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Aliud Records presents high-class music across many different genres. The label’s products are recorded using only the best recording equipment and engineers available, guaranteeing the best sound reproduction in your living room. Artists working with Aliud include, among others, Ronald Moelker, Duo Stoica, Niels Bijl, Rabaskadol, Ensemble Braccio, Anneleen Lenaerts, and Fritz Damrow. With Aliud, you will find many different styles — from the music of the Middle Ages through modern classical, brass, and music for wind band. Aliud Records comes to Allegro Classical via New Arts International.

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Avie Records

Henry PURCELL

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Dido & Aeneas

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Emily Van Evera: soprano Ben Parry: baritone Taverner Choir and Players Andrew Parrott: conductor PURCELL: Dido & Aeneas “Places the accent on giving meaning and colour to every word of the text … Parrott directs the excellent Taverner Players in a performance that charms as well as moves in abundance.” — BBC Music Magazine, HHHHH / HHHHH AVIE continues to mine the rich catalog of recordings made by Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Choir & Players with a sumptuous reissue of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. The performance is as fresh as when the recording was made in 1994, with baritone Ben Parry as the Trojan hero Aeneas, and soprano Emily Van Evera as the abandoned Queen of Carthage, delivering an interpretation of Dido’s Lament that is as dignified as it is sublime.

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Avie Records Andreas Haefliger: piano BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 14 • Piano Sonata No. 30, Op. 109 • BERIO: Erdenklavier • Wasserklavier • Luftklavier • Feuerklavier • SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C minor, Op. 17 “Standard-setting Beethoven … Few ‘Hammerklavier’ performances are this complete, taking in the big picture as well as the tiniest details.”

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Andreas Haefliger

Perspectives 6: Beethoven, Berio, Schumann

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Andreas Haefliger continues his fascinating, thought-provoking, and captivating Perspectives series, in which he juxtaposes the Piano Sonatas of Beethoven with other composers, casting an enlightening glow on the works that one would not detect if played in isolation. On Perspectives 6, themes of humanity, nature, and love run through a program emphatically to be listened to rather than analyzed intellectually. Haefliger opens with Beethoven’s early Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 14, and then segues into two of Berio’s seldom-heard encores, “Erdenklavier” and “Wasserklavier.” He emerges to perform Beethoven’s late Piano Sonata No. 30, Op. 109, followed by two more miniatures by Berio, “Luftklavier” and “Feuerklavier.” The album culminates with Schumann’s great Fantasy in C.

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Cypress String Quartet Gary Hoffman: cello SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C, D956 • String Quartet in C minor “Quartettsatz” “Artistry of uncommon insight and cohesion.” — Gramophone “Beautifully proportioned and powerful.” — The Washington Post The Cypress String Quartet is a “wonderful ensemble” (Gramophone) whose “extremely fine playing” (Classical Reviewer) has lent itself to music of Dvoˇrák and contemporary Americans on their recordings for AVIE. They now turn to core 19th-century fare, some of the greatest chamber music ever written: Schubert’s single-movement “Quartettsatz,” and the composer’s final chamber work, the enduring String Quintet, joined by eminent Canadian cellist Gary Hoffman. The Cypress’ elegant, clear signature sound lends itself perfectly to these two masterworks.

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AVIE Records Karl Stobbe: violin YSAŸE: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27 “Soulful musicianship.” — San Francisco Classical Voice Canadian violinist Karl Stobbe makes an indelible mark with his debut recording for AVIE, a bold traversal of Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Solo Violin. For these seminal works of the 20th century, the virtuoso violinist was inspired by J.S. Bach’s works for solo violin. Stobbe is recognized as one of Canada’s most accomplished and diverse violinists. He has appeared in North America’s most notable concert halls, including Carnegie Hall and Boston’s Jordan Hall. As a chamber musician and soloist, he has shared the stage with many leading and diverse violinists of our day, from James Ehnes to Mark O’Connor. Also an accomplished luthier, Karl’s passion for the construction and mechanics of the violin contributes to his ability as a performer.

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Cypres Huelgas Ensemble Paul Van Nevel: conductor BAREA: Miserere mei Deus (psaume L) • ANONYMOUS: Rio de Sevilla • DE SALAZAR: Lauda Sion Salvatorem • DE PONTAC: Agnus Dei “In exitu Israel” • MACHADO: Dos estrellas le seguen • DE VAQUEDANO: Lamentaciones • ROMERO: Fatigada navecilla • DE AMBIELA: Stabat Mater dolorosa The title chosen by Paul Van Nevel to illustrate the program of this disc is a clear indication of his intention: to bring to life the music that the Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) would have heard in the course of a career that led him from Seville to Madrid. Bearing as it does the imprint of the Counter-Reformation, the artistic production of this contemporary of Velázquez and Murillo makes accessible the mystical ideas of religious figures such as Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross.

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IBS Classical Juan Carlos Garvayo: piano ALBÉNIZ: La Vega • En la Alhambra • DEBUSSY: La Puerta del Vino • Lindaraja • TORRES: Paseo de los Tristes • MONTSALVATGE: Impromptu en el Generalife • TURINA: Generalife • La Torre de la Vela • Le Chemin de la Alhambra • BARRIOS: Amanecer en Granada • ABRIL: Balada de los Arrayanes “En la Alhambra is a hermetic paradise whose keys — deployed before our senses with the beauty which decorated the world when it was still sacred — reveal to us the harmony of the cosmos and the magnificence of its Maker.” — Clasica2 A luxurious book & CD package presenting piano music inspired by La Alhambra, from Debussy to Albéniz, performed by 2013 Spanish National Music Prize winner Juan Carlos Garvayo. The book contains extensive notes and pictures of the Alhambra.

