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Releasing a handful of albums per year, with the performers chosen for their original artistic qualities, Musica Ficta presents an interpretation of early music in a contemporary context. Musica Ficta comes to Allegro via Codaex.

SMEKKLEYSA

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Smekkleysa is one of Iceland’s most important and influential record labels. Located in Reykjavik and spanning many genres, from classical to pop and punk, the label is particularly known worldwide for being the home of the pop group The Sugarcubes as well as being the Icelandic team behind Sigur Rós. Smekkleysa comes to Allegro Classical via Launch Music International Ltd. top 10 RECENT RELEASES

1. Jos van Immerseel Debussy: La Mer/Images (ZIG 313) 2. Zimmermann & Gerstein Sonatas for Viola & Piano V2 (MYR SACD 8) 3. Pieter Wispelwey Bach: 6 Suites for Cello Solo (EPR 12) 4. Belcea Quartet Beethoven: Complete String Qrts Vol. 1 (ZIG 315) 5. Philippe Herreweghe Bach: Ach susser Trost! Leipzig Cantatas (PHY 6) 6. The Sixteen Palestrina Volume 2 (CRO 16105) 7. Nicholas Phan Still Falls the Rain (AVR 2258) 8. Jos van Immerseel Schubert: The Complete Symphonies (ZIG 308) 9. Dallas Wind Symphony Playing With Fire (REF 127) 10. Danish String Quartet Haydn & Brahms String Quartets (AVI 8553264)

Release Date: February 12, 2013

OMAC Records

Mark O’CONNOR America On Strings

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Mark O’Connor: violin O’CONNOR: In the Summertime • Molto Perpetual • Rock ‘n’ Roll • Gypsy Fantastic • Fiddle Boy Overture • Song of the Liberty Bell • MILLS: Red Wing • TRADITIONAL arr. O’Connor: Fiddler’s Dream • Arkansas Traveler • Peek-a-boo Waltz • Off She Goes • Over the Hills and Far Away • Shenandoah • El Rancho Grande • Florida Blues • MENDOZA: Cielito Lindo • LAW: Bunker Hill • JOHNSON: ˇ Dill Pickle Rag • DVORÁK: From the New World • STEPP: Stepp Down Hoedown “A monumental work … inevitably will be compared to Copland.” — Associated Press Great American music for string orchestra from best-selling violinist Mark O’Connor, which ties in with his Orchestra Book II release from the popular O’Connor Method. Album Press handled by Shore Fire Media.

Tour Dates February 9 Tulsa, OK – Chapman Music Hall February 23 Lake Charles, LA – Main Auditorium February 28 Providence, RI – ASTA Conference March 30 Tacoma, WA – Broadway Center April 18 Florence, AL – Norton Auditorium

Opera d’Oro

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Richard WAGNER Tristan und Isolde

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Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad, Emanuel List, Herbert Janssen: vocal soloists Fritz Reiner: conductor WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde “Recorded live at Covent Garden in 1936, this is quite simply the greatest performance of Wagner’s masterpiece to survive in sound. It captures the definitive coupling of Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior as the doomed lovers, both singing with a sensuous ease, a purity of line, and a supreme voluptuousness of tone that eradicates all competition … The visceral sexuality and the sense of neurotic decadence that Fritz Reiner gets from every bar is overwhelming, while the LPO — which doubled as the opera house’s orchestra in the 1930s — play with an electric excitement that no studio recording could ever quite capture. You emerge from the whole feeling elated and emotionally battered beyond belief.” — Tim Ashley, The Guardian, December 2000 The medieval Irish princess Isolde wants to poison the knight Tristan for wrongs he has done her, but falls in love with him instead when her maid, Brangäne, substitutes a love potion for the poison. Some time later Melot, another of Isolde’s suitors, grievously wounds Tristan. Tristan returns to his home in Brittany, tended by his faithful knight Kurwenal. Isolde arrives, hoping to cure Tristan with her magic herbs, but is too late. Holding Tristan in her arms, she sings a soaring hymn to the bliss of eternal passion.

Release Date: February 12, 2013

CORO

Giovanni PALESTRINA Palestrina Volume 3 Cat # CRO 16106 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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The Sixteen Harry Christophers: director PALESTRINA: Missa Regina caeli • Stabat Mater • Motet Regina caeli • Ad caenam agni providi • Confitebor tibi Domine • Terra tremuit • Improperium exspectavit cor meum • Song of Songs 4–6 A towering figure in Renaissance polyphony, Palestrina is arguably one of the greatest composers of liturgical music of all time. Harry Christophers and The Sixteen continue their exploration of his work with a disc of music for the Easter period. Many of the works on this new recording celebrate the joyful part of Easter — the Resurrection — and the central mass is the wonderfully inspired Missa Regina caeli. The disc would not be complete, however, without the exquisite eight-voice Stabat Mater, possibly Palestrina’s most famous piece and a work that emphasizes the other side of the Easter story: the agony and pain of the Crucifixion. Reviews & Airplay from US press and radio stations. Radio Coverage on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 (available worldwide via digital radio). Advertising in BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone.

Tour Dates January 25 & 27 Boston, MA – Symphony Hall February 22 & 24 Boston, MA – Symphony Hall May 3 & 5 Boston, MA – Symphony Hall

Ancalagon Records

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Polkastra

I Do: The Wedding Album BUZZ ALERT

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Polkastra Lara St. John: violin Isabel Bayrakdarian: soprano David Krakauer: clarinet Toronto Children’s Chorus Matthew Otto: conductor CLARKE: Flumpet Voluntary • WAGNER: Bridle Chorus • J.S. BACH: J.S. Bachelor Party • SCHUBERT: Ave Maria • PACHELBEL: Canon in D, Mostly • ELGAR: Salut d’Amour • MENDELSSOHN: Shotgun Wedding March • TRADITIONAL: Celtic Wedding Medley Ireland/Scotland • Le Jardin d’Amour • Fun Der Khupe • Napoloni • THOMAS: Kosher Chicken Dance • DI CAPUA: O Sole Mio • GARDEL: Por Una Cabeza • NOVACEK: Fourth Street Drag • DONALDSON-KAHN: My Buddy “Wild, idiosyncratic, and gripping.” — Los Angeles Times The joyful sounds of the perfect wedding day! The bride is glowing, the groom stands at the ready, and Polkastra launches into some rousing processionals to set the mood. The ceremony proceeds to an accompaniment of angelic vocals. The registry is signed, and a triumphant recessional propels the newlyweds and their well-wishers on their merry way to the reception. Press Mailing to wedding press outlets as well as magazines and TV. Radio Mailing to all North American classical radio outlets.

Avie Records

Release Date: February 12, 2013 Cypress String Quartet ˇ DVORÁK: The Cypresses • String Quartet No. 13, Op. 106 “Artistry of uncommon insight and cohesion.” — Gramophone The San Francisco-based Cypress String Quartet, known equally for its innovation and its elegant performances, debuts on AVIE with a recording of its namesake work, a set of 12 love songs scored for string quartet, coupled with the composer’s expansive G major Quartet, No. 13. Known internationally through touring and a dozen acclaimed recordings, the Cypress String Quartet traverses repertoire from J.S. Bach to world premieres of works they have commissioned from such composers as Jennifer Higdon, Kevin Puts, and Elena Ruehr. Print Advertising in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, LISTEN, and Chamber Music America. Reviews in classical magazines, e-zines, and newspapers. Radio Airplay on various classical stations. Dynamic Online & Social Media Campaign with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+. E-Blast to Avie mailing list (5,000+).

