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September 2010 Release Date: September 14, 2010 A d i v i s i o n o f A l l e g ro M e d i a G ro u p

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Jake Heggie

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Contents Mr McFall’s Chamber Lalo Schifrin

QUATTRO LIVE

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JULY 2010 TOP 10 NEW RELEASES 1. Klaus Lang & Annelie Gahl CNO 20292 Cage: Melodies & Harmonies 2. Apollo’s Fire AVR 2159

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uattro Live, the record label of classical station Radio 4, was created to make exceptional recordings of public broadcasting ensembles accessible to a wide audience. Productions take place in close cooperation with the Broadcasting Music Centre, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, and the organizations that make up the Dutch public broadcasting system.

Quattro Live comes to Allegro Classical via Challenge Records.

Mozart: Symphony No. 40

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3. Apollo’s Fire AVR 2207

DELPHIAN RECORDS

J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

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4. Grup Instrumental de València ANE 3001 Guerrero Chamber Music 5. Vladimir Feltsman NIM 6120 Beethoven Piano Sonatas 6. La Divina Armonia PAS 964 Feo: St. John Passion 7. Handley & Groves LYR 340 Joubert: First Symphonies 8. RPO/Carl Davis RPM 28780

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elphian Records was born 10 years ago out of the hothouse of artistic activity that takes place around Edinburgh’s International Festivals.

The catalog, curated by native Scot Paul Baxter, draws on the more intriguing and lesser-known areas of the repertoire, with a special focus on Scottish art music. Relationships are developed with artists, resulting in some interesting series—and sometimes fascinating diversions. Be it the sophisticated song of Ronald Stevenson, the piping strains of Martyn Bennett, or the prose of Alexander McCall Smith, if it’s on Delphian it’s sure to surprise.

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances

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The Wandering Bassoon

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CORO

Release Date: September 14, 2010

W.A. MOZART Mass in C minor

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Cat # CRO 16084 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Handel and Haydn Society Harry Christophers: director Gillian Keith: soprano Tove Dahlberg: mezzo-soprano Thomas Cooley: tenor Nathan Berg: bass-baritone MOZART: Mass in C minor “Under the direction of Harry Christophers, some exceptionally lively music-making … his conducting telegraphs a constant sense of motion, as if every phrase should be going some place in particular.” — Boston Globe CORO releases a brand new recording of Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Handel and Haydn Society, the United State’s oldest continuously performing orchestra & chorus, and their new Artistic Director and conductor Harry Christophers. Mozart’s Mass in C minor is one of the best known and most widely performed of the composer’s mass settings. It is generally considered to be one of his greatest works and, as such, is often referred to as the “Great Mass.”

Upcoming performances include a string of October/November dates at Boston’s Symphony Hall, as well as several April 2011 dates at Boston’s St. Cecilia Church in Back Bay and the Memorial Church at Harvard University.

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Release Date: September 14, 2010 Elin Manahan Thomas: soprano David Miller: lute, theorbo PURCELL: Morning Hymn (Thou wakefull Shepherd) • How Long Great God (The Aspiration) • The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation • A Divine Hymn (Lord, what is Man) • Sleep, Adam, Sleep, and take thy rest • An Evening Hymn • DOWLAND: Preludium • Thou mightie God • When Davids life

by Saul. 2. part • Galliard to Lachrimae • Where Sinne sore wounding • In this trembling shadow • If that a Sinners sighes be Angels food • CAMPIAN: Never weather-beaten Saile • Author of light • WILSON: Prelude 18 • HUMFREY: Sleep downy sleep, come close mine eyes • A Hymn to God the Father • LAWRENCE: Lute Suite • ANONYMOUS: Miserere, my Maker “An effortless soprano.” — BBC Music magazine

Elin Manahan Thomas & David Miller Ravish’d with Sacred Extasies

CORO continues its work with the rising stars of the early music world on this brand new recording by two of The Sixteen’s principal members—soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and theorbo & lute player David Miller. Thomas was the soloist on the incredibly successful Fauré Requiem recording, released on CORO in 2008. Ravish’d with Sacred Extasies explores some of the most beautiful Elizabethan lute songs, ranging from Dowland’s small cluster of late devotional songs to Purcell’s flowery and luscious settings.

Cat # CRO 16081 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Quattro Live Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Edo de Waart, Richard Dufallo: conductors Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Bernard Haitink, Edo de Waart, Riccardo Chailly: conductors Aurelia Saxophone Quartet Amsterdam Loekie Stardust Quartet KEURIS: Quartet for Orchestra • Saxophone Quartet • Sinfonia for Orchestra • Piano Concerto • Violin Concertos 1 & 2 • String Quartets 1 & 2 • Piano Trio • Clarinet Quintet • To Brooklyn Bridge, for 24 voices & ensemble • Double Concerto for 2 cellos • Organ Concerto • Symphonies in D (2) • String Sextet • Chamber Concerto for accordion & ensemble • Fingerprints, for piano • Oboe Serenade • Fantasia for flute • Symphonic Transformations • 5 Pieces for Brass Quintet • and more All of the official works of Tristan Keuris (1946–1996) in one box—fifty compositions from a life that was granted only that many years, from a composer who for nearly 30 years held a prominent position in Dutch musical life.

Tristan KEURIS Complete Works

Cat # QUT 2009 Price Code: 12D (SRP $83.99) Number of Discs: 11 Box Set; Box Lot 4 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Avie Records

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Jake HEGGIE Passing By

Cat # AVR 2198 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Isabel Bayrakdarian, Frederica von Stade: sopranos Zheng Cao, Susan Graham, Joyce DiDonato: mezzo-sopranos Paul Groves, Keith Phares: tenors Dawn Harms: violin CarlaMaria Rodrigues: viola Emil Miland: cello Jake Heggie: piano HEGGIE: A Lucky Child, from At the Statue of Venus • Some Times of Day • Facing Forward/Looking Back • Here and Gone • To Say Before Going to Sleep • Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia • Final Monologue from Master Class “Heggie may prove to be contemporary opera’s savior.” — Chicago Tribune One of the leading American composers of his generation, Jake Heggie arrives on Avie with a gorgeous collection of new songs performed by a stunning array of international vocalists. Fresh from the success of the Dallas Opera premiere of his Moby Dick, the Guggenheim Fellowship recipient describes this collection as “songs that tell stories about now and then.” Indelibly associated with his acclaimed operas, including Dead Man Walking (Top 10 Billboard Classical Chart), Three Decembers, and The End of the Affair, Jake’s heart and soul lie in storytelling through song. With lyrics and poetry by A.E. Housman, Terrence McNally, and Rainer Maria Rilke, these songs reflect the great American songbook tradition, replete with striking observations of life’s journeys. Upcoming performance October 15, 2010 at the 31st Anniversary Gala of San Francisco Performances, Inc. Multiple performances in January­–April 2011 with the Houston Grand Opera, at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and with the Seattle Men’s Chorus.

