Allegro Classical August 2012 New Release Book

AUGUST 2012 Release Date: August 14, 2012 A d i v i s i o n o f A l l e g ro M e d i a G ro u p

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Offering music lovers a unique opportunity to discover and share a collection of unknown Spanish musical gems, Lauda is the label of La Grande Chapelle.

Founded in 2005, it produces the recordings of the ensemble, with attractive programs mainly centered on Spanish vocal music of the 16th to the 18th centuries. Lauda comes to Allegro Classical via Outhere.

RECENT FEATURES & REVIEWS THE NEW YORK TIMES gives a superb review to Inon Barnatan’s new Avie CD: “Each of the pieces on Darknesse Visible, a new recording by the brilliant pianist Inon Barnatan, was inspired by a literary work. The thoughtful program is typical for this insightful musician.

But Mr. Barnatan’s extraordinary playing is what makes the release so rewarding.”

Inon Barnatan Darknesse Visible Cat # AVR 2256

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Christian Tetzlaff & Antje Weithaas Tchaikovsky: Chamber Works Cat # AVI 8553224

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2. Maria Callas Legendary Performances, Vol. 2 (BRV 9914) 4. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg On Our Way DVD (NSS 11) 5. Philippe Quint Mendelssohn Violin Concertos (AVA SACD 1036) 6. The Sixteen Selva morale e spirituale Vol. II (CRO 16101) 7. Lucile Boulanger Bach: Sonata for Harpsichord and Viola da Gamba (APH 161) 8. Banchini & Botticher Bach: Sonatas for obbligato harpsichord (ZIG 302) 9. Cappella Pratensis Ockeghem Reqiuem (CHR SACD 72541) 10. Tatiana Shebanova Chopin: 24 Preludes Op. 28 (FCS 21)

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Cappella Romana

Cappella Romana Live in Greece

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Cappella Romana Alexander Lingas: director 17 selections of Byzantine chant “Sung gorgeously ... like jeweled light flooding the space.” — Los Angeles Times Ancient Byzantine chants begin this 1,000-year journey from Constantinople to California, followed by musical encounters with Crusaders and Venetians, including Greek and Latin polyphony from Renaissance Crete. East meets West again at St. Sophia Cathedral in Los Angeles, where Frank Desby founded a tradition of Greek-American choral music with his Californian colleagues. The tour comes full circle with the mystical ecstasy of Radiant Cloud, a sonic icon of the Transfiguration by Athenian composer Michael Adamis.

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Release Date: August 14, 2012 Viviana Sofronitsky: fortepiano SCHUBERT: Wanderer Fantasy in C, Op. 15, D760 • Impromptu, Op. 90, D899 • Impromptu, Op.posth. 142, D935 “Extraordinarily fresh and alive, up on all the latest musicological evidence without ever making it sound affected or stylized (just stylish!), recorded in beautiful clear sound, and featuring an extraordinary pianist named Viviana Sofronitsky … [who] plays the cadenzas as if they were absolutely spontaneous, and the ones she supplies where Mozart left none are illuminating miracles of charm and invention.”

— Audiophile Audition Coming from a famous musical family (her father was the great Russian virtuoso Vladimir Sofronitzky), Viviana Sofronitsky presents Schubert’s most important piano pieces played on a historical (contemporary) fortepiano (after Conrad Graf, 1819, by Paul McNulty).

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Wanderer Fantasy & Impromptus Opp. 90 & 142 Cat # AVI 8553250 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 33 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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BUZZ ALERT Claudia Schellenberger: piano ˇ DVORÁK: Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85 Dvoˇrák is not known for his piano compositions, and this cycle of 13 character pieces is almost unknown. The music is typical of the composer’s style and beauty, but not necessarily written in pianistic style.

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Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85

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Aya Yoshida: organ J.S. BACH (arr. Meyer-Fiebig): Incomplete Fantasy in C, BWV 573 • Fantasy in C minor, BWV 562 and incomplete Fugue in C minor, BWV 562a • Sonata in A minor for solo violin, BWV 1004, arr. as Concerto for 2 manuals & pedal for organ • Ciaccona from Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1003, arr. for organ On Fantasy 1720, Japanese-German organist Aya Yoshida presents world premiere recordings of two completions of fragments of an organ Fantasy and a Fugue by J.S. Bach, as completed by Prof. Thomas Meyer-Fiebig, head of the Composition department at Kunitachi Graduate School of Music in Tokyo. The CD also features premieres of Meyer-Fiebig’s virtuosic organ arrangements of two famous Bach violin solo compositions, including the mighty Ciaccona (Chaconne) in D Minor. This recital was recorded on the famous Jehmlich organ at the Kreuzkirche, Dresden, one of the finest concert organs built in post-war Germany.

Aya Yoshida was born in Nagoya, Japan. She moved to Germany at the age of 15 for formal training as a concert and church organist. In 1993, she was appointed Music Director of St. Paul’s Church in Cologne, one of the largest catholic churches in the city. She held this post for 13 years prior to moving back to Japan in 2006, and currently teaches as a full-time lecturer at Nagoya Women’s University.

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Foghorn Classics

Release Date: August 14, 2012

The Alexander String Quartet Gershwin & Kern

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Joan Enric Lluna: clarinet Alexander String Quartet Zakarias Grafilo, Frederick Lifsitz: violins Paul Yarbrough: viola Sandy Wilson: cello GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess Suite (arr. Carl Davis) • Lullaby for String Quartet • KERN: 6 songs, arr. Kern, orch. Charles Miller This recording presents some very familiar and much-loved music in an unexpected format. Ten of Jerome Kern and George Gershwin’s greatest songs—songs almost everyone has heard—are performed in transcriptions for string quartet (and clarinet). Gershwin’s Lullaby, an original composition for String Quartet, is also included. The collection was produced by Judith Sherman.

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Alexander String Quartet In Friendship Cat # FCL 2007 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 d

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GB Records

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Gavin Bryars & Jess Walker

Mercy and Grand: The Music of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan Cat # GVB 18 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Gavin Bryars: double bass, harmonium Jess Walker: mezzo-soprano WAITS/BRENNAN: 13 songs • WEILL: 2 songs • TAMS: Pull down lads • TRAD.: 3 songs and dances “Originally presented by Opera North, this unlikely but gripping project merits the wider audience that this live recording will bring.

Gavin Bryars and his team take the songs of Tom Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and present them incongruously but superbly sung by the pure-voiced English mezzo Jess Walker, accompanied by a wheezy, circus-style band that features harmonium, accordion, musical saw, and trumpet-violin. Some Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht ditties and Gypsy dances make perfect complements.” — The Times The music of Tom Waits in new versions authenticated by the gravelly-voiced singer himself! Says Waits: “I’m honored to have an artist of Gavin Bryars’ stature dress these songs up and take them out for an elegant night on the town.” Mercy and Grand celebrates the music of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan alongside other composers: pieces by Kurt Weill, some folk music, a John Tams fairground ballad, a tango, and a gypsy waltz. The project was put together by Opera North Projects in arrangements by Gavin Bryars, Jim Holmes, and Joe Townsend.

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Phil.harmonie

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Kazda & Indigo Strings The Music of Led Zeppelin

Jan Kazda: bass guitar/Indigo Strings/Heike Haushalter, Petra Stalz: violins/Monika Malek: viola/ Gesa Hangen: cello LED ZEPPELIN: Kashmir • Babe I’m Gonna Leave You • Whole Lotta Love • Lakehurst • The Rain Song • Black Dog • Houses of the Holy • Communication Breakdown • Immigrant Song • Stairway to Heaven • After All

Cat # PHH 6010 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 21 d

Two years ago, Jan Kazda came up with the idea of putting together a program using only a string quartet and bass guitar. He didn’t want to feature his own compositions, and he was very used to arranging music, sometimes without much respect for the original. The clarity and simplicity of the riffs in the Led Zeppelin numbers featured on this CD are ideally suited to musical development. After all, these songs have already stood the test of time!