ˇ Antonín DVORÁK

The Cypresses & String Quartet No. 13, Op. 106

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Tour Dates January 25 Berkeley, CA – Pearson Theatre at Meyer Sound January 26 San Francisco, CA – Gallery Wendi Norris April 19 San Francisco, CA – Herbst Theatre May 5 Miami, FL – University of Miami

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Eastman Wind Ensemble Eastman Virtuosi Mark Scatterday: conductor Jan Opalach: narrator STRAVINSKY: Octet • L’Histoire du Soldat “America’s premiere wind band.” — Fanfare Harking back to a golden era in recording, when the ensembles of the Eastman School of Music under the baton of the legendary Frederick Fennell made dozens of pioneering recordings for Mercury Living Presence, the Eastman Wind Ensemble celebrates its 60th anniversary with its first recording for AVIE Records. Stravinsky’s music figured early on in the EWE’s history; his Symphonies for Wind Instruments were performed in 1951 on a program conducted by Frederick Fennell that led to the establishment of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. And in 1966, at the age of 83, Stravinsky made his one and only visit to the Eastman School of Music, overseeing performances of several of his works. Under Mark Scatterday, who continues in the prestigious lineage as the fourth conductor in the EWE’s history, the superior student ensemble performs Stravinsky’s Octet, while Eastman Virtuosi, made up of the Eastman School’s renowned faculty members, turn in a devilishly fine rendition of “L’Histoire du Soldat.” Print Advertising in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and LISTEN. Advertising & Editorial in Eastman School of Music’s NOTES (20K+). Reviews in classical magazines and newspapers. Radio Airplay on various classical stations. E-Blast to Avie list (5,000+) and Eastman School mailing list (10,000+).

Igor STRAVINSKY

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Challenge Classics

Release Date: February 12, 2013 Machteld Baumans: soprano Judith van Wanrooij: soprano Patrick Henckens: tenor Netherlands Symphony Orchestra Jan Willem de Vriend: conductor MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang” The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and renowned conductor Jan Willem de Vriend give us their own unique version of Mendelssohn. PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.

Felix MENDELSSOHN

Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang” [Hybrid SACD] Cat # CHR SACD 72543 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 17 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Jaap van Zweden: conductor BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3 Jaap van Zweden, one of the world’s leading conductors and Chief Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, is the true Bruckner conductor. The illustrious conductor was even named Best Conductor of 2012 by Musical America! PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.

Anton BRUCKNER

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Challenge Classics

Ton Koopman: harpsichord J.S. BACH: Six Partitas for Harpsichord (Clavier Übung I) BWV 825–830 For a long time, Baroque and Bach specialist Ton Koopman has wanted to record this masterpiece, recorded in the trusted and beautiful Walloon Church in Amsterdam.

J.S. BACH

Six Partitas for Harpsichord BWV 825–830 Cat # CHR 72574 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Cora Burggraaf: mezzo-soprano Simon Lepper: piano Liza Ferschtman: violin Floris Mijnders: cello Traditional folk songs and music by Brahms, Beethoven, Mahler, Britten, Respighi, Bartók, Sibelius, and Vogel The debut CD on Challenge Classics for Cora Burggraaf, recipient of many prizes including the 2009/10 ECHO Rising Star Award, the 2006 Elizabeth Everts Prize, second prize in the International Vocalist Competition Den Bosch 2004, the 2003 Maggie Teyte Prize, and the Miriam Licette Scholarship. PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.

Cora Burggraaf & Simon Lepper Folk Stories [Hybrid SACD]

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DOREMI

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Anton Kuerti

Plays Mendelssohn Anton Kuerti: piano MENDELSSOHN: Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 • Presto scherzando • Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 • Phantasy in F sharp minor, Op. 28 • Three Preludes & Fugues, Op. 35, 1–3 • Scherzo in B minor A new audiophile recording of this internationally famous living pianist.

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Menahem Pressler Plays Chopin, Vol. 2

Menahem Pressler: piano/The Vienna State Opera Orchestra/David Josefowitz, Hans Swarowsky, Jean-Marie Auberson: conductors CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 • Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 • Andante Spianto & Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 • Polonaises, Op. 26/1; Op. 26/2 • Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61 • Mazurkas, Op. 7/1; Op. 24/4; Op. 30/4; Op. 33/4; Op. 63/2 On CD for the first time: popular classical repertoire from a great living pianist. Cat # DHR 7989 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT first time on cd

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Robert Lortat Plays Chopin

Robert Lortat: piano CHOPIN: 12 Etudes, Op. 10 • 12 Etudes, Op. 25 • Trois nouvelles études • 24 Preludes, Op. 28 • 14 Waltzes • Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35, “Funeral March” Extremely rare recordings! One of the very first recording artists, pianist Robert Lortat specialized in Chopin recordings during the 1920s and 1930s. Cat # DHR 7994 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Cypres

Release Date: February 12, 2013 Soloists of La Monnaie David Lively: piano Tatiana Samouil: violin Justus Grimm: cello Korneel Le Compte: double bass Jolente de Maeyer: violin Tony Nys: viola FRANCK: Sonata for piano and violin • Mélancolie for violin and piano • Andantino Quietoso for violin and piano • Premier duo concertant for violin and piano • Quatuor for strings • Quintette for piano, two violin, alto and cello • Trio Concertant 1–4 • Grand Trio • Solo de piano avec accompagnement de quintette à cordes Are there still discoveries to be made about a distinguished composer like César Franck? This collection suggests that there are! Produced in collaboration with La Monnaie, this set serves as a showcase for principal members of its orchestra, who are partnered with pianist David Lively.

César FRANCK

Complete Chamber Music Cat # CYP 4637 Price Code: 4L (SRP $47.99) Number of Discs: 4 Box Set, Box Lot 15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Delphian Records John Kitchen: harpsichord COUPERIN: Ordre No. 6 in B flat • FORQUERAY [attrib.]: La Du Breüil • La Leclair • La Léon • La Boisson • RAMEAU: La Triomphante • Fanfarinette • Les Sauvages • L’Enharmonique • L’Egiptienne • DUPHLY: La Forqueray • Médée “Crisp articulation, splendidly agile fingerwork, and a strong sense of purpose.” — International Record Review John Kitchen, uniquely familiar with Edinburgh’s internationally acclaimed collections of early keyboard instruments, turns his attention to the world’s most famous harpsichord: the Taskin harpsichord. The reign of Louis XV was the period during which the harpsichord gained its greatest popularity in France, and this glorious 1769 instrument by Pascal Taskin would have been the preferred choice of any composer. Here, its opulent lushness is captured in the ideal acoustics of Scotland’s oldest concert hall, St. Cecilia’s. Print Advertising in BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone.

John Kitchen

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Music from the Age of Louis XV John Kitchen Instruments from the Raymond Russell Collection,Vol. II Cat # DPH 34039 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 d

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Phi

Release Date: February 12, 2013 Christine Busch: baroque violin J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 • Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 • Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003 • Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 • Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005 • Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 Over the past 40 years, Philippe Herreweghe has worked with some extraordinary soloists with whom he has had very fertile and stimulating dialogues, both musically and personally. In his own words, “It seems important to give these musicians the opportunity to express themselves on the label PHI, in works they are particularly fond of.” Christine Busch, leader of the orchestra of Collegium Vocale Gent, recorded the Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin by J. S. Bach, a work she admires and has been playing since childhood. She inspires by her technical perfection, her strength, her humility, and her sense for poetry.

J.S. BACH

Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Cat # PHY 8 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 20 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Ricercar Clematis Stéphanie de Failly: violin T. VITALI: Parte del Tomaso Vitalino • Passo e mezzo in E minor • Sonata prima in E minor • Sonata duodecima: Ciacona • Sonata in A major • G.B. VITALI: Capriccio di Tromba • Furlana • Barabano • Il violino sona in tempo ordinario • Rugiero • Bergamasca per il violone • Bergamasca per il violino • Passo, e mezzo • Toccata • Sonata No. 2 in E minor

Tomaso Antonio VITALI Ciaconna

Cat # RCE 326 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Every violinist from the Romantic period onwards has played Tomaso Antonio Vitali’s famous Chaconne, although the score they used was always based on the much-modified version of the piece that violin virtuoso Ferdinand David made around 1860. Various unusual aspects of the piece, together with some unexpected modulations, have always led experts on the Baroque to regard the piece as inauthentic. Stéphanie de Failly, however, has gone back to the original manuscript and in so doing has not only shed new light on the work, but also revealed its connections to other works by Vitali and his father, Giovanni Battista Vitali. The musical invention in Giovanni Battista’s pieces and dances with variations leads the listener directly to the extravagances of the Chaconne.

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Querstand

These splendid performances complete the stunning Bruckner Cycle with Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig

Cat # QUE SACD 931 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

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Anton BRUCKNER

Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig/Herbert Blomstedt: conductor

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 6 in A major

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Symphony No. 6 [Hybrid SACD]

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Anton BRUCKNER

Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig/Herbert Blomstedt: conductor

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 in C minor

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Edition Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs, 2000)

Symphony No. 8 [Hybrid SACD]

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Symphony No. 9 [Hybrid SACD]

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CAvi-music

Release Date: February 12, 2013 Tanja Tetzlaff: cello Gunilla Süssmann: piano BRAHMS: Sonata No. 2 for piano and cello in F major, Op. 99 • Sonata No. 1 for piano and cello in E minor, Op. 38 Featuring two of the most popular works for cello and piano, this new disc comes from two artists with an incredible shared musical understanding. Tanja Tetzlaff will tour the U.S. in Fall 2013 with the Tetzlaff Quartet.

