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NOVEMBER 2014 Release Date: November 11, 2014 A division of Allegro Media Group

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TABLE OF CONTENTS ABC Classics......................................................................14–15 Aliud........................................................................................34 AVIE Records...............................................................10–11, 35 BGS Records............................................................................20 BMC Records..........................................................................30 Cantus......................................................................................33 CAvi-music........................................................................17–18 Challenge Classics.................................................................3–8 CORO........................................................................................9 Discovery Music & Vision......................................................37 EM Records.......................................................................23, 38 Fryderyk Chopin Institute........................................................8 GB Records..............................................................................22 Herisson...................................................................................34 IBS Classical............................................................................21 Jay Records........................................................................24–25 Lyrita........................................................................................13 Meridian Records....................................................................34 Music & Media........................................................................26 Nimbus..............................................................................12, 36 osjAlive....................................................................................16 Phaedra....................................................................................34 Querstand................................................................................28 Reference Recordings..............................................................19 Regent Records............................................................27–28, 37 Sheva Collection......................................................................31 Silverdoor................................................................................22 Sleeveless Records...................................................................29 Stone Records....................................................................32, 35 Stradivarius.............................................................................32 Summit Records......................................................................29 Syrius.......................................................................................33 Wet Foot Music.......................................................................38

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“With this elegant and expressive recording, the Baroque violinist Adrian Chandler returns to a figure that has long fascinated him: Johann Georg Pisendel, the virtuoso violinist credited with inspiring Bach’s solo Sonatas and Partitas for the instrument. It’s fascinating to listen to Pisendel’s own unaccompanied Sonata in A with its brilliant bow work and contrapuntal intricacy, and there is sheer pleasure in Mr. Chandler’s charismatic reading of works by Vivaldi, Montanari, and Albinoni.”

“Obsession is the overriding mental state in this fascinating and technically brilliant recording of works for solo violin. Roman Mints plays with spatial effects in Ysaÿe’s ‘Sonata No. 2’ (Op. 27) and Schnittke’s ‘A Paganini,’ two works that conjure the ghosts of composers past.

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“The remarkable pianist Kirill Gerstein brings technical assurance, characteristic subtlety and a gift for instilling unease to two canonical collections of miniatures — Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ and Schumann’s ‘Carnaval’ — often played more for their glittering surfaces than their unsettling depths.

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Challenge Classics

Ton Koopman

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Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir Ton Koopman: conductor, organ BUXTEHUDE: Complete Works including Vocal Works (Cantatas, Concertos and Arias), Organ Works (on historical instruments), Harpsichord Works (Suites, Dances and Variations), and Chamber Music (Sonatas and Trio Sonatas) “The Buxtehude project is arguably Koopman’s most important achievement: groundbreaking, ear-opening, comprehensive, scholarly, answering questions, raising others. But above all, it sounds like a labour of love.” — BBC Music Magazine World premiere edition of Buxtehude’s complete works, and a milestone in the Baroque music discography! Dieterich Buxtehude is the most important figure in German Baroque music before J.S. Bach. Among the greatest Baroque specialists, Ton Koopman planned and realized this great project with the support of his Amsterdam Baroque Choir & Orchestra, featuring renowned vocal & instrumental soloists.

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Dieterich BUXTEHUDE

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Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir Ton Koopman: conductor BUXTEHUDE: Walt Gott, mein Werk ich lasse, BuxWV 103 • Du Lebensfürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BuxWV 22 • Wie schmeckt es so lieblich und wohl, BuxWV 108 • Auf, Saiten, auf! Lasst euren Schall erklingen! BuxWV 115 • O lux beata, trinitas, BuxWV 89 • Nun freut euch, ihr Frommen, mit mir, BuxWV 80 • Der Herr ist mit mir, darum fürchte ich mich nicht, BuxWV 15 • Dixit Dominos Domino meo, BuxWV 17 • Kommst du, Licht der Heiden, BuxWV 66 • O Frühlicht Stunden, o herrliche Zeit, BuxWV 85 • O Jesu mi dulcissime, BuxWV 88 • Ecce nunc benedicite Domino, BuxWV 23 • Jesu, meine Freude, meines Herzens Weide, BuxWV 60 • O frühliche Stunden, o frühliche Zeit, BuxWV 84 • Gestreute mit Blumen, BuxWV 118 • Fallax mundus ornat vultus, BuxWV 28 • Den cedete il vostro vanto, BuxWV 117 • Wo ist doch mein Freund geblieben? BuxWV 111 • Herr, auf dich traue ich, BuxWV 35 The final installment in Ton Koopman’s complete survey of Buxtehude’s works, and the last volume of the vocal series, includes music in a wide range of genres: concertos, chorales, arias, cantatas, and wedding pieces.

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J.S. BACH

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Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir Ton Koopman: conductor J.S. BACH: Complete Cantatas Celebrating Ton Koopman’s 70th birthday, Challenge Classics finally reprints a reference edition of Bach’s Complete Cantatas, now offered at a new price! Between 1994 and 2004, Koopman conducted and recorded all existing cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, a massive undertaking for which he was awarded the Echo Klassik Award, a BBC Award, and was nominated for both a Grammy Award® and the Gramophone Award.

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Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 14

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Gal James: soprano Thomas Oliemans: baritone Netherlands Chamber Orchestra Gordan Nikolic: ´ conductor SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 14 A dramatic and exciting account of Shostakovich’s penultimate symphony, in a live recording with astonishing performances by soloists Gal James and Thomas Oliemans. The poems are sung in the original Russian version, while conductor Gordan Nikolic´ brings a totally Slavic drive to the score. One of the great vocal masterpieces of the last century!

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Challenge Classics Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Edo de Waart: conductor WAGNER: Symphony in C • Tristan and Isolde: Nachtgesang and Liebestod • Siegfried Idyll Edo de Waart is Chief Conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Conductor Laureate of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. As an opera conductor, de Waart has enjoyed success in a large and varied repertoire in many of the world’s greatest opera houses. The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (RFO) has a prominent place in the Dutch music scene. Its inexhaustible commitment to the highest artistic quality and a balanced program qualifies the RFO as one of the best orchestras in the Netherlands. This disc is focused on Wagner’s early Symphony in C, a rarely recorded work. Written and published in 1832, the Symphony has a Beethovenian touch and was lavishly praised by Robert Schumann. The release is completed by two popular pieces: excerpts from Tristan and Isolde (including a Nachtgesang arranged for solo orchestra by composer Henk de Vlieger), and the sweet Siegfried Idyll.

Richard WAGNER Symphony in C

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Fryderyk Chopin Institute Marcin Zdunik: piano ´ Aleksandra Swigut: piano R. SCHUMANN: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 • Phantasiestücke, Op. 73 • Three Romances, Op. 94 • Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102 • Märchenbilder, Op. 113 A new entry in the series “Debuts,” featuring pianists Marcin Zdunik ´ and Aleksandra Swigut.

Robert SCHUMANN

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Claudio MONTEVERDI Vespers of 1610

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The Sixteen Harry Christophers: conductor Grace Davidson, Charlotte Mobbs: soprano Simon Berridge, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell: tenor Ben Davies, Eamonn Dougan: bass MONTEVERDI: Vespers of 1610 “There is a sense of deep familiarity with the music in this recording, a feeling of easiness with Monteverdi’s harmonic and, especially, rhythmic vocabulary that lends a tripping lightness to the performances.” — International record Review Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 is quite simply one of the greatest works of sacred music ever written, without doubt the most varied and inspired before Handel and Bach began composing their oratorios and passions. Its variety alone makes it unique, from thrilling psalm settings with virtuosic writing for both multi-part choir and instrumentalists, to exotic and sensual settings of texts from the Song of Songs for solo voices. Every movement is full of luscious harmonies, drama, and evocative musical language.

