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Vladimir Feltsman - The Complete Sony Recordings [8 CDs]Vladimir Feltsman made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1987 with a program that included Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus and works by Schubert and Schumann. At the conclusion of Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, “...any lingering doubts about Mr. Feltsman’s pianistic strengths or artistic instincts were blown away” (New York Times). Now Sony Classical is reissuing that Carnegie debut recital, a Russian Chopin recording that preceded it and an even earlier Schubert recital along with a live Liszt recital including the B minor Sonata and a live Rachmaninoff coupling of the Third Concerto and the Paganini Rhapsody

with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic. (Sony/BMG) (8 CDs) 8 SBMG 19075911432 $42.99

Istvan Kertész In Vienna - The Decca Recordings [20 CDs + BR Audio] István Kertész’ complete Decca Recordings with the Vienna

Philharmonic recalls the art of a great conductor and his relationship with one of the world’s finest orchestras. This 20-CD + Blu-ray Audio limited edition set includes Schubert Symphonies,

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony all newly remastered from original analogue sources. Also

included in this handsome slip-case design is a 68 page booklet (English/French/German) that includes a new essay by Andrew

Stewart and many session photographs. (Decca) (20 CDs + Blu-ray Audio) 21 DEC 4834710 $129.99

Fritz Brun - The Complete Orchestral Works [11 CDs] In this release, the prominent conductor Adriano with help from the world re-

nowned Bratislava and Moscow Symphony Orchestras, among others, draws together the first complete series of orchestral works by Swiss composer Fritz

Brun (1878-1959). This set sheds light on the little-known composer’s rep-ertoire, from the rhapsodies, the songs, the concertos, to ten sweeping sym-

phonies. Brun’s works have a nostalgic touch; they draw on the Romantic and Classical eras in their emotional sincerity and defined forms, but always with

a modern flavor. His repertoire sits comfortably alongside the music of Honeg-ger, Schoeck, and Bloch and is often touted as the Swiss answer to Vaughan

Williams and Elgar. (Brilliant Classics) (11 CDs) 11 BLC 95784 $49.99

Landmarks - 40 Years of Chandos [40 CDs]Founded by Brian Couzens in 1979, Chandos quickly established itself as one of the world’s leading classical labels. The ‘Chandos Sound’ has become a benchmark for quality, renowned alike among artists and critics around the globe. From its inception, Chandos has specialized in recording British music, and in bringing lesser-known (and unknown) music to public attention. Released to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the

label, this handsomely packaged 40-disc set comprises 40 complete recordings from Chandos’ extensive catalog. Each of the four decades

is represented, and each recording represents a turning point, or ‘Landmark’, in the development of the label. (Chandos Records) (40 CDs) 40 CHA ANNI0040 $74.99

Clara Schumann: Piano Music / Isata Kanneh-MasonBig sister to cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, pianist Isata releases her Decca debut album, Romance. The album illuminates the world of Isata’s musical heroine, Clara Schumann, in her 200th anniversary year. Isata joins the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a recording of the

Piano Concerto in A minor and Three Romances for Violin & Piano with violinist and former BBC New Generation Artist Elena Urioste. (Decca) DEC B003050602 $18.99

Orchestral Music by Wynton Marsalis / Nicola BenedettiNicola Benedetti’s new album on Decca Classics features world premiere recordings of two works written especially for her by Grammy-winning jazz icon Wynton Marsalis. On offer is Marsalis’ Violin Concerto in D and Fiddle Dance Suite

for Solo Violin. Benedetti is joined by The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Cristian Macelaru in the Concerto. (Decca) DEC B003052102 $18.99

FeaturedJazzRecommended JazzDizzy Gillespie, Pepper Adams, Kurt Elling, Sergio Mendez, Slide Hampton et al. See Page 48

New Jazz ReleasesBetty Carter, Joshua Redman, Cory Weeds, Quiana Lynell, Michael Wolff et al. See Page 50

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Vladimir Feltsman - The Complete Sony Recordings [8 CDs]Vladimir Feltsman made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1987 with a program that included Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus and works by Schubert and Schumann. At the conclusion of Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, “...any lingering doubts about Mr. Feltsman’s pianistic strengths or artistic instincts were blown away” (New York Times). Now Sony Classical is reissuing that Carnegie debut recital, a Russian Chopin recording that preceded it and an even earlier Schubert recital along with a live Liszt recital including the B minor Sonata and a live Rachmaninoff coupling of the Third Concerto and the Paganini Rhapsody

with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic. (Sony/BMG) (8 CDs) 8 SBMG 19075911432 $42.99

Istvan Kertész In Vienna - The Decca Recordings [20 CDs + BR Audio] István Kertész’ complete Decca Recordings with the Vienna

Philharmonic recalls the art of a great conductor and his relationship with one of the world’s finest orchestras. This 20-CD + Blu-ray Audio limited edition set includes Schubert Symphonies,

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony all newly remastered from original analogue sources. Also

included in this handsome slip-case design is a 68 page booklet (English/French/German) that includes a new essay by Andrew

Stewart and many session photographs. (Decca) (20 CDs + Blu-ray Audio) 21 DEC 4834710 $129.99

Fritz Brun - The Complete Orchestral Works [11 CDs] In this release, the prominent conductor Adriano with help from the world re-

nowned Bratislava and Moscow Symphony Orchestras, among others, draws together the first complete series of orchestral works by Swiss composer Fritz

Brun (1878-1959). This set sheds light on the little-known composer’s rep-ertoire, from the rhapsodies, the songs, the concertos, to ten sweeping sym-

phonies. Brun’s works have a nostalgic touch; they draw on the Romantic and Classical eras in their emotional sincerity and defined forms, but always with

a modern flavor. His repertoire sits comfortably alongside the music of Honeg-ger, Schoeck, and Bloch and is often touted as the Swiss answer to Vaughan

Williams and Elgar. (Brilliant Classics) (11 CDs) 11 BLC 95784 $49.99

Landmarks - 40 Years of Chandos [40 CDs]Founded by Brian Couzens in 1979, Chandos quickly established itself as one of the world’s leading classical labels. The ‘Chandos Sound’ has become a benchmark for quality, renowned alike among artists and critics around the globe. From its inception, Chandos has specialized in recording British music, and in bringing lesser-known (and unknown) music to public attention. Released to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the

label, this handsomely packaged 40-disc set comprises 40 complete recordings from Chandos’ extensive catalog. Each of the four decades

is represented, and each recording represents a turning point, or ‘Landmark’, in the development of the label. (Chandos Records) (40 CDs) 40 CHA ANNI0040 $74.99

Clara Schumann: Piano Music / Isata Kanneh-MasonBig sister to cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, pianist Isata releases her Decca debut album, Romance. The album illuminates the world of Isata’s musical heroine, Clara Schumann, in her 200th anniversary year. Isata joins the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a recording of the

Piano Concerto in A minor and Three Romances for Violin & Piano with violinist and former BBC New Generation Artist Elena Urioste. (Decca) DEC B003050602 $18.99

Orchestral Music by Wynton Marsalis / Nicola BenedettiNicola Benedetti’s new album on Decca Classics features world premiere recordings of two works written especially for her by Grammy-winning jazz icon Wynton Marsalis. On offer is Marsalis’ Violin Concerto in D and Fiddle Dance Suite

for Solo Violin. Benedetti is joined by The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Cristian Macelaru in the Concerto. (Decca) DEC B003052102 $18.99

FeaturedJazzRecommended JazzDizzy Gillespie, Pepper Adams, Kurt Elling, Sergio Mendez, Slide Hampton et al. See Page 48

New Jazz ReleasesBetty Carter, Joshua Redman, Cory Weeds, Quiana Lynell, Michael Wolff et al. See Page 50

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Torelier and the BBC Philharmonic conducts Bacchus et Ariane and the Complete Le festin de l’araignée The Spider’s Banquet. “The exhilarating (1931) score for Bacchus et Ariane teems with life and is full of rhythmic vitality. What a marvellously inventive and resourceful score it is! Tortelier offers the best version yet and the BBC Philharmonic play with tremendous zest.” – Penguin Guide

1CD# CHA 9494 $18.99

Alice Mary Smith: Symphonies, etc / Howard Shelley; London Mozart Players

Alice Mary Smith’s music bears the influences of Mendelssohn and Spohr and although it uses traditionally classical structures, it is very distinctive in its use of lyrical subjects and daring modulations. “Shelley and the London Mozart Players are admirable advocates throughout, and this CD is most enjoyable.” – Penguin Guide

1CD# CHA 10283 $18.99

Dvořák: Cello Concerto; Tchaikovsky / Rostropovich, Karajan; Berlin Philharmonic

“The recording is as near perfect as any made by DG in that vintage analogue era. It gives the cello a highly realistic presence, and if the passionate fortissimo violins lose just a fraction in fullness, and there seems to be, comparably, just a slight loss of resonance in the bass, the sound picture has an impressively clear and vivid focus.” – Gramophone

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Ernest Ansermet conducts Ballet Music – Stravinsky, et al

Ansermet conducts Rossini - Respighi La Boutique Fantasque (London Symphony Orchestra) and Stravinsky Petrushka (Suisse Romande Orchestra). Ansermet had the remarkable ability to balance an orchestra in the studio without help from the engineers and the quality of sound that Ansermet himself created lends such individuality to these works.

1CD# SOMM 027 $18.99

Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 27 – Saint–Saëns / Oramo, Hough [2 CDs]

“Few non-French pianists have managed to make the whole range of Saint-Säens’s works their own. Where Hough succeeds is in both the depth of expression he brings to the music’s Romanticism and the energy with which he effortlessly traverses the passages where there seem to be more notes than music... The accompaniments from the CBSO are handsomely played...”

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Rimsky–Korsakov: Orchestral Works / Ansermet; L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande [2 CDs]

“The Christmas Eve suite is played with much affection and that mixture of spontaneity and remarkably graphic orchestral palette which made Ansermet’s performances special...” – Penguin Guide. The thrilling sound in many of the recordings is complemented by conducting of swiftness and astuteness, and above all, plenty of colour.

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Dvořák: Slavonic Dances; Carnival Overture / The Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell“Exuberent, elegent and marvelously played... The charismas of the playing is unforgettable...” – Penguin Guide

1CD# SBMG 88697857482 $14.99

Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony / Richard Hickox; London SO

Chandos negotiated with the Vaughan Williams Trust and the composer’s widow to record this version of Symphony No. 2. “Hickox and the LSO respond with an unquenchable spirit, generous flexibility and tender affection that suit Vaughan Williams’s ambitious inspiration to a T... An essential purchase for anyone remotely interested in British music.” – Gramophone

1CD# CHA 9902 $18.99

Grieg: Holberg Suite; et al. / Ole Kristian Ruud; Bergen Philharmonic

“This is simply the most beautiful recording of Grieg’s string music in the catalogue and one of the most beautiful and realistic recordings of strings we have yet heard...The wonderfully vital account of the Holberg Suite is unsurpassed...The surround sound is in a class of its own.” – Penguin Guide. It also features Nordic Melodies, Lyric Pieces, Elegiac Melodies and more.

1CD# BIS 1491SA $17.99

Brahms: Hungarian Dances / István Bogár; Budapest Symphony Orchestra“One would rather have this set of dances than any of the other alternative versions.” (Rosette) – Penguin Guide

1CD# NXS 8550110 $11.99

Vierne: Complete Organ Symphonies [4 CDs]Besides maintaining a heavy recital schedule and an active private teaching practice, he serves as organist for the Grote Kerk (The Hague) and is a professor of music at the Rotterdam Conservatory.

4CD# MDG 3160732 $33.49

Frederic Cliffe: Symphony No. 1; Cloud and Sunshine / Fifield; Malmö Opera OrchestraCliffe was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. As a youth, he showed a promising musical aptitude and was enrolled as a scholar of the National Training School for Music.

1CD# STR 1055 $18.99

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Dvořák: Piano Quartets / Domus“Glorious pieces, and the playing of Domus is little short of inspired. An altogether outstanding chamber music record.” –The Penguin Guide “One of the most outstanding chamber music records I have heard for some time.” –Gramophone “One of the best chamber music CDs in the catalogue.” – Fanfare “Performances that are unlikely to be superseded in the near future.” – Music & Musicians

1CD# HYP 66287 $19.99

Fauré: Piano Quintets / Domus Quartet, Anthony Marwood [2 CDs]“The playing of Domus in these two masterpieces is as light, delicate and full of insight as one would expect. They make one fall for this music all over again. This is the best-ever version of these two pieces.” – Penguin Guide. “Chamber music disc of the month ... stunningly played ... beautifully recorded ... A worthy successor to the group’s set of the two Piano Quartets.” – Classic FM Magazine

1CD# HYP 66766 $19.99

Elgar: Music for Violin & Piano / Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; Julian Milford, pianoLydia Mordkovitch was featured in over 60 recordings for Chandos, including works of J.S. Bach, Ami Maayani, Shostakovich as well as Bax, Alwyn, Bliss, Howells, and John Veale. “Mordkovitch here transformed the elusive Elgar Violin Sonata. In rapt and concentrated playing she gives it new mystery, with the subtlest pointing and shading down to whispered pianissimos.” – Penguin Guide

1CD# CHA 9624 $18.99

Ravel, Fauré: String Quartets / Ad Libitum QuartetRavel’s unsuccessful attempts to win the Prix de Rome caused a student revolt at the Paris Conservatoire, supported by his teacher, Gabriel Faure. Faure later became director of the Conservatoire, and Ravel composed his vivacious String Quartet in F major in 1903, which he dedicated to his mentor. “A new bargain disc finds a Romanian ensemble fully at home in

the string quartets of Ravel and Fauré.” – BBC Music1CD# NXS 8554722 $11.99

Chopin: Piano Concertos / Christian Zacharias, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Christian Zacharias was appointed artistic director of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in 2000. After completing his music studies with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris, he took part in a number of international competitions, winning second prize at the Van Cliburn Competition in 1973, and first prize at the Ravel Competition in 1975. Zacharias’ playing of the solo parts is big-toned,

tender-hearted, and note-perfect.. Just as fine is his conducting, which balances so that textures are always absolutely transparent.

1CD# MDG 3401267 $18.99

Fauré: La Chanson d’Eve, Songs / Janet Baker, mezzo; Geoffrey Parsons, piano

Dame Janet Baker sings songs of Faure and accompanied by pianist Geoffrey Parsons. “This varied and generous selection of 28 songs is perhaps the best general introduction to this important side of Fauré’s output and is also one of Geoffrey Parsons’s finest recordings: voice and piano seem always to be at one. A magical disc.” – BBC Music Magazine

1CD# HYP 66320 $19.99

Chopin: Waltzes, Impromptus / Arthur Rubinstein, piano

“Arthur Rubinstein’s 1963 recording of Chopin waltzes is the stereo reference version for these works, and it’s likely to remain so for a long time. The performances embody the quintessential Rubinstein in his Indian-summer glory: directness, red-blooded tone, joie de vivre, impeccable taste, and more technique than he often was given credit for.” – Classics Today

1CD#RCA 59422 $8.99Goldmark, Bruch: Romantic Violin Concertos / Nai-Yuan Hu, violin; Gerard Schwarz

Nai-Yuan Hu plays Goldmark’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony. “The Goldmark is a tuneful and warm-hearted concerto that needs just this kind of songful, inspirational approach: Hu shapes the melodies so that they ravishingly take wing and soar…” – Penguin Guide

1CD# DEL 3156 $16.99

Berlioz: Les Nuites d’été; Ravel: Shéhérazade / Régine Crespin; Ernest Ansermet

“With Regine Crespin’s richness of tone, and with Ansermet at his finest accompanying brilliantly, this glowing performance is truly legendary - a tour de force. Moreover the Ravel coupling is even more inspired, and the superb new transfers enhance the listerner’s pleasure further” - Penguin. This release features works by Berlioz, Ravel, Debussy, and Poulenc.

1CD# DEC B000710802 $16.98

A Window in Time – Rachmaninoff Solo Piano Works / Sergei Rachmaninov“...I think many listeners will find this disc thrilling, and fans of Rachmaninov’s music and playing will find it indispensable, if not absolutely definitive. The Telarc piano rolls sound much better in many respects than the Rachmaninov recordings of the 20s. ‘A Window in Time’ gives us historically important recordings that sound as if they were made recently.” – Fanfare

1CD# TLC 80489 $17.98

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Liszt: Piano Concertos 1 & 2, Totentanz / Krystian Zimerman; Seiji Ozawa; Boston SO

“This is playing in the grand manner. From the start of First Concerto you’re aware of a consciously leonine approach. Zimerman even deliberately takes risks in a few technically perilous places where some of his colleagues, at least in the studio, play safe; and indeed his octaves in the opening cadenza are

an example. The result sounds spontaneous and, yes, even brave.” – Gramophone

1CD# DGG 4235712 $16.98

Coleridge–Taylor: Legend; Violin Concerto; Romance / Nicholas Braithwaite; LPO

This release features the London Philharmonic under Nicholas Braithwaite performing works for violin and strings by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. “Lorraine McAslan plays with easy virtuosity and an almost Heifetz-like intensity of focus, while the London Philharmonic, with occasionally audible encouragement

from Nicholas Braithwaite, provides characterful support.” – BBC Music Magazine

1CD# LYTA 317 $16.99

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro / Pappano; Royal Opera House Orchestra [BR or DVD]“Can be recommended without reservation... The elegance and simplicity of Tanya McCallin’s traditional sets and costumes practically take your breath away… Antonio Pappano leads the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in a reading that is beautifully paced and lovingly shaped and balanced. This splendid version of the opera would make a fine introduction for newcomers and is likely to delight those who already know and love it.” – AllMusic.com

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Purcell: The Fairy Queen / Christie, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment [BR or DVD]“A most imaginative production from Jonathan Kent that is gorgeous visually and most entertaining to watch; and the Purcell masques fit readily with the spoken narrative. The whole presentation combines charm and period musicality (with the admirable William Christie in charge)...In most respects visually and dramatically this is a triumph.” – Penguin Guide


Purcell: The Fairy Queen / Christie, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment [Blu-Ray]“A most imaginative production from Jonathan Kent that is gorgeous visually and most entertaining to watch; and the Purcell masques fit readily with the spoken narrative. The whole presentation combines charm and period musicality (with the admirable William Christie in charge)...In most respects visually and dramatically this is a triumph.” – Penguin Guide

(2 DVD) BOA 1031 $38.99 (1 BR) BOA 7065 $38.99

Verdi: La Forza del Destino / Asher Fisch; Bayerisches Staatsorchester [BR or DVD]Rounding off the Verdi centennial year in dramatic style - Martin Kusej’s thrilling contemporary interpretation of Verdi’s late-period opera, La Forza Del Destino, proved the perfect vehicle for the Bavarian State Opera’s “dream-team” of Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros. “Munich has done Verdi proud here - Kaufmann and Harteros are both on top form.” – The Times

2DVD# SBMG 88875160649 $14.991Blu-ray# SBMG 88875160659 $19.99

Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde / Jiri Belohlávek, London Philharmonic Orchestra [BR or DVD]“Heading the cast as an ideal Isolde is Swedish soprano Nina Stemme. A more completely satisfying performance of the role could not be imagined. She has the voice for it, strong from top to bottom; she has the stamina for it, giving the final scene as much energy as her first appearance; and perhaps most importantly, she understands Isolde and her dilemmas...” – MusicalCriticism.com


Verdi: Rigoletto / Massimo Zanetti; Teatro Regio di Parma Orchestra & Chorus [BR or DVD]“Nucci simply owns the role of Rigoletto...a master-class in vocal acting...Machaidze is the very embodiment of Gilda. Her characterization is simply marvellous...[she] has a lovely full tone - this is no canary Gilda - with ‘Caro nome’ poised and emotional...The supporting cast is excellent...I was highly impressed by Massino Zanetti’s conducting.” – Record Review

1DVD# CME 723208 $34.491Blu-ray# CME 723304 $33.49

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RECOMMENDED OPERA ON DVD AND BLU-RAYBruckner: Symphony No. 8 / Karajan, Vienna PO“A wonderful reading it is... more lovable if that is a permissible attribute to an interpretation of this Everest among symphonies. It is the sense of the music being in the hears and minds and collective unconscious of Karajan and every on the of the hundred and more players that give this performance its particular charisma and appeal.” – Gramophone

2CD# DGG B001739202 $16.98

Bennett: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3 / Malcolm Binns; Braithwaite; London PO

William Sterndale Bennett was a composer much under the influence of Mendelssohn. Neglected until recently, Sterndale Bennett’s music is full of lyrical beauty and intensity, and deserves revival. “Each work was written for the composer himself to play, and he must have been a formidable technician, since the piano part often sounds very difficult indeed.” – Gramophone

1CD# LYTA 204 $16.99Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, etc; Beethoven / Dorati, et al

Thanks to the genius of Mercury’s engineers, the recording remains mind-blowingly clear. Beethoven’s potboiler, Wellington’s Victory, is not his most exalted composition, but it makes a terrific racket, especially with the battery of artillery assembled for this recording. Your spouse may try to hide this disc from you, and your neighbors will shake their fists, but oh, what fun you’ll have!

1CD# PHI 4343602 $16.99

Brahms: Piano Concertos no 1 & 2 / Moravec, Belohlavek [2 CDs]

Moravec’s performance here reflects thoughtfully crafted details and phrasing, meticulous construction of individual parts as well as the whole, superior tone quality and admirable work with dynamics which are all trademarks of his world class artistry. Moravec delivers an unusually autumnal reading of the first concerto with an emphasis upon its lyrical side. The second movement is

particularly beautiful when performed in this way.2CD# SPR 3865 $21.99

Stanford: Orchestral Songs / Gerald Finley, baritone; Hickox; BBC NO of Wales

Stanford was particularly known in his day for his choral works and declared that the poem should always remain the principal consideration, governing all other artistic decisions. “Superb’ - and the later, texturally richer and more thoughtful Songs of the Fleet are superb baritone vehicles for Gerald Finley... this new Chandos SACD... has impressive presence.” – BBC Music Magazine

1CD# CHA 5043 $19.99

Leopold Stokowski: Symphonic Transcriptions / Serebrier; Bournemouth SO

Leopold Stokowski was not only one of the twentieth century’s greatest conductors, he was also an inveterate transcriber of music for the symphony orchestra, making some 200 orchestral arrangements of works which had started life in other forms. “Spectacular, sensational, skirting the boundaries of ‘good taste’ - thie is the real deal.” – ClassicsToday.com

1CD# NXS 8557645 $11.99

Rimsky–Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35; Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol / Chicago SO; ReinerFrederick Martin “Fritz” Reiner was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century. Hungarian born and trained, he emigrated to the United States in 1922, where he rose to prominence as a conductor with several orchestras. Here he conducts the Chicago Symphony playing Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale.

1CD# SBMG 88697700362 $12.99

Wagner: Tannhaeuser / Sir Colin Davis; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra [2 DVD]“At last on DVD, a legendary staging which really did revitalise its subject. The staging’s intensity, on a single stark rostrum, is supercharged by the committed, first-rate ensemble 1970s Bayreuth could still produce. The chorus is simply stunning, Wenkoff surpasses himself as a credible hero, sung with ardour and beauty. Jones is also in fine shape, singing with tragic fervour...” – BBC Music Magazine

2CD# DGG B001148509 $35.98

Strauss: Rosenkavalier / Carlos Kleiber; Orchester Der Bayerischen [2 DVD]“Kleiber’s conducting is spacious, transparent and warm. Brigitte Fassbaender is ideal as Octavian, Gwyneth Jones a moving Marschallin, Lucia Popp a sweet-voiced if mature Sophie, and Manfred Jungwirth a dignified but funny Ochs.” – BBC Music Magazine. Conducting a superlative cast who knows the score inside out, Kleiber excels in this legendary performance.

2CD# DGG B000476809 $35.98

Verdi: Don Carlo / Riccardo Chailly; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra [2 DVD]“This is a unique new production of the four-act Italian version of Don Carlo and by and large it works very well. The two-disc set includes some excellent backup material, especially the Introduction where each of the principals speak of the essential messages and interpretations they strive for... I recommend this new ‘Don Carlo’...” – American Record Guide

2CD# BOA 0933 $38.99

Classic Opera Performances on DVD

Romantic Era RecommendationsPENGUIN ROSETTES

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Mozart: Don Giovanni / DiDonato; Nezet–Seguin; Rastatt Vocal Ensemble [3 CDs]

This thrilling recording around concert performances at the Bade-baden Festpielhaus is set to be a milestone. “[Nezet-Seguin] combines the well-defined articulation of an historically informed approach with the full-bodied sound of a modern orchestra...The most exciting and consistently well-sung Don Giovanni to appear for several years, this set is strongly recommended.”

– bbc.co.uk 3CD# DGG B001724802 $49.98

Monteverdi: L’Orfeo / Mirko Guardagnini; Claudio Cavina, La Venexiana [2 CDs]

As part of their comprehensive survey of the music of Claudio Monteverdi, Claudio Cavina and La Venexiana delivered an exceptional version of L’Orfeo, a reading which had been honed by their trailblazing interpretations of the composer’s madrigals. “Cavina’s wonderful account goes straight to the top of the list of recommended recordings. Do not miss it.” – Gramophone

2CD# GLS 920941 $29.99

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Janet Baker; Anthony Lewis; St. Anthony Singers

“Janet Baker’s 1962 recording of Dido is a truly great performance. The radiant beauty of the voice is obvious enough, but the opening phrase of ‘When I Am Laid In Earth’ and its repeat a few bars later is a model of graduated mezza voce...Lewis and the ECO (Thurston Dart is a model continuo player) produce the crispest and lightest of playing which never

sounds rushed.” – Penguin Guide1CD# DEC 2894663872 $16.98

Puccini: Turandot / Zubin Mehta; London PO [2 CDs + Blu-ray audio]

“Sutherland gives an intensely appealing interpretation, while Pavarotti gives a performance equally imaginative. Mehta directs a gloriously rich and dramatic performance. Still the best-sounding Turandot on CD.” – Penguin Guide. This legendary performance of Puccini’s final opera, which also features Montserrat Caballe and Nicolai Ghiaurov, has rarely been surpassed.

3CD# DEC B002220946 $52.99Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen / Georg Solti; Vienna PO [16 CDs + CDROM]

Decca’s landmark recording of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen is the most celebrated classical recording in history. “Even Solti’s detractors have to admit the awesome status of Gotterdammerung, in which performance and recording unite with seamless strength to evoke the power of cosmic, cathartic tragedy. It hasn’t been surpassed; it may never be.”

– BBC Music Magazine 17CD# DEC B002330102 $52.98

Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust / Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux [2 CDs + Blu-ray audio]

“The names of the soloists may not be familiar to everyone nowadays (Richard Verreau, Michel Roux and Consuelo Rubio) but with the Lamoureux Orchestra and Elisabeth Brasseur Choir under Igor Markevitch, this is an unusually satisfying and exciting version of Berlioz’s “dramatic legend”.” – Gramophone. Presented in deluxe edition marking the 150th

anniversary of the death of Hector Berlioz. 3CD# DGG 4836377 $47.48

BASIC LIBRARY

OPERA – BASIC LIBRARY IN BRIEF

Purcell: The Fairy Queen / Christophers, The Sixteen, et al [2 CDs]

Ann Murray (who’s both radiant and a misfit in one), Michael Chance, John Mark Ainsley, Ian Partridge, Richard Suart and Michael George present a greater array of characterisation than any other extant reading… a satisfying performance capturing the indigenous humour, grandeur and poignancy of Purcell’s exquisite score.” – Gramophone

2CD# COO 16005 $28.49

Verdi: Otello / Domingo, Studer, Leiferkus, Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille [2 CDs]

“This is undoubtedly the best Otello on record since the early 1960s. It also happens to be the first time on disc that a great Otello at the height of his powers has been successfully caught in the context of a recording that can itself be generally considered worthy of the event, musically and technically.” – Gramophone

2CD# DGG 4398052 $32.98

Monteverdi: L’Orfeo / Rene Jacobs; Concerto Vocale [2 CDs]These recordings set a new standard for performance of these works. Some of the star performers featured include Jennifer Larmore, Bernarda Fink, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Andreas Scholl.

2CD# HAR 5901553 $29.99Verdi: Aida / Georg Solti; Rome Opera House Chorus [2 CDs]This 1962 recording has “full spacious sound, finer, more open and with greater sense of presence than most versions since.” – Penguin Guide

2CD# DEC B001572702 $18.98

Rossini: La Cenerentola / Alberto Zedda; Southwest German Radio Orchestra [2 CDs]This opera has particularly demanding roles for Cinderella, sung by the celebrated Rossinian mezzo Joyce DiDonato and her prince Don Ramiro (Jose Manuel Zapata).

2CD# NXS 8660191 $24.99

Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Giuseppe Sinopoli, Philharmonia Orchestra [2 CDs]“Giuseppe Sinopoli’s brilliant version of Puccini’s first fully successful opera is the most sensuous-sounding reading on record.” – Penguin Guide

2CD# DGG B000872002 $26.98

Opera on CDHandel: Julius Caesar / Mackerras; English National Opera Orchestra [4 CDs]

“Seemingly stuffy ‘opera seria’ format was no hindrance to Handel in creating works rich in human drama and musical invention...A highly intelligent, singable English translation by Brian Trowell often comes across very clearly. It certainly works very well for Janet Baker, who shapes her words with care and imagination...” – American Record Guide

4CD# CHA 3019 $45.99Handel: Orlando / René Jacobs; B’Rock Orchestra [2 CDs]

“Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero’s subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im brings youthful playfulness to the role of Dorinda...All is well paced under RenT Jacobs’s direction with a fine contribution from the B’Rock orchestra.” – BBC Music Magazine

2CD# DGG B002037202 $27.98

Handel: Jephtha / Fabio Biondi; Stavanger Symphony Orchestra [2 CDs]

“The expressive singing of Collegium Vocale Gent is one of the most attractive elements in Fabio Biondi’s live recording of Jephtha. The choir sound more freethan they do under their founder, Philippe Herreweghe...Biondi is a meticulous orchestral trainer. Stavanger Symphony Orchestra adapts well to the stylistic demands of this work.”

–BBC Music Magazine 2CD# BIS 1864 $17.99

Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress / Bostridge, Terfel; John Eliot Gardiner, LSO; [2 CDs]

“Gardiner is conscious throughout that this is a chamber opera, and the orchestral textures are outstandingly clean and transparent, the rhythmic pointing crisp but airy. This enables his cast to give a fast-moving, conversational account of the text, with every word crystal-clear (including those from the chorus) and no need for any voice to force.” – Gramophone

2CD# DGG 2894596482 $32.98

Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore / Mackerras, Welsh National Opera Orchestra

“As always, Mackerras keeps the livelier numbers moving along comfortably without ever a hint of rushing, while giving full weight to the tender moments and, above all, caressing all the details of Sullivan’s delicious orchestration.” – Gramophone. The cast features Richard Suart, Thomas Allen, Michael Schade, Rebecca Evans, Felicity

Palmer, Donald Adams, and Richard Van Allan. 1CD# TLC 80374 $17.98

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito / Rene Jacobs; Freiburger Barockorchester [2 CDs]

The interpretation offered here by Rene Jacobs is nothing short of revolutionary. “A performance of extraordinary clarity and immediacy, at once sharp in attack, yet intimate too. Here the drama is vividly conveyed, with words crystal clear... The cast of principals is excellent, with Mark Padmore at once mellifluous and commanding as the Emperor, always

imaginative and animated.” – Penguin Guide. 2CD# HAR 901923 $29.99

Handel: Jephtha / Harry Christophers; The Sixteen [3 CDs]

“Two hours of deeply profound music, beautifully performed here by Harry Christophers and his stellar cast of soloists. Sophie Bevan is dazzling as the daughter, Iphis...and James Gilchrist is simply sensational as the anguished Jephtha, breaking our hearts with Waft her, angels, through the sky.” – The Observer. Featuring James Gilchrist, Susan Bickley, Robin Blaze, Sophie Bevan, and more.

3CD# COO 16121 $38.99

Puccini: Turandot / Sutherland; Pavarotti; Caball; Mehta; John Alldis Choir [2 CDs]

“Dame Joan Sutherland’s assumption of the title role is statuesque, combining regal poise with a more human warmth, while Montserrat Caballé is a touchingly sympathetic Liù, skilfully steering the character away from any hint of the mawkish. Mehta conducts with great passion and a natural feel for Puccini’s wonderfully tempestuous drama. Well recorded.”

