Summer 2022 Classics & Jazz Catalog by Naxos of America

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Shining Night / Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

Anne Akiko Meyers has amassed a multitude of fans and admirers for her exquisitely curated recordings, often exploring her passion for new music. Her quest for creative collaborations infuses Shining Night, an album that embraces themes of love, poetry and nature. Anne’s association with composer Morten Lauridsen led to the arrangement of his popular work "Sure on this Shining Night," for violin and piano. From there springs forth an album imbued with music of light and hope, spanning the history of music through Baroque, Romantic, Popular, and current genres. (Avie) 1CD# AV2455 $17.99

Tan Dun: Piano Music / Ralph van Raat, piano

Tan Dun’s originality has been reflected in worldwide recognition of his music, which draws on both Chinese and Western musical languages. The vibrant drama of Blue Orchid incorporates the opening motif of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. In Film Music Sonata, which here receives its first recording on general release, Tan Dun draws on his score for the film The Banquet. (Naxos) 1CD# 8570621 $13.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor / Christian Thielemann; Vienna Philharmonic

Sony Classical releases the fourth installment of Christian Thielemann’s complete cycle of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic – the orchestra’s first Bruckner cycle under a single conductor. “The claim that this orchestra is essentially the only genuine original sound ensemble for the music of Anton Bruckner should remain beyond dispute” raves Die Presse. The Vienna Philharmonic premiered four of Bruckner’s nine symphonies and has enjoyed a unique relationship with the Austrian composer’s music since 1873, when it gave the first performance of his Symphony No 2. (Sony) 1CD 19439914122 $11.99

Capriccio 40th Anniversary – 40 Greatest Recordings [2 CDs] Jochen Kowalski writes: “It’s time to take a moment and be grateful: It’s been 40 years that the Capriccio label has produced records – through and despite all the upheavals and vast market shifts in the recording industry over the last decades. Therefore this is also the time to thank our artists, our team, which operates in the background all over the world, and all our supportive accomplices and abettors who have contributed so much to the continuity and success of this label. Happy Birthday to all of us!” (Capriccio) 2CD# C5470 $11.99

Walker: Five Piano Sonatas / Steven Beck, piano

A sequence of piano sonatas offers one of the most direct looks into a composer’s most private and most practical obsessions, not to mention one easy way to measure the evolution (or lack of evolution) of their compositional techniques. Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert turned them out by the dozen. As for some prominent Americans, Copland, Carter and Barber wrote one, Ives wrote two, Sessions three and Wuorinen four. George Walker is one of the few leading American composers of the 20th century to produce as many as five piano sonatas. (Bridge) 1CD# BCD9554 $16.99

Scriabin: Piano Works (150th Anniversary) [12 CDs]

Indeed, Sofronitzki's Scriabin performances have often been praised for their idiomatic rubato – "poetic" rubato together with a flair for musical architecture and rhythmic precision. In his desire for fidelity to the original, Sofronitzki's highly sensitive use of the pedal reflects his striving to abide by the composer's expressive markings as closely as possible. His affinity with Scriabin's oeuvre may derive from the fact that both the composer and the pianist himself were influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin. (Profil) 12CD# PH22006 $34.99

New Classical Recommended New Titles Mozart: Momentum 1786 / Leif Ove Andsnes [2 CDs] Leif Ove Andsnes releases a second Mozart Momentum album with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, presenting a portrait of the master composer during the years in which his writing for the piano was at its most revolutionary, creative and game-changing. Mozart Momentum 1786 includes Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 24, Piano Quartet in E-flat major, and Piano Trio in B-flat major. Featured guests includes soprano Christiane Karg. (Sony)

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$16.99

Beethoven: Cello Sonatas [2 CDs] Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan present a complete recording of Beethoven’s cello sonatas. The richness of these works fully comes to life in the interpretation of Weilerstein and Barnatan, who have – besides glorious solo careers – also proven to be one of the most congenial chamber music tandems of our times. (Pentatone)

2CD# PTC5186884

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Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 – Pelléas et Mélisande This all-Sibelius program, carefully selected by conductor Nicholas Collon, is his debut album together with his new orchestra. Collon offers fresh and modern interpretation of Sibelius’ symphonic testament, the 7th Symphony, and brings to life the color and drama of Sibelius’ incidental music for two plays – Maeterlinck’s famous Pelléas et Mélisande and the historic King Christian II. (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1404-2

Grieg: Peer Gynt / Hemsing Trondheim Soloists

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Vasily Petrenko; Boris Giltburg

After her award-winning album Røta, Ragnhild Hemsing dedicates herself to the Norwegian national epic “Peer Gynt”. The world-famous melodies resound in new arrangements for violin and Hardanger fiddle with string orchestra. From “In the Hall of the Mountain King” to “Morning Mood”, her new album has everything you need to immerse yourself in the Nordic soundscapes and mythical sagas. (Berlin Classics)

1CD# 0302646BC

These works share the common key of E flat major but represent two very different stages in the composer’s life. The Piano Concerto No. 0, WoO 4, written when Beethoven was 13 years old, is one of his earliest works. The radiant ‘Emperor’ Concerto shows the 38-year-old Beethoven at the peak of his creative powers, and remains a glorious example of his spirit triumphing over life’s adversities. (Naxos)

$18.99

Mozart, Vořisek / Herbert Blomstedt; Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Morricone: Cinema Suites

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$13.99

1CD# A495 $18.99 Fabian Müller plays Franz Schubert [2 CDs]

Night Passages / Martin Fröst With Night Passages, Martin Fröst fuses a centuries-spanning selection of music, from the famous to the rare, into highly original arrangements for clarinet, bass and piano. With his unusual ensemble he touches the genre of jazz, folk and turns traditional Baroque favorites by Bach, Scarlatti, Handel and Rameau into original arrangements. (Sony)

1CD# 19439917402

1CD# 8574153

For twenty years Marco Serino was Ennio Morricone’s violinist, the soloist on his film soundtracks and on world tours. In January 2020, Morricone finished the transcription of this magnificent and unpublished collection, which recasts the themes of his most famous scores in suites transcribed for violin and orchestra. The collection alternates between pieces already performed in concert and newer works. (Arcana)

With these concerts, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig embarks on a musical journey to the Czech Republic with Herbert Blomstedt. Jan Václav Voríšekʼs D Major Symphony was neither printed nor performed during his lifetime. Mozartʼs D Major Symphony K. 504 was premiered in Prague and opens the group of his last four symphonies. (Accentus)

1CD# ACC30574

$16.99

On his new album 31, pianist Fabian Muller plays the late work of Franz Schubert – the Piano Sonatas No. 19–21 as well as Drei Klavierstucke D946. The idea behind this recording is to play the late works as a young person in view of the fact that Schubert himself was a young man when he composed them. (Berlin Classics)

$11.99

Classics & Discoveries / Cracow Duo

2CD# 0302672BC

$20.99

Classics and Discoveries. The present album, released on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Cracow Duo: Kalinowski & Szlezer, is composed of the most famous pieces for cello and piano. This unique album includes, among others, Swan from “Carnival of Animals” by Camille Saint-Saëns and “Le Grand Tango” by Astor Piazzolla, as well as romantic and melodic compositions less known to listeners. (Dux)

1CD# DUX1817

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Releases

Ferras: The SWR Recordings [4 CDs]

Abrami / Esther Abrami

This new album release by the Latvian Radio Choir and conductor Sigvards Kļava on Ondine is devoted to choral works by the legendary American composer and music pioneer John Cage (1912–1992), one of the most leading figures in 20th-century music. Cage wrote only two compositions for chorus, both of which appear on this album: Hymns and Variations (1979) and Four2 (1990). (SWR)

Violinist Esther Abrami’s eponymous Sony Classical debut album is a creative melting pot of different styles of classical music – full of new and inspiring compositions. Collaborating with a great variety of contemporary composers and musicians as well as the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Abrami has set a creative and inspiring musical landmark representing a new generation of classical musicians. (Sony)

African Pianism / Rebeca Omordia, piano

Brahms, Mozart: Leon Fleisher Live, Vol. 1 [2 CDs]

SOMM Recordings is thrilled to announce African Pianism, a revelatory collection of music by seven African composers. It marks the label’s solo debut of Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebeca Omordia. First recordings include three haunting Nocturnes and Five Kaleidoscopes for Piano. African Pianism takes its title from Ghanaian J.H. Kwabena Nketia’s set of Twelve Pedagogical Pieces, richly influenced by African percussion music. (Somm)

Described by the New York Times in 1944 as “One of the most remarkably gifted of the younger generation of American keyboard artists,” Leon Fleisher recorded with George Szell the five Beethoven Piano Concertos as well as many other concertos and piano solo repertoire. Doremi presents this hitherto unreleased live recording of both concertos with Pierre Monteux and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (Doremi)

Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5, Nos. 5–8

Elle / Angele Dubeau

Jean-Marie Leclair’s violin sonatas embody a stylistic fusion known as les goûts réunis in which the lyricism and the virtuosity of the Italian school are integrated with the dance idioms of French Baroque music. In this volume, the music reaches new heights of technical complexity in its filigree ornamentation and continuous multiple stopping while still incorporating much wistful beauty. (Naxos)

How to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ensemble La Pietà? The answer came naturally to Angèle Dubeau: through music! For the occasion, she proposes an album entirely conceived, performed and composed by women. This album witnesses Angèle Dubeau’s virtuosity and confirms her immense talent for creating programs that are off the beaten path, while being as innovative as they are accessible. (Analekta)

Are You Still Somewhere? / Lavinia Meijer, harp

Bach: Klavierbüchlein für [2 CDs]

Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of the brandnew album from Lavinia Meijer, one of the most important harpists of her generation. Four years in the making, Are You Still Somewhere? sees Meijer combine original compositions with her long stated dream of interpreting modern composers and musicians for harp. Works by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ólafur Arnalds, and Alexandra Streliski all feature. (Sony)

Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is a collection of keyboard music compiled by J.S. Bach for his eldest son Wilhelm Friedemann with a clear didactic purpose. Most of the pieces included are better known as parts of The WellTempered Clavier and the Inventions and Sinfonias. The pieces of the collection are arranged by complexity, beginning with the most simple works. (Brilliant Classics)

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1CD# SOMMCD 0647

1CD# 8574351

1CD# 19439946062

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1CD# 19439933802

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1CD# AN28754

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2CD# BRI96455

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NEW RELEASES IN BRIEF Wanderlust / Boulanger Trio On Wanderlust, the new album on Berlin Classics, the Boulanger Trio explores romantic worlds of feeling, transports listeners to a wide variety of soundscapes. (Berlin Classics)

1CD# 0302676BC

$18.99

Bachiana – A Solo Cello Fantasy / Ana Topalovic, cello Ana Topalovic’s breathtaking musical performance of Bach’s Suite No. 1 leads the listener through the fantastic, playful, virtuosic and sensual world of modern music. (Hänssler Classic)

1CD# HC21007

$18.99

Schoek: Elegie, Op. 36 / Christian Gerhaher Christian Gerhaher has dedicated himself to the interpretation of Lieder for 30 years now – in concerts and recordings – and has been awarded important prizes for many years. (Sony)

1CD# 19439963302

$11.99

Caledonia – Scotland in Music SOMM Recordings is delighted to release Hail Caledonia – Scotland in Music, a musical salute to their homeland by the City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra. (Somm)

1CD# ARIADNE 5014

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New Classical Releases Recommended New Recordings Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Stucky: Silent Spring Reference Recordings proudly presents the beloved Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” of Ludwig van Beethoven, with Steven Stucky’s “Silent Spring,” in exceptional performances from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This release is the thirteenth in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh Live! series of multichannel hybrid SACD releases on the FRESH! imprint. (Reference)

1CD# FR-747SACD

$19.99

Desiderium / John Matthew Myers, tenor; Myra Huang, piano The star of tenor John Matthew Myers is rapidly in the ascendent. His debut album, Desiderium, coincides with his Metropolitan Opera debut in Brett Dean’s Hamlet. Desiderium – “an ardent desire or longing, a feeling of loss or grief for something lost” – beautifully showcases Myers’ mellifluous voice. (Avie)

1CD# AV2512

$17.99

Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann: The Complete Polydor Recordings (1927–1936) Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Wilhelm Walter Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Beethoven and Schubert, recording the complete sonatas of both composers. Notable among the titles are four Bach transcriptions and his own virtuosic elaboration of the Schubert/Liszt ‘Hark, Hark! The Lark’ transcription. (APR)

1CD# APR5638

1824 – Works for Cello / Christoph Dangel

Mozart: Violin Sonatas / Francesca Dego, violin; Francesca Leonardi, piano

This album focuses on the year 1824 and brings it to life through the marvelous music of four composers who gave the cello a special role in their compositions. The text is a loose collection of wellknown, newly discovered, strange and everyday happenings, anecdotes, moods and opinions which throw light on a year in which much else happens, not least of all the first performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. (Prospero)

1CD# PROSP0016

Following her critically acclaimed recording of Mozart Concertos with Sir Roger Norrington and the RSNO, Francesca Dego turns to a selection of his Sonatas with her long-term recital partner Francesca Leonardi. Dego commented ‘We decided to build this album around our very favorite Sonata, KV 454 in B flat major, in which Mozart’s simplicity and flamboyance coexist in perfect harmony.’ (Chandos)

$18.99

1CD# CHAN 20232

Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano & Cello, Vol. 1

The Chinook Winds is the resident wind quintet of the Great Falls Symphony in Montana. Their programs include unique arrangements of popular songs—all executed with a captivating sense of energy that keeps audiences riveted. The present program features works by Leonard Bernstein, Árni Eglisson, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Hafliði Hallgrimsson. (Centaur)

$18.99

Schubertiade / Various Artists

1CD# CRC3873 $15.99 Almanach Portraits 1997–2004 / Sérgio Pires, clarinet; Kosuke Akimoto, piano

In society music, or Gesellschaftsmusik, to which a large part of Franz Schubert’s lied oeuvre belongs, polyphonic vocal compositions became very fashionable in around 1800 as part of bourgeois musical culture and communal singing. Society music had taken the step into the concert hall, and Schubert’s name first appeared on a program of the Musikfreunde on January 25, 1821. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900528

$16.99

Chinook Winds / Great Falls Symphony Resident Wind Quintet

Bruno Cocset, an eminent ambassador of the Baroque cello, here makes a teenage dream come true: to record the Beethoven sonatas. At the fortepiano, a longstanding musical partner, Maude Gratton, plays two different instruments, including an original John Broadwood from 1822, a model that circulated in Vienna and which Beethoven himself played. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA835

$16.99

In the 19th and 20th centuries, French music achieved a unique profile and was widely acknowledged on the international scene. This success was due to symbolic figures such as Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, and the “Groupe des Six,” in spite of their divergent aesthetic tendencies. (Avi)

$14.99

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1, Kv. 207

1CD# AVI 8553038

$17.99

The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart’s concertos, regardless of instrument. Artists featured on this release include Stephen Waarts, Can Cakmur, and Ivo Dudler. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA794

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New Boxed Sets Fournier plays Beethoven [10 CDs] 10CD# PH22003 $34.99

Brahms: Symphonies, Overtures / Swedish Chamber Orchestra [4 CDs] 4SACD# BIS-2556 $39.99

Ancerl: Live Recordings / Czech PO [15 CDs] 15CD# SU4308-2 $99.99

Meyerbeer: L’étoile du Nord [3 CDs] 3CD# 8660498-500 $29.99

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms / Chamber Orchestra of Europe [4 CDs] 4CD# ICAC5161 $41.99

Scriabin: Complete Piano Music / Dmitri Alexeev, piano [8 CDs] 8CD# BRI95913 $34.99

Sweelinck: The Complete Vocal Works [17 CDs] 17CD# GCD922411 $109.99

Hassler: Complete Organ Music [11 CDs] 11CD# BRI95331 $42.99

Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Piano Solo [12 CDs] 12CD# HC18043 $59.99

Ries: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra [5 CDs] 5CD# 8505257 $38.99

Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr / Various Artists [3 CDs] 3CD# AVI 8553172 $24.99

Moyreau: Complete Harpsichord Music [7 CDs] 7CD# BRI96285 $34.99

Glenn Gould plays Mozart Piano Sonatas [4 CDs] 4CD# 19439917892 $22.99

Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1–5 – Choral Fantasy [3 CDs] 3CD# ORF-C220043 $29.99

Doráti: Der Künder – The Chosen [3 CDs] 3CD# ORF-C220313 $34.99

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New Classical Recommended New Boxed Sets Lyatoshynsky: Complete Symphonies [3 CDs] Boris Lyatoshynsky was a leading member of the Ukrainian cultural renaissance in the 20th century and his five symphonies remain the most important cycle in his country’s musical history. Although the Romantic and lyrical First Symphony evokes the tradition of Borodin, Gilere and Tchaikovsky. (Naxos)

3CD# 8503303

$21.99

Haydn: The Complete Strings Quartets [19 CDs] This remarkable undertaking by the Festetics Quartet represents the first and only recording of Haydn’s Complete String Quartets on period instruments. Out of print for many years, Arcana’s reference edition features all 58 string quartets authenticated by the composer for the great Artaria edition, with 19 volumes presented in chronological order. (Sony)

19CD# A207

$79.99

French Impressions – A Potpourri of French Piano Styles [6 CDs] The range and variety of French piano music in the 19th and 20th centuries is exemplified in these critically acclaimed albums bringing together rarely encountered pieces. Théodore Gouvy’s little-known sonatas and Benjamin Godard’s fragrant lyricism are part of a lineage that includes the masterful largescale Piano Sonata of Vincent d’Indy, the virtuosic rarities of Saint-Saëns, and Satie’s tenderness and wit. (Grand Piano)

6CD# GP900X

Ravel: Orchestral Works [5 CDs]

Yo-Yo Ma – Crossing Borders – A Musical Journey [9 CDs]

Stéphane Denève produced many outstanding recordings as chief conductor of the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart from 2011 until 2016. They are now reissued as a five album boxed set including the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, Ravel’s longest work, written for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and the operas L’Heure espagnole and L’Enfant et les sortileges. (SWR Classic)

5CD# SWR19428CD

In addition to all the significant classical works written for his instrument, eclectic cellist Yo-Yo Ma has passionately embraced the music of Latin America and Asia as well as American bluegrass and jazz. Seven of his most adventurous and acclaimed musical journeys have been collected by Sony Classical in this 7-CD box entitled Crossing Borders. (Sony)

$34.99

9CD# 19439916202 A Vaughan Williams Anthology [8 CDs]

Bruckner: Complete Symphonies, Mass No. 3 / Gerd Shaller; Philharmonie Festiva [20 CDs]

8CD# 8508021 Luisada plays Chopin [6 CDs]

$59.99

Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music [5 CDs]

$54.99

The Tunisian-born French pianist Jean-Marc Luisada, a prize-winner at the 1985 Warsaw Chopin Competition, has earned an international reputation as a distinctive Chopin interpreter. As ClassicsToday wrote about Luisada’s Chopin: “The pianist compels you to listen.” All his RCA Chopin recordings are now reissued in a 6-CD Sony Classical box. (Sony)

Poulenc’s chamber works range from his youthful creativity as a member of the Groupe des Six, via a rich seam of masterpieces, to the sonatas composed as his final works. “Acclaim for these recordings can be summed up by the comment ‘you simply can’t go wrong with any of the discs in this series.” – ClassicsToday (Naxos)

5CD# 8505258

$28.99

Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of Britain’s most illustrious composers, and this specially curated selection of works demonstrates the sheer breadth of his achievement. Vaughan Williams’ chamber works are performed by the Maggini Quartet, his greatest contemporary champions; while the sublime Mass in G minor shows the composer’s high standing in the English choral tradition. (Naxos)

Conductor Gerd Schaller directed his festival orchestra, the Philharmonie Festiva, in recordings of all of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies. Nearly all the recordings were made during concerts in the cathedral acoustics of Ebrach’s abbey church. The cycle of symphonies is supplemented by the F minor Mass, the rarely performed Psalm 146 and his organ works. (Profil)

20CD# PH22007

$49.99

$38.99

Brahms: Complete Chamber Music [16 CDs]

6CD# 19439927532

$23.99

Pierre Fouchenneret, Lise Berthaud, François Salque and Éric Le Sage invited their closest friends and partners to join this project which some deemed unachievable at the time. This was to play and record in concert all Brahms’s chamber music with the same group of musicians, using the network of La Belle Saison’s auditoria with their ideally suited acoustics. (B Records)

16CD# LBM038

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Boxed Sets Symphonic Highlights – Capriccio 40th Anniversary [10 CDs]

Mahler & Beyond – Discovered Tapes / Pietro Scarpini [5 CDs]

This 10-disc box set features Capriccio’s most important ensembles, orchestras, and conductors, from the classical period to the 20th century, when, in 2005, Capriccio released the first complete Shostakovich Cycle with the Gürzenich Orchestra and Dmitrji Kitajenko. (Capriccio)

Pietro Scarpini was that rare combination: a highly intellectual pianist with a virtuoso technique. He was a dignified and solitary person with a serious approach to music, singlemindedly following the course of his artistic convictions without compromise. Musicweb writes: ‘The sixth and final volume of a wonderful recorded legacy. As with the previous volumes, the remasterings are superb in every respect.’ (Rhine Classics)

10CD# C7388

$34.99

5CD# RH 021 $59.99 Sir Colin Davis conducts Mozart Serenades & Overtures [4 CDs]

Taneyev: Orchestral Works [4 CDs] Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (1856–1915) was a monumental figure of late 19th⁠-⁠century Russian music. This collection includes the mammoth overture Oresteia which has all the force of a Romantic symphonic poem, and the sublime cantata John of Damascus in which ancient sacred chant is woven into rich passages of expressive counterpoint. (Naxos)

4CD# 8504060

Sir Colin Davis was indisputably one of the greatest Mozart conductors of the last century, both in the opera house and in the recording studio. In Munich in the early 1990s, he recorded several of the popular serenades and wind concertos, and in 1998, as the Dresden Staatskapelle’s first-ever conductor laureate, he recorded twelve opera overtures. These superb RCA recordings are now reissued in a 4-album box set. (Sony)

$34.99

Stravinsky: The Complete Piano [5 CDs]

4CD# 19439912922 Schumann: Lieder & Gesänge [4 CDs]

Dr. Graham Griffiths writes: “Every recording of Stravinsky’s ‘complete works for solo piano’ is a considerable achievement. However, this latest 5-album cycle with Russian pianist Alexey Zuev is a cause for special celebration for it also includes all of Stravinsky’s piano transcriptions and arrangements, many of which have never before been recorded. (SWR Classic)

5CD# FUG777

The Lied or art song, in contrast to the folk song, came into full flower at the dawn of the Romantic era about 1810 in Germany. The art song really was a largely German phenomenon, known in French (le Lied) and English (the Lied) by its German name. It is Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms who represent the landmarks and reference points for the composition of Lieder in the German-speaking territories. (Profil)

$39.99

Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame [3 CDs]

4CD# PH21014 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique [7 CDs]

Pan Classics presents – as rerelease of a former release on the Relief label in 2002– a unique live recording of Pyotr Tchaikovskys “Pique Dame” (The Queen of Spades). The concert performance took place at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in December 1989 and featured the celebrated Moscow debut of Dmitri Hvorostovsky. It was Yeletsky’s part that was of crucial importance in Hvorostovsky’s career. (Pan Classics)

