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January 2008 Release Date: January 8, 2008 Order Due Date: December 17, 2007

B A R B A R A HENDRICKS ENDLESS PLEASURE

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Contents Gavin Bryars: Glorious Hill Norrington Conducts Essential Mozart Gustav Leonhardt Conducts Bach Secular Cantatas

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New Labels Arte Verum Paradizo

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Label List Alpha Ancalagon Records Arte Nova Classics Arte Verum Bel Canto Society Bravissimo Opera Library Cedille Records Challenge Classics Classica d’Oro Cold Blue Music CORO DiscMedi Doremi Eclectra Records Ecstatic Records Endeavour Classics FineLine Classical Fuga Libera GB Records GM Recordings Gothic Records hänssler Classic Integra Records UK Landor Records Loft Recordings

Lyrita Meridian Records Metronome Records Moscow Studio Archives Nimbus Records Nuova Era Opera d’Oro Other Minds Palexa Records Paradizo Port Royal Quartz Records Quilisma Rubedo Canis Musica (RCM) Reference Recordings ReZound Ricercar Stradivarius Summit Records Tactus Toccata Classics Urtext Digital Classics Well-Tempered Productions Winter & Winter

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ARTE VERUM & PARADIZO

Barbara Hendricks created Arte Verum in January 2006 and now records exclusively for her label. In the upcoming months, Arte Verum will release Barbara Hendricks performing Spanish Songs and Schumann Lieder.

“I

created Arte Verum because it is possible for artists today to control their creative endeavors from the beginnings in the rehearsal room, to the concert hall, beyond into the recording studio, and then directly to the public.

The technological advances that have made this step possible would have been unthinkable just ten years ago. Arte Verum will reflect the passion that I have for the recital repertoire of lieder and mélodie, chamber music, orchestral song, and jazz, as well as baroque and contemporary music.

I have always been a performing artist who records, with the belief that a recording should only be the natural by-product of my actual performing repertoire, the result of a long process of many performances and much time—sometime years—spent with the scores. It is very important for me that the repertoire of my recordings should truthfully reflect my actual performing activity. During more than 30 years I have had the privilege and freedom to perform and record the repertoire that I love with partners that I respect and admire. However, until now the life of my work after the actual recording was no longer in my hands, and now this will change. Every aspect of my work can be produced with the same gratitude, joy, and integrity.”

– Barbara Hendricks

P

aradizo features the recordings of Skip Sempé, harpsichordist and founder/ director of Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Orchestra, and the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra.

Following fifteen years of distinctions and awards with three prestigious labels, Sempé created Paradizo, featuring authoritative, bold music-making and celebrating a renewed vision of creative interpretation in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians has cited Sempé as “striving to transfer the spontaneity of a live performance to the recorded medium.” In recording, Sempé is one of the few classical musicians to be directly involved in the adventure behind the scenes. Skip Sempé maintains that, when prepared under carefully selected and controlled circumstances, a recording can offer an extra dimension to the sensation of intimate and immediate musical communication, and can provide the listener with the experience of a live concert performance. The best seat in the house could be in front of your own speakers.

Paradizo will focus on chamber music and instrumental virtuosity in repertoire from 1500–1750. The label will also feature debut recordings of two important new performers: Julien Martin (recorder) and Josh Cheatham (viola da gamba).

The Paradizo catalogue is an ever-changing “Pandora’s Box” of adventurous repertoire and programming. Paradizo places prime importance on all aspects of preparation, recording, and post-production, combining a high level of musical science with the artistic craft involved in the phenomenon of recording.

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Release Date: January 8, 2008

Arte Verum

Barbara Hendricks Endless Pleasure

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“Barbara Hendricks’ voice, above all, is gorgeous, a glowing and vulnerable instrument with thrilling range, overflowing with emotion in its upper register. Her intonation and control is virtually flawless … and she brings a volatile earthiness to her readings.” — All Music Guide “Real strength … beautiful.” — New York Times “[A] formidable voice.” — Associated Press Barbara Hendricks: soprano Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble PURCELL: Music for a while, from Oedipus · Sweeter than roses, from Pausanius · If music be the food of love (2 settings) · From rosy bowers, from The Comical History of Don Quixote · Lord what is man? · Ah! Belinda & When I am laid in earth, from Dido and Aeneas · HANDEL: Terpsichore (ballet suite) · Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?; Where’er you walk & Endless pleasure, from Semele · Care selve, ombre beate, from Atalanta · V’adoro, pupille; E pur così in un giorno & Piangerò la sorta mia; Da tempeste il legno infranto, from Giulio Cesare Front Cover Sticker: Her first solo album of celebrated Baroque arias – new album.

Barbara Hendricks’ first disc with orchestra for her new label Arte Verum, and her first solo CD of baroque music.

Rediscover some of the finest opera arias of Purcell and Handel sung by one of the greatest voices of our time in what is for her an entirely novel repertory on disc.

