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TABLE OF CONTENTS ABC Classics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Atoll Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 BMC Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 8 Cappella Romana. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Challenge Classics. . . . . . . . . . 6–7 CORO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 EM Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Fryderyk Chopin Institute. . . . 11 IBS Classical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 LAWO Classics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Lindoro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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Rachel Barton Pine’s new Mozart recording debuted on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart at #3! The title was chosen as “Album of the Week” by New York’s WQXR and Chicago’s WFMT, and Rachel has been featured in the February issue of BBC Music Magazine, on Bloomberg TV, and by The Dailty Beast.

“Stylish, graceful and exuberant.” — WQXR

top 10 RECENT RELEASES 1. The Sixteen Sprit, Strength & Sorrow (CORO) 2. Rachel Barton Pine Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos (AVIE Records) 3. John Luther Adams The Wind in High Places (Cold Blue Music) 4. Portland Baroque Orchestra Bach: Concertos for Oboe (AVIE Records) 5. Ton Koopman Buxtehude: Complete Works 20 (Challenge Classics) 6. Richard Blackford The Great Animal Orchestra (Nimbus Records) 7. The Sixteen Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 (CORO) 8. Li-Wei Qin Cello Concertos (ABC Classics) 9. Lars Vogt Chopin: Piano Works (cAVI-Music) 10. Martin Jones Reizenstein: Piano Music (Lyrita)

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“The John Luther Adams wave continues to roll with The Wind in High Places, a striking new album of austere landscapes and mysterious light … slowly blooming like a bright golden sun bursting over a mountain range.” — Tom Huizenga, Deceptive Cadence from NPR CLASSICAL

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“Perhaps the most Australian of Australian composers, Sculthorpe created a soundtrack to the Outback … [January 26] is Australia Day … A perfect day to salute something truly Australian, something that speaks of national pride, austere landscapes and even the darker side of Australian history.” — Tom Huizenga, Deceptive Cadence from NPR CLASSICAL

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A new British label associated with the Launch Music Group, Pentland Music’s first album will celebrate the virtuosic talent of Paul Chamberlain, one of the first classical accordionists to graduate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, where he was awarded the acclaimed Governors Recital Prize for Keyboard. Pentland Music comes to Allegro Classical via Launch Music International Ltd.

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CORO

The Sixteen

Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki CD: CRO 16130 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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The Sixteen Eamonn Dougan: conductor GORCZYCKI: In virtute tua • O rex gloriae • Illuxit sol • Missa Rorate caeli • Conductus Funebris • Sepulto Domino • Litania de Providentia Divina • ANONYMOUS: Hejnal mariacki The third disc in The Sixteen’s acclaimed series of Polish music, conducted by Associate Conductor Eamonn Dougan, explores the work of Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665–1734). Regarded as the outstanding Polish composer of the high baroque, Gorczycki studied in Prague and Vienna in his early years, and returned to Kraków where he was appointed Magister Capellae at Wawel Cathedral in 1698. Like his predecessor Bartłomiej Pękiel (featured on CRO 16110), Gorczycki wrote in both stile antico and stile moderno; the works featured on this recording display his skill in both genres. As the last great talent of the Polish Baroque era, Gorczycki is certainly deserving of a wider audience.

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Cappella Romana

Maximilian STEINBERG Passion Week

CD: CPE 414 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Cappella Romana Alexander Lingas: director STEINBERG: Passion Week, Op. 13 (premiere) • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Select motets for Passion Week “Powerful and radiant.” — Early Music America “Cappella Romana continues its ascent.” — Wall Street Journal Cappella Romana presents the last major sacred work composed in Russia after the imposition of Communism: Passion Week by Maximilian Steinberg. Born into a Jewish family in Vilnius, Steinberg became the student and son-in-law of Rimsky-Korsakov, a classmate of Stravinsky, and the teacher of Shostakovich. Steinberg’s Passion Week was composed 1921–1926; however, the work was never performed complete. Unlike Gretchaninoff ’s similar collection, nearly every movement is based upon medieval chant melodies, arranged by Steinberg in rich choral textures to magnify their intrinsic power and spirituality. As a bonus, the disc features select hymns for Passion Week arranged by Steinberg’s father-in-law, Rimsky-Korsakov.

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BMC Records

Péter EÖTVÖS Concertos

CD: BMH 170 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 35 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Akiko Suwanai: violin Richard Hosford: clarinet John Bradbury: clarinet Pierre-Laurent Aimard: piano Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra Péter Eötvös: conductor EÖTVÖS: Seven • Levitation • CAP-KO “[Eötvös is] an outstanding conductor … riveting.” — Los Angeles Times “Arresting and haunting … worth the effort.” — Musicweb-International Since the beginning, Péter Eötvös’ musical thinking has been characterized by a strong affinity for the stage. Although this is apparent in his instrumental works, perhaps the most dramatic instrumental genre — the concerto — did not occupy an important place in his early creative period. But in the time that has passed from his first large opera, Three Sisters (finished in 1997), the concerto is perhaps the most important and most characteristic of his genres. The three concerti on this disc were written in three consecutive years, all to commission. This CD includes Seven, a violin concerto written in 2006 in memory of the seven astronauts who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy; Levitation, commissioned by the Canary Islands Music Festival and premiered by Sabine & Wolfgang Meyer with the Finnish Radio Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo; and CAP-KO, written in 2005 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Béla Bartók’s birth.