Juan Carlos Garvayo En la Alhambra

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Numen Ensemble Héctor E. Márquez: conductor GARCÍA: Canciones del Alto Duero • Siete proverbios • Parábola • Señor, me cansa la vida • Lo que Vos queráis • Señor • Tres poemas líricos • Amarillos • Seis caprichos • Cien jinetes enlutados • Cada vez que una mano se me ofrece • Oda a la música A selection of the polyphonic works of Juan-Alfonso García, considered the major 20th-century Spanish choral composer, on poems by contemporary Andalusian writers: Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca, Elena Martín Vivaldi, and Antonio Carvajal. The Numen Ensemble offers an exceptional, unprecedented interpretation of this repertoire.

Juan-Alfonso GARCÍA

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Teodoro Anzellotti

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Teodoro Anzellotti: accordion KURTÁG: Játékok • LISTZ: Bagatelle sans tonalité • Nuages gris • Resignazione • LIGETI: Musica ricercata “The way Anzellotti negotiates the fast-flying 20th Variation is remarkable (his agility in the work’s more playful episodes, such as Variation 23, at times defies belief) … Varied colours and rhythms abound throughout the performance.” — Gramophone Teodoro Anzellotti plays Ligeti, Kurtág, and Liszt and arranges these compositions for accordion; it is remarkable that these arrangements are authorized by Kurtág and Ligeti! The first soloist voyage leads to Hungary, to the end of the 19th century, a sojourn which lasts more than 100 years and ends after the decline of the Danube Monarchy and the divesture of the Iron Curtain. This recording seems like a sound from Claudio Magris’s literary portrait “Donau”: Anzellotti shines with virtuosity, and the sound of his accordion directs us into the depths of the Hungarian soul.

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SOMM Recordings Innovation Chamber Ensemble Barry Collett: conductor ELGAR: Menuetto • Andante and Allegro for solo oboe and string trio • Die Junge Kokette: Five Quadrilles • Maud: Polka • L’Assomoir: Five Quadrilles • Nelly: Polka • La Brunette: Five Quadrilles • La Blonde: Polka • The Valentine: Five Lancers • Duett for trombone and double bass • Paris: Five Quadrilles • Helcia: Polka • A Singing Quadrille: Five Quadrilles • Fugue in D minor for oboe and violin • Blumine: Polka The first-ever recording of Music for Powick Asylum made with a professional orchestra! In 1879, the 21-year-old Elgar was appointed Bandmaster at the Worcester Country & City Lunatic Asylum in the village of Powick, and to the delight of the patients, there were “entertainments” every Friday night during which the patients could join in dancing to the utterly charming Quadrilles and Polkas composed by a young composer. The orchestra was rather “eccentric” in that it was made up of piccolo, flute, clarinet, two cornets, euphonium and bombardon, up to eight violins, occasional viola, cello, and double bass with piano — a maximum of 19 players. Elgar stayed at the Asylum for five years and, after he left, this music was ignored and then forgotten. SOMM is delighted to have the chance to record Elgar’s first attempts at composition, and the results are indeed life-enhancing!

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Music for Powick Asylum CD: SMM 252 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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Gould Piano Trio Lucy Gould: violin Alice Neary: cello Benjamin Frith: piano Robert Plane: clarinet BEETHOVEN: Trio, Op. 11 for clarinet, cello and piano • Trio in G major, Op. 121a “Kakadu Variations” • Trio, Op. 38 in E flat major for clarinet, cello and piano after the Septet, Op. 20 The third of four volumes of Beethoven’s complete Piano Trios with the intrepid Gould Piano Trio, recorded live at St. George’s Brandon Hill, Bristol.

They are joined by the popular clarinetist Robert Plane, former principal clarinet at the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the CBSO. The CD includes the witty set of Variations on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu as well as the Piano Trio version of the Septet Op. 20, which is a rarity!

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol. 3

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JOSQUIN Desprez

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Cappella Pratensis Stratton Bull: director JOSQUIN: Hymnus: Ave maris stella • Introitus: Rorate celi • Missa Ave maris stella • Graduale: Tollite portas • Alleluia: Ave Maria • Offertorium: Ave Maria • Motet: Mittit ad virginum • Prefatio (+ polyphonic responses) • Pater noster (+ polyphonic respond) • Communio: Ecce virgo • Motet: Missus est Gabriel angelus The music of Josquin Desprez is performed, recorded, and studied more than that of any other composer of the Renaissance. Although his numerous masses and motets are now more than 500 years old, they have entered our modern musical museum of masterpieces, heard in concert and on recordings as independent works of art. But just as a stunning Renaissance altarpiece becomes even more impressive and meaningful when restored to its original place, so the sacred polyphony of the period gains in beauty and meaning when heard within the ritual framework it once enhanced. That ritual framework told sacred stories — of Christ, his mother, and the saints — primarily through plainsong and recitation. For special occasions, in institutions able to support highly trained singers, sacred polyphony added special luster. This recording aims to recapture a sense of the ceremonial context that would have surrounded Josquin’s sacred polyphony in a place where he sang and composed, and where his music continued in use long after he left. That ritual context is the Saturday Mass for the Blessed Virgin during Advent, a liturgy focused on the Annunciation story; that place is the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