Johannes BRAHMS Cello Sonatas

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Wolfgang Meyer: clarinet Eisler Quartett Elisabeth Weber: violin Clemens Linder: violin Pauline Sachse: viola Sascha Meyer: cello BUSCH: Seven Bagatelles for clarinet, viola and cello, Op. 53a • Variations on an original theme (in F) for clarinet and string quartet, Op. 53c • Serenade for string quartet in G major, Op. 14 • Duet in B flat major for violin and clarinet, Op. 26b • German Dances in F major for clarinet, violin and cello, Op. 26c After his emigration to the U.S. in 1939, Adolf Busch founded the famous School of Music in Marlboro. Well known as both a solo performer and leader of his Busch Quartet, his U.S. tours from the ’30s and ’40s are still fondly remembered. Busch was also a great composer with modern tendencies based on the tonal system, similar to his contemporary Max Reger.

Adolf BUSCH

Chamber music for clarinet and strings Cat # AVI 8553268 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Release Date: February 12, 2013

Nimbus Alliance

Ying Huang: soprano Bo Skovhus: baritone Bournemouth Symphony Chorus Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Richard Blackford: conductor BBC Singers David Hill: conductor BLACKFORD: Mirror of Perfection • Choral Anthems – A Westminster Te Deum • On Another’s Sorrow • I Know That My Redeemer Liveth • From the Song of Songs • A Lullaby of the Nativity • I Will Sing to the Lord Both of Richard Blackford’s critically acclaimed choral works, “Mirror of Perfection” and “Voices of Exile,” were the subjects of television documentaries and have been frequently broadcast on the UK’s Classic FM and BBC Radio 3. September 2011 saw the premiere of another major choral work, “Not In Our Time,” commissioned for the Centenary of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. It was later performed to great acclaim in Chicago in 2012.

Richard BLACKFORD

Mirror of Perfection & Choral Anthems

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Nimbus Records

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George Frideric HANDEL

Carl Maria von WEBER & Joseph HAYDN

Jeni Bern: soprano/Benjamin Hulett: tenor/Nathan Vale: tenor/ Brindley Sherratt: bass/Choir of Christ Church Cathedral/Oxford Philomusica/Stephen Darlington: conductor

Hansgeorg Schmeiser: flute/Othmar Müller: cello/Matteo Fossi: piano

Acis & Galatea arr. Felix Mendelssohn

HANDEL: Acis & Galatea arr. Felix Mendelssohn This recording of Mendelssohn’s arrangement of Handel’s Acis & Galatea is a true Oxford project. Not only are the performers central in the musical life of the city, but Mendelssohn’s original score is in the Bodleian Library!

Trios for Flute, Cello & Piano

WEBER: Trio for flute, cello & piano • J. HAYDN: Trio in D, HXV 16 • Trio in G, HXV 15 • Trio in F, HXV 17 Schmeiser, Muller, and Fossi reunite once again for their recording of Weber’s Trios for flute, cello, and piano.

col legno

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Cat # CNO 20308 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

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Karsten Riedel & Franui

Marino Formenti

Karsten Riedel: voice, piano, guitar/Franui

Marino Formenti: piano

RIEDEL: When I consider (Sonnet 15) • From you have I been absent (Sonnet 98) • Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface (Sonnet 6) • Let me confess (Sonnet 36) • Not from the stars (Sonnet 14) • A woman’s face (Sonnet 20) • Mine eye hath played the painter (Sonnet 24) • Is it for fear (Sonnet 9) • Thus is his cheek (Sonnet 68) • When forty winters shall besiege thy brow (Sonnet 2) • So is it not with me (Sonnet 21) • O, how I faint (Sonnet 80) • That thou hast her (Sonnet 42) • Those pretty wrongs (Sonnet 41) • The expense of spirit (Sonnet 129) • Look in thy glass (Sonnet 3)

FERNEYHOUGH: Lemma-Icon-Epigram • BENJAMIN: Shadowlines, 6 Kanonische Präludien • CERHA: Für Marino (gestörte Meditation) • Slowakische Erinnerungen aus der Kindheit, No. 5 • Slowakische Erinnerungen aus der Kindheit, No. 9 • Slowakische Erinnerungen aus der Kindheit, No. 20 • STOCKHAUSEN: Klavierstück V • 3. Stunde – Natürliche Dauern No. 5, aus: Klang – die 24 Stunden des Tages • CAGE: One

Fool of Love

Notturni

The art of the lied adapted for the 21st century!

In Fall 2011, pianist Marino Formenti performed four one-hour solo concerts hosted by the Wien Modern festival. The “Notturni” series was centered on the piano oeuvre of Friedrich Cerha, who wrote his first piece for solo piano in 20 years to celebrate the occasion.

Meridian Records

Cat # MER 84588 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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Frédéric CHOPIN

Robert SCHUMANN

Sung-Suk Kang: piano

CHOPIN: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 • Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 • Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 • Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 • Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major, Op. 61 • Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 • Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49

SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 • Drei Fantasiestücke, Op. 111

Solo Piano Music

After a series of highly acclaimed duo albums with double bassist Leon Bosch, Meridian is thrilled to announce the release of Sung-Suk Kang’s first solo recording with the label.

Piano Music

Meridian Records is proud to announce the release of Korean pianist Sung-Suk Kang’s second solo album of piano music, featuring the much-loved Robert Schumann.

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Discovery Music & Vision

Christopher GUNNING

Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Christopher Gunning: conductor GUNNING: Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra • Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra • Concertino for Flute and Small Orchestra Christopher Gunning has made a reputation for his compositions in film, TV, and the concert hall. After he worked with Craig Ogden on many TV series, Craig invited him to compose a Concerto for Guitar. The work concentrates on expressive melodic lines and sonorous chords, and is rhythmically alive. The Clarinet Concerto, composed in 2005, was taken up by the Principal Clarinetist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The Concerto is in three movements — fast, slow, and fast — weaving in and out of energetic, elegiac moods. The Flute Concerto was written for Catherine Handley, widow of the celebrated conductor Tod Handley.

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Quartz Records Samuel BARBER Mélodies Passagères

Gweneth-Ann Jeffers: soprano/Stephen de Pledge: piano Barber: Mélodies Passagères, Op. 27 • Nuvoletta, Op. 25 • Three Songs, Op. 10 • Four Songs, Op. 13 • Despite and Still, Op. 41 • Hermit Songs, Op. 29 There are not many recordings of Samuel Barber in Quartz’s catalog, which makes this an important release for the label. Cat # QTZ 2079 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Eddie MORA

String Quartets 1, 2 & 3 Cuarteto Latinoamericano/University Contemporary Ensemble/Heredia Symphony Orchestra, Costa Rica/Eddie Mora: conductor MORA: String Quartet No. 1 “Retrato V” • String Quartet No. 2 • String Quartet No. 3 “JRM” • Sula • Bocetos A Yolanda An album of sonorous textures, interpreting the magic and beauty of Latin American culture with musical sounds. Cat # QTZ 2090 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Melodiya

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Various Artists

Piano Anthology Part 1, Disc 5 N. Mndoyants, T. Dorokhova, I. Bogdanova, A. Korepanova, M. Turpanov: piano KABALEVSKY: Rondo (1958) • NIKOLAYEV: Rondino (1960, premiere) • KARAMANOV: Variations (1962) • TISHCHENKO: Sonata No. 4 (1972) • SKORIK: Burlesque (1963, premiere) • ARAPOV: Sonata No. 2 (1976)

Cat # MYD 1001968 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 35

Another release of the Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers features works of the late 1950s and the first half of the 1970s by composers of the “traditional” school. Nevertheless, listeners will find a lot of real surprises on this disc!

