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The Silverdoor label was set up by Irish composer Roger Doyle primarily to release his magnum opus “BABEL,” which took him 10 years to compose and on which he had worked with 48 collaborators and composed 103 individual pieces of music. It celebrates the multiplicity of musical language and evolving technologies. Doyle composes with, and for, computers and orchestras equally, and regularly gives piano concerts of his music. In the coming months, he will re-launch the Silverdoor back catalog along with several new releases. Silverdoor comes to Allegro Classical via Launch Music International Ltd.

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Claudio MONTEVERDI L’Orfeo

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Charles Daniel: tenor Taverner Consort & Players Andrew Parrott: conductor MONTEVERDI: L’Orfeo “At the vanguard of stimulating research-driven concepts interpreted with enthralling musicality.” — Gramophone Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Consort & Players celebrate their 40th anniversary with a magnificent recording of the world’s first operatic masterpiece. Parrott has been at the center of the early and baroque music scenes for over four decades, and his meticulous research brings a fresh perspective to the myth of love lost and found through the art of music. Befitting such an outstanding recording, the two-CD set is luxuriously packaged with extensive notes and the complete libretto with English translations in a 60-page booklet. Advertising in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, LISTEN, and Early Music America. E-blast to Avie mailing list (c. 5,000). also available

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Alexandra Silocea Sound Waves

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Alexandra Silocea: piano DEBUSSY: Poissons d’or • Reflets dans l’eau • L’isle joyeuse • RAVEL: Jeux d’eau • LISZT: Jeux d’eau a la Villa d’Este • Variations on a Cantata by Bach “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” • Nuages gris • Orage • SCHUBERT/LISZT: Auf dem Wasser zu singen • Der Müller und der Bach • ROMBERG: Eärendil (premiere) “A revelation.” — Audiophile Audition Alexandra Silocea made something of a splash with her debut AVIE recording featuring the first five Piano Sonatas by Prokofiev, which “I don’t recall having heard being played better by anyone,” according to International Record Review. For her follow-up she immerses herself in the aqueous sonorities of some of the great pianistic composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. She also adds a distinctive stamp with a commission by young Norwegian composer Martin Romberg. Advertising in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, LISTEN, and International Piano. Priority for airplay on classical radio. E-blast to Avie mailing list (c. 5,000). also available

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Bartłomiej PEKIEL ˛ Ave Maria

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The Sixteen Eamonn Dougan: conductor P˛EKIEL: Audite mortales • Dulcis Amor Jesu • Resonet in laudibus • Magnum nomen Domini • Ave Maria • Assumpta est Maria • O Adoranda Trinitas • Nativitas tua • Missa Concertata La Lombardesca • Missa a 14 (Kyrie & Gloria) Associate Conductor of The Sixteen, Eamonn Dougan, makes his full conducting debut on CORO in the first of an exciting new series exploring some of Poland’s greatest choral composers. Bartłomiej P˛ekiel was one of the most eminent Polish composers of choral music of the 17th century. He served at the court in Warsaw from around 1633, and became Kapellmeister from 1645–1655 — the first non-Italian to hold the post! Just 29 of his compositions survive today, and on this new album CORO presents 10 of his works for choir and orchestra. Advertising includes Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and more. Copies Mailed to U.S. press and radio stations. Radio Coverage on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 (available worldwide via digital radio). also available

The Sixteen The Earth Resounds CD: CRO 16097 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Challenge Classics Alexei Volodin: piano RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42 • Ten Preludes, Op. 23: Prelude No. 4 in D major • Ten Preludes, Op. 23: Prelude No. 5 in G minor • Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32: Prelude No. 12 in G sharp minor • Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32: Prelude No. 10 in B minor • Prelude, Op. 3, No. 2 in C sharp minor • Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36, 2nd version • Etudes Tableaux, Op. 33, No. 3 in C minor • Etudes Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 1 in C minor • Etudes Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 3 in F sharp minor • Etudes Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 5 in E flat minor Alexei Volodin is one of today’s most outstanding Russian pianists. For his third recording on Challenge Classics, the artist focuses on beloved composer Sergei Rachmaninov. Volodin performs regularly with many prestigious orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, and Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. In 2003 he won the First Prize at the ninth edition of the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich, which launched his international career.

Sergei RACHMANINOV Piano Works

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Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Netherlands Radio Choir James MacMillian: conductor Edward Caswell: conductor MACMILLIAN: Ó • Tryst • Magnificat • Nunc Dimittis James MacMillan is one of today’s most successful living composers, also internationally active as a conductor. His musical language is flooded with influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience, and close connection with Celtic folk music, all blended with influences from Scandinavian and Eastern European music. MacMillan is currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, and has conducted orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2012, he was presented with the prestigious ABO Award at the Association of British Orchestras’ annual conference.

James MACMILLIAN Magnificat

CD: CHR 72554 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Mark O’CONNOR

The Improvised Violin Concerto CD+DVD: OMC 19 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 2 CD Wallet, Box Lot 45 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Mark O’Connor: composer, violin Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra Federico Cortese: conductor O’CONNOR: Improvised Violin Concerto • March of the Gypsy Fiddler Mark O’Connor has created a first in classical music: for the first time in 300 years of violin concertos, he has composed an orchestral concerto where the solo violin lead is completely improvised each time it is performed! This CD+DVD release includes O’Connor’s world premiere performance of his own “Improvised Violin Concerto” performed at Boston Symphony Hall. It also includes his composition “March of the Gypsy Fiddler,” a triple concerto featuring The Ahn Trio. Two fantastic youth orchestras are featured in the performances — the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the New Jersey Youth Orchestra — and proceeds from the sales of the CD+DVD will go to benefit both organizations. DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 16:9 (Widescreen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 64 min. Press & Promotion handled by Shore Fire Media. UPCOMING PERFORMANCES May 5 Trenton, NJ – Trenton War Memorial Auditorium May 26 Napa Valley, CA – Lincoln Theater October 23 & 24 Indianapolis, IN – Butler University

Myrios Classics

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartets [Hybrid SACD]

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Hagen Quartet BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18/3 • String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18/5 • String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135 “The Hagen Quartet holds you spellbound from first bar to last.” — BBC Music Magazine In its 2012/13 season, the Hagen Quartet brings the complete Beethoven string quartets to the most prominent musical centers of the world, including New York, Tokyo, Paris, London, Vienna, and Salzburg. During the first half of this tour, the quartet went right from the stage to the studio to record three of their favorite Beethoven quartets. Featuring Op. 18/3 and Op. 135, the album ranges from the very first quartet Ludwig van Beethoven wrote, to the very last. PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system. also available

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Melodiya David Oistrakh: violin TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 • TANEYEV: Concert Suite in G minor, Op. 28 • BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 • Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100 • Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, ˇ Op. 108 • DVORÁK: Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 53 • FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A major • VIOTTI: Violin Concerto No. 22 in A minor • BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 • BACH: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV 1042 • MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 • MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Among the numerous famous performers the 20th century gave to the world, David Oistrakh ranks especially high. Oistrakh recorded violin concertos by Bach, Mozart, Viotti, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvoˇrák, and Taneyev in the 1950s and 1960s. He was in the prime of his performing career, appearing with some of the best conductors such as Nikolai Malko, Herbert von Karajan, Alexander Gauk, Kirill Kondrashin, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The performances of Brahms’ and Franck’s sonatas by David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter, also featured in this set, has been unanimously recognized by domestic and foreign audiences as one of the 20th century’s best achievements in the field of chamber music.

