Summer 2023 Classics & Jazz Catalog

Classics & Jazz

Summer 2023

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HBDirect Classics

We are very pleased to present the HBDirect Summer 2023 Classics & Jazz catalog, with a broad range of new releases and features we’re sure will be of great interest to our customers. On the classical side, we’re excited to feature a wide range of new recordings, several recent releases from Vox Classics, and a 20% sale on select titles from Reference Recordings! Also, dive into our 50% Off Overstock Sale beginning on page 28. There are dozens of notable releases listed at great prices! You’ll also find an updated selection of Naxos American Classics releases as well as popular titles from Alto Music. On the jazz side, enjoy an array of new releases, as well as a 20% sale from Whaling City Sound. We also spotlight jazz vocalists, and several new titles from Jazzwerkstatt. Prices are good through October 31, 2023 but most of the titles should remain available long after that date. To order online, visit www.arkivmusic.com and click on the “HBDirect” tab at the top of the screen. Keep in mind that we offer free shipping for all orders over $150. We thank you for your continued support!

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Schubert by Candlelight – Live in Madrid / Sergei Kvitko

Pianist, composer, and producer Sergei Kvitko’s new album, Schubert by Candlelight – Live in Madrid is a stunning collection of Schubert’s piano works. The album features thirteen piano works that showcase the beauty and depth of Schubert’s music, as well as the artistry and versatility of Kvitko, who is not only an award-winning, critically acclaimed pianist, but also a composer, arranger, producer and sound engineer. The album was recorded at Hinves Pianos, Madrid, Spain on April 7, 2022. (Reference)

1CD# FR-753 $16.99 $13.59

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14; Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva

John Storgårds 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. Most of the poems deal with the theme of death, particularly that of unjust or early death, and indeed all four of the poets had died prematurely and / or in unnatural circumstances. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5310 $21.99

Reconnaissance – Choral Music / Kaija Saariaho

This recording presents Kaija Saariaho’s works for choir, a cappella and with electronics, and displays her virtuosity in the treatment of texts, which she endows with the full range of verbal expression. At least one of these works is also a discographic première. Nuits, adieux, presented here both in its a cappella version and with electronics, could be described as a lullaby, not so much for a sleeping child as for an elderly person sleeping out of our world.

(BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2662 $19.99

Santoro: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto

This recording focuses on Claudio Santoro’s output from the 1960s –a significant decade in the composer’s ever-eventful life. It features world premiere recordings of his charged Cello Concerto, fuelled by his experiences in East Berlin, the dramatic Eighth Symphony and the encore piece One Minute Play, alongside Três Abstrações and Interações Assintóticas, Santoro’s only work to use quarter-tone tuning. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574410 $13.99

From Jewish Life [5 CDs]

Much Jewish folk music was collected by the Society for Jewish Music in Moscow, and the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music. However, forces in the new Soviet regime led many potential members of the society to emigrate. Most of this music had then lain dormant for decades until the pianist Jascha

Nemtsov (himself the son of a Gulag survivor) and his musical collaborators unearthed it in the last few years of the 20th century. The present collection contains the recordings on five discs – many of them world premieres – realized between 1999 and 2004. (SWR Classic)

5CD# SWR19434CD $39.99

Summer Night Concert 2023 / Weiner Philharmonic

This is Sony Classical’s eleventh release of the Summer Night Concert. This year’s SNC exclusively presented popular melodies from French composers, including musical highlights from Bizet to Ravel, Berlioz to Saint-Säens to Gounod. The soloist on the evening’s program was the Latvian Mezzo soprano Elīna Garanča, who performed the famous “Habanera” from Carmen. (Sony)

1CD# 196588189425 $15.99

New Classical

D’Astorga, Serquiera & Torres: Spanish Secular Cantatas

Songs of love and loss by a trio of early 18th century Spanish composers, showcasing the vocal art of a distinguished early-music soprano. For her latest album, Cristina Bayón Álvarez turns to 18th-century Spain, presenting for the first time on record a sequence of newly edited secular cantatas. These are all brief pieces, taking amorous and pastoral themes for their subjects. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96824 $12.99

Silvestrov: Silent Song / Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel

Nearly 20 years have passed since Helene Grimaud first encountered Valentin Silvestrov’s Silent Songs She has finally found a partner to perform these songs with in the sensational young baritone Konstantin Krimmel. Helene explains, “It’s music I find very touching in it’s honest and transparency. It’s poetic. It’s not pretending to be anything and has a very special color and texture.” (Deutsche Grammophon)

1CD# MOB641048 $16.99

Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights; Echoes for Strings

Bernard Herrmann is widely regarded as one of Hollywood’s most important composers, responsible for more than fifty film scores and noted for his collaborations with Orson Welles and, later, with Alfred Hitchcock. “Echoes” was composed in 1965 for string quartet, and was later arranged for string orchestra by Hans Sørensen – the version heard on this album. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5337 $21.99

Trumpet & Piano in the 20th Century

This CD is devoted to some of the most significant pieces for trumpet and piano, a formation that was born, literally, at the beginning of the last century. No prominent 19th-century composer has left us chamber pieces, let alone duo pieces, that involve the solo use of the trumpet; and it might be worth briefly questioning the reasons for the instrument’s nearly total absence from the repertoire. (Urania)

1CD# LDV14102 $19.99

Revelations – Music for Flute & Piano

Over a century of captivating French music for the flute, from Mélanie Bonis (1858–1937) to Élise Bertrand (b.2000), including a premiere on disc. From the shepherds-pipe dances of Lully to the pan-flute of Debussy’s faun and beyond, French music has always had a special affinity with the flute. Anna Wierer explores some lesser-known byways of this rich repertoire. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96743 $14.99

C.P.E. Bach, J.S. Bach & W.F. Bach: More Bach

Seven years have gone since third and latest Elbipolis Barockorchester disc was released by Challenge Classics. The new disc is devoted to the Bach family. Along two Brandenburg Concertos and the First Violin Concerto by Johann Sebastian, we find two symphonies by his most gifted sons: Wilhelm Friedmann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72960 $16.99

Wagner: Tristan & Isolde – An Orchestral Passion

This new recording from the Staatskapelle Weimar under Hansjörg Albrecht presents a rarely heard compilation of Richard Wagner’s themes from Tristan und Isolde, arranged for orchestra by Henk de Vlieger. The Staatkapelle Weimar dates back to 1491, making it one of the oldest orchestras in the world, and one that is more than familiar with the works of Richard Wagner. (Oehms Classics)

1CD# OC 1729 $14.99

Brahms & Schumann: Companions of Art

Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms were bound together for four decades by a great artistic friendship. They shared a common interest and exchanged ideas on a personal and artistic level. The violinist Sophia Jaffe and the pianist Bjorn Lehmann have been duo partners for many years and are now putting all their experience and love for Brahms and Schumann into this new recording! (Genuin)

1CD# GEN23839 $18.99

Kalinnikov: Orchestral Works

Symphonic works by the long-forgotten Russian composer Vasily Kalinnikov. Russian folk themes color Kalinnikov’s entire compositional output. His First Symphony is often performed in concerts in Russia, but he is little known outside of the country – a circumstance that Mihkel Kutson and the Niederrheinsche Sinfoniker are now finally changing. (MGD-Scene)

1SACD# 9522240-6 $22.99

Birds With Roots – Songs for Voice, Viola & Piano

“Brahms composed his “Geistliches Wiegenlied” in 1863 as a wedding present for two friends of his, the famous violinist Joseph Joachim and contralto Amalie Schneeweiss. This Classical composition was the starting point for the program of the present CD, which combines original works for trio from three centuries in the formation voice-viola-piano.” (Haenssler Classic)

1CD# HC22079 $18.99

Love at Last / Lara Downes

Pianist Lara Downes presents 24 pieces, many of them in world premiere recordings, of works by living composers around the globe. Spanning generations, continents and cultures, these diverse voices are united in a stubborn belief in the possibility of humanity, brotherhood, peace, and compassion, and in the everlasting power of love. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187018 $15.99

Maconchy, Lutyens & Wallen: Works for Piano & Orchestra

Pianists Rebeca Omordia and Martin Jones present this album of world premiere recordings of works for piano and orchestra by three major composers. Joining with the BBC Concert Orchestra and award-winning conductor John Andrews, Martin Jones continues his survey of the piano works of Elisabeth Lutyens with this recording of Eos. (Resonus)

1CD# RES10315 $16.99

Langlais:

Organ Music, Vol. 1 [5 CDs]

Prodigiously gifted student, Jean Langlais (1907–91) produced an immense quantity of music. Perhaps less than half a dozen works are regularly played today, which is what makes this new complete survey of his organ music both unique and invaluable, as the authoritative document of a high point in the distinguished lineage of the French organ heritage. (Brilliant Classics)

5CD# BRI96877 $29.99

Hotel Tango / Trio Agora

With their new CD Hotel Tango, Trio Agora invites us on a journey through the history of tango. From its roots to the most complex expressions worldwide, the trio presents tango as a solitary mixture of European, South American and African idioms. The trio explores the various modes of the genre from an explicitly personal perspective. (Accentus)

1CD# ACC30604 $25.99

NEW RELEASES IN BRIEF

Treasures from the New World, Vol. 3

Somm Recordings announces the eagerly anticipated Volume 3 of Treasures from the New World throwing revealing new light on music from the Americas. Pianist Clélia Iruzun returns, accompanied by feted guitarist and Royal Academy of Music Professor Fabio Zanon and celebrated flautist Marcelo Barboza, both making their label debuts. (Somm)

1CD# SOMMCD 0669 $18.99

Shadow Dances – British Works for Flute

For his second album for Chandos, the flute virtuoso Adam Walker explores the music of British composers with pianist Huw Watkins. Vaughan Williams’s “Suite de ballet” was commissioned by the French flute virtuoso Louis Fleury (who had given the première of Debussy’s Syrinx). The work uses 18th-century French dance forms, a common practice in ‘neo-classical’ composition. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20265 $20.99

Dvořák, Janáček, Smetana & Suk: Bohemian Stories

Bohemian Stories encapsulates an intimate introspection of some “musical tales” from the Bohemian Romantic chamber music repertoire for violin and piano. A hereditary prince of Dvořák, Josef Suk is a proponent of a particular nuance of late Bohemian Romanticism that is distinctly coloristic, stretching harmony to the utmost to create a more creative and personal style. (Disgressione)

1CD# DIGR136 $17.99

Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet – Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture

The present release comprises two works by Russian composers of differing generations, in music which has long been central to the repertoire of composer and conductor Álvaro Cassuto who is heard conducting the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra. (First Hand)

1CD# FHR146 $15.99

Maria Solozobova

The legendary Martha Argerich joins renowned violinist Maria Solozobova for this recording. Solozobova’s dazzling career has taken her to the finest concert halls. (Antes Edition)

1CD# BM319328 $22.99

Soaked in Color – From Purcell to Queen

Soaked in Color is a collection of music from different eras and genres, interpreted by the special line-up of four cellists and one singer. Early music meets jazz, art song meets pop song. (Fuga Libera)

1CD# FUG797 $18.99

Poesie Der Luft / Yulia Drukh

Virtuoso, dreamy, sonorous music composed exclusively for the solo clarinet is compiled here, punctuated by the young musician and poet’s own verses. (Genuin)

1CD# GEN23831 $18.99

Debussy, Poulenc & Stravinsky: Works for Cello & Piano

Works for Cello and Piano by composers Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc and Claude Debussy, performed by Norwegian artists cellist Amalie Stalheim and pianist Christian Ihle Hadland. (Lawo)

1CD# LWC1260 $16.99

Magie / Martha Argerich;

New Releases

Bridges – Works for Violin & Piano by Greek Composers

This recording has been designed to introduce works for violin and piano by Greek composers or composers of partial Greek descent, whose works were inspired and shaped far from their place of birth by the influences and cultural trends of their new environments. Boris Papandopulo was based in the former Yugoslavia and his music is infused with Balkan folk music elements. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2563 $19.99

C. Schumann, R. Schumann & Weber: Piano Concertos

Introducing the latest recording with Luisa Imorde and the Bremer Philharmoniker, featuring two great romantic Piano Concertos from Clara Schumann and Carl Maria von Weber. This album features two Piano Concertos that beautifully capture the essence of the romantic era, complemented by solo piano pieces by Robert and Clara Schumann and C.M. von Weber. (Berlin Classics)

1CD# 0302965BC $19.99

Granados: Goyescas

“I feel Catalan through and through, but in my music I want to express what I feel, what I admire and what attracts me, be it Andalusian or Chinese” – Enrique Granados. “I hope that this album will provide a deeper understanding of the Goyescas, drawing not only the most common images of Spanish folklore such as the sevillanas or the bullfighters, but also a more complete picture of a diverse country.” (ARS)

1CD# ARS38629 $20.99

Schubert: Music for Piano Trio [2 CDs]

This new double-album by pianist Lars Vogt, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff includes some of Franz Schubert’s greatest works of chamber music, including his Piano Trios and the Arpeggione Sonata in breath-taking interpretations. (Ondine)

2CD# ODE 1394-2D $24.99

Harmonies Hongroises / Julia Okruashvili; László Fenyö

The cross-section of poetic & religious artistic life inspired the two musicians on this recording, pianist Julia Okruashvili and cellist László Fenyo, to create this CD Harmonies Hongroises, which combines music by Franz Liszt, born in 1811 in the Kingdom of Hungary, with music by Hungarian composers from the first half of the 20th century. (ARS)

1CD# ARS38624 $20.99

Dahn, David, Defaye & Hindemith: À La Manière

À La Manière presents virtuoso trombonist Mark Davidson in a program ranging from Ferdinand David’s popular Trombone Concertino and Hindemith’s dynamic trombone sonata to recent works by French composer Jean-Michel Defaye and American Luke Dahn. Davidson, the principal trombonist of the Utah Symphony orchestra, is joined by pianist Viktor Valkov. (Bridge)

1CD# BRIDGE 9581 $16.99

Milia: Sonazzos – Solos

The French Clarinet – 19th & 20th Century Music for Clarinet & Piano

The 19th century saw a great development in technical improvements of musical instruments, thus creating more possibilities for virtuoso display and melodic expression. This original program of works for clarinet by French romantic composers use the full resources of the innovations brought to the clarinet, by then a popular solo instrument. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96676 $14.99

Love Beyond Death / Marie Rosa Günter, Benjamin Beck

The first CD recording of the duo Benjamin Beck (viola) and Marie Rosa Gunter extends beyond all horizons –namely, from a perspective that links this world with the hereafter and that asks about the possibilities of eternal love. Beck’s velvety yet pithy viola tone coaxes out the nuances that make the thoughtful compositions of Robert Schumann, Ralph Vaughan-William, Sergei Prokofiev and Benjamin Britten so appealing. (Genuin)

1CD# GEN23810 $18.99

Works for Cello & Piano / Reiner Ginzel; Gitti Pirner

When Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his first two sonatas for piano and violoncello (Op. 5) in 1796, he was entering new compositional territory. Violin sonatas already existed; Mozart had already written several, but the cello had not yet established itself as a solo instrument equal to the violin in chamber music. (Hanssler Classic)

1CD# HC23009 $18.99

Recorded in 2022 in various places in Europe, the album includes five works for solo instruments written in different times. The most recent one, composed between 2021 and 2022, is Ikoro, which contains two double bass’ compositions. This discographic project aims to design a sketched geography of sound research across some pieces for solo instruments. (Stradivarius)

1CD# STR37251 $16.99

Sony Box Sets

Leonard Bernstein – 10 Album Classics [11 CDs]

The ultimate selection of Leonard Bernstein’s benchmark recordings & perfect introduction to his work as a conductor, composer and pianist. Includes Beethoven’s “Eroica” and Dvořák’s “New World” Symphonies, among others. The re-masterings in this new collection are the best ever issued, selected from the recent Leonard Bernstein – The Composer and Leonard Bernstein –Remastered editions. (Sony)

11CD# 19658791342 $49.98

Chavez: Complete Columbia Album Collection [7 CDs]

Sony Classical is pleased to announce an important reissue of works by Carlos Chávez, one of the most influential figures in the history of Mexican music. Most of these recordings, which span the years 1938 to 1980, are conducted by Chávez himself and have never appeared before on CD. (Sony)

7CD# 19439977412 $46.98

Jean-Pierre Rampal – Complete CBS Masterworks Recordings [56 CDs]

“L’Homme à la flûte d’or” Rampal’s Complete CBS, RCA and Sony Classical Recordings on 56 CDs. Before Jean-Pierre Rampal appeared on the music scene in the 1950s, wind players were rarely hired as soloists with an orchestra. This legendary French flute virtuoso broke through that barrier with his astonishing talent, flair, and commanding stage presence. (Sony)

56CD# 19439888282 $199.98

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas / Igor Levit [9 CDs]

Igor Levit’s work on the 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas has been the most important endeavour of the past 15 years of his life. His new studio recording of the complete sonata cycle represents the recorded testament to almost half his life spent in the study and performance of these sonatas. (Sony)

9CD# 19075843182 $79.98

Eugene Ormandy: The Complete RCA Album

Collection / Minneapolis Symphony [11 CDs]

“Ormandy was perhaps at his best during his Minneapolis days and in the early part of his long reign at Philadelphia”, wrote a Gramophone critic in 1991, and many have shared that opinion. Sony Classical is pleased to present the complete Ormandy/Minneapolis discography for the first time in a single collection. Many of these performances were never issued on LP, let alone CD.

(Sony)

11CD# 19439952392 $63.98

Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky [6 CDs]

“The last great father-figure of Western music” was how Leonard Bernstein eulogized Igor Stravinsky in 1972 before his homage concert in London a year after the composer’s death. Stravinsky’s works, he asserted, “sum up and embrace all of music itself – from primitive folk art to highly sophisticated serialism, from rarefied church music to outspoken jazz.” (Sony)

6CD# 19439854202 $36.98

The Rediscovered RCA Victor Recordings / Jose Iturbi [16 CDs]

This edition is a tribute to an era when classical music from films made its journey around the world. It contains all the recordings made by José Iturbi and his sister Amparo Iturbi for RCA Victor from 1933 to 1955, painstakingly restored and remastered from the original records and tapes, including numerous previously unreleased recordings. Also included is a informative 188-page coffee-table book. (Sony) 16CD# 19439836502 $125.98

The Boston Symphony Chamber Players: Complete RCA Album Collection [10 CDs]

The Boston Symphony Chamber Players were launched in 1964 during the Austrian conductor Erich Leinsdorf’s music directorship. RCA Victor recorded them regularly until the orchestra changed labels at the end of decade. By then, ten LPs of chamber music had been issued in four critically acclaimed releases. Sony Classical is now pleased to present all these recordings for the first time on album. (Sony)

10CD# 19439946802 $49.98

Joseph Szigeti: Complete Columbia Album Collection [17 CDs]

Sony Classical is pleased to announce the release of a 17-album box set collecting the recordings made between 1940 and 1956 for American Columbia by the renowned Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti. This collection displays many treasures of Szigeti’s passionate dedication to chamber music: in Bach, Handel, Tartini, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Dvořák, Henry Cowell, and more. (Sony)

17CD# 19075940352 $59.98

Budapest String Quartet Plays Brahms [4 CDs]

The Budapest String Quartet was American Columbia’s premier quartet in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1963 the foursome revisited the three Brahms quartets, which they had recorded triumphantly in the 78 era. In this new reissue, these are coupled on two albums with the benchmark Budapest recording of the Piano Quintet with Rudolf Serkin. (Sony). 4CD# 19439789332 $22.98

Boxed

Smetana Collection [8 CDs]

The most complete collection available of music by the father of Czech nationalism in music. Má Vlast, The Bartered Bride and the String Quartet ‘From My Life’: all written within a decade of each other, all so fundamental in their different genres in forming a Czech national identity in music that it can seem incredible they were the work of a single composer. (Brilliant Classics)

8CD# BRI96909 $32.99

The Orfeo Recordings [7 CDs]

Carl Seemann was the kind of pianist who didn’t try to impress audiences with brilliant virtuosity. Instead, he understood the piano as his ideal medium for revealing a polyphonic structure on a single instrument. On the occasion of his 40th year of death, ORFEO releases this 7-CD anniversary box with all his recordings on the label and an additional booklet. (Orfeo)

7CD# ORF-C260007 $54.99

Einaudi: Clouds, Vol. 1 [7 CDs]

Among the best-selling composers of our time, Ludovico Einaudi has won a following of millions through his distinctively calm, smoothly unfolding works. Clouds is a 7-CD collection, which ranges across 30 years of Einaudi’s oeuvre, from the Stanze (‘Verses’) of 1992 to the Underwater collection from 2022. (Brilliant Classics)

7CD# BRI96912 $52.99

Brahms: The Four Symphonies [5 CDs]

In their first Warner Classics release of symphonic repertoire, the players of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Michael Sanderling perform the four Brahms Symphonies and Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G minor. Founded in 1805, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (Luzerner Sinfonieorchester) is Switzerland’s oldest orchestra. (Warner Classics)

5CD# MOB482373 $39.99

J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas [8 CDs]

A re-release of his critically accalaimed recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Secular Cantatas. Recordings from 1994–2000, part of the project The Complete Bach on 172 CDs. This box set includes timeless performances featuring many of Europe’s finest singers at the height of their careers.

(Haenssler Classic)

8CD# HC23011 $29.99

Paganini: Complete Quartets for String Trio & Guitar, Vol. 1 [3

CDs]

This release is a source of pride for guitarist Alberto Mesirca. The Quartets in this 3-CD set are not in chronological or catalogue order because the full cycle of 15 Quartets will be realized with a second upcoming release (also 3 CDs), and Mesirca decided instead to create a common thread with the tonalities and musical development among the quartets. (Brilliant Classics)

3CD# BRI96872 $16.99

Barber: Complete Songs [3 CDs]

The songs of Samuel Barber offer the beauty of his output in microcosm. ‘Complete’ in this context used to mean the 47 songs gathered in a 2-CD set from 1994, but there are 65 songs here, making it the most complete survey yet recorded. Most of the lesser-known and unpublished songs on CD 3 date back to Barber’s student years. (Brilliant Classics)

3CD# BRI96514 $16.99

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius; The Apostles; The Kingdom [6 CDs]

Sir Mark Elder has long been hailed for his interpretation of the works of Sir Edward Elgar. This special release box set celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Hallé label and marks Hallé’s Elgar oratorios festival at the Bridgewater Hall in June 2023. Elgar’s three major oratorios are brought together in this special release box set. (Hallé)

6CD# CDHLD7561 $64.99

J.S. Bach: Cantatas [3 CDs]

This CD box set features interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas by three outstanding choirs and orchestras. In collaboration with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, one of the world’s leading orchestras specializing in historical performance practice, Michael Volle presents a recording of Bach’s cantatas for solo bass. (Accentus)

3CD# ACC80571 $27.94

Handel: Organ Concertos Op. 4 & Op. 7 / Ivan Ronda [3 CDs]

The Organ Concertos Op. 4 and Op. 7 by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) were originally composed as musical interludes to be performed during the intervals of the Oratorios. Handel chose to write for the organ, an instrument hitherto relegated to the liturgical service, to emancipate it and have it take on a new character, more brilliant and appealing to the public. (Brilliant Classics)

3CD# BRI96547 $16.99

Sets

Bruckner: The 9 Symphonies / Blomstedt; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra [10 CDs]

Bruckner’s symphonies are strenuous alpine hikes, and Blomstedt is a mountain guide who knows every stone on the path. His unique Bruckner cycle impressively reflects the extraordinary spirit of the long-standing partnership between the legendary conductor and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. The nine symphonies released in this box were recorded between 2005 and 2012. (Accentus)

10CD# ACC80575 $89.99

Gieseking: Columbia Graphophone Recordings

Complete Edition [48 CDs]

Walter Gieseking’s finesse, imagination and sureness of touch brought him special and lasting distinction in the solo piano works of Debussy et Ravel, which he recorded in their entirety. The complete solo piano works of Mozart are a pillar of this 48-CD collection. The entire collection has been newly remastered – using the best available sources for the 78-era recordings.

