
Operette in drei Akten von Friedrich Zell und Richard Genée
Soloists, Chor des Lehár Festivals Bad Ischl, Marius Burkert
While relatively unknown, Millöcker’s compositions were recognised by his contemporaries for their
spark and originality. Here, CPO release his operette Gasparone, a beautifully orchestrated, witty tale of
scheming, deception and heroism.
777815-2
£18.00 (2 CDs)
Hermann GOETZ
Complete Piano Works
Christof Keymer
Today, Goetz numbers among the overlooked composers of the nineteenth century, and in this respect, this
new recording of his previously unpublished complete works for piano does him posthumous justice. The
pianist Christof Keymer is the editor of this edition published by Amadeus-Verlag.
777879-2
£13.80 (2 CDs)
Georg Philipp TELEMANN
The Grand Concertos for Mixed Instruments, Vol. 1
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider
Following their dazzling, recording of Telemann’s wind concertos, this recording with La Stagione marks the
beginning of a new 4-CD series dedicated to the composer’s concertos for mixed ensembles, taking us to the
very heart of his oeuvre.
777859-2
£9.00
David POPPER
Cello Concertos, Nos. 1-3
Wen-Sinn Yang, WDR Funkhausorchester Köln, Niklas Willén
Popper was not only one of the most outstanding cellists of his time, but also contributed a number
of superb compositions to cello repertoire. On this new release for CPO, Wen-Sinn Yang masters his
challenging playing technique to the highest level.
777821-2
£9.00
Kurt ATTERBERG; Ture RANGSTRÖM
String Quartets
Stenhammar Quartet
Whilst Atterberg’s first quartet is regarded as a personal, refined work, his second quartet 'originated
from a peculiar impulse to play a prank'. Ture Rangström’s inspiration for the string quartet came from
friend and mentor Carl Nielsen, who commented: 'the vibrancy and temperament with which your work is
imbued are genuinely delightful'. The result is a truly inspired, resolute work from Rangström’s youth.
777270-2
£6.90
Emil Nikolaus von REZNICEK
Symphonies, Nos. 3 & 4
Robert–Schumann–Philharmonie, Frank Beermann
An enigmatic contemporary of Richard Strauss, Reznicek’s opus encompasses Romantic, Neoclassical, and
Expressionistic works that defy stylistic classification. This disc marks the completion of the series of his
witty and fascinating Symphonies.
OCTOBER 2014
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777637-2
£9.00
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Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A Cambridge Mass
Olivia Robinson, Rebecca Lodge, Christopher Bowen, Edward Price
The Bach Choir, New Queen’s Hall Orchestra, Alan Tongue
ALBCD020
£7.29
World première performed and recorded at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, on 3rd March 2011.
Piano Arrangements of Great Film Music
Jane Chee
This CD covers the various themes used in films to express romance, nobility, adventure and hope.
MOZART; HAYDN
ALBCD019
£7.29
Wanda Landowska
APR_7305
£11.10
In their understanding of period style, ornamentation and appropriate instrumental colour, and above all in their ability to
get to the emotional heart of the matter, these recordings reveal Landowska’s playing to be as valid now, in our historically
informed time, as it ever was.
(3 CDs for 2 mid-price)
The Complete Piano Recordings
Early Chet
Chet Baker, Dick Twardzik, Jimmy Bond, Peter Littman, Caterina Valente, Lars Gullin, Werner Rehm, Dick Simon, Gustl Mayer,
Louis Freichel, Claus Ogerman, Gerd Schüttrumpf, Benoît Quersin, Charles Saudrais, Orchester Kurt Edelhagen, Tanzorchester des
Südwestfunks, Rolf-Hans Müller
101752
£5.55
Following a rapid rise to stardom Chet Baker, in 1954, was voted best trumpeter by readers of the leading US jazz magazines – ahead of Dizzy
Gillespie and Miles Davis. The gentle poet of the trumpet – that was his image. He was a trumpeter with a decisive attacca style and lively
boppy lines.
Tony Scott
Tony Scott, Horst Jankowski, Peter Witte, Hermann Mutschler, Conny Jackel, Gerald Weinkopf, Helmut Brandt,
Werner Baumgart, Mario Costalonga, Colin Stuart, Frankie Van Seca, Giancarlo Barigozzi
Charlie Parker, whose polyrhythmic playing and asymmetric phrasing fascinated him, and Ben Webster, who had taken him under his wing as a
young musician; both influences come across significantly in Tony Scott’s playing: the thin, brittle tone of his virtuoso, up tempo bebop lines
contrasted with the inimitable intimacy and warmth of his legato ballad style, a sound Scott literally breathed into the clarinet unlike anyone.
101743
£5.55
Carl NIELSEN (1865-1931)
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
6.220624
£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)
‘Ruthless but innocent – like a child playing with dynamite’ – thus wrote the Danish press at the first performance of Carl
Nielsen’s Symphony No. 1 in 1894. This acclaimed recording cycle shows Denmark’s national composer as one of the wildest
and most dynamic composers of early modernism.
Carl DAVIS
Last Train to Tomorrow
Written by Hiawyn Oram
Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Children’s Opera Prague, Carl Davis
CDC025
£9.00
Last Train to Tomorrow tells the story, in words and music, of the 10,000 children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia who
were put on the 'Kindertransport' rescue trains to Liverpool Street station, London and made it to safety.
Great Italian Operas
PUCCINI: Tosca; ROSSINI: Il barbiere di Siviglia; VERDI: Falstaff
ICAB 5131
£19.80 (6 CDs)
These three recordings represent some of the most popular Italian operas ever composed.
Great Symphonies
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9, Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4;
SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4; BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4
ICA Classics has brought together performances of these works by some of the greatest conductors of the 20th century – such
as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Guido Cantelli, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Sir Adrian Boult and Ataúlfo Argenta – in the very best
remastered sound.
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ICAB 5132
£16.50 (5 CDs)
OCTOBER 2014
Robert SCHUMANN; Franz SCHUBERT; Frédéric CHOPIN
Music Festival December Nights, Moscow 1985
Sviatoslav Richter, Anatoly Kamyshev, Oleg Kogan, Natalia Gutman, Yuri Bashmet
Sviatoslav Richter in ensemble with his outstanding contemporaries: violinist and student of David Oistrakh, Oleg Kogan who passed
away prematurely, violist Yuri Bashmet, cellist Natalia Gutman and clarinettist Anatoly Kamyshev. The programme includes Chopin’s
Polonaise-fantaisie, ballade and cello suite, and Schubert’s sonata for violin and piano. Also featured are Schumann’s less well-known
Piano Trio, Fairy Tale Pictures, Op. 113 for viola and piano, and Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73, for clarinet and piano.
MELCD 1002204
£11.10 (2 CDs)
Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Cherevichki
Comic-fantasy opera in 4 acts
G. Nelepp, E. Antonova, Al. Ivanov, M. Mikhailov, E. Kruglikova, S. Krasovsky, F. Godovkin, A. Peregudov, O. Insarova,
An. Ivanov, I. Ionov, V. Shevtsov, I. Sipayev, M. Skazin, The Bolshoi Theater Choir and Orchestra, Alexander Melik-Pashayev
MELCD 1002129
£11.10 (2 CDs)
Melodiya presents a recording of a wonderful and now so rarely performed lyric and comic opera by Tchaikovsky: Cherevichki. Displeased
with his original composition of 1884 the opera was reworked in 1887 and staged at the Bolshoi; its first performance marks Tchaikovsky’s
debut as conductor.
Alexander SCRIABIN (1872-1915)
Ten Mazurkas, Op. 3; Nine Mazurkas, Op. 25
Samuil Feinberg
From the Melodiya archives comes a recording of the mazurkas of Alexander Scriabin, performed by Samuil Feinberg, whose artistic career
was a remarkable phenomenon of 20th century Russian musical life. A pianist, composer, and educator that established his own performing
school, Feinberg made these – some of his last recordings – not long before his passing in the early 1960’s.
MELCD 1002192
£7.25
Jean SIBELIUS: Concerto for violin and orchestra in D minor, Op. 47
Arnold SCHOENBERG: Concerto for violin and orchestra, Op. 36
Contrasts: Concertos for violin and orchestra
Liana Isakadze
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev
MELCD 1002221
£7.25
The remarkable violinist Liana Isakadze was admitted to the Moscow Conservatory in her early years, without examinations, where she studied under David Oistrakh.