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Challenge Classics

C.P.E. BACH

Sense and Sensibility: Sonatas, Fantasias & Rondo CD: CHR 72666 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22 d

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Riccardo Cecchetti: fortepiano C.P.E. BACH: Sonata in F, Wq 55:5 • Fantasia in C, Wq 59:6 • Sonata in F minor, Wq 57:6 • Fantasia in F, Wq 59:5 • Sonata in D minor, Wq 57:4 • Rondo in G, Wq 57:3 • Sonata in E minor, Wq 5 A delightful and thoughtful selection of works from C.P.E. Bach’s famous Collections for Connoisseurs and Amateurs! C.P.E. Bach’s keyboard music is always eventful, unpredictable, and thought-provoking. On this disc, Riccardo Cecchetti — a member of the Voces Intimae trio, often called “the best piano trio in the world” — plays a wonderful fortepiano by anonymous, built in 1785, restored, and part of the well-known Edwin Beunk Collection.

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Challenge Classics Constantin Emanuel: boy soprano Ton Koopman: organ J.S. BACH: Vater unser im Himmelreich (from Clavier Übung III) BWV 683 • Ich steh an deiner Krippe hier BWV 469 • Brunnquell aller Güter BWV 445 • Andante from Pastorale in F BWV 590 • Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen BWV 452 • Nur mein Jesus ist mein Leben BWV 490 • Jesu, meines Glaubens Zier BWV 472 • Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV 691 • Jesu, deine Liebeswunden BWV 471 • Ermuntre dich, mein schwacher Geist BWV 454 • Ich freue mich in dir BWV 465 • Lasset uns mit Jesu ziehen BWV 481 • Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille BWV 460 • Sei gegrüsset, Jesu, gütig BWV 499 • Nicht so traurig, nicht so sehr BWV 489 • Beglückter Stand getreuer Seelen BWV 442 • Jesu meines Herzens Freud BWV 473 • Bist du bei mir BWV 508 • BUXTEHUDE: Fuga in C BuxWV 174 • Partita Auf meinen lieben Gott in E minor BuxWV 179 • SCARLATTI: Sonata in G K 328 • LOCATELLI: Menuet with variations The Schemellis songbook is an all-too-rarely recorded collection of works from the Baroque’s greatest composer. Most of the pieces, made by a melody and a figured bass, have been traditionally ascribed to Bach. On this disc — part of Ton Koopman’s series — the star is 15-year-old boy soprano Constantin Emanuel.

J.S. BACH

Constantin Emanuel sings from Schemellis Gesangbuch CD: CHR 72263 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 25 d

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BMC Records Zoltán Kocsis: piano Choir of Selected Students of the Liszt Academy of Music Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest László Dobszay: artistic director, conductor BARTÓK: 27 Choruses in 2 & 3 Parts (BB 111: Vol. 1–Vol. 8) • 42 Choruses (BB 30, 57, 60, 77, 78, 99, 106, 112, in all versions) Bartók’s choral works almost certainly comprise the least-known niche of his oeuvre. The primary reason for this may be that these pieces are strongly linked to language (Hungarian, Romanian, and Slovak folk texts), are for the most part untranslatable, and in translation are unsingable. Certainly, the majority of the compositions are extremely difficult, sometimes setting almost insurmountable hurdles before the performers. Yet these compositions, even purely in terms of number, represent an important thread in the composer’s work and are worth no less than the more imposing pieces. A chronological survey of these works shows that, though clusters occurred in certain periods, the choral genre occupied Bartók for decades in spite of the fact that he wrote for this apparatus mainly to commission, not choosing the format himself.

Béla BARTÓK

Complete Choral Works CD: BMH 186 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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ABC Classics

Peter SCULTHORPE The ABC Recordings

CD+DVD: ABA 4811293 Price Code: 10L (SRP $119.99) Number of Discs: 10 CDS + 1 DVD Box Set, Box Lot 4 d

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David Porcelijn: conductor Edo do Waart: conductor James Judd: conductor Arvo Volmer: conductor Richard Tognetti: conductor Goldner String Quartet SCULTHORPE: Irkanda IV • The Fifth Continent • Sun Music I–IV • Music for Japan • Port Essington • Mangrove • Piano Concerto • Earth Cry • Songs of Sea and Sky • Kakadu • Nourlangie • Cello Dreaming • Great Sandy Island • My Country Childhood • Quamby • Requiem In a remarkable tribute to one of the world’s great composers, this deluxe box set brings together Peter Sculthorpe’s ABC recordings for the first time! The mix of conductors who have embraced Sculthorpe’s music says much in itself: Dutch conductors David Porcelijn and Edo de Waart, British conductor James Judd, Estonian Arvo Volmer, and director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti. Peter Sculthorpe created a musical voice that, for the first time, spoke directly of the land, the people, and the spirit of Australia. His music opened new possibilities for Australian composers, and brought a distinctive Australian voice to the world.

Includes the DVD “Peter Sculthorpe: The Quartets” — the composer surveys his life and career as seen through the prism of his string quartets (featuring the Goldner String Quartet).