Loft Recordings

Release Date: January 8, 2008 Douglas Cleveland: organ CABANILLES: Batalla Imperial · BENNETT: Voluntary in D · J.S. BACH: Concerto in d, BWV 596 (after Vivaldi) · The Schübler Chorales (6) · Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552 · FRESCOBALDI: Toccata IV from the Second Book of Toccatas (“Elevation”) · BRUHNS: Praeludium in G “In Douglas Cleveland’s hands the organ seemed to squeeze the air into towering sculptures.” — Chicago Tribune “One of the finest young artists in the United States.” — Minnesota Public Radio Front Cover Sticker: First recording of this organ!

This is the first recording of the Fritts organ at St. Joseph Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio, the largest organ yet from the Fritts organ company.

Douglas Cleveland

Cleveland in Columbus Cat # LOF 1098 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case

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Gothic Records The National Lutheran Choir David Cherwien: director Martin Jean: organ VIERNE: Solemn Mass (Op. 16) · DURUFLÉ: Ubi Caritas · POULENC: Seigneur, je vous en prie · MESSIAEN: O sacrum convivium! · DUPRÉ: Four Motets (Op. 9) · VILLETTE: O magnum mysterium · Hymne à la Vièrge · WIDOR: Tu es Petrus · Toccata from Symphony No. 5 “Sacred choral music at its best!” — A-cappella.com Front Cover Sticker: Winner of the Hillis Award for Choral Excellence!

The National Lutheran Choir, under its new director David Cherwien, is reaching national prominence for its choral sound and programming. The NLC’s previous recordings, Hymns We Love To Sing and Eternity, have been best sellers.

The National Lutheran Choir Praise Parisienne

Cat # GOT 49257 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case 5% Preorder Discount

Paradizo

Release Date: January 8, 2008 Skip Sempé: harpsichord Olivier Fortin: harpsichord D. SCARLATTI: Sonatas (selected) “Here, in 17 sonatas, Sempé lays bare Scarlatti’s Spanish soul with a visceral immediacy that should silence any scholarly sniper fire. Technically, it’s a tour de force, the F major Sonata K6 or the D minor K517 dispatched with nothing other than jazz-dropping razzmatazz … If you buy just one Scarlatti disc this anniversary year, make it this one.” — BBC Music magazine Front Cover Sticker: Skip Sempé’s first solo recording for Paradizo + Pandora’s Box, a free CD catalog, included.

Essential listening!

Paradizo is the new record label of Skip Sempé, one of the most brilliant harpsichordists of our time and founder/ director of Capriccio Stravagante. The first release, Duende, is a disc of harpsichord sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. The recording presents both solo sonatas and arrangements of sonatas for two harpsichords. A breathtaking disc of high-risk virtuosity. Includes a free 74-minute CD catalog featuring excerpts from other Paradizo releases.

Domenico SCARLATTI

Duende: Harpsichord Sonatas (2 CDs) Cat # PDZ 9003 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Double Digipak w/ Slipcase 5% Preorder Discount 2 for the price of 1

Metronome Records Jan Dismas ZELENKA

Choral Works

Grace Davidson: soprano/James Bowman: countertenor/Benjamin Hulett: tenor/Simon Whiteley: bass/Fiori Musicali Choir & Orchestra/members of His Majesty’s Sagbutts & Cornetts/Penelope Rapson: director ZELENKA: Requiem in C minor · Miserere in C minor, ZWV 57 · Lamentation pro die veneris sancto, ZWV 53 Features superstar countertenor James Bowman in a solo performance of the Lamentation of Jeremiah, as well as the first UK recording of the Requiem in C Minor. Also features emerging key early music soprano specialist Grace Davidson.

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Nimbus Records

Release Date: January 8, 2008 Craig Ogden: guitar COLES: Imágenes de España · Two Lullabies Chanté · Theme, Impromptus and Conclusion · Habanera · Fantasia No. 1 · Mazurka No. 1 · Waltz No. 1 · Las Aventuras de un Caballero Errante “A worthy successor to Julian Bream.” — BBC Music magazine Australian born guitarist Craig Ogden is one of the most exciting artists of his generation. He performs as soloist and chamber musician all over the world and often records for film—he was featured in the British hit Notting Hill. Ogden’s debut solo recording of contemporary British works, The Blue Guitar, received wide acclaim and a Grammy nomination.

Paul COLES

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TIPPETT

The Blue Guitar

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Lieder Theatre London TRAD: 49 folk songs from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Yiddish culture, US, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Czech Republic, Austria, and England Engel Lund’s Book of Folk Songs is a unique published collection of 49 folk songs from 14 countries, performed by young singers in their native languages and assembled by Danish soprano Engel Lund and her accompanist Ferdinand Rauter. These two extraordinary artists were passionate about bringing people closer through the power of music, and in pursuit of this aim gave hundreds of performances of these songs throughout Europe and the United States in the 1930s and ’40s.