(Warner Classics)

48CD# MOB245596 $139.99

French Violin Sonatas [7 CDs]

The works in this collection emerged from the genre of duo concertant initially conceived as showcases for the virtuosity of Nicolò Paganini and his successors in the Franco-Belgian school of violin playing, notably Henry Vieuxtemps. (Brilliant Classics)

7CD# BRI96549 $34.99

Vaughan Williams: Complete Symphonies [6 CDs]

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vaughan Williams, we are proud to reissue this outstanding symphony cycle. Started in 1999 by Richard Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra, this was the first Vaughan Williams symphony cycle to be recorded in Surround Sound and released on Hybrid SACD. (Chandos)

6SACD# CHSA 5303(6) $39.99

BOXED SETS IN BRIEF

Saint-Saëns Edition [34 CDs]

The Complete Wilhelm Furtwängler on Record [55 CDs]

The unparalleled scope of this 55-CD set makes it an essential for the music-lover. Not only is it the first collection to unite Furtwängler’s entire catalogue of studio recordings, it also encompasses every live recording he made with a view to commercial release. Painstaking research has even unearthed a treasury of previously unpublished material, recorded in Vienna and Copenhagen. (Warner Classics)

55CD# MOB232405 $159.99

Bax: Complete Symphonies, Orchestral Works [7 CDs]

Sir Arnold Bax’s powerful symphonic world is one of surprising and at times stormy vigor contrasting with the most intense lyrical expressiveness and serenity. The selection of additional orchestral works evoking nature and atmospheric landscapes fascinates and rewards in equal measure, providing an essential overview of Bax’s music in critically acclaimed recordings. (Naxos)

7CD# 8507014 $46.99

New Year’s Concert – The Complete Works

(Extended Edition) [26 CDs]

Sony Classical released in 2015 a complete edition of all the works ever played at the Wiener Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Concerts. Performed between 1941 and 2015, the iconic live performances were originally issued in a single box set of 23 CDs. This updated 26-CD version includes repertoire from the following five years compiled on three additional CDs. (Sony)

26CD# 19439764562 $69.98

Rachmaninov: Complete Symphonies / Detriot SO; Leonard Slatkin [3 CDs]

Sergey Rachmaninov considered his Third Symphony to be one of his finest works, alongside the exquisitely abd virtuosic Symphonic Dances. The enduring attraction of these symphonies is enhanced by the ‘impressive, highly desirable interpretations’ (Gramophone) in this acclaimed edition conducted by Leonard Slatkin. (Naxos)

3CD# 8503278 $24.99

Over a remarkably long and illustrious career, Camille Saint-Saëns thrilled audiences around the world as a pianist and organist, and shaped the course of musical life in France. (Warner Classics)

34CD# MOB746048 $99.99

Ivry Gitlis – The Legend [4 CDs]

Ivry Gitlis, born in Haifa on August 22, 1922, is often referred to as “the great free spirit” among the violin virtuosi of the 20th century. (Profil)

4CD# PH19056 $22.99

Compositrices – New Light on French Romantic Women [8 CDs]

In this 8-CD set, the Palazzetto Bru Zane highlight 21 female creators, from Hélène de Montgeroult & Louise Farrenc to Charlotte Sohy & Madeleine Jaeger. (Bru Zane)

8CD# BZ2006 $49.99

Legendary Pianists – Famous Piano Concertos [10 CDs]

Outstanding pianists selected for this collection include Clara Haskil, Jörg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alicia de Larrocha, Wilhelm Backhaus, Géza Anda, and more. (SWR Classic)

10CD# SWR19433CD $51.99

Reference Records

The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos [3 CDs]

“Of all pianists before the public today, Ohlsson’s technique is among the most honest. Every note is present and accounted for. In fact, listening to the slow movements of these concertos, one would be hard-pressed to name another performance that sings with greater contour, poise and clarity. This is a bouquet of Beethoven concertos like no other.” – Gramophone (Reference)

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

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in a significant new interpretation from conductor Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It is coupled with Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet, newly arranged for large orchestra by Manfred Honeck and Tomáš Ille. This album was recorded in beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. (Reference)

Le Dolce Sirene / Bach Aria Soloists

A very special new release! Entitled Le Dolce Sirene to represent the all-women force of Bach Aria Soloists, this exciting new album includes works by Monteverdi, Handel, Mendelssohn and Bach, alongside a new transcription by BAS of Cecilia McDowall’s song cycle Four Shakespeare Songs. (Reference)

1CD# FR-750 $16.99 $13.59

Reencuentros / William Carlton Galvez; Trio Chapultepec

Reference Recordings is proud to announce Reencuentros, Cecilia Duarte’s first solo album, produced by Blanton Alspaugh. Cecilia is best known as a classical and opera singer. This album is a departure, containing 12 romantic boleros from multiple countries. Sung in Spanish, these Latin popular standards are truly art songs from the mid-20th century. (Reference)

1CD# FR-748 $16.99 $13.59

Invasion – Music and Art for Ukraine

A new album of World Premieres from GRAMMY-Award-winning Ukrainian-American pianist Nadia Shpachenko. She has collaborated with Ukrainian artists to create Invasion music videos and album art, describing their war experience. Reference Recordings is proud to release this album, with proceeds benefitting Ukrainian people affected by the war. (Reference)

1CD# FR-749 $16.99 $13.59

Migration / Jonathan Gunn; Univ. or Texas Wind Ensemble

This is an album of superb performances by The University of Texas Wind Ensemble, conducted by Artistic Director Jerry Junkin. Four outstanding contemporary composers are represented on this album. The title piece by Adam Schoenberg: Migration – Symphony No. 2 for Wind Ensemble, is the World Premiere recording of this important new work.

(Reference)

1CD# RR-150 $16.99 $13.59

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Stucky: Silent Spring / Pittsburgh SO

This recording features the beloved Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ of Ludwig van Beethoven, with Steven Stucky’s ‘Silent Spring’ in exceptional performances from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This work was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the book ‘Silent Spring’. (Reference)

1SACD# FR-747SACD $19.99 $15.99

A Soul to Claim / Doug MacLeod

Reference Recordings is proud to present our fifth album with the prolific singer, songwriter, engaging storyteller, and masterful guitarist, Doug MacLeod. For this recording, Doug teamed up with legendary producer and engineer Jim Gaines for twelve new MacLeod originals. (Reference)

1CD# FR-746 $16.99 $13.59

Liebermann: Frankenstein / San Francisco Ballet Orchestra [2 CDs]

The first audio recording of Lowell Liebermann’s complete score to Liam Scarlett’s ballet adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel. Frankenstein was recorded during live ballet performances at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. The producers state: “The live audience and incredible dancers allowed us to document an “event” rather than simply recording a musical score.” (Reference)

2CD# RR-148 $19.99 $15.99

Brahms: Symphony No. 4; MacMillan: Larghetto for Orchestra [2 CDs]

Great Performances, Great Sound, and a World Premiere! Reference Recordings proudly presents Symphony No. 4 of Johannes Brahms, with the world premiere recording of James MacMillan’s Larghetto for Orchestra, in exceptional performances from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This release is the twelfth in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh Live! series. (Reference)

2SACD# FR-744SACD $19.99 $15.99

Sale

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 / Leshnoff: Double Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon

Reference Recordings proudly presents Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in an exquisite interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It is coupled with a World Premiere recording of leading American composer Jonathan Leshnoff’s ‘Double Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon’.

(Reference)

1CD# FR-738SACD $19.99 $15.99

Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 & Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60

The Utah Symphony conducted by Thierry Fischer, in grand new performances of Alexander Nevsky and the Lieutenant Kijé Suite, two of his most brilliant and dramatic musical works. The music of Lieutenant Kijé was originally written as the score to the film of the same name, released in March 1934. It was Prokofiev’s first film music and his first commission.

(Reference)

1SACD# FR-735SACD $19.99 $15.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 / Manfred Honeck; Pittsburgh SO

Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra continue to amaze! Reference Recordings proudly presents this iconic work in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound.

(Reference)

1SACD# FR-733SACD $19.99 $15.99

One Movement Symphonies / Michael Stern; Kansas City SO

This is a unique album of one movement symphonies composed by Barber, Sibelius and Scriabin, in an outstanding interpretation from Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony. The album was produced by David Frost. The Kansas City Symphony has a vision to transform hearts, minds and its community through the power of symphonic music.

(Reference)

1CD# RR-149 $16.99 $13.59

Serebrier: Last Tango Before Sunrise

GRAMMY-winning conductor and composer Jose Serebrier is one of the most-recorded classical artists in history. Reference Recordings is proud to present nine works of Serebrier, including four World Premieres and the first digital recording of his dramatic Symphony for Percussion, performed by the Gnessin Percussion Ensemble of Moscow.

(Reference)

1CD# FR-743 $19.99 $13.59

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Pittsburgh SO

Celebrate Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Recorded in superb audiophile sound, this release is the eleventh in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh Live! series on the FRESH! imprint from Reference Recordings. (Reference)

1SACD# FR-741SACD $19.99 $15.99

Jonathan Leshnoff: Symphony No. 3; Piano Concerto

Reference Recordings presents two new works from leading American composer Jonathan Leshnoff. These world premiere recordings showcase the Kansas City Symphony performing his third symphony, inspired by World War I letters home, with texts sung by baritone Stephen Powell. (Reference)

1SACD# FR-739SACD $19.99 $15.99

Stylus Phantasticus / Tekla Cunningham; Pacific MusicWorks

Enjoy this unique album containing 11 works of early Baroque composers. They are performed by Pacific MusicWorks. Artists on this album are featured soloist Tekla Cunningham, baroque violin; William Skeen, bass violin; Stephen Stubbs, baroque guitar and chitarrone; Maxine Eilander, baroque harp; and more. (Reference)

1CD# FR-742 $16.99 $13.59

REFERENCE TITLES IN BRIEF

The Orchestral Organ / Jan Kraybill

Jan Kraybill’s performances are sonic splendor! Her amazing pipe organ performances give new dimensions to beloved orchestral favorites. (Reference)

1SACD# RR-145SACD $19.99 $15.99

The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom [2 CDs]

This is the second release in the series from the PaTRAM Institute, in a program of Russian Orthodox choral music in the English language. (Reference)

2CD# FR-731 $19.99 $15.99

The Poetry of Places / Jack Van Zandt; Nadia Shpachenko

Pianist Nadia Shpachenko’s release The Poetry of Places features World Premiere recordings of works for solo piano & two pianos in a fascinating program inspired by great architecture and places. (Reference)

1CD# FR-730 $16.99 $13.59

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 “Eroica” – Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11

Reference Recordings presents these two iconic works in definitive interpretations from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound. (Reference)

1SACD# FR-728SACD $19.99 $15.99

Holst: The Planets / Daniel Harding

“Horns and woodwind are expressive, strings lithe, the layers of wordless high voices perfectly blended. From the menace of Mars, bringer of war, to the serene beauty of Venus, the mix of jollity and nobility in Jupiter, the unworldly sadness of Saturn and the pianissimo dissonance of Neptune, this is a revelatory performance.”

– The Guardian (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900208 $17.99

Bruckner: Motets

“Complete recorded collections of Bruckner’s motets are not as common as one might expect. Blessed with the longest nave of any English cathedral, St Albans copes easily with Bruckner’s frequent pauses and demanding wide dynamic range. Andrew Lucas’s three dozen singers are on impressive form, combining tonal beauty with sheer stamina.”

– Gramophone (First Hand)

1CD# FHR143 $12.99

Chesnokov: Sacred Choral Music / St. John’s Voices

“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. “This survey of music by the prolific Russian choral composer Pavel Chesnokov –the first full album of his music by an English choir – is rich in spiritual drama and gloriously recorded.”

– Gramophone (Naxos)

1CD# 8574496 $13.99

Broken Branches / Karim Sulayman; Sean Shibe

“Broken Branches, by the guitarist Sean Shibe and tenor Karim Sulayman, is an eclectic album, built on friendship, which explores the performers’ own sense of identity, memory, diaspora, often in their own arrangements. Sulayman, a Lebanese-American singer, light-voiced and flexible, brings new inflections to John Dowland, Claudio Monteverdi and Benjamin Britten.”

– The Guardian (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187031 $15.99

Maria Mater Meretrix / Anna Prohaska;

Patricia Kopatchinskaja

“A program comprising works depicting either the Virgin Mary or Mary Magdalene through time, conceived of and executed with flair by the soprano Anna Prohaska and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Both are thoughtful, entirely game musicians, and their passion for the concept and material is evident. This recording comes highly recommended.” – Limelight (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA739 $18.99

Humperdinck: Der Blaue Vogel (The Blue Bird) [2 CDs]

“This music bears a strong resemblance to Mahler, but just until the solo violin takes over with a sentimental theme that is lusciously played by the un-named concertmaster. Tast elegantly shapes the beautifully sketched musical themes for Bread, Fire, Water, and Milk, who all become characters in the play.” – MusicWeb (Capriccio)

2CD# C5506 $20.99

Zwilich: Cello Concerto & Other Works

“A brand-new cello concerto from a Pulitzer prize-winner! Zuill Bailey’s formidable technique and profound involvement with the music lend extra power to this sassy, jazzy work in which Zwilich’s hallmark propulsive energy in passages of incisively bowed syncopated semiquavers, alternates with moments of profound calm.” – The Strad (Delos) 1CD# DE 3596 $16.99

Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos

“Leong really makes his mark with the concluding Passacaglia, a form so beloved of both Britten and Shostakovich as a metaphorical anchor in times of great stress. Suddenly psychological ambiguities are set aside and in the wake of one war Britten becomes contentious objector of all. With outstanding collaboration from the Philharmonia Orchestra I can’t recall a better account of the piece than this.”

Gramophone (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA946 $18.99

Anime Immortani / Franco Fagioli

“In ‘Va’ pure ad altri in braccio’ from La finta giardiniera the strings dive down in fury in a style that teases Gluck’s ideas about how rage should sound in reformed opera. But it’s Fagioli who commands the storm with admirable breath control here as throughout this recording, with an almost seamless line from the dramatic top of the voice to fruity chest notes.”

BBC Music (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187044 $15.99

Elcock: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 – String Quartets

“Elcock has put his formative years of playing the violin to profitable use with his idiomatic and resourceful writing for strings. Suffice to add the Tippett Quartet, which premiered the latter two works, proves an assured and persuasive exponent while the running order, of 2-1-4-3, makes for a program well worth experiencing as a continuous sequence.”

– Arcana (Toccata Classics)

1CD# TOCC0688 $18.99

Choice

Forbidden Fruit / Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu

“Appl is comfortable in three languages and a wide range of emotional expression. Baillieu is a full and equal partner in this enterprise. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the piano in Mahler’s Urlicht more delicately, tantalisingly phrased.” – La Scene Musicale (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA912 $18.99

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Karina Canellakis

“...this is a very good performance, and the sound quality is excellent, full and robust. For the person new to classical music looking to pick up a recording of the Concerto for Orchestra, this new Pentatone would be a solid choice, with its combination of a good performance, excellent sound, and unbeatable booklet.” – ClassicalCandor (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187027 $15.99

18 Piano Sutras & 25 South Asian Pianisms / Tanya Ekanayaka [2 CDs]

“Ekanayaka provides a new and good soundtrack to calm moments. I have played this one a few times, and occasionally think I hear a quote from Rachmaninov or Beethoven. There are in fact a lot of familiar classical echoes in here, but Miss Ekanayaka is simply improvising with a strong basis in the classical repertoire.” – Muzikifan (Naxos World)

2CD# NXW76163-2 $21.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 / Bernard Haitink

“The two Nachtmusiken and the shadowy Scherzo, they really become here that island of dreams once described by Mahler expert Richard Specht. The atmosphere of the second Nachtmusik becomes much more frightening in Haitink’s performance than in other interpretations, but contains that wistfulness that expresses mourning for the ‘lost paradise’ in all of Mahler’s works.” (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900209 $17.99

Bacewicz: Piano Concerto, Concerto for 2 Pianos

“We can never appreciate Bacewicz’s music without experiencing the full range of her works. By giving us the piano concertos and two other significant orchestra works, the disc enables us to appreciate her power and range. But more than that, the music receives superb performances, and clearly, Jablonski, Collon and the orchestra appreciate the sheer drama, bravura and brilliance of her music. – Planet Hugill (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1427-2 $16.99

Inner View / Anders Lønne Grønseth & Multiverse

“And it is delightful, a seemingly organic combination of precomposition, systematicity and intuitive, in-the-moment, jazz-based improvisation. While in a sense all five musicians are soloing all the time, the most prominent among them are Grønseth and Berg, two giants of Norwegian jazz who each merit a far higher international profile than they have acquired so far.”

– AllAboutJazz (NXN Recordings)

1CD# NXN2010 $14.99

Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn: Variations

“Briggs navigates especially skilfully the early-Romantic storms of Mendelssohn’s Variations serieuses, giving them plenty of brilliance, lyricism and energy. The recording’s intimacy is pleasing, like hearing the pianist in her living room rather than in some big barn of a concert hall –which suits the music to a tee.”

– BBC Music (Avie)

1CD# AV2569 $17.99

Rameau: Zorastre 1749 [3 CDs]

“This is a world-premiere recording of the original 1749 version (using the critical edition prepared by Graham Sadler). They won’t be disappointed, and listeners who are newer to “tragédie lyrique” and (a related genre) “opéra-ballet” may actually find this recording a good place to start, along with some recording or video of Rameau’s Les Indes galantes.”

– ArtsFuse (Alpha)

3CD# ALPHA891 $36.99

Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin / Daniel Matejca

“Ysaÿe’s solo suites provide an enduring memorial to his violinist contemporaries, from Kreisler to Szigeti, enshrining an exalted art we can only hope will survive the pressures of our time. Young Czech Daniel Matejča, winner of Eurovision Young Musician 2022, picks up the baton for the next generation in this bold, impressive set.”

– BBC Music (Supraphon)

1CD# SU4313-2 $21.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 / Osmo Vänskä; Minnesota Orchestra

BIS’s exemplary sound presents a deep and wide soundstage with plenty of warmth and transparency. The performance’s incredible range of dynamics, from Vänskä’s beloved barely audible pianissimos to the densest brass-laden climaxes is fully captured. I know of no other recording matching this level of clarity and depth, especially in SACD format.”

– The Classic Review (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2476 $19.99

Naxos American Classics

Antheil: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1– 4

George Antheil travelled to Europe in 1922 determined to become ‘noted and notorious’. The first three violin sonatas come from this period, with the eclectic Violin Sonata No. 1 displaying the fiercely barbaric influence of Stravinsky, the more jazzy No. 2 developing experiments in ‘musical cubism’ and the Violin Sonata No. 3 achieving a synthesis of Stravinskyian rhythms and Antheil’s more song-like tendencies. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559937 $13.99

Kernis: Double Echo – New Guitar Concertos from the Americas

This album of guitar concertos from the Americas features pieces composed for David Tanenbaum. Building on a tradition of prominent guitarists generating repertoire through new commissions, these works present the guitar in a variety of settings. Kernis’s concerto dips with ease into the world of pop music, whereas his Lullaby and Soliloquyare reflective, lyrical and romantic. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574298 $13.99

Bermel: Intonations – Music for Clarinet and Strings

Twice GRAMMY-nominated composer and performer Derek Bermel studied with Henri Dutilleux, Dutch avantgardist Louis Andriessen, and ragtime revivalist William Bolcom. In his music, seemingly antithetical qualities – classical and vernacular, comic and serious –merge and transform each other unpredictably, their inspiration ranging from theatre, to gestalt psychology, to meditations on cosmology. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559912 $13.99

Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra

Pulitzer Prize and three-time GRAMMY Award winning composer Jennifer Higdon continues to write what the Chicago Sun-Times describes as music “both modern and timeless.” Duo Duel for two pitched percussion instruments and orchestra is a double concerto of scintillating, high-speed virtuosity: “don’t blink – you might miss something!” she advises the listener. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559913 $13.99

Boyer: Balance of Power

This album presents eight of the most recent works by Peter Boyer, one of the leading American orchestral composers of his generation. “Balance of Power” was commissioned for the 95th birthday of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, while “Fanfare for Tomorrow” was composed for the inauguration of President Joe Biden in 2021. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559915 $13.99

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 realizations and editions, as well as being the first recording of the complete edition of the Sets. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559917 $13.99

Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements

Justin Holland was an important African American figure in the national US anti-slavery movement as well as being a significant figure in guitar composition and methodology. As a composer he synthesised European models and embraced popular, church and parlour songs generating a rich variety of works.

(Naxos)

1CD# 8559924 $13.99

Hailstork: Piano Concerto No. 1

This recording presents brand new concertos from two vibrant and contrasting American composers. Adolphus Hailstork’s First Piano Concerto draws on his African American heritage to create a work brimming with energy and high spirits. The Violin Concerto “Eleven Eleven” by Danny Elfman illustrates his love for the music of Shostakovich and Prokofiev. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559925 $13.99

Puts: Marimba Concerto / The City

“This collection of recordings is especially meaningful for me because it charts my growth as an orchestral composer from my years as a student – when the Marimba Concerto was composed – to more mature work such as Moonlight. It also reflects the wonderful relationship I have enjoyed over the years with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop.”