Her early career was marked by numerous awards including a Grand Prix at the Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud International Competition in Paris in 1965,
and a first prize at the Jean Sibelius International Competition in Helsinki.
VARIOUS
The Spy’s Choirbook: Petrus Alamire & the Court of Henry VIII
Alamire, English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, David Skinner
Among the musical treasures in the British Library is MS Royal 8.g.vii, a sumptuous choirbook prepared for Henry VIII
and his first queen Catherine of Aragon. It was produced by Petrus Alamire, who not only headed one of the finest
musical scriptoriums of the age but acted as a spy for Henry against Richard de la Pole, a Plantagenet claimant to the
English throne. The music of this, The Spy’s Choirbook, is now available, courtesy of David Skinner, Alamire, and the
English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble.
CCL CD712
£11.00 (2 CDs)
Luciano BERIO (1925-2003)
Sinfonia for 8 voices and orchestra; Quattro version originali della Ritirata Notturna
di Madrid di L. Boccherini; Calmo, for mezzo-soprano and 22 instruments
Virpi Räisänen
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
ODE 1227-5
£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)
Ondine continues its exciting exploration of 20th century masterpieces together with conductor Hannu Lintu and
the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. This release is dedicated to the orchestral works by the pioneer of Italian
modernism Luciano Berio.
Erkki-Sven TÜÜR (b. 1959)
Symphony No. 5 for Big Band, Electric Guitar and Symphony Orchestra; Prophecy for
Accordion and Orchestra
Nguyên Lê (electric guitar), Mika Väyrynen (accordion)
UMO Big Band, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Olari Elts
OCTOBER 2014
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ODE 1234-2
£9.00
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Rosenblatt Recitals, Vol. 1
Lawrence Brownlee: The Heart That Flutters; Francesco Meli: Britten: Michelangelo
Sonnets; Anthony Michaels-Moore: Songs of the Sea; Ailyn Pérez: Poèm d’un Jour;
Ekaterina Siurina: Amore e Morte, Allish Tyan: Fauré
Presenting the major singers of today and the stars of tomorrow, the Rosenblatt Recitals are London’s only worldclass season of opera recitals. This luxury set brings together the first six Rosenblatt Recitals in a budget-price box
for the very first time.
OACD9027BD
£20.41 (6 CDs)
Rosenblatt Recitals
MOMPOU: Songs
Roger Padullés, Iain Burnside
The Catalan tenor, Roger Padullés, presents a studio recording entirely devoted to the beautiful songs of his great
Catalan-Spanish compatriot, Federico Mompou (1893-1987).
OACD9021D
£9.00
Jacques OFFENBACH
Fantasio
Sarah Connolly, Brenda Rae, Russell Braun, Robert Murray, Neal Davies, Victoria Simmonds, Brindley Sherratt, Aled Hall,
Gavan Ring, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Sir Mark Elder
This recording marks the world premiere studio recording of the complete opera using the new critical edition by JeanChristophe Keck.
ORC51
£18.00 (2 CDs)
Sir Edward ELGAR
The Spirit of England, for soprano, chorus & orchestra, Op. 80; The Fourth Of August; To Women; For the Fallen With Proud Thanksgiving
Carillon, Op. 75 for speaker & orchestra; ‘Arthur’ - A Tragedy, the complete incidental music edited by Ben Palmer
(First Recording)
Judith Howarth, London Symphony Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, John Wilson
Simon Callow, BBC Concert Orchestra, The Orchestra of St. Paul’s, Ben Palmer
SOMMCD 255
£9.00
Gordon JACOB; Malcolm WILLIAMSON; Doreen CARWITHEN
Concertos for Piano and Strings
Mark Bebbington
Piano Innovation Chamber Ensemble (CBSO Players), Richard Jenkinson
Mark Bebbington’s much acclaimed collaboration with Somm now yields new riches in this important release featuring
three exhilarating works for piano and string orchestra, including the world premiere recording of Gordon Jacob’s Piano
Concerto No. 1.
SOMMCD 254
£9.00
Deck the Halls
Susanna Andersson, Little Venice Ensemble
A kaleidoscope recital of classical, popular, and folk songs, all wonderfully arranged for this brilliant classical group.
5060192780444
£9.00
STRAUSS; POULENC; KOECHLIN; WOLF; HERBERT;
MACONCHY; SAMUEL; FRANCES-HOAD
Love said to me...
5060192780451
Caroline MacPhie, Joseph Middleton £9.00
This debut disc by soprano Caroline MacPhie is a beautiful recital of songs inspired or written by women.
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OCTOBER 2014
Skira Classica Srl, music editor and publisher, is the concessionary company of La Scala Theatre whose activity is the
development and commercialisation of editorial products (CDs, DVDs and books) and merchandising bearing the “LA
SCALA 1778” brand; under the name of “La Scala Shop” the company manages the activities of the La Scala Theatre
Bookshop and the Theatre Museum and is responsible for the e-commerce website www.lascalashop.it.
MOZART
SPONTINI
La Vestale
Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Antonio Votto
LASCALA1
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
VERDI
La Traviata
Maria Callas, Gianni Raimondi,
Carlo Maria Giulini
Maria Callas, Gianni Raimondi,
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
LASCALA3
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
Guilietta Simionato, Mario Petri,
Carlo Maria Giulini
LASCALA5
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
Maria Callas, Giuseppe Stefano,
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
La Fanciulla del West
Gigiola Frazzoni, Franco Corelli,
Antonio Votto
LASCALA4
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
Turandot
Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli,
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
LASCALA6
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
VERDI
LASCALA7
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
VERDI
Un Ballo in Maschera
LASCALA2
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
PUCCINI
ROSSINI
L’Italiana in Algeri
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Nan Merriman,
Guido Cantelli
PUCCINI
DONIZETTI
Anna Bolena
Cosi Fan Tutte
Il Trovatore
Gabriella Tucci, Carlo Bergonzi,
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
LASCALA8
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
BIZET
LASCALA9
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
Carmen
Giulietta Simionato, Giuseppe Stefano,
Herbert von Karajan
LASCALA10
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
Callas alla Scala, Vol. 1
Callas alla Scala, Vol. 2
Maria Callas
Maria Callas
A collection of arias from the operas:
Norma, The Barber of Seville, Lucia di
Lammermoor, La Sonnambula, Anna
Bolena, Il Turco in Italia, I Puritani.
LASCALACAL1
£15.00 (Book/CD)
Including famous arias from the operas:
Macbeth, Il Trovatore, La Traviata,
Rigoletto, Un Ballo in Maschera, La forza
del destino, Aida.
LASCALACAL2
£15.00 (Book/CD)
Verdi alla Scala, Vol. 1
Verdi alla Scala, Vol. 2
Choruses, Preludes and Symphonic Pieces from:
Nabucco, Il Trovatore, Otello, Aida,
LASCALAVER1
Macbeth, La Forza del Destino, Don Carlo,
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
Un Ballo in Maschera, La Traviata, Messa
da Requiem.
Famous Arias and Romances from:
Macbeth, La Battaglia di Legnano,
Riggoleto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Un
Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino,
Don Carlo, Aida.
Wagner alla Scala
LASCALAVER2
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
Deluxe Limited Edition Box Set
VERDI
Overtures and Symphonic Pieces from:
Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal, Lohengrin,
Götterdammerung, Die Walküre, Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
OCTOBER 2014
LASCALAWAG1
£18.00 (Book/2 CDs)
La Traviata: 1956
Digitally remastered
Maria Callas, Gianno Raimondi,
Carlo Maria Giulini
All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices
LASCALALP001
£150.00 (3 VINYL LPS)
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VARIOUS
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Festliche music fur Weihnachtszeit
Sven Geipel, Gunter Brauer, The Saxony Philharmonic Wind Orchestra, Thomas Clamor
Ruth Ziesak, Ensemble Sonora, Rundfunk – Jugendchor Wernigerode, Peter Habermann
ACC30227
£9.00
Music from Accentus’s previous DVD (ACC20227) is now available on CD. The disc features festive Christmas music from
the Church of St Mary, Marienberg.