Lieder Theatre London

Engel Lund’s Book of Folk Songs (2 CDs) Cat # NIM 5813 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.98) Double Jewel Case 5% Preorder Discount

GB Records

Release Date: January 8, 2008 Latvian Radio Choir/Kaspara Putnins, Sigvards Klava: conductors/Aigars Reinis: organ BRYARS: Glorious Hill · Lauda 22 “Fammi cantar l’amor” · Lauda 23 “Fammi cantar l’amor” · Lauda 24 · Cadman Requiem · ESENVALDS: Légende de la femme emmurée · VASKS: Zïles zina · ANON.: Fammi cantar l’amor · Dammi conforto Dio “Curiously timeless music, mediating between the 14th century and the present in a teasingly expressive and lusciously beautiful way.” — The Guardian “One of the world’s finest choirs.” — The Gramophone A recording of major choral works of Gavin Bryars, personally supervised by the composer and performed by one of the world’s finest choirs in wonderful acoustics. Follows On Photography, the choir’s highly acclaimed previous recording on GB Records and Gramophone’s CD of the Month for January 2006.

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Gavin BRYARS

BRYARS

Glorious Hill

Cat # GVB 7 (R)

Cat # GVB 9 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case

On Photography

Includes World Premiere Recordings!

Other Minds Kui Dong: prepared piano KUI DONG: Magician and Traveler: Ensemble · Broken Moon · Running Ducklings · Temple of the Far East · Magician and Traveler: Solo · Blue Bird and Red Bird · In Between · Floating Stars · Dancing Stars · Yao Lan Qiu “The spatial effects the composer achieves with her exquisitely refracted music are ceaselessly compelling at the local level. But individual effects were enhanced … by the cumulative sense that, across the span of the piece, hearing itself had been heightened.” — SF Examiner Kui Dong’s first release of solo improvisations. Better known as a composer, Kui Dong’s solo improvisations playfully exploit the full range and color of her prepared piano, with a dedication to the detail of each sound that only an accomplished composer could attain. Kui Dong uses piano preparations designed by John Cage as a starting point for her own improvisations.

Kui Dong

Hands Like Waves Unfold Cat # OTM 1011 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case

World Premiere Recording!

Lyrita

Release Date: January 8, 2008

Richard Rodney Bennett Piano Concerto & Other Works

Stephen Kovacevich, Richard Rodney Bennett, Thea Musgrave: piano/London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Alexander Gibson: conductor/Philip Jones Brass Ensemble BENNETT: Piano Concerto · Five Studies for Piano · Capriccio for Piano Duet · Commedia IV for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone & tuba Legendary performances on CD for the first time.

Cat # LYR 275 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case 5% Preorder Discount

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor & Julius Harrison

Works for Violin & Orchestra

Lorraine McAslan: violin/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Nicholas Braithwaite: conductor COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Legend (Conzertstück), Op. 14 · Romance in G, Op. 39 · Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 80 · HARRISON: Bredon Hill—rhapsody for violin & orchestra (1941) “Lorraine McAslan plays with easy virtuosity and an almost Heifetz-like intensity of focus, while the London Philharmonic, with occasionally audible encouragement from Nicholas Braithwaite, provides characterful support.” — BBC Music magazine (HHHHH performance/HHHH sound) New recordings.

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Alun Hoddinott

Concertos for Piano, Clarinet & Harp Philip Fowke, Martin Jones: piano/Gervase de Peyer: clarinet/Osian Ellis: harp/London Symphony Orchestra/David Atherton: conductor/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth, Andrew Davis: conductors HODDINOTT: Concerto for Clarinet & String Orchestra, Op. 3 · Harp Concerto, Op. 11 · Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 19 · Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 Legendary performances on CD for the first time, plus new recordings.

Cat # LYR 330 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case

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Lyrita

Release Date: January 8, 2008

John Ireland

The Piano Music (3 CDs) Eric Parkin: piano IRELAND: Decorations · The Almond Trees · Four Preludes · Prelude in E-flat · Rhapsody · The Towing-Path · Merry Andrew · London Pieces · Summer Evening · Piano Sonata · Two Pieces · The Darkened Valley · Equinox · On a Birthday Morning · Soliloquy · Two Pieces · Sonatina · Ballade · Two Pieces · Month’s Mind · Greenways‑Three Lyric Pieces · Sarnia— An Island Sequence Legendary performances on CD for the first time.

Cat # LYR 2277 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.98) Double Jewel Case 5% Preorder Discount 3 for the price of 2

William Hurlstone Piano Concerto (2 CDs)

Eric Parkin: piano/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Nicholas Braithwaite: conductor/ Tunnell Piano Quartet HURLSTONE: Piano Concerto in D · Fantasie-Variations on a Swedish Air · Piano Trio in G · Piano Quartet in E minor, Op. 43 Legendary performances on CD for the first time.

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Gordon Crosse

Ariadne & Changes

Sarah Francis: oboe/London Symphony Orchestra Ensemble/Michael Lankester: conductor/Jennifer Vyvyan: soprano/John Shirley-Quirk: baritone/Orpington Junior Singers/Highgate School for Boys Choir/London Symphony Orchestra & Choir/ Norman del Mar: conductor CROSSE: Ariadne, Op. 31 · Changes, Op. 17 Legendary performances on CD for the first time.