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Avie Records

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN The Middle String Quartets

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Cypress String Quartet BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59, No. 1 “Razumovsky” • String Quartet No. 8, Op. 59, No. 2 “Razumovsky” • String Quartet No. 9, Op. 59, No. 3 “Razumovsky” • String Quartet No. 10, Op. 74 “Harp” • String Quartet No. 11, Op. 95 “Serioso” “Arresting clarity of sound … this young quartet is among the most impressive I have heard … [combining] the utmost scrupulousness and seriousness with a sense of discovery.” — Stereophile Following three acclaimed releases for AVIE surveying works by Dvoˇrák, Schubert, and contemporary Americans, the San Francisco-based Cypress String Quartet turns to the seminal string quartets of Beethoven, performing the five quartets from the composer’s middle period. Formed in 1996, the Cypresses added Beethoven to their repertoire early on. Their signature sound, which is clear and transparent, built up from the bottom register and layered like a pyramid, lends itself beautifully to the Middle String Quartets. Throughout the 2014/15 season, the Cypress String Quartet’s international performance itinerary includes Beethoven’s quartets, as well as other repertoire from their AVIE recordings.

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Avie Records Gonzalo X. Ruiz: oboe Portland Baroque Orchestra Monica Huggett: conductor J.S. BACH: Concerto in G minor, BWV 1056R – reconstruction of BWV 1056 • Concerto in F major, BWV 1053R – reconstruction of BWV 1053 • Concerto in D minor, BWV 1059R – reconstruction of a concerto fragment and Cantatas 35 and 156 • Concerto in A major for Oboe d’amore, BWV 1055R • Concerto in C minor for violin and oboe, BWV 1060R – reconstruction of BWV 1060 “Ruiz brought his characteristic firm, yet sweet, singing tone to the music … His pinpoint oboe lines darted through the full-tilt solos.”

— Wall Street Journal In 2009, period-instrument oboist extraordinaire Gonzalo X. Ruiz joined Monica Huggett and her Ensemble Sonnerie in a recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites, which included a reconstruction of the Second Suite replacing the familiar flute solo with oboe. The album went to the top of the Billboard Classical Chart, and was nominated for a Grammy®. Now, Gonzalo returns with an equally convincing recording of concertos commonly heard on keyboard, adapted for oboe and oboe d’amore. He joins forces once again with Monica, this time with her Portland Baroque Orchestra.

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BUZZ ALERT Ensemble Epomeo Diane Pascal: violin David Yang: viola Kenneth Woods: cello PENDERECKI: String Trio • KURTÁG: signs, games, and messages • SCHNITTKE: String Trio • WEINBERG: String Trio “Ensemble Epomeo play all four compositions with huge commitment and brilliant flair, revealing every nuance in four wonderful works for string trio. These can sit alongside anything written in this genre.”

— MusicWeb International Following their critically acclaimed debut recording of the complete string trios of Hans Gál and Hans Krása, which garnered a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Ensemble Epomeo turns to music by Eastern European and Russian composers written in the latter half of the 20th century. Each work bears a distinct personal compositional stamp, providing for captivating listening and enlightening contrasts: the Polish Penderecki’s dramatic and lyrical String Trio of 1990–91, the Russian compositional giant Schnittke’s String Trio of 1985, the haunting Trio of the increasingly recognized and respected Weinberg from 1950, and the ever-enigmatic Hungarian Kurtág, whose continuously evolving signs, games and messages represent a collection of highly individual miniatures.

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Richard BLACKFORD The Great Animal Orchestra CD: NIM 6274 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Bernie Krause: wild soundscapes BBC National Orchestra of Wales Martyn Brabbins: conductor BLACKFORD/KRAUSE: The Great Animal Orchestra: Symphony for orchestra and wild soundscapes • SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals “There has never been anything quite like this symphony … This music speaks with great eloquence, authority and immediacy, but not only on behalf of human beings: it speaks also for the natural world, casting light upon humanity’s often less than felicitous relationship with our fellow creatures.” — Gramophone “The Great Animal Orchestra,” by English composer Richard Blackford and American wild soundscape recordist Bernie Krause, combines the sounds of the natural world with the traditional sounds of the orchestra. Throughout the five movement symphony, gibbons, humpback whales, Pacific tree frogs, mountain gorillas, beavers, and the musical wren are featured alongside the orchestra.

“The Great Animal Orchestra” is accompanied here by a new orchestration of Saint-Saëns’s “Carnival of the Animals.”

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Lyrita Martin Jones: piano REIZENSTEIN: Suite, Op. 6 • Impromptu, Op. 14 • Scherzo in A: Concert Piece for piano, Op. 20 • Intermezzo, Op. 17 • Sonata No. 1 in B, Op. 19 • Legend, Op. 24 • Scherzo Fantastique, Op. 26 • Twelve Preludes and Fugues, Op. 32 • Variations on “The Lambeth Walk” • Zodiac: piano suite, Op. 41 • Five Modern Pieces for Piano • Sonata No. 2 in A flat, Op. 40 • Malcolm Arnold’s “English Dances” arr. for piano duet This three-CD set explores the piano music of German-born composer and concert pianist Franz Reizenstein. His distinctive, highly sophisticated musical language stems from his former teachers, Paul Hindemith and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Reizenstein’s piano writing has a strong claim to be viewed as his finest work.

Franz REIZENSTEIN Piano Music

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Simon Wallfisch: baritone Edward Rushton: piano BUSH: Four Songs from Herrick’s “Hesperides” • Seven Greek Love Songs • Five Spring Songs • Stevie Smith Songs • Three Songs of Ben Jonson Songs • The End of Love • Merciless Beauty, from Four Chaucer Settings • Five Medieval Lyrics • O, the month of May, from Farewell, Earth’s Bliss This CD explores the songs of British composer Geoffrey Bush. Geoffrey’s idea was not just to “put a poem to music,” but find a way that enriched the original poem through music. He acheived this by memorizing the poem, and translating the words into music. These songs are brought to life by talented baritone Simon Wallfisch, beautifully accompanied by Edward Rushton.

Geoffrey BUSH Songs

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ABC Classics Emma Matthews: soprano Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Marko Letonja: conductor W.A. MOZART: I am as fickle as the breeze from Scipio’s Dream • Rest gently, my dear one from Zaide • Oh God, I wish I could tell you, K. 418 • Queen of the Night Aria from The Magic Flute • Ah, I knew it would happen, K. 272 • Alas, I feel it from the Magic Flute • Ah, kindly stars, if there is still any mercy in heaven, K. 538 • Where are the beautiful moments from the Marriage of Figaro • Your heart is faithful, K. 217 Coloratura soprano Emma Matthews is a Principal of the Australian Opera.

She started her career as an Opera Australia young artist in 1993. She possesses, in abundance, a natural upper range and the vocal agility of a leading bel canto. On this recording, Emma works with Slovenian conductor Marko Letonja, who is Chief Conductor of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra in France. The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra has a fine recording pedigree, and is integral to ABC Classics’ Australian Composer Series as well as being heavily involved in Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto Series.

W.A. MOZART Arias

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Simon Tedeschi: piano James Morrison: trumpet Sarah McKenzie: vocalist GERSHWIN: Promenade • Prelude (Novelette in Fourths) • Sweet and Low Down • Do-Do-Do • Jazzbo Brown Blues • Nice Work If You Can Get It • Prelude (Melody No. 17) • Merry Andrew • Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) • Three-Quarter Blues • Impromptu in Two Keys • My One and Only • I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise • Do It Again • Clap Yo’ Hands • Nobody But You • Prelude (Rubato) • Who Cares? (So Long as You Care for Me) • Embraceable You • Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off • Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin: Take Two is performed by Australia’s renowned virtuoso Simon Tedeschi, and includes guest appearances from Australian jazz legend James Morrison and one of the rising stars of the international music stage, ARIA Award-winning jazz singer Sarah McKenzie. Tedeschi captures the Gershwin repertoire perfectly; with passionate, vivacious performances that are bursting with life and romance. Harmonica legend Larry Adler, who performed with Gershwin himself, has said: “I just wish Gershwin were here — [Simon is] the best exponent of his music I have ever seen.”