DVD is PAL, not NTSC, but will play on most computers.

DVD Specs: PAL, Region 0, 16:9 (Widescreen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 76 min.

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Vlad Records Terra Nova Vlad Weverbergh: classical clarinet Katalin Hrivnak: baroque violin Edouard Catalan: baroque cello Luc Vanvaerenbergh: piano TOBI: Trio I • Trio II • Trio III • Trio IV • Trio V • Trio VI

Henri Joseph TOBI

Première Oeuvre: Six Clarinet Trios Op. 1

This recording is part of Terra Nova’s project focused on a contemporary of Mozart, composer and virtuoso clarinetist Henri Joseph Tobi (1741–1809).

The project is aimed at recording his compositions, publishing his scores, and the production of a book about his life, work, and the musical climate in Antwerp in Mozart’s time. The music on this disc consists of a set of six trios for clarinet, violin, and bass. The combination of clarinet and violin is quite unusual; this is charming music that was probably intended for playing in the gilded salons of Antwerp’s grand houses. The sole surviving copy of the score was published in Paris and is currently on display in the Butchers’ Hall Museum in Antwerp. The work is dedicated to Baron Charles de Proli, the musical patron and sponsor of the Antwerp, Brussels, and Paris Opera.

CD: VLD 9 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Royal Flemish Philharmonic Royal Flemish Philharmonic Martyn Brabbins: conductor BENOIT: De Schelde A Dutch-language oratorio from one of the pioneers of the Flemish music scene! Peter Benoit was a rarity in the predominantly French-speaking cultural landscape of Belgium, and a Dutch-language oratorio about the Scheldt River was of huge symbolic value. Depicting the river as a lifeline reflected the radical optimism of Benoit’s cultural policy. He had chosen the subject well: few other European rivers had so often been the subject of cross-border conflicts, treaties, lawsuits, sieges, blockades, and battles as the Scheldt. For the libretto, Benoit collaborated with writer Emanuel Hiel, who had previously provided the libretto for Lucifer. Together they created a complex scenario, moving away from the narrative oratorio tradition, in which the river is used to depict a journey through national consciousness.

Peter BENOIT De Schelde

CD: RFP 9 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Fryderyk Chopin Institute Orchestra of the 18th Century Frans Bruggen: conductor KURPINSKY: The Battle of Mozhaysk • BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” “Brüggen and the orchestra with whom he has worked for more than 30 years have lost none of the vigour or rugged intensity that has always characterised their performances.” — The Guardian “Brüggen tapped a vein of both novelty and visceral excitement that gave these familiar works a welcome freshness.” — New York Times (live review) This album is a recording of two concerts, which took place on August 25, 2013 in the Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio and on September 3, 2005 in the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, as part of the festival titled “Chopin and his Europe.”

´ Karol KURPINSKI

The Battle of Mozhaysk CD: FCS 39 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Tobias Koch: piano ´ SKI: Polonaise in D minor • OGINSKI: Polonaise in A minor • KURPIN Polonaise in G minor • Polonaise in F minor • Polonaise in C major • Mazurka in D major • SZYMANOWSKA: Polonaise in F minor • Nocturne in B major • Walz No. 3 in F major • Etude No. 1 in F major • Nocturne in A flat major “Le Murmure” • Mazurka No. 17 in C major • ELSNER: Rondo a la Mazurka in C major • KROGULSKI: Mazurka in E minor a la Chopin • MIKULI: Mazurka in F minor, Op. 4 • ZAŁUSKI: Mazurka in D minor Op. 6, No. 3 • FRIEDMAN: Mazurka in C minor Op. 49, No. 2 • CHOPIN: Mazurka in A flat major Op. 7, No. 4a • Mazurka in F minor Op. 68, No. 4 This new album in the series “Music of Chopin’s Time” captures the romantic spirit of Polish piano music. Tobias Koch attended the Robert Schumann Music College in Düsseldorf, and the conservatories of Vienna, Graz, and Brussels. His chamber music partners include Andreas Staier, Joshua Bell, and Steven Isserlis.

Tobias Koch

Polish Romantic Music for Piano CD: FCS 104 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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EM Records Yuko Inoue: viola Francis Pott: piano Alla Kravchuk: soprano Simon Phillips: piano POTT: The Towers of Man (premiere) • “Einzige Tage” song cycle (premiere) In June 2009, Francis Pott attended a performance of his Cello Sonata at the Mananan Arts Festival. Intrigued by the mysterious Milner Tower on Bradda Head, guarding the entrance to the bay, he walked up to it on a blustery summer’s day. By the time he returned, ideas for a companion sonata for viola and piano had come into being. Not long before this, the Japanese-born, London-based violist Yuko Inoue had requested that Francis consider writing her a piece. The Sonata that eventually resulted is a sweepingly romantic halfhour work embodying the composer’s response to the dramatic southwestern coastline of the Isle of Man and, in particular, to two of the various towers dotted along its length: Milner Tower and Corrin’s Tower. On this new CD, the Sonata is paired with “Einzige Tage” (“Unrepeatable Days”), a cycle featuring song settings inspired by the Russian poets Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova.