David Oistrakh David Oistrakh

CD: MYD 1001931 Price Code: 3R (SRP $53.99) Number of Discs: 5 Digibox, Box Lot 5 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

The Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society Dmitri Kitayenko: conductor The Moscow State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra Pierre Boulez: conductor The Big Symphony Orchestra of Central Television and All-Union Radio Vladimir Fedoseyev: conductor STRAVINSKY: The Firebird • Petrushka • The Rite of Spring History united the names of two geniuses, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev, in one of the brightest cultural phenomena of the previous century: the Russian Seasons in Paris. Stravinsky’s three Russian ballets — The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring — were fruits of their collaborative creative process. In aggregate, these three ballets demonstrate the intensity of the composer’s creative evolution and acutely unexpected stylistic “twists” that would be characteristic for him in future.

Igor STRAVINSKY Les Ballets Russes

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Melodiya Irina Arkhipova, Evgeny Vladimirov, Andrey Sokolov: vocal soloists Academic Choir and Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Television Gennady Rozhdestvensky: conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: The Maid of Orleans (complete opera) Melodiya presents a recording of The Maid of Orleans, a rare opera masterpiece by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky realized by outstanding contemporary conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky with the great Russian singer Irina Arkhipova performing the main part. The opera was recorded by the All-Union Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir led by Rozhdestvensky, and also features two remarkable baritones: Sergei Yakovenko as Lionel and Vladimir Valaitis as Dunois.

Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY The Maid of Orleans CD: MYD 1002053 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 3 Triple Digipak, Box Lot 15 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Vladimir Atlantov, Evgeny Nesterenko, Yuri Mazurok: vocal soloists Bolshoi Theatre Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra Mark Ermler: conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Iolanta (complete opera) The first performance of Iolanta took place in St. Petersburg on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre under the direction of Eduard Napravnik on December 6, 1892. The opera does not contain a single negative character; the entire dramaturgy of the composition revolves around the blindness of a beautiful young girl who does not perceive her handicap. This recording, carried out by the Bolshoi Theatre in 1976 under the direction of Mark Ermler, has a set of invaluable merits. First, it is distinct for its remarkable performers. But most importantly, the orchestra is permeated with an atmosphere of remarkable congruence and accord, which was an inseparable characteristic feature of the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR and, unfortunately, would be lost in the next few decades…

Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta

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Melodiya Ivan Petrov, Tatiana Tugarinova, Vladimir Atlantov: vocal soloists Choir and Orchestra of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Mark Ermler: conductor BORODIN: Prince Igor (complete opera) Melodiya presents a complete recording of the epic Russian opera Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin! It took Borodin 19 years to compose this opera, based on the old Russian poem “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” and also incorporating material from other sources. Eternally busy, the author combined composing with a chair in chemistry and an active social life, and never finished the work. Prince Igor reached us thanks to the effort of the composer’s friends Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov, who managed to complete Borodin’s masterpiece. This recording — featuring a galaxy of outstanding soloists such as Ivan Petrov, Elena Obraztsova, Vladimir Atlantov, Alexander Vedernikov, and Arthur Eisen — is the only one that features the music of the opera in its entirety!

Alexander BORODIN Prince Igor

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Mario del Monaco, Leocadia Maslennikova, Alexey Ivanov: vocal soloists Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Vasily Nebolsin: conductor LEONCAVALLO: Pagliacci (complete opera) In June 1959, Moscow gave a hearty welcome to Mario del Monaco, one of the best tenors in the world. This live recording from the Bolshoi Theatre on June 20, 1959 features the tenor along with Leocadia Maslennikova, Alexey Ivanov, Nikolay Timchenko, and Evgeny Belov, conducted by Vasily Nebolsin. Mario del Monaco sings in Italian, while the rest of the cast sings in Russian.

Ruggero LEONCAVALLO

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Melodiya Artur Eisen, Lyudmila Sergienko: vocal soloists Vasily Lanovoy: narrator USSR Academic Chorus of Radio & TV USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor RACHMANINOV: Aleko (complete opera) In 1892 the Moscow Conservatory graduated a group of talented young musicians, among them the 19-year-old Sergei Rachmaninov. His amazing gift did not go unnoticed by the professors of the composition department. The object of their amazement was Rachmaninov’s diploma work, a one-act opera named Aleko that he created in just 17 days! Despite being his first test in the genre, Rachmaninov’s piece was distinguished by a surprising integrity of plot, the vividness of the major psychological issues, and the freshness of intonation and melodic patterns. Rachmaninov took a fancy to Pushkin’s story about the self-willed Zemfira, her dispassionate father, and the savage stranger Aleko, who made a remarkable triangle of characters.

Sergei RACHMANINOV Aleko

CD: MYD 1001703 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra Gennady Rozhdestvensky: conductor LALO: Overture to The King of Y’s • MASSENET: Phèdre, overture to the tragedy of Jean-Baptiste Racine • HÉROLD: Overture to Zampa • THOMAS: Overture to Mignon • Overture to Raymond • VON SUPPÉ: Overture to The Beautiful Galatea • Overture to Light Cavalry • Overture to Poet and Peasant Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky (b. 1931) is a world-famous conductor, pianist, composer, and researcher as well as a People’s Artist of the USSR and a professor. He directed many of the most important orchestras of Russia.

Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra Famous Overtures

CD: MYD 1001662 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Melodiya Rudolf Kehrer: piano CHOPIN: 24 Preludes, Op. 28 • SCRIABIN: 24 Preludes, Op. 11 Melodiya presents Rudolf Kehrer, one of the most extraordinary and original representatives of the Russian piano school of the 20th century. This remarkable musician is a rare combination of scientific and creative talents in one man. Born to a musical family, Kehrer started to study music at an early age but later became a mathematics teacher. After a long break, he returned to his music studies. After Kehrer won First Prize at the All-Union Competition of Music Performers in 1961, he achieved his long-awaited fame. In 41 years of performing activities, the pianist gave over 2,000 concerts and taught at the conservatories in Tashkent, Moscow, and Vienna. Living at the junction of Russian and German cultures, Kehrer included in his repertoire Viennese classics and Russian composers. However, he always showed a preference for romanticism.