– Gramophone 2CD# DEC 4142742 $32.98

Recommended Handel Readings

Recommended

Handel: Alcina / Alan Curtis; Il Complesso Barocco [3 CDs]

“Joyce DiDonato takes the title role. Nothing about Alcina is quite what it seems, and here we have a mezzo singing a soprano’s music with considerable finesse, but with occasional moments of telltale strain. This is also a performance of immense calculation, so that while we’re aware of Alcina’s allure, we’re

also continually questioning her emotional veracity...” – The Guardian

3CD# DGG B001275602 $36.98

Puccini: La Fanciulla Del West / Mehta; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden [2 CDs]

“The music is highly developed in Puccini’s seamless lyrical style, the arias for the main characters emerge from the texture and return to it effortlessly. Carol Neblett is a strong Minnie, vocally distinctive and well characterised, while Plácido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes make a good pair of suitors for the spunky little lady. Zubin Mehta conducts with real sympathy for the idiom.” – Gramophone

2CD# DGGI 4748402CD $31.99


Johannsson: Virðulegu Forsetar; Copenhagen Dreams / Johann Johannson [7 CDs]

RETROSPECTIVE I features Jóhannsson’s early works as well as the unreleased soundtrack of the Danish documentary film White Black Boy. The edition includes include two new essays by Wyndham Wallace and John Schaefer and a large number of rare photographs offering deep insights into Jóhann s biography and music.

7CD# DGG 4836582 $124.99

Trilogia Italiana, Music of the 16th–18th Centuries / Accordone; Trilogia Italiana [3 CDs]

A perfect alchemical fusion of poetry and music. (Guido Morini) Cypres has grouped within its collection Cypressentiel three indispensable albums of Italian vocal music from the Renaissance to the early eighteenth century, three compilations out of stock since their appearance in 2005, 2006, and

2007: Frottole, Recitar cantando, and Il settecento Napolitano.3CD# CYRS 9620 $37.49

J.S. Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 2 / Benjamin Alard, organ [4 CDs]

In this second installment of the complete keyboard works, Benjamin Alard demonstrates with splendid eloquence how invaluable the young Bach’s north German experience proved to be. The wide range of works presented here, complemented by pieces by Buxtehude, Reinken and Pachelbel, illustrates in exemplary

fashion the power of a master in the making.4CD# HAR 902453 $31.49

Sacred Choral Music / Peter Marschik; Academy of London; Vienna Boys’ Choir [7 CDs]

What is captivating about these recordings is, on the one hand, the clarity of the textual and musical declamation and, on the other, a very special authentic charm deriving from the slight Viennese accent. In the performance by the Vienna Boys Choir, it is a question not just of perfect pronunciation

and intonation, but also of a sensual musical element that is frequently overlooked.

7CD# CAP 7317 $29.99

Bernard Haitink Portrait / Bernard Haitink; Bayerischen Rundfunks SO [11 CDs]

The release includes complete recordings of Beethoven’s “”Missa solemnis””, Bruckner’s Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6, Haydn’s oratorios “”The Seasons”” and “”The Creation”” and Mahler’s Symphonies Nos. 3, 4 and 9. Numerous vocal soloists all perform under Haitink’s direction, together with the Bavarian

Radio Chorus and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

11CD# BRK 900174 $63.99

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies / Saraste; WDR Sinfonieorchester [5 CDs]

Beethoven’s intense musical language heralded the age of Romanticism. This release of his complete symphonies features the interpretation of the WDR Sinfonieorchester and conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste, who has established himself as one of the outstanding conductors of his

generation, demonstrating remarkable musical depth and integrity.

5CD# PRF 18066 $29.99

Les Arts Florissants – 40 Years / Christie; Agnew; Les Arts Florissants [3 CDs]

Nearly every musical chapter in the story of the ensemble made history and, along with hours of pure pleasure, this retrospective is sure to bring back fond memories of your first encounter with Les Arts Florissants, who have become a pillar of our collective cultural life. This set features works of theater, sacred music and secular music.

3CD# HAR 8908972 $24.99

The Masters Collection / Tatrai Quartet [3 CDs]The album features records which define an uvre, a specific era and which will be an unforgettable experience for all listeners. The focus of this album is the Tatrai Quartet. Founded in 1946 and based in Hungary, the Tatrai Quartet was one of the foremost string quartets in Hungary for the

half century following the Second World War. Featuring works by Haydn, Bartok, Mozart, Beethoven, and more.

3CD# HGR 32817 $33.49

The Masters Collection / György Cziffra, piano; Budapest SO; et al. [3 CDs]

The Masters Collection compiles the iconic recordings of some of the most renowned artists of Hungaroton. The collection features recordings which define an oeuvre, a specific era and which will be an unforgettable experience for all listeners. György Cziffra is hailed as one of the most remarkable pianists

of the 20th century. Here, he Plays Brahms, György Cziffra, Gershwin, Liszt, Johann Strauss II.

3CD# HGR 32814 $31.99

Alan Richardson (1904–1978): Piano Music / Martin Jones, piano [5 CDs]

It is that satisfying synergy of elegant lyricism and rhythmic energy which distinguishes the keyboard works of pianist and composer Alan Richardson. “New listeners should probably begin with the Sonata for two pianos, and then explore the smaller pieces at their leisure. A most welcome discovery.” – MusicWeb International.

5CD# LYTA 2373 $29.49

for AugustNEW RELEASES - BOXED SETS

Complete Recordings on DG / Nathan Milstein, violin; various artists [5 CDs]Nathan Milstein is widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century and was known for his interpretations of Bach’s solo violin works and for works from the Romantic period. His Deutsche Grammophon recordings, made at the end of his career, perfectly capture an artist who remained at his peak well into his 80s A recital disc includes the violinist’s own Paganinana, one of his best-known compositions, a set of variations on various themes from the works of Niccolò Paganini.

5CD# DGG 4836312 $40.49

Complete Recordings on DG / Shlomo Mintz, violin; various artsts [15 CDs]Shlomo Mintz’s first performance on stage was at the age of six. At age eleven he played as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In his early twenties he signed a long-term recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon a fruitful relationship which started with the Mendelssohn and Bruch Concertos. He went on to record virtually all the expected concertos and particularly fine readings of Bach’s set of solo Sonatas and Partitas, Paganini’s 24 solo Caprices and the Mendelssohn Sonatas.

15CD# DGG 4836318 $66.99

Gil Shaham – Complete Recordings on DG / Gil Shaham, violin; various artists [22 CDs]Gil Shaham took up the violin aged seven and a mere four years later debuted as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta. At age 11, Shaham was admitted to the Juilliard School in New York. In 1989 he replaced an ailing Itzhak Perlman for a series of concerts with Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra. Shaham’s recordings for DG reveal a broad repertoire and not least an affinity to the music of the twentieth century including celebrated recordings of Korngold, Pärt, Previn, John Williams and Messiaen.

22CD# DGG 4836334 $89.99

Theodore Kuchar Conducts Janacek PO; National SO of Ukraine; et al. [13 CDs]

“Theodore Kuchar is one of today’s most dynamic, most successful young conductors every instrumental effect comes through beautifully Tempos are generally rapid and spirits high this is a lot of fine Dvořák for a very low price.” – Fanfare. This set features works by Dvořák, Shostakovich, Smetana, Nielsen, Aldemaro Romero, Silvestre Revueltas, Yuri Hung, and more.

13CD# BLC 95932 $49.99

Anthology of the Recorder / Ann Allen; Pieter–Jan Belder; et al. [26 CDs]

The recorders tonal purity and exceptional blend in ensemble makes it marvelously suited for adaptations of music originally written for other instrumental combinations. A. Scarlatti is among the Baroque composers contributing substantially to this set, along with Telemann, Vivaldi, J.S. and C.P.E Bach, Quantz, Handel, Fiorenza, Giuseppe Sammartini, the prolific

Mancini, and even a Vivaldi imposter!26CD# BLC 95799 $69.99

Opera Overtures, Choruses, & Duets / Staatskepelle Dresden; et al. [3 CDs]

From Mozart to Leoncavallo: three hours of operas greatest hits in rhythmically buoyant, highly enjoyable East-German recordings. Peter Schreier exercises a subtle guiding hand over the Staatskapelle Dresden for a compilation of tenor/baritone opera duets recorded in 1972 with the two foremost East-German male singers of their generation, Peter Schreier and Theo Adam.

3CD# BLC 95414 $14.99

Matiegka: Complete Music for Solo Guitar / Giulio Tampalini, guitar [7 CDs]

The second album in this release is occupied by a set of Six Sonatas Op.31 which are cast in a lighter vein but still within the Classical structures formed and perfected by Haydn. Virtuoso brilliance is the order of the day on the third album, with its 12 Menuets Brillants, and a fantasia and variation set based on popular melodies.

7CD# BLC 95084 $33.49

Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1–9 / Bayerischen Rundfunks SO [9 CDs]

More than in any other set, common features in interpretation as well as fascinating differences due to the various interpretive approaches of the respective conductors can all be detected. In these recordings it also becomes clear what brilliant contributions Herbert Blomstedt, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons and Lorin Maazel have made over the

decades to Bruckners symphonic oeuvre.9CD# BRK 900716 $46.99

Virtuoso Piano Etudes of Czerny, Clementi, Heller, Chopin, Liszt, et al. [22 CDs]

This monumental set dedicated to the Virtuoso Piano Étude offers a rewarding opportunity to witness two centuries in the evolution of masterpieces for the study of the piano. Artists include Fred Oldenburg, Alessandro Marangoni, Jan Vermeulen, Zlata Chochieva, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Peter Frankl, Giancarlo Simonacci, Jeroen van Veen, Goran Filipec, Klára Würtz, and more!

22CD# BLC 95571 $69.99

The Complete RIAS Recordings / Quartetto Italiano [3 CDs]The ensemble’s confidently-chosen name made it clear from the outset that the Quartetto Italiano saw itself not simply as an Italian string quartet among many, but as the authoritative one. The ensemble was soon recognized as a pioneer of Italian chamber music culture following the Second World War. Three works on this release can be heard performed by the Quartetto Italiano for the first time on this format.

3CD# ADT 21456 $33.49

Great Violinists on DG

New Boxed Sets

Gyorgy Ligeti: Masterworks / Arditti String Quartet; The King’s Singers; various [9 CDs]

Sony Classicals landmark Ligeti Edition was recorded under the great Hungarian composers supervision and first released on single albums in 1996. It features such authoritative interpreters of the composers endlessly fascinating works as Pierre-Laurent Aimard playing the staggeringly difficult and beautiful Études and other piano works, the Arditti Quartet giving benchmark readings of the String Quartets.

9CD# SBMG 19075877922 $28.49

Tedd Joselson: The Complete RCA Album Collection / Various artists [6 CDs]

Reviewing the original releases, High Fidelity wrote: “Joselson obviously has a feel for Prokofiev: His way with the bittersweet Visions fugitives has the same lyricism and coloristic nuance I admired in his recordings of the Second Concerto and Second and Eighth Sonatas.” Piano lovers will be able to appreciate it again, or for the first time, in Sony Classicals newly remastered collection.

6CD# SBMG 19075903272 $35.99

Robert Casadesus – The Complete Columbia Album Collection / Various artists [65 CDs]

You have to be a composer yourself to understand the music of others so well, said Maurice Ravel of Robert Casadesus, the great French pianist-composer. This prolific recording artist is the subject of a major new release: Robert Casadesus The Complete Columbia Album Collection. 65 albums honor Casadesuss substantial legacy, with numerous albums reissued for the very first time.

65CD# SBMG 19075853652 $212.99J.S. Bach Masterworks - 33 Great Recordings / Various artists [33 CDs]

The present extensive release contains 8 recordings of solo works, 10 recordings of orchestral works, and 5 recordings of sacred works by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750), recorded by world-famous musicians such as Glenn Gould, Jan Vogler, Gustav Leonhardt, James Galway, Murray Perahia, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and many more.

33CD# SBMG 19075870972 $62.99

Schubert: Piano Music for Four Hands / Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen [7 CDs]Throughout his long tenure with The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell and his peerless ensemble set standards with their recordings of Czech music. The new release now offers them all, many for the first time on modern recording technology, including earlier mono versions of Dvoráks New World Symphony and Slavonic Dances as well as his Piano Concerto with its finest soloist, Rudolf Firkuny..

7CD# SBMG 19075921662 $25.99Schubert: Piano Music for Four Hands / Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen [7 CDs]Gramophone’s reviewer wrote that it is a joy to hear this repertoire done by great musicians and I cant think of any duo partnership currently before the public that surpasses this one.

7CD# SBMG 19075879592 $25.99

George Szell Conducts Dvorak, Smetana / Cleveland Orchestra; New York PO [7 CDs]Throughout his long tenure with The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell and his peerless ensemble set standards with their recordings of Czech music. The new release now offers them all, many for the first time on modern recording technology, including earlier mono versions of Dvoráks New World Symphony and Slavonic Dances as well as his Piano Concerto with its finest soloist, Rudolf Firkuny.

33CD# SBMG 19075921662 $25.99

Mozart: Piano Works / Peter Serkin, piano; English CO; various artists [6 CDs]Mozart lovers and admirers of this outstanding pianist will be particularly excited by the reissue of Peter Serkins extraordinary solo Mozart album from the late-1960s. High Fidelity called it exceptional.

6CD# SBMG 19075879582 $24.99

J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos; Chromatic Fantasia; et al. / Rudolf Serkin [3 CDs]Rudolf Serkin is rightly revered for his powerful interpretations of the Austro-German Classical and Romantic piano repertoire, but he was also an outstanding Bach player.

3CD# SBMG 19075921682 $20.99

Artist Profiles from the VaultsGregor Piatigorsky, The Art of the Cello / Gregor Piatigorsky, cello [36 CDs]Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky has been called the greatest string player of all time. His playing, which brought tears to the eyes of the immortal Fritz Kreisler, was noted for its exceptional technical control and wide range of expression. When Richard Strauss heard Gregor Piatigorsky perform with the Berlin Philharmonic, he exclaimed, “Finally I have heard my Don Quixote as I imagined him.”

36CD# SBMG 19075832132 $83.99

Emanuel Ax: Complete RCA Album Collection / Emanuel Ax; various artists [23 CDs]Emanuel Ax has been classed among the master pianists ever since his victory at the inaugural Arthur Rubinstein Competition in 1974. His long association with RCA began the very next year. Over the next 12 years he released 23 albums on the label, spanning much of the great piano literature, and the complete set of his RCA recordings is now reissued by Sony Classical for the first time.

23CD# SBMG 88985485192 $56.99

Leonard Pennario: The Complete RCA Album Collection / Leonard Pennario [12 CDs]Nobody plays the piano better than Leonard Pennario, wrote the eminent critic Andrew Porter in Londons New Statesman in 1952, when the competition would have included none less than Horowitz in his prime. To mark the tenth anniversary of Pennarios death, Sony Classical is now pleased to reissue all of the pianists RCA recordings together for the first time in a single set.

12CD# SBMG 19075899272 $56.99

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New Sony/RCA ‘White Box’ Sets

SOLO PIANO MUSIC SETS IN BRIEF

SONY / RCA BOXED SETS

Leonid Kogan: Anniversary Edition / Leonid Kogan, violin; various artists [5 CDs]

The release captures the entire range of Kogans stylistic interests from virtuosic romantic violin music to modern composers, duet recordings with his spouse, the outstanding violinist Elizaveta Gilels, and trios performed by Kogan with Emil Gilels and Mstislav Rostropovich. The set also includes the complete recital at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on 7 April 1963.

5CD# MELY 1002580 $71.99

Complete Recordings on DG / Carlo Maria Giulini; various artists [42 CDs]

42-CD original jacket collection presenting Carlo Maria Giulini’s complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon , featuring reference recordings of masterworks by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner & Verdi, including egendary collaborations with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Vladimir Horowitz & Plácido Domingo. 84-page booklet with new liner notes by Richard

Osborne.42CD# DGG 4836224 $149.99

Complete Philips Recordings / Eduardo del Pueyo, piano [5 CDs]

Eduardo Del Pueyo closed his Philips contract in 1960 with Franck and Bach: a poised, radiant and simple account of the Italian Concerto, and a First Partita concluding with a remarkable account of the Gigue where he barely seems to touch the keyboard. Featured here are the works of J.S. Bach, Beethoven,

Granados, Fall, and Franck.5CD# ELOQ 8401932 $31.49

Los Angeles Philharmonic – 100 Years / Various artists; LA Philharmonic [35 CDs]

Deutsche Grammophon marks the CENTENARY of the LA Philharmonic with a limited edition set assembled with input from Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel. Starting with Otto Klemperer and featuring every music director since (plus guest conductors LB and Stravinsky), the set includes 2 CDs of previously unreleased historic recordings and archival surprises, plus 3

live DVD performances.35CD# DGG 4836100 $157.99

Mstislav Rostropovich in Moscow / Mstislav Rostropovich, cello [4 CDs]

The recordings compiled into this set were made when Rostropovich was already famous in the Soviet Union (Stalin Prize 1951, Lenin Prize 1961) but largely unknown in the West. They document the early career of Mstislav Rostropovich, which is of particular significance for the premieres of major works by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Kabalevsky.

4CD# PRF 18062 $22.99

Live from London, Rome, Prague et al. / Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano [10 CDs]

According to Joachim Kaiser in his book “Great Pianists of Our Time”, there is “among all the pianists in the whole world not one who takes such pains to perform for the sheer beauty of the music as Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli”. His career was frequently interrupted due to ill health and can best be documented through his public performances, which also

form the nucleus of this compilation.10CD# PRF 18063 $40.49

Hans Rosbaud Conducts Brahms / SWR SO des Südwestrundfunks [6 CDs]

This set contains all the recordings the Austrian conductor made for the SWR, some of them being for the first time released on modern recording technology. “[Rosbaud] was one of the unsung heroes of mid-20th-century music, who ... gave thoroughly rehearsed and assimilated performances and premieres of the widest possible range of music”

– Gramophone.6CD# SWRM 19069 $41.99

The SWR Radio Recordings 1952–1965 / Edith Peinemann, violin [5 CDs]

In this collection the early studio recordings of the great violinist Edith Peinemann are released for the first time on modern recording technology. The release contains chamber music as well as well as standard-setting interpretations of the violin concertos by Dvořák, Bartók, Pfitzner and Sibelius, which Edith Peinemann performed many times around the

world.5CD# SWRM 19074 $38.99

Beethoven: String Quartets, Vol. 11 / Cuarteto Casals [3 CDs]

Cuarteto Casals presents Revelations, the second volume in a new complete cycle of the Beethoven quartets. The group devised an innovative structural arrangement for its recordings. The works are not presented in the typical grouping of early, middle and late periods: rather they are arranged according to each quartet’s place within Beethoven’s musical development.

3CD# HAR 902403 $32.99

French Piano Concertos / Magda Bard; Rica Bard; Romain Descharmes; et al. [12 CDs]

This gorgeous set is dedicated to piano concertante works from the pens of French composers infinitely varied compositions that nevertheless each bear the unmistakable flavor of their native idiom. Played by excellent pianists such as Magda Tagliaferro, Romain Descharmes, Gabriel Tacchino, Francois-Joël Thiollier, Michael Korstick, Florian Uhlig and

Klára Würtz.12CD# BLC 95899 $49.99

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Jose Ferrer: Complete Guitar Duets / Jorgen Skogmo, guitar; Jens Franke, guitar

The first integral recording of the complete published and manuscript duets by the Catalan master Jose Ferrer (1835–1916), last of the charismatic Romantic guitarist-composers. Taking us from languorous dances to the glamor of Italian grand opera, this is mesmerizingly beautiful music redolent of a lost era of soirees and gallantry, Iberian salons and

forgotten Parisian boudoirs1CD# NXS 8574011 $12.99

Liszt: Transcriptions from Operas by Auber and Verdi / Wai Yin Wong, piano

On this 52nd volume of the complete Liszt edition, Wai Yin Wong presents transcriptions and variations drawn from operas by Verdi and Auber. Auber’s La muette de Portici marks the beginnings of French grand opera, to which Liszt responded with two versions of a Tarantelle. Also included are elaborate variations on Auber’s La fiancée and Liszt’s concert paraphrase

on Verdi’s Ernani and on a prayer from I Lombardi.1CD# NXS 8573714 $12.99

Alfonso Romero Asenjo: String Symphony; Cello Concerto; Concerto fo Two Violins

Alfonso Romero Asenjo’s (b. 1957) String Symphony has a cinematic restlessness that conjures hauntingly unsettling images, while the Cello Concerto pits the luminous and extended melodic phrases of the soloist against dense darkness from the orchestra. The Concerto for Two Violins is in part a tribute to J.S. Bach’s work in the same setting, endowing

Baroque resources with a mysterious and attractive modernity.1CD# NXS 8579044 $11.99

Falla: El amor brujo; El retblo de Maese Pedro / Esperanza Fernández, cantaora; et al

Manuel de Falla is renowned as the greatest Spanish composer of the early 20th century, melding diverse stylistic, folk or literary influences into distinctive new musical languages. “There’s no lack of bite and raw intensity [in El Amor Brujo], and paired with an equally pungent account of another of Falla’s utterly original music-theatre pieces, the chamber opera El Retablo de

Maese Pedro, it’s a really desirable bargain.” – The Guardian.1CD# NXS 8573890 $12.99

Joseph Marx: Orchestral Songs / Angela Maria Blasi, soprano; Stella Doufexis, mezzo

Joseph Marx’s (1882–1964) distinctive style is characterized in these songs by dazzling, colorful harmonies and a remarkable melodic richness that, coupled with his sensitive setting of the texts, results in some of the composer’s finest works for voice and orchestra. “Intrepid as ever this disc bears high the laurels for Marx’s orchestral songs.”

– MusicWeb International1CD# NXS 8573833 $12.99

Antonio Soler (1719–1783): Keyboard Sonata Nos. 87–92 / Levon Avagyan, piano

Antonio Soler wrote some 150 sonatas, his greatest compositional memorial, most for the young prince, Don Gabriel. The works in this volume reveal Soler’s mastery of dashing bravura and his exploitation of a full keyboard range in Sonata No. 88, felicities of hand-crossing in Sonata No. 89, and his awareness of the contemporary influence of Haydn in Sonata No. 92.

1CD# NXS 8574021 $12.99

Folk Tales: British Cello & Piano Miniatures / Gerald Peregrine, cello; Antony Ingham, piano

The composers on this album were part of a new ‘English Style’ that blended traditional lyricism with wider influences from Europe and Scandinavia. From Ralph Vaughan Williams’ enchanting textures, via Arnold Bax (1883–1953) and Frank Bridge’s (1879–19411) harmonic surprises, to Frederick Delius’s (1862–1934) return to his roots at the

end of his life-this is a rich collection of shimmering gems from the British Isles.

1CD# NXS 8574035 $12.99

Boccherini: Stabat Mater; et al / Dominique Labelle, soprano; Sarasa Ensemble

Boccherini chose the intimacy of a chamber music setting for his Stabat Mater, writing for a solo soprano and string quintet with the instrumental textures weaving the fabric of the text’s meaning. In the Quartet, Op. 52, No. 3, a colorful tapestry of contrasting events frames moments of bucolic excitement and lyric interlude, while the expertly structured Quintet, Op. 42, No. 1

directly evokes the Stabat Mater in its themes.1CD# NXS 8573958 $12.99

Gaetano Donizetti: Vesper Psalms / Franz Hauk; Concerto de Bassus; Simon Mayr Chorus

Gaetano Donizetti is renowned as a leading composer of the Italian romantic bel canto opera style during the first half of the 19th century. Donizetti’s Vesper Psalms are characterized by beautifully shaped operatic melodies and colorful orchestration on a grand scale, creating moments of real rhetorical force--outstanding features of works

that have lain undiscovered in manuscript form for two centuries.1CD# NXS 8573910 $12.99

Mendelssohn: Early Piano Music / Sergio Monteiro, piano

This group of rare early works is notable for a sequence of piano fugues with an impressive command of counterpoint and chorale harmonization, two sonatas which reveal the dual influences of the Baroque and more contemporary models such as Weber and Hummel, as well as a dashing ‘Prestissimo in F minor’ and a brilliant ‘Vivace in C

minor.’ “Monteiro’s performances are lively and energetic, just what you want to hear” – The Art Music Lounge

1CD# NXS 8573946 $12.99

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Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 16 / Alexander Walker; Nikolai Savchenko, violinHavergal Brian’s (1876–1972) Symphony No. 7, the last of his truly large-scale symphonies, was inspired by Goethe. Symphony No. 16 is a tough single-movement work, evoking Ancient Greece. In bright contrast, The Tinker’s Wedding is a sparkling comedy overture. “These are certainly the best performances these works have ever received and the disc is particularly interesting for the 16th Symphony.” – The Art Music Lounge

1CD# NXS 8573959 $12.99

Herbert Howells: Chamber Music / Dante Quartet; Gould Piano Trio; David Adams, violaHerbert Howells’ (1892–1983) style is immediately recognizable for its long melodic lines, rhapsodic nature and rich harmonies that defined the sound of English cathedral music in the 20th century. “This disc contains music-making of such energy, clear-sightedness and passion that sceptics may wonder where Howells has been all their lives; enthusiasts, of course, will feel wholly vindicated…” – Gramophone.

1CD# NXS 8573913 $12.99

Leo Weiner: Toldi – Symphonic Poem / Valeria Csanyi; Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁVLeo Weiner’s (1885–1960) influence as a teacher in Budapest was exceptional and his pupils were some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. Like Csongor and Tunde, the symphonic poem Toldi was inspired by a masterpiece of Hungarian literature. Cast in twelve sections, the music follows the epic poetry in a way that seems to notate the text musically, a unique achievement.

1CD# NXS 8573847 $12.99

Dvořák: Saint Ludmila (1885–86) / Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir [2 CDs]

Dvořák’s Saint Ludmila tells the moving and turbulent story of Ludmila’s conversion to Christianity, an important event in Bohemian history that led to her becoming Bohemia’s patron saint. Written for large forces and a predominant chorus in the tradition of Handel, Saint Ludmila is full of Dvořák’s typical warmth and melodic beauty, and stands alongside his Stabat Mater and

Requiem as one of his greatest works.2CD# NXS 8574023 $24.99

Guitar Double Concertos: Anton García Abril, David del Puerto, et al / Miguel Trápaga, guitar

Leading Spanish composer Anton García Abril’s (b. 1933) Concierto de Gibralfaro offers three evocative vignettes for two guitars. Mistral by David del Puerto (b. 1964) is a single movement concerto for the unusual combination of guitar and accordion. Javier López de Guereña’s (b. 1957) Concierto ecuánime, for guitar and vibraphone, combines the rhythmic influence of jazz with the tuning used in

the rodena form of flamenco. 1CD# NXS 8573816 $12.99

Brahms: Violin Concerto & Double Concerto / Tianwa Yang, violin; Gabriel Schwabe, cello

Brahms wrote his Violin Concerto for Joseph Joachim, and in it he combined ‘the great and serious’ with songful lyricism, melodic beauty, and a fiery Hungarian finale. Brahms later composed a concerto with the combination of violin and cello, the latter played at the premiere by Joachim’s colleague Robert Hausmann. Neither instrument predominates in a work of reconciliation

that embodies both drama and reflection.1CD# NXS 8573772 $12.99

Beethoven: Variations on themes by Gretry, Paisiello, Righini; et al / Larry Weng, piano

A selection of unperformed works that focuses on Beethoven’s variations on popular operatic music of the time by Giovanni Paisiello, Peter Winter, Andre Gretry, and Vincenzo Righini. The Piano Sonata in C major, WoO 51 was found among Beethoven’s papers after his death and it too offers a revealing look at an overlooked composition as do the two charming and unusual waltzes

1CD# NXS 8573939 $11.99

Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 22 / Eylam Keshet, piano

Domenico Scarlatti completed hundreds of single-movement sonatas and exercises for his pupil, Infanta Maria Barbara, to play. The sonatas offer a plethora of features that have ensured their lasting popularity and influence, including effortless use of repetition, imitation and arpeggio figuration, dynamic left hand octave writing and hand crossing, some of spectacular

velocity, as in the Sonata in C minor.1CD# NXS 8573713 $12.99

Astor Piazzolla: Time of Life / Geir Draugsvoll, accordion; Mette Rasmussen, piano

Astor Piazzolla’s name is synonymous with Nuevo Tango, an experimental compound of traditional and contemporary influences. This selection includes the unforgettable Milonga del angel and the evocative suite The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. The Double Concerto ‘Hommage a Liege’ is one of Piazzolla’s most classically orientated works, while the examples drawn from

his film music are among his most enduring.1CD# NXS 8573896 $12.99

Hans Pfitzner: Complete Lieder, Vol. 3 / Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, mezzo–soprano; et alHans Pfitzner (1869–1949) was one of the most important composers of Lieder in the Romantic period. Included is the world premiere recording of Weihnachtslied, his only setting inspired by a genuine folk song. But at this collection’s heart are the two remarkable cycles, Opp. 35 and 40, that are full of harmonic sophistication, impassioned expression, technical daring, and profoundly human understanding.

1CD# NXS 8573081 $11.99

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Organ Classics from King’s College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury, chapel organ

Stephen Cleobury, famed organist of King’s College Cambridge, presents popular works by J.S. Bach, Louis Vierne, Widor, Messiaen, Karg-Elert, Liszt, Pachelbel, Mendelssohn on the amazing organ in King’s College Chapel. The Harrison & Harrison organ in King’s College Chapel is, like the College Choir, famous the world over and the recognizable sounds of the instrument have become inextricably associated with the Choir.

1CD# MSLC 1401 $15.99

The Grand Organ of Temple Church / Roger Sayer, organ

Roger Sayer is at the forefront of British choral and organ music. This release showcases the majestic qualities of the organ in works such as Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonata No.1, Karg-Elert’s Symphonic Chorale, Max Reger’s chorale-based Fantasia, and others. “This recording provides compelling evidence that large organs by Harrison & Harrison really do project the romantic repertoire very well.” – Choir & Organ Magazine

1CD# ORPO 100090 $16.99J.S. Bach: The Complete Organ Works Vol. 10 / David Goode, organ

David Goode continues his new series of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, played on the Metzler Söhne organ of Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge. This tenth volume includes Fantasia, BWV 562; Christ Lag in Todesbanden; Herr Gott, BWV725; Trio Sonata No. 5; Aria, BWV587; and the mighty Passacaglia and Fugue, BWV 582 one of Bach’s most popular and influential works for the instrument.

SIG 810 $17.99

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637–1707): Early Organ Works / Harald Vogel, organ

The organ music of Joan (or Juan) Cabanilles is virtuosic and colourfully Baroque, and touched with a distinctively Spanish intensity. This recording - Volume Three of an ongoing series - uses a number of new editions to present the music as never heard before, as close as possible to what the composer might have intended. It was made using the historic (1732) organ in the Basilica of Sant Jaume in Vila-real, Valencia.

1CD# TOC 0451 $16.99Dieterich Buxtehude (1637–1707): Early Organ Works / Harald Vogel, organThis set contains all of Buxtehude’s works from the Codex E. B. of 1688, including the premiere of a sonata with obbligato gamba, accompanied by Thomas Fritzsch on viola da gamba.

1CD# SBMG 88985390822 $12.99

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637–1707): Early Organ Works / Harald Vogel, organThis set contains all of Buxtehude’s works from the Codex E. B. of 1688, including the premiere of a sonata with obbligato gamba, accompanied by Thomas Fritzsch on viola da gamba.

1CD# MDG 3142092 $18.99Charles–Marie Widor (1844–1937): Organ Symphonies Nos. 5, 6, 8-10 / Christian Schmitt [3 CDs]Christian Schmitt performs at the organ of St-Ouen Abbey Church constructed by Cavaillé-Coll from 1888 to 1890. Since it has been preserved without changes, it is of great historical significance.

3CD# CPO 777706 $41.99

Giovanni Maria Pelazza (1847–1936): Organ Music / Fabio Macera, organPlaying a stylistically appropriate organ built in 1821, Fabio Macera performs extracts from Organ Masses in C and D major by Pelazza, and three further sonatas written for the feast of the Holy Sacrament.

1CD# BLC 95516 $15.99Matthias Weckmann (1616–1674): Organ Music / Hilger KespohlHilger Kespohl showcases the exquisite Arp Schnitger organ at the Hamburg-Neuenfelde Church - the largest instrument to come from Schnitger’s workshop.

1CD# MDG 9062109SA $18.99

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Romantic Organ MusicEduard Adolf Tod: Organ Works / Jan Lehtola, organ of St. John’s Church, HelsinkiIn his short life (1839–72) Eduard Adolf Tod garnered a reputation as one of the finest organists of the day. Tod’s handful of works for the organ – solo and as a duo partner – are joined by three other little-known German organ sonatas by Ludwig Thuille, Carl Reinecke and August Ritter. International organ virtuoso Dr Jan Lehtola is one the most successful and progressive Finnish organists of his generation.

1CD# TOC 0505 $16.99

Brahms: Complete Organ Music / Adriano Falcioni, organBrahms made a fairly slender contribution to the organ literature, nonetheless the works presented here share a mood of humble devotion and great melodic beauty with his more well-known sacred choral works. Italian organist Adriano Falcioni plays the beautiful organ of the Cathedral of Amelia in Umbria, an instrument built by the Austrian firm of Rieger brothers in 1904 and comprehensively restored by Pietro Corna in 2014.