Francis POTT

The Towers of Man CD: EMR 28 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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The Charter Choir of Homerton College, Cambridge Daniel Trocmé-Latter: director BYRD: Sing Joyfully Unto God Our Strength • PURCELL: Hear My Prayer, O Lord • BAINTON: And I Saw A New Heaven • WESLEY: O Sing Unto Mie Roundelaie, Blessed Be The God and Father • VILLIERS STANFORD: The Blue Bird, Praised Be Diana • DAVIES: Homerton • HOPKINS: Four Latin Motets (premiere recording) • TOMLINS: Let All The World In Every Corner Sing (premiere) • TROCMÉ-LATTER: Homerton College Grace of 1957, The Lord God (premiere) • NAYLOR: (descant: Roger Green) How Shall I Sing That Majesty (premiere) Homerton College can trace its origins to east London in 1768, later becoming a teacher-training college before moving to Cambridge in 1894.

It was granted a Royal Charter in 2010, becoming the newest constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The Charter Choir, founded to celebrate that change in status, is made up of around 22 choral scholars, choral volunteers, and organ scholars, and undertakes a regular and busy performance program. This CD includes music from the 17th to the 21st centuries, featuring a number of works written for Homerton or by composers associated with the college.

Charter Choir of Homerton College, Cambridge Audite Finem

CD: EMR 27 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Nimbus Alliance Steinberg Duo Louisa Stonehill: violin Nicholas Burns: piano FRANCK: Andantino quietoso, Op. 6 • Violin Sonata in A • DVOŘÁK: Four Romantic Pieces, Op. 75 • GRIEG: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45 The Steinberg Duo’s 2013 CD release of Sawyers & Elgar Violin Sonatas has enthralled the critics; Bruce Reader described their playing as having “the listener teetering on the edge of melancholy and joy,” while John France of Musicweb-International described the disc as “a startling discovery … an exemplary performance.” Now, the duo turns to works by Franck, Dvořák, and Grieg in a disc that will surely receive no less praise! The Steinberg Duo has performed in Canada, Spain, Germany, and throughout the UK. The year 2013 marked their first commercial recording for the Nimbus Alliance label, their first live broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and their first concerto appearance with the Orchestra of the Swan. Formed in 2007, the duo is passionate about presenting the wonderful violin & piano repertoire as an equal partnership.

Steinberg Duo

Works for Violin & Piano: Franck, Dvorˇák & Grieg CD: NIM 6294 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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The Schubert Ensemble Simon Blendis: violin Douglas Paterson: viola Jane Salmon: cello William Howard: piano FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 • Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45 At first glance, Gabriel Fauré seems to fit neatly into the history of French music as a pupil of Saint-Saëns and a teacher of Ravel. Yet he stands apart from the mainstream because of his unique musical language, and because rather than writing colorful orchestral pieces he preferred to work in the comparatively modest media of the song, solo piano, and chamber music.

With the exception of the late String Quartet, all of his chamber works combine the piano — Fauré’s own instrument as a performer — with strings.

Among the earlier works, written in the late 1870s and mid-1880s, are the two Quartets for piano and string trio presented here. Since their first concert in January 1983, the Schubert Ensemble has established itself as one of the world’s leading exponents of music for piano and strings. Regularly giving around 50 concerts a year, the ensemble has performed in over 40 different countries, has over 80 commissions to its name, has recorded over 30 critically acclaimed CDs, and is familiar to British audiences through regular broadcasts on BBC Radio 3.

Gabriel FAURÉ

The Two Piano Quartets CD: NIM 6296 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Nimbus Alliance Vladimir Feltsman: piano SCHUBERT: Sonata in A minor D. 537 • Adagio in E major D. 612 • Two Scherzos D. 593 • Sonata in G major D. 894 “Quite simply an amazing pianist!” — New York Times After simultaneously charting four separate albums on the Billboard Classical Charts last year, pianist and conductor Vladimir Feltsman turns to the music of Schubert. Described as the last “Classical” and first “Romantic” composer, it is really impossible to pin a meaningful label on Schubert. He was, and still is, a very special case: a lonely figure in musical history, and a dreamer who brought a previously unknown degree of intimacy, despair, hope, and disappointment into music. Schubert was a sincere, shy, and vulnerable man (though did not lack confidence in himself as an artist), and his personality is clearly reflected in his music.

Franz SCHUBERT Piano Music Volume 1 CD: NIM 6297 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Heather Jamieson: soprano Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Chamber Ensemble Peter Manning: conductor MAHLER: Symphony No. 4 in G (arr. Simon) Mahler composed some of the most powerful and emotive symphonic music of his age. As well as the big melodies, his symphonies are also full of beautiful moments of chamber music. This has inspired various arrangers to distill Mahler’s monumental symphonic structures down to the more intimate proportions of a small chamber ensemble. The 2007 Klaus Simon arrangement is one of the most popular, and highlights the intimacy of Mahler’s music while internalizing the power of the climaxes. This ensemble of talented students originally came together for an epic project with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 2014. Spread over a four-month period, the group performed side by side with the Orchestra on a three-city tour to India conducted by James Macmillan, with soloist Nicola Benedetti. In order to capture the particular frisson of this group before many graduated, Nimbus brought them together in June 2014 for this special recording project.