Frédéric CHOPIN & Alexander SCRIABIN 24 Preludes

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USSR State Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 • Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 • Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 • Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 The content of Brahms’ four symphonies is contrasting: the monumental and epic First Symphony, the genre dance Second, the lyrical and dramatic Third, and the tragic Fourth. An extraordinary power of the composer’s art lies in its humanism and philosophical optimism. Evgeny Svetlanov (1928–2002), People’s Artist of the USSR (1968), is a great Russian conductor as well as a composer, pianist, and public figure. He recorded all symphonies by Brahms and Mahler, as well as symphonic compositions by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Dvoˇrák, Grieg, Saint-Saëns, Bloch, Elgar, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Shaporin, Khachaturian, Sviridov, Kabalevsky, and Eshpay.

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Editions Hortus François Espinasse: organ MESSIAEN: Whitsun Mass • DARASSE: Organum VIII • AMY: Three Inventions His whole life, with imperturbable regularity, Olivier Messiaen played the liturgical organ at the Trinity Church (Paris). His Whitsun Mass, however, is his only organ work explicitly tied to the mass. Xavier Darasse’s Organum VIII is impregnated with vivid, almost blinding colors in a complex rhythm, striking by its unusual instrumentation: a quintet of brass and organ, homage to the long resonances and the dynamic leaps of the brass. Three Inventions by Gilbert Amy are unquestionably among the most beautiful organ works of recent years. Their sonority and registrations frequently evoke the aesthetic of the classical organ. Their composition — brilliant, warm, and extremely varied — requires the interpreter to combine rhythmic precision with general flexibility. François Espinasse, official co-organist of Saint Séverin church in Paris and first-prizewinner in organ in Xavier Darasse’s class, finished his training with André Isoir.

Olivier MESSIAEN Whitsun Mass

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François Ménissier: organ BACH: a collection of organ works It is thanks to Albert Schweitzer that the Eglise Saint-Thomas in Strasbourg and its famous Silbermann organ holds a special place in the 20th-century rediscovery of Bach’s organ works. In addition to writing the book Bach, the Poet-Musician, in which he sought to explain the public’s instinctive attractions to the cantor’s works, Schweitzer was also titular organist at the Eglise de Saint-Thomas and a fierce defender of its instrument. It was also Schweitzer who originally had the idea of organizing a concert entirely devoted to Bach’s music on the anniversary of his death, July 28, 1908, an idea that was to be taken up again each succeeding year. These annual concerts became one of the most solid institutions of musical life in Strasbourg.

J.S. BACH

The Poet Musician CD: HOR 20 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Audiomax Gürzenich Quartet BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18 • BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 The Gürzenich Quartet’s latest CD release features not one but two classical heavyweights: Beethoven and Brahms! Drawing on the experience of their countless performances in the orchestra pit, which require split-second reactions to spontaneous impulses from the stage, the four musicians of the Gürzenich Quartet have what it takes to produce gripping results.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN & Johannes BRAHMS String Quartets

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La Bottega Discantica Edoardo Bellotti: organ FRESCOBALDI: music from Manuscript Vaticano Chigi Q IV 25: “Fiori Musicali” (Venezia, 1635), Aggiunta al “Primo Libro di Toccate” (Roma, 1637), Manuscript Londra Add. 40080 “Fioretti del Frescobaldi”: “Primo Libro di Capricci” (Roma, 1624) and “Secondo libro di Toccate” (Roma, 1627) In the 17th century, the term “flower” was often used to allude to a poetic or musical composition. Music appears fresh and new with each performance, it expresses the feelings of the heart, and it inebriates like a precious flower. This is at least part of the meaning of the title of this anthology, dedicated to that monster of organists, Girolamo Frescobaldi. His works are justly distinguished among the various “flowers,” and offer a particularly refined bouquet.

Girolamo FRESCOBALDI

Flowers and Little Flowers for Organ CD: BDI 128 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Fryderyk Chopin Society Frédéric CHOPIN Etudes, Op. 10

Magdalena Lisak: piano CHOPIN: Etudes, Op. 10 • Polonaise in C minor, Op. 40, No. 2 • Polonaise in F minor, Op. 71, No. 3 • Mazurka, Op. 56 • Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 • Nocturne in C sharp minor

CD: FCS 25 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

This disc is another installment in the series The Real Chopin, the world’s first phonographic collection of the complete works of Frédéric Chopin on period instruments. The first edition of the series was highly rated by critics around the world, and proved a great success on the international record market, winning numerous prizes including a Diapason d’Or. This release features Magdalena Lisak, a prizewinner of the Chopin Competition, on an 1849 Erard.

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Frédéric CHOPIN

Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Yulianna Avdeeva: piano/Orchestra of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen: conductor CHOPIN: Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 21 • Piano Concerto in E minor, Op. 11 Following her sensational win at the 2010 International Frédéric Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Yulianna Avdeeva has given debut performances with the New York Philharmonic in Warsaw and New York, under Alan Gilbert. Now, she records both of Chopin’s concertos on a period instrument (Erard 1849) accompanied by specialist Frans Brüggen conducting his renowned Orchestra of the 18th Century. CD: FCS 29 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Frédéric CHOPIN Grand Duo, Op. 15

Dina Yoffe: piano/Daniel Vaiman: piano CHOPIN: Variations on Thomas Moore’s Song in D for Piano Four Hands • Rondo in C, Op. 73 (working version) • Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante in E flat major, Op. 22 • Mazurka, Op. 17 • CHOPIN/FRANCHOMME: Grand Duo Concertante in E major, Op. 15

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Like the cycle The Real Chopin, the so-called White Series presents a complete set of the works of Frédéric Chopin — but on contemporary instruments! This disc features solo performances by Dina Yoffe as well as works for four hands and two pianos that the artist recorded with her son, Daniel Vayman.

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Allegro Classical Welcomes Silverdoor To Our Roster Roger Doyle: piano, synthesizer Ger Flanagan: fiddle Seán Devitt: hand drum Trevor Knight: synthesizer Sarah Grealish: vocals DOYLE: Opening Music • Priest On Motorbike • Moving In • Inspecting the House • The Storm • The Vigil • Pregnant • The Boat Race • The Dance • The Parting • Ecce • Budawanny • Atlantean • Amhrán Mhuighinnse The music on this CD is comprised of the soundtracks of two films made by Irish filmmaker Bob Quinn in the 1980s, plus an arrangement of an old Irish song. The music was to play a central role in the feature film Budawanny, which was shot as a silent film in black and white. It required 70 minutes of music, uninterrupted by anyone talking over it (a composer’s dream!) The music has elements of Irish traditional music, European art music, and Middle Eastern music. Set in the west of Ireland, the film tells the story of a priest and a woman who fall in love, and the tragic events that follow.