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Robert SCHUMANN Violin Concerto

Kolja Blacher: violin, conductor/Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Vassily Lobanov: piano SCHUMANN: Violin Concerto in D minor • Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105 • Three Romances for violin & piano, Op. 94 On this new recording with pianist/composer Vassily Lobanov and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (founded by Claudio Abbado), Kolja Blacher presents the last orchestral work of Robert Schumann, the concerto for violin and orchestra in D minor, alongside two pieces that rank among Schumann’s most passionate chamber music.

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Ensemble Berlin Virtuoso

Ensemble Berlin/Christoph Hartmann: oboe, leader WEBER (arr. Renz): Septet, after Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 79 • PASCULLI (arr. Renz): Gran Sestetto concertante after Rossini’s William Tell, for oboe, violin & strings • BEETHOVEN (instr. Khym): Quintet in F for 2 violins, vola, cello, & bass

Cat # PHH 6012 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 21 d

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Ensemble Berlin was founded in 2000 by an ensemble of musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic, who got together the previous year to play at the Landsberger Sommermusiken music festival. The ensemble consists of eight people, including arranger Wolfgang Renz, who arranged Maurice Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin” and Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” for the first Berlin Philharmonic recording. On this new album, he set about arranging music by Carl Maria von Weber.

Release Date: August 14, 2012

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Tomás Luis de VICTORIA

La fiesta de Pascua en Piazza Navona Cat # LAD 12 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 20 d

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La Granda Chapelle Albert Recasens: conductor VICTORIA: Hymns, Motets, & an antiphon • Additional contributions from Palestrina, Giovanelli, Bendinelli, Razzi, Asola, Rodio, Clavijo del Castillo, Animuccia, Conforti, Jacobus de Kerle, Fernando de las Infantas & Anonymous The confraternity of the Resurrection of S. Giacomo degli Spagnoli—the Castilian national church in Rome—was responsible, from 1579 onwards, for organizing the Easter celebrations in the Piazza Navona, one of the most spectacular public festivities during the time of Spanish supremacy in Italy. This double CD offers a never-before-undertaken evocation of the music that might have been heard in the church and around the square during this most important of Roman celebrations. It brings together an enormously varied selection of vocal and instrumental pieces by composers who, together with Victoria, were either involved in the organization of the festivities (such as Francisco Soto or Ruggiero Giovanelli) or whose music was preserved in the S. Giacomo degli Spagnoli archive. This superb recreation, offering us a new reading of Victoria’s work, submerges us in the sonorities that he would have been familiar with in the latter part of his Roman period, from sumptuous polychoral works with Venetian influences to the simple laude spirituali associated with the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. In short, it is another first for La Grande Chapelle, establishing a context in which to place one of the greatest composers of the Spanish Renaissance.

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Release Date: August 14, 2012 Phil Minton: vocals Exit Eden Ensemble Hannes Loeschel: piano LOESCHEL: Songs of Innocence Hannes Loeschel sets William Blake’s cycle of poems “Songs of Innocence” to music, ably assisted by marvelous British vocal artist Phil Minton. The presumption of innocence as seen by Blake, Minton’s vocal skill, and Loeschel’s playful musical transformation of the poems make this production a captivating new release. The musicians of the Exit Eden ensemble, some of them very young, expertly support the composer. Blake’s poems—and the illustrations by Willy Puchner that they inspired—are shown side by side in the booklet.

Hannes LOESCHEL Songs of Innocence Cat # CNO 20903 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d

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Audiomax Jazz ‘N’ Spirit Dirk Piezunka: saxophone, bass clarinet, percussion Martin Flindt: concert & western guitar Jens Piezunka: double bass, vocals Jazz-inspired improvisations on sacred songs of the Baroque and Renaissance The ensemble Jazz ‘N’ Spirit surprised the music world with its first disc, Continuum, which was immediately showered with praise by music critics. The group’s recipe for success is simple: take acoustic guitar, bass, and saxophone; select a bit of percussion; revel in the rich song repertoire of the Baroque and Renaissance; and combine the above with the pure, nonstop acoustic carrying power of a venerable monastery hall and a perfectly balanced sound technique in 2+2+2 recording style!

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Delphian Records

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Gabriel JACKSON

Beyond the Stars: Sacred Choral Works, Vol. II Cat # DPH 34106 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Choir of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh Duncan Ferguson: director JACKSON: The Glory of the Lord • Fanfare for St. Mary’s • The Christ-Child • Hymn to St. Margaret of Scotland • Jesu, Rex admirabilis • Ah, mine heart • Missa Sanctae Margaretae • Justorum animae • Vidi aquam • Let us all rejoice in the Lord • In all his works • The Land of Spices • Ecce venio cito “Freshness, purity, and liturgical glow. Duncan Ferguson, the master of music, is plainly a wizard.” — The Times Celebrating his 50th birthday in 2012, Gabriel Jackson has had a long and close association with the Choir of St. Mary’s Cathedral. This is the choir’s second disc of Jackson’s choral music on Delphian, and under Duncan Ferguson’s dynamic direction they present a sequence of recordings that center on the Hymn to St. Margaret of Scotland, which has been newly written for the choir. A fitting celebration for Jackson’s half-century celebration, this disc opens a window on the luminous sound world of one of Britain’s finest choral composers.

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Ricercar

Release Date: August 14, 2012 Clematis Mariana Flores: soprano Paulin Buundgen, Steve Dugardin: countertenors Fernando Guimarães: tenor Christian Immler, Philippe Favette: basses Leonardo García Alarçon: conductor J.S. BACH: Quodlibet, BWV 524 • Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196 • J.C. BACH: Meine Freundin, du bist schön • BÖHM: Mein Freund ist Mein

J.S. BACH

Music for Weddings and Other Festivities Cat # RCE 323 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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Let us once more immerse ourselves in the musical life of Eisenach as it was at the end of the 1670s. One Sunday afternoon, after having played for the services in their respective churches, cousins Johann Ambrosius Bach and Johann Christoph Bach were sitting in a Bierstube—a moment of relaxation, with word games, laughter, and a discussion about Johann Christoph’s coming marriage. After several beers and pipefuls of tobacco, they have an idea for a secular cantata for the festivities that will follow the wedding ceremony. Christoph will compose the music, while Ambrosius will put together the text and instructions for its performance.

Johann Sebastian Bach must have heard talk of such festivities and their celebratory cantatas from his early childhood, and it must have been very much in the same spirit that he was inspired to compose the incredible Quodlibet, which seems so out of place among all his other works. If, however, we carefully examine how Bach composed his secular (and even a few sacred) cantatas, we can see that he had a great instinct for theatre and amusement. Certain passages in his biography even reveal that he was not a man who would turn down a good glass of wine!

Ricercar

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Cat # RCE 325 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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Michaël LEVINAS

Capilla Flamenca/Rob Cuppens, Marnix De Cat: countertenors/ Jan Caas, Tore Denys, Govaart Haché, Laurens-Alexander Wyns: tenors/Lieven Termont: baritone/Dirk Snellings: bass

Fabrice di Falco, Magali Léger, André Heyboer, Anne Mason, Simon Bailey, Julie Pasturaud, Arnaud Guillou: vocal soloists/ Ensemble Ictus/Georges-Elie Octors: director

WILLAERT: Vespro della Beata Vergine • Organ interludes by Padovano • Gregorian chant

LEVINAS: La Métamorphose (complete opera)

Vespro Della Beata Vergine

To celebrate the 450th anniversary of the death of Flemish composer Adriaen Willaert, Capilla Flamenca presents the various Psalms and the Magnificat that form his Marian Vespers.