3CD# PC10430

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$24.99

During his thirteen years as chief conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of SWR Sir Roger Norrington conducted and recorded an important part of Berlioz’s core repertoire. This box set brings together on seven CDs the Requiem, the opera Benvenuto Cellini (concert performance), the oratorio L’Enfance du Christ, and of course the Symphonie fantastique. (SWR Classic)

$22.99

7CD# SWR19531CD

$30.99

BOXED SETS IN BRIEF Serkin Live, Vol. 2 [3 CDs] Rudolf Serkin became one of the most admired pianists of the 20th century, performing and recording extensively with top international orchestras and conductors. (Doremi)

3CD# DHR-8165-7

$57.99

The Complete Music of Anton Webern [4 CDs] Robert Craft and his associates spent two years recording the music of Austrian composer Anton Webern. This epoch-making project now appears for the first time on a 4-album set from Sony Classical. (Sony)

4CD# 19439911902

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Haydn: 2032 Vol. 1–10 [10 CDs] This ten-album set celebrates the release of the first ten volumes of the HAYDN2032 series, which aims to record all 107 Haydn symphonies by the 300th anniversary of his birth in 2032. (Alpha)

10CD# ALPHA774

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Guiliani: Complete Music for Flute & Guitar [4 CDs] Mauro Giuliani (1781–1828) was a contemporary of Schubert, and many of his works are still popular today, firmly in the standard guitar repertoire. (Brilliant Classics)

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New Releases Malipiero: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 1CD# 8573075 $13.99

Berners; Songs – Piano Music 1CD# 8554475 $13.99

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Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5, Nos. 9–12 1CD# 8574381 $13.99

Schumann: Lied Editon, Vol. 11 – Lieder & Gesänge 1CD# 8574261 $13.99

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Haydn: Piano Trios, Vol. 6 / Aquinas Piano Trio 1CD# 8574362 $13.99

Two Marimbas in Berlin – Piano Masterworks & Modern Classics 1CD# 8574056 $13.99

Brouwer: Reactions – Songs & Chamber Music 1CD# 8559904 $13.99

Saint-Georges: Six Concertante Quartets 1CD# 8574360 $13.99

Axiotis: A Love Trilogy – Symphonic Impressions 1CD# 8574353 $13.99

Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 1CD# 8574290 $13.99

These Distances Between Us – 21st Century Songs of Longing 1CD# 8559908 $13.99

Nikčević, Bulatović: Feel the Moment 1CD# 8574389 $13.99

Malipiero – Ghedini: Works for Cello & Orchestra 1CD# 8574393 $13.99

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from Naxos 48 Strings – Music for 1, 2, 4 & 12 Cellos 1CD# 8574301 $13.99

Ye: Twilight in Tibet 1CD# 8579088 $13.99

Pfitzner: Complete Lieder, Vol. 5 1CD# 8573785 $13.99

Lopes-Graça: Divertimento Sinfonieta 1CD# 8574373 $13.99

Vaňhal: Symphonies, Vol. 5 1CD# 8574305 $13.99

Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 1, Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 1CD# 8574171 $13.99

Still: Summerland – Violin Suite 1CD# 8559867 $13.99

Italian Guitar Rarities 1CD# 8574400 $13.99

Haydn: Piano Trios, Vol. 5 1CD# 8574361 $13.99

Gregson: Chamber Music 1CD# 8574223 $13.99

Sullivan: Incidental Music 1CD# 8555210 $13.99

Plüddemann: Ballads, Songs & Legends [2 CDs] 2CD# 8551460-61 $24.99

Berners: Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement 1CD# 8660510 $13.99

Enescu: Piano Quartet No. 1 – Piano Trio 1CD# 8573616 $13.99

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Ireland: Orchestral Works

Abrahamsen: Schnee

Chandos have been doing John Ireland proud over the last few years, and Richard Hickox’s new anthology is well up to the high standards of previous installments in this valuable series. With rich, refined sound, this remains a most enjoyable collection overall. – Gramophone (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5293

The dryly factual subtitle of Hans Abrahamsen’s Schnee, “10 canons for nine instruments”, hardly hints at the magical sonorities and glittering reflections explored in this work. In the 1990s Abrahamsen wrote almost nothing, and he returned to composition tentatively, with a piano concerto in which he first explored the sound world he had reimagined for himself. – The Guardian (Dacapo)

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Origins / Coco Tomita, violin

1CD# 6220585 Russian Roots / Trio Gasparo

For a young musician, the stuff dreams are made of: Coco Tomita won the strings category of BBC Young Musician 2020 and was signed by a record company the next day. The playing, technically dazzling and characterful, bursts with musical intelligence, with the experienced Callaghan an expressive duo partner. – The Guardian (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100194

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1CD# CHAN 20245 $16.99 Krouse: Symphony No. 5, Op. 55 “A Journey Toward Peace”

Douglas Bostock’s love of runmmaging through British composers’ cupboards knows no end. None of these string orchestra works can really be claimed as great discoveries, yet there’s much to savor as Bostock’s German players brush away the music’s dust with elegance and passion. Meanwhile, Ethel Smyth’s suite alternates between being bustling and graceful, and is always pleasant. – BBC Classical (CPO)

Intended to underscore the ‘very special relationship between the United States and the Republic of Korea’, the Fifth Symphony contains bright fanfares and a muscular patriotism couched in Copland-esque sweeping colors, performed with spirit by trumpet soloist Jens Lindemann and the orchestra. But the mood is just as often ambivalent. – BBC Music (Naxos)

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1CD# 8559907 $13.99 Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music / Claire Booth; Christopher Glynn

Henze: Nachtstücke und Arien All of the Henze pieces on this set — which also includes “Los Caprichos” and, with the cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, “Englische Liebeslieder” — have been well recorded in recent years on the Wergo label. But some of those crisp takes can sound as though they’re still trying to redeem Henze for Boulez’s starker ears. As Alsop makes clear, that’s not the only way to hear him. – NY Times (Naxos)

1CD# 8574181

Claire Booth’s light and agile soprano voice navigates Mussorgsky’s wide interval leaps with ease, while her superb diction and rhythmic pointing bring stylish vividness to more extroverted songs without a trace of vulgarity. While the slightly diffuse sonics could be more robust for my taste, they plausibly replicate a concert hall perspective. Highly recommended. – Classics Today (Avie)

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1CD# AV2457 Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76, Nos. 4–6

Schubert: Winterreise/ Benjamin Appl; James Baillieu

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The gut strings and the lack of vibrato make for a very clean and crisp sound, which helps delineate each of the instruments, especially the cello, which makes so much more of an impact as an independent voice than in the Kodály. The Chiaroscuro Quartet seem to be redefining what we should expect from quartets from the late Classical and early Romantic eras. – Musicweb (BIS)

Appl handles the cycle’s sharp turns with affecting control, a storyteller’s thrall and, above all, trust in the text. He relishes the mercurial serenity of “Der Lindenbaum” and the major-key ending of the furious “Rückblick.” Throughout — culminating in a frighteningly straightforward “Der Leiermann” — you can hear the actorly qualities that gave another Schubert cycle Appl sang at the armory, “Die Schöne Müllerin.” – NY Times (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA854

$15.99

In almost every respect this program is a success. The Beethoven folk-song settings of 1816 might look something of an outlier, with Auerbach’s nostalgic, bite-size Postscriptum (performed in a version for wordless voice, cello and piano) the one 21st-century item. Both prove delightful. The players’ sympathy with a range of styles is well established and Konradi’s idiomatic Russian is an obvious asset. – Gramophone (Chandos)

British Music for Strings, Vol. 3

1CD# 555457-2

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Choice

Poems & Rhapsodies / Solomiya Ivakhiv

Chopin / Ivo Pogorelich, piano

Unlike many violinists who seem to only generate a silvery sweet tone throughout everything they play, Solomiya Ivakhiv’s warmer, darker shades of rufescent tonal palettes, go hand in hand with the overall melancholy character of these pieces. For example, she reveals the fiery romanticism of the late 19th-centrury Poème symphonique by Ernest Chausson (1855–1899). – ClassicalMusicSentinel (Centaur)

Pogorelich is no stranger to unique interpretations, and Op. 48, No. 1 C minor Nocturne is a good example where it concerns phrasing and rubato. Pogorelich seeks a more raw depiction of mournfulness and emotional struggle. The finale delivers another surprise, taking the tempo back down, but the swells of intensity are particularly effective and exciting. – The Classic Review (Sony)

1CD# 19439912052

1CD# CRC3799

$11.99

Larcher: Symphony No. 2 “Kenotaph”

Symphonies of the Bach Family / Berliner Barock Solisten

Larcher’s language is rooted in the Austro-German symphonic tradition with use of 21st-century color. The chaotic Gerald Barry-meets-Mahler Scherzo is painstakingly realised by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; a style reflected in the final Allegro. Kenotaph Die Nacht der Verlorenen was warmly received at its UK premiere at the 2016 Proms, and its first recording deserves a similar reception. – BBC Music (Ondine)

Overall, despite Goebel’s idiomatic fluency and fastidious attention to detail, a certain polished proficiency prevails, the playing elegant, incisive, but somewhat anonymous. There’s no denying BWV 1045’s high-gloss finish, but Isabelle Faust and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on Harmonia Mundi find an edgy exhilaration that takes the fragment to another level. – BBC Music (Hanssler)

1CD# HC21029

1CD# ODE 1393-2

“Once, driving in the rain, I had to pull over to the side of the road because I was so incredibly moved by the sublime music on the radio. The last movement of the mystery work turned out to be Korngold’s “Much Ado About Nothing” Suite — was so joyful and witty, featuring the horns prominently, that I was transported to a different world.” — Mei-Ann Chen, Chicago Sinfonietta conductor (Pentatone)

“Oboist Gareth Hulse impresses in this complex, fragmented soundworld that blends spiky outbursts and extended notes with a pared-back third movement... [In the Piano Trio] the balance is impeccable, as is the case throughout this collection.” – BBC Music (BIS)

1CD# PTC5186373

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Tobias Kratzer’s rather brilliant new production for the Royal Opera House makes a positive virtue of this. Recognising that the work is a game of two halves, he splits it down the middle, setting Act I as a lavishly costumed period piece and Act II as a political discourse on crime. This is a Fidelio that addresses both heart and head, asking us to really think about the issues. I suspect Beethoven would have loved it. – Limelight (Opus Arte)

The Raven, a work for orchestra and narrator based on writings by Edgar Allan Poe, was composed while Slatkin was working as assistant conductor at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The five movements are imaginatively scored and superbly atmospheric...Alec Baldwin, the narrator here, successfully brings his own personality to the reading. – Gramophone (Naxos)

1Blu-ray# OA BD7288D 1DVD# OA 1334D

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Jablonski Plays Grazyna Bacewicz – Piano Works

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Haydn 2032, Vol. 11 – Au goût parisien

The Concert krakowiak lives up to its title as a brilliant showpiece inspired by the folk music of the region around Kraków. Jablonski veers in and out of its mercurial shifts of mood and texture with aplomb. The dozen Études recorded here deal with a variety of technical challenges, focusing on the intervallic complexities frequently encountered in piano music of the first half of the 20th century. – Gramophone (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1399-2

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Beethoven: Fidelio [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Slatkin Conducts Skatkin / Leonard Slatkin; Alec Baldwin; Detroit SO

1CD# 8574352

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Korngold: Symphony in F Sharp, Op. 40 / Marc Albrecht

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Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Works

1CD# BIS-2561

$15.99

This latest volume, with the Basel players sizzling and exuberant, includes two of the “Paris” symphonies, Nos. 82 in C, “The Bear” – characterised by explosive “bagpipe” drones in the finale – and No. 87 in A, as well as No. 24 in D and No. 2 in C. The handsome and informative 50-page booklet provides a list of the make and date of all the instruments played. – The Guardian (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA688

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Chamber Works Recommended Chamber Albums Brahms: Serenades Nos. 1 & 2 / Linos Ensemble Brahms is famous for his symphonies and grand concertos. But many Brahms-lovers would argue he shines brightest in chamber works. And indeed, there is almost no work of Brahms’ that did not start out as chamber music, including his Serenade No.1, which began life as a nonet. It is presented here by the Linos Ensemble in its reconstructed original form. (Capriccio)

1CD# C5447

$16.99

Chamber Works / Ensemble Kheops For its second recording for Cypres, Kheops Ensemble immerses us in works that give pride of place to the clarinet, an instrument whose expressive possibilities fascinated the most original creators in the Habsburg capital at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Brahms’s Trio Op. 114, dominated by autumnal colors, is an end-of-life work, imbued with a form of renunciation and resignation. (Cypres)

1CD# CYP8610

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Percy Hilder Miles: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 / Ensemble Kopernikus MPR presents the world premiere recordings of chamber music by the forgotten English genius Percy Hilder Miles. This first volume showcases his Sonata in C for Pianoforte and Violoncello, Sonata No. 2 in G major for Pianoforte and Violin, and the Piano Trio in B minor. (MPR)

1CD# MPR111

Marcello: Amanti – Cantatas for Bass

Three Generations / Ivan, Alexander, Nikolai Tcherepnin

Venetian composer Benedetto Marcello (1686–1737) was one of the most prolific composers of the genre, especially in his early years between 1710 and 1720. He wrote approximately 300 cantatas of which over 20 for the bass voice. This is an exceptionally high number. The composer strive to achieve a perfect harmony between poetry and music. (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72894 Bach: Sonatas, Fantasias, Improvisations

This album explores music by three generations of the Tcherepnin family of composers: Nikolai, Alexander and Ivan. Although each wrote a wide range of scores, from solo pieces to operas and ballets, this recording focuses on their chamber music, presenting pieces spanning 95 years. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCN0012

$19.99

Bossier: Chamber Music

$18.99

Weber: Complete Chamber Music for Clarinet

This project represents a starting point in gently opening up the possibilities of incorporating an element of improvisation into the oeuvre of Bach’s chamber music. Given that both Toshi and Anthony are able and willing to extemporize in a variety of genres, but also being devotees of the repertoire and musical language of Bach, it seemed natural to use certain works of Bach’s as a basis for new invention. (Fuga Libera)

1CD# FUG792

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Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) marked the transition from the Classical to the Romantic period. His works, while adhering to the formal style of the Viennese School, abound in dramatic contrasts and glittering instrumental virtuosity. His instrumental works are hugely enjoyable, full of “Spielfreude” and many a good tune. (Brilliant)

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Moeran: Chamber Music / Fidelio Trio With their own strong links to Ireland, the album is performed by the Fidelio Trio with violinist Nicky Sweeney. In the four chamber works on this album Ernest Moeran’s use of melodic and harmonic turns, his approach to instrumentation and command of the strings and piano writing, has gifted us a treasure trove of focus in repertoire, utterly connected, through him, with music of places and peoples. (Resonus)

Corentin Boissier was born in the suburbs of Paris in 1995. His Cello Sonata, in the grand Romantic tradition of Brahms and Rachmaninov, is animated by a wild and resolute energy; and his buoyant Flute Sonata continues the line of the French flute classics of the first half of the 20th century. The darker Piano Trio sits downstream from those of Debussy, Ravel and, especially, Fauré. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0631 $18.99 Aumann: Chamber Works in the Abbey

1CD# RES10296

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Franz Josef Aumann composed “entertainment” music of the highest quality – pieces that were played for the amusement of invited guests, on special occasions, or simply between the various courses of lavish banquets. In the archives of St Florian Monastery not many chamber works have survived – only a handful, but these are of outstanding quality. The quintets are remarkable. (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72876

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Chandos – Save 15% Williams: Complete Symphonies [6 CDs] 6SACD# CHSA 5303(6) $33.99

Metamorphosen / Sinfonia of London 1SACD# CHSA 5292 $16.99

Brahms, Schumann: Vocal Works 1SACD# CHSA 5289 $16.99

Bach: Complete English Suites [2 CDs] 2CD# CHAN 0826(2) $33.59

Amarcord D’un Tango / Various 1CD# CHAN 20259 $16.19

Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 [2 CDs] 2CD# CHAN 20257(2) $16.19

Mozart: Works for Solo Piano / Federico Coli 1CD# CHAN 20233 $16.19

Neset: Manmade 1SACD# CHSA 5298 $16.99

Brahms, Schumann: Violin Works 1CD# CHAN 20146 $16.19

Klebanov: Chamber Works 1CD# CHAN 20231 $16.19

Mendelssohn: Vol. 1: Songs without Words 1CD# CHAN 20252 $16.19

Elgar: Where Corals Lie 1CD# CHAN 20236 $16.19

Rachmaninoff, Brahms & Ravel / Neave Trio 1CD# CHAN 20167 $16.19

From Brighton to Brooklyn / Elena Urioste; Tom Poster 1CD# CHAN 20248 $16.19

Bacewicz: The Polish Violin, Vol. 2 1CD# CHAN 20189 $16.19

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New Organ Recital Programs

Franck: Complete Organ & Harmonium Works [5 CDs]

Beethoven, Liszt, Mendelssohn: Die Blaue Blume / Martin Schmeding, organ

César Franck composed works for the organ as well as in other genres that became part of the apotheosis of what is now termed Le Renouveau français. Ricercar is proud to mark the bicentenary of his birth with a reissue of his complete works for organ and for harmonium, in which Joris Verdin’s fascinating interpretations have incorporated Franck’s own recently discovered metronome markings. (Ricercar)

5CD# RIC441

Music has always been used throughout the ages to convey certain states and emotions. Especially in the music of the 19th century, it was important for composers to express inner states – landscapes of the soul – in their music. For his first album on the Aeolus record label Martin Schmeding has chosen transcriptions of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and the famous Sonata by Julius Reubke. (Aeolus)

$39.99

Nordic Journey, Vol. 11 [3 CDs]

1SACD# AE11321

American organist James D. Hicks continues his explorations of organ music by Nordic region composers with this 3-album set, played upon the Paschen Kiel pipe organ at Central Pori Church, Pori Finland. James D. Hicks has held liturgical positions throughout the country over the course of 35 years, and now devotes himself to concert and recording projects. (Pro Organo)

3CD# PO7297

Williams: Transcriptions from Truro Albion Records presents an album of organ transcriptions recorded on the renowned ‘Father Willis’ organ of Truro Cathedral in August 2021. We begin with Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus, a rhapsody developed by Vaughan Williams in 1939 around a folk tune that he loved all his life. David is joined by the acclaimed violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck for The Lark Ascending. (Albion)

$28.99

Correa de Arauxo: Libro de Tientos [4 CDs]

1CD# ALBCD049

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) was the organist at St. Peter’s in Rome for a good part of his life. His music is important for historical reasons but, more than that, it has a special quality of gentle gravity beneath the lively rhythms and sudden shifts of harmony. The greater part of Frescobaldi’s output was written for keyboard instruments. (Brilliant Classics)

$36.99

Rare 19th & 20th Century Organ [2 CDs]

6CD# BRI96154

The organist Andrea Toschi with this work continues the musical research he started with his two previous record productions. The repertoire features composers that in the period of the early 20th century adhered to the new impulse given by the Cecilian Movement strongly reacting to the domination of the theatrical style that during the nineteenth century ‘contaminated’ the liturgical music. (Tactus)

2CD# TC890090

When he died, Nicolaus Bruhns was just 31 years old, and only twelve of his vocal works and five organ compositions have survived. On the first of two discs made in collaboration with the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Masaaki Suzuki directs a group of singers and musicians, in six of the vocal works: so-called ‘sacred concertos’ scored for 1 – 3 soloists and various combinations of string instruments with basso continuo. (BIS)

$24.99

Saint-Saëns worked as a church organist for much of his prodigiously long life and career. He understood how to exploit the full spectrum of tonal colors available on the instruments designed by the greatest organ builder of his age, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, and even the apparently abstract designs of his many Preludes and Fugues invite the kind of swirling mists evoked by Michele Savino on this newly recorded collection. (Brilliant Classics)

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Bruhns: Cantatas & Organ Works, Vol. 1

Saint-Saëns: Complete Music for Organ [4 CDs]

4CD# BRI96219

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Frescobaldi: Complete Unpublished Works for Harpsichord & Organ [6 CDs]

The music of Francisco Correa de Arauxo, still regrettably neglected, constitutes a peak of organ literature in Spain and an exceptional bridge between the Renaissance and the Baroque. His Facultad Orgánica (1626) is both a treatise on the performance of organ music and a collection of 69 pieces of outstanding quality. (Ricercar)

4CD# RIC435

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1SACD# BIS-2271

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Canestrari: Liriche su versi di Dante – Musica da camera This album includes an anthology of chamber lyrics and instrumental pieces for various vocal textures with the accompaniment of the piano and the harmonium. Marcello Rossi concerts and leads the singers and musicians in this world premiere recording by the Veronese composer. (Tactus)

$22.99

1CD# TC860302

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Grand Piano – 10th Anniversary

Palmgren: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4 1CD# GP907 $16.99

Three Centuries of Female Composers [10 CDs] 10CD# GP897X $54.99

Ekmalian: Piano Works 1CD# GP894 $16.99

Ponce: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 1CD# GP772 $16.99

Szczerbinski: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2 1CD# GP884 $16.99

Balakirev: Complete Works for Solo Piano [6 CDs] 6CD# GP864X $49.99

The Golden Age of PianistComposers [6 CDs] 6CD# GP899X $49.99

Grøndahl: Piano Works 1CD# GP902 $16.99

Fiorini: In the Midst of ThingsPiano & Chamber Music 1CD# GP880 $16.99

Tailleferre: Her Piano Works, Revived, Vol. 1 1CD# GP891 $16.99

Barmotin: Piano Music, Vol. 2 1CD# GP865 $16.99

Montgeroult: Complete Piano Sonatas [2 CDs] 2CD# GP885-86 $24.99

20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 4: France & Belgium 1CD# GP855 $16.99

Komitas: Songs 1CD# GP895 $16.99

Solitude – Piano Works by Florent Schmitt 1CD# GP850 $16.99

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Piano Recommended Piano Titles Vasks: Piano Works The love for the Latvian landscape is audible in the piano works of Latvia’s greatest living composer, Peteris Vasks especially in his Seasons, the composer’s most frequently performed piano work. For this album pianist Reinis Zariņš has brought two other piano works alongside The Seasons as first recordings: Vasks’ early piano work Cycle from the 1970s, and a new piano work, Cuckoo’s Voice. (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1361-2

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Bach: Goldberg Variations / Klára Würtz, piano The touch and musicianship of the Hungarian pianist Klára Würtz is amply attested by a substantial catalogue of Brilliant Classics and Piano Classics albums stretching from Mozart to Bartók. Her latest recording turns to a pillar of the keyboard repertoire, the variation set composed by J.S. Bach in 1741 as the fourth and final volume of his compendious Clavier-Übung (Keyboard exercise) project. (Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10230

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Marguerite Long, Vol. 1 – Faure & d’Indy [2 CDs] Undoubtedly the foremost French female pianist of the 20th century, Marguerite Long (1874–1966) prided herself on her personal friendships with some of the foremost composers of her day. This addition to our continuing French Piano School series is the first of two APR volumes, together containing her complete recordings of French repertoire, and of honorary Frenchman, Chopin. (APR)