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ABC Classics Sally Whitwell: piano NYMAN: The Heart Asks Pleasure First (The Piano) • Silver-Fingered Fling (The Piano) • Lost and Found (The Piano) • Deep Sleep Playing (The Piano) • The Mood That Passes Through You (The Piano) • The Embrace (The Piano) • Here to There (The Piano) • All Imperfect Things • The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle (The Piano) • The Draughtsman’s Contract: Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds • If (Diary of Anne Frank) • The Schoolroom (Diary of Anne Frank) • Goodbye Moortie (Diary of Anne Frank) • Why? (Diary of Anne Frank) • Digital Tragedy (Enemy Zero) • Love (Enemy Zero) • Time Lapse (A Zed and Two Noughts) Sally Whitwell (b. 1974) is an Australian classical pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and teacher. She has released three solo albums: Mad Rush: Piano Music of Philip Glass (2011), The Good, the Bad and the Awkward (2012), and All Imperfect Things (2013), all on the ABC Classics record label. All three albums have peaked in the Top 5 on the ARIA Charts’ Classical Albums. At the ARIA Music Awards in 2011, Whitwell won the Best Classical Album award for Mad Rush: Piano Music of Philip Glass. In 2012 she was nominated in the same category for The Good, the Bad and the Awkward, and in 2013 she won the category again with All Imperfect Things.

Michael NYMAN All Imperfect Things CD: ABA 4810412 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Andrew Macleod: piccolo Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Markus Stenz: conductor Benjamin Northey: conductor ADÈS: Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra • STANHOPE: Concerto for piccolo, flute, and orchestra (premiere) First performed in 2011, this is the second commercial recording of Thomas Adès’ Polaris (and the Australian premiere recording). The music is derived from a magnetic series, a musical device created by Adès and deployed here for the first time: all the notes of the scale are gradually presented, but persistently return home to an anchoring pitch, as if magnetized. On this disc, Polaris is coupled with the world premiere recording of Australian Paul Stanhope’s Piccolo Concerto. Paul is an emerging Australian composer, and was awarded the Charles Mackerras Scholarship continuing his studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London. In 2004 Paul was awarded first place in the prestigious Toru Takemitsu Composition Prize. He has had performances of his works in the UK, Europe, Japan, and North America.

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W.A. MOZART

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Hannah Davey: soprano Sarah Jane Lewis: alto Christopher Turner: tenor Frazer Scott: bass OSJ Voices & Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square John Lubbock: conductor MOZART: Requiem • Ave Verum Corpus Following their critically acclaimed live recording of Fauré’s Requiem, the Orchestra & Voices of St John’s Smith Square, under the baton of founder John Lubbock, releases their second album on the newly established label osjAlive. The mystery around the initial commissioning and subsequent completion of Mozart’s Requiem serves as the framework for a first-class whodunit within classical music circles. Following that furtive and puzzling origin, this work — now considered one of the most notable and acclaimed settings of the Requiem Mass text — features at regular intervals in most concert halls around the world. The Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square recorded their inspiring performance in 2013, and share that live experience with us here, coupled with Mozart’s setting of the Ave Verum Corpus, a short Eucharistic hymn dating from the 14th century.

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Lars Vogt Chopin

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Lars Vogt: piano CHOPIN: Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 • Nocturne in B flat minor Op. 9, No. 1 • Nocturne in E flat major Op. 9, No. 2 • Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 • Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. 27, No. 1 • Nocturne in D flat major Op. 27, No. 2 • Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 “Marche Funèbre” • Nocturne KK IVb, 8 in C minor, Op. posth. • Nocturne KK IVa, 16 in C sharp minor, Op. posth.

“There was plenty of time for fireworks and, as it turned out, the wait wasn’t long … he played the closing Rondo Alla Turca at a breathless clip and with a breadth of dynamics that swept away any notion that his earlier restraint had been meant to evoke the relative delicacy of the fortepiano. This was modern pianism at full throttle, with Mozart in the headlights.”

— New York Times (live performance review) Lars Vogt is regarded as one of the leading European pianists, with a worldwide reputation. On his first Chopin album, the program is deliberately designed with a most lyric atmosphere.

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Carl LOEWE

J.S. BACH & Eugéne YSAYE

Roman Treckel: baritone/Daniel Heide: piano

Antje Weithaas: violin

LOEWE: Edward Op. 1, No. 1 • Der Todtentanz Op. 44, No. 3 • Urgrossvaters Gesellschaft Op. 56, No. 3 • Wanderers Nachtlied I Op. 9 Heft 1, No. 3 • Wanderers Nachtlied II Op. 9 Heft 1, No. 4 • Der Zauberlehrling Op. 20, No. 2 • Tom der Reimer Op. 135 • Die Uhr Op. 123, No. 3 • Odins Meeresritt, Op. 118 • Erlkönig Op. 1, No. 3 • Herr Oluf Op. 2, No. 2 • Geisterleben Op. 9 Heft 1, No. 4 • Archibald Douglas Op. 128

BACH: Sonata for Violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 • BACH: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 • YSAYE: Sonata in G minor Op. 27, No. 1 • Sonata in A minor Op. 27, No. 2

Lieder & Ballads

Violin Sonatas

Antje Weithaas presents her concept of “youthful experiments vs. mature wisdom” with her immaculate playing and huge musicality. For her, it is more than logical to create a program that combines the most important solo violin composers!

Carl Loewe, nearly a contemporary of Franz Schubert, composed several lieder with similar lyrics. Roman Trekel is one of the world’s leading baritones, focusing more and more on performing the art of Lied.

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Alban BERG

Matthias Schorn: clarinet/Minetti Quartet/Innviertler Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Milton: conductor

Tetzlaff Quartet/Christian Tetzlaff, Elisabeth Kufferath: violin/ Hanna Weinmeister: viola/Tanja Tetzlaff: cello

W.A. MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A K. 622 • Clarinet Quintet in A K. 581

BERG: Lyric Suite for string quartet • MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13

The most beloved solo concerto in the classical world! Matthias Schorn is the principal clarinet of the Vienna Philharmonic, while the Austrian Minetti Quartet counts as one of the leading young European groups.

The second album of the highly regarded Tetzlaff Quartet! Berg’s Lyric Suite is probably the repertoire closest to their hearts, and they felt it was high time to document their love for the piece.

Clarinet Concerto & Quintet

Lyric Suite

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Reference Recordings

Nadia Shpachenko

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Nadia Shpachenko: piano, percussion Genevieve Feiwen Lee: piano, toy piano, electronics FLAHERTY: Airdancing for toy piano, piano, and electronics • Part Suite-a for solo piano • A. SCHOENBERG: Picture Etudes for solo piano • Bounce for two pianos • MATHESON: Cretic Variations for solo piano • YATES: Finger Songs for Solo Piano “A brilliant pianist … spellbinding in sensitivity and mastery of technique.” — Imperial Valley Press “Incredible performance full of emotions … virtuoso playing at its best.” — Pasadena Star News This innovative project of new compositions, all world premieres, brings together piano repertoire representing the diversity of today’s American classical music. The new works were composed as a celebration of a newly transformed world, for the new 5,125 year cycle of the Mayan Calendar, inspired by the happy fact that the world did not end on December 21, 2012 at the end of the previous Mayan Calendar cycle!