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Avie Records

Release Date: September 14, 2010 Apollo’s Fire Jeannette Sorrell: conductor MONTEVERDI: Vespers of 1610 Cleveland-based baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire launched on Avie in July 2010 with a double release featuring Mozart and Bach. They follow with their tribute to the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi’s seminal Vespers of the Blessed Virgin, released in anticipation of the group’s seven-city tour in October 2010 performing this work. Vespers has been a signature piece for Apollo’s Fire for over ten years, and it’s fitting for Sorrell and her vibrant band—already well-known through their extensive national touring and NPR broadcasts—to bring this magnificent masterwork to wider audiences through this recording.

Claudio MONTEVERDI Vespers of 1610

Cat # AVR 2206 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline; Box Lot 25

Apollo’s Fire Monteverdi Vespers 400 th Anniversary Tour October 6 Toledo, OH – Rosary Cathedral October 12 Columbus, OH – Early Music Columbus October 14 Ithaca, NY – Cornell University October 15 State College, PA – Penn State University October 17 St. Louis, MO – St. Louis Cathedral October 19 Santa Fe, NM – Lensic Performing Arts Center November 21 New York, NY – Music Before 1800

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Marina Piccinini: flute Brasil Guitar Duo J.S. BACH: Flute Sonatas (6), BWV 1030–1035 • Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 “Marina Piccinini’s flute-playing is very special, her lyrical phrasing cool, exquisitely shaped, and with an underlying delicate sensuality.” — Gramophone One of the world’s leading flute virtuosos presents unique transcriptions of Bach’s evergreen Flute Sonatas. Eschewing the typical accompaniment, Marina records these works as never before, with a pair of guitars in the form of the Brasil Guitar Duo, winners of the 2006 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Rounding out the two-CD set is Marina’s exquisite version of the Solo Partita in A minor.

J.S. BACH

Flute Sonatas

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Cat # AVR 2196 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline; Box Lot 25

PROKOFIEV Flute & Piano Recital Cat # AVR 2087 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99)

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Release Date: September 14, 2010

Avie Records

Irish Baroque Orchestra

Flights of Fantasy: Early Italian Chamber Music BUZZ ALERT

Cat # AVR 2202 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Irish Baroque Orchestra Monica Huggett: director CASTELLO: Sonata decimaquarta à 4 • Sonata decima sesta à 4 • FARINA: Capriccio Stravagante • CAVALLI: Sonate à 6 • MARINI: Passacaglio à 4 • BIBER: Harmonia Artificiosa Partia VI • LEGRANZI: La Fugazza • Sonate à 5 • Sonata Seconda • BERTALI: Sonata à 5 • FRESCOBALDI: Canzona Terza Think you know Italian baroque chamber music? Think again! The range, diversity—even wackiness—is remarkable, as illustrated

by Flights of Fantasy, an album of acute inventiveness by Avie stalwart Monica Huggett and the chamber soloists of her Irish Baroque Orchestra. Created in 1996, the period-instrument Irish Baroque Orchestra occupies a fundamental place in Ireland’s musical landscape.

Ten years in, the mantle of artistic director was assumed by Monica Huggett, who has created a decades-long career of critically acclaimed and award-winning recordings including the Billboard chart-topping, Grammy-nominated Bach Orchestral Suites. also available J.S. BACH Orchestral Suites for a young price Cat # AVR 2171 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) U.S. ORDERS ONLY

GRAMMY NOMINEE! CLASSIC FM CD OF THE WEEK!

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Delphian Records

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Gavin BRYARS

The Church Closest to the Sea Cat # DPH 34058 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Includes world premiere recordings

Mr McFall’s Chamber Rick Standley: double bass Susan Hamilton: soprano Nicholas Mulroy: tenor BRYARS: Eight Irish Madrigals • Epilogue from Wonderlawn • The Church Closest to the Sea “Written for Mr McFall’s Chamber following a chance meeting with the Scots ensemble’s fellow bass player, The Church Closest to the Sea favours the subterranean tones of double bass, tam-tam, bass drum, and piano to furnish a brooding sensibility, like a relaxed but furtive stroll along the sea bed.” — The Independent “The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit, and is deeply moving.” — Michael Ondaatje The double bass has always been close to Gavin Bryars’ heart. His own instrument, it has also featured strongly in his music for other players—as in The Church Closest to the Sea, written for Mr McFall’s Chamber and their bassist Rick Standley. Bryars’ music straddles worlds: classical and jazz, composition and improvisation, the works on this disc moving between the lushly sensuous and the coolly laid-back as they meditate on geographical and emotional borderlands. Includes two world premiere recordings.

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Release Date: September 14, 2010

Delphian Records

Martyn BENNETT & Fraser FIFIELD Birds & Beasts

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Cat # DPH 34085 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Mr McFall’s Chamber BENNETT (arr. McFall): Cuillin Part 2 • The Miller • Swallowtail • Aye • Peewits • Kilchoan Ferry • Piece for string quartet, percussion and Scottish smallpipes in C • FIFIELD: The Beast • Knives in Hens “I believe the group—in what it does, and in what it represents—is potentially the most important single development on the Scottish musical scene in a long time.” — Michael Tumelty, The Herald Martyn Bennett was one of Scotland’s most innovative musicians, combining traditional and modern, local and international. A long-planned collaboration with Mr McFall’s Chamber was never realized during his tragically short lifetime. For their second disc with Delphian, Robert McFall has put together a program of his own sympathetic arrangements of Bennett’s music alongside original works by Fraser Fifield, another of Scotland’s virtuosic musical innovators. The premiere recording of Bennett’s “Piece” epitomizes his sophisticated mastery of fusion.

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KAIROS

Release Date: September 14, 2010 Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart Neue Musik Berlin Duo Alberdi & Aizpiolea Experimental Studio of the SWR José M. Sánchez-Verdú: director SÁNCHEZ-VERDÚ: AURA (complete chamber opera) This chamber opera, based on the eponymous novel by Carlos Fuentes, is a piece about reality and fiction, about the strength of the imagination and the power of the past, and about love. The spherical, “auratic” sound is provided by the auraphone, an instrument Sánchez-Verdú developed specifically for this work that consists of three gongs and two tam-tams.

Stimulated by the voices of the singers and/or by certain instruments from the ensemble, the gongs are made to resonate by electronic means, causing the sounds to ring out as if from nowhere.