Walter BRAUNFELS
Verkuendigung - A Mystery in Four Acts and a Prologue
Poetry by Paul Claudel - German text by Jakob Hegner (Live-Recording, Munich, Prinzregententheater, 18.12.2011)
Juliane Banse, Janina Baechle, Vanessa Goikoetxea, Hanna Schwarz, Matthias Klink, Mauro Peter, Adrian Eröd, Robert Holl,
Johannes Stermann, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer
The Münchner Rundfunkorchester regularly rediscovers the works of long forgotten composers. This includes the music
of Walter Braunfels whose popularity rivalled Richard Strauss’s in 1920’s Germany.
900311
£13.80 (2 CDs)
Robert SCHUMANN
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
Live-Recording, Herkulessaal Munich, 19.01.2013
Chor & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding
The 'Faust Scenes' by Robert Schumann represent Daniel Harding‘s first recording on the BR-Klassik label. The conductor,
orchestra and exceptional ensemble of soloists present us with a work which, until now, has undeservedly been on the
fringes of the repertoire.
900122
£13.80
(2 CDs + Digibook)
Harry PARTCH
Plectra and Percussion Dances
Harry Partch
This new recording marks the first complete performance of Harry Partch’s major cycle in three parts, Plectra and Percussion
Dances. The virtuosi of Partch give us revelatory interpretations of these stunningly original scores. Also included is a 7
minute spoken introduction, given by the composer in 1953 on the occasion of the broadcast premiere of this work.
BRIDGE 9432
£9.00
Martin BOKYAN
Music for Piano (1986-2007)
Donald Berman
Pianist Donald Berman’s recording of Martin Boykan’s piano music gives passionate voice to the music of one of America’s
most undervalued composers. Berman describes his encounter with Boykan’s music: ‘At the start I was awed by the
diamond-like purity of individual moments, daunted by the complex counterpoint…it was music that lived in my head for
a long time after performing it. It is deeply personal’.
BRIDGE 9434
£9.00
Paul LANSKY
Textures & Threads
Hammer/Klavier: Thomas Rosenkranz, Michael Sheppard, Svet Stoyanov, Gwendolyn Burgett
Time Travellers: Svet Stoyanov, Gwendolyn Burgett, Ian Rosenbaum, Ayano Kataoka
Textures is Paul Lansky’s newest work, composed for the group Hammer/Klavier. It’s eight movements last 30 minutes and explore the wide
expressive range of this unique combo. This is the work’s premiere recording. In the decade since its composition, Paul Lansky’s Threads for 4
percussionists has become one of the most frequently performed pieces for percussion ensemble.
BRIDGE 9435
£9.00
Stephen Douglas BURTON
Symphony No. 2, ‘Ariel’
Diane Curry, Stephen Dickson
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Keene
Burton was born in Whittier, California in 1943. His Symphony No. 2, Ariel sets poetry of Sylvia Plath and features Diane Curry, mezzo-soprano,
and in his only commercially available recording, the great baritone Stephen Dickson. Burton’s symphony, completed in 1975, is an ambitious
and dazzlingly colourful work in 5 movements. The recording is a newly mastered performance of the long out of print 1978 LP.
BRIDGE 9436
£9.00
Louis KARCHIN
To the Sun and Stars
Mary Mackenzie, Sharon Harms, Thomas Meglioranza, Eric Sedgwick
Orchestra of the League of Composers, Ekmeles, Da Capo Chamber Players, Louis Karchin
Robert Carl writes, of this new release: ‘one hears a spirit that loves space, great open sounds and the drama of contrasts between large
and small, vast and intimate. This is a spirit unafraid to combine clear and simple sounds evocative of the past with those that emerge
from contemporary complexity’. Here, the superb American baritone, Thomas Meglioranza leads a cast of singers, ensembles and orchestra,
conducted by the composer.
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BRIDGE 9437
£9.00
OCTOBER 2014
John Luther ADAMS
Become Ocean
Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot
Awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music and described by the New Yorker’s Alex Ross as 'the loveliest apocalypse in
musical history', John Luther Adams’ majestic orchestral work Become Ocean is a thrilling exploration of depth, turbulence,
eerie silence and ultimately enveloping calm.
CA21101
£9.00
Johannes BRAHMS
The Piano Concertos
Disc 1: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15; Ballade, Op. 10 No. 1 in D minor; Ballade, Op. 10 No.
2 in D major - Disc 2: Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83; Ballade, Op. 10 No. 3 in B minor;
Ballade, Op. 10 No. 4 in B major
Tzimon Barto
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Christoph Eschenbach
C5210
£9.00 (2-for-1)
Luigi DALLAPICCOLA
Three Questions with Two Answers; Piccola Musica Notturna; Due Pezzi per Orchester; Variazioni per Orchester; Partita
per Orchester
Arantza Ezenarro, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Karl-Heinz Steffens
Luigi Dallapiccola was the most significant composer of the second generation of Modernism in Italy. Fascinated by Anton Webern and Alban
Berg he explored serialism in a way that was completely unique, deliberately retaining strongly diatonic links and lyrical naturalness. Here, KarlHeinz Steffens and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz take on some of his lesser-known works.
C5214
£9.00
KREISLER; BRAHMS; ENESCU; RAVEL
Caprice Viennois
Luka Kusztrich, Dora Deliyska
Winner of the ‘Bank Austria Artist of the Year 2014/2015’ prize, young Austrian violinist Luka Kusztirch presents his debut
album Caprice Viennois. The program brings us an exciting range of music from Austria, Hungary and Romania, of which, the
technically astounding violin sonata of George Enescu closes this musically expansive voyage.
C5215
£9.00
VARIOUS
Baroque Christmas: Cantatas & Motets
Ruth Ziesak, Wilfried Jochens, Reinhold Friedrich, Ludwig Güttler
Thomanerchor Leipzig, Tölzer Knabenchor, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Berliner Barock-Compagney, L’Arte del mondo,
Werner Ehrhardt, Hermann Max
This 2 CD-set brings together a collection of festive treasures of baroque Christmas music. A ‘must’, not only for lovers of
Baroque music, but for those looking for some extraordinary music for the holiday season.
C5217
£9.00 (2-for-1)
Johanna DODERER
The Piano Trios
v
Vilos Trio: Dalia Dedinskaite, Gleb Pysniak, Ole Christian Haagenrud
‘Doderer […] perfectly masters her writing, she is able to prove convincingly in her very densely written score, that even
today you can still create intense music by using sound models deriving from the late romantic period, and which can be
combined in an ideal way with forms of minimalist music’ - Die Presse.
C5220
£9.00
Anne HYTTA
Draumsyn
Anne Hytta
Draumsyn is the debut album of Norwegian hardanger fiddle player and composer Anne Hytta. The music is rooted in the
traditional Norwegian hardanger fiddle style, but truly unique and timeless in sound and expression, closely connected to
the nature of Norwegian mountain landscapes, valleys and streams.
CD-26301
£11.10 (LP)
Paweł MYKIETYN
My Piano: solo, duo, with orchestra
Four Preludes for piano; Shakespeare’s Sonnets for male soprano and piano; Concerto for piano and orchestra
Anna Stempin-Jasnowska, Agata Zubel, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Szymon Bywalec
ACD 194-2
£9.00
‘The piano, in actual fact, is a direct and autonomous representative of music in all its intellectuality’; Paweł Mykietyn’s
contribution of works – for piano or with piano – appears to confirm the reflections of Thomas Mann taken from Doctor Faustus.
OCTOBER 2014
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VARIOUS
As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music 1925-1955
The New Budapest Orpheum Society has been tracing the origins, development, and influence of European Jewish cabaret
music through extensive historical research and compelling performances in concert and on a series of widely acclaimed
albums on Cedille Records. The ensemble’s third and newest project focuses on Jewish stage and film music from the early
to mid-20th century.
CDR 90000 151
£9.00 (2 CDs)
Joaquin TURINA
Chamber Music for Strings and Piano
Disc 1: Piano Trio in F major; Piano Trio No. 1 in D major, Op. 35; Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op. 76; Circulo, Op. 91;
Disc 2: Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67; Quintet in G minor, Op. 1; Sextet – Scène Andalouse
Lincoln Trio
CDR 90000 150
£9.00 (2 CDs)
Lincoln Trio brings its ‘interpretative flair’ (The Strad) and ‘masterly finesse’ (Cleveland Plain Dealer) to the early 20th century
chamber music of Spanish-born, French-trained Joaquín Turina. The album offers Turina’s complete works for multiple
strings and piano.