Roger DOYLE Budawanny

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Roger Doyle: piano, electronic, concrete sounds, drum kit DOYLE: Bitter-Sweet Suite • Ceol Sidhe • Oizzo No • Obstinato • Two Movements For Flute And Strings • Theme From Emptigon • Extra Bit • Baby Grand • Thalia • Solar Eyes The music on this album represents Roger Doyle’s early works, repackaged and remastered in 2002. It includes his extremely rare self-released 1975 debut LP Oizzo No and his second LP Thalia from 1978, originally released on CBS Classics, all on one 77-minute album. The earliest piece is “Bitter-Sweet Suite” for out-of-tune piano, composed when he was 18. The latest, “Thalia,” was his first large-scale electronic piece, composed at age 26.

Roger DOYLE

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CAvi-music Matthias Schorn: clarinet Minetti Quartet MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 • BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 • SULZER: Invention for Clarinet and String Quartet Matthias Schorn is a young, upcoming soloist and principal clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic. Here, he appears alongside the award-winning Minetti Quartet, one of the best Austrian string quartets. The disc features works by Mozart and Brahms as well as Balduin Sulzer, one of the most-profiled composers on the current Austrian classical music scene.

Matthias Schorn Clarinet Quintets

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KAIROS

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Bernhard GANDER

Mark Feldman: violin/Bernarda Fink: mezzo-soprano/Wolfgang Puschnig: alto saxophone/Mike Richmond: double bass/ Schnittpunktvokal/Vienna Flautists: flutes

Arditti Quartet/Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart/ORF RSO Vienna/ Peter Eötvös: conductor

For the Love of It

Monsters and Angels

PUSCHNIG: Pod Klan?kom • Zwa Sternlan • Summalång • Glöckle vom Hamattål • Kaj Ti Je, Deklica • Nimbus • Iba die Stapflan This outstanding live recording from Wiener Konzerthaus, with jazz giants Mark Feldman and Mike Richmond, features celebrated Argentine mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink singing what might be termed “trans-regional” folk songs: partly in Slovenian, partly in German.

GANDER: dirty angel • khul • schöne worte • wegda! • horribile dictu • lovely monster These six works by Austrian composer Bernhard Gander demonstrate the composer’s high level of musical craftsmanship and brilliant, original manner of combining modern composition with rock and hip-hop. The works are performed by ensembles including the Arditti Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, and ORF RSO Vienna, among the leading interpreters of new music.

Berlin Classics Annegret Siedel: baroque violins Bell’arte Salzburg Michael Freimuth: theorbo Hermann Hickethier: viola da gamba, violin Margit Schultheiß: organ, baroque harp, harpsichord BIBER: Sonata I in D Minor: Annunciation • Sonata II in A Major: Visitation • Sonata III in B Minor: Nativity • Sonata IV in D Minor: Presentation in the Temple • Sonata V in A Major: Discovery in the Temple • Sonata VI in C Minor: Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane • Sonata VII in F Major: Scourging • Sonata VIII in B Major: Crowning with Thorns • Sonata IX in A Minor: Way of the Cross • Sonata X in G Minor: Crucifixion • Sonata XI in G Major: Resurrection • Sonata XII in C Major: Ascension • Sonata XIII in D Minor: Gift of the Spirit • Sonata XIV in D Major: Assumption of Mary • Sonata XV in C Major: Coronation of Mary • Passacaglia in D Minor for solo violin The fifteen Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber form a fascinating cyclical work. The use of fourteen different violin tunings (scordaturas), deviating from the instrument’s normal tuning in fifths, makes the sonata cycle unique in the history of the violin. Annegret Siedel, artistic director of the Bell’arte Salzburg ensemble, has recorded the Mystery Sonatas on nine different violins of the 17th and 18th centuries. She succeeds wonderfully in bringing out the sacred character of the music, particularly in its meditative passages, without falling short of the music’s high technical demands.

Heinrich BIBER Rosenkranz Sonata

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VocaMe Michael Popp: conductor VON BINGEN: Studium Divinitatis • O virga ac diadema I • O virga mediatrix • Tu rubes ut aurora • Columba aspexit • O quam mirabilis • O virtus Sapientiae • Rex noster • O spectabilis viri • O ignis Spiritus • Aer enim • Spiritus Sanctus • Cum processit • O tu illustrata • O virga ac diadema II The members of the VocaMe ensemble are convinced that inspired music needs to be revitalized with inspiration; their CD featuring music by the Byzantine composer Abbess Kassia caused quite a stir. Hildegard von Bingen herself spoke of being a non-scholar (“indocta”) and having experienced auditiones (“recitals,” of other-worldly music). This may help to explain the extraordinary significance of her music, which “seemed to emerge from nowhere and to disappear in similar manner,” as Michael Popp, artistic director of VocaMe, puts it in the introduction to the CD.

Hildegard VON BINGEN Inspiration

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Berlin Classics Edward ELGAR Violin Concerto

Catherine Manoukian: violin/Staatskapelle Weimar/Stefan Solyom: conductor ELGAR: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 • Salut d’Amour, Op. 12 • Offertoire

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Young violinist Catherine Manoukian finds no challenge too great. The Canadian artist is not only an impressive soloist, appearing with celebrated orchestras around the world, she has also added to her musical education with the world-famous Dorothy DeLay in New York by completing a Masters in Classical Philosophy. It was surely no accident that the emphasis laid on the theory of aesthetics. Yet in the end, Catherine Manoukian decided on a career as a musician, and now presents her fifth recording. She has chosen the Elgar concerto, painted on a large canvas, and this globetrotting artist with German, Armenian, and Japanese roots has opted for something rather special: a live recording, performing with the Weimar Staatskapelle under the baton of her husband Stefan Solyom.

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Claude DEBUSSY Poèmes

Stella Doufexis: mezzo-soprano/Daniel Heide: piano DEBUSSY: Nuit d’étoiles • Fleur des blés • Deux romances • Fêtes galantes • Le promenoir des deux amants • Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé • Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire

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German-Greek mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis is one of the most sought-after singers in her field, both on the operatic stage and on the concert podium. She has given guest performances with renowned German orchestras as well as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, among many others. Now, she releases two new CD recitals presenting diverse facets of French art song, from the Romantic music of Berlioz to the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel.

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Stella Doufexis Nuits d’été

Stella Doufexis: mezzo-soprano/Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Karl-Heinz Steffens: conductor BERLIOZ: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7 • CHAUSSON: Poèmes De l’amour Et De La Mer, Op. 19: Nos. 1–3 • RAVEL: Shéhérazade (3 Songs)

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Stella Doufexis conducts us into the tender darkness of summer nights full of promise, in which hearing is more acute than sight. To a background of subdued orchestral colors, the singer pours out her heartfelt mezzo, summoning up poetic dream images. The consummate instrumentation of Berlioz, Chausson, and Ravel is a testimony to a continuing tradition: rarely do works of the 19th and 20th centuries blend so harmoniously together.