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Challenge Classics Eg¯ls Š¯efers: clarinet Sinfonietta Riga Claus Efland: conductor SIBELIUS: Romance for string orchestra, Op. 42 • VASKS: Musica Dolorosa for string orchestra • GRIEG: Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 • NIELSEN: Suite for string orchestra, Op. 1 • KALSONS: Concerto for clarinet and chamber orchestra • LARSSON: Romance from Pastoral Suite, Op. 19 This recording of the clarinet concerto by Romuald Kalsons is, at the moment, the only one on the CD market. Similarly, Carl Nielsen’s Suite for string orchestra, Op. 1 exists rarely on today’s concert platforms, or even on recordings. Claus Efland is an exclusive artist with Challenge Classics. He regards himself as an ambassador of music from his native Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia. A major artistic goal is to bring the distinctive musical language of Nordic composers to a wider audience. This is especially true of the music of Danish composer Carl Nielsen, which exerted a formative influence on Efland’s musical passions. Sinfonietta Riga is a professional chamber orchestra based in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It was established in 2006 as a state orchestra and currently resides at Spikeri Concert Hall, one of the most creative venues of Riga. Although it is a relatively new orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga demonstrates great professionalism and performs sophisticated concert programs, continuously expanding its creative horizons.

The 34 young, passionate, and talented members of Sinfonietta Riga also enjoy performing solo and with various chamber music groups and ensembles.

Sinfonietta Riga

Nordic Atmospheres CD: CHR 72630 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Capella de la Torre Birgit Bahr: shawms Hildegard Wipperman: alto shawm Falko Munkwitz: sackbut, slide trumpet Keal Couper: sackbut, slide trumpet, cowhorn Johannes Vogt: lute Peter A. Bauer: percussion Katharina Bäumi: shawms, direction ANONYMOUS: Tuba Gallicalis • Molendinum de Paris 1 • Basse Dance “M’Amour” • Virgo dulcis/Tuba Heinrici de libero castro • Molendinum de Paris 2 • Auxce bon youre delabonestren • Deo gracias Anglia/The Agincourt carol • le have so longe keepe shepe • St. Thomas honour we • Zappay/ Lo campo • La vida Culin • EBREO: Piva Amoroso • Ballo “Petit Vriens” • Leoncello • DE VITRY: Vos qui admiramini/Gratissima virginis species • DUFAY: Veni creator spiritus • Gloria ad modum tubae • DA PIACENZA: La Gelosia • VON WOLKENSTEIN: Ave mater o Maria • Her wiert uns dürstet also sere • BINCHOIS: Je me recommande • BEDINGHAM: Mon seul plaisir • CORNAZANO: Ballo La figlia Guillemin

Capella de la Torre

Capella de la Torre gathers together musicians who have made an international name in historically informed performance. The ensemble’s goal is to perform the rich and, as yet, too-little regarded music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance on authentic instruments, thus putting it into the spotlight of general cultural awareness. The group has released more than a dozen CDs, which reflect a thematic range from municipal tower music through advanced religious works of the 16th and 17th century.

Piffarissimo: Instrumental Music at the Council of Constance 1414 –1418 CD: CHR 72631 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 O-Card Jewel, Box Lot 22 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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J. Peter SCHWALM Wagner Transformed

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J. Peter Schwalm: electronics Brian Eno: electronics Eiving Aarset: guitar Christine Schütze: piano SCHWALM: Siegfried: Initium 1 • Tristan & Isolde: Clusterphobia • Parsifal: Initium 1 • Siegfried: Initium 2 • Siegfried: Initium 3 • Parsifal: Initium 2 • Siegfried: Initium 4 • Parsifal: Initium 3 • Parsifal: Initium 4 • Siegfried: Initium 5 • Tannhäuser: Initium • Tristan & Isolde: Blue, Brown & Green • Parsifal: Initium 5 In 2013, the world celebrated Wagner’s 200th birthday. As godfather of the cross-genre work of art, he revolutionized the direction of theatre and operas into a modern multimedia experience. If Wagner were around today, how would he use the technical possibilities of modern studio technology and to what extent would he — once again — break away from conventions? In this new project, Wagner’s music is not retold but newly told, transporting his feeling for melody and dynamics into the modern age.

J. Peter Schwalm, the artistic initiator of this project, belongs to the most versatile exponents of contemporary electronic music. His first experimental electro-jazz project begat a cooperation with Brian Eno, which has continued throughout the years. Schwalm wrote film scores as well as ballet music and music for stage plays, and also joined Bono’s project Artists Against AIDS Worldwide. He is closely connected to Norwegian jazz guitarist Eivind Aarset, whose solo albums have been released on the Jazzland and ECM labels. Pianist Christine Schütze completes the quartet; this graduate of the Hamburg and Lübeck music colleges also tours with a separate cabaret program, which she has performed at the famous Düsseldorf Kom(m)ödchen.

