HBD - Spring 2024 Classics & Jazz Catalog

Classics & Jazz

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We are very pleased to present the HBDirect Spring 2024 Classics & Jazz catalog containing a wide range of titles we’re sure will be of great interest to our valued customers. On the classical side, we’re proud to feature sale pricing on BR Klassik and Signum Classics releases, as well as a two pages of sale titles from Chandos. You’ll also find an updated selection of box sets from Brilliant Classics, new offerings from Vox Records, and a special selection of books & music especially for children. On the jazz side, you’ll find a thorough list of brand-new offerings from our partner labels, a spotlight on European Jazz artists, and a 20% sale on an outstanding array of releases from TCB (The Montreux Label).

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 (1868 Linz version)

By his own reckoning, Bruckner began his career as a professional composer when he was thirty-nine years old. With a mere exercise for a symphony under his belt, he was now ready to write his first true symphony. The world was not. First performed in 1868 in Linz – badly – the work was put aside until nine years and five symphonies later, when it was adjusted. A subsequent performance in 1884 was Bruckner’s “most successful Viennese performance to date”, prompting, perplexingly, a thorough revision that would be the 1891 “Vienna” version. This recording uses the unadulterated 1868 “Linz” version. (Capriccio)

1CD# C8092 $21.99

Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum / Ensemble Les Surprises

Two Te Deums go head to head! The famous one by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and a completely new one by Henry Desmarets. Charpentier and Desmarets, remarkable composers of both sacred music and opera, shared a taste for Italian music and travel, but they also shared the disadvantage of having spent some time in Jean-Baptiste Lully’s ‘shadow’! Written for the same ensemble as Charpentier’s famous Te Deum, Desmarets’ Te Deum is a true work of craftsmanship, notably in the variety of instrumentation, but also in its alternation of different vocal forces. (Alpha Classics)

1CD# ALPHA1018 $20.99

Classical Tranquillity / John Rutter; Manchester Camarata

John Rutter writes: “Music has an extraordinary power to evoke tranquillity –as is revealed in the eleven pieces I have chosen to make up this collection. Ten of them happen to be among my personal favourites, drawn from the music of seven composers, plus the treasure trove of anonymous folk music, and I have added an orchestral version of my choral setting of ‘Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace,’ a text formerly believed to be by St Francis of Assisi.” (Collegium)

1CD# CSCDS 402 $10.99

Byrd: Sacred Works / Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys [2 CDs]

Marking the quadricentenary of William Byrd’s death in 2023, the Men & Boys Choir of Saint Thomas, Fifth Avenue, New York, recreates the Catholic Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi as Byrd might have experienced it in the late 16th century. This new recording includes various Latin motets written by Byrd for the feast, along with the remarkable Mass setting in four parts. Part of this album is a recording, originally released on LP only in 1981, of the Saint Thomas Choir under the late Gerre Hancock, singing Byrd’s complete Great Service. (Signum Classics)

2CD# SIGCD776 $32.99 $26.39

New Year’s Concert 2024 / Thielemann; Vienna Philharmonic [2 CDs]

There are few concerts in the world that are awaited with as much excitement as the New Year’s Concert from Vienna. Under the direction of Christian Thielemann, the Vienna Philharmonic ushers in the New Year with a concert in the magnificent Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. For the first time, there is music by Anton Bruckner featured on the program – a tribute to the composer’s 200th birth anniversary in 2024. (Sony)

2CD# 19658858932 $16.98

Orchestral Works / John Wilson; Sinfonia of London

The three composers whose works appear on this album are interconnected: Ravel was a mentor to Lennox Berkeley, and Berkeley to Pounds. Le Tombeau de Couperin marks Ravel’s movement towards neoclassicism, its forms and style a re-invention of ones from the French baroque. Originally written for solo piano, the movements of the suite were dedicated to friends whom Ravel had lost in the First World War. In 1919, he orchestrated four of the six movements (the version performed here). (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5324 $23.99 $19.19

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Recommended New Titles

Orchestral Works / Estonia National SO

Lalo considered himself to be first and foremost an opera composer, even though Le Roi d’Ys was his only opera to be performed in his lifetime. He is now best known for his symphonic and chamber music, largely because of the highly political musical establishment in France in his time. The Overture to the opera (which opens this album) is now the best-known music from the piece. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20183 $22.99 $18.39

Prokofiev: Complete Works for Violin / Duo Khojayan Poortinga

For Meri Khojayan and Robert Poortinga ‘A deep lasting impression from a performance’ is their ultimate aim for their audience. Their idea of forming a duo that focusses solely on the performance of violin-piano repertoire came about at the beginning of 2015. Since then, they have dedicated their lives to a repertoire with incredible potential. (Aliud)

1CD# ACDOE1362 $18.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 / Bernard Haitink; Bavarian Radio SO

Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a long and intensive artistic collaboration, which came to an abrupt end with Haitink’s death in October 2021. BR-Klassik now presents outstanding and previously unreleased live recordings of concerts from past years. This recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony documents concerts given in November 1981. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900218 $19.99 $15.99

Fantasia / Igor Levit [2 CDs]

Igor Levit’s new double album

Fantasia features a wide range of works spanning a period of almost two centuries from 1720 to 1910 and showcases key compositions by Franz Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni, Johann Sebastian Bach and Alban Berg. The starting point of the four paradigmatic works featured on the double album is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. (Sony)

2CD# 19658811642 $19.98

50 / Oregon Repertory Singers

Hailed as “Portland’s finest large choir” this Oregon Repertory Singers album includes favorite pieces selected from 50 years of performances, many from the Glory of Christmas concerts. Composers Ola Gjeilo, Morten Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, and Eriks Esenvalds are joined by ORS choristers/composers Naomi LaViolette and Stacey Philipps. (Gothic)

1CD# G-49342 $20.99

Chihara: Concerto-Fantasy for Piano & Orchestra

The music of Paul Chihara, who spent part of his childhood in an internment camp in Idaho, takes Asian-Western dichotomies as points of departure, but that statement is too simple for all the variety of ways the combination can play out. Both ingenious and richly evocative and beautifully and quietly played besides, this is a wonderful release. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559894 $19.99

Stravinsky, Bartók & Martinů: Works for Violin and Orchestra / Frank Peter Zimmermann

Frank Peter Zimmermann, joined here by the Bamberger Symphoniker and its conductor Jakub Hrusa, continues his exploration of the great violin works of the 20th century after his acclaimed recordings of works by Hindemith and Shostakovich, as well as Martinů and Bartok, a recording unanimously acclaimed by the critics. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2657 $21.99

Franck: Les Béatitudes [2 CDs]

César Franck considered Les Béatitudes, for soloists, choir and orchestra, to be his greatest work. It was perhaps Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion that prompted him to begin a work in 1869 that too would be dominated by the voice of Christ. Franck worked on Les Béatitudes for ten years and created an original and deeply personal renewal of the oratorio form in 19th-century France. (Fuga Libera)

2CD# FUG817 $29.99

Grieg: Violin Sonatas / Bruno Canino; Germana Porcu Morano

J.S. Bach: The Six Suites / Tomás Cotik [2 CDs]

A beloved trio of Romantic violin sonatas in the passionate and assured hands of an exciting Italian violinist near the start of her career: an auspicious debut on Brilliant Classics. Winner of the 30th edition of Michelangelo Abbado violin competition held in Milan in 2009, Germana Porcu Morano is a member of the Paganini String Quartet. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96949 $13.99

Argentine violinist Tomás Cotik now resides in the U.S. He is a professor of violin at Portland State University. Here, he performs his own arrangements for violin of the J.S. Bach Six Cello Suites. This is, of course, some of the greatest of all of the solo cello literature, beautifully arranged for and performed on violin. (Centaur)

2CD# CRC4030/31 $17.99

Classical

Venice / Anastasia Kobekina

Anastasia Kobekina’s first album on Sony Classical - Venice - showcases many facets of her artistry; her imagination and energy in creating musical worlds, her natural ability for communication and connection across genres and styles, and her ultimate command of both baroque and modern instruments. With ‘Venice’ Kobekina creates a Venice album without all the usual cliches. (Sony)

1CD# 19658828072 $11.98

Schumann in English, Vol. 1 / Ailish Tynan; Roderick Williams

As a new English singing series following the “Schubert in English” series, The “Schumann in English” series has started. This new English translation, transcribed by Jeremy Sams at the request of pianist Christopher Glynn, includes three works by Schumann composed in 1840. All songs on this album are accompanied by Christopher Glynn, who performs with three leading singers. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD782 $20.99 $16.79

J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. for 2 Pianos by Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger)

A key figure in the 19th-century reclamation of Bach’s music was composer and organist Joseph Rheinberger, whose arrangement for two pianos of the Goldberg Variations was made in the spring of 1883. Rheinberger sought to clarify its imitative polyphony and where he felt it necessary, added new parts of his own writing to the original score, to create a viable Bach-Rheinberger composition.

(Dynamic)

1CD# DYN-CDS8002 $18.99

Elgar & Lalo Cello Concertos / Ofra Harnoy

In April of 1996, Ofra Harnoy entered the venerable Abbey Road Studios in London with the London Philharmonic Orchestra to record Edward Elgar’s great cello concerto. The result is what will likely be lauded as one of the definitive interpretations of Elgar’s great warhorse for the cello. (Sony)

1CD# 19658824342 $13.98

NEW TITLES IN BRIEF

Schein: Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem

Fantasia from Andrea Gabrieli to Johann Sebastian Bach / Andrea Buccarella

After a first recital devoted to the Toccata, Andrea Buccarella now presents an album devoted to the Fantasia. This album follows the same anthological principles as the first and includes both Italian and German compositions from the origins of the genre in Venice at the beginning of the 17th century to its apogee in the following century with Johann Sebastian Bach. (Ricercar)

1CD# RIC438 $20.99

Puccini: I Canti – Orchestral Songs and Works / Charles Castronovo

In early February 2023, the US tenor Charles Castronovo sang these sixteen songs for the first time together with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Ivan Repušic. Charles Castronovo has worked with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester ever since a concert performance of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito in 2006. BR-Klassik now presents the CD Giacomo Puccini – I Canti. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900349 $19.99 $15.99

Mythen / Yuhao Guo; Linda Guo

This CD brings together works by three outstanding composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, each of whom interprets the connection between violin and piano in a unique compositional way. The Violin Sonata Op. 18 by Richard Strauss transports you into a world of melodic beauty and harmonic unity between the two instruments. (ARS)

1CD# ARS38646 $22.99

Nocturnes from 19th Century Russia, Vol. 1 / Bart van Oort

This recording represents a first, comprehensive anthology of the Russian nocturne in its nearly twohundred-year development. Some nocturnes are recorded here for the first time. The earliest Russian nocturnes were composed by Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857) and owe a debt to his teacher, the Irish composer John Field. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96966 $13.99

Schein made an important contribution to this development by combining these radically new Italian ideas with the German style. (Coviello)

1CD# COV92320 $22.99

American Landscapes / Karen Becker; Theresa Bogard

American Landscapes presents a wonderful program of contemporary works for cello and piano. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC4047 $17.99

Berlioz, Biret: Gloire immortelle!

This recording, featuring trumpets and drums, harmony orchestras, military rhythms and patriotic choruses, provides a ‘very French’ anthology. (CDV)

1CD# CVS100 $20.99

Oh Mensch! Gib Acht! / Reinhold Friedrich; Sebastian Kuckler-Blessing

Trumpet and organ – and yet conceivably removed from the usual of this popular instrumentation: that is “O Mensch, gib Acht!” – is a program written as a reaction to the horrors of the Third Reich. (ARS)

1SACD# ARS38359 $23.99

New Classical

Plucked Bach II / Alon Sariel

Mandolinist Alon Sariel continues his series of Bach transcriptions with Plucked Bach II. In this new recording, he performs works for the lute, organ and violin – all performed on ‘only’ two types of mandolins. By offering a distinctive and groundbreaking interpretation, Sariel manages to breathe new life into some very well-known works by Johann Sebastian Bach. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187109 $17.99

African American Voices II / Kellen Gray; Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Kellen Gray has reunited with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a second instalment of African American Voices. Though representing differing schools of thought regarding African American classical music, the composers here are united by their roots in black history, culture and its rich musical heritage. (Linn)

1CD# CKD731 $20.99

Aux étoiles – French Symphonic Poems [2 CDs]

Many Romantic composers owe their fame to one of their symphonic poems. Alongside acknowledged French masterpieces in the genre, the fifteen tracks presented here include four previously unrecorded works and several rarities by women composers. (Bru Zane)

2CD# BZ2007 $29.99

Prokofiev; Ravel: Shadows of My Ancestors / Behzod Abduraimov

Whereas Prokofiev was captivated by Romeo and Juliet, Ravel had shut himself away a quarter of a century earlier in Levallois Perret to compose Gaspard de la nuit, inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s collection of poems subtitled Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA1028 $20.99

Beyond The Wall / Akmi Duo

Valentine Michaud was the first ever saxophone soloist to perform with the Vienna Philharmonic. She and her regular collaborator, pianist Akvilé Silekaité, comprise the awardwinning AKMI Duo. They debut on AVIE with Beyond the Wall, an album of contrasting 20th century sonatas linked by history and geography. (Avie)

1CD# AV2641 $19.99

CanCan Macabre / Sophie Shao; Adrienne Kim

Cellist Sophie Shao is a winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has been described by The New York Times as “eloquent and powerful.” This is a beautiful program of great works from the past and the present. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC4052 $17.99

Dreams, Desires, Desolation – English Song / Trevor Alexander; Peter Crockford

Baritone Trevor Alexander and pianist Peter Crockford present an album celebrating English Song –art-songs by composers well and not-so-well known, and some of the best examples of what is often called the Parlour Ballad, so beloved of audiences in the early years of the 20th century. Dreams, Desires, Desolation was created out of their love for English Song. (Divine Art)

1CD# DDX21114 $20.99

The Monarch’s Music / Various

King Charles III’s coronation on 6th May 2023 showcased the link between music and monarchy. This album sets this historic moment firmly within the rich tapestry of music and monarchs past. Recorded amidst the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, the program celebrates the musical output of composers who have flourished with royal endorsement. (CRD)

1CD# CRD3545 $20.99

Sinfonie Milanesi after the French Revolution

With the making of this CD, we wanted to choose the works most representative of the different stylistic tendencies that animated Lombard symphonism during the years of the French occupation. This would like to be a large fresco that helps the listener to get an idea of the music that was heard in Milan’s theatres, churches, educational institutions, and festivals in the early 19th Century. (Urania)

1CD# LDV14104 $22.99

Something Like This / Emily Granger; Sally Walker

American-Australian harpist Emily Granger made an indelible impression with her solo debut recording, In Transit. She follows up with Something Like This, a beautiful collaboration with flautist Sally Walker, featuring original music for flute and harp alongside adaptations and arrangements for the instrumental combination. (Avie)

1CD# AV2626 $19.99

Brilliant Classics Box Sets

Reger:

Complete Organ Music [17 CD]

17CD# BRI97066 $58.99

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies [5 CDs]

5CD# BRI97084 $39.99

Holt: Complete Piano Works [20 CDs]

20CD# BRI96915 $106.99

Bruckner:

Complete Symphonies [10 CDs]

10CD# BRI97082

Collection [8 CDs]

8CD# BRI96909

Monteverdi Edition [30 CDs]

30CD# BRI96910

De Montgeroult: Complete Piano Sonatas [3 CDs] 3CD# BRI96247

Rebay: Complete Music for Violin and Guitar [3 CDs]

3CD# BRI96176

Couperin: Complete Harpsichord Music [5 CDs] 5CD# BRI96238

Ludovico Einaudi: Clouds [7 CDs]

7CD# BRI96912

J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Clavier [5 CDs]

5CD# BRI96750

Beethoven: Complete Chamber Music with Flute [3 CDs]

3CD# BRI96494 $18.99

Boccherini: Complete Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1 [5 CDs]

5CD# BRI96612 $21.99

Frescobaldi: Complete Keyboard Works [15 CDs]

15CD# BRI96895 $58.99

Barber:

Complete Songs [3 CDs]

3CD# BRI96514

Smetana

Recommended New Boxes

Copland Conducts Copland [20 CDs]

This new 20-disc collection marks the first all-inclusive compilation of Aaron Copland’s authoritative interpretations with the composer’s six early recordings for the first time on Sony Classical CD. Aaron Copland left posterity a body of recordings that illustrate exactly how he wanted these pieces to go – a priceless, new 20-CD legacy of authentic performances, the “heart of the composer ’s discography”. (Sony)

20CD# 19439977462 $68.98

Respighi: Orchestral Works [7 CDs]

This 7-SACD collection includes recordings made by Brazilian-born conductor John Neschling of the orchestral works of Ottorino Respighi, alongside Puccini the best-known Italian composer of the first half of the twentieth century. Widely praised by the press, including BBC Music Magazine, these recordings reveal Respighi’s extraordinary range. (BIS)

7SACD# BIS-2520 $85.99

BBC Legends, Volume 4 / Various Artists [20 CDs]

ICA Classics are proud to release a fourth volume of the best-selling BBC Legends box, featuring 20 CDs of some of the greatest artists of the 20th century. A beautifully packaged clamshell box with individual wallets for each main artist featuring full details of tracks, dates and venues. (ICA Classics)

20CD# ICAB5174 $88.99

Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos [3 CDs]

Despite the very large number of recordings already made of this musical corpus, Minnaar and de Vriend have proved that they have something new and totally their own to say about this collection of masterpieces. Gramophone: “a Beethoven cycle [which] is a bold move, but one that pays off in all sorts of ways”.

(Challenge)

3CD# CC 72972 $21.99

Complete Columbia Album Collection / Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet [12 CDs]

The Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; founded in 1950; comprised the principal woodwinds and French horn of The Philadelphia Orchestra. They made their recording debut for Columbia in 1953. The vast majority of the ensemble’s recordings; 8 out of 12 CDs; are presented in this collection for the first time in digital format mastered from the original analog master tapes. (Sony)

12CD# 19658813262 $59.98

Gary Bertini – The SWR Recordings [5 CDs]

The present collection commemorates the long-standing cooperation between Gary Bertini, born in today’s Republic of Moldova, and the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, beginning in 1978 with Hector Berlioz’ ‘Symphonie fantastique’. Their last recording featured on this box was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor, performed in 1996 in Tokyo. (SWR Classic)

5CD# SWR19139CD $50.99

Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios / Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio [3 CDs]

The Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio’s highly anticipated Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios is now available. The stellar New York City based trio (Yael Weiss, piano; Mark Kaplan, violin; Peter Stumpf, cello) offer deep and fullbodied interpretations of eight immortal masterworks. (Bridge)

3CD# BCD9505 $36.99

J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos [3 CDs]

These recordings acquired not only prestigious awards such as Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice, Diapason d’or, Choc de Classica and Toccata’s CD of the month, but also specific acknowledgements for Overtures Nos. 3 (France Musique) and 4 (SRF 2 Kultur), judged to be the best-ever versions. They are now gathered together for the first time in an elegant box set. (Arcana)

3CD# A555 $39.99

Cleveland Quartet: The Complete RCA Album Collection [23 CDs]

From Jewish Life / Various [5 CDs]

In 1969, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. Most of the ensemble’s recordings for RCA had never appeared on CD until now. Sony Classical is pleased to present this entire, critically acclaimed discography in a box set of 23 discs. (Sony)

23CD# 19439998052 $63.98

Rimsky-Korsakov encouraged his students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory to go out and collect Jewish folk music and music sung in the synagogues. The movement led in 1923, of the Society for Jewish Music in Moscow. Pianist Jascha Nemtsov and his musical collaborators unearthed this music decades later. The present collection contains the recordings realized between 1999 and 2004. (SWR Classic)

5CD# SWR19434CD $42.99

Sets

Bruckner: 10 Symphonies/ Rémy Ballot; Altomonte Orchestra of St. Florian [11 CDs]

Rémy Ballot and the Altomonte Orchestra of St. Florian have devoted themselves intensively to a selected Bruckner symphony and to present it to an audience in one or two celebrated concerts. From those live recordings this 10-part cycle was created and in 2023 completed with the recording of the “Nullified Symphony WAB 100” and is now being released as an exclusive complete edition. (Gramola)

11CD# GRAM99311 $80.99 Beethoven: Complete Symphonies / Zubin Mehta [5 CDs]

Beethoven’s symphonic cycle is one of the most quintessential in the Western classical canon. They chart a course from the influence of Haydn and Classical models in the early symphonies; through works of startling innovation and the birth of Romanticism; to his monumental Ninth Symphony. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in these live recordings from 2021/22. (Dynamic)

5CD# DYN-CDS7950.05 $29.99 Leonard Bernstein – Maestro On Record [12 CDs]

Maestro on Record is a celebration in pictures of 20th-century American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. The accompanying 224-page book collects photographic highlights from the Columbia Record photo collection for the first time. The set also includes Bernstein’s legendary recordings of symphonic masterpieces, concertos, and vocal works featuring him as conductor, composer, and pianist. (Sony)

12CD# 19658771072 $125.98

Shura Cherkassky: The Complete 78rpm Recordings (1923–1950) [3 CDs]

In his later years, Shura Cherkassky (1909–1995) was regarded as one of the last ‘Romantics’ – a throwback to the so-called ‘golden age’ of pianism in the first decades of the 20th century. The Tchaikovsky 2nd Concerto, Cherkassky’s earliest concerto recording, has never previously been reissued and reveals the 36-year-old artist at his virtuoso peak. (APR)

3CD# APR7316 $32.99

BOX SETS IN BRIEF

475 Jahre Sachsische [10 CDs]

Edward Power Biggs Plays Historic Organs of Europe [6 CDs]

The legendary English organist E. Power Biggs became a household name when his Sunday morning CBS broadcasts introduced radio listeners all over North America to the sound of historic pipe organs and the classical organ repertoire from every period. Organ aficionados will relish this new opportunity to experience these musical milestones in this new box set. (Sony)

6CD# 19658826772 $47.98

Sylvain Cambreling Conducts Berlioz, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky [10 CDs]

On the occasion of Cambreling’s 75th birthday the label SWR Classic releases on a 10 disc box set recordings made by the SWR between 1999 and 2011. Sylvain Cambreling was the chief conductor of the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg between 1992-2016. (SWR Classic)

10CD# SWR19135CD $57.99

Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Collection 1958–1963 [88 CDs]

Following up on the success of Sony Classical’s recent large-scale Ormandy collections – his monaural discographies with the Minneapolis Symphony and Philadelphia orchestras – the label now presents the conductor’s stereo recordings from Philadelphia containing all recordings released from 1958 to 1963 (plus some fillers from later years). (Sony)

88CD# 19439977432 $221.98

Explorer Set: Slavic Edition – Slavic Piano Music / Various [10 CDs]

A box of critically acclaimed piano albums exploring the rich diversity of Slavic piano music: an ideal introduction to the Romantic and post-Romantic world of Slavic pianism beyond the canon of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. This reissue includes all the original sleeve notes; making it a worthwhile investment for collectors and newcomers alike. (Piano Classics)

10CD# PCL10281 $48.99

The preserved “miraculous harp” 475 years of orchestra history – a whole century of it is there to be listened to. This CD box is an invitation to a musical journey through time. (Profil)

10CD# PH23007 $85.99

Herbert von Karajan: The Early Lucerne Years [3 CDs]

For the first time; this edition makes available Herbert von Karajan’s previously unpublished early live recordings from the Lucerne Music Festival. (Audite)

3CD# ADT21464 $41.99

J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846-893 [4 CDs]

The 48 preludes and fugues that constitute The Well-Tempered Clavier are composed in a wide range of styles; and the work remains one of the most important in Western classical music. (Dynamic)

4CD# DYN-CDS7997.04 $29.99

Nancarrow: Complete Studies [5 CDs]

A magnificent collection regarded as the “The Well-Tempered Clavier of the Twentieth Century” by one of the most independent-minded and innovative composers. (MDG)

5CD# 6452272-2 $65.99

Overtures from Finland / Oulu Sinfonia

From the middle of the nineteenth century there was a blossoming of nationalism within the creative arts – very notably in music – in Finland that reflected the political mood in the country. From an international perspective, the dominant stature of Sibelius can often overshadow the wide-ranging works of his peers –something that this album goes some way to redressing. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5336 $23.99 $19.19

Mozart: The Piano Quartets / Francesca Dego; Timothy Ridout

Following a highly successful series of concerts in the summer of 2022, Francesca Dego, Timothy Ridout, Laura van der Heijden, and Federico Colli headed into the studio to record Mozart’s Piano Quartets. Whilst he may not have been the first composer to add a viola to the popular piano trio, Mozart was certainly the first to do so with such outstanding success. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20179 $22.99 $18.39

Mystique / Krzysztof Meisinger

Koyunbaba is a four-movement suite for guitar which started as an improvisation, and was then notated soon afterwards. The composer describes the score as ‘no more than a sketch’ and insists that players improvise in their performance –which Krzysztof Meisinger does to great effect with his additional ‘Invocazione’ at the start of the work.

(Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20278 $22.99 $18.39

Martin Owen Plays Strauss / Martin Owen

Regarded as one of Europe’s leading horn players, Martin Owen appears as a soloist and chamber musician around the world. Currently principal horn at the BBC Symphony Orchestra, he has previously served as principal horn of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and as solo horn of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Weber’s Concertino was written for the old, valveless ‘natural horn’.

(Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20168 $22.99 $18.39

Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

Grammy-Award-winning Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956) is without doubt one of American music’s leading orchestral composers. His orchestral output has grown and developed to encompass a wide range of genres, from overtures and tone poems to suites and concertos, inspired by a diverse range of subjects, testimony to his wide sympathies and fields of knowledge. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5296 $23.99 $19.19

Chandos

Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights

Shostakovich:

Bernard Herrmann is widely regarded as one of Hollywood’s most important composers, responsible for more than fifty film scores (in addition to his work for TV, radio, and the concert hall), and noted for his collaborations with Orson Welles and, later, with Alfred Hitchcock. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5337 $23.99 $19.19

Symphony No. 14

John Storgards and the BBC Philharmonic continue their survey of Shostakovich’s late symphonies with this recoding of the 14th, with Elizabeth Atherton and Peter Rose as soloists. Completed in the spring of 1969, and premiered later that year, the symphony is written for soprano, bass and small string orchestra with percussion, setting eleven linked setting of poems by four authors. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5310 $23.99 $19.19

Chamber Works / Silesian String Quartet

The award-winning Silesian quartet present a new album featuring two composers from Warsaw –Joachim Mendelson and Graznya Bacewicz. Both Bacewicz works on this recording were rejected by the composer, and never included in her catalogue of works. Half a century after her death the Royal String Quartet prepared performing scores and gave the first performances. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20181 $22.99 $18.39

Berlin Stories / Trio Gaspard

Berlin Stories is the first in a new series of recordings by the Trio Gaspard, based on different cultural capitals and composers associated with them. The album features three composers who lived and worked in Berlin for a period of their lives – for different reasons and in varying circumstances. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20271 $22.99 $18.39

Ichmouratov: Piano Concerto

Volga-Tatar-born Canadian composer and conductor Airat Ichmouratov conducts the London Symphony Orchestra for this recording of two of his major works, Chandos’ third album dedicated to the works of this outstanding composer. Both concertos are recorded here by the soloists who premiered each work. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5281 $23.99 $19.19

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Tchaikovsky: The Tempest / BBC Scottish SO 1SACD# CHSA 5300 $23.99 $19.19

Nielsen: Violin Concerto / James Ehnes; Bergen PO 1SACD# CHSA 5311 $23.99 $19.19

Dances / Adam

Huw Watkins 1CD# CHAN 20265

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Casta Diva / Matilda Lloyd; Britten Sinfonia 1SACD# CHSA 5321 $23.99 $19.19

Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 3 / City of Birmingham SO 1SACD# CHSA 5265 $23.99 $19.19

Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Vol. 2 / Peter Donohoe 1CD# CHAN 20267 $22.99 $18.39

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 / Sinfonia of London 1SACD# CHSA 5309 $23.99 $19.19

Weinberg: String Quartets, Vol. 3 / Arcadia Quartet 1CD# CHAN 20180 $22.99 $18.39

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 12 & 15 / BBC Philharmonic 1SACD# CHSA 5334 $23.99 $19.19

Icelandic Works for the Stage / Iceland SO 1SACD# CHSA 5319 $23.99 $19.19

Golden Oldies / Brodsky Quartet 1CD# CHAN 20230 $22.99 $18.39

Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 7 / Jean-Efflam Bavouzet; Manchester Camerata 1CD# CHAN 20192 $22.99 $18.39

Delius, Elgar: Music for Strings / Sinfonia of London

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Strings

Recommended Titles

Beethoven: Complete String Quartets / Dover Quartet [8 CDs]

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet’s critically acclaimed epic traversal of Beethoven’s Complete String Quartets, including Vol. 1: The Opus 18 Quartets (2020), Vol. 2: The Middle Quartets (2021), and Vol. 3: The Late Quartets (2022), is now available as a specially priced 8-disc boxed set. (Cedille)

8CD# CDR 1005 $54.99

Dussek: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3

Over the course of his long and eventful career, Dussek composed 38 violin sonatas – or rather sonatas for the keyboard, accompanied by the violin – and the partnership of Julia Huber and Miriam Altmann is acquiring impressive credentials and critical praise as they gradually uncover them for the first time. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96591 $13.99

Gibbs: String Quartets / Atchison Quartet

“The music is really wonderful, and the choice of specific works is brilliant, precisely because it brings to light so much about what was going on inside Gibbs at two really difficult times in his life. These are set alongside works that include an intimate gesture of friendship and gratitude to Ralph Vaughn Williams, as well as music that was published and heard by audiences in Gibbs’s lifetime.” – Nicholas Riddle (Convivium)

1CD# CVI083 $18.99

Van Bree: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 / Ultrecht String Quartet

Dutch early Romantic composer Johannes Bernardus van Bree’s elegant melodies and carefully dosed counterpoint technique give his string quartets a simple yet charming originality. In the words of a contemporary, his works are characterised “by simplicity and naturalness… by polish, clarity and freshness, a certain popularity, without triviality”. (MDG)

1CD# 6032302-2 $23.99

Mozart: Apotheosis, Vol. 3 / Alexander String Quartet [3 CDs]

Mozart’s string quintets represent “some of his most sophisticated musical thinking … wonderful music, exhilarating to hear” (from the liner notes by Eric Bromberger). With this 3-CD set, the Alexander String Quartet and Paul Yarbrough complete their Mozart compendium. (Foghorn Classics)

3CD# FCL2024 $37.99

Paganini: Music for Violin & Strings

Paganini was the first great ‘star’ of instrumental music, the precursor of the rock stars of today. In four of Paganini’s best-known compositions – the ‘Campanella’ (Bell) movement from the Violin Concerto No. 2, the Moses Fantasy, the Witches’ Dance and the Cantabile – the solo violin is here accompanied by a string quintet. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96375 $13.99

Catalan Cello Works / Laia Martin; Dmitry Yablonsky

Dmitry Yablonsky returns with this new album of Catalan works for cello and piano, accompanied by Laia Martín. The cello was a vital part of Catalan musical expression in the first half of the 20th century. The physical album includes two world premiere recordings. (Naxos)

1CD# 8579097 $19.99

Paganini: Complete Quartets for String Trio and Guitar, Vol. 1 [3 CDs]

This release is a source of pride for guitarist Alberto Mesirca as it is the culmination of a recording endeavour begun in 2016. This almost certainly represents violist Vladimir Mendlessohn final studio recording, and he is featured here as the incredible virtuoso he was. (Brilliant Classics)

3CD# BRI96872 $18.99

Abel, Hammer, Lidl: Exquisite Delight

Through the Night / United Strings of Europe

Exquisite Delight awaits the listener on Viktor Töpelmann’s new solo album with viol music by Carl Friedrich Abel, Franz Xaver Hammer und Andreas Lidl. Virtuoso Allegros, sentimental Adagios and dancing Minuets come to life in Viktor Töpelmann’s interpretation of sonatas and solo music from this last bloom of viol music in the late 18th century. (Carpe Diem)

1CD# CD-16332 $20.99

For their fourth release with BIS, the United Strings of Europe with their director Julian Azkoul present another innovative program. The ensemble’s varied, tailor-made program features counterpoint, aching dissonance and chromaticism from across a range of styles spanning nearly 500 years, from the Renaissance to the present day. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2589 $21.99

Howell: Orchestral Works / BBC Concert Orchestra

Signum Sale

Prokofiev, Beethoven: Pastoral 21

Featuring 4 works receiving their world premiere recording, Signum Classics are proud to annouce the new album ‘Dorothy Howell: Orchestral Works’ conducted by Rebecca Miller with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Until now these works have rarely been performed, and the majority of works are unpublished and only exist in manuscript form. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD763 $20.99 $16.79

Infinite Refrain / Randall Scotting; Jorge Navarro

Cooper: Oculus

The first of its kind, this duet album is a musical journey that draws back the curtain which has obscured gay love-stories for centuries. In the 17th century, Venice offered a liberal safe haven of sorts to the gay community of greater Europe. There are accounts of outed artists escaping to Venice to live and work amongst its more permissive culture. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD769 $19.99 $15.99

The album Oculus is Julie Cooper’s 2nd to be released on the Signum Classics label. It is an eye into the world of color in music, from the Italian Renaissance through to present day. Inspired by the talent of the artists recording the tracks, by paintings, dances and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD847 $20.99 $16.79

Puccini: Symphonic Suites / Welsh National Opera Orchestra

In Puccini’s anniversary year, Chief Conductor of Welsh National Opera Carlo Rizzi has created new, purely orchestral versions of some of his most well-known and beloved works. Staying pure and faithful to Puccini’s original orchestration, Tosca and other works shine through in this album of world premiere recordings. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD778 $20.99 $16.79

SIGNUM TITLES IN BRIEF

Pastoral Reflections is a contemporary exploration on what the concept of ‘Pastoral’ means to us in this time of climate crisis. It features classical string sextet alongside field recordings, electronic bass & angular beats, centered around Gabriel Prokofiev’s contemporary response to Beethoven’s 250 year old Pastoral Symphony. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD761 $20.99 $16.79

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” [2 CDs]

Mahler 2 is the second album from Philharmonia Records; following their first album – Santtu conducts Strauss. Founded in 1945; The Philharmonia Orchestra creates thrilling performances for a global audience and has premiered works by Richard Strauss; Sir Peter Maxwell Davies; Errollyn Wallen; Kaija Saariaho and many others. (Signum)

2CD# SIGCD760 $27.99# $22.39 Earthcycle / Jackie Oates; Orchestra of the Swan [2 CDs]

Following their acclaimed mix-tape series on Signum Classics, Earthcycle is the fifth album from Orchestra of the Swan and David Le Page. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons they have commissioned a new version from our Associate Artist, baroque/jazz musician and composer David Gordon which is interspersed with traditional folk songs. (Signum)

2CD# SIGCD789 $20.99 $16.79

Anne Warthmann Sings Hakim

Anne Warthmann, soprano is accompanied by Hyowon Chi, flute, Arthur Stockel, clarinet and Naji Hakim at the historic Stahlhuth-Jann Organ at St. Martin’s Church, Dudelange, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, in a program including the following world premiere recordings of Naji Hakim’s works. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD772 $20.99 $16.79

Advent Live, Vol. 3 / Choir of St. Johns Cambridge

The sublime Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge return with the third volume in their Advent series celebrating the advent season from within the Christian tradition. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD768 $20.99 $16.79

A Most Marvellous Party With Noel Coward & Friends

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Noel Coward, celebrated musicians and regular Signum artists join forces for this album of works by Noel Coward and his contemporaries. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD737 $20.99 $16.79

Sturm und Drang, Vol. 3 / The Mozartists

The repertoire dates from between 1771 and 1788, and again includes one of Haydn’s great minor-key symphonies –this time arguably the greatest of them all, the ‘Trauer’. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD759 $19.99 $15.99

Oliver Davis: Blue

This is Oliver Davis’ first album dedicated to the piano, and specifically two pianists, Dutch piano duo Beth & Flo. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD743 $19.99 $15.99

Schubert: META / Claire Huangci [3 CDs]

“Claire Huangi’s ambitious allSchubert program, aptly titled META, features four late sonatas, excerpts from Schwanengaseng with baritone Thomas E. Bauer, and the D 946 Drei Klavierstücke. This multifaceted selection that spans 3 CDs speaks to the special musical relationship she cultivated with the composer from a young age.” – The Classic Review (Berlin Classics)

3CD# 0302967BC $26.99

Bach: Transcriptions / Julian Martin; Olivier Fortin

“Bach’s music for the type of flute we now call the recorder lamentably eschews the sonata genre. Seeking to redress this situation through the art of transcription are two long-standing musical partners: recorder-player Julien Martin and harpsichordist Olivier Fortin. In so doing, they present a selection including sonatas for transverse flute, violin and organ.” – BBC Music (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA939 $20.99

Wonderland / The King’s Singers

“The six Nonsense Madrigals are the centerpiece, divided up and interspersed with other works. They are full of unexpected twists, often quite funny, but also technically difficult, and they are at their best when sung by really top-notch vocalists like those of the durable King’s Singers.” – AllMusicGuide (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD739 $19.99 $15.99

Profesion / Sean Shibe

“There are certainly contemporary guitarists who can match Sean Shibe for technical facility, but very few can match him for an ability to entrance an audience with a single stroke or strum. He has recorded Spanish music in the past in strikingly unusual ways, but this is his first album of South American works. It is splendid.” – AllMusicGuide (Pentatone)

Chopin Edition [17 CDs]

1CD# PTC5187054 $17.99

“This Edition, based on the previously released Edition of 2015, contains some marked changes: the Etudes are played by Zlata Chochieva, a recording for which she received a Gramophone Editor’s Choice. The works for piano and orchestra are brand new and played by the brilliant Ekaterina Litvintseva.” – Gramophone (Brilliant Classics)

17CD# BRI96906 $64.99

Critics’

Massenet: Songs with Orchestra

“Efforts to personalize and stylize each one of Jules Massenet’s chanson is a little gem that holds a pearl: voilà!, a shiny mini-souvenir. “Songs with Orchestra” is a blissful delight...thoughtfully demure and well-crafted: words, notes and voice climax to the sublime...one of the loveliest creations ever imagined. Well-worth a visit and a re-visit.”

– ConcertoNet (Bru Zane)

1CD# BZ2004 $20.99

Leighton: Every Living Creature – Choral Music

“Martyn Brabbins’s outstanding account of Vaughan Williams’s Ninth Symphony with the BBC SO was something special (Hyperion, 4/23), but even it must yield to Andrew Griffiths’ enterprising anthology of Kenneth Leighton choral offerings – music of uncommon grace, personable warmth, inventive flair and enthralling beauty, fervently performed and ideally recorded.”

– Gramophone (SOMM)

1CD# SOMMCD 0667 $20.99

Brahms: Double Concerto – Viotti: Violin Concerto, No. 22

“Viotti’s Violin Concerto No. 22 in A minor was a favorite of both Brahms and Viotti, and hints of Viotti’s music seem to recur in the Brahms concerto. The album ends with a warm performance by Tanja Tetzlaff of Silent Woods from Dvořák’s From the Bohemian Forest, Op. 68. It is a fine conclusion to a powerful album.” – AllMusicGuide (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1423-2 $18.99

but I like to sing… / Carolyn Sampson; Joseph Middleton

“Carolyn Sampson has shifted from an early music specialist to one of Britain’s finest recital singers. This latest album showcases her radiant soprano in classic German Lieder, recherché French chansons and 20th-century Americana. This celebration of song is infused with heartfelt joy.” – BBC Music (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2673 $21.99

Champagne! The Sound of Lumbye & His Idols

“For this recording, Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Concerto Copenhagen – Scandinavia’s leading period instruments ensemble –studied Hans Christian Lumbye’s original scores and used instruments from the era to recreate an authentic sound. “The listener is given a unique opportunity to gain insight into Else Marie Pade’s tonal language in a technically excellent recording with first-class musicians.” – DRP2 (Dacapo)

1CD# 8224750 $17.99

Choice

Sawyers: Mayflower on the Sea of Time

“There’s no doubting the jubilant unity of every participant, including the newly formed English Symphony Chorus, in the oratorio’s finale. As a champion of Sawyers’s music, Kenneth Woods conducts with all the passion, precision and devotion we might expect...” – BBC Music (Nimbus)

1CD# NI6439 $20.99

Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5

“Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony was composed to mark the 300th anniversary of Luther’s Augsburg Confession. ‘Most performances make do without that rare and curiously shaped instrument, but the Scottish Chamber Orchestra has rustled one up for this recording – the rich sonority is striking.” – BBC Music (Linn)

1CD# CKD667 $20.99

Folk Songs / Magdalena Kozena

“Magdalena Kožená’s recorded catalogue includes several albums exploring the intersection of folk and classical music. That exploration continues here, with music by Bartók, Berio, Ravel, and Montsalvatge. Kožená’s voices retains most of its youthful luster, a slender yet warm coloring.” – The Classic Review (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187075 $17.99

Parry: Scenes from Prometheus Unbound

“This a superb interpretation of Parry’s first major choral work on Shelley’s radical poem. References to Wagner and Brahms belie Parry’s own radicalism and an Englishness. The performers bring enthusiasm and telling insights to Parry’s colourful score and remind us that this work merits its accolades as one of the first significant scores of modern British music.”

– Gramophone (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5317 $23.99 $19.19

So Romantique! / Cyrille Dubois

“In this seductive anthology of arias on the Alpha Classics label, with Pierre Dumoussaud conducting the Orchestre National de Lille, Dubois gives us a few famous French-tenor showpieces—most familiarly, “Ah! mes amis,” from Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment,” with its battery of high C’s.” – The New Yorker (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA924 $20.99

Elysian / Jonathan Ostlund [2 CDs]

“We always like Östlund’s work but this one is really good, ranging from other-worldly ethereal sounds to more traditional chamber orchestral sections and lovely instrumentals. It’s almost true to say no two tracks are the same. Music is often used to take the listener to a different place, and Östlund does this better than most.”

– Congleton Chronicle (Divine Art)

2CD# DDX21242 $27.99

Mel Bonis: Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. 1

“Ths is an auspicious debut with music, performer and composer all emerging from it with their reputations enhanced. This is a generously-filled disc – given Bonis’ fairly consistent style in this music, I think it is possibly a disc best sampled and savoured in several listenings rather than straight through. A richly rewarding survey by any measure.” – MusicWeb (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0361 $20.99

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! [2 CDs]

“John Wilson’s revelatory production of this landmark musical arguably gets as close as possible to what Broadway patrons most likely heard on opening night 80 years ago, with every piece of music intact in its original orchestration. A meticulous, vibrant, stylishly sung, splendidly engineered and historically important release.” – Gramophone (Chandos)

2SACD# CHSA 5322(2) $47.99 $38.39

Janáček: Kreutzer Sonata, Intimate Letters

“The two string quartets of Leoš Janáček are major works of the 20th century chamber repertory, with many strong recordings available. This one, however, stands out. The entire program is absorbing, and the Escher String Quartet brings the proper intensity without losing accuracy. ...one of the strongest chamber recordings of 2023.”

– AllMusicGuide (BIS) 1SACD# BIS-2670 $21.99

William Baines: Pictures of Light

“At the keyboard...is Duncan Honeybourne, a musician with an innate understanding of the melodic and structural strengths of Baines’ music. William Baines is an important voice in early 20th-century British music and he has been well served by this impressive release. The ardent and noble rendering of Robin Walker’s heartfelt homage is a considerable bonus. Highly recommended.” – Musical Opinion (Divine Art)

1CD# DDA25234 $20.99

New Recommendations New from

D.A. Hagen: The Art of Song

Daron Hagen is widely acclaimed as one of the most performed American composers today. The Art of Song draws on a wide range of literary sources – from the Bible, to modern tweets. Co-commissioned and performed by members of Lyric Fest in Philadelphia, this is a world premiere recording. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559919 $19.99

Rezende de Almeida Prado: Works for Violin & Cello

Part of Naxos’ The Music of Brazil series. This album of works for cello and violin by José Antônio de Almeida Prado is performed by violinist Emmanuele Baldini (concertmaster of the Sâo Paolo Symphony Orchestra) and prize-winning cellist Rafael Cesario. Includes four world premiere recordings. Sinfonia dos orixás and the First Piano Concerto are also available. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574459 $19.99

Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 28

This 28th volume in the series features another selection of Scarlatti’s original, imaginative and colourful works. Pianist Sang Woo Kang is an active chamber musician, concerto soloist and recitalist whose Naxos album of Mozart’s fugues, rondos and fantasias received critical acclaim upon its release in December 2014. (Naxos)

1CD# 8573938 $19.99

Raff: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9

Joachim Raff’s symphonies present a synthesis of pure music and the programmatic elements of the neoGerman school. His eighth symphony, ‘Frühlingsklänge’ (‘Sounds of Spring’), was followed shortly by his ninth, Im Sommer (‘In Summer’), forming a celebration of spring and summer that are part of a set that make up the four seasons. (Naxos)

1CD# 8555499 $19.99

Two Lutes with Grace – Plectrum Lute Duos of the Late 15th Century

The plectrum lute duo was one of the most popular ensembles for professional instrumentalists in late 15th-century Western Europe. This recording presents for the first time the bulk of a surviving repertoire that can arguably be considered for the lute duo, performed on two equal plectrum lutes or with a combination of lute and gittern- a smaller member of the lute family. (Naxos)

1CD# 8573854 $19.99

Saint-Saëns: Dances & Ballet Music

This album presents a selection of Saint-Saëns’ incidental music and music from his operas. From Samson et Dalila – the only one of Saint-Saëns’ operas to remain in the repertory – we hear two memorable and adrenalin-fueled dances including the famous Bacchanale. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574463 $19.99

Portuguese Piano Trios, Vol. 3

Ives: Complete Sets for Chamber Orchestra

Ives’ Sets for Chamber Orchestra are largely based on his songs, and display a panoply of style and technique. Set 9 includes The Unanswered Question in its original form, and this recording contains world premiere recordings of new realisations and editions, as well as being the first recording of the complete edition of the Sets. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559917 $19.99

Higdon: Duo Duel & Concerto for Orchestra

This is Naxos’s fourth all-Higdon album in the American Classics series. The world premiere recording of Duo Duel for two pitched percussion instruments and orchestra is a double concerto of scintillating, high-speed virtuosity. Robert Spano conducts the Houston Symphony with percussion virtuosos Stev Stoyanov and Matthew Strauss. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559913 $19.99

Bollon: In Taros Welt (Live, version without narration)

Taro’s Wonderful World was conceived by conductor/composer Fabrice Bollon and author Julia Liebermann as an introduction to or initiation into classical music both for children and adults unfamiliar with the genre. World premiere recording. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574498 $19.99

Trio Pangea continue their exploration of Portuguese piano trios with this third volume in the series. The repertoire ranges from the late 19th century to the present day. All world premiere recordings. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574401 $19.99

Naxos

Suppé: Fantasia Symphonica, Orchestral Overtures & Preludes

This album presents a selection of Suppe; rarities and classics. Poet and Peasant and Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna are two popular examples of Suppe’s mastery. The previously unrecorded Fantasia Symphonica was rediscovered in Viennese archives by Ola Rudner who conducts the Tonkunstler-Orchester on these recordings. Includes two world premiere recordings. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574538 $19.99

Elizabeth Poston: Carols & Anthems

Tom Winpenny conducts this album of choral works by Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987) – an English composer renowned for her great sensitivity of word setting, a profound appreciation of ancient folk-song traditions, and timeless melodic charm. Performed by the Cathedral Girls Choir and Lay Clerks from St Albans Cathedral. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574576 $19.99

Walton: Cello Concerto (arr. for viola) – Molinelli: Viola Concerto ‘Lady Walton’s Garden’

Stellar violist Anna Serova pays homage to Sir William and Lady Walton, and to ‘La Mortella’ – the beautiful garden they created at their home on the island of Ischia. The album features Walton’s Cello Concerto transcribed by Serova for viola, plus three new works by Italian composer Roberto Molinelli dedicated to La Mortella; World Premiere Recordings. (Naxos)

1CD# 8573990 $19.99

Franck & Chausson: Symphonies

Conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud has consulted the autograph manuscripts of Chausson’s Symphony in B flat major in order to meticulously correct the errors found in the published score. It is coupled with Franck’s ever-popular Symphony in D minor – a pillar of the French symphonic tradition. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574536 $19.99

NAXOS IN BRIEF

Dvořák: String Quartet No. 2, Bagatelles & Rondo in G Minor

The stellar Fine Arts Quartet returns to Naxos with an album of Dvořak gems and surprises. The Second String Quartet is a fascinating example of early experimentation that would foreshadow the modernistic innovations of Schoenberg and his contemporaries. The Bagatelles are heard here in their original instrumentation featuring the harmonium. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574513 $19.99

Mélodies infinies – Fauré & Enescu: Piano Quartets

Gabriel Faure’s Piano Quartet in C minor was one of the first of its genre in France. The monumental first movement of Enescu’s First Piano Quartet contrasts with the rhythmic momentum of the last, in a work that integrates French impressionism with the unmistakable folk music characteristics of his native Romania. (Naxos)

1CD# 8551477 $19.99

Piccolo Concertos / Francesco Viola

Italian piccolo virtuoso, Francesco Viola, presents this highly personal album of concertos for his instrument by Eastern European composers. Baksa’s Grande Concerto piccolo and Viola’s arrangement for piccolo of Hida’s Oboe Concerto are both world premiere recordings. (Naxos)

1CD# 8579132 $19.99

Same River Twice – Works for Guitar

American guitarist Billy Arcila spent his childhood in Colombia and is today one of California’s foremost guitarists. This album of all world premiere recordings is the first to be made of his music, interspersed with the music of other admired composers in original versions and arrangements that feature Colombian nationalist elements, such as the bambuco and pasillo rhythms.