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Reference Recordings

Release Date: January 8, 2008

Mary Preston Organ Odyssey

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“A magnificent instrument­—registered perfectly. Mary Preston’s playing is exciting and impeccable.

In short, this is a perfect match of performer, music and organ, and the result is as it should be, a great recording.”

— Organist’s Review “Mary Preston’s playing is uniformly brilliant. The opening Dupré unfolds in a most satisfying way; the Widor is projected with immense character and yet finesse, while the Duruflé Suite seems to be second nature to her. A wonderful record to which one can return each time to find greater depths.” — American Organist Mary Preston: organ KARG-ELERT: Choral Improvisation on “Now Thank We” · VIERNE: Naïades, from Pièces de fantaisie · MENDELSSOHN: Sonata No. 1, Op. 65 · WIDOR: Andante sostenuto, from Gothic Symphony · Symphony No. 5: Toccata · IVES: Variations on “America” · MESSIAEN: Dieu parmi nous, from Nativité du Seigneur · LA MONTAINE: Even Song Anyone who loves organ music and great sound will be thrilled! One of America’s grandest pipe organ installations, by C.B. Fisk. Preston is the Resident Organist and Principal/Lay Family Chair with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

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Dallas Wind Symphony

MASLANKA

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Crown Imperial

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Garden of Dreams

Release Date: January 8, 2008

hänssler CLASSIC

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden & Freiburg Sylvain Cambreling: conductor BERLIOZ: Waverley, Op. 1 · Les francs-juges, Op. 3 · Le Roi Lear, Op. 4 · Rob Roy · Le carnaval romain, Op. 9 · Le corsaire, Op. 21 Conductor Sylvain Cambreling’s lifetime experience of working in the opera and theater brings vivid color to the music of the arch-Romantic composer Hector Berlioz.

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Hector BERLIOZ

STRAVINSKY

Concert Overtures

Cat # HNS 93196 (S)

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Les Ballets Russe

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Roger Norrington: conductor MOZART: Symphony No. 12 in G, K. 110 · Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201 · Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, K. 543 Sir Roger Norrington has been a lifelong pioneer in the historically informed performance practice—from Beethoven to Wagner and Mahler, his interpretations are always revelatory and provocative. In his final season with the SWR, Norrington applies a lifetime of experience to provide the essential collection of Mozart’s symphonies!

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MOZART

The Essential Symphonies, V ol. II

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Essential Symphonies Vol. 1 (2 CDs)

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hänssler CLASSIC

Release Date: January 8, 2008

Carl Schuricht

Conducts Mahler & Haydn (2 CDs) Hanni Mack-Cosack: soprano/Hertha Töpper: alto/SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart/ Stuttgart Bach Choir/SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart/Carl Schuricht: conductor MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 in C minor · HAYDN: Symphony No. 86 in D, Hob.I:86 “Paris” Previously only available as part of the deluxe Schuricht Edition box set, these magnificent performances of Mahler and Haydn, by one of the last century’s greatest conductors, are now individually available for the enjoyment of collectors everywhere.

Cat # HNS 93139 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.98) Double Slimline

J.S. BACH

Soprano Arias Arleen Augér, Nancy Amini, Eva Csapò, Constanza Cuccaro, Helen Donath, Krisztina Laki, Inga Nielsen, Ingeborg Reichelt, Barbara Rondelli, Ulrike Sontage, Edith Wiens: sopranos/Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart/Bach Collegium Stuttgart/Helmuth Rilling: conductor J.S. BACH: 15 soprano arias from the Cantatas Enjoy Bach’s loving celebration of the soprano voice as a sublime musical instrument with this collection, carefully selected from the epochal Edition Bachakademie. Artists include many of Europe’s finest singers, including the beloved Arleen Augér.

Cat # HNS 98245 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case

Helmuth Rilling

Hallelujah 2: Favorite Vocal Pieces Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart/Bach Collegium Stuttgart/Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, Heilbronn/SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Oregon Bach Festival Choir & Orchestra/Helmuth Rilling: conductor HANDEL: Messiah (sel.) · MOZART: Requiem (exc.) · Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (exc.) · Mass in C minor (exc.) · HAYDN: Lord Nelson Mass (exc.) · The Creation (exc.) · BRAHMS: A German Requiem (exc.) · MENDELSSOHN: War March of the Priests from Athalia · SCHUBERT: Mass in A-flat (exc.) · J.S. BACH: St. Matthew Passion (exc.) · Mass in B minor (sel.) · Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott · O Jesu Christ meins Lebens Licht · and more

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This very special collection features the artistry of conductor Helmuth Rilling in a variety of inspiring and impeccably performed excerpts from the major choral works of the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic traditions, including samples from several of the maestro’s most recent recordings.