– Kevin Puts (Naxos)

1CD# 8559926 $13.99

Leshnoff: Elegy / Violin Concerto No. 2 / Of Thee I Sing

This is Naxos’s fifth album devoted to the music of leading American composer, Jonathan Leshnoff. He was GRAMMY-nominated for his album Violins of Hope and is among the most frequently performed of living composers. The themes of these recent works are remembrance, memorialization, and hopefulness. Elegy addresses ideas of harmony and discord through contrasting thematic ideas. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559927 $13.99

Naxos Records

Prado: Sinfonia Dos Orixas 1CD# 8574411 $13.99

Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos, Opp. 2 & 7 1CD# 8574452 $13.99

Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen [2 CDs] 2CD# 8660526-27 $24.99

Zelenski: Janek (Opera in Two Acts) [2 CDs] 2CD# 8660521-22

Ligeti: Complete Piano Etudes 1CD# 8574397 $13.99

Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 27 1CD# 8574374 $13.99

Haydn Piano Trios, Vol. 8 1CD# 8574391 $13.99

Czerny: Piano Concertinos, Opp. 78 & 650 1CD# 8574458 $13.99

Smith Brindle: Complete Works for Solo Guitar 1CD# 8574476 $13.99

Adam: Orfa 1CD# 8574478 $13.99

Fuchs: Point of Tranquility 1CD# 8573567 $13.99

Szechenyi: Dances for Piano 1CD# 8574506 $13.99

Clarke: The Prophecies of Merlin 1CD# 8579127 $13.99

Guitar Recital 1CD# 8574539 $13.99

Korean Tapestry 1CD# 8579129 $13.99

Chamber Music

Penderecki: String Quartets; Clarinet Quartet; String Trio

Krzysztof Penderecki’s works for (string) quartet neatly encapsulate the stylistic breadth and trace the development of Poland’s most important modern composer throughout his six-decade-long career. This collection covers all his chamber music for three and four strings, even the early neo-baroque outlier of his Three Pieces adapted from his film music for The Saragossa Manuscript. (Capriccio)

1CD# C5493 $19.99

Mendelson & Bacewicz: Chamber Works

The award-winning Silesian quartet present a new album featuring two composers from Warsaw –Joachim Mendelson and Graznya Bacewicz. Joachim Mendelson moved to Paris in 1929, where he joined the Association des Jeunes Musiciens Polonais, a society founded in 1926 to facilitate the study, publication, and promotion of the works of young Polish composers. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20181 $20.99

Works for String Quartet / Lutoslawski Quartet

Providing an overview of almost a century, this album reflects the aspirations of Polish nationalism through the works of three pivotal figures: Karol Kurpinski, whose Fantasy for String Quartet is both serious and ingenious in design, Zygmunt Noskowski, whose witty piece on a theme of Viotti includes the use of a polacca, and Stanislaw Moniuszko, whose quartets balance the hymnal with the rustic. (Naxos)

1CD# 8573978 $13.99

Beethoven:

Piano Trios / Trio Alterna

Recreating the tonal language of a composer and the essence of an entire age is the goal of the young Trio Alterna, which has recorded a CD of piano trios by Ludwig van Beethoven on Genuin that includes the composer’s magnificent “Ghost Trio”. Takahiko Sakamaki, Anna Dmitrieva, and Amarilis Dueñas Castan are all distinguished representatives of their generation. (Genuin)

1CD# GEN23806 $18.99

Feidje: Chamber Works

After seven years of violin studies during his childhood, Åsmund Feidje founded the Norwegian experimental rock band RAIN in 1967. In 1969, the group was employed by the National Theatre in Oslo to take part in the pop musical Din egen vri (Your own thing). Ever since then, Feidje has worked primarily with theatre music, both individually and in collaboration with the other members of RAIN. (Lawo)

1CD# LWC1254 $16.99

Stamp: Chamber Music, Vol. 1

The American composer John Stamp (b. 1954) – universally known as ‘Jack’ –is a familiar figure in the worlds of the symphonic wind-band movement that flourishes in US universities and of the brass band on both sides of the Atlantic. This first Toccata Classics album of his music presents a cross-section of his recent works for woodwinds, brass and strings. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0687 $18.99

Modern Horn Trios

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. Berlin Stories expresses their love and admiration for this endlessly fascinating and invigorating metropolis. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20271 $20.99

Voces Latinas / Dalí Quartet

The Dalí Quartet is acclaimed for bringing Latin American quartet repertoire to an equal standing alongside the Classical and Romantic canon. Tours of its Classical Roots, Latin Soul programming have reached enthusiastic audiences across the U.S., Canada and South America. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC3923 $15.99

Between Spheres / Boreas Quartett

Between Spheres focuses on the sound poetry of the recorder consort. Music of the 17th century interlocks with a contemporary cycle dedicated to the quartet. The recording is the second release of the Boreas Quartet Bremen after the ICMA award-winning album

Basevi Codex from 2022. (Audite)

1CD# AUD97784 $20.99

Two world premiere recordings are making this unusual album very attractive, not only for friends of french horn; the sounds and sound combinations are thrilling. Perfectly high caliber the artist crew: Premysl Vojta is one of the leading french horn player in Europe; Florence Millet is very much part of the contemporary music scene, giving master-classes and organising festivals. (Cavi)

1CD# AVI 8553522 $17.99

Plucked Strings

Marais: Cinquième Livre De Pièces De Viole

[3 CDs]

Marin Marais published his last collection in 1725. He was no longer playing in the Chambre du Roi by that time and had moved to a house in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau where he cultivated plants and flowers in his garden. The Cinquième Livre de Pièces de Viole reflects this image of a peaceful life; today we regard it as the final testament of a musician who was looking back upon his past years. (Ricercar)

3CD# RIC451 $27.99

The Blue Album / Pablo Sainz-Villegas

“Blue stands for a particularly intimate mood,” says renowned Spanish guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas. And correspondingly his latest album is titled The Blue Album. The repertory is correspondingly wide-ranging, extending, as it does, from the German and Italian Baroque – with music by Silvius Leopold Weiss and Domenico Scarlatti – to the present day with music by Philip Glass and Max Richter. (Sony)

1CD# 19658779092 $13.98

Cage, Gordon, Hosokawa & MacMillan:

Overtones / Eline Groslot

A disc for harp not mainly addressed to harpists, but to all contemporaty music lovers. A disc for harp with compositions not by harpist-composers, but from composers in the canon. A spectacular Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (Brussels Philharmonic) composed in 2022 by the American composer Geoffrey Gordon is the core of the recording. (Antartica)

1CD# AR 050 $14.99

Coste: Guitar Works, Vol. 6 / An Tran

Napoléon Coste was the most eminent French guitarist of the 19th-century and a creative innovator. Fantaisie symphonique shows the range of his ambition with its quasi-orchestral textures, swift mood changes and virtuoso flourishes. Le Départ is one his most popular extended pieces, full of liquid transitions. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574321 $13.99

TITLES IN BRIEF

Guitar Intersections / Ivan Petricevic

De Murcia: Guitar Music

This album incorporates works that come from one of the most fascinating collections of popular music of the 18th century. By interspersing a pasacalle with a cumbee, a fandango with a zarambeque, this recording invites you to stroll along the streets of an imaginary 18th-century Novo Hispanic city and listen to its music. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96768 $12.99

Children’s Corner – Music for Guitar / Johan Smith

This selection of transcriptions celebrates childhood in a variety of ways, featuring popular works – Schubert’s Erlkönig, Granados’s atmospheric Tales of Youth, Mozart’s elegant Sonata facile, Schumann’s Scenes of Childhood and Debussy’s Children’s Corner – presented in a totally natural and idiomatic manner within the guitar’s distinctly expressive soundworld. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574442 $13.99

Presti & Lagoya, Vol. 2 / Toronto SO; Walter

Susskind

Doremi’s second CD dedicated to he artistry of the legendary duo of Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya provides a fascinating panorama of the development of the classical guitar in the middle decades of the twentieth century through the lens of two of its greatest exponents. (Doremi)

1CD# DHR-8140 $18.99

J.S. Bach & Weiss: Davidsharfen

The David harp is a type of harp from the German Baroque period. The works on this release come from various German collections, such as the Dresden “Musikalische Rüstkammer”, the collection of the Silesian Dominican monk Father Pius Hancke, but also works by Silvius Leopold Weiss, whose lute duets were transcribed for two harps. (Glossa)

1CD# GCD921305 $20.99

This recording contains guitar music by five Spanish composers of the 19th & 20th centuries, as well as one important Venezuelan master of today. (Haenssler)

1CD# HC23017 $18.99

Krumpholz: Sonates En Forme De Scenes / Anna Pasetti

Recorded here together for the first time, Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz’s six Sonates En Forme De Scène adopted the German sensitive style and used free form as a medium for expressive depth. (Dynamic)

1CD# DYN-CDS7988 $16.99

Durezza e Ligatura / Thalheimer; Markus Folker

“The three main works on the CD are favorite pieces of mine that I often listened to as a student. One is the Suite No. 1 in E minor, BWV 996, by Johann Sebastian Bach.” – Markus Folker Thalheimer (Haenssler)

1CD# HC22025 $18.99

Intimate / Ichiro Suzuki

This is a CD conceived with great delicacy in which the figure of Segovia stands out as the inspiration for a repertoire that crosses borders and styles. Close your eyes and enjoy. (IBS Classical)

1CD# IBS-42023 $15.99

New Piano

Rautavaara & Martinů: Piano Concertos No. 3

Eclectic, prolific and capable of composing in all genres, Bohuslav Martinů is nevertheless a composer who is difficult to categorize and the word that seems to best suit his music is ‘cosmopolitan’. The Piano Concerto No. 3 shares many features with the Romantic concerto and recalls both Brahms and Stravinsky. The concerto ends in a macabre dance and appears as a defiant, almost belligerent gesture. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2532 $19.99

Castro & Ponce: Conciertos Románticos

Celebrated Mexican-born pianist Jorge Federico Osorio, “one of the most elegant and accomplished pianists on the planet” (Los Angeles Times) performs Romantic-era concertos and solo pieces by Mexican composers Ricardo Castro and Manuel María Ponce. (Cedille)

1CD# CDR 221 $16.99

20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 5 – Switzerland

This acclaimed edition covering the early 20th century’s fashionable wave of hot dance music from America into Europe now takes us to Switzerland. 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 5 presents more evocative piano rarities from this decadent era, performed with panache and grace by Gottlieb Wallisch, and features numerous world premiere recordings and a plethora of rarely heard pieces. (Grand Piano)

1CD# GP922 $16.99

Hallelujah Junction

Stellar piano duo Quattro Mani’s latest recording features John Adams’s ebullient “Hallelujah Junction”, and premiere recordings by Paul Moravec and Danish composer Bent Sørensen. Bonus tracks include rarities by Paul Creston and Paul Bowles. Fanfare’s Robert Carl writes that “Quattro Mani is one of the most enduring and leading keyboard duos anywhere.” (Bridge)

1CD# BCD9552 $16.99

R. Schumann: Piano Trios, Vol. 2

After its first album devoted to Schumann’s first two piano trios, the Kungsbacka Piano Trio now presents the conclusion of this series with the Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, to which they add the Six Studies in Canonic Form, originally for pedal piano and performed here in an arrangement for piano trio, and an early work, the Quartet in C minor for violin, viola, cello and piano, which was only published in 1979. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2477 $19.99

Jadin: Piano Sonatas, Op. 4 – 6 [2 CDs]

New recordings of signature works by a young and tragically short-lived lion of the keyboard in late 18th-century France. This is the most extensive set of records ever dedicated to the music of Hyacinthe Jadin, sure to attract the attention of all aficionados of keyboard rarities, especially as performed by the Polish harpsichordist and pianist Marek Toporowski. (Brilliant Classics)

2CD# BRI96958 $14.99

Martha Argerich Live, Vol. 14 [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 13th volume of Doremi’s special series of live performances and broadcasts featuring the artistry of the young Martha Argerich. (Doremi)

2CD# DHR-8203/4 $37.99

C.P.E. Bach & J.S. Bach: Father and Son

Fourth release by Einav Yarden on Challenge Classics: Johann Sebastian Bach and Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach. The spotlight is on the son. By combining father and son, the disc intends to emphasize the bold innovations of the latter. Einav Yarden is a captivating pianist with a clear vision and a wonderful, convincing sound.

(Challenge)

1CD# CC 72952 $16.99

Anthology of American Music, Vol. 5 –American Dances

Vol. 5 of American Piano Music: The Anthology of American Piano Music is designed to show the stylistic breadth, high musical quality, and great originality of the best American piano works. The series contains underrated, neglected or forgotten masterworks of the American literature for solo piano from the 18th to the 21st century that have been selected primarily for their musical worth and originality. (Danacord)

1CD# DACOCD965 $16.99

The Decca Solo Recordings, 1941–1945 [2 CDs]

An unobtrusive figure in the British music scene and despite her self-stated lack of ambition, Kathleen Long was a musician of the highest order. Her first recording was made in 1928, and her first Decca recordings (of Mozart’s Piano Concertos K449 and K450) were made in 1935. Her first Decca solo recordings are those on this release. (APR)

2CD# APR6041 $19.99

Corigliano: Complete Solo Piano Music

John Corigliano’s music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by some of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. He is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, five GRAMMY Awards, the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559930 $13.99

Beck, Debussy

& Martino: Iman Album II

A musical journey, James W. Iman’s latest album, IMAN II, is a stunning blend of Classical and contemporary piano compositions that will leave you spellbound. Iman’s masterful interpretations of Martino’s Fantasies and Impromptus are nothing short of awe-inspiring, and he has crafted a captivating album that showcases his skill as a pianist. (Metier)

J.S. Bach: Tranquility

1CD# MEX77114 $18.99

Like all great composers, Bach wrote lively dynamic pieces for keyboard as well as in his cantatas etc. But he also produced many wonderful gentle and peaceful works and many of these are collected by pianist Jonathan Phillips in his new album Tranquillity. This CD contains music for anyone hoping to gain an overriding sense of stillness, calm, contemplation and reverence.

(Divine Art)

1CD# DDX21102 $18.99

Bartok, Draeseke, Ravel: Im Freien

For her second album with Naïve, Zlata Chochieva has chosen a magnificent, audacious program, associating Schumann, Ravel, Liszt and Bartók with the lesser known Draeseke and Schulz-Evler. Sensitive to nature and to the emotions it inspires, the Russian pianist Zlata Chochieva has conceived this very personal album as a patchwork, sometimes inward-looking, landscape with changing skies. (Naïve)

1CD# NV7959 $16.99

PIANO ALBUMS IN BRIEF

Schubert + Schoenberg

Three years after recording Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang (arranged by Liszt), pianist Can Çakmur launches a new series called Schubert. Describing the Viennese composer as “a constant companion” in his life, Çakmur’s aim here is to juxtapose his complete major piano solo compositions with works by other composers that were inspired by his music. (BIS)

SACD# BIS-2650 $19.99

Yunchan Lim Live from the Cliburn – Liszt: Transcendental Etudes

In June 2022, Yunchan Lim became the youngest person ever to win gold at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition; his performances throughout showcased a “magical ability” and a “natural, instinctive quality” (La Scena) that astounded listeners around the world. (Steinway & Sons)

1CD# STNS30217 $17.99

Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Szpilman: Resilience

Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva makes her Pentatone debut with Resilience, presenting music by Szpilman, Shostakovich, Weinberg and Prokofiev, composers who – each in their own way – maintained themselves in times of great instability. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187073 $15.99

Franck & Martin: Piano Quintets

Premiered in 1919 in Zurich by the leaders of string sections of the Tonhalle Orchestra with Frank Martin himself at the piano, it displays a wide variety of influences, all forming part of a 29-year-old musician’s search for his own artistic voice. At the same time, the Quintet’s style is thoroughly individual, notably in its choice of rich harmonies. (Cavi)

1CD# AVI 8553527 $17.99

The Great Danish Pianist Victor Schiøler, Vol. 6 [2 CDs]

The greatest Danish pianist in concert – Victor Schiøler’s activities as a soloist and his increasingly comprehensive work as a teacher were central to his life from about 1950 until his death in 1967. (Danacord)

2CD# DACOCD962-963 $16.99

French Music for Two Pianos [2 CDs]

Martin Jones has been one of Britain’s most highly regarded solo pianists since first coming to international attention in 1968 when he received the Dame Myra Hess Award. (Nimbus)

2CD# NI5953 $29.99

Queen Elisabeth Competition – Piano 2013 & 2016 [4 CDs]

This 4-CD box set includes mostly unreleased performances of the First Prizes and winners of the audience prizes from the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in 2013 and 2016. (QEC)

4CD# QECDUO21 $36.99

Chopin: Ballades & Scherzi

Renowned Armenian-born pianist Marianna Shirinyan performs some of Chopin’s most fascinating and fiendish pieces: the four Ballades and four Scherzos. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100248 $16.99

Organ Music

Sally Jo Rüedi: Organ Works on Metzel Organs

This CD recording not only represents a complete show of organ works composed and played by Sally Jo Rüedi during the last 20 years. It also presents four outstanding organs built during the same period by Metzler Orgelbau AG of Dietikon ZH (Switzerland). Each of these four organs, and of course the room in which they are located, has its own unique sound personality. (Solo Musica)

1CD# SM422 $18.99

Nordic Journey, Vol. 14 / James D. Hicks

American organist James D. Hicks continues his exploration of Nordic organ literature in Volume 14 of the Nordic Journey series, featuring the Kangasalan and Åkerman & Lund pipe organist in the Kallio Church of Helsinki, Finland. (Pro Organo)

1CD# PO7306 $17.99

Deutsch, Ravel & Sibelius: Oceanic / Iveta Apkalna

The new album Oceanic by Iveta Apkalna is a collection of two expansive organ works and two orchestral interludes with maritime connotations, showcasing Apkalna’s special relationship with the sea as a musician who grew up on the Baltic. The album features Bernd Richard Deutsch’s “Okeanos,” which Iveta Apkalna describes as the best contemporary organ concerto. (Berlin Classics)

1CD# 0302813BC $19.99

J.S. Bach: Trio Sonatas BWV 525 – 530

Highpoints of virtuosity in Bach’s output and the Baroque organ repertoire, in new recordings by an organist with a rich catalog of success on Brilliant Classics to his credit. As well as a host of obscure composers, Manuel Tomadin has recorded many central figures in the organ repertoire, from Buxtehude to Rheinberger.

(Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96438 $12.99

Schneider

& Kirkberger:

Organ Music /

Johann Schneider was a German organist, violinist and composer. He wrote only a handful of pages for organ: a few sporadic preludes to chorales, the eight fugues for organ or harpsichord and a ‘Clavierfuge mit dem Contrapunct in der Oktava’. His figure is thus summed up as in that of a person careful to pass|on the inheritance he received.

(Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96752 $12.99

Rameau: Re-Imagined

This program is the re-imagining of Rameau as organist: not removing any works from the harpsichord repertory, but allowing them to take on a new life and identity as organ music. The keyboard works in this recording are drawn, with just one exception, from Rameau’s two major harpsichord collections, the Pieces de clavecin of 1724 and the Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin of 1729/30. (CRD)

1CD# CRD3543 $14.99

Viennese Reflections for Organ / Pier

Pier Damiano Peretti, organist and composer as well as professor of organ at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, conceives an organ program framed by the two Fantasies in F minor K. 594 and K. 608 “for a mechanical clockwork organ” by W.A. Mozart. (Gramola)

1CD# GRAM99250 $22.99

Erb: Organ Works, Vol. 1

The enormously prolific Marie Joseph Erb (1858–1944) has somehow escaped the attention of posterity, although the quality of his music is on a par with contemporary organist-composers whose works are far better known. This first album devoted to his organ music in almost 30 years sandwiches four lyrical chamber works between two towering sonatas. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0691 $18.99

The Bruckner Symphonies (Organ Transcriptions), Vol. 6

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 them recorded in new transcriptions for organ by Hansjörg Albrecht. The 7th recording was made on the church organ of Hofkirche in Luzern with the transcription of Bruckner’s 6th Symphony by Eberhard Klotz. (Oehms Classics)

1CD# OC 482 $14.99

10 Famous Cathedral Organs / Stephen Cleobury

These are not only renowned organs with splendid sound, but here as recorded by renowned sound engineers with great experience and success with organ recordings. Featured organs include those from Westminster Cathedral, St. Paul’s Cathedral, York Minster, Winchester Cathedral, Guildford Cathedral, King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, and as a bonus, Royal Albert Hall. (Alto Music)

1CD# MOB414640 $10.99

Walter Gatti

Damiano Peretti

Stringed Instruments

Haydn: String Quartets Nos. 1–3, Op. 33

“Gut strings and classical bows are also the tools of a captivating quest for sonority”, French magazine Diapason recently wrote to describe the Chiaroscuro Quartet. After Op. 20, Joseph Haydn’s first major string quartet cycle, and Op. 76, his last, the internationally renowned ensemble is now embarking on the Quartets Op. 33, dubbed the “Russian Quartets”. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2588 $19.99

The Legendary New York Concerts / Jascha Heifetz [2 CDs]

Two of Heifetz’s most important concerts in his career: Korngold’s violin concert first broadcasting and Heifetz and Piatigorsky’s last concert at Carnegie Hall. “The total effect was of two powerful musicians in a stunning exhibition of musicianship and skill. The audience thundered and cheered its gratitude for what was a musical milestone in this or any other season.” New York Times, October 1966 (Rhine)

2CD# RH 025 $29.99

Nielsen: Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 4

Nielsen’s epic Violin Concerto was premiered in Copenhagen in February 1912, by violinist Peder Møller. Nominally the work is set in two movements; both open with a slow section and move to a faster one. Whilst unusual, this could be seen as a more usual fast – slow – fast three movement form, but with an extensive slow introduction to the first movement. (Chandos)

1SACD# CHSA 5311 $21.99

Marrow – The Six Suites for Cello by J.S. Bach [2 CDs]

“During the heart of the pandemic of 2020, I found comfort and refuge in these Suites. As I began to play them not just individually but as a set, an arch started to emerge, a true Hero’s journey. My hope in presenting these Suites without repeats is to more clearly illuminate this arch of their presented order so that we may more closely follow this universal storyline.” – Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir (Sono Luminus)

2CD# DSL-92263 $17.99

ALBUMS IN BRIEF

Dutilleux: Tout Un Monde

Bruch & Korngold: Violin Concertos / Arabella Steinbacher

On this critically-acclaimed recording, Arabella Steinbacher brings together Bruch’s world famous First Violin Concerto with Chausson’s lush Poème and Korngold’s Violin Concerto, which is gradually gaining ground as a 20th-century masterpiece. Steinbacher is joined by the Orquestra Gulbenkian under the baton of Lawrence Foster. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187088 $15.99

Messiaen, Schubert, Schumann: On the Shoulders of Giants

On the Shoulders of Giants is the latest album from the renowned cellist Claudio Bohórquez. With works ranging from Schumann to Webern, from Schubert to Messiaen, this album is a journey on the shoulders of musical giants, both in the compositions and in the interpretations. Accompanied by the legendary conductor and pianist Christoph Eschenbach, Bohórquez delivers an extraordinary performance. (Berlin Classics)

1CD# 0302947BC $19.99

Bartok, Bach, Szymanowski, Brahms: Rediscovered / Henryk Szeryng [2 CDs]

After the premiere recording of Reynaldo Hahn’s concerto, this is another premiere recording by Szeryng: Benjamin Lees’s violin concerto. This 2CD set also includes: Brahms violin concerto with Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bach and Szymanowski violin concerto with Ernest Ansermet, Bartok violin concerto with Ernest Ansermet: all never before published recordings. (Rhine Classics)

2CD# RH 027 $29.99

Mealli: Violin Sonatas, Op. 3 & 4

For her debut on Challenge Classics, baroque violinist Eva Saladin has chosen the scantly known sonatas by Pandolfi Mealli, an apparently marginal figure in the richest violin landscape of the 17th-century. The sonatas recorded here were published in 1660 and carry a wide range of characters and atmosphere, a diversity enhanced by the different combinations of continuo chosen by Eva Saladin. (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72948 $16.99

Lointain; Dusapin;

Outscape

Victor Julien-Laferrière, winner in 2017 of the first Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium dedicated to the cello, presents here two French works for cello and orchestra. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA886 $18.99

Janáček & Haas: String Quartets

While the concept of the autobiographical quartet seems to have been introduced by Beethoven, nowhere has it been taken up more forcefully than in the Czech lands, as the works presented here attest. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2670 $19.99

J.S. Bach: The Cello Suites [2 CDs]

For this recording, entirely in the 19th century reading, Jorge Jimenez uses a romantic violin and a bow from the period for his extraordinary interpretation of Bach’s cello suites. (Pan Classics)

2CD# PC10450 $31.99

Schubert & Purcell: String Trios

In their debut album, the Sakuntala Trio presents the world premiere recording of Franz Schubert’s String Trio in B-flat major, D.471. (Resonus)

1CD# RES10320 $16.99

Vox Records Sale

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture / Utah SO

Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony Orchestra’s recordings of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral works, originally released on Vox in 1974, remain much admired to this day. These classic recordings of Symphony No. 4 and Romeo and Juliet make a welcome return to the catalog, newly remastered in 192kHz / 24-bit high-definition. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3022CD $16.99 $13.59

Gershwin: Orchestral Works

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 $16.99 $13.59

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

Friedrich Wuhrer 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 earned him the reputation as one of the finest keyboard artists of his time. Here he performs Beethoven’s Piano Concertos No. 2 & No. 3. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3003CD $16.99 $13.59

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 – 1812 Festival Overture / Utah SO

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony is paired here with his ‘noisy festival piece’, the 1812 Overture. These Vox Audiophile Edition recordings were originally released in 1974 as quadraphonic LPs and also appeared in 2001 as part of a complete Tchaikovsky symphonic edition on the Vox label. The Elite Recordings for Vox are considered by audiophiles to be among the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3023CD $16.99 $13.59

Gershwin: Piano Concerto, Second Rhapsody

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, with the piano material last released on a Vox Box in 1990.

(Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3018CD $16.99 $13.59

Beethoven: Overtures & Incidental Music / Minnesota Orchestra

Much has been written about Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, formerly Leonore. Beethoven worked on it on and off for almost a decade. During that time the four different overtures included on this recording were composed. They are substantially different, not only in length but also in themes, while the Fidelio overture is composed in a different key and uses no material from the opera itself. (Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3017CD $16.99 $13.59

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

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 $16.99 $13.59

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

Coming between the Eroica and the C minor, Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony has often been regarded as a less ‘important’ work than either of those two giants; and it inspired Schumann’s oft-quoted phrase of ‘a slender Grecian maiden between two Norse giants.’ It is a simpler, more, delicate and contrasting work, more graceful in contour but not a shade less inventive melodically.

(Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3002CD $16.99 $13.59

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2, Vocalise / St. Louis SO; Leonard Slatkin

Sergey Rachmaninov’s orchestral works range from 1887, when he was not yet 14, to 1940, when he produced his valedictory work. His Second Symphony was written between 1906 and 1908 and the composer expressed doubts about being able to compose a symphony.

(Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3013CD $16.99 $13.59

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 27 / Minnesota Orchestra; Skrowaczewski

The piano concerto was the category in which Mozart most consistently excelled, in which he most successfully combined elements of virtuosity and depth, of chamber music and symphonic style, of regard for his public and for personal expression. The present recording has been realized in 1978 by the famous production team of Joanna Nickrenz and Marc Aubort.