José M. SÁNCHEZ-VERDÚ AURA

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Cat # KRO 13052 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 25

SÁNCHEZ-VERDÚ Alqibla Cat # KRO 12782 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99)

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SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden & Freiburg Sylvain Cambreling: conductor Vienna ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Dennis Russell Davies, Friedrich Cerha: conductors CERHA: Spiegel I–­VII • Monumentum • Momente This two-SACD set, in celebration of Cerha’s upcoming 85th anniversary (February 2011), includes an extensive booklet. Spiegel is one of the most important works of this century!

Friedrich CERHA

Spiegel-Monumentum-Momente Cat # KRO 13002 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Digipak; Box Lot 11 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Includes world premiere recording

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Cover sticker: SACD includes booklet with comments by Pierre Boulez, GyÖrgy KurtÁg, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, and more

Release Date: September 14, 2010

TRITON

Vladimir Ashkenazy: piano SIBELIUS: Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1 (2 versions) • Impromptu in B minor, Op. 5, No. 5 • 10 Pieces, Op. 58 • 5 Pieces, Op. 85 • 5 Pieces romantiques, Op. 101 • 5 Esquisses, Op. 114 After a series of symphonic recordings, one of the greatest musicians of our time completes his love of Sibelius with solo performances of the composer’s intimate piano pieces. Vladimir Ashkenazy recorded these works at Jarvenpaa Hall—which has the best acoustics in Finland—and at Ainola, the composer’s own home. For “Valse triste,” one of the most popular Sibelius pieces, Ashkenazy recorded the composer’s transcription twice—first at Jarvenpaa, and then at Ainola using the composer’s piano. also available SIBELIUS Symphonies 1 & 2 Cat # EXN 279 Price Code: Y (SRP $24.99) U.S. ORDERS ONLY

SIBELIUS Symphonies 4 & 5 Cat # EXN 282 Price Code: Y (SRP $24.99) U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Jean SIBELIUS

Piano Pieces

Cat # EXN TRI 17 Price Code: Y (SRP $24.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

EXTON Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Sakari Oramo: conductor MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 in D “Titan” This new recording of Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is produced by EXTON, the Japanese classical music label internationally known for its audio quality. Sakari Oramo, a great talent who devotes all of his energy to the music, is chief conductor and artistic advisor of this orchestra, and this recording of Mahler’s First Symphony reveals how wonderfully their chemistry works!

Gustav MAHLER

Symphony No. 1 in D major “Titan” Cat # EXN 34 Price Code: Y (SRP $24.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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æon

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Jonathan HARVEY Speakings

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov: conductor HARVEY: Scena for violin & ensemble • Jubilus for clarinet & ensemble • Speaking for large orchestra & electronics Cat # AEN 1090 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30

Here, Jonathan Harvey fulfils his dream of a “vocal orchestra.”

Speakings is a prototype—through the filter of analysis, automatic transcription, and the utilization of orchestration software created at IRCAM, Speakings approaches its aim by “musicalizing” speech and simultaneously using a virtual voice.

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Zig-Zag Territoires Johannes BRAHMS Violin Sonatas

Geneviève Laurenceau: violin/Johan Farjot: piano BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G, Op. 78 • Violin Sonata No. 2 in in A, Op. 100 • Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 Cat # ZIG 100802 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30

Zig-Zag Territoires is pleased to present Geneviève Laurenceau—brilliant violinist, super-soloist of the Orchestre Du Capitole de Toulouse, first prizewinner at the Novossibirsk International Competition, and winner of the Grand Prix of the Maurice Ravel Academy.

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Johann ROSENMÜLLER Beatus Vir?

Raquel Andueza: soprano/Wolf Matthias Friedrich: bass/ Gli Incogniti/Amandine Beyer: violin, director ROSENMÜLLER: Salve mi Jesu • Jubilate • Coeletes Spiritus • 3 Sonate a stromenti da Arco & Altri • Nisi Dominus • N160 Cat # ZIG 100801 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Amandine Beyer recently found unedited motets of Johann Rosenmüller in the Berlin Library, and decided to record these amazing pieces. The Beatus Vir of the Nisi Dominus opens with a gentle vocal line before transforming into a whirlwind of sensations—an almost desperate cry that remains unanswered.

Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER Motets, O Maria!

Ensemble Correspondances/Sébastien Daucé: organ, harpsichord, director

Cat # ZIG 100601 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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CHARPENTIER: Prélude pour ce que l’on voudra • In odorem unguentorum • Beati omnes qui timent Dominum • O sacramentum pietatis • Pie Jesu • Super flumina Babylonis • Sonata I (Jacquet de la Guerre) • Gratiarum actiones pro restituta Regis Christianissimi sanitate • Magdalena lugens • Supplicatio pro defunctis A young, rising baroque group that emerged from the Pygmalion Ensemble presents unedited motets of Marc Antoine Charpentier.

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Aleph Records

Lalo SCHIFRIN Romerías

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Cat # ALH 44 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Sergio Puccini, Sabina Puccini: guitars Gabriel Leo: flute SCHIFRIN: Romerías • BEVACQUA: Preludio Otoñal • RUGELES: Tanguitis • BROUWER: Nuevos Estudios Sencillos • DADA: Ya Qalbi • PIAZZOLLA: Libertango • DE FALLA: Homenaje a Debussy • Danza del Molinero • DUARTE: Sua Cosa, Op. 52 • NAVARRO: Calle de las Fraguas • S. PUCCINI: Lluvia “My music is not so difficult to play, but most important are the accents and the flavor. Mr. Puccini got them, and that makes me very happy. Forza Puccini!” — Astor Piazzolla This is the world premiere recording of Romerías, a suite for solo guitar in nine movements written by Lalo Schifrin, who says, “‘Romerías’ in Spanish means ‘carnivals’ or ‘big parties,’ where there is a display of popular arts, food, and drinks. Romerías for solo guitar is a suite that reflects that feeling of celebration. It explores the different possibilities of this great instrument within the parameters of classical, popular, and folk elements. At the same time, it also brings out the various potentialities of the guitar technique.”

The CD also contains other works by various composers, many written specifically for Sergio Puccini.

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Arcana

Cat # RCE 303 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak; Box Lot 25

Cat # ACA 339 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30

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J.S. BACH

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Johan Heinrich SCHMELZER

The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080

La Margarita: Music for the Courts of Vienna and Prague

Bernard Foccroulle: organ

Armonico Tributo Austria/Lorenz Duftschmid: conductor J.S. BACH: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 After having recorded the complete organ works of Bach, Bernard Foccroulle rounds off his musical voyage with the Art of Fugue.

A true example of ars perfecta, the Art of Fugue is not simply a demonstration of contrapuntal theory intended for musicians adept in refined polyphonic technique. Each piece is a small jewel, whose harmonic language and expression are revealed to all who listen carefully.