Release Date: January 8, 2008

hänssler CLASSIC

Gerhard Oppitz: piano BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E, Op.109 · Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat, Op. 110 · Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111 Pianist Gerhard Oppitz has performed the complete Beethoven Sonata cycle throughout his career. His interpretations are an eloquent testimony to both his pedigree as a student of Kempf and his own compelling, mature vision of how Beethoven can be approached in the new millennium.

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Piano Sonatas Vol. 8 Cat # HNS 98208 (R)

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Piano Sonatas Vol. 7 Cat # HNS 98207 (S)

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, V ol. 9 Cat # HNS 98209 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case

Junko Kundo: bassoon Mitsutaka Shiraishi: piano GLIÈRE: Humoresque & Impromptu, Op. 35, Nos. 8 & 9 · RATHAUS: Polichinelle · CASADESUS: Deux pièces, Op. 61 · BIZET: Morceau à déchiffrer · MASSENET: Morceau à déchiffrer · FUCIK: The Bear with a Sore Head · ELGAR: Romance, Op. 62 · TCHEREPNIN: Sonatine Sportive, Op. 63 · LLOYD WEBBER: Northington Farm · ROTA: Toccata · GOULD: Bassoon Sonata · FOOTE: My Grandfather’s Clock, song with humorous variations Be ready for the unexpected with Revolution for Bassoon! This program (and the following “Revolution” discs) offers a delightful mélange of musical miniatures from the most unexpected sources. Bassoon sonatas by Casadesus and Gould?

Yes, listen to them here!

Junko Kundo

Revolution for Bassoon Cat # HNS 98502 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Jewel Case

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Fuga Libera

Release Date: January 8, 2008

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Rassinfosse & Collard-Neven

Boris TISHCHENKO

Jean-Louis Rassinfosse: double bass/Jean-Philippe CollardNeven: piano

Victoria Postnikova: piano/Alexander Rozhdestvensky: violin/String Orchestra of St. Petersburg/Moscow Symphony Orchestra/Gennady Rozhdestvensky: conductor

Second Move

VARIOUS COMPOSERS: Improvisations on: Regarde · You Must Believe in Spring · Entre nous · Clarinet Sonata Op. 120, No. 2 (2nd movement) · Ducky · Pour Edu et Tom (Prá dizer adeus) · Retrato em branco e preto & Luiza · Waiting for Her · Prélude, Op. 11, No. 4 · Obsession A new concept of “chamber jazz.” First CD from the same duo who recorded the hit Regency’s Night— the meeting of a great classical contemporary music pianist and a jazz musician who revisit wellknown themes from Legrand, Brahms, and Jobim.

Double Concerto

TISHCHENKO: Concerto for violin, piano & string orchestra, Op. 144 · Hell: Circles 7-9, from Dante Symphony No. 3, Op. 123 Live performance conducted by the great Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Tishchenko was the favorite pupil of Shostakovich and a major figure in St. Petersburg musical life, but his work is little known.

This album is a great way to discover the composer.

Alpha

Cat # APH 110 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak

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Robert SCHUMANN

Guillaume DUFAY

Eric Le Sage: piano

Diabolus in Musica/Antoine Guerber: conductor

SCHUMANN: Piano Sonata, Op. 11 · Piano Sonata, Op. 14 · Impromptus on a Romance by Clara Wieck, Op. 5

DUFAY: 19 songs

Piano & Chamber Music,Vol. 2

The second issue of the complete piano and chamber music works that will be completed in 2010 for the anniversary of Schumann’s birth.

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Mille Bonjours!

Guillaume Dufay is one of the key representatives of the French musical genius. His masterful work is a comprehensive and brilliant apotheosis of the middle ages.

Alpha

Release Date: January 8, 2008

J.S. BACH

Secular Cantatas Cat # APH 118 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak not available in canada

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Monika Frimmer: soprano Robin Blaze: alto Markus Schäfer: tenor Stephan MacLeod: bass Les Chantres du centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles Olivier Schneebeli: conductor Café Zimmermann Gustav Leonhardt: conductor J.S. BACH: Cantata No. 30a “Angenehmes Wiederaus” · Cantata No. 207 “Vereinigte Zwietracht” Two of Alpha’s star performers join forces for this exceptional project! Gustav Leonhardt recorded this album after two years of absence—two brilliant and neglected Bach cantatas.

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COUPERIN

The Dom Bedos Organ of Sainte-Croix in Bordeaux Cat # APH 17 (R) Not Available In Canada

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J.S. BACH

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Harpsichord Works

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English and German Keyboard

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Ricercar

Release Date: January 8, 2008

Dieterich BUXTEHUDE

Complete Organ Works (5 CDs) Bernard Foccroulle: organ BUXTEHUDE: Organ Works (77 selections) Winner of a Diapason d’Or and a Choc du Monde la Musique. The greatest recording of the organ works of Buxtehude by specialist Bernard Foccroulle, who uses five historic and modern instruments to shed a new light on the richness and variety of this repertory.

Cat # RCE 250 Price Code: 5L (SRP $59.95) Box Set Not Available In Canada

Alfonso FERRABOSCO & William BYRD Consort Music (2 CDs)

Suzan Hamilton: soprano/James Bowman: countertenor/Ricercar Consort/Philippe Pierlot: director BYRD: Consort Music (17 sel.) · FERRABOSCO: Consort Music (17 sel.)