Gustav MAHLER

Symphony No. 4 (arr. Simon) CD: NIM 6300 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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SOMM Recordings Alessandro Taverna: piano MEDTNER: Sonata Reminiscenza • Sonata Romantica • Sonata Minacciosa This debut album showcases talented 32-year-old Venetian pianist Alessandro Taverna, whose career began flourishing when he won First Prize in the Minnesota International Piano Competition, Second Prize in the London International Piano Competition, and Bronze Medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition. On hearing him, the late Lorin Maazel invited him to perform the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto with the Munich Philharmonic in Vienna’s Musikverein last year. Alessandro particularly identifies with Russian composers and made a special study of Medtner’s music, which he plays to perfection.

Recitals Planned in Boston, New York, and other U.S. cities (dates TBA).

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Nikolai MEDTNER Piano Sonatas

CD: SMM 142 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Summit Records Mary Elizabeth Bowden: trumpet Alexandra Carlson: piano Milana Strezeva: piano Zenas Kim-Banther: trombone David Bilger: trumpet Mercedes Smith: flute TURRIN: Escapade • Fandango • Arabesque • BARBER: Three Songs, Op. 10 • LUDWIG: Radiance • HALLMAN: Sonata • MCMICHAEL: Totem Voices • STEPHENSON: “Croatian” Trio

Mary Elizabeth Bowden Radiance

CD: SMT 655 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40

Award-winning trumpeter Mary Elizabeth Bowden brings her brilliant and nuanced versatility to her debut album, Radiance. The album features Bowden’s interpretations of compositions written by some of the most innovative modern American composers, highlighting her signature sound and the diverse, colorful range of the classical trumpet. A classical trumpeter and Yamaha Performing Artist, Mary Elizabeth Bowden has emerged as a brilliant young soloist and is highly regarded for her artistry and virtuosity, as well as the clarity, purity, and power of her sound.

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Stradivarius Gerard PAPE Lux Fugit

Maurizio Barbetti: viola/Michel de Maulne: reciter/Olga Krashenko: soprano/Robin Troman: recorder/Erik Drescher: flute/Nicholas Isherwood: bass voice/Gerard Pape: sound projection/ John Kenny: trombone/Stefan Tiedje: live electronics/Ensemble C.L.S.I./Paul Mefano, Carmen Carneci: conductors PAPE: Lux Fugit • Deux Chimères I: El Desdichado • Noirval • Heliophonie II • Licht und Klang • Makbenach IV • Per Luigi

CD: STV 37005 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

Gerard Pape is an American composer, born in New York City in 1955, who has lived in France since 1991. He studied composition privately with George Cacioppo and William Albright, and electronic music with George Wilson at the University of Michigan. He has composed more than 80 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and vocal & instrumental soloists.

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Carlo GESUALSO Dolcissimo Veleno

La Dolce Maniera/Cécile Lohmuller: soprano/Ellen Giacone: soprano/Silvana Torto: mezzosoprano/Damien Roquetty: tenor/Erwan Picquet: baritone/Luigi Gaggero: director

CD: STV 37010 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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GESUALDO: Se la mia morte brami (Libro VI) • All’apparir di quelle luci ardenti (Libro II) • Mentre gira costei (Libro IV) • Non mirar, non mirare (Libro I) • S’io non miro non moro (Libro V) • Ardita zanzaretta (Libro VI) • Quel “no” crudel che la mia speme ancise (Libro VI) • Già piansi nel dolore (Libro VI) • Sospirava il mio core (first part) (Libro III) • O mal nati messaggi (second part) • Beltà, poi che t’assenti (Libro VI) • Moro, lasso, al mio duolo (Libro VI) • Chiaro risplender suole (Libro VI) • O voi, troppo felici (Libro V) • Tu m’uccidi, o crudele (Libro V) • Io tacerò, ma nel silenzio mio (first part) (Libro IV) • Invan, dunque, o crudele (second part) • Io pur respiro (Libro VI) • Mercé, grido piangendo (Libro V) • Resta di darmi noia (Libro VI) La Dolce Maniera presents a CD dedicated to Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613), an emblematic figure of the end of the Renaissance. Prince of the highest order, unfortunately famous for having brutally murdered his wife and her lover, Gesualdo is also considered one of the most revolutionary composers of musical history.

Stefano Grondona

Plays Mazurkas & Sardanas Stefano Grondona: guitar TANSMAN: Quattro tempi di Mazurka • Variations sur un thème de Scriabine • Prélude et Interlude • Pièce en forme de Passacaille • CASSADÓ: Catalanesca • Canción de Leonardo • Sardana Chigiana • Leyenda catalana • Preámbulo y Sardana • Dos cantos populares finlandeses

CD: STV 37011 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

On this album, Stefano Grondona plays the works for guitar by Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986) and Gaspar Cassadó (1897–1966). The CD is an homage to his master Andrés Segovia; the guitar used for this recording was made by the great luthier Antonio de Torres in 1882.