Joseph HOROVITZ: The Essential Collection
Victoria Soames Samek, Michael Bell, Bingham String Quartet & ReedPlay
This is the third CD in the prestigious and specialist series devoted to a single composer. Clarinet & Saxophone Classics
is proud to present the complete clarinet chamber music by Joseph Horovitz. A hugely popular composer with clarinet
players around the world, this CD will take the listener on a journey filled with lyrical gems, breath taking virtuosity and a
touch of jazz.
CC0060
£7.29
SOLER: Sonate en Re mayo; ESPAÑOL: Andante (a la Sicilliana); LARRAÑAGA: Tañido de órgano; ALBÉNIZ: Suite
Espagnole No. 3 Sevilla; El Albaicin (de la suite Iberia); GRANADOS: Allegro de Concierto; Quejas o la Maja y el
Ruiseñor (de Goyescas); TURINA: Miramar; Orgia (de Danzas Fantásticas) No. 3
CC4321-2
£9.00
Piano Musique Espagnole
Rosa Maria Kucharski
This enterprising recital by the distinguished pianist Rosa Maria Kucharski is of especial interest as it contains a plethora of works
which, for many, will be unknown. She is also the ideal interpreter of these pieces as she knew their composers very well.
Benedetto MARCELLO (1686-1739)
Sonatas for flute & continuo, Op. 2, Vol. 1
Ensemble Musica Antiqua Mediterranea: Christian Mendoze, Philippe Foulon, Marie Abdoun, Corinne Betirac
The twelve sonatas for flute op. 2 were constructed using the Chiesa sonata (or Church sonata) mould, divided into four or
even five movements. The first movement is slow and they then alternate between serious episodes and lighter, quicker
ones. This first volume presents six of these sonatas.
CC 777.704
£7.29
VARIOUS
American Voices
DE 3473
£9.00
John Alexander Singers
This program of all-American delights includes stunning selections by such living legends as Morten Lauridsen and Eric
Whitacre, as well as works from choral icon Dale Warland and the late master Norman Dello Joio.
Carson COOMAN
In Beauty Walking; Sinfonia
Concertante; Symphony of
Light; Three Folk Fantasies
Leah Crane, Chloé Trevor,
Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic
Orchestra, Kirk Trevor
This album is the third in a
new series from Divine Art;
here we have some of
Cooman’s most exquisite,
traditionally written,
highly Romantic – and
exceptionally beautiful –
music for orchestra.
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DDA25117
£7.95
VARIOUS
Nicolai RIMSKYKORSAKOV (1844-1908)
The Harmonious
Thuringian: Music
from the early years
of Bach and Handel
Scheherazade, Op. 35 (composer’s own
piano duet version); Antar, Op. 9 (arranged
by Mrs Rimsky-Korsakov); Neapolitan Song,
Op. 63 (composer’s own piano duet version)
Terence Charlston
Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow
Despite becoming somewhat unfashionable
in the 20th century, piano
transcriptions in the last twenty-five
DDA25118
years or so, have been increasingly
£7.95
sought out, performed and recorded,
and the best of them shed a totally
new light on music that seemed all
too familiar.
All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices
These performances explore
the musical heritage of Bach
and Handel and recreate
the sound of a locallybuilt, Saxon or Thuringian
harpsichord such as they
and their contemporaries
may have heard.
DDA25122
£7.95
OCTOBER 2014
LAUBA: Salsa; Balafon; Tãdj; Ars; APERGHIS: Rasch; ROSSÉ: XIMIX; ROLIN; Vous, Blue Look!;
ITOH: The Angel of Despair II; CHISHOLM: Wind Over the Plains
Koryun Asatryan: Saxophone
Koryun Asatryan, Karola Pavone, Eva Barthas, Gareth Lubbe
The saxophonist Koryun Asatryan here presents a sensational GENUIN debut. A wanderer between musical worlds, he is as much at
home in jazz as in classics. He is also a newcomer to whom diverse pieces have already been dedicated including two world premiere
recordings featured on this CD!
GEN 14301
£9.00
VARIOUS
Bis willekommen
Be welcome: Anthems and Motets for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany
Ensemble Nobiles
The Ensemble Nobiles’s flawlessly pure intonation is as convincing as its choice of pieces. Here is an alternative for the
Christmas season for all those who are looking for fresh repertoire, both old and new, from the Renaissance to the present
day – utterly harmonious!
GEN 14314
£9.00
Francis POULENC: Sextuor, Op. 100; Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Quintet for piano and winds in E flat
major, Op. 16; Guillaume CONNESSON: Techno Parade; Samuel BARBER: Summer Music, Op. 31;
Richard STRAUSS; Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Berlin Counterpoint
v
Aaron Dan, Viola Wilmsen, Sacha Rattle, Heidi Elizabeth Mockert, Andrej Z ust, Zeynep Özsuca
GEN 14317
£9.00
This is chamber music for wind instruments and piano bursting with energy – original works of Poulenc, Beethoven,
Connesson and Barber, as well as Berlin Counterpoint’s own phenomenal adaptation of Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel.
Franz SCHUBERT: Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Winterreise; Felix MENDELSSOHN: 5
Lieder; Frédéric CHOPIN: 6 Polnische Lieder; Franz LISZT; Liebestraum No. 3
Winterreise
Songs by Schubert, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Chopin, arranged for piano by Franz Liszt
Els Biesemans
GEN 14322
£9.00
After her highly praised GENUIN debut Els Biesemans is now presenting a CD with rare Liszt piano transcriptions of
Schubert, Mendelssohn and Chopin, including the complete Winterreise and Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (‘On Wings of Song’).
Walter ARLEN
Die letzte Blaue
Daniel Wnukowski, Daniel Hope, Rebecca Nelsen, Christian Immler
A continuation of the series exil.arte after the successful CD featuring Walter Arlens: Es geht wohl anders;
the series is dedicated to composers who were suppressed, exiled or killed by the Nazis.
98996
£11.10 (2 CDs)
Friedrich Hebbel
Lieder
Ulf Bästlein, Sascha El Mouissi
The much sought-after bass-baritone Ulf Bästlein continues his successful series of recordings dedicated to individual
poets. In this new CD, he devotes himself to the most varied settings of texts by Friedrich Hebbel.
98999
£9.00
Franz SCHUBERT
Wanderer Fantasie, D 760; Sonata in C major, D 840, 'Reliquie'
Paul Badura-Skoda
The great pianist Paul Badura-Skoda presents two milestones of piano literature and the most important works by
Franz Schubert in this genre: the monumental four-movement ‘Wanderer Fantasia’ in C major D 760 and the pioneering,
unfinished and hence posthumously published Sonata in C major D 840 ‘Reliquie’.
PLEYEL: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 2; CZERNY: String Quartet in D minor,
WERNER/HAYDN: Fugue No. 4 in C minor (from 'VI Fugen in Quartetten');
HAYDN: String Quartets in F minor, Op. 55 'The Razor'.
String Quartet
99031
£9.00
99047
£9.00
Haydn Quartett
OCTOBER 2014
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Franz Anton HOFFMEISTER (1754-1812)
Sonatas for Piano, Vol. 1
Biliana Tzinlikova
Hoffmeister’s Piano Sonatas are models of eighteenth century craftsmanship, combining the wit and display demanded of
contemporary audiences with elements of operatic drama and poignancy. The Variations explore the dramatic possibilities
of the keyboard, reflecting the Vienna of early Beethoven.
GP666
£9.00
André RIOTTE (1928-2011)
Météorite et ses Métamorphoses (Motif, 31 Variations et une coda)
Thérèse Malengreau
Météorite et ses métamorphoses, one of the composer’s last works, is a milestone in contemporary repertoire. Thoroughly
organic, it develops as metamorphoses – a term Riotte preferred to ‘variations’ – and acknowledges the influence of
Debussy, Bach, and Beethoven in his Diabelli Variations.
GP679
£9.00
Antonio SALIERI
Lieder
Sonetto: Il Genio degli Stati Veneti Divertimento vocal; Cavatina: Pensieri funesti; Ode: Deh, si piacevoli; In questa
tomba oscura; Appel à l’amour; Der Zufriedene; Meine höchste Wonne; Maylied; An die zukünftige Geliebte; Andenken
Annelie Sophie Müller, Ilse Eerens, Ulrich Eisenlohr
This new recording is destined to cause a sensation among both aficionados and scholars alike by presenting an area of
Salieri’s output that had previously been overlooked.