1CD# 8574488 $19.99

Copland: The Tender Land Suite – Creston: Saxophone Concerto – Kay: Pietà – Piston: The Incredible Flutist Suite

JoAnn Falletta conducts the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic in works by four extraordinary mid-20thcentury American composers. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559911 $19.99

Ballard: The Four Moons, Devil’s Promenade, Fantasy Aborigine No. 3, & Scenes from Indian Life

Louis Wayne Ballard was the first indigenous North American composer of art music and a highly respected authority on his culture’s musical heritage. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559923 $19.99

Krieger: Canticum Naturale, Ludus Symphonicus & Variações Elementares

Neil Thomson conducts the Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra in an album of works from Krieger’s final creative phase, considered his peak of artistic maturity. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574408 $19.99

Kodály: Háry János Suite, Summer Evening & Symphony in C Major

JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic (BPO) present one of the composer’s most popular works, the Háry János Suite, alongside Summer Evening and the Symphony in C major. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574556 $19.99

New from Vox Records

Recommended New Titles

Dvořák: Violin Concerto & Piano Concerto / Rudolf Firkušný; St. Louis SO

Rudolf Firkušný was a great advocate for Dvořák’s Piano Concerto during his lifetime. He made several recordings of the work and this classic Vox recording from 1975 is still considered one of the best versions available. Ruggiero Ricci’s account of the Violin Concerto from 1974 is also an acclaimed classic. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3035CD $18.99

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Fantasy on Polish Airs / Hamburger Symphoniker

The great American pianist Abbey Simon was an eloquent exponent of Chopin’s works, and these classic Vox recording from 1972 are a fitting testament to his artistry. Produced by the legendary Elite Recordings team of Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz who made some of the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3032CD $18.99

Tchaikovsky: Manfred & Marche slave / Maurice Abravanel; Utah SO

Tchaikovsky’s unnumbered symphony Manfred is based on a poem by Byron and charts the tempestuous journey of Manfred towards the long-sought peace of death. The rousing Marche slave is a long-established concert favourite. The much-admired Tchaikovsky recordings by the Utah Symphony Orchestra and Maurice Abravanel were originally released on Vox in 1974. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3025CD $18.99

Gershwin: Orchestral Works / St. Louis SO

These Vox recordings from 1974 capture Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in classic performances of Gershwin’s most popular orchestral works including An American in Paris, Catfish Row and Cuban Overture. Newly remastered in 192kHz / 24-bit high definition. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3019CD $18.99

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 “Polish” & Francesca da Rimini / Maurice Abravanel; Utah SO

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3 is his only symphony in a major key and displays echoes of Mendelssohn; Schumann and Schubert. The tragic and tempestuous symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini is based on scenes from Dante’s Divine Comedy. The muchadmired Tchaikovsky recordings by the Utah Symphony Orchestra and Maurice Abravanel were originally released on Vox in 1974. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3021CD $18.99

Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Stuttgart Pro Musica Orchestra

Friedrich Wührer was appointed Professor at the Vienna Academy of Music at the age of 28 but he did not confine his activities to teaching. He soon became increasingly active as a concert pianist. His concert tours led him to most countries in Europe, and earned him the reputation as one of the finest keyboard artists of his time. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3003CD $18.99

Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Leonard Slatkin’ St. Louis SO

Sergey Rachmaninov’s concertos for piano and orchestra continue to be his most successful compositions together with his second symphony. The piano concerto No. 3 belongs to the most demanding repertoire ever written for this genre. The composer himself cited it as his favorite. Abbey Simon was a pianist in the great Romantic tradition. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3014CD $18.99

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique” / Maurice Abravanel; Utah SO

Symphony No. 6 in B minor ‘Pathétique’ is the culmination of Tchaikovsky’s symphonic canon. The fantasy-overture after Shakespeare’s Hamlet is an insightful character study. These Vox recordings by the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel were originally released in 1974. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3024CD $18.99

Dvorák: Cello Concerto - Silent Woods - Rondo / St. Louis SO

Antonín Dvorak’s Cello Concerto is considered the finest of his concertos, and arguably the greatest of all such works for the cello. These Vox recordings from 1974 performed by Zara Nelsova in the Concerto, Silent Woods and the Rondo, and Ruggiero Ricci in the Romance and Mazurek, with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Susskind, are acclaimed classics. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3034CD $18.99

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 / Wilhelm Furtwängler; Berliner Philharmoniker

Beethoven seldom exceeded the beauty of finish and proportion that this B flat Symphony contains. Mendelssohn, who owned the manuscript, adored the music, and he selected it for his first program as director of the Gewandhaus Concerts in 1835. The Fourth Symphony is no more a retrogression from the Eroica than the Eighth Symphony is from the Seventh. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3002CD $18.99

Chamber Music

1923 – 100 Years of Radio / Schumann Quartett

The Schumann Quartet dedicates its latest studio production “1923” to that year in which new musical paths were sought, found, or questioned, and at the same time, the birth of radio heralded a new age for composers and the dissemination of their works. The CD program combines selected quartet music by Paul Hindemith, Alban Berg, Erwin Schulhoff, and Leoš Janácek. (Berlin Classics)

1CD# 0302968BC $21.99

Richard Flury: Chamber Music, Vol. 1: String Quartets, Nos. 1 & 4

The exploration of the music of the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) on Toccata Classics now turns to his chamber output, with this first recording of his String Quartets Nos. 1 and 4. Flury was himself a gifted violinist, and these works – written for personal pleasure and for musician friends – were composed with an intimate familiarity with the medium. (Toccata)

Philarmonica / Le Consort

Forgotten Voices

1CD# TOCC0712 $20.99

Exploration of late 17th London effervescence yields to some surprising discoveries, such as the music of a mysterious composer who published trio sonatas around 1715 under the name Mrs Philarmonica. Le Consort presents the very first recording of this highly interesting music, very likely written by a woman composer who, given the conventions of the time, made use of a pseudonym. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA1011 $20.99

Rediscovered

A CD devoted to the music of two Dutch female composers who survived the Holocaust – Henriëtte Bosmans (1895–1952) was a Dutch half-Jewish pianist and composer and a particularly fascinating figure. Fania Chapiro (1926–1994) was a Dutch half-Jewish pianist and composer who grew up in the former Dutch Indies; Three chamber music works influenced by French Impressionism and by Prokofiev. (Fineline)

1CD# FL 72416 $13.99

CHAMBER TITLES IN BRIEF

Trio Sonatas & Quartets

Clarinet Quintets / Kilian Herold; Armida Quartet

Next to the quintets of Brahms and Mozart, the clarinet quintet by Max Reger is one of the “war horses” for each clarinet player. Reger had a very prominent female composer student, Johanna Senfter, who was only discovered in the early 21st century. In a world premiere recording her Clarinet Quintet shows, what a talent and professionality she developed. (Cavi)

1CD# AVI 8553533 $19.99

A Room Of Her Own / Neave Trio

In a follow-up to its extremely successful album Her Voice, the Neave Trio on A Room of Her Own once again champions the works of female composers. The only non-French composer on the album is Ethel Smyth. Like many of her works from this era, it shows a clear nod to the Austro-German influences of her studies in Leipzig, particularly of Brahms. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20238 $22.99 $18.39

Schubert: Death and the Maiden – Beethoven: Quartet, Op. 131

The Sacconi Quartet celebrates its 21st birthday with a recording of two of the finest works in the repertoire: Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet, and one of Beethoven’s magnificent late quartets, the String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100265 $18.99

Ferguson, Bliss & Holloway: Octets & Clarinet Quintet

Following their critically acclaimed albums of Schubert, Mozart and Birchall, works for clarinet trio and, more recently, Beethoven and Berwald, the Wigmore Soloists now turn their attention to twentieth-century English chamber works which, while eschewing some of the continent’s modernist tendencies, highlighting the specific colours of each of the instruments. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2547 $21.99

Compagnia Transalpina under the direction of Andreas Böhlen highlights the colorful partnership of recorder and oboe. (Aeolus)

1SACD# AE10366 $23.99

Corelli, Bach, Handel, Telemann: Corellimania

The dynamic star trio of Mahan Esfahani, Hille Perl and Michala Petri unite to trace the Roman’s influence on the musical legacies of Bach, Händel and Telemann. (Our)

1CD# 6220682 $21.99

Fortune Infortune: A Portrait of Margaret of Austria

The present album arises from a concert devised in 2018 for a festival in Bruges celebrating notable female figures from history. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96513 $13.99

Schumann: Complete Piano Trios [2 CDs]

These works include pages of incredible lyricism and pure enchantment for which Schumann had no rivals. (Dynamic)

2CD# DYN-CDS7962.02 $18.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 & Te Deum / Bernard Haitink [2 CDs]

This recording of Bruckner “Te Deum” and his Eighth Symphony (version by Robert Haas, 1939) by conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra documents concerts performed in the Philharmonie im Gasteig in November 2010, and in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz in December 1993. (BR Klassik)

2CD# BRK900212 $19.99 $15.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 / Bernard Haitink

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra were linked by a long and intensive artistic collaboration, brought to an abrupt end by his death in October 2021. BR-Klassik now presents outstanding and as yet unreleased live recordings of concerts from the past years. This recording of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony documents concerts from February 2011. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900209 $19.99 $15.99

Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra / Benjamin Appl

Time and again, composers – wellknown and lesser-known – have arranged Franz Schubert’s piano songs for orchestra. These versions place them in a different light, and/ or attempt to make them easier to perform on a larger scale. Baritone Benjamin Appl has compiled nineteen such arrangements from the 19th and 20th centuries for this new CD. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900346 $19.99 $15.99

Pärt: Berliner Messe - Poulenc: Stabat materStravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Three great choral and orchestral works of the 20th century are gathered together in outstanding interpretations on the new album from BR-Klassik: 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 $19.99 $15.99

Hindemith: Cardillac [2 CDs]

BR-Klassik presents the live recording of a concert performance of Hindemith’s opera Cardillac from the Prinzregententheater in Munich on October 13, 2013, in memory of the great conductor Stefan Soltész. Soltész died unexpectedly on July 22, 2022 after collapsing while conducting Richard Strauss’ Die schweigsame Frau at the Munich National Theatre. (BR Klassik)

2CD# BRK900345 $29.99 $23.99

BR Klassik

Musica Viva, Vol. 42 – Klaus Ospald: Más raíz, menos criatura

Born in Munster/Westphalia in 1956, Klaus Ospald is one of the most renowned German composers of contemporary music. His works are played by internationally renowned performers and orchestras. This CD presents a live recording of a performance on November 22, 2019.

(BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900642 $19.99 $15.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, “Romantic” / Bernard Haitink

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks were linked by a long and intensive artistic collaboration. This recording presents outstanding and as yet unreleased live recordings of concerts from the past years. This recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony documents concerts from January 2012 in Munich’s Philharmonie im Gasteig.

(BR-Klassik)

1CD# BRK900213 $19.99 $15.99

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 – Liszt: Mazeppa / Zubin Mehta

The Indian conductor Zubin Mehta is closely associated with the city of Munich and the orchestras based there. This CD features recordings of concerts on February 28 and March 1, 2013 in the Philharmonie im Gasteig. The Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky wrote his Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64, the so-called “Fate Symphony”, in 1888. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900207 $19.99 $15.99

Bartók, Krenek, Toch, Weill: 1923

October 29, 1923 – a date steeped in history. In the midst of a year of political and economic crisis, the age of public radio in Germany was ushered in with the first broadcast of the Berliner Funkstunde from the attic of an office building on Potsdamer Platz. The composers assembled on this album not only profited from these developments, but also, in part, actively shaped them. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900206 $19.99 $15.99

Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 / Herbert Blomstedt [2 CDs]

For today’s musicologists, performers and concert-going audiences, Mozart’s final symphonies are still a veritable miracle. Why they were written remains a mystery, and no-one knows whether Mozart ever heard them performed during his lifetime. One thing is certain: Mozart created three individual, distinctive and unique works here, which complement each other despite their extreme diversity. (BR Klassik)

2CD# BRK900196 $23.99 $19.19

Sale

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 / Sir Simon Rattle 1CD# BRK900205 $19.99 $15.99

Verdi:

I Lombardi alla prima crociata [2 CDs]

2CD# BRK900351 $34.99 $27.99

Silvestrov: Requiem für Larissa 1CD# BRK900344 $19.99 $15.99

Mariss Jansons –Dirigenten bei der Probe, Box 2 [4 CDs]

4CD# BRK900934 $37.99 $30.39

Mocnik: Johannes-Passion 1CD# BRK900343 $19.99 $15.99

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet – Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite / Mariss Jansons 1CD# BRK900016 $19.99 $15.99

Beethoven: Egmont [2 CDs] 2CD# BRK900340 $23.99 $19.19

Herrmann:

3 Songs at the Open Window 1CD# BRK900641 $19.99 $15.99

Holst: The Planets 1CD# BRK900208 $19.99 $15.99

Mozart: Krönungsmesse (Coronation Mass), K. 317 / Howard Arman 1CD# BRK900530 $19.99 $15.99

Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1–9 / Mariss Jansons [12 CDs] 12CD# BRK900719 $85.99 $68.79

Istrian Rhapsody / Dejan Lazic 1CD# BRK900332 $19.99 $15.99

Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein – Tonfilmschlager 1CD# BRK900333 $19.99 $15.99

Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis 1CD# BRK900339 $19.99 $15.99

Le miroir de Jesus – 1928 1CD# BRK900342 $19.99 $15.99

Children’s Titles

My First Classical Music Book [Book + CD]

A delightfully colorful introduction to classical music, aimed to fire the imagination of young children aged 5–7 years. Readers are introduced to a selection of famous composers including Mozart and Beethoven, and learn about each of the musical instrument families, from woodwind to percussion. Music on the accompanying CD includes Magic Flute (Mozart), The Planets (Holst), and more (Naxos)

Book/CD# 1843791188 $21.99

Those Amazing Musical Instruments! / Genevieve Helsby

From the cello to the bassoon, the tuba to the timpani, Those Amazing Musical Instruments! takes you on an exciting musical tour! In a revised edition, including access to a brand new, exclusive website, this vibrant, colorful, comprehensive and unique book is a rich exploration of orchestral instruments. Your featured guide is conductor Marin Alsop. (Naxos)

Book# 9781781983584 $13.99

My First Piano Book / Genevieve Helsby [Book + CD]

Following the huge success of My First Classical Music Book, Genevieve Helsby and Jason Chapman return with My First Piano Book (CD included). Bursting with life and humor, this is a uniquely comprehensive introduction to the piano, designed first and foremost to inspire. This original and vibrant approach to the piano integrates listening to professionals and learning to play in a unique and approachable way. (Naxos)

Book/CD# 9781781980293 $13.99

Mi primer libro de música clasica (en espanol) / Jason Chapman, Genevieve Helsby

A wonderful introduction to classical music, now in the Spanish language, aimed to fire the imagination of young children aged 5–7 years. Readers are asked to think about the different places in which we might hear music, whether it is in a concert hall, or just on television. They are then introduced to a selection of famous composers including Mozart and Beethoven. (Naxos)

Book# 9781781984253 $21.99

My First Orchestra Book / Genevieve Helsby [Book + CD]

A delightfully colorful introduction to the orchestra, aimed to fire the imagination of children aged 4–9 years. Readers learn about the different instruments – what they look and sound like, and how they belong in different families.The included CD features 37 musical tracks. (Naxos)

Book/CD# 9781843797708 $13.99

Magic – Disney Through Time / BYU Vocal Point

From new to classic Disney songs, this new album features collaborations with Adassa (the original voice of Delores in “Encanto”), Laura Osnes, Anthem Lights, One Voice Children’s Choir, The All-American Boys Chorus, and more! Vocal Point was founded in 1991 by two students at Brigham Young University. Vocal Point is BYU’s world-renowned all-vocal ensemble. (BYU)

1CD# YCD0122MGC $17.99

New Orchestral Hits 4 Kids / Various Artists

This release is an album of eloquent contemporary music for children. New Orchestral Hits 4 Kids aims to open ears to the wonderful sounds of the orchestra while introducing whimsical, imaginative songs about friendships, forests, wet socks, dancing, space, a robot, a birthday, and a beautiful narrative about a girl on the moon. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574126 $19.99

Bach 4 Kids / Andrew Rangell

Andrew Rangell channels his inner child on Bach 4 Kids… a delightful recording of mostly short pieces scaled for a child’s attention span, but perfect for everyone. The whimsical cover was drawn by young Andy himself, who enjoyed drawing pictures long before he began studying piano at age nine. (Steinway)

1CD# STNS30111 $19.99

Armenian Songs for Children / Isabel Bayrakdarian

Lebanese-born, CanadianArmenian-American soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is as celebrated for her beauty, dynamic presence, and style as for her strikingly multidimensional voice. With this deeply personal project, she gathers a selection of haunting and poignant lullabies that draw on the memories and experiences of the Armenian people. (Avie)

1CD# AV2449 $19.99

Chopin for Children, Vol. 3 / Various Artists

This is already our third encounter with the great Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin – an encounter, in fact, that is as unusual as his music, which has delighted people around the world for over one hundred and fifty years. In Fryderyk’s day, not everybody was able to listen to his works. (Dux)

1CD# DUX1460 $21.99

Guitar/Lute

Baroque / MILOŠ Karadaglic

Miloš is undoubtedly one of the most exceptional guitarists of our time. For his first album on Sony Music, MILOŠ has chosen a collection of Baroque works. At times thrillingly virtuosic, at others deeply meditative, he gives his own spin to music by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Rameau and more. (Sony)

1CD# 19658822942 $13.98

Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle

After “Roma ‘600”, dedicated to the cultured and popular music of the Eternal City, I Bassifondi explore the music of the most famous baroque guitarist in 17th-century Europe, who brought the guitar to England and then to the court of the Sun King in France: Francesco Corbetta. This collection represents the triumph of virtuosity, refinement and harmonic experimentation in the 17th century. (Arcana)

1CD# A556 $20.99

Migot: Complete Works for Guitar [2 CDs]

Georges Migot’s (1891–1976) fourmovement Sonate pour guitare, two PreÌludes pour 2 guitares dedicated to the Argentinian Duo PomponioZaÌrate, and a substantial and tricky Sonate pour 2 guitares date to the early 1960s. These pieces have a more clearly defined and linear style, and feature a profound musical idiom, brimming with emotion. (Brilliant Classics)

2CD# BRI96848 $16.99

J.S. Bach: Three Cello Suites Transcribed for Guitar

The three Suites recorded on this CD (BWV 1007, BWV 1008 and BWV 1010) were transcribed for guitar by the performers themselves, following a practice customary for Bach and absolutely familiar to him. One should therefore recognise the full aesthetic legitimacy of the guitar transcription of these compositions, a practice, moreover, that has now been established for decades. (Stradivarius)

1CD# STR37211 $18.99

Roth: The Traveller; Earth & Sky / Ex Cathedra; Britten Sinfonia

Recorded during the 2020 lockdown, Richard Boothby explores the solo and duo Viol music of Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger. The lyra viol and its music is one of the last undiscovered gems of music, and Alfonso Ferrabosco is its greatest exponent. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD753 $19.99 $15.99

Presti: Complete Music for 2 Guitars

Ida Presti is celebrated as one of the most influential and accomplished guitarists of the 20th century. Her profound musicality, technical brilliance, and innovative interpretations continue to captivate audiences and inspire guitarists worldwide. She pushed the boundaries of what was thought possible on the instrument, leaving an indelible mark on the history of classical guitar. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96708 $13.99

Plan BE / Four Aces Guitar Quartet

The Four Aces Guitar Quartet takes you on a journey through Belgian music history and presents its own arrangements of music by some iconic composers who have put Belgium on the international map. From Josquin Desprez’s subtle polyphony to the gypsy swing of Django Reinhardt, brought to you on four classical guitars by the internationally acclaimed ensemble Four Aces Guitar Quartet. (Antartica)

1CD# AR 047 $16.99

Duarte: Orchestral & Concertante Works for Guitar

John W. Duarte was born in Sheffield, England on 2 October 1919. He started playing the ukulele, but soon moved to the guitar at the age of 15. The advent of guitar phenomenon John Williams, whom Duarte taught for 18 months before the young musician’s entry into the Royal College of Music, London, gave the composer an opportunity to expand his chamber music oeuvre. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96510 $16.99

The Mexican Harp, Vol. 1 – Concertos & Solos

With this first Toccata Next album of Mexican music for harp, the American harpist Janet Paulus pays tribute to her adoptive country and to three composer friends. The predominant style is gently Neo-Romantic, occasionally animated with echoes of Mexican folk-music. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCN0027 $20.99