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BGS Records

Appassionata Guitar Trio

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Appassionata Guitar Trio Rebecca Baulch: guitar Amanda Cook: guitar Hayley Savage: guitar MACCOMBIE: Tango Amoroso • BENNETT: Strange Dreams • Food for Fish • BELLINATI: Baiao de Gude • Maracatu da Pipa • SAVAGE: Storm in a Teacup • VEDERY: Start Now • Let Go • Now You See It, Now You Don’t, Now You Do • RYAN: Cabaret (Showgirls) “Performance is of the highest order … a persuasive and accessible programme superbly presented.” — Classical Guitar Magazine The debut release from the Appassionata Guitar Trio features an exhilarating collection of premiere recordings of trio works commissioned by the International Guitar Federation, including works by Bruce MacCombie, Ned Bennett, Paulo Bellinati, Benjamin Vedery, and Gary Ryan.

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IBS Classical

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS & Leo BROUWER ETUDES

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Joaquín Clerch: guitar VILLA-LOBOS: Doce Estudios for guitar • BROUWER: Simple Studies “Joaquín Clerch is an uncommonly gifted musician. In ETUDES, his playing is technically outstanding and highly poetic, and his intellectual capacity for understanding the problems of early music performance is extraordinary.” — Nikolaus Harnoncourt IBS Classical presents a groundbreaking collection of technical works written for the classical guitar, including 42 guitar studies from Heitor Villa-Lobos and Leo Brouwer. After more than 30 years, the great guitarist Joaquín Clerch offers an inspired collection of works that show his masterful guitar playing. Also included in the booklet is Clerch’s own masterclass about how to play these works, with 30 pages of explanations, fingerings, positions, and photographs.

Press & Radio Service to an extensive list including ArkivMusic, All Music Guide, and more.

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GB Records Philip Jeck: improvising turntablist Nick Barr, Morgan Goff: viola Nick Cooper: cello Gavin Bryars: double bass Maria Tchernakova: viola Orlanda Bryars, Ziella Bryars: cello Yuri Bryars: double bass BRYARS: Applause • Prologue (Philip Jeck) • Crash • Titanic Hymn I-III Autumn • Hymn IV Aughton (He Leadeth Me) • Morse • Hymn V Autumn • Titanic Lament • Cadences • Lament extract • Water gong • “La Maxixe” music box • Hymn VI, last hymn

Gavin BRYARS

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This live recording of The Sinking of the Titanic was made during the Gavin Bryars Ensemble’s tour in 2012, the centenary year of the disaster. In one performance, it brings together elements that have appeared separately in the various versions that precede it: the inclusion of improvising turntablist Philip Jeck; the presence of a second quartet of low strings that consists of Bryars’ four children; the faint allusion to Aphex Twin’s remix “The Raising of the Titanic,” made shortly after the release of the 1994 recording; and the water gong first used by percussionist Martin Allen on a raft at the shallow end of a renovated Art Nouveau swimming pool in Brussels. Although there have been four previous recordings, according to the composer this performance and recording is as near to definitive as is ever likely.

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Silverdoor Roger Doyle: piano, electronics DOYLE: The Ninth Set Sectors 1–5 The five sectors of The Ninth Set were composed in 2006–07. It is a standalone piece, but is nevertheless linked to, and a continuation of, a large-scale composition called Passades Volumes 1 and 2, which are made up of the first eight sets. Sectors 4 and 5 of The Ninth Set were awarded the Magisterium Prize at the 2007 Bourges International Electro-Acoustic Music Competition in France. The award is open to composers having at least 25 years of professional experience in the field, and its objective is “the promotion and diffusion of works that might become milestones in the history of electroacoustic music.”

Roger DOYLE The Ninth Set

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EM Records Duncan Honeybourne: piano ROSENTHAL: Three Irish Pastels • Variations on a Nursery Rhyme Hush-abye-Baby, On the Tree-Top • Four Interludes • Barcarolle • The Four Seasons • Six Variations and Fugue on an old Nursery Rhyme-Mary Mary Quite Contrary • BECKETT: Three Preludes • Guilfoyle’s Wood • STANFORD: Ballade in G minor, Op. 170 • Nocturne in G minor Op. 148, No. 1 • BAX: Mountain Mood This disc takes as its point of departure the stylish and entertaining piano music of Archy Rosenthal, an Irish pianist, composer, and educator who travelled far beyond his native Dublin, but for whom his homeland never lost its enchantment. Interspersed with Rosenthal’s most attractive and invigorating pieces are miniatures by three other composers with strong Dublin links.

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Duncan Honeybourne An Irish Idyll

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Bath Philharmonia Jason Thornton: conductor BAILEY: Havas – a period of summer, Op. 44 • Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 55 • LLOYD: The Serf Prelude to Act II • In Memoriam • Le Pont Du Gard • HMS Trinidad March EM Records presents its latest release, Havas. This disc showcases orchestral music of two Cornish composers, George Lloyd and Judith Bailey, played by the renowned Bath Philharmonia.

George LLOYD & Judith BAILEY

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Jay Records D’oyly Carte Opera Company Michael Ducarel, Bonaventura Bottone, Eric Roberts, et al: vocal soloists Geoffrey Allan: orchestra leader John Pryce-Jones: conductor GILBERT & SULLIVAN: The Mikado Gilbert & Sullivan, one of the most famous and successful writing partnerships in music, need little introduction. Their works are continually staged internationally, and their place as the great musical innovators of the operetta form is assured within the cannon of British musical history.

Jay Records is proud to present four new reissues, which bring together high-profile international stars of stage and screen with some of the most acclaimed musical directors and conductors, a number of which will already be familiar to lovers of the JAY Records catalog! Re-issuing these Gilbert & Sullivan operas on CD, to retain them in the highest digital format, is more important than ever in order to preserve these wonderful recordings. The Gilbert & Sullivan operas, performed by the reformed D’Oyle Carte Opera, have an authenticity and legacy that is unsurpassed.

W.S. GILBERT & Arthur SULLIVAN The Mikado

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D’oyly Carte Opera Company Yvonne Barclay, Alfred Boe, Francis Mccafferty, et al: vocal soloists Clive Lander: orchestra leader John Owen Edwards: conductor GILBERT & SULLIVAN: HMS Pinafore Gilbert & Sullivan, one of the most famous and successful writing partnerships in music, need little introduction. Their works are continually staged internationally, and their place as the great musical innovators of the operetta form is assured within the cannon of British musical history.

Jay Records is proud to present four new reissues, which bring together high-profile international stars of stage and screen with some of the most acclaimed musical directors and conductors, a number of which will already be familiar to lovers of the JAY Records catalog! Re-issuing these Gilbert & Sullivan operas on CD, to retain them in the highest digital format, is more important than ever in order to preserve these wonderful recordings. The Gilbert & Sullivan operas, performed by the reformed D’Oyle Carte Opera, have an authenticity and legacy that is unsurpassed.

W.S. GILBERT & Arthur SULLIVAN HMS Pinafore

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Jay Records D’oyly Carte Opera Company Donald Maxwell, Gareth Jones, David Fieldsend, et al: vocal soloists Tim Warburton: orchestra leader John Owen Edwards: conductor GILBERT & SULLIVAN: Patience Gilbert & Sullivan, one of the most famous and successful writing partnerships in music, need little introduction. Their works are continually staged internationally, and their place as the great musical innovators of the operetta form is assured within the cannon of British musical history.

Jay Records is proud to present four new reissues, which bring together high-profile international stars of stage and screen with some of the most acclaimed musical directors and conductors, a number of which will already be familiar to lovers of the JAY Records catalog! Re-issuing these Gilbert & Sullivan operas on CD, to retain them in the highest digital format, is more important than ever in order to preserve these wonderful recordings. The Gilbert & Sullivan operas, performed by the reformed D’Oyle Carte Opera, have an authenticity and legacy that is unsurpassed.