2CD# APR6038

Iberian Dances / Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto, piano

Williams: A London Symphony The heart of this album is Archibald Jacob’s 1924 arrangement of the 1920 version of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s ‘London Symphony’. This is a work that uniquely conveys the atmosphere of a city now changed almost beyond resemblance; and yet the work, like all great music, is beyond both time and place. The piano duet recording reveals details that sometimes pass us by in the orchestral score. (Albion)

The piano pieces on this release, all of them, show the lushness of aromas, colors, and reflections of prodigal lands in the production of artistic sensations. One could speak of landscapes in which the human element is present; the voice of a folk tradition which longs to express its most intimate essence, not in an illustrative but in an evocative sense. (IBS)

1CD# ALBCD046

1CD# IBS-262021 $15.99 Kozeluch: Complete Sonatas for Piano 4-Hands [2 CDs]

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The Future is Female – Vol. 1 In Nature / Sarah Cahill, piano

The recent Kozeluch revival, featuring recordings of his solo, chamber and orchestral music, has demonstrated his status as one of the most important figures in the whole of Viennese Classicism . This double album dedicated to Kozeluch’s works for fortepiano four-hands provides further confirmation of his compositional mastery, on a level bearing comparison with his contemporaries. (Brilliant Classics)

2CD# BRI96025 Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Maria Stembolskaya, piano

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The Future is Female is a three volume series, which celebrates and highlights women composers from the 17th century to the present day. These recordings feature more than 70 compositions by women around the globe and includes many premiere recordings. This first Vol., In Nature, will be followed later in 2022 by Vol. 2, At Play and Vol. 3, The Dance. (First Hand)

$15.99

1CD# FHR131

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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 0–7 [4 CDs] Finally: Beethoven's Piano Concertos 0 to 7 as interpreted by Michael Korstick are available on 4 albums, and once again he sets new interpretational standards. This complete recording of all the piano concertos arranges the six works that Beethoven gave an opus number in the appropriate order, leaving all the other pieces to follow on the fourth release. (CPO)

Out of Saint-Saëns’ five piano concertos, the Second has long established itself as the most popular thanks to a unique and winning stylistic progression neatly summed up ‘from Bach to Offenbach’, opening with a monumental cadenza and orchestral response in the manner of a Bachian prelude for organ, and winding up with an exhilarating tarantella. (Piano Classics)

4CD# 555447-2

1CD# PCL10247 $18.99 Schubert: Piano Music / Katarzyna Kling, piano

$33.99

This recording features the extensive Sonata in B-flat Major D. 960 by Franz Schubert, recorded by Polish pianist Katarzyna Kling. The work prompts both the performer and the listener to many philosophical and musical reflections. The pianist, appreciated both in the field of performance and teaching, completes the solo album with the Impromptu in E-flat Major, Op. 90 No. 2, D. 899. (Dux)

1CD# DUX1750

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Albums Pejačević: Piano Concerto

Ravel Compared / Elaine Greenfield, piano

Countess Mária Theodora (Dora) Paulina Pejacevic was born in September 1885 in Budapest. The Piano Concerto was her first orchestral composition, and the first piano concerto by any Croatian composer. She composed the Symphony in F sharp minor during the first world war, and for its first complete performance, in 1920, she revised the work, which is here recorded in this final version. (Chandos)

Acclaimed pianist Elaine Greenfield dazzles with originality, virtuosity and exuberant tone richness on her album Ravel Compared on Navona Records. The French composer’s works are brilliantly analyzed and brought to novel clarity with Greenfield’s ingenious idea of recording the same repertoire twice, on two very different pianos – and juxtaposing them on this two-disc album. (Navona)

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2CD# NV6401 Brahms: Works for Solo Piano / Olivier Roberti, piano

Schubert: Sonata in B Flat Major D. 960 Christopher Clarke built the instrument used for this recording in 2000, as a facsimile of Conrad Graf’s Pianoforte No. 995. “Clarke’s pianoforte always inspires me. I find it a miraculous instrument. The utter precision of the mechanism lets us explore the finest gradations and introduce the most subtle nuances – singing, speaking or whispering.” – Ayako Ito (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72892

On this release, Olivier Roberti performs a program of works by Brahms. Of Belgian nationality, Olivier Roberti studied at the Royal Academy of Brussels, then at the Conservatoire of Geneva in the class of Louis Hiltbrand, where in 1975 he obtained a First Prize of Virtuosity. He continued his studies in the US at the Peabody Institute of Baltimore in the class of Leon Fleisher. (Hänssler Classic)

$16.99

1CD# HC19044 $18.99 Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 5 / Noriko Ogawa, piano

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22, K 482 Described by BBC Music Magazine as ‘Mozart music-making of altogether superior quality’, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s acclaimed Mozart Concertos series reaches Vol. 6. Along with Concerto No. 24, K. 491, the two concertos presented here were composed in Vienna in the winter of 1785 – 86, at a time when Mozart was working on Le nozze di Figaro. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20166

For the fifth volume in her series of Erik Satie’s piano music, Noriko Ogawa reaches back to an early period in the composer’s life. Satie’s fascination for the Middle Ages is reflected not only in the music itself, but also in the titles of some works, such as Ogives (the pointed arches of Gothic architecture), Danses gothiques or Fête donnée par les Chevaliers Normand. (BIS)

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1SACD# BIS-2345 Hartmann: Piano Works, Vol. 3 / Thomas Trondhjem, piano

British Piano Concertos / Simon Callaghan Smaller concertos for piano and modest orchestral forces were a feature of British composition in the first half of the 20th century. Often they were written for a special occasion, and typically vanished into oblivion thereafter. The works on this album travel from the innocent pastiche of Geoffrey Bush’s tribute to the ‘Blues’ of Arthur Benjamin, and the bold humor of film composer John Addison. (Lyrita)

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Danish composer J.P.E. Hartmann was the leading romantic Danish composer who influenced generations of Danish composers. His extensive music for piano is sadly too little known outside Denmark, but with its romantic tone, melodic charmed and harmonies known from Schumann and Mendelssohn it will come as a pleasant surprise to all lovers of romantic piano music. (Danacord)

$18.99

1CD# DACOCD907

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NEW PIANO RELEASES IN BRIEF Schubert on Tape / Edna Stern, piano The masterpieces heard on this album are Schubert’s Four Impromptus and Six Moments Musicaux, works that demand performances of truthfulness and spontaneity. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100192

$16.99

Liszt, Ireland: Sonatas / Tom Hicks, piano Tom Hicks prefaces the Sonatas with shorter, but equally imaginative and expressive pieces: two Preludes by Stanford, and a charming waltz from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. (Divine Art)

1CD# DDA25227

$17.99

Frühling: Piano Quintet, Op. 30 Carl Frühling wrote virtuoso salon compositions such as concert waltzes, mazurkas and later, fantasias on tunes from popular operas. (Hänssler Classic)

1CD# HC21062

$18.99

Rooted Time – Piano Music by Clive Osgood & George Arthur The music presented here was born during the lockdowns of 2020 / 21 and contains a predictable preoccupation with time and solitude as well as more aspirational fantasies of color, rhythm and excitement. (Convivium)

1CD# CVI069

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BR Klassik Recommended BR Klassik Albums Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky: Conductors in Rehearsal – Mariss Jansons [4 CDs] Thanks to this series – which also now being released on album – the special collaboration between Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra can be documented. The first set presented by BR-KLASSIK documents four rehearsals for concerts in the Munich Philharmonie im Gasteig, taken from different phases of the collaboration between Mariss Jansons’ work with the BRSO. (BR Klassik)

4CD# BRK900931

$29.99

Pärt: Berliner Messe – Poulenc: Stabat Mater Three great choral and orchestral works of the 20th century are gathered together in outstanding interpretations on this new release, including Arvo Pärt’s “Berlin Mass” for choir and string orchestra from 1990, Francis Poulenc’s “Stabat mater” for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra from 1950, and Igor Stravinsky’s “Symphony of Psalms” for choir and orchestra from 1930. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900201

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Ullman: Der Kaiser von Atlantis Viktor Ullmann’s one-act chamber opera “Der Kaiser von Atlantis” did not see its premiere until December 1975 in Amsterdam, since the performance had been banned after its dress rehearsal in 1944. The concert performance of the version by Henning Brauel and Andreas Krause (Schott), which took place on October 2021 at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, was recorded for this CD. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900339

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 – Symphony No. 9

Tatort: Dreams For the Munich Tatort episode “Dreams, the orchestral film music was commissioned from the Munich composer David Reichelt. The music was recorded by the Munchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Andreas Kowalewitz. This performance and recording of the completes the remarkable film-music chronicle of the Munchner Rundfunkorchester. (BR Klassik)

This recording features two performances by Shostakovich – his impressive Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra, and his Ninth Symphony – performed live by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under principal conductor Mariss Jansons. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900202

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1CD# BRK900338 Verdi: Messa da Requiem [2 CDs]

Shostakovich – Doppeltes Spiel [4 CDs] For the first time, the successful series of BR-Klassik audio biographies is devoting itself to a 20thcentury composer: Dmitri Shostakovich. His symphonies are still highlights in the concert hall, and his fate has inspired great novels. But what do we really know about his life? This audio biography draws on many sources, and the result is a comprehensive, colorful and detailed picture of the composer’s life. (BR Klassik)

4CD# BRK900929

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The Munich performances of Verdi’s Messa Da Requiem in October 1981 conducted by Riccardo Muti were concert events that have hardly been equaled since, let alone surpassed – so powerful were the chorus and orchestra. Finally – four decades later – BR-Klassik can now present this absolute pinnacle in the performance history of Verdi’s Messa Da Requiem on album. (BR Klassik)

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2CD# BRK900199 Debussy: & Hahn: Choral Music

Musica Viva, Vol. 37 – Mark Andre: iv 13 – iv 15

$19.99

These solo songs are performed by renowned soprano Christiane Karg, accompanied by Gerold Huber on the piano. In his song and choral cycle, Reynaldo Hahn resurrected antiquity. Recreating such music not only gave the composer inspiration but also great freedom. The piano accompaniment is restrained as far as possible. These serious and tender songs reflect on the life journeys taken by a person. (BR Klassik)

German-French composer Mark Andre is one of the most important representatives of New Music. His twelve Miniatures for string quartet were composed in 2014/17 as a commission from the Arditti Quartet. All the recordings feature live recordings made at concerts with the Bavarian Radio Chorus, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and renowned soloists. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900637

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Mendelssohn: The Complete String Symphonies [3 CDs]

1CD# BRK900529

$14.99

This CD box set combines Mendelssohn’s twelve string symphonies, his “Symphoniesatz“ in C minor (No. 13) and his early violin concerto in D minor in the form of studio recordings made by the Munchner Rundfunkorchester. Ever since their 1950 rediscovery, Mendelssohn’s early string symphonies have been a fixed part of the string and chamber orchestra repertoire. (BR Klassik)

3CD# BRK900337

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Vasks: Musica dolorosa – Musica serena

Schubert – Die Liebe liebt das Wandern [4 CDs]

All the works of the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks on this release are written for string orchestra: the three connected compositions “Musica serena”, “Musica dolorosa” and “Musica appassionata”, and also Vasks’ Concerto No 2 for Violoncello and Strings. Vasks’ three instrumental pieces here are lighthearted, tragic, and passionate. (BR Klassik)

Admittedly, Franz Schubert’s biography offers little in the way of great adventures, love affairs, glamour and long journeys. Jorg Handstein devotes himself here to a composer with an altogether quieter life. Schubert’s story still remains an exciting one: no famous composer before him had ever chosen to lead a life in which his musical activities were supported solely by a private circle of friends. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900336

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4CD# BRK900927

Pärt: Miserere

Vasks: Viatore – Distant Light – Voices

Estonian composer Arvo Part has succeeded in bringing sacred music back to a broader audience. The meditative character of his works, and his return to the simplest and most basic musical forms, convey moments of intense spirituality.This release features five works for choir as well as two for instrumental ensemble, covering all of the composer’s creative epochs between 1986 and 2019. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900527

Pēteris Vasks is one of the most famous composers from the Baltic states of the former Soviet Union. The works on this release are for chamber-music string ensembles: his first symphony Balsis – Voices; (1991), the haunting violin concerto Tala gaisma – Distant Light (1996/97), and the piece Viatore (the traveler; 2001), dedicated to Arvo Part, here in a version for eleven solo strings. (BR Klassik)

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1CD# BRK900334

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6

For the last seventeen years of his life – from 2003 to 2019 – Mariss Jansons was chief conductor of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the Bavarian Radio Chorus. Both ensembles and their conductor appreciated each other deeply on an artistic as well as a human level, and this resulted in numerous unforgettable concerts. This release focuses on his last concert at Carnegie Hall. (BR Klassik)

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Elgar: Partsongs – From the Bavarian Highlands

1CD# BRK900192

The British composer Edward Elgar wrote a great deal more than just his “Pomp & Circumstance” marches: his highly diverse oeuvre encompasses symphonies, concertos, chamber works, piano music and numerous choral works (oratorios, cantatas and partsongs). On this release, partsongs by Elgar can be heard with and without accompaniment as part of a representative selection of live and studio recordings. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900522

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Jansons – His Last Concert Live at Carnegie Hall

The 2015 Munich concert year began at the end of January with two highlights: two performances of Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony with Mariss Jansons conducting the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. The live recording is now being released – an outstanding interpretation of one of the most important compositions in the Late Romantic symphonic repertoire. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900190

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Poppe: Fett – Ich kann mich an nichts erinnern Enno Poppe’s composition Fett for Orchestra dates from 2018/19 and was commissioned by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and its artistic director Gustavo Dudamel. Poppe is one of the most important younger representatives of New Music. (BR Klassik)

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1CD# BRK900636

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BR KLASSIK IN BRIEF Musica Viva, Vol. 35 – Rebecca Saunders: Still – Aether – Alba The portrait of the British composer Rebecca Saunders begins with her 2011 two-part violin concerto Still. It was premiered at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn (with Carolin Widmann as soloist). (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900635

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Mozart: Requiem D minor K. 626 (with introduction) [2 CDs] Although it remained incomplete as Mozart’s last work, the Requiem in D minor (1791) ranks as one of the most important settings of the Latin Mass for the Dead ever written. (BR Klassik)

2CD# BRK900926

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Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 [6 CDs] These recordings are important documents of Jansons’ deep understanding of the works, and the high quality of the recordings also testifies to the long Bruckner tradition at the BRSO. (BR Klassik)

6CD# BRK900718

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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 To this day the music has lost none of its fascination, and the Fifth Symphony ranks as one of Shostakovich’s best-known works. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900191

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Sacred Music Recommended Sacred Titles Bach / Collegium Vocal Gent [10 CDs] Founded by Philippe Herreweghe at a time when the Baroque revival was still a matter for specialists, Collegium Vocale Gent has been at the heart of the rediscovery of Bach’s sacred music. This ten-album set brings together some of his finest sacred vocal works, from a selection of Leipzig cantatas (Gramophone Editor’s Choice) to the St John Passion by way of the Mass in B minor. (Phi)

10CD# LPH038

$41.99

Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom / Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir The music of the Russian Orthodox Church was an essential part of Sergei Rachmaninov’s musical background. As a boy he was deeply moved by the sound of St Petersburg’s cathedral choirs, and phrases reminiscent of liturgical chant permeate his music. His Vespers has long been admired as a summit of Russian liturgical music. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2571

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Hofer: Psalms for Salzburg Cathedral / Capella Spirensis The composer Andreas Hofer (1628/29–1684) is probably hardly known even by music connoisseurs! Yet he was Cathedral and Court Kapellmeister in Salzburg at a time when the prince-archbishopric was considered one of the most important centers of Western music. This program presents seven psalm concertos by Hofer for one or two solo voices, strings and basso continuo. (Christophorus)

1CD# CHR77461

Rutter: Anthems, Hymns & Gloria for Brass Band / Black Dyke Band

Resurrexi! Easter in Vienna with Mozart & the Haydn Brothers

John Rutter has written most of his sacred music to commission, and for use in church services. Composed for his first American tour, Gloria combines an ethereal quality with moments of exhilaration. Two other popular works are also represented: Pie Jesu from the Requiem, and This is the Day, composed for the wedding of HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011. (Naxos)

Paul Brough writes: “We are bringing you the powerful truth of Easter, celebrated in sound by two enthusiastic and devoted groups, in a fusion of what you might have heard in late eighteenth-century Salzburg or Vienna in Austria, and what you are welcome to come and hear in early twenty-first-century Oxford in England. (CRD)

1CD# CRD3539 $14.99 Chant des Jeunes – French Sacred Music for Girls’ Choir & Organ

1CD# 8574130 $11.99 Marian Music from Spain / Penalosa Ensemble On the present recording the Peñalosa Ensemble brings together works by the two composers whose sacred music forms the chronological frame of the Golden Age of Iberian vocal music: its namesake, the Spanish Renaissance composer Francisco de Peñalosa (motets, Magnificat), and Tomás Luis de Victoria (Missa, motets). (CPO)

1CD# 555398-2 Wilby: An English Passion / Belfast Cathedral Choir

Sacred music for girls’ (women’s) choir with organ can almost only be found in France in the period of late Romanticism and early Modernism. The centerpiece is the “Messe basse”, a youth work by Gabriel Fauré, whose simple clarity makes it easy to imagine in a French nunnery. A series of five other motets by Fauré complement the mass. (Christophorus)

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1CD# CHR77460 $18.99 Capriccio 40 Year Anniversary – Sacred Music Box Set [10 CDs]

Composer Phillip Wilby has built his reputation on writing for brass band and music for the Christian liturgy, for which he composes extensively. One important characteristic of the work is the congregational hymns are taken from the collection of English tunes, published by Vaughan Williams in his English Hymnal of 1906. These hymns, with their timeless melodies, anchor the Passion in a very English setting. (Resonus)

1CD# RES10298

$18.99

Since the beginning of Capriccio’s recordings the Sacred Music repertoire had a very special place in the catalogue. This first Capriccio 10 album Anniversary Box includes a lot of remastered recordings from the past which have not been available at the market anymore, as well as a representative Selection of Niche and Standard Repertoire productions. (Capriccio)

$16.99

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri

10CD# C7377

$29.99

Membra Jesu nostri consists of seven cantatas which graphically depict the suffering of Christ and the different parts of his tormented body. The surprising beauty and integrity of the cycle as a whole lies in its combination of the strict Protestant North German style with that of the Italian school, the symbiosis of mystical outbursts and dancing, transparent and almost ethereal textures. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96592

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Choral Music

Bach: St. Matthew Passion [3 CDs]

How Can I Keep from Singing 1984–2015 / BYU Singers [6 CDs]

This recording of the St. Matthew Passion, made in 1975, brings together the Who’s Who of the Saxon music scene. In a unique collaboration of the Mauersberger brothers, who were at the same time the cantors of the Dresden Kreuzchor and the Thomanerchor Leipzig, they unite the two choirs rich in tradition with the great soloists of their time. (Berlin Classics)

This 6-disc collection of choral performances features a selection of pieces that Dr. Ronald Staheli arranged for the BYU Singers as he conducted the choir from 1984–2015. Ranging from sacred hymns to folk songs to popular music to Broadway show tunes, this collection is perfect for the choral enthusiast. (BYU Records)

3CD# 0302727BC Music for Gloucester Cathedral / Gloucester Cathedral Choir

6CD# YCD0222HKS $39.99 To Speak to Our Time: Choral Works by Samuel Adler

SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the first recordings of church music by Ian King composed for, and performed by, Gloucester Cathedral Choir. Led by the Cathedral’s Director of Music, Adrian Partington, with Nia Llewelyn Jones, conductor of the Girls’ Choristers, and Assistant Director of Music Jonathan Hope as organist, the choir presents first recordings of 11 works composed between 2012 and 2020 by Ian King. (SOMM)

Samuel Adler believes “Life is a Gift.” The risk-taking composer of 400 published works in all media taught for 63 years at Juilliard, and Eastman and has given masterclasses and workshops at over 300 universities world-wide. Having studied with Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Randall Thompson and more – he has received numerous awards including ASCAP’s Aaron Copland Lifetime Achievement Award. (GDC)

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1CD# SOMMCD 0649 Wilbye: Draw On Sweet Night

$19.99

The Sweet & Merry Month / Choir of Magdalen College Oxford

$18.99

To welcome the spring, British ensemble I Fagiolini puts aside its beloved Monteverdi to uncover its own national heritage: the best of John Wilbye’s classic Golden Age madrigals. Whilst his oeuvre may have been small (just 75 works that we know of and most just a couple of minutes long), time and again, in these exquisite cameos, Wilbye delivers what might be reckoned the ultimate madrigal experience. (Coro)

Experience a staple of the Oxford calendar in this set of works inspired by the May Morning tradition, with music spanning from the traditional to contemporary. Starting with The College Clock welcoming in the sunrise, this special recording displays The Magdalen College Choir in radiant form, shining in the glorious acoustics of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Oxford. (Opus Arte)

1CD# COR16190 $18.99 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Earthʼs Wide Bounds

1CD# OA CD9049D $19.99 Aeterna – Choral works by György Ligeti & Zoltán Kodály

The centerpiece here is the first complete recording of the Communion Service in G minor – the 1923 English translation and revision of the Latin Mass in G minor which had been published just a year earlier. In keeping with the 1662 Anglican communion service then in use, the Gloria comes at the end; the service begins with sung responses to the ten commandments, read for us here by Rowan Williams. (Albion)

For this very special and demanding repertoire, both Bartok and Kodaly are in good hands with the Danish National Vocal Ensemble and conductor Marcus Creed. Audiophiles will also be richly rewarded with the vivid imaging and “as real as it gets” sonic presence thanks to producer Michael Emery and technician Mikkel Nymand. (Our Recordings)

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CHORAL TITLES IN BRIEF Viva! 30 Ans D’Art Choral / Various Artists The Fondation Bettencourt Schueller is celebrating thirty years of commitment to choral singing. To mark the occasion, it has brought together 19 excerpts from recordings made by supported ensembles. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA852

$18.99

Sempiternam – Choral Music by Rhona Clarke The works on this album range over a thirty-year period and demonstrate the increasing individuality of Rhona Clarke’s work, though rooted in the choral tradition of Ireland and Britain. (Métier)

1CD# MSV28614

$17.99

Anderson: A Lenten Cantata & Other Choral Works The choral works of the Australian composer Andrew Anderson further the English cathedral tradition in music concerned particularly with lyricism and with clarity and directness of expression. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0635

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Sing Joyfully – Contemporary Choral Music / Schola Cantorum Sing Joyfully is a wonderful collection of contemporary choral music, brilliantly performed by the Ardingly College Schola Cantorum. (Stone)

1CD# 5060192781168

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Vocal Recital Recommended Releases Romantic Duets There is good reason that romantic music is considered by musicologists to be the style that best embodies the spirit of romanticism, which blossoms with varying intensity throughout the history of European cultural development. Nevertheless it is true, that this style, that combines both national and folk elements and sublimely expresses a wide range of feelings, was at its peak at that time. (Dux)