93.307
£9.00
Richard STRAUSS
Tone Poems, Vol. 3
Also sprach Zarathustra; Aus Italien
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, François-Xavier Roth
With 'Aus Italien' Richard Strauss began his journey into the musical form that would come to define his orchestral
output. In this volume of the tone poems, this work is coupled with the monumental 'Also sprach Zarathustra'.
93.320
£9.00
Frédéric CHOPIN
Sonata for Piano and Cello in G minor, Op. 65; Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in G minor, Op. 8
Johannes Moser, Kolja Blacher, Ewa Kupiec
The two compositions performed here are among the very few pieces of chamber music that Chopin left behind.
93.321
£9.00
PRAETORIUS; VIVALDI; MENDELSSOHN; FAURÉ; RUTTER; MANFREDINI; IVES;
RHEINBERGER; HAYDN; SPEE; J. S. BACH; REGER; GRUBER
The Musical Advent Calendar 2014
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR),
Mädchenchor am Dom und St. Quintin
Marcus Creed, Roger Norrington, Sir Neville Marriner
24 pieces of music, performed by some of the best amateur and professional ensembles in Southwest Germany provide a
sparkling accompaniment for your Christmas countdown!
93.322
£5.95
THIEL; LÜTZEL; RUCK; STROHBACH; PRAETORIUS; MENDELSSOHN; HERRMANN;
GRUBER; MÖLLER
Machet die Tore weit
Christmas with the boys choir Capella Vocalis
Capella Vocalis, Eckhard Weyand
The bell-like voices of the choir intone popular Christmas carols such as 'Es ist ein Ros‘ entsprungen' and 'Stille Nacht',
other heartwarming seasonal songs and a selection of Polish carols.
98.040
£5.95
Franz SCHUBERT
Piano Works, Vol. 12
Piano Sonata in D major, D 850; Rondo in E major, D 506; Twelve Valses, D 969
Gerhard Oppitz
98.618
£9.00
Gerhard Oppitz's understanding of the musical depth of Schubert’s creations is all the more effective for its unobtrusive
understatement.
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OCTOBER 2014
C. P. E. BACH; NICHELMANN; FASCH
The King’s Men
KL1505
£7.29
Jermaine Sprosse
The disc features works for harpsichord and fortepiano in celebration of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s 300th anniversary.
Orchestral Lollipops
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Fine Arts Brass, Howard Griffiths
A colourful recording of crafty arrangements for brass quintet and orchestra.
KL1506
£7.29
La Dresda Galante
Miriam Feuersinger, Renate Steinmann, Jermaine Sprosse, Zürcher Barockorchester
The Zürcher Barockorchester perform selections from this demanding repertoire and successfully transport listeners to Dresden’s
vibrant Augustan era.
KL1508
£7.29
Edward GIBBON
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI
Unabridged
Read by David Timson
NA0130
£38.72 (22 CDs)
In Volume VI (Chapters LVII - LXXI), Gibbon ends his masterful history by charting the rise of the Turkish nation and the birth
of the Ottoman Empire.
Victor HUGO
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Unabridged
NA0159
£30.43 (17 CDs)
Read by Bill Homewood
Set against the massive background of Notre Dame de Paris and interwoven with the sacred and secular life of
medieval France, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a story set on the traditional love theme of beauty and the beast.
Georgette HEYER
Cousin Kate
Unabridged
NA0182
£19.36 (10 CDs)
Read by Jilly Bond
One of Georgette Heyer’s later novels, Cousin Kate sees the author take a more experimental turn as she blends the Regency
romance genre with the suspenseful style of gothic horror.
THE ART OF REMIX
Selected Remixes from the first 10 years of Nonclassical
Hot Chip, Thom Yorke, Tim Exile, Medasyn, Samoyed, Heavy Deviance, Gabriel Prokofiev, Murcof
Since their inaugural release in 2004 the Remix has become an essential element of the Nonclassical record. Ranging from edgy
hip-hop to sublime ambience this album brings together a selection of the most creative remixes released on the Nonclassical
label over the last 10 years, all of which are based on contemporary classical recordings, twisted, cut-up and re-worked into a
range of remarkable genre-defying pieces of music.
NONCLSS018
£5.55
Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 1 in C minor (Linz Version)
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
Oehms Classics now releases the ‘Linz Version’ of Anton Bruckner’s 1st Symphony. It is part of the cycle performed by the
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra under Ivor Bolton. Symphonies 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 have already been recorded. This is a live
recording from the Large Festival Hall in Salzburg made in October 2013.
OC436
£7.00
János TAMÁS (1936-1995)
Feuerbilder
Trio for clarinet, horn and piano; Trio Fantasy for clarinet, horn and violoncello; Fire Images for clarinet, viola and piano,
Dream source for violoncello and piano; In the Garden of Saanen; Poema for horn and piano (revised 1961); Poema for
violoncello and piano (original version)
Tomas Dratva, Fabio Di Càsola, Mischa Greull, Dieter Hilpert, Alexander Besa
OC443
£7.00
The chamber-music compositions on the present CD cover all periods of the life‘s work of János Tamás. Born in 1936 in Budapest he was an important
figure in Swiss musical life beginning in the 1960s. His legacy consists of a compositional oeuvre of about 120 works of nearly all genres.
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Hieronymus PRAETORIUS (1560-1629); Jacob PRAETORIUS JR (1586-1651)
Organ Works: North German Organ Masters, Vol. 6
Joseph Kelemen
The present recording leads listeners from the threshold of the Renaissance to the early Baroque period, tracing the origins
of North German organ music with works of Hieronymus and Jacob Praetorius Jr (father and son). Joseph Kelemen plays the
Scherer Organ, an astounding historical instrument built in the years 1623/24 in the Church of St Stephan in the Hanseatic
city of Tangermünde.
OC691
£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)
Richard WAGNER (1813-1883)
Lohengrin
Falk Struckmann, Michael König, Camilla Nylund, Robert Hayward, Michaela Schuster, Daniel Schmutzhard
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra Choir and Extra Choir of the Frankfurt Opera, Bertrand de Billy
Lohengrin is on the programme of the 2014 Bayreuth Festival; what could be more fitting, therefore, than to introduce a new
recording from Frankfurt? The cast is brilliant, and the sound production is, as always, best placed in the experienced hands
of the sound engineers of the Frankfurt Opera.
OC946
£24.64 (3 CDs)
Richard STRAUSS; Richard WAGNER
Heimkehr: Lieder von Wagner und Strauss
Roman Trekel, Oliver Pohl
OC1811
£7.00
This disc – the sixth collaboration between Roman Trekel and Oehms Classics – presents a programme of lieder by Richard
Strauss including the Four Last Songs for baritone and piano accompaniment. Trekel, alongside pianist Oliver Pohl, also gives
a fine account of the Wesendonck Lieder of Richard Wagner.
Claude DEBUSSY
Sally BEAMISH
The Seafarer
Trio Apaches, Sir Willard White
ORC100043
£9.00
Brand new composition by celebrated British composer Sally Beamish commissioned by Trio Apaches. The disc includes a newlycommissioned transcription of Debussy’s La Mer. World famous bass baritone Sir Willard White reads the narration in The Seafarer.
Franz LISZT
Insights
Balade; Sonettos; Canzone; Gondoliera; Tarantella; Fantasia
Alexander Krichel
PH14037
£5.55
Johannes BRAHMS
Complete Sinfonies
NDR Sinfonieorchester, Günter Wand
PH14046
£16.65 (3 CDs)
Gustav MAHLER
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
WDR Sinfonieorchester Kӧln, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
PH14045
£5.55
FARAKAS; SZÖNYI; DORATI; SOPRONI; WEINER; LISZT; SZÜCS
Hungarian viola music
PH14022
£5.55
Máté Szücs, Oliver Triendl
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
Piano Concertos
Rudolf Buchbinder, Wiener Symphoniker
PH14003
£49.95 (9 CDs)
'Buchbinder has given us the finest all-round Mozart concerto cycle on disc, a reference edition guaranteed to give immense
musical pleasure for years to come' - David Hurwitz, Classics Today.