Grenerin: L’Âme-Son / Bruno Helstroffer

It was in the second half of the sixteenth century that the guitar became fashionable in France: it was the instrument of the people, whereas the lute was associated with the intellectuals and the nobility. Henry Grenerin became a page (choirboy) in the Musique du Roi in 1641 and went on to invent a new way of playing the instrument. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA1007 $20.99

New Piano Recommendations Piano

Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Chopin Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3

Somm Recordings is delighted to announce the return of pianist Peter Donohoe to the label following his acclaimed complete survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas with a dazzling new recital coupling Rachmaninoff – on the 150th anniversary of his birth in 1873 – and Chopin. (Somm)

1CD# SOMMCD 0679 $20.99

Next Generation Mozart Soloists, Vol. 7

For the seventh volume in this collection devoted to Mozart by the younger generation of soloists, the award-winning Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan records the concerto K.459 with the ORF Radio Symphonieorchester in Vienna. French horn player Nicolas Ramez records one of his favourite concertos, the first of Mozart’s four horn concertos. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA1001 $20.99

Brahms: Piano Concertos / Simon Trpceski; WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln [2 CDs]

This eagerly-awaited new release sees Simon Trpceski reunite with conductor Cristian Macelaru to record Brahms Piano Concertos. Their unrivalled chemistry, paramount in Brahms’s chamberlike concertos, is on full display in these new performances which puts the two artists’ musical affinity in the spotlight. (Linn)

2CD# CKD732 $29.99

Winter Whispers: Ukrainian Piano Tales

Violina Petrychenko is very authentically committed to making Ukrainian music and culture better known. ‘Winter Whispers / Ukrainian Piano Stories’ is a musical journey to her homeland, where memories of the old traditions of Christmas caroling are preserved. Most of the pieces are recorded for the first time, which makes the release quite unique. (ARS)

1SACD# ARS38366 $23.99

Burkard Schliessmann: Live and Encores [2 CDs]

As well as exceptional performances, this recording offers phenomenal sound. The instrument used is a Fazioli F278 which Schliessmann has purchased. The recording was made ‘live’ in front of a specially invited audience and thanks to the amazing support of the Fazioli family will also be presented in concert in Venice in the near future. (Divine Art)

2SACD# DDC25755 $35.99

Szabó: Complete Solo Piano Works / József Balog

Csaba Szabó (1936–2003) composed music in almost all genres: orchestral and vocal/choralorchestral works, chamber music, songs, choral works, staged works, incidental musical for theatre and solos. From this important and varied oeuvre, this recording presents the complete works for piano solo of Csaba Szabó. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI97104 $16.99

Reflections / Inon Barnatan

V17: Martha Argerich Live, Vol. 17 / Martha Argerich; Bavarian Radio Symphony [2 CDs]

The eminent Martha Argerich is one of the most loved and admired classical pianists of all time. She quickly gained and maintained world-wide reputation for her exciting performances. This set is the 17th volume of Doremi’s special series of live performances and broadcasts featuring the artistry of the young Martha Argerich. (Doremi)

2CD# DHR-8211/2 $40.99

Beach: Piano Music / Martina Frezzotti

A wide-ranging introduction to the distinctive compositional voice of Amy Beach through her solo piano music, featuring both well-known and unfamiliar pieces. The pianist Mark Viner introduces her life and music in a detailed but approachable essay to accompany this new recording of her piano music on Piano Classics. (Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10277 $21.99

Beethoven: Piano Trios, Op. 38 & Op. 81b

For more than 30 years, Trio Parnassus has inspired audiences with their gripping virtuosity as well as their sensitive musicality. This CD now completes the cycle of recording all of Beethoven’s trios for MDG with the famous Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 81b (arranged by Nikolaus Simrock from Sextet, Op. 81b) and Piano Trio, Op. 38 (from Septet, Op. 20). (MDG-Gold)

1SACD# 9032298-6 $24.99

Inon Barnatan presents Rachmaninoff Reflections, offering some of the composer’s most cherished piano works, including his Moments musicaux, Prelude in G-Sharp Minor and Barnatan’s own arrangement of the Vocalise. Centrepiece of this project is Barnatan’s breathtaking new piano arrangement of the Symphonic Dances. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187113 $17.99

Titles

French Music for Four Hands / Clara Park; David Martin Jones

This recording celebrates a magnificent era in four hand music. After the historic contributions of Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms, the duet mantle was passed to French composers. Breaking free from more classical duet settings, these artists produced four hand masterpieces that reflected the remarkable musical innovations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC3969 $17.99

R. Schumann: Piano Works / Llyr Williams

His 15th album with Signum Classics, the Welsh pianist, Llŷr Williams, brings a profound musical intelligence to his work as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. His new album of Robert Schumann works explores a selection of works that span a substantial part of Schumann’s life, from Papillons Op. 2 all the way up to Faschingsschwank aus Wien published in 1841. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD756 $32.99 $26.39

Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2 & Rondo WoO 6

With his first two piano concertos, the young Ludwig van Beethoven presented himself in Vienna as the man of the hour and the musician of the future. This new style and momentum is brought to life from the very first note by the eleven musicians around the multi-award-winning Aris Alexander Blettenberg on their current CD. (Genuin)

1CD# GEN 23809 $20.99

Le Piano du Groupe Des Six / Stephen Schleiermacher

With Steffen Schleiermacher’s cleverly compiled anthology of piano music by the group of artists known as “Groupe des Six” we experience what unites, but above all what distinguishes these highly individual composers. (MDGScene)

1CD# 6132300-2 $23.99

PIANO TITLES IN BRIEF

Mozart: Sonatas for Piano Four Hands

In a unique collaboration, Kirill Gerstein teams up with his mentor and inspiration, the great Hungarian pianist Ferenc Rados, for an album of four-hand duets by Mozart. An icon for generations of musicians but one who has mostly avoided making recordings, this fascinating disc reveals Rados’s distinctively characterful art at its captivating best and finds both partners in a stimulating musical conversation. (Myrios)

1CD# MYR029 $19.99

Alkan: Character Pieces & Grotesqueries

The sixth volume of Mark Viner’s survey focuses not on the grand cycles which have won this series such uniformly glowing reviews, but on sketches and miniatures which demonstrate Alkan’s capacity to charm as well as astound and dazzle his listeners. All these pieces are further illuminated, as before, by his own comprehensive booklet notes. (Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10275 $21.99

Piano Music of Oscar Fernândez

Fernândez’ work can be divided into three periods, the first (1918–22) is influenced by French Impressionism, the second (1923–38) is marked by the systematic use of folklore, particularly amerindian rhythms and harmonies, rather than ‘popular’ urban melodies. Finally (1939–48) was a period of increasing introspection and the development of a more universally recognised language. (Nimbus)

1CD# NI8115 $20.99

Schumann: Kreisleriana – Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

As a winner of numerous national and international youth competitions, Robert Neumann (born 2001) was awarded with the International Classic Music Discovery Award 2017. In 2018, the Jury of the SWR (radio broadcasting corporation in Southwest Germany) chose Robert as the “SWR New Talent”. (SWR Classic)

1CD# SWR19137CD $20.99

Carl Loewe: Complete Piano Music, Volume Three

There is a considerable body of Carl Loewe’s piano music that is strikingly innovative in content, containing the germs of ideas later taken up by composers such as Wagner and Liszt. (Toccata)

Bach: 6 Concertos, Wq. 43 Transcribed for 2 Harpsichords [2 CDs]

1CD# TOCC0690 $20.99

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote this set of six keyboard concertos Wq. 43 once he had been released from the constricting service to Frederick the Great of Prussia. (Brilliant Classics)

2CD# BRI95584 $16.99

J.P.E. Hartmann: Piano Works, Vol. 5 / Thomas Trondhjem

Volume 5 of the complete piano music by the leading Danish Romantic composer Hartmann. He was born 1805 and lived nearly to be 100 years. (Danacord)

1CD# DACOCD968 $18.99

Schubert: Piano Works, Vol. 7 [2 CDs]

Among Schubert’s finest compositions from his later years are two sets of Impromptus and the Musical Moments that are included in this recording. (Nimbus)

2CD# NI6442 $20.99

Liszt: Piano Works (arr. for organ) / Diederik Blankesteijn

The organ played a relatively large part in Franz Liszt’s oeuvre, and there are dual organ and piano versions of a number of his works, but some of the pieces specifically intended for piano also translate well to the organ. This album consists of four organ transcriptions of such piano works. It begins with a wedding (Sposalizio) and ends with a funeral procession (La lugubre gondola). (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96855 $16.99

French Organ Music from the Golden Age Vol. 8: Gaspard Corrette & Jean François Dandrieu

David Ponsford is an organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and conductor, and an authority on keyboard music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The present CD is volume 8 in the series ‘French Organ Music from the Golden Age’, performed by David Ponsford on French historic organs. (Nimbus)

1CD# NI6438 $20.99

Gershwin: Concerto in F – Rhapsody in Blue

George Gershwin’s epochal Rhapsody in Blue is heard here alongside his Concerto in F, one of the most popular American works in the genre, Second Rhapsody and Variations on ‘I Got Rhythm’. These classic Vox recordings date from 1974. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3018CD $18.99

J.S. Bach: Organ Transcriptions / Wolfgang Rübsam

Over the course of more than half a century, Wolfgang Rübsam has consistently brought new insights to bear on the keyboard music of Bach. As in his fairly free transcription of the Chaconne, Rübsam has made full use of the instrument at his disposal, a magnificent Casavant instrument (1998) at the Church of St. Louis, in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96846 $13.99

Hakim Plays Hakim, Vol. 2 / Naji Hakim

This is the fifth Naji Hakim Plays Naji Hakim organ CD released by Signum Classics. It includes the following world premiere recordings of Naji Hakim’s works at the historic Stahlhuth-Jann Organ at St Martin’s Church, Dudelange. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD771 $20.99 $16.79

Organ

Axel Ruoff: Organ Music, Vol. 5

This final installment of the organ compositions of Axel Ruoff (born in Stuttgart in 1957) presents two starkly contrasted sides of his musical personality: three of them, for voice and organ, are concerned with the spiritual – two even addressing head-on the issue of death itself – and are thus solemn and hieratic, whereas the concluding work is whimsical & tongue-in-cheek. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0709 $20.99

Byrd: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music [9 CDs]

Byrd’s vocal works would have assured him a place in history as the greatest English composer of his generation. Yet he was also the outstanding composer of his time in the realm of instrumental music. This collection begins with two discs of pieces for organ, played on a trio of Dutch instruments chosen for their varied colours and sizes. (Brilliant Classics)

9CD# BRI97074 $42.99

Smyth: Der Wald – Opera in One Act / BBC Singers; BBC SO

For over 100 years the only opera by a woman to have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Der Wald is a taut, brooding drama. John Andrews conducts the BBC Singers, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and an international cast in the first ever recording of this work, using Smyth’s English version of the libretto. (Resonus)

1CD# RES10324 $18.99

Howells: Organ Music / Ardiano Falcioni

Herbert Howells (1892–1983) was a leading figure in the English Musical Renaissance, a movement that bridged the late 19th and early 20th centuries and saw composers seeking to forge a new path for English music. Many of Howells’ compositions are written in the form of a rhapsody. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96983 $16.99

V1: Organ Works, Vol. 1 / Zuzana Ferhencikova [2 CDs]

Zuzana Ferjencíková starts her complete recording of Jean Guillou’s organ works with this recording of symphonic poems. In addition to Jean Guillou’s own symphonic poems, Zuzana Ferjencíková has also recorded here all the transcriptions of works by Franz Liszt that Guillou made. His arrangement of Liszt’s “Tasso” is available as a world premiere recording. (Aeolus)

2SACD# AE11391 $34.99

Releases

Byrd: Keyboard Works

Performing on the Taylor & Boody Organ of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, the critically acclaimed organist Stephen Farr presents a rare exploration of the keyboard works of William Byrd on the organ. This historically informed instrument is made in the early English style and makes a fitting tribute in this, the composer’s 400th anniversary year.

(Resonus)

1CD# RES10326 $18.99

Bach: Organ Landscapes [2 CDs]

The large-scale Bach Organ Landscapes project featuring J.S. Bach’s entire organ oeuvre recorded on a range of instruments aims to provide an overview of organ-playing and organ-building traditions that were key to Bach’s composing. Halubek has placed Bach’s original sound at the heart of his project.

(Berlin Classics)

2CD# 0303251BC $21.99

Langlais: Organ Music, Vol. 1 [5 CDs]

Blind from the age of two, a prodigiously gifted student, Jean Langlais (1907–91) produced an immense quantity of music, although many have hardly ever been performed. Perhaps not more than half a dozen works are regularly played or recorded today, which is what makes this new complete survey of his organ music both unique and invaluable.

(Brilliant Classics)

De Araújo: Organ Music

5CD# BRI96877 $32.99

Pedro de Araujo is an important figure in Portuguese keyboard music of the late 17th century. His oeuvre consists of a total of 13 keyboard works, one of them with merely attributed authorship. The Phantasias, Obras and Tentos here fall within the stylistic sphere of the tento (Spanish: tiento), an Iberian genre characterised by contrapuntal writing and multiple contrasting sections. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI97076 $13.99

The Bruckner Symphonies (Organ Transcriptions), Vol. 8 [2 CDs]

This series marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Anton Bruckner, which falls in 2024. It’s dedicated to Bruckner’s symphonies, most of which are heard in new transcriptions for organ performed by Albrecht. This latest album in the edition features Erwin Horn’s transcription of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, performed on the organ of the Musikverein in Vienna. (Oehms)

2CD# OC 484 $25.99

Lux: Organ Works, Vol. 2

Friedrich Lux (1820–95) was one of those musicians who formed the fabric of musical life in 19th-century Germany. His large body of organ music, as good as unknown before now, brings together elements of the musical language of Bach, Mendelssohn and Schumann, in works that range from the intimate to the grandiose. This second volume brings some of his many transcriptions to the fore. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0703 $20.99

Picchi: Organ Music [2 CDs]

Luigi Picchi learned the rudiments of music from his father Faustino; a self-taught organist; and later studied with the Pavia-based teachers Giovanni Baroni and Franco Vittadini. The first phase of his musical activity saw him engaged in the concert and operatic life of the province as well as composing. (Brilliant Classics)

2CD# BRI96098 $16.99

Bach: Complete Organ Works [16 CDs]

This edition of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Bernard Foccroulle was recorded between 1982 and 1997. This complete edition also contains works attributed to Bach as well as the recording of the Chorale Fantasia Wo Gott der Herr BWV 1128 that has only been rediscovered in 2008. (Ricercar)

16CD# RIC459 $44.99

Brahms: Complete Organ Works

Russian organist Konstantin Volostnov performs Brahms’ complete organ works on the Röver organ of the Moscow Central Church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists. The instrument was built in 1898 and had suffered years of neglect but, remarkably, was one of the only Röver organs to remain completely original and intact, with a subsequent overhaul undertaken over several years. (Naxos)

1CD# 8579147 $19.99

Orchestral Transitions: Swedish Symphonic Music for the Organ [11 CDs]

Organist and musicologist Jonas Lundblad explores the rich repertoire of Late Romantic music in the borderland between the organ and the orchestral sound scape, with both arrangements and original works of Swedish music from the early 20th century.(Caprice)

11CD# CAP 21942 $17.99

Vocal Music

Vocal Title Recommendations

Jenkins: The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace / David Temple; Hertfordshire Chorus

Their third release on Signum Classics, David Temple and Hertfordshire Chorus present Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man. This is the first recording of the ensemble version of The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace This recording features celebrated mezzo soprano Kathryn Rudge as well as muezzin Osama Kiwan and cellist Jamal Aliyev. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD779 $20.99 $16.79

Berlioz: Herminie – Les Nuits d’été – Cléopâtre

For this new recording made in 2016, Swedish soprano Barbara Hendricks pays homage both to her singing teacher and mentor, the great American mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel, and to the creative genius of Hector Berlioz. If the Nuits d’été have long formed part of her repertory, the two cantatas Herminie and Cléopâtre are new. (Arte Verum)

1CD# ARV-016 $20.99

LICHT! 800 Years of German

With the present program we want to explore the history of the German Lied throughout a period spanning some 800 years, from that first light of dawn represented by the earliest music scored with modern notation – courtly love songs down to such present-day emissaries of the Lied tradition.

(Challenge)

El cant de la Sibilla & Draumkvedet / Hirundo Maris

Mystical chants between the visible and the invisible: The great ancient mystery chants of Spain and Norway. Ensemble Hirundo Maris presents the enigmatic chants of the Middle Ages, Spain’s El cant de la Sibilla and Norway’s Draumkvedet. This album evokes the mysteries of winter, blurring the boundaries to the otherworld, transporting the listener to mystical realms.(Carpe Diem)

1CD# CD-16333 $20.99

Songs of the Heart / Kate Rawls; Giovanni De Chiaro

There is nothing more pleasing to the human ear than the soothing and sweet sound of a velvety smooth soprano voice along with the gentle and soulful sound of the classical guitar. This unique recording features a collection of vocal masterpieces by Schubert, Mozart, Giuliani and several 19th century ballads songs that will gladden the heart and calm the soul. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC4007 $17.99

Silence and Music / East Carolina University Chamber Singers

The award-winning East Carolina University Chamber Singers, under the direction of James Franklin, perform a nuanced musical meditation of hopeful celebration and comfort. The album represents a journey through a period of silence; isolation gives way to the sounds of voices singing. (Gothic)

1CD# G-49340 $20.99

La Caramba / Maria Hinojosa

Enigma / Sarah Aristidou

1CD# CC 72965 $18.99

‘Enigma’ is the Greek word for ‘riddle’, ‘mystery’, ‘secret’. At the moment of entering or leaving life, there is always a sound: the cry of a newborn baby or the last sigh of a dying person giving up the ghost. Soprano Sarah Aristidou sets out in search of the original sound in this program, which opens with Andreas Tsiartas’s Lamento Turco. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA740 $20.99

Lassus: Io ti vorria contar... Transcriptions for Lute

Being the instrument of musical synthesis, the lute points the way to the development of instrumental music. In the Renaissance, lute music is divided into three groups: dance music, polyphonic vocal works in tablature form, and freer forms of music (fantasias or ricercars) often based on the same contrapuntal rules as vocal music. The recital in this CD illustrates all these different genres. (Musique en Wallonie)

1CD# MEW2305 $20.99

Schubert in English, Vol. 4 / Roderick Williams; Rowan Pierce; Christopher Glynn

Christopher Glynn continues his Schubert in English series by joining baritone Roderick Williams and soprano Rowan Pierce for songs of loneliness and companionship, nature and the seasons, faith and doubt, wandering and homecoming, caution and consolation – all in new English versions by Jeremy Sams. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD770 $19.99 $15.99

This album is dedicated to María Antonia Vallejo Fernández (1751–1787), known as La Caramba, a famous Spanish actress/singer. There is probably no comparable ensemble like Forma Antiqva, which has dedicated itself to the incomprehensibly little-known Spanish baroque music and has made rousing compositions known worldwide. (Winter & Winter)

1CD# 910289-2 $20.99

Choral Music

Mendelssohn: Choral Works

David Temple conducts the Crouch End Festival Chorus and London Mozart Players with a formidable group of soloists on this album celebrating the works of the siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel (nee Mendelssohn). Fanny’s cantata Hiob, based on the Book of Job, is the second of three cantatas composed between February and November 1831, although it remained unpublished until 1992.

(Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5318 $25.99 $20.79

Ellen Andrea Wang: Magnificat / Women’s Choral Society of University of Oslo

The Women’s Choral Society of the University of Oslo (KSS) under the direction of conductor Marit Tøndel Bodsberg Weyde has established itself over the course of many years as one of the country’s leading female choirs. On this release, the choir takes a new direction in its collaboration with two of Norway’s most trendsetting jazz musicians. (Lawo Classics)

1CD# LWC1266 $18.99

Heaven to Earth / London Voices

Heaven to Earth is a collection of tuneful, singable, sacred choral pieces by the best-selling RSCM composer Joanna Forbes L’Estrange. Joanna began her musical life as a chorister in her local parish church choir and although she became a professional soprano, singing with ensembles including The Swingles, Tenebrae and London Voices. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD790 $20.99 $16.79

Lambert: Choral Music, Sacred & Secular

The choral music of Richard Lambert, born in Bath in the English West Country in 1951, covers a wide range of expressio.. It also encompasses the timeless and the timely, with a number of contributions to the age-old tradition of Christmas music to a cantata inspired by the Covid pandemic. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0713 $20.99

CHORAL TITLES IN BRIEF

Faith, Hope & Love – Choral Music by

Fredrik Sixten

Fredrik Sixten (b. 1962) is one of the leading Swedish composers of his generation. Over the years his eclectic and heartfelt compositional style has developed, deepened and taken on surprising, new and exciting elements. On this album, selected choral works are performed with singers handpicked by conductor Ragnar Bohlin. (DB)

1CD# DBCD211 $18.99

Rutherford: I Slept and Dreamed that Life was Beauty / English CO; London Voices

In an album of world-premiere recordings, Ben Parry conducts London Voices and the English Chamber Orchestra in choral music by British composer Jonathan Rutherford. This release features Rutherford’s setting of Psalm 13 for choir and strings, in which lamentation gives way to peace; The Artist and The Master, in which he adds musical layers to Wilde’s spiritual storytelling. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100249 $18.99

Knaggs: Two Streams / Houston Chamber Choir

Cappella Records is proud to present its 32nd release: the world-première recording of Daniel Knaggs’ Two Streams, performed by the Grammy Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir, with string ensemble Kinetic and world-class soloists. Knaggs’ 2021 cantata weaves a breathtaking tapestry, an exploration of love and mercy.

(Cappella Romana)

1SACD# CR429 $21.99

American Choral Classics / Alban Voices

Rheinberger & Mendelssohn: Choral Works

A fantastic collection of American choral classics ranging from Thompson’s sublime “Alleluia” to the terrific choral arrangement of Gershwin’s “Summertime” from Porgy & Bess. Conductor Robin White’s excellent arrangement of the traditional “Shenandoah” balances the program nicely along with Copeland’s “I Bought Me a Cat”. This is a surprising and entertaining collection. (Divine Art)

1CD# DDX21106 $20.99

On their Pentatone debut, the Netherlands Radio Choir and its chief conductor Benjamin Goodson bring together choral works by Josef Rheinberger and Felix Mendelssohn, presenting some of the greatest choral compositions of the 19th century. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187039 $17.99

Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky & Lieutenant Kijé Suite

Leonard Slatkin released multiple albums on the Vox label. These classic Vox recordings of Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky (sung in English) and Lieutenant Kijé; have been praised as ‘powerful and compelling performances’. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3033CD $18.99

Choral Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor [2 CDs]

On this essential new release, sacred and secular choral works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – many of them never recorded before – are performed by the London Choral Sinfonia directed by Michael Waldron, with James Orford at the organ. (Orchid Classics)

2CD# ORC100247 $18.99

Great Music of Small Forms / Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir

The Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir presents Great Music of Small Forms, an album of works by Russian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and others. (Fuga Libera)

1CD# FUG800 $20.99

Wagner: Siegfried [3 CDs]

“Individual elements of this Siegfried live up to the high standards set by the previous instalments of the BRSO/Rattle concert Ring cycle. There is no shortage of volume and high voltage to Simon O’Neill’s account of the title-role, first and foremost in the brave and free top of his voice on display in the Forging Song. He holds nothing back.”

– Gramophone (BR Klassik)

3CD# BRK900211 $45.99 $36.79

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Rossini’s masterpiece Il barbiere di Siviglia is a fast-paced, thrilling opera featuring a lot of popular arias. Staged by Herbert Fritsch as a colourful, turbulent, diversely choreographed piece it is extraordinary musical theater: “A feast for the ears against a colourful backdrop.”