1CD# DUX1813

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In Questa Reggia – Puccini & Verdi Operas / Oksana Dyka, soprano Oksana Dyka’s dramatic and dazzling voice sparkles in this collection of favorites from treasured operas by Puccini and Verdi, led by “the singer’s dream collaborator” Constantine Orbelian. Born in Ukraine, Oksana Dyka graduated at Kiev Conservatory in 2004, and from 2003 to 2007 she was the main soloist at Ukraine National Opera of Kiev. (Delos)

1CD# DE 3586

$16.99

The Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 6 – 17th Century Secular Spanish Vocal Music The final volume in this critically acclaimed series presents the last 18 of the one hundred magnificent and varied secular vocal works contained in the so called Guerra Manuscript. Seven of these tonos (secular Spanish songs) – five of which were written for the stage – are by Juan Hidalgo, one of the leading composers of the Spanish Baroque. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574390

Zimmermann: Voces / Various Artists [3 CDs]

Strauss: Zueignung / Sarah Wegener, soprano

Voces is a collection of rare recordings documenting many of Walter Zimmermann’s compositions for voices from 1979–2016. The words set to music range from Meister Eckhart and Hadewijch to Michail Lermontov. This deluxe 3-album set comes with a 74page booklet containing the complete song texts (with translations) and essays by Albert Breier and Christopher Fox. (Mode)

3CD# MOD-CD-335

“Without wanting to detract from the genius of Schubert or Schumann, we have a different answer. We would have loved to live at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century, “fin de siècle”, amidst the transition from Naturalism to Modernism with the currents of Jugendstil and Impressionism. These songs have been part of our lives for many years; among our personal favorites.” – Sarah Wegener & Götz Payer (Avi)

$56.99

1CD# AVI 8553041 $17.99 One Hundred Years of British Song, Vol. 3 / James Gilchrist, tenor

From Windsor with Love / The Queen’s Six The Queen’s Six return to Signum with a new album of romantic pop song arrangements. Conceived with U.S. producer TJ Armand, the album of new a cappalla arrangements sets traditional classics such as Bob Dylan’s “To Make You Feel My Love,” and Young and Heyman’s “When I Fall in Love,” next to more unusual fare such as Limahl’s “The Never Ending Story.” (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD698

SOMM Recordings announces the third and final volume of the enthusiastically received One Hundred Years of British Song. Receiving first recordings are John Woolrich’s settings of Irish poet Matthew Sweeney, The Unlit Suburbs, an evocative exercise in “alternative realism”, and Geoffrey Poole’s stylistically wide-ranging The Eye of the Blackbird, with texts from Virginia Woolf, the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Requiem Mass. (SOMM)

$17.99

Karolina Janu

1CD# SOMMCD 0646 Akwarelle / Joanna Freszel, soprano; Bartlomiej Kominek, piano

Karolína Janu completed her master’s studies at the Faculty of Music and Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She continued her studies at the Academy of Classical Music of Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam. On this release, she makes her debut with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra under Chuhei Iwasaki, performing arias by Dvorák, Smetana and Martinu. (ARS)

1CD# ARS38599

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Here we have a complete set of songs by Grazyna Bacewicz and a selection of songs by Ludomir Rózycki. All of them were written for texts of outstanding Polish poets, including Wyspianski, Mickiewicz, and Galczynski. (Dux)

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1CD# DUX1776

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Letter to Kamilla / Mosaic Voices Mosaic Voices are the Resident Choir at the New West End Synagogue, in London. The synagogue, designed in 1877 by the Scottish architect George Audsley, is a masterpiece of Victorian architecture, known for its beautiful choral acoustic. A great deal of the material on this album is therefore music sung by Mosaic Voices, in Hebrew, during religious services and festivals, of which this music forms a functional element. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20261

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Albums

Haydn: The Seven Last Words

La Captive – Songs of Charles Marie Widor

Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart have taken on one of the most exciting pieces of Passion music in music history: “The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross.” The new recording with Anna-Lena Elbert, Sophie Harmsen, Florian Sievers, Sebastian Noack and the Kammerchor Stuttgart under the direction of Frieder Bernius achieves an emotionality that can hardly be surpassed. (Carus) 1CD# CV83520 $18.99

Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) and Victor Hugo (1802– 1855) were towering figures in their respective disciplines, both in France, and in the world, during their lifetimes. These songs by Widor, to Hugo texts, cover a variety of emotions, from sweet introspection to quiet desperation. Rebecca Hays is perfect for these works. She and pianist Jeffrey Peterson make the most of these marvelous songs. (Centaur) 1CD# CRC3921 $15.99

An Old Belief / The Sixteen

Hello Darkness / Olivia Vermeulen; Jan Philip Schulze

An Old Belief introduces Hubert Parry’s emotional and heartfelt Songs of Farewell, which surely rank among some of the finest choral works ever written. Perfectly complimenting the rich sonority of Parry’s Songs are three short pieces by Campion, a selection of medieval carols and a new work by award-winning composer Cecilia McDowall. (Coro) 1CD# COR16189 $18.99

Dedicating an album to the dark side of the Lied might seem inappropriate in these times, but as a mezzosoprano, Olivia Vermeulen has always been drawn to the darker roles in opera, the sad arias in oratorio and the deep laments in song. We begin with a collection of songs about melancholia and murderous lust, but the album is also rich in songs about comfort and hope. (Challenge) 1CD# CC 72887 $16.99--

Celebration in Life & Death / Anna Prohaska

With this eclectic release, soprano Anna Prohaska here celebrates ‘life in death’. An ambitious program, conceived with Robin Peter Müller and his ensemble La Folia, which takes us on a journey across the centuries and through many different countries, with French chansons of the Middle Ages, seventeenth-century Italian pieces, German composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and English luminaries. (Alpha) 1CD# ALPHA745 $18.99

Yes I Will Yes / Saran Maria Sun

Sarah Maria Sun is known as one of the foremost vocal performers in the contemporary music scene. Her repertoire currently spans more than 1000 compositions from the 16th to the 21st century, including 350 world premieres. She regularly performs as a soloist in renowned concert halls and festivals worldwide. (Hänssler Classic) 1CD# HC21063 $18.99

Rachel / Rachel Willis-Sørensen

Rachel is the debut album from American soprano Rachel WillisSørensen, released in spring 2022. The selection of opera arias and scenes showcases the depth and variety of her incredible voice which leading French daily Le Monde cites as “without a doubt one of the most impressive voices in the opera world.” The album includes key works from Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, Dvorak and Lehár. (Sony) 1CD# 19439968352 $11.99.

Matters of the Heart / Sarah Brady

Singer Sarah Brady on the genesis of the album: “Stephen made the suggestion to put together a concert program, and it was soon clear that we both wanted to rehearse these Schumann songs. We came up with several program ideas and ultimately thought songs by Richard Strauss were best suited to expand on the emotional themes of the Schumann songs.” (Prospero) 1CD# PROSP0023 $19.99

NEW VOCAL RELEASES IN BRIEF Bach: Ich bin vergnügt … – Cantatas for soprano / Miriam Feuersinger, soprano On this release, the proven Bach specialist presents the three most beautiful cantatas written by Johann Sebastian Bach for solo soprano. (Christophorus) 1CD# CHR77459 $18.99

A Baroque Tenor – Arias for Annibale Fabbri / Marco Angioloni The 18th century was the great time of the castrati, they celebrated the greatest triumphs in opera. This album presents those roles that famous composers of the time such as Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Handel. (Pan Classics) 1CD# PC10437 $18.99

Mödl 1955 / Bayreuther Festspiele [2 CDs] The recordings here by Martha Mödl from 1955 document not only her impeccable rendering of the German, but also her singular singing status. (Profil) 2CD# PH21055 $18.99

Rocking Horse Road / Jacqui Dankworth; Brodsky Quartet Rocking Horse Road is the debut recording of Jacqui Dankworth and the Brodsky quartet, bearing witness to a musical relationship that stretches back almost two decades. (Chandos) 1CD# CHAN 20219

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English Music / Sir Thomas Beecham [6 CDs]

Deep Discount Mozart: Idomeneo [4 CDs]

Beecham’s English Collection is unmissable... [Song of the High Hills is] one of the first recordings made by Beecham’s new postwar orchestra, and they already play as though they adore him. – BBC Music

6CD# 5099990991523

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125th Anniversary – The Legend / Wilhelm Furtwangler [3 CDs]

6CD# 5099964087825

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Thomas Adès conducts this “masterpiece of airy beauty and eerie power.” – The New Yorker

2CD# 5099969523427

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Mozart’s piano variations occupy a fundamental position within the keyboard repertory. Here they are performed by one of the composer’s best-known interpreters, Daniel Barenboim.

Two discs of Wagner highlights – featuring works from Tannhauser, Der Fliegende Hollander, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, and more.

8CD# 5099970445428

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Nine-disc set containing all recordings of Elgar himself conducting, primarily with the LSO; including the Violin Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin.

This fabulous series turns its attention to one of the greatest tenors of this-or any-age. Placido Domingo’s vast repertoire is on grand display as you hear performances from Un Ballo in Maschera and more!

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Mozart: The Da Pointe Operas [9 CDs]

Claudio Arrau’s reputation is built on his special affinity for the music of Brahms, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin and, above all, Beethoven whose complete sonatas he played in many major cities.

12CD# 5099991843227

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Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No 7 with Shostakovich’s Ten Preludes from 24 Preludes for Piano Op. 34 and Violin Sonata Op. 147.

Pappano’s CD recording of Boheme is conducted with ever-fresh imagination, bringing out not just subtle emotions alonside high passion, but also the fun of the piece in lightly sprung rhythms — Penguin Guide

2CD# 825646194926

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Haydn: Concertos, Vol. 8 [5 CDs]

Voices of French Opera [5 CDs]

This 5-CD set presents an excellent survey of Haydn’s Concertos with virtually all performances being in superb sound.

This collection features some of the greatest voices in classical music, from French singers such as Patricia Petibon and Natalie Dessay. The perfect introduction to this important operatic tradition.

5CD# 2564695627

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Best Tango 100 [6 CDs]

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Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Sakari Oramo is joined by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for this reading of Mahler’s 5th Symphony.

Six discs of Argentina’s stately national dance music, delivered by luminaries such as The José Basso Orchestra, Sexteto Mayor, The Héctor Varela Orchestra, and many more!

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Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 [2 CDs]

Puccini: La Boheme (Highlights)

6CD# 5099909755024

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ICON – Claudio Arrau [12 CDs]

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These glorious performances of possibly the most challenging and inspiring pieces in the cello repertory were recorded in the Abbey Church at Vezelay in France.

5CD# 5099992804623

Stravinsky: Le Rossignol [3 CDs] 3CD# 5099945650024

Bach: Cello Suites 2,3 & 6

1CD# 5099909481923

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Dessay is stunning, heading a strong cast in this unsurpassed account of The Nightingale. — BBC Music

Mozart’s Da Ponte operas encompass a wide range of human experience and rank among the most popular creations in music history. This 9-CD set presents the complete collaborations.

1CD# 724355560520

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Elgar: Complete EMI Recordings [9 CDs]

100 Best Placido Domingo [6 CDs]

9CD# 5099970446326

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Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas [8 CDs]

Wagner: Opera Experience / Daniel Barenboim; Chicago SO [2 CDs]

6CD# 5099964873527

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The Tempest / Thomas Ades [2 CDs]

The Pekinels turn in lovely performances of some shorter pieces by Brahms. They play a selection of five waltzes from Brahms’ Op. 39 set with charm and sensitivity. – MusicWeb

2CD# 2564683449

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Compilation of the 100 best Giuseppe Verdi compositions including arias from ‘La Traviata’, ‘Don Carlo’ and ‘Otello’.

Brahms, Saint-Saëns: Sonata for 2 Pianos, 5 Waltzes

1CD# 2564619592

4CD# 5099994823820 Best Verdi 100 [6 CDs]

This 3-CD set couples together a selection of some of the more popular classics recorded by the great German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.

3CD# 5099990811920

The cast on this recording is superb, including the excellent Ian Bostridge, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Lisa Milne, and more, joined by the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

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Music for a Royal Wedding

Liszt: Live at La Scala / Daniel Barenboim

A collection of the most famous and recognizable pieces of music from wedding services of British royalty.

Liszt’s Annes de plerinage contain some of his most beautiful piano music – a feast for piano lovers.

Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 [3 CDs]

I Heard A Voice / King’s College Choir

1CD# 2564674219

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To Daniel Barenboim, each Bach prelude and fugue is more than a mere exercise in counterpoint. Each becomes a gem, with a specific musical shape.

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The instrumental pieces… are expertly played by the viol consort Fretwork. The famous choir sings with full-bodied tone and unfailing precision. – Gramophone 1CD# 094639443024 $6.79 $16.99----

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Best of Maxim Vengerov [11 CDs] Maxim Vengerov developed the foundation for a stellar lifetime career. This collection includes recordings of nearly all the major violin works with world-class conductors. 11CD# 2564637802 $31.99 $79.99.

The Spanish Experience [2 CDs]

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Yang: Romance De Amor

The Violin Concerto is the most intimate of Beethoven’s instrumental works. The cadenzas, from the hand of RussianCanadian Airat Ichmouratov, take pride of place in this interpretation.

Titles include ‘Asturias’, ‘Romance de Amor’, ‘Recuerdos de la Alhambra’, ‘Zapateado’, ‘Michelle’, ‘Cavatina’, ‘El Colibri’, ‘El Condor Pasa’, ‘Seis por derecho’, and more.

1CD# 094637071427

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Very Best of Janet Baker [2 CDs]

Sacred Verdi / Antonio Pappano

An outstanding two-disc compilation of works from the famed English mezzo-soprano.

Antonio Pappano celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi with this program of sacred choral music.

1CD# 84524

The very best of British music, with the finest British artists. The late Richard Hickox presents three string masterpieces in definitive accounts of 19th- and 20th-century anthems.

This 6 CD set presents 100 highlights from the extensive catalogue of the legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Works from Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and more.

Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 7 [2 CDs]

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Best of British / Various [3 CDs]

100 Best Menuhin [6 CDs]

Over two hours of colorful Spanish classics from artists including Sharon Isbin, Joseph Jennings, Daniel Barenboim, Monique Haas, and more.

2CD# 2564671885

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2CD# 5099909471726

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$7.19 $17.99 Mozart: String Qts. K465 & K499 / Belcea Quartet

Polish Spirit / Nigel Kennedy Mlynarski’s Concerto is a real find. Jacek Kaspszyk and the Polish Chamber Orchestra accompany energetically. – BBC Music

These are superb performances, with well-judged tempos, nicely sprung rhythms… a sense of spontaneity. — BBC Music

Gounod: Romeo et Juliette [3 CDs]

Mahler: Symphony No. 8 / Sir Simon Rattle

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“The results of this recording are glorious: here is Rattle at the helm of an orchestra whose profile and reputation he raised to extraordinary heights.” – Gramophone

Gheorghiu brings a fine conviction to the despairing scene with Friar Laurence and then to the scene of the potion. There are many, many things to enjoy as one listens to Alagna’s Roméo. – Gramophone

3CD# 5099964070025

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1CD# 5099963179026

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Pergolesi: Vespers / Higginbottom Choir [2 CDs]

100 Best Placido Domingo [6 CDs] One of the greatest tenors of this or any age. His vast repertoire is on grand display as you hear performances from Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Carlo, Macbeth, and more.

Sophie Daneman & Naemi Kiss join with Choir of New College – Oxford and Academy of Ancient Music for this twodisc collection of Pergolesi works.

The Second Viennese School / Sir Simon Rattle [5 CDs]

The Bach Experience [2 CDs]

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Artists include Collegium Vocale, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Concentus musicus Wien, Leonhardt-Consort, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ton Koopman & Gustav Leonhardt.

Listen as Sir Simon Rattle enters the prestigious Second Viennese School to conduct Schoenberg’s massive oratorio Gurrelieder plus his Chamber Symphony No. 1 and Orchesterstucke

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Debussy Melodies & Jennie Tourel Tribute / Barbara Hendricks

Deep Discount Best Tchaikovsky 100 [6 CDs]

Compilation of 100 Best Tchaikovsky compositions including ‘Swan Lake’, ‘Piano concerto no. 2’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

Barbara Hendricks’ voice – particularly suited to Mozart, Debussy & Fauré – has a warm, crystalline quality that has kept her in demand on stage and in recording studios.

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Puccini: La Boheme [DVD]

Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Highlights)

Puccini’s timeless story of love and loss, performed by the chorus and orchestra of the Zurich Opera House.

Spectacular performances from Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, and Nicolai Gedda highlight this recording. “Excellent entertainment, the gaiety infectious, the comedy unforced.” – Gramophone

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This recording draws from two live recitals Argerich gave at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw in 1978 and 1979, which document the pianist’s overwhelming gifts.

Donald Runnicles leads the Met Orchestra in what the Boston Globe called “an inspired performance…full of passion and commitment yet free of bombast.”

1CD# 724355697523

Muti reveals all the beauty and subtlety of Bellini’s scoring, emphasizing the opera’s romantic eloquence. – Gramophone

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Otto Klemperer’s readings of Beethoven are proverbial for their grandeur and humanity, while the Leonore of Christa Ludwig and Florestan of Jon Vickers remain unsurpassed.

On all sides, not least the playing of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Karajan presides over the highest technical standards. – Gramophone

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This six-disc survery of vital works from the Berlin Philharmonic includes works by several legendary conductors, starting with Arthur Nikisch’s 1913 recording of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.

Ingrid Fliter is a one-off, the kind of pianist we have not seen in years. She plays Beethoven with an old-master’s touch and Chopin with reckless passion. – La Scena Musicale

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Two and a half hours of Italian baroque brilliance! Artists include Jean-Pierre Rampal, Victoria de los Ángeles, Marilyn Horne, Hanna Schaer, Jennifer Smith, Wally Staempfli, and more.

15-disc collection of Puccini recordings by Maria Callas, which marked the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

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Rattle’s first recording of the ballet was superlative, but this second rendering, is, if anything, better, taking full advantage of the Berlin Phil’s exceptional colors. — BBC Music

15CD# 5099921589423

Splendid recording of Bartok’s Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion, and Strings by Sakari Oramo and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Excellent collection of authoritive Rossini recordings from top singers and conductors, including Callas, Gedda, Gobbi, Ramey, and more.

1CD# 2564619472

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Essential masterpieces from the French Impressionist. Artists include Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Monique Haas, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Susan Graham, and more!

Fine two-disc compilation of memorable tunes from British ballet, including works from Sir Charles Mackerras, Vernon Handley, Louis Fremauz, Sir Adrian Boult, and more.

2CD# 2564679230

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Serebrier rounds out the program with two transcriptions, perhaps as a homage to his mentor, Leopold Stokowski. – MusicWeb

Itzhak Perlman embraces complete concertos by Bach, Vivaldi and Bruch, as well as collaborations with figures such as Daniel Barenboim and Andre Prévin.

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Rachmaninov: The Bells / Jose Serebrier

A Portrait (Deluxe Version) / Itzhak Perlman [3CD+DVD]

4CD# 5099994119428

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The Debussy Experience [2 CDs]

British Ballet Music [2 CDs]

2CD# 5099994981926

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Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra/Romanian Folk Dances

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The Best of Rossini [2 CDs]

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Callas – The Complete Puccini Recordings [15 CDs]

Ravel: L’Enfant et les Sortileges / Sir Simon Rattle

1CD# 5099926419725

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Passion – Beethoven Sonatas

The Vivaldi Experience [2 CDs]

2CD# 2564679265

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Verdi: Falstaff [3 CDs]

Best Berlin Philharmoniker 100 [6 CDs]

6CD# 5099994829020

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Bellini: I Capuleti E I Montecchi

Beethoven: Fidelio (Highlights)

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Argerich: Piano Recital – Live 1978–1979

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Britten: Peter Grimes / Met Opera [2 DVDs]

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Bach, Graun, Telemann, Altnikol / Passions-Pasticcio [2 CDs]

Piano Dreams / Janowski, Hager [5 CDs] Over five hours of the world’s best loved piano music comprising complete works and selected movements. Composers include Bach, Poulenc, Chopin, Grieg, Mozart, Ravel, Debussy, and more.

This delightful 1991 recording conducted by Hermann Max was one of the highlights of the legendary Electola series Baroque Special.

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5CD# 2564695498

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Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op 77 / Daniel Barenboim

Hoelscher plays Schumann & Szymanowski This CD combines the 1975 recording of the two Schumann sonatas with repertoire rarities that only became known to a wider audience thanks to violinist Ulf Hoelscher.

1CD# 5099960209122

Verdi: Aida / Riccardo Muti

Maxim Vengerov now confronts – and conquers – one of the supreme challenges all great violinists must face: The Brahms Violin Concerto.

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Excellent two-disc recording of Beethoven’s only opera, featuring Waltraud Meier as Leonore, Placido Domingo as Florestan, and Falk Struckmann as Don Pizarro.

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Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 / Bournemouth SO

Following her album of Strauss songs with orchestra, soprano Diana Damrau turned to songs by Liszt in the company of distinguished pianist Helmut Deutsch.

1CD# 5099907092824

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Panufnik: Love Abide

Pianist David Frey brings together solo keyboard works of Bach & Boulez in a program that works astonishly well.

1CD# 094638578727

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Brilliant renditions of three concertos with backing from the Berliner Philharmoniker. The recordings, made on three separate occasions, show concentration, freshness, and spontaneity.

“Jenkins is probably the finest English composer for instruments of the midseventeenth century” – Gramophone

$6.79 $16.99

1CD# 630168272

C.P.E. Bach: Flute Concertos [2 CDs]

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4; Romeo & Juliet under the leadership of Daniel Barenboim, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra execute this timeless work.

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1CD# 630136982

1001 Nights – Vocal & Orchestral Music [3 CDs]

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Strauss: Elektra [2 CDs]

This Phoenix title features some of the most evocative music ever written about the Orient, including the mysterious ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’ from Salome and two versions of Scheherazade.

3CD# 420

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 / Daniel Barenboim

This two-disc release from 2011 features C.P.E. Bach Flute Concertos performed by Eckart Haupt. 15 works in all.

2CD# 446

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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 14, 15 & 16 / Daniel Barenboim

Jenkins: Fantasia Suites

1CD# 141

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Bach, Boulez: Piano Works / David Fray

There are some fascinating pieces on this disc, and anyone interested in contemporary sacred music or Panufnik’s investigations of world music should have no doubts about buying. – Planet Hugill

1CD# 2564657206

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Liszt: Lieder / Diana Damrau

When it comes to conducting Dvorak, Jose Serebrier isn’t afraid to get mud on his boots...he presents a strong, thick-set Dvorak Seventh, managing some skilful transitions en route, in particular. – Gramophone

1CD# 2564666562

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Beethoven: Fidelio [2 CDs]

This is an outright winner. I’m sure that Verdi would have liked Muti’s concentration on essentials and the way he suggests a real theatrical experience. – Gramophone

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One of many collaborations between Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, this powerful rendition of Elektra features Waltraud Meier, Deborah Polanski, Gerd Wold, and Alessandra Marc.

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Bach, Sweelinck, Mozart: Piano Duo Arrangements

Verdi: Aida [3 CDs]

This CD is a collection of arrangements by Herbert Breuer for piano duo of organ works, including a couple of arrangements of Mozart orchestral/choral works.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Aida is one of the most elegant and polished versions of the opera ever recorded, perhaps ever performed.