Two of the most important composers of the English renaissance in a splendid double album. A great new release in the English Consort Music collection from Ricercar.

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Domenico SCARLATTI Stabat Mater

Vox Luminis Ensemble D. SCARLATTI: Stabat Mater · 3 choral works A program entirely devoted to sacred music by Domenico Scarlatti. Four compositions, including the famous Stabat Mater for ten voices, show the composer’s diversity.

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Release Date: January 8, 2008

Summit Education

Joseph Alessi Visions

Joseph Alessi: trombone/Columbus State University Wind Ensemble Bert APPERMONT: Colors (1998) · Christopher THEOFANIDIS: I wander the world in a dream of my own making (2005) · J.M. DAVID: Bright Window (2005) · Robert RUMBELOW: Refraction (2006) · Michael GANDOLFI: Vientos y Tangos (2004) · Eric EWAZEN: Visions of Light (2003) “A liquid tone and consummate skill.” — Wall Street Journal “A beautiful, burnished richness.” — New York Times New wind music (three commissioned for this project and artist) brilliantly performed by the acclaimed Columbus University Wind Ensemble featuring the internationally renowned Principal Trombone of the NY Philharmonic, Joseph Alessi.

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David Hickman

MasterClass Series: Classical Trumpet David Hickman: trumpet, instruction/Gail Novak: piano Introduction to the Classical Trumpet Repertoire · The Keyed Trumpet · Summary of Classical Style · L. MOZART: Trumpet Concerto in D (exc.) · HERTEL: Trumpet Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (exc.) · J. HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat (exc.) · M. HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in D (exc.) · HUMMEL: Trumpet Concerto in E (exc.) · NERUDA: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat (exc.) · RIEPEL: Trumpet Concerto in D (exc.)

“David Hickman is an astounding musician. His articulation and phrasing are impeccable.”

— Fanfare Trumpet MasterClass instruction from one of the world’s pre-eminent trumpet virtuosos and educators!

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Doremi Leopold SIMONEAU & Pierrette ALARIE

Vol. 1 (4 CDs)

Leopold Simoneau: tenor/Pierrette Alarie: soprano/Various soloists & orchestras/ Igor Stravinsky, Walter Goehr, Wilfred Pelletier: conductors J.S. BACH: Mass in B minor · MOZART: Arias, Duets & Songs · BEETHOVEN: Ode to Joy (finale of Symphony No. 9) · SCHUMANN: Duets · STRAVINSKY: Oedipus Rex Historic recordings including Igor Stravinsky conducting the 1952 premiere performance of his own Oedipus Rex.

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Stradivarius

Release Date: January 8, 2008

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Fabio VACCHI

Georg Philip TELEMANN

Sicilian Symphony Orchestra/Guido Guida: conductor/ Contemporartensemble/Mauro Ceccanti: conductor/Ensemble Musica20

Collegium Pro Musica/Stefano Bagliano: recorder, conductor

Imaginary Places

Wassermusik & Flute Concertos

VACCHI: Luoghi immaginari · Wanderer Octet · Dai Calanchi di Sabbiuno · Flow My Dowland

TELEMANN: Wassermusic, TWV 55:C3 (1725) · Concerto for recorder & flute, TWV 52:e1 · Flute Concerto, TWV 51:C1 · Concerto for 2 Flutes, TWV 44:1 · Sinfonia Spirituosa, TWV 52:B1 An interesting selection of concertos for recorder, flute, and orchestra. Includes a delightful Symphony for Strings named Spirituosa for its flirtation with the gallant style, and a suite for orchestra inspired by sea divinities.

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Franco DONATONI

Emanuele Forni

Freon Ensemble/Stefano Cardi: guitar, conductor

Emanuele Forni: guitars/Andreas Pfiffner: electronics/Simon Roethlisberger: trombone/Angela Tschanz: piccolo/Tatiana Djurishova: alto flute/Noe Ito: vocals

Donatoni Edition,Vol.VI

DONATONI: Algo IV, for guitar concertante & 12 instruments · Poll, for 13 musicians · Refrain IV, for 6 instruments · About, for violin, viola & guitar · A1, for mandolin, mandola & guitar · Small II, for flute, viola & harp · Algo, for guitar From Algo for solo guitar (1977) to Poll for 13 performers (1998), the pieces here are a fascinating testimony to the particular importance that chamber music assumed in Donatoni’s last decades of activity.

Guitar Collection,Vol. 16

KRIEGER: Histoire de l’oeil, for electric guitar in scordatura & live electronics · KURTAG: A kis csava, for piccolo, trombone & guitar, Op. 15b · REICH: Nagoya guitars · HOSOKAWA: Renka I, for high voice & guitar · APERGHIS: Conversation XX, for guitar player · DUFOURT: La cité des saules, for electronic guitar & sound transformation · TAKEMITSU: Toward the sea, for alto flute & guitar · BEGLARIAN: Until it blazes, for plucked string instrument This disc features rarely performed repertoire and highlights the beauty of the guitar in the skillful hands of contemporary composers.