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Berlin Classics (Vinyl)

Berlin Classics Presents “ETERNA CUTS” a limited series of audiophile re-releases of selected legendary recordings originally released on the GDR Eterna label. The music was transferred from the original tapes without any digital processing, and pressed straight onto 180-gram vinyl. The vinyl sets, consisting of between two and five LPs per recording, are exact replicas of the original Eterna releases right down to the artwork. All of the up-to-date information is contained in a detachable outer sleeve, and a separate enclosure inside the inner sleeve featuring the history of the Eterna label plus all relevant information on the purely analogue audio transfer technique. Furthermore, each outer sleeve of these limited editions is hand-numbered. One thing is sure: these recordings never sounded better, or so much like the originals! Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123 Anna Tomowa-Sintow: soprano/Annelies Burmeister: alto/Peter Schreier: tenor/Hermann Christian Polster: bass/Leipzig Radio Choir/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Kurt Masur: conductor BEETHOVEN: Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123 Beethoven’s most significant mass, conducted by maestro Kurt Masur and performed by famous musicians: this recording convincingly reflects the great composer’s humanist ideals in a way that is rarely heard. Here, belief and enlightenment blend in the most moving manner. VINYL: BER 300525 Price Code: 3P (SRP $50.99) Number of Discs: 2 LP Jacket, Box Lot 12 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Franz SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin

Peter Schreier: tenor/Walter Olbertz: piano SCHUBERT: Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25 Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin is at first glance a series of cheerful songs, which on closer listening reveals an ostensibly ideal world with dark undertones. Peter Schreier is a master of the great art song genre, for whom a beautiful tone, clear articulation, and sensitive and intelligent interpretation have always been paramount. VINYL: BER 300526 Price Code: 3P (SRP $50.99) Number of Discs: 2 LP Jacket, Box Lot 10 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Berlin Classics (Vinyl) Richard WAGNER Parsifal

Leipzig Radio Choir/Berlin Radio Choir/Thomanenchor Leipzig/Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra/Herbert Kegel: conductor WAGNER: Parsifal This concert recording represents a real stroke of luck, for which we can thank Herbert Kagel, a conductor who championed music during the GDR era that was not viewed as “politically correct.” This 1975 recording of Parsifal, featuring snappy tempos and devoid of the usual mystique surrounding Wagner, is an interpretation that seems to have evolved well ahead of its time. VINYL: BER 300528 Price Code: 25C (SRP $149.99) Number of Discs: 5 Vinyl Box Set, Box Lot 7 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

J.S. BACH

St. Matthew Passion Peter Schreier: tenor/Dresdner Kreuzchor/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Rudolf & Erhard Mauersberger: conductors J.S. BACH: St. Matthew Passion This recording marks the artistic peak of two choral legends of the past century: Rudolf Mauersberger, who was choral director at the Dresden Kreuzchor, and his brother Erhard, who held that post at the Thomanerchor in Leipzig. Here, they join forces with their choirs and some renowned soloists in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. VINYL: BER 300527 Price Code: 8L (SRP $95.99) Number of Discs: 4 LP Jacket, Box Lot 9 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

W.A. MOZART

Die Entführung aus dem Serail Chor der Staatsoper Dresden/Dresden Staatskapelle/Otmar Suitner: conductor MOZART: Die Entführung aus dem Serail Otmar Suitner’s Mozart interpretations during his years in Berlin are legendary. This recording of Die Entführung demonstrates that the Austrian conductor was already well aware, when he worked in Dresden, of how to portray Mozart’s dramatic verve and his psychological sensitivity. This is a real gem, recorded in the Lukaskirche in Dresden, where so many recordings with Suitner were made. VINYL: BER 300529 Price Code: 4S (SRP $75.99) Number of Discs: 3 LP Jacket, Box Lot 9 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Stradivarius Quartetto Noferini Rocco Parisi: clarinet, bass clarinet Andrea Noferini: cello Gabriele Rota: piano E. MORRICONE: Ipotesi for clarinet & piano • V Studio (Catalogo) for the piano • Come un’onda for bass clarinet • Riflessi three pieces for cello • Vivo for string trio • A L. P. 1928 for string quartet • Metamorfosi di Violetta for clarinet & string quartet • E. MORRICONE & A. MORRICONE: Lemma for two clarinets & two pianos • A. MORRICONE: Traccia for clarinet & piano This CD of world premiere recordings is devoted to Ennio Morricone’s “classical-contemporary” music, which is very far in intention and language from the usual soundtrack repertoire. The booklet includes a letter from Morricone, with detailed notes on each composition. The disc is completed by a piece written by Ennio Morricone with his son Andrea (“Lemma”), as well as a composition by the latter (“Traccia”).

Ennio MORRICONE Lemma

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Emanuela Piemonti: piano Alfonso Alberti: piano SOLBIATI: Sonata seconda for piano • Interludi for piano • Fête for piano • Like as the Waves for piano four-hands From the liner notes by Guido Salvetti: “The four piano pieces brought together on this CD offer a complete vision of that part of Alessandro Solbiati’s creative world that belongs to the piano; no longer an ‘instrumentfor’ expressing a musical thought, but — as has really happened with they who gave us the marvels of the Wohltemperiertes Klavier or of the 32 Sonatas or of the Préludes — a character endowed with a soul and thought where we meet the elements from a long and magnificent past.”

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Alessandro SOLBIATI Piano Works

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Stradivarius Ensemble Alternance CENDO: Rokh 1 • Rokh 2 • Rokh 3 The return of Ensemble Alternance! After their experience with Mark André, the ensemble is back with young, talented composer Raphaël Cendo, whose style is all the rage in Paris and, above all, at the IRCAM. Rokh, bred during his Italian residence at Villa Medici in Rome, is a clear example of this new way of writing music, which uses instruments to create sounds never heard before.

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Raphaël CENDO Rokh

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Mario Caroli: flute Keiko Nakayama: piano MENDELSSOHN: Sonata in F, Op. 4 • WIDOR: Suite • REINECKE: Sonata Undine, Op. 167 • TAFFANEL: Grande Fantaisie for flute and piano on themes from the opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas From the liner notes by Mario Caroli: “Why a romantic program? Those closest to me know how often, as always, I changed my mind on the program! If in the end I have chosen what you hear, it is, perhaps, because what is considered to be (not very exactly and, chronologically speaking, with much inaccuracy) the ‘romantic spirit’ represents a ‘revealed mystery’ for me. In reality, the only piece to be ‘historically’ romantic in this program is Mendelssohn’s Sonata in F, Op. 4. The rest of the program was born on the threshold of the nineteenth century, or even the twentieth. But what remains of ‘romantic’ in these works is the spirit, besides the preservation of the stylistic elements.”

Mario Caroli Undine

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Hérisson David Walter: oboe Fany Maselli: bassoon Mathieu Dupouy: harpsichord Rémi Cassaigne: theorbo Valérie Dulac: cello TELEMANN: Trio in E flat major • Sonata for bassoon in F minor • Sonata for oboe in B major • Sonata for bassoon in E minor • Sonata for oboe in E minor • Sonata for oboe in G minor “And if the performer feels joy, you will feel pleasure.” This is how Telemann concluded his advice to young composers in his autobiography. Perhaps never before has a composer given so much to instrumentalists, writing an incalculable number of pieces for a whole variety of ensembles throughout a life characterized by an almost unbelievable facility combined with a rare capacity for hard work. Let us therefore reach out towards the happiness this music gives us, the joy of playing, and the composer’s pleasure. Did not Telemann himself say, “The notes sought me out more than I sought them?”