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Sergei LYAPUNOV Symphonic Works

State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the USSR/Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor LYAPUNOV: Symphony No. 1 in B minor • Triumphal Overture on Russian Themes, Op. 7 • Polonaise, Op. 16 • Zelazowa Wola, Op. 37 • Hashish, Op. 53 • Symphony No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 66

Cat # MYD 1002046 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 3 Digibox, Box Lot 15

Sergei Lyapunov was one of the outstanding contributors to the original national school of Russian music. A pupil of Mily Balakirev, Lyapunov was a composer, researcher, and collector of Russian folklore; a brilliant pianist, conductor, and esteemed educator; and an active musical and social figure.

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J.S. BACH

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Grigory Sokolov: piano J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 • Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 • English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807

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Melodiya presents concert recordings of J.S. Bach’s compositions performed by Grigory Sokolov, arguably the most intellectual of all modern Russian pianists. At the age of 16, he became a winner of the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition and has been an active concert performer for more than 40 years. Although he is not a public figure, those who have heard him in concert or on record will never be able to forget his playing.

Melodiya

Release Date: February 12, 2013 Sviatoslav Richter: piano J.S. BACH: English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808 • Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 • Concerto for 2 Harpsichords in C major, BWV 1061 • BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 13 (“Pathétique”) • 8 Bagatelles Piano Sonata No. 23, Op. 57 (“Appassionata”) • Fantasia in C minor, Op. 80 (“Choral Fantasia”) • SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 • Humoreske in B flat major, Op. 20 • Novelletten, Op. 21 • SCHUBERT: Moments musicaux, D 780 (Op. 94) • Impromptu No. 2 A flat major, D 935 (Op. 142) • CHOPIN: Etude in E major, Op. 10 No. 3 • Etude in E minor, Op. 25 No. 5 • Polonaise in C sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 1 • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 in F minor • FRANCK: Prélude, Choral and Fugue (1884) • Les Djinns, Symphonic Poem for Piano and Orchestra • BARTOK: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz.71 • SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103 Melodiya offers a set of recordings by the great pianist of the 20th century, Sviatoslav Richter, which reflects his diverse performing interests. The history of piano music does not seem to know any time intervals, ages, or schools that Richter left outside his pianistic orbit. Bach, Scarlatti, Viennese classics, Romanticism, French impressionism, the entire palette of Russian music of the 19th and 20th centuries: he did it all. “No matter if he plays Bach or Shostakovich, Beethoven or Scriabin, every time the listener hears somewhat of a living, resurrected composer,” famous teacher Heinrich Neuhaus said about his pupil.

Sviatoslav Richter

Sviatoslav Richter Collection Cat # MYD 1002064 Price Code: 3R (SRP $53.99) Number of Discs: 5 Digibox, Box Lot 8 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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David Oistrakh: violin The State Academic Symphony Orchestra Kirill Kondrashin: conductor BEETHOVEN: Romance No. 1 in G major, Op. 40 • Romance No. 2 in F major, Op. 50 • GODARD: Canzonetta from Concerto Romantique for violin and orchestra, Op. 35 • CHAUSSON: Poème in E flat major, Op. 25 • SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28 • RAVEL: Tzigane, a concert rhapsody Without David Oistrakh, it is impossible to imagine the picture of 20th century music. A violinist, conductor, and professor, he left an indelible mark on the world of performance art. Now, Melodiya presents some golden hits of violin music recorded by Oistrakh in the late 1940s, at the peak of his violin mastery.

David Oistrakh

Selected Recordings Cat # MYD 1002032 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 35 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Atoll Records

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Michael WILLIAMS

The Prodigal Child: A Chamber Opera Cat # TOL 306 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

Michael Williams: music/Alan Riach: libretto/Joanne Cole-Rosser: mezzo-soprano/Stephanie Acraman: soprano/Paul Whelan: baritone/ Dimitri Atanassov: violin/Eugene Lee: violin/Christine Bowie: viola/James Tennant: cello/Katherine Austin: piano WILLIAMS: The Prodigal Child: A Chamber Opera

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Georg Phillip TELEMANN 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin Lara Hall: violin Cat # TOL 341 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

TELEMANN: 12 Fantasies for Solo Violin

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

“Rasumovsky” Quartets Op. 59, Nos. 2 & 3 Cat # TOL 402 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

New Zealand String Quartet/Helene Pohl: violin/Douglas Beilman: violin/ Gillian Ansell: viola/Rolf Gjelsten: cello BEETHOVEN: String Quartets, Op. 59 Nos. 2 & 3

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James Tibbles Sesquialtera

James Tibbles: organ Cat # TOL 406 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

HANDEL: Overture to Il Pastor Fido • Overture to Esther • STANLEY: Voluntary V • Voluntary VIII • BLOW: Voluntary in C • CORELLI: Concerto VIII • NARES: Introduction in A minor, and Fugues

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Luca Manghi Quays

Luca Manghi: flute/David Kelly: piano/Horomona Horo: taonga puoro Cat # TOL 882 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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SCELSI: Quays for Flute • PILATI: Sonata for flute and piano • HOADLEY: Three Sketches for a Nocturne • ADAMS: Art Miniatures • FERRARI: Sonata for flute and piano • NORRIS: Tre canzoni imperfette • WHITEHEAD: Hineraukatauri • SCELSI: Quays for Alto Flute

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Atoll Records

Winner :: Best Classical Album 2012 :: New Zealand Music Awards

Christopher BLAKE Angel at Ahipara

Cat # TOL 441 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT world premiere

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The Strings of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Kenneth Young: conductor BLAKE: Angel at Ahipara (2000) • Night Journey to Pawarenga (2003) • Christ at Whangape (2008) • Anthem on the Kaipara (2007) Atoll and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra dominated the category Best Classical Album at the 2012 New Zealand Music Awards, by capturing all three nominations! This new album, WINNER of Best Classical Album 2012, features the NZSO strings conducted by Kenneth Young performing the world premiere recordings of these works. The other two titles nominated in the category of Best Classical Album were Eve de Castro-Robinson’s Releasing the Angel by and Anthony Ritchie’s A Bugle Will Do.

Finalists :: Best Classical Album 2012 :: New Zealand Music Awards CASTRO-ROBINSON Releasing the Angel Cat # TOL 141 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1

RITCHIE A Bugle Will Do Cat # TOL 741 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Tactus

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Cat # TCT 771302 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Cat # TCT 830601 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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Giovanni MORANDI

Polibio FUMAGALLI

Chiara Cassin: organ/Federica Iannella: organ

Giovanni Feltrin: organ

MORANDI: Sinfonia • Sonata per l’elevazione • Gran marcia militare • Sonata per il postcommunio • Pastorale • Sonata • La venuta dei re magi • Marcia militare

FUMAGALLI: Marcia campestre • Marcia di Tripudio • Ripieno in A major • La tranquillità • Melodia per Oboe • Emulazione • Esultazione • La danza degli astri Bizzarria • Capriccio per Clarinetto • Serenata for English Horn with the introduction by Harp and Flute • Alleluja Sonata brillante alla Marcia • Capriccio “La caccia,” Op. 257 • Sonata in B minor, Op. 290

Sonatas for Organ Four Hands

Organ Works

These sonatas were written between 1830 and 1843 by Giovanni Morandi (1777–1856), one of the most important Italian composers for organ music of the 19th century.

Polibio Fumagalli (1830–1900) was a prominent figure during the second half of the 19th century, and a link between the old and the new concept of organ construction and composition in Italy.

Cat # TCT 750701 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Cat # TCT 940001 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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Pier Paolo SCATTOLIN

Giuseppe GIORDANI

Latinobalcanica Ensemble

Daniela Nuzzoli: mezzo-soprano/Marcello Rossi: organ

SCATTOLIN: E nanna nanne • Addonna va ssa Filumena • Lamentazioni • Sarvi Rriggina • Fa la nana • In Paradisum deducant te Angeli • Papé Satàn • Cantata a zampogna • KURTI: Per mu paska ken kismet • TASINI: Vitadoro I • Vitadoro II • BENATI: Polegnala ye Tudora • Il canto infinito del dott. Joseph D.

GIORDANI: Jubilate Deo • Illumina oculos • Moderato (for organ) • Lauda anima mea • Beata es virgo Maria • Quomodo sedet • Ascendit Deus • Benedictus est Domine • Adagio (for organ) • Exaltabo Te • Diff usa est gratia • Deus firmavit • Ave Maria • Perfi ce gressus

Carmina Nova

The Carmina Nova project stems from the observation that for certain solo and choral repertoires it is possible consistently to identify and try out some elements of contiguity in vocal emission.