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LAWO Classics Bettina Smith

Voices of Women [Hybrid SACD] Bettina Smith: mezzo-soprano/Einar Røttingen: piano VALEN: Drei Gedichte von Goethe, Op. 6 • Mignon-Zwei Gedichte von Goethe, Op. 7 • STALHEIM: Ophelia Scene • HVOSLEF: From the Gospel According to Mary Magdalene

CD: LAW SACD 1067 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

Voices of Women is the second CD release by the duo of mezzo-soprano Bettina Smith and pianist Einar Røttingen. The recording highlights women’s voices in world literature: Goethe’s female characters “Mignon” and “Suleika,” Shakespeare’s “Ophelia,” and the gospel according to Mary Magdalene. The musicians have placed their focus on contemporary Norwegian music composed for voice and piano, and two of the works were written especially for them.

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Catharinus ELLING

Young Elling [Hybrid SACD] Marianne Beate Kielland: mezzo-soprano/Nils Anders Mortensen: piano ELLING: Songs from Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” • Fire Romanser, Op. 41 • Fem Sange, Op. 40 • Synden, Døden • Nye Digte Av Kr. Randers, Op. 54 • Lieder from “The Youth’s Magic Horn”

CD: LAW SACD 1072 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

A number of recordings in recent years bear witness to a revival of interest in the music of Catharinus Elling, a composer who lived around the same time as Grieg. Now, critically acclaimed and Grammy®-nominated mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland and pianist Nils Anders Mortensen have added to the Elling discography with their recording of songs by the young Elling, written while he was still living in Germany.

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Ensemble Ylajali

Mary’s Song [Hybrid SACD] Ensemble Ylajali/Pål-Are Bakksjø: conductor HAVRØY: O Magnum Mysterium (premiere) • Ave Maria (premiere) • Salve Regina (premiere) • Stabat Mater (premiere) • NYSTEDT: Mary’s Song • BUSTO: Magnificat • Salve Regina • LUENGEN: Salve Regina

CD: LAW SACD 6 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

Ensemble Ylajali’s new CD Mary’s Song presents a selection of contemporary Norwegian a cappella settings of Marian texts. Mary is without a doubt the most influential female figure in sacred music, a fact that inspired the ensemble’s decision to make a recording of music devoted to her. Mary has secured the place of women in an otherwise male-dominated part of history; recent research and political currents have revealed further sides of Mary as a historical figure, both in the arts and in academia, making her a fascinating figure for women today.

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Phaedra Werner van Mechelen: bass-baritone Peter Vanhove: piano LONQUE: Vos yeux, Op. 3 • Je n’ai pas oublié, Op. 2 • La Question • Au gré des vents, Op. 16 • Dernières feuilles, Op. 18 • ’s Avonds (Evening) • Faune, Op. 21 • Berceuse • Portrait • PEETERS: Six Songs on Poems of Alice Nahon • D’HOEDT: La Lune blanche • Il pleure dans mon coeur • Offrande • Heures d’été • EECHAUTE: Octobre • MORTELMANS: L’ennemi • An old man’s complaint • A flower for the churchyard • How Joyful Renowned opera houses in Europe regularly cast bass-baritone Werner van Mechelen, including Opera Vlaanderen, La Monnaie, Opéra de Wallonie, La Fenice, and many more. He has sung under the baton of Jeffrey Tate, Antonio Pappano, Marc Minkowski, and Hartmut Haenchen. In lieder, his repertoire is inexhaustible; it includes all major composers of lied and all major cycles, as well as works by lesser-known composers both past and present. Among his accompanists are Jozef de Beenhouwer, Eric Schneider, Lucas Blondeel, Inge Spinette, and Peter Vanhove, who is featured on this new CD.

Werner van Mechelen

A Bouquet of Forgotten Flowers CD: PHA 92084 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Lindoro Miguel Rincón: lute DALZA: Pavana alla ferrarese • Saltarello • Piva • Calata ala spagnola • Recercare (fol. 8) • Calata ala Spagnola ditto terzetti • Laudate dio • Calata ditto zigonze • Poi chel ciel contrario adverso • Caldibi castigliano • Recercare (fol. 7) • ATTAIGNANT: Prelude • Il me suffit • Galliard • Branle gay (fol. 15) • Tresorière • Fortune laisse moy la vye • Branle gay (fol. 15v) • Sauterelle • SPINACCINO: Recercare (fol. 47) • Basse danse “La Spagna” • Ricercare (fol. 39) • La Bernardina de Josquin • Recercare di tutti li toni • Nunquam fuit pena maior • SCHLICK: Weg wart dein • All ding mit radt

Miguel Rincón

Los Libros de Laúd: Musical Footprints in the Colombina Library

Hernando Colon (1488–1539), second son to explorer Christopher Columbus, was educated in court. He became a page first to Prince John, and then to Queen Isabella, between 1494 and 1502. An exceptional bibliophile and a cosmographer of renown, he managed to put together an amazing collection of 3,204 etchings — which included works by Albrecht Durer and Lucas van Leyden — as well as a library that comprised more than 15,000 items.

In the Colombina Library existed an important section of books of practical music and treatises on theory of the music, printed and handwritten, personally acquired by Hernando during his voyages. This first CD in an expansive series explores lute music from the Colombina Library, expertly played by Miguel Rincón.

CD: LDO 3024 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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IBS Classical Joaquín Clerch: guitar Hispanian Symphony Orchestra Enrique García Asensio: conductor RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez • ARRIAGA: Sinfonía para gran orquesta On this delightful disc history and nature fuse, offering us a charming walk through the gardens of Spanish music. Joaquín Clerch performs the muchloved Concierto de Aranjuez and offers a renewed reading of this popular work.