1CD# BLC 94460 $10.49

Mendelssohn: Wedding March; Funeral March; 6 Preludes & Fugues / Christoph SchoenerFour organs group themselves around the listener in three dimensions in St. Michael’s Church in Hamburg. Church music director Christoph Schoener pulls all the stops on the central console and covers a spectrum ranging from the complete late-romantic forces of the entire organ system to the filigree murmuring of individual tone colors. A special treat: a solo for the echo organ installed high above in the ceiling sphere!

1CD# MDG 9492096 $18.99

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Forgotten Dreams: Austrailian Guitar Music / Timothy Kain, guitarIn Richard Charlton’s (b.1955) ‘Sonata of Forgotten Dreams,’ non-standard tunings allow cascade-like harmonics to infuse the music, while Mark Isaacs (b.1958) contrasts jazz-like chords with classical color in Five Bagatelles. Phillip Houghton’s (b.1954) ‘The Goldfish Suite’ brings iridescent color and atmosphere, and ‘Mosstrooper Peak’ is Nigel Westlake’s (b.1958) energetic solo piece evoking memories of his son.

1CD# NXS 8573961 $12.99

La Buena Vida: Music for Guitar Duo / Duo Deloro: Adam del Monte, guitar; Mak Grgic, guitarGuitarists Adam del Monte and Mak Grgic journey through the wide landscape of Spanish and Latin American music. They explore classics of Iberian Romanticism from Albeniz and Granados as well as promoting the vivid ethnic rhythms of Ginastera and the beautiful filmic nostalgia of Carlos Gardel. The bittersweet poetic richness of Hector Stamponi is balanced by del Monte’s own original flamenco dances.

1CD# NXS 8573948 $11.99

Alejandro Córdova: Guitar Laureate Recital / Ponce; Mertz; Torroba; Tárrega; JoséFirst Prize winner at the 2017 Tarrega International Guitar Competition, Alejandro Córdova has chosen a program that presents five acknowledged masterpieces of the guitar repertoire. The distinctive Spanish moods and rhythms of Torroba, José, and Tárrega are contrasted by Mertz’s deeply eloquent Elegie, while the Sonatina Meridional by Manuel Ponce (1882–1948) evokes the lyrical warmth of Iberia.

1CD# NXS 8573972 $11.99

Jonathan Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 “Heichalos” / Giancarlo Guerrero, Nashville Symphony

Distinguished composer Jonathan Leshnoff (b.1973) is renowned for his music’s striking harmonies, structural complexity, and powerful themes. Leshnoff’s Symphony No. 4 is a powerful new work written for the Violins of Hope, a collection of restored instruments that survived the Holocaust. This world premiere recording also features his energetic Starbust and his Guitar

Concerto, featuring soloist Jason Vieaux.1CD# NXS 8559809 $12.99

Music from New Zealand for Two Guitars / Jane Curry, guitar; Owen Moriary, guitar

This disc is a colorful collection of guitar works by New Zealand composers. Jack Body’s (1944–2015) African Strings, transcribes music of Madagascar and West Africa and John Psathas’ (b.1966) ‘Muisca’ presents music of conversational vitality and driving rhythm. Anthony Ritchie (b.1960) evokes lovers’ dances in Pas de Deux and there is a beautiful arrangement of the traditional Maori love

song ‘Pokarekare Ana.’1CD# NXS 8579041 $12.99

Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79 / Leonard Slatkin; Orchestre National de Lyon [2 CDs]

“Slatkin displays again his characteristic commitment and an ability to sound at home in the repertoire…Slatkin parks all this history to one side in favour of a direct, unpretentious yet always dramatic reading, a Roméo without intellectual frills, as it were.” – Gramophone. The heart of Berlioz’s work is the ‘Love Scene,’ a long symphonic poem which Richard Wagner called ‘the melody of the

19th century.’2CD# NXS 8573449 $24.99

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 8 and 23; et al / Vienna Chamber Symphony Quintet

So greatly did Ignaz Lachner venerate Mozart that he arranged twelve of the 27 piano concertos for performance by small ensembles.The three selected works represent the different sized orchestras Mozart employed, K. 246 being the most lightly scored, and K. 488 the most complex. The anonymous arrangement of excerpts from Die Zauberflote proves equally vital and

attractive.1CD# NXS 8574012 $12.99

Pierre Attaingnant (1494–1551): Harpsichord Works / Glen Wilson, harpsichord

Music printer Pierre Attaingnant published the first editions of keyboard music ever to appear in France in 1531. Only one copy of each of these seven volumes has survived, in which anonymous composers made arrangements of some of the most beautiful chansons, motets, and dances from the reign of Francois I. Glen Wilson has restored this rare and enchanting

music, allowing it to shine in its original glory.1CD# NXS 8572999 $12.99

Rachmaninov: 24 Préludes, Op. 32 / Boris Giltburg, piano

With so rich a variety of character, color, texture, and mood, no two preludes are fully alike. The first eleven pieces were conceived by Rachmaninov as a single cycle, and their full-hearted Romanticism contrasts with the more angular, modernistic Op. 32. Whether evoking ballad or bell toll, the exotic or folk influences, the Préludes stand in the great tradition of works by Bach and

Chopin written in all 24 major and minor keys.1CD# NXS 8574025 $12.99

Victoria Bond (b.1945): Chamber Works / Chicago Pro Musica; et alVictoria Bond is a distinguished force in contemporary music. This collection provides an overview of her melodic and dramatic flair-from a musical interpretation of tarot cards in Instruments of Revelation, to dramatic images of Pompeii in Frescoes and Ash. Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming expresses what is left to our imagination in James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Binary turns the digits 0 and 1 into variations on a Brazilian samba.

1CD# NXS 8559864 $12.99

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Heinrich Schutz (1585–1672): Cantiones Sacrae, Op. 4 / Philip Cave; Magnificat [2 CDs]

The Cantiones Sacrae is an unusual collection of forty Latin motets for four voices, plus a figured bass for continuo accompaniment. Magnificat’s performance of the Opus 4 motets reveals Schütz to be a composer with an imagination of extraordinary variety. “With their imaginative textures, arresting harmonies and often hair-raising challenges to the singers’ techniques,

these pieces show a master at work...” – The Sunday Times2CD# LINN 607 $28.49

Nicholas Ludford (1485–1557): Missa Benedicta et Venerabilis / Choir of New College Oxford

The expressive music of Nicholas Ludford has been re-discovered only relatively recently. Recorded in the glorious acoustic of Saint-Martin de Hoff, Sarrebourg, this release features the Missa benedicta et venerabilis, one of Ludford’s most accomplished festal Masses. “Scrupulous scholarship, masterful conducting and committed

singing merge to restore the legacy of one of England’s most inventive 16th-century composers.” – BBC Music Magazine

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Of Arms and a Woman: Late Medieval Wind Music / Blondel

Of Arms and a Woman is a chronicle of love, loss, chivalry and memory built around the late medieval wind music of Dufay, Binchois, Ciconia, Landini and Machaut. The album includes rousing calls to battle, arresting love songs and the heartbreakingly beautiful Dueil angoisseux. Blondel performs ceremonial fanfares and

intimate chansons, dances and theatre music on reconstructions of historical instruments.

1CD# FHR 69 $19.99

Arie e Danze Cortigiane: Compaglia di musica e danza antia / La Rossignol

Music and dance in the Italian Renaissance belonged to a season of incredible richness in which all the great masterpieces followed one after another in a fascinating and astonishing rise. Although dance was prohibited in medieval times, it was later considered a refined and elegant art. On this album release, the ensemble La Rossignol explores dance

tunes by various Renaissance composers.1CD# IIIM 0169 $17.99

Imaginario: De Un Libro De Música De Vihuela / Maria Cristina Kiehr; Armonia Concertada

Soprano María Cristina Kiehr, together with lutenist-vihuelist Ariel Abramovich, presents her first solo album devoted to Renaissance music. Imaginario reconstructs an imaginary and unknown book of vihuela songs, inspired by the seven marvelous books published between 1536 and 1576. Constructed in the shadow of the earlier books, each one of Imaginario’s

songs makes reference to another song from those earlier books.1CD# ACAA 460 $18.99

William Byrd (1540–1623): The Great Service & Anthems / Colm Carey; Odyssean Ensemble

The Odyssean Ensemble’s impressive debut recording features the Great Service of William Byrd. Director Colm Carey leads listeners into Byrd’s rich and colorful sound world and continues the Odyssean Ensemble’s exploration of English music of the 16th century. “There’s nothing churchy about the Byrd offered here by the Odyssean Ensemble…Everything here is stylish

and very rewarding.” – Gramophone1CD# LINN 608 $18.99

Giulio Caccini (1551–1618): Le Nuove Musiche / Riccardo Pisani, tenor; Ficercare Antico

Giulio Caccini was a celebrated Italian composer, singer, instrumentalist and teacher. Caccini’s new musical language changed the course of music history and laid the foundations for the modern opera. In his “Le Nuove Musiche” (the New Music) he eschewed complex counterpoint in favour of a new monodic style, in which a solo voice is supported by a

continuo, putting the expression of the poetry and its emotions to the foreground.

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Daniel Selichius (1581–1626): Opus Novum / Manfred Cordes; Weser–Renaissance Bremen

Daniel Selichius was born in Wittenberg in 1581 and succeeded Michael Praetorius as court chapel master in Wolfenbüttel during 1621–26. His oeuvre includes the twenty-four sacred concertos of his Opus Novum of Sacred Latin and German Concertos and Psalms of David. This collection published in Wolfenbüttel in 1624 was one of the earliest printed collections of

fully dimensioned sacred concertos in Protestant Germany.1CD# CPO 555223 $15.49

Gregorian Chant: Maundy Thursday / Monastic Choir of St. Peter’s Abbey, Solemes

The Monks of Solemnes’ Maundy Thursday contains the moving Gregorian chants and prayers for the night before Jesus’ Passion, including Ubi caritas and Pange Lingua. This recording reflects the unmatched authenticity which characterizes the exquisitely gracious and moving performances of Gregorian chant by the Monks of Solesmes. “Setting the

standard for Gregorian performance.” – American Record Guide1CD# PRCP 831 $18.99

O Crux Benedicta: Lent and Holy Week at the Sistine Chapel / Sistine Chapel Choir

O Crux Benedicta: Lent and Holy Week At The Sistine Chapel features world premiere recordings of works by Palestrina, Di Lasso, De Rora, Festa, Soriano, Victoria, and Anerio. This series of state-of-the-art recordings breathes new life into Renaissance and Baroque choral masterpieces at the highest artistic level, transferring listeners into a meditative and peaceful

state – a refreshing break from the trappings of modern life.1CD# DGG B002923702 $18.99

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Au Sainct Nau – Epiphany / Ensemble Janequin“The ensemble continues to do what it does best but retains a freshness and questing spirit that sometimes eludes groups of comparable vintage, a sense of joyous music-making that marked them out from the start and which they’ve never lost. It was utterly infectious then, and it still is.” – Gramophone. Dominique Visse and his Ensemble Clément Janequin

juxtapose various aspects of the feast of Christmas.1CD# AHP 198 $18.99

A New Venetian Coronation, 1595 / Paul McCreesh, Gabrielli Consort & Players

Paul McCreesh fully exploits the dazzling polyphony of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli’s music and captivates the audience in a theatrical and ceremonious performance. “This is a marvellously handled recording conjuring up a ‘live’ event that is greatly aided by the opening bell-ringing and the ethereal spacious surround of the chanting.”

– BBC Music Magazine1CD# SIG 287 $17.99

Giaches de Wert: Divine Theatre – Sacred Motets / Stile Antico

“Stile Antico brings experience and a steady technique to these pieces…in the joyous opening motet ‘Gaudete in Domino’ they are fresh and exuberant…[and] their ‘Quiescat vox’ is beautiful as is…” –BBC Music Magazine. Stile Antico is noted for its intelligent programming, drawing out thematic connections between works to shine new light on Renaissance music.

1CD# HAR 807620 $19.99Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 5 / Scott Metcalfe, Blue Heron

“Settling into consistency of a very high standard, this is the choir’s finest disc yet, with the anonymous Missa sine nomine, restored by Nick Sandon, as a particular highlight.” – Choir & Organ. The release also includes an antiphon which is the only surviving work of Hugh Sturmy, a short and dramatic Ave Maria mater dei by Robert Hunt, and the sonorous and captivating Ve nobis miseris by John Mason.

1CD# BHRC 1007 $19.99

Guillaume Dufay (1400–1474): Lament for Constantinople / The Orlando Consort

One of the most immediately accessible of 15th-century composers, Dufay and his world are artfully summoned by The Orlando Consort. “[Dufay] knew a good tune when he found one. He also knew the pleasures of voices weaving in striking counterpoint, and the combination, in this Consort’s hands, produces music-making of much fascination and joy.

Wholeheartedly recommended.” – The Times1CD# HYP 68236 $19.99

Gregorian Chant: He Was Placed in the Tomb / Monastic Choir of St. Peter’s Abbey, Solesmes

He Was Placed in the Tomb contains the Gregorian Office for Holy Saturday. This office consists of four Nocturnes, Lauds, and Vespers, with the pieces toward the ends of the Nocturnes being the most captivating within the office. “Outside of its purely religious context, Solesmes’ He Was Placed In The Tomb would be an excellent album to accompany late-night reading or other

nocturnal, quiet activities.” – AllMusic.com1CD# PRCP 836 $18.99

Thomas Tallis: Choral Works / Carl Jackson; The Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal

Recorded in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace, the Gentlemen of HM Chapel Royal and their director Carl Jackson present this album of works for lower voices by Thomas Tallis (1505–1585). Included in this album is a reconstruction of Tallis’s Missa Puer natus est nobis and the Suscipe quaeso Domine. “The recording in the palace’s resonant

chapel, is sumptuous and detailed.” – BBC Music Magazine1CD# REOA 10229 $16.99

High Renaissance: Choral Polyphony from the Low Countries / New London Chamber Choir

This new album features the finest Renaissance choral polyphonic music from the Low Countries including works by Guillaume Dufay, Josquin des Prez, Pierre de la Rue, Johannes Regis, and Jacob Obrecht. Founded in 1981 by James Wood, New London Chamber Choir is one of Europe’s foremost vocal ensembles. Under its current

musical director, Matthew Hamilton, the NLCC continues to commission and promote new work.

1CD# SAY 073 $18.99

Sacred Music for Kaiser Maximilian I / Michael Procter; Ensemble Hofkapelle [2 CDs]

Kaiser Maximilian I (1459–1519) promoted science and the arts and founded a court chapel around the composer Heinrich Isaac. The program on the first album includes motets by Isaac, Senfl and Josquin which were written for different sacred occasions at the Maximilian court. The second album features

two Marian Masses composed for Maximilian by Isaac-the first for four voices and the second revised for six-voices.

2CD# CHR 77439 $24.99Jacob Obrecht: Masses / Beauty Farm [2 CDs]

Jacob Obrecht (1457–1505) was a Flemish composer in the late 15th century and was well known across Europe for his masses, being eclipsed by only Josquin des Prez after his death. Featuring Bart Uvyn [countertenor], Jon Etxabe Arzuaga and Florian Schmitt [tenor] with Joachim Hochbauer [bass], Beauty Farm brings this wonderful music together on a new recording.

2CD# FRAB 1905157 $29.99

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J.S. Bach: Concertos for Organ & Strings / Bart Jacobs, organ; Les Muffatti

From the cantatas, along with the related violin and harpsichord concertos, it is possible to reconstruct a number of organ concertos. This release hopes to bring some of the music which Bach may have performed back to life. “These performances are irresistible, the silvery sounds of the solo instrument delighting the ear, the strings thrilling and warm-toned.” – Sunday Times

1CD# RME 1804 $18.99

Caldara: Sonatas & Cantatas for Soprano, Violin & Continuo / I Solisti Ambrosiani

Manuscripts of Caldara’s music are widely dispersed across Europe but his compositions which record so valuable a picture of the late Baroque in Italy and Austria are comparatively unknown to performers and little studied by scholars. The works are performed on this release by the ensemble I Solisti Ambrosiani.

1CD# URA 14045 $28.49

Baroque Masterworks Around 1730 / Jeremias Schwarzer, rcdr; Ralf Waldner, cembalo

On his new GENUIN release, Jeremias Schwarzer allows his recorder to dance: Le Ballet imaginaire is the name of this production that brings together Baroque masterpieces by Bach, Chédeville, Telemann, and Handel. Schwarzer’s ideally-matched partner, who is one of his instrument’s leading exponents, is Ralf Waldner on the harpsichord.

1CD# GUIN 19646 $18.99

Ramhaufski: Sacred Music / St. Florianer Sangerknaben; Ars Antiqua Austria

“Ars Antiqua Austria play with commendable articulation and shapeliness, and the contributions from trumpets and trombones are particularly excellent. The small vocal force of St. Florianer Sangerknaben, assisted by a few adult soloists, is very good indeed: consort passages possess attractive clarity and the fuller choral sections

swell with the perfect amount of resonance.” – Gramophone1CD# ACT 24358 $18.99

Colin de Blamont & Antoine Blanchard: La Guerre des te Deum / Ensemble Stradivaria

Daniel Cuiller appropriates this music with the voracity which had led him to revive a previous Te Deum, on that occasion by Henri Madin, and which was covered with praise. Add to this the brilliant singers of the Marguerite Louise choir which is directed by Gaétan Jarry and the virtuoso musicians of Stradivaria, Daniel replied with enthusiasm to this “commission”

for the Royal Chapel of Versailles.1CD# CHUV 007 $18.99

J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites, Nos. 1-4 / Karl Richter; Munchener Bach-Orchester [2 CDs]

Karl Richter has focused his attention on the Bach repertoire, ranging from organ and harpsichord compositions to the instrumental repertoire as director of the Munich Bach orchestra.

2CD# URA 121375 $29.99

J.S. Bach: St. John Passion / Eduard Serov, Leningrad CO [2 CDs]

“Alexei Martynov is excellent, and Nina Romanova is an outstanding mezzo. Historically interesting, this release documents an inspired, historical initiative.” – Choir & Organ

2CD# MELY 1002379 $29.99

J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations; Suite No. 1, BWV1066 / Arundo Quartet

The remarkable album has been made by four extraordinary musicians, superb soloists and chamber players, who have adorned some of the most renowned orchestras.

1CD# SPR 4261 $19.99

J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6 / Alban Gerhardt, cello [2 CDs]

“Gerhardt’s fluent manipulation of pulse and resonant chording invite analogy with the most humane accounts of the Violin Partitas.” – The Strad

2CD# HYP 68261 $29.99

J.S. Bach: Cantatas / Neville Marriner; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields [2 CDs]

The complete Philips and L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings of Bach cantatas made by Sir Neville Marriner, reissued together for the first time.

2CD# ELOQ 8297221 $19.99

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Johann Georg Kunstel: St. Mark Passion / Polyharmonique; L’arpa festante [2 CDs]“Plangent choruses and dulcet chorales benefit from Polyharmonique’s sophisticated harmonic shaping and crystalline diction… The 11 solicitous singers are experts… From the evidence offered by this masterful performance, the solemn Italian-infused Lutheran style of Künstel’s music brings to mind Buxtehude.” – Gramophone

2CD# CHR 77435 $29.99

Reinhard Keiser: Der Blutige und Sterbende Jesus / Klapprott; Cantus Thuringia [2 CDs]Reinhard Keiser’s Der blutige und sterbende Jesus is not only the very first German Passion oratorio but also a highly suspenseful contribution to the Passion season. Lost for many years, it is now available for listening here in the revised version of 1729. The dramatic and musical design of Keiser’s work is astonishing.

2CD# CPO 555259 $29.99

Johann Theile: Sacred Concertos / Simone Eckert; Hamburger RatsmusikThe composer Johann Theile is of great significance in music history inasmuch as he is held to be one of the last pupils of Heinrich Schütz, who was the most important German-language composer of the 17th century. In Dorothee Mields we have found a dream soloist for these mostly contemplative works, and her bright, sublimely balanced soprano voice lends them breathtaking depth.

1CD# CPO 555132 $15.49

Telemann the Chameleon / Bergen BarokFrodge Thorsen writes of this new release: “Telemann’s many sonatas for recorder and basso continuo can be found on many recordings and are probably known to many listeners... This is why in this “recital” recording, we have gone a bit off the beaten track and taken some liberties.” Includes Telemann Overtures, Sonatas, Sonatinas and Suites.

1CD# LAWO 1158 $16.99

Jacques Morel (1690–1740): Suites Nos. 1–4; Chaconne en trio / La Spagna

In a personal introduction to his own authoritative booklet essay, the Spanish violist Alejandro Marías relates how he acquired the rare facsimile of an even rarer manuscript, and came to realise that its contents had never seen the light of day in the modern era, let alone received attention on record. Thus he presents here the First Book of Pieces – a second does not survive – by Jacques

Morel.1CD# BLC 95962 $10.49

Dieterich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri / Benoit Haller; La Chapelle Rhenane

Buxtehudes Membra Jesu Nostri is an enigmatic work: not only the utilisation of a Latin text places it apart from the remainder of the Protestant Buxtehudes compositions, and for this reason it was surely never performed at his well-known evening concerts. This performance by Benoît Haller and la Chapelle Rhénane recreates the full

emotional impact of this monumental, intensely expressive poem.1CD# CHR 77436 $18.99

Hommage a Kurt Redel: Ferenc Kiss Plays Vivaldi, J.S. Bach

The present release pays tribute to Kurt Redel, and features the four violin concertos of Vivaldi, as well as Bach’s Triple Concerto and Brandenbourg Concerto No. 5. Redel studied conducting and flute at the Breslau Conservatory. In 1938, when he was still quite young, he received a professorship for flute at the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1941 he joined the Bavarian State

Orchestra in munich as solo flautist.1CD# BE 312469 $18.99

Handel: Dixit Dominus; Bach, Schutz: Motets / Lisette Canton; Ottawa Bach Choir

The Ottawa Bach Choir presents works by three of the most important composers of the German Baroque period: Handel, along with motets by Schütz and Bach. While the three composers remained faithful to their German roots, the works presented here also feature influences from the Italian Baroque, including the use of drama, expression, intensity, rhythmic fervor, and

polychoral techniques.1CD# ATMA 22790 $15.49

Handel: Joseph and His Brethren / McGegan; Philharmonic Baroque Orchestra [3 CDs]

Under the direction of Nicholas McGregan since 1985, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale is recognized as America’s leading historically informed ensemble. Using authentic instruments and stylistic conventions of the Baroque to early Romantic periods, the Orchestra engages audiences through performance, tours, recordings,

commissions, and education of the highest standard.3CD# PHBQ 11 $29.99

J.S. Bach: Trio Sonatas, transcribed for harpsichord & guitar / Molmenti; AccardoExtravagantia Duo, two talented and learned young musicians, met the challenge of transforming Bach’s organ masterpieces with a fresh approach, exploring traditional repertoire from an unusual perspective. Luigi Accardo and Francesco Molmenti dig deeply into Bach’s historical background and create a musical language of their own.

1CD# DYN 7839 $18.99

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J.S. Bach: Concertos for Piano / Koroliov; Vinnitskaya; Georgieva [2 CDs]

These three Slavonic pianists, who for some time have been aiming to record the Bach concertos as a team, decided to invite a German ensemble that is itself highly expert in Bach interpretation, the Potsdam Chamber Orchestra; they recorded this double album in a legendary venue where some of the greatest artists have recorded: the Jesus-Christus-Kirche

in Berlin.2CD# AHP 446 $13.99

J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas / Jaakko Kuusisto, violin [2 CDs]

Fascinating performers and audiences alike with their architectural perfection as well as their emotional range, these are works that lend themselves to very different interpretations. “Kuusisto has recorded plenty of Finnish music, but here he heads for the string player’s heartland: solo Bach. It’s a rewarding listen.” – BBC Music Magazine.

2CD# BIS 2197 $35.98

Zelenka: Sacred Music for Dresden Cathedral / Accademia Barocca Lucernensis

This recording provides a reflection of this golden age, while pointing up the differences which existed between two separate periods at the Dresden court: the first came under the influence of French musical taste and in it the highly distinctive, very personal style of Jan Dismas Zelenka was developed, whilst the other, lively and monumental and headed by Johann Adolph Hasse,

bore Italian influences.1CD# PAN 10402 $16.99

Italian Style in German Baroque / Daniela Dolci; Musica Fiorita

The ensemble Musica Fiorita, under its leader Daniela Dolci, discovered concertos and sacred music in the archives of locations such as Meiningen, Sondershausen, Rudolstadt and Weimar. The composers Fasch, Hasse, Molter, Stölzel and Jommelli are all representatives of the popular Italian style and have been ‘big names’

all together in their time.PAN 10398 $16.99

Leonardo Leo (1694–1744): Maestri a Sant’Onofrio / Enemble Animantica

The College of Music of Sant’Onofrio, one of the wonders of baroque Naples, was founded in the late 1500s as a foundling institution to train orphans and abandoned children to work as artisans. Within a few years, its educational policy had shifted to musical training and singing and during the 1600s it was home to the finest composers in the city.

1CD# BGV 52032 $16.99

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons & Baroque Favourites / Jaime Laredo; Scottish CO

Jaime Laredo conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra playing works by Vivaldi, Albinoni, Pachelbel, J.S. Bach, and Handel.

1CD# MSLC 1383 $15.99

Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2, Nos. 1-6 / Eduardo Lopez Banzo; El Ayre Espanol

Under the title I vanni occulti, ensemble Al Ayre Espanol, led by maestro Eduardo Lopez Banzo offers us its personal vision of Handel’s Sonatas Op. 2. This version is marked by the emergence, with particular expressive intensity, of the two aesthetic poles present in the chamber music universe of Handel: the most contained lyricism combined with the most explosive fury.

1CD# CHL 72797 $16.99Vivaldi: The Four Seasons & Baroque Favourites / Jaime Laredo; Scottish CO

The Resurrection History, like no other work of Schütz, is packed with feats of harmonic derring-do - frequent use of augmented chords and surprising chord progressions juxtaposing distant keys after the manner of the stile concitato invented by Monteverdi, to mention only the most striking. This recording features Anna Gschwend, Marie Kuijken, Daniel Schreiber, Jens Hamann, Stefan Vock, and more.

1CD# ACT 24355 $18.99

Handel: Messiah / Vaclav Luks; Collegium Vocal 1704; Collegium 1704 [2 CDs]This is a very special version, carefully crafted by the Prague-based Collegium Vocale and Collegium 1704 under the baton of Vaclav Luks.

2CD# ACT 24354 $29.99

J.S. Bach: The Six Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012 / Jiri Barta, baroque cello [2 CDs]The foremost Czech cellist Jirí Bárta brings a complete recording of Bach’s cello suites. With this new album he returns to the same repertoire which he recorded 23 years ago.

2CD# ANML 076 $21.99

Couperin: Concerts Royaux (1722) / Christophe Rousset, clavecin; Les Talens LyriquesWhile the score doesn’t mention any instrumentation, we know the composer envisaged the Concerts Royaux as ensemble pieces for a mixed consort of instruments, as they are performed here.

1CD# AART 196 $22.99

Handel: Water Music Suite; Aria from Arimino; et al. / Forck; Handel Festival OrchestraVolume 1 of the CD series “Handeliana Hallensis” shows three different facets of George Frederick Handel’s compositional work.

1CD# QRST 1419 $18.99

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Concertos & Sonatas for Mandolin / ArtemandolineThe ensemble Artemandoline have made a major contribution to launching a movement to encourage musical freshness and rigor. A better understanding of the compositions, closer study of the early treatises, the playing styles, the musical environment of the glorious era of the mandolin, leads to better appreciation of Baroque music,

which itself became over time a mode of thought and action.1CD# CHR 77434 $18.99

Cristofaro Caresana (1640–1709): Secular Chamber Cantatas / Ensemble Demesure

This album affords a rare opportunity to get to know a lively 17th-century musical voice, interpreted by a young early-music group. Ensemble Démesure present eight cantatas, all based on time-honoured Classical themes. Scored for solo voice and continuo, they alternate recitative and aria, though the distinction between the two genres is often blurred.

1CD# BLC 95923 $10.49

Domenico Scarlatti: Venezia 1742 – Basso Continuo Sonatas / La Tempestad

How is it possible that some of the sonatas that today are only preserved in the manuscript of Venice were known in England as early as 1744? On this release, La Tempestad attempts to answer. Led by Silvia Marquez, La Tempestad, founded in 2000, has become a force to reckon with in the Spanish early music world. “The precision, finesse, and insight of its

musicians catch the listener from the first note.”1CD# IBSC 212018 $15.99

Extravagantes Seicento – Sonatas for violin & viola da gamba / Giradole Armoniche

The focus of Extravagantes Seicento is the musical exuberance of a century full of contradictions, and at the same time receptive towards all kinds of novelty. This recording portrays the peregrine world of composers and instrumentalists who travelled throughout Europe in their search for receptive cultural circles and the degree of financial stability required for the creation of new works.

1CD# ACAA 113 $10.99

Couperin: Les Nations / Luigi Accardo, harpsichord; Enrico Bissolo, harpsichord

Couperin, the main representative of a dynasty that dominated French music from the 16th well into the first half of the 19th century. In 1726 Couperin published his own musical atlas. According to the most plausible reconstructions based on the surviving manuscripts, the author had picked up three sonatas from a series of six trio sonatas written on Corelli’s model of “sonata da chiesa”.

1CD# SVS 37118 $16.99

Leclair: Violin Concertos / Leila Schayegh, violin; La Cetra Barockorchester Basel

“An album that has balance everywhere… This begins with the ensemble instrumentalists using plain unwound gut strings for a nicely soft and dark sound over which the soloists, on silver-wound gut, can then bounce and glide in slightly more timbrally piquant fashion …Limpid textures are another draw…Schayegh

herself is delectable in the single-soloist writing.” – Gramophone1CD# GLS 924202 $18.99

Stolzel: Ein Lammlein geht und tragt die Schuld, passion oratorio / Orfeo OrchestraAfter their recent releases of Conti’s Missa Sancti Pauli and Rameau’s Les Indes galantes, conductor György Vashegyi and his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir present a world premiere

recording of a passion by a today virtually unknown composer, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. It features Agnes Kovacs, Peter Barany, Zoltan Megyesi, and Lorant Najbauer.

1CD# GLS 924006 $18.99

The BaroqueJ.S. Bach: St. Mark Passion / Jordi Savall; Le Concert des Nations [2 CDs]

“The choir of 25 (including children on the upper parts) and Le Concert des Nations produce a vivid performance in which emotional directness is paramount. David Szigetvári is a capable Evangelist… although Konstantin Wolff’s gritty Christus is closer to a roaring Wotan than the compassionate redeemer of the world.” – Gramophone

2CD# AVX 9931 $24.99

J.S. Bach: St. John Passion / Peter Schreier; Mitteldeutsche Virtuosen [2 CDs]

The disc’s live recording from St Thomas’s Church, Leipzig, captures a remarkable performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion (BWV 245). Under the direction of Peter Schreier, the Sächsischer Kammerchor and the Mitteldeutsche Virtuosen present a truly gripping, profound rendition of Bach’s masterpiece. It features Viktoria Wilson, Martin Petzold, Patrick Grahl, and more.

2CD# RDAU 616263 $29.99

J.S. Bach: Chorale Partitas, BWV 766–768 & 770 / Stephen Farr, organ

Following on from his lauded recording of of ‘Clavier-Übung III’ celebrated organist Stephen Farr continues his survey of J.S. Bach’s organ works with the four Choral Partitas, BWV 766 – 768 & 770. “This useful release draws attention to some fascinating compositions.” – classicalresource.com. This is the first recording on a Bernard Aubertin organ in Fairwarp, East Sussex, UK.

1CD# REOA 10234 $16.99


Passio Iberica / Massimo Mazzeo; Divino Sospiro

Two rare masterpieces are offered here by two Iberian composers, each with a fierce national (Spanish and Portuguese) identity. Siete palabras de Cristo en la cruz, by Francisco Javier García Fajer (1730–1809), and the Stabat mater, by José Joaquim dos Santos (1747–1801), evince the personal mark of these composers as

well as their knowledge of the tradition and compositional models in vogue at the time.