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HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber; PROKOFIEV: The Love for Three Oranges – Suite;
BARTÓK: The Miraculous Mandarin – Suite
Miraculous Metamorphoses
Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern
RR-132SACD
£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)
Miraculous Metamorphoses contains classic modern masterpieces by Hindemith, Prokofiev and Bartók. It is also the premiere recording made in
Helzberg Hall, at the Kauffman Centre for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri. Conductor Michael Stern’s interpretations of these great
works have been captured in brilliant HDCD sound.
Johann Sebastian BACH
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (Highlights)
Ingeborg Danz, Martin Petzold
St Thomas’s Boys Choir Leipzig Gewandhausorchester Thomaskantor, Georg Christoph Biller
ROP4042
£5.55
For centuries, the sound of Christmas has been imagined as the music of the angels; here the grand choruses of Johann
Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio glow with festivity and joyful brilliance.
VARIOUS
Fireworks of Music: Celebrating the New Year in Hanover
Jackson Crawford, Ulfert Smidt
ROP6089
£7.29
The present recording brings the New Year’s Eve concert of 2013 performed by the internationally renowned saxophonist
Jackson Crawford and the virtuoso concert organist Ulfert Smidt to your living room.
VARIOUS
shimmering
Ensemble LaCappella
Six young ladies with beautiful voices dedicate themselves to a very special figure: the Virgin Mary. Not only is the disc’s
concept intriguing, the music’s historical arch ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary works is equally fascinating.
ROP6094
£7.29
VARIOUS
Joy and Gladness in Abundance: Christmas Music from the Marktkirche Hannover
Elisabeth Schwanda, Ute Engelke, Ulfert Smidt
Advent and Christmas music for soprano, recorder, and organ; three musical forces come together in order to generate
fascinating tone-colours and exceptional combinations in an inspired concert programme rich in nuance.
ROP6095
£7.29
VARIOUS
Christmas Carols: British Music for the Festive Season
Knabenchor Hannover, London Brass, Jörg Breiding
London Brass and the Knabenchor Hannover perform favourites from the British Christmas repertoire on their new CD
‘Christmas Carols’, featuring much-loved traditional and inspiring contemporary arrangements for choir and brass ensemble.
Krzysztof PENDERECKI: Violin Concerto No. 2 (Metamorphosen)
Karol SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto No. 1
Ju-Young Baek, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Grzegorz Nowak
ROP7017
£7.29
RPOSP047
£5.55
Baek, who has been hailed as the 'next Goddess of Violin', recently performed Violin Concerto No. 2 under the direction of
composer Krzysztof Penderecki.
Johann Sebastian BACH
Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Anastasia Voltchok
When she recorded Bach’s great set of variations in Basel’s Hans Huber Hall, Anastasia Voltchok was keen to play through the
work only twice on one and the same day. A high degree of concentration and vital energy are the preconditions for such a
bold undertaking, to say nothing of the most thorough preparation and years of experience on the concert stage.
SM209
£9.00
Alessandro SCARLATTI
Facinazione Arcadia
Poems written and recited by Giancarlo Pontiggia
Anne Schmid, Die Freitagsakademie Baroque Ensemble
SM212
£9.00
'The poetry of Giancarlo Pontiggia draws on a variety of texts, ranging from the sources he has acquired from antiquity through to his rich
language of today. Scarlatti, who was so inspired by Arcadia, now has the best of company in the 21st century!' – Anne Schmid.
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Theodore LALLIET; Maurice RAVEL; Francis POULENC;
Sergei RACHMANINOFF
Trio Cremeloque
Savka Konjikusic, Luis Marques, Franz Jürgen Dörsam
This new release from Solo Musica features original compositions for oboe, bassoon and piano and, in the case of Ravel
and Rachmaninoff, some new adaptations made by Trio Cremeloque themselves.
SM213
£9.00
Astor PIAZZOLLA: Tango Suite; Enrique GRANADOS: Oriental; Manuel DE FALLA:
Spanish Dacne; Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Seranade No. 4, KV 439B
Guitar Duo: Katona Twins
Péter Katona, Zoltán Katona
‘We generally struggle listening to our old recordings, as there is always something we feel we could have improved,
and small imperfections become glaringly obvious. However, this recording is different which is why we decided to
make it available to the public. We love the fresh energy and raw, innocent dynamism of these recordings’ - Péter and
Zoltán Katona.
SM215
£9.00
Philip GLASS; Christian BIEGAI; Timothy BLINKO; Rihards DUBRA; Steve REICH/Olaf MÜHLENHARDT
Berlin Counterpoint
clair-obscur: saxophonquartett
In the last few years, the appearance of classical music in Berlin club settings has become commonplace. clair-obscur
was at the centre of this movement and brought this style to lounges and clubs across Berlin. Inspired and fascinated
by this concept they began recording a CD featuring contemporary music that would work in both environments:
concert hall and club.
SM217
£9.00
Johann Sebastian BACH
Bach in Los Angeles: Inventionen; Suite for Cello No. 1 in G major; Suite for Cello No. 5 in C minor
Jacques Bono, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu
By re-creating classical repertoire for the electric bass, namely Bach’s cello suites, Jacques Bono has provided a unique
and modern interpretation of seemingly immovable works. Performances in Thuringia give him an enormous amount of
inspiration and insight into Bach’s music.
88843092602
£9.00
Gustav MAHLER
Das Lied von der Erde
Christa Ludwig, Waldemar Kmentt
Wiener Symphoniker, Carlos Kleiber
This recording bears witness to Carlos Kleiber’s sole encounter with Gustav Mahler in a re-mastered recording of a
concert given at the Vienna Konzerthaus on 7 June 1967.
WS007
£9.00
Cécile CHAMINADE
The Flatterer: Piano Music of Cécile Chaminade
Joanne Polk
Coming of age in Paris in the second half of the 19th century, Chaminade’s major models were Berlioz, Meyerbeer,
Gounod, Bizet, and Franck—all renowned composers of serious Romantic music. Yet her true voice emerged when
writing smaller character pieces for piano: her so-called ‘salon’ pieces.
STNS 30037
£7.29
Symphonic Stomp of Sweden
Gävle Symfoniorkester, Görgen Antonsson, Karl-Johan Ankarblom
Music that rushes straight to your feet! Get ready for a magical encounter between Gävle Symphony Orchestra and
national fiddler Görgen Antonsson - arranged by Karl-Johan Ankarblom.
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SCD1160
£9.00
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Alessandro SCARLATTI: Bella Madre de’ Fiori
Giovanni BONONCINI: Il lament d’Olimpia; Care luci del mio bene
Chamber Cantatas
Gloria Banditelli, Ensemble Aurora, Enrico Gatti
As maestro di cappella at the church of S. Gerolamo della Carità, Alessandro Scarlatti wrote cantatas, the musical genre
preferred by the nobility of the time. Likewise Bononcini who obtained the post of Maestro di Cappella at the Hapsburg court.
TB 660003
£5.55
Alessandro SCARLATTI (1660-1725)
Sinfonie di Concerto Grosso; Opere per flauto e continuo
Accademia della Magnifica Comunità, Enrico Casazza
Even though this collection does not include the more well-known works the Palermitan composer is posthumously famous
for, these compositions are immensely important. They allow us to assess the style of Scarlatti, then nearing creative decline,
which appears to be suspended between the glorious contrapuntal tradition and beautiful melodies that look decidedly
towards the future.
TB 661990
£11.10 (2 CDs)
Giovanni Battista PERGOLESI (1474-1520)
La Serva Padrona; Salve Regina
Federico Benetti, Angela Nisi, I Solisti Liriensi, Flavio Emilio Scogna
Pergolesi’s early fame and popularity can, to an extent, be attributed to his integration of musical styles. He brought the
theatre into churches, and religious seriousness into theatres, even in an intermezzo: 'A Serpina penserete' is a beautiful
lament that might well be sung by the Virgin Mary. His modernity consists in this, and it is still surprising now.
TC 711606
£9.00
Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901)
Un Giorno di Regno - Melodramma giocoso in two acts; Libretto by Felice Romani
Mikheil Kiria, Simone Alberti, Alice Quintavalla, Angela Nisi, Marco Frusoni, Dario Ciotoli, Roberto Jachini Virgili, Marco Miglietta,
Riccardo Certi, Vassalli del Barone, Diego Procoli, Belcanto Chorus, Roma Sinfonietta, Martino Faggiani, Gabriele Bonolis
Verdi’s opera Un Giorno di Regno coincided with the death of his wife, which took place shortly after the death of his two sons. The levity of the
subject-matter of this opera was inevitably incompatible with Verdi’s grief. In a letter to his publisher Tito Ricordi, he saw ‘the work of a poor
young man who was ill, rushed, and devastated by a horrible calamity’ mistreated by its audience.