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Louth Contemporary Music Society Carducci Quartet Gordon Jones: bass RASKATOV: Seven Words by Starets Silouan A charming handwritten note from composer Alexander Raskatov graces the booklet of Louth Contemporary Music Society’s new release, Monk’s Music. Raskatov’s monumental work for string quartet and bass voice, Seven Words by Starets Silouan, was completed in 2005 but following the death of its commissioner, cellist Valentin Berlinsky of the Borodin Quartet, the work was never performed. “Finally the first performance took place in Ireland,” wrote the composer in advance of the work’s premiere in February 2013 — “I am waiting for my own discovery of this mysterious and so attractive country.” Modelled on Joseph Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ, Raskatov’s work sets seven stanzas from the writings of Starets Silouan (1866–1938), a Russian monk also known as Saint Silouan the Athonite due to his spiritual development on Mount Athos in Greece.

Alexander RASKATOV Monk’s Music

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Intergroove Classics St. Petersburg Camerata Saulius Sondeckis: conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade for string orchestra in C major, Op. 48 • The Snow Maiden, Op. 12 • Andante Cantabile in B major for string orchestra • Elegy in G major for string orchestra • ARENSKY: Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a All of these recordings were made in the late ’90s by Mazur Media in coproduction with Sony Classical — however, with a few exceptions, were never released. With the exception of the Serenade for string orchestra, this compilation presents rarely-performed works by Tchaikovsky and a “resurrected” piece of repertoire: Arensky’s Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky. Arensky, a student of Rimsky-Korsakov, chose the fifth song from Tchaikovsky’s Songs for Children as the theme for his variations. Initially it was conceived as a slow movement of his second string quartet, but was arranged for string orchestra at a later date by Arensky himself.

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Querstand Reiko Brockelt: saxophone Matthias Eichhorn: bass Daniel Beilschmidt: organ Clemens Lucke: organ Stan Neufeld: drums Leipzig University Choir St. Thomas Boys’ Choir Gewandhaus Orchestra David Timm: conductor Georg Christoph Biller: conductor REGER: The 100th Psalm, Op. 106 • TIMM: Jazzmesse (Jazz Mass) This CD unifies two very different but extraordinary works, both related to the history of music practice at Leipzig University. David Timm, the University’s music director, created his Jazz Mass with special regard to current possibilities within the institution as well as the rich and varied tradition of the musical genre of the mass. Max Reger’s composition, which came nearly 100 years earlier, was inspired and influenced by the same institutional frame, as Reger held the same position.

Max REGER

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István Ella: organ REGER: Second Sonata in D minor, Op. 60 • Choralfantasie “Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn,” Op. 40/2 • Introduction and Passacaglia in F minor, Op. 63 • Fantasie and Fugue in D minor, Op. 135b This CD contains four representative masterworks from the rich and varied oeuvre for organ produced by Max Reger, played at the Jehmlich organ at St. Wolfgang Church in Saxonian Schneeberg by István Ella. In his remarkable style, the celebrated Hungarian organist interprets the Second Sonata for organ, the Introduction and Passacaglia in F minor, the Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, and the Chorale Fantasia “Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn.”

The Jehmlich organ was built after the accomplished reconstruction of St. Wolfgang Church, which had been heavily damaged during the Second World War. In its richness and variety of sound, it appears as an ideal instrument for this kind of literature. In addition to that, István Ella is a true connoisseur of this instrument. After a CD featuring music by Mendelssohn, Rheinberger, Reger, and Liszt — and the 5-CD box set of Liszt’s complete organ works — this is his third organ production realized with Querstand at this instrument.

Max REGER

Organ Music on the Jehmlich Organ at Schneeberg CD: QUE 1320 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Querstand Ursula Bosshardt: flute Ursula Hauser: organ RIXNER: Spanischer March • SIEDE: Leuchtkäferchens Stelldichein • DURAND: Valse • PADILLA: Valencia • OFFENBACH: Barcarolle • JUREK: Deutschmeister-Regimentsmarsch • LEDUC: Le Rossignol Montmartrois • JOPLIN: Weeping Willow • TRANSLATEUR: Was Blumen träumen! • FRIEDEMANN: Gruss an Bem • TOSELLI: Serenata • WALDTEUFEL: Estudiantina • SOUSA: Semper fidelis The serious organ and light classical music may seem to be opposites, but on her fourth CD Ursula Hauser proves that there are connections between the two, relating two fields of music that were formative to her own career. Together with flutist Ursula Bosshardt, she discovers a seemingly disappearing musical culture to be animated at the Späth organ of Grubenmann church in Wädenswil. Brilliantly, the organist and flutist present arrangements with their supposedly “serious” instruments, giving new color to pieces such as Scott Joplin’s “Weeping Willow” or Jacques Offenbach’s “Barcarolle.”

Ursula Hauser

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Elole Piano Trio Uta-Maria Lempert: violin Matthias Lorenz: cello Stefan Eder: piano MAIERHOF: Exit E (premiere) • SCHWEITZER: Marraskuu (premiere) • NEWMAN: 3 Weird Words in a Language Which We Understand (premiere) • LANG: 4 Monadologie XX…for Franz (premiere) As a classical piano trio, the Elole Trio enthuses audiences with a repertoire that represents contemporary music in all its richness and variety. During its 12 years of existence, the trio has premiered more than 40 compositions and played at least four concerts that were each dedicated to the work and personality of a specific composer friendly to the musicians. This CD documents these efforts in an impressive way, resulting from a concert played in June 2013 at Leipzig Communal Library. All pieces presented on this CD are first recordings and, apart from “Marraskuu,” all compositions have been made for and premiered by the Elole Piano Trio.