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Stradivarius

Paul Beier

Quanto Beltà: Renaissance Lute Music Paul Beier: lute 27 pieces for lute by Francesco da Milano, Perino Fiorentino, Jacques Arcadelt, and Anonymous The result of a collaboration between Perino and the Dorico Press publishing company, published in 1546, contained 12 fantasies by the Milanese lutenist, 10 of which had never before been published, as well two new intabulations of French chanson and two madrigal intabulations, the first by Francesco in this genre. To this Perino added four of his own fantasies, plus two more intabulations of madrigals.

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Emanuele CASALE Chamber Music

Ex Novo Ensemble/Icarus Ensemble CASALE: 9 for ensemble · Studio 2a for bass recorder · Studio 1 for horn · Composizione per cinque strumenti · Composizione per voce · Composizione per quattro 5 for flute & clarinet · 3 for flute & bassoon A portrait of a shining star among young Italian composers! The chamber music of Emanuele Casale is full of frantic microevents and hit-and-run playful counterpoints.

The solid, controlled, down-to-earth nature of the composer’s talent ensures that these eruptions of energy maintain their kinetic and propulsive character.

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Luigi Gaggero

Music for Cimbalom Luigi Gaggero: cimbalom/Freyia Gunnlaugsdottir, Andrea Moretti: clarinet/Michela La Fauci: harp KURTÁG: Un brin de bruyère · Szalkak · 3 Pieces for clarinet & cimbalom · 3 Other Pieces for clarinet & cimbalom · Homage to Ference Berényi 70 · FRANCESCONI: Etude · SOLBIATI: Quaderno d’immagini · 3 Duets Luigi Gaggero is the only professor of cimbalom in Western Europe; he teaches at the Strasbourg Conservatory. He has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestra RAI, and more under the direction of Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Peter Eotvos, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, and Simon Rattle.

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Stradivarius

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Antonio de CABEZÓN

Instrumental Works, Vol. 1

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THESE PREVIOUSLY DELETED TITLES AVAILABLE NOW! Antonio de CABEZÓN

Sacred Choral Music, Vol. 1 Cat # STV 33451 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Jewel Case

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CABEZÓN: Obras de Musica para Tecla, Arpa y Vihuela.

Compendio de Musica (Madrid 1578)

CABEZÓN: Comiençan los Hymnos · Motetes de a Cuatro · Comiençan Quatro Kiries de Cada Tono

J.S. BACH

Works for Lute,Vol. 2

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Hamonices Mundi/La Moranda/Claudio Astronio: organ, harpsichord, director

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Harmonices Mundi/La Moranda/Claudio Astronio: organ, harpsichord, director

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Michele Pertusi Malìa

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World Premiere Recording

J. S. BACH: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001 · Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 · Suite in E minor, BWV 996 · Suite in G minor, BWV 995

VARIOUS: Miscellaneous vocal selections

Arthur HONEGGER

Works for Violin and Piano

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Michele Pertusi: baritone/Parma Opera Ensemble

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Paul Beier: baroque lute

Barbara STROZZI Pastimes of Euterpe

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Includes World Premiere Recordings

Ulf Wallin: violin/Patricia Pagny: piano

Emanuela Gall: soprano/Ensemble Galilei/Paul Beier: director

HONEGGER: Sonata in D minor, H.3 (premiere) · First Sonata, H.17 · Second Sonata, H.24 · Morceau de concours, H.179 · Arioso, H.214

STROZZI: Diporti di Euterpe overo cantate & ariette a voce sola, Op. 7 (1659)

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Tactus

Release Date: January 8, 2008

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Giovanni SGAMBATI

Muzio CLEMENTI

Francesco Caramiello, Francesco Libetta: piano

Enzo Porta: violin/Carlo Mazzoli: fortepiano

SGAMBATI: Prelude & Toccata in G · Variations on a concerto by Remey · Waltz · Valse minuscule · Valz brillante · Vals melanconique · Scherzo in E · Scherzo in D minor · Serenatina · Romanza in F · 2 Little Pieces · Presentimento · Mestizia · Mélodie impromptu · Mazurka in B minor · “Minuetto di Beeethoven”—3 pieces for piano 4 hands

CLEMENTI: Sonata in B-flat, Op. 5, No. 1 · 3 Sonatas, Op. 15

The Complete Piano Works,Vol.V

Sonatas for Violin & Fortepiano

Published in London in 1786 and recently republished by Ut Orpheus as part of Clementi’s complete works, these pieces feature a well-developed discourse between the two instruments, with the violin and piano functioning as equal partners in the dialogue.

The fifth volume of complete piano music by Sgambati, whom Wagner called “a composer and a fine pianist in the noblest, truest sense, a great and true talent.”