Offertorios for Voice and Organ

The selection of pieces presented in this CD offers an initial view of Giordani’s extensive corpus, focusing on the Offertories for soprano and also touching on the broader genre of the lamentation.

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Ediciones Singulares

Max D’OLLONE

Cantatas, Choirs & Symphonic Music Flemish Radio Choir/Brussels Philharmonic/Hervé Niquet: conductor D’OLLONE: Frédégonde • Sous-bois • L’Été • Mélusine • Pendant la tempête • Clarisse Harlowe • Les Villes maudites • Hymne • Sposalizio Max d’Ollone studied with Massenet, was a contemporary of Richard Strauss, and cultivated a deeply Romantic approach to vocal music. The Prix de Rome competition gave him the opportunity to compose several impressive cantatas and pieces for chorus and orchestra, characterized by a combination of grandeur and refinement. This lovely collector’s edition set features a hardcover 144-page book (approx. 8” x 5”), with text in French and English, plus two CDs of music. Limited & numbered edition of 3,000. ISBN: 978-84-939-6863-2

Cat # ECI 1010 Price Code: 2S (SRP $37.99) Number of Discs: 2 Book+2 CDs, Box Lot 18 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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æon Roberto GERHARD

Complete String Quartets Arditti Quartet/Irvine Arditti: violin/Ashot Sarkissjan: violin/Ralf Ehlers: viola/Lucas Fels: cello GERHARD: String Quartet No. 2 • String Quartet No. 1 • Chaconne for Solo Violin On CD for the first time: the complete quartets of Spanish master Roberto Gerhard performed by the Arditti Quartet, to whom the works are dedicated. After Manuel de Falla, Gerhard is the boldest, most brilliant representative of the music of his country. Born in Catalonia and Arnold Schönberg’s sole Spanish student, Gerhard would be forced into exile by the civil war, become a British citizen, and finish out his life in Cambridge. His encounter with the Arditti Quartet was determining, as attests this superb recording of what can be considered the composer’s masterworks.

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Fuga Libera Olga Pashchenko

Transitions: Dussek, Beethoven, Mendelssohn Olga Pashchenko: piano DUSSEK: Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 61 • BEETHOVEN: Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33 • Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 • MENDELSSOHN: Variations sérieuses in D minor, Op. 54 This debut album from Russian pianist, harpsichordist, and organist Olga Pashchenko — student of Alexei Lubimov and Richard Egarr — depicts the rebellious yet tender metamorphosis between two states of art: Classical and Romantic. The two original instruments (Conrad Graf 1826 & Donat Schoeffstoss 1812), chosen with care by Pashchenko, have a great clarity of sound and uncover immense timbral possibilities, allowing one to play with the rhetoric as much as with the colors.

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BGS

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Sylvius Leopold WEISS

Cantabile: Music for Lute, Vol. 2 Nigel North: lute WEISS: Sonata in D major • Sonata in A major • Sonata in G major The second recording in Nigel North’s new series of Weiss lute discs, following up the first volume that was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in the UK. This is the first recording of this material for Nigel North in 20 years! Digipak booklet includes notes and bio printed in English, German, French, and Spanish. Cat # BGS 120 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Stone Records Hugo WOLF

The Complete Songs, Vol. 5 Sarah-Jane Brandon: soprano/Daniel Norman: tenor/William Dazeley: baritone/Sholto Kynoch: piano WOLF: The Complete Songs Volume 5 (texts by Heine, Reinick, Shakespeare & Byron) Stone Records is delighted to announce its newest Oxford Lieder Live release, the fifth disc in the first-ever complete edition of the songs of Hugo Wolf (1860–1903). This disc, recorded live at a recital in Oxford in 2012, includes many rarely-heard songs and a world premiere recording. Cat # SNR 8021 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT includes world premiere

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The Classics Labels Francis POULENC Exultate Deo

Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London/Colm Carey: director/Andrew Arthur: organ POULENC: Exultate Deo • PALESTRINA: Sicut cervus • LEIGHTON: Jubilate • PARRY: I was glad, Lord, let me know mine end • PURCELL: Hear my Prayer • MENDELSSOHN: Hear my Prayer • CHILCOTT: My Prayer • DAVIES: Psalm 121 • BYRD: Miserere mei • SWEELINCK: Laudate Dominum • RUTTER: Psalm 23 • HOWELLS: Jubilate (St Peter ad Vincula) Cat # TCL LIR 70026 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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The Psalms of David, sometimes referred to as the hymn-book of the bible, have inspired composers writing for the church through the ages. The Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London, directed by Colm Carey, was established in 1966 to lead and enrich both worship and liturgy in the two historic chapels within HM Tower of London. This new CD creates a kaleidoscopic snapshot of music inspired by the Psalms, giving captivating insight into the variety of repertoire sung by the choir on a weekly basis.

EM Records

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Louise Williams

Viola Sonatas, Idylls & Bacchanals Louise Williams: viola/David Owen Norris: piano MCEWEN: Sonata in A minor • Improvisations Provençales • The Heavy Heart • Au Petit Saint Jean • The Old Trees Remember • A Little Rhapsody • Oouliveio • The Piper • Breath O’ June for Viola and Piano • BAX: Sonata for Viola and Piano •NORRIS: Sonata for Viola and Piano • MACONCHY: Sonatina for Viola and Piano • JACOB: Sonata for Viola and Piano • RAWSTHORNE: Sonata for Viola and Piano • MILFORD: Four Pieces for Viola and Piano, Op. 42 • LEIGHTON: Fantasia on the name BACH Cat # EMR 7 Price Code: 2Q (SRP $31.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline, Box Lot 25

A new CD from Louise Williams featuring Viola Sonatas, Idylls & Bacchanals.

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Ramée Guillaume COSTELEY

Mignonne allons voir si la Rose Ludus Modalis/Bruno Boterf: director COSTELEY: Mignonne allons voir si la Rose: Spiritual and Love Songs Guillaume Costeley was born in Normandy in 1530. He occupied the function of organist at the cathedral of Évreux, and also became official composer to Charles IX. The status and quality of Costeley’s music warrant his place amongst the principal masters of the Late Renaissance. In spite of being an organist and church musician, it is primarily thanks to his secular oeuvre that he is recognized today, in particular for one piece: the emblematic Mignonne allons voir si la Rose, written on a text by Ronsard.

Cat # RME 1301 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Red Priest Recordings Piers Adam

Recorder Bravura Piers Adam: recorder/Howard Beach: piano SARASATE: Gypsy Airs • PARADIS: Sicilienne • CHOPIN: Variations on a Theme of Rossini • Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2 • MASSENET: Meditation from ‘Thais’ • WESSELY: Feu Follet • FINZI: Come Away Death • GOSSEC: Tambourin • HUNYADI: Concert Polonaise • RACHMANINOV: Vocalise • SCHUBERT: The Bee • GRANADOS: Intermezzo from ‘Goyescas’ • POPP: Nightingale Serenade • DAMARE: The Lark • VITALI: Chaconne The inspiration for this project came with the discovery of a wealth of extravagant salon music written for a now-obsolete wind instrument called the czakan. Originating in Hungary, the earliest examples of these instruments were essentially baroque recorders of simple, streamlined profile, usually pitched in the key of A.

Cat # RPR 11 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

Piano 21

Release Date: February 12, 2013 Cyprien Katsaris: piano A collection of works by Khachatourian, Borodin, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Dvoˇrák, Moniuszko, Karłowicz, and Richard Strauss transcribed for piano With this third volume in the “Piano Rarities” series, Cyprien Katsaris continues exploring the almost limitless world of transcriptions for solo piano. The album, largely devoted to Russian and Central European composers, offers tastes of the many aspects of the art of transcription. Melodies by Dvoˇrák, Tchaikovsky, Moniuszko, and Karłowicz offer up their charms in these arrangements, in which the transcribers each pit their ingenuity against the others’, imparting the qualities of true piano romances. The orchestral music of Khachaturian lends itself wonderfully to the piano; the extravagant virtuosity of the Sabre Dance keeps easy company with such moving pieces as the Lullaby or the Adagio from Spartacus.