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [3 CDs]

The Rachmaninov Experience [2 CDs]

1CD# 134

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Three-disc program featuring Thomas Hampson, Charlotte Margiono, Barbara Bonney, and the Netherlands Opera Chorus and Concertgebouw Orchestra with Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

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Two discs of Rachmaninov favorites, featuring artists including Martha Argerich, Nikolai Lugansky, Sakari Oramo, The Choir of New College, Oxford, and more.

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Brass Bonanza Top Brass Picks Nine Trumpets & One Piano / Fabio Blum, trumpet; Santiago Baez, piano Nine Trumpets and One Piano is an album of works dedicated to leading trumpeter Fábio Brum and written for the classically conceived combination of trumpet or other high brass instruments and piano. The music is exciting and vibrant – not least in its dancing, driving rhythms – and exploits neo-Classical traditions as well as minimalism, jazz and folklore, all heard here in world premiere recordings. (Naxos) 1CD# 8579118 $13.99

Orgelpunkt – Trombone & Organ A double stroke of luck: the Sauer organ in the “Glocke” concert hall in Bremen has survived almost unchanged since 1928. The Franz Kuhn Trombone Quartet led by the enterprising Juan Gonzáles Martínez can fall back on an original trombone set from the 1920s. With this and together with organist Lea Suter, they bring remarkable literature from the heyday of virtuoso trombone playing to life in an authentic way. (MDG) 1CD# 9512253-6 $18.99

Deep Heights / Lisa Hochwimmer, bass trombone Lisa Hochwimmer embarks on wide-ranging musical expeditions, taking on powerful original repertoire by Derek Bourgeois, Alexej Lebedev, and Chris Brubeck, as well as imaginative arrangements of opera arias by Peter Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, and Richard Wagner. And with this smoothness and depth, some of Walhalla’s gods are guaranteed to be green with envy. (Genuin) 1CD# GEN 22774 $18.99

Mosaic / A4 Brass Quartet

Gabrieli for Brass / Royal Academy of Music

SOMM Recordings is thrilled to announce the release of Mosaic featuring the label debut of the A4 Brass Quartet. Formed in 2013 at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music, the quartet comprises principal players from some of the UK’s top brass bands. An exciting kaleidoscope of new music, Mosaic makes a bold claim for the vibrancy and variety of contemporary brass music. (SOMM) 1CD# SOMMCD 0638 $18.99

This fascinating transatlantic collaboration presents enduring masterpieces by Gabrieli and his Venetian contemporaries. Under the direction of Reinhold Friedrich, the players blend modern instruments and intellect with 16th-century technique and tuning to excel in this profoundly challenging repertoire. (Linn) 1CD# CKD581 $18.99

Trumpet Concertos / Selina Ott, trumpet

Gregson: Music of the Angels – Works for Symphonic Brass & Percussion This outstanding program contains all of Edward Gregson’s significant works for Symphonic Brass, including the seminal Brass Quintet, the Symphony in two movements and Music of the Angels. (Chandos) 1CD# CHAN 20127 $16.99

On her debut album with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Roberto Paternostro, Selina Ott presents an exciting selection from the opulent range of 20th century trumpet concertos that have been written in close temporal proximity to one another. (Orfeo) 1CD# C200091 $18.99

Music for Brass Septet 7 / Septura

In this seventh volume of Music for Brass Septet, Septura survey two of America’s greatest and most representative composers. Gershwin’s An American in Paris charts a visitor’s stroll around the French capital, and Copland’s Quiet City depicts a contrasting and more understated cityscape, while the suite from the ballet Appalachian Spring displays Septura’s luminous virtuosity. (Naxos) 1CD# 8574238 $11.99

Weinberg: Symphony No. 18 / St. Petersburg State SO Dedicated to ‘the memory of those who fell in the Great Patriotic War’ (1941–45), Symphony No. 18 is the centrepiece of Weinberg’s symphonic trilogy On the Threshold of War. (Naxos) 1CD# 8573190 $11.99

The Trumpet Collection / Friedrich Reinhold [10 CDs] Since his success at the ARD Competition in 1986, Reinhold Friedrich has been a guest on all the most important podiums throughout the world. This 10 album set shows the impressive spectrum of this artist, playing a repertoire from the natural trumpet till the experimental avant-garde. This set is a chronology of trumpet literature spanning over 400 years of music history. (Capriccio) 10CD# C7285 $34.99

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Early Music Albums On Early Music / Francesco Tristano

De Ribera & Navarro – Masters of the Spanish Renaissance

Acclaimed pianist and composer Francesco Tristano, returns to his first love – early music for his new studio album On Early Music. The album presents Renaissance and early-Baroque works with five of his own Baroque-inspired piano pieces. Interspersed with these are works by some of early music’s greatest English composers and organists – Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, and Peter Philips. (Sony) 1CD# 19439917392 $11.99

These are superb performances by the Spanish vocal ensemble Amystis, specialized in presenting hidden gems from the Spanish Renaissance and Baroque. Early Music Review: ‘Amystis are worthy exponents of this glorious music, negotiating its considerable complexity with aplomb. (Brilliant Classics) 1CD# BRI96409 $9.99

Gesualdo: Primo Libro di Madrigali The only surviving version of Carlo Gesualdo’s First Book of Madrigals was printed in spring 1594. With this album, the members of La Compagnia del Madrigale present a recording of all six books of madrigals of Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa. Thanks to their deep knowledge of the music, they have definitely set a reference for this demanding repertoire. (Glossa) 1CD# GCD922811 $18.99

Lully: Miserere / Stéphane Fuget; Les Epopées Here are assembled three Grands Motets by Lully, associated with key moments in the reign of Louis XIV. The music is triumphant, with grand theatrical narratives and choruses alternating between plenitude and exaltation. (CDV) 1CD# CVS059 $18.99

Biber Meets Vejvanovsky – Trumpet Music for the Court of Kromeríž

Ries: 3 Violin Sonatas

A famous violinist and an outstanding trumpeter – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky. The two already knew each other from their education at the Jesuit College in Troppau, Silesia, and both musicians came to the episcopal court in Kromeríž. The fruitful collaboration between the two musicians led to a series of chamber music works in which the trumpet is used on an equal footing with the violin. (Accent) 1CD# ACC 24383 $18.99

Ferdinand Ries was without doubt one of the most prolific composers and most significant figures in the musical life of the early to mid-19th century. Although Ries did compose several oratorios and operas, today we see his music more as an important stage in the development of German absolute music, a key link in the progression from C.P.E. Bach, Haydn and Beethoven, through to Brahms and Bruckner. (Brilliant Classics) 1CD# BRI96521 $9.99

Rapsodia Italiana / CordArte

Byrd: Keyboard Music

In 1650, Athanasius Kircher wrote for the first time about a phenomenon of rhapsodically free instrumental music-making, which he called “stylus phantasticus“. With the development of the monody in Italy around 1600, vocalists initially moved the hearts of the audience, but soon the best instrumentalists emulated them in their own way. The melody instruments swung into their own solo and duo songs. (Pan Classics) 1CD# PC10432 $18.99

William Byrd’s work stands out above all for the variety of genres and structural principles. This is particularly evident in his unique keyboard music. The influence that Byrd also had on the continental development of piano music remains remarkable. With William Byrd, Friederike Chylek follows up on her last albums From Byrd To Byrd and Time Stands Still. (Oehms) 1CD# OC 1724 $14.99

EARLY MUSIC TITLES IN BRIEF Aquila Altera / Federica Bianchi With this recording, Federica Bianchi explores the development of music for keyboard instruments from the beginning of the 15th century to the dawn of the Baroque period. (Passacaille) 1CD# PAS1111 $18.99

Four in One – 35 Years of Brisk / Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam Canons from Dufay and Obrecht to Brahms, Skryabin and Zuidam constitute the common thread on this album. Moreover, Four in One is a showcase of BRISK’s rich repertoire. (Globe) 1CD# GLO5283 $16.99

Fortsch: Canatas Weser-Renaissance Bremen This new series featuring Music for Gottorf Castle continues with Vol. 2 as the Weser-Renaissance Ensemble turns to cantatas and sacred concertos by Johann Philipp Förtsch. (CPO) 1CD# 777860-2 $16.99

Leuven Chansonnier Vol. 2 / Solazzo Ensemble Danilevskaia The Leuven Chansonnier (1470–75) includes not only fifty compositions by leading 15th century Franco-Flemish names but also twelve newly rediscovered works that exist in no other source. (Passacaille) 1CD# PAS1109 $18.99

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The Baroque New Baroque Titles from Alpha Bach: Sonatas for Flute & Fortepiano With these sonatas by C. P. E. Bach, François Lazarevitch continues the exploration of the jewels of the flute and recorder repertory he has embarked on with recordings of music by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi and van Eyck. François Lazarevitch and Justin Taylor now bring their sensitivity and virtuosity to bear on the sonatas for flute and obbligato harpsichord of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. (Alpha)

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Purcell: Odes & Welcome Songs There are 24 Odes and Welcome Songs composed by Purcell between 1680 and 1695: 4 celebrate St Cecilia, 6 are to welcome royalty, 3 celebrate King James II’s birthday and 6 celebrate that of Queen Mary (from 1684 to 1694). The others were written for specific events – royal wedding, Yorkshire festival, Duke of Gloucester’s birthday, hundredth anniversary of Dublin’s Trinity College, etc. (Alpha)

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Durón: Coronis / Le Poeme Harmonique; Vincent Dumestre [2 CDs] This recording provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten Baroque operatic treasure, a zarzuela, the key dramatic and musical genre of the Spanish Golden Age. Sumptuous choruses, poignant arias and folksongs blend in a rich and spectacular narrative, whose music was falsely attributed to Antonio Literes before Sebastián Durón (1660–1716) was acknowledged as its composer in 2009. (Alpha)

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Telemann: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol. 8

Graupner: Der Herr ist auferstanden

The five works on our Vol. 8 offer a fascinating cross-section of Telemann’s violin concertos from the early creations of the Eisenach period (1708–1712) to the 1730s, when the composer published his Musique de table as a musician highly respected throughout Europe. Concertos for two and three solo violins stand alongside a Violetta double concerto and Telemann’s only concerto overture with two solo violins. (CPO)

1CD# 777882-2 Monteverdi: Il quarto libro de madrigali

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Christoph Graupner remained as court kapellmeister in Darmstadt and in the end held the position for over 50 years! Time enough to create an enormous oeuvre, at the center of which are over 1400 cantatas. Countertenor Franz Vitzthum and tenor Georg Poplutz have selected solo arias and duets for their voices from this fund, focusing on cantatas for Easter and the Easter season. (Accent)

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1CD# ACC 24382 $18.99 Scarlatti, Scarlatti: Cantate Profane E Sonate

Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals, published in 1603 after an elevenyear gestation, bears witness to the metamorphosis of the madrigal and the rapid evolution of music at the turn of the two centuries. This bold, complex book is the culmination of the application of the precepts of the seconda pratica on the cusp of the seventeenth century. (Phi)

Among the major composers of their era were Alessandro Scarlatti and his son Domenico, both of whom were influenced by the music and culture of Naples. The cantata for alto and b.c. by Domenico Scarlatti “Che si peni in amore” recalls the production of his father Alessandro both in style and in writing. (Bongiovanni)

1CD# GB5215-2 $16.99 Johann Mattheson Joseph: Oratorio 1727 / Ensemble Paulinum

1CD# LPH037 $18.99 Bach: Sei Solo / Leonidas Kavakos [2 CDs] An exclusive Sony Classical artist since 2018, Kavakos now presents his most significant recording yet – his first account of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. The set also includes the famous Chaconne in D minor from the Partita No. 2, for many, Bach’s single greatest span of music.“Kavakos’ tone has the character of striking high-grade silver sinew, ever beautiful, graceful and unbreakable” – LA Times (Sony)

In 1715 Johann Mattheson became music director at Hamburg Cathedral and took advantage of the opportunity to mix sacred music with theatrical style. In his 13 years of service he wrote 24 oratorios for high holidays and lent. The exquisite musical quality of the piece is impressive. The work, which the libretto designates an “oratorio”, was first performed in 1727 under the composer’s direction. (Capriccio)

2CD# 19439903132 $16.99 1CD# C5448 Telemann, Fasch, Bach, Graupner / Thomascantors in Dialogue

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This is an album that portrays an imaginary audition that took place in Leipzig in 1723. After Johann Kuhnau’s death the Thomaskirche was in search of a new Kantor. For different reasons Telemann, Fasch and Graupner declined and the fourth choice happened to be Johann Sebastian Bach. This ensemble imagines a dialogue among the four giants through their own compositions for recorder and orchestra. (Challenge)

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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Jodie Devos, Adele Charvet

Bach: Anatomy of a Motif [2 SACDs] In musical notation in Germany, the letter ‘h’ is used to represent the note b natural. So, the name ‘Bach’ forms an elegant phrase of two pairs of falling semitones. Bach’s musical ‘signature’ appears again and again through his output. Two shining examples are included here – the ‘unfinished fugue’ Contrapunctus XIV à 4 from Die Kunst der Fuge and the Ricercar à 6 from Musikalisches Opfer. (Chandos) 2SACD# CHSA 5285(2) $26.99-

Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater has enjoyed enormous fame ever since the eighteenth century – Rousseau called its first movement ‘the most perfect and touching that has ever come from the pen of any composer’. There were many arrangements of the work, by Bach or Hiller among others. This recording teams two emblematic singers with the excellent Maîtrise de Radio France, of which Adèle was a member as a young girl. (Alpha) 1CD# ALPHA784 $18.99

Pergolesi: Il Prigionier Superbo / La Serva Padrona [2 CDs]

Geminiani: La Forêt enchantée / Elisa Baciocchi Ensemble

Il Prigionier Superbo was first staged on August 28, 1733. The chronicles report that the intermezzos of La Serva Padrona were so successful they overshadowed Il Prigioniero, in spite of its obvious merits. Pergolesi’s adhesion to the stylistic standards and the formal customs of his time is total and his respect for the taste of the audience entirely focused on belcanto is never in discussion. (Bongiovanni) 2CD# GB2221/22-3 $16.99

The musical production of Francesco Saverio Geminiani is totally focused on instrumental music, and includes two collections of violin sonatas and a series of transcriptions and revisions of works by other Italian composers. (Tactus) 1CD# TC680706 $16.99

Baroque Bass (Anthems & Motets) Footprint Records presents Baroque Bass, with the Swedish opera singer Staffan Liljas. This album contains music from the early baroque era for solo bass voice – a quite unique event. Liljas is accompanied by a small basso continuo ensemble consisting of three of Sweden’s most prominent musicians in this genre: Mime Brinkmann (cello), Jonas Nordberg (theorbo) and Peter Lönnerberg (organ). (Footprint) 1CD# FRCD 123 $16.99

Dieupart: Suites De Clavecin / Marie Van Rhijn, harpsichord

François Dieupart is an intriguing composer of the early 18th century and a pioneer of the repertoire, even before Couperin and Rameau. Drawing on French and Italian styles, his music remains eminently personal, full of delicacy and freshness of tone. First performed in 1702, his new style of music enjoyed a lasting success throughout Europe. (CDV) 1CD# CVS060 $18.99

Handel: Winged Hands / Francesco Corti, harpsichord [2 CDs]

Pucklitz: Oratorio Secondo [2 SACD]

After the album Bach, Little Books, harpsichordist Francesco Corti continues his collaboration with Arcana with a two-album recording entirely dedicated to George Frideric Handel. At the center of the project are the eight “Great” suites. These masterpieces were the composer’s first published set, and are a clear testimony to his virtuosity at the keyboard. (Arcana) 2CD# A499 $27.99

He was a cellar master and council musician, concert promoter and composer. But above all, Johann Daniel Pucklitz was a deeply devout Christian. With his Goldberg Baroque Ensemble, Andrzej Szadejko has reconstructed Pucklitz’s oratorio “The Very Different Change and Death of the Godless and the God-fearing”, bringing a score of incomprehensible color to new life after more than 250 years. (MDG) 2SACD# 9022241-6 $18.99

BAROQUE TITLES IN BRIEF Bach: Cantata Collective, Vol. 1 The release is the first volume in Cantata Collective’s exploration of the Cantatas of J.S. Bach. (Centaur) 1CD# CRC3930 $15.99

Storie di Napoli / La Festa Musicale With Storie di Napoli, la festa musicale now presents its third production on Audite and approaches the varied and expressive Neapolitan baroque repertoire with an innovative approach. (Audite) 1CD# AUD97800 $18.99

Bassani: Affetti Canori The Paduan composer Giovanni Battista Bassani, a contemporary of Corelli, was a fine string player and organist. His musical palette is rich and full of variety. (Dynamic) 1CD# DYN-CDS7918 $16.99

Vivaldi: Flute Concertos, Op. 10 With his six “Concerti a Flauto traverso” Opus 10, VIvaldi presented an entire collection of concertos for this new instrument for the first time in 1729. (Glossa) 1CD# GCD923530 $18.99

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The Classical Classical Era Recommendations Mozart: Famous Sonatas & Fantasia / Luc Beauséjour Harpsichordist and organist Luc Beauséjour is never short of ideas when it comes to offering concert programs marked by refinement and authenticity. Luc Beauséjour offers here a program of famous sonatas, all of which bear the mark of Mozart’s genius. Harpsichordist and organist, Luc Beauséjour tackles Mozart’s favorite instrument: the fortepiano. (Analekta)

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Wranitzky: Works for Oboe / Vilem Veverka, oboe; Sylvie Schelingerova, flute ArcoDiva’s new release presents oboe music of “a Moravian in Vienna” – Paul Wranitzky (1756–1808). In his day, Paul Wranitzky was one of the most highly regarded musicians in Europe. You can enjoy the world premieres of his Works for Oboe, delightfully interpreted by Wranitzky Kapelle (Marek Štilec – conductor). The oboe parts are played by eminent oboist Vilém Veverka. (Arcodiva)

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Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. 14 / Leipziger String Quartet Joseph Haydn must have been curious: Away from the extensive obligations for music at the court of Prince Esterhazy, he found in the string quartet the ideal field for experiments. The quartets from op. 9 contain ideas that would only find expression in symphonies and sonatas much later. The Leipzig String Quartet are starting with Quartets 1 to 3, that sound as fresh and new as if they had just come from the pen. (MDG)

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Mozart: Divertimento / Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen

Schubert: Symphony No. 7 in E Major / Berner Symphonieorchester

The freshness of works of a young master: this is what we discover on the new album presented by the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen under the direction of Johannes Klumpp. In Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Divertimenti K. 136–138, we hear a young composer in the process of growing up. The top-class, versatile orchestra performs these sparkling treasures lovingly and with spirit, full of dynamism and effervescent humor. (Genuin)

1CD# GEN 22762 Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin

The Symphony in E major (D 729) from the summer of 1821 is one of five unfinished symphonies by Franz Schubert. Recently it has often been counted as Schubert’s 7th symphony. Now conductor Mario Venzago presents a new version of the symphony fragment. The result: an original and gripping work that immediately convinces with its idiomatic and formal unity. (Prospero)

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Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5 / Peter Donohoe, piano

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Haydn: Piano Sonatas / Jose De Solaun, piano

In the player’s own words, "this is not a dialectical album. Instead, it is devotional, votive, a hymn of sorts, or better, a sonorous love letter to the great Haydn, to what he represents for me in music and in life, and to what it means to intertwine myself with him, to blend with him and with his scores." Josu de Solaun is a First Prize winner of the XIII George Enescu International Piano Competition in Bucharest. (IBS)

Jirí Bárta is one of the top cellists of his generation and his busy concert career has included collaborations with leading musicians and orchestras around the world. He also boasts an extensive recording catalog of some thirty solo and chamber albums and is the founder and artistic director of the International Music Festival Kutná Hora. (Animal)

2CD# ANI101-2

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SOMM Recordings’ acclaimed survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas by Peter Donohoe nears its end with Volume 5 featuring three works from very different periods of the composer’s life. The earliest Sonata, No.3 in B-flat major, K281, from 1775, shows the 18-year-old composer in effervescent mood, nimbly drawing on French and Italian influences, with a cadenza composed by Donohoe for its Rondo finale. (SOMM)

Renowned performers Iestyn Davies and Joseph Middleton perform Schubert’s tragic song-cycle Die schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Maid of the Mill). Adapting poetry by Wilhelm Müller, the genesis of D. 795 marks the beginning of the end of Schubert’s life. Released under the own label of St John’s College, Cambridge, this recording acts as a celebration of Iestyn Davies’s formative period at the college. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD697 Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano & Cello / Jirí Bárta, Terezie Fialová [2 CDs]

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Schubert: Klaviersonaten D 850 & D 958 / Elana Margonlina, piano

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Since 2014, Elena Margolina has been a professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold. Elena Margolina completes her Schubert recordings with ARS – the two sonatas D 850 and D 958 can be heard here in a very personal interpretation. (ARS)

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Haydn: Symphonies, Vol. 26 / Heidelberger Sinfoniker

Beethoven – Complete Works for Cello & Piano [3 CDs]

Johannes Klumpp writes: “The chronological journey through Joseph Haydn’s surviving symphonies that we began in Volume 25 now continues with his Symphony no. 107. Composed about 1760/61, this is a work from Haydn’s early days, before his time at Schloss Esterházy. Our desire is to introduce them to a modern audience through our recordings.” (Hänssler Classic) 1CD# HC22019 $18.99

Rarely has a day passed without Beethoven being a part of Jennifer Kloetzel’s life. She has studied and performed all of the composer’s duos and trios. As founding cellist of the Cypress String Quartet, she spent 20 years rehearsing, performing and recording the string quartets. Jennifer now arrives at a career milestone with this recording of Beethoven’s Complete Works for Cello and Piano. (Avie) 3CD# AV2450 $23.99

Mozart: Violin Concerto NO. 3, Kv. 216

Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 10 / Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano

The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart’s concertos, regardless of instrument. The artists featured on this release include Ziyu He, Theo Plath, Melodie Zhao, and Howard Griffiths. (Alpha) 1CD# ALPHA795 $18.99

His multi-award-winning recordings and dazzling concert performances have long established Jean-Efflam Bavouzet as one of the most outstanding pianists of his generation. This latest album in his cycle of the complete Haydn sonatas is built around the Grand Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI: 50. Bavouzet has surrounded this with two very early sonatas (Nos. 3 & 4). (Chandos) 1CD# CHAN 20191 $16.99

C.P.E. Bach: Die Auferstehung Und Himmelfahrt Jesu

Mozart: The Milanese Quartets [2 CDs]

Radical, daring and extremely refined: that’s how C.P.E. Bach saw his new path for the Oratorio, after his father’s Passions had marked the climax of the baroque era. Not only did it pave the way for Haydn’s oratorios, but there are also clear influences on the Pamina arias in Die Zauberflöte written a few years later. (Passacaille) 1CD# PAS1115 $18.99

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s six ‘Milanese’ quartets constitute a milestone in his artistic activity. Written between Bolzano and Milan between 1772 and 1773, they came a few years after the Quarte t K80/73f that he had composed in Lodi during his first Italian visit. More than that work, these six pieces constitute one of the first organic sets of string quartets ever conceived. (Arcana) 2CD# A497 $27.99

Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1–5 / Gil Shaham; Nicholas McGegan [2 CDs]

Schubert: Sonatas for Violin & Fortepiano

Although Mozart’s five violin concertos represent only a very small part of his creative work (when compared to the 27 piano concertos and the 41 symphonies), they nevertheless belong to the core repertoire of all violinists. Gil Shaham, one of the foremost violinist of our times, carves these works to jewels of the genre. He is accompanied by the SWR Symphony Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan. (SWR) 2CD# SWR19113CD $26.99

The Sonata in A major composed only a year after the first three more strongly develops Schubert’s characteristic lyricism, the formal structure is more varied, the piano part is of greater tonal refinement, and the work as a whole is longer than the three earlier works. Wolfgang Brunner has selected two different fortepianos, while Lena Neudauer performs on a Lorenzo Guadagnini violin from 1743 with gut strings. (CPO) 1CD# 555153-2 $16.99

CLASSICAL ERA PICKS IN BRIEF Beethoven: Piano Concertos, Op. 58 & Op. 61A The album “Aufgelebt” is all about revival, rebirth and recreation, the promise of new beginnings. Beethoven worked on his Piano Concerto No. 4 and the Op. 61a the same period of his life. (Challenge) 1CD# CC 72820 $16.99

Cirri: Sonatas & Duos for Cello All cellists of an adventurous disposition will accordingly be drawn to this new collection, which contains work dating from after Giovanni Cilli’s return to Italy in 1780. (Brilliant Classics) 1CD# BRI96416 $9.99

Mozart: Requiem / Orchestra & Chorus Teatro Regio Torino This sublime work embraces Bach-like elements coupled with astonishing harmonic modernity in what has become one of Mozart’s best-loved works. (Dynamic) 1CD# DYN-CDS7932 $16.99

Kuhlau: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 2 For her second volume of Kuhlau’s piano music, Marie-Luise Bodendorff takes the three previously unrecorded rondos, Op. 1, as her starting point, some of his most charming and distinctive music. (Dacapo) 1CD# 8226205 $15.99

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The Romantic Recommended Romantic Albums Mendelssohn, Bruch: Romantic Violin Concertos Mikhail Pochekin writes of this new release: “Both Violin concertos have in common that they were composed with great violinists in mind. With Mendelssohn it was the violin virtuoso Ferdinand David. And the Bruch Concerto is unthinkable without Sarasate. Both works are based on a similar foundation. What the works have in common, however, is that they are two completely different masterpieces.” (Hänssler Classic)

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’ Since its successful first performance by the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Richter on February 20th, 1881, the Fourth Symphony has been one of Anton Bruckner’s most beloved works. This recording features the second and most often performed version in a new edition by Benjamin Korstvedt. (Capriccio)

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Brahms: String Sextets / Belcea Quartet Brahms was one of the first composers to write for pairs of violins, violas and cellos, blazing the trail for Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Korngold and Schoenberg. His two sextets are early works, composed in 1860 and 1865 respectively. The members of the Belcea Quartet called in their friends Tabea Zimmermann and JeanGuihen Queyras to record these peaks of the chamber repertory. (Alpha)

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Czerny: Improvisation on the Pianoforte [2 CDs]

Schubert: Lebensfreude Overtures / Berlin SO In this release we encounter Schubert in the music of his main oeuvre – the huge number of his songs, but also his extensive collection of chamber music and piano pieces. We frequently come across a trait of the composer’s that presents itself again and again and very centrally: his tendency towards deep melancholy, whle at the same time, he succeeds in combining the naïve, joyful existence with the abysses of deep pain. (Solo Musica)

For the third time Kolja Lessing, one of the most versatile musicians of our times, dedicates himself to the multifaceted composer Carl Czerny and specifically to his Systematische Anleitung zum Fantasieren auf dem Pianoforte op. 200. It was with this poetic comparison that Czerny characterized the nature of improvisation, contrasting it with a composition elaborated in writing. (CPO)

2CD# 555384-2 Mendelssohn: The String Quartets / Doric String Quartet

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1CD# SM361 Brahms: Variation on a Theme / Alessandro Mercando, piano

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This release is dedicated to that musical intimacy that dwelled in Brahms, from the works of youth to the works of extreme old age. A melancholy tenderness deeply rooted in his soul on which the Hamburg composer built all his rigorous creative teaching. On the one hand, one of the many manifestations of romanticism, on the other the classical Beethoven heritage and the great tradition of counterpoint. (Urania)

Mendelssohn’s two String Quintets were written at the beginning and end of his short but remarkable compositional life. No 1 was written in 1826, shortly before the Overture to ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, when Mendelssohn was just seventeen. No.2 was written in 1845, when he was thirty-six, a year before the premier of Elijah and just two years before his death. (Chandos)

1CD# LDV14082 Schubert: Winterreise / Nathaniel Watson, baritone; Michael McMahon, piano

1CD# CHAN 20218 $16.99 Bruckner 4 – Version 1874 / Philharmonie Festiva; Gerd Schaller

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Baritone Nathaniel Watson and pianist Michael McMahon, both based in Montreal, give us their rendition of Franz Schubert’s monumental song cycle, Winterreise, written in 1827, the year before Schubert’s tragic, early death. In this recording, also made in winter (and during a pandemic), Watson and McMahon share their experience and lifelong passion for Schubert. (Leaf Music)

The present recording is part of BRUCKNER2024 – a project which began in 2011 with the goal to record all symphonies of Anton Bruckner in all versions until the 200th birthday of the composer in 2024. Bruckner’s search for the ideal symphony is clearly expressed in the various manifestations of his Fourth, which he himself described as the “Romantic”. (Profil)

1CD# PH22010 $17.99 Chopin, Scriabin: Resemblances / Catalin Serban, piano

1CD# LM253

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The composers Frédéric Chopin and Alexander Scriabin sought other worlds – to float, to ascend to heaven. Pianist Catalin Serban juxtaposes their piano works on his new Genuin album. Serban’s highly virtuosic and sensitive piano playing shows the paths of the two, away from compartmentalization and narrowness, towards new spaces and the greatest possible freedom of movement. (Genuin)

1CD# GEN 22767

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Brahms: Der Klaviertrios [2 CDs]

Brahms: Complete Works for Piano Four Hands & Two Pianos [18 CDs]

For this complete recording of Johannes Brahms’ piano trios, the internationally successful Salzburg violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger chose his usual top-class ensemble partners. The Piano Trio No. 1 in B major op. 8 can be heard here in the revised version, which closes the time gap of almost 25 years to the other two trios (No. 2 in C major Op. 87 and No. 3 in C min or Op. 101). (Gramola) 2SACD# GR99251 $34.99

This 18-piece box set contains all Brahms’ autograph arrangements for piano four hands, as well as his arrangements of compositions by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Joseph Joachim. This is the first complete recording of these works, and comprises critically acclaimed previously released material. (Naxos) 18CD# 8501803 $84.99

Chopin & Rachmaninov: Complete Preludes / Alejandro Algarra [2 CDs]

Bruckner: The Symphonies (Organ Transcriptions) Vol. 3

This recording should be seen in that manner: as a beginning, a solo recording debut by Alejandro Algarra in which he confronts two colossi of the instrument. It is quite a recording miles tone to tackle these two essentials. A real challenge both for him as a performer and for IBS Classical as a record label. (IBS) 2CD# IBS-242021 $19.99

This series marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Anton Bruckner, which falls in 2024. It is dedicated to Bruckner’s symphonies, all recorded in new transcriptions for organ by Hansjörg Albrecht. A bonus track on each volume will be a brand new composition for organ that references Bruckner the composer. (Oehms) 1CD# OC 479 $14.99

Rowicki Conducts Tchaikovsky / SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg [2 CDs]

Schumann: Complete Symphonies [2 CDs] Among the works of Robert Schumann, the four symphonies represent the highs and lows of the composer’s life unlike any others. They were composed between 1840 and 1853. They were, at least, where the first symphony is concerned, a leap into the unknown for the young composer who until then had focused on piano and Lied repertoire. (SWR) 2CD# SWR19530CD $12.99

The Tchaikovsky studio recordings presented here were made in 1962 (Fifth Symphony) and 1969 (Sixth Symphony) with the Südwestfunk Symphony Orchestra and in 1979 (Nutcracker Suite) with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Rowicki had many other appearances with German orchestras, each of them enthusiastically greeted by the press and the public. (SWR) 2CD# SWR19112CD $24.99

Mendelssohn: Works for Violin & Piano

Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin / Jamie W. Hall; Paul Plummer

“Mendelssohn is a challenge, because his music appears to be so deceptively easy,” says pianist Claire Huangci, speaking about her new album. Together with violinist Marc Bouchkov, she has recorded works by Mendelssohn for violin and piano: the two Violin Sonatas in F, and the Double Concerto in D minor. They are accompanied in the latter work by the Basel Chamber Orchestra. (Berlin Classics) 1CD# 0302045BC $18.99

“The whole story takes place in the Miller’s imagination, cut off from the thoughts and actions of those around him, with the singer becoming the protagonist of a quasi-operatic monodrama. Jamie W. Hall and Paul Plummer give us a deeply understanding account of this earliest and most influential of Romantic song cycles.” – Dr. John Bentley (Convivium) 1CD# CVI063 $16.99

ROMANTIC ERA ALBUMS IN BRIEF Mendelssohn, Elgar: Soundscapes Three sonatas by Edward Elgar, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robin de Raaff pairings with short pieces by Florence Price, Felix Mendelssohn, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. (Challenge) 1CD# CC 72893 $16.99

Brahms, Schumann: Ein Menschliches Requiem In search of the man who was Brahms, we weave childhood memories of his good friend Schumann in between the movements of the Requiem: his Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood). (EPR Classic) 1CD# EPRC 0046 $16.99

Raff: Complete Works for Cello & Piano / Christoph Croisé, Oxana Shevchenko Christoph Croisé, who has “technical chops, impeccable musicianship” (Gramophone), puts a fresh, 21st-century spin on Joachim Raff’s memorable music. (Avie) 1CD# AV2490

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Dvorák: Cello Concerto, Silent Woods, Serenade The three compositions on this album were all created at turning points in Dvorak’s life, when radical changes in his situation impacted his creative career. (Brilliant Classics) 1CD# BRI95696 $12.99

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Post-Romantic Recommended Recordings Franck: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 The composer and pianist Eduard Franck was from an art-loving Breslau banker’s family and revealed his musical gifts at an early age. Later Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy became his teacher and even performed together with him. His friendly acquaintance with Mendelssohn and kindred musical spirits like Robert Schumann and William Sterndale Bennett showed Eduard Franck the way. – MusicWeb (CPO)

1CD# 555320-2

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Sibelius, Nielsen: Violin Concertos / Johan Dalene, violin Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius, alongside Grieg the two giants in Nordic classical music, were both born in 1865. Both also received their first musical training on the violin, earning valuable insights when it came to writing for the instrument. Their respective violin concertos were composed some six years apart – Sibelius’ in 1904-05 and Nielsen’s in 1911 – and belong to the most performed works of either composer. (BIS)

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Labor: Clarinet Trio, Cello Sonata No. 2 / Ensemble TRIS A total of around eighty compositions of Joseph Labor have survived. Among them are practically no occasional works, which is connected to the fact that he was blind: for him composition was a luxury, insofar as he had to rely on the help of a scribe who had to commit the work to paper. Labor’s music is very skillfully composed, always sensuous, and first and foremost melodious. (Capriccio)

1CD# C5446

Ravel: Orchestral Works / Sinfonia of London; John Wilson

The Bird of Life – Late Romantic Flute Treasures During the last decade of the 19th century a generation of central European composers emerged that was to exert a powerful influence on the current of contemporary music. Yet, for the most part, their works for flute remain little known. Prague-born Karel Jirák’s Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 32 a is without doubt an important addition to the recorded catalogue of flute music. (Naxos)

Following their second BBC Music Magazine Award (for Respighi’s Roman Trilogy) and universal praise for their first concert (at the BBC Proms in 2021), Sinfonia of London and John Wilson turn to the orchestral works of Ravel for this their 6th studio album. Not only an outstanding pianist and one of France’s greatest composers, Maurice Ravel is acclaimed as one of the greatest orchestrators of all time. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5280

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Howe: Songs & Duets

Reimagined / English String Orchestra

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Elgar from America, Vol. 3 / NY Philharmonic SO [2 CDs]

Shostakovich: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1

Somm Recordings presents Volume III of Elgar from America, again masterminded by the extraordinary restoration talents of Lani Spahr. Its centerpiece is a live 1959 Carnegie Hall recording of Elgar’s masterpiece, The Dream of Gerontius, with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra conducted by one of the composer’s most eloquent and ardent champions, Sir John Barbirolli. (SOMM)

Shostakovich’s piano production for piano appears relatively small and, above all, sporadic. These pages are not less extraordinary because of that. On the contrary, many of them show a degree of ambition and depth of purpose that are not second to those of his chamber and symphonic masterpieces. (Stradivarius)

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The name of Mary Howe (1882–1964) seems to have vanished from the history books. But she was an important voice in American music in the first half of the twentieth century. This pioneering album of her songs shows her late-Romantic style open to influences from Debussy, Mahler, Richard Strauss and other contemporaries: she was, she said, ‘alert for new sensations, like a Puritan on a holiday’. (Toccata)

Although Elgar was a highly accomplished violinist, he wrote no mature string chamber music until, at the end of his creative life, he produced three major works: a violin sonata, a piano quintet and a string quartet. Both outer movements of the quartet are full of mercurial changes of mood; both end at the last minute in the major, the finale with an exhilarating display of renewed energy. (Lyrita)

1CD# SRCD394

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

$29.99

This live recording makes it possible to experience one of the landmarks of the Late Romantic symphonic repertoire, conducted by an outstanding Bruckner connoisseur. Bruckner completed the score of the opening movement, the Adagio and the Scherzo of his nascent Third Symphony between February and July 1873, and sketched out its finale on August 31, 1873 in Marienbad, Bohemia. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900189

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Period

Mahler: The Complete Symphonies [14 CDs]

Sibelius: Luonnotar – Tapiola – Spring Song

To record such a global oeuvre as Gustav Mahler’s ten symphonies is a truly Herculean task. After 15 years of intensive musical labor, Gabriel Feltz has produced a really impressive complete recording, and is the only German conductor of his generation to have done so. Two orchestras, namely the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Dortmund Philharmonic, can be heard on this highly acclaimed album cycle. (Dreyer Gaido) 14CD# DGCD21140 $64.99

Following their acclaimed recordings of Schoenberg with Sara Jakubiak and Britten’s Peter Grimes with Stuart Skelton, Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic turn their attention to the music of Sibelius. Written in 1913 for the diva Aino Ackté, the tone poem Luonnotar draws on text from the Finnish national epic poem, the Kalevala. 1SACD# CHSA 5217 $19.99

Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3

Glazunov: Symphony No. 7 “Pastoral” / Niederrheinische Sinfoniker

Arnold Schoenberg had developed his twelve-tone method, and his Third Quartet is an example of how he was using this to refresh traditional form schemes and contrapuntal textures, while at the same time counterbalancing the modern idiom with familiar features such as a slow variation movement and a rondo finale. (BIS) 1SACD# BIS-2567 $19.99

The Niederrheinische Sinfoniker, under the baton of their principal conductor Mihkel Kütson, now present an extremely attractive selection from Alexander Glazunov’s extensive oeuvre, in which the folk-typical national Russian elements of the “Mighty Little Group” combine most advantageously with Tchaikovsky’s Central European influenced tonal language. (MDG) 1SACD# 9522235-6 $18.99

Scriabin: Poems, Colors, Flames / Jerfi Ahi, piano Jerfi Aji is an exceptional pianist for sensitivity and huge culture – he is also an engineer and speaks fluently four languages – Jerfi Aji nowadays is one of the most acclaimed Scriabin performer his comprehension with the great Russia composer reveals itself with a clear understanding of contemporary sides of Scriabin works. Jerfi Aji “reads” and performs Scriabin not as one hundred years ago composer but as a contemporary. (Vermeer) 1CD# VRM400030 $14.99

Wagner: Die Walküre [4 CDs]

Sir Simon Rattle has already decisively disproved the longstanding claim that he and Wagner were unsuited to one another. This next collaboration between the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the British conductor not only features a team of first-rate Wagner singers but also reveals once again how well Rattle understands and interprets Wagner’s music. (BR Klassik) 4CD# BRK900177 $44.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 1

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Idil Biret

The 2007 recording that has now been reissued by BR-Klassik or Mahler’s First Symphony, with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under its chief conductor Mariss Jansons, can be regarded as an album premiere – in that this recording has only so far been available as a bonus release forming part of the audio biography of Gustav Mahler “World and Dream.” (BR Klassik) 1CD# BRK900179 $14.99

The current album features showcases Idil Biret’s interpretations of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Glazunov’s Piano Sonata No. 2, recorded in March 2017, and Balakirev’s Islamey “Oriental Fantasy,” recorded in concert at the Lille Festival 1993. (Naxos) 1CD# 8571340 $11.99

POST-ROMANTIC ALBUMS IN BRIEF Nepomuceno: Chosen Eyes (Les Yeux Elus) Featured on this album are nine of Brazilian composer Alberto Nepomucen’s non-Portuguese songs, five of which are world premiere recordings. (Music & Arts) 1CD# MA CD-1305 $16.99

Puccini: La Boheme [2 CDs] Experience the power of Puccini’s sublime score in this new concert performance by Irish National Opera, featuring celebrated Irish sopranos Celine Byrne and Anna Devin. (Signum Classics) 2CD# SIGCD702 $25.99

Scriabin: Mazurkas & Sonatas Dzmitry Ulasiuk is a splendid pianist, emerging on the American scene after winning over audiences in Europe. The present release is a showcase of works by Alexander Scriabin. (Centaur) 1CD# CRC3912 $15.99

Biarent: La Chanson du Vent The recording of this Chanson du vent is a celebration of Adolphe Biarent. This greatly neglected composer emerged from the shadows thanks to three album releases by Cypres. (Cypres) 1CD# CYP8614 $18.99

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From the Early Recommended Albums Jensen Legacy, Vol. 8 [2 CDs] Thomas Jensen’s early Danish TONO recordings, comprising popular orchestral music, were a triumph and were re-released even in the US by the Mercury label. They are all here, collected together for the first time recorded with the City of Aarhus Orchestra. Includes the unpublished Dvorak New World Symphony. (Danacord)

2CD# DACOCD918

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Eller: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 8 The piano music of the Estonian composer Heino Eller (1887–1970), a total of 206 works, is not only the largest part of his output: it is also the largest body of works in Estonian classical music. This eighth volume brings music from half a century of music, from 1912 to 1960 – mostly miniatures but each of them full of atmosphere and personality. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0637

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Rihm: Sphäere nach Studie #39 Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most important contemporary composers of our time. The musician, professor of composition and author from Karlsruhe, Germany is a larger-than-life personality, and the contemporary music scene is impossible to imagine without him. With this release and a further one of instrumental music, BR-Klassik and “musica viva” are celebrating the 70th birthday of this influential composer. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900639

Piano Trios / Mythos Trio

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Wolfgang Rihm: Jagden und Formen #40

This recording features rarely performed musical works by three renowned 20th-century Italian composers: Franco Margola, Giorgio Federico Ghedini and Vittorio Rieti. After graduating, Margola began to compose his Piano Trio in A, and on hearing the piece, Casella immediately rated it among the best modern trios, including it in the repertoire of his own piano trio. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96382

Wordsworth: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4

Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most important contemporary composers of our time. This album features the large-scale symphonic work Jagden und Formen (2008), which received its world premiere in November 2001. Of the original version, Rihm composed a new version between 2007 and 2008 that was staged for the first time with a choreography by Sasha Waltz at the Schauspiel Frankfurt. (BR Klassik)

$11.99

1CD# BRK900640

Stokowski: Philadelphia Rarities / Philadelphia Orchestra

The music of William Wordsworth (1908–88) lies downstream from that of Vaughan Williams and Sibelius; like that of his contemporary Edmund Rubbra, Wordsworth’s music unfolds spontaneously, as a natural process. This fourth volume of his orchestral works presents four works which are all symphonic studies in essence, each remarkable for its unassertive strength of purpose. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0618 Medtner: Angel – Complete Songs, Vol. 3

The Golden Age of Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra describes the 25 years from 1912 during which a London-born church organist took a provincial American ensemble and built it into one of the finest orchestras in the world, noted for its precision, virtuosity, and splendid tone-color. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD2033

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Andriessen: Miroir de Peine In Miroir de Peine, five stages of the Agony of Christ are viewed from the perspective of Mary, mother of Jesus. Composed in 1923, Hendrik Andriessen’s settings of poems by Henri Ghéon eschew both Romantic and modernist tropes of the time in favor of a meditative consideration of intimate, mystical simplicity. This quality is shared by his later setting of a Paul Claudel text, La Sainte Face. (Brilliant Classics)

Anybody who has entered into the cosmos of Medtner’s music, and especially of his songs, will be aware of its introvert, secretive, sometimes even hermetic character. Medtner digs deep into his chosen texts. Testifying to a artistic credo, Goethe’s poem ‘Geweihter Platz’ (‘The Sacred Grove’) was first set by Medtner as an introduction to the Sonata-Vocalise Op. 41, No. 1. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96062

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1CD# BRI96304

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Dohnányi: Concertos – Variations on a Nursery Song Of the works Ernst von Dohnányi wrote for the stage, only his ballet pantomime The Veil of Pierrette received any particular acclaim. His concert music, meanwhile, was much more warmly received. With this already sixth recording of his late romantical, sensual music, deeply rooted in the Austro-German classical tradition, Capriccio presents three of his concerts. (Capriccio)

1CD# C5463

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20th Century Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 1, 7, & 11 / Arcadia Quartet

Perle: Solos & Duos [2 CDs] This two-album set includes many George Perle solo works in their first recordings, as well as duo works from throughout the great American composer’s career. Noted soloists on this release include pianists Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, and Horacio Gutiérrez, clarinetist Charles Neidich, and cellist Jay Campbell. (Bridge) 2CD# BCD9546A/B $33.99

For this the second volume in their series of Weinberg’s string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet again presents three quartets from contrasting periods in the stylistic development of the composer. The first quartet of the self-taught teenager, written in 1937, in what Weinberg later described as his ‘neoimpressionist’ style, was heavily revised later in his life, and eventually re-published as Op. 141, in 1985. (Chandos) 1CD# CHAN 20174 $16.99

Martin: Requiem / ORF Vienna Radio SO; ORF Chor

When There Are No Words – Revolutionary Works for Oboe & Piano

It took Frank Martin a long time to heed his deep-seated inner calling to write a Requiem: ‘What I have tried to express here is the clear will to accept death; to make peace with it.’ The Requiem was composed in 1971/72, Martin utilizes the whole bandwidth of orchestral sound. Two of these live recordings are now restored, re-mastered and first time published for the future. (Capriccio) 1CD# C5454 $16.99

GRAMMY Award-winner Alex Klein, and pianist Phillip Bush perform works by composers from both sides of the Atlantic who were caught up in or deeply moved by 20th-century political turmoil. The Brazilian-born oboe virtuoso’s passionate project, with its underlying appeal for tolerance, encompasses works by Czech, German, British, American, and Brazilian composers. (Cedille) 1CD# CDR 208 $16.99