SCHMELZER: Balletto a cavallo • Sonatas 1, 4, 8, 9 & 12 • Song “In jenem Gefilde” • Die Fechtschule • Lamento sopra la morte Ferdinandi III • Balletti A marvelous way to make the acquaintance of the Viennese Court’s first native Kapellmeister, affording an all-encompassing view of including a state occasion, a private expression of grief, religious & chamber music, and a concluding ballet suite assembled from short carnival pieces.

Challenge Classics

Cat # CHR 72376 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Cat # CHR 72375 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Julius Berger

Goeyvaerts String Trio

Julius Berger: cello

Kristien Roels: violin/Kris Matthynssens: viola/Pieter Stas: cello

MEYER: Sonata No. 2, Op. 109 • B. HUMMEL: Fantasia I in G, Op. 77d • Fantasia II in memoriam Pablo Casals, Op. 97a • REGNER: Abendlieder • KILMAYER: Bayerischer Ländler • Kimbrisches Lied mit Tanz • THEODORAKIS: East of the Aegean

SCHOENBERG: String Trio, Op. 45 • WEBERN: String Trio, Op. 20 • Movement for String Trio, Op. posth. • SCHNITTKE: String Trio • with voice of Arnold Schoenberg on broadcast of the String Trio, Op. 45

Music for My Cello

Master cellist Julius Berger is well known for his mesmerizing performances of contemporary works.

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String Trios

On this wonderful disc, the Goeyvarts String Trio plays difficult pieces of Schönberg, Webern, and Schnittke in dazzling form and with a high level of perfection!

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Challenge Classics

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Ton Koopman: conductor HAYDN: Symphony No. 97 in C • Symphony No. 98 in B-flat “Chorus and orchestra are first rate, and Koopman manages his forces to effectively capture and deliver the many profoundly moving moments found throughout these scores.” — Classics Today (on Bach Cantatas) The first volume in the series of twelve London Symphonies of Joseph Haydn, recorded and released by Ton Koopman and his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Haydn is at his best in the 12 London Symphonies, which begin here with Symphonies 97 & 98.

Joseph HAYDN

London Symphonies (97 & 98) Cat # CHR 72360 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Wulfin Lieske, Fabian Spindler: guitars ALBÉNIZ: Iberia (3 exc.) • Tango • Tango Español • Mallorca, Op. 202 • Cantos de España (5 exc.) • Rumores de la Caleta • Suite española (4 exc.) • Zambra granadina • Piezas caracteristicas No. 12 • Mallorca (Barcarola) • Asturias On this disc, Wulfin Lieske plays the legendary Torresguitar “La Leona” (FE 04) from the year 1856, while Fabian Spindler can be heard playing the Torres FE 13, dated 1860. Despite their different constructions, the two guitars blend perfectly in the hands of two virtuoso guitarists whose playing is technically perfect, beyond bravura, and deeply touching. This set includes a bonus CD of Lieske playing Albéniz.

Isaac ALBÉNIZ Evocación

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Cat # CHR 72374 Price Code: 2G (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Berlin Classics

Release Date: September 14, 2010

BERLIN CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN More than any other form of music, classical works can arouse wonder in children, stimulate the imagination, or have a calming effect.

Many of the most important composers wrote highly imaginative and sensitive music that intentionally transports listeners into the world of wide-eyed amazement. From that rich treasure, the Classics For Children series now presents a good five hours worth of music, compiled according to theme, that offers stimulus, entertainment, consolation, and fun for various situations, interests, and moods.

Berlin Classics Junior Sweet Dreams Cat # BER 300089 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (exc.) • Piano Concerto No. 21 (exc.) • Clarinet Concerto (exc.) • TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 (exc.) • HAYDN: Piano Concerto in D (exc.) • HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis (exc.) • SCHULZ: Song of Evening “Der Mond ist aufgegangen” • STRAVINSKY: The Firebird (exc.) • BIZET: Symphony No. 1 (exc.) • HUMPERDINCK: Hänsel und Gretel (exc.) • MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (exc.) • J.S. BACH: Orchestral Suite No. 3 (exc.) • BRAHMS: Wiegenlied

Berlin Classics Junior Fairytale Hours Cat # BER 300088 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

HUMPERDINCK: Hänsel und Gretel (exc.) • TCHAIKOVSKY: The Sleeping Beauty (exc.) • The Nutcracker (exc.) • MENDELSSOHN: The Fair Melusine Overture • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (exc.) • PROKOFIEV: The Ugly Duckling • RAVEL: Mother Goose (exc.)

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Berlin Classics Junior Foreign Lands Cat # BER 300087 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

GRIEG: March of the Dwarfs • SMETANA: The Moldau • HAYDN: Rondo all’ungarese • ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsody • MOZART: Alla turca from Piano Sonata No. 11 • MUSSORGSKY: A Night on the Bare Mountain • BIZET: Carillon from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1 • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio espagnol • MILHAUD: Scaramouche (exc.) • TCHAIKOVSKY: Arabian Dance

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Berlin Classics Junior In Search of Nature Cat # BER 300086 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

MOZART: Longing for Spring • Musical Sleigh Ride • VIVALDI: The Four Seasons • MAHLER: Ging heut’ morgen über’s Feld • MESSIAEN: Le Merle noire • DEBUSSY: The Little Shepherd • The snow is dancing

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Berlin Classics Junior Funny Stories Cat # BER 300085 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 9 (exc.) • HAYDN: Symphony No. 94 (exc.) • Symphony No. 45 (exc.) • DEBUSSY: Jimbo’s Lullaby • Golliwog’s Cake-Walk • BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8 (exc.) • Violin Sonata No. 5 (exc.) • FRANÇAIX: Piano Concerto • MOZART: Overture from The Marriage of Figaro • LORTZING: “A, B, C, D” from Der Wildschütz • REGER: Ballet Suite, Op. 130 (exc.) • SATIE: Sonatine bureaucratique • PROKOFIEV: Classical Symphony, Op. 25

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Berlin Classics

Ragna Schirmer: piano BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 • 16 Waltzes, Op. 39 • Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79 Last year Ragna Schirmer was awarded an ECHO Klassik award for her recording of Handel’s Suites. In her latest recording, she pursues the works that Brahms composed based on the “Aria con variazioni.” She impressively illustrates the fact that Brahms’ homage to Handel was only one of his many musical facets: for instance, Brahms also chose to live in Vienna, a fact that is easily recognizable from his sixteen charming waltzes, played by the pianist here in the solo version. Finally, in the turbulent rhapsodies, Schirmer shows Brahms the expressive, using rhapsodic freedom of form in sweeping waves of passion. also available HANDEL Keyboard Suites Cat # BER 16452 Price Code: 3Q (SRP $47.99)