(Vox Classics)

1CD# VOX-NX-3012CD $16.99 $13.59

Personal Choices / Joan Sutherland 1CD# MOB414558

Alto Music

Beethoven: Symphonies 1 & 2 / Westdeutsche Sinfonia 1CD# MOB414756

Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 / David Oistrakh 1CD# MOB414565

Weinberg: Symphony No. 2 / Umea SO; Thord Svedlund 1CD# MOB414725

Zemlinsky: The Mermaid –Korngold: Violin Concerto 1CD# MOB414749

Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies 1 & 4 / Umea SO 1CD# MOB414718

Telemann: Multi-Instrument Concertos

1CD# MOB414671

Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet in A / Virginia Eskin

1CD# MOB414688

Vivaldi: Lute & Mandolin Concertos

1CD# MOB414657 $10.99

Baroque Bohemia & Beyond IX / Ana de le Vega 1CD# MOB414763

Corelli: Concerti Grossi / New Dutch Academy 1CD# MOB414732

Price : Symphony No. 3, Mississippi River Suite 1CD# MOB414619

Russian Legends & Dances / Utah SO

1CD# MOB414503 $10.99

Hymns from Cambridge / Trinity College Choir 1CD# MOB414466

American Masterpieces –Grofe-Thomson-Gould-Copland

MOB414510

Choral Recordings

American Choral Classics

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 Copland’s “I Bought Me a Cat”. (Divine Art)

1CD# DDX21106 $18.99

Philips & Dering: Motets

One of the UK’s leading collegiate choirs, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and its Precentor Matthew Martin make their debut on Linn. This new recording offers a fresh insight into the lives and works of two expatriate English Catholic composers exiled to Flanders at the time of the Reformation. The texts speak with a directness and intensity. (Linn)

1CD# CKD717 $18.99

Mendelssohn: Choral Works

The MDR Leipzig Radio Choir and its artistic director Philipp Ahmann present a collection of Felix Mendelssohn’s choral music, which arguably represents the pinnacle of German 19th-century religious music. Ranging across psalm settings, motets, and Latin verses, the album highlights the unique stylistic range and expressive power of Mendelssohn’s choral output. (Pentatone)

New College – Commissions & Premieres

The Choir of New College Oxford is one of the world’s foremost choral foundations. This album, which follows the choir’s Sheppard recording (Gramophone Editor’s Choice), surveys New College commissions and premieres from the 1920s to the 2020s, beginning with Sir William Harris’s evergreen Faire is the heaven, composed while he was Organist of New College. (Linn)

1CD# CKD720 $18.99

Sword in the Soul / London Choral Sinfonia

In an album that includes world-premiere recordings, Michael Waldron and the London Choral Sinfonia perform Francis Grier’s modern-day Passion, Sword in the Soul, to texts by Rowan Williams narrated by Simon Callow, Samantha Bond and Adrian Peacock. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100223 $16.99

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. This release brings together a representative selection of both sacred and secular works by this great British composer. (Orchid Classics)

2CD# ORC100247 $16.99

Vidi Speciosam – Sacred Choral Music

Soprano Mary Bevan writes: “In 1975, the original Bevan Family Choir released their debut album, conducted by their father, Roger. Later on the Choir was taken over by his son, David, who went on to become Assistant Director of Music at Westminster Cathedral. To honour David, this new disc consists of music that was introduced to us by him during his years at the Holy Redeemer Church.”

(Signum Classics)

1CD# SIGCD746 $17.99

Every Little Creature – Choral Music

SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the label return of the chamber choir Londinium and director Andrew Griffiths with Every Living Creature, a recital of choral music by Kenneth Leighton on the 35th anniversary of his death featuring five premiere recordings. The album unearths a number of significant works by this important British composer. (Somm)

1CD# SOMMCD 0667 $18.99

All Angels – Choral Works by George Arthur [2 CDs]

Explore this new album of choral works by British composer, George Arthur, performed by The Choir of Royal Holloway. George is a multi award-winning composer, published by Universal Editions, Music Sales, Shorter House and the Guild of Church Musicians. He has been commissioned by various cathedrals and chapel choirs at home and overseas. (Convivium)

2CD# CVI078 $19.99

Ligeti: Complete Works for a Cappella Choir [2 CDs]

In addition to his popular compositions such as orchestral works and chamber music, György Ligeti also wrote vocal music, among them numerous and demanding a cappella choral works. Ligeti exclusively set Hungarian poetry to music, showing a marked preference for texts by Balint Balassa (1554–1594) and Sándor Weöres (1913–1989).

(SWR Classic)

2CD# SWR19128CD $26.99

Vocals

Ian Partridge 85th Birthday Tribute –The Voice of Love

Somm Recordings is delighted to pay tribute to the British tenor Ian Partridge on his 85th birthday with The Voice of Love, a collection of iconic songs by Schubert. The great German lyric baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau hailed Partridge’s Schubert interpretations as “a pure joy”, an accolade that these 20 performances of Lieder readily illustrate.

(Somm)

1CD# SOMMCD 0670 $18.99

Because / Reginald Mobley

American countertenor Reginald Mobley – a rising figure in baroque music, and the French pianist Baptiste Trotignon, winner of numerous awards have combined their talents and sensibilities to celebrate these spirituals and the music of Black composers including Harry T. Burleigh (1866–1949) and Florence Price (1887–1953).

(Alpha)

Schubert: Insomnia

1CD# ALPHA936 $18.99

These pieces examine the great feelings and issues like love, death, hate, yearning, under the magnifying glass of nocturnal sensitivity. Worlds arise in which one no longer knows what is true and what is not. And that is what is special about our Insomnia: everything is possible, and everything is to be found in the ears and the eyes of the listener. (Berlin Classics)

1CD# 0302961BC $19.99

The Folly of Desire / Ian Bostridge; Brad Mehldau

Brad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post-#MeToo political age, together with tenor Ian Bostridge, one of the greatest song interpreters of our times. Mehldau’s music shifts seamlessly between a jazz idiom and Classical art song, and the work explores a theme as timeless as it is topical. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187035 $15.99

VOCAL ALBUMS IN BRIEF

Welcome To My World / Mark S. Doss

Cupido – Love Songs / Markus Miesenberg

Here is a totally original disc with a song repertoire seldom if ever recorded. Accompanied by two specialists playing on period instruments (fortepiano and guitar), the tenor Markus Miesenberg delivers a program of proto-romantic love songs from Vienna. The quality of the performance is linked to the genuine and spontaneous approach of the musicians. (Challenge)

1SACD# CC 72936 $18.99

Divine Music – An English Songbook

Divine Music marks Iestyn Davies’ third recital album on Signum Classics. The ‘Four Songs’ (Purcell / Adès), Spoons Aria (Adès), Four Traditional Songs and Old Bones (Muhly) are world premiere recordings. Muhly’s Four Traditional Songs were also written dedicated to Iestyn Davies. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD725 $17.99

Schubert, Loewe, Schumann: Echo

The magnificent pianos on this recording – a Christoph Kern fortepiano after Conrad Graf (Vienna, 1826) and a Steinway & Sons concert grand piano (New York, 1875) – beautifully played by Olga Pashchenko, with whom Georg Nigl now forms an intimate and inspired duo, allow us to hear “unknown sounds and sometimes unheard-of colours”.

(Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA934 $18.99

Enrico Caruso: His Songs [2 CDs]

A symbol of Italianism and bel canto singing, Enrico Caruso moved from provincial Neapolitan stages to the world’s most prestigious opera houses, and as naturally as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, he could return to being the scugnizzo or street urchin of popular songs. A little-known repertoire that deserves today, 150 years after Caruso’s birth, to be rediscovered by a new audience. (Urania)

2CD# LDV14096 $29.99

American bass-baritone Mark S. Doss honors the history of Chicago’s Bel Canto Foundation with an all-encompassing vocal recital program. (Cedille)

1CD# CDR 222 $16.99

Folksongs of the British Isles

SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce a musical journey around the four nations of the United Kingdom with Folk Songs of the British Isles. (Somm)

1CD# SOMMCD 0668 $18.99

Georgia – Sacred & Secular Vocal Polyphony

With intimate links to everyday and spiritual contexts alike, the sophisticated polyphony of Georgia evokes a distant musical past even as it surprises by its modernity. (Ocora)

1CD# C 561240 $18.99

Myaskovsky: Vocal Works, Vol. 2

This second album presents Nicolay Myaskovsky’s entire output of songs for baritone and piano, most of them early works responding to Russian lyric poetry. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0667 $18.99

Verdi: Rigoletto [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Verdi’s Rigoletto, one of his most successful operas, is based on Victor Hugo’s play Le roi s’amuse, which for Verdi was the greatest drama of the present day. The “spectacular production“ (La Vanguardia) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu “under excellent musical direction by Riccardo Frizza. (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 763804 $42.99

1DVD# 763708 $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. (Opus Arte)

1DVD# OA 1374D $19.99

Wagner: Parsifal – Bayreuther Festspiele 1955 [4 CDs]

Wieland Wagner’s production of Parsifal was performed at the Bayreuth Festival every year from 1951 to 1973. This makes it the longest-running production of Parsifal on the Bayreuth program following the world premiere of 1882, which ran until 1933. Wagner’s opera opened the first post-war festival on the 30th of July, 1951. (Profil)

4CD# PH23002 $22.99

Cavalli & Minato: Il Xerse [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Francesco Cavalli succeeded Monteverdi as the most influential composer of the new genre of opera that emerged in mid-17th-century Venice. Il Xerse is a fictitious dramma per musica that tells of Persian King Xerxes’ love for Romilda, who in turn is in love with his brother Arsamene. The plot is an entertaining and extremely intricate human comedy of crossed loves, court intrigues and disguises.

(Dynamic)

1Blu-ray# DYN-57983 $27.99

2DVD# DYN-37983 $27.99

Cherubini: Les Abencérages [3 CDs]

Cherubini’s Les Abencérages, premiered in 1813, heralds the spectacle and extravagance of Romantic grand opera. From the Alhambra gardens to the battlefield, the action skillfully intertwines political conspiracies with a love story. Underpinned by the energy and timbres of period instruments, this recording demonstrates the work’s modernity and its musical qualities. (Bru Zane)

3CD# BZ1050 $41.99

Charpentier: David & Jonathas [2 CDs]

This is a baroque dream: a performance of the sacred drama David and Jonathas, a masterpiece by Charpentier and one of the miracles of French opera, in the Royal Chapel of Versailles! In 1688, the Louis-le-Grand Jesuit school performed this vibrant version of the fateful, fusional love between David and Jonathas… and the inevitable confrontation between their armies. (CDV)

2CD# CVS102 $36.99

Lully & Campistron: Acis Et Galatée [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Having been granted unprecedented authority by Louis XIV, the Sun King, no one could stage operas in France without Jean-Baptiste Lully’s permission. By 1686, however, Lully’s authority was waning and his long-standing librettist deserted him to write sacred works. Despite these setbacks, Lully wrote Acis et Galatée, a pastorale héroïque, and one of his final masterpieces. (Dynamic)

1Blu-ray# DYN-57971 $27.99

1DVD# DYN-37971 $27.99

Meyerbeer: Jephtas Gelübde [2 CDs]

Meyerbeer, long considered one of the greatest of operatic composers, is being rediscovered. His first music drama was Jephtas Gelübde, based on the biblical story of Jephta and his rash vow of sacrifice. The musical language is varied in expression, with an exceptionally advanced use of leitmotif and a subtle depiction of psychological process. (Marco Polo)

2CD# 8225383-84 $33.99

Refice & Mucci: Cecilia [2 CDs]

Italian composer Licinio Refice was ordained as a priest in 1905, and his achievements as a composer sometimes led to conflict with the Catholic authorities. Cecilia was his first opera inspired by sacred themes, but even as a gloriously melodious azione sacra it took many years before a theatre production was possible. (Dynamic)

2CD# DYN-CDS7967.02 $27.99

3Blu-ray# OA BD7300BD $54.99

3DVD# OA 1349BD $39.99

The Monteverdi Trilogy / John Eliot Gardner; Monteverdi Choir [DVD or Blu-ray Video] This set brings together Monteverdi’s three surviving operas: the splendorous L’Orfeo and, from later in his life, Il ritorno d’Ulissein patria and L’incoronazione di Poppeawith their visceral passions and dramatic dilemmas, all elements that have animated the history of opera for centuries. (Opus Arte)

Recordings

Handel: Theodora [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Józef Orlinski star in Katie Mitchell’s thrilling new production of Handel’s Theodora in an alternative modern-day reality. This new interpretation, conducted by Baroque specialist Harry Bicket, shines a new, feminist light on the story. (Opus Arte)

1Blu-ray# OA BD7313D $39.99

1DVD# OA 1368D $29.99

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. This recording also features the original, first version of the opera. (BR Klassik)

2CD# BRK900345 $27.99

EGK: Columbus [2 CDs]

Columbus – An Opera for Listening

By the term “radio opera”, people understood, above all, the adaptation of stage works for radio. Werner Egk sensed the fascination emanating from this avant-garde genre. His chief model here was Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. The booklet contains liner notes and synopsis in German and English language and the German libretto. (Orfeo)

2CD# ORF-C240032 $24.99

Offenbach: La Perichole [Blu-ray]

La Perricholi – in reality, Micaela Villegas was one of Lima’s leading theatrical performers in the 1770s when Peru was a Spanish colony. Her life was fictionalised in a one-act play by Prosper Mérimée and a libretto was fashioned on which Offenbach created his opéra bouffe

La Périchole, reflecting the creative mania in Paris at the time for Spanish life and art. (Naxos)

1Blu-ray# NBD0168V $27.99

OPERA RELEASES IN BRIEF

Spontini: La Vestale [2 CDs]

Puccini: Tosca [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Tosca is a melodrama of love, betrayal and death set in the revolutionary unrest of 1800. In this 2022 production, an eminent cast is directed by the acclaimed Australian director Barrie Kosky – ‘the Amsterdam audience was completely swept off its feet by Kosky’s stunning production’ – Opera News. (Naxos)

1Blu-ray# NBD0166V $27.99

1DVD# 2110752 $27.99

Engel:

Grete Minde [2 CDs]

This recording of Eugen Engel’s opera Grete Minde documents an extraordinary event: the only opera by the formerly unknown composer was premiered at Theater Magdeburg on February 13th 2022, almost 90 years after its completion and 80 years after the death of its creator. This deferred debut was preceded by years of behind-the-scenes work. (Orfeo)

2CD# ORF-C260352 $34.99

Monteverdi:

Il Ritorno Di Ulisse In Patria

[3 CDs]

The work was produced with the Virtual Stage system, the innovative method that features new blended methods, between real and virtual, between philology and technology, applied to the operatic setting for both audio and scene through multitrack recording. The voice cast consists of young talents headed by virtuoso tenor Leonardo De Lisi as Ulysses. (Bongiovanni)

3CD# GB2604/6-2 $24.99

Romantique! / Cyrille Dubois

So Romantique! illustrates the ‘profoundly sentimental’ side of French opera from the 1830s to the 1900s. With the Orchestre National de Lille conducted by Pierre Dumoussaud, French tenor Cyrille Dubois deploys the full range of his artistry, the impressive high notes, the luminous tone and the graceful phrasing that is ‘so Cyrille’! (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA924 $18.99

The simple plot of Gaspare Spontini’s La Vestale achieved resounding success in 1807 thanks to the highly skilled treatment of the characters’ psychology and the transparency of the political allusions. (Bru Zane)

2CD# BZ1051 $39.99

Hallen: Waldemarsskatten – Opera in Four Acts [2 CDs]

The opera Waldermarsskatten is a fantasy around a real historical event on the island of Gotland on the east coast of Sweden. (Sterling)

2CD# CDO1131 $29.99

Bonnen & Nielsen: Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 15 [2 CDs]

An all Danish cast brings native authority to this ‘superbly conducted’ (Gramophone) account of Nielsen’s first opera in a broadcast recording from 1960. (Danacord)

2CD# DACOCD925 $22.99

Jennefelt: Albert & Julia

The present opera by Swedish composer Thomas Jennefelt is based on Stagnelius’ play Albert and Julia and features some of the best Swedish opera singers at the time. (Footprint)

1CD# FRCD 121 $16.99

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Romantic Classics / Various [2 CDs]

Excellent, two-disc collection of romantic classics from a wealth of composers. Works are included from Mozart, Elgar, Myers, Walton, Beethoven, J.S. Bach, and more! (Chandos)

2CD# CHAN 241-14 $18.99 $9.49

The Glenn Dicterow Collection

This collection offers three recent concerti recordings spotlighting violinst Glenn Dicterow and the orchestra he’s been an integral member of for nearly 35 years. (NYPhil)

1CD# NYP20140201 $16.99 $8.49

The Best of Liszt

Excellent compilation disc including Lieberstraum, Piano Concertos 1 & 2, Les Preludes, Hungarian Rhapsodies, Les jeux d’eau a la Villa d’Este, La Campanella, and more. (Naxos)

1CD# 8556667 $11.99 $5.99

Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1, Tout un monde lointain

Henri Dutilleux’ Symphony No. 1 is an early work and the composer’s first piece for orchestra. It is in four movements, but these do not all conform to traditional types. (SSM)

1CD# SSM1001 $16.99 $8.49

Copland / Dallapiccola / Carter / Ives: Variations for Orchestra

A demonstration of the scope of Louisville’s achievement by juxtaposing key works by American composers of different generations –Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Charles Ives. –Billboard (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0001 $12.99 $6.49

Delius: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

Naxos completes its series of Delius works recorded in the 1920 and 1930s by Sir Thomas Beecham. (Naxos)

1CD# 8110906 $13.99 $6.99

Ginastera: Ollantay / Pampeana No. 3 / Jubilum

Three recordings, of compositions from one of the best and most original Latin American composers from the ‘60s and ‘70s. (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0015 $12.99 $6.49

Raskatov: Piano Concerto – Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Disc five in the Seattle Symphony’s in-house label, reflecting the highly acclaimed partnership between French conductor Ludovic Morlot and his American orchestra. (SSM)

1CD# SSM1005 $16.99 $8.49

Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland / Bach, J.S.: Partita

Night, sleep and dreams are the subjects of this unusual program, devoted to works by Bach and Britten, and put together by the lutnist Edin Karamazov. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA056 $18.99 $9.49

Wagner: Overtures / Strauss.: Don Juan (Mengelberg)

Mengelberg conducts the two orchestras with which he was closely associated during his distinguished career. (Naxos)

1CD# 8110855 $13.99 $6.99

Shostakovich: Krokodil [2 CDs]

Despite constant persecution under the communist regime, Shostakovich created a fascinating and personal music language, such as the violin, cello and piano trio opus 67. (Alpha)

2CD# ALPHA055 $27.99 $13.99

Birth of the Symphony – Handel to Haydn

Birth of the symphony: Handel to Haydn’ explores the development of the symphony in the 18th-century, surveying groundbreaking musical advances across Europe. (AAM)

1CD# AAM001 $18.99 $9.49

Ravel: Orchestral Works – Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony

Saint-Saëns Third Symphony, one of his finest creations, is lush, ecstatic and compositionally innovative with an eye towards Lisztian methods. (SSM)

1CD# SSM1002 $16.99 $8.49

Music for Alfred Hitchcock

The concert items prepared from those Hitchcock scores feature a dazzling variety of styles with breathtaking virtuosity, from Baroque and jazz to dark Romanticism and angular angst. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0241 $18.99 $9.49

Beethoven: Symphonies 1–4, Overtures [2 CDs]

Live recordings from Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON, recorded 2012/2013. • Long-time Tafelmusik collaborator Bruno Weil conducts these performances. (Tafelmusik)

2CD# TMK1023CD2 $29.99 $14.99

Royal Mezzo: Larmore, Jennifer – Barber, Berlioz

Surging with epic emotions, Royal Mezzo showcases mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore in symphonic portraits of commanding characters from legend, literature, and mythology. (Cedille)

1CD# CDR 104 $16.99 $8.49

Kraft: Contextures II: The Final Beast / Interplay

This 2010 recording includes contributions from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Andre Previn, the Alabama Symphony, Paul Polinick, the Utah Symphony & Christopher Wilkins. (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0044 $12.99 $6.49

The Billy Collins Suite (Songs Inspired by his Poetry)

The Billy Collins Suite comprises intimate chamber settings for eleven Collins poems, some sung, others narrated. (Cedille)

1CD# CDR 115 $16.99 $8.49

Mozart: Mass in C minor

Mozart’s Mass in C minor needs little introduction –one of the best-known and most widely performed of the composer’s mass settings, it is generally considered to be one of his greatest works. (Coro)

1CD# COR16084 $18.99 $9.49

Martinu: Symphony No. 5 / Oboe Concerto / Estampes

Remastered Martinu recordings from 1953, 1959, 1966 and 1980. World premiere recordings of Symphony No. 5, Intermezzo and Estampes. (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0018 $12.99 $6.49

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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 13

“Nagano is a model of interpretative responsibility, meaning that she maintains a restrain appropriate to the anti-virtuoso path that’s been chosen here.”

– Gramophone (Analetka)

1CD# AN28765 $18.99 $9.49

Bach: Saint John Passion [2 CDs]

One of J.S. Bach’s most famous and loved masterpieces with the Portland Baroque Orchestra conducted by Monica Huggett. (Avie)

2CD# AV2236 $27.99 $13.99

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 “New World” –Varèse: Amériques

This provocative, mind-bending combination of masterpieces, a coupling of two great works by European composers reflecting their response to the New World. (SSM)

1CD# SSM1006 $16.99 $8.49

Harbison: Ulysses’ Bow / Samuel Chapter

Andre Previn leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in this program of John Harbison’s Ulysses’ Bow and Samuel Chapter. (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0028 $12.99 $6.49

Garrop: In Eleanor’s Words / Silver Dagger / String Quartet

This release offers world-premiere recordings of three works by “a rising composer who ... excites the enthusiasm of performers and audiences alike.” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ). (Cedille)

1CD# CDR 122 $16.99 $8.49

Sessions: Divertimento for Orchestra

The Idyll of Theocritus for soprano and orchestra is an amazing setting of the eponymous poem in R.C. Trevelyan’s English translation. (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0012 $12.99 $6.49

Ives: Symphony No. 2 – Carter: Instances –Gershwin: An American in Paris

Instances is Carter’s last orchestral composition and his penultimate work of any kind. This recording was its world premiere performance. (SSM)

1CD# SSM1003 $16.99 $8.49

Verdi: Traviata (La Scala) 1928 [2 CDs]

Recorded in November 1928, this recording of La Traviata features Mercedes Capsir, Lionello Cecil, Carlo Galeffi, and the Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan. (Naxos)

2CD# 8110110-11 $24.99 $12.49

Game Music: Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà

“On this recording, I approached movie music without consideration for the images and scenes that inspired it, and I took the same tack in reviewing video game music.” – Angele Dubeau (Analetka)

1CD# AN28734 $18.99 $9.49

Piston: Chamber Music

Most of Walter Piston’s chamber music came from his later life, and combines his ready sense of good humor with an attractively melodic content. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559071 $13.99 $6.99

Limited Stock!

