composers

The Future is Female, Vol. 3 / Sarah Cahill

The Future is Female is a threevolume series, which celebrates and highlights women composers from the 17th century to the present day. These albums encompass 30 compositions by women from around the globe and include many new commissioned works and world première recordings. This is volume three of the collection. (FHR)

1CD# FHR133 $15.99

Sirventès / Brian Thornton

Cleveland Orchestra cellist Brian Thornton releases Sirventès, a collection of new works for cello, solo and in ensemble, by members of the Iranian Female Composers Association. In a fraught moment for members of the Iranian diaspora, IFCA and Thornton make a statement that gives voice to the work of several Iranian female composers. (New Focus)

1CD# FCR367 $16.99

Auerbach: 24 Preludes for Violin & Piano

A Renaissance artist for our times, Lera Auerbach is internationally renowned as a composer whose exquisitely crafted, emotional, and boldly imaginative music reaches a global audiences. Her 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano is a cycle of compact but ‘meaningful and complete’ works that follows the key scheme of Chopin’s 24 Préludes (Naxos)

1CD# 8574464

$13.99

Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 –Études [2 CDs]

Louise Farrenc was one of the most respected pianists and composers in the 19th-century Parisian music scene, and her four sets of Études are her most important compositions for piano. The Greek pianist Maria Stratigou is one of Louise Farrenc’s greatest exponents and makes her Grand Piano debut with these exquisite rarities. (Grand Piano)

2CD# GP912-13 $24.99

Hildegard von Bingen: Sacred Chants / Grace Davidson

Grace Davidson presents her third release with Signum Classics, an intimate disc of Sacred Chants by Hildegard von Bingen. Her melodies rise out of Gregorian chant, with wide voice ranges that are suited to trained singers. The florid imagery of Hildegard’s texts is matched by suitably florid tunes, whose calculated intervals suggest both vocal improvisation and carefully controlled composition. (Signum)

1CD# SIGCD717 $17.99

Dame Ethel Smyth: Songs & Ballads

SOMM Recordings continues its acclaimed championing of neglected British composers with Dame Ethel Smyth: Songs and Ballads – 17 vocal works with piano and chamber orchestra accompaniment composed between 1886 and 1913. Contralto Lucy Stevens has a long relationship with Smyth, portraying the composer in her widely admired stage show Ethel Smyth: Grasp the Nettle (Somm Recordings)

1CD# SOMMCD 0611 $18.99

Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Music / Martina Frezzotti

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was born in Hamburg in November 1805, the eldest of four siblings. Fanny was not only an exceptional pianist, but also an exceptional composer. Her output is rich and substantial and includes more than four hundred pieces, comprising Lieder, organ works, chamber music, cantatas, an oratorio and an orchestral overture.

(Piano Classics)

1CD# PCL10238 $18.99

Ekanayaka: The Planets & Humanity –Piano Reflections

The eight works in this album explore reflections on the eight planets of the solar system and the earth’s seven continents. Most bear echoes of traditional melodies originating from indigenous peoples. Tanya Ekanayaka’s passionate awareness of the connections and congruences between the past and present is reflected in her vision of harmonious co-existence. (Grand Piano)

1CD# GP879 $16.99

Panufnik: Heartfelt

Since Westminster Mass (2000) established Roxanna Panufnik’s firm place among today’s leading British composers, she has often been celebrated for her choral music. Her instrumental and chamber works, however, are equally striking, filled with dazzling imagination and poetic lightness of touch. Her latest album Heartfelt encompasses compassion, tragedy and irresistible humor.