Johannes BRAHMS U.S. ORDERS ONLY

CHOPIN Etudes Cat # BER 300015 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Piano Works

Cat # BER 16652 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Berlin Radio Choir Berlin Singakademie Leipzig Radio Choir Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Chamber Orchestra Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Helmut Koch, Heinz Rögner, Dietrich Knothe, Jörg-Peter Weigle: conductors HANDEL: Complete choruses from Messiah • Choruses from Solomon, Judas Maccabaeus, Belshazar & Israel in Egypt This 3-CD set offers a representative selection of the most popular choruses from Handel’s biblical oratorios, starting with the Messiah, whose choruses fill a whole CD; the “Hallelujah Chorus” represents the ultimate in Baroque oratorio splendor. The other two CDs contain the most important choruses from four other oratorios, and represent an effective cross-section of the works. This fine Handel collection includes a detailed booklet containing summaries of the actions and complete texts of the vocal parts.

George Frideric HANDEL

Choral Works Sung In German Cat # BER 300065 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 3 Double Jewel Case; Box Lot 11 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Royal Philharmonic Masterworks

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vernon Handley: conductor RACHMANINOV: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 One of Britain’s best-known and popular conductors, Vernon Handley was a constant champion of British music throughout his career. His recordings regularly received the highest acclaim from music critics, and he won several major awards, including the Gramophone Award in 1989 for his recording of Robert Simpson’s Symphony No. 9 and a British Record Industry Award for Vaughn Williams’ Symphony No. 5; the latter is part of a complete cycle he recorded with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Handley served as Principal Guest Conductor of the orchestra, and was eventually named their Conductor Laureate. Additional appointments included Associate Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor & Artistic Director of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Handley was also an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Sergei RACHMANINOV

Symphony No. 2 in E Minor Op. 27 Cat # RPM 28220 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Stefan Sanderling: conductor MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 “Scottish” • Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90 “Italian”

Felix MENDELSSOHN Symphonies 3 & 4

Cat # RPM 28340 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Born in 1964, Stefan Sanderling became General Music Director of the Brandenburgische Philharmonie and the Potsdam Opera in 1990, making him one of the youngest conductors to be appointed to such a position.

Receiving early artistic inspiration from his parents, noted conductor Kurt Sanderling and double-bass player Barbara Sanderling, Stefan studied at the Leipzig Conservatory under the watchful eye of Kurt Masur, going on to assist in Hallé and at the Komische Oper Berlin. His conducting career started with the Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra at Tanglewood Summer Music Festival, which enabled him to work with such eminent names as Bernstein, Ozawa, Slatkin, and Temirkanov. Since his appointment at Potsdam, he has conducted many fine orchestras, including Dresdener Staatkapelle, Berliner Sinfonie Orhcestra, Royal Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Orchestra, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra, to name a few.

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Royal Philharmonic Masterworks

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Charles Mackerras: conductor SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture, Op. 96 • Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 Sir Charles Mackerras was born in the US to Australian parents. He studied in Sydney and Prague, and made his debut in opera at Sadler’s Wells. Early engagements include first conductor with the Hamburg State Opera, and from 1970–1977 he was music director of Sadler’s Wells (later English National Opera). Sir Charles is a specialist in the Czech repertory, notably Janáˇcek, and he has recorded a cycle of operas with the Vienna Philharmonic. He has also undertaken a great deal of research of the 18th and 19th centuries, and has recorded many of Mozart’s symphonies and serenades with the Prague Chamber Orchestra. As Principal Guest Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, he recorded The Magic Flute, the first in a series of Mozart’s operas, and conducted the SCO in a concert of Janáˇcek and Schubert.

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH

Festive Overture & Symphony No. 5

Cat # RPM 28370 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra James Lockhart: conductor MOZART: Overture to The Magic Flute • Symphony No. 36 in C major K.425 ‘Linz’ • Symphony No. 39 in E Flat major K.543 James Lockhart began his professional conducting career as assistant to Nicolai Malko with the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, and later became assistant conductor of the BBC Scottish Orchestra. Following a period in continental opera houses—including the Bavarian State Opera as assistant to Ferenc Fricsay, and the University of Texas, where he was Director of the Opera Workshop—he was on the music staff of Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Sadler’s Wells Opera. Maestro Lockhart has been a guest conductor in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Leipzig, and Italy, at the Teatro di San Carlo, the Florence Festival, and with RAI Rome. He has toured with the BBC Welsh Symphony throughout Canada, and conducted the English National Opera during their historic visit to the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

W.A. MOZART

Overture to “Magic Flute” & Symphonies 36 & 39 Cat # RPM 28390 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Meridian Records

British Music Society

Cat # MER 84586 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Cat # NIM BMS 436 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Primrose Piano Quartet

William WORDSWORTH

Susanne Stanzeleit: violin/Robin Ireland: viola/Andrew Fuller: cello/John Thwaites: piano

Raphael Wallfisch: cello/Raphael Terroni: piano

Variations on a Burns Air

British Music for Cello and Piano

BURNS: Air “By Yon Castle Wa” • CASKEN/CUTLER/BEAMISH/ HELLAWELL/FRIBBINS/COHEN/MARTLEW/IRELAND/GOSS/ POTT: Variations on a Burns Air • MAXWELL DAVIES: Piano Quartet • SMIRNOV: Quintet for Piano, Violin, Cello & Double Bass, Op. 72

WORDSWORTH: Sonata No. 2, Op. 66 • Nocturne, Op. 29 • Scherzo, Op. 42 • Sonata for Violincello, Op. 70 • HOLBROOKE: Fantasie-Sonate, Op. 19 • BUSCH: Suite • A Memory • Elegy This CD unites significant cello works by three London-born composers who have undoubtedly had less than their due of critical recognition.

Meridian Records is delighted to announce the release of the Primrose Piano Quartet’s second record in four months—this time, exploring folk-inspired chamber music.

Nimbus Records

Nimbus Alliance

Cat # NIM 6121 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Cat # NIM 5863 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Slimline; Box Lot 25

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Francis POULENC

Carl CZERNY

Ensemble 360

Martin Jones: piano

POULENC: Sonata for flute & piano • Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano • Sonata for clarinet & piano • Sextet for wind quintet & piano • Sonata for oboe & piano

CZERNY: Sonata No. 11 in D-flat • Chanson sans Paroles in A-flat • Sonata No. 1 in A-flat • Sonata No. 2 in A minor • Character Etude in A • Sonatine in A • Sonata No. 7 in E minor

Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK, not only for the quality and integrity of their playing, but also for their ability to communicate the music to a range of different audiences. The ensemble is the resident group of Music In The Round, Britain’s leading chamber music festival outside London.