W.S. GILBERT & Arthur SULLIVAN Patience

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D’oyly Carte Opera Company Richard Suart, Philip Creasy, John Rath, David Fieldsend, et al: vocal soloists Geoffrey Allan: orchestra leader John Price: conductor GILBERT & SULLIVAN: The Gondoliers Gilbert & Sullivan, one of the most famous and successful writing partnerships in music, need little introduction. Their works are continually staged internationally, and their place as the great musical innovators of the operetta form is assured within the cannon of British musical history.

Jay Records is proud to present four new reissues, which bring together high-profile international stars of stage and screen with some of the most acclaimed musical directors and conductors, a number of which will already be familiar to lovers of the JAY Records catalog! Re-issuing these Gilbert & Sullivan operas on CD, to retain them in the highest digital format, is more important than ever in order to preserve these wonderful recordings. The Gilbert & Sullivan operas, performed by the reformed D’Oyle Carte Opera, have an authenticity and legacy that is unsurpassed.

W.S. GILBERT & Arthur SULLIVAN The Gondoliers

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Music & Media Sophie Harris: cello, vocals HARRIS: Song of the Birds • Wash Me • Purcell • Kafka • Icebergs • Josquin • Muddy • Rainforest • Africa The story of this CD is born out of Sophie’s friendship with violinist Rick Koster. For twelve years, Rick and Sophie have worked together as members of the Duke Quartet. While on tour they shared a mutual interest in philosophy and poetry in the coffee houses of Europe. A couple of years ago, Rick invited Sophie to his home and studio for tea and a chat, which developed into improvising and recording this CD.

Sophie HARRIS I feel the silence

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Luciano Botelho: tenor Elizabeth Marcus: piano GUASTAVINO: Desde qu te conoci • Viniendo del Cilecito • En los surcos del amor • Mi garganta • GINASTERA: Chacarera • Triste • Zamba • Arroro • Gato • MIGNONE: Madrigal • Amor • Teu nome • Jury do coracao • Musa que passa • Fim de romance • GUANIERI: Pedido • WE agora • Nao posso mais • Recolhi no meu coracao • Promessa • GUILHEREME RIPPER: uma musica que seja • O peta aprendiz • Poema dos olhos da amada “Opening with Guastavino’s ‘Cuatro Canciones Argentinas,’ a typically delightful set full of his trademark Latin rhythms, and Ginastera’s even finer ‘Cinco Canciones populares Argentinas,’ more angular in melody and harmonically more adventurous … Botelho copes admirably with some of the challenging vocal writing and the piano accompaniments are rendered wonderfully well by Elizabeth Marcus, never overwhelming the tenor.”

— Gramophone A collection of Brazilian and Argentine classic songs, performed by renowned tenor Luciano Botelho. Very few of these songs have been recorded previously!

Luciano Botelho

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Regent Records Timothy Bond: organ Janice Watson: soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers: mezzo-soprano LAMBERT: Ricercare No. 2 • Veni creator spiritus • Uccelli, Echo Toccata • SUTTON-ANDERSON: Fantasia • ANDERSON: The Grass is Sleeping • BLACKFORD: Canticle of the Birds (Part V from Mirror of Perfection) • CARPENTER: Variations for Organ John Lambert (1926–1995) was a highly influential composer and teacher, whose composition students included such diverse established figures as Oliver Knussen, Mark-Anthony Turnage, and Simon Bainbridge. Lambert studied at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. From 1958 until 1962 he was Musical Director of the Old Vic theatre, a post he relinquished to take up the position of Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music, where he remained until his retirement in 1990. This disc features all of Lambert’s solo organ music — with the exception of the monumental Organ Mass, previously recorded by Timothy Bond on REG 205 — together with organ works by his students David Sutton Anderson, Avril Anderson, and Gary Carpenter.

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Christopher Allsop: organ Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir Stephen Shellard: director PAVIOUR: A Canberra Canticle (Te Deum Laudamus) • The Morning Watch • Ruminations (on a chant by Edward Elgar) • Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G • Magnificat • Nunc Dimittis • The Glories of this Noble Sound • Abstractions (on the hymn tune, King’s Lynn) • Love of the Father (based on Song 22

by Orlando Gibbons) • That blessèd place • Mary’s Child • I sing the birth • Welcome Yule • I know Christ lived a carol for Easter • Dithyramb • The Guest Paul Paviour is one of Australia’s best-known composers, whose output is both substantial and varied. This is the first disc entirely devoted to Paviour’s compositions, and most of the works are receiving their first recording.

Recorded in Worcester Cathedral, this collection presents a broad overview of his work for smaller choral forces, including works written for a royal visit, the dedication of a new organ, carols for Christmas and Easter, and an organ piece based on Edward Elgar’s only psalm chant. Also included is Paviour’s newest composition, “The Morning Watch,” especially written for Stephen Shellard and the Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir in 2012.

Paul PAVIOUR

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Regent Records Timothy Parsons: organ Onyx Brass Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge Sarah MacDonald: director COOKE: Morning Service • Three Partsongs • The Glory of Zion • Verbum caro factum est • Evening Service • O salutaris hostia • Invocation • The Hazel Wood

Phillip COOKE

Phillip Cooke (b.1980) is a new and distinctive voice to emerge from among today’s young British composers. This recording is the first devoted entirely to his music, and features a selection of recent sacred and secular choral works suitable for chamber choir. The disc includes his largest choral work to date, “The Hazel Wood,” and another large-scale secular work, “Invocation,” together with his Morning and Evening Canticles, a selection of motets, and three modern Partsongs. The changeable colors and moods of the Lake District, where he grew up, have strongly influenced his compositional style; this is approachable, but original music, recognizably British but with hints of dark, stormy undertones that give his works a unique flavor. Phillip Cooke is a composer to watch, and we are delighted to bring his work to a wider audience!

Choral Music

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Querstand Stefan Burkhardt: piano Norbert Hilger: cello HENSELT: Duo in B minor for piano and cello, Op. 14 • Nocturne in A flat major, Op. 32 • Erstes Impromptu in C minor, Op. 7 • Zweites Impromptu in F minor, Op. 17 • Drittes Impromptu in B flat minor, Op. 34 • Viertes Impromptu in B minor, Op. 37 • Romance in B flat minor from “Quatre Romances” Op. 18, No. 2 • Rondo serioso in D minor, WoO • Souvenir de Varsovie in A flat major Op. 4, No. 2 • Polka in D minor Op. 13, No. 9 • Valse melancolique in D minor, Op. 36 • Toccatina in C minor, Op. 25 • Romance in B flat minor, Op. 10 • Etude in F sharp major “Vöglein-Etude” Op. 2, No. 6 • L’aurore boréale (Das Nordlicht). Valse brilliante in C sharp minor, Op. 30 • Petite Romance in B flat minor, WoO • Morgenständchen in D flat major, Op. 39 • Wiegenlied (Berceuse) in G flat major, WoO

Adolph HENSELT Chamber Music

CD: QUE 1401 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

The Schwabach-born composer Adolph Henselt is mostly known as father of the Russian piano elite, being trained at conservatories all over Russia. However, this virtuoso was also a fantastic composer. On this CD from pianist Stefan Burkhardt, Henselt’s romantic chamber music has been rediscovered. Henselt appears as a composer who challenged the technical and aesthetic possibilities of his time, albeit with a pleasing gesture! This CD includes ten remarkable first recordings; the Duo, Op. 14 has been recorded and published before in the version for piano and French horn.