Chasing Light and Sound: The Tuba Music of Elizabeth Raum

Schmidt: Brass Concertos

Chasing Light and Sound: The Tuba Music of Elizabeth Raum presents the works written for the tuba in a solo role between 1991 and 2002 by Canadian composer Elizabeth Raum. These works include pieces originally written solo for tuba and large ensemble: Legend of Heimdall, T for Tuba, Pershing’s Concerto, and Concerto Del Garda, as well as one work for unaccompanied tuba, Sweet Dances. (Centrediscs) 1CD# CMCCD 29422 $16.99

As pianist, conductor and composer, Ole Schmidt was one of the great polymaths of the Nordic musical world. Schmidt’s experience on the podium gave him an inside track on the working of the orchestra, and his pragmatism and refinement are evident in his larger scores, including the three momentous concertos on this album. (Dacapo) 1SACD# 6220702 $15.99

Gibbs: The Songs / Charlotte de Rothchild, Nathan Vale [4 CDs]

The Songs of Our Neighbours / Konstantin Manaev, cello; Julia Smirnova, violin

Violinist Julia Smirnova and cellist Konstantin Manaev are a duo not only on the concert stage, but also in their private lives. All the works on this release are directly related to our artistic lives and it is music that has a lot of songfulness in it – and it is pieces by composing people who belong not only to the spatial and temporal, but beyond that to the emotional neighborhood of the performers. (ARS) 1CD# ARS38587 $18.99

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs was a prolific and versatile composer of the first half of the twentieth century. Known principally for his solo songs Gibbs also wrote music for the stage, sacred works, three symphonies and a substantial amount of chamber music. He gained wide recognition during the early part of his life. He continued to compose and conduct up until his death in May 1960. (Lyrita) 4CD# SRCD2400 $34.99

20TH CENTURY TITLES IN BRIEF World Winds II – Music of David Loeb As a successor to the previous World Winds album, this collection again brings together wind instruments from Asia and the West. (Centaur) 1CD# CRC3911 $15.99

Poradowski: Violin Concerto, Op. 70 Lukasz Borowicz, conductor, writes: “Poradowski’s services to the province of Wielkopolska can hardly be overestimated”. (Dux) 1CD# DUX1791 $19.99

Ķeniņš: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 This third album release in the first complete Talivaldis Ķeniņš (1919–2008) symphony cycle includes the composer’s final symphonic creation, Symphony No. 8. (Ondine) 1CD# ODE 1388-2 $16.99

Schaichet & the First Swiss Chamber Orchestra [2 CDs] Thornton Edge was founded in 1976 by Robert Wojciak at the University of Southern California. The present release features works by Frederick Lesemann. (Solo Musica) 2CD# SM368 $29.99

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Contemporary Works New Recommendations In Transit / Emily Granger, harp American-Australian harpist Emily Granger makes her solo debut recording, In Transit, with a collection of contemporary works that reveal the breadth and beauty of harp music from her two countries. Memories and moods infuse Tristan Coehlo’s evocative title track as well as the composer’s The Old School, recalling an artists’ residence in Australia’s Blue Mountains where he first met Emily. (Avie)

1CD# AV2495

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Alina Błońska: Noche Oscura Born in 1974 in Cieszyn (Poland), Alina Błońska studied composition with Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. Due to her dual status as a composer and Hispanist, she is particularly attracted to the Spanish culture, an interest reflected in her music. It is there, in Spain, where she wrote and recorded the four compositions on this album. (Dux)

1CD# DUX1764

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Fractales / Ensemble Fractales For this portrait album, which inaugurates their collaboration with Cypres, the Fractales ensemble has chosen to bring together four key pieces from their repertoire, four quintets in which the alchemy between the ensemble’s sound and the work of the composers is revealed, the fruit of numerous exchanges between musicians and creators. (Cypres)

1CD# CYP8615

Requiem & Other Choral Works / Dan Locklair

Found in Dreams… / Helen Habershon, clarinet; John Lenehan, piano

“This is music of confident, muscular vitality which breathes new life into the Requiem Mass. There are moments of great intimacy and solace to be found amongst the drama of this setting and the unequivocal final impression is one of true celebration and thanksgiving. Rapture and beauty are qualities common to the other fine works presented here.” – George Richford (Convivium)

1CD# CVI070 Bacewicz, Tansman: Piano Quintets / Julia Kociuban & Messages Quartet

Helen Habershon is both an accomplished performer and an inspired composer of music which often evokes nature, or human emotions and sensibilities this is music which is ‘easy listening’ and in the light music tradition, and is unpretentious, but never facile: it has deep meaning. Here she teams up with the successful pianist and arranger John Lenehan, who has appeared on over 70 recordings. (Divine Art)

$16.99

1CD# DDA25225

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Jaffe: Light Dances, Sonata in Four Parts

Julia Kociuban is considered as one of the leading polish pianists of her generation. The Messages Quartet was founded in 2014, and has presented a comprehensive and innovative repertoire as part of a series of chamber music concerts at the premises of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. (Dux)

1CD# DUX1792 A Song for Silenced Voices – The Music of Michael Cohen

$18.99

For the fourth volume of music by Stephen Jaffe, the composer writes that he is “searching for sounds and musical relationships to create something new.” These premiere recordings of three works written between 2006 and 2009, offer a program featuring Jaffe’s collaborations with the Da Capo Chamber Players, and the Borromeo String Quartet. (Bridge)

$19.99

1CD# BCD9563

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Brightening Air / David Liptak

New York City native Michael Cohen surprises with a formidable cross section of his oeuvre, the splendidly and mysteriously named A Song for Silenced Voices. Narrowly skirting traditional notions of (a)tonality, this selection of works leaps to and fro between collected serenity and impassioned melodicism. The setups are as diverse as the music. (Navona)

1CD# NV6405 $14.99 Collected Works of Beth Mehocic

David Liptak, longtime composition faculty member of the Eastman School of Music, releases this compilation of his music for wind ensemble, written for and inspired by the august group at his institution. Liptak’s broad sources of inspiration and sensitivity to lyricism and orchestration pervade this release. (New Focus)

1CD# FCR323

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The music of composer Beth Mehocic comes together as a fulfilling and enticing whole in this release. This all encompassing album merges the many corners and triumphs of Mehocic’s library, with commissioned pieces, tone poems, and various styles colliding in celebration of her extensive breadth of repertoire. Find early works like Piece by Piece alongside the more recent Left of Winter, and Picasso’s Flight. (Navona)

1CD# NV6410

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Guitar & Lute Masters of the Guitar, Vol. 4: Spain (1926–1963) 1CD# IDIS6745 $14.99

Bach: Vol. 2, Works for Violin / Jason Vieaux, guitar 1CD# ACD-71347 $16.99

Journey / Nova Guitar Duo 1CD# STR37209 $16.99

Dowland: Lessons – Lute Music 1SACD# BIS-2627 $19.99

Segovia & his Contemporaries, Vol. 14 1CD# DHR-8139 $18.99

Bach-Abel: Solo / Lucile Boulanger, viola de gamba [2 CDs] 2CD# ALPHA783 $24.99

Guitar Recital: Bokyung Byun 1CD# 8574433 $13.99

Shand: Guitar Music [3 CDs] 3CD# BRI96435 $19.99

Méditation / Simone Vallerotonda, lute 1CD# A496 $18.99

Bach & Barrios / José Fernández Bardesio, guitar 1CD# HC21047 $18.99

The Art of Classical Guitar / Friedemann Wuttke, guitar [10 CDs] 10CD# PH21184 $35.99

Bach: Complete Lute Works [2 CDs] 2CD# A529 $27.99

Weird – Wired / Duo Conradi-Gehlen 1CD# BM319323 $22.99

Rudnev: Music for Guitar / Various [3 CDs] 3CD# BRI96255 $13.99

Vienna 1840 / Valois Pascal, guitar 1CD# AN29197 $18.99

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Opera Recommended Opera Titles Monteverdi: Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria [3 CDs] A pioneer in the development of opera, Claudio Monteverdi took vocal music beyond Renaissance polyphony into an era in which genuine feelings and emotions could be expressed. This acclaimed production is conducted by renowned early music specialist Ottavio Dantone, who considers Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria to be ‘the most beautiful opera ever written.’ (Dynamic)

3CD# DYN-CDS7927.03

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Thalberg: Fantasies On Operas by Verdi, Rossini and Bellini A student of Hummel, Sigismond Thalberg was one of the great virtuoso pianist-composers of the 19th century, who enjoyed a celebrated rivalry with Liszt that was largely fomented by the press. Thalberg’s influence on fellow pianists was enormous and his operatic paraphrases and fantasies, designed for his own use in concert performances, proved exceptionally popular. (Naxos)

1CD# 8555503

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Vivaldi: La Senna Festiggiante A small opera played in the evening as part of a festive event, the Venetian Serenata was performed outdoors as a crowning moment of the ceremonies. This Serenade, the most extensive left by Vivaldi, is a sumptuous tribute to the young French sovereign. Diego Fasolis conducts the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal and its magnificent soloists, restoring the colors of this masterpiece. (Versailles)

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Handel: Saul / Theatre an der Wien [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Wagner: Siegfried / Royal Swedish Opera [3 CDs] Siegfried, WWV 86C, is the third of the four music dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen, by Richard Wagner. It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring cycle. Siegfried tells the coming-of-age story of the hero that Wagner has promised us at the end of Die Walküre. (Sterling)

“Claus Guth, who had already staged the “Messiah” at the Theater an der Wien in 2009, is exactly the right person to present the oratorio Saul, which dates from this period of upheaval in 1739, in an almost suspect manner. In Vienna, where Handel is still one of the exotics of music history, there was breathtaking music theatre at its best” (Neue Musikzeitung) (Unitel)

3CD# CDA1847

1Blu-ray# 805604 $41.99 $46.99 2DVD# 805508 Sonate a Violino e Violone o Cembalo [2 CDs]

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Marinuzzi: Palla de’ Mozzi [3 CDs] Gino Marinuzzi was a great conductor and composer whose operatic experience made his own theatrical work extremely effective. Composed in Marinuzzi’s signature post-Romantic ‘grand style’, Palla de’ Mozzi was hugely successful in its day and is considered a masterpiece of 20thcentury Italian opera. (Dynamic)

The works featured on this release are among Pietro Castrucci’s finest. These are wonderful, historically informed performances. The works on this release are performed by Gerald Elias, violin; Pamela Palmer-Jones, harpsichord; and Noriko Kishi, cello, this is the first complete recording in history of Castrucci’s in explicably neglected Opus 1 sonatas, composed in 1718. (Centaur)

2CD# CRC3932/33 Donizetti: The Three Queens / Lyric Opera of Chicago [2 CDs]

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The Fiery Angel [DVD or Blu-ray Video] Renata is obsessed with the love for the “fiery angel”. Ruprecht, in love with Renata, wants to free her from the madness, but all his efforts are in vain. She goes to the monastery, but here too s he is being haunted by the image of the fiery angel. The atmosphere of this prison-like place is somber. “Musically gripping, scenically intense.” (Wiener Zeitung) / A scenic sensation.” (Kurier) (Unitel)

Lyric Opera of Chicago presents The Three Queens, a program that brings together the finales of Gaetano Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, showcasing three of the most fascinating heroines of opera history. These extraordinary women are interpreted by soprano star Sondra Radvanovsky, who performs them together with an excellent ensemble of soloists under the baton of Donizetti specialist Riccardo Frizza. (Pentatone)

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2CD# PTC5186970 $24.99 Puccini: Manon Lescault [DVD]

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Manon Lescaut’s ceaseless melodic beauty and drama were recognized immediately and the first night was an overwhelming triumph, with Puccini effectively anointed as Verdi’s successor and Italy’s greatest operatic composer. Ninety years after its 1893 premiere in Turin, the work was staged by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. (Opus Arte)

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Recordings

The Tell-Tale Heart / Netherlands Radio PO

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde [3 CDs]

This live recording of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde from June 2013 under the baton of Franz WelserMöst presents Nina Stemme as Isolde – her debut in that role at Vienna State Opera, and Peter Seiffert as Tristan. The 3-disc set was first released in 2019 in the sold out 150 Years Wiener Staastoper – The Anniversary Edition. (Orfeo) 3CD# ORF-C210123 $34.99

Mors Aeterna for orchestra, which was premiered in November 2015, narrates a quest for stillness, a piece of pervasive calm, of gentle sounds which were intended to create the impression of having come from the hereafter: the Nirvana of silence where the soul can retreat. In the Second Violin Concerto, Diptych Portrait (2009) The orchestra is more of a sounding board than a partner in any dialogue. (Challenge) 1CD# CC 72908 $16.99

Verdi: La Traviata [2 CDs]

The Dresdener Philharmonie, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden and conductor Daniel Oren present Verdi’s masterpiece La Traviata, together with a stellar cast including René Barbera as Alfredo, Lester Lynch as Germont, and Lisette Oropesa as Violetta. Verdi’s opera from 1853 was revolutionary in the sense that it presented a subject of its own time, rather than the usual historically-remote stories. (Pentatone) 2SACD# PTC5186956 $29.99

Rachmaninov: Complete Operas, Cantatas & Fragments [15 CDs]

Less well known is that Rachmaninov also composed operas, songs and sacred vocal works, even if some specialists are well aware of this. The Harenberg Opera Guide (2000) has one page devoted to the composer and Francesca respectively. Perhaps the Russian language was an obstacle to gaining a wider audience, but at least Rachmaninoff is no longer ignored as an opera composer. (Profil) 15CD# PH21036 $34.99

Paisiello: Il Divertimento dei Numi

In Il divertimento dei Numi (1774), in only one hour of music, many expressive chords are struck: the balance between the sentimental and hyronical sides of this comic opera reaches to include a great variety of situations which encompasses wider expressive possibilities and peculiar aspects which largely exceeds the formulas of gallant style, or comic style. (Bongiovanni) 1CD# GB2321-2 $12.99

La Captive du Sérail / Orchestre de L’Opéra Royal

Here are the Oriental Turqueries galantes of the Opéra Comique, where the lovers are captured by Corsairs and held as prisoners: the Harem for the Belle and the galleys for her knight... These enslaved Christians captivated the artistic imagination, which mixed the Thousand and One Nights and slave traders in amorous intrigues where the Sultan is deceived in his Seraglio! (CDV) 1CD# CVS058 $18.99

Casablancas: L’enigma di Lea [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Benet Casablancas is widely acclaimed as one of the leading Spanish composers of his generation, and his first opera, L’enigma di Lea, is the fruit of his close collaboration with award-winning writer Rafael Argullol. The winner of several awards, L’enigma di Lea was declared ‘a roaring theatrical success… beautifully staged and exquisitely sung’ by Barcelona Metropolitan. (Naxos) 1Blu-ray# NBD0143V $24.99 $24.99 1DVD# 2110712

Campra: Le Carnaval de Venise [2 CDs]

With its exotic dances and virtuoso Italian arias, Le Carnaval de Venise (1699) by André Campra is one of the most original experiments to be found in the entire French musico-dramatic output of the time. With this work at the latest, the composer gained the reputation of being the new master of French opera. Campra creates a colorful score in the Franco-Italian style for his ballet opera. (Glossa) 2CD# GCD921632 $21.99

NEW RECOMMENDATIONS IN BRIEF Vincerò! / Piotr Beczala Piotr Beczala’s Pentatone debut album Vincerò! has been one of the must successful and critically acclaimed opera recital albums of the last few years. (Pentatone) 1CD# PTC5186993 $15.99

Korngold: Die Tote Stadt [2 CDs] The rich orchestration and brilliant bel canto vocal writing is here superbly realized by a cast led by Klaus Florian Vogt and Camilla Nylund, with “conducting to die for.” The Guardian (Opus Arte) 2CD# OA CD9050D $19.99

Cook: David’s Liebestod – Extracts from operas Abishag & Jane the Quene This album includes three items, in voice/piano arrangements, from one of those Biblical operas, “Abishag” about the woman hired to be companion to King David. (Diversions) 1CD# DDV24170 $13.99

Mozart: The Magic Flute / Bruno Walter [2 CDs] This is an unaltered master that reproduces the original 1956 band: it is of excellent quality and perfectly reproduces the orchestra conducted by Walter. (Urania) 2CD# WS121.395 $29.99

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Great Conductors Documentary [Blu-ray]

New on Blu-ray Three Tenors – Voices for Eternity [DVD]

The documentary Three Tenors – Voices for Eternity, tells the story of the most successful concert in the history of classical music, featuring recent interviews with José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Zubin Mehta, Pavarottiʼs widow Nicoletta Mantovani, and many more. Includes behind-the-scenesfootage, showing the emotional highlights of the first concert and the sequel in Los Angeles. 1DVD# 760908 $29.99

This impressive four-DVD set features four documentaries that revolve around the lives and careers of four of history’s finest conductors. I Am Lost to the World, a documentary about Carlos Kleiber; Journey of a Lifetime, which focuses on Sir Georg Solti; Larger Than Life, which revolves around Leonard Bernstein, and finally, Maestro for the Screen, a film about the life of Herbert von Karajan. (C Major) 4Blu-ray# 760604 $57.99

Garrett: Unlimited – Live from the Arena di Verona [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Global Wagner – From Bayreuth to the World [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Star violinist David Garrett celebrates his ten-year spectacular crossover program with thousands of fans in the extraordinary atmosphere of the Arena di Verona, Italy. Garrett performs his ‘Greatest Hits’ of brilliant interpretations of rock classics like “We Are The Champions” and world famous pop songs, and his arrangements of classical melodies like Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. (C Major) 1Blu-ray# 759904 $41.99 1DVD# 759808 $29.99

Global Wagner – From Bayreuth to the World is not a biography of Richard Wagner, nor is it a musicological analysis of his work. The film is a revealing feature-length study of life with Wagner’s legacy from one Bayreuth Festival to the next, and we travel the world to meet devoted Wagnerians and those most intimately involved in commenting on and producing his work today. (Naxos) 1Blu-ray# NBD0139V $22.99 1DVD# 2110708 $22.99

Bergman: Persona [DVD]

Bach: Goldberg Variations [DVD + CD]

The celebrated actor Elisabet Vogler has fallen silent. Together with her nurse Alma the two unequal women spend a carefree summer – until the situation between them shifts. Director Anna Bergmann raises questions about power, trust and role images and shows an excellent adaption of Ingmar Bergman’s experimental film “Corinna Harfouch renders her roles believable and compelling.” – New York Times (Naxos) 1DVD# THE08066 $22.99

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations intended to “refresh the spirits of connoisseurs”, is an impressive example of the art of variation. During the pandemic, the pianist Ragna Schirmer performed it for a small audience. The result is a magnificent achievement that affords masterly proof of her passion for this work, a passion that has evolved over several decades. (Belvedere) 1DVD/CD# bve08076 $22.99

The Lied – A Journey’s Tale [DVD]

Le Chevalier de Saint-George: The Enlightened Violinist DVD

In his Parisian living-room, music critic André Tubeuf (1930–2021) tells, with his knowledge, his language and his memory, the story of the German Lied. From Mozart and Beethoven to Mahler and Strauss, through Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf, a major part of the European culture and of music history is reborn before our eyes and ears. (BelAir) 2DVD# BAC187 $24.99

An emancipated slave, the Chevalier de Saint-George managed to elevate himself to the highest spheres of the Enlightened 18th-century French society, thanks to his incredible accomplishments as a fencer, horseman, and musician. Through his compositions, and testimonies from specialists, this film narrates his extraordinary adventures. (BelAir) 1DVD# BAC190 $19.99

Sibelius: The Complete Symphonies / Chamber Orchestra of Europe [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Raphael Releaved – The Greatest Exhibition of His Works [DVD]

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) had for many years a special rapport with Paavo Berglund and it was the orchestra who suggested that they perform and record all the Sibelius Symphonies with him. This took place at the Edinburgh International Festival followed by studio recordings for Finlandia and finally, at the Helsinki Festival in August 1998. (ICA) 1Blu-ray# ICAD5163 $41.99 2DVD# ICAD5162 $38.99

Raphael was one of the most extraordinary artists of the Renaissance, indeed one of the all-time greats, but is often misunderstood or mythologized. Featuring over two hundred masterpieces, Exhibition On Screen celebrates the life and work of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino in all his glory. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Phil Grabsky, the film revels in Raphael’s extraordinary artworks. (Seventh Art) 1DVD# SEV219 $21.99

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Purcell: Dido & Aeneas [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Dido and Aeneas was pioneering in its day and is considered one of Purcell’s foremost theatrical works, with a moving tale of love, betrayal and tragedy. (Naxos) 1Blu-ray# NBD0140V $22.99 1DVD# 2110709 $22.99

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos rank among the most popular works of Baroque music. To mark their 300th anniversary in 2021, Collegium 1704 played all six Brandenburg Concertos on historical instruments in Köthen Castle’s restored Hall of Mirrors. Founded by Václav Luks in 2005, the orchestra is one of the most renowned ensembles of our time specializing in Baroque music. (Accentus) 1Blu-ray# ACC10555 $39.99 1DVD# ACC20555 $24.99

Wagner: Götterdämmerung [DVD or Blu-ray Video} Wagner’s tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen concludes with Götterdämmerung. It’s the longest and most complex of the four music dramas, and its orchestration is also the most colorful and sophisticated. Siegfried’s Rhine Journey and Funeral March and Brünnhilde’s immolation scene are some of Wagner’s most potent theatrical moments and bring this drama to a shattering conclusion. (Dynamic) 1Blu-ray# DYN-57900 $29.99 $29.99 2DVD# DYN-37900

Monteverdi: Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria [DVD or Blu-ray Video] A pioneer in the development of opera, Claudio Monteverdi took vocal music beyond Renaissance polyphony into an era in which genuine feelings and emotions could be expressed. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria is part of a late flowering in Monteverdi’s illustrious career, and is considered the most profoundly tender and moving of his operas. (Dynamic) 1Blu-ray# DYN-57927 $29.99 2DVD# DYN-37927 $29.99

Verdi: Don Carlo [DVD] Verdi was commissioned by the Paris Opera to write Don Carlo to a French libretto. The source material was a dramatic play by Schiller and the work premiered as a five-act grand opera in March 1867 under the title Don Carlos. Set in the 16th century, its subject is Carlo, the son of Spain’s King Phillip II, and his love for Elizabetta, whom Philip later marries. (Opus Arte) 1DVD# OA 1340D $19.99

Monteverdi: L’Orfeo [DVD or Blu-ray Video] Opera was in its infancy when Monteverdi wrote L’Orfeo, only six years after the first example of a drama set wholly to music had been performed in Florence. This performance of L’Orfeo was given at the historic Teatro La Fenice in Venice – which has seen triumphant premieres of works by Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi and many others – in a critically acclaimed semi-staged production. (Opus Arte) 1Blu-ray# OA BD7298D $39.99 1DVD# OA 1347D $29.99

Wagner: Parsifal [DVD or Blu-ray Video] In Palermo where Richard Wagner composed this monumental opera during a long stay, conductor Omer Meir Wellber makes a highly successful debut as music director of Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, one of Italy’s most impressive opera houses. Stage director “Graham Vick strips Parsifal of mysticism to deliver a powerful indictment of divisive ideologies” (Musical America). (C Major) 1Blu-ray# 759404 $41.99 2DVD# 759308 $46.99

Bart: La Source [DVD or Blu-ray Video] Lost after its material records were destroyed by fire in 1883, the spectacular ballet La Source originally portrayed the idealistic vision of a magical domain in which a complex but beautiful love story of mythical figures unfolded. Jean-Guillaume Bart has long been captivated by La Source, and his new choreography retains the ballet’s romantic fascinations and its glorious music by Delibes and Minkus. (Naxos) 1Blu-ray# NBD0145V $24.99 1DVD# 2110724 $24.99

Janáček: Jenůfa [DVD or Blu-ray Video] Jenůfa is still Janáček’s most successful and most often performed opera, and the Berlin premiere at the Staatsoper in 1924 brought the work its final breakthrough on German stages. This performance from Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden is “artistically unsurpassable. “A beguiling mixture of speaking articulation and tonal roundness.” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) (C Major) 1Blu-ray# 760504 $41.99 1DVD# 760408 $31.99

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Drei Schwestern – Die Theatre Edition [DVD] Director and author Simon Stone rewrote, updated and questioned Chekhov’s famous drama for the present day: with brilliant dialogue, subtle characterization and the ambivalent figures which the se so reliably generate. Avoiding pathos, spectacle and heroism, Chekhov maintains a masterful balance between melancholy and joie de vivre. (Naxos) 1DVD# THE08056 $22.99

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New Jazz New from Storyville Two Continents, One Groove / T.S. Monk Drummer, percussionist, composer, producer and bandleader, T.S. Monk, also known as “Toot”, leads his sextet with an innovative and dynamic approach. The seven songs on the album are taken from two performances at two similar jazz rooms over a two-year period; three are from Ginny’s Supper Club on May 7, 2014, while others were recorded at Marians Jazzroom in Bern, Switzerland on April 24, 2016.