Beethoven’s pupil, friend, and protégé Carl Czerny is almost forgotten today except as the author of a long-influential piano method. But, like his peers among Beethoven’s circle of friends, Czerny carried on the torch of the late-classical style into the early years of the age of Romanticism, and made a distinctive contribution through his own creative work.

Music for Piano and Wind

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Piano Sonatas,Volume 2

Available Now!

Igudesman & Joo

AS SEEN ON CNN AND YOUTUBE!

Igudesman & Joo

A Little Nightmare Music Cat # IMJ 1 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) Number of Discs: 1 Amaray; Box Lot 25

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Aleksey Igudesman, Richard Hyung-Ki Joo “A Little Nightmare Music brings surrealism to the concert hall and takes its trousers down! Very musical, very engaging, and very funny.”

— Terry Jones, comedian/director, Monty Python “The funniest show on music and the life of musicians I have seen since the great Victor Borge … It isn’t just entertaining, it is hilarious!” — Gidon Kremer Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-Ki Joo are two classical musicians who have taken the world by storm with their unique and hilarious theatrical shows, which combine comedy with classical music and popular culture. Their clips on YouTube, to date, have garnered well over 15 million hits, and they have appeared live on television in several countries, including an exclusive interview for CNN. Equally comfortable performing in classical concert halls or in stadiums in front of huge crowds, their unified dream is to make classical music accessible to a wider, younger audience. Targeted press and radio campaign to prominent radio and media contacts.

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DOREMI

Release Date: September 14, 2010 Julius Katchen: piano Pablo Casals: cello Eugen Jochum: conductor BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58 • Cello Sonata No. 5 in D, Op. 102, No. 2 • 32 Variations on an original theme in C minor • J.S. BACH: Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 Live performances, all on CD for the first time, from one of the most admired pianists of the 20th century! Katchen did not commercially record anything from the Bach keyboard repertoire, or Beethoven’s Sonata & Variations. Here, he is joined by the great cellist Pablo Casals.

Julius Katchen

Beethoven & Bach Cat # DHR 7936 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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first time on CD

Anton Kuerti: piano SCHUMANN: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 • Fantasia in C, Op. 17 Schumann’s Sonata in G minor, Op. 22, is the most frequently played of his three piano sonatas. However, the version heard on this recording has been assembled to include the original last movement, which Schumann scrapped in response to complaints by Clara Wieck, that it was much too difficult! This discarded finale is one of Schumann’s most inspired and original movements.

Anton Kuerti

Kuerti Plays Schumann Cat # DHR 6608 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Release Date: September 14, 2010

Lyrita

London Symphony Orchestra Norman Del Mar: conductor New Philharmonia Orchestra David Atherton: conductor HODDINOTT: Variants for Orchestra, Op. 47 • Night Music for Orchestra, Op. 48 • Sinfonietta No. 1, Op. 56 • Sinfonietta No. 3, Op. 71 • The Sun, The Great Luminary of the Universe, Op. 76 This disc presents some key examples from the composer’s cogently argued, purely abstract works and from his series of pieces inspired by literary or visual images. All five pieces demonstrate his acute ear for orchestral and instrumental sonority, especially in their imaginative use of percussion; they also serve as a reminder of his love for Baroque forms such as passacaglia and ritornello, and his interest in contemporary procedures such as palindromic and aleatory methods.

Alun HODDINOTT

The Sun

Cat # LYR 333 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Summit Records Steven Gross: French horn Camerata Filarmonica Bohemia Jiˇrí Havlík: French horn, conductor HAVLÍK: Concerto for Horn and Strings • STICH-PUNTO: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra No. 5 in F • ROSETTI: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra No. 2 in E-flat “Outstanding, striking the right balance between thoughtfulness and verve, planning and spontaneity … an excellent tone and the ability and temperament to play heroically.” — American Record Guide Steven Gross has appeared on four continents as a soloist, chamber musician, and member of major orchestras. The New York Concert Review described his Carnegie Hall solo recital debut as featuring the “cleanest articulation and purest musicality listenable, bravura display of instrumental technique.”

His recent international solo appearances include the Orchester der Stadt Voecklabruck in Austria, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Moscow Conservatory, the Hornclass and Ameropa festivals in the Czech Republic, and in South Africa at the Stellenbosch Conservatory and the University of Cape Town. Jiˇrí Havlík founded the Camerata Filarmonica Bohemia in 2002.

Originally an ad-hoc group, the orchestra soon won respect for its original programming and performing qualities, which have earned it a distinct place on the Czech musical scene.

Steven Gross

Bohemian Horn Concertos Cat # SMT 546 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Tactus Records

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Marco Enrico BOSSI

Complete Organ Works IV Andrea Macinanti: organ BOSSI: Trois Pièces, Op. 92 • Postludio • Ave Maria (seconda) • Tre pezzi • Interludio • Coprifuoco • Intermezzo lirico • Ricercare Cat # TCT 862714 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Volume four of the complete organ works of Marco Enrico Bossi, featuring great 19th- and 20th-century organ specialist Andrea Macinanti on two period organs.

Antonio VIVALDI

Bassoon Concertos,Vol. II Roberto Giaccaglia: bassoon/Ensemble Respighi VIVALDI: Bassoon Concertos, RV 485, 499, 472, 498, 497, 484 & 495

Cat # TCT 672251 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Great baroque solo bassoon playing by Maestro Giaccaglia (solo bassoon at La Fenice Theater in Venice). Volume two of the Vivaldi bassoon concertos series by Tactus.

Giovanni SGAMBATI

The Complete Piano Works,Vol. I Francesco Caramiello: piano SGAMBATI: Prélude et Fugue, Op. 6 • “Mélodie de Gluck” • 5me Nocturne, Op. 31 • 6me Nocturne, Op. 33 • Boîte à Musique badinage, Op. posth. • Pièces Liriques, Op. 23 • Mélodies Poétiques, Op. 36 Cat # TCT 841901 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Great, undiscovered Italian Romantic piano music! Volumes 4, 5, and 6 have already been released, and have received great attention from specialized press.

SoloVoce Franz von SUPPÉ Missa Dalmatica

Roman Sadnik: tenor/Martin Achrainer: baritone/Bernhard Spingler: bass-baritone/Martin Ranalter, Hubert Hopfgartner: organ/ Concentus Choir Bruneck/Adriano Martinolli-D’arcy: conductor Cat # AVI 8553208 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

World premiere recording

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SUPPÉ: Missa Dalmatica World premiere recording of a recently rediscovered mass, from a composer not usually known for sacred works.