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Sleeveless Records Lionel Handy: cello Nigel Clayton: piano ˚ Sonata ARMSTRONG: Sonata for cello and piano (premiere) • MARTINU: No. 2 • THOMPSON: Sonatina for cello and piano (premiere) For four years, the lives of the three composers of this album overlapped, and these pieces speak of human experience during and after World War II. Bohuslav Martinu˚ (1890–1959) wrote three major cello sonatas. In addition to his stylistically pivotal Second Cello Sonata, this disc showcases two premiere CD recordings of works finished 40 years later. John Barton Armstrong’s epic one-movement Cello Sonata from 1981 was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in 1987, but the score has been recently published by Fand Music, who also published ˚ Cello Peter Thompson’s Cello Sonatina. Having already recorded Martinu’s Sonata No. 1, and fresh from their recent all-Bax CD, cellist Lionel Handy and pianist Nigel Clayton have also given a number of concert performances of these works, further informing their authoritative readings in this colorful program spanning three generations.

Lionel Handy

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Summit Records Joseph Foley: trumpet, flugelhorn Bonnie Anderson: piano EWAZEN: Sonata for trumpet and piano • PEASLEE: Nightsongs • HANSEN: Sonata for cornet and piano • HINDEMITH: Sonata for trumpet and piano • STARER: Invocation • STRAUSS: Nocturno for cornet and piano Longtime colleagues Joseph Foley and Bonnie Anderson join together for an exciting new CD of music for trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, and piano! The disc features a pillar of the repertoire, Paul Hindemith’s Sonata, as well as a new standard, the Sonata by Eric Ewazen. It also includes less-frequently heard works, such as the charming Sonata for Cornet and Piano by Thorvald Hansen, the haunting sound of the flugelhorn on Richard Peaslee’s evocative Nightsongs, and a beautiful new transcription of Franz Strauss’ Nocturno by Joseph Foley. This CD should be a valuable resource to trumpet players, but also a wonderful listen for those who love “singing” instrumental music.

Joseph Foley Nightsongs

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BMC Records

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Franz SCHUBERT

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Ensemble of New Music Studio

Symphony No. 9 “The Great” D. 944

Joint works of contemporary Hungarian composers from the 1970s

Orchestra of Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music/Albert Simon: conductor

Ensemble of New Music Studio/Auer String Quartet/Somogyi String Quartet/András Wilheim: conductor

SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C major “The Great” D. 944 The archive recording presented here was made on March 4, 1979 in the concert hall of the Music Academy in Budapest. It is a live concert recording (with all the technical haphazardness that implies), in which the orchestra of students is conducted by Albert Simon.

JENEY/SÁRY/VIDOVSZKY: Undisturbed • DUKAY: To the changing Moon • EÖTVÖS/JENEY/KOCSIS/SÁRY/VIDOVSZKY: Hommage A Kurtág Realization of a joint composition by several composers is a challenge and an opportunity. For such a work to come into being, the need for a basic change of approach is important.

This very special CD contains joint works by no less than five composers — a true challenge indeed!

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Saint Ephraim Male Choir

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Byzantine Mosaics II

Crux gloriosa: Mono and Polyphonic Liturgical Chants in Honour of the Holy Cross

Saint Ephraim Male Choir/Tamás Bubnó: artistic director RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Our Father • SAINT EPHRAIM MALE CHOIR: Bell prayer 1–5 • BORTNIANSKY: Glory be to God on high, arr. Smirnov • TCHESNOKOV: Do not reject me… • PHILLIPP: Al-MasiH qam / Christ is risen from the dead • SRBIN: Cherubic Hymn • TRAD.: Polyeleos from Heirmology of Sajópálfala • L. BUBNÓ: Beatitudes • and more Sequel to the first volume, released in 2010, and a consciously eclectic record in its style, just like the world of the Byzantine rite. The pieces on this recording offer as a musical program for a Byzantine act of worship.

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Schola Hungarica/Janka Szendrei: conductor/László Dobszay: conductor UNKNOWN: Beneventan antiphons for the Exaltation of the Cross, on Good Friday • Responsory for the Feast of the Holy Cross (to an Old Roman melody) • Ambrosian Ingressa and Transitorium for the feast of the Holy Cross • Introit with tropes • Alleluia with sequence • Offertory • Communion • Introit • Antiphon • and more The texts sung here (together with many other popular movements, such as the hymn Vexilla Regis) have been set polyphonically by a great many composers between the 13th and 20th centuries. On this disc, such polyphonic works are used to separate the various cycles.

Sheva Collection

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Stephan Siegenthaler: clarinet/Cappella Istropolitana/Kaspar Zehnder: conductor

William Grant Naboré: piano

Concertos for Clarinet and Orchestra

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Diabelli Variations

BEETHOVEN: Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 W.A. MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in C major, K. 314 • WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor • CRUSELL: Clarinet Concerto No. 3 Sheva Collection presents the clarinet arrangement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, written originally in 1777 and presented here in the original arrangement. The concertos by Weber and Crusell were written around the same time, and both share the same classically sublime qualities.

Sheva Collection presents the second recording by Maestro Naboré. The Diabellis have been, for him, a warhorse since his youth. After many worldwide performances of Beethoven’s masterpiece, he finally recorded the 33 great Variations.

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Franz LISZT

Christopher Howell

Ivan Doncheb: piano

Christopher Howell: piano

LISZT: Deux légendes • Harmonies poétiques et religieuses • Pensée des morts • Pater Noster • Hymne de l’Enfant à son réveil • Funérailles • Miserere d’après Palestrina! • Cantique d’amour

BACHE: Souvenirs d’Italie, Op. 19 • VINCENT WALLACE: La Gondola • Ange si pur • Fantasia de Salon • SMITH: I pifferai • Siesta • Sérénade Vénitienne, Op. 201 • Danse Napolitaine • WOLSTENHOLME: Venice • SOMERVELL: Tarantella • I pifferai • WHITE: From the Ionian Sea • GERMAN: Tarantella • FARJEON: Venetian Idylls, Op. 20 • Barcarolle • MERRIK: Tarantella • MARKHAM: Nights in Venice • and more

Spirituale

An Englishman in Italy

This new CD from Sheva Collection presents many of Liszt’s clearly religious-inspired works. Specifically, “Légendes” and the “Harmonies poétiques et religieuses” are eloquent examples of this spiritual vocation. Liszt’s genius and absolute mastery of musical language is clear from Ivan Doncheb’s sublime playing.

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The early 19th century saw the opening up of tourism and a new appreciation of the picturesque value of the former classical world.

British composers were not immune to the attractions of Italy, nor to the charms of the quickly-developing genre piece!

Stone Records

CD: SNR 8045 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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Caroline MacPhie

J.S. BACH

Caroline MacPhie: soprano/Joseph Middleton: piano

Robert Costin: organ

STRAUSS: Drei Lieder der Ophelia • POULENC: Fiancailles pour rires • KOECHLIN: Sept chansons pour Gladys • WOLF: Italienisches Liederbuch (selection) • MURIEL HERBERT: To Daffodils • The Lost Nightingale • Renouncement • Cradle Song • MACONCHY: Ophelia’s Song • SAMUEL: The Gaze (premiere) • FRANCES-HOAD: Two Shakespeare Songs (premiere)

J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 5 in C major, BWV 529 • Sonata No. 3 in D minor, BWV 527 • Sonata No. 6 in G major, BWV 530 • Sonata No. 4 in E minor, BWV 528 • Sonata No. 1 in E flat major, BWV 525 • Sonata No. 2 in C minor, BWV 526

Love said to me…

Trio Sonatas

This debut disc by soprano Caroline MacPhie is a beautiful recital of songs inspired or written by women. Including three specially commissioned pieces, she has selected a wonderful program.

Following Robert Costin’s critically-acclaimed recording of the Goldberg Variations, we are delighted to announce the perfect follow-up disc: a recording of all six of Bach’s Trio Sonatas for organ.