Elole Piano Trio

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CORO

The Sixteen

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The Sixteen Eamonn Dougan: conductor PACELLI: Veni Sponsa Christi • Dum esset rex • Beata es Virgo Maria • BERTOLUSI: Regina Caeli • Osculetor me osculo • Ego flos campi • ANERIO: Salve Regina • Litania deiparae Virginis • Kyrie from Missa Pulchra Es • Gloria from Missa Pulchra Es • Credo from Missa Pulchra Es • Sanctus & Benedictus from Missa Pulchra Es • Agnus Dei from Missa Pulchra Es “Sit back and relish this treasure trove which has clearly been prepared with passion.” — Gramophone Editor’s Choice (on CRO 16110) Eamonn Dougan and The Sixteen follow up the success of the first disc in their new Polish series with a new recording devoted to music from the court of Sigismund III Vasa. On this disc the Grammy®-nominated ensemble explores a selection of fascinating music composed by the Italian maestri at the Polish Court of the 16th and early 17th centuries, featuring works by Asprilio Pacelli, Vincenzo Bertolusi, and Giovanni Francesco Anerio. The first disc in the series, devoted to eminent 17th-century Polish composer Bartlomiej Pekiel, received both public and critical acclaim and spent a number of weeks in the UK Specialist Classical Charts.

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Doremi Martha Argerich

Martha Argerich Vol. 1 Martha Argerich: piano/Peter Maag: conductor W.A. MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 • Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 • Piano Sonata No. 13 in B flat major, K. 333 • Piano Sonata No. 17 in D major, K. 576 Martha Argerich is universally recognized as one of the preeminent pianists of all time. This CD includes broadcasts from 1960, before she won the Chopin International Competition and became world famous. All of the recordings are released on CD for the first time here.

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Oscar Shumsky Oscar Shumsky

Oscar Shumsky: violin/Maureen Forrester: alto/Lois Marshall: soprano/Nadia Reisenberg piano/James Melton: tenor/Mario Bernardi: piano/Primrose String Quartet

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J.S. BACH: Arias from Cantatas No. 120 & 132 • Partita No. 2 in D for solo violin, BWV 1004 • Presto from Sonata No. 1 in G BWV 1001 • BUXTEHUDE: Cantata Jubilate Domino • W.A. MOZART: String Quartet in G, K. 387 • Adagio in E, K. 261 • BEETHOVEN: Sonata for violin and piano in C No. 7, Op. 30/2 • RACHMANINOV: 4 songs • HINDEMITH: Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 11/1 • R. STRAUSS: Sonata for violin and piano in E flat, Op. 18 • Dance from Bourgeois gentilhomme • TELEMANN: Fantasia for solo violin No. 10 • KREISLER : Recitative and Scherzo-caprice, Op. 6 • Viannese Rhapsodic Fantasietta One of the most respected violinists of the 20th century! This set contains many items not previously available on CD, and some that have never been released at all.

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Johanna Martzy

Johanna Martzy Vol. 3 Johanna Martzy: violin/Adolph Hallis: piano/István Hajdu: piano/George Szell: conductor/Hans Müller-Kray: conductor/André Cluytens: conductor

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W.A. MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 • J.S. BACH: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major BWV 1042 • BARTOK: Rhapsody No. 1 for violin and orchestra, Sz. 87 • Rumanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 • VIVALDI: Violin Sonata in D major, RV. 10 • BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108: Mvts 2, 3, 4 • RAVEL: Pièce en forme de Habanera • SZYMANOWSKI: Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28 • MARTINU: Arabesque No. 1 • FALLA: Spanish Dance from La Vida breve, arr.

Kreisler • SUK: Four pieces for violin and piano, Op. 17 Johanna Martzy was one of the top violinists of the 20th century, and a true icon. Now, more than 30 years after her death, she has a cult following and her recordings are highly sought-after by collectors.

On this set, which includes live broadcasts and performances, nearly all items are released here for the first time ever!

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BMC Records Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra Zoltán Kocsis: conductor W.A. MOZART: Symphony in G minor K. 183 • Symphony in G minor K. 550 Perhaps it is not completely by chance that in Mozart’s symphonic music the works written in the minor are rare, and occupy a special place. Compared to the surrounding symphonies, the K. 183 composition is a major step forward in form, craftsmanship, orchestration, and instrumentation. The young composer’s affinity for drama is often apparent, as is that mood which acts as a link between Mozart’s operas and symphonic pieces. In this sense this youthful masterpiece is not so far from the mature K. 550 Symphony in G minor. In one respect, however, the latter is clearly superior to the earlier: in its melodic lines and the development of motives.

The richness of the harmonic progressions seems to glance forward to Romanticism — a richness that is characteristic of other works of Mozart too. Instead of breaking up the classical order, here these features help to create the form.