The Philip Smith Collection, Album 1: Trumpet Highlights

From the New York Philharmonic’s in-house label come three separate and distinct albums of orchestral fare that highlights the trumpet, including eleven complete concertos. (NYPhil)

1CD# NYP20150201 $16.99 $8.49

Two Piano Music of Messiaen and Debussy

This is an inspired pairing 20th-century French works for duo piano composed during the century’s greatest conflicts: Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen and Claude Debussy’s En blanc et noir. (Cedille)

1CD# CDR119 $16.99 $8.49

Schumann: Kreisleriana – Arabeske – Carnaval

This dynamic recording demonstrates another main emphasis of the MIchael Korstick’s musical spectrum. (Oehms Classics)

1CD# OC 757 $16.99 $8.49

Bartók: Kossuth, 2 Portraits & Orchestral Suite No. 1

These three works reveal a young composer on the threshold of greatness, serving as his passport to the vast new world of orchestral music prevailing at the beginning of the 20th century. (Naxos)

1CD# 8573307 $13.99 $6.99

Liszt: Organ Music

Franz Liszt’s performance of his most famous transcriptions on the organ of Merseburg. Yves Rechsteiner recaptures the magic atmosphere of these concerts. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA059 $7.99 $3.99

Verdi: Songs

Ramón Vargas is one of the leading tenors of our time and one of the most sought-after worldwide. His breakthrough came in 1983 with the Mexican conductor Eduardo Mata. (Capriccio)

1CD# C5170 $19.99 $9.99

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 –Tchaikovsky: Piano Concert

Breathtaking pianism from Gilels: Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 2 is titanic and tender by turns, and his opening phrase of Beethoven Four is near-miraculous. – BBC Music (ICA Classics)

1CD# ICAC 5032 $13.99 $6.99

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Included in this impressive program is Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrushka, and Balakirev’s Islamey – Oriental Fantasy. (Vox)

1CD# VOX-7203 $9.99 $4.99

J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 [2 CDs]

This stunning live recording of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion was recorded in Pisa Cathedral during the Anima Mundi Festival as part of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra’s 2016 tour. (SDG)

2CD# SDG725 $34.99 $17.49

Karajan’s Historic VPO Concert [2 CDs]

The combination of Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic playing Mozart and Bruckner drew a “packed and raving audience” according to The Guardian. (ICA Classics)

2CD# ICAC 5102 $24.99 $12.49

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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 7, “Le midi” and 83, “La poule” – Vio

Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society present a program full of great excitement and drama in this brand new live recording devoted to Haydn, the master of the symphony. (Coro)

1CD# COR16139 $18.99 $9.49

Toch: Miniature Overture / Peter Pan, Op. 76

A fine sampling of Toch’s orchestral music, drawn from his middle and late periods. The sound quality of these recordings is nothing short of amazing. – AllMusic (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0035 $12.99 $6.49

Martin: Jubilate Deo

Here the renowned Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford perform a selection of Matthew Martin’s works, included amongst them six World Premiere Recordings. (Opus Arte)

1CD# OA CD9030D $19.99 $9.99

Riegger: Variations / Symphony No. 4

Three Louisville recording premieres including the Variations for Piano and Orchestra Op. 54 from 1953. (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0007 $12.99 $6.49

Piano Duo Arrangements – Bach, J.S., Sweelinck

This program of piano duo arrangements includes works from J.S. Bach, Buxtehude, Sweelinck, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Reger, and more. (Phoenix)

1CD# 134 $11.99 $5.99

Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

Ravel orchestrated his piano pieces Alborada del gracioso and Pavane pour uneinfante défunte to great effect; the former gains in suggestive color, and the latterevokes nostalgic pathos. (Naxos)

1CD# 8572887 $13.99 $6.99

Picker: Symphony No. 2 / String Quartet No. 1

Picker’s Second Symphony is a “big” work, worthy of the genre and incorporating a compelling dramatic design of seven movements flanked by a prelude and a postlude. (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0029 $12.99 $6.49

Demilitarised Zones – Marches

The 20th century compositions asssembled on this disc embody the reaction of the ensemble to the political misuse of music. (Capriccio)

1CD# C5121 $14.99 $7.49

Korndorf: Complete Music for Cello

Russian composer Korndorf was a larger-than-life character and wrote music that was expansive and urgent. His 3 works for solo cello illustrate his unwillingness to be governed by convention.

(Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0128 $18.99 $9.49

The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 6 [2 CDs]

The Gershwin Concerto in F with the excellent pianist Eugene List is an absolute joy. This volume has some glorious music in it! (Vox Box)

2CD# CDX-5069 $12.99 $6.49

Orff: Carmina Burana

Carl Orff’s massive and enormously popular cantata, Carmina Burana, is presented in a stirring radio performance with the NDR Sinfonieorchester in 1984. (Profil)

1CD# PH05005 $9.99 $4.99

Panufnik: Sinfonia Elegiaca / Nocturne / Rhapsody

“Sinfonia Elegiaca is a must for all admirers of Panufnik…and enthusiasts of the composer will no doubt be interested in the Rhapsody as well.” – Walter Simmons (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0017 $12.99 $6.49

Persichetti: Serenade No. 5, Op. 43 / Symphony No. 5, Op. 61

This CD collates the complete recordings of music of Vincent Persichetti made by the Louisville Orchestra, between 1954 (Symphony for Strings) and 1970 (8th Symphony). (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0034 $12.99 $6.49

Bernier: Les Nuits de Sceaux

Les Folies Françoises have recreated Bernier’s masterpiece composed at the very end of the reign of Louis XIV. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA058 $18.99 $9.49

Carol’s Concerto Collection [2 CDs]

The internationally celebrated pianist Carol Rosenberger’s A Concerto Collection is a diverse and dazzling collection that showcases six outstanding examples of her award-winning discography. (Delos)

2CD# DE 3306 $24.99 $12.49

Handel, G.F.: Hercules / Bach, J.S.: Kommt, ihr angefochtnen

Arias from Bach and Handel are featured on this release celebrating the lives of Craig Smith and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. (Avie)

1CD# AV2130 $17.99 $8.99

Les Ballets Russes, Vol. 6

This 6th volume gives attention to the less frequently performed musical works of the “Ballet russes”. Over 70 minutes. (SWR Music)

1CD# 93237 $18.99 $9.49

Kerem: Violin Sonatas

Estonian violinist Kerem (b. 1981) is both a performer and composer, with over 100 works to his credit, 3 symphonies among them. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0140 $18.99 $9.49

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 & Music for Strings,

Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra is a work of considerable structural ingenuity that unites classical forms and sonorities with the pungency of folk rhythms and harmonies. (Naxos)

1CD# 8572486 $13.99 $6.99

Delights & Dances –Works for Strings & Orchestra

Delights & Dances captivates listeners of all ages and diverse ethnic backgrounds through irresistible music and superb musicianship. This release includes three world premiere recordings. (Cedille)

1CD# CDR 141 $16.99 $8.49

Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4

“The New York Philharmonic is a powerhouse orchestra, Nielsen is a powerhouse symphonist, and Alan Gilbert revels in the music’s energy and dynamism.” 10/10 ClassicsToday (Dacapo)

1CD# 6220624 $14.99 $7.49

Kings and Courtiers: Great Verdi Arias

Famed for his sonorous tone and imposing stage presence, ‘Rigoletto du jour’ Leo Nucci is considered among today’s foremost Verdi interpreters. (Opus Arte)

1CD# OACD9026D $19.99 $9.99

Handel: Israel in Egypt [2 CDs]

On this double disc set, musicians from the (Western) European Baroque tradition are joined by musicians from Jewish and Muslim backgrounds. (Capriccio)

2CD# C5151 $27.99 $13.99

Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 57, 67 & 68

“Nothing is under or overplayed. Crisp, clean lines, excellent balance, and delightful expressivity dominate. I rather doubt another ensemble could do better.” – Early Music America (PBO)

1CD# PBP08 $17.99 $8.99

Delius: A Mass of Life

Frederick Delius composed A Mass of Life while at the height of his powers, blending passages from Also Sprach Zarathustra into orchestral textures of great expressive depth and striking beauty. (Naxos)

2CD# 8572861-62 $24.99 $12.49

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas

In a performance that charms as well as moves in abundance (BBC Music), Andrew Parrott directs a hand-picked team of singers and instrumentalists in this classic recording. (Avie)

1CD# AV2309 $17.99 $8.99

Debussy, Britten & Bacri:

Sonatas for Cello and Piano

Two recent works of Nicolas Bacri are here joined by two 20th-century classics that the duo consider as fundamental references: Debussy and Britten.

(Fuga Libera)

1CD# FUG543 $18.99 $9.49

Peeter Süda: Complete Organ Music

The music of Estonian organist-composer Süda (1883–1920) combines contrapuntal mastery with virtuosic command of the Romantic organ. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0056 $18.99 $9.49

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”

This live (excellently remastered) recording of the ‘Eroica’ with the Orquestra Nacional shows Ataúlfo Argenta as an exciting interpreter. (ICA Classics)

1CD# ICAC 5087 $13.99 $6.99

Mussorgsky, M.: Pictures at an Exhibition

Leonard Slatkin’s eclectic selection invites us to bask in the high spirits and ingenuity of no fewer than fifteen composers. Chinese pianist Peng Peng has won many competitions. (Naxos)

1CD# 8570716 $13.99 $6.99

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

Chopin’s melodic inventiveness emerges in the piano, as the soloist repeats the main themes before introducing virtuoso figurations and ornaments. – Interlude (Profil)

1CD# PH04015 $16.99 $8.49

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 21 & 32

Ludwig van Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas form an unparalleled canon, remaining one of the greatest and most rewarding challenges for pianists to this day. (Naxos)

1CD# 8573400 $13.99 $6.99

Crumb: Variazioni / Echoes of Time and the River

This reissue is of important historical significance for the Crumb admirer, gathering two Louisville premiere recordings made ten years apart. (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0008 $12.99 $6.49

Excelsior / Fifth House Ensemble

The Fifth House Ensemble of Chicago chambermusic group aims for the stratosphere with Excelsior, its adventurous debut album on Cedille Records. (Cedille)

1CD# CDR 148 $16.99 $8.49

Haydn, J.: Soprano Cantatas –Berenice, Che Fai / Miseri Noi

This 2009 recording includes mezzo-soprano Marilyn Schmiege, and violinist Ingrid Seifert, alongside the Cappella Coloniensis orchestra. (Phoenix)

1CD# 176 $11.99 $5.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

Sanderling’s German tradition brings great insights to Bruckner’s 3rd Symphony, though he conducted the composer infrequently. It is a rare recording has never been issued before. (ICA Classics)

1CD# ICAC 5005 $13.99 $6.99

Husa: 2 Sonnets from Michelangelo / Trojan Women

Significant contributions from Karel Husa’s output, including the first recording of The Trojan Women, written in 1980 on commission from the Louisville Orchestra and Ballet. (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0023 $12.99 $6.49

Weiss: Lute Sonatas, Vol. 11

Weiss, a contemporary of J.S. Bach, was the greatest lutist of his age, whose music is largely in the mixed Italian/French style of the time. (Naxos)

1CD# 8572680 $13.99 $6.99

Malipiero: Fantasie di ogni giorno / Piano Concerto No. 3

“The Fantasie di Ogni Giorno, can be seen as a brief summary of the composer’s daily life. It displays the energy of the morning, a mid-day repose, and a renewed strength after rest.”

– MusicWeb (First Edition)

1CD# FECD-0036 $12.99 $6.49

Strauss II: Famous Overtures

Bookending this nine-track Naxos CD overture selection conducted by Alfred Walter are the openers to Die Fledermaus and Die Zigeunerbaron (Naxos)

1CD# 8553936 $13.99 $6.99

Sacred Music

J.S. Bach: St. John Passion [2 CDs]

Bach’s St John Passion is like an eternal cry into the void, carrying the essence of western, protestant answers to the fundamental questions in life in music. Our wrongdoings on Earth contrasted with higher moral principles. Nowhere else does it crystallize into music more profoundly and beautifully than in this immortal manifestation of Bach’s genius. (Berlin Classics)

2CD# 0302071BC $22.99

Reforming Hymns / Musica Ficta

The psalms sung by religious communities during the time of the Reformation in Denmark were, for the most part, borrowed from other languages and used with existing melodies. With this recording, the Copenhagen based vocal ensemble Musica Ficta explores the Danish Reformation hymnody from an international perspective, with links to European musical works from the 16th century. (Dacapo)

1CD# 8226142 $15.99

Sørensen: St. Matthew Passion

To mark Oslo International Church Music Festival’s anniversary in 2020, a new St. Matthew Passion was commissioned from Bent Sørensen. The libretto [in English] was curated by Jakob Holtze and is made of fragments of the Gospels of Matthew and John, traditional mass texts, as well as poetry by six authors. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2611 $19.99

Beethoven, Berlioz & Brahms: Sacred Music [4 CDs]

Sir Roger Norrington has been chief conductor of the former Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra for thirteen years. The present reissue 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 $34.99

Mold: Passiontide – a Lenten Cantata

Simon Mold’s new setting is a triumph drawing deeply on the traditions of baroque Passion settings as well as such works as Stainer’s ‘The Crucifixion’ and Maunder’s ‘Olivet to Calvary’, this work is a masterpiece which, if there is any justice in the world, will be widely sung, to be appreciated by choirs, audiences and congregations. (Divine Art)

1CD# DDA25238 $18.99

Futing: Mechthild

Composer Reiko Futing releases his third album on New Focus, the chamber opera Mechthild in collaboration with librettist and theologian Christian Lehnert. Mechthild of Magdeburg was a 13th century female Christian mystic whose influential texts were rediscovered in the 19th century and have since been studied for their impact on subsequent Northern European religious writings. (New Focus)

1CD# FCR369 $16.99

18 Ecumenical Treasures from One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism

From the Introduction to the hymnal... One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism contains selections of diverse styles and genres, including traditional ecumenical hymns, contemporary texts written for the 21st-century church, praise and worship selections, music from Taizé, The Iona Community, choral responses, responsorial psalmody, traditional and contemporary gospel music, and Negro spirituals. (Gia)

1CD# GIACD-1120 $16.99

Kirschner: Synagogue Chants

All the songs selected by Cantor Nikola David for this recording have been transliterated by the Cantor from the original Ashkenazi pronunciation to follow Sephardic pronunciation. Cantor Nikola David has chosen from the rich Kirschner repertoire not only pieces which are sung each week on Shabbat, but also those sung on Yamim Noraim, the High Holy Days, and the Hagim, other holidays. (Haenssler)

1CD# HC23019 $18.99

Górecki: Church Songs, Op. 84 [2 CDs]

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki (1933–2010) achieved an international success in the mid-1990s, with his Symphony No. 3, “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”. Since then, Górecki’s name has been associated almost exclusively with this piece. However, his music is much more than this one brilliant work. Górecki never looked at musical fashions, but consistently created his own sound universe. (Ondine)

2CD# ODE 1428-2D $24.99

Ingegneri: Missa Susanne Un Jour A5, Vol. 3

This third in a series of pioneering recordings from the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, reveals Marc’Antonio Ingegneri to have been one of the masters of his age, writing music of breathtaking richness and beauty: the works heard here combine learned, intricate counterpoint with the kind of sheer sonic thrill that brings a shiver of physical excitement. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0677 $18.99

Early Music

Gosswin: Selected Works

Antoine Gosswin was recruited at a very young age by the Bavarian court chapel, where he was in frequent contact with Orlando di Lasso and accompanied the Emperor Maximilian II on his travels. Extremely prolific, Gosswin produced several masses and motets as well as madrigals and German songs in which he continued the musical developments initiated by his master Lasso. (Ricercar)

1CD# RIC450 $18.99

Palestrina, Vol. 9

Palestrina’s music is exquisite and sumptuous — characterised by a richness of texture and purity of sound. From his sacred Masses to settings of the secular Song of Songs, The Sixteen brings this serene and delicate soundworld to sparkling life. Palestrina was a towering figure in Renaissance polyphony and arguably the greatest composer of liturgical music of all time. (Coro)

1CD# COR16197 $19.99

Splendours of the Gonzaga – Sacred Music from Wert to Monteverdi

Mantua and the Gonzaga family represent one of the summits of European humanistic and Renaissance expression. This project addresses one of the city’s greatest periods with sacred works by the leading musicians of the Gonzaga court, at a time when music was the primary tool employed by the Gonzaga dukes to assert their prestige over other Italian cities. (Arcana)

1CD# A545 $18.99

Machaut: Songs from Remede de Fortune

The story told by the ‘Remede’ may be familiar episodes of courtly life and love in fourteenth century France but from it, Machaut develops a magisterial work exploring themes of philosophy, psychology and artistic endeavour. “A beautiful, intimate performance.... delicacy and intimicay are suberpbly matched to these more introspective works.” – Gramophone (Hyperion)

1CD# MOB283999 $19.99

EARLY MUSIC IN BRIEF

Dalza, Tabassian

& Tromboncino:

Gregorian Blue Notes

The timeless chants of the Gregorian chant in contrast to the transience of the improvisation by jazz saxophonist Jürgen Seefelder, which emerges from the moment – this tension is the source of the live recording of a concert by the ensemble officium in the cathedral of the city of Worms. Chants from the mass alternate with prayers, psalms and hymns from the Liturgy of the Hours. (Christophorus)

1CD# CHE02302 $7.99

Charpentier: Serious Airs & Drinking Songs

“Percé jusques au fond du coeur” (“Pierced to my heart’s depths”) is a tragic proclamation of Le Cid’s voice, at last put to music by “Mr Charpentier, famed for a thousand works that charmed all of France”. Under the direction of Stéphane Fuget, the cream of French vocalists restores the original aura of these gems, with glittering ornamentation. (CDV)

1CD# CVS089 $18.99

Bingen: Ad Lucem

Based on Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum (ca. 1151), an electro-medieval oratorio combining Gregorian chant, samplers, synthesizers and cello! Ad Lucem is an intimate and meditative contemporary oratorio for voice, cello and electronics, which takes us into the high spiritual spheres of the soul and invites us to immerse ourselves in an experience of transcendence. (Cypres)

1CD# CYP0618 $18.99

Camino De Santiago / Early Music Freiburg

The music of the pilgrims and the minstrels who reported on pilgrimages in Spain can be found in famous manuscripts such as the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, the Codex Calixtinus and the Cancionero de Palacio

The “Spielleyt from Freiburg” revive medieval life on the Spanish pilgrimage routes, and use instruments such as those found in illustrations of old manuscripts and on church portals. (Christophorus)

1CD# CHE02282 $7.99

Il Ponte Di Leonardo

Under the direction of Kiya Tabassian, Italian singer Marco Beasley and the musicians of Constantinople immerse us in the imaginary and audacious world of Leonardo da Vinci‘s drawings. (Glossa)

1CD# GCD924503 $20.99

Music at the Farnese Court of Farnese in Renaissance Parma

Experience the richness of Parma’s musical heritage with this release, featuring works by these legendary composers and their Italian contemporaries. (Passacaille)

1CD# PAS1138 $20.99

Le Parfaict Danser – Dance Music, 1300–1500

On this recording, Into the Winds gleefully explores a great variety of spaces and aesthetics and reveal the timelessness of the art of dance more than ever. (Ricercar)

1CD# RIC452 $18.99

The Honour of William Byrd

This disc provides an opportunity to explore the music of the proud Englishman, the devoted friend, the loyal subject, and the faithful servant that was William Byrd. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2663 $19.99

From the

Frescobaldi & the South

The fertile musical exchange of Carlo Gesualdo and the young Girolamo Frescobaldi culminated in the profoundly distinctive innovations of Frescobaldi himself, fully exemplifies the spirit of experimentation and musical innovation typical of the early 17th century, a period that, like few others, sought out and celebrated aesthetic renewal. (Arcana)

1CD# A547 $18.99

Bach, Hanke & Telemann: The German Album

Established in the middle of pandemic by flutist Taya König-Tarasevich and cellist Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi, this ensemble rapidly captured the finest of next generation baroque musicians, and together got the reputation as one of world’s premier ensembles. On this debut album they bring well-known work from the baroque era by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann. (Evil Penguin)

1CD# EPRC 0052 $16.99

Dowland: Lachrimæ

Alberto Rasi and his prestigious Accademia Strumentale continue their journey through the masterpieces of the European Baroque music. Here they join forces with the young star of the lute Jadran Duncombe to confront another Baroque milestone: John Dowland’s Lachrymæ. (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72938 $16.99

Handel: 8 Great Suites for Harpsichord

Like Bach and Scarlatti, Handel was a virtuoso keyboard player, but his concentration on opera and oratorio has perhaps obscured this fact for many. He wrote keyboard music throughout his life, his output including some 22 suites for keyboard. Ogawa is one of the today’s most versatile performers on the keyboard, from virginals, harpsichord, fortepiano to modern piano. (First Hand)

1CD# FHR142 $17.99

J.S.

Bach: Concertos for Recorder

The ensemble Cantica Symphonia has chosen Bach’s concertos BWV 1053 in D major, BWV 1055 in A major for its recorder player Lorenzo Cavasanti, while violinist Liana Mosca plays the concerto BWV 1056 in G minor. Both together play the Concerto BWV 1060 in C minor, originally for two harpsichords. (Glossa)

1CD# GCDP31910 $20.99

Oswald: Airs for the Seasons

Airs for the Seasons is Rezonance

Baroque Ensemble’s rendition of James Oswald’s remarkable two sets of 48 Airs for the Seasons, 96 in total. Each air includes two to four separate movements in different time signatures and tempos. Airs for the Seasons showcases Rezonance Baroque Ensemble at their most delicate and subtle, deftly combining Scottish charm and classical elegance. (Leaf Music)

1CD# LM266 $16.99

Vivaldi’s Salterio

Vivaldi: Sonatas for Cello & Continuo [2 CDs]

For these works, musicological research has often placed the name of Vivaldi side by side with that of Antonio Vandini, whose six sonatas for cello and basso continuo have been recorded for Tactus by Bologna Baroque in 2018. For the recording, we used two cellos of the Fondazione Orpheon that belong to Maestro Jose Vasquez. (Tactus)

2CD# TC672291 $25.99

Lotti, Caldara & Vivaldi: Antonio

Selected alto cantatas by Antonio Lotti as well as oratorio introductions and an “Ave Regina” by Caldara feature on this recording, paired with the “Nisi Dominus”, RV 608, and two rousing concerti by Vivaldi, the baroque orchestra la festa musicale and the internationally acclaimed countertenor Alex Potter present an album full of touching musical treasures by the three Antonios from the Canal Grande. (Audite)

1CD# ADT97809 $20.99

J.S. Bach: The Gamut from A to G

J.S. Bach’s Preludes / Toccatas / Fantasias & Fugues for organ are among the peak artistic achievements of the human race. The combination of harmonic and melodic beauty, visceral force, and intellectual ingenuity is unparalleled by any other solo instrument’s repertoire. (Affetto)

1CD# AF2304 $16.99

One of the leading salterio virtuosos and researchers of today is the Austrian Franziska Fleischanderl. On her latest CD, she explores the salterio in Vivaldi’s music. Fleischanderl has searched for concerti in Vivaldi’s great oeuvre that are particularly suitable for her instrument and thus demonstrates the various playing techniques of the salterio in the most virtuosic way. (Christophorus)

1CD# CHR77471 $20.99

Baroque Era

Legrenzi: La Morte Del Cor Penitente

A highly prolific composer, Giovanni Legrenzi practiced his art in oratorios and other works for the church, as well as in opera and chamber music. In fact he explored all the musical genres of his period, taking over the baton handed on by Gabrieli and Monteverdi, and enjoying an enviable reputation among his contemporaries. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA975 $18.99

J.S. Bach: St. John Passion [2 CDs]

Cantata Collective, an ensemble “of San Francisco early music luminaries” (San Francisco Chronicle) inaugurates a major series of J.S. Bach’s choral works with a live recording of the composer’s St. John Passion Performed with celebrated conductor Nicholas McGegan. (Avie)

2CD# AV2605 $27.99

Scarlatti: Father & Son

Alessandro Scarlatti and his son Domenico Scarlatti were two formative Italian composers of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Alessandro was one of the main representatives of the Neapolitan school, and a great innovator of Baroque music. On this album, cantatas by both Scarlattis are effectively combined with sonatas by Domenico. (Prospero)

1CD# PROSP0066 $21.99

J.S. Bach,

Bertali,

Biber, Corelli & Pisendel: 1723

Nadja Zwiener, leader of The English Concert and Johannes Lang, the current organist of the Thomaskirche here celebrate Bach’s investiture in Leipzig with a florilegium of works by Bach himself, his contemporaries and his predecessors. A splendidly colourful musical firework! (Ramee)

1CD# RAM2202 $18.99

BAROQUE IN BRIEF

Monteverdi: L’Orfeo [2 CDs]

Handel: Serse [3 CDs]

Each new Handel release by The English Concert and Harry Bicket is a milestone in the composer’s discography, and the latest, Serse –‘a spectacular treat for Handel lovers’ (The Times) – is no different. Created to astonish London audiences in 1728, Handel’s romantic and at times comic opera Serse is a spectacular drama of love, war, power and civil engineering. (Linn)

3CD# CKD709 $27.99

Bigaglia: 12 Sonate A Violino Solo, Op. 1 [2 CDs]