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La Métamorphose

At the beginning of Kafka’s novella, the metamorphosis has already taken place. Now there is only ordeal. The choice made

by Michaël Levinas, to represent what cannot be represented, is fascinating. A Lille Opera production.

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Summit Records

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra Conrad Tao: piano Timothy Russell: director SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor • TAO: Fanfare ProMusica (premiere) • The Four Elements for piano & orchestra “A sense of discovery pervaded last night’s ProMusica Chamber Orchestra season-opening concert … the highlight was Conrad Tao, an astonishingly talented composer and performer, at all of age 13 … He showed a powerful command of the piano … Each movement created its own sound world.” — Columbus Dispatch Pianist, violinist, and composer Conrad Tao is a stunning 13-year-old musician with an amazing history and an exciting future. Here, he joins forces with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in breathtaking performances of Saint-Saëns as well as his own pieces and the world premiere of his Fanfare ProMusica!

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Berlin Classics Valer Barna-Sabadus: countertenor Pera Ensemble Mehmet C. Yes¸ilçay: conductor LULLY: Marche pour la cérémonie Turcs • PORPORA: Alto giove • In braccio a mille furie • SANZ: Canarios • AGA: Geldi cevher tigi ates barina ayineden • STROZZI: Che si può fare • LULLY/ANON.: Air des Espagnols & Semai • VIVALDI: Ho nel petto • Largo, RV 540 • CORELLI/VIVALDI: La Follia • HANDEL: Un pensiero voli in ciel • No no chio non • FUX: Janitschara • SAH MURAD HAN IV: Uzzal Pesrev • ANON.: Rast Murassa The aroma of coffee links East and West in a mysteriously sensual manner.

Equally sensual are the sounds of the Pera Ensemble, and their latest CD brings to life the enthusiasm of earlier centuries for the mystic East. The musicians, who have long established an enthusiastic following at major festivals, bring great vigor and spirit to their playing. European and Eastern compositions are fascinatingly contrasted and vividly conveyed to the listener, and the subtle combination of instruments from both cultures brings the seemingly different styles of music amazingly close together. also available

Pera Ensemble

Café: Orient Meets Occident Pera Ensemble Baroque Oriental Cat # BER 300275 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 d

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Melodiya

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Complete String Quartets

Borodin Quartet/Genrikh Talalyan: second viola/Mstislav Rostropovich: second cello TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet Movement in B-flat • String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11 • String Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 22 • String Quartet No. 3 in E-flat minor, Op. 30 • Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 • Sextet in D minor for 2 violins, 2 violas & 2 cellos

Cat # MYD 1001972 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 20 d

Chamber music takes an important place among the compositions by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, who tried to solve the same dramaturgic tasks in his chamber works as those he faced in the symphonic and theatrical ones. Composed in different periods of his life, these chamber pieces reflect the evolution of Tchaikovsky’s style, and are tightly connected with the stage and orchestra compositions of the time The Borodin Quartet is not just an outstanding ensemble but an artistic tradition of 20th-century music, formed in 1944 as a student ensemble in the class of Mikhail Terian, a professor of the Moscow Conservatory and a remarkable viola player and conductor.

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Jan SIBELIUS The Symphonies

Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra/Gennady Rozhdestvensky: conductor SIBELIUS: Symphonies Nos. 1–7 Eminent Finnish composer Jean Sibelius once said: “My compositions must speak for themselves.” The composer’s symphonic cycle is one of the greatest peaks in contemporary music. His brilliant individuality attracted such different conductors as Damrosch, Muck, Toscanini, Wood, Karajan, Koussevitsky, Weingartner, Ansermet, Furtwängler, Maazel, Ormandy, and Hannikainen.

Cat # MYD 1001669 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 3 Digipak, Box Lot 13 d

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Various Artists

Songs of the World Revolution 2 Fyodor Chaliapin: bass/Paris Folk Choir/Ensemble Granada/Tiempo Nuevo/Inti Illimani 20 revolutionary songs and speeches, including La Marseillaise, the Internationale, National Anthem of the People’s Republic of China, and more

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Spontaneous revolutionary movements, an uncompromising struggle for justice, unconditional aspiration for a great future, thirst for liberty—all of this is featured on Songs of the World Revolution 2, nothing short of the quintessence of revolutionary outburst. Musical compositions of world renown appear alongside national anthems, marches, and speeches, with entries from the French Revolution, the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, the People’s Republic of China, and much more.

Melodiya

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Karajan In Moscow, Vol. 1

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan: conductor BEETHOVEN: Coriolanus Overture • Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 • Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 “Pastoral” Herbert von Karajan is one of the most important conductors of the past century. Similar to an avant-garde composer, who gave attention to the smallest touch of sound, Karajan worked on the world-famous symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, and Bruckner as well as Richard Strauss’ symphonic poems, presenting them as enticing musical narrations, glittering with brilliant colors. These recordings were made during Karajan’s tour of Moscow in 1968, his third visit to the USSR during the course of five years.

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Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould In Moscow Glenn Gould: piano BERG: Piano Sonata, Op. 1 • WEBERN: Piano Variations, Op. 27 • KRENEK: Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 62, No. 4 (exc.) • J.S. BACH: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (exc.) • Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (exc.)

At the beginning of May 1957, a young Canadian pianist, not well known to general public, performed at the Moscow Conservatory. Glenn Gould’s concerts in Moscow and Leningrad several years later, when the musician was at the high point of his glory and his best professional form, were an enormous success. But as Gould admitted, it was his first visit in 1957 that initiated the renown he would later achieve. This tape, which retains moments of live communication between Gould and his Russian listeners, is valuable evidence of the event.

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Sviatoslav Richter

Richter Plays Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov Sviatoslav Richter: piano TCHAIKOVSKY: The Seasons (exc.) • RACHMANINOV: Études-Tableaux, Opp. 33 & 39 (exc.)

In 1983, the charming blue hall of the Moscow Conservatory was repaired and opened anew, marked by two recitals given by outstanding Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter. Three years later, it received the name “Rachmaninov Hall,” after the greatest composer and graduate of Moscow Conservatory. Undoubtedly Richter paid his respects to Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, the artistic path of both of whom was directly connected with the Conservatory, when he set up the programs of his first concerts at the Rachmaninov Hall.

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Opera d’Oro

Release Date: August 14, 2012

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Giuseppe VERDI

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Lucy Kelston, Mitì Truccato Pace: vocal soloists /RAI Orchestra & Chorus/Mario Rossi: conductor

Christa Ludwig, James King, Edith Mathis, Hans Hotter, Franz Crass: vocal soloists/Chorus of the Vienna State Opera & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Karl Böhm: conductor

Luisa Miller

Fidelio

VERDI: Luisa Miller (complete opera) BEETHOVEN: Fidelio (complete opera) This 1951 recording was made to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Verdi’s death, and stars the legendary tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi as Rodolfo. Conductor Mario Rossi is one of the most underrated Italian conductors of his era, and his recordings are in great demand.

Beethoven’s only opera is heard here in a miraculous performance with probably the best cast and conductor ever captured on disc.

An incomparable bargain! Live performance, Salzburg, 1969.