Georg Philipp TELEMANN Oboe and Bassoon Sonatas CD: HRN 3 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Mathieu Dupouy: harpsichord SCARLATTI: a collection of harpsichord sonatas Domenico Scarlatti found himself in the awkward situation of being the son of one of Europe’s most celebrated composers, Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725). Domenico, for all his efforts, never achieved the immense glory of his father in the field of opera, and for a long time his career was overshadowed. It was only after his appointment as harpsichord teacher to Maria Barbara of Braganza that he seemed to finally find his own inimitable style. At the height of his artistic maturity, Scarlatti had his sonatas copied into albums dedicated to Maria Barbara and seemed — to borrow Ralph Kirkpatrick’s wonderful expression — to write “as though reliving his life.” The remarkable harpsichord-tiorbino on this album (Napoli, ca. 1710) is currently the only known example to have survived with its original disposition intact: one keyboard with the usual brass strings, and a second keyboard with gut strings.

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LAWO Classics Barokkanerne Alfredo Bernardini: oboe Christian Kjos: harpsichord C.P.E. BACH: Symphony in E minor, Wq 178 (1756) • Oboe Concerto in E flat major, Wq 165 (1765) • Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, Wq 17 (1745) • Symphony in D major, Wq 183/1 (1776) Period instrument ensemble Barokkanerne presents Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in a debut recording with LAWO Classics. Led by Alfredo Bernardini, the group performs groundbreaking symphonies and concertos of this ardent next-eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. The music spans more than 30 years of C.P.E. Bach’s life as a composer, from his engagement as court musician in Berlin to his last years as director of music in Hamburg. This is Sturm and Drang and Enlightenment at its fieriest! Italian baroque oboe specialist Alfredo Bernardini, one of the world’s leading performers of early music, has garnered a number of international prizes for his many recordings. He is, among other things, the founder and artistic director of the ensemble ZEFIRO. Principal harpsichordist Christian Kjos is a sought-after performer who, as a member of the quintet Ensemble Meridiana, has won a number of prizes at international early music competitions.

C.P.E. BACH

Empfindsamkeit! Symphonies & Concertos [Hybrid SACD]

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Valen Trio HVOSLEF: Trio (2010) • VALEN: Trio, Op. 5 (1917–24) • EGGE: Trio, Op. 14 (1940) The trios selected for this recording represent three generations of Norwegian composers and trace an interesting line, both historically and musically, through the past hundred years. Valen’s Trio is a transitional work from his late Romantic tonal compositional style to atonal expression. It is regarded as the breakthrough work in the development of his personal style. Egge’s Trio is an epic, solemn work based in part on the Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland. It is a major work in Egge’s output, in format and expression comparable with Shostakovich’s Trio in E minor. The work has seldom been performed since its premiere in 1941. Hvoslef ’s Trio was written for the Valen Trio. He heard them play in January 2010, and was filled with enthusiasm for the musicians, both as individuals and as a group. Much has been written about Hvoslef ’s original and vivid tonal imagination, and it is absolutely vital for this work. PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.

Valen Trio

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Etcetera Simeon ten Holt: piano HOLT: Bagatellen This homage to recently deceased composer Simeon ten Holt includes a unique recording from 1978 featuring Simeon ten Holt playing his own composition “Bagatellen,” a recording made in his home studio that was never released.

Simeon ten HOLT Hommage

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Jan Vermeulen: piano Christine Busch: violin France Springuel: cello SCHUBERT: Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 99 D. 898 • Notturno in E flat major, Op. 100 D. 929 • Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 100 D. 929 • Piano Trio in B flat major, D. 28 Jan Vermeulen is considered one of today’s most prominent fortepiano virtuosos. After his piano studies at the Brussels Conservatory, his interest and urge for authenticity pushed him in the direction of historical instruments. His pioneering recording of the sonatas of C.M. von Weber at the beginning of the ’90s marked the start of a flourishing career. In that same period he founded the Florestan Fortepiano Trio (later renamed Tröndlin Trio), one of the first to perform the classical romantic repertoire on authentic instruments. Now, Jan Vermeulen harvests worldwide fame with this recording of Schubert’s complete piano works for Etcetera, an opus magnum completed in 2010. His extensive discography has received great acclaim from the international press, and he is widely praised as “the ideal Schubert interpreter.”

Franz SCHUBERT

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Doremi

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Nathan Milstein

Julian von Karolyi

Nathan Milstein: violin/Jean Martinon: conductor/Carl Schuricht: conductor

Julian von Karolyi: piano

Nathan Milstein Collection Vol. 2

Julian von Karolyi Vol. 2

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 • MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 • BACH: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for solo violin in D, BWV 1004 • PAGANINI: Caprices, Op. 1: No. 11 in C major & No. 5 in F minor ON CD FOR THE FIRST TIME: the second in a series featuring live recordings of legendary violinist Nathan Milstein!

HAYDN: Piano Concerto in D Major, Hob. XIII/11 • BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73, “Emperor” • SCHUBERT: Wandererfantasie ON CD FOR THE FIRST TIME: a second volume of recordings by Julian von Karolyi, one of the leading pianists of the 20th century who has now unjustly faded into obscurity.

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Robert Aitken

Francisco Tarrega

Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord

El Círculo Musical: Tarrega, His Disciples & Their Students

Robert Aitken: flute/Greta Kraus: harpsichord/Vancouver Chamber Orchestra/John Eliot Gardiner: conductor J.S. BACH: Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord in B minor, BWV 1030 • Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord in E flat major, BWV 1031 • Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord in A major, BWV 1032 • Partita for Flute and Harpsichord in C minor, BWV 997 • C.P.E. BACH: Flute Concerto in D minor, Wq 22 ON CD FOR THE FIRST TIME: recordings from 1969–1981 by Robert Aitken, one of the leading flute soloists of our time noted for his outstanding interpretations of classical repertoire and extraordinary insight into contemporary music.

Francisco Tarrega, Miguel Llobet, Daniel Fortea, Bartolome Calayatud, Andres Segovia, Josefina Robledo, and more: guitars A collection of recordings by guitarist Francisco Tarrega, his disciples, and their students One of the most important historical classical guitar releases ever! Francisco Tarrega was the father of the modern guitar, his influence immeasurable. In addition to the master playing his own music, this CD includes recordings by his disciples, most never reissued since the 1920s and ’30s. The CD also highlights what may be the first solo guitar recording ever made, as early as 1897: a wax recording by Simon Ramirez of the famous Romance d’Amour.