1CD# PAN 10401 $16.99

Felice Giardini (1716–1796): Duet for 2 Violins, Op. 2, Nos. 1–6 / Archimie Duo

Felice Giardini was a violin virtuoso with eye-catching executive skills, conductor, composer, impresario in contact with leading intellectuals. His music is a perfect mixture of Italian and German tradition. as can be found in the Six Duos for Two Violins Op. II (1751). Giardini’s style is spontaneous, easy to listen to, characterized by freshness and lyricism cantabile,

joyous naturalness and refinement.1CD# TCT 710702 $16.99

Carl Philipp Stamitz (1745–1801): 10 Symphonies / Ensemble Amadeus [2 CDs]

Carl Philipp Stamitz was the oldest son of the Bohemian composer Johann Stamitz. In 1770, Carl Stamitz moved to Paris and became the court composer of Duke Louis de Noailles where he composed the 10 symphonies presented on this album. Carl Stamitz has been little researched and edited, and is likely to find a high interest in classical music lovers and

satisfy their hunger for the new and previously undiscovered.2CD# AURS 5083 $24.99

Music for a King, Chamber Music from the Court of Frederick the Great / Florilegium [2 CDs]

King Frederick the Great’s love of music was real and genuine, and he desired that others should enjoy it too. This program from Florilegium focuses on the extraordinary talent of the musicians and composers he surrounded himself with at court. From Bach and Quantz to Benda and Graun, these luminaries of the 18th century were all brought together by one of the

greatest musical patrons that ever lived.2CD# CCS 41819 $24.99

Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 / Robert Casadesus, piano

Robert Casadesus was a renowned 20th century French pianist and composer who knew and worked with Ravel. He was especially known for his celebrated performances of the Mozart Concertos which Gramophone called ‘exquisite’ as well as his recordings of Ravel, Fauré and Debussy. Malcolm Sargent and Thomas Beecham accompany with the BBC and Royal

Philharmonic Orchestras respectively.1CD# ICA 5154 $14.99

Johann Baptist Vanhal: Missa Solemnis, Stabat Mater, et al / Prager Kammerchor [2 CDs]

Johann Baptist Vanhal’s (1739–1813) Missa Solemnis is noteworthy not just for its quality and opulence, but surprises the listener above all with three prolonged concert solo arias. By comparison, Vanhal’s Stabat Mater seems formally more conservative in its usual alternation between choir parts and solo numbers. It is above

all the rich melodic imagination that is captivating. This set also include the Symphony in D.

1CD# ORF MP1806 $14.99

Friedrich Kuhlau: Violin Sonatas No. 2 / Christina Astrand, violin; Per Salo, piano

Duo Åstrand/Salo follow up their first installment of sonatas by Friedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832) with a selection of some of the composer’s most impressive works for violin and piano. Included on this release is what some consider the first Danish violin sonata in the Romantic style. It is followed the Trois Duos brillants from late in Kuhlau’s career – three evocative

snapshots of the great cosmopolitan of Denmark’s Golden Age.1CD# DACO 8226083 $13.99

Out of Italy / Phoebe Carrai, cello; Beiliang Zhu, cello; Charles Weaver, flute

Out of Italy explores duos and sonatas by 18th century Italian composers who ventured northward throughout Europe to seek better fortune. This collection includes works by Giorgio Antoniotto (1680–1766), Giacobbe Basevi Cervetto (1682–1783), Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762), Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805), Salvatore Lanzetti (1710–1780), Giovanni

Battista Cirri (1724–1808), and Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741).1CD# AIE 2394 $15.99

Haydn: Cello Concertos; Vivaldi: Concerto in for Violin and Cello / Christophe Croise, cello

Cellist Christoph Croise performs the two Cello Concertos by Franz Joseph Haydn. His fervent approach is matched by his collaborators, the Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra. Christoph concludes the album with Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Violin and Cello, RV 547, joined by the orchestra’s founder and director, Kazakh violinist Sherniyaz Mussakhan.

“a magical performance…delicate yet virtuosic” (BBC Music Magazine)

1CD# AIE 2402 $15.99

Apotheosis, Vol. 1: The Final Quartets of Mozart / Alexander String Quartet [2 CDs]

The Alexander String Quartet turns its attention to Mozart’s final string quartets, Nos. 20–23, in this 2 disc set. The first of them comes from a very different world than the other three. The “Hoffmeister” Quartet dates from the summer of 1786, when Mozart was at the height of his fame in Vienna. The final three quartets were written when his music had fallen out of favor in

Vienna and his life and career had become precarious.2CD# FOGH 2016 $28.49

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Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824): Complete String Quartets / Viotti String Quartet [4 CDs]Viotti’s set of six quartets Op.1 was published in Paris around 1783. Op.1 met with considerable acclaim, and was followed soon after (1787) by the six quartets of Op.3, that are clearly a development and completion of the first collection. The following three quartets, cross the threshold of the 19th century. The set is completed by a standalone work in E minor, which is a free arrangement of the Violin Concerto No.18.

4CD# BLC 95264 $19.99

Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697–1763): Sonate à Trè: Trio Sonatas / Radio AntiquaIn addition to his ordinary ouptut for worldly and spiritual occasions, Giovanni Benedetto Platti composed many works for Count Rudolf Franz Erwein’s favorite instrument, the cello: a dozen sonatas, 28 concerti, 6 duets and over 21 trio sonatas in which the two melodic instruments are not playing at the same height. Radio Antiqua present in partly world premiere six trio sonatas from that collection.

1CD# RME 1801 $18.99

Friedrich Kuhlau & Otto Malling: Piano Quartets / Copenhagen Piano QuartetFriedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832) was a leading figure in the Danish Golden Age. From the outset, Kuhlau stated that he intended to write three piano quartets and declared his Piano Quartet No. 3 ‘my best to date”. Otto Malling (1848–1915) was a Danish composer and organ player, dubbed the ‘Danish Saint-Saëns’. He wrote his one and only piano quartet in 1903, which was also his very last chamber work to compose.

1CD# DACO 6220591 $13.99

Neapolitan Concertos for Mandoline / ArtemandolineArtemandoline take their listeners on a musical journey to 18th-century Naples. Including works by composers Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816), Giuseppe Giuliano, Domenico Caudioso, and Carlo Cecere (1706–1761), the Baroque concertos fascinate with their harmonic twists, ornate details and great melodic ingenuity, and offer a fascinating glimpse into the highly evolved art of the“Neapolitan Mandolin School”.

1CD# DHMI 8415123 $19.99

Mozart: Violin Sonatas, K378, K454, K526 / Stéphane Rougier, violin; Sophie Teboul, piano

The Sonatas for piano & violin, K. 378, 454 and 526 represent the pinnacle of Mozart’s creativity for keyboard and string ensemble. They were composed in a free style yet the music speaks of the musician’s internal tension at the time when he decided to break free from his links to Salzburg and from the burdensome tutorship of his father to take control of his own creativity.

1CD# IBSC 262018 $15.99

Mozart: String Quarets, K 421, K 428, K 465 / Engegard Quartet

On this recording, the Engegard Quartet present three of Mozart’s six string quartets dedicated to Haydn. With the “Haydn” Quartets, written between 1782 and 1785, he makes quite different demands on himself and the musicians. We find fast first movements in what is today called sonata-allegro form, singable slow movements, minuets with trios, and often finale-rondos--music that woke Haydn’s admiration.

1CD# LAWO 1167 $16.99

Mozart: Divertimento, K. 563; Preludes & Fugues, K. 404a / Ssens Trio

Ssens Trio (pronounced “Essence”) was established in 2014 by three musicians with a wealth of experience in the international music scene. The Trio plays beautiful works of W.A. Mozart, including the Divertimento K 563, which is probably the greatest masterpiece ever written for String Trio, and the Preludes and Fugue: an exercise in studying Bach, but with Mozart’s genius.

1CD# LAWO 1170 $16.99

Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito, KV 621; Divertimento, KV 439 / Trio Roseau

Clarinetist and arranger, Ulf-Guido Schäfer, arranged La clemenza di Tito, Mozart’s last opera, for the Trio Roseau that includes two duets and two arias, framed by the overture and the famous rondo “Non più di fiori,”–ravishing in beauty and operatic drama. Also included in this album are three enchanting and mirthful divertimenti that Schäfer derived from Mozart’s collection of wind chamber music.

1CD# MDG 9032095 $18.99Mozart: Mannheim 1778 / Gunar Letzbor, violin; Erich Traxler, harpsichord

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed sonatas for violin and piano from his earliest youth, but the more mature works of 1778 begin to integrate the violin and piano parts more closely. Composed during his stay in Mannheim, these first mature sonatas reflect some of the “Sturm und Drang” atmosphere of the music at the court of Mannheim, which emboldened Mozart to write in a freer and more dramatic mode.

1CD# PAN 10400 $16.99

Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ / Riccardo Minasi; Ensemble ResonanzCommissioned for the Good Friday service at Oratorio de la Santa Cueva in Cádiz, Spain, Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross was published in 1787. It is a forward-looking work, employing a wide range of tonalities and featuring a stylistic freedom reminiscent of Beethoven. The composer adapted it several times, first for string quartet and later as an oratorio, as well as a version for solo piano.

1CD# HAR 902633 $19.99

Classical Era Chamber Works

The Classical


Tchaikovsky Treasures / Guy Braunstein, violin; Kirill Karabits; BBC Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky has dedicated some of his finest music to the violin. Violinist Guy Braunstein reanimates a tradition of violin and orchestra rhapsodies with new arrangements of famous excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Swan Lake. Together with the extraordinary Violin Concerto, Valse Scherzo and Sérénade mélancolique, they constitute a collection of glittering Tchaikovsky Treasures.

1CD# PTE 5186747 $19.99

Leighton & Martin: Masses for Double Choir / The Choir of King’s College London

In the 1920s Frank Martin (1890–1974) created a radiant Latin setting of the Mass for double choir. It was finally released for performance forty years later, around the same time that Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988) made his own double-choir setting – a work delightful to choral singers and yet rarely recorded. On this recording, a short organ postlude by Jehan Alain (1911–1940), follows like a voluntary concluding the liturgy.

1CD# DELP 34211 $17.99

Offenbach: Folies symphoniques & Ouvertures / Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt

The orchestral overtures brought together on the present recording make the listener eager to hear each of the particular works following them--a preview of the rich melodies, irresistable rhythms, and skilled instrumentation of the full works. In their entirety the works on this album invite us to approach Jacques Offenbach’s sumptuous oeuvre on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of his birth.

CPO 555275 $15.49

Carl Loewe: Grand Trio op. 12; et al / Henning Lucius, piano; Marrietta Kratz, violin; et al

In addition to over 600 songs, Carl Loewe also produced chamber music. Robert Schumann described his Piano Trio or Grand Trio op. 12 as “...perhaps one of the most fundamentally genuine and most imaginative works by Loewe...” The Duo Espagnôla uses the viola to convey an expressive Spanish character. The Scottish Pictures for clarinet and piano are demanding genre scenes inspired by the Scottish landscape.

1CD# CPO 555256 $15.49

Friedrich Schneider: Das Weltgericht / Gregor Meyer; GewandhausChor [2 CDs]

Gregor Meyer conducts the Gewandhaus Chorus and the camerata lipsiensis in Friedrich Schneider’s (1786–1853) Das Weltgericht. Friedrich Schneider was one of the most creative and productive minds in the Central German music world during the first half of the nineteenth century. This oratorio situated between classicism and romanticism was often performed but then was forgotten for many decades.

2CD# CPO 555119 $15.49

Mendelssohn: Piano and Cello Works / Guadalupe Lopez Iniguez; Olga Andryushchenko

Guadalupe López-Íñiguez collaborates with Olga Andryushchenko as a partner for this album of Mendelssohn’s works for cello and piano. Olga is playing a piano Érard (Paris, 1862), and Guadalupe a cello by Claude Pieray (Paris, 1725). “Mendelssohn’s cello works call for spirited playing, which is what we get here. The Érard piano sparkles; the cello playing...is bold and confident.” – BBC Music Magazine

1CD# ABA 434 $16.99Schubert: Octet, D803; Franz Berwald: Grand Septet in B-flat major / Anima Eterna Brugge

Schubert’s Octet in F is a crown jewel from his repertoire, taking its cue from Beethoven’s celebrated Septet. In contrast to Schubert, Franz Berwald is a largely forgotten Swedish composer with an oeuvre that is both surprisingly modern and delightfully original. “Anima Eterna perform Schubert’s ever-lovable Octet on instruments largely from the early 19th century… the steampunk brazenness of this Belgian ensemble is its own advertisement.” – Gramophone

1CD# AHP 461 $18.99

Anton Rubinstein: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

It is difficult to overstate the breadth of contribution of Anton Rubinstein to the development of the Russian culture in the 19th century. His multifaceted genius can be divided into three areas- Rubinstein the composer, the pianist, and the educator. Hailed by The New York Times as a pianist of “a fiery sensibility and warm touch,” Anna Shelest is collaborating with

legendary conductor Neeme Jarvi on this project.1CD# SOLR 014 $15.99

Dvořák: Piano Trios Op. 21 & 26 / Busch TrioOmri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen and Ori Epstein conclude their complete cycle of Dvořák’s chamber music with his first two piano trios, Opp. 21 & 26.

1CD# AHP 466 $18.99

Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas & Trio / Pascal Moragues; Frank Braley; and Christian PolteraBrahms composed his four last chamber music pieces to include the clarinet: The Trio Op. 114 in 1891, the Quintet Op. 115; then in the summer of 1894 his two Sonatas for Clarinet, Op. 120.

1CD# INDS 111 $18.99

Schubert: String Quintet, Op. 163 & String Quartet No. 14 / Quartetto di Cremona [2 CDs]This new album from The Quartetto di Cremona offers the chance to listen simultaneously to four Stradivari instruments and an Amati cello; included here is the dramatic ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet.

2CD# ADT 23443 $24.99

Schumann: Complete Piano Trios Phantasiestuck / Horszowski Trio [2 CDs]Schumann’s works for piano trio were written within a decade of each other yet represent three distinct periods in the all-too-short 46-year life span of the composer.

2CD# AIE 2405 $22.99

EraNEW RELEASES - ROMANTIC

ROMANTIC CHAMBER WORKS IN BRIEF

Chausson: Poeme de l’amour et de la mer; Symphonie, Op. 20 / Orchestre National de Lille“A performance that ranks, unquestionably, among the finest to date. Superbly sung, and wonderfully well conducted and played by Alexandre Bloch and his Lille orchestra, this is an interpretation of great beauty and insight. [Veronique] Gens’s dark tone and her ability to fuse sound with sense allow her both to encompass the work’s rapturous lyricism and to map out the psychological subtlety of its depiction of the painful end of an affair.” – Gramophone

1CD# AHP 441 $18.99

Gabriel Dupont: Complete Symphonic Works / Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de LiegeGabriel Dupont (1878–1914) studied with Massenet, then became a disciple of Vierne and Widor. The compositions on this release are the very first recorded collection of his complete orchestral repertoire, from the three-part symphonic sketch Jour d’Été (1900), to the poignant Le Chant de la Destinée (1908), and including the orchestrated piano pieces Les Heures dolentes.

1CD# FLA 751 $18.99

Charles–Francois Gounod: Symphony Nos. 1 & 2 / Iceland Symphony OrchestraCharles-Francois Gounod (1818–1893) wrote both of his symphonies after winning the Prix de Rome in 1839 and with the encouragement of Felix Mendelssohn. Yan Pascal Tortelier and his Iceland Symphony Orchestra demonstrate outstanding precision and musicality in these unjustly neglected works. “The strings are alert and light and the woodwinds attack Gounod’s melodious writing with élan.” – Gramophone

1CD# CHA 5231 $19.99

Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition 1964 / Jean–Claude Vanden Eynden, piano

Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden was just 16 when he won the third prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1964. Despite his young age, the Belgian musician showed astonishing artistic maturity. The archives of the competition allow us to hear again his superb performance of Schumann’s Etudes symphoniques Op. 13 alongside Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1,

recorded at the concert.1CD# MUSO 012 $18.99

Bernhard Molique (1802–1869) Chamber Music Vol. 1 / Trio Parnassus

Bernhard Molique, a musician whose great compositional artistry has all but been forgotten, was a member of the “Davidsbundler” led by Robert Schumann, regularly concertized with Mendelssohn, was on friendly terms with Theobald Bohm, and enjoyed Hector Berlioz’s respect. The Trio Parnassus presents two Piano Trios from Molique and once again displays its fabulous powers of presentation.

1CD# MDG 3032116 $18.99

E. Strauss: A Centenary Celebration, Vol. 2 / Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orch Pardubice

Eduard Strauss (1835–1916) was overshadowed by his more famous elder siblings Johann II and Josef but his music from the 1870s and 1880s easily stands comparison with theirs. These world premiere recordings of ‘handsome Edi’s’ music include the beguiling waltz Freie Gedanken or “Free Thoughts” written for the ‘Hesperus’ Artists’ Association, and the charming polka-mazurka Schmeichelkatzchen (‘Little Flatterer’).

1CD# MCPO 8225371 $16.99

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 / Valery Gergiev Mariinsky Orchestra

Valéry Gergiev is widely recognised as the greatest modern interpreter of Tchaikovsky’s music and the Mariinsky holds a peerless reputation in the repertoire. Together they deliver definitive interpretations of one of Tchaikovsky’s most popular symphonies, Symphony No.6, “Pathetique”, recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris during January 2010.

1CD# MARK 0019 $13.99

Stanford: Mass ‘Via Victrix & At the Abbey Gate / BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales

In 1919, Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) chose to compose a setting of the mass to commemorate the allied victory of WW1, however it lay unperformed for almost a century. It was given its first full performance on 27th October 2018 by BBC National Chorus of Wales, to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice. Coupled here with Standford’s 1920 work for chorus and orchestra ‘At the Abbey Gate’.

1CD# LYTA 382 $16.99

Saint–Saëns: Symphony No. 2; Danse Macabre; & Symphony ‘Urbs Roma’ / Utah Symphony

Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 2 is, by any standards, an outright winner and deserves to be much better known. “The Danse macabre moves with an elegant yet persistent impetus; listening, one feels impelled to keep moving. Madeline Adkins plays the solo violin part alluringly yet with a slightly devilish edge to her tone… I’m already craving the next installment.” – Gramophone

1CD# HYP 68212 $19.99

Saint-Säens: Quintet for Piano, Op. 114; String Quartet No. 1 / Quartuor GirardThere is an entire life of composition between Saint-Saëns’s quintet and quartet - there are joys, sorrows, ideas and motifs, as well as the building of a life and an aesthetic. The Girard Quartet (Quatuor Girard) wanted to capture this outstandingly delicate material on the new album released by the B Records label. It was recorded in the calm and relaxed atmosphere of the Singer-Polignac Foundation.

1CD# BREC 018 $18.99

The RomanticUncommon Pieces for Orchestra

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Schubert: Sonatas / Daniel Migdal, violin; Jacob Kellermann, guitar

Already in his lifetime some of Schubert’s most popular songs appeared with simplified guitar accompaniment, marketed by music publishers wanting to exploit the growing market for domestic music-making. Elements of the light, melody-driven and carefree musical style present in stylized form in much of his music is the very aspect that makes it so inviting to play on the guitar.

1CD# BIS 2375 $17.99

Dilermando Reis (1916–1977): Guitar Music / Salvatore Fortunato, guitar

Among the most distinguished of Brailian guitarists is Salvatore Fortunato, born in Genoa in 1990 and now a professor at the prestigious Accademia Chitarristica Castelli Romani. International recognition has included many competition successes and the 2014 Young Artist Award made by the Cattedrali Letterarie Europee in Rome. This album marks his debut on Brilliant Classics.

1CD# BLC 95939 $10.49

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello: Music for Mandora / Gabor Tokodi, 8 coursed mandora

A cellist by early training, Tokodi began to play the guitar at the age of 15, and it was with this instrument that he graduated as a performer, and has since toured Europe and further afield with distinguished early-music ensembles such as the Savaria Baroque Orchestra and the Baroque Ensemble of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

1CD# BLC 95869 $10.49

Leo Brouwer (b.1939): Brouwer: Hika & the Young Composer / Frédéric Zigante, guitar

This recording presents some of the most significant early pieces by the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. it also includes other works, such as Hika from 1994 and the third and fourth series of his Estudios sencillos (1981), which show clear similarities with the composer’s early style. These short pieces reflect all of Brouwers creative genius.

1CD# BLC 95838 $12.99

Abel Carlebaro (1916–2001): Guitar Music / Cristiano Poli Cappelli, guitar [2 CDs]

This new release presents an absorbing portrait of Abel Carlevaro (1916–2001) through his music as performed by Cristiano Poli Cappelli, an Italian guitarist making his second album for Brilliant Classics. The first was of guitar music by another relatively forgotten figure, Alexander Tansman, and it was enthusiastically reviewed by Classical Guitar magazine: Highly recommended!

2CD# BLC 95684 $23.99

Johann Kaspar Mertz: Fantasias for Solo Guitar / Giuseppe Chiaramonte, guitar

Chiaramonte continues with the less-familiar, soulful strains of the Pianto dellAmante and similarly reflective works which anticipate with the guitar the kind of inward, contemplative writing for the piano with which Liszt much later became associated: La Rimembranza, Pensée Fugitive and Harmonie du soir all deserve much wider attention, not least for their rapt melodic beauty.

1CD# BLC 95722 $10.49A Tribute to Teresa de Rogatis (1893-1979): Music for guitar / Cinzia Milani, guitarr

Italian guitarist Cinzia Milano continues her series of Tributes to female guitarists with a beautiful program of guitar works by Teresa de Rogatis. Rogatis (1893–1979) was born in Naples. A child prodigy, she gave her first recital at the age of 7. She studied piano, composition, counterpoint, voice and conducting in her home town.

1CD# BLC 95627 $13.99Schubert for Two Guitars / Duo Morat-Fergo, romantic Viennese guitars

Guitar Duo Morat-Fergo writes: We had always felt the guitar unconsciously lingering in Schuberts musical language. That, combined with our love for Schuberts music, sparked the desire to musically arrange and finally discover Schuberts world, not only as listeners, but as performers. We started out by arranging Moments Musicaux. It was with delight that we realized how well these pieces work for guitar.

1CD# CHL 72791 $16.99

Gerhard & Mompou: Complete Music for Solo Guitar / Marco Ramelli, guitarFederico Mompou was the shy post-Romantic, Roberto Gerhard the gregarious Modernist. Quite unalike in personality, in artistic aims and language, the two nonetheless held each other in high esteem.

1CD# BLC 95679 $14.99

Falla, Mompou, Villa-Lobos: Guitar Duo / Nelly von Alven, guitar; Luiz Mantovani, guitarThe NOVA Guitar Duos unique instrumentation combines the regular guitar and the eight-string Brahms guitar, substantially increasing the ensembles available range.

1CD# SVS 37117 $16.99

Spanish Guitar Music Around 1930 / Yiannis Efstathopoulos, guitarThis album unites a substantial selection of exceptional historical musicians, repertoire and instruments. Yiannis Efstathopoulos is a guitarist who performs, teaches and lectures in Brussels where he is based.

1CD# PSSA 1051 $18.99Fernando Sor: Early Works for Guitar / William Carter, guitarBaroque guitarist William Carter presents an appealing collection of early works by Spanish guitar virtuoso and composer Fernando Sor. Sor’s guitar music is some of the finest ever written.

1CD# LINN 343 $18.99

Music for GuitarNEW RELEASES - GUITAR

GUITAR MUSIC OF LATIN AMERICA & SPAIN IN BRIEF

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 with Completed Finale / Gerd Schaller; Philharmonie Festival [2 CDs]

Anton Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony was started in the summer of 1887 but was never truly finished in every detail: Bruckner died on October 11, 1896, while still working on his final masterpiece. Gerd Schaller took on the great challenge of completing the finale to this work. “An exceptional performance which makes a compelling case for the conductor’s own revised completion of the Finale.” – MusicWeb International

2CD# PRF 18030 $22.99

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; et al / Dmitri Kitayenko; Gürzenich–Orchester Köln

The album presents Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh by Rimsky-Korsakov, and The Enchanted Lake by Anatoly Lyadov. The Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne is one of Germany’s leading orchestras and can look back on a great tradition. Since 1986 the ensemble’s home has been at the Kölner Philharmonie, where it presents about 50 concerts annually.

1CD# OEH 469 $14.99

Saint–Säens: Piano Concertos, Nos. 3–5 / Alexandre Kantorow, piano; Tapiola Sinfonietta

This release presents Camille Saint-Saëns three last piano concertos. Piano Concerto No. 3 is a bold attempt to reconcile Classical form with a Lisztian pianistic brio, No. 4 employs an unusual formal scheme in which themes are reused in a cyclic manner and, finally, the ‘Egyptian’ (No. 5), which in the composer’s own words describes ‘a sort of Eastern journey that goes all the way to the Far East’.

1CD# BIS 2300 $17.99

Schubert: Violin Sonatas, Op. 137 (1816) / Stephanie Paulet, violin; Daniel Isoir, piano

These violin sonatas are the work of 19-year-old Schubert who, in admiration of Mozart, drew close to the worlds of Weber and Beethoven. Indeed, the spirit of Mozart runs right through these three sonatas, he who represents the crucial reference at this time, and certainly was such for Schubert. Yet without imitating the master, Schubert rewrites the ‘Mozartian’ sonata, romanticises it, opens it out to the new century.

1CD# MUSO 029 $18.99

Dvořák: String Quartets Nos. 5 & 12, ‘American’; Josef Suk: Meditation / Albion Quartet

Formed in 2016, the Albion Quartet brings together four of the UK’s exceptional young string players. “The players make a strong case for this youthful piece [Op. 9], powerfully refuting the notion that it took time for Dvo_ák to hit his stride in the quartets and symphonies. They have a very airy quality to their sound (how I’d like to hear them in Mendelssohn), while their attention to the smallest detail reaps dividends.” – Gramophone

1CD# SIG 555 $17.99

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 “Reformation”; Niels Gade: Sinfonie No. 3 / Gregor Meyer

The formal structure of Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony stringently leads to the daring and monumental last movement - an extravagant choral arrangement of “A mighty fortress is our God.” Before this powerful finale, the first three movements seem as if they are preludes. Gregor Meyer directs the Camerata Lipsiensis and GewandhausChor with soprano Julia Sophie Wagner and tenor Martin Petzold.

1CD# QRST 1712 $18.99

Overtures & Incidental music by Mendelssohn and Schubert / Schuricht, Monteux

Carl Schuricht conducts Felix Mendelssohn’s delightful overtures to The Hebrides (otherwise known as ‘Fingal’s Cave), Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt, Die shone Melusine and Ruy Blas. The Incidental music to Rosamunde by Franz Schubert is conducted by Pierre Monteux. The Mendelssohn recordings were made in 1954 and the Schubert in 1958. All performances are by the Vienna Philharmonic.

1CD# ELOQ 8249558 $13.99

Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle / Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg

In Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle (1863–1867), sacred tones blend in seamlessly with allusions to his comic operas. Rossini’s enigmatic but highly enjoyable mass demonstrates his rich musical palette, ranging from “archaic” remnants of Bach, to harmonic audacities that point towards the music of Fauré and even Poulenc. However, the Petite Messe sounds unmistakably Rossinian, and continues to enchant audiences.

1CD# PTE 5186797 $19.99

Guillaume Lekeu: Music for Violin, Cello, & Piano / Bruno Monteiro, Miguel Rocha, et al

The Belgian Guillaume Lekeu (1870–1894) left behind him a small but individual output of mostly chamber music. This album features his two best-known works. Dating from 1890, the Piano Trio is in fact one of his most restrained and least Wagnerian pieces. Lekeu’s Violin Sonata is his masterpiece. It attains a rare balance and purity of expression through a beautifully balanced relationship between the instruments.

1CD# BLC 95739 $12.99

Mendelssohn & Schumann Violin Concertos / Christian Tetzlaff, violin

This album features German star violinist Christian Tetzlaff accompanied by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and their music director Paavo Järvi. The Mendelssohn Concerto is one of the most frequently performed violin concertos of all time and Schumann’s Violin Concerto is is one of his last significant compositions. Also included is Schumann’s more seldom recorded Fantasy for Violin and orchestra.

1CD# OND 13332 $7.49

The Romantic EraNEW RELEASES - ROMANTIC


Georgy Catoire & Ignaz Friedman: Piano Quintets / Bengt Forsberg, piano; et al

Both quintets heard on this album were composed during the 1910s, and straddle the divide between post-romanticism and modernism. The Piano Quintet Op. 28 by Georgy Catoire (1861–1926) is one of his most seductive works with its original use of harmony and inventive rhythmic structure. Written in 1918, Ignaz Friedman’s (1882–1948) Quintet in C minor is tuneful, but also dramatic, sombre and melancholy at turns.

1CD# BIS 2314 $17.99

Dreamer: Works for violin & piano by Reger & Schubert / Dauenhauer, violin; Kuen, piano

In this new recording, the duo comprised of Anna Sophie Dauenhauer and Lukas Maria Kuen plays several songs by Max Reger, arranged for violin and piano, with stupendous sensitivity. The songs are complemented by Reger’s Violin Sonata op.139 and Franz Schubert’s Sonatines. Though trivially named by the publisher, the Sonatines are

in reality highly sophisticated gems and round off the dreamlike programme.

1CD# CVEL 91907 $16.99

Juon, Bruch and Voigt: Trios for Flute, Cello & Piano / Birkelund, Host-Madsen, Westergaard

The four ‘Miniatures’ by Swiss composer Paul Juon is melodious music with a variety of character that clearly refer to Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Max Bruch’s ‘Eight Pieces’ is intense and profound music where intimate expression is balanced by passionate Sturm und Drang. Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt’s ‘Nocturne’ is a charming piece - the voices intertwine in a dialogue, altering between simple melodies and pompous drama.

1CD# DCD 838 $16.99

Victor Herbert: Cello Concertos; Operetta Spectacular [2 CDs]

Victor Herbert (1859–1924) began his career as a cellist and wrote 2 cello concertos for himself. They were first recorded as a pair by Lynn Harrell on the first disc of this album in 1986. Herbert was also a composer for Broadway, with hits such as Babes in Toyland (1894) and The Red Mill (1906) to his name. All these and more are featured on a 1975 recording (disc 2) by Salvatore ‘Tutti’ Camarata and ‘his’ orchestra.

2CD# ELOQ 8273058 $19.99

Clair De Lune: Debussy, Faure, Massenet, et al / Tatiana Samouil, violin; David Lively, piano

A program devoted to three essential sonatas of the French violin school of the first part of the 20th century. This is the second album of Tatiana Samouil with IndéSENS Records. Tatiana Samouil is a prize-winning performer and her numerous recordings have received excellent reviews. She is joined here by pianist David Lively, who is also an exceptionally gifted artist.

1CD# INDS 108 $18.99

Claude Debussy: Sonates, Danses, et Rhapsodies / various artists

Along with the Etudes and En blanc et noir of 1915, Claude Debussy’s three sonatas constitute the last will and testament of the composer, who died in Paris on March 25, 1918. Along with these sonatas, the musicians on this album have included two Rhapsodies, the Danses sacree et profane, as well as the haunting flute solo Syrinx.

1CD# INDS 105 $18.99

Leos Janácek (1854–1928) & György Ligeti (1923–2006): String Quartets / Belcea Quartet

For this new recording, the Belcea Quartet has chosen three quartets by the 20th century composers Leos Janácek and György Ligeti. The First Quartet by Janácek was inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s famous novella, The Kreutzer Sonata. The Second Quartet is subtitled Intimate Letters, in homage to an important relationship Janácek carried on through letters. Finally, the First Quartet by Ligeti, subtitled Métamorphoses nocturnes.

1CD# AHP 454 $18.99

Debussy: La Mer; Ravel: La Valse / Noriaki Kitamura; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

The Warsaw Philharmonic lives up to a program that expects much from its sophisticated performance techniques, resulting in a great performance. The force and freshness of the sound, which is inspired by Hokusai prints, reflects the expressions of the real sea itself. The music making by Kitamura and the Warsaw Philharmonic is solid, without any kind of deception.

1CD# NKBR 204 $16.99

Works for Flute & Piano / Christina Fassbender, flute; Florian Wiek, piano

This release presents chamber music for flute and piano from the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Many of the composers of these works may not be familiar: Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933), Emil Kronke (1865–1938), and Carl Fruhling (1868–1937). The album is framed by two sonatas, the first being the Sonata in B flat major op. 21 by Sigfrid Karg-Elert and the last being the Sonata ‘Undine’ by Carl Reinecke.

1CD# PRF 18005 $17.99

Julius Bittner: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 / Dmitry Vasiliev; Siberian Symphony Orchestra

The name of the Austrian composer Julius Bittner (1874–1939) has been almost entirely lost from view, and none of his orchestral music has been recorded before – astonishingly, given the quality of the two works presented here. Vaterland is an expansive symphonic poem written early in the First World War; and his First Symphony is a major piece of late-

Romantic musical architecture, both tuneful and grandiose.1CD# TOC 0500 $16.99

Romantic Era

NEW RELEASES - POST ROMANTIC

Mahler: Symphony No. 10 / John Storgårds; Lapland Chamber OrchestraLeft unfinished at the death of the composer, Gustav Mahler’s Tenth Symphony has exerted an enormous fascination on musicologists as well as musicians. One of the latest is this ‘recreation’ of the work for chamber orchestra by composer and conductor Michelle Castelletti. This new completion appears on album for the first time, in a performance by the acclaimed Lapland Chamber Orchestra under John Storgårds.

1CD# BIS 2376 $17.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 / Roger Norrington Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWRThis is a re-release of a SWR bestseller, and is published on the occasion of Sir Roger Norrington’s 85th birthday. Norrington’s work on scores, orchestral sound and size, seating and playing style has had a growing effect on the perception of 18th- and 19th- century orchestral music. The recording gives testimony of Norrington’s specific “Stuttgart Sound“ and contains one of the best-known symphonies by Gustav Mahler.