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Igor STRAVINSKY

Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

Robert Rounseville, Otakar Kraus, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jennie Tourel, Hugues Cuénod: vocal soloists/La Scala Orchestra & Chorus/Igor Stravinksy: conductor

Galina Vishnevskaya, Vladimir Atlantov, Evgeny Nesterenko, Irina Arkhipova: vocal soloists/Bolshoi Theater Orchestra & Chorus/ Fouat Mansourov: conductor

STRAVINSKY: The Rake’s Progress (complete opera)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tsar’s Bride (complete opera)

Fascinating performances include Otakar Kraus’ diabolical Nick Shadow, Jennie Tourel’s delightfully grotesque Baba the Turk, and Hughes Cuénod’s comically virtuosic Sellem. (All Music Guide)

Some of the biggest names in Russian opera headline this live 1973 performance of a Rimsky-Korsakov rarity from Moscow’s historic Bolshoi Theater.

The Rake’s Progress

The Tsar’s Bride

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Michael TIPPETT

Giacomo PUCCINI

Joan Sutherland, Richard Lewis, Edith Coates: vocal soloists/ Covent Garden Orchestra & Chorus/Sir John Pritchard: conductor

Magda Olivero, Renato Cioni: vocal soloists/Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro San Carlo/Nicola Rescigno: conductor

TIPPETT: The Midsummer Marriage (complete opera)

PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly (complete opera)

This recording of the 1955 world premiere broadcast starring Joan Sutherland is one of the most legendary documents in the history of modern opera.

A wonderful version of Puccini’s famous opera starring the legendary Magda Olivero, an unorthodox soprano whose career spanned over half a century.

The Midsummer Marriage

Madama Butterfly

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Claude DEBUSSY

Giacomo PUCCINI

Henry Guy, Jeannette Pilou, Gabriel Bacquier, Nicola Zaccaria: vocal soloists/RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Rome/Lorin Maazel: conductor

Anna de Cavalieri, Gianfranco Cecchele, Lydia Marimpietri: vocal soloists/RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Rome/Ferruccio Scaglia: conductor

DEBUSSY: Pelléas et Mélisande (complete opera)

PUCCINI: Turandot (complete opera)

This live 1969 broadcast performance of Debussy’s operatic masterpiece was long unavailable, welcomed back in re-mastered sound at budget price on Opera d’Oro.

There can never be enough recordings of this beloved opera, and this rare one from Radio Italy in 1965 highlights fine tenor Gianfranco Cecchele and fascinating soprano Anna de Cavalieri.

Pelleas et Melisande

Turandot

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Arte Nova

Release Date: August 14, 2012

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Gustav MAHLER

W.A. MOZART

Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria: Adrian Leaper: conductor

Stefanie Kopinits: soprano/Gabriella Bessenyei: alto/Janusz Monarcha: bass/Europa Symphony/Wolfgang Gröhs: conductor

Symphony No. 7

Requiem

MAHLER: Symphony No. 7 MOZART: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 Mahler’s Seventh Symphony has accumulated the German moniker “Lied Der Nacht” for its overtly romantic melodies and distinctly complex orchestration. The Symphony is infrequently performed, and this recording by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria captures all of its magic.

Mozart’s final composition, the Requiem, remains one of his most beloved works and one of the great choral works of all time. This fresh, inspiring performance features middle-European artists whose talents were long obscured behind the Iron Curtain.

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Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY

ˇ Antonín DVORÁK

Arkady Sevidov: piano/Russian Philharmonic Orchestra/Samuel Friedmann: conductor

SWR Symphony Orchestra/Václav Neumann, Walter Weller, David Zinman: conductors

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 • 1812 Overture in E-flat, Op. 49

ˇ DVORÁK: The Water Goblin • The Noon Witch • The Wild Dove • In Nature’s Realm

Talented pianist Arkady Sevidov displays a large repertoire and enormous ability. He is a passionate interpreter, a keen accompanist for singers, and an enthusiastic teacher.

Four colorful symphonic poems on folk subjects in outstanding performances by three notable conductors.

Piano Concerto No. 1

Symphonic Poems

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Arte Nova

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George ENESCU

Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY

George Enescu Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra/Cristian Mandeal: conductor

Russian Philharmonic Orchestra/Samuel Friedmann: conductor

Symphony No. 3 & Concert Overture

ENESCU: Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 21 • Concert Overture in A major, Op. 32 “Sur des thèmes dans le caractère populaire roumain” The Romanian Philharmonic Society was founded in 1868. The current conductor is Cristian Mandeal, who studied with both Karajan and Celibidache.

Symphony No. 5 & Slavonic March

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 • Slavonic March in B-flat, Op. 31 • Coronation March in D This Symphony was often interpreted as a self-portrait of the composer, from the first movement reflecting his musical development to the the fourth, portraying Tchaikovsky as a victor.

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G.F. HANDEL & W.A. MOZART

Johannes BRAHMS

Franco Fagioli: countertenor/Alexandra Zabala: soprano/ Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra/Gustav Kuhn: conductor

Lan Rao: soprano/Micaela Gelius: piano

Opera Arias

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Lieder

BRAHMS: Lieder HANDEL: Venti, turbini; Scherzano sul tuo volto; and Cara sposa from Rinaldo • MOZART: Venga pur, minacci e frema from Mitridate • Al mio ben mi veggio avanti from Ascanio in Alba • and more First prize winner at the “New Voices 2003” competition, Franco Fagioli’s past roles include Hansel in Hansel and Gretel at the Teatro Colón and Lichas in Hercules at the Handel Festival.

Soprano Lan Rao studied with Arleen Augér at the Frankfurt Music Academy and attended master classes with Reiner Hoffmann, Hartmut Höll, Erik Werba, and Helmut Deutsch. Her reputation as one of the most outstanding Lied performers of the younger generation has been cemented by her numerous radio and TV appearances in as well as by her CD recordings with Arte Nova.

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Alpha

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Los Músicos de Su Alteza

Il tormento e l’estasi (The Agony and the Ecstasy) Los Músicos de Su Alteza/Luis Antonio González: conductor ROSSI: Cantata a 5—Il peccator pentito • MAZZOCCHI: Pentito si rivolge a Dio • MARINI: Ciacona • CARISSIMI: Jephte

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Los Músicos de Su Alteza has established a reputation as the champion of unjustly forgotten Spanish music. In this new recording based on the themes of torment and ecstasy dear to the baroque mind, Luis Antonio González provides us with a selection of works that are as unexpected as they are unknown, tying everything together in the end with a masterpiece

by Carissimi. The musicians breathe new life into 1640s Rome and all the emotions conveyed by the Cantatas on this recording: sin, guilt, regret, penitence, punishment, supreme joy, ecstasy, and glory.

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Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER Leçons de Ténèbres

Stephan MacLeod: bass-baritone/Arte dei Suonator/Alexis Kossenko: director CHARPENTIER: Leçons de ténèbres (3)

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In France, during the reign of Louis XIV, the religious service known as Tenebrae was one of the most distinctive ceremonies in the liturgical year. Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed Tenebrae settings throughout his career, 31 lessons in all. The three presented here, written for the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of Holy Week, are scored for a solo bass voice, accompanied by an orchestra composed of recorders, oboes, strings, bassoon, and organ. After the success of Vivaldi’s Concerti per il flauto traversier (Gramophone Editor’s Choice), flautist and conductor Alexis Kossenko presents a new vision of this highly dramatic work.