Cyprien Katsaris

Piano Rarities, Vol. 3: Transcriptions Cat # P21 45 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Musica Ficta

NEW LABEL! Tore Tom Denys: tenor LA CACCIA Patrick Denecker: director A collection of songs and instrumental music from the composer Ludwig Senfl

Ludwig SENFL

Songs and Instrumental Music Cat # MUF 8015 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 28 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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The 15th and 16th centuries were the golden age of Flemish polyphony. Dufay, Josquin, Isaac, and many others were among the composers most celebrated in the major courts of Europe. In terms of both their methods and their musical output, these composers transmitted a style characterized by complex counterpoint and a remarkable sense of musical architecture. Ludwig Senfl had the highest regard for these qualities. Under the influence of his teacher Heinrich Isaac, he made the Flemish idiom his own. Patrick Denecker founded the ensemble LA CACCIA, in which he plays the recorder and the instruments of the alta capella, in the 1990s. From that point onwards, fellow musicians have helped in carrying out his experiments with sounds and musical language in a repertoire spanning the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early Baroque period.

Ar Ré-Sé

Release Date: February 12, 2013 Lydia Jardon: piano STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite • Songs of the Nightingale Lydia Jardon is a woman who loves a challenge; connoisseurs of French piano music are quite familiar with her taste for the impossible, her ability to undertake unexpected projects, and to embody the most difficult scores with pure poetry. She now attacks Stravinsky’s Firebird, in the formidable version for piano that the composer left; this is only the second recording of this transcription!

Igor STRAVINSKY

The Firebird (solo piano version)

Cat # ARR 2012 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Audiomax Basler Madrigalisten Fritz Näf: conductor Collegium Novum Zürich Peter Hirsch: conductor Ensemble Modern Arturo Tamayo: conductor DELZ: Solde - Lecture d’après Lautréamont, for soloists, choir, and percussion, Op. 10a • Two Nocturnes for piano and orchestra, Op. 11 • Joyce-Fantasie, Op. 13A • Jahreszeiten for piano and small orchestra, Op. 12 • Cologne Mass for tape, mixed choir, and boys choir, Op. 4 • Istanbul – 3 Auszüge für Klavier (oder Synthesizer) (1993) MDG joins forces with the Christoph Delz Foundation to present a fine selection featuring outstanding recordings from this Swiss composer’s oeuvre, including the Cologne Mass, Delz’s only electronic composition, and “Solde - Lecture d’après Lautréamont,” a composed “reading” of texts by the forefather of surrealism.

Christoph DELZ

Complete Works, Vol. 2

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Smekkleysa

NEW LABEL!

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Sverrir Guðjónsson

Epitaph: Medieval Iceland Sverrir Guðjónsson: countertenor/Sigurður Halldórsson: voice/Eggert Pálsson: percussion/Ólöf Sesselja Óskarsdóttir: viola da gamba/Camilla Söderberg: recorder/Snorri Örn Snorrason: lute A collection of traditional Medieval Icelandic songs

Cat # SMK 1 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25

Sverrir Guðjónsson started his solo career at the age of seven. As a countertenor, he studied and worked in London. In addition to early music, Guðjónsson has commissioned and premiered numerous new works. He has devoted his life the musical heritage of Iceland, and is currently working on various projects related to old Icelandic music. These traditional songs have been approached from a fresh angle, to conjure up the ancient atmosphere of the Middle Ages and a sense of Icelandic roots. The combination of voice and early instruments create an atmosphere of haunting purity, taking the listener on a journey from sunrise to sunset.

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Joseph HAYDN

The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross The Skálholt Quartet HAYDN: The String Quartets, Op. 51 Nos. 1–7 • The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross

Cat # SMK 13 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25

The members of the Skálholt String Quartet have for many years been part of a group of musicians who participate the summer festival at the cathedral of Skálholt in southwest Iceland. Their career as a string quartet started in 1996 when they gave concerts in Iceland and France. Since then, the Quartet has been invited to play at the Haydn Festival at the magnificent Esterhaza Palace in Western Hungary, where they performed Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ in the nearby church, where Haydn had been organist.

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J.S. BACH

Violin Concertos Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra/Rut Ingólfsdóttir: violin/Unnur María Ingólfsdóttir: violin/ Daði Kolbeinsson: oboe J.S. BACH: Concerto for oboe and violin in D minor, BWV 1060a • Concerto for violin in E major, BWV 1042 • Concerto for violin in A minor, BWV 1041 • Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV 1043

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The Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1974 under the leadership of Rut Ingólfsdóttir. The group was founded with the objective of offering regular Icelandic public concerts of chamber music spanning the period from the Baroque through to the 20th century, while providing the musicians with diverse and challenging performance opportunities. There is no doubt, almost 40 years on, that the Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra is now one of the cornerstones of Icelandic musical life.

Release Date: February 12, 2013

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Smekkleysa

Árni BJÖRNSSON

The End of a Day: The Music of Árni Björnsson Árni Björnsson Quartet/The Árni Björnsson String Ensemble/Icelandic Festival Marching Band/Hafnarfjordur Chamber Choir/James Lisney: piano/Jaime Martin: flute /Elizabeth Layton: violin/Helgi Bragason: conductor/Gunnar Guðbjörnsson: tenor/Björg Þóhalldóttir: soprano/Jóhanna Vigdís: voice/Agnar Már Magnússon: piano/Þorgrímur Jónsson: bass Dance music and a collection of songs by Árni Björnsson The release of this double album of Árni Björnsson’s music was issued to mark the centenary of his birth in December 1905. The recording brings together previously released music and newly recorded works that display the great versatility of this uniquely expressive composer. Packaged in a casebound book, which is the same size as a six-panel digipak.

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Guðmundur HÖGNASON Hymnodia Sacra

Carmina Chamber Choir/Nordic Affect/Árni Heimir Ingólfsson: director HÖGNASON: Hymnodia Sacra Hymnodia Sacra is Iceland’s largest manuscript songbook from the 18th century. It was written in 1742 by Guðmundur Högnason, a priest in the Westman Islands, and contains 101 hymn melodies, many of them unique to this source. This CD contains music from this and other Icelandic sources from the 17th and 18th centuries, performed by Icelandic singers accompanied by period instruments. Cat # SMK 74 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Slipcase Jewel, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Graduale Nobili Chamber Choir Ten Years

Graduale Nobili Chamber Choir GRÍMSDÓTTIR: A Lady I Praise • SIGURBJÖRNSSON: Awake in Peace • Haec est sancta solemnitas • RÚNARSDÓTTIR: A poem of Mary • SVEINSSON: Autumn Verses to Mary • Poem to Mary • NORDAL: Salutatio Mariae • RAUTAVAARA: “Suite” de Lorca • RAGNARSSON: Nursery Rhyme •ÞORTEINSSON: The Red Knight • BALDVINSSON: Magnificat (from Vesper) • Psalm 100 Graduale Nobili was founded in Fall 2000, and the choir was immediately well received. Most recently, the choir has been working with pop sensation Björk on her album Biophilia. Ten Years contains a wide variety of works released to celebrate the choir’s 10th anniversary. The repertoire represents contemporary Icelandic choir music, including a performance of “Suite” de Lorca with words by Frederico Garcia Lorca and music by Einojuhani Rautavaara.

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Musique en Wallonie

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Cut Circle

Music at the Sistine Chapel around 1490 Cut Circle/Jesse Rodin: director Recordings of pieces by Josquin Desprez, and world premiere recordings of 9 works by his contemporaries Gaspar van Weerbeke, Bertrandus Vaqueras, and Marbrianus de Orto

Cat # MEW 1265 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Digipak, Box Lot 20

This double CD centers on securely attributed music Josquin Desprez probably wrote in Rome, but contextualizes these pieces by presenting world-premiere recordings of nine works by his contemporaries: Gaspar van Weerbeke, Bertrandus Vaqueras, and Marbrianus de Orto, all singers in the choir of the Cappella Sistina at the end of the 15th century. Completed in 1482, the Sistine Chapel was the epicenter of papal ceremony and thus a powerhouse musical institution.

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Exsultemus

O Rex Orbis: Medieval Plainchant for Saint Charlemagne Exsultemus/Shannon Canavin: soprano, director/Eric Rice: tenor, director Recordings of liturgical music from the Divine Office for annual celebrations of Charlemagne’s feast day on January 28

Cat # MEW 1267 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 20

This recording presents liturgical music from the Divine Office for annual celebrations of Charlemagne’s feast day on January 28, the anniversary of his death in 814. The Divine Office is a ritual that is distinct from the mass; whereas the mass commemorates the last Passover meal of Jesus and his disciples as described in the New Testament (commonly called the Last Supper), the Office is related to the Jewish tradition of collective praying and psalm singing. The CD presents a liturgical reconstruction of the services of Vespers and Compline as they might have been heard in Aachen’s collegiate church on Saturday, January 27, 1582.