He shuns the picturesque and excessive lyricism, instead seeking a balance between great technique with precision in the sonority of the strumming and crystalline plucking drawing counterpoints, motifs, or rhythmic patterns from this well-known score. In Arriaga’s Sinfonía para gran orquesta the performer and the Hispanian Symphony Orchestra expose internal structures, melodies, and color; they are attentive to the instrumental contrasts, the breadth of register and the counterpoint, but also revel in the lyricism of Arriaga’s inspired melodies.

Joaquín Clerch

Concerto de Aranjuez CD: IBC 82014 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Willowhayne Records Grant Bräsler: organ WHITLOCK: Organ Sonata in C minor (first movement) • TEMMINGH: Three Pieces for Organ • FRANCK: Choral No. 2 in B minor • ELGAR: Organ Sonata in G major, Op. 28 The organ in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, came from St. Margaret’s, Westminster in 1909. Parts of this instrument date from 1675, and it has undergone several rebuilds, extensions, and work up until 1988. This first solo recording of the William Hill instrument gives listeners a timely record of one of the city’s great musical treasures. This great English organ provides a perfect, authentic sound world for the music of Elgar and Whitlock, as well as being remarkably versatile in other styles and periods.

Grant Bräsler

Cape Town Experience CD: LNH WLW 19712 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Regent Records Truro Cathedral Choir Truro 125

Luke Bond: organ/Truro Cathedral Choir/Christopher Gray: director PASCOE: Truro Evening Service (premiere) • Missa Brevis (premiere) • DRAYTON: Ave Maris stella (premiere) • The World’s Desire • FITKIN: The Christmas Truce (premiere) • Lost (premiere) • POTT: Lament • PHILIPS: Church Music, I sing of a maiden (premiere) • MACMILLAN: Ave Maris stella • JACKSON: Cantate Domino (premiere) • MCGLADE: In the bleak midwinter • BEDNALL: Noe, noe “A superlative CD … one of the top cathedral choirs in the land.” — Organists’ Review CD: REG 422 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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During 2013 there were many major events at Truro Cathedral celebrating 125 years of the choir’s superlative contribution to music, culminating in the release of this recording. All the works, except Francis Pott’s “Lament,” have been written for Truro Cathedral Choir and its director, Christopher Gray.

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Choir of Manchester Cathedral A Year at Manchester

Jeffrey Makinson: organ, piano/Choir of Manchester Cathedral/Christopher Stokes: director MENDELSSOHN: I waited for the Lord • MAKINSON: The Spirit of the Lord • TRAD: I saw three ships, arr. Preston • CROTCH: Lo! Star-led chiefs • STOKES : Breathe on me, breath of God • JOUBERT : O Lorde, the maker of al thing • TALLIS: In ieiunio et fletu (men’s voices) • JOHN IV OF PORTUGAL: Crux fidelis • BYRD: Haec dies • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: O clap your hands • BINGHAM: Corpus Christi Carol • MANNING: Salve Regina • HARRIS: Strengthen ye the weak hands • ASHFIELD: The fair chivalry • STOKES: How awesome is this place • BRAHMS: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen • MATHIAS: Festival Te Deum CD: REG 443 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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This recording, the seventh in Regent’s A Year At… series and the first from Manchester Cathedral Choir on the label, documents some of the music performed during the year at the Cathedral, and covers the church’s year from its beginning in Advent to the Feast of Christ the King at the end of November.

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Peter Crompton ENCORE!

Peter Crompton: organ LISZT: Fantasia and Fugue on BACH • SCHUMANN: Sketch in D flat • ALAIN: Litanies • MULET: Tu es Petra • COCKER: Tuba Tune • BALCH NEVIN: Will o’ the wisp • KARG-ELERT: Nun danket alle Gott Op. 65, No. 59 • VIERNE: Carillon de Westminster • RAWSTHORNE: Celtic Lament • WALTON: Crown Imperial • FRANCK: Chorale No. 3 in A minor • VIERNE: Final (from Symphony 1, Op. 14)

CD: REG 444 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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An unashamedly popular collection of mainstream organ favorites, played on this large romantic Hill, Norman and Beard organ built in 1933 — a real period piece — and housed in a vast resonant acoustic! Favorite encores and virtuoso showpieces ensure there’s never a dull moment on this generously-filled disc. A former student of Noel Rawsthorne at Liverpool Cathedral, Peter Crompton joined the Royal Hospital School in Holbrook as organist in 1975. He was appointed Director of Music in 1984, a position he held until his retirement in 2013.