DLF Kultur (C Major)

1BR# 765404 $45.99

2DVD# 765308 $51.99

Cimarosa: L’italiana in Londra

L’Italiana in Londra was Domenico Cimarosa’s first international triumph, thrilling audiences all over Europe after its premiere in 1778. It later became eclipsed by the even bigger success of ‘Il matrimonio segreto’ however, and has become a rarity on stage today. (Naxos)

1DVD# 2110739 $29.99

Rameau: Platée [DVD or Blu-ray]

Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Platée is a masterpiece of the French operatic repertoire. This classic production from the Opéra de Paris by Marc Minkowski and Laurent Pelly returns to the stage with an entirely new cast, featuring Julie Fuchs, Mathias Vidal, Jean Teitgen and Lawrence Brownlee. (BelAir)

1BR# BAC524 $29.99

1DVD# BAC224 $29.99

Lully: Atys [3 CDs]

This is Atys, the King’s Opera, Lully’s masterpiece, premièred in 1676 before the court. A legendary work in the rediscovery of GrandSiècle operas, Atys is a paragon of emerging lyric art: it places love at the centre of the plot, and its hero –for the first time in Lully’s work – dies on stage, provoking a sumptuous lamentation that could wring tears from the most hardened heart. (CDV)

3CD# CVS126 $39.99

Opera

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice [DVD]

British mezzo-soprano, Dame Janet Baker, chose to retire from the operatic stage singing the title role in Sir Peter Hall’s acclaimed production of Orfeo ed Euridice This 1982 recording from Glyndebourne, where Dame Janet appropriately began her professional career, proved a suitable crowning glory to the career of one of the great singing actresses of our age. (Opus Arte)

1DVD# OA 1372D $21.99

Ukrainian InterMezzo / Luhansk SO; Ivan Ostapovych

Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Zoryana

Kushpler was an ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera from 2007 to 2020 and performs regularly on the major international stages and festivals as both an opera and Lied singer. Kushpler pays special attention to music from and around her home country. (Gramola)

1CD# GRAM99302 $24.99

Cimarosa: Le astuzie femminili [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Styled somewhere between Mozart and Rossini, Cimarosa’s witty and tender score includes deliciously comical moments such as Filandro’s outlandish Italian-German imitation of a Magyar officer. The spirited performance and lively pace of this opera buffa accounted for its acclaimed reception at the 2022 Reate Festival. (Dynamic)

1Blu-ray# DYN-57989 $32.99

2DVD# DYN-37989 $32.99

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

Thomas Hengelbrock is an artist who questions convictions with passion. Here he presents the original version of Cavalleria rusticana intended by the composer with occasional higher keys and restored cuts. The choral voices intertwine with great virtuosity. (Prospero)

1CD# PROSP0088 $23.99

Corigliano: The Lord of Cries [2 CDs]

Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Gil Rose present the world premiere recording of The Lord of Cries, a breathtaking opera by John Corigliano and Mark Adamo. Telling the story of Euripides’s The Bacchae with the characters of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the piece explores the power of sexual desire and humans’ need to blame and attack others for what they can neither resist nor accept in themselves. (Pentatone)

2SACD# PTC5187008 $36.99

Titles

La Clemenza di Tito [2 CDs]

In the vast theatrical production of Antonio Caldara, La Clemenza di Tito stands out, a stylistically limpid and essential work of the composer’s maturity, constructed on the carefully considered political and sentimental plot of the poetic text by Pietro Metastasio. This was the first musical version of the famous play, which later would be put to music by numerous composers. (Bongiovanni)

2CD# GB2360/61-3 $18.99

Donizetti: La favorite [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Drawing on traditions established by Rossini and Meyerbeer, La favorite is noted for Donizetti’s innovative use of the orchestra and for some of his most renowned and enthralling arias. This acclaimed production opened the 2022 Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo, and is performed with its original French libretto.

(Dynamic)

1Blu-ray# DYN-57992 $32.99

2DVD# DYN-37992 $32.99

Verdi: Ernani [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Based on a play by Victor Hugo, Verdi’s Ernani was an immediate success, and as his most popular and frequently performed opera it became a cornerstone of his burgeoning reputation in the mid1800s. Contemporary critics remarked that ‘coming out of the theatre, people were already singing [those] catchy tunes … Few scores have made a stronger, more powerful impression.’ (Dynamic)

1Blu-ray# DYN-57972 $29.99

1DVD# DYN-37972 $29.99

Gluck: Arie d’opera

This collection of arias from the operas Il Tigrane, Poro, La Sofonisba, L’Ippolito is a testimony of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera activity from the year 1743 to 1745. At the age of 30, yet already successful composer, Gluck wrote his operas for the most important events in the cities of Crema, Turin and Milan, almost without a break.

(Tactus)

1CD# TC710703 $18.99

Prokofiev: Cinderella [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Marianela Nunez and Vadim Muntagirov star as Cinderella and The Prince in Frederick Ashton’s timeless reworking of Charles Perrault’s famous ragsto-riches story, showcasing the choreographer’s deft musicality and the beauty of Prokofiev’s transcendent score.

(Opus Arte)

1Blu-ray# OABD7316D $42.99

1DVD# OA1378D $32.99

Ho: Chinatown [2 CDs]

Alice Ping Yee Ho, City Opera

Vancouver, and Leaf Music are proud to present Chinatown, a sweeping opera that tells the collective story of thousands of Chinese immigrants who left their homeland between the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries in search of a better life for them and their families. (Leaf Music)

2CD# LM281 $22.99

Donizetti: Don Pasquale [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this exhilarating production of Donizetti’s comedy of domestic drama across two generations. Don Pasquale is the witty story of a middle-aged man whose supposed young wife runs rings around him. Damiano Michieletto’s production shows how contemporary the characters still are and how immediate and touching the story remains.

(Opus Arte)

1Blu-ray# OABD7274D $42.99

1DVD# OA1315D $32.99

Gounod: Roméo et Juliette [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Puccini: Tosca [2 CDs]

The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and conductor Carlo Montanaro present a powerful interpretation of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, together with a cast of soloists including Melody Moore (Tosca), Stefan Pop (Cavaradossi) and Lester Lynch (Scarpia). Tosca has been an audience favourite from the onset. (Pentatone)

2SACD# PTC5187055 $32.99

Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story of all time. In Charles Gounod’s operatic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. “Saimir Pirgu and Aida Garifullina mesmerize as the tragic lovers.“ – Euronews (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 764204 $45.99

2DVD# 764108 $51.99

Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream [DVD]

Glyndebourne’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is pure magic. In Peter Hall’s remarkable staging, the very wood comes alive as logs and trees move and rustle, creating ambiguous silhouettes in the dark mysterious woodland, lit only by designer John Bury’s wonderful rising sun and moon. (Opus Arte)

1DVD# OA 1373D $24.99

Sacred Music

Recommended New Releases

Sacred Music / Collegium Vocale Gent [11 CDs]

Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent have made a lasting impression on the Bach discography with their many recordings devoted to the Kantor. They have also explored other sacred repertoires by Beethoven, Haydn, Dvořák and Bruckner, to which they have brought all their excellence and sensitivity. Here they are together for the first time in a boxed set of 11 CDs. (Phi)

11CD# LPH042 $53.99

A German Passion – 17th Cent. Music for the Time of Lent and Easter

The Hanseatic wealth of North Germany in the 17th century is reflected in its magnificent cathedrals, and the enormous grandeur of its church music was composed to fill the rich acoustics of these spaces. This program presents a wide range of Easter music that displays the wealth of inventiveness in this period. (Naxos)

1CD# 8551484 $19.99

Bach & McMillan: Motets & Sacred Songs

Tenebrae bring their trademark passion and precision to this live performance of music by J. S. Bach and Sir James MacMillan, to be recorded live at Snape Maltings in May 2023. Renowned for their technical difficulty, Bach’s motets are pillars of the choral repertoire Here, Tenebrae performs the three most wellknown of the set, culminating in the joyful Singet dem Herrn. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD773 $19.99 $15.99

Roger Norrington Conducts Sacred Music

[4 CDs]

Sir Roger Norrington has been chief conductor of the former Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (today the SWR Symphonieorchester) for thirteen years. The present re-issue brings together in a boxed set three of most the important works of Sacred Music from the 19th century: Berlioz’ Requiem, Brahms’ A German Requiem and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. (SWR Classic)

4CD# SWR19532CD $37.99

Vidi Speciosam – Sacred Choral Music

Soprano Mary Bevan writes: “In 1975, the original Bevan Family Choir released their debut album, featuring a program of sacred choral works, Welsh folk songs, and piano music. To honour David (brother) and the influence he had over us all as musicians, this disc consists of music that was introduced to us by him during his years at the Holy Redeemer Church and that have since become beloved by us as a choir.”

(Signum)

1CD# SIGCD746 $19.99 $15.99

Striggio: Mass in 40 Parts / I Fagiolini

I Fagiolini’s re-discovery and recording of Striggio’s long-lost Mass in 40/60 Parts was ground-breaking when it was released in 2011. The premiere recording won awards around the world including the Gramophone Early Music Award and a Diapason d’Or de l’Année in France and remains a trailblazing account of this Renaissance epic.

(Coro)

1CD# COR16199 $21.99

Chesnokov: Sacred Choral Music

Casali: Sacred Music from Eighteenth-Century Rome

The history of music-making in Rome tends to focus on Renaissance polyphony, with an occasional nod to the Baroque thereafter. But thanks to composers like Giovanni Battista Casali (1715–92), choral music continued to flourish in Roman churches and other religious establishments in the eighteenth century, too, until Napoleon’s occupation broke many of its traditions.

(Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0429 $20.99

Penderecki: Sacred Choral Works

The calendar year 2023 marked the 90th birthday of Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020), one of the most prominent 21st Century Polish composers. Sacred themes and texts surround the creative work of Penderecki, including many of his large-scale works. This album consists the majority of his impressive sacred a cappella choral works which are mainly written in Latin. (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1435-2 $18.99

Apocalypse – Choral Music by David Lancaster

Conductor Paul Gameson directs Ex Corde Vocal Ensemble in this album of music by composer David Lancaster. The compositions on this recording belong together; whilst they can each stand alone, they are linked musically, historically and geographically.

(Resonus)

1CD# RES10323 $18.99

Pavel Chesnokov studied with Taneyev, Ippolitov-Ivanov and Conus in Moscow and was an admired choral director in the city. He wrote more than 500 choral works, the majority of them sacred. His contribution to music for the Divine Liturgy was immense and he wrote two settings of the All-Night Vigil, the second of which is heard here, rich in chant melodies, and full of grandeur. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574496 $19.99

Early Music

Brandt: German Songs of the Renaissance

With this CD, we present a composer who is almost completely unknown. An astonishing admission, because his work is well documented in Georg Forster’s songbooks and his compositions have also been published in print. Georg Forster himself held vom Brandt in high esteem, so much so that he dedicated the third volume of his “Teutschen Liedlein” to him. (Haenssler Classic)

Cavalli: Il Xerse [2 CDs]

1CD# HC22018 $20.99

Early music specialist Federico Maria Sardelli conducts his Modo Antiquo ensemble in this live performance of Cavalli’s Il Xerse – a highly innovative dramma per musica premiered in 1655. The cast includes the countertenor Carlo Vistoli and soprano Ekaterina Protsenko. (Naxos)

2CD# 8660536-37 $29.99

Josquin des Prez: I. Motets & Chansons

Josquin des Prez: the name evokes beautiful, brilliant, even magical music—but more than five centuries since he composed his last note, we are still discovering how to hear him. In this album, originally conceived to mark the composer’s quincentenary in 2021, Cut Circle strives to treat Josquin not as a sleepy relic of the distant past but as a stylish, sensitive, playful, ecstatic composer. (Musique En Wallonie)

1CD# MEW2307 $20.99

A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry’s Court

At the end of the fourteenth century, musical worlds collided in England as Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos spent Christmas at King Henry IV’s royal court. For the first and only time, florid chant, polyphony, royal ceremonial, and imperial acclamations from both kingdoms and rites echoed antiphonally in London’s Eltham Palace. (Cappella Romana)

1SACD# CR427 $21.99

EARLY MUSIC IN BRIEF

On Byrd’s Wings:

William Byrd and his Circle

The heyday of English consort music coincides with the exciting change in style from musical Renaissance to early Baroque between 1580 and 1630. William Byrd and his successors played a decisive role in shaping it with sacred and secular songs, fantasies and dances. This production on the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death shows how diverse and colourful the repertoire of consort music is. (Audite)

1CD# ADT97818 $22.99

Las Huelgas Codex, Vol. 1 [2 CDs]

One of the most important sources to be copied in the 14th century, the Codex of Las Huelgas is an anthology of chants from the 13th century that are prime examples of the Ars Antiqua. It includes many original pieces, as well as some that can be found elsewhere in various Spanish sources, and others that originally came from the Notre-Dame school. (Brilliant Classics)

Aichinger: Virginalia, 1607

2CD# BRI96619 $16.99

The Virginalia consist of twenty fivepart pieces. The introductory one, Virgo, Dei mater pura, is followed by the pieces of the Joyful Mysteries (from the second to the sixth), then –from the seventh to the eleventh – by those of the Sorrowful Mysteries, and subsequently – from the twelfth to the sixteenth – by those of the Glorious Mysteries. (Tactus)

1CD# TC560101 $18.99

Philippus de Monte: Madrigali spirituali

Byrd, Gibbons & Tallis: Various Keyboard Works

The work of Philippus de Monte, a renowned composer of the 16th century and master of the imperial chapel of the Habsburgs, includes over 800 Italian madrigals, French songs, approximately 40 masses, and 250 motets. This present recording is dedicated to the spiritual madrigal, a unique blend of secular and sacred music that Monte helped popularize. (Passacaille)

1CD# PAS1143 $22.99

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. (Oehms)

1CD# OC 1727 $19.99

Music from Armenia for Cello and Piano

Cellist Heather Tuach and pianist Patil Harboyan present a recording of tuneful folk-inspired works by Gomidas, Stepanian, Babajanian and Arutiunian. (Divine Art)

1CD# DDA25075 $19.99

Dowland & Britten: Melancholy

Pavans and galliards by the Elizabethan master of melancholy, complemented by a new recording of Benjamin Britten’s magnificent Nocturnal. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI97013 $16.99

Procesional de Sixena / Capalla de Ministrers; Carles Magraner

Processional by the nuns of the holy, sovereign and illustrious military order of Saint John of Jerusalem (14th –15th centuries). Music and liturgy in a noble convent: The Royal Convent of Sijena. (Capella De Minstrers)

1CD# CDM2356 $20.99

Recommended Baroque Titles

An English Concert / Matthias Hofs; Matthias Janz

Matthias Hofs (trumpet) and Matthias Janz (organ) present a program of works by English masters from the Renaissance to the late Baroque. The instrumental combination of trumpet and organ let this repertoire resound in festive splendor. The musical performance is historically informed and played on modern instruments. (Berlin Classics)

1CD# 0303105BC $21.99

Corradini: Canzonas and Sonatas / Ensemble Il Narvalo

Works attributable with certainty to Nicolò Corradini (1585–1646) – likely from Cremona as opposed to Bergamo or Rome as erroneously suggested in the past – are limited to a few printed editions, among them the Primo libro de Canzoni francesi a 4 e alcune suonate (printed by Gardano in Venice in 1624). (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96191 $13.99

Handel for Trumpet / Jonathan Freeman-Attwood; Anna Szalucka

The program here is divided, relatively straightforwardly, between concertos and arias and duets (from nine different operas and oratorios), with the brief excursion of an abridged keyboard work from one of the eight ‘Great Suites’. Once again, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood teams up with arranger Timothy Jones. A welcome addition to the trumpet repertoire! (Linn)

1CD# CKD736 $20.99

B-A-C-H “Hommage à ...” / Jean-Aurel Dawidiuk

The German radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the German Music Council, and Genuin once again jointly present the debut CD of a promising young musician: organist Aurel Dawidiuk is the winner of the 2022 German Music Competition in the organ category. His stellar career, however, goes far beyond that, as Dawidiuk is also celebrating his first international successes as a pianist and conductor.

(Genuin)

1CD# GEN 23824 $20.99

Handel: Un’alma innamorata / Francesca Aspromonte

Soprano Francesca Aspromonte and violinist Boris Begelman present an all-Handel program exploring the vicissitudes of love, together with Arsenale Sonoro. The program consists of several worldly cantatas with violino concertante – including the famous Mi palpita il cor and a world premiere recording of S’un dì m’appaga la mia crudele. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187083 $17.99

Caldara: Gloria / Intendi Voci Ensemble

A tribute to Italian Baroque, Antonio Caldara and his Gloria a 8 voci, transcribed, performed and recorded for the first time ever, a masterpiece of pompous Venetian sacredness. Two centuries later, the Bolognese composer gives a perfect example of rewriting together medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. (Urania) 1CD# LDV14107 $21.99

Credo / Anna Korondi; Zvi Emanuel-Marial

“Credo – a profession of faith. belief, confidence and trust in a time that is challenging for all of us. Faith in the power of music, in art and in the ability to rise up and persevere. These duet recordings were created with these thoughts in mind, making their way through Handel’s opera and oratorio duets, right up to the final creative phase of his life.” – Anna Korondi and Zvi Emanuel-Marial (Haenssler Classic) 1CD# HC22071 $20.99

Bach: 6 Sonatas, BWV 1014–1019 [2 CDs]

In these new recordings, some of the greatest exponents of Baroque music in the Nordic countries, violinist SirkkaLiisa Kaakinen-Pilch and keyboardist Tuija Hakkila join forces. Tuija Hakkila plays copy of a Gottfried Silbermann fortepiano 1747 by Andrea Restelli –J. S. Bach played one of his fortepianos in 1747 in Potsdam for Frederick the Great and his court musicians. (Ondine) 2CD# ODE 1446-2D $26.99

J.S. Bach: Alio modo / Amaya Fernández Pozuelo

Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 3 & 4 / Sonia Wieder-Atherton

As Bach suggests in his Musical Offering, there is only one road: quaerendo invenietis, seeking you will find; this is what Anaya Fernandez Pozuelo has tried to accomplish in this new recording project dedicated to the genius from Eisenach. The anthological choice of this CD stems from the need to provide a significant overview of this interpretative philosophy. (Stradivarius) 1CD# STR37279 $18.99

“For me, whenever I play the Bach suites, all of a sudden I find myself visualising Giacometti’s hands incessantly moulding the earthen clay until a face appears. Getting to grips with the Bach suites is very closely related to that sense. You have to dig deeply into the string to give birth to the phrase, to make sure it breathes correctly.” – Sonia Wieder-Atherton (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA1009 $20.99

Era

Bach: Weihnachten / Musica Fiorita [5 CDs]

In the Baroque period, Leipzig’s Thomaskirche was the most important venue for Protestant church music in Germany. Generations of excellent musicians who were highly esteemed in their day have performed here. Apart from the great Johann Sebastian Bach, most of them are now forgotten and known only to outspoken enthusiasts, such as Tobias Michael, Sebastian Knüpfer, or Johann Kuhnau. (Christophorus)

5CD# CHR77475 $34.99

Total Eclipse: Handel at Home, Vol. 2

The London Handel Players present here “Handel at Home Vol 2”. A second selection of popular operatic arias either in contemporary settings or their own arrangements inspired by the original luscious scoring. (Somm)

1CD# SOMMCD 0676 $20.99

J.S. Bach: Concertos for Recorder / Erik Bosgraaf

A high-grade LP transfer for a superbly engineered album of Bach at his most life-enhancing. JS Bach may not have composed any concertos specifically for recorder – none have survived, at any rate – but he scored for the instrument elsewhere in his output, most unforgettably so in his earliest surviving cantata, the ‘Actus tragicus’. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI90012 $37.99

Leclair: Scylla et Glaucus [2 CDs]

Jean-Marie Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus provides an excellent opportunity for György Vashegyi, a luxury cast and music scholars at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles to revisit the French Baroque operatic canon and emerge with a fresh new take on this established work, the violin virtuoso and composer’s single offering for the Paris Opéra. (Glossa)

2CD# GCD924015 $32.99

BAROQUE TITLES IN BRIEF

Bach: Viola da Gamba Sonatas, BWV 1027, 1028 & 1029

Thomas Goetschel and Yvonne Ritter have been making music together for many years and share a great passion for early music. When they work together on works, an exact historically informed reading is the basis for lively and modern interpretations. Both play chamber and orchestral music from the Renaissance to the Classical period in various ensembles. (Tyxart)

1CD# TXA23181 $20.99

Suites pour luth / Andre Henrich

The Pièces de luth, published in 1682 and 1702 under the name of Jacque Bittner, are certainly among the better-known prints with music for the 11-course lute in the Germanspeaking world in the period between Esaias Reusner and Silvius Leopold Weiss, but this music has rarely been recorded or heard in concert. (Aeolus)

1SACD# AE10376 $23.99

J.S. Bach: Inner Spaces / Serra Tavsanki

The album Inner Spaces is the third album of the Istanbul-born pianist Serra Tavsanli. With great certainty one can claim that it is her most personal album. With the works by Johann Sebastian Bach recorded here, she not only presents a masterful interpretation on a modern grand piano, but also connects the music with her own history and origins. (Solo Musica)

1CD# SM434 $20.99

Muffat: Missa In Labore Requies

Bach: The First Cantata Year, Vol. 1 [2 CDs]

Muffat was a true European: he studied music in Paris with Lully, was an organist in Alsace, and had positions in Vienna, Prague, and Salzburg. The music is written for twenty-four different voices and has to be distributed through the space by five choirs, along with impressive effects from the trumpets and percussion. The Royal Chapel allows this “immense” music to be set in space as it deserves. (CDV)

1CD# CVS106 $20.99

The Gaechinger Cantorey comprises the instrumentalists and up to four vocalists per voice, including the soloists, all specialists in their field, as Bach himself wished it. (Haenssler Classic)

2CD# HC23025 $32.99

Gregor Joseph Werner: Masses & Motets, Vol. 3 / La Festa Musicale

An impressive continuation of the documentation of Gregor Joseph Werner’s work, which shows Haydn’s predecessor at the Esterházy court as a pioneer of further musical development. (Audite)

1CD# ADT97819 $22.99

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. 1 / Alexandra Sostmann [2 CDs]

After the big success of her album “Grenzgänge”, pianist Alexandra Sostmann has now done extensive research and has recorded the first volume of Bach’s Well Temperied Clavier. (Prospero)

2CD# PROSP0075 $33.99

Bonporti: Sonatas, Op. 6 for 2 Violins & B.C. / Labirinti Armonici

Volume 4 in a critically acclaimed survey of Bonporti’s music reaches Op. 6, perhaps the most overlooked treasure in the output of the ‘gentleman from Trento’. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96876 $13.99

Classical

New Recommended Titles

Beethoven, Vol. 3: Sonatas / Daniel Heide

“In each volume of my complete recording of the piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven, I have clearly chosen the order of pieces with autobiographical criteria in mind. Over the past 15 years, my work as a pianist has increasingly migrated toward music-making in partnership with others.” – Daniel Heide (Cavi)

1CD# AVI 8553540 $19.99

Mozart: Concertos for Violin Nos. 3-5 / Benjamin Schmid

The Salzburg violinist Benjamin Schmid’s preoccupation with the violin works of W.A. Mozart has now lasted for more than four decades, was initially influenced by the then Mozarteum professors Sándor Végh and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and received numerous awards as his style of interpretation became increasingly personalised. (Gramola)