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Roland DE LASSUS

Biographie musicale, Vol. II Singer Pur A collection of recordings of works by Roland de Lassus This second volume of the musical biography of Roland de Lassus is dedicated to the glory years of his career in Munich as choirmaster of Duke Albrecht V. The works collected here sometimes reflect the function of Kapellmeister (masses and Magnificat, the event celebration), sometimes the free fancy of the composer soon everywhere celebrated as the new Orpheus. Cat # MEW 1268 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 20 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Release Date: February 12, 2013

Passacaille

Ensemble I FEDELI Codex Tarasconi Ensemble I FEDELI PALESTRINA: Com´in più magre tenebre • Vestiva i colli • Io son ferito ahi lasso • STRIGGIO: Anchor ch´io possa dire • WILLAERT: Che fai alma? Che pensi? • DI LASSO: Oh d amarissime onde • ANONYMOUS: Dame D´honneur vives en sperace • Une filliete • Dame D´honneur vives en sperace • NANINO: Morir non può ‘l mio core • DE RORE: Calami sonum ferentes • Ben qui si mostra il ciel • Di virtu, di costumi • Anchor che col partire • MERULO: Madona poi che ucider mi volete • DE MONTE: Leggiadre Ninfe e pargoletti amore Compiled by Giovanni Guglielmo or Giulio Bonagiunta, the Codex Tarasconi was copied in Parma, probably for use at the court of Farnese. The codex contains music of 33 different composers, the best-represented musician being Cipriano de Rore; others include Andrea Gabrieli, Orlando di Lasso, Philippe de Monte, Alessandro Striggio, Giovanni Palestrina, and many other important Flemish and Italian composers.

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Andrássy Trio

Terzetti: Music for chalumeaux, clarinets and basset horns Andrássy Trio A collection of music for chalumeaux, clarinets, and basset horns by W.A. Mozart and other composers Melanie Piddocke, Ernst Schlader, and Markus Springer founded the Andrássy Trio in 2005. The ensemble plays original 18th- and 19th-century music on copies of historical basset horns, clarinets, and chalumeaux, specializing in historical performance practice of compositions for clarinets. Cat # PAS 959 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 35 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Girolamo FRESCOBALDI Ricercari (1615)

Liuwe Tamminga: organ FRESCOBALDI: Toccata sesta • Recercar primo • Recercar secondo • Canzona prima • Recercar terzo • Recercar quarto sopra mi, re, fa, mi • Canzona seconda • Recercar quinto • Recercar sesto sopra fa, fa, sol, la, fa. [Fra’ Jacopino] • Capriccio del soggetto [Fra’ Jacopino] scritto sopra l’Aria di Ruggiero (6 Partite) • Canzona terza • Recercar settimo sopra sol, mi, fa, la, sol • Recercar ottavo, obligo di non uscir di grado • Capriccio fatto sopra la Pastorale • Recercar nono, con quattro soggetti • Recercar decima sopra la, fa, sol, la, re • Aria detto Balletto (8 Partite) • ‘Pezzo in organo’ Liuwe Tamminga is considered one of the major specialists of 16th- and 17th-century Italian repertoire for organ. He is organist of the historic organs at the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, together with Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, where he plays the magnificent instruments by Lorenzo da Prato (1471–75) and Baldassarre Malamini (1596). He has made numerous recordings, many of which have received international awards including the Diapason d’Or.

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Delta Classics

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Reinhold GLIERE Piano Works

Corinna Simon: piano GLIERE: Six morceaux, Op. 26 • Trois morceaux, Op. 21 • Trois Mazurkas, Op. 29 • Selections from Eight Easy Pieces, Op. 43 • Trois morceaux, Op. 19 • Selections from Twelve Sketches, Op. 47 • Vingt Preludes, Op. 30

Cat # DLT 90057 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22

Corinna Simon, born in Berlin, had her first piano lessons at the age of five. By age 12 she was accepted at the Julius Stern Institute, the renowned conservatory in Berlin. In 1984 she had her debut as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonie, and since then she has had a very successful career as a pianist in solo works and chamber music.

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Nikolai RAKOV

Violin Sonatas 1 & 2 David Frühwirth: violin/Milana Chernyavska: piano RAKOV: 3 Pieces for violin and piano (1943) • Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 (1947) • Sonatina for violin and piano No. 3 “Little Triptych” (1968) • Sonatina No. 2 in D major for violin and piano (1965) • Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 (1951)

Cat # DLT 90075 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22

David Frühwirth started his training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Paul Roczek, Jürgen Geise, and Rugiero Ricci. He continued his studies in Lübeck with the renowned pedagogue Zakhar Bron, where he graduated at only 20 years old. Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec invited him to New York for three years to work on additional postgraduate diplomas. It was there that he had the chance to work with eminent teachers of chamber music such as Jaime Laredo and Isidore.

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Various Artists

Music of the Viennese Court Chapel Lenneke Ruiten, Annika Sophie Ritlewski: sopranos/Uta Christina Georg: mezzo-soprano/ Franziska Rabl: alto/Daniel Behle, Dominik Wortig: tenors/Johannes Martin Kränzle, Kay Stiefermann: baritone/WDR Rundfunkchor Köln/WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln/Helmuth Froschauer: conductor

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EYBLER: Omnes de Saba venient • Offertorium • W.A. MOZART: Ave verum corpus, KV 618 • Sub tuum praesidium, KV 198 • SALIERI: Veni sancte spiritus • De profundis clamavi • M. HAYDN: Alleluja. In die resurrectionis • HERBECK: Pueri concinite • FUX: Laudate pueri • HUMMEL: Graduale: “Quod quod in orbe” Op. 88 • RANDHARTINGER: Cantate Domino • SCHUBERT: Magnificat, D486 • Salve Regina in F major, Op.47 D223 • Auguste jam coelestium, D488 • Totus in corde langueo, Op. 46 D136 • BRUCKNER: Mass in D minor (1864) for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra The Hofburg Palace is a monument to Habsburg rule in Vienna. Since 1918, the Federal Ministry for Education and Arts has taken care of church music, with particular emphasis on Austrian musical art.

Syrius

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Jean Dubé

Piano Pedalier Jean Dubé: pedal piano A collection of works by Alkan, Dubois, Franck, Liszt, and Schumann The first French prototypes of pedal pianos date from 1789, when Pontécoulant made a piano with a two-octave pedal board, followed (among others) by Erard in 1848. Sebastien Erard built the piano used for this recording, the No. 47588, in 1873. The amazing instrument had been put at the disposal of illustrious composers like Franck, Fauré, Ravel, and Milhaud. Cat # SYR 141446 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Jean-Paul PENIN

Paris 1930: 12 Waltzes Jean Dubé: piano PENIN: Belleville • Place des Fêtes • Canal Saint-Martin • Palais-Royal • Trinité • Tuileries • Orsay • La Tache Rouge • Breteuil • Pont des Arts • Fontaine Médicis • Quai d’Orléans • Rencontre These twelve waltzes, mixing classical rigueur and complete tonal liberty, give original views of Paris in the 1930s: singular, joyous, and grandiose.

Cat # SYR 141453 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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J.S. BACH

The Great Chorals from Klavierübung III Pierre Bardon: organ Chorals from Bach’s Klavierübung III and Prelude & Fugue in E major In the year 1739, it had been nearly 10 years since Bach had undertaken to publish the creation in four parts that he named Clavier Übung. This title, both very humble and almost banal (literally “keyboard practice”), also hides something else, since Bach knew that making this anthology would be useful not only to “amateurs” but to those “with knowledge of works of this kind.” Cat # SYR 141457 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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La Bottega Discantica

Release Date: February 12, 2013

Nino ROTA Mysterium

Angelica Tuccari, Corinna Vozza, Gino Sinimberghi, Ugo Trama: vocal soloists/Choruses and Orchestra Pro Civitate Christiana di Assisi/Giulio Sani: chorus director/Armando Renzi: conductor ROTA: Mysterium (oratorio for soloists, children’s choir and orchestra)

Cat # BDI 124 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Nino Rota was commissioned by the “Pro Civitate” in Assisi to musically elucidate an article from the Creed (or symbol of faith), to which a week of study had been dedicated; it was first performed in the amphitheater in Assisi on the evening of August 29, 1962. The libretto, written with the assistance of Vinci Verginelli, was taken from the Old and New Testaments, from early Christian writings and from liturgical text.