Diogenio Bigaglia, a composer who at present is unknown to most people, was active in Venice in the first half of the 18th-century, so he was a contemporary of the much better known Tomaso Albinoni, Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello, and, above all, Antonio Vivaldi, whose work shows several evident – and more or less explicit –references to Bigaglia’s production. (Tactus)

2CD# TC670291 $25.99

Roman: To the Northern Star

Flauguissimo duo, Yu-Wei Hu and Johan Löfving are joined by violinist Magdalena Loth-Hill, soprano Emily Atkinson, and viola da gamba player Henrik Persson for this recording of 18th-century sonatas, arias and trios by Johan Helmich Roman, frequently hailed by later historians as the Father of Swedish Music. (Resonus)

1CD# RES10316 $16.99

An Englishman Abroad – Nicola Matteis the Younger [2 CDs]

The latest release from renowned period ensemble La Serenissima celebrates the life and work of Nicola Matteis the Younger. Born in London, Matteis was immersed in the style of Henry Purcell before leaving England in 1700 for the Imperial Court in Vienna. All of the music on the album is Carolean; either written for Charles II of England, or for Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. (Signum)

2CD# SIGCD751 $17.99

The magnificent Marc Mauillon embodies Orfeo, his resonant and ductile voice in perfect unison with the conductor’s musical vision. (CDV)

2CD# CVS080 $27.99

Baroque Music in Prague

The release of this album thus symbolically reconfirms the lasting influence of this exceptional music ensemble that laid the basis of authentic interpretation of early music in modern Czechia. (Animal)

1CD# ANI108-2 $21.99

Quantz: Flute Concertos

The recording of the renowned transverse flutist Frank Theuns was a great achievement, whose selection of four flute concertos by Johann Joachim Quantz are now available again on CD as a re-release. (Accent)

1CD# ACC 24395 $20.99

Heroines – Cantates Francaises

With Armide, Clorinda, Procris, Lucretia and more, heroines abound in the lyrical tragedies and cantatas of French baroque music, from Lully to Montéclair. (CDV)

1CD# CVS090 $18.99

The Classical

Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 2, 4 & 9 ‘Kreutzer’

Both highly in demand on a worldwide scale as unique, exceptional chamber music performers, Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon each ideally combine the highest degree of enthusiasm and precision: their energetic, passionate playing is the result of intense concentration. (Cavi)

1CD# AVI 8553512 $17.99

Dandrieu: Trios Livres De Pieces De Clavecin [4 CDs]

Jean-François Dandrieu was born in August or September 1682 on rue Saint-Louis, Île de la Cité, Paris. He was the eldest of at least four children and showed such musical precocity that it is reported he played the harpsichord for Louis XIV and his court at the age of five. It can be assumed that his reputation led to great demand for his services as a performer. (Brilliant Classics)

4CD# BRI96125 $18.99

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 15, 16, 17 (KV 450, 451, 453)

The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than 30 years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart’s concertos for various instruments. The finest soloists of the young generation have been selected under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, a renowned Mozart conductor. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA928 $18.99

Hommage à Beethoven

The program on this CD begins and ends with transcriptions of works by Beethoven. The first piece is the Allegretto (2nd movement) from Beethoven’s 7th Symphony in the arrangement by Franz Liszt, and the program ends with a solo piano version of Beethoven’s song An die Hoffnung, created especially for this CD. (Cavi)

1CD# AVI 8553529 $17.99

C.P.E. Bach: Fantasias

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 $12.99

Beethoven: Symphonies No. 2 & No. 5

(arr. By Hummel)

A fascinating testimony to Beethoven’s time, these musical treasures area authentically and lovingly performed on historic instruments by ensemble1800berlin with great respect for the original and Hummel’s ingenious arrangement. (MDG-Scene)

1SACD# 9272276-6 $22.99

Costa: Concerti Grossi

Doktor Lichtenthals Mozart

On its first CD of a two-part series by the title “Doktor Lichtenthals Mozart”, the Pandolfis Consort presents piano works by W.A. Mozart in arrangements by Peter Lichtenthal. On period instruments, the Consort takes over the function of the entire orchestra as a string quartet in the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, featuring the Romanian pianist Aurelia Vişovan. (Gramola)

1CD# GRAM99268 $22.99

C.P.E. Bach: Piano Concertos & Other Works for Solo Piano

It is a wonder that this uncommonly rich and stylistically influential genre of the composer is only now coming to light. Of all the genres of composition, C.P.E. Bach’s keyboard concertos have guarded their secret longest as unpublished music – that is, precisely the genre of works that qualify as the most personal and most advanced of his compositional oeuvre. (Haenssler)

1CD# HC23008 $18.99

Karajan Spectacular, Vol. 11 – Live Recordings

1957–1961

There are many things that can be said about Herbert von Karajan, but not that he was not a dedicated musician. Beethoven’s symphonies were always the workhorse of his concerts; he conducted them in concert hundreds of times, and he recorded them in full four times. Under his direction, every orchestra played in a extraordinary way. (Idis)

1CD# IDIS6750 $14.99

Very little is known about António Pereira da Costa (c. 1697–1770), though the exceptional quality of his only surviving compositions – 12 Concerti Grossi – earns him pride of place. Ensemble Bonne Corde presents the first recording of these pieces, which are a milestone in Portuguese eighteenth century instrumental music. (Ramee)

1CD# RAM2104 $18.99

Era

Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. 16

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 $21.99

Stamitz: Six Trios, Op. 14

Spanish Baroque ensemble L’Apothéose has quickly established itself as a key player on the historically informed music scene. The group makes its debut for Linn with a program of music by Carl Philipp Stamitz. Published around 1780 during his stay in London, the rarely recorded Six Trios à une flute ou deux violons et violoncello obligé, Op. 14, showcases the expertise of L’Apothéose’s musicians. (Linn)

1CD# CKD684 $18.99

Beethoven: 9th Symphony, Op. 125 –Transcription for Violin & Piano

Hans Sitt (1850–1928) was an extremely important personality in the transition between the 19th and 20th centuries, and was also a remarkably prolific composer. Astonishing in his catalogue, however, is the enormous number (and weight) of his transcriptions of the most important 19th-century symphonic works for the duo of violin and piano. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96711 $12.99

Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 7

Volume 7 of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s Mozart piano concerto features two of the late concertos – nos. 24 and 25 –coupled with a spirited reading of the Marriage of Figaro overture from Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Manchester Camerata. Concerto no. 24 was written whilst he was busily composing the Marriage of Figaro between October 1785 and the premier in Vienna in May 1786. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20192 $20.99

CLASSICAL ERA IN BRIEF

Haydn: String Quartet in G major, Op. 77

Beethoven: For the King of Prussia – Sonatas for Fortepiano & Cello, Op. 5

Marco Ceccato and Anna Fontana are well-known performers on the international baroque circuit and familiar faces thanks to their recordings for Outhere labels Alpha, Arcana and Zig-Zag Territoires. Now they have come together to tackle the two revolutionary works for piano and cello composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1796 and dedicated to King Frederick William II of Prussia. (Arcana)

1CD# A546 $18.99

Gassmann: Oboe Quintets & Oboe Quartets

From today’s perspective, Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774) falls into one of those time gaps that cannot be easily assigned to an era in retrospect. These are all extremely beautiful-sounding, imaginative and varied creations, which are coming to life under the umbrella of the now legendary master oboist Lájos Lencsés. (CPO)

1CD# 555528-2 $16.99

Beethoven: Trios, Op. 9 (arr. By Ries)

Trio Parnassus inspires audiences with their gripping virtuosity as well as their shaping of sensitive passages. This high-quality world premiere recording should convince even the most critical Beethoven admirers! (MDG-Gold)

1SACD# 9032270-6 $21.99

Smethergell: Overtures, Vol. 1 –Six Overtures Op. 5

William Smethergell’s Six Overtures in eight parts Op. V offer a thoroughly remarkable number of idiosyncrasies, though the first Overture in particular seems like a prototype of the genre in its clear three-movement form – with splendid opening movement, lively Siciliano with the dynamic indication sempre p, and a contrasting Rondo. Enjoy also the other overtures with much charm and subliminal wit. (CPO)

1CD# 555540-2 $16.99

This recording brings together three great, late works by the acknowledged masters of Viennese classicism, Mozart and Haydn. (Leaf)

1CD# LM252 $16.99

Mozart & His Europe

In a fascinating musical interplay, the young, highly acclaimed pianist Anna Khomichko presents works from the 18th century on her debut CD in cooperation with SWR (Southwest Broadcasting). (Genuin)

1CD# GEN23841 $18.99

Mozart: Kronungsmesse / Coronation Mass, KV 317

The soloists and the excellent Bavarian Radio Chorus are accompanied by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin for this recording. The conductor is Howard Arman. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900530 $17.99

Jollage: Premier Livre De Pieces De Clavecin

A world-premiere recording of elegant, courtly French harpsichord suites by a forgotten name of the early 18th century. (Brilliant Classics)

1CD# BRI96773 $12.99

The Romantic

Franck: Hulda [3 CDs]

Here a cast of international singers, under the dynamic direction of Gergely Madaras, devotes itself with conviction to the task of reviving one of the forgotten glories of French Romantic opera. Hulda, completed in 1885, was never staged in César Franck’s lifetime. This medieval legend recounts the multiple acts of vengeance its heroine inflicts on the Aslak clan. (Bru Zane)

3CD# BZ1052 $41.99

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

After acclaimed recordings of the Third (‘Dausgaard… makes the music sound vital and even revolutionary’, Fanfare) and Sixth (‘This persuasively played work could be no better served’, MusicWeb International ), Thomas Dausgaard and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra now present Anton Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, ‘Romantic’ in its second version (1878–1880). (BIS) 1SACD# BIS-2534 $19.99

Bingham, Sandoval, Strauss & Wagner: Deified [2 CDs]

The National Brass Ensemble (NBE) and conductor Eun Sun Kim present Deified, an album containing music by Wagner and Strauss, as well as world premiere recordings of pieces by Jonathan Bingham and Arturo Sandoval. (Pentatone) 2SACD# PTC5187049 $29.99

The Brahms Age – The Violin Sonatas

“The vision for this project was to build a cohesive and comprehensive collaboration between artists, craftsmen, historians and curators, each with a singular degree of knowledge and lifelong immersion in their respective fields.” – Daniel Kurganov (Haenssler)

1CD# HC22081 $18.99

Thomas: Complete Duos for Harp & Piano, Vol. 2 Harpist to Queen Victoria, the Welsh composer John Thomas (1826–1913) wrote prolifically for his own instrument, both for solo harp and for duos of two harps or harp and piano. Thomas also left a generous legacy of transcriptions, with no fewer than fourteen Schubert songs recorded on this second volume of his complete duos for harp and piano. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0566 $18.99

Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin

Baritone Konstantin Krimmel, voted ‘Best Newcomer’ of the year at the 2023 Oper! Awards in Germany and a member of the eminent Bavarian State Opera company since 2021, presents his third recording for Alpha. In close partnership with pianist Daniel Heide, he places his artistry and his feeling for words at the service of the lied repertory. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA929 $18.99

Liszt: Winterreise (After Schubert)

While Liszt’s version of 12 songs from Winterreise is the crowning glory of his Schubert transcriptions, there are surprisingly few recordings of the complete set. Only two are presently available (one on fortepiano), making this new recording by Leonardo Pierdomenico a notable event, and coupled uniquely with two versions of Liszt’s own music. (Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10251 $18.99

Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera [2 CDs]

Maestro Marek Janowski, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and the Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir present Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (1859), together with a stellar cast consisting of Freddie De Tommaso (Riccardo), Lester Lynch (Renato) and Saioa Hernández (Amelia). (Pentatone)

2SACD# PTC5187048 $33.99

Dances of Light – Music for Viola & Folk Instruments Quartet

The familiar in a new guise – Tatjana Masurenko and the Yaruss Quartet are therefore in good company when they clothe the music of the Russian Romantics in novel acoustic garments. Using viola, soprano domra and alto domra, accordion and double bass, they play 19th century works in their own arrangements, using gut strings for all of their instruments. (Profil)

1CD# PH23020 $17.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor [2 CDs]

Gustav Mahler described his Third Symphony as ‘a work in which the whole world is indeed reflected’, a claim supported by its large, six-movement structure and the use of huge orchestral and choral forces, plus a part for alto solo. This is the third recording of a Mahler symphony by the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Tomáš Netopil. (Oehms Classics)

2CD# OC 1718 $26.99

Era

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (1888)

Bruckner’s frantic revisions of his symphonies Nos. 3, 4, and 8 were borne out of his disappointment with Hermann Levi rejecting the original version of the 8th symphony. This late edition really did reflect Bruckner’s intentions. To ears familiar with the still better-known 1881 version, the result might sound mystifying, even troubling, but it also surprises with many particularly exquisite passages!

(Capriccio)

1CD# C8085 $19.99

Schubert: Symphonies Unfinished & Great

Marek Janowski presents his first purely-orchestral Schubert recording, performing the composer’s two final, groundbreaking and most famous symphonies. While the two movements of the “Unfinished” symphony in B Minor reach a level of perfection despite the work’s apparent incompleteness, Robert Schumann praised the “Great” symphony in C major for its “heavenly length”. (Pentatone)

1SACD# PTC5187065 $19.99

Hofmann: Six Divertimenti, Op. 1

World Premiere Recording of a sophisticated and elegant collection of gallant String Trios. Leopold Hofmann, pupil of Wagenseil, was a major figure in the late 18th-century Vienna. A new meaningful find by the ever investigating Musica Elegentia and its leader Matteo Cicchitti. (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72931 $16.99

The Stradgrass Sessions

“Stradgrass is the exploration of the violin’s stylistic capabilities, through various American folk styles, from a Classical lens. The word ‘Stradgrass’ first came about in 2015, from the novelty of performing Bluegrass on the Stradivari I was playing at the time. Stradgrass seems to be a type of musical exploration that is becoming more common within Classical violin training....” – Tessa Lark (First Hand)

1CD# FHR100 $12.99

Schubert: Lebensmuth

Lebensmuth is the final episode of Signum Quartett’s acclaimed Schubert trilogy, in which early and late string quartets are combined with song arrangements created by the group’s violist Xandi van Dijk. Schubert’s First String Quartet in G Minor, written when he was 13, already reveals his inclination to bold and unexpected moves. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187042 $15.99

Bruckner: 5 for Organ

“Bruckner’s Fifth is eminently suited to an arrangement for performance on the organ above all because of its musical texture. In no other Bruckner symphony, for example, does counterpoint play such an important part. My aim from the start was to avoid imitating the orchestra and to create a work specifically for organ in the manner of an organ symphony.” – Gerd Schaller (Profil)

Mercadante:

Messa Solenne for Soloists, Male Chorus & Orchestra

In the last decade, research in the Genoa archives has revealed a series of important manuscripts, one of which is Saverio Mercadante’s Messa solenne. It shows the composer’s artistic maturity at its peak: opulent orchestration, extensive counterpoint, intricate instrumental textures, rich lyricism and fugal mastery. This world première recording amplifies the significance of the Genoese musical tradition. (Dynamic)

1CD# DYN-CDS7986 $16.99

ROMANTIC ERA IN BRIEF

Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra

1CD# PH23014 $17.99

Lalo & Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto in D minor; Cello Concerto No. 1

Saint-Saëns’ First Cello Concerto was composed in 1873; Lalo’s in 1876, meaning that they are both products of late French romanticism and, not by chance, both in minor keys.

Maja Bogdanovic’s interpretation is imbued with her Slavic background, emphasising the passionate and tragic character of both works. (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72949 $16.99

The two early concertos of Chopin are repertoire works, deservedly so, for their prodigious synthesis of virtuoso finesse and lyricism. (Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10142 $18.99

Das Lied von der Erde

Christian Gerhaher’s new recording of Mahler’s ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ in a version with piano featuring tenor Piotr Beczala and pianist Gerold Huber. (Sony)

1CD# 19658795702 $13.98

Liszt: Consolations

Consolations is Saskia Giorgini’s second Liszt album, after her critically-acclaimed rendition of the composer’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. (Pentatone)

1CD# PTC5187045 $15.99

An Evening with Brahms [2 CDs]

In making this recording, the performers have brought a piece of historical performance practice from the salons of the 19th century into the living rooms of our time. (Haenssler)

2CD# HC22064 $22.99

Stravinsky: Piano Music

‘Delucchi has done us a great service’, noted Fanfare magazine in January 2022 after the release of his Czerny album 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. (Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10169 $18.99

Stohr: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2

This second volume of the orchestral music of the Austro-American composer Richard Stöhr (1874–1967) reveals further marvels: the first of his two suites for string orchestra encases a moving slow movement between a charming prelude and an elegant fugue; and the four imposing spans of the expansive First Symphony offer grandeur and heartfelt profundity. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0472 $18.99

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, Jean-Paul Gasparian invites listeners to integrate the atmospheres, colours and timbres that make up Debussy’s world. (Naive)

1CD# V7958 $16.99

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 $18.99

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 1917 – each of its six movements dedicated to a friend lost to the war.

(Cavi)

1CD# AVI 8553526 $17.99

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10;

Balakirev: Islamey

It is Paul Lincke’s music, whose unashamed catchiness “overtakes you”, as his first biographer, the composer Edmund Nick, wrote: “Only a genuine Berliner like Lincke was capable of making a declaration of love to his father city in this way. (ICA Classics)

1CD# ICAC5171 $14.99

Hubay: Works for Violin & Piano

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 energizing. 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 $24.99

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 and Alice Tully Hall. 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 $15.99

Ravel: Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 2

In Ravel’s output, themes of Classical order and choreographic gesture run parallel to a sensibility in touch with the macabre and grotesque. All these aspects of his music are illustrated by the second volume of Oleg Marshev’s Ravel survey, from the elegance of the Sonatine to the vertiginous fantasy of Gaspard de la Nuit. ‘Marshev is a phenomenon’

– BBC Music Magazine. (Danacord)

1CD# DACOCD904 $16.99

Today Vieuxtemps Hubay belongs to that group of artists that musicology is slowly rediscovering with results both in concert and recording practice. The present CD represents a summary of his production for violin and piano, capable of synthesizing the elegant Central European taste with elements of the Hungarian. (Urania)

1CD# LDV14100 $19.99

Post Romantic

Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Vol. 4

The Swiss composer Émile JaquesDalcroze (1865–1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. The buoyant miniatures recorded on this fourth album of his piano music document his fascination with dance, but nonetheless display a degree of variety. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0627 $18.99

Debussy: C’est L’Extase – La Mer

Debussy’s song cycle Ariettes oubliées of 1888 set six poems from Paul Verlaine’s collection Romances sans paroles, beginning with C’est l’extase and Il pleure dans mon cœur–penetratingly poetic images of love’s ecstasy and rainlike tears of despair. The six Ariettes are the departure point for the arrangement realized in 2012 by British composer Robin Holloway. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA981 $18.99

Miaskowsky & Rimsky-Korsakov: Cello Concerto Cello Sonatas

For the last ten years or so, there has been a gratifying renewal of interest in the eminent Russian composer Nikolai Myaskovsky, whose career spanned the late Romantic to early Modern periods. His creative legacy deserves far greater attention than is currently paid to him: Myaskovsky’s music demonstrates the highest level of craftsmanship. (CPO)

1CD# 555420-2 $16.99

Labor: Quintets & Clarinet Trio [2 CDs]

What the concert pianist, organist, and composer Josef Labor lost in eyesight when smallpox left him blind at age three, must have been added to his ears. Although roughly a Brahmsian (and a friend of the composer), Labor wrote in an original style, informed by his knowledge of and love for early music. As a piano teacher, he taught Arnold Schoenberg, Alma Schindler, and Paul Wittgenstein. (Centaur)

2CD# C5473 $16.99

NEW TITLES IN BRIEF

Bortkiewicz: A Letter – Solo Piano Works

Rachmaninoff: Suites for Two Pianos; Music for Piano Trio

A new album of chamber works by Sergei Rachmaninoff. This outstanding recording was made at two venues in Poland: the Łódź Academy of Music, and the Czestochowa Philharmony. The principal performer is pianist Barbara Karaśkiewicz who has made several highly praised recordings for Divine Art. She performs two piano duos with her musical partner Michał Rot. (Divine Art)

1CD# DDX21101 $18.99

Lincke: Overtures, Vol. 1

Like Franz Lehár, Paul Lincke was a master of instrumentation, but remained true to the classical orchestral movement, like his models Jacques Offenbach and Franz von Suppé. And he took special care with overtures, whether to a farce or an operetta, whereas most Viennese operettas of the time had to make do with a short prelude. (CPO)

1CD# 555428-2 $16.99

Scriabin: Visionary & Poet

The enigmatic Alexander Scriabin, mystic and herald of new music, was taught composition by Arensky and Taneyev and piano by Safonov. His earliest works, presented on this album, belong to a stage of development much influenced by Chopin and Liszt. The Preludes, Op. 13, whether solemn or playful, contain moments of visionary originality that presage his future modernity. (Dynamic)

1CD# DYN-CDS7984 $16.99

Casadesus, Respighi & Saint-Saëns: Ronde de Saisons

Encouraged by Camille Saint-Saëns, violist/composer Henri Casadesus founded the Société des Instruments Anciens in 1901. This disc presents the premiere recordings of music written in the first decades of the twentieth century by Henri Casadesus and Ottorino Respighi for a “quartet of viols.” (Olde Focus)

1CD# FCR922 $19.99

Steinway artist Zhenni Li-Cohen’s latest album gives the world an opportunity to discover the piano works of Ukrainian composer Sergei Bortkiewicz. (Steinway & Sons)

1CD# STNS30129 $17.99

Jongen: Preludes for Piano

Pianist Ivan Ilic presents this new recording of two of Jongen’s substantial sets of Préludes for piano. The 13 Préludes, Op. 69 are expansive in nature and extremely poetic. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20264 $20.99

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 2

A program of works by Sergei Prokofiev performed by Dmitry Liss and the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra in Yekaterinburg in June 2021. (Fuga Libera)

1CD# FUG798 $18.99

Piano Works of Maurice Ravel [2 CDs]

Italian pianist Cinzia Bartoli presents a wonderful album of the complete piano works of Maurice Ravel. (Centaur)

2CD# CRC3983/84 $15.99

From the

Tubin: Kratt

For their fourth recording on Alpha Classics, Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra – who bring together the best Estonian talent and leading musicians from around the world each year in Pärnu – celebrate composers from Estonia and Poland, two nations closely connected by their history. (Alpha)

1CD# ALPHA1006 $18.99

Orff: Prometheus [2 CDs]

What Carl Orff created with the Prometheus score is neither an opera in the traditional sense nor an oratorio, but also not a play with music or even “authentic” classical tragedy: far more is it an extremely individual musical interpretation of Aeschylus’s tragedy. Sung in Ancient Greek, the booklet contains a plot synopsis in English and German language plus liner notes. (Orfeo)

2CD# C240012 $24.99

Weill: Propheten

The score of The Prophets, intended as the last act of The Eternal Road, was the last that Kurt Weill composed in Europe. In 1998 David Drew devised the concert adaptation of this act, of which this is the premiere’s recording. The Four Walt Whitman Songs, meanwhile, were a product of the war years and reveal Weill at his most touchingly American, fusing American theater song with the German Lied. (Capriccio)

1CD# C5500 $19.99

Dreaming Amy Beach

“This was my first encounter with the music of Amy Beach, an American pianist and composer of the early 1900s. I was thunderstruck by it. Born with this CD is a project of popularization and knowledge of Amy Beach’s compositions and life story, a story and music that are at once incredibly modern and of other times.”

– Matteo Amadasi (Stradivarius)

1CD# STR37259 $16.99

Vacchi: Complete Music for Guitar

Born in 1949, Fabio Vacchi stands among the pre-eminent Italian composers of his generation. The most substantial piece on this new collection of his chamber pieces was commissioned by guitarist Magnus Andersson and first performed in 1997 as a guitar concerto. Any listener with an ear for the Italian postwar avantgarde will find this newly recorded album full of delight and discovery.

1CD# BRI96976 $12.99

Frid: Complete Works for Violin & Piano

Pianist Oliver Triendl and violinist Isabelle van Keulen present here the complete output for their instruments by an almost unknown Russian composer: Grigory Frid (1915–2012). The pieces encompass a composition period of time going from late 40s to early 70s and feature different styles which may recall Shostakovich to Schnittke.