Release Date: September 14, 2010

CAvi-music

Ruhr Piano Festival Portraits V

Francesco Tristano Schlimé, Olga Scheps, Jue Wang, Clemens Berg, Konstantin Shamray, Mizuka Kano: pianos SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C • Carnaval • Arabeske • Humoreske “Vogel als Prophet” • SCHUBERT: Wanderer Fantasy • Impromptu No. 2 • MOZART: Rondo in A minor • MENDELSSOHN: Rondo capriccioso • Song without Words “Spinnerlied” • Prelude & Fugue in F minor • STRAVINSKY: Piano Rag Music • Tango • 3 movements from Petrushka • J.S. BACH: Parititas Nos. 3 & 4 • HAYDN: Sonatas in C & E-flat • FRESCOBALDI: Toccatas Nos. 9 & 8 • BUXTEHUDE: Prelude in G minor • SCRIABIN: Etude, Op. 2, No. 1

Cat # AVI 8553174 Price Code: 6K (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 6 Box Set; Box Lot 14

Stradivarius Ensemble Tripla Concordia The Developing Sonata

Lorenzo Cavasanti: recorders/Caroline Boersma: cello/Sergio Ciomei: harpsichord CORELLI: Sonata in G minor, Op. 5, No. 7 • DALL’ABACO: Sonata in G minor, Op. 1, No. 5 • D. SCARLATTI: Sonata in D minor, K 213 • Cat # STV 33847 Sonata in D minor, K 64 • Sonata in D minor, K 56 • VERACINI: Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Sonata in A minor • MEALLI: Sonata I “La Bernabea” A musical journey that highlights the musical style of the Baroque age, from the early Italian Baroque masterpieces of the 17th century through to the first half of the 18th century.

Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Ivan FEDELE Mosaïque

Francesco D’Orazio: violin/Corinna Mologni: soprano/RAI National Symphony Orchestra/Marco Angius: conductor FEDELE: Concerto • En archè • L’orizzonte di Elettra • Mosaïque Four orchestral pieces by Ivan Fedele! Mosaïque is a re-working of a piece from 1982 for solo violin; L’orizzonte di Elettra was conceived in 1990 as a concerto for viola, live electronics, and chamber orchestra, then rewritten in 2009 for the electric five-string violin.

Cat # STV 33850 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Antonio VIVALDI Cupido tu vedi

Raffaella Milanesi: soprano/Laura Colucci, Manuel Granatiero: flutes/Marco Ceccato: cello/Academia Ottoboni VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor, RV 440 • Che giova il sospirar, povero core, RV 679 • Concerto in D minor, RV 406 • All’ombra di sospetto, RV 678 • Concerto in C, RV 533 • Vengo a voi luci adorate, RV 682 • Concerto in G minor, RV 439 “La Notte” The peculiar feature of this record is the great variety of the musical styles represented: instrumental and vocal music, with well-known concertos alongside those that are less famous.

Cat # STV 33856 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Stradivarius

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Cat # STV 33837 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 40

Cat # STV 33840 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 37

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Includes world premiere recordings

Mark ANDRE

Giorgio Federico GHEDINI

Ensemble Alternance

Francesco Parrino: violin/Stefano Parrino: flute/Stesichoros Chamber Orchestra/Francesco Di Mauro: conductor

Music

Concerto all’aperto

ANDRE: iv 4 • Contrapunctus • “… zum staub solist du zurückkehren…” • iv 3 • iv 2 Ensemble Alternance plays the music of Mark Andre, a young, well-known Parisian composer who studied composition with Helmut Lachenmann at the Hochschule für Musik and computer music with André Richard at the Experimental Studio of the Heinrich-Strobel Foundation.

GHEDINI: Sonata da concerto • Concerto detto “L’Alderina” • Concerto detto “Il belprato” Together with excellent soloists Francesco Parrino and Stefano Parrino, the Stesichoros Chamber Orchestra presents three works

by Giorgio Federico Ghedini, a great protagonist of the European music created in the 20th century.

Cat # STV 33863 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 36

Cat # STV 33587 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 33

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John CAGE

Adriano BANCHIERI

Simone Mancuso: percussion

Delitiae Musicae Ensemble/Marco Longhini: conductor/Raffaele Gangale: narrator/Alessandro Carmignani: tenor, countertenor/ Paolo Costa: countertenor, baritone/Marcello Vargetto: countertenor, bass

Child of Tree

CAGE: Child of three • Silence I • Branches I • Silence II • Branches II • Silence III • SCIARRINO: Il legno e la parola • SCELSI: Maknongan This record is entirely devoted to wood percussion, of which Simone Mancuso is a leading specialist.

Il Studio Dilettevole & Il Metamorfosi Musicale

BANCHIERI: Il Studio Dilettevole • Il Metamorfosi Musicale The two works presented on this CD represent the chronological heart of Banchieri’s most typical production, shedding light on Italian “minor” musical history of the end of the 16th century.

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Release Date: September 14, 2010

Cat # QTZ 2073 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Cat # QTZ 2071 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Tim A. DUNCAN & Edward BARNWELL

Grace Francis

Matt Hugh: violin/Sarah Whewell: flute/Rachael Clegg: oboe/ Naomi Atherton: horn/Edward Barnwell: piano/David Alexander: percussion/Moscow State Cinema Orchestra/Sergei Skripka: conductor

Grace Francis: piano

Cinderella On Ice

Quartz Music

Brahms & Liszt

BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Book II, Op. 35 • Sonata in C, Op. 1 • LISZT: Funérailles • Ave Maria • Sonetto del Petrarca 104 • Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli

DUNCAN/BARNWELL: Cinderella On Ice This newly commissioned score, composed by two highly regarded contemporary composers, is recorded by the 72-piece Moscow State Cinematic Orchestra and 10 soloists from the Manchester Symphony Orchestra.

Grace Francis attended the Yehudi Menuhin School before studying with Irina Zaritskaya at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded the Chappell Gold Medal, the highest award for a pianist. Among other prizes, she was a winner of the Negrada Piano House Heferer Award at the EPTA International Competition in Zagreb.

Cat # QTZ 2069 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Cat # QTZ 2075 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Michael NYMAN

Fernando Marin

Ksenia Bashmet: piano

Fernando Marin: vihuela de arco, lyra-viol, viola da gamba

NYMAN: The Piano: The Promise/The Heart Asks Pleasure First; The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle; All Imperfect Things; Silver-Fingered Fling; Lost and Found; The Mood that Passes Through You; Big My Secret • Gattaca: The Morrow; The Departure • Wonderland: Franklyn; Nadia; Jack; Debbie; Bill • Man with a Movie Camera: Odessa Beach • The Diary of Anne Frank: The Schoolroom; Why?; If; Candlefire • The End of the Affair: Diary of Love • The Claim: The Exchange • Enemy Zero: Digital Tragedy; Love

ORTIZ: Tratado de Glossas • CABEZÓN: Fabordón del sexto tono y glosado del tiple • FERRABOSCO: Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la (Fantasia a tres) • Lesson for the Lyra Violl • SAINT-COLOMBE: Pièces de Viole: Chaconne • DE MACHY: Pièces de Viole: Prelude, Allemande • TELEMANN: Der Getreute Musickemeister (exc.) • ABEL: Pièces de Viole: Allegro from Sonata in D minor

Piano Collection

An album of the major solo piano works of Michael Nyman!