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W.A. MOZART

String Quartets “Milan” K.155–160 Sonare Quartett MOZART: String Quartets “Milan” KV 155–160 The Sonare Quartet, prizewinner at the Evian International Chamber Music Competition, was founded in Frankfurt in 1980 and has quickly earned a place among the leading European string ensembles.

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Indésens Maurice André

The Trumpet Maestro Maurice André: trumpet 39 great jazz hits and popular melodies including Carnival of Venice, Rhapsody in Blue, Summertime, Bumblebee’s Flight, and more Maurice André’s first great hits, from the years 1956 to 1961.

Cat # IDS 15 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Release Date: February 12, 2013

Royal Flemish Philharmonic

Royal Flemmish Philharmonic Edo de Waart: conductor MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 Gustav Mahler came of age in the late 1880s, as the long and storied tradition of Austro-German Romanticism reached its peak. As a conductor who regularly performed the great works of that tradition, Mahler knew this past intimately, and felt its weight. This recording of Mahler’s First Symphony is conducted by Edo de Waart, Chief Conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. Immersing himself in the musical world of Mahler, de Waart tries to discover what motivated Mahler and how this symphony took shape as a sequence of experiences: the first two movements progress from youthful springtime to confident adulthood; the last two from death to heaven.

Gustav MAHLER Symphony No. 1

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Satirino Dominique Visse: countertenor Fretwork Renaud Delaigue: bass Eric Bellocq: lute, orpharion A collection of songs by John Dowland This recording fulfills one of Dominique Visse’s life ambitions, which dates from the late 1970s and the period during which he studied and worked with Alfred Deller: to record an album of John Dowland’s songs. And who better than to record with than celebrated English viol consort Fretwork, who have made a number of historic recordings of Dowland’s music? Visse is also joined by Renaud Delaigue in rarely-performed versions of three of the songs.

John DOWLAND

Tunes of Sad Despaire Cat # SRO 121 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 35 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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LAWO Classics

Release Date: February 12, 2013

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Itziar Martinez Galdos

Edvard GRIEG

Itziar Martinez Galdos: soprano/ Per Arne Frantzen: piano

Hilde Haraldsen Sveen: soprano/Signe Bakke: piano

MOOTSALVATGE: Cinco canciones negras • GURIDI: Seis canciones castellanas • NIN: Polo • Canto Andaluz • El Vito • GUASTAVINO: Cuatro canciones coloniales • TURINA: Poema en forma de canciones

GRIEG: Op. 26 – poems by Johan Paulsen • Op. 39 – Romancer (ældre og nyere) • Op. 23 from Peer Gynt • Op. 48 – Sechs Lieder

Cuando acaba de llover: Spanish Songs

Songs

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Bettina Smith

Helene Wold

Bettina Smith: mezzo-soprano/Einar Røttingen: piano

Helene Wold: soprano/Vegard Lund: guitar

CHAUSSON: Serres Chaudes • FAURÉ: Le Jardin Clos • SAINT-SAËNS: La Cendre Rouge

Songs and guitar pieces by Schubert, Spohr, Diabelli, Mertz, Giuliani, and W.A. Mozart

Serres Chaude: French Songs

Lieder mit und ohne Worte

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W.A. MOZART & Johannes BRAHMS

George GERSHWIN

Leif Arne Pedersen: clarinet/Oslo Philharmonic Chamber Group/ Elise Båtnes: concertmaster

Ivar Anton Waagaard: piano

Clarinet Quintets

W.A MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581 • Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

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Gershwin at the Keyboard

GERSHWIN: Swanee • Nobody But You • I’ll Build a Stairway To Paradise • Do It Again • Fascinating Rhythm • Oh, Lady Be Good! • Somebody Loves Me • Sweet and Low Down • and many more

NBE Live

Release Date: February 12, 2013 Iva Bittová: vocals, violin Netherlands Blazers Ensemble Jazz arrangements for ensemble, with violin and vocals Violinist and singer Iva Bittová and composer Leoš Janáˇcek both hail from the Czech region of Moravia, and share a love of the folk tradition. An intensive reflection of two outstanding artists!

ˇ Leoš JANÁCEK My Funny Lady

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SOMM Recordings Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir Paul Spicer: conductor DELIUS: Durch den Wald • Sonnenscheinlied • Fruhlingsanbruch • Her ute skal • An den Sonnenschein • Ave Maria • On Craig Ddu • Two songs to be sung of a summer night on the water, No. 1 (without words) • No. 2 (with tenor solo) • The splendour falls on castle walls • Midsummer Song • Wanderer’s Song • IRELAND: Heraclitus • Weep you no more, sad fountains • Fain would I change that note • When May is in his prime • New Prince, New Pomp • Adam lay ybounden • The Holy Boy • A New Year Carol • Twilight Night • The Peaceful Western Wind • Laughing Song • Spring, the sweet spring • Cupid • A Cradle Song • Immortality • The Hills Both Delius and Ireland produced an impressive output of songs for unaccompanied voices. Somm Recordings simply couldn’t let Delius’ 150th anniversary — and Ireland’s 50th — pass without reminding music lovers everywhere of the superb quality of these works! Here, they are sung by the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, trained to a superbly high standard by Paul Spicer, world-renowned as a top choral trainer and conductor as well as composer. Print Advertising in Choir & Organ, The Singer, and more. Review Copies sent to all magazine, radio, and newspaper.

John IRELAND & Frederick DELIUS

Partsongs

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Querstand

Release Date: February 12, 2013

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Jürgen Wolf

Franz LISZT & Julius REUBKE

Jürgen Wolf: organ

J.S. BACH: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564 • Jesus bleibet meine Freude (nach BWV 147) • BOËLLMANN: Suite Gothique, Op. 25 • LISZT: Pilgrim’s Chorus (from “Tannhauser” by Richard Wagner) • FRANCK: Prelude, Fugue, and Variation, Op. 18 • PRIZEMAN: Toccata “Songs of Praise”

LISZT: Variations on the first basso continuo of the first movement of the Cantata “Weeping, Lamenting, Fearing, Hesitating” BWV 12 and the Crucifixion of the B minor Mass by J.S. Bach, BWV 232 • REUBKE: “Adagio for Organ” in the album of Princess Marie von Sayn-Wittgenstein • Sonata in C minor “The 94th Psalm”

An interesting combination of works by composers from three centuries, all using a toccata style, played on Saxony’s largest organ. Package is approximately the size of a standard DVD Amaray. PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.

A combination of works by composers in a master-teacher relation, containing two of the largest and greatest organ works of the 19th century as well as two rarely played smaller organ works by Julius Reubke. Package is approximately the size of a standard DVD Amaray.

Querstand

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Toccatas [Hybrid SACD+Book]

Meister Schuler [CD+Book]

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Günther RAPHAEL

Francis POULENC

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin/Herbert Kegel: conductor/ Sinfonieorchester des NDR/Leopold Stokowski: conductor/ Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart/Carl Schuricht; Rolf Reinhardt: conductors

The Netherlands Chamber Choir/Eric Ericson: conductor

Rapahel Edition, Vol. 4

RAPHAEL: Suite nach Tänzen von Smetana, Op. 40 for Orchestra (1937) • Jabonah. Eine Suite nach mongolischen Weisen, Op. 66 for large orchestra (1948) • Sinfonia breve in D, Op. 67 for orchestra (1949) • Zoologica, Op. 83 Character studies for large orchestra A continuation of the Günter Raphael Edition, created to present the works of one of the most important — yet little-known — German composers of the 20th century.

Sacred and Secular Choral Music

POULENC: Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence • Quatre petites prières de Saint François d’Assise • Ave verum corpus • Salve Regina • Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël • Exultate Deo • Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue • Mass in G major • Un soir de neige • Figure humaine • Chansons Françaises • Chanson à boire • Petites Voix • Sept chansons Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Netherlands Chamber Choir, this is without a doubt the best recording the choir ever made! Under the inspiring direction of Eric Ericson, the choir gives unearthly performances combining sacred and secular choral works.

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