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Ludwig SPOHR

The Forgotten Master: 4 Concertos for Clarinet Lausanne Chamber Orchestra/Paul Meyer: clarinet, conductor SPOHR: Clarinet concertos (4)

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We are only just beginning to rediscover the works of Louis Spohr (1784–1859), who was not only a composer but also a virtuoso violinist, possibly the greatest conductor of his time, and a renowned teacher. Wishing to be as faithful as possible to the original works for this recording, clarinetist and conductor Paul Meyer approached the Internationale Louis Spohr Gesellschaft in Kassel, which possesses the original manuscripts of the Fourth Concerto, the sketches for Nos. 3 and 4, and copies of the manuscripts of Nos. 1–3. This magnificent performance with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne gives us an opportunity to discover (or rediscover) these very fine works.

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CRD Records

Circa 1500 Nancy Hadden: flute, recorder, crumhorn, director Emily van Evera: soprano Erin Headley: viola da gamba, lirone, fiddle Paula Chateauneuf: lute, Renaissance guitar Andrew Lawrence King: Gothic harp, Spanish harp, psaltery 30 selections by Juan del Encina, Alfonso Hernandez, Adrian Willaert, Marchetto Cara, Francesco da Milano, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Alfonso Mudarra, Juan Vasquez, Josquin Desprez, Loyset Compère, Johannes Martini, Diego Ortiz, Giovan Tomas de Maio, Miguel Fuenllana, and anonymous composers Throughout the Middle Ages, the rulers of Eastern Spain—the kings of Aragon and counts of Barcelona—longed for a foothold in Italy. It was not until 1442, when Alfonso the Magnanimous defeated Rene of Anjou (his French rival for the kingdom of Naples), that such ambitions were fulfilled. Alfonso transferred his court to Naples and it automatically became a meeting point for Spanish and Italian culture; the music on this disc reflects those times.

Circa 1500

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Nancy Hadden: flute Catherine Mackintosh, Risa Browder: violins Susan Bicknell: viola Erin Headley: viola da gamba Lucy Carolan: harpsichord LOEILLET: Sonata in E minor, Op. 3 • OSWALD: Scots Lament • Greensleeves • Nancy’s to the Greenwood Gone • WEIDEMAN: Concerto in E minor, Op. 2 • ARNE: Trio Sonata in D, Op. 3 • HANDEL: sel. arias from the operas • ANON.: Medley of Scotch, Irish & Welsh airs In early 18th-century England the popularity of the flute was matched by the prodigious publication of music. Often the music was written by professional flautists, rendering even the most difficult and virtuosic music very satisfying to play. Alongside sparkling sonatas by Loeillet, Handel, and Arne—and Weideman’s brilliant concerto—traditional music from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland has been included here.

Nancy Hadden

London’s Flautists

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Ramée

Release Date: August 14, 2012 Musicke & Mirth Jane Achtman, Irene Klein: viola da gamba, lyra viol Amandine Beyer: violin Johannes Strohl: virginals, organ JENKINS: Lyra Consorts in D & D minor (2) • LAWES: Suite for 2 Division Viols & Organ in G minor • SIMPSON: Divisions for 2 Viols No. 1 in C, No. 5 in F, & No. 7 in G • BALTZAR: Prelude • ECCLES: A Division on a Ground by Mr. John Eckles • BANISTER: A Division on a Ground by Mr. Banister

Musicke & Mirth

“Division-Musick” is a term used by Christopher Simpson during the 17th century to describe a typically English improvisatory style of diminution.

Musicians generally used short bass melodies called grounds as the basis for intricate and virtuoso diminutions, beginning with simple and slow melodies over a bass melody, and ending with very fast and virtuosic diminutions after a varying number of repetitions of the melody. Both singers and instrumentalists practiced this art of diminution, but the preferred instrument for divisions was the so-called “division viol.” This CD aims to give some audible insight into English virtuosity in the Baroque era.

Division-Musick: The Art of Diminution in England in the 17th Century Cat # RME 1204 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d

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SOMM Recordings Brodsky Quartet Daniel Rowland, Ian Belton: violins Paul Cassidy: viola Jacqueline Thomas: cello JOUBERT: String Quartet No. 1 in A-flat, Op. 1 (premiere) • String Quartet No. 2, Op. 91 • String Quartet No. 3, Op. 112 (premiere) “The Brodskys’ playing … is full ofvitality and musical insights into a profound work.” — Sunday Telegraph “Pride of place goes to Joubert’s 1977 Second Quartet, an impressive piece played with great conviction by the Brodsky Quartet.” — BBC Music magazine

John JOUBERT

String Quartets 1, 2 and 3 Cat # SMM 113 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERES

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This important new release is ideally timed to celebrate composer John Joubert’s 85th birthday, which he celebrated in March. It was exactly five years ago, in celebration of Joubert’s 80th birthday, that SOMM brought out a well-filled double-CD set of music by John Joubert that included a world premiere of his Second String Quartet with the Brodsky Quartet, reissued on this disc as a companion piece to the world premiere recordings of Joubert’s Quartets 1 & 3, again with the same artists, who have now enthusiastically incorporated them into their concert repertoire.

Release Date: August 14, 2012

SOMM Recordings

Sir Thomas Beecham Byways of Beecham Cat # SMM BEE 3200 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Thomas Beecham: conductor BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21 • GRIEG: An Old Norwegian Romance with Variations, Op. 51 • D’INDY: La Forêt Enchantée, Op. 8 • SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 “Organ” This long-awaited live performance, from the Royal Festival Hall in October 1954, joins SOMM’s growing collection of unforgettable performances by a conductor who genuinely loved French music and programmed it regularly in his concerts. He first conducted the Symphony in the presence of the composer—whom he knew well and who was the soloist in a Mozart Piano Concerto—in an otherwise all-Saint-Saëns program. Sir Thomas never recorded the work commercially, and this live performance is very precious.

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Atoll Records

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Michael F. WILLIAMS The Juniper Passion

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Stephanie Acraman, Julia Booth, Lilia Carpinelli, Pene Pati, Matthew Landreth, James Loelu: vocal soloists Indra Hughes: organ John G. Davies: libretto New Zealand Chamber Soloists Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Members Rachael Griffiths-Hughes: conductor WILLIAMS: The Juniper Passion (complete opera) This World War II opera, set during the Battle of Monte Cassino, presents a universal experience of war with a uniquely New Zealand perspective. Contains chants notated by the composer at the Benedictine Abbey at Cassino, combining effects, chamber orchestra, and the new Klais Auckland Town Organ. The booklet contains some previously unpublished original photos from after the battle, and full libretto.

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Atoll Records

Richard Farrell

The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1 Cat # TOL 208 Price Code: 2T (SRP $29.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline, Box Lot 25 d

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Richard Farrell: piano Halle Orchestra George Weldon: conductor GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor • Ballade in G minor • Popular Norwegian Melodies, Op. 66, Nos. 14 & 17 • Lyric Pieces • LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat • BRAHMS: 4 Ballades • 16 Waltzes “This music is wonderfully inventive, and Farrell brings out all the poetry and melancholy and humour in a performance that could hardly be bettered.” — Gramophone (April 1959, on Grieg’s Ballade) Volume 1 in a three-volume series of the complete recordings, re-mastered from the original PYE recordings, of legendary mid-20th century pianist Richard Farrell, whose life was cut short by a car accident in 1956. The recordings were made at Abbey Road studios in the UK, and this volume includes the Grieg and Liszt E-flat concertos in which he was partnered with the Halle Orchestra under George Weldon. Includes 20-page booklet with photographs and biographical information.