Querstand Geraldine McGreevy: soprano Tommi Hakala: baritone MDR Symphony Orchestra MDR Radio Choir Howard Arman: conductor VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Sea Symphony A new entry in the successful “MDR Edition” series, featuring recordings by the MDR Symphony Orchestra, MDR Choir, and MDR Children’s Choir. This CD contains one of the most important symphonies of the 20th century, conducted by Howard Arman (winner of the 2005 ECHO Award), and features soloists Geraldine McGreevy (internationally renowned opera and concert singer) and Tommi Hakala (BBC Singer of the World 2003). PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS. For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Sea Symphony [Hybrid SACD] CD: QUE SACD 731 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22

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Orgelstadt Halberstadt Harald Vogel, Christoph Bossert, Claus-Erhard Heinrich, Klaus-Jürgen Teutschbein, Bernhard Wieczorek, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Jean-Charles Ablitzer: organ A collection of organ pieces from the Halberstadt district in Germany featuring the composers J.S. Bach, Michael Praetorius, Oliver Messiaen, John Cage, and others

CD: QUE 1139 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 DVD Digipak, Box Lot 15

This new CD presents an interesting overview of the rich organ landscape of Halberstadt (Saxony-Anhalt), a most important town for the history of organ building. Nicolaus Faber’s large 1361 organ was the largest in the world in these times! The program contains a wide spectrum of organ music, from Adam Ileborgh (15th century) to Hans Otte (1992), as well as improvisations by Claus-Erhard Heinrich (Halberstadt Cathedral organist).

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Querstand

CD: QUE 503 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

CD: QUE 504 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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Franz SCHMIDT

MDR Symphony Orchestra/Fabio Luisi: conductor

SCHMIDT: Symphony No. 1 in E major

SCHMIDT: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major

The first CD in a series consisting of all four symphonies by Austrian composer Franz Schmidt, considered the end point in the symphonic tradition line Schubert-Bruckner-Brahms. A rarity both in concert and on CD!

The second CD in the series shows Schmidt’s first steps away from the “classical” symphony form: only three movements, the second one being “theme with variations.” The “Hungarian” themes in the final movement are inspired by history — both of Austria, and of Schmidt’s family

Symphony No. 1

Symphony No. 2

CD: QUE 505 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

CD: QUE 506 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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Franz SCHMIDT

MDR Symphony Orchestra/Fabio Luisi: conductor

SCHMIDT: Symphony No. 3 in A major

SCHMIDT: Symphony No. 4

Schmidt’s Third Symphony is very lyrical, said to have been the composer’s own favorite, and represents a return to the “classical” four-movement layout.

Schmidt’s most personal work, the Fourth Symphony was a kind of Requiem for his daughter Emma, who had died in 1932 during the birth of her son.

Symphony No. 3

Symphony No. 4

Discovery Music & Vision Christopher GUNNING

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Music from the Television Series Christopher Gunning: piano/Stan Sulzmann: soprano & alto sax/David Emmanuel: viola/Nick Rodwell: clarinet/Leslie Pearson: piano/Stan Sulzmann: tenor sax/Anthony Pleeth: cello/Viktor Simcisko: violin

CD: DMV 103 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

GUNNING: ‘Poirot’ Music from the Television Series: The Belgian Detective (Theme from Agatha Christie’s Poirot) • A Country Retreat • The ABC Murders • Grey Cells • To the Lakes! • The Double Clue • War • The Innocence of Caroline Crale • Amyas’s Last Painting • How Does Your Garden Grow • The Death of Mrs. Inglethorpe • The Height of Fashion • One-two-buckle-my-shoe • The Victory Ball • Death on the Nile This Poirot album has been unavailable for many years, and is now reissued on Discovery Music & Vision with bonus tracks never before released on CD. All tracks were composed by Christopher Gunning, who has won BAFTA Awards for La Vie en Rose, Middlemarch, and Porterhouse Blue.

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BGS VIDA Guitar Quartet Rhapsody

VIDA Guitar Quartet/Mark Ashford, Mark Eden, Helen Sanderson, Christopher Stell: guitars GERSHWIN arr. STELL: Rhapsody in Blue • ARNOLD arr. ASHFORD: English Dances Set II Op. 33 • GORB arr. EDEN: Yiddish Dances

CD: BGS 121 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Rhapsody is a collection of new works and arrangements by the world-class VIDA Guitar Quartet. The pieces are united by a loose programmatic theme of dance music as interpreted by different classical composers, covering the swing-band dance music of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” Malcolm Arnold’s “English Dances,” Gaelic folk-melodies in David Crittenden’s “A Scottish Fantasy,” and the Klezmer rhythms of traditional Yiddish communities.

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Stone Records Roger QUILTER

The Complete Quilter Songbook Vol. 1 Mark Stone: baritone/Stephen Barlow: piano

CD: SNR 8025 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 d U.S. ORDERS ONLY

QUILTER: Who is Silvia? • When daffodils begin to peer • How should I your true love know? • Sigh no more, ladies • In the highlands • Over the land is April • A London spring • Come away, death • O mistress mine • Blow, blow, thou winter wind • Trollie lollie laughter • A coronal • Passing dreams • A land of silence • In spring • ‘Tis Saint Valentine’s day • Hark, hark, the lark • Come Lady-Day • Come unto these yellow sands • Tell me where is fancy bred • I will go with my father a-ploughing • Cherry Valley • I wish and I wish • and more Roger Quilter is one of the best-loved song composers of the 20th century, yet until now there has been no complete edition of his songs. This is the first of four discs that will rectify this, with each release focusing on different poets. The first volume features Quilter’s settings of Shakespeare, Dowson, and Stevenson. The disc, originally released by Sony, has been rearranged, remastered, and redesigned, adding detailed notes for each track.

Tactus Anonima Frottolisti Indecent Music

Anonima Frottolisti

CD: TCT 490001 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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FOGLIANI: La canzone della mala Zotta • Fortuna d’un gran tempo • DEMOFONTE: A che son hormai conduco • CAPRIOLI: E d’un bel mattin d’amore • BARTOLUCCI: La mi fa solfare • TROMBONCINO: Gli è pur cocente‘l fier desir • Ostinato vo’ seguire • Zephyro spira e‘l bel tempo rimena • SCOTTO: Turlulù la capra è mozza • PESENTI: Io vorria esser colu’ • Uscirallo o resterallo • CARA: Tante volte sì, sì, sì • CARA/BOSSINIENSIS: Per fuggir d’amor le punte • ANON: Un cavalier di Spagna • L’ultimo dì di Maggio un cavalier di Spagna • Che faralla, che diralla • Il Marchese di Salutio • Quasi sempre avanti il dì • SANTACROCE: De la da l’acqua • STRINGARI: Son più matti in questo mondo This project is based on the premise that the 15th century related the blending of two cultural universes: the written and the oral. The boundary between the two contexts apparently was so thin that it allowed the two traditions to coexist within the same universe of communication: idioms, allegorical figures, and quotations thus converged into the same cultural interpretation angle.