1CD# SWRM 19517 $9.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / François–Xavier Roth Gürzenich–Orchester Köln [2 CDs]“[Roth] goes at the crazy world of the Third with all wind and brass guns blazing…He isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty with the raggle-taggle marchers of the first movement. Even the trombone sounds more like a raw force of nature than a sophisticated funeral master…Roth shows he can do serious too, with mezzo Sara Mingardo symbolic of the performance as a whole: not an unearthly oracle but a feeling human being.” – BBC Music Magazine

2CD# HAR 905314 $29.99

Au Suivant! – Ravel, Fauré and Chansons for Piano Quartet / Flex Ensemble

The second album from the Flex Ensemble, “En Suivant” (Next!) highlights three different genres of French music: A youthful work by Faure, written in the late romantic piano quartet tradition, character pieces by Ravel in a new arrangement for piano quartet and an eclectic mix of contemporary interpretations of French Chansons from Claude Le Jeune to Georges Brassens.

1CD# CAVI 8553161 $17.99

Max Reger: Piano Concerto (Live Recording) & Piano Pieces / Markus Becker, piano

Renowned Reger specialist Markus Becker presents the first live recording of some of Reger’s most challenging works for piano, including the Piano Concerto, which is very heavy, very long, very difficult, and requires non-stop action by the soloist. Becker is accompanied by the NDR Radiophilharmonie and conductor Joshua Weilerstein.

1CD# CAVI 8553306 $17.99

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Adam Fischer; Dusseldorfer Symphoniker

After winning the BBC Musica Award as the Best Orchestral Music album in 2018, Adam Fischer continues his Mahler’s survey with the great cycle Das Lied von der Erde. He is supported by two great singers as Anna Larsson and Stuart Skelton. “There is a transparency throughout and all the ‘vocal’ soloists within the orchestra – not least the wonderfully atmospheric oboe and flute soloists in ‘Der Abschied’ – shine brightly.”

– Gramophone1CD# CAVI 8553407 $17.99

Fauré: Requiem; Poulenc; Debussy / Mathieu Romano; Ensemble Aedes; Les Siecles

Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem is among the best-loved pieces in the choral repertory, with its calm, serene and peaceful outlook. This sublime recording also includes Poulenc’s Figure Humaine and Debussy’s Trois Chansons. Mathieu Romano has established himself as a magician of voices in a cappella scores and the voices of Ensemble Aedes ideally melt with the strings of Les Siècles under his baton.

1CD# AART 201 $22.99

Fiddler’s Blues – Ysaye, Ravel, Debussy, et al / Philippe Graffin, violin; Claire Désert, piano

The world-premiere recording of Eugene Ysaye’s “Posthumous” solo violin opens Fiddler’s Blues, the latest collaboration between violinist Philippe Graffin and pianist Claire Desert. What follows is an ingenious intersection of works by Paris-based violinists, composers and friends - Debussy, Enescu and Ravel. “Premieres of pieces by Ysaÿe are a draw, but the Enescu sonata and Hora Unirii are a real treat...” – BBC Music Magazine

1CD# AIE 2399 $15.99

Essence – Lisa Friend Plays Fauré & Debussy / Lisa Friend, flute; Rohan De Silva, piano

In addition the great body of original repertoire for the flute in late 19th and early 20th century France, there is also a significant body of work transcribed for flute and piano. Fauré’s first Violin Sonata works particularly well in transcription, with its sweeping melodies and lack of double–stopping. The opening flute solo in Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune makes for another great

transcription, as heard on this album.1CD# CHA 20084 $18.99

Requiem: Max Reger & Johannes Brahms / Ukrainian National Choir DUMKA [2 CDs]The National Choir of Ukraine DUMKA has developed a profound artistic friendship with Central Germany following a series of brilliant concerts in 2013. This double album was recorded live in concert on September 16, 2016, when DUMKA returned to Germany again to perform the “Hebbel Requiem” by Max Reger and the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms. Also included are three organ pieces played by Denny Wilke.

2CD# QRST 1717 $23.99

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Mieczysław Weinberg: 24 Preludes for Solo Violin / Gidon Kremer, violin

The 24 preludes for cello solo by Mieczysław Weinberg were composed in the late sixties for Mstislav Rostropovich. Their musical language is aphoristic, often brutal and provocative in its inner conflict. To perform these preludes might have been problematic in the Soviet Union back then. Gidon Kremer has adapted the Preludes for solo violin and this is the world premiere recording of his adaptation.

1CD# ACTS 30476 $16.99

Elgar: Symphony No. 1 / Roger Norrington; Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

The first performance of Edward Elgar’s Symphony No. 1 was given by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Hans Richter in Manchester, England, on 3 December 1908. It was widely known that Elgar had been planning a symphony for more than ten years, and the announcement that he had finally completed it aroused enormous interest.

1CD# SWRM 19520 $9.99

Chamber Music by Destenay, Goepfart, Loeffler / One Note Away

One Note Away is a recital of chamber music, comprising works by three neglected composers: Édouard Destenay, Karl Goepfart and Charles Martin Loeffler. Daniel Bates (oboe), Matthew Hunt (clarinet) and Olga Jeginova (piano) fell in love with the Destenay Trio while working on it at the Open Chamber Music week at Prusia Cove.

1CD# SOER 5060192780840 $17.99

Paul Muller-Zurich: String Quartet; String Trio; String Quintet / casalQuartett

With his commitment to tonality, Müller-Zürich seemed to justify itself at a time when the avant-garde after the Second World War vilified all sound and harmony. In fact, however, his works are neither epigonal nor even retrogressive, but have their very own tone, which, a quarter of a century after his death, must be rediscovered.

1CD# SOLO 287 $18.99

Durufle: Complete Choral Works / Robert Simpson; Houston Chamber Choir

The choral works of Duruflé, like his organ works, are small in number but beautifully crafted. Often described as a man out of step with his times, his pieces look back to Gregorian chant and plainsong at a time when the musical life of his home city of Paris was steeped in radical new compositional ideas a testament perhaps to Duruflés enduring love of Frances choral heritage.

1CD# SIG 571 $17.99

Copland, Ravel, Stravinsky: Orchestral Works / Park Avenue Chamber Symphony

A procession of acclaimed releases on Recursive Classics now reaches this celebratory album, launching the Park Avenue Chamber Symphonys 20th anniversary season. Conductor David Bernard leads explorations of three brilliant approaches to symphonic ballet music. Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite; Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2; Stravinsky: Firebird Suite.

1CD# RCRS 2061415 $18.99

Works for Violin & Piano / Franziska Pietsch, violin; Josu de Solaun, piano

Franziska Pietsch and Josu de Solaun breathe new life into two powerful compositions, presenting a complex, passionate, and emotional portrait of human existence. The present recording is the start of several upcoming duo recording projects. In addition, Josu De Solaun will present his first solo recording on audite with works by Janácek, Novák, and Suk. More solo recordings are being planned.

1CD# ADT 97759 $18.99Zara Alexandrovna Levina: Works for Piano & Strings / Maria Lettberg, piano; et al.

After the great success and Grammy nominated album of Piano Concertos by Russian composer Zara Levina, this recording focuses now on different types of chamber music compositions by the same composer. Riga-born pianist Maria Lettberg plays the leading part on this recording and shows the high creativity of the unjustified forgotten composer.

1CD# CAP 5356 $16.99

Edward Elgar: String Quartet; Piano Quintet / Martin Roscoe, piano; Brodsky QuartetThe String Quartet was dedicated to the original Brodsky Quartet. It has remained a cornerstone of their repertoire ever since.

1CD# CHA 10980 $18.99

Bartok: String Quartets Nos. 1–6 / Quatuor Diotima [3 CDs]Among the most significant works of the 20th century, the six string quartets of Béla Bartok were born out of different artistic and political influences of their times.

3CD# NAI 5452 $29.99Bartok: String Quartet Nos. 1, 2 & 4 / Ragazze QuartetWith the first volume in a complete string quartet cycle, The Ragazze Quartet has declared itself Bartók Bound!

1CD# CCS 41419 $19.99

Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996): String Quartets Nos. 11–13 / Sielsian QuartetMieczysław Wajnbergs imposing output of compositions includes 17 string quartets. Composing was his lifes greatest passion.

1CD# CDAC 250 $10.49

EraNEW RELEASES - MODERN

MODERN CHAMBER WORKS IN BRIEF

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 / Sondergard; Royal Scottish NOThis recording is the first in a new series with Thomas Søndergård and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The programme features music by Richard Strauss: the concert suite from Der Rosenkavalier and Ein Heldenleben, a work they have performed together in concert to critical acclaim. The tone poem tells the epic story of an imaginary hero and offers an introduction to the world of the German Romantics.

1CD# LINN 510 $18.99

The Young Richard Strauss: Burleske; Serenade, Op. 7; Suite in B-flat, Op. 4Grigorios Zamparas has received critical acclaim for his versatile performing career as recitalist, orchestra soloist and chamber musician. He is a frequent guest at numerous festivals worldwide, having performed several times at the prestigious Newport Music Festival and the Mainly Mozart Festival, among others. Here the pianist can be heard with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic under conductor Jon Ceander Mitchell.

1CD# CEN 3574 $16.99

Strauss: Concertante Works / Tasmin Little, violin; Michael Collins; BBC SOStrauss came to distance himself from the Concerto which he presumably regarded as unrepresentative of his mature style. Many commentators on the works of Strauss have felt that the Burleske was a significant turning point in his development, seemingly pointing the way ahead to the technical dexterity and emotional palette of his later tone poems.

1CD# CHA 20034 $18.99

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana, chamber version / Rupert Huber; SWR Vokalensemble

The SWR Vokalensemble was founded in 1946 as Südfunk-Chor Stuttgart in 1946 to perform studio work for Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) which merged in 1998 with the Südwestfunk to form the SWR. The ensemble was awarded the Echo Klassik in both 2011 and 2012. The ensemble is led by Austrian composer and musician Rupert Huber.

1CD# SWRM 19516 $9.99

Moondog: Lullaby; Oboe Round; Bird’s Lament; All is Loneliness; et al. / Various artists

The second Moondog album to be released by Hallmark is The Story of Moondog. Though considered something of an eclectic taste, Moondog was revered by the beatnik generation and an inspiration to several minimalist composers who came along later. Moondog is a poet who versifies in sound, a diarist overcome by love curiosity and amusement by everything that reaches his ears

1CD# DGG 002895002 $17.99

Andrzej Dobrowolski (1921–1990): Music for Orchestra / Various artists

Dobrowolskis music for various ensembles presents a very consistent process of expanding his own original sound world. However, these are stable and transparent structures only on the surface level - it is worth listening to them deeper and one at a time. Seen from different sides and under different light - Varèse’s metaphor also accurately describes the works of this Polish composer.

1CD# DUX 1554 $19.99

Shostakovich: Concerto in C minor, Op. 35; Symphony No. 9 / Martha Argerich, piano

This new, outstanding live release featuring esteemed pianist Martha Argerich was recorded in Warsaw in 2006 at the Chopin and His Europe International Music Festival. She performs one of her favorite Concertos: Shostakovichs First. She is joined from the podium by her long-time musical partner Alexander Rabinovich. Also featured on this recording is the light-spirited Symphony No. 9.

1CD# FYCS 053 $17.99

Enescu: Violin & Piano Music / Marie Radauer–Plank, violin; Henrike Bruggen, piano

Enescu covered a long distance from his first salon pieces to his later works. Genuinely unique, he was both modern and influenced by the ancient, exotic rhythms and harmonies of his homeland. The Duo Brüggen-Plank approach Enescu’s colorful soundscapes with verve and musical splendor, refinement, and expansiveness. A folkloristic discoveryand much more!

1CD# GUIN 19642 $18.99Henri Tomasi (1901–1971): Enchantee Polysweet / Trio Mignon Wien

In 2005 Helene Kenyeri, oboe, Mirjam Schiestl, clarinet and Marion Biber-Janda, bassoon came together to form the ensemble Trio Mignon Vienna. It established itself as independent chamber music formation in France at the beginning of the 20th century, when renowned composers such as Henri Tomasi, Eugene Bozza and Jean

Francaix, whose works are featured on this album, wrote for this special cast.

1CD# GRAM 99190 $18.99

Hindemith: Five Brass Sonatas / Helene Tysman, piano; Laurent Wagschal, trumpetNot only at the cutting edge of the Avant Garde, Paul Hindemith was also a violist, teacher, music theorist, conductor and multi-instrumentalist. At 38 years old, he would be caught up in history, with Hitlers rise to power in 1933. Hindemith suffered the wrath of the Nazi regime as being one of those composers of degenerate music.

1CD# INDS 110 $18.99

The ModernThe Music of Richard Strauss


André Mathieu: Chamber Music / Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, piano; et al.

Pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre is joined by sought-after musicians - Andréa Tyniec (violin), Marc Djokic (violin), Elvira Misbakhova (viola), and Chloé Dominguez (cello) for this album dedicated to one of the leading figures of the Canadian classical music world. This release includes two unpublished pieces, his Trio, Quintet, and works for violin and piano works composed between 1943 and 1953.

1CD# ATMA 22784 $15.49

Michael Jon Fink (b.1954): Celesta / Michael Jon Fink, celesta

Celesta is a suite of a dozen quietly transcendent, gem-like celesta solos by noted Los Angeles composer Michael Jon Fink. As each piece unfolds, revealing itself through elegantly fashioned variation, the listener is drawn into a highly nuanced, lyrical sound world. The collection creates its own graceful musical arc, and is certainly among the largest statements ever composed for the celesta alone.

1CD# CDBM 0053 $16.99

Joseph Marx: Eine Herbstsymphonie / Johannes Wildner; Grazer Philharmoniker

Until now Joseph Marx has been known primarily as a composer of songs and chamber music. However, already in 1911 he had composed the sumptuously designed cantata Herbstchor an Pan (Autumn Chorus to Pan), a work that also in its choice of theme may be said to herald the coming of the Herbstsymphonie.

1CD# CPO 555262 $15.49

Emmanuel Nunes: Minnesang; Musivus / Emilio Pomarico; SWR Vokalensemble

Emmanuel Nunes (1941–2012) was an artist of almost intimidating ability and self-confident stubbornness much like his teachers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. Apart from early works and large musical drama projects, his output consists primarily of two large-scale cycles. The first contains nine works, including Minnesang for twelve vocal soloists.

1CD# WER 73782 $18.99

Khachaturian: Works for Cello & Orchestra/ Torleif Thedeen, cello; Daniel Raiskin

Both works demand the services of a soloist who does not misunderstand the unprecedented difficulties of his parts as an opportunity for self-display, and Daniel Raiskin has found such an interpreter in the person of the Swedish cellist Thorleif Thedéen: sovereign in every technical respect, he surmounts the enormous challenges even when he removes himself from the intensive dialogues.

1CD# CPO 555007 $15.49

Antheil: Complete Violin Music, Vol. 1 / Alessandro Fagiuoli, vln; Alessia Toffanin, pno

The four piano sonatas in this first volume of Antheil’s violin music exemplify the two periods of his creativity. They document Antheil’s musical evolution from the percussive First, to the Dadaist-cubist Second and the more neoclassical Third. A hiatus of 25 years separate these early scores from the so-called Second Violin Sonata, which is clearly a more classically structured composition.

1CD# CAVI 8553239 $17.99

Paul Ben-Haim: Violin Works / Itamar Zorman, violin; Amy Yang, piano

Itamar Zorman, a prize-winner in the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition, is supported by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Philippe Bach in the opening Evocation (Yizkor) from 1942, and the Violin Concerto, as well as in the arrangement (by the father of the soloist) of a Toccata, originally composed for the piano.

1CD# BIS 2398 $17.99

Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No. 2; Symphony No. 17 / Lindberg; Norrkoping SO“Lindberg moulds the structure [of the Violin Concerto]

convincingly, driving the music forwards without overwhelming his soloist…Thoroughly engrossing, [the Symphony’s] sudden finish is dismaying but it is wonderful to hear this final utterance in such an idiomatic account. Needless to say, the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra are on top form; no one plays Pettersson like them!” – Gramophone

1CD# BIS 2290 $17.99

Gottfried von Einem: The Trial, Nine Scenes / HK Gruber; Orf Vienna RSO [2 CDs]

Catchy thematic and melodic ideas and sharply accentuated rhythm characterized von Einems highly personal musical diction, which can also be discerned in the opera Der Prozess. Einem-pupil, composer and conductor HK Gruber made an amazing, by audience and press enthusiastic celebrated concertant performance during the Salzburg Festival 2018, which is documented on this recording.

2CD# CAP 5358 $24.99

Isang Yun: Chamber Music / Shota Takahasi, oboe; Walter Grimmer, cello; et al.

The chamber music occupies an important role in Yuns oeuvre; the composer experimented with not only the most diverse and also unusual combinations of instruments, but also continued to compose in traditional classical genres. The present release features his East-West-Miniatures, his Quartet for Oboe and String Trio, and more.

1CD# CAP 5364 $16.99

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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 9 & 15 / Moscow PO; USSR Symphony Orchestra“With a superbly vivid Fifteenth, generally hard-driven à la Mravinsky but far more convincingly poised... first movement goes at a frightening lick, deserting the toy shop for the asylum, the slow movement lacks only the very last ounce of desolation and the finale, always intelligently conceived, is suitably emotive at the close. The sound has immediacy and enough depth.” – Gramophone

1CD# MSLC 1362 $15.99

Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 / Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Orchestre Metropolitain de MontrealJean Sibelius wrote the first of his seven symphonies in 1898. The young Finnish composer already speaks in the unique voice he will develop in his later scores, most notably the airy orchestration, the remarkable treatment of the lower registers, the long crescendos carefully crafted to build the utmost tension, and the superb wind solos.

1CD# ATMA 22452 $12.99

Hugo Alfven: Symphony No. 3; Uppsala Rhapsody / Deutsches SO BerlinIn his Symphony No. 3, Alfvén, like many other Scandinavian composers, found the typical Nordic tone of his music in the sunny south. Like Sibelius second symphony and Stenhammars Serenade for Orchestra, this symphony is Swedish through and through. In addition, it is pervaded by the longing for home repeatedly felt by Alfvén during his years of wandering.

1CD# CPO 555237 $15.49

Piazzolla: Chamber Works / Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim

The present release presents Piazzollas concertos and chamber works performed by the trio of William Sabatier, Friedemann Wuttke, and Wilfried Holzenkamp. The trio first emerged as a duo when in 2017 bandoneon player William Sabatier and guitarist Friedemann Wuttke met at the Kiosk European Festival in Lyon. Out of this encounter arose a successful collaboration and beautiful friendship.

1CD# PRF 18089 $17.99

Elgar: Enigma Variations; In the South; Serenade / Petrenko; Royal Liverpool PO

Elgar’s breakthrough masterpiece was conceived in 1898 during a moment of dispirited idleness. He had come home exhausted from a day of violin teaching and was absent-mindedly extemporizing at the piano when his wife, Alice, called out: “Edward, that’s a good tune.” What Elgar’s fingers had stumbled upon were in fact hints or fragments of a melody - ideal for variation treatment.

1CD# NYX 4205 $19.99

Weill: The 7 Deadly Sins / Grzegorz Nowak; SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern

The Seven Deadly Sins is a satirical parable and the last co-operation between Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht. The present album is a re-release of the SWRmusic bestseller 93.109 having the outstanding Anja Silja as Anna. The sung ballet is in nine movements, and was written in 1933 as Weill watched the Nazis seize power following the Reichstag fire of February 1933.

1CD# SWRM 19519 $9.99

Kurt Atterberg: Chamber Music / Orebro Chamber Orchestra

“A valuable contribution to the growing catalogue of Atterberg’s music currently available.” – MusicWeb International. This release includes the first recording of Kurt Atterbergs concerto for violin, cello and symphony orchestra, a work inspired by folk tunes and commissioned by the Swedish Radio in 1960. This release also includes his Suite Barocco- elegant neoclassical music

1CD# DCD 836 $16.99

Radamés Gnattali (1906–1988): Flor da Noite / Luis Rabello, piano; Floor Braam, violin

The music of Radames Gnattali stands very distinguished on the Brazilian classical music landscape given the composers unique background: a hybrid of classical virtuoso pianist, composer of symphonies, concertos and sophisticated chamber music and popular composer who immensely contributed to different musical styles in the Brazilian music scene such as the samba, choro, bossa nova and jazz.

1CD# CHL 72805 $16.99

Violin Music of Nielsen, Halvorsen, Svendsen / Lisa Jacobs, violin; Bremer PO

“Since the first time I performed the Nielsen violin concerto in 2007, I have been overwhelmed from the very first note. Such an incredible connection with the whimsical Nordic nature that is displayed in this music, such as a natural use of the violin as both a lyrical and virtuoso instrument and such an originality.” – Lisa Jacobs

1CD# CHL 72799 $16.99

Works for Flute & Piano / Erica Nygard, flute; Niels Burgmann, organOn this new release, Erica Nygård and Niels Burgmann display their core repertoire, which focuses mainly on music from the 20th century. Besides concentrating on works originally written for flute and organ they also perform arrangements of important compositions from the flute repertoire. Both artists have built up successful careers as chamber musicians and soloists.

1CD# ABA 439 $16.99

The Symphony in Modern Times

The Modern


Andrzej Dziadek: Orchestral Works / The National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra

The present album featuring the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice and the Polish Radio and Television Choir and Symphony Orchestra in Kraków contains works created over the span of almost 30 years, which prompts the listener to reflect on a series of musical transformations that were gradually taking place in the composers musical language.

1CD# DUX 1439 $19.99

American Recorder Concertos / Michala Petri, recorder; Nordic String Quartet; et al.

‘Michala Petri s playing on this recital gives ample evidence why she is nonpareil in the recorder world. I simply cannot imagine these works any better performed. If there is another recorder player out there that could even match her pitch and tonguing accuracy, her musical expressiveness, and her ability to vary the very timbre of her instrument, in fact, I m unaware of whom that might be.” – Fanfare

1CD# OUR 8226912 $16.99

Edmund Finnis (b.1984): Chamber Music / Eloisa-Fleur Thom; Mark Simpson; et al.

“The music of Edmund Finnis invites rather than demands attention – and the more it is given, the more its gifts unfold… Each work on this exquisite debut disc is, in effect, a constantly changing prism in which surface and depth are revealed in tactile, mutual oscillation.” – BBC Music Magazine. This release features the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the London Contemporary Orchestra, and more.

1CD# NMC 249 $16.99David Carpenter: Chamber Music / Rebecca Harris, violin; Charles Abramovic, piano

Composer David Carpenters PARMA debut, From the Valley of the Baca, features three works that illustrate the expansive scope of his compositional style. From the lyrical Trio, to the powerfully poetic title work for baritone and piano, to the romantically-inclined Sonata, From the Valley of the Baca demonstrates the composers ability to express his artistic vision in a wide variety of musical genres.

1CD# NVA 6208 $14.99

Ana Sokolovic: Sirens; Tanzer Lieder; Pesma; Evta / Kristztina Szabo, mezzo;

This new recording features the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, soprano Florie Valiquette, mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó, and vocal ensemble Queen of Puddings Music Theatre. The human voice is at the heart of Sokolovic’s work, so that it is fitting that her vocal works Sirens, Tanzer Lieder and Pesma are featured on this ATMA debut recording.

1CD# ATMA 22762 $15.49

Steve Reich: Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton / Colin Currie Group; Synergy Vocals

Programed at the composer’s request and performed under his supervision, this release captures a group of truly world-class performers at the peak of their powers. Currie conducts and performs with the Colin Currie Group and their long-standing collaborators Synergy Vocals. He is joined on stage by Steve Reich for a performance of Clapping Music. This album is essential for any Reich fan.

1CD# CCR 0003 $13.99

Ian Krouse: At Home and Abroad / Leslie Shank, violin; Joseph Hagedorn, guitar

Among the works are a belated wedding gift from David Lang to the married duo partners; a serenade by Alf Houkom that simply celebrates the joy of making music together; a luminous- almost ambient- arrangement of Dowlands Frog Galliard by Ian Krouse that Brian Eno would find hard to beat; and David Hahns W is for Weasel.

1CD# INNO 021 $15.99The Other Half of Music / Ensemble Chaminade

This release features works for piano and wind instruments written by ten contemporary female composers from around the world. The performances are by the Ensemble Chaminade (clarinet, oboe, horn, bassoon and piano), an ensemble specifically founded to study, record and promote this kind of repertoire. World Première Recording.

1CD# DYN 7837 $18.99

David Matthews: Symphony No. 9; Variations for Strings; Double Concerto for Violin & ViolaDavid Matthews has established an international reputation as one of the leading symphonists of our time. Here, Kenneth Woods conducts the English Symphony Orchestra.

1CD# NIM 6382 $16.99John Robertson: Orchestral Music / Anthony Armore; Sofia Philharmonic OrchestraThere is something unique in the manner Robertson employs soloists and instruments: a layered, atmospheric kind of instrumentation which is apparent from the first second.

1CD# NVA 6223 $14.99Mark Andre: Hij 1 for Orchestra; Hij 2 / Marcus Creed; SWR Experimentalstudio“There is as much darkness as there is luminosity here, but once found, the strange beauty in these black mirrors will stay with you for a long time.” – MusicWeb International

1CD# WER 73792 $18.99Pehr Henrik Nordgren: Concertos for Horn, Violin & Strings / Jari Valo; Jukka HarjuThese three works were composed between 1994 and 1997. In the beginning, Nordgren wrote most of his solo concertos in several separate movements. Later on, he preferred the one-movement form.

1CD# ABA 425 $16.99

MusicNEW RELEASES - CONTEMPORARY

CONTEMPORARY WORKS WITH ORCHESTRA IN BRIEF

Daniel Asia: String Quartets Nos. 1–3 / Amernet String Quartet; Cypress String QuartetThe eclectic new music composer Daniel Asia presents his three string quartets giving a wonderful view of his style! Together, these three quartets give a wonderful view of the progression and development of this seminal composer’s compositional style generally, and in the medium of the string quartet genre specifically. ‘’...a sensuous approach to sound...’’ – New York Times

1CD# SUM 746 $19.99

Arvo Part: Magnificat; Stabat Mater / Ensemble Le Nuove MusicheExcellent performances by Le Nuove Musiche, conducted by Krijn Koetsveld, who delivered a remarkable achievement in recording the complete Madrigals by Monteverdi for Brilliant Classics. Their experience in performing Renaissance vocal music is paying off in these deeply felt performances of 20th century choral masterworks.

1CD# BLC 95807 $13.99

Kaija Saariaho: True Fire; Trans; Ciel d’hiver / Finnish Radio Symphony OrchestraKaija Saariaho is among the most prominent names in contemporary music scene today and this new album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu includes world première recordings of three works by Saariaho featuring bass-baritone Gerald Finley and harpist Xavier de Maistre as soloists.

1CD# OND 1309 $15.49

Jeffrey Brooks: The Passion / David Bloom; Contemporaneous; Bang on a Can All-Stars

Big expressive gestures, pop and rock influences, and New York-style “”downtown”” noise are all signatures of composer Jeffrey Brooks’ vibrant and electric music. Featuring edgy, performances by the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the New York-based large ensemble Contemporaneous, the recording is, in essence, a tribute to the lasting power of friendship, and a triumph of the human spirit.

1CD# CPE 21146 $19.99

Bennett: Symphony No. 1; Zodiac / Sarah Connolly, mez; BBC Scottish SO

Zodiac is dedicated to the composer Elisabeth Lutyens, whose music and personality Bennett cherished throughout his life. A History of the Thé Dansant sets poems by his older sister, the poet Meg Peacocke. And Reflections on a Sixteenth Century Tune is dedicated to the conductor John Wilson, with whom Bennett shared a musical connection that deepened into a true and lasting friendship.

1CD# CHA 5230 $19.99

Trevor Dunn: Chamber Music / Carla Kihlstedt, violin; Vicky Chow, piano

Bassist, composer, bandleader and arranger, Dunn has been a mainstay of dozens of hi-profile ensembles for over 30 years. Nocturnes is a moody and brooding program of compositions featuring his first string quartet, Six Nocturnes for Piano, an early piece from 1989 for bass and string quartet, and a dynamic trio for piano, violin and

bass featuring Carla Kihlstedt and Vicky Chow.1CD# TZA 4028 $19.99

David Hackbridge Johnson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 / Paul Mann; Liepaja SO

The Fifteenth Symphony, tone-poems and other works offered here show a change in focus for the composer: an engagement with the natural world, reflecting the poetry of changing light and shifting winds, with man’s impermanent presence dwarfed by the implacable grandeur of nature. Here Paul Mann conducts the orchestra of the very Latvian town - Liepaja - that inspired the Fifteenth Symphony.

1CD# TOC 0456 $16.99Igor Raykhelson (b.1961): Piano and Chamber Music / Konstantin Lifschitz, piano

In his early days the composer-pianist Igor Raykhelson born in Leningrad in 1961, once a New York resident and now based in Moscow studied both classical and jazz piano. Both influences have combined to create a uniquely personal, Rachmaninov-plays-the-Blues Neo-Romantic style: not only is Raykelson unafraid to write a good tune- its clear right away whose tune it is.

1CD# TOC 0485 $16.99Bernard Rands: Chamber Music / William Boughton; BBC National Orchestra of Wales

The tone poem, ‘Aubade’ is a transcription of the central Aubade movement from the Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra, which was written for the soloist Robert Walters. The solo part of the chamber piece is identical to that of the concerto movement, while the orchestral music is accommodated, with adjustments, by the string quartet.

1CD# LYTA 379 $16.99

Danny Elfman: Violin Concerto; Piano Quartet / Royal Scottish National OrchestraDanny Elfman’s music is known to millions, and in addition to his more than 100 film scores, he writes music for the concert hall. About this project, he writes: ‘Most people know me as a film composer. A few years ago I came to the conclusion that I didn’t just want to write orchestral music totally free from the influence of film, I virtually had to in order to keep my sanity.’

1CD# SBMG 19075869752 $12.99

ContemporaryMaster Composers of Our Time


Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888): Works for Solo Piano / Yury Favorin, piano

Charles-Valentin Alkan is one of the most talented French romantic composers and pianists yet his music has rarely been recorded, and too little performed. Symphony for Solo Piano, with its intense, deep, dense style, exploring and shaping the colorful timbres, it is indeed a symphony that Alkan has written for the piano and not a transcription for piano of an orchestral work.

1CD# MUSO 022 $18.99

Reynaldo Hayn: Premiere Suite; Orient; Carnet de voyage / Yoonie Han, piano [2 CDs]

Praised for her flowing tones, poetic phrasing and heavenly singing melodies (Cincinnati Inquirer), and musical imagination and feel for complex textures that drew vivid images (Washington Post), South Korean pianist Yoonie Han has won top prizes in distinguished international competitions and the highest accolades for her poetic performances in major concert halls in the U.S. and around the world.

2CD# STEI 30108 $24.99

Schumann: Grande Sonata No. 3; Gesange der Fruhe; et al. / Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Following his recent acclaimed recordings of Haydn and Beethoven Sonatas, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet turns from the Classical to the Romantic era, and the works of Schumann. “Bavouzet brings [the later works] to life here with a radiant energy that utterly refutes the notion that Schumann’s creative powers were by now fast waning.” – BBC Music Magazine

1CD# CHA 20081 $18.99

Discover the Pianio Music of Alan Richardson / Martin Jones, piano

Martin Jones selected works on this release to include extended concert works, picturesque pieces, and short studies for educational use. Alan was a complete musician a composer, performer, teacher, and a person of extraordinary natural musicality. Small wonder then that he was viewed with profound respect by all those within the musical profession who were privileged to come into contact with him.

1CD# LYTA 381 $13.99

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas opp. 109, 110, 111 / Steven Osborne, piano

Beethoven’s three final sonatas constitute one of music’s great spiritual journeys. “From the first note, Osborne’s kinship with the composer is everywhere apparent and he conveys the vast contrasts of the last three sonatas unerringly...What is particularly winning about this new set is the way Osborne occupies the very different world of each sonata with equal conviction...” – Gramophone

1CD# HYP 68219 $19.99

Paderewski: Piano Works / Kevin Kenner, I.J. Paderewski’s piano, 1925

The Fryderyk Chopin Institutes new recording series has been given the name Resonance. The recording contains remarkable works for piano: the Sonata in E flat minor op. 21 as well as popular miniatures in the interpreatation of eminent American pianist Kevin Kenner, the winner of the 1990 Chopin Competition. Kenner plays a 1925 Steinway piano that once belonged to Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

1CD# FYCS 057 $17.99

Fernando Lopes–Graça Portuguese Piano Music / Joana Gama, piano

This recording is the outcome of years dedicated to the research and performance of Portuguese music. In 2017, Gama defended her doctoral thesis Performance studies on Portuguese contemporary music for piano: the particular case of evocative music of elements of the Portuguese culture at the University of Evora, with a scholarship granted by the Portuguese government.