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Release Date: August 14, 2012 Martin Riseley, Jun He, Lyndon Taylor: violins Donald Maurice: viola Imbal Megiddo: cello Jian Liu: piano LILBURN: String Quartet in E minor • Violin Sonata • Duos for 2 Violins • Canzonettas Nos. 1 & 2 for violin & viola • String Trio Douglas Lilburn is a preeminent New Zealand composer, and a foundation stone in NZ music. Many of the works on this disc have been unavailable on CD for a long time; therefore, this is an important addition to the Lilburn discography. The recordings were made where he worked, at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington located at Victoria University.

Douglas LILBURN

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Carolyn Mills: harp Bridget Douglas: flute Arnold Marinissen: bass drum TAKEMITSU: Toward the Sea III • BODY: Rainforest • TAN DUN: In Distance, for piccolo, harp & bass drum • DE CASTRO-ROBINSON Pearls of the Sea • FARR: Takahe This CD features unique, on-location works from Southeast Asian and New Zealand composers.

Carolyn Mills Flight

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Tactus

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Ferdinando TURRINI

Six Harpsichord Sonatas Op. Mangili, 1795 Giusy De Barardinis: fortepiano/Cristina Palucci: violin TURRINI: 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. Mangili, 1795 • 6 Harpsichord Sonatas with Violin Accompaniment, and a Fugue for Solo Harpsichord, 1784 The Sonatas of Ferdinando Turrini (1745–1829) are a precious testimony to the beginning of the sonata form in Italy. They are original, rich in interesting features, and attracted the attention of distinguished figures of the musical and cultural world, ranging from W. Beckford to A.B. Michelangeli. In the first half of the 20th century, several sonatas were published with the editing of eminent pianists such as S. Cesi, A. Longo, E. Marciano, and M. Vitali. This recording presents the first performance of two unpublished collections, Raccolta Mangili (1795) and Sei Sonate da Cembalo Coll’accompagnamento d’un Violino ed una Fuga in fine a Cembalo solo (1784).

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Giovanni TEBALDINI

Complete Organ Works & Choral Sacred Music Giulio Mercati: organ/Costanzo Porta Choir/Antonio Greco: conductor TEBALDINI: Organ & Choir Sonata, Op. 26 • Alleluia (interlude for organ) • Six Organ Pieces, Op. 16 • Organ chorale, “Benedico te Pater,” Op. 43 • Organ & Brass Sonata, Op. 26b • Five Motets for 4 voices, Op. 17 • Quare fremuerunt gentes, religious cantata for choir & organ, Op. 10 Tebaldini was a many-sided personage, characterized by an outstanding talent and a very high moral stature. Thanks to his multifarious but always consistent activities—aimed particularly at the rediscovery of the glorious Italian musical identity—and thanks to his masterly, passionate theoretic and practical action against the decadence of liturgical music, he is one of the most enlightened figures in musical art and scholarship.

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Francesco GIAMMUSSO Piano Works

Enrico Maria Polimanti: piano/Andrea Noferini: cello/String Quartet & instrumental ensemble/ Fausto Anzelmo: director GIAMMUSSO: Improvviso • Piano Concerto • Sonata • Genesi (Genesis) on a childish theme for piano, trumpet, string quartet, didgeridoo & bells • Invenzioni for piano & cello Versatile pianist Enrico Maria Polimanti performs five works of the Italian composer Francesco Giammusso (1970). In these live and studio recordings, the interpreter uses a variety of instruments: two Steinway, a Bösendorfer, and a Yamaha. Giammusso’s works have been performed in Italy and abroad, and he has recently received commissions from Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and Teatro dell’Opera in Rome.

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Nimbus Alliance

Release Date: August 14, 2012

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Martin Outram

Frédéric CHOPIN

Martin Outram: viola/Julian Rolton: piano

Vladimir Feltsman: piano

NARDINI: Concerto in G minor • ORR: Sonata • RICHARDSON: Sonata • Sussex Lullaby • FORBES: St. Andews Solo • ALWYN: Sonatina No. 2 • RAMEAU: Tambourin • J.S. BACH: Sinfonia

CHOPIN: Waltzes Nos. 1–14 • Impromptus Nos. 1–4

The Scottish Viola: A Tribute to Watson Forbes

Scottish violist Watson Forbes (1909–1997) was one of the most eminent British musicians of the last century. His influence was widely felt through his activities as a soloist, chamber music player, teacher, and coach.

Complete Waltzes & Impromptus

Pianist and conductor Vladimir Feltsman is one of the most versatile and constantly interesting musicians of our time. A regular guest soloist with leading symphony orchestras in the US and abroad, he appears in the most prestigious concert series and music festivals all over the world.

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Franz SCHUBERT

Harmonia Sacra

Wihan Quartet/Leos Cepicky, Jan Schulmeister: violins/Jiri Zigmund: viola/Ales Kasprik: cello

Selected choral works of Bortnyansky, Sarti, Galuppi, Varlamov, Glinka, Lvov, Lvovsky, Tchaikovsky, Lomakin & Rachmaninov

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 “Rosamunde” • String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 “Death and the Maiden”

In Russia, despite the westward vision of Tsar Peter the Great by 1700, the repertory of the St. Petersburg Imperial Chapel Choir was still dominated by a style heavily dependent upon homophony. Stronger Western influences would be felt when central European musicians flocked to take up opportunities in Russia during the first decades of the 18th century.

The Wihan Quartet, formed in 1985, is heir to the great Czech musical tradition. The Quartet’s outstanding reputation for the interpretation of its native Czech heritage and of the many classical, romantic, and modern masterpieces of the string quartet repertoire is widely acknowledged.

Cherubim & Seraphim: Russian Orthodox Choral Works from Catherine the Great to Nicholas II

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String Quartets 13 & 14

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Nimbus Records

Martin Jones, Richard McMahon, Adrian Farmer: pianos FRANÇAIX: Scherzo • Cinq portraits de jeunes filles • Eloge de la danse • Piano sonata • Cinq “Bis” • Danse des Trois Arlequins • Huit Variations sur le nom de Johannes Gutenberg • Nocturne • Huit danses exotiques • 15 portraits d’enfants d’Auguste Renoir • Trois esquisses sur les touches blanches • La Promenade d’un Musicologue Eclectique • “De la Musique avant tout chose” • Pour Jacqueline • Si Versailles m’était conté… • Napoléon • Scuola di ballo This centenary release presents all of Jean Françaix’s solo works and original works for four hands, plus arrangements of the ballet score “Scuola di ballo” and the music to the French historical epic film Napoléon, directed by Sacha Guitry in 1955.

Jean FRANÇAIX

The Music for Solo Piano, Duo & Duet

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Stone Records Phoenix Piano Trio Jonathan Stone: violin Marie Macleod: cello Sholto Kynoch: piano BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in E-flat, Op. 70, No. 2 • Piano Trio in B-fat, Op. 97 “Archduke” “A virtuosic performance.” — Oxford Times “A tour de force … an interesting program and flawless performance.”

— Beat Magazine Stone Records is delighted to announce the debut disc of the Phoenix Piano Trio. Released to coincide with their Wigmore Hall recital, this live disc was recorded last year, during the Trio’s “Beyond Beethoven” series in London and Oxford, which encompassed the entire Beethoven piano trio repertoire alongside five newly commissioned works. This all-Beethoven CD features the famed “Archduke” trio alongside the magnificent trio in E flat, Op. 70, No. 2, a work that is heard less frequently but shows Beethoven at his most reflective and imaginative. This repertoire is rarely encountered in a live recording, and the vibrancy of the performances is wonderfully captured on this disc by award-winning engineer Julian Millard.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Piano Trios

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Stradivarius

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Miguel LLOBET Quadrat d’or

Stefano Grondona: guitar J.S. BACH (arr. Llobet): 4 Preludes, Sarabande • Bourée • BEETHOVEN (arr. Llobet) • Exc. from 5 piano sonatas, incl. “Moonlight” • Sonatina • Romanza • MOZART (arr. Llobet): Vedrai, carino from Don Giovanni • Andante from Piano Sonata, K. 330 • WAGNER (arr. Llobet) Exc. from Parsifal

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The final chapter of a series devoted to the art of Miguel Llobet; in this case Stefano Grondona plays famous pieces by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Wagner, transcripted and arranged by the refined Catalan composer. As usual Grondona plays on Antonio de Torres’ guitars, historical instruments that bring us back to Miguel Llobet’s age and let us listen to a precious and unique sound.