Ensemble Primi Toni Ghirlanda Sacra

Ensemble Primi Toni MONTEVERDI: Ecce sacrum paratum • Currite populi • O quam pulchra es • Salve Regina • PIRULI: Inter natos mulierum • Ave dulcissima Maria • ROVETTA: O Maria quam pulchra es • GRANDI: O quam tu pulchra es • BERTI: Hodie apparuerunt delitiae • CAPRIOLI: In lectulo per noctes • Congratulamini mihi omnes • Quam pulchra es spetiosa • Cantabo Domino • Exaudi me Domine • FINETTI: Domine quis habitabi • Beata es virgo Maria • CASTELLO: Sonata Quarta. A Doi. Sopran & Trombon overo Violeta • Exultate Deo • USPER: Vulnerasti cor meum • Nativitas tua • ROVETTO: Gaudete omnes • PICCHI: Salve Christe • and more CD: TCT 620080 Price Code: 2T (SRP $29.99) Number of Discs: 3 Triple Digipak, Box Lot 14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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These religious prescriptions were received and implemented by great composers like Palestrina, Nanino, Ruffo, Asola, and Croce, major figures in the musical panorama of the second half of the 16th century. However, right at the end of this tumultuous century a kind of musical revolution took place, whose origins were recognizable within specific cultural debates arising from the development of Italian and Florentine Humanism in particular. This called polyphony into question, opening the gates of music to a world of human emotion.

Antonio Maria MUSILLI Organ Works

Alessandro Bianconi: organ MUSILLI: a collection of organ works

CD: TCT 791302 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

Father Antonio Maria Musilli (1792–1880) was a music theorist and a composer. He was a member of the monastery of Velletri, which belonged to the Roman Catholic Province; he was very fond of music and therefore on November 20, 1825 the Prior of the Friars Minor Conventual Luigi Battistini sent him to Assisi to study with Father Antonio Maria Amone (1768–1848). Once Father Amone died, he was sent by his new Prior Antonio Barbetti to Naples, to study under the guidance of famous Maestro Nicola Zingarelli.

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SOMM Recordings Billy MAYERL

Piano Music Vol. I Philip Martin: piano MAYERL: Autumn Crocus • Wistaria • Evening Primrose • Aquarium Suite: Willow Moss • Moorish Idol • Fantail • Whirligig • Marigold • From a Spanish Lattice • Puppets Suite: Golliwog • Judy • Punch • Weeping Willow • Railroad Rhythm • Siberian Lament • Three Contrasts: Ladybird • Pastoral • Fiddle Dance • The Harp of the Winds • Shallow Waters • Robots CD: SMM 124 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

Irish-born pianist and composer Philip Martin has become famous for his interpretations of American and British jazz and ragtime music. He is a well-known figure in concert halls in the UK, Europe, and the U.S., where he has held residencies at various American universities and been a guest of the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals. He has recorded extensively for Hyperion, Chandos, Nimbus, and BBC, among others.

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Paraty Jean-Philippe RAMEAU Rameau in Caracas

Soloists of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela/Bruno Procopio: conductor RAMEAU: Opera excerpts from: Zoroastre • Tragédie Lyrique (Paris, 1756) • Dardanus • Tragédie Lyrique (Paris, 1739) • Castor et Pollux • Tragédie Lyrique (Paris, 1737) • Acanthe et Céphise ou La Sympathie • Pastorale Héroïque (Versailles, 1751) • Les Indes Galantes • Opéra-Ballet (Paris, 1735)

CD: PTY 512120 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

The Soloists of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela have invited Bruno Procopio to conduct a program dedicated entirely to Jean-Philippe Rameau. Discovering French Baroque music is an astonishing adventure for the Venezuelan musicians, and it marks their first foray into 18th century French classical music. This recording session is also a foretaste of the celebration to come in 2014: the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death.

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Musiques à la Chabotterie Antonio VIVALDI 6 Concertos for Flute

La Simphonie du Marais/Hugo Reyne: recorder, director VIVALDI: 6 Concertos for Flute (recorder)

CD: MCH 605012 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

6 Concertos for Recorder adds to a series of nine previous CDs for the label Musiques à la Chabotterie, which have been acclaimed by the media including Classica Choc, Diapason Découverte, Le Monde de la Musique Choc, Goldberg 5 Étoiles, and more. A tribute to Hugo Reyne’s teachers and to those whose playing have inspired him, this album features Vivaldi concertos that have carried Reyne through his life.

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Cobra Records

Flora

CD: CBA 36 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

CD: FLO 1909 Price Code: 2R (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Digipak, Box Lot 15

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Música Temprana

J.S. BACH

Música Temprana/Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel: director

François Fernandez: violin/Benjamin Alard: harpsichord/Philippe Pierlot: bass viol

Songs and Dances from Trujillo, Peru

Six sonatas for solo violin and harpsichord

Complete musical works of the Codex Trujillo del Perú (1780–1790) This CD is among the very few recordings of the complete musical works of the Codex Trujillo del Perú (1780–1790), as compiled by Spanish Bishop Martínez Compañón. The variety of the 20 pieces reflects the area’s cultural wealth, with an exciting blend of Spanish colonial baroque music and indigenous sounds.

Indésens

J.S. BACH: Sonata I in B minor, BWV 1014 • Sonata II in A major, BWV 1015 • Sonata III in E major, BWV 1016 • Sonata IV in C minor, BWV 1017 • Sonata V in F minor, BWV 1018 • Sonata VI in G major, BWV 1019 • Sonata in G major, BWV 1021 Bach’s chamber music masterpieces interpreted by two outstanding musicians!

L’Encelade

CD: IDS 19 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

CD: LDL 1101 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

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Camille SAINT-SAËNS

J.S. BACH & François COUPERIN

Maurice Allard: bassoon/Maurice Bourgue: oboe/Gilbert Coursier: horn/Roger Delmotte: trumpet/Maurice Gabai: clarinet/Jacques Toulon: trombone/and more

Jean-Luc Ho: harpsichord

SAINT-SAËNS: Sonata for bassoon and piano, Op. 168 • Sonata for clarinet and piano, Op. 167 • Sonata for oboe and piano, Op. 166 • Romance for horn and piano, Op. 36 • Cavatine for trombone and piano, Op. 144 • Septuor, Op. 65

In this recording, Jean-Luc Ho pairs Bach’s French Overture with the Huitième Ordre, one of Couperin’s most celebrated works. Both are played with the French “art of playing the harpsichord,” as expounded by Couperin and adopted by Bach, bringing to light the connection between these two masterpieces.

Chamber Music with Winds

Harpsichord Works

This CD demonstrates that Saint-Saëns is the origin of the “French wind tradition.” Although very classical, the three 1921 sonatas announce the “Groupe des Six” neoclassicism, particularly Poulenc.

J.S. BACH: French Overture, BWV 831 • COUPERIN: Huitième Ordre