Stradivarius

CD: STV 33969 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 50

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Leonardo LEO

Carlo Alessandro LANDINI

Ensemble Barocco di Napoli/Tommaso Rossi: recorder/Ugo di Giovanni: archlute/Marco Vitali: cello/Raffaele di Donna: bass recorder/Patrizia Varone: harpsichord

Orchestra “I Pomeriggi Musicali” di Milano/Nicholas Carthy: conductor/Ensemble Nuovo Ricercare/Laura Bertani: conductor/ Ensemble “Phonè” for Contemporary Music/Robert Zülle: conductor/ Camerata Musicale Ambrosiana/Massimiliano Caldi: conductor

Recorder Sonatas

Chamber Music & Orchestral Works

LEO: Sonata I in F major • Sonata II in C major • Sonata III in D minor • Sonata IV in F major • Sonata V in F major • Sonata VI in G minor • Sonata VII in D minor Leo’s sonatas shed new light on the recorder repertory in the Neapolitan area, and are valuable testimony to a significant interest in this instrument shown by the composer.

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LANDINI: Two More Steps Towards Uncertainty • Ecco il giorno • Coming to Life. Generation, Transition, Interlocking of Phases • Limen This CD contains works written by Carlo Alessandro Landini for orchestra and ensembles, showing some of the most interesting pages of contemporary Italian music.

Cantus

CD: CUS 9626 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

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Guillaume de MACHAULT

Cristobal de MORALES

Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Musica Ficta/Raúl Mallavibarrena: director

MACHAULT: The Judgment of the King of Navarre (1349) (premiere)

MORALES: Requiem (1544) (first one-per-part version)

The Judgment of the King of Navarre (1349)

Requiem (1544)

With a discography of more than 40 discs and an international prestige achieved thanks to the countless awards received from the critics worldwide, the Ensemble Gilles Binchois celebrated its 20th anniversary with this first collaboration with the Cantus label, featuring one of the longest and most beautiful poems by Machaut.

After two successful recordings for Cantus, Spanish chamber choir Musica Ficta has earned universal critical acclaim. Bruno Turner, the most important specialist in Spanish polyphony, wrote in his Guerrero dossier published by Goldberg magazine that Musica Ficta’s interpretations are “unmatched by any other group or choir in restraint, intense emotion, and sheer beauty.”

Syrius

CD: SYR 141458 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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J.S. BACH

Demis VISVIKIS

Helga Schauerte: organ

Jean Dubé: piano

J.S. BACH: Fantasie in G, BWV 542 • Choral “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland,” BWV 62 • Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 • Trio super “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland,” BWV 660 • Choral “An Wasserflüssen Babylon,” BWV 267 • An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653 • Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist, BWV 667 • Choral “Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist,” BWV 370 • and more

VISVIKIS: Les Astres

Leipzig Chorales Vol. II

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Les Astres

Posthumously named the “Leipzig Chorales,” the eighteen chorales BWV 651–668 are great Preludes, most of which are written for organ with two manuals and pedal.

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Demis Visvikis has created a rich list of works for piano and orchestra including five symphonies and two piano concertos. He has collaborated with many orchestras and contemporary music groups. Since 1991, he has been a permanent member of the CMF International Piano Competition Jury.

Meridian Records

Phaedra

CD: MER 84623 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

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Marcelo Barboza & Clèlia Iruzun

Francesco Paolo TOSTI

Marcelo Barboza: flute/Clèlia Iruzun: piano

Marco Vinco: bass

ANDERSON: Eight Miniatures, Op. 55 • SILVA: Evocação • Serata D’Amore • Margarida • Primeiro Amor • Sonho • Oriental • Idyllio • Zinha • Amor Perdido • TAFFANEL: Allegretto Grazioso • Andantino • Andante • Allegretto • Allegretto Scherzando • Andante Pastoral • Scherzettino

TOSTI: Malia • Ideale • Non t’amo più • O domce meraviglia • Tristezza • Se tu non torni • Sogno • Tormento • L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra • A vucchella • Ninna nanna • La mia canzone • La serenata • Donna, vorrei morir • Il pescatore canta! • Baciami • L’ultima canzone • Verrei morire

The Golden Years is a retrospective glance at the second half of the 19th century, when operettas and salon music were at the peak of their popularity, and presents short pieces focused on virtuosity display, emotional expression, and sentimentalism.

Young Italian bass Marco Vinco is known throughout the world for his vivid and powerful performances. He has rapidly established an international career, performing regularly on some of the world’s most prestigious concert stages including London’s Covent Garden, Opera National in Paris, Teatro alla Scala, and more.

The Golden Years

Hérisson

L’ultima canzone

Aliud Records

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Frédéric CHOPIN

Niccoló PAGANINI

Soo Park: piano, pianino/Mathieu Dupouy: piano, pianino

Razvan Stoica: violin

CHOPIN: Concerto, Op. 21 in F minor • Concerto, Op. 11 in E minor

PAGANINI: 24 Caprices for violin solo

Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (piano-pianino version)

These two piano concertos, written before Chopin was 20 years old, bear witness to his adolescent ambition to measure himself against the greatest virtuosi of the day. Chopin did not give more than two dozen public concerts in his entire life, and most were performances of these two concertos, beginning with their first performances in 1830.

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24 Caprices for violin solo

Razvan Stoica has awed listeners with his virtuosity, passion, outstanding performances, and charismatic presence on well-known international stages. Now he presents Paganini’s 24 Caprices, a challenge for even the greatest violin virtuoso!

NEW HOLIDAY RELEASES FOR 2014 AVIE Records Taverner Consort & Choir Andrew Parrott: director BURNEY: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing • TRAD.: Nos Galan (Deck the Hall), arr.

Edward Jones • Staines Morris (Blessed Be That Maid Marie) • Good People All, This Christmastide • Christmas Eve • The Seven Joys of Mary • NILES: Lullay, Thou Tiny Little Child • I Wonder as I Wander • The Fader of Heven • Sing We the Virgin Mary • TRAD.: Ther Is No Rose of Swych Vertu • Lullay, Lullow: I Saw a Swete Semly Syght • Hayle, Mary, Ful of Grace • HOLST: I Sing of a Maiden • Jesu, Thou the Virgin-born • BRITTEN: There Is No Rose • As Dew in Aprille • MAXWELL DAVIES: O magnum mysterium • The Fader of Heven • WEIR: Illuminare, Jerusalem, arr. Parrott • MADAN: Lo! He Comes, with Clouds Descending • TRAD.: Song of the Nuns of Chester (verses 1–3) (Qui creavit celum) • Song of the Nuns of Chester (verses 4–6) (Lactat mater Domini) • Hodie Christus natus est (Antiphon from Chester Processional)

Taverner Consort & Choir The Promise of Ages CD: AVR 2291 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Consort & Choir’s timeless collection of Christmas music spans seven decades of holiday melodies both devotional and festive, including traditional carols from the British Isles, Medieval chants, and Renaissance hymns, as well as the responses of 20th-century composers to ancient seasonal poetry. Seamlessly melding religious with secular texts, and high art music with folk traditions, this reissue includes such favorites as the traditional “Deck the Hall” arranged for solo Welsh harp, “There is No Rose” from Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, and “I Wonder as I Wander” intoned by Emily Van Evera’s beautifully pure soprano. There are plenty of delights and discoveries in this enduring and exquisite collection of holiday fare!

Stone Records Susanna Andersson: soprano Little Venice Ensemble ANON.: Bereden väg för herran • Ding dong merrily on high • Deck the Halls • God rest ye merry, gentlemen • Still, Still, Still • VIVALDI: Winter Largo • DARKE: In the bleak midwinter • CHARPENTIER: Joseph est bien marié • GRAINGER: Sussex Mummers • AUTRY/HALDERMAN: Here Comes Santa Claus • ANDERSON: Sleigh Ride • J.S. BACH: In dilci jubilo • GARDNER: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day • BRAHMS: Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen • GRUBER: Silent Night • TÉGNER: Betlehems Stjärna • LEIJON: I Betlehem • KÖHLER: Nu tändas tusen juleljus • MORAEUS: Koppången • REGER: Marias Wiegendlied • BLANE: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas • ZAUBER/STROBEL: Keeping the dream alive “The perfect classical Christmas CD.” — Wall Street Journal

Susan Andersson Deck the Halls

A wonderful Christmas disc from the London-based Little Venice Ensemble with Swedish star soprano Susanna Andersson! This is a kaleidoscope recital of classical, popular, and folk song, all wonderfully arranged for this brilliant classical group.