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J.S. BACH

Goldberg Variations Luca Guglielmi: harpsichord J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 From the liner notes: “It is difficult to resist the temptation, even in a clearly profane work such as this, to catch a glimpse of an image, at once clear and symbolic of Order and Universal Harmony.

Never as in Bach have we the sensation that all Music is in reality a Sacred Art and that the tendency that Goethe will announce as the salvation of Man, or the hoped for union of Art, Science and Religion, has found in Bach’s work a prophecy fulfilled.”

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Dhau Ensemble

Anna Livia Plurabella Dhau Ensemble/Pietro Luca Congedo: percussions, electronics/Luca Barbieri: vocals JAMES JOYCE/DHAU ENSEMBLE: Finnegan’s Wake On this interesting CD, electronic fragments from James Joyce’s “Finnegan’s Wake” breed the music itself and give life to different states of mind. This experiment is really something new, and represents a special encounter between literature, imagination, and music.

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Release Date: August 14, 2012

La Bottega Discantica

Enrico Zanovello: organ Archicembalo Ensemble SAMMARTINI: Organ Concertos (4), Op. 9 The Four Concertos, Op. 9 by Sammartini are formally well-organized, and display a complete range of examples of forms and of the composer’s mature style. The Archicembalo Ensemble, formed in 1989 by Enrico Zanovello, is made up of professional instrumentalists with experience both as soloists and as members of chamber ensembles and orchestras of international fame.

Giuseppe SAMMARTINI Organ Concertos, Op. 9

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Paolo Cherici: lute, vihuela DA MILANO & DA MILANO: Selected works Francesco da Milano and Pietro Paolo Borrono da Milano occupy a truly important place in the panorama of Italian lute music of the first half of the 16th century—in fact, both can be considered the greatest exponents of the fantasia and the dance, through which they experimented the technical and musical resources of the lute.

Francesco DA MILANO & Pietro Paolo Borrono DA MILANO

Roses and Violets

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Editions Hortus

Release Date: August 14, 2012 Jean-Baptiste Dupont: organ REGER: 3 Chorale Fantasies, Op. 52 • 6 Trios, Op. 57 • Fantasy & Fugue in D minor, Op. 135b • 30 Little Chorale Preludes, Op. 135a Max Reger is one of the major composers of the German organ school.

He is greatly appreciated by Anglo-Saxon organists, but his music has been long looked down on by French organists. On this CD, Jean-Baptiste Dupont gives us a taste of Reger’s music with the first volume of the Complete Organ Works, the goals of which are to fill a certain discographic insufficiency, and to attract organists’ and music lovers’ attention to this music by the originality of the undertaking.

Max REGER

The Complete Organ Works, Vol. 1 Cat # HOR 8687 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 18 d

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OPMC Classics Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra Yakov Kreizberg: conductor MAHLER: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor “Yakov Kreizberg was one of the finest conductors of his generation, a man whose musicianship, intellect, and integrity produced performances of a passion and intensity far superior to those by some better-known names.”

— The Independent The Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1856 and gave its first concert on December 14, 1856, with an ensemble of 15 musicians, at the Maison de jeux (a future casino). The orchestra’s most recent principal conductor was Yakov Kreizberg, who was named to the post in October 2007. He held the post until his passing in March 2011.

Gustav MAHLER Symphony No. 5

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BNL

Release Date: August 14, 2012 Jean Dubé: piano Pieces for the piano left hand by Blumenfeld, Bonimici, Bortkiewicz, Debussy, Dubé, Foote, Gabrilowitsch, Maasalo, Moszkowski, Ponce, Saint-Saëns, Sancan, Schubert, Scriabin, Sibelius & Zichy Jean Dubé, 30 years old, is internationally recognized as one of the most important young pianists today, much appreciated for his musicality and power.

He has been playing all over the world since he was four, and won his Steinway piano at the age of nine during the national competition “Young Mozart Prodigies in Paris.” There are already at least 30 recordings in his discography, of which at least 20 were released with Syrius and Naxos. He is one of the rare pianists in the world who is capable of playing Ligeti’s piano concerto, and—in the course of one recital—Messiaen’s “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus.”

Jean Dubé

Main gauche

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Passacaille Liuwe Tamminga: organ, harpsichord FRESCOBALDI: Il Primo Libro di Capricci (1624) On this recording, Liuwe Tamminga celebrates the magnificent sound of some of the oldest surviving organs in Italy—the amazing organ made by Lorenzo da Prato (1471–1475), the Baldassarre Malamini organ (1596), the organ by Giovanni Cipri (1556), and a harpsichord

by Giovanni Battista Giusti (1679). The Capricci adhere to a set of compositional features that allow for the expression of emotions through a more flexible treatment of the traditional counterpoint. Here, the rules could occasionally be broken or even ignored for expressive purposes; composers also encouraged rhythmic liberties (particularly tempo fluctuation), as Frescobaldi mentions in his preface to the Capricci. Liuwe Tamminga is considered one of the major specialists of 16th and 17th century Italian repertoires for organ.

Girolamo FRESCOBALDI Capricci, Libro I

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Indésens

Release Date: August 14, 2012 Eric Aubier: trumpet Philippe Berrod: clarinet Berlin Philharmonic String Ensemble DEBUSSY: Syrinx • Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune • Rhapsodie for clarinet & piano • Sonata for flute, viola & harp • Fêtes, from Nocturnes • Rhapsodie for saxophone & piano • Sonata for cello & harp in D minor • Danses sacrée et profane for harp & string quintet This album presents Debussy’s works from 1891 to 1915 in a totally new light, with which he would have most certainly agreed. Wind instruments, to which Debussy dedicated the end of his life, are featured strongly on this recording.

Claude DEBUSSY Chamber Music

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Théodore Paraskivesco, Jacques Rouvier: pianos DEBUSSY: Preludes • Images • Berceuse héroïque • Children’s Corner • Pour le piano • Estampes • Suite Bergamasque • Nocturne • Six Epigraphes antiques • Arabesques Nos. 1 & 2 • La plus que lente • Le petit nègre • L’isle joyeuse • 12 Etudes Compared to several testimonies of people who have seen and heard Debussy perform his own works, it is surprising to notice how close Théodore Paraskivesco gets to the composer’s spirit—or at least the way we imagine it. The music flows naturally with mastery and spontaneity, and this fragile balance evokes the mystery of music and the musician’s anxiety.

Claude DEBUSSY

Complete Piano Music Cat # IDS 41 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 4 Box Set, Box Lot 10 d

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Gramola

Release Date: August 14, 2012 Paul Gulda: piano Róbert Gašpar Band HAYDN: works of Haydn contrasted with traditional Hungarian gypsy music Proceeding from Haydn’s oeuvre and the musical traditions of Hungarian and Slovakian Roma, this recording by versatile Austrian pianist Paul Gulda offers an impression of what Haydn may have heard in Esterháza around 1770, and what influenced his composition permanently. In congenial cooperation with Róbert Gašpar’s band, Gulda easily manages to demonstrate the similarity of originally very different musical styles, and to make their mutual enrichment palpable. In combination with works that were evidently influenced by Roma musicians, traditional melodies and Hungarian gypsy music are presented here in an authentic manner.