(Challenge)

1CD# CC 72953 $16.99

Bruk: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4

Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

John Wilson’s third volume of the music of Eric Coates combines some of the composer’s larger-scale works with miniatures and two marches. The Cinderella Phantasy frames the well-known fairy-tale from Cinderella’s perspective, glossing over the more brutal elements of the original, with some notably descriptive writing for the dream sequences, the ball and of course the happy ending. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20164 $20.99

Stoessel, Strube & Damrosch: Sonatas for Violin & Piano

Albert Stoessel: Violin Sonata in G (1921); Gustav Strube: Violin Sonata in E minor (1924); Walter Damrosch: Violin Sonata op. 6 “At Fox Meadow” (1899). The first two works receive world permiere recordings here, the third receives its first studio recording. (Centaur)

1CD# CRC4011 $15.99

Vladigerov: Stage Music [2 CDs]

The more of Pancho Vladigerov’s work becomes widely accessible, the clearer it becomes that he is the most important Bulgarian composer – well beyond the 20th century. Revered in his lifetime, he was in a position to continue his work largely unaffected by the ideological demands of the Communist regime, although his musical diction wouldn’t likely have provoked any reprisals. (Capriccio)

2CD# C8067 $19.99

This fourth installment of the recent symphonic output of Fridrich Bruk (born in Ukraine in 1937 but a Finnish resident since 1974) brings two earlier works – from when Bruk was merely in his late seventies. His Symphonies Nos. 15 and 16 – both predicated on Bruk’s concern for the environment – inhabit the soundworld that has become familiar from his more recent symphonies. (Toccata)

1CD# TOCC0657 $18.99

20th Century

Klenau: Orchestral Works

This album provides a peek into Paul von Klenau’s vast collection of music created during World War II where he produced works, almost obsessively, until his passing in 1946. The album includes world premiere recordings of Klenau’s Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto, and Symphony No. 8, showcasing his distinctive introspective style, and his exceptional talent for venturing into uncharted musical realms. (Dacapo)

1CD# 8224744 $15.99

Melchers: Symphony in D minor; La Kermesse; Elegie

Swedish composer Melcher Melchers (1882–1961) has been largely forgotten by music history. This album by the Gävle Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jaime Martín includes Melchers’ magnum opus, his finely crafted Symphony in D minor, Op. 19 together with world première recordings of two symphonic poems. (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1418-2 $16.99

Devcic, Lazic & Ronjgov: Istrian Rhapsody

The folk music of the Croatian peninsula of Istria is as characteristic as it is extraordinary. Its melodies, harmonies and rhythms are unique, and sonorously expressed by the sopila –a traditional shawm instrument – as well as through choral singing and folk dances. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900332 $17.99

Sancan: A Musical Tribute

Pierre Sancan was a tremendously influential figure in French musical life, as a composer, pianist, teacher and conductor, but remains relatively unknown outside France. This program of the Piano concerto, orchestral works, works for solo piano and the flute Sonatine serves as a personal tribute to Sancan from both pianist and conductor. (Chandos)

1CD# CHAN 20154 $20.99

20TH CENTURY IN BRIEF

Complete Songs of Alma Mahler

Tailleferre: The Flower of France – Works for Piano

Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983) came of age in the explosively creative days of 1920s Paris. She was well-known as the only female member of Les Six, the group of composers which included Darius Milhaud, Louis Durey, Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, and Arthur Honegger. This recording features works originally for solo piano, as well as transcriptions and excerpts from ballets and film scores. (Music & Arts)

1CD# MA CD-1306 $16.99

Kallmeyer, Webern & Beethoven: Kosmos und Fragment

On this new recording, pianist Marie Rosa Gunter combines Ludwig van Beethoven’s late “Hammerklavier Sonata” and his “Bagatelles” op. 126 with Anton Webern’s aphoristic Variations op. 27, as well as the world premiere recording of Variations on “Jerusalem” by Braunschweig composer Ulrich. (Genuin)

1CD# GEN23833 $18.99

Hindemith: Das Marienleben, Op. 27

Is the greatest song cycle ever written. – at least Glenn Gould is very clear in his judgement of Paul Hindemith’s Marienleben. “There is something in these songs that forces and fascinates the listener beyond all habits of conventional song manner,” wrote a 1923 reviewer. Yvonne Friedli and Constantin Alex make it palpable in their sensitive interpretation. (Coviello)

1CD# COV92305 $20.99

Thomas Jensen Legacy, Vol. 16 [2 CDs]

Broadcast performances of the Fifth and Sixth symphonies complete a Sibelius cycle within the Thomas Jensen collection on Danacord. Jensen worked tirelessly for Danish composers throughout his career; this volume includes newly published performances of works by three composers who emerged from the shadow cast by Carl Nielsen to write in a distinctively individual idiom. (Danacord)

2CD# DACOCD926 $16.99

Mostly written in her youth, Alma Mahler’s Lieder are rarely performed, yet each one is a musical gem that forms an important part of the Romantic song repertoire. (Fuga Libera)

1CD# FUG796 $18.99

Herz: Sterne Steigen Dort

Rediscovering a great composer is possible with the new Genuin CD of works by Maria Herz. All this is excitingly new, well worth hearing, and recorded superbly! (Genuin)

1CD# GEN23837 $18.99

Early 20th Century Music

In masterful arrangements, these four saxophone virtuosos explore the golden 20s and early 30s of the last century and give an exceptional and entertaining performance. (MDG-Scene)

1CD# 6032266-2 $21.99

Songs of Max Kowalski

Presented here are The Songs of Max Kowalski (1882–1956), whose life and career can be described in two main segments: the first in Germany until 1939, and thereafter in England. (Nimbus)

1CD# NI8112 $18.99

Contemporary

Martinaityte: Hadel Zone

Hadal Zone, written by composer Žibuokle Martinaityte for bass clarinet, tuba, violoncello, contrabass, piano and electronics, seeks to plumb the lower ranges of these instruments, shaping a listening environment that is defined as much by sound and vibration as it is by the musical intent of the composer. (Cantaloupe)

1CD# CA21182 $19.99

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 $21.99

Nielsen: Frozen Moments

Frozen Moments is a stunning debut album by the young Danish composer Mette Nielsen, featuring the brilliant and award-winning Danish string quartet, NOVO Quartet, and the masterful clarinettist Jonas Frølund. The album offers an introspective collection of compositions that challenges the listener to ponder the nature of time and sound. (Dacapo)

1CD# 8224745 $15.99

Nordic: Voices From the Past

Leading Swedish composer Jesper Nordin’s soundscape lies at the crossroads of Swedish traditional music, rock and improvised music. On this recording, Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Röster (‘voices’), a trilogy whose works are each based on different kinds of Swedish music which the composer sees as being part of his background.

(BIS)

Ospald:

1CD# BIS-2629 $19.99

Mas Raiz, Menos Criatura

Born in Münster/Westphalia in 1956, Klaus Ospald is one of the most renowned German composers of contemporary music. It is important to Ospald that extended sounds become an integral part of the composition and are given their space. This form of live electronics requires a sound director in the performance who – like the musicians – “plays” the electronics according to the score. (BR Klassik)

1CD# BRK900642 $17.99

Bjarnason: From Earth to Ether

There is an evaporating quality to the music of Icelandic composer and conductor Daníel Bjarnason, with sounds that can start softly or loudly, serenely or fiercely, but ultimately dissipate into intangible air. This album, conducted by the composer himself, showcases this characteristic in three captivating works in all-new versions. (Dacapo)

1CD# 8224746 $15.99

Tjornhoj: Entmenscht

Raaff: Orphic Descent

Here is Challenge Classics fourth orchestral release of Robin de Raaf’s music. Robin de Raaf is counted amongst the contemporary leading composers in the Netherlands. His music is complex and much elaborated, but also approachable to the ear. (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72942 $16.99

Chizy: Suono

Suono, the sound from which all music originates: how to cause it? How to write it, the better to discover it? All of those are questions to which each of the seven pieces in this recording attempts to provide an answer. In their own way, these pieces aim to embark listeners on a voyage to the “elsewhere” that threads through the imagination of Edith Canat de Chizy. (Signature)

1CD# SIG11122 $18.99

Zivkovic: Citadel of Love

Serbian-Swedish Djuro Živkovic has quickly established himself as one of Europe’s leading young composers. His musical style is strongly marked by Byzantine Orthodox music – spiritual, mystical and characterized by fantastic narration, virtuosic instrumentation and a stylistic, highly profiled sound. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2685 $19.99

The human voice is the focus of Line Tjørnhøj’s music. As in several of her other works, universal and often painful aspects of our existence are explored through virtuoso investigations of the voice – its possibilities and limitations and the connectedness of voices. The work was created in collaboration with visual artist Signe Klejs and the virtuosic vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices. (Dacapo)

1CD# 8224739 $15.99

Music

Jandali: Concertos

Clarinetist Anthony McGill and violinist Rachel Barton Pine are featured soloists on a new recording of two concertos composed in response to societal injustices by Syrian composer Malek Jandali, performed by the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and led by Marin Alsop, a champion of the composer’s work. (Cedille)

1CD# CDR 220 $16.99

Ostlund: Elysian [2 CDs]

Step into the magical world of Jonathan Östlund with his latest album, Elysían, a stunning collection of impressionist compositions that will transport you to a fantastical, enchanted otherworld. This double album is a feat of collaboration, featuring hand-picked musicians from all around Europe, who come together to bring Östlund’s imaginative and accessible style to life. (Divine Art)

2CD# DDX21242 $25.99

Cooley, Evans, Reich & Weiser: 8-Track

Cellist Ashley Bathgate releases a recording of works inspired by Steve Reich’s “Counterpoint” series, meant to be performed by a single live performer playing along with seven pre-recorded tracks of the same instrument. This formula expands the breadth of impact for solo pieces while retaining the connection with an individual performer.

(New Focus)

1CD# FCR373 $16.99

Anthology – Contemporary Music for Saxophones

The debut recording by virtuoso saxophonist Anthony Brown includes seven world première recordings of brand new commissioned works for the saxophone. Each work has its own unique sound world, offering different, exciting new duo and solo works.

(Metier)

1CD# MEX77101 $18.99

Robinson: The Weather Pieces

The set of The Weather Pieces are reflections on the perception of meteorological phenomena. The listener is immersed in a hybrid sound world, as the line between the live performer and the computer-generated propositions becomes blurred. The musician follows a score that leaves room for interaction with the computer’s ever-changing proposals. (Mode)

1CD# MOD-CD-333 $18.99

Hosokawa, Jost & Zimmermann: Nobody Knows

One of the most versatile trumpeters in the classical world, Simon Höfele, releases a new album Nobody Knows together with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Geoffrey Paterson and Ilan Volkov. On his 4th album on Berlin Classics, he plays the trumpet concertos by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Christian Jost, and Toshio Hosokawa, spanning an arc from the 20th to the 21st century. (Berlin Classics)

1CD# 0302712BC $19.99

Kõrvits: The Sound of Wings

Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits (b. 1969) belongs to his country’s most prominent composers. His works are rich with delicate atmosphere possessing a particularly Northern feel combined with a romantic and Impressionistic touch. This new album is the final volume in a trilogy of works for choir and orchestra. (Ondine)

1CD# ODE 1417-2 $16.99

Ex Tenebris Ad Lucem

American composer Robert Kyr was commissioned to contribute a new work intended to create a musical and emotional link between the plague in the 16th as well as the pandemic in the 21st centuries: Vigil: Darkness into light, is a bridge from our days to the music of the Renaissance. (Passacaille)

1CD# PAS1135 $20.99

CONTEMPORARY TITLES IN BRIEF

Fagerlung: Terral

Sebastian Fagerlund’s orchestral music, which has held a central position in his work, is known for its pounding rhythmic energy and the quiet, gripping intensity of the more static passages. (BIS)

1SACD# BIS-2639 $19.99

Lohse: Echoes

In an album of world-premiere recordings, accordionist Bjarke Mogensen performs Martin Lohse’s extraordinary Echoes off Cliffs – ‘a symphony in rural surroundings’. (Orchid Classics)

1CD# ORC100242 $16.99

Whitty: The Morning

Three new works from composer Paul Whitty written for new music ensembles and Icebreaker. (Metier)

1CD# MEX77113 $18.99

Arguelles & Delbecq: Apophonix

With Radiophonie, the new collection from its Signature label, Radio France is broadening its scope for action and creativity to reach the frontiers of functional music and future soundscapes. (Signature)

1CD# SIG11120 $18.99

Anne-Sophie Mutter – Vivace [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

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 $22.99

1DVD# SWR19132DVD $22.99

Archora / Aion [Blu-ray]

The core inspiration behind Archora centers around the notion of a primordial energy and the idea of an omnipresent parallel realm –a world both familiar and strange, static and transforming, nowhere and everywhere at the same time. The piece revolves around the extremes on the spectrum between the Primordia and its resulting afterglow.

(Sono Luminus)

2Blu-ray# DSL-92268 $19.99

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 $24.99

1DVD# 2110757 $24.99

J.S. Bach & J.C. Bach: Boulder Bach Festival [Blu-ray]

This album is the culmination of an extraordinarily fruitful artistic collaboration that took place at the 2022 Boulder Bach Festival in Boulder, Colorado. The recordings were made immediately after the public concerts concluded. The entire project took place against the backdrop of some of the most majestic natural scenery in the world.

(Sono Luminus)

2Blu-ray# DSL-92265 $20.99

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 $42.99

2DVD# 762508 $47.99

New Titles on

Puccini: Turandot [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Video artist Franc Aleu, who belongs to the artists’ group La Fura dels Baus, sets the exciting Puccini opera Turandot into the future. With projection mapping and 3D technology in the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the play about the cruel princess is shown in a spectacular, visually striking new way. (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 763604 $42.99

1DVD# 763508 $32.99

Shakespeare: Richard III [8 DVDs]

‘Conscience is but a word that cowards use’ – Young Richard of Gloucester uses the chaos of the Wars of the Roses to begin his unscrupulous climb to power. Despite being manifestly unfit to govern, he seizes the crown as King Richard III. Directed by Gregory Doran and featuring Arthur Hughes as Richard, this is the thrilling climax to Shakespeare’s first great history cycle.

(Opus Arte)

1DVD# OA 1298D $24.99

Tchaikovsky: Anna Karenina [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

Thomas Mann once named Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina “the greatest social novel of world literature.” When reading the novel, John Neumeier was deeply fascinated by Tolstoy’s work: not only by the main characters and the plot, but also by the extraordinary variety of thematic connections. It is a story of three families. (C Major)

1Blu-ray# 763204 $42.99

2DVD# 763108 $37.99

Bruckner 11 – Christian Thielemann & Weiner Philharmoniker

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 $42.99

2DVD# 807508 $37.99

Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra –The First

Years

[4 DVDs]

This box set documents Riccardo Chailly’s first years as principal conductor of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. In summer 2016, he steps into the office as Claudio Abbado’s successor with Mahler’s 8th Symphony. (Accentus)

4DVD# ACC70570 $76.99

DVD & Blu-ray

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 $24.99

1DVD# 2110758 $24.99

Horowitz in Moscow

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 $42.99

Herbert Blomstedt – When Music Resounds, The Soul Is Spoken To [DVD]

The feature-length film portrait When Music Resounds, The Soul Is Spoken To was created between Herbert Blomstedt’s 90th and 95th birthdays. It accompanies Blomstedt in his work with selected orchestras, which are representative of the many international ensembles he has either led or with which he still works regularly, and observes the gifted communicator during rehearsals and concerts. (Accentus)

1DVD# ACC20417 $24.99

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 $32.49

1DVD# ACC20583 $38.99

Shakespeare: Henry VI – Parts 1–3 [3 DVDs]

Experience the thrill of rebellion, the brutality of battle, and ambition without boundaries in Shakespeare’s epic trilogy about one of the most turbulent periods in English history. This box set trilogy, available together for the first time on DVD, is directed by Owen Horsley. (Opus Arte)

3DVD# OA 1365BD $39.99

Talbot:

Like Water for Chocolate [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

A modern Mexican classic provides the basis for a theatrical tale of love, jealousy, repression, and revolution. Inspired by Laura Esquivel’s novel, the full company, led by Francesca Hayward as Tita and Marcelino Sambé as Pedro, reshape this captivating family saga into a richly layered and engrossing new ballet where passion, mystery and magic combine. (Opus Arte)

1Blu-ray# OA BD7312D $39.99

1DVD# OA 1366D $29.99

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

This Exhibition on Screen presentation focuses on Mary Cassatt, whose images showed women as intellectual, curious and engaging, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art. Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces us to the oftenoverlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted. (Seventh Art)

1DVD# SEV226 $21.99

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [8 DVDs]

Richard Wagner’s extraordinary cycle of four operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen, is epic in every sense of the word. Sofia Opera’s acclaimed productions bring Wagner’s shimmering and opulent vision to life in a spectacle that is thrilling from beginning to end in both its daring visual language and its overwhelming musical intensity. (Dynamic)

8DVD# DYN-37964 $74.99

Andris Nelsons – Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester [DVD or Blu-ray Video]

This box set documents Andris Nelson’s work with two world-class orchestras. In the recording of his first concert with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Nelsons explores the musical landscape of the German Romantic composer Johannes Brahms through his Second Symphony and Second Serenade. A year later, he impresses with a fiery and powerful interpretation of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. (Accentus)

4Blu-ray# ACC60568 $104.99

4DVD# ACC70568 $76.99

Ficcari, Gigout & Zimmer: Hazel’s Story

The iconic Hazel Wright Organ of Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, is the world’s most widely heard pipe organ and the fifth largest. Hazel now enjoys a renewed musical life following her full restoration in 2022 by the Diocese of Orange. Hazel is an icon of the musical world with a unique history. Discover all of Hazel’s story in this dynamic documentary release! (Gothic)

1Blu-ray# G-DVD-0100 $19.99

New Jazz

Impressions of Ella / Robin McKelle

With Impressions of Ella, Robin McKelle returns to her traditional jazz roots and finds herself right at home, drawing from only one source and perhaps her greatest artistic influence, Ella Fitzgerald. To help bring her concept to life, McKelle enlists a brand new trio of venerated jazz players: Kenny Washington on drums, bassist Peter Washington, and NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron on piano. (Naive)

1CD# BLV8071 $16.99

In Real Time / Artemis

Artemis returns with their second Blue Note album In Real Time, a marvelous follow-up that highlights the improvisational strength of it’s members as well as their respective gifts as composers. A dynamic new line-up of the collective features founding members Renee Rosnes, Ingrid Jensen, Noriko Ueda, and Allison Miller joined by newcomers Nicole Glover and Alexa Tarantino. (Blue Note)

1CD# MOB728562 $15.99

Grateful Deadication 2 / Dave McMurray

Dave McMurray returns with Grateful Deadication 2, which once again finds the saxophonist reimagining the songs of the Grateful Dead with his gritty and soulful Detroit sound. Grateful Deadication 2 is a 9-song set that offers up Dead favorites and deep cuts including “Truckin’,” “China Cat Sunflower,” and “To Lay Me Down.” (Blue Note)

1CD# MOB229502 $15.99

A Tribute of Paco De Lucia / Lucia, Nordso & Knudsen

The Danish ensemble Flamenco Passion meets three soloists of international class, namely master guitarist Mikkel Nordsø, violinist Bjarke Falgren and harmonica player Mathias Heise on the new album A Tribute to Paco de Lucia. The group Flamenco Passion are among the very best flamenco fusion groups in Scandinavia.

(Storyville)

1CD# SVL1014352 $15.99

Careless Territories / Remy Labbe

“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. From swinging affairs and songwriting to more extended through-composed pieces, this album was made possible thanks to the curiosity of an exciting multi-generational band.” – Remy Labbe (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73558 $16.99

Routes

Inspired by the legacy of Don Drummond, trombonist Samuel Blaser gathered a gang of greats to create the ultimate Jamaican repertoire. Routes is the result of their musical camaraderie, anchored in the musical tradition of the island and firmly rooted in jazz. Routes is an adventure, a party and a celebration, and you’re invited.

(Yellowbird)

Danish Rain / Justin Kauflin; Thomas Fonnesbæk

Storyville Records proudly present the new album Danish Rain from two of the most exciting new artists in jazz, the supreme Scandinavian bassist Thomas Fonnesbæk and the young jazz superstar, pianist Justin Kauflin. This latest addition to the two gentlemen’s musical partnership builds on and expands the soundscape of their previous releases together. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018532 $15.99

The Dam Jawn is a band consisting of five young musicians from the Amsterdam Jazz scene who found together through a shared experience in Philadelphia. Their debut album features legendary alto saxophonist Dick Oatts. The Dam Jawn have shaped their own sound, inspired by the energy and feeling of the current Philadelphia Jazz scene, as well as its rich musical past. (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73559 $16.99

Quiet Journey / William Evans; Roberto Koch

Each song has a certain soft, gentle, quiet, feeling; a sonic kinship of sorts. The melodies for these songs are all straight from the heart; which, needless to say, makes them all quite memorable. The composers for these songs are natives of 5 different countries! How’s that for a journey? Brazil, England, Venezuela, Cuba and the U.S.A. (TCB)

1CD# TCB 37402 $16.99

1CD# YEB-7835 $18.99

Symphonic Stories / Fay Claassen

Fay Claassen – “In 2019, the Artistic Director of the Residentie Orkest The Hague, Sven Arne Tepl, invited me to appear as guest soloist. This musical journey proved to be a unique experience. Alongside some beautiful songs by Ennio Morricone, Paul Simon, Burt Bacharach and The Beatles, I was also able to get some of our own music arranged by some of the finest arrangers.” (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73557 $16.99

/ Samuel Blaser

Master St. / The Dam Jawn

Things Eternal / Dan Wilson

The first song on guitarist/composer

Dan Wilson’s Things Eternal opens with a recorded voicemail from the late organist, personal mentor and dear friend Joey DeFrancesco, serving as a tribute, guiding light and mission statement. Throughout a curated selection of 12 songs, Wilson gathers hope and inspiration from ancestral wisdom, dedicated to the enduring quality of the human spirit. (Brother Mister)

1CD# BRO4005 $17.99

Chet Remembered / Enrico Pieranunzi

Enrico Pieranunzi – “This CD has a very special meaning for me. Remembering Chet takes me back to 1979 when I first met him. That meeting would soon prove to be a turning point in my musical life. Playing together, sharing concerts or recording sessions with him allowed me to be in close contact with an artist of rare Jazz experience who caused an enormous change in my playing.” (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73555 $16.99

The Layers / Julian Lage

The Layers is a stunning companion piece to guitarist Julian Lage’s acclaimed 2022 album View With A Room. The collection features six original pieces featuring the trio of bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King with the addition of guitar icon Bill Frisell. Intimate and gorgeous, The Layers is a welcome additional offering from this meeting of two of modern jazz’s most distinctive voices. (Blue Note)

1CD# MOB669124 $15.99

Detweiler & Tomita: There Used To Be Rain

A superior post bop soloist, tenor saxophonist, composer, and educator, David Detweiler is influenced by early John Coltrane and Michael Brecker but has a sound and style of his own within the mainstream of modern jazz.

(Centaur)

1CD# CRC3993 $15.99

NEW JAZZ IN BRIEF

Rolff: Adventures of Magia

Iroko / Avishai Cohen; Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.

Iroko, the French naïve label’s unique release by singer-bassist Avishai Cohen and conguero-vocalist Abraham Rodriguez Jr., brims with tunefulness, grooves and warmth. It has deep roots in esoteric religion and popular song, and comes naturally from these 30-year cross-cultural collaborators who ward off trouble, united in musical spirit.

(Naive)

1CD# BLV8080 $16.99

Norwegian-Brazilian Gabriela Garrubo has already made a mark on the live-scene in Norway with her incredible voice and her lovely blend of modern nordic jazz and influences from Brazilian 80’s music and bossa nova. Her lyrics performed in both English and Portuguese. (NXN Recordings)

1CD# NXN2017 $14.99

Nostalgia / Jiri Slavik; Liam Noble

The Noble-Slavík-Clarvis Trio plays purely acoustic music that draws deeply from the jazz tradition and playing styles of the past. The trio brings together the Czech double bassist Jirí Slavík and two musicians from the UK, both a generation older than him, the leading English jazz pianist Liam Noble and Abbey Road percussionist Paul Clarvis.