Every piece on this personal, eclectic mix is performed with stylish grace and disarming sincerity, guaranteed to charm music lovers everywhere.

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Nimbus Records Charlotte de Rothschild: soprano Danielle Perrett: harp RUBBRA: A Hymn to the Virgin • WARLOCK: Adam Lay ybounden • RUBBRA: Jesukin • QUILTER: An Old Carol • DUNHILL: To the Queen of Heaven • OLD FRENCH CAROL: Let all Mortal Flesh keep, arr. Cambern • REGER: Mariä Wiegenlied • QUILTER: The Cradle in Bethlehem • HEAD: The Little Road to Bethlehem • Star Candles • PRAETORIUS: Lo, How a Rose e’er, arr. Cambern • WARLOCK: The First Mercy • IRELAND: The Holy Boy • TRAD.: What Child is This, arr. Perrett • O Come O Come Emmanuel, arr.

Cambern Harp • CORNELIUS: Die Könige [The Kings] • ADAM: Cantique de Noël • NILES: I Wonder as I Wander, arr. Calvert • BRITTEN: Corpus Christi Carol • BLAKE: Walking in the Air (The Snowman) • TORME/WELLS: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire A selection of well-known carols and gentle lullabies on Christ’s conception and birth, performed by the intimate combination of harp and soprano voice.

Charlotte de Rothschild Christmas Lullabies CD: NIM 7095 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Nimbus Alliance Les Sirenes BRITTEN: A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 • Sweet was the Song • A Wealdon Trio-The Song of the Woman • The Oxen • O’REGAN: Bring Rest, Sweet Dreaming Child • TRAD: The Coventry Carol, arr. Salter • HOLT: Jesu, Thou the Virgin-Born • LEDGER: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John • A Lullaby for Becky • ELGAR: The Snow • RUTTER: Deck the Halls • Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day • A Merry Christmas There Is No Rose explores a wealth of repertoire drawn from the compositional output for female voices, from a wonderful group of British composers.

The first part of the CD celebrates the centenary of one of the most prolific British composers of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten, while the rest of the program includes such gems as an incredibly moving setting by Tarik O’Regan of a poignant poem by Anglican priest-poet Mark Pryce, a world-premiere recording of the haunting Coventry Carol set for four-part female choir by Lionel Salter, and Elgar’s The Snow, a real showpiece for Les Sirènes and one of the works that secured their place in the Grand Final of Choir of the Year 2012!

Les Sirenes

There Is No Rose: Christmas Choral Works CD: NIM 6249 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Discovery Music & Vision Incantation Jacqui Dankworth: vocals Cathy Russell: vocals Maggie Boyle: vocals Track Listing: What is this Fragrance • I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing By • Torches • Our Lady • How Hard is Bloweth/A Solis Ortus Cardine • The Virgin Mother • The Holly and the Ivy/In Dulci Jubilo • Lullay thy Tiny Little Child • The Angel Gabriel • The Child Divine/A Shepherd’s Story • Spiritual • The Wexford Carol/A Virgine Most Pure • Jesu Redemptor Omnium In 1992, after ten years of Incantation’s existence, Mike Taylor and Tony Hinnigan decided they would like to try something different. They had the idea initially to make an album of “alternative” Christmas carols, and got together with their friend and colleague Tony Maloney to start their research.

This they did mainly in the library of the English Folk Song and Dance Society at Cecil Sharp House in London, and soon found there was a wealth of material from all over the world dating back as far as the fifth century AD! The songs for this album consist of a number of unjustly neglected music. Their approach was to take well-known songs (such as “The Holly and the Ivy”) and reinterpret them with different tunes, or to take a notated tune and simply interpret it, without any constraints of tradition or style.

Incantation

A Celtic Christmas CD: DMV 108 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Regent Records David Leigh: organ Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Choir Stuart Nicholson: director WADE: O come all ye faithful, arr. Wilcocks • POSTON: Jesus Christ the apple tree • TRAD.: The Holly and the Ivy, arr. Dexter • Ding Dong! Merrily on High, arr. Nicholson • O Little Town of Bethlehem, arr. Vaughan and Armstrong • In dilci jubilo, arr. De Pearsall • God rest ye merry gentlemen, arr. Wilcocks • Wexford Carol, arr. Noon • GANT: What Child is This • BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin • J.S. BACH: In Dulci Jubilo, BWV 729 • CHILCOTT: Shepherd’s Carol • DINES: Star of the East • HOWELLS: Here is the little door • RÜTTI: My Dancing Day • RUTTER: What Sweeter Music • HANDEL: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, arr. Hewson, Bannister and Nicholson

Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Choir Christmas from Dublin CD: REG 418 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

A beautiful collection of Christmas music from the men and boys’ choir of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin! In addition to popular favorites there are new arrangements of “The Holly and the Ivy,” the traditional Irish “Wexford Carol,” and a haunting new carol for Epiphany from young composer & choir member Ernest Dines. Some of the carols feature brass in rousing fanfares and uplifting accompaniments, and the collection comes to a thrilling conclusion with “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing” in the unique version sung every Christmas in St. Patrick’s to the tune of Handel’s’ See, the conqu’ring hero comes from Judas Maccabeus.

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EM Records Stephen King: organ Mark Williams: piano City of London Choir Paulina Voices The Holst Orchestra Hilary Davan Wetton: conductor GARDNER: Cantata for Christmas, Op. 82 • Angels from the realms of Glory, Op. 58/1 • O little town of Bethlehem, Op. 149/1 • Sunny Bank Carol, Op. 141 • Entry of the three Kings • Good King Wenceslas, Op. 75/1 • Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, Op. 75/2 • The Holly and the Ivy, Op. 58/2 • We wish you a merry Christmas • Chamber Concerto for Organ and 10 Players, Op. 102

John GARDNER

Cantata for Christmas CD: EMR 9 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25

The astonishingly prolific John Gardner has yet to receive his due rewards, and still remains one of the most original and intriguing figures in English 20th-century music. The Cantata for Christmas, scored for double choir and small orchestra, receives its world premiere recording here. It opens similarly to Honegger’s Christmas Cantata, written about 14 years earlier, and uses the German Advent chorale “Wie schon leuchtet.” The texts used include “Ode on the birth of our Saviour” by Robert Herrick, which is followed by “Les anges dans nos campagnes” set in the original French. The album also includes eight Christmas carols, some using the traditional melodies, like “Good King Wenceslas.”

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Wet Foot Music Vicki Swan: vocals, Swedish nyckelharpa, oktavharpa, flute, double bass Jonny Dyer: vocals, guitars, accordion, bouzouki, spinet, bass TRAD., arr Dyer/Swan: I Saw Three Ships/Riddaren • TRAD., arr. Dyer: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen • Coventry Carol/Borealis • Good Christian Men Rejoice • Good King Wenceslas • Down In Yon Forest • Deck The Halls • The Holly And The Ivy • Essex Wassail • Past Three O’Clock • Jingle Bells • Silent Night • Sussex Carol • We Wish You A Merry Christmas/Minuet/Hedingham Fair The form of most of today’s traditional Christmas carols can be traced back to the mid-19th century. In A Sound of Christmas Past, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer have created a sound that celebrates the Victorian Christmas carol by bringing together some of the best known (and lesser-known) carols, presenting them in a sensitive, beautiful, and honest way reminiscent of the West Gallery Singers of the time.

Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer A Sound of Christmas Past CD: LNH WFM 140501 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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