1CD# GRPO 792 $16.99

Schumann: Piano Music / Christopher Park, pianoThe present album features a pure Schumann program. It is a musical bouquet, suitable for the beginning of spring, which includes the rarely heard Scherzo which belongs to the Concerto, op. 14.

1CD# OEH 1886 $14.99

Chopin: Mazurkas / Radoslav Kvapil, pianoRadoslav Kvapil is considered to be the most important Czech pianist performing today. “There’s a wealth of character in his playing, which is deeply poetic and dignified” – BBC Music

1CD# MSLC 3104 $15.99Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4 / Nicholas Walker, pianoAlthough his Beethoven performances have brought him special critical acclaim, Nicholas Walker’s performances of lyrical and late Romantic piano music have also been highly praised.

1CD# GRPO 810 $16.99

Schubert: Piano Works, Piano Transcription by Franz Liszt / Khatia Buniatishvili, pianoBuniatishvili presents her first Schubert recording, which includes Schuberts great last Piano Sonata, the four popular Impromptus, and the short piece Standchen, arranged by Franz Liszt.

1CD# SBMG 19075841202 $12.99

AlbumsNEW RELEASES - PIANO

ROMANTIC ERA PIANO MUSIC IN BRIEF

Joseph Woelfl, Mozart, Beethoven: Piano Works / Luisa Imorde, piano

Mrs. Imorde contrasts the variations of Woelfl and Beethoven over the same musical theme by Salieri La stessa, la stessissima, they open and finish this recording. In addition to that, Mozarts visionary Adagio and Fugue for two pianos, pave the way to the future. Jacques Rouvier, former teacher of Luisa Imorde at the University of Music Mozarteum, Salzburg, plays the second piano.

1CD# BER 0301162 $19.99

20th Century British Piano Music / Nathan Williamson, pianoNathan Williamson turns to British piano music of the 20th century in Colour and Light, a revealing exploration of how the past influences the present and the new. “The chief novelty is the arrangement by Ravel of excerpts from a Delius opera, Margot la Rouge, prefaced by the nocturne from his Florida Suite (Robert Threlfall’s transcription).” – The Sunday Times

1CD# SOMM 0196 $18.99

Fazil Say: Troy Sonata; The Moving Mansion; Art of Piano, Op. 66 / Fazil Say, pianoThe centrepiece of this album of piano works by Fazıl Say is his Troy Sonata. Say gave its premiere in August 2018 in the Turkish city of Çanakkale, near the historical site of Troy itself. “There are not many purely musical works on the subject of Troy,” explains Say, “so I have endeavoured to express all the dramatic features of this magical legend through the language of music.”

1CD# WRNC 590785 $19.99

Poulenc: Music for Piano, & Four Handed Piano / Eva-Maria May, Alexander WienandMays and Alexander Wienands playing brings both Poulencs humorous and serious sides to light, thus making for a varied and entertaining hour of listening. “Onda Verde bring out every facet of Poulenc’s astonishingly varied personality in these delightfully-tailored performances of his four-handed and two-piano music.” – MusicWeb International

1CD# PANO 0098 $18.99

Salon of Polish Women Composers / Magdelena Lisak, Pleyel piano

It was in salons that new works were commented upon, artists judged, and leading trends in music were established. Salons run by women played a special role in the 19th century. One of these was the Petersburg salon maintained in 1827-31 by the famous Polish artist Maria Szymanowska, official court pianist to the Tsarinas Maria Feodorovna and Yelisaveta Alexeievna of Russia.

1CD# CDAC 246 $10.49

Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 3, 8 & 13 / Lars Vogt, piano

“Today the pianist seeking to delivery some plausible representation of Mozart’s musical imagination on a modern instrument must do so with a fearless blend of compromise, adjustment and conjury. Lars Vogt certainly possesses all these qualities [...] This is richly communicative Mozart-playing, capturing a youthfulness touched with wisdom.” – Gramophone

1CD# OND 1318 $15.49

Piano Works of Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Liszt, et al. / Jorge Bolet, piano (recital 1988)

This is a live recording of a piano recital the great Jorge Bolet gave 1988, in Germany, two years before his death. The works are by composers Jorge Bolet favoured most. This is a re-release of a SWR bestseller. When the festival was held in 1952, eventhe founders could not imagine that this was the beginning of a success story that would make it one of the major German festivals of the post war era.

1CD# SWRM 19413 $13.99

Artur Schnabel: Complete Works for Solo Piano / Jenny Lin, piano [2 CDs]

Artur Schnabel’s piano works represent the major stages of his composing life, and are written for the instrument whose possibilities he knew best. Pianist Jenny Lin’s traversal of this music, composed between 1896 and 1947, affords a view from the keyboard of a strikingly unique composer, who operated at the very highest level of his art.

2CD# STEI 30074 $24.99

Evocation, Klara Min Plays Piano Works of Scriabin, Mozart, Messiaen

Klara Min’s album presents us with piano pieces intimating this dark but dazzling night. Its title, Evocation, suggests night s musical power to awaken and stir subliminal feelings hidden at the depth of our souls. World-renowned concert pianist Klara Min is a Steinway Artist who makes her home in Berlin and New York.

1CD# STEI 30096 $17.99

Beethoven: Eroica; Sonata No. 30; Bagatelle, Op. 126 / Florian Glemser, piano

More and more young German pianist Forian Glemser is establishing himself in concert life. For his debut with OehmsClassics, he wanted a pure Beethoven program that can hardly be more demanding. He has included the Eroica-Variationen Op. 35, the Sonate No. 30 Op. 109, and Sechs Bagatellen Op. 126- an impressive program for any career, much less that of such a young performer.

1CD# OEH 1703 $14.99

Jeremy Denk Plays Piano Works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, et al. [2 CDs]The two-disc album captures a program of works spanning seven centuries. “There is plenty of lovely piano-playing here, from a fleet-footed Bach Chromatic Fantasy to an architecturally conceived Isolde’s Liebestod, which is my personal highlight. The choices of repertoire on the second disc are never less than thought-provoking…Yet the conceptual flaws of the project remain glaring.” – Gramophone

1CD# NON 563316 $19.99

New PianoPiano Music in the 20th century


Reports: choral works by Perttu Haapanen / Nils Schweckendriek; Helsinki Chamber Choir

Perttu Haapanen (b.1972) has established himself as one of the most exploratory and intellectually curious composers of vocal music active in the Nordic countries. He combines a deep understanding of traditional choral sonority with a modernist fascination for extended techniques and a post-modern interest in the deconstruction of text. Haapanen examines the full range of sound production available using the human vocal apparatus.

1CD# BIS 2452 $17.99

Edvard Grieg Kor Sings Grieg / Edvard Grieg KorThe Norwegian vocal ensemble Edvard Grieg Kor is the resident a cappella ensemble at Troldhaugen, the home of Edvard Grieg. Greig’s Fire Salmer, (Four Psalms) and his shorter Ave Maris Stella are presented on this album along with pieces by Jonathan Rathbone and David Lang. Works by fellow Norwegian composers Ole Bull and Agathe Backer Grøndahl, and an arrangement of Greig’s Holberg Suite complete the program.

1CD# CHA 5232 $19.99

Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible / Robert Hollingworth; I Fagiolini

Probably the greatest polymath of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was also a musician and revered music. I Fagiolini combines art, music and science to mark the 500th anniversary of the death of the ‘Rennaissance Man’. Shaping the Invisible’ explores his best-loved images through the prism of music by Tallis, Howells, Victoria, Bach, Monteverdi, Janequin, and also includes a new commission from composer Adrian Williams.

1CD# COO 16171 $18.99

Schubert: Elysium - The Complete Choral Works for Male Voices, Vol. 5 / Camerata Musica Limburg

“Freude, schöner Götterfunken!” (Joy, fair sparks of the gods) seems to be the cry of the fifth album by the Camerata Musica Limburg of the complete recording of Schubert’s works for male choir. Elysium is a pleasurable stroll through heavenly realms. This release is on par with the entire collection: an immaculate ensemble sound and an interpretation wonderfully worked out by conductor Jan Schumacher and his masters.

1CD# GUIN 19654 $18.99

Petr Eben (1929–2007): In Heaven / Jiri Skopal; Jitro Czech Girls Choir

The Jitro Czech Girls Choir, under the leadership of Jirí Skopal, presents yet another vivid exploration of the depths of traditional Czechoslovakian music. The tone for the album is set by Liturgical Chants, five pieces which express the spiritual and musical code of European culture by Petr Eben, an icon of 20th-century Czech music. Eben’s artistic vision never loses respect for his sources, or for their simplicity and humanism.

1CD# NVA 6228 $14.99Renmen Laments / Eric Christopher Perry; Renaissance Men

Renmen Laments is an exploration into the valleys of the soul and for the Renaissance Men, the melancholic nature of their musical exploration is shared amongst the talents of the vocalists. The religious text communicated by the choir tells tales of sorrow and faith. There is a holy aura reminiscent in the Renaissance Men’s music, and the result is an album that is magnetic in the enlightened lament.

1CD# NVA 6210 $14.99

Kurt Sander: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom / PaTRAM Institute Singers [2 CDs]The music performed on this new recording of Russian Orthodox choral music in the English language was written by Dr. Kurt Sander (b. 1969). Conducted by Peter Jermihov, it is the first and only complete setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in English. Rooted in the 19th Century Russian models of such masters as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and others, Sander’s Liturgy grows from and rightfully belongs in their midst.

2CD# REF 731 $19.99

NEW RELEASES - CHORAL

New Choral AlbumsChoral Music of Devotion

Let Us All Press On: Hymns of Praise and Inspiration / The Tabernacle Choir; Mack WilbergThe Grammy Award-winning, all-volunteer Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square is made up of 360 men and women who join their talents to create their trademark sound. Let Us All Press On, features beloved classics like “All Creatures of Our God and King” and “More Holiness Give Me.” The title track, “Let Us All Press On,” is a fresh arrangement by Richard Elliott first performed after Russell M. Nelson’s historic address in the spring of 2018.

1CD# MRMT 5219557 $16.99

Bairstow, Harris & Stanford: Choral Works / James O’Donnell; The Choir of Westminster AbbeySir Edward Bairstow (1874–1946), Sir William Harris (1883–1973), and Sir C.V. Stanford (1852–1924) are three composers whose contributions to the Anglican choral tradition are rich in historical significance. James O’Donnell leads the Westminster Abbey Choir in a wide-ranging program of music, most of which is bound up with the national celebrations or commemorations appropriate to war, coronation and royal marriage.

1CD# HYP 68259 $19.99

Of Light & Dust’ – Contemporary Choral Music / Yuval Weinberg; Kammerkoret NOVA“Religious pieces from both Jewish and Christian traditions are contrasted with pieces declaring faith in humankind and life before death. Musically we have chosen to focus on contemporary music, through original compositions and new arrangements based on folk music. In an ever more interwoven world we hope to lift up what unites us.” – Yuval Weinberg

1CD# LAWO 1168 $16.99

Waltzin – chamber works by Martinu, Haydn, Debussy, & Georghiu / Trio FrizzanteWaltzin is the title of the debut recording of Trio Frizzante, an Austrian flute-cello-piano group. They present themselves with a diverse range of music from Haydn’s Flute Trio No. 17 toMartinu’s Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano, and including an arrangement of Debussy’s Piano Trio from 1880. Founded in 2009, Trio Frazzante is made up of Marlies Gaugl (flute), Doris Kitzmantel (piano), and Marta Kordykiewicz (cello).

1CD# AUSG 0016 $18.99

Schumann: Album for the Young, Op. 68, arr. Karttunen / Zebra Trio“Markov emerges with flying colours. Romantic warmth and lyricism run its course. The ardent and tender slow movement is rendered with burnished intensity.” – MusicWeb International

1CD# TOC 0522 $16.99

Trio Sonatas by Teleman, J.S. Bach, C.P.E Bach, et al / Tr!joInspired by the French baroque “mis en concert” technique, the Tr!jo Sonatas present a fresh and unique perspective on music from the 18th century, orchestrating solo harpsichord pieces for a larger chamber music setting. As Tr!jo, Tabea Debus, Lea Rahel Bader and Johannes Lang discover and arrange new repertoire to fit their flexible instrumentation--recorder, viola da gamba, and harpsichord.

1CD# TYXA 18106 $18.99

Debussy: Cello Sonata; Brahms: Clarinet Trio / Brian Thornton, Afendi Yusuf, Spencer Myer

Cellist Brian Thornton is joined by pianist Spencer Myer and clarinetist Afendi Yusuf in a program of chamber music on the Steinway & Sons label. An impeccable performance of Claude Debussy’s striking Cello Sonata is followed by the lovely Clarinet Trio by Johannes Brahms. Brian Thornton is a multi-faceted musician who has touched the lives of thousands of people through musical outreach programs around the world.

1CD# STEI 30109 $17.99

George Onslow (1784–1853): Chamber Music / Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt [2 CDs]

George Onslow (1784–1853) uniquely dedicated dozens of works to the string quartet plus double bass, music which the Ensemble Concertant has championed with special interest. Onslow composed the Piano Quintet op. 79bis when he was at the height of his popularity. The Quintets for String Quartet and Double Bass, Onslow’s specialty, reveal a master situated between classicism and romanticism.

2CD# MDG 6032117 $18.99

Beethoven: String Quartets; Anders Hillborg: Kangsgaard Variations / Calder QuartetThe Calder Quartet presents two very different string quartets from Beethoven–the late masterpiece, Op. 131 string quartet, together with the much more classical, Op. 18 no. 3 quartet. The Kongsgaard Variations by contemporary Swedish composer Anders Hillborg (b. 1954) reveals unexpected sonic relationships to Beethoven’s variation technique. The resulting program is lively, layered and ravishingly beautiful.

1CD# PTE 5186718 $19.99

Rachmaninov, Zemlinsky (1871–1942), Arensky (1861–1906): Piano Trios / Smetana TrioWith their typical vivacity and zest, the internationally renowned Smetana Trio perform three remarkable compositions dating from the late 19th century. Anton Arensky’s Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32., the Trio in D Minor, Op. 3 by Alexander Zemlinsky, and the Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor by Sergei Rachmaninov represent three different musical universes, despite all being written within 4 years of each other

1CD# SPR 4258 $19.99Britten: String Quartet No. 1–3; Purcell: Fantasias for Strings / Doric String Quartet [2 CDs]The Doric String Quartet was founded in 1998 at Pro Corda, Suffolk. “The performances are all superbly judged and controlled, balancing fragility with strength, restraint with great depth of feeling... The early Divertimenti, played with considerable wit and elegance, provide some much-needed contrast to the intensity of it all... This is a major cycle, engaging and profound in equal measure, and you need to hear it.” – Gramophone.

2CD# CHA 20124 $18.99Something In Between: Bernstein, Attahir, Ravel / Trio ZadigThis fruitful “encounter” between Leonard Bernstein and Maurice Ravel juxtaposes Bernstein’s intensity and rhythmic vitality with the melancholy refinement of Ravel’s colors, while also highlighting the composers’ commonalities, such as a shared tonal language and masterful incorporation of jazz idioms. The Zadig Trio came together when childhood friends, Boris Borgolotto and Marc Girard Garcia, met pianist, Ian Barber.

1CD# FLA 748 $18.99Rachmaninov: Piano Trios; Grieg: Andante con moto; Suk: Elegie, op. 23 / Trio WandererRachmaninoff’s output of chamber music is small but precious. The two ‘elegiac trios’ were produced by a young composer under the influence of Tchaikovsky. Nonetheless, Rachmaninoff’s personality is fully present, reaching heights of emotion and expressiveness. The pieces by Suk and Grieg add a further touch of character to the picture, which is painted with the exceptional artistry of the phenomenal Trio Wanderer.

1CD# HAR 902338 $19.99

Chamber Music CollectionsNEW RELEASES - CHAMBER

20TH CENTURY CHAMBER WORKS IN BRIEF

Trios of Instrumental Variety


York Bowen: 20th Century Oboe Sonatas / Alex Kelin, oboe; Phillip Bush, piano

Grammy Award-winner Alex Klein, former principal oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performs sonatas that signify the oboes 20th-century reemergence as a brilliant solo instrument. One of the worlds most famous oboe players, Klein says he waited to acquire a professional lifetimes worth of experience before putting his stamp on the six sonatas heard here.

1CD# CDL 186 $16.99

Légende – works for alto saxophone & piano / Oskar Laznik, sax; Tadej Horvat, piano

From Impressionism to the present: Oskar Laznik and Tadej Horvat present a hundred years of music for saxophone and piano to their listening audience. “Légende” by their fellow Slovenian Lojze Lebic lends this debut album its title - and if the pieces are not yet legendary, then they will be – starting now, with this album.

1CD# MDG 9032097SA $18.99

Gershwin / U.S. Army Concert Band; United States Army Band; Thomas Totondi, Jr.

This recording features arrangements of some of Gershwin’s most popular symphonic works and songs. Recorded by the immensely talented United States Army Concert Band, Gershwin contains important works like Summertime, An American in Paris, and Rhapsody in Blue. The United States Army Concert Band has a worldwide reputation for extraordinary musicianship, and this album is no exception.

1CD# ALSM 07329 $16.99

Music for Wind Ensemble / Martin H. Seggelke; San Francisco Wind Symphony

The San Francisco Wind Symphony, originally founded as the San Francisco Wind Ensemble, is one of the finest wind bands of its kind on the US West Coast. Composers, guest artists, critics, and audiences continue to praise the ensemble’s flexible color palette and artistic mission. The members of the SFWS relish the joy of collaborative musicianship a joy that is passionately shared with you today.

1CD# MKCR 54593 $10.49

Works for Clarinet & Piano / Christoph Schneider, clarinet; Yuliya Balabicheva, piano

This is playing at the highest level, featuring chamber music performed with great sensitivity. From classics such as Weber’s Grand Duo to adaptations such as Beethoven’s Spring Sonata to new music - and even by the musician himself: Schneider’s crazy virtuoso “Konstrukt” experiences its world premiere recording on the present release. More of it!

GUIN 19635 $18.991CD#

Works for Clarinet / Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet; Mariss Jansons; Berlin Philharmonic

“Perhaps the thrust of this new release should be the clarinet as human voice. The second movement of Weber’s concerto certainly has the quality of an operatic aria here, Ottensamer pouring liquid gold into the bel canto phrases... The Mendelssohn and Brahms numbers (all but one in arrangements by Ottensamer himself) make for pleasant listening.” – Gramophone

1CD# DGG B002959302 $18.99

Schubert, Schumann: Works for Clarinet & Piano / Christian Mattick; Mathias Huth

Christian Mattick and Mathias Huth transport us to the world of the Blue Flower, the era of Romanticism. What could be more Romantic than the polished gem of the Lied with piano and the smaller, wordless forms influenced by the vocal genre? This is precisely what we can look forward to on this release by the two exceptional artists featuring classy arrangements for their combination of instruments.

1CD# GUIN 19641 $18.99

Overtures of Borodin, Dvořák, Humperdinck, Prokofiev, Rossini, Weber / 10forBrassThe brass ensemble 10forBrass was founded in 2010 by young musicians from across Germany. They have all been members of highly regarded international orchestras such as the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the Festival Orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

1CD# GUIN 19652 $18.99

Stellar Brass Fireworks for Brass and Organ / U.S. Air Force Academy BandFeaturing works by Saint-Säens, Holst, Marcel Dupre, Louis Vierne, Craig Phillips, Rimsky-Korsakov, Handel, J.S. Bach, and more. This release also includes performances by SMSgt Steven Kindermann on trumpet, SMSgt Gary Stephens on horn, SMSgt John Gohl on trombone, percussionist SMSgt Michael Woods and many more.

1CD# ALSM 10824 $16.99

Kind of Gold – music for brass / Matthias Hofs, trumpet and ensembleMatthias Höfs has brought together current and former students from his trumpet class at the Hamburg Music College for this project. This gathering of colleagues, companions and friends who play for a number of the big German orchestras, make this album into something of a student reunion. “There are very few works in the music literature in which one can experience such a concentrated sound.” – Höfs

1CD# BER 0301129 $22.99Music Arranged for Trombone & Organ / James Box, trombone; Jean-Willy Kunz, organMost of the pieces on this album are from the repertoire he played as a youth, and constitute a kind of intimate diary. Box also points out that all the pieces on the program, from the most serious to the most playful, have left their mark on him in one way or another. James Box presents his first solo album, which includes music that ranges over a 300-year span.

1CD# ATMA 22767 $15.49

InstrumentsNEW RELEASES - WINDS

FEATURING BRASS INSTRUMENTS IN BRIEF

Rise, Works Arranged for Saxophone / Jess Gillam, saxophone; BBC Concert Orchestra

“The range of repertoire enables her to explore a wide breadth of moods and atmospheres. Dancelike pieces... contain by-now trademark Gillam-isms - lively characterization combined with technical brilliance... Harle has managed to grasp, harness and develop the multi-dimensional elements that have been innate to Gillam’s musical character since the very beginning.” – Gramophone

1CD# DEC B003008802 $18.99

I Flautisti Plays Music of J.S. Bach, Tarik O’Regan, Soren Sieg, Jan Rokyta / I FlautistiThe ensemble’s great forte - also the common denominator of the recording - is an engrossing musicality, vivacity and passion. You will definitely want to take the hour-long trip again and again. From the Middle Ages to the present time - from Africa through Japan to the Balkans; a thrilling musical journey with a virtuoso recorder quartet.

1CD# SPR 4254 $19.99

Music for Flute & Guitar / Daniele Ruggeri, flute; Alberto Mesirca, guitarThis unique compilation concludes with shorter solo pieces alternating between flute and guitar, taking in the satisfyingly intricate textures of Crawford Seeger and Wuorinen at each end of American modernism, as well as a touching elegy by Mark Delpriora in memory of a student of his, Basil Keiser. This is the third solo album by the guitarist Alberto Mesirca after his collections of music by Regondi and Sanz.

1CD# BLC 95753 $14.99

J.S. Bach & C.P.E. Bach: Sonata for Flute Solo / Reza Naijfar, alto fluteFlutist Reza Najfar has put together a recording of his own transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach for alto flute. The unique timbre of this instrument guarantees a new listening experience of these works, even if you have heard them many times in their original versions. Currently Naijfar is active as flute professor at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium Innsbruck.

1CD# AUSG 0012 $18.99

A Tribute to Danny Granados / Danny Granados, clarinet; Fidelis String Quartet

Clarinetist Danny Granados was a remarkable musician as well as a passionate arts administrator. While serving as chief financial officer of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, he made this recording with the Fidelis String Quartet (all orchestra members) and friends. It is a program that explores common threads between the works of three prominent, yet very different composers.

1CD# DEL 3562 $16.99

Music for Clarinet & Piano / Julianne Kirk Doyle, clarinet; Michael Sitton, piano

In her debut solo album Dante Dances, clarinetist Julianne Kirk Doyle teams up with Michael Sitton, piano, in performances of works by Dan Welcher and Douglas Lilburn, along with premiere recordings of works by Crane School of Music Faculty Emeriti Elliott Del Borgo and Arthur Frackenpohl. “All the works on this album are very close to my heart.” – Julianne Kirk Doyle

1CD# MKCR 52343 $10.49Music for Bassoon & Ensemble / LowBb Bassoon Cluster

The LowBb Bassoon Cluster proposes the bassoon repertoire through original compositions for bassoon ensemble, working alongside contemporary composers to broaden the repertoire for this instrument. While constantly searching for new sonorities, the group also places great attention on tradition and the past thanks to their experience gained through the study of performing

practice on historic instruments.1CD# SVS 37116 $16.99

Michael & Joseph Haydn Horn Concertos / Premysl Vojta, horn

It is difficult to ascertain how many horn concertos Joseph Haydn and his younger brother Michael actually wrote. Certain works are lost; others are erroneously ascribed, or their authenticity at least doubtful. One of the concertos has even been ascribed by different musicologists to Joseph and to Michael Haydn, but it may have been written by another person entirely.

1CD# CAVI 8553146 $17.99

Beethoven: Septet, Op. 20 / Carducci String Quartet

Emma Johnson & Friends - the ensemble led by the outstanding clarinetist and one of the UK’s best-selling classical artists - returns to SOMM Recordings for an entertaining programme of chamber music led by Beethoven’s magisterial Septet. The group’s second release for SOMM follows 2016’s well-received coupling of Schubert and Crusel.

1CD# SOMM 0190 $18.99

Richard Watkins: The Romantic Horn / Richard Watkins, horn; Julius Drake, piano

This recording presents a selection of some of the most well-loved works for the horn. “Schumann’s famous Adagio and Allegro is the finest performance here, the top C shining, the dynamism undeniable. If Drake is a touch underpowered in Dukas’ Villanelle, the Poulenc ElTgie is a fine account. An enjoyable recital, well recorded.” – Classical Music

1CD# SIG 556 $17.99

Dido and Aeneazz, after Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas / Eric Vloeimans; Calefax Reed QuintetThe album showcases the congenial collaboration between the versatile reed players of Calefax and trumpet player Eric Vloeimans. Dido & Aeneazz invites the listener to join a musical journey that virtuously flows from the baroque original to jazz, calypso and klezmer, and back. Acclaimed in the Netherlands and abroad, the members of Calefax arguably invented a new genre: the reed quintet.

1CD# PTE 5186758 $19.99

Music for WindChamber Music with Flutes

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André Rieu: The Magic Of Maastricht [BR or DVD]André Rieu commemorates a remarkable 30 years since the founding of his beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra. The Magic of Maastricht - 30 Years of the Johann Strauss Orchestra. Features interpre-tations of uplifting, feel-good classics arranged and per-formed as only André and his

orchestra can. Key tracks include “Highland Cathe-dral,” “Love Me Tender” and “Ballade Pour Adeline.” Artists: André Rieu, violin; Johann Strauss Orches-tra (Decca) (Blu-Ray) DEC B002764359 $32.98 (DVD) DEC B002764409 $29.98

Beethoven: Fidelio / Michael Vogel [DVD]Artists: Jacquelyn Wagner; Norbert Ernst; Roman Trekel; Wojtek Gierlach; Tatjana Schneider; Otto Tausk; Mi-chael Vogel/Opernchor St. Gallen; Otto Tausk/Sinfo-nieorchester St. Gallen. (1 DVD-Video) (EuroArts) (180 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Ste-reo) EUA 26485 $40.49

Jacquelyn Wagner gave an excellent role-debut as “Leonore”. “Jacquelyn Wagner is something like a shooting star” (Opernnetz). With the beauty and illuminating power of her voice the young American soprano has rapidly gained international recognition.

Hector Berlioz - Berlin Philarmonic [DVD]Works: Berlioz: La Damna-tion de Faust, march; Le Car-naval Romain; Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14; Le Cor-saire, overture Artists: Berlin Philharmonic. (1 DVD-Video) (EuroArts) (95 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Stereo) EUA 25465 $28.99 On the occasion of Hector Ber-

lioz’ 150th anniversary of death on March 8, 2019, this DVD edition brings together the Best of Berlioz played by the Berliner Philharmoniker and conducted by five of the most renowned conductors. Featur-ing the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Mariss Jansons, Georges Prêtre and Sir Simon Rattle.

Donzetti: Il Castello di Kenilworth [BR or DVD]Artists: Jessica Pratt; Car-mela Remigio; Xabier Andua-ga; Stefan Pop; Dario Russo; Federica Vitali Riccardo Frizza/Orch. Donizetti Opera (Dynamic) (139 min.; 16:9, Color; Dolby Digital 5.1) (Blu-Ray) DYN 57834 $39.99 (DVD) DYN 37834 $29.99 Recorded during the 2018

Donizetti Festival, Il Castello di Kenilworth was first staged at Naples’ San Carlo in 1829. Drawn from a novel by Sir Walter Scott and adapted by librettist Le-one Tottola, this rare opera was unjustly long neglect-ed. This recording features the original version, the role of Warney sung by a tenor (which the composer changed into a baritone in his 1836 revision).

Leo Delibes: Coppelia [BR or DVD]Artists: Margarita Shrayner; Artem Ovcharenko; Alexey Loparevich; Pavel Sorokin/Bolshoi Theatre Orch. & Cho-rus (Bel Air) (100 min.; 16:9, Color; Dolby Digital 2.0) (DVD) BAC 163 $24.99 (Blu-Ray) BAC 463 $29.99Léo Delibes’s Coppélia is primarily an abrasive and

sardonic comedy, which is somewhat unusual in the world of classical ballet. But most importantly, it is a comedy for which excellent music was composed.

La Fresque, ballet [BR or DVD]Artists: Angelin Preljocaj, choreographer; Bal-let Preljocaj (Naxos (USA)) (91 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Stereo) (Blu-Ray) NXS 0094V $24.99 (DVD) NXS 2110600 $24.99The famous traditional Chinese tale of La Fresque (‘The Painting on the Wall’) tells of two travellers who take shelter at a small temple, one of whom becomes so enraptured by the image of a beautiful girl in a fresco that he is transported into another dimension.

Massenet: Manon / ROH [BR or DVD]Artists: Sarah Lamb; Vadim Muntagirov; Ryoichi Hirano; Gary Avis; Itziar Mendiza-bal; Kristen McNally; Martin Yates/Orch. of the ROH. (Opus Arte) (133 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS Digital Surround) (DVD) BOA 1285D $29.99 (Blu-Ray) BOA 7255D $38.99 “Kenneth MacMillan’s retelling

of Abbe Prevost’s cautionary tale of a young man brought low by an amoral young beauty has been a mainstay of the Royal Ballet repertoire since 1974. The current revival is vividly played and danced by some first-rate casts.” (The Financial Times)

Michael Levinas: The Passion According to Mark [BR or DVD]Artists: Magali Leger (sop); Marion Grange (sop); Guilhem Terrail (cntntr) Marc Kissoczy/Orchestre and Vocal Ensem-ble de Chambre de Lausanne (Bel Air Classiques) (87 min.; 16:9, PCM Stereo) (DVD) BAC 152 $19.99 (Blu-Ray)) BAC 552 $24.99

‘The Passion according to Mark-A Passion after Auschwitz’ was commissioned to French com-poser Michaël Levinas by the Swiss association “Musique pour un temps présent”, as part of the events commemorating the 500th anniversary of Luther’s reform. This original oratorio is not only a reinterpretation or a mere revisitation of the Pas-sion, it painfully faces, indeed, the irreconcilable nature of the Passion and the Holocaust.

Midsummer Nights Gala Grafenegg [BR or DVD]Works by: Rossini, Verdi, Bellini, Offenbach, Popper, Bernstein, et al. Artists: Pretty Yende (sop); Joseph Calleja (tnr); Harriet Krijgh (clo); Yuta-ka Sado/Tonkunstler Orch. (C Major Video) (76 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS 5.0) (DVD) CME 749108 $29.99 (Blu-Ray) CME 749204 $40.49

The “spectacular opening” (Salzburger Nachrich-ten) of the Grafenegg Festival 2018 presented at the Midsummer Night´s Gala lots of famous opera aria and orchestral hits. The Tonkunstler Orchestra under Yutaka Sado was joined by the “terrific sing-er” (Kurier) Pretty Yende, her “congenial partner” (Kurier) Joseph Calleja.

Mozart: Don Giovanni [BR or DVD] When it comes to Mozartian perfection on the opera stage, one needn’t always seek it in Milan, Vienna, Salzburg or New York! At the Sferisterio Opera Festival in the central Italian city of Macerata, a rapt audience was treated to a production of Don Giovanni “that will enter the annals of

opera” (ForumOpera.com). Artists: Ildebrando d’Arcengelo; Enrico Iori; Myrto Papatanasiu; Marlin Miller; Riccardo Frizza/Fondazione Orch. Regionale delle Marche. (C Major Video) (174 min.; 16:9, Col-or; DTS 5.0) (2 DVD) 2 CME 749308 $47.48 (Blu-Ray) CME 749404 $40.49

Nicola Vaccaj (1790-1848): Giulietta e Romeo [BR or DVD]Artists: Leanoardo Cortella-zzi; Leonor Bonilla; Raffaella Lupinacci; Paoletta Marrocu; Vasa Stajkic; Christian Senn; Sesto Quatrini/Orch. Acca-demia (Dynamic) (161 min.; 16:9, Color; Dolby Digital 5.1) (2 DVD) 2 DYN 37832 $33.49

(Blu-Ray) DYN 57832 $38.99Within a traditional, 16th century setting, director Cecilia Ligorio choses to convey a sense of doom and tragedy, from the choice of costumes and settings to the stage lighting. “It really was a well-paced, and visually pleasing production that suc-cessfully captured the love and hatred which drives the narrative forward.” (Alan Neilson - Operawire)

Pietro Macagni: Iris [DVD]Artists: Manrico Signorini; Paoletta Marrocu; Paolo Antognetti; Carmine Monaco d’Ambrosia; Alessan-dra Rossi Daniele Agiman/Orch. Filarmonica Puc-ciniana (Bongiovanni) (140 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Stereo) (DVD Video) BGV 20039 $31.49 In Iris, Mascagni is almost obsessively attentive to recitative and his exemplary flexibility at times recalls the sublime “conversation style” “invented” by Puccini. The present production was recorded live at the Teatro Goldoni, Livorno, in December of 2017.

Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts Vol. 1 [7 DVDs or 4 Blu-rays]“There had never been a communicator about music with anywhere near Bern-stein’s brilliance, humor, energy, reach and importance.” (The New York Times). Young People’s Concerts Vol. 1 comprises 17 episodes of the legendary series. Awarded three Emmys and hailed by Variety as “a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting”, Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic left their mark on television history. Aired at prime-time on CBS from 1958 to 1972, 52 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. Volume 1 includes 17 Episodes - The Concerts Nos. 1-14 plus Young Performers Nos. 1-3 (featuring Seiji Ozawa and Lynn Harrell) (C Major Video) (7 DVD Videos) 7 UNTL 800208 $79.49 | (4 Blu-ray Videos) 4 UNTL 800304 $79.49

W.A. Mozart: Three Operas [6 DVD]Works: Mozart: Marriage of Figaro; Don Giovanni; Cosi fan Tutte Artists: Nikolaus

Harnoncourt/Vienna Philharmonic; Adam Fischer/Vienna Philharmonic; ; Bertrand de Billy/Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor. (6 DVD-Video) (EuroArts)

(596 min.; 16:9, Color; Dolby Digital 5.0) 6 EUA 25881 $61.99 “A triumph for Mozart … Netrebko’s golden radiance and dark velvet are ideal” Sal-zburger Nachrichten Claus Guth’s celebrated Mozart-Da Ponte opera trilogy at the Salzburg Festival: This six DVD box set brings together all three Da Ponte operas

Così fan tutte , Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro, filmed live at the Salzburg Festivals between 2006 and 2009.

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André Rieu: The Magic Of Maastricht [BR or DVD]André Rieu commemorates a remarkable 30 years since the founding of his beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra. The Magic of Maastricht - 30 Years of the Johann Strauss Orchestra. Features interpre-tations of uplifting, feel-good classics arranged and per-formed as only André and his

orchestra can. Key tracks include “Highland Cathe-dral,” “Love Me Tender” and “Ballade Pour Adeline.” Artists: André Rieu, violin; Johann Strauss Orches-tra (Decca) (Blu-Ray) DEC B002764359 $32.98 (DVD) DEC B002764409 $29.98

Beethoven: Fidelio / Michael Vogel [DVD]Artists: Jacquelyn Wagner; Norbert Ernst; Roman Trekel; Wojtek Gierlach; Tatjana Schneider; Otto Tausk; Mi-chael Vogel/Opernchor St. Gallen; Otto Tausk/Sinfo-nieorchester St. Gallen. (1 DVD-Video) (EuroArts) (180 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Ste-reo) EUA 26485 $40.49

Jacquelyn Wagner gave an excellent role-debut as “Leonore”. “Jacquelyn Wagner is something like a shooting star” (Opernnetz). With the beauty and illuminating power of her voice the young American soprano has rapidly gained international recognition.

Hector Berlioz - Berlin Philarmonic [DVD]Works: Berlioz: La Damna-tion de Faust, march; Le Car-naval Romain; Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14; Le Cor-saire, overture Artists: Berlin Philharmonic. (1 DVD-Video) (EuroArts) (95 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Stereo) EUA 25465 $28.99 On the occasion of Hector Ber-

lioz’ 150th anniversary of death on March 8, 2019, this DVD edition brings together the Best of Berlioz played by the Berliner Philharmoniker and conducted by five of the most renowned conductors. Featur-ing the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Mariss Jansons, Georges Prêtre and Sir Simon Rattle.

Donzetti: Il Castello di Kenilworth [BR or DVD]Artists: Jessica Pratt; Car-mela Remigio; Xabier Andua-ga; Stefan Pop; Dario Russo; Federica Vitali Riccardo Frizza/Orch. Donizetti Opera (Dynamic) (139 min.; 16:9, Color; Dolby Digital 5.1) (Blu-Ray) DYN 57834 $39.99 (DVD) DYN 37834 $29.99 Recorded during the 2018

Donizetti Festival, Il Castello di Kenilworth was first staged at Naples’ San Carlo in 1829. Drawn from a novel by Sir Walter Scott and adapted by librettist Le-one Tottola, this rare opera was unjustly long neglect-ed. This recording features the original version, the role of Warney sung by a tenor (which the composer changed into a baritone in his 1836 revision).

Leo Delibes: Coppelia [BR or DVD]Artists: Margarita Shrayner; Artem Ovcharenko; Alexey Loparevich; Pavel Sorokin/Bolshoi Theatre Orch. & Cho-rus (Bel Air) (100 min.; 16:9, Color; Dolby Digital 2.0) (DVD) BAC 163 $24.99 (Blu-Ray) BAC 463 $29.99Léo Delibes’s Coppélia is primarily an abrasive and

sardonic comedy, which is somewhat unusual in the world of classical ballet. But most importantly, it is a comedy for which excellent music was composed.

La Fresque, ballet [BR or DVD]Artists: Angelin Preljocaj, choreographer; Bal-let Preljocaj (Naxos (USA)) (91 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Stereo) (Blu-Ray) NXS 0094V $24.99 (DVD) NXS 2110600 $24.99The famous traditional Chinese tale of La Fresque (‘The Painting on the Wall’) tells of two travellers who take shelter at a small temple, one of whom becomes so enraptured by the image of a beautiful girl in a fresco that he is transported into another dimension.

Massenet: Manon / ROH [BR or DVD]Artists: Sarah Lamb; Vadim Muntagirov; Ryoichi Hirano; Gary Avis; Itziar Mendiza-bal; Kristen McNally; Martin Yates/Orch. of the ROH. (Opus Arte) (133 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS Digital Surround) (DVD) BOA 1285D $29.99 (Blu-Ray) BOA 7255D $38.99 “Kenneth MacMillan’s retelling

of Abbe Prevost’s cautionary tale of a young man brought low by an amoral young beauty has been a mainstay of the Royal Ballet repertoire since 1974. The current revival is vividly played and danced by some first-rate casts.” (The Financial Times)

Michael Levinas: The Passion According to Mark [BR or DVD]Artists: Magali Leger (sop); Marion Grange (sop); Guilhem Terrail (cntntr) Marc Kissoczy/Orchestre and Vocal Ensem-ble de Chambre de Lausanne (Bel Air Classiques) (87 min.; 16:9, PCM Stereo) (DVD) BAC 152 $19.99 (Blu-Ray)) BAC 552 $24.99

‘The Passion according to Mark-A Passion after Auschwitz’ was commissioned to French com-poser Michaël Levinas by the Swiss association “Musique pour un temps présent”, as part of the events commemorating the 500th anniversary of Luther’s reform. This original oratorio is not only a reinterpretation or a mere revisitation of the Pas-sion, it painfully faces, indeed, the irreconcilable nature of the Passion and the Holocaust.

Midsummer Nights Gala Grafenegg [BR or DVD]Works by: Rossini, Verdi, Bellini, Offenbach, Popper, Bernstein, et al. Artists: Pretty Yende (sop); Joseph Calleja (tnr); Harriet Krijgh (clo); Yuta-ka Sado/Tonkunstler Orch. (C Major Video) (76 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS 5.0) (DVD) CME 749108 $29.99 (Blu-Ray) CME 749204 $40.49

The “spectacular opening” (Salzburger Nachrich-ten) of the Grafenegg Festival 2018 presented at the Midsummer Night´s Gala lots of famous opera aria and orchestral hits. The Tonkunstler Orchestra under Yutaka Sado was joined by the “terrific sing-er” (Kurier) Pretty Yende, her “congenial partner” (Kurier) Joseph Calleja.

Mozart: Don Giovanni [BR or DVD] When it comes to Mozartian perfection on the opera stage, one needn’t always seek it in Milan, Vienna, Salzburg or New York! At the Sferisterio Opera Festival in the central Italian city of Macerata, a rapt audience was treated to a production of Don Giovanni “that will enter the annals of

opera” (ForumOpera.com). Artists: Ildebrando d’Arcengelo; Enrico Iori; Myrto Papatanasiu; Marlin Miller; Riccardo Frizza/Fondazione Orch. Regionale delle Marche. (C Major Video) (174 min.; 16:9, Col-or; DTS 5.0) (2 DVD) 2 CME 749308 $47.48 (Blu-Ray) CME 749404 $40.49

Nicola Vaccaj (1790-1848): Giulietta e Romeo [BR or DVD]Artists: Leanoardo Cortella-zzi; Leonor Bonilla; Raffaella Lupinacci; Paoletta Marrocu; Vasa Stajkic; Christian Senn; Sesto Quatrini/Orch. Acca-demia (Dynamic) (161 min.; 16:9, Color; Dolby Digital 5.1) (2 DVD) 2 DYN 37832 $33.49

(Blu-Ray) DYN 57832 $38.99Within a traditional, 16th century setting, director Cecilia Ligorio choses to convey a sense of doom and tragedy, from the choice of costumes and settings to the stage lighting. “It really was a well-paced, and visually pleasing production that suc-cessfully captured the love and hatred which drives the narrative forward.” (Alan Neilson - Operawire)

Pietro Macagni: Iris [DVD]Artists: Manrico Signorini; Paoletta Marrocu; Paolo Antognetti; Carmine Monaco d’Ambrosia; Alessan-dra Rossi Daniele Agiman/Orch. Filarmonica Puc-ciniana (Bongiovanni) (140 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Stereo) (DVD Video) BGV 20039 $31.49 In Iris, Mascagni is almost obsessively attentive to recitative and his exemplary flexibility at times recalls the sublime “conversation style” “invented” by Puccini. The present production was recorded live at the Teatro Goldoni, Livorno, in December of 2017.

Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts Vol. 1 [7 DVDs or 4 Blu-rays]“There had never been a communicator about music with anywhere near Bern-stein’s brilliance, humor, energy, reach and importance.” (The New York Times). Young People’s Concerts Vol. 1 comprises 17 episodes of the legendary series. Awarded three Emmys and hailed by Variety as “a rare moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting”, Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic left their mark on television history. Aired at prime-time on CBS from 1958 to 1972, 52 one-hour programs were written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. Volume 1 includes 17 Episodes - The Concerts Nos. 1-14 plus Young Performers Nos. 1-3 (featuring Seiji Ozawa and Lynn Harrell) (C Major Video) (7 DVD Videos) 7 UNTL 800208 $79.49 | (4 Blu-ray Videos) 4 UNTL 800304 $79.49

W.A. Mozart: Three Operas [6 DVD]Works: Mozart: Marriage of Figaro; Don Giovanni; Cosi fan Tutte Artists: Nikolaus

Harnoncourt/Vienna Philharmonic; Adam Fischer/Vienna Philharmonic; ; Bertrand de Billy/Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor. (6 DVD-Video) (EuroArts)

(596 min.; 16:9, Color; Dolby Digital 5.0) 6 EUA 25881 $61.99 “A triumph for Mozart … Netrebko’s golden radiance and dark velvet are ideal” Sal-zburger Nachrichten Claus Guth’s celebrated Mozart-Da Ponte opera trilogy at the Salzburg Festival: This six DVD box set brings together all three Da Ponte operas

Così fan tutte , Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro, filmed live at the Salzburg Festivals between 2006 and 2009.

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Ravel: Bolero; Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printempts [DVD]Works: Ravel: Bolero (rec. 1962 & 1977); Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printempts (rec. 1960 & 1971) Artists: Mau-rice Bejart; Bejart Ballet Lau-sanne (1 DVD-Video) (Eu-roArts) (110 min.; 4:3, B&W and Color; Sound Fmt(s): Mono) EUA 25749 $32.99

Previously unreleased material with Maurice Bejart and the Bejart Ballet Lausanne newly digitized and restored. Included are two performances of each ballet. The choreography is the same for both per-formances of Bolero and The Rite of Spring, done for European television in the 1960’s, one each in B/W and one each in color.

Zbynek Mateju (b.1958) The Little Mermaid, ballet [DVD]Artists: Andreas Sebastian Weiser/Czech Nation-al Theatre Orch (1 DVD-Video) (EuroArts (Warner) (Run Time: 100 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Stereo) EUAW 242674 $27.99 The Little Mermaid is a ballet based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen “Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very deep, so deep that no cable could reach the bottom: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above.”

Chailly Conducts Ravel [BR or DVD]Works: Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales; La Valse; Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Bolero; Fragments symphoniques from Daphnis et Chloe Artists: Riccardo Chailly/Lucerne Festival Orch. (Ac-centus) (87 min.; 16:9, Color, Dolby Digital 5.1) (DVD) ACTS 20451 $24.99

(Blu-Ray) ACTS 10451 $38.99Magnifique! Riccardo Chailly, who was born in 1953 in Milan, studied at the Conservatories of Perugia, Rome, and Milan and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, beginning his career as an as-sistant to Claudio Abbado at La Scala in Milan.

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Bartoli [DVD]Artists: Cecilia Bartoli; David Kuebler; Gino Quilico; Carlos Feller; Robert Lloyd; Klaus Bruch; Gabriele Ferro/Stutt-gart RSO; Choir of Cologne City Opera. (1 DVD-Video) (EuroArts) (158 min. Color; DTS 5.1) EUA 20111 $28.99 Rossini was 24 years old when he wrote his 17th opera and

most renowned, The Barber of Seville, in barely three weeks. This recording is from the 1988 Schwetzinger Festpiele. The production by Michael Hampe is distin-guished by a humorous direction of movement, featur-ing the world-class mezzo-soprano, Cecilia Bartoli.

Thomas Ades (b.1971): The Exterminating Angel [BR]Artists: Joseph Kaiser; Amanda Echalax; Audrey Luna; Alica Coote; Sally Mat-thews; Iestyn Davies; Thomas Ades/The Metropolitan Opera Orch. & Chorus. (1 Blu-Ray Video) (Warner Classics) (143 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS 5.1)

WRNC 587438 $30.49 “If you see one opera this year, make it The Exter-minating Angel,” ran the headline in the New York Times after the US premiere of Thomas Adès’ “stunningly inventive” opera. Tom Cairns’ production is both spectacular and surprising. “Adès keeps the listener on edge,” wrote Opera magazine, “because one never knows where his dazzling palette of pos-sibilities will take him next.”

Spanish Dance / Antonio Gades [DVD]Works: Carmen, Bodas de Sangre, Suite Flamenca, Fuenteovejuna Artists: Anto-nio Gades with Stella Arauzo, Cristina Carnero, Alberto Fer-rero, Angel Gil, Miguel Lara, Vanesa Vento (1 DVD-Video) (EuroArts (Warner)) (352 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS 5.1) EUAW 26481 $37.49

Four signature pieces of Spanish Flamenco Dance with choreography by legendary Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer Antonio Gades (1936 - 2004).

Verdi: I Due Foscari / Domingo, Pirozzi[4K Ultra-HD BR*]Artists: Placido Domingo; Francesco Meli; Anna Pirozzi; Andrea Concetti; Edoardo Milletti; Chiara Milletti; Chiara Isotton; Azer Rza-Zade; Mi-chele Mariotti/Coro e Orch. del Teatro alla Scala (C Major Video) (122 min.; 4K Ultra-HD Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color;

DTS HD Master Audio 5.1) CME 742107 $40.49 The Financial Times was deeply moved by Domin-go’s performance, calling his interpretation of the role “sublime”. *Note: This disc only plays on a 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray disc player with the highest video quality on a 4K Ultra-HD TV.

Exhibition on Screen - Cézanne: Portraits of Life [DVD]Artists: Directed by Phil Grabsky (1 DVD-Video) (Seventh Art Productions) (87 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Stereo) SHAP 202 $21.99 Cézanne - Portraits of a Life is based on a ‘never-to-be-repeated’ exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery, London; Musee d’Orsay, Paris; and Washington’s National Gallery of Art. These portraits provide the substance of this illuminating film, which casts entirely new light on Cezanne’s life and work.

Weber: Der Freischutz / Whun Chung [BR or DVD]Artists: Michael Kraus; Frank van Hove; Julia Kleiter; Eva Liebau; Gunther Groissbock, Michael Konig; Stephen Milling; Tell von Orlowsky; Myung-Whun Chung/Coro e Orch. del Teatro alla Scala. (Naxos) (135 min.;, 16:9, Col-or; PCM Stereo, DTS 5.1) (DVD) NXS 2110597 $24.99

(Blu-Ray) NXS 0092 $24.99In his breakthrough and most popular opera Der Freischütz (‘The Marksman’) composed in 1821, Weber succeeded in his aim of establishing a truly German form. Turning to the folklore and folk songs of his native land he took a story of a marksman who makes a pact with the Devil, vesting it with powerful intensity and an astonishing control of or-chestral color and atmosphere.

Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Merry Little Christmas [DVD]Artists: Sutton Foster & Hugh Bonneville, narrator Mack Wilberg/Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Ryan Murphy/Orch. at Temple Square. (1 DVD-Video) (Mormon Tabernacle) MRMT 5207080 $19.99 The Grammy Award-winning, multiple Emmy Award-winning, all-volunteer Mormon Tabernacle Choir is made up of 360 men and women who join their talents to create their trademark, instantly recognizable sound. They are accompanied by the Orchestra at Temple Square, a 32-member hand-bell choir that are also all volunteer.

Bellini: Norma / DiDonato, Calleja [BR or DVD]Artists: Sondra Radvanovky; Joyce DiDonato; Joseph Calleja; Matthew Rose; David McVicar/Metropolitan Opera Orch. & Chorus (Warner Classics) (184 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS 5.1) (DVD) WRNC 584336 $32.99(BR) WRNC 584336BR $39.99 To open the Met’s 2017–18

season, powerhouse soprano Sondra Radvanovsky tackled one of opera’s most fearsome roles, the title druid priestess of Bellini’s Norma, who wrestles with love and betrayal before making the ultimate sacri-fice on a funeral pyre. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDo-nato sang Norma’s friend and rival, Adalgisa.

Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Phyllida Lloyd’s All-Female Production)Artists: Harriet Walter (1 DVD-Video) (Opus Arte) (153 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS Digital Surround) BOA 1224D $24.99 Set in the present-day in the world of a women’s prison, Julius Caesar could not be more timely as it depicts the catastrophic consequences of a political leader’s extension of his powers beyond the remit of the constitution. As Brutus (Harriet Walter) wrestles with his moral conscience over the assassination of Julius Caesar (Jackie Clune), Mark Antony (Jade Anouka) manipulates the crowd through his subtle and incendiary rhetoric to frenzied mob violence.

Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus [BR or DVD] Artists: Royal Shakespeare Company, Stefan Adegbola, Joseph Adelakun, Kristin Atherton, Will Bliss (Opus Arte) (186 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS HD Master Audio) (Blu-Ray) BOA 7239D $29.99 (DVD) BOA 1263D $24.99Rape, cannibalism, mutilation and murder are the grue-

some tools in this, Shakespeare’s bloodiest play. “A sharp, confident and imaginative modern-dress reading. Bloody good.” (Evening Standard) “A ter-rific cast give a masterclass in power and paranoia in this tremendous modern-day revival of Shake-speare’s tale of revenge.” (The Guardian)

William Shakespeare: King Lear / Shakespeare’s GlobeArtists: Louisa Beadel; Emily Bruni; Burt Caesar; Ralph Davis; Joshua James; Kevin R. McNally; Chris Nayak; Loren O’Dair; Shakespeare’s Globe (1 DVD-Video) (Opus Arte) (198 min.; 16:9 anamorphic, Color; Dolby Digital 5.0) BOA 1278D $24.99 King Lear’s tempestuous poetry is shot through with touches of humour and mo-ments of heart-rending simplicity, as the notion of familial love is questioned and torn apart. With Kevin R McNally in the title role, Nancy Meckler’s production has ‘an underlying through-line of intelligence and sensitivity, and strong supporting per-formances abound’ (The Telegraph). The play is spoken in Shakespeare’s English.

William Shakespeare: Macbeth [DVD]Artists: Christopher Ec-cleston; David Acton; Robin Lough; Royal Shakespeare Company (1 DVD-Video) (Opus Arte) (135 min.; 16:9, Color; Dolby Digital 5.0) BOA 1283D $24.99 “Something wicked this way comes...” Returning home from battle, the victorious

Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder. This contemporary production of Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of Niamh Cusack to the Company.


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Ravel: Bolero; Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printempts [DVD]Works: Ravel: Bolero (rec. 1962 & 1977); Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printempts (rec. 1960 & 1971) Artists: Mau-rice Bejart; Bejart Ballet Lau-sanne (1 DVD-Video) (Eu-roArts) (110 min.; 4:3, B&W and Color; Sound Fmt(s): Mono) EUA 25749 $32.99

Previously unreleased material with Maurice Bejart and the Bejart Ballet Lausanne newly digitized and restored. Included are two performances of each ballet. The choreography is the same for both per-formances of Bolero and The Rite of Spring, done for European television in the 1960’s, one each in B/W and one each in color.

Zbynek Mateju (b.1958) The Little Mermaid, ballet [DVD]Artists: Andreas Sebastian Weiser/Czech Nation-al Theatre Orch (1 DVD-Video) (EuroArts (Warner) (Run Time: 100 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Stereo) EUAW 242674 $27.99 The Little Mermaid is a ballet based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen “Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very deep, so deep that no cable could reach the bottom: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above.”

Chailly Conducts Ravel [BR or DVD]Works: Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales; La Valse; Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Bolero; Fragments symphoniques from Daphnis et Chloe Artists: Riccardo Chailly/Lucerne Festival Orch. (Ac-centus) (87 min.; 16:9, Color, Dolby Digital 5.1) (DVD) ACTS 20451 $24.99

(Blu-Ray) ACTS 10451 $38.99Magnifique! Riccardo Chailly, who was born in 1953 in Milan, studied at the Conservatories of Perugia, Rome, and Milan and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, beginning his career as an as-sistant to Claudio Abbado at La Scala in Milan.

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Bartoli [DVD]Artists: Cecilia Bartoli; David Kuebler; Gino Quilico; Carlos Feller; Robert Lloyd; Klaus Bruch; Gabriele Ferro/Stutt-gart RSO; Choir of Cologne City Opera. (1 DVD-Video) (EuroArts) (158 min. Color; DTS 5.1) EUA 20111 $28.99 Rossini was 24 years old when he wrote his 17th opera and

most renowned, The Barber of Seville, in barely three weeks. This recording is from the 1988 Schwetzinger Festpiele. The production by Michael Hampe is distin-guished by a humorous direction of movement, featur-ing the world-class mezzo-soprano, Cecilia Bartoli.

Thomas Ades (b.1971): The Exterminating Angel [BR]Artists: Joseph Kaiser; Amanda Echalax; Audrey Luna; Alica Coote; Sally Mat-thews; Iestyn Davies; Thomas Ades/The Metropolitan Opera Orch. & Chorus. (1 Blu-Ray Video) (Warner Classics) (143 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS 5.1)

WRNC 587438 $30.49 “If you see one opera this year, make it The Exter-minating Angel,” ran the headline in the New York Times after the US premiere of Thomas Adès’ “stunningly inventive” opera. Tom Cairns’ production is both spectacular and surprising. “Adès keeps the listener on edge,” wrote Opera magazine, “because one never knows where his dazzling palette of pos-sibilities will take him next.”

Spanish Dance / Antonio Gades [DVD]Works: Carmen, Bodas de Sangre, Suite Flamenca, Fuenteovejuna Artists: Anto-nio Gades with Stella Arauzo, Cristina Carnero, Alberto Fer-rero, Angel Gil, Miguel Lara, Vanesa Vento (1 DVD-Video) (EuroArts (Warner)) (352 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS 5.1) EUAW 26481 $37.49

Four signature pieces of Spanish Flamenco Dance with choreography by legendary Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer Antonio Gades (1936 - 2004).

Verdi: I Due Foscari / Domingo, Pirozzi[4K Ultra-HD BR*]Artists: Placido Domingo; Francesco Meli; Anna Pirozzi; Andrea Concetti; Edoardo Milletti; Chiara Milletti; Chiara Isotton; Azer Rza-Zade; Mi-chele Mariotti/Coro e Orch. del Teatro alla Scala (C Major Video) (122 min.; 4K Ultra-HD Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color;

DTS HD Master Audio 5.1) CME 742107 $40.49 The Financial Times was deeply moved by Domin-go’s performance, calling his interpretation of the role “sublime”. *Note: This disc only plays on a 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray disc player with the highest video quality on a 4K Ultra-HD TV.

Exhibition on Screen - Cézanne: Portraits of Life [DVD]Artists: Directed by Phil Grabsky (1 DVD-Video) (Seventh Art Productions) (87 min.; 16:9, Color; PCM Stereo) SHAP 202 $21.99 Cézanne - Portraits of a Life is based on a ‘never-to-be-repeated’ exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery, London; Musee d’Orsay, Paris; and Washington’s National Gallery of Art. These portraits provide the substance of this illuminating film, which casts entirely new light on Cezanne’s life and work.

Weber: Der Freischutz / Whun Chung [BR or DVD]Artists: Michael Kraus; Frank van Hove; Julia Kleiter; Eva Liebau; Gunther Groissbock, Michael Konig; Stephen Milling; Tell von Orlowsky; Myung-Whun Chung/Coro e Orch. del Teatro alla Scala. (Naxos) (135 min.;, 16:9, Col-or; PCM Stereo, DTS 5.1) (DVD) NXS 2110597 $24.99

(Blu-Ray) NXS 0092 $24.99In his breakthrough and most popular opera Der Freischütz (‘The Marksman’) composed in 1821, Weber succeeded in his aim of establishing a truly German form. Turning to the folklore and folk songs of his native land he took a story of a marksman who makes a pact with the Devil, vesting it with powerful intensity and an astonishing control of or-chestral color and atmosphere.

Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Merry Little Christmas [DVD]Artists: Sutton Foster & Hugh Bonneville, narrator Mack Wilberg/Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Ryan Murphy/Orch. at Temple Square. (1 DVD-Video) (Mormon Tabernacle) MRMT 5207080 $19.99 The Grammy Award-winning, multiple Emmy Award-winning, all-volunteer Mormon Tabernacle Choir is made up of 360 men and women who join their talents to create their trademark, instantly recognizable sound. They are accompanied by the Orchestra at Temple Square, a 32-member hand-bell choir that are also all volunteer.

Bellini: Norma / DiDonato, Calleja [BR or DVD]Artists: Sondra Radvanovky; Joyce DiDonato; Joseph Calleja; Matthew Rose; David McVicar/Metropolitan Opera Orch. & Chorus (Warner Classics) (184 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS 5.1) (DVD) WRNC 584336 $32.99(BR) WRNC 584336BR $39.99 To open the Met’s 2017–18

season, powerhouse soprano Sondra Radvanovsky tackled one of opera’s most fearsome roles, the title druid priestess of Bellini’s Norma, who wrestles with love and betrayal before making the ultimate sacri-fice on a funeral pyre. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDo-nato sang Norma’s friend and rival, Adalgisa.

Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Phyllida Lloyd’s All-Female Production)Artists: Harriet Walter (1 DVD-Video) (Opus Arte) (153 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS Digital Surround) BOA 1224D $24.99 Set in the present-day in the world of a women’s prison, Julius Caesar could not be more timely as it depicts the catastrophic consequences of a political leader’s extension of his powers beyond the remit of the constitution. As Brutus (Harriet Walter) wrestles with his moral conscience over the assassination of Julius Caesar (Jackie Clune), Mark Antony (Jade Anouka) manipulates the crowd through his subtle and incendiary rhetoric to frenzied mob violence.

Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus [BR or DVD] Artists: Royal Shakespeare Company, Stefan Adegbola, Joseph Adelakun, Kristin Atherton, Will Bliss (Opus Arte) (186 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS HD Master Audio) (Blu-Ray) BOA 7239D $29.99 (DVD) BOA 1263D $24.99Rape, cannibalism, mutilation and murder are the grue-

some tools in this, Shakespeare’s bloodiest play. “A sharp, confident and imaginative modern-dress reading. Bloody good.” (Evening Standard) “A ter-rific cast give a masterclass in power and paranoia in this tremendous modern-day revival of Shake-speare’s tale of revenge.” (The Guardian)

William Shakespeare: King Lear / Shakespeare’s GlobeArtists: Louisa Beadel; Emily Bruni; Burt Caesar; Ralph Davis; Joshua James; Kevin R. McNally; Chris Nayak; Loren O’Dair; Shakespeare’s Globe (1 DVD-Video) (Opus Arte) (198 min.; 16:9 anamorphic, Color; Dolby Digital 5.0) BOA 1278D $24.99 King Lear’s tempestuous poetry is shot through with touches of humour and mo-ments of heart-rending simplicity, as the notion of familial love is questioned and torn apart. With Kevin R McNally in the title role, Nancy Meckler’s production has ‘an underlying through-line of intelligence and sensitivity, and strong supporting per-formances abound’ (The Telegraph). The play is spoken in Shakespeare’s English.

William Shakespeare: Macbeth [DVD]Artists: Christopher Ec-cleston; David Acton; Robin Lough; Royal Shakespeare Company (1 DVD-Video) (Opus Arte) (135 min.; 16:9, Color; Dolby Digital 5.0) BOA 1283D $24.99 “Something wicked this way comes...” Returning home from battle, the victorious

Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their disturbing prophecies, he sets out on the path to murder. This contemporary production of Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of Niamh Cusack to the Company.


Nightmoves / Kurt Elling, vocals“The Chicago jazz vocalist Kurt Elling shows his musical depth in this after-hours set, which features inspired re-workings of songs by a varied selection of artists, including Frank Sinatra, Irving Berlin, Betty Carter, and the Guess Who. “The sort of once-in-a-rare-moon creative explosion that happens when brains, guts and curiosity intersect.” – JazzTimes.

1CD# CNC 30138 $13.98

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘66 / Sergio Mendes; Jose Soares; Janis Hansen; Lani Hall

SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL 66, the debut album from the famed Brazilian artist, features 10 tracks including “O Pato” and “Berimbau.” This self-titled 10-track set, the debut album by Sergio Mendes and his Brasil ‘66 ensemble, establishes the template for the group’s popular sound, with its mix of lush late-1960s pop and bossa nova.

1CD# A&M B000742802 $11.98

Pepper Adams Quintet / Pepper Adams Stu Williamson; Carl Perkins; Mel Lewis

Pepper Adams ranked among modern jazz’s finest baritone saxophonists. His mastery of the middle and lower registers and technical acumen enabled him to play the cumbersome baritone with a speed, facility, and style usually restricted to smaller horns. This ‘57 quintet date featured him in a more relaxed context with West Coast jazz types like trumpeter Stu Williamson and pianist Carl Perkins.

1CD# VSOP 5 $15.99

Spain / Michel Camilo, piano; Tomatito, guitarDominican pianist-composer Michel Camilo and Spanish flamenco guitarist Tomatito is an intricate improvisational exchange that traverses the Afro-Iberian world, from the Moorish castles of Alhambra to the azure-tinged Caribbean coasts of Havana and Santo Domingo. Let’s hope that these two will continue to explore the pan-Hispanic inventions and dimensions of their shared musical heritage.

1CD# VRV 3145615452 $19.98

Roots / Slide Hampton; Clifford Jordan; Cedar Walton; Billy Higgins

“A tremendous 1985 quintet session with trombonist Slide Hampton heading a distinguished group and nicely teaming with tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan in a first-rate hard bop front line. The rhythm section’s quality isn’t far behind, especially pianist Cedar Walton and drummer Billy Higgins.” – Ron Wynn, AllMusic.com

1CD# CRC 1015 $21.99

Feeling’s Mutual / John Swana; Steve Giordano; Billy Drummond

On this release, John Swana plays ‘Litha’, ‘Trish’, ‘September in the Rain’, ‘Autumn Landscape’, ‘When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again’, ‘Cosmos’, ‘Simple Pleasures’, and ‘Blues On the Road’. It features John Swana on trumpet & fluegelhorn, Chris Potter on sax & flute, Steve Giordano on guitar, Dave Posmontier on organ, and Billy Drummond on drums.

1CD# CRC 1090 $21.99Smokin’ in the Pit / Michael Brecker; Mike Maineri; Don Grolnick; Eddie Gomez [2 CDs]

On this two-disc set, the original lineup of Mike Mainieri’s legendary band Steps Ahead performs to an enthusiastic crowd at the Pitt-Inn in Tokyo in December, 1979. Fresh from an extended run at the Brecker Brother’s Seventh Avenue South club in New York, Mainieri, Michael Brecker, Eddie Gomez, Don Grolnick, tear up the stage with powerful grooves, blistering solos, and magnificent interaction.

2CD# NYC 6027 $34.99

Junior’s Cookin’ / Junior Cook; Blue Mitchell; Dolo Coker; Ronnie Mathews; Roy Brooks

This first solo release from tenor sax player Junior Cook came at the midpoint of his six-year tenure with the Horace Silver Band. It’s a relaxed affair, paced a couple of notches below the intensity of a typical Silver date. Still, with Cook’s front-line partner in the Silver group on board, along with Silver’s rhythm section, the 1961 session has a definite affinity with the hard bop style of the more famous parent group.