W.A. MOZART

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Amadinda Percussion Group Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra Zoltán Kocsis: conductor SCHOENBERG: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 5 • VARESE: Amériques Many hidden threads link the two compositions on this disc, despite the fact that they are apparently unrelated: one of them is a slightly megalomaniac farewell to great German romanticism, the other is a fine example of the new wave of experimentation that followed the Rite of Spring, and about which Stravinsky himself expressed his praise. Claude Debussy worked for ten years to create a truly French drama from Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck’s dreamlike drama, Pelléas et Mélisande. It was this work that finally liberated composers from the influence of Richard Wagner (and particularly Tristan and Isolde). By an irony of fate, only a year after Debussy’s anti-Tristan premiere, a young man from Vienna, who had been working in Berlin from 1901 to 1903 — a certain Arnold Schönberg — completed his own score of Pelleas. Far from turning from Wagner, it seemed to follow the escape route Wagner himself had indicated. True, it was not opera, but rather wordless program music that Wagner’s followers and supporters took to their hearts. Edgard Varese (1883–1965) wrote only a couple of hours’ worth of music in his lifetime and yet he exerted a remarkable influence on the direction of 20th-century music. His composition Amériques was written between 1918 and 1921.

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CAvi-music Trio Neuklang Track listing includes tango interpretations of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies 5 & 6, Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No. 2, Bach’s Ave Maria, Grieg’s Peer-Gynt-Suite, and more Powerful and colorful arrangements of some famous classical tunes in the tango format! Featuring clarinet, accordion, and cello, this is an unusual and entertaining new record.

Trio Neuklang Goodbye Astor

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Oberon Trio

Various Artists

Oberon Trio/Jonathan Aner: piano/Henja Semmler: violin/ Rouven Schirmer: cello

Wandl: electronics/Fijuka: electronics/Arktisair: electronics/Mimu: electronics

HAYDN: Piano Trio Hob. XV: 28 • SCHUMANN: Piano Trio in D Minor No. 1, Op. 63 • WIDMANN: Passacaglia for Piano Trio (premiere)

WANDL: Rainbowindian • From Now • Knees • FIJUKA: Icecubes on a cactus In a desert In the spring pt. III • Behave (from now on) • Phantom sentimental • ARKTIS/AIR: Hotbed • Luv • Makeup • MIMU: Politik der Liebe • The Tender Song • Bateau Ivre

Passacaglia

Austrian Heartbeats Vol. 1

This “walking tour” of the dance rhythms of the passacaglia through its 200-year history includes the world premiere recording of the Widmann’s “Passacaglia.”

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As a leading light of the Austrian electronic scene of the past 20 years, Patrick Pulsinger was the ideal choice for curator of the Vienna Popfest in 2013, and to compile this extraordinary album.

Here Pulsinger brings together four entirely different acts, each with a unique pop vision.

Allegro Classical Welcomes Aliud Records Fritz Damrow

Romance [Hybrid SACD] Fritz Damrow: trumpet/Eri Hayase: piano SCHELOKOV: Concert Etude • PILSS: Sonata for trumpet and piano • GLAZUNOV: Albumblatt • BRUCH: Kol Nidrei • GEIFMANN: Romance • GLIÉRE: Concerto for coloratura soprano • CORONEL: Tercer Ejercicio de Concierto

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A world-renowned advocate for the trumpet, Fritz Damrow’s career began with his appointment at age of 21 to the post of principal trumpet for the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Later, he became the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam’s principal trumpet, a prestigious position he held from 1993 to 2010. He also played as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symfonietta Amsterdam, and many other orchestras, and as a chamber player he has worked with the Amsterdam Bach soloists and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble.

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Bob van der Ent

Dutch Violin Sonatas [Hybrid SACD] Bob van der Ent: violin/René Rakier: piano SCHLEGEL: Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 34 • EIJKEN: Sonata for piano and violin in F minor, Op. 5 • BUYS: Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 26

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Thanks to the well-known Dutch violinist Willem Noske (1918–1995), a great advocate of those Dutch composers who have been unjustly forgotten, several works from Dutch composers dating from around 1840–1930 have been assessed as works of international quality. This includes the three sonatas of Schlegel, van Eijken, and Brandts Buys, which are recorded on this CD. Pianist René Rakier, who performed and worked with Willem Noske for several years, and violinist Bob van der Ent, met at the Dutch Music Institute during the presentation of Willem Noske’s biography.

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Razvan Stoica Capriccioso

Razvan Stoica: violin/Andreea Stoica: piano PAGANINI: Rondo Op. 37m, MS 78 • Introduction and Variations on “Nel cor piu non mi sento” • PORUMBESCU: Ballade • J.S. BACH: Arioso • BIZET: Carmen Fantasy • TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse Sentimentale Op. 51, No. 6 • CHAUSSON: Poéme, Op. 25 • GRAPPELLI: Les Valseusse • PÄRT: Fratres • PIAZZOLLA: Oblivion • ACHRON: Hebrew Melody

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With discerning charm and ravishing timbre, breathtaking technical bravura, and sparkling intonation, Razvan Stoica is poised to become one of the greatest violinists of his generation.

This recording by the brother & sister Duo Stoica is amazing, with a gorgeous clarity and brilliance of the violin tone.