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Regent Records Christopher Allsop

The English Cathedral Series Vol. XVIII Christopher Allsop: organ TOURNEMIRE: Improvisation sur le Te Deum • DEBUSSY: Deuxième Arabesque • ALAIN: Deux Fantaisies • SOMERVELL: Air in C major • BONNETT: In Memoriam: Titanic Op. 10, No. 1 • MATHIAS: Toccata Giocosa • VIERNE: Feux Follets (from Pièces de fantaisie, 2nd suite Op. 53, No. 4) • BRIDGE: Minuet (from Three Pieces for Organ, H. 190) • SHOSTAKOVICH: Passacaglia (from the opera Katerina Ismailowa, Op. 114c) • Festive Overture, Op. 96 • DISTLER: Four Spielstücke, Op. 18 • HUNT: Tomkins’ Trifle CD: REG 449 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Volume 18 in Regent’s popular English Cathedral series features the 2008 Kenneth Tickell Quire organ at Worcester Cathedral. This is the label’s second visit to Worcester in the series, and their first solo organ disc on this magnificent new instrument, played by Christopher Allsop, Assistant Director of Music of Worcester Cathedral since 2004, in his debut solo organ recording. The organ is put through its paces in an appealing, wide-ranging, and immensely colorful program of off-the-beaten-track French, British, German, and Russian music.

Balfour GARDINER The Complete Songs

Martin Oxenham: baritone/Jonathan Beatty: piano GARDINER: The Stranger’s (or Hangman’s) Song • When I was one and twenty • The Wanderer’s Evensong • Roadways • The Golden Vanity • Music When Soft Voices Die • The Recruit • Prelude De Profundis (piano solo) • The Banks of Calm Bendemeer • Ah, Sweet those Eyes • How Sweet I roamed • Dirge “Rough wind that moanest loud” • Lightly we met in the morn • D’un Vanneur du Blé aux Vents • Shepherd Fennel’s Dance (piano solo) • Fidele “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun” • Full Fathom Five • Winter • On Chelsea Embankment • Cavalier • A Sailors’ Piece (piano solo) • Rybbesdale • The Quiet Garden CD: REG 450 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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The complete songs of Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950) represent a major contribution to the discography of English song recordings. In this recording, baritone Martin Oxenham is joined by pianist Jonathan Beatty, who also contributes three solo piano items. The scores of the unpublished works were made available for the recording by kind permission of Balfour Gardiner’s great-nephew, Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Choirs of St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, Warwick Gaudeamus omnes: Celebrating Warwick 1100

Mark Swinton: organ/Choirs of St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, Warwick/Thomas Corns: director BAIRSTOW: Blessed city, heavenly Salem • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: O how amiable are thy dwellings • HARRIS: Behold, the tabernacle of God • MCKIE: We wait for thy loving kindness, O God • WALTON: Jubilate Deo • MOORE: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A (for St Mary’s, Warwick) (premiere) • PARRY: I was glad when they said unto me • MACMILLAN: Gaudeamus in loci pace • PLAINSONG: Gaudeamus omnes • BRIGS: Gaudeamus omnes (premiere) • SHEPHARD: And when the builders CD: REG 461 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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In 2014, the town of Warwick celebrated its 1100th anniversary with a year-long program of events. To mark this significant point in the life of the town, the choirs of the great church of St. Mary in Warwick — known for its beautiful architecture and long tradition of musical excellence — recorded this disc. In addition to works written for the dedication of the city, church, and organ, the disc includes first recordings of new works written for St. Mary’s Church, its Director of Music Thomas Corns, and its choirs of girls, boys, and men.

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Allegro Classical Welcomes Pentland Music Paul Chamberlain: accordion Feargus Hetherington: violin The Maxwell Quartet Colin Scobie: violin George Smith: violin Asher Zaccardelli: viola Duncan Strachan: cello WEBER: Konzertstück in F minor • D. SCARLATTI: Sonata in F sharp minor • Sonata in G major • PIAZZOLLA: Asleep • Loving • Fear • ZOLOTARIEV: Sonata No. 2 “An enthralling display of musical mastery.” — BroadwayBaby.com

Paul Chamberlain Accordion Sensations CD: LNH PEN 40119 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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The origins of the accordion can be traced back to the Chinese Sheng, though the instrument we know as an accordion today was patented by Cyrillus Damian in Vienna in 1829. Popular the world over in various forms as a folk instrument, it was only in the latter half of the 20th century that the development of the “free-bass” system — which allowed for the freedom to move away from the arrangement of pre-set chords on the left-hand side of the instrument — gave accordionists the opportunity to cross into the world of mainstream classical music. The accordion is a very expressive instrument, capable of producing a wonderful variety of timbres from its registers, with a large dynamic range. This disc contains some of the repertoire for the instrument in both solo and chamber capacities, with a range of music spanning four centuries from Baroque sonatas to more contemporary works.

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Atoll Records Horomona Horo: taonga puoro Voices16 from Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir Karen Grylls: conductor VON BINGEN: O Viridissima Virga • CHILDS: Salve Regina • LAURIDSEN: Six Fire Madrigals • FISHER: Pounamu • MARSHALL: Horizon I • BRITTEN: Five Flower Songs, Op. 47 • HORO: Purerehua • Poiawhiowhio, karanga manu • Purerehua • Pukaea Voice of the Soul is a metaphor for a journey of traditions, storytelling, and passionate music of the senses. For the listener, this CD experience is rather like walking around a gallery, where the exhibits are musical rather than visual.

The voices of the instruments seduce us into the world of each new piece and fill us with expectation. A variable-sized choir ranging from 16 to 32 singers, Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir draws from among New Zealand’s best singers to create a chamber choir of flexible size and wide repertoire. The choir was formed in 1998 with Dr. Karen Grylls as its Music Director.

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Voice of the Soul CD: TOL 213 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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