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Ermanno WOLF FERRARI

Giovanni Battista BASSANI

Alessandro Baccini: oboe, English horn/City of Adria Philharmonic Orchestra/Giorgio Fabbri: conductor

Tadashi Miroku: countertenor/Silvia Rambaldi, Valeria Montanari: harpsichord

WOLF FERRARI: Idilio—Concertino for oboe, strings & 2 horns, Op. 15 · Concertino for English horn, strings & 2 horns, Op. 34 · CIMAROSA/BENJAMIN: Oboe Concerto · PEDROLLO: Concertino for oboe & strings

BASSANI: 6 Cantate Amorosi Musicali for solo voice · Sonata No. 1 in D for 2 harpsichords

Chamber Works for Oboe & English Horn

Ermanno Wolf Ferrari was the true master of archaic imagery in early 20th-century Italian music. The Idillio Concertino Op. 15 for oboe (1932) and the Piccolo Concerto Op. 34 for English horn (1947) are fine examples of Wolf Ferrari’s “unevolved” musical language, for both stylistic and chronological reasons.

L’Armonia delle Sirene

L’Armonia delle Sirene (Harmony of the Sirens) is the charming title of a collection of vocal pieces by Giovanni Battista Bassani, consisting of ten Amorous Musical Cantatas for solo voice, Opus II, printed in Bologna in 1680 by the publisher Giacomo Monti, and dedicated to Prince Don Ferdinando Gonzaga.

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Moscow Studio Archives

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Sergei RACHMANINOV Vespers

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RACHMANINOV: Vespers (All-Night Vigil), for alto, tenor & chorus, Op. 37

Nicolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Opera Suites

Mstislav Rostropovich: cello/Borodin String Quartet/ Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra/Gennadi Rozhdestvenksy: conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello & Orchestra, Op. 33 • String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70 “Souvenir de Florence”

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USSR Symphony Orchestra/Evgeni Svetlanov: conductor RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Pan Voyevoda Suite, Op. 59 • Snow Maiden Suite • Le coq d’or Suite • Dubinushka, Op. 62 (2nd version)

Rococo Variations

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Irina Arkhipova: mezzo-soprano/Victor Rumyantsev: tenor/USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir/Valery Polyansky: conductor

Piotr TCHAIKOVSKY

Sergei RACHMANINOV The Bells

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Alexei Maslennikov: tenor/Galina Pisarenko: soprano/Sergei Yakovenko: baritone/Yurlov Russian Choir/Yuri Ukhov, Stanislav Gusev: directors/USSR Symphony Orchestra/ Evgeni Svetlanov: conductor

Vassily KALINNIKOV Symphony No. 1

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RACHMANINOV: The Bells, choral symphony for soprano, tenor, baritone, chorus & orchestra, Op. 35 • The Spring, cantata for baritone, chorus & orchestra, Op. 20

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Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes & Fugues Nos. 11–16 Cat # MOS 19066 Price Code: C (SRP $5.99) Jewel Case

USSR Symphony Orchestra/Evgeni Svetlanov: conductor

Tatiana Nikolaeva: piano

KALINNIKOV: Symphony No. 1 in G minor • RIMSKYKORSAKOV: The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga—Overture, Op. 54 • The Maid of Pskov—Suite

SHOSTAKOVICH: Preludes & Fugues for solo piano, Nos. 11–16

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Nuova Era

Release Date: January 8, 2008

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Gioacchino ROSSINI

Giovanni PAISIELLO

Enzo Dara, Rockwell Blake, Luciana Serra, Bruno Pola, Paolo Montarsolo: vocal soloists/Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro Regio, Turin/Bruno Campanella: conductor

Marina Bolgan, Don Bernardini, Francesco Musinu: vocal soloists/ Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania/Richard Bonynge: conductor

ROSSINI: Il barbiere di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (complete opera)

PAISIELLO: Nina (complete opera)

Il barbiere di Siviglia (3 CDs)

Nina (2 CDs)

Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia proved to be one of the peaks of his creative powers. This release includes complete Italian libretto and detailed liner notes.

With this work, Paisiello presented audiences with the Italian pendant to the French comédie larmoyante, launching the sentimental form opera semiseria. Audiences loved the aria “l mio ben, quando verrà?” which is famous to this very day as Nina’s Song. This title includes a complete Italian libretto.

Bel Canto Society

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Gaetano DONIZETTI

Tito Gobbi

José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Leo Nucci: vocal soloists/Lamberto Gardelli: conductor

Tito Gobbi: baritone/Elena Rizzieri, Valentina Cortese, Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison: vocal soloists/Chorus & Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice/Franco Ferrara: conductor

Lucia di Lammermoor

DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera) Carreras’ only Lucia on DVD! Total run time: approx 133 minutes.

The Glass Mountain

The Glass Mountain (1950 film with music by Nino Rota) · DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor (1948 exc.)

Dialogue in English (not dubbed), singing in Italian, 1950.

The Glass Mountain is a hypnotic film, of interest not only to fans of Tito Gobbi but also to those of Valentina Cortese, Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison, the music of Nino Rota, and British film.

Total run time: approx 122 minutes.

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