Recorded by Ksenia Bashmet, the daughter of Yuri Bashmet, this recording offers a fresh interpretation of Nyman’s music.

eVIOLution

This recording serves as homage to the memory of the glorious period, in which some of these instruments existed, in the form of a suggestive approach to the disquieting and enigmatic sonic world of the time.

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CRD Records

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CRD REISSUES THESE GREAT MULTI-CD SETS AT A NEW PRICE! W.A. MOZART

The Ten Great String Quartets Cat # CRR 5005 Price Code: 5J (SRP $49.99) Number of Discs: 5 Box Set; Box Lot unknown

MOZART: String Quartets K. 307, 421/417b, 482/421b, 458, 464, 465, 499, 575, 589 & 590

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Gabriel FAURÉ

The Complete Piano Works Cat # CRR 5006 Price Code: 5J (SRP $49.99) Number of Discs: 5 Box Set; Box Lot unknown

FAURÉ: Nocturnes • Pièces Brèves • Barcarolles • Préludes • Impromptus • Valses-Caprices • Romances • Ballade • Mazurka • Theme & Variations, Op. 73

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Choir of New College Oxford

Choral Masterpieces of the English Renaissance Cat # CRR 5007 Price Code: 5J (SRP $49.99) Number of Discs: 5 Box Set; Box Lot unknown

Works by Taverner, Tallis, Tye, Gibbons & Tomkins

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Choir of New College Oxford

Choral Masterpieces of the European Renaissance Cat # CRR 5008 Price Code: 5J (SRP $49.99) Number of Discs: 5 Box Set; Box Lot unknown

Works by Byrd, Tallis, de Lassus, du Caurroy, Palestrina & de Monte

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Choir of New College Oxford

The Restoration and Georgian Anthems Cat # CRR 5009 Price Code: 5J (SRP $49.99) Number of Discs: 5 Box Set; Box Lot unknown U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Works by Purcell, Croft, Greene, Boyce, Attwood, Battishill, Crotch, Walmisley & Wesley

CRD Records

Available Now!

CRD REISSUES THESE GREAT MULTI-CD SETS AT A NEW PRICE! Franz SCHUBERT Piano Trios

SCHUBERT: Piano Trio in B-flat, D8989 • Piano Trio in E-flat, D929 • Sonatensatz, D28 • Notturno in E-flat, D897

Cat # CRR 2411 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Jewel Case; Box Lot 15 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Johannes BRAHMS Piano Trios

BRAHMS: Piano Trio in B, Op. 8 • Piano Trio in C, Op. 87 • Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101

Cat # CRR 2412 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Jewel Case; Box Lot 15 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Robert SCHUMANN Piano Trios

SCHUMANN: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 63 • Piano Trio in F, Op. 80 • Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 110 • Phantasiestücke, Op. 88

Cat # CRR 2413 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Jewel Case; Box Lot 15 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Robert SCHUMANN String Quartets 1–3

SCHUMANN: Quartet in A minor, Op. 41 • Quartet in F, Op. 41 • Quartet in A, Op. 41 • MENDELSSOHN: Quartet, Op. 13, No. 2

Cat # CRR 2414 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Jewel Case; Box Lot 15 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Edward ELGAR English Brass Music

ELGAR: The Severn Suite • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Overture Henry V • HOLST: A Moorside Suite • IRELAND: Comedy Overture • A Downland Suite • WALTON: The First Shoot • TIPPETT: Festal Brass with Blues • BRITTEN: Russian Funeral

Cat # CRR 2415 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 2 Double Jewel Case; Box Lot 15 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Opera d’Oro

Release Date: September 14, 2010

Georges Bizet

Le docteur Miracle Cat # OPD 7077 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Christiane Eda-Pierre: soprano Robert Massard: baritone Rémy Corazza: tenor Bruno Amaducci: conductor BIZET: Le docteur Miracle Not the least miracle of Le docteur Miracle is that is exists at all. The one-act operetta, a first-prizewinning composition from a contest organized by Jacques Offenbach, premiered in 1857 when Bizet was just 18 years old. Conductor Bruno Armaducci leads a stellar all-French cast that includes the celebrated lyric colatura Christiane Eda-Pierre; Robert Massard, a leading baritone of the second half of the 20th century; and splendid tenor Rémy Corazza in Bizet’s rarely recorded, youthful masterpiece.

Opera d’Oro presents Grand Tier, a deluxe edition of the most beloved Opera d’Oro performances with original artwork by Rafal Olbinski and re-mastered sound! Features a 24-page booklet with historic photos, a complete French libretto and new original English translation, and an essay on the performance by Bill Parker.

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Stradivarius

SoloVoce

Cat # STV 33839 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Cat # AVI 8553203 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Duo Alterno

Giuseppe VERDI

Tiziana Scandaletti: soprano/Riccardo Piacentini: piano

Daniella Dessì, Fabio Armiliato, Claudio Sgura, Annunziata Vestri, Gastone Luca Casalin, Marco Camastra, Andrea Castello, Angelo Nardinocchi, Josep Ruiz, Alfredo Stefanelli, Graziano Dallavalle: vocal soloists/Orchestra del Teatro Regio, Parma/ Coro del Teatro Municipale, Piacenza/Corrado Casati: chorus master/John Neschling: conductor

La Voce Crepuscolare

La Traviata

TOSTI: Due piccoli notturni • MALIPIERO: I Sonetti delle Fate • GHEDINI: Tre liriche di Pascoli • CASELLA: La sera fiesolana • BUCCHI: Quattro liriche per canto e pianoforte • ALFANO: Tre nuovi poemi/Ninna-nanna di mezzanotte • Tre nuovi poemi/Melodia One hundred years after the birth of the Italian movement of “Futurismo,” Duo Alterno delves into the repertoire of the “Crepuscolare” (“twilight”). This record is entirely devoted to a particular genre: the chamber romance, of which F. P. Tosti is one of the champions in the second half of 19th century.

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VERDI: La Traviata (complete opera) One of the rare contemporary studio recordings, featuring a wonderful Italian cast!

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