1CD# GRAM99307 $24.99

Mozart: Piano Concertos, K. 242, 365 - Concerto for Violin and Piano Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) continues an acclaimed project to record Mozart’s complete works for keyboard and orchestra, with this eleventh volume of the series. Renowned pianists Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang join Laurence Cummings and AAM to present Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 7 and 10, the former of which is recorded here in Mozart’s own arrangement for two pianos. (AAM)

1CD# AAM043 $26.99

Boccherini: String Quintets / Karski Quartet

Raphaël Feye and the Karski Quartet have collaborated on an exhilarating new album, paying a tribute to Luigi Boccherini’s string quintets. These selected quintets showcase the composers exceptional ability to craft melodies that are both elegant and emotionally resonant while maintaining a graceful interplay between the instruments. (EPR)

1CD# EPRC 0057 $18.99

Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 74 & 130 / Chiaroscuro Quartet

After the six Op. 18 quartets, the much-acclaimed Chiaroscuro Quartet now turns to two masterpieces from Beethoven’s middle and late periods. String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74, nicknamed ‘Harp’ because of the abundant pizzicati in its first movement, comes across as a genial work that has remained one of the composer’s best-loved quartets. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2668 $21.99

Haydn: 48 Piano Sonatas / Daniel-Ben Pienaar [8 CDs]

Daniel-Ben Pienaar recorded this inspired eight-CD set of Haydn’s Piano Sonatas over a four-month period. Daniel-Ben’s choice of Haydn’s 48 Piano Sonatas is based on his own meticulous research. The cycle comprises authenticated works plus earlier compositions presumed by scholars to be penned by Haydn. (Avie) 8CD# AV2578 $69.99

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 14

A new, great project by Challenge Classics and Jan Willem de Vriend. A new, inspiring collaboration with a first-rate pianist, Dejan Lazic, and one of European best orchestras, the Bergen Philharmonic. This is the first of three CDs devoted to Mozart’s Piano Concertos. The project aims to display Mozart’s different styles and technique. All Cadenzas and Lead-Ins are composed by Dejan Lazic himself. (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72945 $18.99

Godecharle: Sei quartetti per harpa, violino, viola e basso, Op. IV

In these harp quartets, recorded here for the first time, Société Lunaire explores a particularly fascinating sound world; their energetic allegros as well as melancholy and galant movements enrich the chamber music repertoire of the second half of the 18th century in a most elegant and charming manner. (Ramee)

1CD# RAM2207 $20.99

Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. 16

C.P.E. Bach: Works for Keyboard & Violin

The LSQ celebrates Haydn’s ideas with wit and charm as well as brilliance in the expansive solo passages which revive the hype of 1790s Vienna and London. This is Haydn at the height of his creative powers and a quartet to the highest performance standards. The natural, unobtrusive recording technique elevates these Classical masterpieces to their rightful pedestal. (MDG-Gold)

1CD# 3072275-2 $23.99

Leila Schayegh and Jörg Halubek, two first-class interpreters, have embarked here upon a voyage of discovery through C. P. E. Bach’s works for violin and keyboard instruments. The Swiss baroque violinist is distinguished by her blossoming, singing tone of a great and powerful radiance, and her technique seems boundless. (Glossa)

1CD# GCDC80035 $12.99

Era

Beethoven: Overtures & Incidental Music

The Minnesota Orchestra and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski acclaimed VoxBox set of Beethoven’s overtures and incidental music makes a welcome return to the catalogue. Produced by the legendary Elite Recordings team of Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz, and newly remastered from the original analogue tapes in high-definition. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3026CD $18.99

C.P.E. Bach: The Hamburg Symphonies Wq 182 / Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century

The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century continues true to its original guiding spirit, with a new recording of the six Hamburg Symphonies, Wq. 182 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The Orchestra – here with Alexander Janiczek as leader –responds with evident pleasure to Bach’s rich harmonies, bold dynamics and flowing melodies and with much appetite for his virtuosic instrumental writing. (Glossa)

1CD# GCD921134 $22.99

Viotti: Sinfonie Concertanti 1 & 2 – Concerto per Violino 2

Already during his lifetime Viotti was regarded as one of the most brilliant violin virtuosos, and his violin concertos also enjoyed special renown. As a composer Viotti brings in the schemes of the Italian School but also weaves in romantic motifs far ahaead of their times. (Haenssler Classic)

1CD# HC23062 $20.99

Mozart: Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 / Handel & Haydn Society

Mozart’s Violin Concertos need little introduction and are some of his most well-known and best-loved works. Despite being written when the composer was just 19 years old, they feature Mozart at his elegant, witty and beguilingly changeable best. Handel and Haydn Society bring Mozart’s musical magic to life in these live recordings from Boston’s glorious Symphony Hall. (Coro)

1CD# COR16200 $21.99

CLASSICAL ERA IN BRIEF

Beethoven Symphonies, Vol. 4

Mozart Y Mambo – La Bella Cubana / Sarah Willis

With this album – subtitled La Bella Cubana – the ‘Mozart y Mambo’ trilogy is complete. After two critically acclaimed albums, three documentary films, two international tours and fundraising to help support classical musicians in Cuba, Sarah Willis concludes this adventure by recording Mozart’s Concerto No. 4 with its famous final Rondo. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA937 $20.99

C.P.E. Bach: Fantasias / Aapo Häkkinen

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was widely known for his passionate, incomparable improvisations on the clavichord, most characteristically in the form of free fantasia. His compositions were unique in style, full of contrasts, and universally admired by several generations; the Vienna Classicists, even Beethoven and Schubert, considered him their musical father. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96567 $13.99

Fantaisies champetres – Arcadian Concerts

Musettes, hurdy-gurdies, and flutes formed the dream countryside of Rococo-style salons, that of Watteau’s painting Concert Champêtre (1727), when Naudot’s Fantaisies were enjoying their hour of glory. The fashion for “pastoralism” was in full swing, and professional musicians as well as great amateurs vied with each other in “pastoral” concertos. (CDV)

1CD# CVS084 $20.99

Brescianello: Vol. 2 – Unlocked

This album features the second half of Brescianello’s Opus 1. Solo concertos for violin alternate with Sinphonias for strings and continuo; both forms illustrate Brescianello’s talent for fusing virtuosity with the sweetest of melodies. Also included on the album is an orchestral suite in A major that finishes with a rousing Giga. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD767 $19.99 $15.99

SOMM Recordings is happy to present the fourth release in the planned First Recordings of the complete Beethoven Symphonies in the legendary edition for piano duet by Xaver Scharwenka. (Somm)

1CD# SOMMCD 0677 $20.99

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23

Following a fruitful first collaboration, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy and Jonathan Cohen return this time with Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 23. (Analekta)

1CD# AN29026 $20.99

Beethoven: Diabelli Variations / George Lepauw

Composed late in the composer’s life, Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations are considered to be amongst the greatest masterpieces ever written for keyboard. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100266 $18.99

Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93, 94, 95

Fischer and his Danish forces presents these works in the most exciting and colourful way possible, with a dynamic and powerfully passionate style of playing unique to this orchestra. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574516 $19.99

Romantic Era Recommendations Romantic

Antonín Dvorák – Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra

“I sense a deep humanity in Dvorák’s music. He was a great master of orchestration, and he composed unusually beautiful melodies and harmonies. But at the forefront he always presents honesty and generosity.” – Mikhail Pochekin (Haenssler Classic)”

1CD# HC23057 $20.99

Brahms: Orchestral & Vocal Works

The Brahms vocal compositions (for their quality and abundance – over 400 of them) made Brahms a “worthy heir to Beethoven” in Germany, throughout Europe. This album compiles some of the most important vocal & orchestral works that best define the German composer. (IBS Classical)

1CD# IBS-132023 $17.99

Schubert: Impromptus D. 899 / Ingrid Marsoner

Ingrid Marsoner dedicates her latest recording to Franz Schubert’s late piano works and contrasts the “Four Impromptus D 899” with the more intimate and much less frequently performed “Three Piano Pieces D 946”. The Impromptus D 899 were composed in 1827, around a year before Schubert’s death and close in time to the “Winterreise D 911”. (Gramola)

1CD# GRAM99305 $24.99

Grieg: Symphonic Dances / Bergen PO

Grieg’s four Symphonic Dances are a late work, completed in 1898. Grieg takes his inspiration (as in so much of his output) from traditional Norwegian folk tunes, and the four movements together deliver a symphonic unity in their overall effect. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5301 $23.99 $19.19

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 / Francois-Xavier Roth

François-Xavier Roth creates an unforgettable musical experience with the Gürzenich Orchestra, which has been closely associated with Bruckner’s symphonic output for well over a century. These recordings of acclaimed live concerts from the Cologne Philharmonie are all processed in audiophile highresolution DXD technique. (Myrios)

1CD# MYR030 $19.99

Tchaikovsky: Ballet Duos / Mari & Momo Kodama

The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Philippe Herreweghe have enjoyed a close relationship since 1997, and the Ghent conductor regularly conducts and records with the Flanders orchestra. After the Second and Fourth Symphonies (LPH032), they are continuing their exploration of Schumann’s symphonies. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187207 $17.99

Choral Music by Johannes Brahms

The genre accompanied him for almost his entire creative period: the 23-year-old Johannes Brahms wrote the Sacred Choral Song Op. 30 in 1856, the Five Songs for mixed chorus a cappella are his late legacy in the field of secular choral song, written between 1886 and 1888.

(Coviello)

1CD# COV92308 $22.99

Liszt: Beethoven Complete Symphonies, Vol. 3 / Gabriele Baldocci

A celebration of music as an independent and absolute language, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is considered the perfect utterance of his musical philosophy, while the Second Symphony looks to the future as it wrestles with the conventions of symphonic tradition.

(Dynamic)

1CD# DYN-CDS7994 $18.99

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Three Sonatas for Violin & Fortepiano, Op. 1b

Violinist Andrew McIntosh and fortepianist Steven Vanhauwaert collaborated on a historically important volume of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges’s Op. 1b sonatas on Olde Focus Recordings. Interest in Bologne’s music has surged in recent years, exposing contemporary audiences to his refined catalogue. (Olde Focus)

1CD# FCR923 $18.99

Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 / Antwerp SO; Philippe Herreweghe

The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Philippe Herreweghe have enjoyed a close relationship since 1997. After the Second and Fourth Symphonies, they are continuing their exploration of Schumann’s symphonies. He wrote his first symphony, “Spring”, in just four days and orchestrated it in three weeks. The third, known as the “Rhenish”, was inspired by a day Schumann spent with his wife Clara in the Rhineland. (Phi)

1CD# LPH040 $20.99

Era

Rachmaninov: All-night Vigil, ‘Vespers’

The Clarion Choir and its Artistic Leader Steven Fox make their Pentatone debut with a recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s choral masterpiece, the All-Night Vigil, demonstrating their exceptional proficiency in Russian repertoire. The All-Night Vigil is a nocturnal hymn that gradually moves towards daybreak. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187019 $17.99

Schubert: Waltzes & Écossaises

Featuring more than a hundred pieces, this album showcases the charming dances Schubert composed for the many fashionable salons in Vienna between 1815 and 1823. It joins other Naxos albums dedicated to Schubert’s piano dances and miniatures by Yang Liu and Daniel Lebhardt. French pianist Didier Castell-Jacomin is a Steinway Artist. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574165 $19.99

Dvorák: The Complete Piano Trios [2 CDs]

Piano Trio No. 4; “Dumky”; ranking among Antonín Dvorák’s most celebrated works; is one of the most frequently recorded chamber pieces there is. When it comes to Piano Trio No. 3; the renowned Vienna-based critic Eduard Hanslick called it a gem; demonstrating that Dvorák was “one of the best modern masters”.

(Supraphon)

2CD# SU4319-2 $35.99

Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto - Horn ConcertoDer Bürger als Edelmann Suite

Strauss’s music for Der Bürger als Edelmann (based on the 17thcentury Molière-Lully collaboration Le bourgeois gentilhomme) is an early instance of neoclassicism, originally composed to be performed immediately before his opera Ariadne auf Naxos. The result is a quintessentially Straussian confection, combining lyricism and good humour.

(Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100261 $18.99

ROMANTIC ERA IN BRIEF

Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 4

Mercadante: Flute Quartets

During his student years in Naples, Saverio Mercadante wrote a sequence of flute quartets at a time when Italy’s musical landscape was dominated by opera. The first two quartets reflect his command of lyricism, thematic invention and use of embellishments. These are world premiere recordings. (Dynamic)

1CD# DYN-CDS8006 $18.99

John Thomas: Complete Duos for Harp and Piano, Volume 3 / Duo Praxedis

Harpist to Queen Victoria, the Welsh composer John Thomas (1826–1913) also wrote prolifically for his own instrument, both for solo harp and for duos of two harps or harp and piano – a combination where the different sounds of the two instruments enhance the clarity of the texture. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0578 $20.99

Jaques-Dalcroze: Complete Lieder

The Swiss composer Émile JaquesDalcroze (1865–1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. This first-ever complete recording of all his German-language Lieder shows him bridging both French and German traditions with a style somewhere between Fauré and Brahms. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0707 $20.99

Czerny: Quatuors Concertants / Baynov Piano Ensemble

Few composers are as well known and at the same time as infamous as Carl Czerny. This is mainly due to a few collections of etudes, which were used almost excessively by some piano teachers, at least in the past, to train finger technique. The actual exercises and etudes make up only a tenth of his oeuvre, which comprises over 2000 works, of which 861 are available in print. (ARS)

1CD# ARS38631 $22.99

Ulrich Eisenlohr’s critically acclaimed series of Brahms’ complete songs reaches its fourth volume and features the Opp. 6, 14, 19 and 48 sets. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574489 $19.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 / Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

Among Bruckner’s Symphonies, the Fifth is his contrapuntal masterpiece; the grandest until the Eighth. Its magnificent dark and halting opening with the descending bass line is inimitable. (Capriccio)

1CD# C8090 $21.99

1883 / Christoph Croise; Oxana Shevchenko

Christoph’s Croisé’s regular performing partner, Oxana Shevchenko, joins him in this beautifully balanced recording of works for cello and piano. (Avie)

1CD# AV2632 $19.99

Rachmaninov: The Bells, Spring & 3 Russian Songs

The three choral masterpieces featured on this recording, conducted by Leonard Slatkin, were originally issued on the Vox label in 1982. (Vox)

1CD# VOX-NX-3031CD $18.99

Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 / Gothenburg SO

The Fourth is Sibelius’s most difficult symphony. For some, it is his masterpiece. It is fittingly a Finn, conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, who explores this symphony that lays bare our emotions. With his Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, he continues his cycle of the complete Sibelius symphonies, with the addition of the symphonic poem inspired by Swedish folklore called The Wood Nymph. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA1008 $20.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Erich Leinsdorf; Boston SO [2 CDs]

In the 1960s, once the stereophonic technique was available, the first recordings of the entire symphonic cycle of Gustav Mahler’s works were begun. This version, by Erich Leinsdorf is a great interpretation, supported by excellent sound quality. Urania Records now makes this precious version of Symphony No. 3 available. (Urania)

2CD# WS121.414 $27.99

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto / James Ehnes BBC Philharmonic

One of the foremost musicians of his generation, James Ehnes continues to dazzle audiences around the world. Here he joins the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis in a recording of Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto. Written for the Polish virtuoso Samuel Dushkin, the four-movement work takes the music of Bach as its inspiration, and is built around a chord of the notes D, E, and A. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5340 $23.99 $20.79

Reger: 3 Suites for Viola Solo / Luca Sanzò

Max Reger (1873–1916) is noted for his devotion to Johann Sebastian Bach. His 3 Suites for Viola Solo Op. 131d – completed a year before his death – exemplify this contrapuntal restoration and reinvention. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96923 $13.99

For its final concert of the 2021–22 season and Osmo Vänskä’s last as artistic director, the Minnesota Orchestra chose to present Mahler’s mammoth Eighth Symphony, which calls for one of the largest complement of performers in the history of music, an endeavour that has been referred to as a ‘Mass for the Masses’. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2496 $21.99

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 – Pohjola’s Daughter

Sibelius moved to the shores of Lake Tuusula just before writing his Third Symphony. His output was powerfully inspired by nature. In April 1915, when the world was in chaos, he wrote in his diary of the appearance of sixteen swans over the lake and noted down their cry, which inspired the great horn theme of the Fifth Symphony’s finale. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA645 $20.99

Grieg: Lyrical Pieces (Selection) / Daniel Gortler

With his “Lyric Pieces”, Edvard Grieg kept a kind of poetic piano diary: between 1867 and 1901 he wrote 66 short character pieces, which were published in ten booklets. Pieces such as “Wedding Day at Troldhaugen”, “Train of Dwarfs” or “To Spring” are among Grieg’s most famous works ever. (Prospero)

1CD# PROSP0082 $21.99

Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1 (Original Version) & Preludes Op. 32

The pianist Lukas Geniušas has recorded the original version of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata no.1 in the composer’s Swiss home Villa Senar and on his own piano, an unusually long Steinway & Sons model, presented to the composer and concert pianist by the manufacturer to mark his sixtieth birthday. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA997 $20.99

Gal: Concertinos for Violin, Cello, Piano & String Serenade

As a young man, the composer Hans Gál witnessed an artistic turning point, for it was during the First World War that late Romanticism met the modern musical era. In his adherence to tonality and use of sophisticated formal progressions, he created a distinctive style of his own that he steadfastly embraced throughout his life.

(Haenssler Classic)

1CD# HC23049 $20.99

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 – Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet

“This is Reference’s third Pittsburgh/ Honeck Tchaikovsky release: I found the ‘Pathétique’ profoundly moving but was disappointed in their recording of the fourth (see review) because of unnecessary tempo and dynamic tinkering. This latest release, however, is their best Tchaikovsky yet and indeed one of the finest performances of the fifth I have ever heard.”

– The Classic Review (Reference)

1SACD# FR-752SACD $21.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 8, “Symphony of a Thousand”

Romantic

Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex; Pizzetti: Three Orchestral Preludes CD

Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex was written in his neo-Classical style, with a central role for narrator. In a stark, stylised and formal setting, the use of Latin, and Stravinsky’s instruction for the leading characters to wear masks, add timeless, impersonal elements to a work that culminates in catharsis. (Dynamic)

1CD# DYN-CDS7981 $18.99

D’Ambrosio: Quartetti e quintetti d’archi

According to the composer and conductor Clarence Lucas, writing in 1935, “of the merits of d’Ambrosio... he always maintains his standard of elegance and never becomes commonplace”. By the way d’Ambrosio’s instrumental music was highly appreciated by contemporaries and played by the most acclaimed interpreters of his time, though nowadays seems hélas almost neglected. (Tactus)

1CD# TC870401 $18.99

Rachmaninoff 150 / Berlin Philharmonic

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s contribution to the great Russian composer’s anniversary year places a landmark performance of his perennially popular C minor Concerto by Kirill Gerstein and Kirill Petrenko in the illuminating context of his solo music. (Berlin Phil)

1SACD# BPHR230469 $32.99

Lie: Songs, Vol. 1 / Marianne Beate Kielland

It is an adventure to immerse oneself in the Norwegian treasury of song. There is so much magnificent music, and so much of it bears witness to the time in which it was written. The songs on this release — Volume 1 — are all songs that were published during Sigurd Lie’s lifetime (1871–1904). (Lawo)

1CD# LWC1256 $18.99

Stravinsky: Piano Music / Emanuele Delucchi

‘Delucchi has done us a great service’, noted Fanfare magazine in January 2022 after the release of his Czerny album (PCL10204) on Piano Classics. This young Italian pianist continues to go from strength to strength and to broaden his already diverse catalogue of recordings for the label – spanning Bach, Godowsky and his own music – with this new album of Stravinsky’s works for the piano. (Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10169 $20.99

Debussy / Jean-Paul Gasparian

The French pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian has chosen Debussy for his first album with Naïve, an album full of sensitivity and color, including the first ever recording of the transcription of the Rondes de printemps. With this album devoted solely to Debussy, JeanPaul Gasparian invites listeners to integrate the atmospheres, colours and timbres that make up Debussy’s world. (Naïve)

1CD# V7958 $18.99

Vaughan Williams Live Vol. 4

Somm Recordings continues its acclaimed Vaughan Williams Live series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth with Volume 4 featuring his signature Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, the Concerto for Two Pianos and Eighth Symphony in recordings conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos and Sir John Barbirolli. (Somm)

1CD# ARIADNE 5020 $20.99

Ravel: In Search of Lost Dance

The Linos Piano Trio’s In Search of Lost Dances recording centres on the time of greatest change in Ravel’s life, juxtaposing his seminal Piano Trio, written weeks before the outbreak of the First World War, with Le Tombeau de Couperin, written between 1914 and 191. (Cavi)

1CD# AVI 8553526 $19.99

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos; Paganini Rhapsody [2 CDs]

Lukáš Vondrácek and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Scarcely do we encounter a connection between a musician and a composer so close, strong and energising. This recording was made with the superb Prague Symphony Orchestra, capturing performances rendering every detail, teeming with emotion, colour and contrast. Rachmaninoff in Lukáš Vondrácek’s hands. A lavish musical feast. (Supraphon)

2CD# SU4323-2 $26.99

Sitt: Works for Viola & Piano

Ann Marie Brink has served as Associate Principal Viola of the Dallas Symphony for two decades, and has performed in solo and chamber music recitals at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and the Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Brink’s performances with the Amernet String Quartet were praised by the New York Times as “an accomplished and intelligent ensemble”. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC3951 $17.99

New Recommendations 20th Century

Orchestral Music by Howard Blake / English Northern Philharmonia

Somm Recordings is delighted to announce the label debut of the acclaimed British composer Howard Blake with a disc of his orchestral music to mark his 85th birthday. Blake himself is heard at the piano and conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra, with Paul Daniel also conducting the English Northern Philharmonia. (Somm)

1CD# SOMMCD 0678 $20.99

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14

The baritone Matthias Goerne, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck launch a trilogy of Shostakovich’s works for baritone and orchestra with a recording of Symphony No. 14. The soprano Asmik Grigorian joins Matthias Goerne for this monumental yet highly subtle symphony. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA918 $20.99

A Tribute to Oscar van Hemel

Van Hemel was a moderately modern composer who used classical musical forms combined with atonal harmonies and melodies. He applied the twelve-tone technique, bitonality, “germ cell technique” and serialism but continued to strive to captivate his audience through lyricism. (Aliud)

1CD# ACDOE1412 $18.99

Britten / Martinů Voices, Lukas Vasilek

The album “Britten”, released by Animal Music, comprises three essential choral works by one of the most distinguished 20th-century composers, Benjamin Britten, in new recordings by the Czech vocal ensemble Martinů Voices conducted by its founding artistic director Lukáš Vasilek. (Animal)

1CD# ANI124-2 $29.99

Muller-Hartmann: Chamber Works / Arc Ensemble

Robert Müller-Hartmann was born in Hamburg, in 1884, the son of the piano teacher and clarinettist Josef Müller and his wife, Jenny. He studied in Berlin for four years, but then returned to Hamburg where he pursued a successful career combining teaching, composing, and writing. This collection of his chamber works is performed by the Arc Ensemble (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20294 $22.99 $18.39

1929 – The Wild Sound of the 20s / Various Artists

October 29, 1923 was a date steeped in history. In the middle of a year of political and economic crises. Eduard Künneke’s five-movement Concerto grosso “Tänzerische Suite” Op. 26 for jazz band and large orchestra was the sixth commission the composer received from the Berliner Funk-Stunde. Its five movements corresponded to modern dances.

(BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900350 $19.99 $15.99

Shostakovich: String Quartets 7–13 [2 CDs]

Finally, a Shostakovich CD by the Asasello-Quartett! The internationally successful and award-winning ensemble has long been intensively engaged with the 15 works of the great Russian composer and is now embarking on a complete recording. The new GENUIN release of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Quartets Nos. 7 – 13 now kicks off the series. (Genuin)

2CD# GEN 23826 $32.99

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Het Collectief

Olivier Messiaen composed his eight-movement Quartet for the End of Time in 1940 while imprisoned in Germany. He drew his inspiration from the Apocalypse written by Saint John the Evangelist, one of the few works he was allowed to keep in the camp. Stalag VIIIa, composed by Tristan Murail, whose title refers to Olivier Messiaen’s place of detention in Görlitz in 1940, completes this program. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA1048 $20.99

Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 19 [2 CDs]

Pieces and performances of exceptional historical interest, showing Thomas Jensen’s place at the centre of Danish musical culture in the 1950s and 60s. DRSO principals take starring roles in a pair of Nielsen concertos on CD1, which reaches an ecstatic climax in the composer’s early cantata in praise of love. (Danacord)

2CD# DACOCD929 $24.99

Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra – Partita for Violin and Orchestra – Novelette

“The highlight is Partita, a standalone work whose outer movements secure playing of coursing virtuosity from Christian Tetzlaff and with the central Largo affecting in its sustained pathos. Excellent playing from the FRSO and unexceptionally fine sound make these performances the equal of any predecessor. Hopefully the series will continue....” – Gramophone (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1444-2 $18.99

Era

Little Cakewalk / Maria Garzón; Shira Karmon

Shira Karmon presents, among others, three songs based on texts by Friedrich Hölderlin, the Six Songs Op. 17, three Yiddish songs, four of Six Sacred Songs Op. 20, and “Six Sonnets de Louise Labé” Op. 34 Ullmann’s compositional style carries the lightness of jazz influences as well as complex contrapuntal phrases. (Gramola)

1CD# GRAM99292 $24.99

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 – Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon Overture

This recording is a rarity and belonged to Silvestri, only discovered after his death. The live performance from 1961 of Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 is a new addition to Silvestri’s discography, as is Kabalevsky’s Colas Breugnon Overture. The recording captures Silvestri’s electrifying performance of Shostakovich’s greatest symphony. (ICA Classics)

1CD# ICAC5176 $16.99

Poulenc, Debussy & Milhaud

Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva perform a stunning selection of French 20th-century music for piano four hands. Both Milhaud and Poulenc were members of Les Six, a band of composers who specialised in producing colourful, quirky and highly original scores. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100270 $18.99

Shostakovich – Basner: Katerina Ismailowa

Katerina Izmaylova – Symphony for full Orchestra after the opera “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk“ by Shostakovich, arranged by Benjamin Basner. “The Katerina Izmaylova symphony intensifies opera music to instrumental music, to a symphony exposing the perversion of power in a very direct and therefore highly penetrating way.” – Franzpeter Messmer (Profil)

1CD# PH23063 $19.99

TITLES IN BRIEF

Rutherford: The Wilderness and the Solitary Place

The Wilderness and the Solitary Place is an album of world-premiere recordings in which Ben Parry conducts London Voices and organist William Saunders in choral music by British composer Jonathan Rutherford. Following the release of I Slept and Dreamed that Life Was Beauty, these exceptional musicians reunite to perform Rutherford’s sensitive settings of sacred and secular texts. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100268 $18.99

Sir Adrian Boult Conducts (1948–1949, 1965)

Somm Recordings announces the first appearance on disc of three historic live recordings by Sir Adrian Boult to mark the 40th anniversary of the pre-eminent British conductor’s death. (Somm)

1CD# ARIADNE 5024-2 $32.99

Henze: Reinventions Arrangements of Mozart

The project Travestimenti (Disguises), managed by conductor Marco Angius and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, from which this CD was created, makes reference to Jans Werner Henze’s ‘reinventions’ of masterpieces by Mozart, C.P.E. Bach and Vitali, clothed in new, modern fashion. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI97077 $16.99

Weinberg: Dawn Symphony No. 12 / BBC PO

Stravinsky, Janácek, Bartók: Village Stories

The symphonic poem Dawn (Zarya), Op. 60, dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of the October 1917 Revolution, seems to have remained unperformed during Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s lifetime, despite its ideologically irreproachable content. Its premiere was finally given in the BBC studios in Manchester, on 15 May 2019, by the BBC Philharmonic. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20165 $22.99 $18.39

This disc presents the rediscovered magic of folk songs and traditional rituals in the music of three 20th–century masters. (Supraphon)

1CD# SU4333-2 $23.99

Messiaen: Des canyons aux etoiles [2 CDs]

The Seattle Symphony releases live performances of Olivier Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles… (“From the Canyons to the Stars…”) (SSM)

2CD# SSM1028 $18.99

Bartok, Kodaly: Te Deum Psalmus Hungaricus

The Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra and conductor Lawrence Foster present choralorchestral works by Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. (Pentatone)

1SACD# PTC5187071 $21.99

Ligeti: Complete String Quartets / Verona Quartet

This album presents the complete works Ligeti composed for string quartet between 1950 and 1968. (Dynamic)

1CD# DYN-CDS8010 $18.99

New Contemporary Recommendations Contemporary

Solitary Poems for Soprano Saxophone

The project ‘Solitary Poems for Soprano Saxophone’ is a creative response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequent obliteration of livelihoods for freelance musicians. The 23 world premières presented on this album were all composed specifically for Anders Paulsson so that he and they could keep growing artistically during the pandemic when all concerts and touring came to a standstill. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2644 $21.99

Metamorphosis / Duo Amabile

Metamorphoses: this is what Duo Amabile is in search of. Featuring top-notch musical performances, this album combines works composed especially for the duo by René Kuwan, Michaela Rea Catranis and Marín Donoso Vera together with thematically appropriate movements from Edward Elgar’s famous Enigma Variations. All the new works are presented here in world premiere recordings! (Genuin)

1CD# GEN 24855 $20.99

Cold Stability / Christopher Whyte

Percussionist Christopher Whyte releases Cold Stability, a collection of works for different percussion instruments that explores paths to quietude through sound. Featuring works by Toshio Hosokawa, Sarah Hennies, Lou Harrison, and Whyte himself, the album travels through a variety of timbres, most of which inhabit a space which subverts the expectation for a bombastic percussion recording. (New Focus)

1CD# FCR386 $18.99

Luminos: Contemporary Music for Clarinets

A captivating anthology of British clarinet compositions curated and performed by versatile musician Ronald Woodley and pianist Andrew West. This collection explores British musical modernism, featuring both new and underappreciated pieces from the 20th century by composers Elisabeth Lutyens, Angela Elizabeth Slater, Morris Pert, Christopher Fox, and Edward Cowie. (Metier)

1CD# MEX77118 $20.99

Signature Philip Glass / Angele Dubeau

“Like (Philip) Glass’ work as a whole, the content of this album is very diverse: music for theatre and for cinema, for chamber and for symphony orchestra, and recent works as well as some written almost 50 years ago! Thank you for giving me carte blanche to revisit these works with my ensemble.” – Angèle Dubeau (Analekta)

1CD# AN28755 $20.99

Olli Mustonen: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3

Composing has always formed an integral part of the artistic life of pianist-conductor Olli Mustonen. This work has been inspired by the cosmic and shamanistic elements in Finnish mythology. In this recording, the solo part is sung by Ian Bostridge who also premiered the work. (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1422-2 $18.99

In the Crystalline Vault of Heaven / Luminos Ensemble

Step into a realm of musical enchantment with Luminos Ensemble’s forthcoming album, “In the Crystalline Vault of Heaven.” This collection of ethereal harmonies and transcendent melodies is a testament to the ensemble’s dedication to innovation and artistic excellence.

(Leaf Music)

Luis Tabuenca: Naturstudium

1CD# LM290 $18.99

Paul Klee’s Naturstudium (1923) recalibrated the dialogue between art-making and the natural world. By peering closely at nature, Klee’s project was one of a magical de-mystification, seemingly a contradiction in terms until you realize that by looking clearly and dispassionately (the studium part of Naturstudium), he brought us full circle to wonder and awe. (Mode)

Estelle: Transmutation

Jarrell: Orchestral Works

The music of Michael Jarrell has been said to ‘examine states of dream and unreality, searching for a moment of truth’ – a truth which is often found in the lowest sonorities and slowest tempi, a place where time stands still. His works are often interrelated, not only by a certain sensitivity or a distinctive tone, but also by the recurrence of particular features that he reworks in different contexts. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2672 $21.99

1CD# MOD-CD-343 $20.99

Transmutation is a communal effort featuring various talented performers coming together to transmute their message to you. With music as vulnerable and exposed as the stories it tells, Transmutation is a reflection on the patterns of life through periods of both rain and shine, and the constants that keep us grounded through the changes that they bring. (Navona)

1CD# NV6559 $16.99

Caravassilis: From Sappho’s Lyre [2 CDs]

From Sappho’s Lyre is a double-album of music by contemporary composer Constantine Caravassilis, featuring poetry by Sappho, Sara Teasdale, and Jeffrey M. Duban, who also narrates. The first disc is devoted to From Sappho’s Lyre, a multimedia cantata for large chamber ensemble based on Sappho’s two major surviving poems.

(Orchid Classics)

2CD# ORC100260 $18.99

Era

Nikolai Myaskovsky: Symphonies No. 17 & 20

Alexander Rudin and the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra here present two symphonies by Nikolai Myaskovsky – one of the most undiscovered composers of the 20th century. In his creative legacy, Myaskovsky equals his more famous contemporaries – Prokofiev and Shostakovich. (Fuga Libera)

1CD# FUG820 $20.99

The Art of Dreaming / Martin Herzberg; Felix Rauber

Embark on a transformative musical journey with “The Art of Dreaming,” a visionary collaboration between Martin Herzberg and Felix Räuber. This captivating album unfolds across 11 phases, inviting listeners to explore themes of stillness, timelessness, and self-identity.

(Neue Meister)

1CD# 0302963NM $21.99

Henning Sommerro: Borders [2 Blu-ray]

Using a deep time perspective composer Henning Sommerro chooses themes from myths and from European history. Three works for soloist and orchestra and three visions encounter resistance before they struggle forward to possible redemption and resolution. The first work is Solkverv. The skald Sigvat Tordsson is on his way to the eternal city. (2L)

2Blu-ray# 2L173SABD $37.99

Ying-Hsueh Chen: Dark Radiance

On the eight solo improvisations that make up Dark Radiance, percussionist, performance artist and composer Ying-Hsueh Chen takes listeners on a journey through subtle musical movements that meticulously weave the past into the present in a remarkable manner. Nearly every piece is devoted to a single instrument. (Dacapo)

1CD# 8224749 $17.99

A Winged Woman / The Marian Consort

Following an album dedicated to the forgotten Renaissance master Vicente Lusitano (Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Der Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik Quarterly Critic’s Choice), The Marian Consort makes an enthralling leap forward to the present day. (Linn)

Schokland / Black Pencil

1CD# CKD724 $20.99

Black Pencil’s latest CD Schokland contains short compositions written for the ensemble, all works inspired by Unesco World Heritage Schokland. Schokland is a unique combination of cultural history and nature, in the middle of the Noordoostpolder. Evidence of human habitation dating back more than 10,000 years can be found there. (Dreyer Gaido)

1CD# DGCD21148 $22.99

Insects & Machines – Quartets of Vivian Fung

Vivian Fung has long been a friend and admired composer of the Jasper String Quartet. The Quartet first performed one of her works in 2019, and we were immediately captivated by the visceral energy and impeccable craft of her writing. Vivian’s String Quartets Nos. 1–4 span 18 years of her career and reflect a remarkable journey. (Sono Luminus)

1CD# DSL-92270 $18.99

Di Nicola: Miniature for Harp

Composed in 2020, Miniature is a compilation of 27 short musical pieces for solo harp. Each is a fragment which tells a personal story inspired by an emotion, reflection, childhood memory or emblematic place for Francesca – from her past in Italy or her present in the Basque Country. (Convivium)

1CD# CVI089 $18.99

CONTEMPORARY TITLES IN BRIEF

Loeb: Reawakenings

David Loeb, a remarkably prolific contemporary composer, composes works for a variety of solo instruments and ensembles. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC4045 $17.99

David Shapiro: Sumptuous Planet

Composer David Shapiro and The Crossing release Sumptuous Planet: A Secular Mass, a work that extols a science based stance on the universe and the nature of existence. (New Focus)

1CD# FCR389 $18.99

Fire-Flowers / Luminous Voices

Luminous Voices presents Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” alongside contemporary pieces by Zachary Wadsworth in the album ‘Fire-Flowers.’ Exploring themes of loss, grief, and hope. (Leaf)

1CD# LM275 $18.99

Sonatas & Tangos / Jeff Benedict

“Sonatas” is an album of great contemporary works for soprano and alto saxophones, with piano accompaniment and solo. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC4049 $17.99

David Garrett: Alive [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

For the first time, David Garrett performed with his band in the ancient baths of Caracalla, presenting his outstanding program ALIVE. David Garrett plays the greatest soundtracks from the world of movies and games, with numerous world hits such as Happy, Stayin’ Alive, Let it Go, Shallow, Bella Ciao, or Thriller, among others. (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 764004 $45.99

2DVD# 763908 $35.99

Anne-Sophie Mutter – Vivace

Anne-Sophie Mutter is one of the greatest musicians of our age and for the last five decades has appeared at the world’s leading concert venues. In this documentary, Mutter talks candidly about her personal life and the demands of her international career. This unprecedented portrait of a socially active artist is supplemented by archive material from her stellar career. (Naxos)

1Blu-ray# SWR19133BD $24.99

1DVD# SWR19132DVD $24.99

Horowitz in Moscow [Blu-ray]

In 1986, the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who left his homeland 61 years ago, announced that he would return to the Soviet Union for the first time since 1925 to give recitals in Moscow and Leningrad. This sensational historic recital from Moscow includes works by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, whom Horowitz knew both. (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 761804 $45.99

The Stuttgart Ballet Documentary Collection [DVD or Blu-ray Video)

Three documentaries on the Stuttgart Ballet and its outstanding dancers Marcia Haydée and Friedemann Vogel. Programs include Of Mirables & Superheroes – The Stuttgart Ballet; Marcia Hardee – The Seduction to Dance; Friedemann Vogal – Incarnation of Dance. (Unitel)

1Blu-ray# 808604 $45.99

2DVD# 808508 $35.99

Springtime in Amsterdam [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Springtime in Amsterdam is a joyful feature film created by director Christof Loy, world renowned for his work in international opera houses. A richly varied musical score that includes Viennese operetta, Dutch and French chansons, and songs from the American song book, is performed by a renowned cast of singers and conducted by Marko Letonja. (Naxos)

1Blu-ray# NBD0169V $26.99

1DVD# 2110757 $26.99

DVD/

Kissin: The Salzburg Recital [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Evgeny Kissin appeared in Salzburg in 2021 with compositions of the late Romantic and classical modern periods in the Grosses Festspielhaus. Since his debut in 1987, the pianist has been a welcome guest at this festival, impressing with the maturity and brilliance of his playing. (Unitel)

1Blu-ray# 809404 $45.99

1DVD# 809308 $32.99

The Zurich Affair – Wagner’s One & Only Love [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

An exile from his native land following the failed revolution of 1848, the impoverished Richard Wagner is in Zurich working on his opera Tristan und Isolde. There he meets Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck, ardent admirers of his music. Wagner’s passionate and scandalous affair with Mathilde, whose poems he set to music, is explored in this feature film by director Jens Neubert. (Naxos)

2Blu-ray# NBD0170V $26.99

1DVD# 2110758 $26.99

Rossini: Il Turco in Italia [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

The performance of Il turco in Italia at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro is presented as a totally renewed production. With references to films of the iconic film director Federico Fellini, “Davide Livermore brought it all together adding the perfect physical comic schtick that matched up perfectly with the musical pace of Rossini’s masterpiece – it was spectacular” (Opera Today ). (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 762604 $45.99

2DVD# 762508 $51.99

Bruckner 11 – Christian Thielemann & Weiner Philharmoniker [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

On the occasion of the Bruckner bicentenary, the Wiener Philharmoniker recorded its first ever complete Bruckner cycle under the baton of Christian Thielemann. In addition to the well-known canon of nine symphonies, the two earliest Bruckner symphonies in F minor and D minor, which are a world premiere on DVD and Blu-ray, were also recorded for the first time in the orchestra’s history. (Unitel)

1Blu-ray# 807604 $45.99

2DVD# 807508 $40.99

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 2 [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

For Riccardo Chailly, celebrating Rachmaninoff in Lucerne is something dear to his heart. In 2022, the the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and their music director devoted themselves to the Second Symphony and the Piano Concerto No. 2, the most famous of all four Rachmaninoff concertos.

(Accentus)

1Blu-ray# ACC10583 $35.99

1DVD# ACC20583 $41.99

Blu-ray Titles

Bach 300: J.S. Bach in Leipzig [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

An array of musical stars converges in Leipzig to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach taking up his appointment as Kantor at the city’s iconic Thomaskirche – a post that he occupied for more than a quarter of a century, covering a period in which he created many of his greatest works. (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 765704 $45.99

1DVD# 765608 $32.99

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Triumphantly premiered in 1868, “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” evokes the singing guilds of mid-16th-century Nuremburg, a focal point of the Northern European Renaissance. Deutsche Oper Berlin’s provocative new staging was considered ‘entertaining throughout’ and ‘thought-provoking’ by BR Klassik. (Naxos)

2Blu-ray# NBD0178-79V $32.99

2DVD# 2110766-67 $32.99

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin [DVD]

Graham Vick’s acclaimed production of Eugene Onegin sets Pushkin’s tale of doomed love, tragedy and rejection against an acutely observed backdrop of Russian society, with spectacular choruses and dances. This special, archive recording took place in the first season at Glyndebourne’s new opera house in 1994. (Naxos)

1DVD# OA 1374D $21.99

Hélène Grimaud at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg [DVD or Blu-ray Video)

Hélène Grimaud headlines a spectacular evening with the illustrious Camerata Salzburg, directed from the front desk by concertmaster Giovanni Guzzo, at the famed Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. She selected pieces that are all in minor keys yet composed during intensely creative periods in both Mozart’s and Schumann’s careers. (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 765004 $45.99

1DVD# 764908 $32.99

Britten: Albert Herring [DVD]

Benjamin Britten’s comic opera, which is gently laced with moments of farce, is a jocular parody on life in East Suffolk at the turn of the 20th century. Albert Herring is a quaint, nostalgic journey to a bygone England. The ensuing antics are brilliantly characterised by a strong British cast in this production. (Opus Arte)

1DVD# OA 1375D $21.99

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Mussorgsky was inspired to compose his masterpiece Boris Godunov after reading Pushkin’s Shakespeare-inspired play of the same name. Bryn Terfel is “a powerful new Boris” (The Observer ) in Richard Jones’ new production of the original 1869 score. Antonio Pappano conducts an outstanding cast that also includes John Graham-Hall as the crafty Prince Shuisky and John Tomlinson as the vagabond monk Varlaam. (Opus Arte)

1Blu-ray# OA BD7314D $42.99

1DVD# OA 1376D $32.99

Exhibition on Screen Art Documentaries

Exhibition on Screen – Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman [DVD]

1DVD# SEV226 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – Pissarro: Father of Impressionism [DVD]

1DVD# SEV223 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – Easter in Art [DVD]

1DVD# SEV209 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – Raphael Revealed [DVD]

1DVD# SEV219 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – Frida Kahlo [DVD]

1DVD# SEV210 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – Leonardo: The Works [DVD]

1DVD# SEV207 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – Van Gogh and Japan [DVD]

1DVD# SEV206 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – Young Picasso [DVD]

1DVD# SEV205 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – Degas: Passion for Perfection [DVD]

1DVD# SEV204 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – Cézanne: Portraits of a Life [DVD]

1DVD# SEV202 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts [DVD]

1DVD# SEV201 $23.99

Exhibition on Screen – Canaletto & the Art of Venice [DVD]

1DVD# SEV200 $23.99

New Vinyl Releases

Puccini: I Canti – Orchestral Songs / Charles Castronovo [LP]

BR Klassik now presents the Vinyl Giacomo Puccini – I Canti. Puccini’s piano songs are entirely in the Italian tradition of the 19th century. Most Italian opera composers – from Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini to Verdi – also wrote lieder, but unlike the German art song, these were always closely related to bel canto, the “beautiful song”. (BR Klassik)

1LP# BRK900348 $42.99 $34.39

Con Alma / Oscar Peterson Trio [LP]

Oscar Peterson’s trio with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen is widely regarded as Peterson’s “classic trio.” Recorded during their creative peak in 1964 this previously unheard and unreleased live performance is destined to become a fan favorite from the Oscar Peterson vaults. (Mack Avenue)

1LP# MAC1207LP $26.99

Beethoven: Klavierkonzert, Op. 61 / Ragna Schirmer [2 LPs]

By popular demand, this Berlin Classics recording is reissued on Vinyl. Featured on it are Beethoven’s Concerto in D Major, originally written for the violin, and Concertante Variations by composer Franz Schmidt played by virtuoso pianist Ragna Schirmer and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. (Berlin Classics)

2LP# 0303146BC $37.99

For All We Know / Elias Kapell [LP]

After the two critically acclaimed and award-winning albums Longing and What’s it All About?, the jazz quartet Ellas Kapell are releasing their third album For All We Know With innovative arrangements, which could almost be considered original compositions, the group continues to interpret traditional music from the world of jazz. (Prophone)

1LP# PLP321 $26.99

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 – Symphony No. 9 [LP]

BR Klassik presents the two outstanding performances by Shostakovich now on LP: his impressive Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra, and his Ninth Symphony – performed live by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under its long-time principal conductor Mariss Jansons. (BR Klassik)

1LP# BRK900204 $42.99 $34.39

Consider the Lilies / Temple Square Orchestra [2 LPs]

The world-famous Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square are pleased to announce the release of many of their most requested songs for the first time on two deluxe vinyl records. These songs are a celebration of life and the Savior. With custom arrangements from associate directors, Mack Wilberg and Barlow Bradford, this is a musthave for every music library. (Temple Square)

2LP# MTC6024190 $42.99

Veronica Swift / Veronica Swift [LP]

Vocal sensation Veronica Swift took the jazz world by storm with her critically acclaimed 2021 release This Bitter Earth. For her new album – aptly entitled Veronica Swift – the versatile artist stretches her wings and opens up her wide range of influences to share who she truly is: a once-in-a-generation vocalist with unabashed confidence. (Mack Avenue)

1LP# MAC1202LP $26.99

Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 3 & 4 / Sonia WiederAtherton [2 LPs]

“For me, whenever I play the Bach suites, all of a sudden I find myself visualising Giacometti’s hands incessantly moulding the earthen clay until a face appears. Getting to grips with the Bach suites is very closely related to that sense.” – Sonia Wieder-Atherton (Alpha)

2LP# ALPHA1003 $31.99

Haydn: Horn Concertos / Felix Klieser [2 LPs]

The popular album Horn Concertos by Felix Klieser is being released as a 180g Vinyl Reissue. The talented and unique horn player masters the technically demanding Horn Concertos by Joseph Haydn and his lesser known brother Michael Haydn. He is accomapnied by the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn under the baton of Ruben Gazarian. (Berlin Classics)

2LP# 0303132BC $37.99

Zodiac / Aaron Diehl; The Knights [LP]