(Signum)

1CD# SIGCD673 $17.99

Zwilich: Cello Concerto & Other Works

The great cellist Zuill Bailey begins this program with the world premiere recording of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s beautiful Cello Concerto, a new and important work traversing many elements of the cello’s singing sound. This marks Bailey’s 6th recording for Delos. Conductor Francesco LecceChong and the remarkable Santa Rosa Symphony bring full warmth and color to the music on this program. (Delos)

1CD# DE 3596 $16.99

Baroque Bohemia & Beyond IX /

Ana de le Vega

“Authentic instrument ensemble New Dutch Academy has an international reputation, formed of well-established early music specialists... string symphonies by the 18th Century ‘Mannheim school’ composers... Vibrant, energetic and wonderfully secure playing is supported by a sumptuous recording... no loss of detail in the fast music” – Gramophone (Alto)

1CD# MOB414763 $10.99

Beethoven: Symphonies 1 & 2 / Westdeutsche Sinfonia

“Right at the opening, the listener notes the extremely rich, dynamically full-powered and yet transparent sound of the Westdeutsche Sinfonia, also rich in it’s tonal quality. Under the gripping direction of Dirk Joeres, the symphony becomes a first-rate sound experience.” – Pizzicato (Alto)

1CD# MOB414756 $10.99

Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 / David Oistrakh

“Very romantic... a legendary violinist at his absolute peak, recorded in better sound than possible then in his own country and sympathetically supported” [K454] “a warmly cosseted account of Mozart’s great B flat Sonata, with Yampolsky providing trim pianistic support.”

Gramophone (Alto)

1CD# MOB414565 $10.99

Weinberg: Symphony No. 2 / Umea SO; Thord Svedlund

“The lyrical Second Symphony is haunted by a restless melancholy... yet the result is in no way depressing. Chamber Symphony No. 2 is a relatively late work and although it is freely rhapsodic, the mood is more positive and often songful... played with great eloquence and warmly and naturally recorded.” – Penguin Guide (Alto)

1CD# MOB414725 $10.99

Zemlinsky: The Mermaid – Korngold: Violin Concerto

As an example of luscious late-Romantic orchestral writing, Die Seejungfrau could scarcely be bettered: “a fine performance of a gorgeous orchestral score” –MusicWeb “Steinbacher’s expressive cantabile alternates with enthusiastic verve in the virtuoso passages.”

– Gramophone (Alto)

1CD# MOB414749 $10.99

Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies 1 & 4 / Umea SO; Thord Svedlund

“The Chamber symphonies come from the last decade of his life, the First for string orchestra, from the same year as the 18th symphony... it is pastoral in character, closer in feeling to a divertimento or sinfonietta... The Fourth... unremitting as late Shostakovich, and strongly valedictory in feeling. A haunting piece, music of real substance.”

– Penguin Guide (Alto)

1CD# MOB414718 $10.99

Telemann: Multi-Instrument Concertos

“The sound, particularly on the Esterhazy recordings, is warm and full, and performances excellent... Telemann’s inexhaustible invention is well demonstrated, these collective concertos offer the greatest interest... Concerto for 3 Trumpets etc brings a sprightly fugue, oboes dominate a gravely expressive Largo, and ending with superb interplay – an irresistible masterpiece!” – Penguin Guide (Alto)

1CD# MOB414671 $10.99

Personal Choices / Joan Sutherland

“The death of Dame Joan Sutherland and the subsequent outpourings of affection, not least in these pages, reminded the world that ‘La Stupenda’ was one of those rare operatic creatures who brought her music to the wider world, touching the hearts and thrilling the ears of millions who usually wouldn’t have visited an opera house.”

– Gramophone (Alto)

1CD# MOB414558 $10.99

Corelli: Concerti Grossi / New Dutch Academy

“Overall the performances are excellent. Among the highlights are the slow movement from Vivaldi’s lute concerto which is played with great sensitivity by Karl Nyhlin.”