1CD# OJC OJCCD1002 $13.98

Bria / Bria Skonberg; Evan Arntzen; Aaron Diehl; Stefon Harris; Ali JacksonWith a unique fusion of modern-day pop sensibility, combined with sizzling musicianship, Bria Skonberg makes a firm claim on fresh territory in the sophisticated pop landscape.

1CD# OKEH 88985337522 $14.99Gemini / Sean Jones, trumpet“Jones has lovely passages. One of them, ‘Gemini’ ends the CD with a reflective gospel melody wrapped in his rich, broad tone.” – JazzTimes

1CD# MCKA 31023 $17.99

Special Delivery / Tito Puente, percussion; Maynard Ferguson, trumpet“The tunes are bop standards with powerful percussion. Ferguson’s aggressive, high-flying attack makes him perfect for a Puente production…” – JazzTimes

1CD# CNC 4732 $13.98The Clark Terry Spacemen / Clark Terry; Red Holloway; Phil Woods; Al Grey“Flügelhornist Clark Terry is teamed with an unusually talented group of all-stars which is filled with distinctive and colorful swing stylists.” – Scott Yanow

1CD# CHSC CRD309 $17.99

RecordingsJAZZ RECOMMENDATIONS

JAZZ TRUMPET IN BRIEF

Dizzy Gillespie Meets the Phil Woods Quintet / Dizzy Gillespie; Phil Woods; Hal Galper“As the greatest musical heir on alto sax to Charlie Parker, it seemed only natural for Phil Woods to record a date with Dizzy Gillespie. This European studio session features Dizzy as a special guest sitting in with one of Woods greatest quintets, with pianist Hal Galper and the brilliant trumpeter and flugelhornist Tom Harrell ... outstanding.” – All Music Guide

1CD# TJZL 74513 $12.99

Mingus at Antibes / Charles Mingus; Eric Dolphy Booker Ervin; Ted Curson; Bud PowellWarner UK 2005 remastered reissue in a digipak. An awe-inspiring live performance recorded at the 1960 Antibes Jazz Festival. Features special guest artist Bud Powell. “...The planned spontaneity which Mingus worked so hard to [achieve] comes off on AT ANTIBES, with a slimmed down group featuring the superb Eric Dolphy...” – Q

1CD# RHIN 2765932CD $15.99

Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods / Dizzy Gillespie; Chico O’Farrill; Machito“Here we have a summit meeting late in the careers of the pioneering titans of Afro-Cuban jazz: Dizzy Gillespie fronting the Machito orchestra on trumpet, with Mario Bauza as music director, alto saxophonist/clarinetist, and organizing force, and Chico O’Farrill contributing the compositions and arrangements.” – Richard S. Ginell

1CD# OJC OJCCD447 $18.98

Get Ready / Carl Allen; Dorsey Robison; Rodney Whitaker; Rodney Jones; Steve Wilson

“Allen and Whitaker make for a truly dynamic modern jazz duo. Their common upbringings and shared sidemen experience make them ideal partners in a quest to move jazz in new directions while maintaining integral links to the past. The forward thinking decision to bring the soulful sounds of their youth into an aggressive, hard swinging environment is an enlightened one.” – AllAboutJazz

1CD# MCKA 1034 $17.99

Elvin! / Elvin Jones“Elvin Jones’ first full-length album as a leader is different than one would expect when it is taken into consideration that he was a member of the fiery John Coltrane Quartet at the time. This session, which also includes his brothers Thad and Hank on cornet and piano in addition to flutist Frank Wess, Frank Foster on tenor, and bassist Art Davis, is straight-ahead with

a strong Count Basie feel.” – Scott Yanow1CD# OJC OJCCD259 $13.98

Moon Alley / Tom Harrell Quintet“A strong recording in the post-bop tradition, Moon Alley illuminates the impressive writing of leader Tom Harrell, who has penned five of the album’s seven compositions. Harrell tends to write in a manner which dictates specific parts for the rhythm section, letting the soloist stretch out over the static accompaniment. ...the album benefits from the youthful

exuberance of saxophonist Kenny Garrett.” – Dan Cross1CD# CRC 1018 $21.99

Thought You Knew / Lauren Kinsella, vocals; Hyson; Arcl; Costley-White; Robinson

Snowpoet is led by the writing duo of 2016 Jazz FM Vocalist of the Year Lauren Kinsella and composer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Hyson. The London-based band features guitarists Josh Arcl and Nick Costley-White, pianist Matt Robinson and drummer Dave Hamblett. They take their musical collaboration and sound to the next level, blending sweet hook laden vocal lines with warm and lush arrangements.

1CD# EDO 1105 $19.99The Skyline Session / Olegario Diaz

This release from 2012 features ‘Eronal’ by Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter’s ‘Black Nile’, ‘A Weaver of Dreams’ by Victor Young, plus ‘Easy Come Easy Go’ and ‘Rosa Del Viento’ by Olegario Diaz. It also includes works by Nacio Herb Brown, Harry Warren, and John Klenner. Lewis Nach, Ron McClure, Rich Perry and Randy Brecker round out the musicians.

1CD# SEPC 31753 $20.99

One by One / Dick Berk; Dan Faehnle; Andy Martin; Mike Fahn; Tad Weed

“For this recording by drummer Dick Berk & the Jazz Adoption Society, he features an excellent rhythm section plus both slide trombonist Andy Martin and valve trombonist Mike Fahn... Virtually every one of the albums by his various bands is easily recommended to straight-ahead jazz fans, and this highly appealing effort is no exception.” – Scott Yanow

1CD# REVR 143 $19.99

When We Find Ourselves Alone / Rodney Whitaker; Rockelle Fortin; Antonio HartRodney Whitaker and company address the leader’s five originals and six arrangements with an old-school feel and a 21st century altitude. They follow the time-tested jazz aesthetic, embracing the tradition of navigating the long-standing forms with individualistic tonal personalities, ebullient soulfulness and an unending will to swing.

1CD# MCKA 1088 $17.99

Recommended Jazz Giants of Jazz


Closer to the Truth / Caesar Frazier; Lyle Link; Jacques Lesure; Leon Joyce Jr

Caesar is an entertainer so unique, that one musical genre does not adequately describe his performance skills. One of the numerous highlights of his musical career include the time he spent traveling on mega concert tours as Marvin Gaye’s keyboard accompanist. “I heard the greatest country artist, blues artist, rock and roll artist, rhythm and blues artist. And, loved it all.” – Caesar Frazier

1CD# SVNT 2171 $17.99Perpetual Optimism / Herlin Riley, drums; Emmet Cohen, piano; Russell Hall, bass

The longtime anchor of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra preaches his silver-lined gospel on 10 tracks whose joyous spirit and contagious swing are sure to convert any listener to the bright side. This album was made against the backdrop of serving as caregiver and then saying farewell to two of the most important people in his life.

1CD# MCKA 1136 $17.99

The Music Never Stops / Betty Carter, vocalsThe Music Never Stops’ is a beautiful piece of unheard history: an archival recording of a concert headlined by the late, great vocalist Betty Carter. Recorded in 1992, the show was a centerpiece of one of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s earliest seasons. Carter titled the singular show ‘The Music Never Stops,’ because, well, the music never really stopped.

1CD# BLEG 14 $17.99Symphonic Bop / VEIN

With Symphonic Bop, recorded with the acclaimed Norrbotten Big Band Orchestra VEIN expands its range beyond the crystalline precision and intimacy of the small ensemble to the awesome power and depth of an internationally acclaimed jazz orchestra. Its like seeing your favorite movie on a bigger screen. ”One of the most imaginative piano trios around” – European Jazz Radio

1CD# DUEM 71355 $16.99

Four Wheel Drive / Nils Landgren, Michael Wollny, Lars Danielsson, Wolfgang Haffner

It scarcely feels necessary to mention the pre-eminent status of all four of these artists, because that is evident from hearing the music... four leading figures in European jazz who know each other well and who have appreciated each others work for many years have now got together. The title of the album reflects the equal role which each of the four musicians has

had in setting the direction for the quartet.1CD# AMV 9875 $18.99

Our Love Is Here To Stay – Gershwin ReimaginedPianist Peter Beets: With this, my latest album celebrating the timeless melodies of one of Americas and the worlds greatest composers, I have the chance to showcase it all - classical, blues, jazz, Latin, and folk music! This is the legacy of George Gershwin who continues to inspire musicians of every persuasion and instrument - and ofcourse, me.

1CD# MGCB 74609 $16.99

Holly Cole: HollyVocalist Holly Cole has for more than two decades been one of the most acclaimed, successful, and adventurous new generation jazz singers. Holly is a deeply-satisfying set of fresh takes on jazz standards, from a funkified “Your Mind is On Vacation” to a dreamy “Everybody Loves Somebody” to a beguiling “Lazy Afternoon.” She is joined by Larry Goldings on piano and Wycilffe Gordon on organ.

1CD# SHA 5468 $19.99

A Wall Becomes A Bridge / Kendrick Scott, bass; Oracle

Kendrick Scott returns with a 12-track song cycle titled, A Wall Becomes A Bridge. Produced by Derrick Hodge, A Wall is a musical and metaphorical journey exploring many themes: innocence (“Archangel”), acceptance (“Windows”), and insecurity (“Voices”). Scott is joined by his Oracle band: pianist Taylor Eigsti, bassist Joe Sanders, guitarist Mike Moreno, and saxophonist/flutist John Ellis.

1CD# BLU 002990502 $17.99

Come What May / Joshua Redman Quartet‘Come What May’ is the first album in almost two decades from this group. “Mr. Redman’s place is secure as one of the most effusive and engaging tenor saxophonists in straight-ahead jazz,” – New York Times

1CD# NON 58591 $16.99Waves of Calm / Jim Snidero; Jeremy Pelt; Orrin Evans; Nat Reeves; Jonathan BarberJim Snidero’s 2019 offering, ‘Waves Of Calm,’ is a CD of reflection, sedation, longing, and inspiration… A fine work of 21st century jazz.” – All Music

1CD# SVNT 2176 $17.99Live At Frankie’s Jazz Club / Cory Weeds Quintet“There’s a clear chemistry at play in this quintet, apparent in the deep-pocketed ‘Formidable’ and ‘Up Tight’s Creek’… the mutual respect of the three front-liners also is clear.” – Downbeat

1CD# CARL 52618 $17.99

Infinity / Tom Harrell, trumpet; Mark Turner, saxophone; Charles Altura, guitarFor this latest HighNote release, featuring a razor-sharp quintet Harrell & company combine complex compositions, seductive rhythms, advanced harmonic concepts and vibrant solos.

1CD# HINO 7321 $17.99

in JazzNEW RELEASES - JAZZ

SAXOPHONE JAZZ IN BRIEF

Bolden, Music from the Original Soundtrack / Wynton Marsalis, trumpetFeaturing acclaimed vocalists Catherine Russell and Brianna Thomas and an all-star cast of instrumentalists that includes Wycliffe Gordon, Victor Goines, Marcus Printup, and more, Wynton Marsalis brings turn-of-the-century New Orleans back to life, imbuing early jazz classics popularized by Bolden and his competitor Louis Armstrong with a modern sound and energy.

1CD# BLEG 15 $17.99

In The Key Of The Universe / Joey DeFrancesco, Pharoah Sanders, Billy HartAs he s made abundantly clear over the past 30 years, Joey DeFrancesco has plenty of soul. What most listeners probably haven’t spent much time pondering is that soul s place in the universe. On his adventurous new album the master organist turns his musical attentions to his spiritual side, tapping into a strain of metaphysical jazz that s fueled sonic searchers for more than half a century.

1CD# MCKA 1147 $17.99

Tribute to Oscar Peterson / Alvin Queen TrioThis release features drummer Alvin Queen, Zier Romme Larsen on piano and Ida Hvid on the bass. Tracks include ‘Nightingale’, ‘The Last Supper’, ‘Jesus Christ Lies Here Tonight’, ‘When Summer Comes’, ‘It Happened in Monterey’, ‘Reunion Blues’, ‘Hymn to Freedom’, ‘You Look Good to Me’, ‘Cake Walk’, ‘Gravy Waltz’, ‘Hero’ and more.

1CD# SUNT 18152 $20.99

Swirl / Michael Wolff TrioA crucial reason why Swirl sounds so buoyant and brilliant is the rapport shared among the trio-mates-comfortable and flowing yet full of musical risk-taking, and always interactive. “I like to play with people I love; that’s really important to me... Having a group to me is like casting a movie: If you have the right people, you don’t have to say much. You just kind of do the work.” – Michael Wolff

1CD# SNYS 1531 $17.99On the Brink / Five Play

Sherrie Maricle, the exciting drummer and leader of the all woman big band, Diva, has assembled a quintet of talented ladies for her band within a band, resulting in a hard driving jazz program with varying moods, rhythms and tempi. But gender has nothing to do with it. As Stanley Kay, the founder of Diva puts it, “if you can play, you can play”. And these five can certainly play.

1CD# ARBS ARJ19218 $10.99

A Little Love / Quiana Lynell, vocals; Alina Engibaryan; Joshuah Campbell

A feast of soul, gospel, R&B, groove and jazz, A Little Love blooms with songs about searching, trying times, buoyant love, deep reflection and social action. Lynell sings with the voice of authority and the takeaway from the album as a whole is honesty. She’s a truth-seeking storyteller with a spirited resolve – covering a wide range of songs from Nina Simone to Chaka Khan, from Duke to the Gershwins.

1CD# CNC 00131 $16.99

Jeremy Pelt, The Artist / Jeremy Pelt, trumpetJeremy Pelt’s recordings and performances have earned him critical acclaim, both nationally and internationally. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal by legendary jazz writer and producer, Nat Hentoff, and was voted Rising Star on the trumpet, five years in a row by Downbeat Magazine and the Jazz Journalist Association.

1CD# HINO 7325 $17.99What Is That Isn’t / Steve Johns; Peter Brainin; Noah Haidu; Marcus McLaurine

This recording is the fourth outing for the exceptional group known as Native Soul. This recording represents their dedication to maintaining excellence and their strong ensemble sound. Each member possesses his own clarity and collectively an incredible chemistry truly exists amongst them. Native Soul encompasses a broad musical swath that is sure to find many a discerning ear.

1CD# CARL 10418 $15.99

Wild Man Blues / Ehud Asherie, piano; Peter Washington, bass; Rodney Green, drums

The New Yorker calls Ehud Asherie ‘A master of stride and swing’ and his latest recording ‘Wild Man Blues’ showcases his mastery of these styles. You can hear the influences of James P Johnson, Fats Waller and Bud Powell in his playing. Joining him are Peter Washington on bass and Rodney Green on drums. Asherie imbues his performances with musical surprises and a sense of humor.

1CD# CAPR 74153 $19.99

Bright Idea / Greg Murphy, piano; Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, drums; Eric Wheeler, bass“Coming back from the 90s version of a jazzman’s life, this propulsive piano man surrounds himself with some pals up for the challenge of keeping up with him and shows that he’s back by turning ‘’Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise’’ into an express train you won’t recognize. Hard hitting stuff from a cat that’s gotten the gratitude attitude and shows it by being thankful he can turn your head... Hot stuff.” – Midwest Record

1CD# WHCT 111 $16.99

New ReleasesNew Release Highlights in Jazz


The Complete Quartet & Jazzmakers Sessions: 1957–59 / Allan Ganley

Allan Ganley is famed for his work with British jazz legends like John Dankworth and Tubby Hayes. This new release includes the contents of two incredibly rare 7” EP’s featuring Ganley’s quartet, ‘Gone Ganley’ and ‘The High Priest’, together with the Jazzmakers’ eponymous New York-recorded debut album. Packaged with rare photographs, this release presents some of the finest British modern jazz of its day.

1CD# AOAT ACMCD4379 $18.99

The Mose Allison Collection: 1956–1962 [4-CD Box]

Mose Allison is an artist who successfully straddled the worlds of jazz, blues and R&B during a career which has, so far, encompassed more than six decades. This 82-track 4-CD set provides a comprehensive overview of the key first six years of his prolific recording career during which he established his reputation. It includes recordings with Al Cohn, Bob Brookmeyer, Stan Getz, and Zoot Sims.

4CD# AOAT ACQCD7078 $25.99

Live at the BBC 1957 / Kenny Baker’s Dozen [2 CDs]

One of the top post-war British jazz musicians of his generation, trumpeter Kenny Baker moved from big-band work in the ‘40s to leading his own ensemble in the ‘50s. The 2014 two-disc collection, Live at the BBC 1957, captures Baker during two live appearances on the BBC Radio program “Let’s Settle For Music” in 1957. Joining Baker are vibraphonist Bill Le Sage, trombonist George Chisholm, saxophonist Harry Klein, and others.

2CD# AOAT ADDCD3111 $18.99

Complete Ray Draper Quintet Sessions: 1957-58 / John Coltrane

Back in the late 1950s John Coltrane was a regular “gun for hire” participating in many sessions by studio-assembled bands including an unusual set of two albums he recorded with Ray Draper. A fascinating and engaging footnote to Coltrane’s career, these albums have been in and out of print for years but this is the first ever to bring them together on one CD release.


The Complete Tempo Recordings: 1955-1958 / Jimmy Deuchar [2 CDs]

Trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar - known as The London Scotsman - was the ultimate “musician’s musician”. A central figure in British jazz circles, it was his series of recordings he made for the fabled Tempo label between 1955 and 1958 that contained his best work. Collected here in their entirety, this two-CD set comes complete with a detailed booklet essay by Simon Spillett and is a must for all fans of the Golden Age of British Jazz.


The Complete Recordings: 1954-1962 / Dizzy Reece [5-CD Box]

Dizzy Reece was that rare beast in the 1950s - a London-based jazz musician who gained an international reputation. The trumpet player counted Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey among his many American admirers and through the tireless promulgation of A&R man Tony Hall eventually landed a record contract with the prestigious Blue Note label. This release also features a comprehensive booklet essay by Simon Spillett.

5CD# AOAT ACFCD7502 $25.99

Live: 1953–56 / The Oscar Peterson Trio [2 CDs]Oscar Peterson ranks as one of the greatest jazz pianists of the post-war era, with a technique and style that was unique and highly distinctive. Both CDs feature excellent ‘live’ recordings from performances with his classic Trio line-up of piano, bass, and guitar, with Ray Brown on bass in both cases, with Barney Kessel playing guitar on the Chicago dates and Herb Ellis on the Ontario festival recordings.


The Jack Teagarden Collection: 1928–1952 [2 CDs]Jack Teagarden was one of the great names of jazz. He recorded prolifically throughout his career and this set comprises recordings both with bands that he led and where he was a member of another leader’s ensemble, plus some co-operative ventures. It is a celebration of a fine and versatile musician working alongside his peers in a medium of which he had complete command.


The Kitty Kallen Collection: 1939–1962 / Kitty Kallen, vocals [2 CDs]Kitty Kallen began her career as a singer with some of the most popular orchestras of the swing and big band years - Jack Teagarden, Jimmy Dorsey, Harry James and briefly with Artie Shaw.

2CD# AOAT ADDCD3146 $18.99The Complete U.S. & U.K. Hits 1942-1962 / Nat King Cole [5-CD Box]This collection brings together a 115-track set of all of Nat King Cole’s US Billboard chart entries including “Nature Boy”, “Mona Lisa”, “Too Young” and “When I Fall In Love”.

5CD# AOAT ACFCD7507 $25.99

The Ella Fitzgerald Collection, Vol. 2: 1936-55 [4-CD Box]Here’s an opportunity to enjoy the progression of Ella’s talent through her career, starting in her first decade of recording and moving through the next ten years up until in the mid-’50s.

4CD# AOAT ACQCD7066 $25.99

The Early Years 1956-1962 / Nancy Wilson [2 CDs]This collection showcases the breadth and distinctiveness of Nacy Wilson’s talent, and her sophisticated artistry as she delivers material across the jazz, blues and pop spectrum


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Blues at the Manor 1959–60 / Tubby Hayes and The Downbeat Big BandFormed in 1956 by a group of prominent London-based British modern jazzmen including trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar, The Downbeat Big Band soon entered the annals of UK jazz history as not only the finest unit of its kind but also as a proving ground for the arranging skills of a musician who would eventually rise to be its unofficial ‘leader’ – Tubby Hayes.


The Collection 1932–1954 / Artie Shaw [2 CDs]Artie Shaw was a unique personality in jazz, big band and swing music - as clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger, he produced some of the most popular and memorable recordings of the swing era. 43 prime cuts from a legendary big-band career including huge hits (“Begin the Beguine”), songs he introduced into the jazz canon (“Frenesi”), original compositions (“Summit Ridge Drive”).

2CD# FAUL FADCD2048 $12.99

Live at Cafe Rouge NYC Jan & Nov 1940 / Glenn Miller & His Orchestra [2 CDs]This 2-CD set features a collection of four complete unedited radio broadcasts made by the Glenn Miller Orchestra as their fame continued to reach new heights, and their radio shows attracted massive nation-wide audiences. This set brings together two shows from early January 1940 with two from November of the same year, all from his residencies at the Café Rouge at New York City’s Hotel Pennsylvania.


The Very Best of Tubby HayesTenor sax prodigy Tubby Hayes burst on to the UK jazz scene during the 1950s and became the most important personality to grace British jazz. This CD, compiled by noted jazz writer Simon Spillett, himself a top tenor sax exponent, cherry-picks some of the most important, admired and outstanding recordings from Tubby’s career, showcasing his remarkable technique and skill.


Live at Club Hangover San Francisco April–May 1957 / The Earl Hines All Stars [2 CDs]

Earl Hines - Live At Club Hangover San Francisco April - May 1957 is a collection of 25 complete unedited half-hour broadcasts from Club Hangover, the premier nightspot for Dixieland and New Orleans music in San Francisco during the 1950s. The Earl Hines All Stars includes Darnell Howard on clarinet, Muggsy Spanier on trumpet, Jimmy Archey on trombone, Earl Hines on piano, and Earl Watkins (drums).


Buried Gold: Complete 1956 Quintet Recordings / Zoot Sims Quintet [2 CDs]

Tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims and valve-trombonist Bob Brookmeyer made a series of studio recorded quintet sessions during 1956 that represented their modern, synergistic, swing-to-bop approach to music. This collection brings together three original quintet albums-The Modern Art of Jazz, Tonite’s Music Today, and Whooeee--as well as period photographs and an extensive booklet essay by saxophonist Simon Spillett.


The Lee Wiley Collection 1931–1957 [3 CDs]Lee Wiley was a jazz and big band singer whose career began in the sophisticated orchestral era of the early ‘30s and encompassed swing and small band work through the ‘30s and early ‘40s. She was a hugely talented performer who deserves much greater recognition than she has been generally accorded, and we hope this 3-CD anthology will provide a showcase which will bring her to a much wider audience.

3CD# AOAT ACTRCD9059 $19.99

Invitation: Live at the Top Alex 1973 / The Tubby Hayes Quartet

After his untimely death in 1973, Tubby Hayes was one of Britain’s greatest ever jazz talents, but there were no recordings of his band since 1969. The discovery of privately recorded tapes of the Top Alex performance in 1973 provides a souvenir of the quartet in its final phase. Packaged with rare photographs and memorabilia from the night, this album is a final, melancholy reminder of a truly gigantic musical legend.


The Muggsy Spanier Collection:1924–1949 [2 CDs]Muggsy Spanier was one of the most prominent cornetists in Dixieland jazz, enjoying a career which began in the early ‘20s and spanned more than four decades. He stayed true to the traditions of music he grew up with, his forceful and uncomplicated style enabling him to lead ensembles with passion and intensity. This collections includes performances by Frank

Teschmacher, Joe Sullivan, Coleman Hawkins, and many more.2CD# AOAT FADCD2047 $12.99

The Best of Bud Powell 1944–1962, Vol. 1 [2 CDs]Coming to prominence at the birth of bebop, Bud Powell became the most important pianist of the early bop style. This collection is an overview of his career, selecting recordings from a wide spectrum of the projects and periods which gave rise to some of his best-known and most highly regarded performances. He was held in high regard by his peers which can be seen by the litany of jazz greats included on these recordings.


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Bercheros Odyssey / Tomás Liska [Digipak]“Bercheros Odyssey” by bassist and composer Tomá_ Li_ka is a six-part suite, influenced by jazz, minimalism and classical music. The piece was created for the purpose of finishing Li_ka´s studies at Berlin’s Jazz Institute. The “Pente ensemble” consists mainly of German artists who had performed the composition together with its creator in the world premiere.

1CD# ANML 046 $14.99

Taj / Vertigo [Digipak]Vertigo‘s fourth studio recording, “Taj”, is compact and conceptual, with the track setup reminiscent of a monolithic nine-movement composition of varying moods. In terms of composition and performance, the Vertigo members shift both the form and content of their musical expression somewhat forward, equally unpredictably, originally and authentically as they have done on previous occasions.

1CD# ANML 043 $14.99

Nayive / Eviyan trio; Evan Ziporyn, Iva Bittová, Gyan Riley [Slipcase]

Eviyan is a new acoustic trio ensemble co-founded by Czech singer and violinist Iva Bittová, guitarist and composer Gyan Riley, and bass-clarinetist, composer, and producer Evan Ziporyn. Their first album, Nayive, comprises the members’ acoustic compositions and improvisations. The pieces are sophisticated yet very fresh, rooted in the folk as well as minimalistic and classical traditions, painting a very colorful image.

1CD# ANML 048 $21.99

Grown-Up Christmas / Concept Art Orchestra

Concept Art Orchestra, the leading Czech big band comprised of conductor and trumpeter Stepánka Balcarová, saxophonist Lubos Soukup, pianists Vít Kritan, Martin Brunner and Tomá Skora, and trombonist Jan Jirucha junior, presents “Grown-Up Christmas”. Singers Dan Bárta, Markéta Foukalová and Milan Cimfe join the band to collaborate on this program of originally arranged carols and Christmas inspired music.

1CD# ANML 075 $14.99

Materstina / Jiri SlavikThis new release titled “Mater_tina” (“Mother Tongue”) presents the great double bassist and composer Jiri Slavik in a role of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist searching for his own cultural roots, originally using legacy of folk music in his own contemporary compositions. Slavik is joined by

wooden flute player, a childhood friend and, among other, also an expert on the local folk music, Marian Friedl.

1CD# ANML 059 $14.99

CPR Electrio [Digipak]The eponymous album by CPR Electrio marks the symbolic return to the Czech Republic of two jazz “emigrants” living in New York City: the organist Ondrej Pivec and the saxophonist Karel Ru_icka, Jr., in conjunct with ‘domestic’ drummer Russel Carter. CPR Electrio perform groovy music blending dance influences, R&B, and

funk. The album is a demonstration of their immense energy and sheer joy of playing.

1CD# 1CD# ANML 035 $14.99Autumn Tales / David Doruzka

Guitarist and composer David Doru_ka, a leading and awarded representative of the Czech jazz scene, comes with his new album “Autumn Tales”. The album, recorded in trio with acoustic rhythm section, contains mainly David’s original compositions, but for inspiration and repertoire, however, he also used sources of Jewish music, oeuvre of Bohuslav Martinu and Czech interwar popular jazz.

1CD# ANML 058-2 $14.99

Suite for JT / Andy Schofield Band“Suite for JT” is a forward-looking, original composition for nine players which British saxophonist Andy Schofield created several years ago for the Manchester International Festival. For the first studio recording of this composition, dedicated to pianist John Taylor, the author has surrounded himself with musicians who belong to the elite of Czech jazz, including Jirí Slavík, Daniel Soltis, Oskar Török, Vojtech Procházka and Marcel Bárta.

1CD# ANML 074 $14.99

Iluzja / Dorota Barova, Jakub Vejnar, Miroslav Chyska, Beata Hlavenkova

Dorota Barova is a Czech singer and cello player well known to audiences as a member of numerous groups such as Tara Fuki and Vertigo. Dorota Barová is now releasing her long-awaited first solo album “Iluzja“ (Illusion) consisting of her own new songs. The album was recorded in trio with the guitar player Miroslav Chyska, the bass player Jakub Vejnar, and with the pianist and singer Beata Hlavenková as a guest.

1CD# ANML 073 $14.99

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TOROK | SLAVIK | KRISTAN / Oskar Torok, Vit Kristan, Jiri Slavik

This original project is the result of a collaboration between three important figures on the Czech music scene--the trumpetist Oskar Török from the highly-valued Vertigo, the double bassist Jirí Slavíka who is known for his project “Materstina”, and the composer and pianist Vít Kristan. Combining their strength in this trio (with no drums) they offer an album full of lyrical, playful, and energetic compositions.

1CD# ANML 068 $14.99

Imprints / Vít Kristan [Digipak]Imprints contains a dozen pieces composed by Vít Kri_tan and recorded by the trio Kri_tan regularly performs with, as well as the rhythm section of the ensemble Face of the Bass. The album features a mix of original pieces that Kri_tan says, “...were inspired by my own experiences, places I have visited and people I have met, thus to a significant extent representing the imprints of my memory and my experiences.”

1CD# ANML 036 $14.99

Zeme / Lubos Soukup Quartet with Lionel LouekeThe saxophone player and composer Lubo_ Soukup is one of the leading exponents of the young Czech jazz generation. Now living in Denmark, Soukup recorded this album together with his Scandinavian quartet and special guest, guitarist and singer Lionel Loueke. Soukup’s compositions recorded in the exquisite performance of his band boosted by Loueke’s sensuous energy offer an extraordinary musical experience.

1CD# ANML 064 $14.99

What’s Next / Najponk, piano; Hans Backenroth, bass; Jirí Slavícek, drumsAn exquisite pianist and musician, Najponk is one of the pioneers of mainstream jazz on the Czech music scene. “What’s Next” has been recorded together with the famous Swedish double bassist Hans Backenroth and Czech drummer Jirí Slavícek. The selections chosen for this release include compositions by Milton Jackson, Count Basie, Danyel Gerard, and Najponk himself, among others.

1CD# ANML 070 $14.99

Nononononininini / Vertigo; Marcel Barta, Oskar Torok, Dorota Barova, Rastislav Uhrik, et al

Vertigo sextet’s new album shows again that, in a constant quest for new form, new content and new expression, they do not have competition on the Czech jazz scene. The group’s style is characterized by creativity, total improvisation, and sophisticated compositions. Their new compositions give a more accessible and “song-like” impression. This is an album of deeply authentic and emotionally based original

music.1CD# ANML 056-2 $14.99

A Child Is Born / Najponk [Digipak]Najponk’s latest solo piano release, A Child Is Born, offers a collection of recordings rooted in jazz traditions. Next to jazz classics (Porter, Monk) lay contemporary music (Pat Metheny), instrumental versions of pop music (Beatles), bossa nova (Tom Jobim) and more. Najponk’s virtuosic, refined, and individual reinterpretations of jazz classics lay claim to poetic and musically expressive territory.

1CD# ANML 045 $14.99Use The Moment / Rostislav Farkas Quartet, Antonio Faraò & Jeff “Tain” Watts

Rostislav Frakas, the first-class Czech jazz saxophonist and composer, has invited two giants of the world jazz scene to record his new album with him – Italian pianist Antonio Faraò and the legendary American drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts. The fourth in the band is the bassist Josef Feco. The album brings a collection of Fra_´s and Faraò´s own compositions performed with fantastic and driving delivery.

1CD# ANML 063-2 $14.99

Uncertainty / Jaromír Honzák [Digipak]Uncertainty (2015) is bassist Jaromír Honzák’s first album in five years made entirely of his own compositions, this time strongly emphasizing melody and counterpoint. The album’s line-up consists of Czech artists who’ve worked with Honzák previously (including David Doruzka, and Vit Kristan) as well as non-Czech nationals recording with him for the first time.

1CD# ANML 047 $14.99

The Green Card Album / Ondrej Pivec [Digipak]“The Green Card Album” showcases keyboardist Ond_ej Pivec as composer, player, arranger and producer. His American experience markedly steers the new album’s sound in the direction of R&B, gospel, and pop. This album features a number of American instrumentalists and singers, with only one Czech represented – saxophonist and fellow NYC-transplant Karel Růžička, Jr..

1CD# ANML 040 $18.99

Through the Mirror / Lubos Soukup [Digipak]Through the Mirror is an album of original compositions and arrangements by saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Lubo_ Soukup. Mr. Soukop’s jazz quartet is supplemented by classical wind and string musicians, including the Epoque String Quartet. Soukup’s pieces are of a markedly mature nature – both in terms of composition and arrangement – and brings a variegated palette of sound colours of the utmost quality.

1CD# ANML 038 $14.99

Zvon / Iva Bittová; Prague Philharmonia [Digipak]Iva Bittová newest release with the Prague Philharmonia is a sweeping and sonically ample project featuring older and newer compositions from Bittová’s repertoire arranged for symphony orchestra. These include pieces created in tandem with Pavel Fajt and Vladimír Václavek, with the bands Dunaj and Cikori, works from her solo projects, as well as a new piece, Vetvicka.

1CD# ANML 032 $21.99

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