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Live in Holland, 1979 / Clark Terry Clark Terry is one of the greatest and most important trumpeters in jazz history. Now, Storyville Records presents a live recording with his fantastic orchestra, Clark Terry’s Big Bad Band – Live in Holland 1979. The whole band is in great form, and this recording showcases many of the very best musicians from the heyday of big bands. (Storyville)

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The Touch / Søren Kristiansen; Thomas Fonnesbæk With The Touch Søren Kristiansen and Thomas Fonnesbæk present their take on a classical piece of jazz, playing the music of Oscar Peterson and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – classical but improvised! OP and NHØP gave us something unique and unforgettable, just as the classical composers did and still do. (Storyville)

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Nordic Bop / Pekka Pylkkanen, Eric Ineke

Hadfield’s Paris Quartet

Eric Ineke: “Pekka got the idea of putting together a repertoire of tunes written by some of the great Jazz legends I played with during my earlier career. During our concerts, we all felt that it worked out really well and that we should at least put some of the repertoire in the can for the right moment to release it on album. Well, that moment came five years later...”

Ma / Anders Hagberg

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John Hadfield writes: “This ensemble’s direction, concept, and instrumentation is electronic and contemporary, using musical languages outside of the jazz tradition. French jazz musicians tend to mystify the New York and American music scene, having made the reverse journey, my music celebrates the mixing of culture that makes Paris a musical center.” (Outhere)

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Longings / Rudi Berger Quintet

All the music on this album was recorded in different spaces with different acoustic conditions, using an improvisation-based approach that left much or all to the impulses of the place and moment. Half of the pieces on the album consist of solos for flutes of different sizes, with minimal accompaniment.

With his 7th album Longings, jazz violinist Rudi Berger devotes himself to the themes of longing and hope. Completely independent in terms of style and phrasing and devoid of any academic tendencies, a picture is created of an unmistakable violin virtuoso who writes, and performs his own compositions. A beguiling blend of New York jazz jargon, Viennese musical slang, Latin American influences, and blues. (Gramola)

1CD# PCD264 $16.99 Carnet Imaginaire / Celano, Badenhorst, Baggiani

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Carnet Imaginaire grabs a hold on you, pulls you in and doesn’t let you go until the very end. Once again there’s no explanation needed. The listener follows the lead of each carefully crafted composition and improvisation, by these wonderful musicians. Guillermo Celano, Marcos Baggiani and Joachim Badenhorst are true storytellers, creating their landscapes with a wide variety of shapes and colors. (Challenge)

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Magic Realism / Chai Masters This album was recorded during the 2nd Covid lockdown. At the beginning of the recording, the atmosphere in the studio was filled with uncertainty, but soon after we started playing, we began to relax and focus on the music, and some magic started to happen. (Antonio Moreno Glazkov)

1CD# CR 73538 $16.99 Outer View / Anders Lønne Grønseth & Multiverse

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Anders Lønne Grønseth and the band Multiverse launches their third album Outer View. The band has been described as “currently one of the Norway’s most original, ambitious, advanced and complete bands” and “a quintet that in a riveting way combines controlled melodicity with a trembling desire for improvisation”. – Jazzinorge (NXN)

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Releases Star Crossed Lovers / Patty Lomuscio, Kenny Barron

Yellowbird Records

Patty Lomuscio writes: “My dream has finally come true, to make a record in NY with jazz legend, maestro Kenny Barron. The pieces we have chosen resonate beautifully thanks to the piano touch of Kenny Barron, the deep sound of Peter Washington, the poignant notes of Vince Herring and the pressing rhythm of Joe Farnsworth.” 1CD# CR 73548 $16.99

Abbey Sings Billie / Abbey Lincoln Strongly influenced by jazz icons Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, both of whom she met early in her career, Abbey Lincoln’s distinctive vocal style, thought-provoking writing, and spirited personality secured her a place among the jazz luminaries. Lincoln recorded her first album with jazz great Benny Carter in 1956 and appeared in the 1957 film, The Girl Can’t Help It. (Yellowbird) 1CD# YEB-9221 $14.99

The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford – Paul’s Scene Ricky Ford, tenor sax legend, needs no introduction. He is, quite simply, a national treasure. His latest recording, a tip of the hat to his early roots and a focused, fabulous blast of multi-hued bebop and traditional jazz, reflects tremendous taste and virtuosity, with nods to his heroes and affirmation that the guy can still play with the best of them. (Whaling City) 1CD# WCS135 $16.99

Water From an Ancient Well / Abdullah Ibrahim Water from an Ancient Well is a jazz album by South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim that was first released in 1986. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Water From An Ancient Well features the pianist/composer with a very strong septet. (Yellowbird) 1CD# YEB-9222 $14.99

Rituals / Frankfurt Big Band & Chris Potter

John Scofield Live

Chris Potter writes: “Jim McNeely has always been one of my favorite composer/ arrangers, so I was thrilled to get the chance to work with him on his piece inspired by one of my favorite compositions, the Rite of Spring. The band was a total delight to work with and played beautifully throughout, and I’m very proud of the results.” (Double Moon) 1CD# DMCHR71404 $14.99

Reissue of this dynamic 1977 John Scofield release. “Single lines possessing a horn-like fluidity and sweetness abound, while his chord voicings articulate a natural, unstilted approach to the electric guitar. So whether he’s soaring on flights of improvisational fantasy, or getting down to some smoking bebop, John Scofield has come of age in the world of electric jazz.” (Chip Stern – September 1979) (Yellowbird) 1CD# YEB-9223 $14.99

The Lights Are Always On / Lynne Arriale Trio

Samba Do Mar / Dusko Goykovich

The Lights Are Always On is pianist/ composer Lynne Arriale’s 16th album as leader, and her third recording on Challenge Records International. On this session Lynne is joined by bassist/co-producer Jasper Somsen and drummer E.J. Strickland, both outstanding, in-demand musicians on the international jazz scene. (Challenge) 1CD# CR 73532 $16.99

Best known for his unmistakably melodic phrasing and his high-class ballad renditions on the trumpet, muted trumpet, and fluegelhorn, Dusko Goykovich’s eventful life is like a mirror of 50 years of jazz history. With ease and brilliance he switches from bebop to ballads, from bossa to 5/4. On Samba Do Mar, Dusko Goykovich shows a fresh and sparkling approach to Brazilian music. (Yellowbird) 1CD# YEB-9224 $14.99

Lifeline / John Stein [2 CDs] With the release of Lifeline, John Stein celebrates a musical career as one of the most diverse jazz guitarists of his generation. Selected highlights from Stein’s varied discography capture his eclectic spirit. Tracks on this compilation spans more than twenty years, from Stein’s 1999’s Green Street to the most recent recording, 2021’s Serendipity. 2CD# WCS136 $16.99

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Peace / Chet Baker Trumpet player Chet Baker (1929– 1988) came to sudden fame as partner of Gerry Mulligan in the early fifties. Recorded in 1982, Peace is a lovely example of his intimate combo work. The uncommon instrumentation with marimba and the original, somewhat challenging music by David Friedman inspired Chet Baker to one of his most intense and most thoughtful recordings. (Yellowbird) 1CD# YEB-9225 $14.99

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Prophone Sale

Interacting / Tolvan Big Band

In Between / Erik Palmberg

Helge Albin writes: “Interacting is the fourteenth album released by TBB. The title track itself is a way of highlighting my way of orchestrating different sections in the band and how they Interact with each other. I’ve always wanted the big band to play with the flexibility of a quartet, So I chose players who can play like that. Keeping this band together for over 40 years! Wow!” (Prophone) 1CD# PCD294 $16.99

Erik Palmberg writes: “Since I finished my studies in 2010 I have had the opportunity to play with a lot of prominent jazz artists and interesting projects in Sweden but also around Europe, especially in Germany where I have done several tours. In 2018 I released my debut album First Lines. In December 2021, my new follow up album, In Between was released. (Prophone) 1CD# PCD277 $16.99

What’s It All About? / Ellas Kapell

Notes From Within / Elisabeth Melander

Ellas Kapell presents their second album What’s It All About? The ten songs of the album create a story about the most important moments in life; the beautiful ones, the difficult ones – everything that comes together to constitute a life. The album also contains guest performances by internationally renowned musicians Karin Hammar on trombone and Magnus Lindgren on tenor saxophone. (Prophone) 1CD# PCD266 $16.99

Elisabeth Melander writes: “… thoughts and sounds from my heart …In the midst of the escalating pandemic, as social separation and new considerations about life took over, the thoughts and ideas for this jazz album emerged. The album mainly represents my own compositions and lyrics combined with a jazz trio, string quartet and guest soloists.” (Prophone) 1CD# PCD285 $14.99

Drown to Die a Little / Stina Agustsdottir

Portrait of Bohuslän Big Band – Jan Levander

Stina Agustsdottir is considered one of Iceland’s best jazz artists and nowadays she’s just as established in Sweden. She is known for her energetic live performances, not only in Scandinavia, but also in her previous home of Montreal. She has been nominated for the Icelandic music prize a few times, both for her album, Jazz á íslensku (2017) and for The Whale (2021). (Prophone)

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Jan Levander is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Sweden. Levander’s collaboration with Bohuslän Big Band during the 2000s has consisted of several concerts as a saxophone player, arranging and composing for the big band and directing several projects. (Prophone)

1CD PCD259

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The Show Must Go On / Johanna Petterson

Roots / Vivian Buczek

“A year in one’s life contains a broad spectrum of impressions. For this album I tried to capture the diversity of these emotions with songs from the jazz tradition. Studying the compositions I love from the American Songbook made me realize that the topics from then are just as relevant today; what is always constant, independent of century or time is that life goes on.” – Johanna Petterson (Prophone) 1CD# PCD273 $16.99

Vivian Buczek writes: “This is the most personal album I’ve made so far, where the music sums up my musical upbringing. A few years ago I met one of the greatest musicians and saxophone players in the world; Seamus Blake. From the very first time i heard him play I was blown away by his musicality that comes straight from his heart and soul.” (Prophone) 1CD# PCD268 $16.99

Trio Circle / Magnus Dölerud, Hans Backenroth

Determination / Katherine Windfeld Kathrine Windfeld writes: “Composing for Bohuslän Big Band has been a great challenge and pleasure. Having the individual musicians and the overall band sound in mind, I tried to shape the music in a way that highlights the specific qualities of each band member.” High ambitions and wonderful enthusiasm made the optimal conditions for her new release with this outstanding orchestra. (Prophone) 1CD# PCD261 $16.99

This group started with a spontaneous gig in Stockholm. Hans, Oscar and Magnus met at Jazz Club Glenn Miller Cafe, and almost immediately they found the sound of the group and a natural interplay! Hans Backenroth is one of today’s foremost bassists and musicians, and during the last decades he has played all over the world with many top jazz musicians. (Prophone) 1CD# PCD283 $16.99

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Titles

1st Movement / Adam Forkelid 1CD# PCD265 $16.99

Home / SE-Quartet 1CD# PCD255 $16.99

New Legend / Eva Kruse 1CD# PCD222 $16.99

Any Time / Martin Brandqvist 1CD# PCD256 $16.99

Veni Veni Emmanuel / Trio X of Sweden 1CD# PCD250 $16.99

Reunion / Anna Lundqvist & Jonas André 1CD# PCD228 $16.99

Unicorns First / Peter Dahlgren 1CD PCD271 $14.99

You Should Have Told Me / Ellen Andersson 1CD PCD204 $16.99

Stay a While / Simon Westman Trio 1CD PCD227 $16.99

Parker’s Mood / Hans Backenroth 1CD# PCD263 $16.99

Strings Attached / Karin Hammer Fab 4 1CD# PCD230 $16.99

Jazzparaden / Bohuslän Big Band 1CD# PCD215 $16.99

The Night and the Music / Lina Nyberg, Daniel Karlsson 1CD# PCD249 $16.99

North / Anders Hagberg 1CD# PCD238 $16.99

All My Septembers / Peter Asplund 1CD# PCD205 $16.99

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Summer Jazz

Songs: The Music of Allen Toussaint / New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

A Time for Love / Oscar Peterson [2 CDs]

A Time for Love – Live in Helsinki, 1987 is a momentous album – but it is far more than that. The final gig of a long international tour that began with four concerts in Brazil, this date was the 14th of a European tour that took the Oscar Peterson quartet all over mainland Europe and Scandinavia. (Mack Avenue) 2CD# MAC1151 $19.99

New Orleans is a musical melting pot that has been cooking up music royalty for nearly over a century. The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, now in its seventeenth year, is dedicated to preserving the tradition of New Orleans music and culture while exploring the works of artists that might be considered slightly outside the realm of jazz. Songs: The Music of Allen Toussaint is the fourth studio recording by the Orchestra. (Storyville) 1CD# SVL1018481 $15.99

My Art of Gypsy Jazz / Pietro Lazazzara, guitar Pietro Pazazzara writes: “The work of My Art of Gypsy Jazz consists of 14 compositions. 11 pieces are original that have never been published, while three pieces were created by Gypsy music composers. The title of this album fully expresses my vision of traditional Gypsy jazz and its possibly projection into the future.” (Stradivarius) 1CD# STR57920 $16.99

Chasin’ the Bird – A Tribute to Charlie Parker Charlie Parker was one of the most innovative and influential musicians of all time, a genius in the true sense of the term. When Parker was asked to describe his style he said, “It’s just music. It’s trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes.” Still today, musicians all around the world are trying to catch up with the Bird. Charlie Parker died in 1955 at the young age of 34. (Prophone) 1CD# PCD260 $16.99

The Best of New Orleans Jazz New Orleans Jazz has a long and rich history. The overarching term ‘New Orleans Jazz’ actually covers several genres- from Dixieland, to Zydeco, to Blues. Highlighted artists in those styles are here brought together in a single album which celebrates those early years. Artists include Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Sever, Kid Ory & His Band, Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers, and many more. (Gift of Music) 1CD# CCLCDG1296 $17.99

Shoehorn Shuffle / Cool Sweetness Sextet Cool Sweetness could be a nice cold and tasty cocktail… or maybe an irresistible ice cream… But actually, it is the name of Danish trombonist Anders Jacobsen’s jazz sextet. The music on their new album “Shoehorn Shuffle” is primarily composed and arranged by Jacobsen and the album features a strong line-up of some of the strongest players on the Danish jazz scene. (Storyville) 1CD# SVL1014349 $15.99

Collection 1952–1953 / Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker [2 CDs] This 46-track 2-CD set comprises most of the recordings Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker made together during their time as part of Gerry Mulligan’s quartet, initially comprising informal ‘live’ recordings in Los Angeles. It offers fascinating insights into the the way Mulligan and Baker developed an intuitive rapport, and an absorbing collection of landmark modern jazz performances. (Acrobat) 2CD# ACBT3339.2 $16.99

Songs From My Father / Gerry Gibbs [2 CDs] Songs From My Father is the muchanticipated newest release from renowned musical polymath Gerry Gibbs. Drummer-percussionistbandleader-arranger Gibbs presents a smashing double-disc masterwork featuring four iterations of his acclaimed Thrasher Dream Trio. Under his astute direction, Gibbs and his band of jazz titans pay homage to the musical legacy of Gerry’s 96-year-old father, Terry Gibbs. (Whaling City) 2CD# WCS131 $24.99

Duke Ellington in Coventry, 1966 / Duke Ellington, piano This Duke Ellington recording was made on Monday, February 21st 1966, along with The Cliff Adams Singers and the baritone singer George Webb, giving the performance a special quality, which the band acknowledged by playing on the top of their game. The concert also includes one of the first performances of a piece which would become an important part of many concerts during the following years, “La Plus Belle Africaine.” (Storyville) 1CD# SVL1018448 $15.99

Live at the Village Vanguard / Christian McBride In June of 2007, Christian McBride returned to the Village Vanguard after a nine-year break, with Inside Straight, a group consisting of Steve Wilson, Eric Reed, Carl Allen, and Warren Wolf. Although many iterations of his groups have played there, Inside Straight was birthed inside the Village Vanguard. This particular set was recorded in December of 2014. (Mack Avenue) 1CD# MAC1192 $17.99

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Shifting Sands / Avishai Cohen Trio

Late Night Jazz

Israeli composer, singer and bass player Avishai Cohen returns to jazz with a dazzling new trio. This new album Shifting Sands, re-engages with this very special alchemy that Cohen’s music provides: fresh and expansive melodic lines, diverse and sophisticated rhythms and a musical elegance that only he can achieve. This release features 10 new tracks, including one different title on each format. (Naïve) 1CD# M7594 $16.99

Sensuous saxophones, muted trumpets, fingers caressing piano keys, brushes on drums . . . this music was made for late night listening and romance. 40 moodsetting classics are performed by some of the biggest names in jazz: Miles Davis Quintet (“Round Midnight”), Sonny Rollins (“There Is No Greater Love”), Erroll Garner Trio (“Misty”), Barney Kessel (“Laura”), and much more. (Gift of Music) 1CD# GCDG1195 $16.99

Big Bands Live – Benny Goodman Orchestra featuring Anita O’Day

Crisálida / Danilo Perez Pianist, composer and educator Danilo Pérez hopes to usher in a new era of enlightenment with his epic new album, Crisálida, which in English translates to “chrysalis.” Incorporating multiple artistic disciplines with this release, Pérez explains. “We need to work together to build our new crisálida, which, to me, is the emotional, mental and physical state of protection in our early development.” (Mack Avenue) 1CD# MAC1178 $17.99

A singer with an exciting presence and a voice to immerse yourself in. A band that lit up with high wattage a repertoire including both standards and popular songs. The result a mixture that whisked the concert hall in Freiburg (Germany) for one evening in October 1959 into a wonderful world of successful jazz entertainment and sent the audience out into the night with an earworm. (SWR) 1CD# JAH-404 $18.99

A Song of Hope / Eric Wyatt

Blueprint – Piano Music for Jazz Trio / Nikolai Kasputin

As the follow-up to his 2019 release The Golden Rule: For Sonny, Eric Wyatt’s A Song for Hope is vastly different in both tone and intent. Where the former was a tour de force, a tribute to Sonny Rollins and a straight-ahead blast of straightahead bop, Wyatt’s new record is more adventurous, colorful, unpredictable, and wide-ranging. Both are beautiful, for some of the same – but also different – reasons. The energy is undeniable. (Whaling City) 1CD# WCS132 $16.99

After his first successful release with the piano and double concerto of Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin, Frank Dupree presents the original jazzy solo piano pieces of the still unknown master, enlarged with additional bass and drums. The genres of jazz and classical music finally melt in a fascinating pure Jazz-Trio formation. (Capriccio) 1CD# C5439 $16.99

The Best of Miles Davis & John Coltrane Castor and Pollux, Damon and Pythias, “Magic” and Kareem, Miles and Coltrane. One of the most powerful pairings in all of music. Miles and ‘Trane are paired here on nine standout tracks from the much-praised box set Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955–1961. Tracks include “Bye Bye Blackbird,” “Milestones,” “Straight, No Chaser,” “Blue in Green,” and more. (Sony) 1CD# CK61090 $7.99

In His Own Sweet Time / Tommy Flanagan This is a very special recording, which slumbered in the archives for over 26 years and now sees the light of day for the first time. Tommy Flanagan is captured at the Birdland Jazz Club in Neuburg on the Danube, Germany, with repertoire consisting of a mix of standards including two Duke Ellington-Billy Strayhorn compositions. 1CD# ENJ-9687 $18.99

Pasquale Plays Duke / Pasquale Grasso

O’Day: The Early Years 1941–1945 [3 CDs]

This release finds Pasquale Grasso reimagining five Duke Ellington classics on solo guitar, alongside several additional tracks recorded with longtime collaborators bassist Ari Roland and drummer Keith Balla. The album features some of Ellington’s mostcherished masterpieces including “Sophisticated Lady,” “Prelude to a Kiss,” “It Don’t Mean a Thing,” and “Cotton Tail,” with guests vocalists Sheila Jordan and Samara Joy making appearances. (Sony) 1CD# 19439907672 $11.99

The world of jazz in the post-war era was blessed with some very special female vocalists who have left a legacy of legendary and timeless recordings. One name whom many jazz fans will cite among their favorites is that of Anita O’Day, an artist who stayed true to her jazz roots and resisted the temptation to move towards the middle ground of popular music. (Acrobat) 3CD# ADDCD3098 $16.99

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Mack Relief – A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America 1CD# MAC1185 $17.99

This Bitter Earth / Veronica Swift 1CD# MAC1177 $17.99

Acceptance / Billy Childs 1CD# MAC1176 $17.99

More Music / Joey DeFrancesco 1CD# MAC1186 $17.99

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Symphony Hall Concert / Erroll Garner 1CD# MAC1189 $17.99

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Sounds from the Ancestors / Kenny Garrett 1CD# MAC1180 $17.99

For Jimmy, Wes, and Oliver / Christian McBride Big Band 1CD# MAC1152 $17.99

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Future Stride / Emmet Cohen 1CD# MAC1181 $17.99

Te Lo Dije / Harold López-Nussa 1CD# MAC1179 $17.99

Iron Starlet / Connie Han 1CD# MAC1171 $17.99

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Avenue While Looking Up / Jimmy Greene 1CD# MAC1154 $17.99

Poetry in Motion / The Soul Rebels 1CD# MAC7052 $17.99

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