– MusicWeb (Alto)

1CD# MOB414732 $10.99

Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet in A / Virginia Eskin

“It is a very agreeable quintet, most acceptably performed and recorded, and as easy on the ear as it’s more famous predecessors (Mozart and Brahms). Petite Suite de Concert: lovable music; Other of the piano music could have great appeal: especially so could the arrangements of Spiritual Melodies with their easygoing simplicity” – MusicWeb (Alto)

1CD# MOB414688 $10.99

Price: Symphony No. 3 / Mississippi River Suite

1CD# MOB414619

$10.99

Russian Legends & Dances / Utah SO

1CD# MOB414503 $10.99

Vivaldi: Lute & Mandolin Concertos

1CD# MOB414657 $10.99

Hummel: Collection 1778–1837 1CD# MOB414664 $10.99

Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain 1CD# MOB414374 $10.99

Barber: Symphony No. 1 / Essays Nos. 1 & 2

1CD# MOB414633 $10.99

Rachmininoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

1CD# MOB414473 $10.99

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 1CD# MOB414701 $10.99

Kathleen Ferrier Sings J.S. Bach & Handel

1CD# MOB414572 $10.99

1CD# MOB414466 $10.99

American Masterpieces –Grofe-Thomson-GouldCopland

1CD# MOB414510 $10.99

Harnoncourt: Complete Vanguard & MHS Recordings 1CD# MOB431456 $10.99

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante K. 364 / David Oistrakh 1CD# MOB414541 $10.99

Dvořák: Piano Concerto, Piano Quintet Op. 81 1CD# MOB414602 $10.99

21 Great Anthems & Choruses / Richard Hickox

1CD# MOB414497 $10.99

Vivaldi: Concertos / Rachel Podger [7 CDs]

Gathered here are Rachel Podger’s award-winning recordings from 2003–18 of Vivaldi’s Concerti for Violin: La Cetra, La Stravaganza, Le Quattro Stagioni, and L’Estro Armonico. “The performances by Rachel Podger a performance to leave you breathless”. – Gramophone (Channel Classics)

7CD# CCSBOX7423 $36.99

Heinrich Schütz Edition [10 CDs]

This set comprises ten albums and offers reference recordings of all central Heinrich Schütz works such as the Psalms of David, the Cantiones sacrae, the Resurrection History, the Small Sacred Concerts, the Sacred Choral Music and, last but not least, the Passions. (Berlin Classics)

10CD# 0302786BC $26.99

The Gospel According to Mark [7 CDs]

Multi-award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel has created a truly unique magnum opus: The Gospel According to Mark, a seven-hour oratorio setting the disciple’s text from the King James Bible in its entirety. What originated as an idea to distil the text, as most passion music does, Chris quickly became more interested in setting the complete prose. (Avie)

7CD# AV2562 $59.99

José Iturbi: The Rediscovered RCA Victor Recordings [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. (Sony)

16CD# 19439836502 $125.99

The Bedřich 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

Beethoven: The Complete Violin Sonatas [4 CDs]

Accent presents the complete recording of all Beethoven’s works for piano and violin in a 4-CD box set, recorded on period instruments. The special feature of this complete recording: Linda Nicholson and Hiro Kurosaki did not simply use instruments of historical design, but rather the appropriate historical Viennese instruments from Beethoven’s time for each of the sonatas. (Accent)

4CD# ACC 24389 $28.99

Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas / Mao Fujita [5 CDs]

Mao Fujita is an extraordinary performer who has the ability to instantly captivate any audience with his incredible musicianship. This album, presented in a 5-CD special clamshell box, with soft-touch lamination, is a stunning debut from Fujita – undoubtedly one of the world’s most extraordinarily gifted young pianists. (Sony)

5CD# 19658710762 $59.98

Maria Kliegel celebrates her 70th birthday in 2022 and this collection brings together some of her most outstanding recordings, personally selected by Kliegel from her vast Naxos discography. Combining the best from her teachers Janos Starker and Mstislav Rostropovich, and working alongside excellent orchestras and pianists, Kliegel’s inspirational joie de vivre radiates from all of these performances. (Naxos)

3CD# 8578370-72 $29.99

Beethoven/Liszt: The 9 Symphonies / Giovanni Bellucci [5 CDs]