TC 812290
£13.80 (2 CDs)
BERG by Arrangement: Music for String Orchestra
Piano Sonata, Op. 1; Early Pieces; Kanon; Lyric Suite
Leopoldinum Orchestra, Ernst Kovacic
These arrangements for string orchestra of works by Alban Berg take their cue from Berg himself: he arranged three of the six
movements of the Lyric Suite for string orchestra; the Dutch composer Theo Verby arranged the other three.
TOCC 0247
£9.00
Giacomo FACCO
Pensieri Adriarmonici, Vol. 2
Manuel Zogbi, Mexican Baroque Orchestra, Miguel Lawrence
The first of these two CDs was well received: Fanfare described Facco as ‘a Baroque spitfire violinist’; The Observer remarked on
the ‘attractively sunny disposition’ of his music; and MusicWeb International recommended it as ‘ear-catching listening’.
TOCC 0259
£9.00
WAGNER: Transcribed for solo piano, Vol. 2
Lohengrin: Free Fantasy; Tristan und Isolde: Love Duet; Das Rheingold: End of last Scene; Parsifal: Good Friday Spell; Siegfried: End of Last Act
Juan Guillermo Vizcarra
Music Web International wrote of Vol. 1: ‘Juan Guillermo Vizcarra makes a staggeringly powerful case for these transcriptions
[…]. Vizcarra is especially skilled at layering the dynamics within these complex textures ensuring that the ear is guided to
primary and secondary material. […] Vizcarra is beautifully poetic’.
TOCC 0192
£9.00
Robin MILFORD
Chamber Music
Phantasy Quintet, Op. 33; Idyll, Op. 57; Trio in F major, Op. 87; Threne, Op. 81; Lyrical Movement, Op. 89; Prelude,
Op. 92; Sonata in D major, Op. 77
Robert Plane, Lucy Gould, Mia Cooper, David Adams, Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith, Gould Piano Trio
The revival of interest in the music of Robin Milford (1903–59) has largely bypassed his exquisite chamber music, an omission
this recording seeks to redress.
TOCC 0244
£9.00
J. S. BACH: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005; BARTÓK: Sonata for Solo
Violin; KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D major
Nigel Armstrong
The Colburn Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner
YAR65007
£9.00
Hailed as ‘an astonishing talent, with exquisite technique’, Nigel Armstrong remains a personal favourite of Sir Neville
Marriner, who looks forward to their next performances together. After recording the Korngold concerto on this album,
Sir Neville and Nigel gave three more performances of the work with orchestras in Europe.
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Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY
LAC
OA1148D
£17.01 (DVD)
After Swan Lake
Recorded live at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2013
Anja Behrend, April Ball, Stephan Bourgond, Alvaro Prieto, Mimoza Koike, Jeroen Verbruggen, Bernice Coppieters
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Jean Christophe Maillot, Leonard Slatkin
Jean-Christophe Maillot has re-worked Swan Lake with the writer Jean Rouaud (1990 Prix Goncourt winner) to
bring a new drama to this pillar of ballet repertoire.
OABD7154D
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
The Beauty of Ballet
DELIBES: Coppélia; ADAM: Giselle; MASSENET: Manon Hérold; La Fille mal Gardée;
KHACHATURIÁN: Spartacus
The Australian Ballet
Budget-priced boxed set of five of the most popular ballets in the repertoire.
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
OAF4030BD
£20.41 (5 DVDs)
OA1150BD
£20.41 (5 DVDs)
Don Giovanni (2008) Die Zauberflöte (2003) Le Nozze de Figaro (2006)
Containing three of Mozart’s best-known and loved operas, this 5-disc box set features outstanding Royal Opera
House productions and a raft of world-class artists, available at mid-price for the very first time. NB individual
titles will remain available at full-price.
OABD7155BD
£23.76 (5 Blu-rays)
Johann Sebastian BACH
Goldberg Variations
Including documentary ‘The Return is the Movement of Tao’, by Michel Mollard
Zhu Xiao-Mei
The Goldberg Variations stood at the beginning of Zhu Xiao-Mei's international career and represents the ‘greatest musical encounter’ of her life; ‘it
is a universal piece of music that knows no frontiers’. The unique interpretation was produced at her critically acclaimed
concert at the Leipzig Bach Festival at J. S. Bach’s final resting place in St. Thomas Church in 2014. Michel Mollard’s exquisite ACC20313
documentary – ‘The Return is the Movement of Tao’ – that complements the concert recording, offers insights into the mind
£13.61 (DVD)
of a fascinating artist and her vision of the Goldberg Variations.
C. P. E. BACH; J. S. BACH; HANDEL
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The 1786 Charity Concert - A Revival
Christina Landshamer, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Lothar Odinius, Thomas E. Bauer
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann
In 1786 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach presented the greatest musical achievements of his century to a captivated audience and
enthusiastic reviewers. The music director from Hamburg arranged a remarkable program for a charity concert. As a tribute
to the 300th anniversary of C. P. E. Bach the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin will revive the
memorable concert from April 9, 1786 and reawaken a great moment in music history.
ACC20320
£13.61 (DVD)
Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker; Sleeping Beauty; Swan Lake
Dutch National Ballet, The Kirov Ballet, Corps de Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala
This Blu-Ray Box offers high-end ballet productions with famous dancers like Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle,
Anna Tsygankova and Larissa Lezhnina, and bonus features including interviews with the choreographer, dancers, and
backstage footage.
107544
£40.82 (2 Blu-rays)
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9
Ode to Freedom
The Gewandhaus Chorus and Orchestra Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger, Doris Soffel, James Wagner, Gwynne Howell, Kurt Masur
108122
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
On occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 Arthaus Musik combines two
unique programmes in one Blu-ray.
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Opera Collection
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Fidelio
Carl Maria von WEBER: Der Freischütz
Robert SCHUMANN: Genoveva
Nikolaus Harnoncourt is one of the few true stars among conductors worldwide. Performances like the New Year’s Concert
of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra enable him to reach an audience of millions, displaying the characteristic passion
and fiery intensity that identify him as a true servant of his art.
108129
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
Engelbert HUMPERDINK
Hänsel und Gretel
Live Recording from the Zurich Opera House, 1999
Alfred Muff, Gabriele Lechner, Liliana Nikiteanu, Malin Hartelius, Volker Vogel
The Children‘s Chorus and the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Franz Welser-Möst
Humperdinck‘s Hänsel und Gretel is steeped in the guileless world of folk-song: the children‘s songs and dances, the idyllic
forest scenes, the supernatural material and the central thematic chorale are all rooted in German traditional music.
108135
£17.01 (DVD)
Mary Wigman
The Soul of Dance
Directed by Norbert Busè and Christof Debl
From the birth of 'Ausdruckstanz' in Switzerland to her sensational tour across the USA, the thrilling
documentation featuring partially unpublished material, follows this exceptional dancer’s tragic life.
102204
£17.01 (DVD)
Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY; Yvan TALBOT
102202
£17.01 (DVD)
A Nutcracker
Compagnie Malka, Bouba Landrille Tchouda
Together with his Compagnie Malka, Tchouda re-interprets the traditional ballet, adding music by Yvan Talbot and
hip-hop choreography, creating a new interpretation of the work.
108121
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
WAGNER vs VERDI
102192
£13.61 (DVD)
A Documentary in 6 Parts
Containing the following 6 programmes: The Revolutionairies; Verdi’s World; The Wagner Religion; … And The
Women; The Chant; … And The Effects Of Their Music
Featuring Hans Neuenfels, Christian Thielemann, Rolando Villazón, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, Gottfried Wagner and many more
The 6-part documentary series Wagner vs Verdi presents different and very personal perspectives of work of both
giants of music theatre, using interviews with famous interpreters of both composers and live recordings from
some of the world’s major opera houses.
Anton BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 5
108120
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
717808
£15.65 (DVD)
Recorded: Semperoper Dresden, 2013
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Following on from their recording of Bruckner’s 8th Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden are
continuing their internationally acclaimed Bruckner cycle. The star conductor once again shows his talent for the
German Romantic repertoire with a highly acclaimed interpretation of Bruckner´s Symphony No. 5.
Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY
The Nutcracker
717904
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
718208
£15.65 (DVD)
Recorded: Wiener Staatsoper, April 2012
Liudmila Konovalova, Vladimir Shishov, Emilia Baranowicz, Davide Dato
Wiener Staatsballett, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Paul Connelly
This production from the Vienna State Opera presents The Nutcracker ballet in Nureyev’s final choreography, the 1985
Paris version. The critic Clive Barnes set the tone by remarking: ‘no version of The Nutcracker that we have ever seen
has been more potently dramatic; few have displayed so sharp an imprint of personal style’. It is staged by Nureyev’s
pupil and protegé Manuel Legris of the Wiener Staatsballett.
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718304
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
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Jack YELLEN; Lou POLLACK; Schlomo CARLBACH; Israel SCHORR
Rejoice: with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchack Meir Helfgot
Bonus: Interviews with Izthak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot
Itzhak Perlman, Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, Rejoice Chamber Orchestra, Russell Ger
Legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman and renowned cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot join forces for a musical exploration of liturgical
and traditional works in new arrangements for both chamber orchestra and klezmer settings. The program is directed by Joshua
Waletzky, whose earlier collaboration with Perlman, In the Fiddler’s House, won a Primetime Emmy in 1995.
718408
£15.65 (DVD)
Giuseppe VERDI
Best of: Arias
Nino Machaidze, Leo Nucci, Daniela Dess, Marcelo Álvarez, Francesco Meli, Dimitra Theodossiou, Giacomo Prestia
Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma
C Major are pleased to present a budget price collection of some of Verdi’s greatest arias including:
‘La donna è mobile’, ‘Sempre libera’ and many more from the most popular Verdi operas. This is a
beautiful visual festival of great stagings, costumes and settings!
718508
£6.50 (DVD)
718604
£6.50 (Blu-ray)
718708
£6.50 (DVD)
718804
£6.50 (Blu-ray)
Giuseppe VERDI
Best of: Opera Choruses
Nicola Luisotti, Yuri Termirkanov, Boris Brott
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo
C Major are pleased to present a budget price collection of some of Verdi’s greatest opera choruses
from the popular operas: Nabucco, La Traviata, Aida, Il Trovatore and many more. This is a beautiful visual
festival of great stagings, costumes and settings (staged by Daniele Abbado, Joseph Franconi Lee,
Pier´Alli etc.)
The Berliner Philharmoniker in Tokyo: Concert at the Suntory Hall
Including the EuroArts & Idéale Audience Catalogue
v
SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No. 1; DVORÁK: Symphony No. 8; J. S. BACH: Sonata No. 1 for
solo violin, BWV 1001 (Presto)
2020248
£4.85 (DVD)
Hilary Hahn, Berliner Philharmoniker, Mariss Jansons
A new edition of a very popular series of budget DVD with the entire EuroArts & Idéale Audience Catalogue included in the
slipcase.
Johann Sebastian BACH
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Montiverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Against the backdrop of the dramatic altar and Lucas Granach paintings, the Monteverdi Choir and the
English Baroque Soloists perform Gardiner’s new interpretation of this classic piece.
2045098
£17.01 (DVD)
2045094
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
2059858
£17.01 (DVD)
2059854
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
2059928
£20.41 (2 DVDs)
2059924
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
2059938
£17.01 (DVD)
2059934
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
EUROPAKONZERT 2014 From Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
Otto Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor is based on William Shakespeare’s comedy of the same name,
and its lively overture has long since secured a place on the concert stage. Also inspired by a
Shakespearean comedy hero is Edward Elgar’s symphonic study Falstaff. We then turn from comedy to
the tragic twists of fate: Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony is characterized by a sombre main theme that,
for the Russian composer, symbolizes 'a complete resignation before fate, which is the same as the
inscrutable predestination of fate'.
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Antonín DVOÁRK
Rusalka
(Recorded at La Monnaie opera House)
Myrtò Papatanasiu, Pavel Černoch, Annalena Persson, Willard White, Renée Morlo, La Monnaie Symphony
Orchestra & Chorus, Ádám Fischer
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Antonín Dvorák’s penultimate opera draws its substance from the underwater wonderland of little
mermaids, Undines and Melusines: Rusalka, a water nymph, wishes to become human in order to be
loved by the young prince.
Annette Dasch: The Crucial Question
Annette Dasch
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Marc Piollet
In 2011, an extraordinary concert of the star soprano took place. Based on The Crucial Question, Annette
Dasch dedicated the programme to mythical female characters in desperate crisis situations, with works
by Schubert, Berlioz and Schumann.
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Arrigo BOITO
Mefistofele
2059678
£20.41
Ildar Abdrazakov, Ramón Vargas, Patricia Racette, Erin Johnson, Chuanyue Wang
San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Dance Corps
The season kicks off with Boito’s resplendent retelling of Goethe’s Faust, a monumental work
of 'choral grandeur and melodic richness' (The New York Times) in one of the most impressive
productions ever seen at the War Memorial Opera House.
2059674
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
(2 DVDs in luxury digipak)
Menaham Pressler plays MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 27
Menahem Pressler, Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi
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On the occasion of his 90 Birthday Menaham Pressler celebrates with Paavo Järvi and the
Orchestre de Paris at Salle Pleyel in Paris, performing Mozart piano concertos Nos. 23 and 27
as well as Debussy's Clair de lune.
2059888
£17.01 (DVD)
2059884
£20.41 (Blu-ray)
2072668
£47.64 (5 DVDs)
2072664
£47.64 (4 Blu-rays)
Bonus material: Paavo Järvi in conversation with Menahem Pressler
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
The Complete String Quartets
Belcea Quartet: Corina Belcea, Axel Schacher, Krzystof Chorzelski, Antoine Lederlin
This luxury Belcea Quartet Box brings a new high-definition audio-visual reference recording of
Beethoven´s Complete String Quartets.
Masterworks: STRAUSS and MAHLER
STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegel; Ein Heldenleben; Bonus introductions and educational guides (ICAD 5031)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 6, Hartmut Haenchen (ICAD 5018)
MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde; SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4, Kurt Sanderling (ICAD 5042)
MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 (ICAD 5051)
R. STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegel; MAHLER: Symphony No. 5 – Adagietto (Bonus)
This box set includes some of the greatest works by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss under the baton of Michael
Tilson Thomas, Kurt Sanderling, Hartmut Haenchen and Erich Leinsdorf.
ICAB 5133
£34.00 (5 DVDs)
Classic BBC Proms
This set presents some exceptional performances given at the world famous BBC Proms festival. It features piano
virtuoso Garrick Ohlsson, Russian maestro Yuri Temirkanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, who has had a strong
association with the Proms throughout his career, and Sir Georg Solti with his much-loved Chicago Symphony
Orchestra.
ICAB 5134
£34.00 (5 DVDs)
Richard WAGNER (1813-1883)
Die Walküre
Live Recording June-July 2012, Oper Frankfurt; Staged by Vera Nemirova
Frank van Aken, Ain Anger, Terje Stensvold, Amber Wagner, Susan Bullock, Martina Dike, Anja Fidelia Ulrich, Elizabeth Reiter,
Claudia Mahnke, Katharina Magiera, Brenda Rae, Lisa Wedekind, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Bernadett Fodor
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle
Oehms Classics are pleased to be releasing each opera from their acclaimed Ring cycle box-set individually. Recorded at
Frankfurt Opera with Sebastian Weigle, the second instalment, Die Walküre is a 2-DVD tour de force.
OC996
£20.41 (2 DVDs)
Richard WAGNER (1813-1883)
Siegfried
Live Recording June-July 2012, Oper Frankfurt; Staged by Vera Nemirova
Lance Ryan, Peter Marsh, Terje Stensvold, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Magnús Baldvinsson, Meredith Arwady, Susan Bullock,
Robin Johannsen, Alan Barnes
Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle
OC997
£20.41 (2 DVDs)
Oehms Classics are pleased to be releasing each opera from their acclaimed Ring cycle box-set individually. Recorded
at Frankfurt Opera with Sebastian Weigle, the third instalment, Siegfried is a 2-DVD tour de force.
OCTOBER 2014
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