Franz Joseph HAYDN

Haydn alla Zingarese Cat # GLA 98927 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 22 d

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Syrius Massimo Nosetti: organ Organ works by Bossi, Guilmant, Hägg, Rheinberger & Yon This celebration of the 150th anniversary of Bossi’s birth was intended to be a homage paid to this most renowned Italian organist and composer. Bossi was certainly the main example of an Italian artist who, though formed in a musical world dominated by opera, was able to widen his horizons thanks to his foreign experience.

Marco Enrico BOSSI

Bossi… and friends Cat # SYR 141444 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

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Etcetera

Release Date: August 14, 2012 Egidius Quartet & College NON PAPA: Domine probasti • Domus mea • Cum esset anna • Advenit ignis • LUPI: Sancta dei genitrix • Stella maris luminosa • MOULU: Vulnerasti • VINDERS: Magnificat • CANIS: Missa pastores loquebantur • JOSQUIN: Responde mihi • ANON.: Regina coeli • Missa pro fidelibus defunctis (Requiem) The survival of the Leiden Choirbooks from the iconoclastic fury in 1566 seems to indicate that the manuscripts were carefully kept somewhere under lock and key in the church. Today, these choirbooks provide unique and extremely valuable proof of the rich musical life of 16th-century Holland. Even though musical practice flourished greatly in Dutch churches in 16th century, little evidence of this has survived in Dutch archives and libraries. Of the countless music manuscripts that were used by singers of the liturgical hours as well as others, only a fraction of these have survived the ravages of time.

Egidius Quartet & College The Leiden Choirbooks, Vol. III Cat # ETC 1412 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 20 d

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Arleen Augér, Bernard Haitink, Elly Ameling, Janet Baker, Quink Vocal Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and more DIEPENBROCK: Stage works, orchestral works, symphonic songs, orchestrated songs, choral works, songs

Alphons DIEPENBROCK 150th Anniversary Box Cat # ETC 1435 Price Code: 3R (SRP $53.99) Number of Discs: 8 Box Set, Box Lot 10 d

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The year 2012 marks the 150th anniversary of Alphons Diepenbrock’s birth in Amsterdam, and the 100th anniversary of his acclamation, during the second Nederlandse Muziekfeest, as the most important Dutch composer since Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

The greater part of Diepenbrock’s music is composed for voices.

Of his almost 100 separate compositions, there are less than five that use neither the human voice nor a written text. A text was so essential to the full musical effect of Diepenbrock’s music that it is hardly possible to imagine that someone could understand his works well without an equal understanding of the texts that he used.

These texts were never chosen at random nor easily; they influenced and defined not only the general atmosphere of a song but also the significance of every modulation and every subconscious thought, for they defined the musical unity of the piece just as much as each separate musical phrase or its musical explanation.

Release Date: August 14, 2012

LAWO Classics

Vegard Landaas, Rolf Erik Nystrøm: saxophones Henninge Landass: viola Elzbieta Nawrocka: piano Bjørg Vaernes: cello HINDEMITH: Duet for viola & cello • Konzertstück for 2 alto saxophones • Sonata for solo viola, Op. 25, No. 1 • Sonata for alto saxophone & piano • Trio, Op. 47 for tenor saxophone, viola & piano The CD contains the complete chamber works for saxophone composed by Paul Hindemith. The saxophone duet in three movements was written for the legendary saxophonist Sigurd Racher, but it was never performed during the composer’s lifetime. It is heard here in a delectable rendering by two of Norway’s leading saxophonists, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm and Vegard Landaas. The main work featured on the CD is the Trio for Tenor Saxophone, Viola and Piano. One would have to search far and wide to find more closely interwoven parts than these! In the CD booklet the listener will also find passages from a stage play entitled “Tre takter takk!” written by actor and author John Nyutstumo. It was commissioned by the musicians, and especially adapted to the music on the CD.

Paul HINDEMITH

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Benjamin Isachsen: boy soprano Magne H. Draagen: organ Elise Bätnes: violin Henninge Landaas: viola Anne StineDahl: cello Norwegian folk tunes & short works by Jensen, Rheinberger, J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Walther, Sinding, Mason & Purcell This sequel to the much-lauded Canto Ergo Sum features lovely songs performed by a brilliant boy soprano. The beautiful harmonies nurture peace of mind and impart consolation, warmth, and hope. This is a recording that seeks common ground between classical music and folk tunes. The breadth of the music Benjamin Isachsen has selected showcases his musicality, the quality of his voice, and his ability to express himself.

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Benjamin Isachsen Benjamin Isachsen Canto Ergo Sum Cat # LAW 1004 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 d

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Soli Deo Gloria

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Querstand

Release Date: August 14, 2012

Anton BRUCKNER

Symphony No. 4 [Hybrid SACD] Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt: conductor BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4 in E-flat “Romantic” This sixth release in the Bruckner cycle with Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig celebrates Blomstedt’s 85th birthday and contains the version from 1878/80 in the edition of Leopold Nowak, which has been rarely performed in Gewandhaus in the last few decades.

Cat # QUE SACD 1018 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 32 d

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Matthias Sueß Organ Concert

Matthias Süß: organ GUILMANT: Organ Sonata (Symphony) in D minor, Op. 42 • FRANCK Prelude, Fugue & Variation in B minor, Op. 18 • RHEINBERGER: Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 98 • REGER: Fantasy on the Chorale “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott,” Op. 27

Cat # QUE 1207 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d

First CD of a planned three-CD series featuring recordings at the Walcker organ in St. Anna’s in Annaberg-Buchholz, one of the best organs in East Germany for performing French and German late romantic organ pieces. Faithfully restored in 1995, the organ is played here by Matthias Süß, longtime organist at the instrument and thus very familiar with its possibilities.

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J.S. BACH

Organ Music Barry Jordan: organ J.S. BACH: Prelude & Fugue in C, BWV 547 • Partite diverse sopra il Corale “O Gott, du frommer Gott,” BWV 767 • Chorale arrangements from the “Orgelbüchlein” (5) • 6 “Schübler” Chorale Preludes, BWV 645–650 • Toccata & Fugue in F, BWV 540

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This first CD recording at the new Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ in Magdeburg Cathedral (inaugurated in 2011) is a cooperation between German Glatter-Götz organ builders (of international fame) and sound designer Manuel Rosales from LA. Perfectly designed for performing works by Baroque masters, the organ is played by Barry Jordan, Magdeburg Cathedral organist.

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7092

WINDS

French Wind Music

Pro Arte Wind Quintet, Zuric

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0710357772023

1

CD

NIM

7720

CLASSICAL

Amiscellany

Amis, John: VOICE

D

0710357772320

1

CD

NIM

7723

BEETHOVEN

Piano Sonatas

Smith, Ronald: pno

D

0710357772429

1

CD

NIM

7724

GEHRMAN

Folk Songs of the British Is

Gehrman, Shura: bass/Farmer,

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0710357772528

1

CD

NIM

7725

SOLER

Sonatas for Harpsichord

Rowland, Gilbert: hpsd

D

0710357772627

1

CD

NIM

7726

CHOPIN

Four Ballades, The

d’Ascoli, Bernard: pno

D

0710357772726

1

CD

NIM

7727

CLASSICAL

Birds, Beasts & Flowers

Princess Grace of Monaco: na

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