As the Italian pianist Giovanni Bellucci remarks in an extensive booklet introduction, this album is the fruit of study over the past 20 years and more, into the worlds of both Beethoven and Liszt and their meeting point in these transcriptions where the Hungarian composer sought to honor his forebear as the original leader of an artistic movement we now think of as Romanticism. (Brilliant Classics)

5CD# BRI94863 $19.99

Brahms: Complete Symphonies / Herbert Blomstedt [3 CDs]

Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig present Brahms’s Complete Symphonies on Pentatone. These recordings, made between 2019 and 2021, have already met with extraordinary critical acclaim. BBC Music Magazine praised the performance of the First Symphony as “splendid and inspiring”, praising Blomstedt’s “admirable attention to detail” and “wonderfully controlled performances”. (Pentatone)

3CD# PTC5186978 $29.99

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 Deutsche Grammophon 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 3-CD set date back to Barber’s student years. (Brilliant Classics)

3CD# BRI96514 $16.99

Ravel: Complete Works [21 CDs]

An essential collection of landmark performances, this 21-CD box of Ravel’s complete works brings together major interpreters of the present day and preceding generations. There are even contributions from the composer himself, as conductor, pianist (on piano rolls) and artistic supervisor. (Warner)

21CD# MOB283261 $44.99 $36.99

Bax: Complete Symphonies [7 CDs]

From the dramatic impact of the Second Symphony through to the seascapes of the Fourth and hints of Sibelius in the later works, 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. (Naxos)

7CD# 8507014 $46.99

Wild: Complete Piano Music [3 CDs]

Born in 1915, the American pianist Earl Wild was known to most listeners as a specialist in the line of Romantic pianist-composers from Chopin to Rachmaninov, but was also a masterful improviser. Recorded between 2013 and 2018, this is the first and so far only complete collection of Wild’s piano music. (Brilliant Classics)

3CD# BRI96705

$16.99

Hugo Alfvén: Complete Symphonies, Suites & Rhapsodies [7 CDs]

Hugo Alfvén’s music has always been close to the hearts of the Swedish people, and ranks among some of the most significant and representative of the spirit of the country. Alfvén is known as a cheerful entertainer in compositions such as Den forlorade sonen (‘The Prodigal Son’), but his symphonies reveal a different, more elegiac and often more dramatic side. (Naxos)

7CD# 8507015 $46.99

BBC Legends, Volume 3 [20 CDs]

This third 20-album box brings together more of the greatest performances taken from the BBC archives. ‘The high standard of musical performances in these releases is mirrored in their scrupulous documentation and presentation... the engineering and sound of these recordings, despite their ages, is uniformly clear and sympathetic. The result is an unqualified success.’ – Gramophone Magazine (ICA Classics)

20CD# ICAB5167 $82.99

Frescobaldi: Complete Keyboard Works [15 CDs]

Definitive recordings by the leading Frescobaldi performer of our time, now more conveniently packaged than ever. All these recordings are now coupled with the keyboard collections from the earlier set, to present the most complete collection ever issued of Frescobaldi’s works for harpsichord and organ, both sacred and secular. (Brilliant Classics)

15CD# BRI96895 $54.99

Wanda Landowska Plays Bach, Mozart, Handel, Scarlatti & Ramea [10 CD]

The conductor Arthur Nikisch described Wanda Landowska as the high priestess of the harpsichord, “prima clavicembalista assoluta” and “Bachante”, not least on account of her intensive Bach studies. Her concert activities, her influence as a teacher and her many publications and record releases assured Landowska of a central role in the revival of 17th- and 18thcentury music for harpsichord. (Profil)

10CD# PH22027 $34.99

Smetana Collection

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

Mozart: String Quartets Complete [7 CDs]

All Mozart String Quartets complete. The Armida Quartett is seen today as one of the best quartets coping with the giant W.A. Mozart. Rave reviews from Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. The box has been recorded and released in close cooperation with the famous Henle publisher. (Cavi Music)

7CD# AVI 8553523 $29.99