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Discovery Music & Vision Nick Etheridge: tuba GUS Brass Band Basscraft DAVIES: Concerto for Tuba and Band • DAVOREN: Pads and Riffs • BATES: Concerto for Solo Tuba • DOBSON: Definite Damage Nick Etheridge’s previous three albums have all been elaborate collaborations under his “Tubagility” banner, projecting his vision of the modern tuba and music that is challenging, and perhaps unexpected. These projects are a labor of love, hugely satisfying, and it is always an enormous challenge to bring them safely from conception to completion. This new album is different, and is unashamedly a project of specially commissioned solo concerto works for tuba and the artist himself. Diversity is a grand title for a substantial work with dramatic connotations, and a powerful and flexible musical form of many shapes and guises. Ultimately, it’s a platform for conversation between soloist and accompanying group. Between the interwoven and distinctly individual pieces he has created an interesting as well as contrasting dialogue.

Nick Etheridge Diversity

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Sheva Collection Mainzer Virtuosi Irina Borissova: violin Agnes Langer: violin Dmitry Khakhalin: viola, conductor KLEIBERG: Aske for solo violin • SEABOURNE: This is a song for you alone • ATTERBERG: Suite for violin, viola and strings Op. 19, No. 1 • ARNOLD: Double Concerto for two violins and strings, Op. 7 Music for solo strings with string orchestra played by a young and talented string orchestra from Mainz, Germany. Several of the players are laureates of international competitions, and already widely experienced in major concert halls. The ensemble prides itself in being able to provide both outstanding soloists and conductors from within its own ranks as required.

Mainzer Virtuosi

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CRD Records Thomas Igloi: second cello Alberni String Quartet SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C, D956 • String Quartet in C minor “Quartettsatz” This well-known performance of Schubert’s masterpiece features the 28-year-old Thomas Igloi, a professor at the Royal Academy of Music London, just two years before his tragic death.

Franz SCHUBERT

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J.S. BACH

Howard Davis: violin/Virginia Black: harpsichord

Virginia Black: piano

W.A. MOZART: Violin Sonatas K. 377, K. 301, K. 305, K. 379

J.S. BACH: The Six Partitas for Keyboard BWV 825/830

This disc features Virginia Black, on a harpsichord made by Andrew Garlick after Goujon, playing alongside her late husband Howard Davis, who plays a violin made by Tommaso of Florence in 1743.

In this new recording made in Summer 2013, Virginia Black returns to her roots, playing these masterpieces on the piano.

Violin Sonatas

The Six Partitas BWV 825/830

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LAWO Classics Erling Sunnarvik Excursion

Erling Sunnarvik: double bass/Annika Skoglund: mezzo-soprano/Nils Lundström: piano ECCLES: Sonata for double bass and piano • GLINKA: Doubt, arr. Lundström/Sunnarvik • Elegy: Do not tempt me needlessly, arr. Lundström/Sunnarvik • TCHAIKOVSKY: O verweil, Op. 16/2, arr. Lundström/Sunnarvik • Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, Op. 6/6, arr. Lundström/Sunnarvik • HOFFMEISTER: Solo Quartet No. 2 for double bass, violin, viola, and cello • BLOCH: Prayer, from the suite “from Jewish Life”, arr. Lundström • HELLAN: Excursion for double bass and piano CD: LAW 1052 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

Recordings of solo double bass are few and far between, but this release by Erling Sunnarvik of Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra is just that — an album featuring the double bass as solo instrument!

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J.S. BACH

Schübler and Leipzig Chorales [Hybrid SACD] Kåre Nordstoga: organ J.S. BACH: Schübler and Leipzig Chorales The fifth and sixth album in this series featuring Bach’s complete organ works were recorded in St. Martin’s Church in Groningen, on an organ representing the most noble qualities of the Baroque sound. The construction of the instrument is usually attributed to the well-known organ builder of the late 1600s, Arp Schnitger, although some stops date back to 1450.

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Ar Ré-Sé Anatoly ALEXANDROV Piano Music

Fériel Kaddour: piano ALEXANDROV: Preludes, Op. 1 • Poem, Op. 9 • Visions, Op. 21 • Small Suite, Op. 33 and more

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Feriel Kaddour pursues a double career as a pianist and a musicologist. Her desire to break the boundaries between her passions stems from the years of training she has lead, simultaneously, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and the Ecole Normale de Musique A. Cortot. She devotes her time to her concerts, writing, and teaching, and in between these activities she explores her favorite repertoires.

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Piano 21 Cyprien Katsaris

Live at the Queen Elisabeth Competition 1972 Cyprien Katsaris: piano RACHMANINOV: Concerto in D minor No. 3, Op. 30 • CHOPIN: Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op. 44 • LEDUC: Concerto for piano and orchestra, Op. 31

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Notwithstanding his lack of experience, in 1972 Cyprien Katsaris decided to take part in the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium. The only Western European challenger amongst the 12 finalists, the young pianist played Chopin’s Polonaise Op. 44, the compulsory Concerto by the Belgian composer Jacques Leduc — which he had to learn in eight days — and Rachmaninov’s magisterial Concerto No. 3. The placing of Katsaris in ninth position provoked both phenomenal applause and massive, prolonged booing of the jury unprecedented in the history of the competition!