Critically acclaimed pianist/composer Aaron Diehl’s penchant for the past influencing the future has come full circle with his fully realized suite of Mary Lou Williams’ Zodiac Suite –the first fully-fledged professional recording of this incredible music. (Mack Avenue)

1LP# MAC1201LP $32.99

European Jazz

Coral Way / Alfredo Rodreguez

Alfredo Rodriguez’s new album, Coral Way, embodies the sound of Miami: a melding of the Latin Pop, Timba, Salsa, Bachata, Tango, Reggaeton and Bolero that permeate the city’s diverse community of Latinos living together while individually sharing their unique musical backgrounds from their cultural regions. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1194DG $19.99

As We Speak / SWR Big Band; Fola Dada

SWR Big Band and Fola Dada have been successful collaborators for many years and with their new studio album As We Speak they broaden their swing repertoire to include the 1960s. In addition, there are swing classics like You Go to my Head. This way the multi-GRAMMY-nominated SWR Big Band is able to confirm their reputation as a fantastically swinging formation. (SWR Classic)

1CD# SWR19143CD $19.99

Falling Ladder / Mr Mibbler

Live in Italy / El Trio

The 2021 album Leave Your Thoughts Here was described as ‘clearly a major recording event of the year’ (JazzViews, UK ) and ‘ten mouthwatering pieces of music’ (UK Vibe) and was embraced by listeners worldwide. You will recognize the sounds and ambience that characterize the releases from this exciting Norwegian three-piece music collective. (NXN)

1CD# NXN4008 $16.99

“El Trio is a dream threesome of some of my favorite musicians, all whom have been in my various bands: Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez, one of the most versatile and in-demand drummers in the history of Cuban music and jazz; Jose Armando Gola, a great double bass player, and John Beasley, a genius pianist, and orchestrator” – Chucho Valdez (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73573 $18.99

EUROPEAN JAZZ IN BRIEF

Careless Territories / Remy Labbe

Music Written by Real Life / SWR Big Band; Torsten Maaß

Celeste / Mette Juul

The SWR Big Band belongs worldwide to the best big bands and has collaborated with legendary names like Sammy Nestico, Phil Woods and Toshiko Akiyoshi. The established trumpeter Torsten Maaß has been working for many years with numerous big bands. (SWR Classic)

1CD# SWR19142CD $19.99

“I was introduced to the world of vocal jazz at a young age. It has long been a great wish of mine to take this journey with Mike Moreno and Lars Danielsson, finding new ways of playing and singing these songs together … And here we are with an album consisting of not only jazz standards but also originals and modern tunes such as ‘Distance’ by Glauco Viénier and Norma Winstone.” – Mette Juul (Prophone)

1CD# PCD325 $20.99

Mouth Games / Mathias Heise Quintet

Danish harmonica virtuoso Mathias

Heise launched his highly anticipated acoustic jazz album, titled Mouth Games on Storyville Records in October of 2023. The project is described by Heise as his ‘first acoustic jazz album’. Mouth Games features a captivating interplay between Heise and a carefully selected group of highly talented musicians. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1014343 $17.99

The Hidden Ladies of Jazz / Sisters of Jazz

The Sisters of Jazz released their self-titled debut album on legendary Storyville Records on September 15; 2023. Sisters of Jazz is a dynamic all-female ensemble, which began in 2014; when jazz singer; composer and lyricist Anna Pauline; as a bandleader; was commissioned to put together a band consisting solely of female musicians for a concert during International Women’s Day. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1014354 $17.99

‘Careless Territories’ is the honest desire to expose a somehow multifaceted personal musical landscape; probably the result of a couple of years as an arranger for big bands. (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73558 $18.99

Alchemy / Tomáš Sýkora Trio; Aid Kid

Pianist Tomáš Sýkora releases a new album based on an original sound concept mixing traditional jazz trio with electronics. (Animal Music)

1CD# ANI114-2 $20.99

Meteora / Makiko Haribayashi Trio

Makiko Hirabayashi is back in the piano trio setting with Klavs Hovman on bass and the legendary percussionist/ drummer Marilyn Mazur, reclaiming her space and time. (Yellowbird)

1CD# ENJ-9835 $20.99

Everybody Loves You / Amanda Ginsburg; Andy Fite

A young Swedish star and a veteran New York jazzman team up on a collection of new songs expressing hope, longing, sympathy, secrecy and sweet romance. (Ladybird)

1CD# 79556875 $18.99

New Jazz Picks

New Jazz

Summer Me, Winter Me / Stacey Kent

“Which album is that song on?” is a question I often get asked after a concert at signings. Since our set lists invariably include a mixture of old and new repertoire, the answer is sometimes, “it’s not on any album.” So, whilst not exactly a requests album, Summer Me, Winter Me is a response to that informal and unscientific sounding, a representative selection of some of these “requests”.

– Stacey Kent (Naïve) available in both CD and vinyl LP format

Continuance / Joey Alexander

1CD# BLV8224 $18.99

2LP# BLV8225 $32.99

Pianist/composer Joey Alexander’s seventh album, Continuance, is the story of a critically acclaimed artist at the peak of his creativity, not only as a bandleader but as a celebrated composer. Featuring five newly written original compositions and breathtaking renditions of “I Can’t Make You Love Me” (made famous by Bonnie Raitt) and the popular hymn “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.” (Mack Avenue) available in both CD and vinyl LP format

1CD# MAC1208 $19.99

1LP# MAC1208LP $26.99

Blue Topaz / Peter Hand

Consider this your invitation to dive headfirst into Peter Hand’s Blue Topaz; which released in January of 2024. Hand, a versatile guitarist, and composer hailing from the vibrant landscape of New York City, takes listeners on an enchanting voyage through his musical evolution from blues and R&B to the world of jazz. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS140 $18.99

Tonight / Jazz Dock Orchestra

Jazz Dock Orchestra, whose career was established by their first gig in January 2018, is a “house bigband” for Jazz Dock, the renowned Prague jazz club, a magic and favourite place on the riverside, where top players form the Czech jazz scene and from abroad meet and play. The Orchestra consists of some of the best Czech and Slovak musicians.

(Animal Music)

1CD# ANI116-2 $21.99

Greatest Hits 4000 / Ondrej Pivec

GRAMMY-winning producer and musician Ondrej Pivec is coming back to his homeland after years overseas with the project “Greatest Hits 4000.” It blends elements of genres like jazz, funk, gospel, hip-hop, and soul in the tradition of American music with a fresh twist.

(Animal Music)

No Goodbyes / John Stein

1CD# BR008 $23.99

Experience illuminates the path to clarity; and nowhere is this more evident than in No Goodbyes by guitarist John Stein. As his 18th recording and 13th for the renowned Whaling City Sound label; Stein; along with his exceptional trio partners Ed Lucie on bass guitar and Mike Connors on drums; showcases a transcendent musical experience.

(Whaling City)

1CD# WCS139 $18.99

Tranesformation / Brian Melvin, Soren Lee, Mads Sondergaard

American drummer Brian Melvin and Danish guitarist Søren Lee spearhead a brand new trio alongside Danish organist Mads Søndergaard. The trio released their brand new tribute album to the legendary John Coltrane, Tranesformation, on Storyville Records on October 20, 2023.

Tranesformation pays homage to the revered John Coltrane. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018536 $17.99

Espen Berg: The Hamar Concert

Following the internationally acclaimed improvised solo piano album The Trondheim Concert and the digital album release The Nidaros Concert, NXN now release The Hamar Concert recorded in front of a live audience in The Hamar Concert Hall. (NXN)

1CD# NXN2019 $16.99

Without a Doubt / Steve Cole

Having grown up digesting bebop blended with pop radio hits, critically acclaimed saxophonist Steve Cole has become one of the most celebrated and popular artists in contemporary jazz. With his new album, Without a Doubt, Cole partners with producer/songwriter Adam Hawley for a collection of original burners that showcase the saxophonist’s signature high-energy punch. (Artistry)

1CD# ART7083 $19.99

Quiet Yesterday / Mads Vinding Trio

Danish bassist Mads Vinding, Italian pianist Dado Moroni and Italian / Swedish drummer Niclas Campagnol join forces to deliver an exceptional, previously unreleased live performance in the form of the brand new album Quiet Yesterday on Storyville Records on November 17, 2023. This is jazz of the highest order! (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1014356 $17.99

Releases

Songs For Laila / Klaus Koenig

In classical music, the term “piano trio” signifies a formation consisting of violin, cello and piano. From Beethoven to Brahms and beyond, there is a wealth of composition for this highly productive chamber music structure. The jazz friend, on the other hand, understands “piano trio” as a combination of piano, double bass and drums. That’s what we’re talking about here. (TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 37702 $18.99 $15.19

The Song Is Ended? / My Lena

For many years, the jazz quartet

My Lena has been arranging standards from the Great American Songbook as well as pop tunes by various songwriters. The band especially loves playing pieces by the renowned composer Irving Berlin. Even after his songs are over, the musicians still feel his melodies resonate lovingly. (TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 37802 $18.99 $15.19

82 Days / Roy Nathanson

Nathanson established a high profile with the Jazz Passengers, a daring ensemble whose modernistic approach. He has also led his own quartet, acted in films, and in 2007, established an educational program for high school students, entitled “Subway Moon”. 82 Days features Isaiah Barr (founder of the Onyx Collecive) and Nick Hakim. (Yellowbird)

1CD# ENJ-9832 $20.99

Live at Le Périscope / Cortex

Sometimes one has to be careful with the names chosen by the bands. Cortex is no cerebral music but is entirely organic, as remembers the Périscope, where they recorded this album in which their melodic and free jazz is exalted. In the steps of Mats Gustafsson or John Zorn’s Masada, the Norwegian quartet delivers with this new album. (B Records)

1CD# LBM056 $20.99

NEW JAZZ IN BRIEF

Lei: Clementia

Introspection / Gustav Renberg

‘Introspection’ is a collection of songs from a certain era of my life, a sort of musical summary of some of my most formative years. During this time I’ve learned a lot about music, about being human, and most of all, about myself. (Prophone)

1CD# PCD320 $20.99

Double Trouble / Ray Anderson; Bobby Previte

Magic … is one of the most overused terms for describing music. You seldom hear something that is really magical. On the other hand, the American bandleader Ray Anderson is a magician if there ever was one. His magic wand is the trombone. He masterly breaks down the boundaries between magic and reality, spirit and the physical, tradition and utopia. (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71434 $16.99

One (Reissue) / Lijbaart & Brederode

Joost Lijbaart: In 2006, Wolfert Brederode and I recorded this album, ONE. It was the result of an intuitive decision to do some performances as a duo. We sounded good together and I was amazed by all the time and space we could create. It gave me so many ideas to color, to play rhythms, and to use all my percussion instruments with different textures. (Jazz in Motion)

1CD# JIM74752 $18.99

Sasha Berliner & Tabula Rasa – New Jazz Meeting

“Since 1966 the SWR New Jazz Meeting, the legendary sound laboratory for improvised music brings together musicians so that they can develop their creative ideas free from the constraints of daily business. The 2021 edition gave the then 23-year-old American vibraphonist Sasha Berliner the opportunity to put together her own dream band, presented here. (SWR Jazzhaus)

1CD# JAH-480 $19.99

“Music soothes, and with that deep conviction I wrote the music for this album. I went looking for sounds, chords, whispers and everything that goes with this message.” – Marit van der Lei (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73564 $18.99

Geijtenbeek: In Between

“In 2019, my wife Anne Metje and I spent an extended period in Cambridge (MA, USA). The music on this record reflects what we’ve experienced there.” – Jan Geijtenbeek (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73565 $18.99

Litha / Driftwood Quartet

Contemporary jazz with a touch of rock–dynamic, surprising, and thrilling. The music of the “Driftwood Quartet” develops from fragile miniatures to orchestral soundscapes and sharp-edged riffs.(Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71431 $16.99

Lights / Alf Carlsson

Swedish guitarist Alf Carlsson, he has made the choice to dedicate his debut record under his own name to the most luminous of his personal lights, music. (Prophone)

1CD# PCD322 $18.99

TCB Montreux

Assad, Gismonti, Metheny, Town / Alieksey Vianna

The Alieksey Vianna Quartet brings together an excellent group of instrumentalists, all with individual careers and extensive experience in instrumental ensembles. Through the nine tracks of this album, each of them has the opportunity to shine, demonstrating versatility and creativity. (TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 37002 $19.99 $15.99

Kings & Illusions / Klaus Koenig

Jazz pianist Klaus Koenig is back with his quintet album Seven Things Kings and Illusions. Even harder than before he tried to compose as simple and popular as possible while avoiding banality. After many years of therapy after being diagnosed with a wrist condition, Koenig returns to the music scene with the “Seven Things” quintet including Dani Schenker & Christoph Merki. (TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 36702 $18.99 $15.19

This Time the Dream’s On Us / Storioni; Rossy; Schurmann

Pianist Yuri Storione excels in this endeavor by teaming up with two experienced musicians: the deliberate, steady and precise bassist Dominik Schurmann, and one of the world’s best drummers, Jorge Rossy. The balance between the players is already expressed in the trio’s name. (TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 36802 $18.99 $15.19

Nat King Cole Trio – Swiss Radio Days, Vol. 43

Straighten up and fly right… to Zurich 1950! To discover an unreleased concert is a priceless gift. In 1950 Nat King Cole presented a brilliant trio, using the formula tried and approved by him consisting of guitar, piano and double bass. The arrangements, stuffed with tasty and rhythmically impeccable morsels, are a constant treat for today’s listeners. (TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 02432 $18.99 $15.19

V1: Standards / Marton Juhasz; Yves Theiler

Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Jimmy Van Heusen and Richard Rodgers’ music from the 1930s sounds as contemporary as any modern jazz composed and performed today. Check out “All the Things You Are” or “You and the Night and the Music,” both are presented in the same fashion as the classic Bill Evans trios. Their delivery comes to our ears balanced like an equilateral triangle.

(TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 37102 $18.99 $15.19

Willisau 1978 / Dexter Gordon

In Willisau in 1978, Dexter Gordon was in a very content period. For the repertoire of the day’s concert, our favorite tenor takes no prisoners! It’s meat from start to finish, with themes that are practically tattooed on the soul of this exceptional performer. (TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 02452 $18.99 $15.19

Charles Lloyd Quartet – Swiss Radio Days Jazz, Vol. 46 [2 CDs]

Pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Ron McClure and drummer Jack DeJohnette dance around the dervish which is Charles Lloyd, augmenting the music of the quartet with all the liberties, all the daring and finally all the craziness that allow the leader to take flight to his improvisational territories of predilection. A legendary Montreux performance. (TCB Montreux)

2CD# TCB 02462 $23.99 $19.19

Nothing Is As It Seems / Compusion

One might be inclined to call “Compulsion” a classic BeBop quintet. However, the combination of violin and trumpet (replacing the traditional tenor sax and trumpet) opens up completely new possibilities in the front line, creating a rarely heard and refreshingly original sound texture. Intelligently orchestrated, energetically interpreted and undeniably swinging: this is the unmistakable sound of “Compulsion.” (TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 36302 $18.99 $15.19

The Thierry

Lang Trio

Cully

1988

and 1990 / Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series Vol. 44

This never-before-released material was recorded by Radio Suisse Romance and contains tracks from the Cully Jazz Festival. Toots Thielemans: “Our meeting was the almost inevitable result of our common admiration for Bill Evans’ harmonic and melodic world. And Bill is still a mentor whose influence Thierry never hides.” (TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 02442 $16.99 $13.59

Novas Raízes / Floriano Inacio, Jr.

Novas Raízes (“New Roots”) is the name of the latest album produced by the pianist Floriano Inacio Junior. The “Raizes” (Roots) represent the link where the past, present and future are intertwined. Now these links are “Novas” (new) – given that fruitful partnerships from this journey up to this point were added. (TCB Montreux)

1CD# TCB 36902 $18.99 $15.19

Sale

Lausanne 1960 Part 2 / Max Roach Quintet 1CD# TCB 02372 $18.99 $15.19

Insisting / Peter Eigenmann Trio 1CD# TCB 35602 $19.99 $15.99

In Between / Bruno Spoerri; Roger Girod 1CD# TCB 01342 $19.99 $15.99

Dark with Excessive Bright 1CD# TCB 37602 $18.99 $15.19

Quiet Journey / William Evans; Roberto Koch 1CD# TCB 37402 $18.99 $15.19

It’s a Foreign Language / Klaus Koenig Jazz Live Trio 1CD# TCB 36602 $18.99 $15.19

Ainsi de Suites / Pascal Auberson; Cesar Decker 1CD# TCB 01352 $18.99 $15.19

And Then She Wrote / Sonja Indin 1CD# TCB 37502 $16.99 $13.59

Live at the BeJazz Club, Bern / Peter Scharli 1CD# TCB 37202 $18.99 $15.19

Richard Galliano & NY Tango Trio –Swiss Radio Days Jazz, Vol. 47 1CD# TCB 02472 $18.99 $15.19

Double Vision Triple Vision / Peter Scharli [2 CDs] 2CD# TCB 37302 $21.99 $17.59

Night Thoughts / Jazz Live Trio 1CD# TCB 35202 $18.99 $15.19

Neptus / Gysler - Perez - Nick 1CD# TCB 01332 $18.99 $15.19

The Edge / Feigenwinter Oester Pfammatter 1CD# TCB 36502 $18.99 $15.19

Times of Innocence / Daniel Schenker Quintet 1CD# TCB 36402 $18.99 $15.19

The Complete Full House Recordings / Wes Mongomery [2 CDs]

The Complete Full House Recordings Released to celebrate influential jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery’s centennial, The Complete Full House Recordings brings together all the recordings from the Full House sessions with two previously unreleased performances. Featuring Johnny Griffin, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. (Craft)

2CD# MOB530249 $19.99

The Lost Berlin Tapes / Ella Fitzgerald

Live archive release. The First Lady of Song returns to Berlin, Home of her legendary concerts. Recorded in 1962 but never released, hear the most popular jazz singer of all time deliver an iconic performance at Sportpalast Berlin for the first time. This recording finds Ella and her band at the top of their game recorded in high fidelity stereo. (Verve)

1CD# MOB450137 $17.99

Your Mother Should Know / Brad Mehldau

The live solo album features the pianist and composer’s interpretations of nine songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one by George Harrison. Although other Beatles songs have long been staples of Mehldau’s solo and trio shows, he had not previously recorded any of the tunes on Your Mother Should Know. (Nonesuch)

1CD# MOB907407 $15.99

Bigbands Live – Duke Ellington Orchestra

Peace / Chet Baker

This is a re-release of a Jazzhaus/ SWR bestseller! Upon nearing the age of seventy, Duke Ellington was looked upon as the great historical figure in American music. This concert showed that even an ultimately traditional jazz orchestra in the rocky sixties could develop enough charisma to enthrall an audience like that in the Liederhalle.

(Jazzhaus)

1CD# JAH-403 $19.99

Recorded in 1982, “Peace” is a lovely example of Chet Baker’s 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. “Lament for Thelonious” is the highlight. (Yellowbird)

1CD# YEB-9225 $16.99

Jazz

Live in Rotterdam 1957 / Thelonious Monk [2 CDs]

Opening and ending with the classics “Ruby, My Dear” and “Blue Monk”, Monk led for over 80 minutes the quartet and his accomplices, Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales, Ben Riley, and guests. (Fondamenta)

2CD# FON-170402 $26.99

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

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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. A band leader who could take the lead as a soloist, but tended to hold back amidst his all-stars. The result a mixture that whisked the concert hall in Freiburg (Germany) for one evening in October 1959 into a wonderful night of timeless jazz. (SWR)

1CD# JAH-404 $19.99

Love Supreme / John Coltrane

Easily one of the most important records ever made, John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme was his pinnacle studio outing that at once compiled all of his innovations from his past, spoke of his current deep spirituality, and also gave a glimpse into the next two and a half years (sadly, those would be his last). Recorded at the end of 1964. (Impulse)

1CD# MOB649033 $13.99

Live At The Cafe Bohemia November 1955 / Art Blakey [2 CDs]

Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers were a major influential creative force in modern jazz for over three decades, with Blakey actively leading different incarnations of the band through to his death in 1990. This 2-CD collection includes “Like Someone in Love,” “I Waited For You,”

“Yesterdays,” “Prince Albert,” “Lady Bird,” and more. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB328924 $18.99

Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell

Watching Joni Mitchell morph from acoustic chanteuse to sophisticated interpreter of jazz, accompanied by geniuses like Pastorius, Shorter, Metheny and Brecker, among others, truly floored Debra Mann. The piano/voice teacher and Berklee grad seized on the idea of taking Mitchell’s material further into jazz and began trying it out at clubs.

(Whaling City)

1CD# WCS109 $16.99

Favorites

Timba A La Americana / Harold Lopez-Nussa

Harold Lopez-Nussa makes his striking Blue Note label debut with Timba a la Americana, a vibrant album teeming with joy and pathos that was inspired by the pianist’s recent decision to leave his Cuban homeland and begin a new life in France. Timba a la Americana presents 10 dynamic new original compositions. (Blue Note)

1CD# MOB875297 $17.99

Evenings at the Village Gate / John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy

Live archive release. In August of 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Eighty minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library. In addition to some well-known Coltrane material, there is the only known non-studio recording of Coltrane’s composition “Africa”. (Impulse)

1CD# MOB514189 $17.99

Mésuline: Cecile McLorin Salvant

Mélusine features a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the twelfth century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl. The new album’s songs tell the story of the European folkloric legend of Mélusine, a woman who turns into a half-snake each Saturday as a result of a childhood curse. (Nonesuch)

1CD# MOB906400 $15.99

Charlie Parker in Sweden 1950 - Complete Recordings

14 tracks recorded by Charlie Parker & band during a 1950 Swedish date including “Cheers,” “Lover Man,” “Scrapple From the Apple,” “Embraceable You,” “How High the Moon,” “All the Things You Are,” and more. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018355 $17.99

Pasquale Plays Duke

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.” (Sony)

1CD# 19439907672 $13.99

Live in Scheveningen 1958 / Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers [2 CDs]

On November 29, 1958 the crème’ de la crème of the jazz world was on stage at the Kurhaus in Scheveningen, and that performance had fallen into oblivion until this recording. (Fondamenta)

2CD# FON-1804034 $26.99

Legends Live – Cannonball Adderley Quintet

Unlike experimental colleagues who tested the limits of music, but more and more lost their audience, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet managed to reach a large audience with hits like “This Here”, “Work Song”, “Jive Samba” and above all “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy”. Completed by bassist Victor Gaskin and drummer Roy McCurdy, they had brought with them just the right repertoire. (Jazzhaus)

1CD# JAH-402 $19.99

Debut in The Netherlands 1958 / Dave Brubeck Quartet

The Dave Brubeck Quartet, including new members Joe Morello and Eugene Wright, began a major tour of Europe early in 1958. Their first concert in the Netherlands was held in the legendary Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam. The concert inaugurated a triumphant career in Europe. (TLR)

1CD# TLR 2204043 $18.99

Live at Singer Concert Hall 1973 / Dizzy Gillespie

The discovery of unpublished recordings such as the one of this 1973 Dizzy Gillespie concert in Laren give a fresh, dispassionate perspective on the music that the artist was producing in the 1970s. Apart from high profile tours with legends of bebop (such as the Giants of Jazz in 1971) Gillespie would return to the framework of his usual small bands that were familiar yet experimental. (Fondamenta)

1CD# FON-1704028 $19.99

This 46-track 2-CD set comprises most of the recordings Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker made together during this time as part of Mulligan’s quartet. 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# MOB333928 $16.99

The Collection 1952–1953 / Gerry Mulligan; Chet Baker [2 CDs]