(Animal)

1CD# BR006 $21.99

Born in Millennium / Alan Bartus

When you hear the fluid lines with the concise swing attacks of pianist Alan Bartus, you can hardly believe that the man is only 21 years old. Bartus was born on February 22, 2001 in Slovakia, and he was already captivated by music as a small child. Four of the eight songs feature drummer Gregory Hutchinson, who has already been heard with jazz giants such as Joe Henderson & Wynton Marsalis. (Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71429 $14.99

Magia is a successful fusion, never cold (with a seasoned but subtle West-Coast finesse of arrangement), which communicates a quiet but adventurous joie de vivre. (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73556 $16.99

Koenig: Dark with Excessive Bright

The two-wind quintet is insensitive to stylistic differences, being robust enough to convey very different musical content –it has become “classic”. (TCB)

1CD# TCB 37602 $16.99

Weidt & Weill: Inviting – Jazzthing Next Generation, Vol. 98

The music of Karoline Weidt and her band sounds inviting indeed, which is why “Inviting” is also a fitting title for this debut album.(Double Moon)

1CD# DMCHR71421 $14.99

Vloeimans: Joyful Noise

Rooted in the world of brass bands, Joyful Noise is the product of a tremendous collaboration and the confluence of a range of musical currents. (Challenge)

1CD# CR 73544 $16.99

Rodando / Gabriela Garrubo

Jazzwerkstatt Titles

Stamp / Stefan Schultze; Peter Ehwald

Peter Ehwald – “It is our homage to the sound of the quintet in Jazz. Ultimately, it was about not focusing too much on pitch/rhythm/harmonies etc., but on our idea of what the sound of the Jazz quintet means to us. By sharing their potent ideas, Ehwald and Schultze have produced something greater than the sum of its parts. (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW238 $16.99

Nowhere One Goes / Achim Kaufmann; Yorgos Dimitriadis

“By thinking of the duo as one instrument and sometimes reversing the instruments’ roles, our focus is to create our own amalgam of textures, resonances and electronic timbres by exploring and extending many new sound possibilities.” Nowhere One Goes masterfully exposes the infinite sonic palette available from just keyboard and percussion. (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW204 $16.99

Live at Jazzwerkstatt Peitz / Charles Gayle Trio

Charles Gayle, William Parker and Hamid Drake three main designers of the New York scene, initiators of SoundVision festivals meet with her trio each other on a stage in Peitz. The trio consists of double bassist William Parker, Hamid Drake on drums, and Charles Gayle on tenor saxophone. (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW155 $16.99

Jelly Roll Plays Morton / Helga Plankensteiner

The current work, Jelly Roll Plays Morton explores one of the legendary figures of the origins of Jazz with splendid sensitivity. With her Jelly Roll Quintet, Helga Plankensteiner tackles Morton’s splendid legacy with an attitude that on a first listen appears joyful, colorful, rich in moods and dynamics, with a few sprinklings of funk amid the rhythms of early 20th-century New Orleans. (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW231 $16.99

Luten at Jazzwerkstatt Peitz / Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky

In May 2011 these three musicians played in the film theater in Peitz,where the Jazz workshop was launched in the early 1970s.After a break of almost three decades, free Jazz was back here. This CD appears in the year of Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky’s ninetieth birthday. (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW177 $16.99

If there is one figure in jazz who remains similarly inexplicable, it is Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker has contributed so much to the syntax and grammar of jazz that no contemporary jazz musician exists today who is not influenced in some way by Bird’s jargon, either directly, or in echoes. (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW217 $16.99

“Lee (Konitz) knew all the standards, but in his last 25 years he always played the same ones, drawing from a repertoire of about 25 pieces. We played together for the first time in Dortmund in 1986. Eventually Lee and I began playing more as a duo. The recording of our concert from the Loft in Cologne, 1996, is documented on this CD.” – Frank Wunsch (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW213 $16.99

“In early March 2020, I performed my new set, short stories, at the church Kulturkirche Nikodemus in Berlin. The thing I didn’t realize that evening is that it would be my last solo performance before the world locked down. In my short stories, I revisit memories of inspiring trips and the kind of encounters that make us come alive.” – Volker Jaekel (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW214 $16.99

The Contact 4tett plays experimental improvised music with elements of Jazz, Art Rock, Modern Chamber Music and Sound Art. Since 2015 there has been a new edition of the band which includes the former soloists in the band Theo Jörgensmann, who now plays alto clarinet, and Evert Brettschneider. (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW224 $16.99

Abîme, the new album from the Céline Voccia Trio, showcases the formidable talents of three of the finest musicians on the Free Jazz scene today. Pianist Voccia is joined by Jan Roder on bass and Michael Griener on drums, and together they create a remarkable sound world that integrates the spontaneity of Free Jazz with the performance practices of the avant-garde. (Jazzwerkstatt)

1CD# JW226 $16.99

Bird / Wolfgang Schmidtke

Evening with Konitz & Wunsch / Lee Konitz; Frank Wunsch

Short Stories / Volker Jaekel

Wundertute / Theo Jorgensmann

Abime / Celine Voccia; Jan Roder

Jazz Vocals

Ella Fitzgerald Live at Montreux 1969

Ella Fitzgerald’s Live At Montreux 1969 features the First Lady of Song backed by the Tommy Flanagan Trio performing a set combining contemporary tracks, such as “Sunshine Of Your Love” and “Hey Jude” alongside classics like “I Won’t Dance,” “That Old Black Magic,” and a host of others. Available on CD for the first time! (Mercury)

1CD# MOB947294 $16.99

Rosemary Clooney: All the Hits & More 1948–1961 [3 CDs]

Rosemary Clooney, well-known in recent years as the aunt of movie star George Clooney, was one of the most popular and successful pop singers of the immediate post-war decades, racking up a remarkable string of hits in the early ‘50s. She called herself “a sweet singer with a big band sensibility.” (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB912826 $19.99

The Window / Cecile McLorin Salvant

The Window is an album of Cecile McLorin Salvant duets with the pianist Sullivan Fortner, explores and extends the tradition of the piano-vocal duo and its expressive possibilities. With just Fortner’s deft accompaniment to support Salvant, the two are free to improvise and rhapsodize, to play freely with time, harmony, melody and phrasing. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1132 $17.99

Lena Horne: The Singles Collection 1941–1950 [2 CDs]

Lena Horne was a multi-talented singer, dancer, and actor, eventually enjoying a career which spanned seven decades. This 48-track 2-CD set addresses the first fairly brief era of her recording career, when she established her reputation and had the first of her hits. Songs include the Great American Songbook classics “Stormy Weather”, “One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)” and “Deed I Do”. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB344924 $16.99

NEW JAZZ IN BRIEF

Billie Holiday: Masters of Jazz, Vol. 11

This compilation features Billie Holiday singing many classic standards including “Strange Fruit,” “Lover Man,” “The Man I Love,” “All of Me,” “I Loves You Porgy,” “I Love My Man,” “Them There Eyes” and “Do Nothing ‘Til You Hear From Me”. Her musicians on these sessions, recorded between 1944–1951 include Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Jack Teagarden, Art Tatum, Oscar Pettiford and “Big” Sid Catlett. (Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018511 $5.99

You Are There / Shawnn

Monteiro

It’s been some time since we’ve heard from Shawnn Monteiro, jazz chanteuse extraordinaire. You Are There, her sixth release overall and third for Whaling City Sound, is the gorgeous sound of a veteran vocalist whose artistry is crafted in the mold of Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McCrae, and Nancy Wilson. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS128 $16.99 $13.59

This Bitter Earth / Veronica Swift

With Veronica Swift’s second Mack Avenue release This Bitter Earth, she flips the script by crafting an ingenious song cycle that tackles several modern issues head-on. The singer-songwriter gathered material that covers multiple genres, including jazz, American musicals and contemporary indie-rock fortifying her position as a leading force in genre-bending song presentation. (Mack Avenue)

1CD# MAC1177 $17.99

Come What May / Jane Monheit

“Vocalist Jane Monheit is a technically adept performer with a style steeped in the resonant, swinging jazz tradition of idols like Ella Fitzgerald and Judy Garland. It’s a sound that she has applied over the years to a mix of Broadway and jazz standards, as well as bossa nova and Latin songs. She brings all of this past experience to bear on her urbane album Come What May.” – AllMusic (Sony)

1CD# 64315744948 $13.99

Big Bands Live! / Anita O’Day; Benny Goodman

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. (SWR Jazzhaus)

1CD# JAH-404 $18.99

All The Hits And More 1921–47 / Ethel Waters [3 CDs]

During the 1920s and ‘30s Ethel Waters recorded what were among the original versions of some of the most memorable standards of the era. (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB913229 $19.99

Abbey Sings Billie / Abbey Lincoln

Abbey Lincoln’s distinctive vocal style, thought-provoking writing, and spirited personality secured her a place among the jazz luminaries. (Yellowbird)

1CD# YEB-9221 $14.99

Live at the Berlin Philharmonie / Sarah Vaughan [2 CDs]

Previously unreleased concert recorded in November 1969 at the Berlin Philharmonie. Tracks include “And I Love Him,” “I Cried for You,” “Misty,” “Fly Me To the Moon,” “Time After Time,” and more. (TLR)

2CD# TLR 2004037 $19.99

Family / Gerry Gibbs, Thrasher People

[2 CDs]

Welcome to the “family” by Gerry Gibbs Thrasher People, where jazz boundaries are pushed, and a new musical family is born. This two-disc recording unveils an extraordinary story, with unexpected twists and a cast of talented yet unknown musicians that will ignite your curiosity. Join Gerry Gibbs Thrasher People as they redefine jazz and create an unforgettable musical experience. (Whaling City)

2CD# WCS138 $24.99 $19.99

Fire & Rain / Tim Ray Trio

Tim Ray’s release Fire & Rain features his jazz piano trio with John Lockwood on bass and Mark Walker on drums. The ensemble showcases their harmonically rich and balanced sound, playing uncommon yet effective choices such as Oliver Nelson’s “Stolen Moments” and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Mojave,” as well as newer material. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS137 $16.99 $13.59

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 $14.99 $11.99

Still Happy / Danny Bacher

It’s evident from the get-go that Danny Bacher was born to perform. His humor, his delivery, his talent, his joie de vivre appear instantly and plentifully on his new album Still Happy! Bacher brings with him the confidence of someone who’s weathered the storm and is now better for it. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS110 $16.99 $13.59

Bright Idea / Greg Murphy Trio

Greg Murphy, an inventive and versatile pianist with an epic sense of the pure and beautiful, is a formidable talent. Throughout his musical career, he has accumulated a vast number of stories, and those stories are woven into the fabric of his material. Bright Idea, his trio recording with Jeff “Tain” Watts and Eric Wheeler, comes together in a way that embraces all of the places Murphy has been. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS111 $16.99 $13.59

Whaling City

Stories Told / Dave Zinno Unisphere

Picking up where the enrapturing River of January left off, Dave Zinno Unisphere’s follow-up, Stories Told, further explores the wild and beautiful jungle of jazz, more specifically, the Brazilian/Latin tributary: electric, funky, passionate, and rhythmic. Zinno here is partnered with Unisphere co-founder Mike Tucker, Eric “Benny” Bloom, Tim Ray and drummer/percussionist Rafael Barata. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS113 $16.99 $13.59

No Boundaries / Dave Bass

His third album since his comeback, his second for the acclaimed Whaling City Sound label, is a dream come true, not only for Dave Bass who is fulfilling his own lifelong dream, but also for his fans, who have waited a long time to hear this gifted musician – interrupted by injury and another incredibly successful but unrelated career –come into his own. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS116 $16.99 $13.59

Earth – Expansions / Dave Liebman Group

NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman presents Earth with his group Expansions (Bobby Avey on piano, Matt Vashlishan on reeds, Alex Ritz on drums along with the perennial Tony Marino on bass). Earth is the culmination of Liebman’s decades-long elements series, a focal point of the iconic artist’s career spanning 30 years. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS120 $16.99 $13.59

Space Cycles / Jim Robataille Trio

After a brief interlude in a group format, Jim Robitaille is back inside the sparse and generous spaces of his trio. Flanked by Bill Miele on bass and Chris Poudrier on drums, Robitaille sounds as if he returned home after being away for a while. The colors throughout these arrangements pulse and glow, embracing a spectrum of musical emotion. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS122 $16.99 $13.59

Just Passing Thru / Miles Donahue

Miles Donahue’s Just Passing Thru is large in scope and beautiful in execution. From song to song, there are moments of tenderness, passages of grandeur, and fistfuls of exhilarating, technical wonder. He ventures out on a Celtic limb on “Ireland,” swings with verve on “Living Room Blues,” and demonstrates subtlety and passion on the opener, “A Man of Few Words.” (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS124 $16.99 $13.59

Sound Sale

Magic Dance – The Music of Kenny Barron [2 CDs]

There’s a beautiful marriage happening with Greg Abate’s “Magic Dance.” It’s the union between Abate’s multi-instrumental gift of bebop and Kenny Barron’s varied and sublime compositions. Abate, with Barron, who handles keys on this recording session, are soulmates sharing this epic musical space. (Whaling City)

2CD# WCS126 $24.99 $19.99

The Terry Gibbs Songbook / Terry Gibbs Legacy Band

Experience the pure magic of The Terry Gibbs Songbook, a tribute to the unparalleled talent of legendary jazz icon Terry Gibbs as a composer. Produced in collaboration with his GRAMMY-nominated percussionist son Gerry and featuring lyrics from luminaries like Steve Allen, the album showcases Gibbs’ mastery of crafting catchy, beautiful tunes. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS134 $16.99 $13.59

Only Love Will Stay / Rale Micic

Rale Micic has played with such artists as Tom Harrell, Don Friedman, Peter Bernstein, Eric Alexander, Greg Hutchinson, but it’s the striking originality with which he plays his own music that really distinguishes him from other jazz guitar talents. On his new recording, Only Love Will Stay, Micic creates layers of original sounds, featuring a backbone in acoustic jazz ala John Abercrombie.

(Whaling City)

1CD# WCS127 $16.99 $13.59

A Song of Hope / Eric Wyatt

As the follow-up to his 2019 release The Golden Rule: For Sonny, Eric Wyatt’s A Song for Hope is vastly different in both tone and intent. Where the former was a tour de force, a tribute to Sonny Rollins and a straight-ahead blast of straight-ahead bop, Wyatt’s new record is more adventurous, colorful, unpredictable, and wide-ranging.

(Whaling City)

1CD# WCS132 $16.99 $13.59

Hiding In Plain Sight / Dino Govoni

Listening to the opening bars of “Stories Passed,” the kick-off track on Dino Govoni’s new recording, Hiding in Plain Sight, is like rolling the window down on a long empty stretch of highway, with nothing but a cool breeze in your face and open road ahead. Govoni’s first few clear, clarion notes, in that typically bold Govoni style, feels like what freedom might sound like. (Whaling City)

1CD# WCS133 $16.99 $13.59

The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford: Paul’s Scene

Ricky Ford, tenor sax legend, needs no introduction, but he’ll get one anyway because it’s important to hear his lineage before diving into his new recording. After getting his start filling the Paul Gonsalves chair in the Duke Ellington Orchestra (under Mercer Ellington’s leadership), Ford’s gone on to play with Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, and Abdullah Ibrahim, to name but a few.

(Whaling City)

1CD# WCS135 $16.99 $13.59

Lifeline / John Stein [2 CDs]

The colorful panorama, tonal palette, and sonic breadth featured on “Fetish” are breathtaking. Zinno’s Unisphere is – through all three of its recordings for Whaling City Sound – jubilant, rapturous, and free. Everyone contributed compositions or arrangements to the project, which creates a stunning picture of the diversity represented by this group.

(Whaling City)

1CD# WCS130 $16.99 $13.59

Songs From My Father / Terry Gibbs

[2 CDs]

Songs From My Father is the much-anticipated album from renowned musical polymath Gerry Gibbs. On this release, drummer-percussionist-bandleaderarranger Gibbs presents a smashing double-disc masterwork featuring four iterations of his acclaimed Thrasher Dream Trio. (Whaling City)

2CD# WCS131 $24.99 $19.99

With the release of Lifeline, John Stein celebrates a musical career as one of the most diverse jazz guitarists of his generation. Selected highlights from Stein’s varied discography capture his eclectic spirit with his honey-toned guitar effortlessly guiding listeners across several decades of brilliance.

(Whaling City)

2CD# WCS136 $16.99 $13.59

Cool Water / Greg Murphy

It is glad tidings indeed that Whaling City Sound announces the release of a this Greg Murphy recording. In fact, the news is almost as joyous as the sound of Murphy’s piano. Cool Water is both heartwarming and exhilarating. Greg’s fingers find delicate and exciting ways of expressing themselves across the keys. It is the sound of a blissful talent given a new lease in both life and career.

(Whaling City)

1CD# WCS125 $16.99 $13.59

Fetish / Dave Zinno

Best of Miles Davis & John Coltrane (Remastered)

Miles Davis & John Coltrane together! The recordings that launched the careers of two giants and began Miles Davis’ 30 year association with Columbia Records! Track listing includes “Two Bass Hit, “ “Dear Old Stockholm, “ “Bye Bye Blackbird, “ plus more! (Sony)

1CD# CK61090 $7.98

Duke Ellington Orchestra in Stuttgart 1967

This is a re-release of a Jazzhaus/ SWR music bestseller! Upon nearing the age of seventy, Duke Ellington wanted to perform as much as he could and therefore toured the world with his orchestra. During his travels, he was able to stop off in Stuttgart in March 1967 to present a colorful mixed program made up of a few tried-and-true pieces and many lesser-known compositions. (SWR)

1CD# JAH-403 $17.99

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

Gerry Mulligan, who was primarily known as a baritone saxophonist, but was an expert exponent of other saxophones, clarinet and piano as well as being a highly-respected arranger, was one of the giants of post-war modern jazz and was one of the leading lights in the “cool jazz” movement focused on the USA’s West Coast. (Acrobat)

2CD# MOB333928 $16.99

Swiss Radio Days – Zurich 1950 / Nat King Cole Trio

Straighten up and fly right… to Zurich 1950! To discover an unreleased concert is a priceless gift. All the more so, as the recording of this 1950 performance given at the Kongresshaus in Zurich recreates faithfully what was played that evening, in a quality worthy of praise for the sound engineer. In 1950 Nat King Cole presented a brilliant trio, using the formula tried and approved by him consisting of guitar, piano and double bass. (TCB)

1CD# TCB 02432 $16.99

Masters of Jazz, Vol. 3 – Art Tatum

29 solo piano recordings with Art Tatum from 1932 to 1953. There are radio broadcasts with “Chinatown, My Chinatown”, “Lulu’s Back In Town”, “Where Or When” and Club recordings from The Embers in New York with “Memories Of You” and “Don’t Blame Me”. You will also find two rare private recording from a night club in Toronto 1949.

(Storyville)

1CD# SVL1018503 $5.99

Jazz Funeral

Certainly one of the most unique sights in New Orleans is that of a traditional jazz funeral in progress. The brass band is decked out in stately uniforms and is led through the streets by a professional mourner. This CD takes the listener through all parts of such a service, with an informative narration by Milton Batiste, one of the great figures in the brass band tradition in New Orleans. (Mardi Gras)

1CD# MOB01122 $14.99

Heavy Weather / Weather Report

An absolute fusion classic, this is the album that put Weather Report (featuring Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Alex Acuna and Manolo Badrena) on the map! Part of Sony’s Jazz Masterpiece reissue series, this album (containing the smash hit “Birdland”) features great new sound via 20-bit digital remastering. (Sony)

1CD# 65108 CK $7.98

Just in Time – The Final Recordings / Buddy Rich

A previously unreleased treasure. This is the final ever recording of the legendary, influential drummer, whose impact across Rock, Funk and Soul, as well as Jazz, is unrivalled to this day. Recorded over 2 nights, 19th & 20th November 1986, at Ronnie Scott’s in London, England. (Gearbox)

1CD# MOB610050 $17.99

Landmark Albums 1956–1960 / Charlie Mingus [3 CDs]

Charles Mingus was a double bassist, pianist composer and bandleader, and a significant proponent of the idea of collective improvisation, who brought a personal and uniquely distinctive musical approach to jazz. Tracks on this 3-CD collection include “Love Chant,” “Haitian Fight Song,” “Blue Cee,” “The Clown,” and more. (Acrobat)

3CD# MOB912420 $19.99

Richmond, Indiana’s Gennett label didn’t have the clout of Victor or Columbia-but a tour through this track list will tell you that they were a key player in early jazz recording. Check it out: Just Gone, Snake Rag King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band; Kansas City Stomp; Wolverine Blues Jelly Roll Morton; Ya Gotta Know How to Love Fess Williams; and more! (JSP)

4CD# MOB906221 $24.99

Gennett Jazz [4 CDs]

Favorites

Sarah Vaughan, Complete Columbia Singles

1949–1953 [3 CDs]

Sarah Vaughan was one of the illustrious coterie of female vocalists who spanned the genres of jazz, big band music and sophisticated pop during the post-war era to provide some of the finest music of their times, not only interpreting the Great American Songbook and putting their own individual stamp on it, but continuing to perform top class new material through the musical upheavals of subsequent decades.

(Acrobat)

3CD# MOB909024 $14.99

Kind of Blue / Miles Davis [2 CDs]

Miles Davis’ magnum opus Kind of Blue is still considered by many to be one of the greatest albums of all time. Starring Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb, Kind of Blue has held onto it’s status as an album that crosses genres and speaks to generations. The Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition offers the complete studio sessions on 2 CDs. (Sony)

2CD# 88697271052 $15.99

Time Outtakes / The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Time Outtakes contains previously unreleased takes from the original 1959 sessions master tapes. These newly discovered recordings feature wonderful performances that are every bit as compelling as those on the original Time Out. These seven new performances (and bonus track) are fascinating finds.

(Brubeck Editions)

1CD# MOB483764 $16.99

Jazz on a Summer’s Day [DVD]

Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O’Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and others. (Kino)

1DVD# MOB251437 $17.99

Early Years – Six Complete Albums 1957–1961 / Quincy Jones

[3 CDs]

Quincy Jones has become one of the most prominent personalities in popular music as a trumpeter and pianist who became an arranger, composer, bandleader, record producer and film & TV producer, and winner of a Grammy Legend Award in 1992, and who in 2022 is still active after a 70-year career.

(Acrobat)

3CD# MOB912727 $19.99

A 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 $12.99

Willisau 1978 / Dexter Gordon

In Willisau in 1978, Dexter Gordon is in a very happy period. Columbia signs the prodigal tenor resulting in the significant successes “Sophisticated Giant” and “Manhattan Symphony”, together with a rhythm section that Dexter then tours on club stages across the country. It’s consequently this group, exquisitely road tight and brimming with desire to play, which arrives in Willisau in 1978. (TCB)

1CD# TCB 02452 $16.99

My Art of Gypsy Jazz / Pietro Lazazzara

Pietro Lazazzara writes: “The work

My Art of Gypsy Jazz consists of 14 compositions. 11 pieces are originals that have never been published, while 3 pieces were created by [Romani] music composers. The title of the album fully expresses my vision of traditional Gypsy Jazz and it’s possible projection into the future. (Stradivarius)

1CD# STR57920 $16.99

Blues at the Manor / Tubby Hayes & the Downbeat Big Band

Formed in 1956 by a group of prominent London-based British modern jazzmen including trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar, The Downbeat Big Band soon entered the annals of UK jazz history as not only the finest unit of it’s kind – fiercely dedicated to musical modernity at a time when many other parochial big bands trod an awkward path between purism and commerce. (Acrobat)

1CD# MOB438524 $12.99

Horace Tabscott – Live in Hollywood, 1995

Horace Tapscott Quintet – “Legacies for Our Grandchildren – Live in Hollywood, 1995” – Horace Tapscott (piano), Michael Session (soprano, alto, tenor saxophones), Thurman Green (trombone), Roberto Miranda (double bass), Fritz Wise (drums). Tracks include “Motherless Child,” “Close to Freedom,” “Little Africa,” and more. (Dark Tree)

1CD# MOB400459 $16.99