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Phaedra J.S. BACH

Solo Cello Suites BWV 1007–1012 Jan Sciffer: cello/Han Ryckelynck: piano J.S. BACH: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major BWV 1007 • Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV 1008 • Cello Suite No. 3 in C major BWV 1009 • Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat major BWV 1010 • Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV 1011 • Cello Suite in D major BWV 1012 • Cello Suite No. 3 in C major BWV 1009, arr. for cello and piano by Robert Schumann CD: PHA 292028 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Digipak, Box Lot 20 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Jan Sciffer studied at the conservatories of Ghent, Brussels, and Maastricht, and took masterclasses with Nathalia Chakovskaya, Heinrich Schiff, and Valentin Berlinsky. While still a student he became a prizewinner in several competitions, including the Pro Civitate, where he won first prize. This was followed by appearances with the BRT Philharmonic (now Brussels Philharmonic) and the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (conducted by Marc Soustrot) in concerts by Dvoˇrák, Lalo, Saint-Saëns, and others.

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Meridian Records Felix MENDELSSOHN

Complete Works for String Quartet Vol. 2 Maggini Quartet/Susanne Stanzeleit: violin/David Angel: violin/Martin Outram: viola/Michal Kaznowski: cello MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13 • Fuga, Op. 81 • String Quartet in D major Op. 44, No. 1

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The Maggini Quartet continues its series of the complete Mendelssohn string quartets for Meridian Records with a disc that features two particularly dynamic and original works: the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13 and the String Quartet in D major Op. 44, No. 1.

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Smekkleysa

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Skalholt Bach Consort

Bjarni PORSTEINSSON

Skalholt Bach Consort/Jaap Schroder: leader, violin

Marta Gudrun Halldorsdottir: soprano/Orn Magnusson: piano/ Olafur Kjartan Sigurdarson: baritone/Tomas Gudni Eggertsoon: piano/Anna Gudny Gudmundsdottir: piano

Theatre Music in 17th Century England

Iceland’s Folksong Heritage

Tracks include: Curtain tune on a ground • Fantazia • Pavan • Ayre • Ayre II • Almaine • Coranto • The Fancy • The Virgin • Pavan in A major • Pavan a 4 in G minor • Chacony • The Temporizer • The Witty Wanton • The Tempest • Overture in G minor This new record from the Skalholt Bach Consort led by Jaap Schroder presents a lovely selection of theatre music popular in 17th-century England.

Moochin’ About

PORSTEINSSON: We hewed with our swords • I saw two oaks standing together • By the stern waters of Babylon I, II & III • Often winds torment the oak • Lusidor • I know one maid beyond compare • and more The collection of folk songs by the Reverand Bjarni Porsteinsson marked a turning point in the history of Icelandic music, and is still an indispensable source of information about Icelandic folksongs.

The Classics Labels

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Rhos Male Voice Choir

J.S. BACH

Rhos Male Voice Choir

Penelope Thwaites: piano

Welsh National Anthem • Ave Verum • Llef • Ar Doriad Dydd • Myfanwy • Tydi A. Roddaist • Laudamus • Hiraeth • 23rd Psalm

J.S. BACH: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542, arr. Liszt • Six Little Preludes • Italian Concerto BWV 971 • “Jesu, joy of man’s desiring” from BWV 147, arr. Hess • “Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn” from BWV 4, arr. Rummel • “Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr” from BWV 639, arr. Busoni • “Mortify us by Thy grace” from BWV 22, arr.

Rummel • Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543, arr. Liszt

Music from the Welsh Mines

A Bach Recital

Originally recorded in 1957 on the Delyse label, this extremely powerful collection of songs has been enhanced by high quality digital remastering, lovingly restored to its former glory.

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is incomparable still for many people today. The works chosen for this recital reflect both the worldly and the religious Bach.

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GIA Publications

CD: GIA 936 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Jewel, Box Lot 13

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George GERSHWIN

Leonard BERNSTEIN

North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor

North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor

GERSHWIN: Cuban Overture • Rhapsody in Blue • An American in Paris • Porgy and Bess-A Symphonic Picture • Promenade-Walking the Dog • Three Preludes • Strike Up the Band Overture

BERNSTEIN: JFK Fanfare • Overture to Candide • Three Dance Episodes from On the Town • Suite from On the Waterfront • Danzon from Fancy-Free• Profanation • Slava! • Suite from Mass • Divertimento • Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

George Gershwin

Leonard Bernstein

This incredible recording features the North Texas Wind Symphony, under the direction of Eugene Migliaro Corporon, performing Gershwin’s most beloved works. A wonderful tribute to Gershwin’s genius, and a true musical treasure!

This stellar recording of Bernstein’s great works features Eugene Migliaro Corporon directing the North Texas Wind Symphony, giving exceptional life to this wonderful music. This recording is spectacular on every level — a showcase of great music recorded by one of the great wind symphonies of our time.

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North Texas Wind Symphony

North Texas Wind Symphony

Marc Nunccio: clarinet/North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor

North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor

MCALLISTER: Black Dog • GERSHWIN: An American in Paris • SHAW: Concerto for Clarinet • WALCZYK: Symphony No. 2: Epitaphs Unwritten

PROKOFIEV: Ode to the End of War • SKROWACZEWSKI: Music for Winds • GRANTHAM: The Barons • STILL: Summerland • BERNSTEIN: Divertimento

These audiophile-quality recordings sample from the diverse offerings included in GIA’s popular WindWorks series, providing first-class recordings that accentuate the comprehensiveness, depth, and value of the medium and its repertoire.

These audiophile-quality recordings sample from the diverse offerings included in GIA’s popular WindWorks series, providing first-class recordings that accentuate the comprehensiveness, depth, and value of the medium and its repertoire.

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